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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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in the development of the world, recognises in the meaning of
meaning of evil, already resided in ancient Stoic wisdom; and
the meaning of evil in the world; and he came to a singular
regard to the question of the meaning of evil, can be set out
meaningful philosophical works for the nineteenth century. Let
selfishness is universally present. We find the true meaning of
appears in its meaning for the physical-sense world, since this
would not get very far. But what does that mean? It means: one
how to become an unselfish person using the means of the
into physical being. In that case, it means, that if that being
That means, that we are led by the knowledge of where the
to give its meaning to evil and to the wicked. If this world is

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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with theosophy as it is meant here. Those who develop their higher soul-forces
of the word “Jahve” (meaning “I”), and a shudder

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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one, the spiritual world or Devachan. Deva means God in Chan means field
or habitation. Devachan therefore means the spirit of God. In so far
them. To speak of morality in the occult meaning, does not mean to preach
mean? — My friend — he thinks — is in New York, and
that Goethe meant this symbolically. But after a certain development,
spoke of Imagination, they meant this gift.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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from the astral body and the Ego. In the occult meaning we therefore

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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the meaning of these words.
with the best organ for his musical activities. This is the meaning contained
continually enters new incarnations is not devoid of meaning and purpose,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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meaning, thus reaching again a literal understanding of the words. For
There is a deep meaning and ancient truths in legends and fairy-tales.
of the word “Nifelheim-Nebelheim” — meaning land of

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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manner and he knew the meaning of the single images, thus recognizing

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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regard to the first, the loneliness of a few minutes each day is meant,

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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But what was meant by the nothingness one finds in Dionysius the
it that had meanwhile entered in to European civilization since Plato, particularly through the
Above all we need the means. For everything which,
the Hague or some such place, if a basis can be created, and by other means if the friends who
like wildfire that a World Fellowship must arise to provide the material means for the spiritual
Fellowship of Schools is necessary, it is just that there are no means for it.' What we are
Please see what is meant by this Fellowship in all

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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will take place in the sign of this development of the individuality. This, however, means that
mean that we do not attribute to external semblance the quality of semblance. To face the truth
means even in cases like these, to seek truth; to seek reality where outer appearance is so

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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Europe. This means that in Central Europe the language is indeed not bound particularly strongly
— I mean the elder, who was more orientated towards the West — and you
where the Germanic element is meant to be shown with its dualism, you see the

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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Let us show diagramatically what might be meant
from imagination to inspiration, but an inspiration which they attained by means of outer nature.
have just this task of bringing the intellect into the economic life. What does this mean? We
the spiritual life to those who are engaged in its administration. This is the inner meaning of
person, we now go and listen to someone else. This means that, for the modern human being, it is

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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by means of these other
to the place he is meant to be. Here the educational factor becomes a specifically social one. It
to say the means of production. A completely new spiritual concept must arise which, on the one
something that needs watching. It is by no means intended as a criticism or as a reference to the

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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soon as people begin to debate something it means they no longer understand it. What lives in the
And what is the meaning of this that must come to
expression In the most frightful way in coming decades? What is its Meaning? On the one hand it

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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established a certain discipline that is necessary if one means to enter into discussions on
This is what will come in the next decades: as though with outstretched arms — I mean this,
article; it is meant as a force for life and people will have gradually to accustom themselves to
means goblin, brownie or imp. Steiner plays on this here in connection with the name of

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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these conditions we mean of course average conditions. Exceptions are

Title: Talk To Young People:
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deeply indeed, the inner meaning of these youth movements. We all
narrow-minded man on the street will understand what you mean when
everything. The word itself will then reach its true meaning. The

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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Then comes a mean (or middle) period, a time of equalization, of which
awaking and falling asleep, — by these ‘contents’ we mean
life on earth, we experience by means of our physical earth-man, but we
— the means to create intuitions. Hence: The Saturn man in his
evolution. And you will realize that, if this is the fact, we, by means
means of the highest and purest conceptions of earth man, in the
no means, the same process in the human kingdom as in the animal world.
the inner significance or meaning of it, belongs not only all that has

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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means of the knowledge which men had before the Mystery of Golgotha.
By this Roman age I mean the time that
the sense of the ancient revelation was not to serve as a means of
meaning for the original life of the soul when one said: January,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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What does it really mean: Not eat of the
reasoned way the meaning of ‘to have eaten of the Tree of the
mingled in his earthly life. This means: in our earthly life we
two-fold utterance implies. It means that the knowledge we obtain of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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This means: what Christ has to reveal to
the Christ revelation means: to acquire light upon the world from
means to know that we must strive towards a musical element, that we
misunderstand what is meant when I speak about it. It is of course
not meant that anything at all of what floats before us as distant
not mean it at all as absolute depreciation, absolute blame, but that
any sense, which had true meaning in the time of the Roman Republic,
but was now without meaning: therefore he abolished the rank of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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one observes by means of the senses. People endeavour, however, to
suppose that such a second man, by means of various processes of
means that he appeals to those who show the whole method of entry of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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world-conception means nothing for its correctness. One who can set
something with the means offered by the world in which he dwells.
are only constructed with the means of the worlds in which man
the meanings of the words. We must not take contemporary conceptions
Space only has meaning for that which evolves within the span of
Earth-existence, and Time has actually only become meaningful since
awakening time goes on. The comparison is by no means a bad one, when
a certain meaning to what goes on around us, we must as it were see
this meaning already present, in the old evolution of the Moon, the
meaning of life on earth must in some way have prepared itself. The
meaning of the earth-life was added to it like a kind of flower. Now
opened.’ He means that all senses shall be opened
order to grasp what this means: 'the senses are opened' or 'the
rightly know which facts are meant to be spiritual. Something that
myth. The myth seeks to lift itself above space and time. This means
in ourself. Thus time becomes there a means of deception and illusion
that arise, endure. Our possession-concepts are enduring. This means

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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Sun. This means that Luciferic spirits thrust their influence from
aware of it. This means: Lucifer has given man to the world, he has
employing every means in order to escape Lucifer and Ahriman: he is
whole meaning of the separation of the Old Moon from the Sun-Earth
This means, we stand there, we see the
diagram p.l2a). This means that where the painter generally lays on

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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early centuries, even among men who were by no means learned
today connect the telegraphic apparatus in station A by means
man is nourished. He takes bread into his body. It is a means
world is at hand. They meant the downfall of that Earth from
only a question of understanding the real meaning of the

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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of the means of ensuring inner security and our true alignment in the order
Mysteries” a wisdom is meant which flourished in ancient times, and
do not mean that men had Aristotle's philosophy before them as a system, as
investigation of the outer world by means of his senses, or be it due to
revelation by means of divine Grace, as through Christ Jesus, these things
the very instrument by means of which Christianity would be really
concepts which man can evolve from himself. By such means a break in man's
means, say by pressure or by electric current, a perception of light is
on the theory of knowledge I could by no means agree. To qualify human
only given us by means of conceptions, it follows that we have no reality
must, above all things, realize that Aristotle, by means of his technique
difference between form and matter by means of an illustration which may,
wolf, but in all wolves. Thus we find form by means of a concept expressing
should induce us to accept this conception. That experience is meant,
definitions in the Scholastic writings. We must understand what is meant
experience. Imagine Kepler evolving, by means of pure constructive thought,
sun in the focus, and then observation, by means of the telescope,
means for attaining reality in the most objective manner possible.
point of indicating a way into reality by means of pure thought. If this
not possible except by means of pure thought. As far as ordinary human

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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a valid sense for what is meant by the esoteric. We believe today that what
meaning of such a statement is not particularly clear to begin with;
means, if his gifts predispose him to be a botanist, he can become one; if
organism with air. Tragedy means that we are trying to contract our
astrality over the redness, pass over into it. Laughing simply means that
can always find the ways and means in our teaching to prevent the childish

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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not retarded before the fourteenth year. This you must not take to mean
physical strength or weakness; meant is the answering pressure that is
that these are the means by which we weave the future.
music working in man that counteracts it. Music is the means of defence
exaggeration you will see what I mean), this force working outward from

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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all this refers to experiencing the pictorial element conveyed by means of
sound, to the more or less musical element; and I do not only mean the
only serves as the clearest example, and applies par excellence, but I mean
thinks with imprints in the brain; he now thinks by means of material
of it out of the spirit. This means teaching creatively from out of the

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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gradually organising it through and through; which means that there takes
artistic education. What does this mean?
means, for example, that the ego must not enter the physical body, etheric
work in one direction or another, when we acquaint ourselves with the means
recollect music, his musical, memory. These are the means we must use when
something which is more concerned with the meaning and the content of what
the meaning of things. On the other hand, should I notice that the child is
painting understand the meaning of what he draws: when I let the child draw
too deeply into the organism, which means that we can make good use of it
meaningless, so meaningless that it is difficult to find common ground with
or that the arms never know what they are meant to do because their weight
mean well; but it is to be strictly rejected when passed on by

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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knowledge by means of certain forces in man. But what the actual
Let us represent diagrammatically by means of this line this world that is
neither perceive these supersensible forces by means of our ordinary senses
nor by means of our intellect bound to our ordinary senses. We perceive
carry out unconsciously any more by means of our blood, we have to carry
were unable to draw on their youthful forces, if there were no means of
every department you find well-meaning people today, who want to reform

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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left the physical body? Buddha always means a final incarnation. He only
physical corporeality to bring humanity a great step forward by means of

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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down, but as something that can be researched with the means of spiritual
understand Christianity in all its deep meaning, we have to realize that

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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educational development by means of literature, by means of the written
by means of spiritual science. However, in order to experience this

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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development. Spiritual science seeks meaning and significance
development, but rather to assign an overall meaning to single
passing through various earth-lives; an education by means of
humanity over the last centuries is not meant as a
by means of inner battles and conscious effort — turning not to
to what is pre-earthly. By means of spiritual science we come
Raphael's natural abilities by means of which, in an earlier
to view it in its unfathomableness, is only able by means of
fertilize the human soul that had meanwhile been imbued with a
depicted. The other picture presents what is attained by means
special meaning. We see how he stood before Raphael's creations
by means of spiritual science — do we come to understand

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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can acquaint ourselves with other works of Leonardo, by means
of reproductions, or by means of the works attributed to him in
secrets of Nature in an original manner by means of drawing
the external means were wholly inadequate. Should he in fact
and again by means of studies, to investigate one secret after
given the means available. Though in later centuries no human
meaningful and imbued with wisdom in presupposing that things
reason is able to comprehend by means of sense perception.
point of a time in which it is again possible, by means of
Copernican worldview, by means of the observations and
discovered by means of modern spectral analysis and so forth.
concepts were formed by means of natural science. And where
not do so by means of sense perception, but by virtue of
what humanity acquired by means of natural science also
the world of sense and to think only by means of reason bound
consequence of the technical means by which they were produced,
of taking on form by means of art, and what he had been able to
comes into existence externally? How meaningless and pointless
as Leonardo's appears meaningful only when we are able to
artist who could ultimately only work with the means available.

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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Such a soul conflict discovered by means of spiritual
can be apprehended by means of spiritual
from an external stimulus. We connect them by means
not yet fully self-conscious, human beings were by no means as
can mean the child begins to ail, becoming
apparently personal tinge, though not at all meant
They can be discovered only by means of spiritual
about them, as much as one can come to know by means of
this way, by means of the dissemination of spiritual science,

Title: A Mongolian Legend
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to see today by means of the senses. In this way, the
meaning.

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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personality, Herman Grimm's whole demeanour as though compelled
meantime profoundly permeated German life. They listened to the
page, that this book is not meant to be a contribution to Homer
means of reading, they would prefer most of all to read such

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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god. That's what a god looked like. It meant nothing more than what
grew from clear reality. As long as the Holy Roman Empire had meaning
more and more lost its meaning, and the local princes remained. So we
remnants, which had already lost all inner meaning, remained as outer
appearances; they only had meaning in those ancient times when they
take place through the priest's power. It means that the action
more royal than any other. To be royal doesn't only mean to have a
“Imperial Federation League” summarizes the means of
history really is, meaning that history which is taught in
world. That means that spiritual reality must exist alongside
especially in the west which have lost all meaning, but are still

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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had their real meaning. To a certain extent they were realities.
their meaning. They have passed through the stage of symbols and have
people recoiled when they approached the spiritual by means of the
which contained but little concrete meaning.
people had a talent for mere names without meaning; that on one hand
meaningful even until today. The real content goes back to the far
meanings. Thereby the symbols have become platitudes in symbolic
a real ceremonial form, meaning those which go back to the original
people discover the meaning of the rituals; then they are expelled
Such things are really meaningful. It is not
power by political means. It has always been more powerful the less
half of the nineteenth century these names were seriously meant. The
personages as well. The principles matter. It is very meaningful that
But what does it mean? It is
platitudes, which has as much meaning for the external world as
You see, to want the threefold society means

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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did it mean? It meant that he expressed himself in the age of
platitudes in a manner that only had meaning for the first stage. In
account, which means also the truth.
“brothers,” meaning not to let social class or an
have said that it is meaningful when people get together and each
something meant in a spiritual-scientific sense with a mere yes or no
has only a limited meaning, for judgments given from the spiritual
world always have only an individual meaning, are only applicable
the imperialism of the soul as the means of mundane anointment. They
is a shadow-image of what once existed and no longer has meaning, it
and spiritual/cultural life is truly free, meaning that here in
impossible to give a better example of meaninglessness than this. And
such meaninglessness plays a much greater role than you imagine. It is a
longer has any meaning, we must absorb real substantial content into
This means that the kingdom of
movement be overcome by the spirit meant here. It is certainly true

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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people means that the particular way thoughts are linked
certain field of thought, which means the sum of linking
meant that if one made a drawing of something like that, it had
What did Goethe mean by this? He meant — but hadn't
expressed it like this, he meant: ‘When I draw a triangle its
consequence to arrive at mere phenomenology, that means not
meant that what the outer world offered the senses were seen as
meaning within his soul. He certainly wouldn't start with each
meaning, by approaching the upward stroke, followed by the
to read within their inner meaning. This would lead to a
only want to “read”, that means, what I finally get
themselves — just as by reading a word, the meaning is

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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other, reveal a particular meaning. This meaning can exist even
their horizontal spinal axis vertical, which means an important
lower leg, hands and so on. Just imagine what it means that the

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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What lay ahead for the West with this? It meant that scientific
characteristic for Middle Europe was most meaningful in what
such a world about which one can have knowledge. This means
other; here the human soul faces the great, meaningful problem:
conceptual forms and means of expression which we know, from
same time become a meaningful historical problem: to strike the

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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means what comes to expression in their words, their attitude,
is meant by the power of authority is not to be misunderstood
means not the entire education should be put down to what is
the bodily form during the various periods of life. This means,
meaningful educational principles and does not stand back
powers of growth, powers of transformation; that means we must
about these means which have entered in modern times; they must
have been provided with something meaningful. One discovers
inconvenient and might mean more stringent cleaning rules need
nature and in life being meaningful. This is more important

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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theoretical standpoint. Today — I mean at this very present
because in the mean time chaos has broken into the economic
instinctively — not meaning automatically — as exchange in
means people gradually believed they have discovered through
see, it first has to be explained what is meant by such things.
intellectualised meaning which we attach to them today. These

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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the greatest possible triumphs — I don't mean in a
the experience of the mind, that means in the weaving of the
this, that some or other suggestive means is applied, with one
comes to this godly Father experience, this means that whoever
through physical means because — if I might say so
these research means pursues the way human development went
meaning in the book by Overbeck, a friend of Friedrich
This means finding your task in the evolution of time, and not

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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means that through a person speaking, something is unfolding
meaning of sound. In an unbelievable intense way one
exercises, leading towards mental pictures about what is meant

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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spiritual life is to be revealed in its true meaning, so that
of the School are by no means sufficiently attentive to this.
from the visible universe; it is meant to remind us how the
knowledge. For only by means of this awareness can true
these spirits. And conjuring them away doesn't mean that they
really go. We must find the ways and the means — and this
meant to indicate laughter, but lies, because to mock is to
friends, by means of this first introductory lesson, with which

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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is neither meaningless nor unimportant to ask yourselves such a
That is the meaning of the Guardian of the Threshold's words.
according to its inner meaning. And they can become a guide on

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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superficial, he will experience and feel fully what it means to
the intellectual meaning to commitment to the rhythm, from that
only using the words whose meanings apply to the physical

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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only meant for earthly things, and not for godly things. So,
remembering. That does not mean that tomorrow you should
meant to express come to us because they are contained in the
But he uses words only as a means to show how the spirit flows
Therefore, in the esoteric we must go back from what words mean
an unstressed one. It was meant to instill in us a kind of
meaning of words, but that we also grasp what lies in the
Words whose meanings alone are grasped leave us unto ourselves.
Abstractly, meaning dishonestly, this is easy to achieve.
Concretely, meaning honestly, one must overcome many inner
is, by means of our own courageous soul-force:
to the meaning of the words, which remain earthly, but to the
say here again that what was meant in the Christmas Meeting has

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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magical being. What does it mean, that nature must be able to
be sufficient that I have indicated what air and warmth means
increase of warmth means that the spirits which are active in
This means becoming aware of the duality in which one is placed
Knowledge means that we are aware of this.
an age when, if human beings are not made aware of the meaning
these torments mean? They mean the ever increasing prevalence
learning process, nor a mere theory; rather it means to accept

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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meaningful processes. The universe has opened its doors, so to
the etheric form which he then observes. I don't mean that he
meant to be experienced by the whole human being. If we look at
live in Cosmic Life means to experience death as an individual

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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not only cultivated, it is also carried out; meaning that
which is responsible for this School. In this case, it means
it will be successful, but if not, we will find other means to
movement, that means that it is taken very seriously indeed.
therefore, they choose sharp, strong rather than weak means [to
what it means to be outside the physical body with the human I
which can then fly over the abyss with the means indicated in
now meaningful words sound out again from the Guardian of the
of your souls, then you will have an inkling of what it means

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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which was founded at Christmas. I can explain what this means
other relationships will be even more human, but by this means
Goetheanum. This means that nothing by way of formulations and
spiritual world has been obtained with the means which are
whether by means of clairvoyant consciousness or through
Just as we can look at the human head and it becomes a means

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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“inwardly” is meant the following: We have seen the
merge with what the planets say to us meaningfully from space
to understand inwardly means to transfer more and more what is
about how by means of an intimate exercise you can become more
means of the will.
does not know what it means to feel his whole being as a
meaning in the stars. We unite with the universe when we do

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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individual must find the way to understanding what it means to
meditative exercises, mental exertions meant to affect the
by means of the various considerations and the summarizing of
the body — if only by means of so slight a jolt that you
within — if only by means of thinking — and become
the end of which we can feel the cosmic Imaginations by means
meaningful language when we do not observe it from the earth
dialog and in strengthening the recollection by means of the
soul, then this means of creating a relation to the spiritual
correct meaning:
is in a process, it is a seed which will have meaning once I

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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circumstances. This doesn't mean that the head is really the
Just as the human being lives on the earth by means of
does the human creative evolutionary force live by means of
“sensory deeds”, which means: deeds
present when the meaning dissolves into situation and
understand what the content of this esoteric school is meant to be.

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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at first by means of healthy human understanding – then
world – for knowledge is meant to flow to you directly
but at the same time within it, purely by means of your inner
means that for the senses the sun shines and the senses do not;
are meant to speak to the deepest levels of our being. Together
and our memories, but we are now meant to hear how we are being
now it is appropriate to clarify the meaning of the

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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Not meant is our everyday thinking, but
By means of this verse we imagine how at
by means of this mantric verse we come in contact with the
Of course this does not mean, my dear sisters and
seriously. Then they are effective, as they are meant to be.

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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water. We could not float in it, for that would mean that we
itself. And what it means when
mantric verses is innerly certain and meaningfully formed.
by means of living breath and the stimulating power of air,

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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these Class lessons are meant to be.
By this means we become aware that in our
By means of these mantras, we should become aware
consider to best meet the requirements of his meaning.

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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present, I must say at least a few words about the meaning of
the world necessarily means that whatever he or she does in
means that the leadership may also place conditions on
holy mysteries meant that the student was being guided to the

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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universe does not only have a physical meaning; it has a
spiritual-inner meaning. And the magical ether-rainbow cannot be
which contains the sentence: I consider no answer to mean yes

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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sensory being must be heard by means of initiation-science. Human
seems to indicate that this means sometime in the future.

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between the two German words which mean “body”:
earnestness would mean more to those who have already heard
here what this School means. One of them loses the verses

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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for all those who are here for the first time it means
something else: it means an acquaintance with the beginning of
for the first time, the meaning of the School must be explained
point was brought to humanity by means of the Greek mysteries
when we let the meaning and the spirit of these words work in
our true humanity flows. To really understand these words means
understand the inner meaning of the esoteric path. This
That is what the signs mean.

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means of conception and birth into a physical human earthly
measure, but means that everything in our anthroposophical
only has meaning when the Michael stream flows through it, not

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means to do so.
— that is, by a means other than verbally — the
meaning here seems also to be plural. [trans.]

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introduction about the task and meaning of the School and about
what this Michael-School should mean:
will be light within by means of the force which we ourselves
finger. The finger loses its meaning when separated from the
inner meaning with which we should unite ourselves in
meditation we must also sense the inner, meaningful structure
(which means: make yourself existent)
and that means:

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duties and meaning of this Michael School. Therefore, I ask the
earth, that means in the spiritual element of the earth; we
first gesture means:

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told us so much about the meaning of the spiritual world, over
“gloria”. The glow here means gloria.
we know, this first gesture means [beside the lower gesture is
second gesture means [beside the second gesture is
third gesture means:

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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that what membership in this School means be taken with the
anthroposophical movement - well, I don't mean to say that
meaningful words spoken by the Guardian of the Threshold on
The first gesture means:[3]
The second gesture means:
The third gesture means:
Thus, today's Michael affirmation is confirmed by means of his Sign

Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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the question: What am I as a human being? What meaning do I
towards a means of production in a communal business or else a

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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take these four lectures as a unit. This means the content of
I don't mean anything other than a support of human
evolution of knowledge. This means however that our thinking
— would prove that the real spirit within the meaning has
the state. Meanwhile economic life involves the business of
meaning in the words, brotherhood, equality, and freedom.
course of events is meant here, not something which
foundation of the entire meaning and intention which I want to

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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does this modern proletarian point of view actually mean within
Essentially the spiritual scientific world view means it is not
The concept of ordinary faith actually loses its meaning
way,” which means, the details, the individual measures
meaning, in order to orientate their configuration in a certain
needs some income, capital. What does it mean to say: ‘He
consumes a certain amount of capital?’ It means nothing other
— what this means for single individuals — is
a far more reality based meaning than theories, observations
inner being this also means the modern proletariat: ‘Naturally
This means that human labour becomes the dominant element in
comes a spiritual scientist who wants to by means of an

Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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plays with so much meaning into the current situation of
the widest sense, legal- or political life which means state
mean, that even in the light of consciousness the social
That holds no truth, it is hidden through social relation means
meaning of the renewal of the old platonic idea of dividing the
continuation of politics by other means,"
marriage through other means.”
with real meaning, it is brought out of thoughts from reality.
to not only speak up about it but need to apply all means to
bring this, as it is always meaningful not to remain abstract
to look the social problem in the eye. To do so would mean

Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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opinions, they want it carried out themselves, which means,
themselves. If I want to briefly express what I mean, I must
Purely considering the concept, I actually meant to say: The
realistically what is actually meant by this.
healthy involvement in the social organism which means a
means that those who use people in the economic process, should
can develop, then it will be a humane development. I mean, if
meaningful fact, that the middle-class thinking methods will be
meant, that criminal law as such should not be given out of

Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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with its numerous illiterates. It meant that of the
meaning into the Proletarian soul — this development was
production into a goods production through private means of
cooperative, a cooperative which means that one's production
doesn't really have meaning, the only meaning it has is that
That means that in future the management of the spiritual life
contents of the one or the other meaning, one could perhaps
time whether one denies one or other meaning but that one
meaningful events in modern times.
arrives with a different meaning, but when he expresses what is
meant only in a different form because he believes it is
me it is important that the meaning of what I say is the truth

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speaking of Richard Wagner, I certainly do not mean to imply
that he was fully conscious of this impulse. It is so meaningless when
this simply means that they have never taken the trouble to understand
they could work only by means of commandments and decrees. When Wotan,
that to ask about his birth, name, rank or calling, is meaningless. To
name means “I am the I am,” and the latter the Luciferic
the cross — All other interpretations are meaningless.

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revelation, in its more scholastic form, was by no means a body of
have been at a loss to know what was meant. It would have been
man could unfold higher faculties of knowledge and that by these means
the time of the Mystery of Golgotha men were trying to answer by means
could still have been discovered by means of the old

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means must we strive to set up for eternity in our hearts this
— not without the sun, in the appropriate meaning of the
Anthroposophical Movement. This does not mean that things
and more conscious. I hit becoming more conscious does not mean
becoming more intellectualistic. Becoming more conscious means
I mean to say, whose nature seems to our feeling similar to
mean to say, we have a form of community which nature herself
sets before the eye of the mind. By means of language, and
with the language and its genius are by no means taken into
Here is the means available for creating communities. But,
creating of a community, it will have to find means suited to
rich in pictures, full of significance and manifold in meaning,
meanings.
can reach it when, by means of the living power which we embody
supersensibly present by means of our inner soul mood, in the
meantime has gone through a different experience and advanced
You cannot evoke the Anthroposophical community by means of
the right Anthroposophical consciousness. No external means can
be given. If such means are described by anyone, he is
not mean this in the least in a critical sense, but only in the
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common with him. For what he is experiencing there is no means
become an Anthroposophist does not mean simply to become
of spiritual research by means of actual investigation.
Anthroposophy — and they are aware that the best means
interchange, even if only by means of news sheets or something
sense. That meant to build a home for the productions of
that time the scholars, the scientists, were by no means in our
the scholars who had in the meantime come in so gratifying a
are not by. any means very familiar with any science have
something, he must prove it.” And they mean by this a

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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need to consider what it truly means when an organism
real idea of what it meant to connect one's life to the

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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ordinary terms this means that the soil of Europe had a
the truth about these things — even if it means

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take it to mean today. The idea of the ruler of an
back as far as ancient Egypt, meaning the earlier, partly
means. No, they were present in the mysteries as the
meaning. The awareness of the godlike nature of the ruler
longer has any meaning, since mankind progresses and does
older times and have lost their meaning in the present
into human minds. They have become just as meaningless as
meaning in an earlier age. On the other hand we see how
meaning.
of divine spirits lost its meaning. The word
life its meaningless, conventional character. Things we
can become empty phrases and lose all meaning, as is the
relation to reality, like a word that is meaningless
today but once had sacred meaning and substance to
repeatedly described what it meant, to people who were
external life. It would have meant going to prison or
what it would mean for the inner soul life of someone of

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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principles that mean progress for the world. Certain
were. There have been well-meaning people who have said
them—must make it clear to them—I mean

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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now has been alive inside them. It would mean teaching
be compared with the metabolism. This means that economic
this means we have accepted the obligation to follow this
of course mean that I have many requests made to me. The
what Dornach means to the world. I had to explain to our
had happened in the meantime — people will
understand what I mean if they want to — could be
the way we are going would mean that the institutions
think at least some of you will understand what I mean.
anthroposophical movement, and this means that everybody
to nurture the spirit. It means that above all the moral
doing such things, but it does not mean that you have a

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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since a departure from the right way means sickness, the
this means that it is indeed on the road to
give, they reject outer materiality; it means nothing to
All words acquire a different meaning, and we might say
it means that one has failed to progress. The language of

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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things right essentially means that we must no longer
what it really means to experience gravity. Concrete
necessary to grasp what I mean, and to do so with the
means that a certain childlike quality persists in the
There words have entirely different meanings. Gravity,
to refute Oswald Spengler's ideas. That is by no means
no effective opposition, for it merely means playing with
means. It is therefore pointless to join battle by

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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time, meant to induce a dreamy, visionary state of
all possible means to push humanity into the physical
or 'There comes the smith', meaning a real blacksmith.
except that that name already has another meaning,

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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What does this really mean?
his side. This means that the inhabitants of Germany did so much work in
million in 1912. Clearly this means a complete change in the human
mean by ‘ahrimanic’ and ‘luciferic’.
what I mean let me remind you that during the 18th century people who had
take account of spiritual science. Just think what it means that there
not help humanity to progress; it will only mean regression. Progress can
mean the events of war. Step outside and you will see the factories that

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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mean when we say that we relate to the ego we bear to the
present earth? It means that inherent in the elements of
this means that we have something in us that needs to be
would mean taking out yet another book. The whole thing
they must become followers of the Brazen King. This means
‘the spirit’, which in fact means in abstract
This means,
mud at us from the outside — for that would mean

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"Yahweh" meant nothing other than "I" or "I am." That the God himself
expresses himself in the human being, it should mean. And only that
is an indispensable remedy for recovery. This is the meaning of the
death. And for every human being means are open and ways are offered to
arises for us, what is the meaning of the astral body, with which the
in the physical body. However, this Kamaloka time is by no means always
physical life has no meaning in this spiritual world. If in life bonds
embrace parents and children are by no means subject to chance and

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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person mean this? Had he not the best intentions? Did he not
enough to say of a man “he meant well” when he has
the next generation and the one after that — which means
We must become conscious, in the most serious meaning of the

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abstractions. Old age, nowadays, means the limit up to which a
really mean? Surely something of which a vague
what it means to a man's soul. Men talk of “God”
and of “Christ,” but all the time they only mean
of The Threefold Commonwealth). This means that a view
meaning, knows that the words “Maya” in the East
and “Ideology” in the West mean one and the same
wait until the means of production are sufficiently developed,
to understand what is meant by the spiritual world. But the
means.
same time we build in our souls the means of acquiring feelings
pensions them off. It means a great deal when a man can assure
together and must be separated means to extend one's interest
to the present; that means to make ourselves capable of

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Men, as I said, can know, and must know what it means “to
meaning of this complete immersion in the physical body?
It signifies that by means of it we are able to develop
there entered into human evolution what gives meaning to the
Christ must arise. It can only come if sought by the means
supersensible means may discover what can only be
how they long to understand reality by means of abstractions.
trivial speech. The Earth acquired its own meaning in relation
time has come when this meaning must be grasped in a different
body to the earth, it means to present-day science no more than
ferment. By their means the Earth, which would otherwise long
Jesus of Nazareth spoke them, these words meant “render

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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experience and honestly meant can be sufficient illustration of
no meaning in the clamour “produce only for
generally taken to mean something of this sort: the proletariat
But to be able to teach and educate him means learning first to
short: the subject of teaching was presented by means of
That means that these two impulses, democracy and socialism,
judgment when he is of age. What is the meaning of the demand
for democracy? It means that, as a matter of history, humanity
we pay for labour-power by means of wages which are the price
of capital, of land, of means of production (which incidentally
national-economy and world- economy. By means of the
tendency to become too expensive: that means that it is too
minor improvements in social conditions, means to
establishment of a common organization of the means of
communal, property” — mere unmeaning words,
affairs. Yet they might have a meaning — which I can
able to give an outline sketch of what I meant: I know I have

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