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  • Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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    • Lecture Series: Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge
    • Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge
    • 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
    • boundaries of our knowledge. It must indeed be wisdom, which is
    • 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
    • one might say: one conquers an experiential knowledge of evil
    • acknowledge, —, so one must have all selfishness so
    • of knowledge of someone like Lotze or other thinkers freeze,
    • present — a capacity for knowledge that cannot penetrate
    • not come to any knowledge of outer evil, of that which we
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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.
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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    • 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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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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    • of the development of man towards higher stages of knowledge.
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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    • 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
    • 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
    • greater need for people with knowledge of specific subject areas to be active in social life
    • (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
    • things that are only laid open to a spiritual knowledge. What use is it when people of today
  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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    • Knowledge of the Higher Worlds — How is it Achieved?
    • between rational knowledge and revelation is attributable to the working of the spirits of the
    • (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
    • 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
    • the belief that the intellect is there for gaining knowledge. People will attain to true
    • knowledge again only when they concern themselves with what lies at the basis of
    • manifestations of nature. For the intellect they are silent. For higher, super-sensible knowledge
    • beings but where he will o take hold of the divine-spiritual in supersensible knowledge and will,
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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
    • irreconcilable with a common knowledge of the Gospels. For the Gospel in its true form actually
  • 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
    • 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?.
    • conscience and a twisting of everything that is portrayed in my books as the methods of knowledge
  • Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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    • knowledge into a pure mental and soul content.
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • knowledge that men possessed in the Orient and in the Graeco-Latin
    • was ‘Knowledge of Good and Evil.’ In
    • perfected culture of wisdom and knowledge, but that the depths of the
    • civilisation based on knowledge which was beginning to dry up and
    • able to attain to the fine crystallisation of the Latin knowledge.
    • nearly lifeless, more and more dying knowledge, and a life still
    • devoid of knowledge, a life unfilled with knowledge, but one which
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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
    • 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
    • our nightly sleeping non-knowledge, the darkness of sleep which
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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
    • desire to be expressed by Socrates merely to impart knowledge of the
    • first a process of knowledge. It begins with an intellectual process,
    • 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
    • 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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    • unconsciously and without man's knowledge — it
    • extraordinarily important for people to have a thorough knowledge
  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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    • any knowledge of the actual events and processes. And this is truly
  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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    • few items of more exact knowledge regarding our sense-periphery.
  • Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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    • 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.
    • Christian centuries, thought was based upon the knowledge of the
    • instinctive knowledge possessed by the men of old. They knew
    • 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
    • in his acts of knowledge he is an Angel. He will say: But I am
    • higher spiritual being. Men seek for knowledge today with the
    • science and this sphere of knowledge must now be worked upon
  • 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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    • nature, that it should be built up in the widest sense on a knowledge of
    • 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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    • mystery knowledge. Thus I have always been particularly moved by the words
    • Luciferic enthusiasm that alone is acknowledged today. In sum, we must come
    • 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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    • KNOWLEDGE OF MAN AS THE FOUNT OF EDUCATIONAL ART.
    • of this knowledge of man there will arise in us, in a very individual form,
    • 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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  • Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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    • 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
    • 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
    • is knowledge. But as long as you go on educating people, for instance, with
    • as human beings if you do not develop a sense for supersensible knowledge.
    • And the realm in which supersensible knowledge is most indispensable is in
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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
  • 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
    • “How to gain knowledge of the higher worlds.â€
  • 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
  • Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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    • Raphael are not only an end-result. They lead us to acknowledge
  • Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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    • enthusiasm, with an enormous urge for knowledge — fresh
    • humanity a certain wealth of natural-scientific knowledge. In
  • 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
    • gained as soul-spiritual knowledge. Let us regard it as
  • Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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    • acknowledgement of the aforementioned status. I still fondly
  • Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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    • This knowledge must dawn especially on the peoples of the west. The
    • unknown, which cannot be penetrated by knowledge.
    • “How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,”
    • knowledge dawns, that is, when the platitudes are recognized for what
  • Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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    • 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
  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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    • dissatisfaction. It acknowledges matter in its own organisation
    • acknowledge at the same time that the inner organisation is the
  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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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
    • “Knowledge of the Higher Worlds”
    • knowledge, between knowing and subjective certainty. Then out
  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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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
  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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    • knowledge which have to be achieved by people linked to
  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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    • the spiritual world and its knowledge. The human being is
    • because Anthroposophy is there, not to limit the knowledge
    • knowledge confessed about. The Christ who went through the
    • acknowledged in the first Christian centuries. We then see how
  • Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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    • darkness for human knowledge, from which the light must be born
    • Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • Obstacles to spiritual knowledge, my dear friends, have existed
    • 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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  • Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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    • real knowledge and insight.
    • Behold, I am the only gate of knowledge.
    • 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
    • not a mere game. But what leads to knowledge does not impress
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    • 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.
    • the path to true knowledge of the spirit and of God.
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    • essence of the esoteric does not lie in knowledge, but in
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    • And that is the grand experience that initiate knowledge gives
    • Knowledge means that we are aware of this.
    • knowledge of the real world.
    • dear friends, we say: I would rather do without such knowledge!
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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
    • true self-knowledge. We realize that one is only human when he
    • foreign to us. But if, through Imaginative knowledge, one
    • esoteric knowledge.
    • 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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    • 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
    • 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
    • prepared with inner earnestness for spiritual knowledge -
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    • development — the true path to knowledge — the
    • grasp sense-free truth, sense-free knowledge.
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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
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • But we must always remember that knowledge
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    • 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.
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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.
    • 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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    • 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;
    • self-knowledge from all the cosmic events and beings, and the
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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
    • left together with our capacities for knowledge.
    • which we had left behind in order to acquire knowledge in the
  • Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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    • The call to self-knowledge, which the human soul can hear when it
    • take into our souls the inner drama of self-knowledge.
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    • out to us to seek self-knowledge, for it is the foundation
    • of all real, true cosmic knowledge.
    • the Threshold, which led us to self-knowledge, and through
    • self-knowledge over to the spiritual realm, and allowed us
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    • that from the spoken words about human self-knowledge the
    • Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
    • Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
    • 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
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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
    • 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
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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.
    • 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
    • self-knowledge were intoned from all creation still in an
    • 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
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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.
    • the pledge that our soul makes, now that we are in this
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    • striving for knowledge — to sense the wings which carry
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    • 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
  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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    • possible solving techniques distilled from actual knowledge of
    • 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
    • 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
    • acknowledge what is offered here out of the developmental
  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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    • thoughtful and scientific knowledge seeking inner life like
    • if humanity wants to advance in knowledge it may experience
    • 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
    • national economic knowledge, discuss what can be done in the
    • intelligence, the most profound national economic knowledge
    • label themselves as practical might soon give way to knowledge
    • and only through knowledge and the evolutionary process modern
  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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    • an acknowledged, but need for acknowledgement of the principle
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    • 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
    • nine. However, this knowledge will become the foundation for a
    • thinking in the region of natural knowledge, and made it into
  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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    • 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
    • way — even though he has acknowledged many things, at
    • said. I am in the position to acknowledge much more, also in
    • acknowledged that everywhere where such a longing exists, this
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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
    • 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.
    •  Thy mind is there wherever knowledge dwells:
    • Knowledge of this mighty impulse developed the power of the Ego in the
    • created the figure of Parsifal — the figure in whom knowledge is
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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
    • Aristotle, and the kind of knowledge that made its appearance about
    • and were thus able, with super-sensible knowledge, to realise the
    • acknowledge God as a Being because the Ideas are primary and
    • words when there was still knowledge of the principles of true
    • Therefore the knowledge he possessed only amounted to the substance of
    • knowledge that the different Gods of the peoples constitute, in their
    • knowledge of this spiritual universe was imparted only to those who
    • passed on to those whose faculties of knowledge had reached the stage
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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
    • exercise a little self-knowledge in order to acquire what I
    • we receive from Anthroposophy, this knowledge of a spiritual
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    • affords us the possibility through its own knowledge of
    • the higher worlds, as you all know from my book Knowledge of
    • occupied with the search for knowledge out of the higher
    • is customary in circles possessing this knowledge not to say
    • the truth that knowledge of the higher worlds is acquired in a
  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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    • materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
    • 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
  • 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.
    • have nothing in them that permits them to acknowledge the
    • 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
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    • materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
    • merely implanting intellectual knowledge into their
  • 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
    • Anglo-American movement have initiation knowledge, but
    • based on Jesuitism has initiation knowledge and in its
    • own peculiar way Leninism also has initiation knowledge.
    • within genuine spiritual knowledge. A true goal and
    • world through all the ages that any kind of knowledge and
    • that knowledge which today has to be sought within life
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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
    • religious life and the search for knowledge are
  • 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
    • search for knowledge based on strong will impulses, that
    • 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
    • age is to be found. The search for knowledge must go
  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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    • levels from abstract intellectual knowledge to active
  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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    • 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
    • them. This certainly was ‘knowledge’ in the
    • primal knowledge existed all over the globe in the early
    • knowledge had to develop further, however. If it had
    • however. As a result this primal divine knowledge
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    • business ledgers. All this will condense into feelings and emotions.
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    • materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
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    • to the objective knowledge of the world. It does matter whether
    • 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
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    • the organism and new knowledge, unattainable before, is
    • Other knowledge will be recognized as necessary. There is a
    • to admit, has been frankly acknowledged by the socialists of
    • when we develop such knowledge of our position within it at the
    • the cud of Greek knowledge, to allow the Roman political ideas
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    • 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
    • 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
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    • time from some knowledge of its underlying idea. What did these
    • were receiving a knowledge which they could absorb. But a time
    • 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



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