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• Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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  • will seem more or less pedantic, because they show us with what
  • endlessly out-flowing activity in itself. That is…it must
  • own evil and one's own imperfections with endless clarity. So,
  • and human evil, regardless of whether they are portrayed to us
  • power, and for which the soul would immediately be useless, it
  • this through selfless life in the physical world. Selflessness
  • that in this time the strongest hopelessness must arise towards
  • hopelessly covered in filth by evil and wickedness in their
  • purposelessness. — I will not refer to Nietzsche today,
  • again, if one refers to the tragedy of numberless human beings:
  • may laugh more or less at this; whoever better understands the
  • been used lovelessly, since you more quickly offer what appears
  • endlessly significant, because it shows us how the soul must
  • believe that they think spiritually, are nonetheless entirely
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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  • material form, it is looked upon like other lifeless objects.
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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  • receives anything from outside, it nevertheless bears deep within it
  • for the sake of talking, thoughts are quite worthless. For a clairvoyant,
  • interrupted. Restless dreams are therefore bad for our health.
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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  • man grows conscious of the astral world. Nevertheless there exists in
  • verse: unless ye become like little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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  • to his own body. He learns to compare his physical existence in a selfless
  • he becomes a degree less selfish. The first region of Devachan is the
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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  • active. The intention that leads to vivisection comes less into consideration.
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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  • by the Huns and Mongols, cannot harm those who are fearless and courageous.
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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  • or less larger part coming from the astral body, the greatest part coming
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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  • no lifeless matter. The Atlantean was far more closely connected with
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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  • of a body which was even less perfect. This body then took an upward
  • course entirely different from the plants of to-day. Nevertheless when
  • Life can only arise out of life, but life eliminates the lifeless. Everything
  • lifeless has arisen out of life. The minerals are deposits of living
• Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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  • attention for what is usually called history — but which, nevertheless, for a deeper view
  • something real, it is just a decrease in warmth, it is only a lesser warmth. Because the cold
  • which, for the external existence of time and space, is a nothing but which, nevertheless, is
  • which, nevertheless, is a reality — but a different reality.
  • which, although an excrescence squeezed out of the world-view of the Centre, nevertheless fitted
  • For there was no one less suited to thinking
  • This correspondence, however, became less and less.
  • life, and also of the spiritual element. But at present the Central countries lie powerless, so
  • this kind should work. That is all pointless. I attach no value to programmes or to statutes but
  • utopian to set up committees and found a World Fellowship — this is pointless! But to work
  • varieties of supersensible ideas; the sum-total of existence, more or less, is the object of
  • many subsidiary purposes, work on history is no less a free art, complete in itself, than
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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  • develop from these impulses, we can nevertheless dearly perceive how the views of life which do
  • brutal — this arose nevertheless from an economic thinking. When, in modern times,
  • and always, to a greater or lesser extent, takes an the form of the political-legal-militaristic;
  • less into a stereotyped replica of their nation. This is what this third kind of being gives
  • of being the tendency to root out individual abilities and to turn people more or less into a
  • human beings? They are nevertheless there, these spiritual beings! And anyone who does not merely
  • East, who fancifully attribute to themselves all possible selflessness — a selflessness
  • unegoistic egoism, an egoism arising from an imagined selflessness.
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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  • Eastern human beings, be it more or less consciously, by virtue of the particular
  • ceremonies and ritual of the Western societies, have become more or less empty forms — one
  • human beings who have permeated themselves to a lesser degree with the Roman element than have
  • leadership, is the body and soul — not the spirit to which less attention is paid.
  • to human beings but is nevertheless bound more strongly than was the case in the Roman people,
  • nevertheless be taken hold of. It was quite possible for the beings of the three types I
  • individuals of the West. They cannot have the same effect here, but nevertheless give
  • cleft is nevertheless there. It is difficult to find a bridge between the style of Part One of
  • which nonetheless were basically the successors of those spirits which once inspired the oriental
  • to imaginations is natural and, even if they do not come to consciousness, they nevertheless
  • it is all permeated with coquetry, one nevertheless sees how the whole nature of his existence
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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  • twenty forces in a much less abstract way.
  • lifeless and would found a spiritual life that is incapable of reaching into the immediate
  • consciously, but they sensed it nevertheless. Both felt — and one can read this everywhere
  • intimate context what exists in a less refined form in external culture at large. A crude
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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  • another force, whether as a sense of longing or as a more or less clear facet of consciousness.
  • there as a longing for knowledge has become less and less comparable with what has been emerging
  • dim. But one can nevertheless say that, to a certain degree, the last effects of the old
  • dreamlike way, they were nevertheless faculties different from those of everyday life and it was
  • spiritual in the manifestations of nature, the concept of knowledge itself also fell more or less
  • intellect. Nature remains spiritless. The human being will lift himself up to a condition where
  • human being of the present that such a discovery will be made, people will nevertheless discover
  • he constructed and made them, they nevertheless gradually take on a life of their own
  • idea of this, but it will be so nevertheless. People will discover, in fact, how the objects of
  • past but is something necessary for the future. Nevertheless, I would of course not have referred
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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  • ecclesiastical element, and that which tried more or less to free itself from it, produced
  • one individual these came less; in another, more. With the blood, so to say, echoes from the
  • blood then gave way to the medieval wave. Human beings then had nothing, or they had less and
  • less, of what is brought into the physical world at birth from the spiritual worlds. Certainly
  • which led to the Mystery of Golgotha through Jesuitism was nevertheless to be something founded
  • is understood less and less. People talk in words about the Mystery of Golgotha; in words that
  • change of teeth, the child lives in imitation. Imitation is, in fact, nothing less than a
  • printing worthless notes; millions of bank-notes a week. And though it is perhaps only a symbol,
  • there nevertheless stands before the soul of individual people the following: a decadent clinging
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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  • learn of nature, the less we understand of ourselves, the less we understand of the human
  • worthlessness of human existence. This will arise more and more: that the human being will feel
  • his existence to be worthless if he cannot feel it to be anything other than the sum total of
  • term of 'saved neural energy'. But he nevertheless talks of artificially constrained and
  • spiritual science may not be hostile towards Christianity, but is culturally valueless. And then
  • comes the really good bit: spiritual science, he says, is culturally valueless for telepathy will
  • theology nevertheless gives a talk in our immediate neighbourhood after the course has ended
  • ideals or the like is useless if one is not prepared to look at this element that is living as a
• Title: Talk To Young People:
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  • people today everywhere in the world — some more, some less — ever
  • Nevertheless we should look at the
  • what is living and working today in young people, more or less
  • way as the younger generation does today. Perhaps they go at it less
  • “We are helpless. Even to come to a primitive kind of appreciation
  • beyond the endless unproductive discussions. The will to understand
  • is a symbol — not bad in itself but nevertheless a symbol — of the
  • reform movements and revolutions will be useless; it is almost always
• Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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  • mankind submit to this kind of thinking unless impregnated by Spiritual
  • this simulated logic, though lifeless as it is, to which our Ahrimanic
  • to give, is useless; away with it!... wrong because earthly men carries
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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  • Mystery of Golgotha. But none the less we must realise that there are
  • unity. It was extended over numberless sects, numberless religious
  • nearly lifeless, more and more dying knowledge, and a life still
  • has poured itself as bloodless knowledge over a part of the original
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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  • on the one hand, of the lifeless knowledge-principle, the ageing
  • rests indeed upon this rhythmic succession of the more or less united
  • knowledge of the things of the world. Nevertheless it is quite clear
  • asleep to awakening which appears to us so endlessly clever when it
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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  • But unless we come to a feeling of such
  • home in the forming forces of thought life, but nevertheless in so
  • the West as in the East. One is less understood in the West, since in
  • that the Roman Consuls and Roman Tribunes acted more or less in the
  • discrepancies and quarrels arose, it was less and less possible to
  • would have said: He is, nevertheless, a divine instrument
  • this divine inspiration could enter mankind less and less. Human
  • evolution took on such a form that the divine could enter less and
  • less, and so it came about that when an initiate, a real initiate
  • anchor in the pure material of the blood in earthly evolution, unless
  • knew, nevertheless, of the spiritual worlds; they came quite
  • in his knowledge that men would become less and less fitted to take
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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  • lifeless stone through a process such as that passed through by the
  • again. He has nothing to do with all the concepts that are lifeless,
  • of love and altruism, but of a kind more or less unconscious for
  • subconscious. But nevertheless it works upwards, works definitely
  • less consciousness. Thus here would be man #1 and man # 2 (Pg 17) had
  • man's authority must be the less, the more this
  • conscious of this and cannot furnish proof, all the less is there
  • movement, endless injury. For the important part about these things
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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  • unless you first come to understand where these proofs originate. For
  • timeless, but when you examine myths you will see that you do not
  • or less good for me, sympathetic or antipathetic. Here one can enter
  • thus he nevertheless determines to possess it!
  • Nature nevertheless remembers how the sunbeam takes from her what she
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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  • today. During the Saturn condition they were still lifeless germinal
  • nevertheless that all has to do with the
  • of the ‘Society for Selflessness.’
  • Society. But I may speak about others; for I am quite selfless when I
  • if someone believes he is selfless and then only unburdens his
  • selfless through this.
  • much we are inclined to attribute far more selflessness to ourselves
• Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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  • 9th century after Christ. None the less his books contain
  • no longer give heed to it. Nevertheless, the writer of The
• Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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  • rudderless ship on the waves of life. A drifting of this nature produces,
  • soul; it may be more or less unconscious, but it is always present. It may
  • ourselves and reality is not thereby lessened, but increased. The results
  • helpless in the face of reality. With however powerful a grip we may be
  • judgment is possible at the present time in this connection, unless we are
  • opinion that this technique of thinking was powerless when faced by the
  • perhaps, appear grotesque, but is none the less pertinent.
  • which finds less and less favour in modern times. We are required to exert
  • possible unless matter passes over from one to the other, they will in
  • these pages. The knowledge of true reality can never be attained unless we
• 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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  • nonetheless it will become clear to you. I should have to say a great deal
  • Nonetheless these paths exist and are to be found. And if you take the
  • opinion that object lessons should be so handled that they would lead over
  • frequently contested; nonetheless it is done in practice, and for the
  • zoologist. If, on the contrary, we could plan our lessons, when presenting
  • would have been bad. We have given good lessons because we have had to work
• Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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  • formative and less by musical forces, that is to say less by forces of
  • properly unless we take into account the typical course of the astral body
• Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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  • taking a lesson. If you study education as a science, consisting of all
  • food in its natural form. And then, when we are giving the lesson, from out
  • can be of secondary importance for the lesson, but they are not as
  • and working individually. For retention will not be good unless the will
  • sound, to the more or less musical element; and I do not only mean the
  • soul has a restless night in the spiritual world when the person should be
  • asleep, and this restlessness in the soul would be the counterpart of
  • place nevertheless, and is of great importance to your general well-being.
• 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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  • useless in life because he only lives in fantasies. This would be the other
  • listening and less his musical memory. We can always work for a balance:
  • overdose of this kind of history lesson we have made the child a little
  • should a child be in danger of becoming fanciful through lessons in
  • that the ether body and the astral body are less firmly bound to each other
  • meaningless, so meaningless that it is difficult to find common ground with
  • second lesson, because in a certain way the one has to be balanced by the
  • will say to oneself: they will be far less inclined to box somebody's ear
  • are teachers who are inclined towards an understanding of Karma and less in
  • fashion, but even in a less radical form we as teachers and educators must
  • nevertheless. Were, for instance, the teacher to give to the child nothing
  • will not be possible. There are endless other meetings to be gone through.
• Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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  • the human body is doubtless a material process. The forces controlling it
  • beyond the child's mental capacity. These visual aid lessons get
  • the child does not just get the sort of lessons where it matter-of-factly
  • later development; for lessons taken in purely through the teacher's warmth
  • a child is learnt, how to arrange the lesson is learnt. Comparing this with
  • people learning more and others less, according to the way their blood
  • bring about social conditions. They cannot produce social conditions unless
  • an entirely new situation. Nevertheless the essential thing is that people
• Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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  • have nevertheless an overview of what has been elaborated in the Basel
  • even if at first more or less incomprehensible to those around him. The
• Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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  • literary. Ever less understanding showed itself for the pictorial, for
  • human beings became less and less capable of understanding each other in
  • nonetheless remains true that everything I have set forth here is
  • or less familiar with the “Group Statue”
  • possibilities for viewing things. There are countless examples in this
  • Stirner the state was worthless trash, something to be negated. The two
• Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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  • Lessing [Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781]
  • in the external world, what happens in the more or less
  • the human being to expression. We nonetheless have a direct
  • Christian fire could have held sway in Raphael. Nevertheless,
  • lives and weaves formlessly in the universe, pressing this into
  • expressed more or less in saying: Works such as those of
  • of Raphael was one that read less, but that looked more.
• Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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  • countless human souls. Who does not know it, this
  • less indistinct damp patches of colour merging into each other.
  • 1519, we nonetheless stand before the mural in the dining hall
  • There are Leonardo's endless studies for the equestrian statue
  • be said, also in a certain powerlessness, which we shall refer
  • they nonetheless felt united in the centre of their being with
  • Thus, with him we sense the helplessness with which a soul had
  • comes into existence externally? How meaningless and pointless
  • learning to deepen this in viewing the powerlessness felt by
  • nonetheless in viewing the large imperfections where creative
• Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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  • possible nonetheless to illumine at least to some extent
  • person does nonetheless undergo these conflicts at every
  • existence, such as we face in external life in being helplessly
  • the elements vent themselves upon the defenseless human
  • time, as though a shrinking back, a sense of helplessness as
  • foundations, it is nonetheless an experience that does
  • presenting themselves as boundless in relation to
  • conscious life of day. Something is nonetheless there in
  • understanding them, it sensed more or less consciously
  • accompanying it nonetheless and taking part in the various
  • quite helpless. And while she is in this helpless state,
  • endless perspective spread out before you, leading into a
  • limitless future. You will be capable of accomplishing
  • stated rather too graphically, it is still nonetheless true in
  • in regard to the forces of Nature it helplessly faces and
  • giants. Nonetheless, they did not succeed in outwitting him; on
  • nonetheless have before us a portrayal of the battle of the
• Title: A Mongolian Legend
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  • ceaselessly through the world, repeating this procedure over
  • themselves off in love-lessness from what is outside them and
• Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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  • compulsion — to flush out all manner of more or less
  • Herman Grimm, they were nonetheless not at all the main thing.
  • everything with no less familiarity. In the case of Herman
  • that is perhaps less read today than other modern products of
  • boundless longing, this light grew, spreading out, and
  • nonetheless stand — or can at least stand, immeasurably
• Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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  • phenomenon recently, and discussed by those who are more or less
  • or less consciously leads to untruthfulness. So in order to recognize
  • more or less forgotten. Even Catholics understand little of the fact
  • side more secular, but nevertheless representative of God, on the
  • do so. But his right rested more or less on something ideal, which
  • perhaps he was an Archbishop. In that pastoral letter he more or less
  • Nevertheless, the spiritual must be present here in the physical
• Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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  • all are brothers, regardless of one being a lord and the other a
  • people under a more or less unified faith, must always reinforce its
  • power by political means. It has always been more powerful the less
  • it has insisted on its creed, and less powerful the more it has
  • insisted on creed; the less the hierarchy, Rome, has demanded
  • nevertheless it was accomplished. So little had what people think and
• Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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  • western countries more or less spreads over the world. This is the
  • everything can be affirmed. Nevertheless, previous stages are always
  • from the most varied sides, and it is senseless to try and nail down
  • impossible to give a better example of meaninglessness than this. And
  • such meaninglessness plays a much greater role than you imagine. It is a
  • harmless.” and so on.
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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  • instance when you engage scientifically with lifeless,
  • theory about lifeless, inorganic nature. This system of
  • causalities which you would be doing with regard to lifeless,
  • thought derived from lifeless nature, you simply apply to
  • don't merely apply what you have learnt from lifeless natural
  • from lifeless nature, concepts which are applied through habits,
  • He more or less said: ‘Here among the plants in South Italy and
  • which she more or less has completely achieved completely.”]
  • as hopeless. One can say for instance: When one wants to merely
  • come to an observation about endless fruitful things as modern
  • organic realm, the agents of the lifeless processes still
  • then it does not happen that the lifeless activities stops in
  • found in lifeless nature, also penetrate the plants. However,
  • When one looks at lifeless nature one feels to some extent
  • validate through inner examination, the lifeless mathematical
  • world we experience within is more or less an abstraction of an
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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  • sense organs are more or less vital in everything which takes
  • happen more or less as a purely chemical function of
  • more or less of a vertical spinal axis. This is not the salient
  • spine can be brought into more or less of a vertical position,
  • remains more or less as a manifested memory.
  • life, there is even less found in it than the seeing and
  • plays a role but in reality, less than with the seeing and
  • Anthroposophic viewpoint — it could still become more or less
  • Anthroposophy is not useless with reference to research into
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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  • personal, general interest. The word philosophy is less
  • one would more or less consider this classical time of German
  • had been found. These efforts more or less petered out into
  • spirituality itself. It was more or less a dreamlike attempt to
  • — they are nevertheless grasped with the same concepts which
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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  • can't be verified from the outset by anyone and that nevertheless
  • Today we have a psychology which has more or less been proven
  • you have to admit nevertheless, with all great educational
  • dissident children and if these lessons had not been organized
  • “nearly not satisfactory”, “less
  • the lessons. It needs to be metamorphosed, transformed
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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  • have directly emerged. The economic life had to more or less
  • happened more or less instinctively. Now, one can from some
  • appear in thick books have much less worth than those
  • fruitless arguments about the social question and to place it
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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  • less apparent or more or less really worked, but the
  • we have with words, of already being more or less orientated to
  • Movement — with more or less naive minds with strong soul
  • have nevertheless to be adhered to in the Roman Catholic Church
  • less exists as an elementary inner soul experience — we
  • then less and less — what I would call instinctive
  • propaganda within the Anthroposophical Movement and even less
• Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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  • nuances became gradually less recognisable — and in
  • is for instance not pointless that when the Greek speakers say
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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  • Lesson 1
  • Lesson One
  • With this lesson, I would like to restore to the Free School
  • it is nevertheless important that the spiritual revelations are
  • The lifeless is given shape;
  • The lifeless is given shape;
  • and sublime and the endless glow of revelation in all that
  • divine is manifested in what is lifeless in earthly matter, in
  • experience as a blessing, so that we can say in all seriousness
  • next lessons, whom we will want to know always better and
  • yawns before us and from which the Messenger holds us back less
  • we take a careless step. The voice resounds:
  • is open, it is only when the more or less conscious
  • friends, by means of this first introductory lesson, with which
  • The lifeless is given shape;
  • the next lesson of the First Class. 
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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  • Lesson 2
  • Lesson Two
  • will relate what is said today to the previous lesson, partly
  • with a short recapitulation of the last lesson.
  • The lifeless world is fashioned;
  • is neither meaningless nor unimportant to ask yourselves such a
  • noticeable, but true nevertheless. In esoteric life there is no
  • what will be unfolded in our souls from lesson to lesson in
  • Nevertheless, world karma places us in a certain human group,
  • will get to know him better in the following lessons.
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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  • Lesson 3
  • Lesson Three
  • then when we are helpless to follow the thoughts we had in our
  • less we succumb to illusions about this trinity, which reflects
  • point the first lessons of this class also become practical in
  • beginning of these lessons, my dear friends:
  • lifeless is given shape;
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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  • Lesson 4
  • Lesson Four
  • the previous lessons, we were concerned with meeting the
  • That is why when I gave the first lesson I said that it is the
  • must first live and weave wordlessly in the soul before it can
  • that is what I did in the last lesson, my dear friends, when I
  • If you entrust powerless
  • you entrust powerless
  • even less through the light which the sun lets encircle the
  • Selfhood can selflessly exist
  • way, then narrow selfhood ends and becomes selfless, for it is
  • Selfhood can selflessly exist,
  • feeling selfless in his selfhood, is soon able to also develop
  • Selfhood can selflessly exist,
  • spoke in the previous lesson. What this beast characterizes
  • If you entrust powerless
  • Selfhood can selflessly exist,
  • this in mind as part of today's lesson.
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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  • Lesson Five
  • Threshold's domain. Especially in the last lesson here, it
  • visualize the world pictorially, but which is nevertheless
  • powerless. Our thoughts are at first things we own which allow
  • human, and with the lessening of warmth we become less human.
  • Nevertheless, it is there.
  • might warm your coldness, lessen your warmth,” for during
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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  • Lesson Six
  • condensed, it is nevertheless true that he also lives in this
  • lesson that the human being, according to the manner in which
  • strongly. Even air circulation affects you less. Whether the
  • Nevertheless, man is very closely related to air and light.
  • denser ones - even though he is related to them. Nevertheless,
  • relationship more strongly. He descends less deeply into the
  • subconscious. Nevertheless, a trace of Ahrimanic temptation
  • falling into animality; then the inner feeling of helplessness
  • Luciferic temptation in the form of helplessness. First
  • helpless, not strong enough in his humanity to re-enter it. He
  • must beware of this helplessness of soul in that he only enters
  • Experience of spirit helplessness ensues,
  • Experience of spirit helplessness ensues,
  • Experience of spirit helplessness ensues,
  • lessons, my dear friends. You should not understand the things
  • intention to give theories during these Class Lessons, my dear
  • speak. Therefore, in the first lessons I mentioned how the
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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  • considerations of these Class lessons, my dear friends, have
  • assuming he is prepared as described in the previous lessons -
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  • unless an understanding with the Vorstand at the Goetheanum has
  • the reason why you have had to wait so long for the lesson to
  • lesson today to be a kind of preparation. I will hold a second
  • lesson, date to be announced, in which no new friends may
  • to have patience, because if every time a lesson is held here
  • today will be admitted to the next lesson. It will be a
  • continuation of today's lesson.
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  • again and again to these lessons it will be with greater
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  • world. In order to do so there are many different more or less
  • spiritual world is what will be provided in these class lessons
  • lessons, which, as I have often stressed, are real
  • belong to that group wishes to participate in a lesson as a
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  • Nevertheless, the time has now come when the Mysteries
  • Lesson, then what I have just said can live in your hearts.
  • In the previous lesson much was said about this. The
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  • from the spiritual world through these class lessons, my
  • to what life brings from morning to night and nevertheless
  • these lessons were like that. We have however advanced to
  • Thrones will be added to these in the next class lesson. But
  • lesson the words from cosmic-being instructed us to practice
  • we do not make it into a mere bloodless theory. In order that
  • souls which were spoken at the beginning of the Class lesson
  • German originals (see below) here and in future lessons end
  • I don't know. Nevertheless, I am using a question mark in
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  • previous lesson we tried to find the inner psychic words
  • starting point, for it is more or less easy to experience
  • lesson.
  • this consciousness is created in a less than perfect
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  • I will repeat what has been considered in the previous lessons
  • Nevertheless, from all sides the words resound as the
  • knowledge, he comes to an abyss, which at first seems bottomless.
  • karma, he can be more or less susceptible to this temptation.
  • faint. He will be more or less unconscious. His consciousness
  • paralyzed, he more or less becomes an instrument of
  • carelessness in formulating sentences, which is common
  • Therefore, to end this esoteric lesson today, the way this
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  • these Class lessons are meant to be.
  • have participated in these lessons, and leads to what was put
  • forth in the previous lesson.
  • be the subject of the next lesson – So first the
  • would be thrown formlessly in all directions if the
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  • strictly adhered to in the future, regardless of the
  • now have formed the content of these esoteric lessons.
  • During the last lesson we considered the
  • lesson:
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  • arise within me which I will place at the end of the lesson, to
  • opening of these Class Lessons, and also during the Christmas
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  • to humanity in blessing. From them we hear:
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  • Nevertheless, what the gods are saying behind
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  • know this from previous lessons:
  • these Class Lessons, it will be Michael's will to describe
  • 1924. Instead, repetition lessons – with additional
  • March of 1925, the Esoteric School lessons were left
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  • given the first nineteen First Class Lessons (Volumes One and
  • he felt it necessary to recapitulate the lessons already given
  • it turns out, many more friends have come to this Class Lesson
  • — and probably will to the next lessons as well —
  • the previous lessons. But it is also true that a repetition of
  • these Class Lessons will not be a disadvantage for those
  • lessons, because the content of this esoteric school is such
  • stage. We should therefore consider this lesson of today in
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  • weighted by gravity, but human-like nevertheless. With earnest,
  • The lifeless is given shape;
  • The lifeless is given shape;
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  • stenographic records of the seven Repetition Lessons exactly
  • when during each lesson, Rudolf Steiner drew the Michael-Sign
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  • later, at the end of the lesson, then those who give the verses
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  • Your fearless knowledge alone overcomes it.
  • Your fearless knowledge alone overcomes it.
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  • next esoteric lesson of this First Class will be next Thursday
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  • which I will describe at the end of this lesson.
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  • lesson in this Michael-School — how we are first to delve
  • Powerlessly to their striving;
  • heavenly heights where alone the self can live selflessly if it
  • Selfhood can selflessly live,
  • Powerlessly to their striving;
  • Selfhood can selflessly live,
  • be the subject we begin with in the next lesson.
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  • during a lesson, so does not have the verses, he can obtain
  • verses up to the lesson in which they have participated. Only
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  • Lessons for members of the Free School for Spiritual Science,
  • end of this lesson. They should also describe the conditions
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  • wants to bring us to a state of spiritual powerlessness, so to
  • feet, regardless of whether you are standing on the floor of a
  • In the soulless void of space
  • present during a lesson when verses have been given, may
  • either received the verses here during a lesson or by the
  • performance. The next Esoteric Lesson, in which the Michael
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  • Lessons for members of the Free School for Spiritual Science,
  • so in the manner I will describe at the end of the Lesson, and
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  • nevertheless in us, because the character of our times has
  • spiritual experience remains powerless. Self-hood suffocates if
  • The powerless experience of spirit
  • Experience of spirit is powerless,
  • — we become aware of our own powerlessness —
  • Experience of spirit is powerless,
  • on the other side; powerless feeling, asleep, destroys the
  • the next esoteric lesson, to be held on Wednesday, it will be
  • In space's the soulless void
  • certificate. Someone who could not be present at a lesson after
  • would be useless for the recipient to ask.
  • lesson, at 12 o'clock the speech-formation course, at 5.30 the
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  • Lessons for members of the Free School for Spiritual Science,
  • In space's soulless void,
  • feeling is darker and less clear. We are closer to existence in
  • the following lessons, what resounds on the other side of the
  • In space's soulless void,
  • who belongs to the School cannot attend a lesson during which
  • myself. It would be useless for the one who wants to receive
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  • Lessons for members of the Free School for Spiritual Science,
  • lessons, but rather as what Michael communicates in an esoteric
  • Therefore, what these lessons contain will be Michael's message
  • lesson, your attention is expressly drawn to the fact that the
  • unable to attend a lesson during which mantric verses are
  • Nevertheless, the rules are applied with an iron necessity.
  • In space's soulless void,
  • previous lesson ended, my dear sisters and brothers, with the
  • lessons - of a living thinking in which we were immersed in the
  • In space's soulless void,
  • seven recapitulation lessons, it is not possible to determine
  • This was the last Lesson for the Esoteric School. Rudolf
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  • clearer feeling than this: a more or less greater role is
  • basis. Nevertheless, if all of this is considered — I've
  • These changes are less obvious later but they are there. Just
  • consciousness’ one should take less into account that it points
  • the rest of humanity more or less out of the context of their
  • and its brilliant methods, at its endless conscientious
  • circumstances more or less were delivered to abstract science.
  • modern Proletarian, it is nevertheless clearly experienced as
  • goods. In serfdom, a little less of a person was sold, but
  • ideology, is the most harmless. The important element is that
  • this hour, are also dispatched and made harmless by those who
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  • people — whether more or less instinctive — can
  • modestly calculated, is three hundred times less. The work
  • well. It is necessary nonetheless, that just as the circulatory
  • are infused into a unified state or remain outside lawlessly,
  • Nevertheless, I know of extraordinary thinkers, deep astute
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  • of view takes on less importance as we are distracted about
  • human beings, how they can become blessed. We notice how
  • situation of life, into life which appears even less
  • are powerless in the face of insensitive people. No bridge can
  • less authority — had expressed certain ideal ways towards
  • reality but exist in lifeless abstraction. Still, we have
  • less concerned with singular theories uttered about the actual
  • emptiness developed the hopeless mood of the proletarian world
  • quite radical. What is intended here is far less radical than
  • example; it could have been less grotesque but I chose this one
  • for an entire year. The question can of course be made less
  • were powerless under the influence of modern developments, as
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  • could, if you wanted to bring something more or less concretely
  • even less pleasing — but necessary. Unless a person
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  • is no less of a historical disaster, the old-world view
  • having become overpowered and worthless, but the answer is to
  • of slavery could be bought and sold, that later somewhat less
  • the conviction that the mistake was not fruitless, that even
  • thinking habits and that people would not take it less
  • are abstract and in their abstraction, they are more or less
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  • determine the economic life nevertheless in the most extensive
  • that they are useless. For this reason, I believe that it first
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  • nevertheless true, because the necessary equilibrium has to be
  • that to ask about his birth, name, rank or calling, is meaningless. To
  • the less it is truth but truth that will be subjected to the same fate
  • the cross — All other interpretations are meaningless.
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  • revelation was less sharply emphasised than they were in medieval
  • Europe, was less and less understood. People spoke contemptuously of
  • to say about Indian wisdom. Nevertheless, if we ask for something
  • Nevertheless, Aristotle could still receive the substance of the ideas
  • human being to a lifeless nature. But Iamblichus would have
  • The less men understood Christianity, the more they spoke of the
  • Galileans; the less they knew of the Christ, the more emphasis they
  • a forgery. In this document it was said: Behold the godless Hellenes!
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  • necessary to bear in mind, nevertheless, that the
  • clarity nevertheless in fullness of elemental life, in a life,
  • from which we may learn a lesson even though in a primitive
  • human language, though it is certainly less often to be met
  • to read, for example, while dreaming unless especially abnormal
  • unless one begins to speak of Anthroposophy in order to inform
  • better, nevertheless, if this should result as the hopeless
  • less, in chaos.
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  • pays little heed to objections unless some special occasion for
  • cases less than Anthroposophists. This kind of secreting, which
  • world view says one thing or another. Nevertheless, everything
  • be, nevertheless, a certain number of Anthroposophical books.
  • in this earthly world, unless it be this union, should be a
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  • the life we are now living unless we raise our vision
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  • soul principle and are consequently less independent.
  • However, unless we Europeans get beyond what a dying
  • Lessing and Goethe and Herder and Schelling. This human
  • Ferriére's reply. This went more or less as follows:
  • nevertheless not be true, even if it is a widely believed
  • initiate unless you can see your own ideas repeated by
  • possible to evolve social ideas nowadays unless we base
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  • this more or less as follows: I am talking to someone who
  • have been pointless to question whether something decreed
  • develop and think ahead to the future unless we broaden
  • which he stated nothing more and nothing less than that a
  • into human minds. They have become just as meaningless as
  • pointless to reflect on what was lawful and what was not.
  • published as late as the 13th and 14th centuries unless
  • nowadays would say this more or less as a joke. Yet
  • people have more or less tried to get out of the habit in
  • life its meaningless, conventional character. Things we
  • relation to reality, like a word that is meaningless
  • devastated public life of today unless we do so. We must
  • enthusiasm for such things, however, unless we fertilize
  • actually less important to convey truths to people than
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  • that is almost limitless. They cringe before anything
  • arousing a limitless intensity of feeling.
  • would treat us as a harmless sect, as odd characters, and
  • cannot progress unless we become aware that when we are
  • maintain more or less the following: ‘A human child
  • about it say more or less the following: `Those dreadful
  • compromise. It is useless for us to play down the
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  • 90° angle and is less physical; the other is in the
  • given by a few. Something that proved useless for a few
  • influenced the history lessons in some places. I was also
  • lessons come to life if anthroposophy is the foundation,
  • Things will not be different unless we accept it as a
  • visit such things have come up again countless times
  • working in all these areas unless there is a basis of
  • these things have to be done away With Unless this is
  • will succeed. Yet unless some things change the original
  • become entirely material unless there is a genuine desire
  • things that were put to me more or less in passing,
  • is that there is a constant need to have endless
  • properly at a certain density will of course be useless
  • play a large role in modern economics are quite useless
  • days, unless the anthroposophical movement, which after
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  • we cannot comprehend unless we are able to conceive of it
  • uncomfortable; yet unless we enter into them we will make
  • changed. Unless however we have gained the ability to
  • spirit gets less and less, our heads become more and more
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  • is nevertheless true that the phenomena which surround us
  • nevertheless revealing. People talk about the properties
  • extent we are all part of this, willy-nilly, unless we
  • cannot have a vote because we are stateless and have not
  • means. It is therefore pointless to join battle by
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  • gradually faded and the divine heritage grew less and
  • less. To achieve freedom, human beings had to develop
  • Science has nevertheless come about, for sufficient
  • Jesuitism, which is more or less its polar opposite. The
  • to have less than the right amount of knowledge in this
  • people come and ask for word definitions more or less the
  • and more of this unless souls come awake to a much
  • Plagiarized’. This says no less than that a lady
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  • thoughts, though these tend to be more imageless. It may
  • imageless thinking of their waking life, and are able to
  • dreamless sleep. Dreams hold a middle position between
  • earthly human being. They were therefore less interested
  • the word 'immortality', deathlessness. We do not have a
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  • human beings that will then work more or less independently. I would say,
  • machines they have produced. They are active nevertheless. The spirits
  • still more or less theoretical today — though perhaps we should not
  • the mood of the age that teachers perceive when they give their lessons.
  • difficult to describe but will nevertheless come to be the new Christ
  • something is restlessly astir in us that I have called a great longing, a
  • to the Christ event today unless there is a renewal of life in the
  • beside us is producing, by technical things. This enters into us. Unless
  • indefinite but nevertheless tangible fear of life. This will show itself
  • picture and assess the real effects of these things—unless they
  • aspects, unless they find the bridge that leads to the nature of the
  • These are the lessons to be
  • spiritual bedrock. And we will make no progress at all unless we become
  • blessing for humankind; but it cannot develop from the ideas of
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  • these things unless we appeal to the Christ, for the
  • Finally it became mere word wisdom, but nevertheless it
  • personal, and that cannot happen unless people learn
  • no more and no less than that the abstract ideal of
  • on, more or less day after day. I regret that many things
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  • the sequence of these repetitive reincarnations is not an endless one.
  • lawless. They are not new bonds. They were already present in previous
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  • amazing it was when, in Lessing's Education of the Human
  • develop; , but he could only, more or less, take note of what
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  • from the spiritual world, unless they admit something entirely
  • outwardly less noticeable. In olden times this was not so; what
  • back at the language of Goethe, of Lessing, we can see that not
  • “shapeless,” so it leaves them for a time to their
  • Unless we reach a stage at which we can see things so as to
  • the spiritual — unless we realize that man, just as he is
  • — unless we can understand these things from their
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  • the capacities of the Rational Soul became less and less. The
  • less and less understood, more and more materialistically
  • man's soul to-day, unless it can bridge the differences among
  • or less as they do now, except that man would not be there, and
  • same way the Earth would not be able to develop unless it
  • unless we develop the good will to take part in the whole
  • often said that such criticism is useless from the point of
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  • acquiring social and socialist ideas. Unless we have gone
  • hopelessly naïve to deal in this way with the theory of
  • enormous blessings to be found in State-control of education.
  • of regulations. Unless we have a clear, adequate feeling of how
  • really to the point, and can be supported by countless
  • a proper State based on law and right, unless the sphere of law
  • years or less after his death the spiritual product should no
  • towards the sixteen-year-old Gretchen. It is like the lessons
  • centuries when Lessing, Herder, Schiller, Goethe and others