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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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far back into human development; but first we would like to
the preparation of their own soul life, one would like to say,
would like to briefly portray the main points of his thinking.
most significant contemporaries, who like Hermann Lotze stood
turns around to say: maybe one should consider more like
is very likely that it could be thought of without evil and
its appearance up to the point where he felt something like a
grasp its own self. This activity must, one would like to say,
something like the following. Lotze is of the view, that there
contradiction. But one would like to say, the world lives in
of knowledge of someone like Lotze or other thinkers freeze,
only beings like humans are present, who through their life,
like a pendulum, that can swing out to one side; and we are
purpose. But I would like to refer to something else: that the
spirit who, I would like to say, went through the entire
knows what a human being must experience, who, like
position in a certain future of spiritual life, I would like to
that is like a call for spiritual knowledge, so we should also

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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material form, it is looked upon like other lifeless objects.
form of forces which is very much like the human being of the present
is like a dull red cloud that passes through the astral body; a pure
body fills the physical body like a dense cloud of light. And until

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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is quite different. He does not lose consciousness like ordinary people.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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longing can no longer be satisfied. The soul is like a wanderer suffering
verse: unless ye become like little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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may be felt like the winds which blow on the Earth. Every calamity that

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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soul simultaneously, like a long series of pictures. But this memory-tableau

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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of etheric body, then follows a short sleep-like condition in which the
radiate in blue and indigo colors out of the ether flame-like forms. When
as bell-like shapes, which arise through the fact that the astral substance
of the new etheric body takes place when the bell-like shape has already

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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lived in a sleep-like condition which may be compared with our dream-consciousness
assertion that man is descended from apes is like saying that the perfect
form was still ape-like. During the Lemurian age the sole possession
course of development. But the ape-like forms have partly degenerated

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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before the time of the Vedas. It still had a dream-like, altogether inner

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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from real knowledge. This is one fact which, in a certain sense, I should like to mention as
should like to mention for its importance is the following. At the beginning of the nineteenth
I would like to clarify this by a simple diagram.
points to a way of looking at history like this, a way which looks to significant moments, such a
if I can so call them, of this primal oriental wisdom. And then, like a rapidly developing
similarity. Thus we see how Platonism lives on like an ancient heritage in this Greek who has to
that which developed in ancient times as a world-view in the Orient, and which then, like a
and not to confuse it with usual dreaming — it existed in a dreamlike, dim way, so that
thinking. There was nothing there like guilt and atonement or redemptinn. For
categories, in his perceptions of time and space, would like to encompass all nature through the
— this is a pupil of Kant's speaking like this! And Fichte says:
way who wrote books like, for example, Christian Wolff's
find that the 'I' still lives below, dimly, in a dream-like state in the soul-experiences which
create sanatoria or the like, one gets money, and as much as one wants! This is not exactly what
like wildfire that a World Fellowship must arise to provide the material means for the spiritual
international life, in the right sense! I would like, in this request, to round off today what,
Schools can be the answer of the world to what was put before it like a question; a question
ways, but just like the poet, he must in himself transform the scattered fragments into a
if the historian, like the poet, can achieve truth in his presentation of past events only by
does so, like the poet, only through imagination. Because, however, he places imagination
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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means even in cases like these, to seek truth; to seek reality where outer appearance is so
other people around them, amongst whom something like this spreads like an epidemic, a certain
in sects and the like, but whose humanity is constituted in the fact that it is not simply a
radiate like an epidemic their own exceptional qualities onto other human beings. These three
economic life is, as it were, the ground and soil from which something like this can spring up.
take into account spiritual factors like these that are present in human evolution. Indeed the
working in the East who likewise have a great influence. Whereas in the West one has to draw

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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sects and in secret societies and the like. In the East there are also certain leading
monasteries or the like. And out of the decline of the Roman world in Southern Europe developed
of the older development of humanity, but I should like to draw your attention to a few things.
lived on as Puritanism and the like but which had no connection with the real world culture. We
We may say that, just as minds like Darwin arose
if I may put it so, rather like a fading away of the actual language element. Everywhere these
Puritanism lived like an abstract appendage
like something that has nothing

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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I would like today to point to a certain connection between what I gave yesterday as the
to him. Anyone who, like myself, has seen how Goethe's own copy of Kant's
threefold social order does not yet exist but Goethe gives the form he would like to ascribe to
One cannot do it like this. You, dear friend, picture the
like this — portrayed only schematically — but loops
round into a lemniscate (blue). But it cannot go on like that — there must, if evolution
One could put it like this: for everyday life,
there is no economic life that could be run imaginatively like that of the Orient or the economy
the spiritual life, and uniform States like these must of necessity lead to destruction. And
when, like Lenin and Trotsky, one founds a State purely out of the intellect it must lead to
not aware, because they lack the sensitivity of feeling for it, that every economic system like
take hold with any effect on life itself. I would leave the economic life below me like something
good preparation for this. And likewise, Goethe's
really able to understand something like
and in numerous other comments by Goethe — that if something like a new impulse from the
spirit did not arise, like a new comprehension of Christianity, then everything must go into
civilization and would like to arrive at something through it, one is everywhere met by the
constructed purely intellectually must of necessity lead to ruin. And anyone who, like Oswald
particularly like to emphasize this — confront these things? Well, we have listened to one
like those of Count Hermann Von Keyserling,

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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form an exact idea of what the constitution of soul was like in the people who lived before this
impossible an event like this, resting as it did on an idealistic spiritual background, has
dreamlike way, they were nevertheless faculties different from those of everyday life and it was
faculties that have nothing to do with either knowledge or practical life, like pure
precisely through a faculty like the intellect, which does not stand in a relationship to the
things reach over then like after-effects, like ghosts, into later times. Then came the
descriptions of the spiritual world also look different from what nests in heads like Arthur
today do we see anything arising like a true association. What is really needed, as a kind of
hold back this evolution of humanity. Sometimes they do so in a truly grotesque manner, like that

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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perception; a clairvoyance which was dim and dreamlike. And we have, on repeated occasions,
heretics; like, for example, the Waldenses and Albigenses. These claimed the right to teach
affairs of life remained in the form of child-like experience.
— that, too, lies on the ground today. Impossible political structures spring up like that

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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should now like to describe, although I have done so in different ways and at different times
actually feels that he is what he is through his parents, his grandparents and so on. Unlike the
humanity. This experiencing of oneself in the purely inherited characteristics will lie like a
that there can be a man like Woodrow Wilson
between his dwarf-like existence on earth and the experience that lights up within him of himself
constrained mental pictures — people are supposed to imagine something here like mental
pictures being dammed up like water — that, through this holding back, Imaginations come to
life and appear like perceptions of the senses. Well, I would like to count up the pages where,
article that was spoken rather than written. One would like to call upon people to awaken, to
disaccustoming of oneself from what induces people to receive spiritual science like any other
an attack on Anthroposophy like that of Goetz or Heinzelmann. One has only to look at their
ideals or the like is useless if one is not prepared to look at this element that is living as a
that, bowing down like this, they burden the day with a deep untruth — then people will not

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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by. Each grain of cereal, if I may put it like this, has the will, the

Title: Talk To Young People:
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century feel this in their unconscious, feel it inwardly, like an
elders or traditions have brought about.” The clever ones put it like
movement, one that burst out like an explosion, much more alarming
what they regarded as grey middle age, still acting like the young
There seemed to be an unconscious youth movement that I'd like to
anything like this — but there was no response. Now I have gone at it
others, today, it will sound like abstractions
spiritual world. Behind the glimmering image like a curtain one saw
hearts will burn out like this if we can lay hold of them and make
this very seriously the youth movement will become something like a

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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the ultimate aim of human evolution! He would like to know what will
the old dreamlike perceptions; but today he is unsuitable to form the
the dreamer in us, but also a kind of plant man, who always sleeps like
is our Saturn man; so deep is it that it can be likened to the sleep of
intuitions are no mere abstract things like our own thoughts, concepts
can transmute his dim, sleeping, vegetable-like sensations and
not alike. These human beings differ fundamentally, and that is the
the key, like Mephistopheles. But we must develop the Faustian attitude
will be like, will be seen only when we have the group erected. For, to

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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Roman age like a last great light from the stream flowing from
Christianity flow like a living impulse into his soul. Augustine is a
phenomena. And one fulfilment of this saying was likewise the
something like a sort of archetypal opposition set against the
legends. I should like but to point to one thing, and that is,
Europe something was left over, as it were, like a treasured remnant
It was therefore like a predetermined
of Golgotha arose. That is like a predestined harmony. Out of the
at one time to overcome this dying knowledge. I should like to give

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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life-without-knowledge, which unites itself like a young shoot in
aware in one's consciousness of this living and weaving like an echo;
am not obliged to draw it like this (b) because it is kept back,
physical body. To distinguish it as Ahrimanic I will draw it like
knowledge that we obtain like this has precisely the peculiarity of
experience like this (a), the truth is that what was gained by day
with us like a memory of the night experiences.
I should like to epitomize in these two

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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every thought appears like a head with a sort of continuation
something like a shadowy outline, a phantom, of ourselves; not
exactly like us, but as similar as a shadow-picture. This phantom of
inclination to meditate on the outer world. But then it is like the
— let us say, like a modern philosopher
into the form. It was like a striving to draw together into the human
character. If you do not forget that, in mentioning something like
Greek temple one feels as if, one would like best to be united for
world-historical personality, this does not imply that one would like
We cannot go on any further like this! We must now call upon another
humanity with the Mystery of Golgotha. Thus there was something like
they heard of them seemed to be like warmed-up ancient wisdom. It was
existed for only a short time, and, like a shadow of the old times,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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truth, or something like truth by observing the outer world through
would light up something like a connection with a star apparently
which live in our inner nature. If he were not to shut us off like
is formed in him. Cosmic light penetrates feeling and willing like
is to be found in a book of Haeckel's which reads something like
likewise not bound up with the laws of space and time. Therefore a
rise up from his desire world like a mirage conjure up for him a
but what is within spreads out like a mist in the conceptual world

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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should like to put together various things today which will give us
like a letter of the alphabet.
meaning of the earth-life was added to it like a kind of flower. Now
should like to show that our inner soul life has taken on quite
like this, they would never have the urge to want to possess
The senses were on the one side, and something like the
like physical orders. For that is a part of Maya-existence, of
wants to give the red a boundary. It was not difficult like this for
of it if he were to think of possession. It would be rather like
something like this that I have just expounded must be transformed
wouldst like to possess what thou seest and what pleases thy sight
appertains to a mind that from its sense-exhalations likes
home.’ She, Nature, would like to do with all her objects
feel that tragedy which expresses itself like a mood in Nature when

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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it is feeble and dreamlike. It pays no attention to the outer world,
brings in the activities of the outer world like pictures. The child
even true that something like etheric tentacles from Lucifer project
tell you what the others are like and all the bad things they are

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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echoes on in sayings like that of John Scotus Erigena —
4th century and in men like John Scotus Erigena it flashed up
Areopagite nor a successor like John Scotus Erigena (who was
still alive, to some extent, in a man like John Scotus Erigena
man like Spengler saw the ruins which still remain of bygone
Oswald Spengler gazed at these ruins of the Renaissance. Like
Father God, is the creative principle. But facts like this pass

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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obstacles which must be overcome if the soul would avoid being swept like a
Aristotelian lines, if we, like the Scholastics, exert ourselves to conceive

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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would like to speak of in this introduction is this: to what I gave you
last year I should like to add something about the teacher himself, about
journalist, as a writer of best-selling books, or the like)
spirit of an educational philosophy such as appeared through a man like
say to ourselves something like this —
must quickly cast off our narrower, personal selves like a snake's skin,
father of one of your pupils who likes you particularly may have sent you a

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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help you understand the matter still better, I should just like to mention
the other side of the threshold, men here are actually like savages; only
would like to draw your attention to a fact that must have our particular
to counter the stream originating there, acts like a defence against this
science alone turns a man into something like a dwarf in soul and spirit.

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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like to call one of them the musical element, the element of sound that we
— just like, say, an electric spark or an electric
same realm as we remember what we see. And both cross over like a
visual perceptions, which is likewise connected with the will.
lives in speech, yet this sound is altered in a certain way. I would like
impacts from the sun and the moon, and this brings about something like a
is really like. On the one hand our attention is drawn to the physical,
like these on spiritual scientific education are all aimed at a better
Now if you work at the study of man like we have been doing, you experience
ideas like these, if only for five minutes a day, our whole inner life of
spirit expand in time. So by doing a meditation like this, you can, if you

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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the spiritual worlds comes into this one, I should like to say on wings of
in it deeply, so that you call up in him reverence, or if you like hatred,
this important fact in various connections before, but I should like to
fertilization; it is just like building a carriage in a workshop, a
teacher, I should like to say as a real soul habit, then the following will
his toes or if he — like Fichte, whose whole figure bore
in a school by following a manual on pedagogy it would be just like wanting

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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truths in particular that I would like to develop for you. We shall then
I would now like to bring something of very great importance. When people
supersensible world. In reality it is like this: The world of the senses
our present day consciousness it would be like learning that man consists
—, that you can already come across a thing like this:
like for instance the force with which we understand supersensible things
— But it is not like that. If things are arranged like

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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himself this or that. But it was not like that in the primeval times. At

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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when it is seen â€” like another body, which exists as a
etheric body, in which an individuality like the Buddha is embodied, is not
We must not be short-sighted like today's science, which believes that the
more this present state of consciousness becomes a dreamlike, twilight
thinking, it would have been like speaking to a stone or to a
But when something like this is said, it is necessary to listen very
especially creative abilities at a certain age. But one would not like to

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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something like this? Because in our time the endeavor has to take hold
earth's plant world is like a vast body, but they do
reproduction. It should be anything but like the original. He could not
like that in nature?” And if someone finds that nothing of
for Hegel having said, the state in the end is something like a kind of
for Hegel the state was something like an ever-changing earth-god, for
— well-worn trains of thought. The rest dissolves like

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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that appear all at once, like a star, who are simply there, so
up like a star and disappear again, actually incorporate
Raphael's creations worked on after his death like a living,
show this, one would like to say on the other hand: The
calling to mind a saying of Goethe's, one would like to transpose it,
applying this saying to temporal evolution, one would like to
descriptions of the Bible. One would like to say, Raphael not
in today's presentation may sound like a kind of symbolic
Savonarola or his like-minded comrades would have called
should like to characterize, not in a dull manner, but as
like to provide an example showing how it has had such an effect
looked away again, it always appeared only like an apparition.
to the senses. — Raphael, however, remained always like a mere
breath, like one of those appearances the gods send us in
female form, in our happiness or sorrow; like pictures that
spring-like in nature.
At his point I should like to say, one senses something in
Raphael, to put forward something like what has been said. For,
having experienced something “Savonarola-like” in
likewise for souls that had no notion that it would develop
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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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who did not much like the slow pace with which the picture was
on painting is a wonderful work, like nothing else that has
like a premonition can actually result for external perception.
justified, as little does the sun-like quality of the Christ
created something like this have proceeded in the manner of
us. Contemplating spirits like Leonardo, we can say: They enter
as though born a conqueror, yet likewise born with humour,

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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original that one would like best of all to bring it to
may be regarded as entirely natural that someone like
(If I were to say all that I should like to say about the
is likewise far removed from what takes place deep down
forces. The human soul has something like a yearning to
Ordinary experience shows us that a childlike soul
— a companion really only there for this childlike mind,
eating. The toad, however, only likes the milk. The child
would like to be. In conscious life it may
factor I should like to add here. I am able to establish
Before briefly outlining the fairy tale, I should like to say
here. Were it not paradoxical, one would like to say: in
— upon the plant-like physical body, equivalent to what
light over the now plant-like physical body when the human
plant-like sleeping physical body. The “I” of the
things bears like to eat. Then he approached them and
Even though, like some dreams, the fairy tale ends here
can come alive more fully in the child. The childlike soul may
them. He always liked to add the saying:

Title: A Mongolian Legend
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same way as today, one would have seen an organ, like a shining
surroundings. One would have observed something like a

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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enthroned like an Olympian, a musical instrument in his hands,
Goethe she was able (like few others) to enter into Goethe's
often liked to visit. On one occasion, he invited me as his
something like an undertone in his manner of characterizing the
they do not appear constituted like human beings of today,
particularly in the oldest periods. Even someone like
appears to us like a kind of fairy-tale prince, it is as
being altogether unlike the later human world, there towers ell
artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci,
the work of art, there emerges for us something like a tableau
referring to this, one would like to add a further impression,
wistfulness. He states there that, though it would most likely
of world-history; He is like one of the four rivers that
He is like one of the four rivers that, according to the belief
conduct himself in this and similar matters much like a
come across concerning Goethe fell short. What seems like
lie beyond death — what one would like to call his chaste
Herman Grimm does not describe Emmy's passing like authors who
which he can likewise affect us. We may treat this or that
his works, Reinhold Steig. And I should like also, in

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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interspersion into our considerations, because I would like our
in a way to be as effective as possible. Today I would like, at first
be done tomorrow perhaps — I would like to say something about
god. That's what a god looked like. It meant nothing more than what
physical reality, something like this would have been unthinkable.
— not a clear one, more like a feeling — that once in
come from the past. It will continue to roll on like a bowling ball.

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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were to skin people like Caprivi or Hohenlohe or Bethman Hollweg
things like Whigs and Tories, you find that they were originally

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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Only in parenthesis I would like to draw your attention to what
contains something like a sham or a shadow of the first stage of
therefore it must remain forever. The feminist movement thinks like
future social organism [the rights sector], we don't have a symbolism like
would like to say: Every morning we should bear this in mind very
That's not how it is. And I would like to see that the words spoken
I would like to read part of a letter to you

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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have been overhauled. Despite that, I would like to sustain a
about, looked at inwardly — not like some or other plant
meant that if one made a drawing of something like that, it had
expressed it like this, he meant: ‘When I draw a triangle its
the fruit and more, and so on — just like a triangle can
experience of building an idea; just like a mathematician
would like to compare it with a trivial comparison.
in the forms of expression. One would achieve what I would like
towards human conceptualising, which I would like to
one another like the stars in the world's structure. Man
system of moving bodies like one has outside in the world
is. Now, in conclusion of this reflection I would like to

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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would like you to consider that I had assumed last night, to
“Human beings, like the animals, are attributed with an
there is something in the external space shaped like a nose,
like two eyes and so on, and through an analogy conclude that a
call it movement or rest. Likewise, we must speak about a sense
tend towards developing some human-like functions and as a
senses, like the sense of equilibrium or sense of movement,
imagination, like the observation through sight is translated

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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from words. I would like to say: what we have today in the word
were sharp-witted thinkers like Liebman, Volkelt and so on, who
like for example how matter is constantly contracting and
me Hegel's logic looks like the seed of a plant in which one
is able like no other philosopher, to become gradually more the
spirituality itself. It was more or less a dreamlike attempt to
imprecise way, which looks like a one-sided experience which
central Europe, like Soloviev, then he will primarily have an
I would like to express it as follows. Regarded philosophically
Soloviev speaks like the old priest who lived in higher worlds
no priestly ways like a Soloviev. In the Middle we have the
science you can ask — what are the concepts? Likewise
would like to say that the subject of the teaching in the
natural sciences so strong that some characters — like
concepts contrary to those of Goethe, like the concepts of the
with impartiality — somewhat like a western researcher
will present them, like Haeckel in his genial way did it

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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surroundings enter into the childlike organism itself. One can
frequently taught from a young age as having something like
like the principle of imitation or authority — only shifts
say whatever one likes — has its deepest entitlement; it
permeated by the cosmos, just like in the physical world his

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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sociologically, socially, and to this I would like to say a few
grasp spiritually permeated social relations. I would like to
from intellectual sentences — like for instance Ricardo, Adam
will not be a utopian invention — I would like to say the
how labour and suchlike must be formed; I gave at most some
it should be something like that.
social organism works according to its three members, just like
valid in another because a change has been brought about — like

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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remain thoroughly neutral in its working sphere, I'd like to
audience.’ — These are what the words sound like, which
came to it: to people, like I said, from all walks of life. For
would like to say that Catholics may obviously take part in the
is about within the Anthroposophical Society. Now I would like
content of Christology; it likewise tries to help with research
Christology, but I would like to say the following.
Anthroposophy never turns to any other mindset, like to some or

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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like to talk about today. So I'm only going to suggest a few
like harmonics, move with it in an unconscious or subconscious
consciousness, also when one is speaking. I would like to
action; and I would like to show how, through love imbuing
what is directed from within, like how thoughts are being
existed which I would like to call the experience of the
actually want to, if I might express myself like this, imitate
there was still something like a dreamlike imagination living
like we have today was part of man, but a life in pictures, in
with our sharply outlined concepts, but dreamlike instinctive
imaginations. Still, these dreamlike imaginations worked as a
they sensed it, like they sensed hunger and thirst, only in a
experience the inward application of vocalisation, like we
dreamlike imaginations. One surrenders oneself to these
what is vowel. Just like we paint a picture and then the
In olden times people lived in their dream-like imaginations in
consciousness lies over speech. Old dreamlike imaginations
aqueous, like a kind of shell, and the rest of the body as if
dreamlike manner in olden times when the word
“manas” was spoken out. People didn't feel like we
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With this lesson, I would like to restore to the Free School
friends. And I would like to emphasize that in this School
First of all, I would like to present to your hearts and to
Your likeness manifesting you,
soul. And he would like to conjure it away. So he dresses his
is follow what is reeled out. Even science would like to follow
Your likeness manifesting you,

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In your own likeness manifesting you,

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experience proves this or that? He doesn't like to accept
as shattering events, illness and the like. He shouldn't
dedicated to the meditation, he would like to continue in

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would like to tell you a story taken from ancient esoteric
so. So if we do not wish to listen to the esoteric like couch

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divine. One would like to say: divinity is hidden within
would like to dip into the healthy cold. That is the opposite
Would like to live spiritually.
Would like to act in spirit-creation.
Would like to act in spirit-creation.
Would like to live spiritually.
Would like to engage in spiritual being.

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is like this: when we become aware that our human form exists
have a dream-like nature, as I have often explained, our
feelings have a continuous tendency to be vegetable-like. Just
consciousness, like a vegetable - sleeping, dreaming. But this
refined-to-thinking breathing process is like an organized
mineral, like an organized stone, which fills him.
[?] ... just as we feel ourselves to be plant-like by the watery
animal nature, he seems like some kind of animal - at least in
will exactly become an elephant or a bull, but something like
being bull-like, elephant-like, eagle-like, and so on.
something which drags us down, like this fear of our own
Essentially plant-like dull
Essentially plant-like dull
would like the book to show us the sequence of thoughts; that
in plant-like lameness; then the desire to oppose the coldness
Essentially plant-like dull
become aware - unlike in our limited earthly life which is
being. Universal life kills us if it holds us. Like the insect

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if we do not feel that the School is like building a rock to
saying something like the following. Certain influential
and true supersensible knowledge. Today I would like to add

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because people like it to exist but because the spiritual
I schematically draw how they are conjoined, it looks like
like human beings; we say, as we become inwardly aware: this is
living thinking, which is like a will, such as the will we are
from the spiritual to the physical world. It is, however, like

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Firstly, we humans should in later life be more like we were to
formations and become like a celestial script to us. If we
sky into movement; just as feeling likewise does for the
should set the earth in motion so that like a planet I

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would like to again provide an indication of how you can leave
it's like when in the physical world someone writes something
greedily and say: Well, if I also could do that I'd like it, it
conclusion I would like to say one more thing. It should not

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good to think like that, because you will never progress that
these lessons were like that. We have however advanced to
it is like this:
the universe, from the cosmic distances, comes to us like

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Likewise do we come into contact with the beings of
needs to feel something like resistance when it comes into
cosmos comes an urgent voice like thunder, then the Guardian

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first as the blackest darkness. It stands like a wall before

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spiritual world when we sleep. But it is like darkness around
plant-like existence to sentient-feeling
plant-like existence, warmth is present. Warmth is
nature of warmth resound from the choir-like words of the
What previously stood before us like a black,
us to where we now feel something like a mild weaving, moving
words, trumpet-like, powerful, majestic, from all sides of
— like the planets in the solar system — and
to be like forces of judgment which weave in the verdicts of

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within the universe like a mighty imagination.
On this occasion I would like to bring to your attention

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In earlier times people living on earth had a dull, dreamlike
clairvoyance. Their souls were filled with dreamlike pictures,
them like incomprehensible ringing, mere sounds, cosmic

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Michael era than the previous ones. I would like to emphasize
like a path is shown, a path that leads to a black,
black, night-cloaked darkness begins. Like a previously unseen
cloud formation taking shape, it becomes human-like, not
weighted by gravity, but human-like nevertheless. With earnest,
Your likeness manifesting you,
Your likeness manifesting you,

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luminously emerged as though from a spiritual cloud-like form.
thinking is not yet human; it is still animal-like. There the

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self-knowledge. In front of us, like a black wall, is still the
as a whole are like a finger, a touching finger. You are
like a whole finger, but that we also feel what is within the

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Your animal-likeness will be shown
realize that our thinking is at first animal-like. We must
experience fear of our own Self that is still animal-like; then
conscious that we live a plant-like existence in our earthly
To be a sluggish plant-like being;
Your animal-likeness will be shown
To be a sluggish plant-like being;
arrives at something like a memory-wall, then it returns again
occult school that a real action precedes something like this.

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feeling, but the content of what we feel is like a dream, so
becoming fire-like. Fire, dark fire yes, but fire that we can
spiritually wafts over us from below like warm wind — the
us to feel in this sign the wave-like pulse of the universe,

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what I would like to have as a calm prevailing mood in the
After that introduction, I would like to start with the verse
is like looking into a dark cell, for you do not see the
before you something like a gray outline of what you saw over
How in sleep's dim-like dawning
How in sleep's dim-like dawning
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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like tragedy is stored in the largest part of civilised
like to believe had authority, but for which they were
modern proletarian movement is, perhaps like no other similar
point of view of theoretic consideration like in a clever play
for an applied system, like the philosophy of Karl Marx.
like such things happen which ruin the repetition of
the actual foundation of social will. It is like this: the
this idea that labour is sold to the employee just like goods,

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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With reference to my presentations I would like to ask you to
today's lecture I would like to make a provisional outline for
consider what I would like to call the rhythmic system, in
that to social organism, like Schäffle has done, like others
have done too, likewise with
you continue, like the researcher in nature, objectively
If you look for analogies, then you most likely will experience
of goods at the basis of life's rules, just like the natural
organs, on those gifts and talents given to him, likewise
certain way, just like the metabolic system is at variance with
these three members of the social organism. Just like the body
would like to say it is clear to me, as we are going to be
compose themselves and say: ‘It all sounds a bit like a dream
cannons and such like, or offer nothing through existing
broken out like a plague, an illness attacking an organism
another. Just like the human organism turns each of its
decades. This I would like to found and implement and prove in

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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be found just like economic- and community building in the old
rising up of a type of fanaticism, as I would like to call it.
thoughtful and scientific knowledge seeking inner life like
towards fanaticism, like with those who strive towards
flashes like lightening through one's own soul as the vital
This living, active spirit is in us. It is there like things
spiritual participation, like spiritual science wanting to
uniformed state just like one would try to do with the human
this particular sphere, something can be achieved. I would like
likes; what validates spiritual life is only what he, as a
people. I would like to show this will not be the case. Of
natural science, like nearly everywhere, is the monopoly; their
Spiritual life stands opposite pure economic life just like the
it to become clear how proletarian science, just like economic
is dealt with like goods? — This is what Marx had to say
I might offer a comparison I would like to point to this little
Just like the circulation of goods stand opposite nature
economic organism just like the lung-heart system is relatively
single members are as sovereign among one another like single
like when through a too expensive raw material it is not paid.
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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of an individual life, crises appear, like the crisis in the
like a mirror image of what was being experienced in the
humanity, the economic life, just like the social impulse of
— I would like to call it, to what has been pushed down
actually I would like to shed light on several things which
would like to say that what is expressed in these two opposing
relatively independent system, just like it happens in a
substantiation, I would still like to say that the law bases a
like a god to them. Focus is not being orientated towards the
life. Just like the circulation of goods depends on price and
wealth creation, like life within the political social organism
history, those like me, who is speaking to you now, who during
Here is something, I might say, like a difficult nightmare
members. It still appears like a paradox today when I say in
forces. Just like a really viable organism can be of help to
it relates to the entire war analysis. However, just like men

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into the social mood of recent times which can seem like a
manikin who would like to be on the way to becoming a human
way: the first, being like a spiritual question, the second,
like a question of law and the third as an economic question.
However, this experience that everything is like this, that
movement. I would like to say: as a negative, spiritual life
recent times, people are gradually not thinking like this anymore.
there is a goods market. Just like goods are offered on the
market, and it is only valid as goods. You are sold like goods;
itself; the force of labour was placed on the market like other
— likewise in the
like people are one of the independent economic factors. This
from the other side into this economic life, just like each
He even has to, like he earns interest through his labour,
Those older people, like me for example, who speak to people
subconscious force then it would — just like in a natural
Steiner: I would like to comment on the honourable previous
would like to add an example which I would like to draw your
of thinking in a corresponding way, like for instance the
a state like Austria could expect great success from this.

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‘It can't go on like this!’ — On the other
like to call it, achieved in total secrecy towards the leading
could be a scientific researcher like Vogt, a popular
scientific researcher like Büchner, and still your
thinks this through can't discriminate like the present leading
further development and about this evolution I would like to
science I would like to say a few words to you.
area for the future. How one usually likes to think about the
measure from one side. Likewise, as the economic life is
spiritual life. Like the political state necessitated
Hohenzollern actually looks like it does, as it had appeared
through the process of power, economic power. Like he leads
relate to one another like a government of a sovereign state,
conclusion, I would like to touch on one area, an area which I
Only then, when something like this steps in, which the modern
my sake think about it, it is like this — I would like to
next once it is there; because it will always be there like
would like to make something like a fundamental remark. When
but I would like to say that actually those who have listened
today. I have not always been addressed like this, only I
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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alike of religion, science and art, they were the source of new
This ‘higher man’ surrounds the physical body like a halo and is much
of our ancient forefathers whose form was very unlike our own. As I
apparent in music and drama alike.
sense, like a plant. He has acquired the consciousness that is his
Grail Ideal will be fulfilled when man brings forth his like with the

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strained every nerve to understand how a Being like the Christ, Who
It is strange that a man like Franz Brentano should have inherited
like Plotinus, for example, of whom very little was known but who was
says something like this: Plato did not admit the existence of a
in the Idea of the Good is, after all, only a kind of family-likeness
family-likeness but this family-likeness is actually expressed through
the Idea of the Good. Yes — but whence are family-likenesses
derived? A family-likeness is derived from stock. The Idea of
the Good points to family-likeness. What can we do except go back to
like Ammonius Saccas and his pupil Plotinus were rich in spiritual
savoured of the ancient wisdom, little more than the names of men like
absorbed a very great deal from pupils of men like Iamblichus and who

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like, however, to call your special attention to two things: to
have in the dream consciousness, we are not likely to be able
the like, we do not thereby as yet understand the spiritual
likewise, when he lifts up into the ideal something he has seen
likewise, through what we experience in common as we receive
descriptions I should like to give you some indication of the

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which we do our daily work. And so, I should like to give
like in connection with this to say something about the manner
I should like here to begin with something well known to those
who have withdrawn, and the like. In short, what may be called
suppose he should introduce a realm of pictures like that of
they likewise do not understand him unless they simply consider
within the Anthroposophical Society can likewise have all
Anthroposophy itself. In this, likewise, much is lacking. If no
Anthroposophical Society existed, it is likely that there would
like. For there are such methods, whereby something that only
should like to call them, which have been brought about since
this deeper discussion, I should like to put in its true light
an abnormal, harmful phenomenon, and so like-wise is it harmful
technique, that proving goes like a well-oiled wheel. This is
worlds, like the carrying of dream relationships into the
higher worlds is just like carrying the dream condition over
like a dreamer but will be able to act as a person standing
establish a true Anthroposophical community. Then, likewise,

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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people have always been thinking like this. That is not
to dreaming. If we follow this dreamlike activity of the
definitely dreamlike, consisting of dream images. The
dreamy in his thinking, if I may put it like this, did
Christian faith, have gradually come to look more like
of anything arising in us out of dreamlike inner
consent. I should like to give you a brief example which
fathers, surely it is like this: You or I may have some
people dislike having to be so true to reality that one
that people speak of human life exactly like someone who
definition of history, like the historian Leopold von

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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should like to add some further building stones to an
like Fichte's ‘Goal and Purpose of the Human
Note 07 ] and the like. We have
initiates. If you ask why it is done like this you will

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meaning. The awareness of the godlike nature of the ruler
the flesh of Jesus. Things like this have their origin in
view when reading something like Dante's work and realize
something arose for example like the possibility to
ritual acts and the like performed on earth Were
say things like ‘by the grace of God’ —
history humankind is unlikely to pursue. Not only words
relation to reality, like a word that is meaningless
its historical development. It lives like someone who has
was like as a boy or a girl, at most remembering back as
would most of all like to sleep through those tasks. The

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and the like, but still large numbers of our fellow
among them. This has made it possible for people like
like; in short, paper of any kind. Well, wasps and
you all know what life after death is like. I do not need
up with learned calumnies like those presented by the
teacher, shaking in his boots if I may put it like that,
had its flowering, at the time when people like Vogt,

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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like this: The whole of our rhythmical circulatory system
of channels or the like with water flowing through them,
you what lies behind this. You can draw it like this. I
approximately like this [see (a) in the diagram]. Two
them like this (b):
actually touch anything. I can draw it like this (a). The
visual axes like this. And these arrows (b) could
religion and so on are like smoke, like an ideology
proceed by the agency of privy councillors like Max
inclined to think if something like the anthroposophical
various other people. Conflict is likely to be
really very bad for people to say things like: ‘The
gratification—you may feel like this when you are
land cannot be bought and sold like other goods That is
out, pulled apart like strudel or noodle dough;
practical life. If you wanted to use thoughts like these

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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spread about like this, irrespective of whether it comes
consideration. Traditional historical elements like the
phenomena like the phenomenon of the rainbow, for
kind of outer reality—like a solid bridge with its
are dealing with phenomena that are like opiates, we are
important as a concrete fact like this, the inner
life. Numskulls like Dessoir cannot grasp this. For them,
word and reads out something like this, having somehow

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reality of the spirit this sometimes sounds like children
means that a certain childlike quality persists in the
childlike soul quality persists one-sidedly into
like those I dared to put to you yesterday are
concern about the things one would like to see overcome.
and the like, i.e. on abstract notions. As soon as we
because the situation is like this where the human being
effect. That is also the reason why, when something like
presented, but out of inner impulses. Fighters like the

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empty, abstract thinking, or something like that, but a
like that. They felt, as it were, that a divine spirit
a human being was indeed like the earthly home of a god
put it like this. Divine knowledge withdrew so that human
may hold whatever views he or she likes.

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science is right when it says that the brain acts like a
hypothesis, if you like, that it provides the physical
waking and sleeping. If the brain becomes more like a
himself: ‘My ideal model looks like this. This
death. It was left to a culture which I should like to
Everything said on the subject is like the babbling of
the other hand we have pictures of human social life like
from technological processes, if I may put it like this.
as a heavenly, spiritual being has come to look like a
West, if I may put it like this, we have Keely and his

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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war started, something like a spectre from prehistoric times lived in the
Like earlier wars, the last
other. Unlike earlier wars, however, this war involved energies and
striking example of it. Examples like this can be used to illustrate a
Looking at it like this, you will have to admit that the power of these
say that however instinctive, dim and dreamlike their conscious awareness
like those we have seen in recent years. Human destiny actually depended
make it into a vast machine. Even human beings are trained to be like
come up with feelings that their elders never had. Something like this
next generations — who will feel like this: ‘Well, here I am.
look like an animal, an ox, a donkey, a weasel or an eagle. I look
external aspects are described. People like Paquet [
general staff and the like when we want to speak of the way destinies are
Switzerland and other neutral countries and saying something like this:

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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rightly if they are able to ask themselves questions like
will be like a spiritualized Mystery of Golgotha.
like twenty different figures represented the potential
three aspects, like the three aspects represented by the
when we come to consider things like these we realize
to go on working like this in Stuttgart the more obvious
go on like this in the long run, for that would deprive
like to cling to the old ways. Yet we are doing something
the Silver and the Brazen King, as I would like to call
go on wanting things like this they will destroy
be fairly brutal in your licking, like some of the
patent-leather boots like Count Keyserling — it
not indulge in feelings and the like and somehow or other
not want to take Anthroposophy seriously like to put it.
that someone like Count Keyserling has the cheek to say

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like to begin immediately by describing the life of man between death
body, which is connected with the etheric body, like a large shining
not inactive. It appears to the clairvoyant's eye like a spiral cloud,
occurs, which stands before you with all its details like a great
stood before them like a tableau, so that the vanished experiences of
in my hand like seltzer water. What is that? The actual cause is that
etheric body like a copy of the physical human body near it. Thus, for
into himself like a fruit of life, which he can now freely process
crisscrossed by railroads? What were the localities like where our
great cities are today, what were they like a thousand years ago? For

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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In times like the present, filled with bewilderment, in which
foundation of something like a real art of teaching and
disposition to recognize such facts. Men like to attend to the
which leads to mechanization of the spirit, plant-like sleep of

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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principles, like an ancient grey-beard, the last word in
like waves of the sea, always there, but brought up from the
which, but for their timid dislike of facts, the middle classes
and what displayed itself as science, art or religion was like
came to the Greeks from the blood. Unlike the Greeks they made

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consciously; but something like it — naturally not to-day
constituted exactly like other men.
soundly, we may see from a fact like the following:
standing like shadows beside the great truths destined to

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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which, all the same, miss the facts. I should like to, give as
expressions like “the lack of ideas in the practice of
just like having a thermometer in a room to indicate the
verification of any theory. Anyone who, like myself, has worked
education must be like if it is to be universally human and,
education” and the like) that there was no bridge between
are assumed to be agitating nowadays if we talk like this. Not
When a thing like this is mentioned, we are met by all sorts of
objections, like the one I had to meet in a South German city.
abstract kind, like “the seizure of political
proletariat” and the like, is pushed forward, this
be understood; but in conclusion I should like to point out
divinity. In this, their attitude is like Faust's attitude
towards the sixteen-year-old Gretchen. It is like the lessons

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