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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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Lecture Series: Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowled
Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge
series entitled, Spiritual Science as Lebensgut, published in German
series entitled,
IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE
further, yet the human soul feels compelled to bring it up time
prominent thinkers a halt was called to all philosophy, to all
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
humanity is enabled to insert itself in full clarity in the
striving for peace and equilibrium, led to freedom from the
path to knowledge of the spiritual world, which also consists
swirled around before the Stoics. As regards Stoicism, I have
called divine providence. How did a Stoic find himself then,
so-called “New Theology” and whose works in certain
to take part in the spiritual: this entity he called Ri.
it constructed from matter: and that entity he called
arbitrariness that freedom was called into being by the divine
boundaries of our knowledge. It must indeed be wisdom, which is
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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.
of holy awe ran through the assembled people, who were filled with reverence.

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.
concealed to us until then.
a so-called true reality, appears in the astral world in the form of
To a clairvoyant a man's inner life is not concealed. When you acquire
Word”. The gift of hearing the “Inner Word” is called
is called Imagination. Imagination therefore enables one to see, whereas

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.
This new state of existence is called life in Kamaloca.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
we find a wonderful starry writing. It can be read as these so-called

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.
does not quite resembled experiences themselves which we had here on
we can only now have a true knowledge of our own actions, for we experience
are called Mahadevas. Also outside Devachan they have a certain significance

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.
only through the activity of the so-called Mahadevas. The attraction
does not reach as far as the germ. Beings called the Lipikas lead the

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.
upon the astral body there is in every human soul a part still filled
the more he becomes what is cllled a religious, wise person.
of the Ego's work upon the etheric body, is called Buddhi, and a person
who has reached this stage is called a Chela.
physical body. Such an initiative is called a "Master&".
is called Atma. In this lecture we cannot deal with the mystery of

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 sentence: “With the growth of knowledge and understanding,
Atlantean ages, they controlled the life-forces. They built machines
which enabled them to rise from the ground and soar above it. But these
gliding machines were propelled by the life-forces that lie concealed
Since the Atlanteans controlled

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
was filled with the kind of watery mass, out of which emerged islands
human beings who were expelled and condemned to degeneration. The ascent
later on there will be a compensation for those who were expelled.
circled round the sun. But the moon maintained the old movement of the
is nailed on to the cross of the world. Also the human soul hangs on
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.
development are called Initiates. The path which they tread and teach is that
From the very outset, this ancient primeval science revealed the following
is called. "Saturn". Then comes the "Sun", followed by Moon"; "Mars" and
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
attention for what is usually called history — but which, nevertheless, for a deeper view
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
this `thing in itself' as he called it — but the important thing for him was to prove. Sure
in him they are filled with life. So, too, are they in Schelling and in Hegel. So what then had
greater need for people with knowledge of specific subject areas to be active in social life
in a higher or lower sense, is called a school, we need the frame of mind I have already tried to
imagination, and is therefore more properly called an intuitive faculty and a talent for
(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
respect in the West. Even if it seems that the discrepancies which are there could be settled, it
which led to the great colonizations, has arisen, in fact, through the confluence of the
things that are only laid open to a spiritual knowledge. What use is it when people of today
This, too, is an egoistic sentiment. This is something that can be called, paradoxically, an
find a reconciliation through the 'brotherly feelings of study' — article entitled

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
Greece there mingled in with it what then became Aristotelianism, what was already intellectual,
the assertion of egoism beyond death. The wish to extend one's will beyond death led to the
their will, and crippled it. When these individuals slept, when the astral body and the 'I' were
understanding at all for what is called rational in the West? Let us be under no illusion here.
human beings placed between West and East — a West that pulled them towards reason and an
East that pulled them towards revelation. Just study later Scholasticism, the brilliant age of
colour, revealed through colour, what has inspired and worked through different human cultures
continuation of the civic-judicial, the political element, which excelled in organizing
mingled with the deluge from the West, from the Centre, in the measures of Peter the Great with
Pan-Slavism, in Slavophilism. And it led finally to the creation of the present conditions from
6. Albertus Magnus (1193–1280), Scholastic philosopher, called 'Doctor
called Doctor Angelicus. Canonized in 1323. Return

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
is filled with underlinings and marginal comments knows how Goethe had really studied
the spirits of the East, who pulled him towards imaginations. Because at that time spiritual
so the Oracle arose. The gods were not pictured here merely imaginatively but were called upon
Goethe would have filled imagination with what speaks out in all
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds — How is it Achieved?
between rational knowledge and revelation is attributable to the working of the spirits of the
should give way and to give way where resistance is called for. The remarkable forgetting of what
for he had modelled himself
single thought, just jumbled-together words. And when one longs for something to be taken up
on 27 November 1891 entitled
(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
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
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
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
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
that they revealed the spirit to them. The spiritual spoke out of every spring, every cloud,
the belief that the intellect is there for gaining knowledge. People will attain to true
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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
has proceeded from a constitution of soul which we have often called a kind of instinctive
old clairvoyance spoke about the Mystery of Golgotha is called Gnosis. And, if I can put it so,
turn, led to civic-political thinking. This spread from the South into those northern regions
which led to the Mystery of Golgotha through Jesuitism was nevertheless to be something founded
irreconcilable with a common knowledge of the Gospels. For the Gospel in its true form actually
life which then led to the modern theology of the nineteenth century which finally erased from
called anything else, to say that Anthroposophy explains the Gospels in an arbitrary way, that it
times of the Middle Ages. The authority-principle prevailed and now, for the first time, a

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
called the Christ-experience soon to come.
properly be called experience of the Christ has fallen into complete decadence. We saw, too, that
habitually stick to what was once instilled into them. At most, one can notice a breaking out
made, if the aims of spiritual science are fulfilled — so that children at school are given
twentieth century had to give us a taste of the fact that there can be a man, marvelled at by
earthly being and his knowledge that he is a super-earthly being, a cosmic being. The fulfilment
as it were, killed off at least once. The most recent of these death-blows was the one dealt by a
Goetz, has made an attack on spiritual science, or 'so-called spiritual science' as he terms it,
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
whether distorted mental pictures ruled the day while our School of Spiritual Science course was
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds — How is it Achieved?.
conscience and a twisting of everything that is portrayed in my books as the methods of knowledge

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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series entitled,
which are called, from the aspect of the physical world, destructive
so-called destruction, at processes of dissolution, at what finally arises,
in a manner inimical to the world, and have done only what may be called,
particular age and impelled towards particular people. So we are born into
birth and death is, in reality, filled with everything into which we are
reproaches which are levelled at the adherents of Spiritual Science by
world continues need not be led astray in this striving of theirs to
this thinking and pointed out that what is generally called materialistic

Title: Talk To Young People:
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entitled,
unconsciously guided by creative spiritual forces that led our souls
epoch the young have rebelled against the old.
everything the centuries have piled up on us!
death of a workman killed in the 1848 revolution. As I listened to
describe — please don't misunderstand the phrase — as filled with
emerging or if not thoughts, even better, what strong, “balled-fist”
not living in the three dimensions revealed by the threefold nature
members in their welcome called me “Papa”; in the youth group there
enthusiasm we should feel compelled to
inwardly with the flame that is kindled in you today, for then the

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in June of 1915. It is from the lecture series entitled
Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in June of 1915. It is from the lecture series entitled
attitude that has led to a materialistic conception of the Universe,
knowledge into a pure mental and soul content.
upon much that has, during the last few years, revealed itself before

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
Here are six lectures from the lecture series entitled,
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
concealed something which cuts deep into life. Today we will turn our
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.
the earth, are derived from a primeval knowledge, from a knowledge
Knowledge of Good and Evil. We can see in the primeval revelations
of Golgotha. What remained in these concepts was the most distilled
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
we are led to a tree, or rather to trees, which were found on the
of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which has even brought
knowledge that men possessed in the Orient and in the Graeco-Latin
was ‘Knowledge of Good and Evil.’ In
germinated in their inner soul nature, that filled it through and
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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
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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
Knowledge of Good and Evil, they shall not eat of the Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil.’ Each can say to
mingled in his earthly life. This means: in our earthly life we
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
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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
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I called your attention here once to the
practically no knowledge of this at all. People do not notice, they
at that time rebelled against, showed themselves in antipathy to,
desire to be expressed by Socrates merely to impart knowledge of the
(b)). The whole pre-Grecian evolution led to man's taking from the
our souls, and he then reveals himself to us as he revealed himself
all this is revealed to us by Him. It is the continuous revelation of
first a process of knowledge. It begins with an intellectual process,
has to happen here (b) it is what could be called a distribution of
and which he took over into the age which is called the Roman
times was not that genuine so-called bourgeois-element, as it were,
hold such sentiments, and this finally led to the end of the Roman
so-called initiates. The initiates were fully cognisant of these
the blood, so that what the Gods willed might be transmitted in this
be able to evolve if they could only do so as the blood willed, that
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
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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
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This Kant called the ‘categorical
been misled by Luciferic beings in the way referred to, we should not
one observes with the outer senses is called real, or at least,
already fled. This is of infinite importance. Men do not realise that
the earnest endeavour of Spiritual Science that we should be led out
physically completely veiled as regards the head. Man carries the
outside, lives in itself. And the Jahve-God has concealed in a world
nature has been rendered dim and dulled by the Jahve
twofold nature lies concealed. In the first place, the connection of
unconsciously and without man's knowledge — it
though veiled from man — the Imaginations which
it to pass through his unspoiled intellect if then the former appears
seems to come from the unspoiled intellect of man #1 as if it were a
was wrong when, in the so-called Theosophical Society one began to
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
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Tree of Knowledge - I
sun-activities, shoots, leaves, fruits are called forth, and
the cause of all he has puzzled out down below is, as a matter of
any knowledge of the actual events and processes. And this is truly
dwells. You see from this that you cannot rely on so-called proofs,
I have called attention to this, I will lead these studies over to
very many things lie concealed) — then we can say:
same time called forth the concept of possession. If we wished to
facts veiled in the myth. Only reflect how already in ancient Greek
history all is veiled in myth and in regard to earlier mid-European
‘Theosophy’ I have called that which
what is revealed from the senses. So the next line is inserted with
the rose the thorns, the shrivelled thorns which are a token that

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
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Tree of Knowledge - II
revealed with particular clearness, when we regard the whole course
established him in earthly existence, he has led him out of himself.
than we are really entitled to do. By saying this I wish to give you
few items of more exact knowledge regarding our sense-periphery.

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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text is entitled: Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwicklung. From a
text is entitled:
reasoning faculty. Until that time, all knowledge and all
heritage from an earlier form of knowledge — was a fact
acknowledged by anyone who thought at all in the days before
the human being shared in the knowledge.
Eucharistic controversy, as it is called, had already appeared
Christian centuries, thought was based upon the knowledge of the
This truth — which can only be revealed today by
instinctive knowledge possessed by the men of old. They knew
must be led through the wire. But the current must be
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
his blood to give him knowledge. But this era had passed away.
direct knowledge that he is living and moving in a spiritual
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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collection entitled
entitled “Philosophy and Anthroposophy,” mainly reproduce a
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
revealed, to an unprejudiced insight, to be an illusion. A normal feeling
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
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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
'spiritual gymnast,' the 'ensouled rhetorician,' and the 'intellectual
at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
opinion that object lessons should be so handled that they would lead over
nature, that it should be built up in the widest sense on a knowledge of
the evolving human being. And we have compiled sufficient material in our
fulfilled its purpose, if after working for a year with this first class we
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.

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
'spiritual gymnast,' the 'ensouled rhetorician,' and the 'intellectual
at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
will, that is living itself out in battle with a willed element from
the etheric body. Then the ego and astral body turn against this; a willed
element from outside battles with a willed element from within, and this
called forth. Since the formative forces, being stronger, would overrun the
mystery knowledge. Thus I have always been particularly moved by the words
repelled from man's inner nature by the musical element. The teachers in
Luciferic enthusiasm that alone is acknowledged today. In sum, we must come
himself, then you have controlled the line that would work destructively
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
'spiritual gymnast,' the 'ensouled rhetorician,' and the 'intellectual
at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
KNOWLEDGE OF MAN AS THE FOUNT OF EDUCATIONAL ART.
of this knowledge of man there will arise in us, in a very individual form,
hear, and the other one can be called the pictorial element, the element we
see. Other sense qualities are intermingled with what we hear on the one
so-called sensory nerves, that apparently run from the senses to the brain
absolutely no such difference between the so-called sensory nerves and the
becoming any different, to the so-called motor nerve, which also does not
place for our understanding of knowledge and the soul's element of

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
'spiritual gymnast,' the 'ensouled rhetorician,' and the 'intellectual
at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
look at man's constitution and then apply the knowledge thus gained to the
times called harmonious listening (
hands, the manner of holding his head, were the features that called on us

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
'spiritual gymnast,' the 'ensouled rhetorician,' and the 'intellectual
at Dornach in the Fall of 1919. It is from the lecture series entitled,
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
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.
knowledge and man's everyday existence. Something similar, though, can be
spaces are filled with our own actual planetary system, up till the
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
knowledge.
to the senses will also not acquire any knowledge of man. They do not see
interest in supersensible knowledge also gives us the kind of knowledge of
social ideas, but if people shy away from acquiring any knowledge of man
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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
called the prehistory of Christ. Here one has to do with very complicated
is called a Buddha. Before that, he was merely a bodhisattva, that is, a
be appealed to. Thus, today there are certain truths for man which would
what it had previously been instilled with. It was the same for compassion
called Nirmanakaya. In it, the entity passes on the mission that was given
Jesus. This Jesus child had to be led to Egypt in order to live there for
children up to two years of age were killed. John the Baptist would also
at the birth the wise magicians of the Orient, who were led by the star to

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at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
qualities, but at first not with those qualities which would have led man
actual Jesus of Nazareth, above it we see shining what we called the
us remember the so-called splitting of the personality, which occurs when
â€œHow to gain knowledge of the higher worlds.â€
This ethereal body, called the Nirmanakaya of the Buddha, hovered over the
of transmitting from epoch to epoch what can be called the teaching of
there was a logical thinking, if one had appealed to his conscience, to his
impulses, and these had to be instilled into the soul. For example, what
relates to love was instilled as if suggestively by the individuality
called the Bodhisattva, when that individuality called the Bodhisattva was
the so-called eight-limbed path. This teaching, which previously had to be
individuality of Moses? What the Buddha brought is rightly called the great
also have appealed to the own soul of these people, then the people would
killed.

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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hat is called the social
only gradually be acknowledged once again in reaching the point of
as they are called. Basically, of the earth element the dead see only
people see them — of such a so-called work of art the
killed the sense for this connection of the sensible and supersensible.
about Hegel, you might be led to believe I adhered to

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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series entitled,
that what may be called, in the best sense of the word,
welled up as it were in the Greek soul as something inwardly
Grimm — without spiritual science — was led to recognize a
religiously. The moving scene arises of Savonarola being led
so long been enthralled by him, having once hung on his every
system that Savonarola had railed against and the reformers had
Savonarola or his like-minded comrades would have called
one of his best-known paintings may be singled out, so as to
despite the conditions that prevailed around him, he holds
with Savonarola's spiritual orientation; or that so-called
reappearing. Rome was gradually filled with relics of Greece,
that revealed the Greek spirit. The centuries of the first
Raphael are not only an end-result. They lead us to acknowledge

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marvelled at the tremendous idea that comes to expression in
Supper, Leonardo introduced what can be called the dramatic
Leonardo felt compelled to turn aside from the kind of
the picture. They found the door too low that led underneath
they have to be called such — who painted over the
enthusiasm, with an enormous urge for knowledge — fresh
paint on the Christ figure, his hand trembled. And, considering
brush that trembled in his hand in attempting to present what
tentatively summarizing his life, we are inevitably led again
humanity a certain wealth of natural-scientific knowledge. In
circled around it. Then came Copernicus, who had the courage
earlier lives. In a grandiose manner, he was impelled to the
Michelangelo or Leonardo, making detailed studies from an
humanity, what is revealed to humanity externally at Leonardo's

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making life inwardly into a truly ensouled fairy tale!'
threads spun in the course of the tragedy and unraveled again
one way or another, a particular soul is entangled
human being is led to the corresponding involvements of
observation and knowledge. All the human being has is the
certain stage one acquires knowledge of spiritual processes
with one's whole being, this remains profoundly concealed
the limbs once again, these being ruled by natural
the human soul may be called a feeling of its own
gained as soul-spiritual knowledge. Let us regard it as
he strikes the plate, counts the flies he has killed, and
a sign around his neck: “He has killed a hundred at
At this, the man who had killed a hundred at one blow said:
in this fairy tale. We have the man who has “killed a
inwardly into a truly ensouled fairy tale!”

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making life inwardly into a truly ensouled fairy tale!'
called an eye, since this organ was not an eye. It was an organ
This organ has shrunk to become the so-called pineal gland, now
wither away. Human beings are called upon, however, to permeate

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This is a lecture, given by Rudolf Steiner, entitled
viewing life called spiritual science can be applied to other,
collection of folk poems called
life. He can be called a spirit who, in an individual manner,
personality, Herman Grimm's whole demeanour as though compelled
acknowledgement of the aforementioned status. I still fondly
Herman Grimm's orientation could possibly have led to a certain
consequently expelled from the University of Göttingen.
led by Herman Grimm to the point where the work takes its start
commencing these considerations that led to his lectures on
called it. Thus, he becomes a unique kind of historian. For
his world-picture was a continuous stream of what he called the
of the entire progress of humanity — now called forth by
intimate aspects of the work of art in question and is then led
but filled with real content. He saw himself as inwardly
phenomena, how his thoughts and feelings led him to everything
called forth that otherwise slumber. Inner strength, inner
historical research does not lie in what is nowadays called
“If, by some miracle, Michelangelo were called from the
the collection of essays entitled
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lecture series entitled,
has led for example to the Protestant mentality. But the essential
it is today. Rulers, a ruling caste, slaves, ruled people, that was
reality — not something called a physical reality, but it
god he was entitled to wear such clothes. It was the clothing of a
was most strongly maintained was in the so-called Holy Roman Empire
have the tangled web of the divine and the secular anointed in the
century what has been called the will of the people in the public
is it possible to realize what a fable convenue so called

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lecture series entitled,
historical origin of what today may be called imperialism, and you
This knowledge must dawn especially on the peoples of the west. The
people recoiled when they approached the spiritual by means of the
symbols; they recoiled in fear of a clear, sharp comprehension. On
unknown, which cannot be penetrated by knowledge.
German ex- emperor is defined by the so-called revolutionary rulers
when realities must be closely observed and revealed.
so-called Royal Arch Chapter, which keeps even the external Masonic
people discover the meaning of the rituals; then they are expelled
liberals were called Whigs, and no embarrassment was involved: the
others were called Tories, also without embarrassment. But when these
were called Whigs. And the platitude spread so far that a cussword
were called Tories. Later that name, a cussword for Irish papists,
“How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,”
can't be filled by them.
knowledge dawns, that is, when the platitudes are recognized for what
compiled the sum of today's political wisdom — but which was in

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lecture series entitled,
called the “City of God” — that is, the
really ruled over Europe more
traveled. It must be realized: If we retain this concept of the state
for a knowledge of the spirit, one which speaks of an invisible kingdom,
real thinking again when the inner soul-life is filled with substance
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
friends works in a so-called people's college in Oslo together with a

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it on to life-filled phenomena in nature. By comparison, just
be called “scientific certainty” which forms the
Goethe arrived at this point by establishing what he called the
overhauled today but it appears to me to be not sufficiently
have been overhauled. Despite that, I would like to sustain a
while X is the cause under the influence of the working called
as a non-mathematician; he even called himself as such.
detailed mathematical examples, if it was more algebraic. That
to be added to it in order to arrive at what is called a
of their blossoming friendship, had led regarding the method of
essence. This led to Goethe, in his conversation with Schiller,
ideas. This led Goethe, if I might say so, through an inner
the Laplace world view and called it the “astronomical
nailed down by it. It is extraordinary how such conceptual
revealed from within the letters. If I lovingly remain standing
developed and nailed down for a specific area of nature, and
dissatisfaction. It acknowledges matter in its own organisation
acknowledge at the same time that the inner organisation is the

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come under scrutiny, namely in his treatise entitled:
also a person, revealed outwardly through a nose, eyes and so
followed in the stenographic text. The omissions were filled in

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rather an inner relationship to the wisdom filled scientific
questions and overall, basically failed to acquire the courage
thought could reach its fully entitled, one-sided development.
plane which is filled with thoughts. From up above the
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
points of view are modelled on the Western pattern. How wild
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds”
knowledge, between knowing and subjective certainty. Then out

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schooled for it, therefore results of Anthroposophical research
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
as so-called latent warmth and how it had developed out of
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
revealed to souls during the 10th, 11th
foundations which is gradually revealed in childish movements,

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‘Yes, such proposals’ — they called them proposals
the course of human development gradually enabled us to arrive
held in the Philharmonic — can't be called purely
a purely instinctive economic life to one fuelled with human
the so-called social-political in economic law-making. This
into the social form, how so to speak everything which ruled in
fulfilled in a modified way. It is not important for me to
so-called social question. It is not important to say that this
the old class system will not be recalled. It won't be people
called the social question.
long way from knowledge of the subject and specialised
knowledge which have to be achieved by people linked to
introductory words, because the world is so schooled in
social organism can be tackled in the way as indicated in my
can dive into other kinds of reality, which are revealed in the
found for what is called the social question. We live in

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scientific research stands in a somewhat puzzled manner towards
the spiritual world and its knowledge. The human being is
because Anthroposophy is there, not to limit the knowledge
constitution. The audible confession, as it is handled, tears
knowledge confessed about. The Christ who went through the
acknowledged in the first Christian centuries. We then see how
— a lecture entitled “Bible and Wisdom”. Two

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can be called human duty. It would be necessary for this
“Pflicht” is fulfilled through inner love and
devotion, duty is fulfilled from the basis of a human being,
regard. The Greek always felt words themselves rolled around in

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spiritual life is to be revealed in its true meaning, so that
which can provide for the revealed spiritual needs of our
full responsibility towards the spirit revealed to our times
— that same spirit which has been revealed to humanity
throughout the centuries and millennia, but revealed in each
darkness for human knowledge, from which the light must be born
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
as spirituality. This is veiled at first in darkness for human
understanding, and can only be revealed by the countenance of
real knowledge must be fathomed from what is revealed in the
march of time as creative action, and how all that is revealed
of the world in the human heart must be revealed by the soul's
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
warns at the yawning abyss of knowledge — what the
knowledge. For only by means of this awareness can true
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real knowledge and insight.
Behold, I am the only gate of knowledge.
which is to become light-filled, which must become light to us
through spirit-knowledge, from out of which he speaks who alone
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
to creative knowledge, we are truly standing in the spiritual
Which separates you from the knowledge fields
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former does not actually participate in what is revealed to the
all the knowledge of the senses and reason you may have gleaned
Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds- which causes
self-knowledge streams forth the true knowledge of the world
the bliss of knowledge and they require it.
knowledgeably enter into it.
and led by his own spiritual guides:
tone. Thus you will be led into the spiritual world.
Filled it is with cosmic-spirit-force;
Filled it is with cosmic-spirit-force;
Filled it is with cosmic-spirit-force;
the path to true knowledge of the spirit and of God.

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from other areas of spiritual life, what is called
essence of the esoteric does not lie in knowledge, but in
loved her, your love is recalled; if you hated her, your hate
is recalled. If you had wanted to undertake something together
with her, this is also recalled. You cannot separate what you
that it has been willed and instated by the spiritual world. If
respect to the esoteric - what has been called in esoteric
Filled with cosmic-spirit-force;
which this feeling-one with the whole so-called
spirit-filled force of thought
If spirit-filled force of thought
If spirit-filled force of thought

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fearful and anxiety-filled ones. We can be aware of how the
wings of the exhaled air into the expanse of being into which
the exhaled air disperses. And how by inhaling we take into us
And that is the grand experience that initiate knowledge gives
on the earth, we are to a certain extent psychically crippled.
Knowledge means that we are aware of this.
knowledge of the real world.
dear friends, we say: I would rather do without such knowledge!
humanity is revealed to me? Can it be beneficial for humanity
Bearing this in mind, I have often counseled those who have
understand what was being called out to him. And now we live in
understand the words called out to them in spirit-language.
which he passes through a world where these words are called

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a self-knowledge of belonging to this world. And when one
wishes to gain this self-knowledge, my dear friends, then one
rather must one return to what is revealed between them.
what is revealed between the things. We see the three kingdoms
friends, behind the kingdoms of nature we have what is called
the days when the old instinctive consciousness prevailed,
true self-knowledge. We realize that one is only human when he
foreign to us. But if, through Imaginative knowledge, one
which comes from the innermost being of the animals is revealed
esoteric knowledge.
transformation to the opposite of this sleep-filled dreaminess,
kingdoms of nature if he wishes to be knowledgeable. How he
explained. If it is awakened through Imaginative knowledge, we
are being introduced to the practice of knowledge in these

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when derived from what is called good intentions, is
which force is instilled in it directly from the spiritual
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
Threshold - that the person is called upon, now that he is on
revealed to us by the Guardian of the Threshold. Whereas we
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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circulates in the world as anthroposophical knowledge and
challenge to humanity to strive for a true knowledge of self.
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
that he will realize: In this light-filled kingdom of earth the
called the Guardian of the Threshold. This Guardian takes care
prepared with inner earnestness for spiritual knowledge -
is revealed [Drawing: white arrow pointing downwards]; here we

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of knowledge:
feeling, my dear sisters and brothers, will now be revealed to
be at one with that star-filled heavens. Thus have I
the soul light-filled
be led into the spiritual world.
On the soul light-filled
On the soul light-filled

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development — the true path to knowledge — the
grasp sense-free truth, sense-free knowledge.
according to the usual methods and called to this or that work
really enter meditating into this vision of the star-filled sky
star-filled sky. We can feel the depth and at the same time the
sense-images of the stars disappear and the star-filled sky
star-filled sky becomes an Imagination for us, do we feel
star-filled sky becomes for us the grand open page of the
then we are no longer in the physical body. We have traveled
afterward we feel: the spirits have called us so that they can
from my present earth life for I am led back, through the
fulfilled. And that is what I was obliged to lay before your

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which real knowledge of spiritual things can be realized. Of
of freedom. Every individual is called to his life's task and
subtle path, which is the true path to human knowledge. But
would not exist if the star-filled sky did not arch above us.
the whole starry sky rolled together, so to speak, within our
being into this rolled together cosmic space which is the
scrolled together starry radiance, the human radiance
starry-cosmic-spaces, dwellings-of-the-gods, rolled together,
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:
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
world – for knowledge is meant to flow to you directly
hierarchies for our self-knowledge:
called into cosmic being itself. This resounds from the
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.
Yes, that is a guide to self-knowledge:

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for knowledge of our being:
revealed by the spiritual hierarchies – with which the
they are called – the instinctual drives which are
world of the Cherubim, the wisdom filled beings who live and
But we must always remember that knowledge
A god's strength had led me here.

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Guardian of the Threshold and have led our souls step by step
on the path of knowledge. Today we intend to enliven the
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
knowledge of the spirit will be revealed to him.
cross with the congealed formative forces of water. If so, he
life on earth I breathed, inhaled that breath from which the
extinguished can be re-kindled; what melts remains melted
innerly ensouled by Christ, the second answer as the voice of

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real knowledge we approach the abyss which opens between the
own self in order to seek the foundation of cosmic knowledge
in self-knowledge.
We contain in us, by what is called
called in the innermost depths of soul, we will be liberated
everything in us which is airy, the inhaled air. The Guardian
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,

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and revealed from here in the Goetheanum. Such a condition
heart to understand them: the admonition to self-knowledge,
which is the true foundation of world knowledge.
beauty of all that surrounds us, which we must acknowledge;
enkindled your I?
which enkindled your I?
enkindled your I?
But these admonishing, questioning words had led
after having been filled with the element of warmth in
self-knowledge from all the cosmic events and beings, and the
What becomes of fire's purification, which enkindled your I?

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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
What becomes of the fire's purification, which enkindled
left together with our capacities for knowledge.
memory of the rainbow which has been called forth by the Guardian
image-filled situation in which the Guardian of the
Threshold's pupil finds himself when he is called to
becomes filled with a soft, mild light.
which we had left behind in order to acquire knowledge in the
A god's force had led me in.

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The call to self-knowledge, which the human soul can hear when it
And then — impelled from within — we must turn our
spirit revealed to our souls. Over there we did not see what is
clairvoyance. Their souls were filled with dreamlike pictures,
take into our souls the inner drama of self-knowledge.
We have traveled the path. Three tablets stood
A godly force led me in.

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out to us to seek self-knowledge, for it is the foundation
of all real, true cosmic knowledge.
realm of illusion, of maya, which led us to the Guardian of
the Threshold, which led us to self-knowledge, and through
self-knowledge over to the spiritual realm, and allowed us
was led by Michael and his companions in the way described
called from afar. We go back again with humility, past the
Society can no longer continue. That which is filled with

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attempted as the so-called Free School for Spiritual Science,
that is willed in this School. You are all students of Michael
that from the spoken words about human self-knowledge the
sun-filled; but that this radiant, sun-filled world is for the
— you in image-shape revealed —
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
— you in image-shape revealed,
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
(We feel ourselves impelled to take a few steps closer to the
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.
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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.
Your burning thirst for knowledge must subdue him.
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envision the need for self-knowledge — that constantly
knowledge has led us to the Guardian of the Threshold. Once the
self-knowledge, and which must be followed if the exhortation
It is filled with cosmic-spirit-force;
It's filled with cosmic-spirit-force;
It's filled with cosmic-spirit-force;
It's filled with cosmic-spirit-force;
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
Spirit-filled, powers of thought,
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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
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
want to be knowledgeable in the battle between light and
the right sense of feeling for knowledge.
light. In light alone we would be benumbed, dazzled. We may not
knowledge. And it is also the case for equilibrium between
clear to us that our real being is not revealed by all of
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
we heed all that is entailed in these demands, we will find the
self-knowledge were intoned from all creation still in an
of light, so to speak. Then it will be filled with what our
pledge to the Guardian of the Threshold that we will adhere to
make a kind of pledge to the Guardian of the Threshold that we
lightning, every thunder has called to us:
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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.
spirit were within it. The living person, the ensouled person,
the pledge that our soul makes, now that we are in this
If we only carry over the thoughts instilled by the illusion of
Sign, and sealed by the Michaelic Rosicrucian-School for your

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path which leads from the sunny, light-filled world in which we
humanity. The description has led us thus far to show that we
Threshold had revealed them to be illusory. They are bright and
wells up as warmth, light-bringing, light-filled; to what
striving for knowledge — to sense the wings which carry
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arbitrariness called “human ideals”; rather must
be called healthy, especially not one which is worthy of the
look into the matter, which revealed why the mantra became

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crystallized out of this so-called war has sprung out of fear
shown in the last decades which have been instilled in
souls and worked out of human souls. These instincts enabled a
hidden behind what we called proletarian class consciousness in
when he or she turns their gaze to self-knowledge and
that knowledge could be penetrated with a religious glow, with
not need to disbelieve their own knowledge. However, as

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possible solving techniques distilled from actual knowledge of
life, or it could be called the modern social organism, quite a
evolution of knowledge. This means however that our thinking
knowledge of the necessities of this social organism. Healthy
instinctive knowledge of the necessity for a threefoldness in
old constitutional state it could be called the actual life of
for knowledge of the members of the social organism to know the
third system to have a name it will be called the spiritual
this side to be healed and thus enable people and communities
for complete autonomy, acknowledged and applied to all the
political laws of life must be acknowledged for their need to
theoretical parliament or some unit assembled and centralized,
an inter-scrambled mixture but that they are orientated
acknowledge what is offered here out of the developmental
somehow missed acknowledging the essence of these things, today
which has failed to live according to its natural laws. This

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Many people are filled with good will but not in one of them
what I called last week the thrust received from inner
thoughtful and scientific knowledge seeking inner life like
can be called “good,” but instincts which oppose
unbelievably much of what had led mankind into the present
called Utopian, and out of this finely fits and crystallizes a
if humanity wants to advance in knowledge it may experience
then so-called “Society for Ethic Culture.” Here
ridiculed.
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
tendency towards ideology needs to be healed and therefore are
so-called spiritual culture, all inclusive of what could be
that time, I called it the enactment of intuition in the human
the employer gives the employee no more than the so-called
all he has: his goods called “labour.”’
national economic knowledge, discuss what can be done in the
intelligence, the most profound national economic knowledge
century? Here we have the so-called empire state. In this
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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as it similarly rises to puberty. Whoever has knowledge of the
human soul in earlier times; this social impulse led to the
be called the foremost, leading social class of humanity. The
economy. So we see the so-called social or national economics
as the so-called physiocratic national economic ideas. Earlier
fulfilled, human labour being considered as goods. In this way
you try to tackle it. Without me getting entangled — and
my Newspaper called “Lucifer Gnosis” I tried to
an acknowledged, but need for acknowledgement of the principle
I may say, want to be ruled through constraint according to a
catastrophe, called a war, which broke out over humanity, there
of the state, the so-called state, would be propagated through
alongside the army, had failed. Politics and armies are there
strategy is led to depend on itself, will the policies
these were and which led to the catastrophes of the last four
realised but that reality is tackled at some point. If this is
understanding. Much has been corrupted, spoiled in the most
have incorporated an appeal in my detailed presentation here in

Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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superstitions ruled in the Middle ages. These superstitions
they can create something called a social organism.
so-called ruling class, away from the development in the most
instilled in life traditional impulses inherited from origins
acknowledge the entire scope of this fact one should not only
herself enlightened, call themselves atheists, can acknowledge
scientific orientation failed to fill his soul in such a way
was called out of the old relationship to the machine and
at what had developed as knowledge about the people and the
independently built opposite the state, were filled out by
old slavery prevailed, the old question of serfdom. In the
nine. However, this knowledge will become the foundation for a
struggled with the logic within the contradiction which exist
speech exercises in political organisations. I am entitled to
thinking in the region of natural knowledge, and made it into
That which dwelled within the totality, which has developed a
fuelled by quite psychologically orientated people. Such
if I say that much of what has taken place in the so-called
him; all he notices is that he is led away. Just so is the

Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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What is called the ‘social question’ today has in no way only
is more than half a century old. However, what has actually led
centuries has led up to, then we can sum it up in the following
through a certain education and taken part in what they called
It developed in such a way that the carriers of the so-called
insight any more but it enabled them to pose this question in
thorough knowledge of life into which the social organism plays
movement only in terms of wages and daily bread and failed to
goods called ‘labour power.’ However, the power of labour may
the life of the modern Proletarians and, hurled into it,
historic criticism. Just the knowledge that labour can never be
lecture was given entitled “Science and the
welled up from the results of modern science, for my sake one
has led towards what the exchange of commodities is, and has to
I have remarked that natural science can't properly acknowledge
so-called nationalisation came about in certain economic
so-called interests of the ruling state circles, which had been
allowed the state to absorb ever more, what they called the
only, when in this way the social organism is healed, then only
installed at machines, harnessed in a factory; here the
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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a greed for knowledge but to be a spiritual impulse penetrating deeply
quite another matter. Detailed evidence in support of this point would
sphere of human knowledge.” He showed by this remark that he
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.
his eyes, colour and light are revealed to him. It is possible for the
the experiences of those to whom the hidden teachings were revealed
inner and outer life is directed and controlled by himself; he
entitled Der arme Heinrich, when miracles of healing follow the
on Atlantis appeared in a magazine entitled Kosmos, issued
wisdom-filled Ego builds the Ring which gives rise to the struggle for
rustled in the leaves and swept through the wind. It was this
Thy mind is there wherever knowledge dwells:
Knowledge of this mighty impulse developed the power of the Ego in the
and then, afterwards, recognition and acknowledgment.) This, then, was
filled with the element of desire but as chaste and pure as the calyx
Grail Ideal will be fulfilled when man brings forth his like with the
early spring flowers. The sight of the young plants revealed to him
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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
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
he would enter a world where super-sensible truth would be revealed to
Aristotle, and the kind of knowledge that made its appearance about
and were thus able, with super-sensible knowledge, to realise the
vented it on Plotinus. He actually wrote a polemical thesis entitled
acknowledge God as a Being because the Ideas are primary and
the tradition which exists in regard to Plotinus — the so-called
words when there was still knowledge of the principles of true
Therefore the knowledge he possessed only amounted to the substance of
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Title: Community Building
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a movement in the field of knowledge, had also to determine in
everything which willed to work otherwise in the
Anthroposophical Movement in the aspect of knowledge and in
impulses came from the hearts that were filled with enthusiasm
or later or whether one can utter these sorrow-filled words
which is rational and intelledn.il as a single human
exercise a little self-knowledge in order to acquire what I
relationship between these persons, fruitful and filled with
merely because of individual facts that are called up out of
we receive from Anthroposophy, this knowledge of a spiritual
Anthroposophy first begin. Indeed, we are compelled to take our
Anthroposophy, which may be called the awaking of the human
matter what it may be called. Therefore, the important problem

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who have withdrawn, and the like. In short, what may be called
affords us the possibility through its own knowledge of
we are led by the natural course of external events, and let us
the higher worlds, as you all know from my book Knowledge of
experiencing of that which is revealed in theory out of the
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its
occupied with the search for knowledge out of the higher
justified role in the physical world: if one is compelled
is customary in circles possessing this knowledge not to say
so-called college course. I described yesterday how this
compelled to take exception out of a consciousness of the very
the truth that knowledge of the higher worlds is acquired in a
is such that we are compelled to let one conceptual link
technique, that proving goes like a well-oiled wheel. This is
formation of an independent association called The Free

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
universe in which the cloud revealed its essential nature
knowledge to be gained there if we do no train ourselves
concerning the knowledge to be found in supersensible
knowledge of human institutions. This has a very much to
knowledge of the heavens came with the great increase in
knowledge of the earth that came when men sailed around
the globe and found that having sailed away to the west
publication called Politisch-anthropologische

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.
garbled translation of Asian soul and spirit culture.
have nothing in them that permits them to acknowledge the
In that form it travelled westward through Greece and
dwindled more and more as Europeans were increasingly
the European body came to die off people felt impelled to
could follow a trend that led to the inane and
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
that he has initiation knowledge from personal experience
major secret. The usual initiation knowledge in Western
initiation knowledge that its initiates only have
whatsoever in having initiation knowledge just for
characteristic of the initiation knowledge I have
more profound look at initiation knowledge. This is an

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
communities, though these should not be called
realms were ruled by individuals, or by particular
principle, as it came to be called during different
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
merely implanting intellectual knowledge into their
called to hold important offices, to be leaders within
training of people called to high office — should
accepted the fact that they were ruled by gods who walked
transition from a ruler who was a god to one who ruled by
inspired him, filled him, and guided him in all he
also called the pseudo-Dionysius, who was much more
right theory concerning the way human empires were ruled
inspiration was alive in those who were called and
the vocabulary at a later date — they were modelled

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
proper value to initiation knowledge, or initiation
I have often called the real big shots in the
Anglo-American movement have initiation knowledge, but
based on Jesuitism has initiation knowledge and in its
own peculiar way Leninism also has initiation knowledge.
goal that is worthy to be called human, is contained
within genuine spiritual knowledge. A true goal and
come from. What do they feel compelled to do? They have
world through all the ages that any kind of knowledge and
most courageous of our young protagonists, called on
priest called Arnet in Reinach, to be unworthy of his
that knowledge which today has to be sought within life
that ancient tome called the Akashic Records! To prevent

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.
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
say that we have a lower organism, as it is called, with
religious life and the search for knowledge are
what is called for, but for as long as it is a purely
commercial and industrial enterprise called Der
what is nowadays called business practice, the best way
Time is killed particularly in what is called active life
out, pulled apart like strudel or noodle dough;
everything is pulled well apart. It is dreadful to come
kill time. However, time still has to be killed these

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.
knowledge gain the power to transform materialistic
knowledge, the materialistic way of thinking, into
spiritual knowledge. It is therefore of definite value in
called a phenomenon. We must not allow our fantasy to
search for knowledge based on strong will impulses, that
so-called philosophies that spread their mists about. For
fall down when I let go of it? The force called gravity
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
brought into truth and truth into knowledge. Then the
experience of knowledge and look for the truth outside
ideas. They then become truth and knowledge. It is also
ways of a child, forming ideas in play, has to be called
it means that one has failed to progress. The language of
show you what we are called on to do. We are not called
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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.
levels from abstract intellectual knowledge to active
called childishness on the other side of the threshold.
the nature of what is called 'Jesus' there. The point is

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,
knowledge and belief poses a riddle which must be solved.
to teach humankind the difference between knowledge of
to the physical world. It represents knowledge,
perception, of the supersensible. Initiation knowledge
knowledge and faith.
People had a primal knowledge — we have discussed
then. Knowledge came to people at that time when a power
power filled with divine light substance, divine life
beings they were filled with what the gods instilled into
them. This certainly was ‘knowledge’ in the
primal knowledge existed all over the globe in the early
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
wisdom that was revealed in the ancient Orient. Looking
complex of experiences also led to something else. It
original tradition that had not welled up from their own
death will be revealed and brought to conscious awareness
will be revealed out of physical human substance. Because

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.
root causes lie that have led to the disastrous situation we are facing
gained by processing it; energies merely channelled and controlled by
in Germany. These were energies controlled by humans, but in fact derived
have thought up have however been channelled in this direction, and in
towards Anthroposophy is, moreover, called upon to consider the full
the essential spirit of natural phenomena. This is called superstition,
present-day thinking has led to a desire to militarize the economy and
business ledgers. All this will condense into feelings and emotions.
that age. Then another novel called Siegwart [
something is restlessly astir in us that I have called a great longing, a
looked at nature and saw the spirit; this enabled us to develop an inner
we shall be filled with nothing but the power provided by the products of
the fate of that disastrous war was sealed by ahrimanic forces quite
Christian, however. They will be filled with the Christ impulse. What we
economic life that is controlled by human beings and not by horse power
new understanding of the Christ must be found so that humanity may be led

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
public lecture I called it the ‘science-orientated
thinking. Science will only be filled with the Christ
wanted it to be the power that also ruled
being entirely impersonal. The more impersonal knowledge
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
Christ filled. By bringing the Christ idea into science
libraries, storing lots of dead knowledge all around us.
sitting at a desk piled with books. Personal involvement
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
take this element of knowledge back into our
This will help people who have knowledge; it will help
knowledge. I have presented a small but definite proof of
that kind of intellectual life. Read the chapter entitled
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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This single lecture is the 11th of 19 lectures in the lecture series entitled,
This single lecture is the 11th of 19 lectures in the lecture series entitled,
species that five hundred years ago filled the land that is now
and thus man is led to this or that pair of parents, but not merely in
There he led a kind of angelic existence, not interrupted by such

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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In times like the present, filled with bewilderment, in which
from genuine reality has led to the “empty phrase”
to the objective knowledge of the world. It does matter whether
B.C. The “fable convenue” usually called
times people understood them as being spiritually controlled.
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
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

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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is generally handled by the creeds, that they appeal largely to
be called an “old boy”!) who told us we needed
the organism and new knowledge, unattainable before, is
Other knowledge will be recognized as necessary. There is a
People should be filled with the conviction that during the day
to admit, has been frankly acknowledged by the socialists of
when we develop such knowledge of our position within it at the
humanity. What will the so-called clever people call anyone who
the cud of Greek knowledge, to allow the Roman political ideas

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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Nowadays men talk of the so-called “League of
reconciled, but that is not noticed. Here is a thing which
is felt, how men avoid approaching the great knowledge or
led us away from that inner urge which could bring us to the
knowledge necessary to-day. Suppose you asked a natural
ago have turned to dust, is enabled to bring to completion what
of knowledge — much more than that. To take them
science. The ordinary superficial knowledge possessed by people
immediate culmination, led up to by all these facts, was what
we called the World War, that whirlpool into which were poured
gradually so deepening our knowledge as to become able to
from spiritual knowledge.
a sense of reality in our knowledge of the present. It is
force while those who faced reality were called Utopian
idealists, we are compelled to speak. No pity should prevent
saw, for our lips were sealed) that men of absolute
incompetence were called to positions of authority —
wills the truth, rejecting the lies which have entangled

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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will find themselves compelled by force of circumstances,
It was itself called upon, to a considerable extent, to set its
so called World War, in the presence of a small audience
later, the so-called practical men were giving out —
time from some knowledge of its underlying idea. What did these
way in which it was controlled. It is quite comprehensible that
and that of the proletariat leads, and has led, to a deep
based on the demands of the proletariat, hitherto entangled in
were receiving a knowledge which they could absorb. But a time
real knowledge of the growing human being. Social class and
being, are at his disposal, he will not be weak-willed or
knowledge of the facts, with its catchwords of an
not one from which men shall be ruled from a centre, but where
including everything on which a man is entitled to give
order is settled by the conditions of a free market, so long
regulated. Hours of work must be settled on purely democratic
is to be based only on knowledge of facts and on practical
composed of men whose position is justified by their knowledge
self-dependent, controlled only by the economic forces
which can signify nothing to a man with practical knowledge of
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