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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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Lecture Series: Evil in the Light of Spiritual Know
Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge
as, Geisteswissenschaft als Lebensgut. It is also known as, On Evil,
It is also known as,
IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE
striving towards knowledge, precisely when faced with this
knowledge in a certain way. That leads to real striving for
knowledge, and often it only shows the initial steps on the
path to knowledge of the spiritual world, which also consists
Now,
arose before the Stoics as the need for human freedom. And now
Now we
came close to what Spiritual Science now has to state. For an
Now Lotze was no atheist, but one who assumed God as living and
thought, then either God did not know the best possible world
— and that conflicts with his all- knowingness; or else
and that conflicts with his omnipotence. Now, Leibniz says,
one possible. — Now against this Lotze objected: in any
Now,
boundaries of our knowledge. It must indeed be wisdom, which is
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
body with our hands. Let us now leave aside the etheric body. Where
pass through training of the soul we learn to know also the astral body
Let us now study the child
becomes free, and for this reason we should now begin to exercise an
know the four members of man's being: the physical body, the etheric

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
of his being are concerned. Let us now consider man's ascent into the
The physical world need not be described, for it is clearly known to everybody.
Let us now consider the
we know what is taking place in the astral world. But when people obtain
character is now spread out before us in the external world. In the
contains beings that we can never learn to know on the physical plane.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
new condition? Man now experiences himself in the world which he enters
of the physical body, but now it is free and exists in the form of consciousness.
us, is now want. Hot passion calls up the feeling of horrible chilling

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
is known on Earth as feeling and sensation. There, the currents of pain

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
soul was inwardly interested in them. Now however, all these experiences
images of his life-panorama are of great importance, for they now become
we can only now have a true knowledge of our own actions, for we experience
their effects on ourselves. In the case of every action we now experience
kamaloka he must now endure and live through every pain which he inflicted
The astral body which he has laid aside is now no longer needed for
consists of the Ego and of the causal body, and he must now form himself

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
Let us now discuss how karma

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
An occultist must not only know
definite capacities, that was incarnated many centuries ago and now

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
science. How does the occultist know of these long-past things? He knows
and was always known to occult investigation. It is important to bear
the sentence: “With the growth of knowledge and understanding,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
of mankind back as far as Atlantis and will now proceed to the study
It was the same connection which now exists during sleep: the soul was
were one body, and everything which now exists in the form of human
of the development of man towards higher stages of knowledge.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
new generation filled by the yearning to obtain spiritual knowledge.
Initiates do now, the soul-content of their fellows. To-day the word can
training come from a deeply-founded knowledge. There are two fundamental

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
from real knowledge. This is one fact which, in a certain sense, I should like to mention as
which can only be found by someone who knows how to get a total view of the facts in what in a
theory that this Greek developed from his thoroughly Greek mode of thinking, which was now just
Now criticism of Alcuin's way of thinking is not
Now we can ask ourselves: So what was living in
I will not go into the question of the authorship now, I have already spoken about it on a number
fifteen francs he still has ten; if he spends this he has nothing. If now he continues to spend
man's being. He had little understanding for what took place between birth and death. And now,
of nature and cannot come to terms with it. Knowledge of
We now see how there follows on from Fichte what
battles of which I spoke, in part, in my lectures on the limits to a knowledge of
Now, what came out in Fichte, Schelling and Hegel — this strongest development of the
one bears the following properly in mind. (I am coming now to yet another significant point to
happened with Kant who was the bridge? Now, one comes to the significant point when one traces
involved with the culture of Central Europe — that which is now the culture of the West.
just that people did not know that they were still living from this heritage of the ancient East.
listen carefully to what individuals know concerning one thing or another. Nor has there been a
greater need for people with knowledge of specific subject areas to be active in social life
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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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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
course of human evolution developed some particular quality, just as now it is that of
Europe and the West. And we want now to turn to a phenomenon that can already show us externally
We know that, under the influence of our modern
— ,and now Lenin
import. If it were not for that distinction it would be far more evident that, even now,
spirituality that is now completely decadent. This has to be borne by the spiritual world, and it
that is so popular nowadays. For it is a problem pointing indeed to something that is a
of their evolution. Now these beings do not make use of the whole human organism but use chiefly
it so, by getting to know a fairly large number of people who are scattered in secret societies,
only if we know what I have just related — if we know that what lives in public life cannot
things that are only laid open to a spiritual knowledge. What use is it when people of today
stage of perfection and who now appear to human beings of the East in a mediumistic state, in
know how one must act with regard to these things one must be equipped with an armour of

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
past, but wish now to work into and to influence human lives, assert themselves; not, indeed,
Hellenistic culture there developed, as we know, what took hold of the human beings of the Centre
Now, if other conditions are particularly
who are now lost but who have passed their language on. The Germanic people would not be able to
this philosophy develops in every respect towards the spirit. Yet nowhere in Hegel do you find
compressed into history. Nowhere in Hegel is it a matter of the eternal in the human being
Rome now divides to a certain extent into three separate branches. It diverges and moves to the
Thus we could say that what we have now, spread

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
Now the
Now we know that Goethe's soul-configuration was
the other lacked. Goethe now received Schiller's
is filled with underlinings and marginal comments knows how Goethe had really studied
Now, however, it is already possible to indicate in
permeated here with feeling and soul, is permeated by the whole human being. Now there is a
seriously what he became — it is well known that he was made a 'French citizen' by the
But we are now living in the time in which the
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds — How is it Achieved?
between rational knowledge and revelation is attributable to the working of the spirits of the
Grimm, who also did not know spiritual science, gave in a beautiful way, out of his sensitive
fully on Goethe. But he had a certain other quality. Anyone who knows Herman Grimm more closely
knows that in his style, in his whole way of expressing himself, in his way of thinking, he had
desolate barbarity. For Spengler knows nothing of what the world must receive as an impulse, as a
Spiritual Science. And now, in the town where the newspaper is published, Arthur Drews
University is now busying itself with anthroposophically-orientated spiritual science.
person, we now go and listen to someone else. This means that, for the modern human being, it is
(Metaphysics and Anthropasophy in their Position Regarding Knowledge of the Supersensible),

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
We know that a new age in the development of
It is the longing for knowledge. Now, when one looks back into former times, even into the
speak of a definite longing for knowledge in as much as the human being at that time had
relationship to the spirit world itself. Certainly, longing for knowledge has been spoken about a
development of humanity, to compare the longing for knowledge which holds sway today with the
intensity of the longing for knowledge that held sway before the middle of the fifteenth century.
Striving for knowledge was an intense affair of the human soul; for knowledge that had an inner
there as a longing for knowledge has become less and less comparable with what has been emerging
idea of what had previously existed as a longing for knowledge.
the striving for knowledge, even though pursued in isolation as was still the custom, enters more
the fifteenth century. All human beings, or at least those who strove for knowledge, had some
world-being — and did, in fact, penetrate to its spirituality. Thus was knowledge
attained. People experienced it as knowing when, from the phenomena of nature, from the being of
nature. People felt themselves to be in the realm of knowledge when gods spoke through the
what people understood as knowledge.
spiritual in the manifestations of nature, the concept of knowledge itself also fell more or less
into a deterioration. And it is this decline of real intensity in the pursuit of knowledge that
every plant. In the way people came to know the manifestations and beings of nature they also
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
in the accounts of the old clairvoyants and, basically, as you know from my
The old spiritual life based on spiritual vision — which, as you know, had abolished the
You know from history and from what I have related
was brought from the spiritual worlds. This could now only be decided in that certain people
through legal justification, by formal, legal right. Men must now command, since the gods no
longer commanded. And who was to command had now to be established through external law.
Gospels were to become known among the broad mass of the faithful. For the Gospels originate out
known and regarded those who went against the prohibition of reading them as the most flagrant
irreconcilable with a common knowledge of the Gospels. For the Gospel in its true form actually
the Gospels everything that was contradictory. And what the Gospels have now become is, in the
that something has been 'scientifically proven'. They know nothing more about this proof than
try sometime to hold in mind for yourself everything that people accept nowadays as being true,
continued through authority, and were terrified of the Gospels becoming generally known among the
produced the great confusion; the frightful chaos in which we are now living.
But at the same time we are now living,in an age in
reads all sorts of things into them. These people know that the connection with the Mystery of
view about how Anthroposophy puts things into the Gospels although they know perfectly well that
We know that until the age of seven, until the
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
culture of Middle Europe, as we have come to know it in recent weeks, will be wedged.
still cling to a certain piety, a piety that wants to know nothing of what is laying hold of
should now like to describe, although I have done so in different ways and at different times
inherited from parents, grandparents and so on. The first thing people ask about a child nowadays
made in which people who know absolutely nothing about the conditions of life in the modern
And now let us look at the way the evolution of the
his being. And let us now consider from a spiritual-scientific standpoint the counter-image of
You know that spiritual science shows how our
Now we know from what is described in my
body is the result of the third and fourth conditions. And now, in our present earth-evolution,
But you will know, if you reflect on how much of
now I am preparing myself to take spirit-self into it in the next, the sixth, culture-epoch. I
know that I cannot yet bring spirit-self into my entire astral body, but I have to bring it into
shall be able to shape my outer form in the way which it is my task, even now, to
Now try and sense clearly what is really involved
known intellectually; he has no place in the social structure.
earth-being and leaves the true being of man as an unsolved riddle. I know that I am a cosmic, a
earthly being and his knowledge that he is a super-earthly being, a cosmic being. The fulfilment
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Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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Spiritual Science. I will now give you only the chief ideas needed for the
Now you will
Now you will
in order to make amends, in order now really to live with the conditions
acquainted with things which one can get to know only on Earth. But you
Now someone
mind what one can know from the things, does exactly the same as the man

Title: Talk To Young People:
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with supernatural strength. Now we have matured into a new era;
of an answer for me. Yet I know that many of them know very well this
this “youth crisis” in its very dawning; now it is already noonday. I
anything like this — but there was no response. Now I have gone at it
people, which you yourselves may have read by now: “How do you
imagine the world and humanity should be by 1935, if what you are now
remained in the cosmos; now human beings must rise up and win back
way or another, but rather to feel how different the sunrise is now

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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It is also known as,
Translator is Unknown
It is also known as,
the ultimate aim of human evolution! He would like to know what will
evolution; for when we know the path evolution has taken, we certainly
You all know that human
We can now easily proceed
has head organs now scarcely discernable.
And now, if we consider
earth period (Atlantean) have passed. Now we live in the fifth —
preparation for the future. And only now, in the post-Atlantean epoch,
become evolved in the human being that which we now call the earth man;
and know of the world, — all, that constitutes man's
though you are perfectly unaware of this dreamer, other Beings know
We may now go a step
And now it is necessary
during the earth-age now become actual forms; and because they are
So now you have obtained
know that our Spiritual Science really does give the Hierarchy of the
can now conceive as the highest flower, the apex of the Spiritual
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Now, one of the greatest riddles
announced that now men had eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
tasted of the Tree of Knowledge.
Now behind this primordial two-foldness
of the eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil on the one
pronouncement: we will bring to mind what we have long known: i.e.,
We know indeed that the Mystery of
Now we must distinguish two things in
perhaps even known what had taken place there. It might quite well
remained unknown to men, that no single person would have been able
two aspects: that which man receives as knowledge, as inner working
— that is to say, of its knowledge. Now, men
means of the knowledge which men had before the Mystery of Golgotha.
We know that since the Mystery of Golgotha not only have its tidings
know indeed that all these concepts, including those which live in
the earth, are derived from a primeval knowledge, from a knowledge
is primeval revelation, which as we know was founded in an age when
grasp what was flowing in as living soul-blood, for he now feels
Knowledge of Good and Evil. We can see in the primeval revelations
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
called the continuous stream of evolving knowledge and wisdom, and,
on the one hand, of the lifeless knowledge-principle, the ageing
life-without-knowledge, which unites itself like a young shoot in
humanity's evolution with the knowledge-principle, brought down from
Now today we will consider the world of
spoken on one occasion of how the fact now expressed can be
utterance which says: Because men have learnt to know or to
Knowledge of Good and Evil, they shall not eat of the Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil.’ Each can say to
life; for as he is now, the effect of the Luciferic temptation is
attain to a certain kind of knowledge, a certain way of confronting
knowledge of the things of the world. Nevertheless it is quite clear
that we should have had a different knowledge of things if the
two-fold utterance implies. It means that the knowledge we obtain of
the world and its phenomena is a knowledge that has entered through
the Luciferic influence, a knowledge that represents the course of
Knowledge of Good and Evil. All our knowledge is the sort
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Had man not partaken of this
Tree, then a different knowledge must needs have been there from that
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
practically no knowledge of this at all. People do not notice, they
spreads itself out in them. Now and again a man will feel in
become known to us during meditating. Therefore we find in the Orient
Now you must be clear whence all that I
the moon from the sun there now took their course side by side the
. Man as he now is could not have arisen if this
simply on what we have now considered, we shall find in Greece the
Now if you examine both Greek literature
desire to be expressed by Socrates merely to impart knowledge of the
the present time has an entirely different task. We now have the task
actually epitomised and given form in it. Now we have the task
inwardly seized in his cosmic significance, is now to be given back
And now picture the immense, the
had formerly worked from the cosmos and who could only be known from
in pre-Grecian times now came into the earth, and that which had been
poured out into form, was now itself in human evolution. (c)
rightly known — it is not yet rightly experienced,
first a process of knowledge. It begins with an intellectual process,
will become more and more musical. And to know how man is rightly
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
made this step of sharing in the Moon existence, they are now going
But now
not aware that they now also go out into the cosmos, that they really
and existence it remains unknown, does not enter the consciousness.
feeling. But since the connection remained unknown to him there were
thing in itself is nebulous, is unknown; but that which thrusts up as
Now when
those are now living in our intellect, so that something Luciferic
What now
experienced during the Moon-evolution, but did not, he now carries
did not do, so now they contribute nothing to it.
Now,
formerly; they now wish to bind the intellect with the human being;
relate thinking to ourselves as we do now, but we should look back to
‘We appropriate the thoughts of the world and now
the moment we now pass over to thinking, we look back to the Old
the earth- contents, and we should not, as we do now, form concepts
after the Mystery of Golgotha, when the Christ is now no longer
must grasp something that contradicts his ideas of reality. Now to
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Tree of Knowledge - I
about inside and learns by its creeping about to know the roots of
surface of the earth, it only learns to know the roots of the plants,
it learns to know nothing else; it creeps about and learns to
Now let us
for the caterpillar can know nothing of this; it creeps around, this
something is happening, and he now expresses all he knows, this worm.
know, this worm, whence this warmth comes ... That it becomes warmer,
effect and say: Now the earth becomes somewhat warmer from above
Now you
Now if the
any knowledge of the actual events and processes. And this is truly
Now you
‘Fine, you have now compared the world in which the
Now after
meaning of the earth-life was added to it like a kind of flower. Now
learnt to know that the Earth separates from the Sun and again from
and now let their activity shine in from outside upon the earth. That
Now I
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Tree of Knowledge - II
our organism. And if I now include the etheric body, it naturally
Now you can conclude from this that the
What I have now depicted is how things
divine-spiritual beings had planned. But we know that
We could now ask: why does that not
and what is now being said is understood, only then will the time
Now the human being is, however, also
And now, through this having been
and said: ‘I dare not, as you know, speak of
this man is doing to one. And now in the subconscious the anger can
now carry out missions,’ and so on. The next step that we
I do not know, my dear friends, if the
not there, if we know nothing of them: they are always there. And in
where such things must be known.
few items of more exact knowledge regarding our sense-periphery.
Yesterday we spoke of how desire enters into sense-perception; now we
We know that this conceptual life through Lucifer's influence seems
works down into the etheric body. Now, one can observe: if this is a
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Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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so are my other books. Only one who knows that in every
reasoning faculty. Until that time, all knowledge and all
out their own thoughts for themselves. Now the kind of
but knows as an Angel. This idea — which springs
heritage from an earlier form of knowledge — was a fact
acknowledged by anyone who thought at all in the days before
Angel indwelt the body of a man; the Angel was the knower and
the human being shared in the knowledge.
domain of controversy, had now been drawn into the sphere of
Logos. The Logos is known as the Son, but the Father, not the
now we must try to understand the kind of thinking in which such
Christian centuries, thought was based upon the knowledge of the
centuries of Christendom to teachings such as those now living
Now
merely an ancient belief but an actual truth for, as you know,
ancient times, and now, when the physical body has the mineral
instinctive knowledge possessed by the men of old. They knew
‘circuited’, as we say. You know quite well how this
no longer know that Earth-electricity is living in the blood.
Now
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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Knowledge
in respect of the human self — that is, self-knowledge — is one
of life's development. The impulse to self-knowledge is found in every
should realize that no external measures, but only a thorough knowledge of
the human being, can prove helpful. But this thorough knowledge requires
knowledge is liable to encounter when it would enter more deeply into the
knowledge of the human being. They consist of two illusions, towering as
two cliffs, between which we cannot advance in our pursuit of knowledge
obstacles are: Natural Science and Mysticism. Both these forms of knowledge
acquire a knowledge of humanity depends upon our developing the strength to
knowledge; once we have found them, the way of escape from them becomes
sum of natural operations. It may become an ideal of knowledge to
be to our inner life, with its thirst for knowledge. True to its ideal,
“Boundaries of Natural Science,” that human knowledge would
human life, into which we must inquire. Knowledge of true reality does not
coincide with knowledge of Nature. This insight can prove a turning point
in the life of our soul. The knowledge is brought home to us through inner
knowledge of the human being. Not to have reached this standpoint and still
to cherish the hope that ideal natural scientific knowledge can enlighten
knowledge of the human being. Many a thinker has felt the thrust on this
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
formulated in a way one deems to be correct. Now in real life this is not
Now
Now
understanding it. We must know how to guard it, with a certain confidence,
knowing that it is this guarding which gives effectiveness to our affairs.
We have to know what things to be silent about in the presence of certain
must know that we have nothing whatsoever to hope for from that quarter for
Now
nature but rather develop his individuality, etc. You know that our art of
nature, that it should be built up in the widest sense on a knowledge of
first class. Now our teaching will be bad every time, will never have
do not say to ourselves — who is it now that has really
— yes, now I can
teaching has been good if you did not know to start with what you have
you known at the beginning what you have learned at the end. A remarkable
many people it is important to know this, but it is most important of all
for teachers to know it. For this is a special instance of a general truth
and insight: knowledge as such, no matter what its content, knowledge that
as ideas — such knowledge can have no practical value.
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
considered far more than later on. We know this whole man embraces the ego,
furnished — as you know from the various hints I have
the man, but spread more over the entire organism. You know that between
— for the consciousness is only now forming itself, and
into consciousness wakens to life now, something that has irradiated the
from within, these forces come now from outside and proceed from there down
And against what is coming from outside works — but now
This is compacted now, in the female in her entire organism, in the male
testimonial to the ignorance of our philosophers, who know nothing of the
pass through this gate as before. Up to now it has been language which
years. And because we know we are working into the future in this way, this
our own forces with these, knowing that we are fertilizing the
after death. We gain a certain enthusiasm for our teaching by this, knowing
bring the matter closer to your understanding, if you know that the music a
This is the positive side of kamaloca, and if we know this we are
now, on awaking in the night after the concert; the experience is most
have taken it in often in the form I now frequently describe as the art of
Now I
knowing the full significance of these traditions; also that in much
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
KNOWLEDGE OF MAN AS THE FOUNT OF EDUCATIONAL ART.
education. Here, the essential thing is to know what we ought to learn and
of this knowledge of man there will arise in us, in a very individual form,
Now is
know that nowadays external science sees a difference between man's
that becomes the property of our soul because we have eyes. We must now
place for our understanding of knowledge and the soul's element of
for as teachers we have particular reason to know about them. Notice what a
teaching, between just listening and working on his own. Now supposing you
sufficiently exerted. The will, as you know, is connected with the
organism upwards. And you must now combine this with what I said in the
movements of the larynx. And now you have the possibility of having a
the etheric body, thus making the two bodies work more closely as one. Now
we do this nowadays? We do it because it lies within us that nowadays we
inherited in the brain from generation to generation, and modern man now
thinks with imprints in the brain; he now thinks by means of material
processes. This had to come. Only now we have to go up again; what has to
from the supersensible world. Therefore we now have to do the opposite of
movement, just as it has been done for us up till now in the invisible
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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
look at man's constitution and then apply the knowledge thus gained to the
known to you, which manifest fully only in later years, reveal themselves
right way. When one notices the well- known Theosophists mark, which all
amount of it, is now out of and then again in the human organism, and on
so long that he does not know what to do with them, then one will have to
or that the arms never know what they are meant to do because their weight
science one can get to know the human being so intimately, if one proceeds
get to know man better. Of course these are not specially personal things,
However, in order to get to know Fichte's character, his whole manner of
learn remarkable things, if we get to know children in this manner, if we

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Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man
UNDERSTANDING THROUGH SPIRITUAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.
acquire knowledge of supersensible worlds. They try to answer this question
knowledge by means of certain forces in man. But what the actual
ask. That is why so little importance is attached to making knowledge of
supersensible knowledge is becoming more and more essential to man, just in
know, the first of the capacities that leads man into supersensible realms
Inspiration and the third capacity the force of Intuition. The question now
connection with knowledge of supersensible worlds or whether these
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds”
intuitive knowledge are the same forces that you grow with at the time of
forces you use in supersensible knowledge to reach Intuition.
Now
are not just any old forces got from we do not know where, but are the same
knowledge and man's everyday existence. Something similar, though, can be
as you all know, there is something peculiar about the power of memory. We
I would now like to bring something of very great importance. When people
supersensible and subsensible forces. Now which of man's forces are
Now
question now arises as to how this activity is distributed. There is a
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
circumstances. As is known, a high solar being moved into the body of Jesus
new presentation. One does not yet know this event sufficiently in the mere
is usually such that first facts of the Akashic Chronicle are made known,
to our world. By about three thousand years from now, enough people will
that teaching of compassion and love flow into humanity. Now, however, it
Now, what became of that
known to the writer of Luke's gospel. He also knew that the Nirmanakaya
of the Gospel of Luke. He now saw the Bodhisattva as the real Buddha before
â€œLord, now let your servant depart in peace, for my eyes
as is known, had his astral body to Hermes and his etheric body to Moses.
ego no longer lived in the Nazarene Jesus, but now the Zarathustra ego. The

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at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
these gospels in this way, one gets to know them in a certain sense. I have
â€œHow to gain knowledge of the higher worlds.â€
We ask ourselves now, how did this flow into
and finally the blossom. Now comes a point where the later no longer simply
the most manifold circumstances and currents must now flow
common with the people. This astral cover, which the human being now strips
a certain people. What happens now with this cover, if it is stripped off ?
connected with his ancestors. This was known in ancient times. This is also
known today within spiritual science. Because man is connected with his

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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the profound social chasm that now has such frightful
here and elsewhere in our Society, that nowadays, on the basis of no
purely into what is external. If nowadays such considerations are deemed
only gradually be acknowledged once again in reaching the point of
correspond to the human form naturalistically in the here and now, only
sensible to the supersensible in concrete terms, such as we have now
humanity. Nowadays people are glad if they can gain a rough idea of
the other nine are there. I now say to myself, I think about certain
known to you, as also various things on the social question contained in
depths. Most people today do not really know what to do with themselves.
anthroposophical spiritual science will know to sense it rightly as a

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All the world will want to know about the life-work of such a human
From this translation: “Human beings will always want to know about
existed until now of Rudolf Steiner's lecture on Raphael ... perhaps my
Raphael's influence, his renown, through the times that follow
Then in the year 1504 we again see Raphael transplanted, now to
word. This was in May of the year 1498. Having now forsaken
he created pictures of worldwide renown. Yet Raphael and his
one of his best-known paintings may be singled out, so as to
in nearby Dresden, which almost everyone knows from the numerous
back into far distant perspectives of time in which what is now
Rome, though it had overwhelmed Greece politically, now
Something was now to speak to humanity, not as had the external
what we know as the Golgotha experience. With Raphael's picture
an earlier life (only in an enhanced measure) — now became the
Raphael we know from Renaissance Italy.
development of humanity — now finally brought to full
the soul. Now it reappeared. For spiritual sight it was
resurrected Greek culture now brought it about that he was in a
period of internalizing was needed. We now see this
What the Greeks had conceived and formed into figures we now
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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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known picture of all, the famous “Last Supper,”
countless human souls. Who does not know it, this
Leonardo da Vinci? And who, knowing it, has not
painted them. In thus getting to know Leonardo's creations,
enthusiasm, with an enormous urge for knowledge — fresh
now made use of in collaborating on the master's pictures. An
of completing the picture, but rather to get to know specific
practical help. In addition, he is known to have trained
is known how Leonardo worked on the “Last
all that is known, it has to be said: both outwardly and
know, he said, having painted on the picture for many years
gradually with all that can be known about the picture. This
humanity a certain wealth of natural-scientific knowledge. In
Now
us now look at him as an artist in the first place. Art had
it inwardly. And now nothing is sufficient for him. The new
we know that out of the ruins new life will always blossom

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observation and knowledge. All the human being has is the
certain stage one acquires knowledge of spiritual processes
without ordinary consciousness knowing anything of it,
itself existentially, the soul has now to unite itself with the
transpire unconsciously. The soul cannot know precisely what
despite knowing nothing of it — through all that the soul
occurrences of life. Who does not know, for instance, of
such a soul companion, and now wants to talk it out of this
the king wants still more. And when she now sits for the third
while yet knowing of the profound inner soul-experience
still find a bite to eat flavorful, so it is possible to know
only experienced, not “known,” and that come
In fact, unknowingly the solitary human soul — it is
which it can say to itself: As imperfect as you now still
“knowing” self. It is your loyal helper. You must
distinctive aura of which is not destroyed through knowing
intention to talk specifically about this now —
question was quite unknown to me. That is the personal
with certainty that it was quite unknown to me, since I
the unconscious state, the soul knows of this and
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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knowing the wisdom inherent in it, is there not something
all certainly know that with a child after birth the bones up
This organ has shrunk to become the so-called pineal gland, now
spiritual regions surrounding them, with their eyes they now
material will then be spiritual for them. Their now hardened
world. And whereas she now throws away things that show only

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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acknowledgement of the aforementioned status. I still fondly
something innate, “Now, my dear Doctor, I wish graciously
Grimm. Known for inaugurating modern linguistic research,
Brought to life again by the Brothers Grimm, they now live
possible in the last third of the nineteenth century, has now
is interpreted materialistically nowadays. Rather, we attempt
of the entire progress of humanity — now called forth by
pass away, knowing what lived in his soul intended for
historical research does not lie in what is nowadays called
nowadays. But if does describe matters in such a way that we
reveals him to be the finest knower of human souls. We may
novellas, it is an intensive attempt to get to know human
now comes something, taken up unreservedly in spiritual
now fills the content of her soul. It is not described as being
who knows there are secrets that reach beyond the grave. It is
friend, in which she expresses that she herself now feels close
of appearing as no more than physical instruments. But now we
“And wondrously now, it was as if this one thought had
the portal of death approach her, now a seeress; at the moment
Never had his voice sounded as sweet and enticing as now. With
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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evolutionary epoch if we know where the phenomena which surround us,
Swiss friends know very well that while Woodrow Wilson was being
of the Asiatic impulse are, for example, the historically known
historically known stage of the Assyrian empire, simply because the
the conditions which are known historically make it possible to see
imperialism without knowing the conscious relationship between people
Christian era because it is difficult nowadays to take account of how
gods, the “Holy Grail” has been lost and now, in Central
empire. Now the empire is merely a sum of symbols, of signs, and one
Now we come to the third phase of
previous evolution was from realities to signs and symbols, now the
anointed, now the empty platitudes. From majority decisions of course
remains hidden. And now we come to an important factor upon which
comes when everything smells very good. The empty platitudes are now
possessed by what smells good. The empty platitudes are now
identified with the true reality. Now the state can spread its wings,
feelings towards responsibilities. Let's now consider the other side.
a spiritual empire. Precisely because everything old has now become

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factors in social life, are now merely leftovers from older times as
This knowledge must dawn especially on the peoples of the west. The
we maintained till now. Reality for us is what we do for our stomachs
unknown, which cannot be penetrated by knowledge.
nature of the times. You know that in the middle of the nineteenth
even justified, because he knows him better and can work better with
which it arose, but must cease now.
but that doesn't work well in the economy. Now comes something about
“How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,”
up and says: “Yes, but how can one know that what he sees
knowledge dawns, that is, when the platitudes are recognized for what
the situation with many things nowadays. In public life we try to
For example I know of a very interesting
existing in public life today. And do you know the title of this
This codex appeared in the 1890s. Now it was not Woodrow Wilson's intention
don't know.

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us now consider once again from definite viewpoints what is apparent
I will now
this. But it is necessary to know which paths lead to the light. I
You know that a great enmity existed between
Now we have arrived at the third
became clever enough. And now we have discovered the cleverest that
human evolution. Now I come to what I mention before about what must
for a knowledge of the spirit, one which speaks of an invisible kingdom,
changed. The Emperor of Austria, who now belongs to the deposed
and that can only come from knowledge of the spiritual world, of
should take with them, that now, in this worldwide important historic
must grow along with the knowledge that nobody has the right to call
not arrived at the day when we say: Until now things have gone
known to you, so that you should never say to yourself: We have
now he has received confirmation of his suspicion. He turned to an
beginning now in Germany, and that all the Jews on the anti-Semites'
order to say the truth. I have known theosophists who when they speak
that telling the truth nowadays is not a comfortable thing, for the
truth calls forth opposition now more than ever. Do not be afraid of

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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thoughts, as it stands, you now want to extend when you enter
know this intimately, can then shift over to quite different
contrast we now have the standpoint of Anthroposophy which
know very well how in the 19th Century several
within it. Now obviously mathematics can be introduced into
Now
observing the atomic world? Now, in this case one can counter
sphere and now needs to be created for other areas of nature.
stuck within the phenomena, but now one arrives at another kind
nature and how they now appear in our thoughts. If we allow
is. Now, in conclusion of this reflection I would like to
educational for the development of mankind, and now when this
great clarity. Whoever now, equipped with such a scientific
world; one gets to know this through imagination, inspiration
I've learnt to know as the nature of the sun, the nature of the
inner organs answer me. I only get to know my inner human
organism when I get to know the outer things of the world. The
dissatisfaction. It acknowledges matter in its own organisation
acknowledge at the same time that the inner organisation is the

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Now, one can prepare, in a specific way, how to discover the
twelve human senses. Now, we are only talking about human
to know that a person is standing in front of us, when we see
function in the life of humans are to stand upright. — I know
result prove, what I want to present now.
Now
hearing processes, and so on. We know, that in addition to the
Now
can now say the following: ‘I want to instantly see a show of
standing within the cosmos. When we now compare the position of
which everything now has to adapt, and which distinguishes it

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What I'm sketching for you now as a situation in which the
Let's go now from Herbert Spencer to what we meet with Hegel.
such a world about which one can have knowledge. This means
there is no longer knowledge on the one hand and belief on the
and knowledge, between spirit and nature? To a certain extent
This is on the one side. Now how did Hegel develop this idea of
we now go to the East, we have in Vladimir Soloviev a man who
content of our own philosophic striving, who must now become so
down on, is something against which the truth and knowledge he
knowingly experience what in the West — here quite
conceptual forms and means of expression which we know, from
still be an inner condition of the soul. Now however, in recent
known that Newton had tried in a one-sided mystical way to
then also try to characterise it in its purity. Now these
question itself. This is experienced everywhere: what is now
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds”
knowledge, between knowing and subjective certainty. Then out
will now understand.

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other need for theoretical knowledge. No, these conveyed ideas
strive for an abstract head knowledge — if I might use this
involves the whole human being, possibly leading to self-knowledge,
intimate knowledge of the growing person, the child. I only
soul knowledge, it finds driving forces into the pedagogic
latent conditions, and now appears as warmth. Such principles
Now
child's soul now come to be expressed outwardly. This is hidden
concepts and ideas of human knowledge, then the accusations
Anthroposophy fully acknowledges the existence of great,
instruction, send their children now into religious instruction
human knowledge is present. Such a kind of intimate human
knowledge makes it possible to deduce everything from the
knowledge which can be read from month to month in the
has improved even in some public tuition. But, you all know
a typewriter, we know that with such activities humanity has
environment, knows what works in the child in a soul-spiritual
way. The teacher gets to know the child and as a result obtains
gestures and so on, and you know that the riddle of life needs

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the economic life, who know about this or that branch of
paradise. Now it shows in such demands that tampering with only
Now it has come about that what
life where now quite other additions would be necessary and not
Now
appeared in ancient times — you know this from my lectures I
place of today's scientific thinking then you will know that
happened more or less instinctively. Now, one can from some
Smith or John Stuart Mill — and who now develop systems on the
one now wants to find, I might call it, a connection, a kind of
expression in economic law-making; people now had, by taking
all know that
foundations, in a real way, one can now — not with
an unbiased manner, know very well that solutions which often
long way from knowledge of the subject and specialised
knowledge which have to be achieved by people linked to
Ernst Muller and now want to attribute him with what at that
to another, through to entirely what has become necessary now
the economic life knows they have essentially changed since the

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publication I don't know and obviously have not thought about.
on Friday is now an unequivocal challenge of Steiner and his
Now, my dear friends, this event may be anything; what it
the spiritual world and its knowledge. The human being is
observations in the world — due to our limited time now,
no obstacle to now observe what inwardly to some extent can be
I've heard for years and now a seated person here has also said
Now
because Anthroposophy is there, not to limit the knowledge
Someone who honestly says what he sees, knows how polemic comes
is about within the Anthroposophical Society. Now I would like
Now it is difficult to say in only a few words what
and with which he knows he is united in his deepest being, at
Now
knowledge confessed about. The Christ who went through the
acknowledged in the first Christian centuries. We then see how
Now, my dear friends, Anthroposophy relates from such

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through human research capabilities of an unknown origin.
for. When it became known that this course was going to take
“duty.” Now it is quite a different experience when
Now
you now open the dictionary you would find a multitude of words
Now
the language, just as we experience speech consciously now. We
become the object of linguistics. Now, one finds that in
Now
stage which is even further back. Now you don't see ice floes

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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anthroposophy in all aspects of life. I say this now in order
next lessons, whom we will want to know always better and
darkness for human knowledge, from which the light must be born
know that the first thing to come from the darkness that must
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
O man, know thyself!
O man, know thyself!
real knowledge must be fathomed from what is revealed in the
through human self-knowledge. Everything man needs in sickness
way is not real knowledge, but only pseudo-knowledge, that what
warnings regarding spiritual knowledge, is all
pseudo-knowledge. It doesn't have to stay pseudo-knowledge
though. We do not scorn this pseudo-knowledge. But we must
pseudo-knowledge once it has been transformed by all man can
know about that purification and metamorphosis of his being,
warns at the yawning abyss of knowledge — what the
knowledge. For only by means of this awareness can true
knowledge be acquired. He doesn't have to become clairvoyant,
although knowledge from the spiritual world comes by true
to recognize the ground of existence in knowledge.
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words “Know thyself!” have been enunciated
the influence of “Know thyself”, he only sees what
the senses provide - the exterior world. Now, however, he is
can now observe and feel in our souls the beauty, the greatness
real knowledge and insight.
Behold, I am the only gate of knowledge.
through spirit-knowledge, from out of which he speaks who alone
O Man, know thyself!
constitutes the first stage of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge
which is preparatory for the true self-knowledge which reveals
spiritual cosmic knowledge of the being which is one with our
own humanity. And then the knowledge arises which one can
knowledge which reveals the contamination in our own thinking,
In you as enemies of knowledge.
Knowledge bravery alone will overcome it.
knowledge is not present at first in the soul, but cowardice
for acquiring knowledge is what dominates. Especially in our
Your burning thirst for knowledge must subdue him.
weak and cannot rise to enthusiasm. True knowledge must outgrow
thirst for knowledge; that is what overcomes the second
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words we already know - when pointing in the direction of the
O Man, know thyself!
know whether something that confronts you is truth or illusion.
possibility of knowing whether you were dreaming or confronting
all the knowledge of the senses and reason you may have gleaned
in the physical world, you would never be able to know whether
deceive himself by saying: well, now you have the spiritual
the floor, but are able to sit safely on the chair, you know
wants to follow feeling one must ask: Where are you now? When
Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds- which causes
thoughts expand. They had previously been held together and now
heads during earth life and are now cosmic thoughts, because of
“O man, know thyself!”. For through this
self-knowledge streams forth the true knowledge of the world
we know how we should not enter the spiritual world.
the bliss of knowledge and they require it.
physical body. He knows that his legs carry him through the
world. He knows that blood circulation gives him life. He knows
knowledgeably enter into it.
don't know much about it. And what we do know is not
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nowadays consider clairvoyant, but he entered into a
memory what I am now saying to you. I will be satisfied if
truths we should not think: Oh, I know that already. For the
essence of the esoteric does not lie in knowledge, but in
normal consciousness. Let's say you know someone, anyone, with
correctly when, for example, the following happens. You know
earth, knowing that crystals are formed in it, knowing that it
attracts the stone that falls to earth, knowing that it
souls. And now, because of this differentiation in feelings, we

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willing become separated. The will, now living much more
However, we also know that in dreams our consciousness is
Now
And that is the grand experience that initiate knowledge gives
made no claim on our normal consciousness, now has the force to
What before was quietly shining sunlight now speaks enticingly,
sunlight, is now threatened in darkness by loneliness, by being
and when we know that we can no longer be lost to the earth,
Knowledge means that we are aware of this.
heavenly bodies who know that in every century, in every age,
existence worthy of humanity. And he will know why such a
catastrophe has not happened to human evolution until now.
on his rope you know that he could fall at any moment to the
knowledge of the real world.
flows through him continuously. One must know all this. For
without knowing that this enticement exists within the desire
dear friends, we say: I would rather do without such knowledge!
If I ask that, it is about something I'd rather not know.
know nothing about these realities; that we can no longer do
however, for we are now entering a new age when man can only
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gets to know the world by observing the kingdoms of nature
a self-knowledge of belonging to this world. And when one
wishes to gain this self-knowledge, my dear friends, then one
of nature in the outside world. But as you know, my dear
us now lay out this elemental world before us, a world which is
cosmos. But nowadays we have no training in such things. In a
What does man know about his relation to the earthly element?
He knows that salt is salty, that sugar is sweet. They belong
true self-knowledge. We realize that one is only human when he
foreign to us. But if, through Imaginative knowledge, one
case nowadays, but also feel it, we become fearful that at any
esoteric knowledge.
can see how in reality all thinking - this is unknown to people
breath circulating there is known as thinking in the physical
know that oxygen is transformed into carbon dioxide in man.
knows nothing of this. At the moment when the downward climb
Whoever does not know “Imagination” does not
abstract forms. Whoever knows spiritual life is able to feel
not know this sentence: “Your own soul will threaten you
kingdoms of nature if he wishes to be knowledgeable. How he
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the Christmas Conference and the one we now have since
members of this School must know that they must adapt to those
the extent that we know it is true. For untruthfulness, even
What I will now say is within the circle of the School, and
and true supersensible knowledge. Today I would like to add
through the attainment of higher knowledge leaving the physical
That is the first powerful impression of true knowledge, my
now meaningful words sound out again from the Guardian of the
Threshold - that the person is called upon, now that he is on
in man. Now we pause again at “Think the limbs' cosmic
now we see that willing is something quite different from what
well. Now we see that everything the eye experiences as
can will the head's spirit when observing the head. And now we
know that when thinking is not considered as a function of the
Now
Now
real knowledge is to be obtained; these are the admonitions
where I am now in order to become a true human being.
of the stages from the point where I now stand, at which I am
to become a true human being through knowledge. And then you
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of this new element. I have often indicated this, but I know
the Anthroposophical Society; now whatever happens through the
Anthroposophical Society have now become identical.
Society is therewith given. And it must be clear that from now
circulates in the world as anthroposophical knowledge and
challenge to humanity to strive for a true knowledge of self.
This challenge; “O man, know thyself!” rings forth
script the cosmic words will sound forth: “O man, know
know thyself!
knowledge which is not closely tied to the spiritual world.
Everything we call knowledge which is neither investigated in
investigate in the spiritual world, is not real knowledge. We
strives for real knowledge, then he must have a sense for the
Then we must know: at this threshold stands a spiritual figure
prepared with inner earnestness for spiritual knowledge -
Now we speak of the sun as we speak of our heart here in
instrument of our thinking. But now we begin to feel the stars,
by the physical body, now becomes threefold. And we learn to
conscious conclusion that it really is so. One comes to know
the human being in this way. One comes to know him and sees him
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of knowledge:
know thyself!
rest in respect to the stars, now we feel ourselves to be set
now, my dear sisters and brothers, what is flowing to you from
does not know what it means to feel his whole being as a
Now
now if we have advanced to the third stage of inner experience,
feeling, my dear sisters and brothers, will now be revealed to
created entities within you. You achieve this with thought. Now
for the first time you know what thought is. Before you didn't
know what thought is. You know now that thought, by descending
man, without his intention or awareness. Now though, on the
know thyself!

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development — the true path to knowledge — the
karma nowadays to participate in anthroposophy.
grasp sense-free truth, sense-free knowledge.
existence. Perhaps they do not know much more than that they
it becomes a plenitude of imaginations. You know the old
grasp something I know that I am connected to my hand until
So now that
Now you see,
imagine that another being is speaking to you from an unknown
Now from the
heart. Now you try again to visualize how one acts and weaves
now senses:
And now the
Now imagine
Now I
extinguished, for my consciousness was, until now, that of my

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Miss Maryon's departure from the physical plane. For now it
It would be unseemly to say more now as she has just left
which real knowledge of spiritual things can be realized. Of
Nevertheless, the time has now come when the Mysteries
subtle path, which is the true path to human knowledge. But
You all know, my dear sisters and brothers, what has
That which can be known theoretically can also be
Now we go further to the rhythmic organization of man. We
Now we say intimately
[These lines are now written on the blackboard.]
When, however, we start along this path of knowledge,
when we honestly approach such paths of knowledge, we learn
Now as a human being.

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itself as an invitation to knowledge:
O man, know thyself!
Self-knowledge, my dear sisters and brothers, is what, in a
spiritual sense, can lead to cosmic knowledge. And it has often
cosmic knowledge to stream out of the spiritual world itself;
such knowledge from the spiritual world must approach the
But it is just when one gets to know this Guardian –
makes known to us the admonishments if we wish to enter the
world – for knowledge is meant to flow to you directly
O man, know
And now you proceed, my dear sisters and brothers, to make
well now, and try to sense, to feel such a remembrance-thought.
Now we ascend to where the Archai are. The Guardian advises us
hierarchies for our self-knowledge:
It is now a higher language, the language that resounds
and our memories, but we are now meant to hear how we are being
And the Guardian speaks once more, now advising us that we
self-knowledge asserts itself in us, where the Guardian advises
now it is appropriate to clarify the meaning of the
self-knowledge. Self-knowledge, it was said, leads to
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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for knowledge of our being:
O man, know thyself!
usually knows little of how the will acts.
have. We think that an unknown force – it is of course
an unknown force, for nobody with normal consciousness can
know anything about this force – streams into the legs.
is true is unknown – that almost everything normal
Now the I-organization is so constituted that it
Now I must indicate something to you, my dear sisters
and brothers, something you all know, for normal
human consciousness. Usually we do not rightly know what it
Now we imagine lightning [red] flashing through the
Now we imagine the entire sky above the lightning
O man, know thyself!
But we must always remember that knowledge
Know first the earnest Guardian,
And know myself in world's becoming.

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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on the path of knowledge. Today we intend to enliven the
of it. But he also realizes that he can never know himself if
know thyself!
knowledge, he comes to an abyss, which at first seems bottomless.
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment,
normal human understanding, first in knowledge and also through
initiation. But he must know how, in two ways, he
knowledge of the spirit will be revealed to him.
needs now that he has been touched by the state of mind which
Threshold's admonition. We shall now work on these
I feel rapture, for from now on I do not need its
Lucifer: I feel rapture, for from now on I do not need its
Now the heart omits “as long as”
Now, when one is over there, out of the body, the spirit is
About fire, the warmth element, the Guardian now speaks
Now the Guardian speaks warningly about the fire element:
Now he delves deeper into himself. And — note the
“I” was said. Now the “I” becomes
One gets to know this way of speaking in all its intensity, my
I feel rapture, for from now on I do not need its support.

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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O man, know thyself!
real knowledge we approach the abyss which opens between the
own self in order to seek the foundation of cosmic knowledge
in self-knowledge.
Now we to situational meditation: how to see ourselves already
with the spiritual element – but also so that we know
We look at the world of plants. We know: we take into
We look at the animals and know that we bear the
we have learned to know the beings within the three kingdoms
Guardian now speaks in the following way. We are still in
admonishment, questioning. But now the beings of the second
Know! the spirit's cosmic creation in the human body's
Know! the spirit's cosmic creation in the human body's
Knowingly grasp the inner being in your divine cosmic
Now we are exhorted to waken self-consciousness at a
Knowingly grasp the inner being in your divine
self-knowledge, self-feeling, self-warming – and this
events, so that we can gain, from self-knowledge,
cosmic-knowledge, and from cosmic-knowledge, human-knowledge,
O man, know thyself!

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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And now the words will be spoken which are
heart to understand them: the admonition to self-knowledge,
which is the true foundation of world knowledge.
O man, know thyself!
beauty of all that surrounds us, which we must acknowledge;
as we look all around us we find our own self nowhere. Then
Threshold protects us from entering immaturely. But now as we
now have formed the content of these esoteric lessons.
stands before the abyss of existence; now we are already
Knowingly grasp inner being in your divine
We already know this question; it is the
fire. But now the answer does not come from one hierarchy or
And we find ourselves in the situation where we know that we
us to where we now feel something like a mild weaving, moving
with us, as though he were leaning more to us now, as though
And what he now says seems as though in
the cosmos coming to our hearts, continues now as an intimate
moving light. For now it is as though he no longer just
do not appear now as physical forces. The soul has long since
“O man, know thyself!”
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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that is and all that is becoming as a call to self-knowledge,
which one must first attain for true knowledge of the
O man, know thyself!
And may its presence now
left together with our capacities for knowledge.
of the Threshold, the Guardian now indicates (we will hear the
it is absorbed, breathed in by the angelic beings. Now we learn
before us. We are now within it. It brightens: it is sun, the
spirit-world. We now hear from them what we see when we behold
now receiving what the Angeloi, Archangeloi and Archai bring
stars. The awakened, now living world-thoughts are given over to
hierarchy. And now we hear how they also give to these raying
the rays of the sun. We now see with the eye of the spirit how
with the rays of the sun, and transformed into love. Now we see
rings out. We become aware, now that the voices of all nine
which we had left behind in order to acquire knowledge in the
And know myself in the evolving world.
something else, my dear friends, which is especially grave now
answer to be affirmative. Those who have written in this way know
and those who intend to do so, to please know that every letter

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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The call to self-knowledge, which the human soul can hear when it
O man, know thyself!
gaze to the highest spirits, the first hierarchy, who now turn
And now we come to a truth, which is perceived where
And now we realize that spirit, in which we now
live, alone is. We now know that even here, in the
spirit, is nothing. And now we wonder: How did all this
now appears to us as the sum of names which we give to
the spiritual world that we have now entered. Names dedicated to
from now on.
the greatest illusion. We must know that we are giving names to
the nullities. It is now clear to us, because over there
deeply, deeply: We now know that we have gone from the kingdom of
And now we look back at the faithful Guardian of the
now. He spoke from out of the darkness. He spoke when we first
was brightening for us. Now, as we stand shaken by the great truth
experience down below. Now beyond the abyss of existence all that
is silent. Now we are witnesses to the gods speaking to each
Angeloi receive enlightens, without our knowing, human thinking.
Now we realize what acts and weaves in human thinking: the
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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out to us to seek self-knowledge, for it is the foundation
of all real, true cosmic knowledge.
O man, know thyself!
resound together. Let us now bring that to mind once more
beings of the first hierarchy speak. And now we are able to
know this from previous lessons:
Now we stand within the Spirit-Word, the
passed him by. He is now far in the distance. We now hear
lightning, where we now stand. The Word is flame, a flaming
knows itself to be in the realm of Spirit-Word borne by the
which he now poses from afar.
knows itself to be in the realm of the Spirit-Word borne by
– The human-I knows itself to be in the
the Threshold, which led us to self-knowledge, and through
self-knowledge over to the spiritual realm, and allowed us
it is a conclusion when we now stand at the place where we
here. And now we are here in this anthroposophical School
O man, know thyself!

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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took place in this hall, from now on an esoteric breath is to
nineteenth century. And it was made known that this guidance
you — I'm speaking now to those of you who are here for
so now we want to bring to our souls the words which resound to
which I shall now speak:
O man, know thyself!
that from the spoken words about human self-knowledge the
existence: O man, know thyself! Yes, this desire must awaken.
answer must come to the question: O man, know thyself!
his astral body is in that world that with imaginative gaze now
Now
now there is still only darkness.
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
What comes now is an intermediate clause.)
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
O you man, know thyself!
“O man, know thyself!”, or if they now resound
O you man, know thyself!
self-knowledge, of our true Self, which is implanted in us by
In you as enemies of knowledge.
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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conditions for membership in the School. So now we must
O man, know thyself!
Michael School. And he also spoke about human self-knowledge.
self-knowledge is dismaying, even shattering.
we must pass through knowledge of that self, which is the
time, in order to press forward to true self-knowledge.
This erroneous self-knowledge, the knowledge of the self which
created by the fear of knowledge, which can only be overcome by
having the courage for spiritual knowledge.
knowledge, which at the present time is in the subconscious of
only be overcome by the right enthusiasm for knowledge, for the
right heartfelt blaze of knowledge; whereas today nonchalance
and tepidity in respect of knowledge, yes, hate of knowledge
roots, and which can only be overcome if knowledge awakens in
In you as enemies of knowledge.
Your fearless knowledge alone overcomes it.
Your burning thirst for knowledge must subdue him.
To creative knowledge must it yield.
Which sunders you from the knowledge fields
In you as enemies of knowledge.
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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envision the need for self-knowledge — that constantly
O man, know thyself!
knowledge has led us to the Guardian of the Threshold. Once the
self-knowledge, and which must be followed if the exhortation
“O man, know thyself” is to be realized.
next verse is the opposite: Now we should rise with our feeling
have now come farther. It is no longer
to advance in spiritual knowledge. For what is within us is at
not achieve real knowledge if we do not rise up to the cosmic
and knowledge does the cosmic Word resound from above, full of
points out the ways we can go astray — which we must know
now we must again consider, looking back at earthly life
— so now let us again consider the admonition which was
O man, know thyself!

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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self-knowledge, a self-knowledge that leads to knowledge of the
this self-knowledge in the true sense of the word, which is the
path to world-knowledge. Thus, all the Beings of nature and of
O man, know thyself!
have seen how the seeker of knowledge approaches the Guardian
of the Threshold, how — after the seeker of knowledge has
the right way, by seeking knowledge, the origins of our
thinking is rooted above. We must know it to be so rooted if we
want to be knowledgeable in the battle between light and
find that we must remain erect. And we must know that we are
the right sense of feeling for knowledge.
knowledge. And it is also the case for equilibrium between
self-knowledge. In front of us, like a black wall, is still the
seekers after knowledge, we stand now before the Guardian of
by pondering the following: In order to achieve true knowledge
way to the spirit-soul organism of the world and must know that
some object with your finger. You know that the object is there
you touch it with, at one with the object. Now think that you
Threshold is telling us now.
which is in the human being — something also known by
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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a member of this School must necessarily know.
O man, know thyself!
knowledge we have reached the place where we stand before the
gloomy for our true self-knowledge.
self-knowledge.
fainthearted and having fear of knowledge lives in us, as hate
for knowledge, as doubt about the knowledge that is
lead to true self-knowledge in our souls.
it is now. It is what remains of a human being whose soul and
Threshold now repeats to us.
the pledge that our soul makes, now that we are in this
the Guardian of the Threshold, who now says:
fear of ourselves and know that we are nullified if we only
Now
O man, know thyself!

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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O man, know thyself!
belong to us now, it belongs to the world. Light on light,
thought extracts itself from the black gloom. We know that
draws. And now we know that when we cross over from the sensory
striving for knowledge — to sense the wings which carry
previously as the appearance of color or tone, now stream
(otherwise we only think it, now we will it; and when we do so,
And now we recognize the virtue of human diligence, what human
[Now the following three words are underlined:]
Now
by Michael and his force. Now we have come to the important
we know, this first gesture means [beside the lower gesture is
now let us again consider — for all real development
O man, know thyself!

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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now, and should do so in the future.
hearts and souls of all who are sitting here now could not
O man, know thyself!
now, now, my dear sisters and brothers, will be described what
indicates to him: turn around and look back! Until now you have
become lighter, at first most gently. You feel now the first
now, when he who has crossed over the yawning abyss of being
which now lies in the earthly sphere. He observes his own human
spirit-soul. The earthly environment is over there now. He
we saw what lives in the wind and weather, and where, knowing
we actually are. Now will be described how in the gloom that is
now the Guardian of the Threshold points directly back there to
knows that he perceives the outer world through the senses,
the Guardian of the Threshold now says: Look into this head. It
There thinking lived! Now thinking rests as dead
now we look back from the other side of the threshold at how
to hear him: Now imagine that you are observing that figure on
Now
works downward - I explained it last time, so may say it now -,
during sleep. Now we should observe the will in the limbs as
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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way into people's lives. Now, because these tragic events have
itself for such a long time, now met only those who one would
of proletarian workers. I learnt to know what lives and strives
leading intellectuals — has learnt to know the modern worker's
movement, where it is carried by the workers, will know what a
that a still unknown mind with an elementary intelligence could
history is only considered in this way, as it wants to do now
development from cause to effect. Now again a revolutionary
and effect. Whoever wishes to observe history knows that before
present time, humanity reacted instinctively but that now we
which lived in the souls of the proletarians earlier, have now
instinct existed. Now the basis of the social movement is class
the most authority today, namely science, knows, anything
when he or she turns their gaze to self-knowledge and
that knowledge could be penetrated with a religious glow, with
moving to know that the modern Proletarian clearly believes
to such a science; the economic life. He now started to believe
very peculiar fact now transpired, showing how many
modern capitalistic economic order basically only knows about
its goods within its areas of circulation. It knows about
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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possible solving techniques distilled from actual knowledge of
the social question. Whoever wants to consider what we know as
evolution of knowledge. This means however that our thinking
knowledge of the necessities of this social organism. Healthy
Now
want to call your attention now to how this play of analogies
from the mere game of analogy will know that in reality, things
instinctive knowledge of the necessity for a threefoldness in
for now we will start on the economic side as this obviously
for knowledge of the members of the social organism to know the
for complete autonomy, acknowledged and applied to all the
developments are now to be separated from one another by
achieved as it has been up to now, of nature, human labour and
political laws of life must be acknowledged for their need to
Nevertheless, I know of extraordinary thinkers, deep astute
freedom. Now suddenly the three golden ideals gain their real
value when it is known that they may not reach success through
within these events for a long time to come, events now having
acknowledge what is offered here out of the developmental
somehow missed acknowledging the essence of these things, today
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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the up-and-coming Proletarians, know how big the cleft is
proletariat, through their observations, know what to say about
this movement became known when it was examined more at that
outside of the proletariat who now take it as payment developed
point of view being considered here, just now within this world
urgent and burning. Just right now one sees how people are
thoughtful and scientific knowledge seeking inner life like
Now everyday life takes on a form which has nothing to do with
if humanity wants to advance in knowledge it may experience
his fanatical thoughts, which have no relation to reality, now
personalities we know today and see as practical in life, could
experienced as knowledge coming out of the spiritual knowledge
acknowledge it not merely by thinking about it but living into
it, then out of this spiritual acknowledgement an inner impulse
paralysed that people didn't know any more that within them the
Now
those who are implicated with it, already know. Now the young
now something else comes into consideration. It is the
know a dissertation where a young man was terribly plagued by
know — and I will present this again in the following
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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as it similarly rises to puberty. Whoever has knowledge of the
just as necessary is it right now to promote the social
things will one not know how radically different everything is
Now
Proletarians. Now with the awakening in newer times the modern
had not been known in earlier times. Assertion of the human
directed, or better said, that people up to now have not learnt
newer humanity which can only now penetrate the surface in a
have depicted from different viewpoints, now work together side
by side. Up to now certain preconditions directed actual
differentiating what had been interwoven previously has now
to orientate itself now and towards the future. It is a given
questions can be raised to those who should know these things,
questions of international life now steps into the real world.
penetrated fairly and comprehended regarding what I now want to
an acknowledged, but need for acknowledgement of the principle
history, those like me, who is speaking to you now, who during
because it is known that the entire actual productive spiritual
relationships of the last decades know how to judge the
war. Whoever is initiated in this area knows how the disaster
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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procedure.” I don't know exactly what the motives are for
appear now again when you engage yourself deeply in the second
This mistrust has come out of the origins, which up to now did
acknowledge the entire scope of this fact one should not only
herself enlightened, call themselves atheists, can acknowledge
at what had developed as knowledge about the people and the
of carriers of the social movement it wasn't known but was
branches — we got to know three — of the present
Now
independently from the outer state organisation. I know that
bourgeoisie has now contributed not only spiritual life, but
Now
us now examine what the actual laws represent. I'm not thinking
of the economic life with a number of laws. Now, these laws
of the person was in bondage and all that was now left over was
know that still today many people think: ‘How can that be done?
Now
be seen: the spiritual system, the judicial system — now
something quite different than the case is now.
Now
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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concluded that now again an understanding needs to be
Those who up to now had been the leaders of humanity have in
Isn't it typical that those who know about these things must
thorough knowledge of life into which the social organism plays
What can we now see as a central focus in the Proletarian
Now, it has often been said and illuminated in the widest
historic criticism. Just the knowledge that labour can never be
Proletariats have lived up to now.
now say that healing can be found in the modern Proletarians'
What it comes down to is this — now the modern
remained is only the labour of the person. However, now this
I have remarked that natural science can't properly acknowledge
be removed now from this economic process is not everything
ruling classes up to now — what have they done? In the
state life, and now is taken further. So we see that in recent
according to the interests of the leading circles up to now,
the economic life. It has just been spoken about. Now as to the
one. Now, we need to look at the relationship of property
now in recent times, from what had happened before in the
of this now, while we are speaking about these things in the
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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a greed for knowledge but to be a spiritual impulse penetrating deeply
Another stumbling-block which may crop up now-a-days, is connected
sphere of human knowledge.” He showed by this remark that he
thought to be akin to mathematics but because it was known that the
And now let us speak of what is really the fundamental conviction of
of knowledge.
And now let us see whether we can explain these words of Wagner in the
knowledge in definite terms. They say: In the act of knowledge, man
natural and spiritual worlds. But there is a higher mode of knowledge.
knowledge is much more reliable than any intellectual judgment.
which is, however, more than an image. Those who really know what they
And now let us briefly consider the nature of the Mysteries. What were
devotion. External history knows nothing of these things and indeed
time had now come for a re-union of the arts, and with his great gifts
revelation of an unknown world, that the instruments represent primal
the deeds of Beings belonging to an unknown world through the dramatic
Now what does Mysticism tell us with regard to the relation of one
help you to understand these things. We know that the world evolves
And now when we turn to his most famous work — the Nibelung
now beginning to surmise.
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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I have described as knowledge through revelation and knowledge
acquired by reason, as we find it in Scholasticism. Knowledge through
be the guardian of this kind of knowledge.
The second kind of knowledge was held to be within the scope of
stream of Scholasticism acknowledged that this knowledge acquired by
reason could not in any sense be regarded as knowledge emanating from
knowledge no longer accessible to mankind in that age must be
shall find that the characteristics of this knowledge through
knowledge acquired by reason and knowledge through revelation (in the
have been at a loss to know what was meant. It would have been
unthinkable to him that if knowledge concerning super-sensible worlds
knowledge was beyond the reach of man's ordinary cognition, but they
man could unfold higher faculties of knowledge and that by these means
Now a change took place in Western culture between all that lived in
Aristotle, and the kind of knowledge that made its appearance about
and were thus able, with super-sensible knowledge, to realise the
obliterate all that had previously been known of these individuals.
like Plotinus, for example, of whom very little was known but who was
acknowledge God as a Being because the Ideas are primary and
But now let us scrutinise this logic more closely. The Ideas are
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Title: Community Building
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a movement in the field of knowledge, had also to determine in
Anthroposophical Movement in the aspect of knowledge and in
understandable to anyone who knows that he can achieve that
Now, there is a sort of community in the life of humanity,
exercise a little self-knowledge in order to acquire what I
arranges things — with persons whom he has known as
now permit their souls to lie touched in common by the memories
anyone knows who has had any experience in this realm —
Now, what is the secret of the community-begetting element in
now appears before our souls on earth in the ritual.”
directly into consciousness during the earthly life. And now to
world. Now, my dear friends, no matter how beautiful the ideas
we receive from Anthroposophy, this knowledge of a spiritual
within the earthly world and learned to know and understand
Now, my dear friends, up to a certain extent such things have
thoughts to another goal. But I wish now in a few words to add
now been brought before this meeting of delegates, after
problem, after all, is that those who do not already know the
Anthroposophical Society. As matters now stand, both are
for no one will ever deny that I know the meaning of bearing
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Title: Community Building
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I should like here to begin with something well known to those
well known to those familiar with the history of such societies
affords us the possibility through its own knowledge of
We know that this person is isolated among other persons living
of interchange. We know then that the person can pass out of
awakes now simply through the natural impulses and necessities
that which should interest us especially just now is the fact
Now, let us proceed from these two states of consciousness to
the higher worlds, as you all know from my book Knowledge of
There now follows the possibility of living with that which is
designated by one who knows the spiritual world with
earth lives. Indeed, it is now possible to carry the whole
higher world in which one now shares. On a different level,
anyone knows who has had some experience of life — that,
with listening to one another. Nowadays this bad habit has
knows that the most diametrically opposite views may be
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its
Attainment. Now, when anyone has to be very intensely
occupied with the search for knowledge out of the higher
opponents. He knows that he must have opponents, but he is not
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
know, a new era in human evolution started during the
much thought. We are now generally dealing with the
You know
waking hours come to resemble the mental activity we know
Earth evolution as we know it. We come to a time when the
soul activity we know as thinking. I would say that when
punishments of the kind we know earthly courts of law
thinking now bound to the mineral sphere. When we allow
Note 02 ] — As you know, it
this by the way was many years ago now — ‘but
we are now living in an age when our belief that
everybody. But now let me ask you about the facts. Does
knowledge to be gained there if we do no train ourselves
concerning the knowledge to be found in supersensible
You know
keep human beings, who now have acquired a mineral
we now come to apply this to ordinary everyday life. We
than a horse-shoe. Yet it happens quite often nowadays
knowing that it is luciferic by nature.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
already known to us.
We know
know that under the influence of that disaster — in
peoples of Atlantis. We also know that civilization then
thinking, thinking as we know it, in a different way.
of thinking as we know it today only developed in very
have nothing in them that permits them to acknowledge the
humankind. Nowhere else did human minds rise to abstract
want to know how Schelling, for instance, to take just
course generally known that I was ‘Rasputin’
came to be widely known particularly in French-speaking
initiation knowledge and everything connected with this.
of representatives of initiation knowledge, Western
representatives of initiation knowledge will tell you
spread initiation knowledge they have gained for
the West present initiation knowledge in books available
spiritual world, who knows the secrets of the spiritual
that he has initiation knowledge from personal experience
humanity of whom nobody knows that they are initiates.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
fundamentally speaking it is only now, in quite recent
merely implanting intellectual knowledge into their
each other nowadays, the way in which we look at each
we know them today, and take a wider view. We cannot
age. Some people representing certain confessions know
nothing at all about it and still says nothing now to
divine power — now no longer within him but in a
years old. The ideas used by people nowadays to fill
know that the ancient gods still walked on earth. In the
it is true to say that no one nowadays is able to
one knows that the people of that time had quite a
nowadays would say this more or less as a joke. Yet
to an end. People no longer know what to think; yet for
centuries, indeed millennia, they had known exactly what
now entirely in the beyond. The opposite of what had
existed at the first stage of empire development now held
We are now
this — but we do not know, or pay no attention to
this now, but those are facts. And it is important to
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
have no idea of human evolution, who know nothing of the
and able to be to the fore in public life nowadays
also know very well what they want. They are the
but it is now out of date. Some people have gone very
proper value to initiation knowledge, or initiation
Anglo-American movement have initiation knowledge, but
based on Jesuitism has initiation knowledge and in its
own peculiar way Leninism also has initiation knowledge.
Leninism knows how to put things cleverly, using rational
within animal nature. If you now take all the cleverness
within genuine spiritual knowledge. A true goal and
nowadays with regard to souls fast asleep in the present
thought, however. If a way cannot be found now for
We know
the true Mystery of Christ comes to be known; all they
know that our aim is to speak of the Christ Mystery out
present life on earth. When we are thinking here and now,
exists between nature as she actually is now and the
your faculty of thought. What you are thinking now, those
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
different aspects, things now also taken into
a pump comes up in all kinds of variations nowadays. The
is taught nowadays.
some things that are important to know are a closed book
in conventional institutes nowadays, in physiological and
my eyes step on colours, my ears touch sounds; I know
the whole of my subconscious I have knowledge of the
cosmic sphere, knowledge of the way the earth relates to
other bodies in the universe, knowledge of the universal
differences. You know that the head we carry today is the
so ethereal that they now extend from our ears and touch
People anywhere to know about repeated earth lives and so
now is the transformed organism of the last life lived on
earth. The rest of the organism as you see it now will be
leading personalities. This is now to be presented to the
is now to be spread among many. It is not as easy as
now has been alive inside them. It would mean teaching
which are destroying the world. A view of history known
religious life and the search for knowledge are
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
now been scientific evidence that Western culture is in a
decline — you know about the book by Oswald
presented nowadays. They could however play a role in
the other hand produces the very things we ought to know
know what materialistic anatomy, materialistic
knowledge gain the power to transform materialistic
knowledge, the materialistic way of thinking, into
spiritual knowledge. It is therefore of definite value in
because they come very close to the experience we know
nowadays. If anyone thinks it is enough just to say:
search for knowledge based on strong will impulses, that
teaches us what matter is on earth. We cannot know
physics. You know it discusses gravitation, earthly
is impossible to know the true nature of gravity. People
known.
get to know the nature of the force that makes the chalk
happens nowadays that men grow bald. We find we have
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds. [
but no knowledge. Experiencing inwardly in a abstract
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
other senses. We then think we know something about outer
outside world. People saying they do not want to know
Until we know that external observation reveals only the
aware of gravity, so that we know from inner experience
physicists know that the radium which existed on the
this now. These things present themselves to human minds
levels from abstract intellectual knowledge to active
materialists nowadays and others are spiritualists. A
find matter everywhere by the methods now used in
parties. You know that the most miserable, sterile
may be said that all the parties that now exist are
They know very well that to follow a party programme
oppose it. They know full well that logical argument is
logic. They know that they are facing an adversary in
refuting the refutations of the Jesuits. They know
know them and consider them to be fair makes no
the one anthroposophy must now follow for the weal of
common sense nowadays—and not the human dwarf who
has gone through the spiritual world. It now assumes
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
cannot have anything to do with real knowledge, with
made between knowledge and belief, as is the general
subjective knowledge that really can only be a matter of
knowledge but merely the subjective belief that something
level of certain and exact knowledge, to the level of a
certain knowledge can solely and exclusively come from
into certain knowledge. Thus we have science on one side,
be known with certainty and must remain a matter of
knowledge and belief poses a riddle which must be solved.
to teach humankind the difference between knowledge of
know that everything that is presented here from the
to the physical world. It represents knowledge,
perception, of the supersensible. Initiation knowledge
knowledge and faith.
People had a primal knowledge — we have discussed
demonstrating the truth of something, were not known
then. Knowledge came to people at that time when a power
them. This certainly was ‘knowledge’ in the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
We know
know of course that this is only an approximate way of
state? As you know, the sensory organism ceases to be
know very well when they are awake, that dream life
Now we do
sleep and waking up. We know that, between going to sleep
of view. Astrology, now a mere caricature, was living
By now it has faded completely. A shadow image remained
to appear which I am now going to characterize as the
wisdom. Political life as we know it did not yet exist.
that has once been great and is now completely decadent.

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
human evolution which we must know about if we want to arrive at a proper
we know of in historical times. We have seen that at the time when the
Now let us take some other
France. You can see now that it would be quite correct to say that,
evolution. If you now take the following and add it to what has been
which are active in this. In the past they were luciferic powers and now
know, they looked at them in such a way that they perceived a certain
on into the phenomenal world. We know that spirits are indeed active in
nowadays. That is the view taken by the present age. We know, however,
And now the Christ event,
experiences and will then know that the etheric Christ is walking on
in the physical form of Christ Jesus, but now at the etheric level. If
people come to know this Christ power, if they let it enter into them,
that come from the ahrimanic powers which are now in the ascendant. The
industrial production. It is merely that this element, which is now
‘States will know honour and dishonour, ambition, egotism and so
of lies. What reason is there to tell the truth now about the lies that
people got into a habit where their souls no longer wanted to know the
This atmosphere will cause a particular mood to develop. Until now it has
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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materialism and mysticism, knowledge and belief.
We know
and an ego. We also know that we can only really
the spirit-man. We know, however, that these three
that we now have a physical body and so forth, going as
spirit-self, a life-spirit and a spirit-man. We know from
the earth, the forces of the earth that are known to us
— or perhaps not known to us — is the
find that human nature as we know it today relates
extent to which we have now developed it. We shall
from many different points of view. We are now living in
Basically the situation is now that thanks to scientific
preparation now, but I regret to say that they have not
being entirely impersonal. The more impersonal knowledge
scientists still say: ‘We know this and we know
that about one thing or another. We know it in a way that
personal element in it.’ Knowledge excludes the
modern mind and spirit. Dead knowledge is stored in
objective knowledge stored there, but their personal
breath of an individual spirit in them. Knowledge was
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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science now shows us that in the state between birth and death, that
with our eyes, touch with our hands. And each of us knows it also quite
sum of his suffering and his pleasure; this something everyone knows,
Now let us
take place for the first time. Now, in death, not only does the astral
question is obvious, how someone can know at all, how these relations
know what the human being experiences when he passes the gate of death.
knows. If, however, on the part of the ignorant, the reproach would be
made to the knower that he could not know anything either, then the
reproach of arrogance would lie entirely on the side of those who know
nothing and thereby claim that one cannot know anything. So only the
knower can decide what one can know.
the past life, however good it may be, as you know the recollection in
the human being experiences just now. In death, however, as was
death is also known. It is three to four days. It is not easy to give
corpse comes out. Man now leaves behind the etheric body, but he
keeps it for all eternity. Now, after leaving behind the etheric body,
the astral body and the ego of his four members, and the question now
ego now lives into the Kamaloka time. The astral body is the bearer of
various desires are represented, which must now first be discarded or
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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towards falsity. Nowadays we can find plenty of people
to the objective knowledge of the world. It does matter whether
Nowadays many people feel, although not altogether consciously,
it is no pleasant duty to speak the truth now, for truth is so
epoch, which we know bears an entirely different character from
century. Some time has passed since then, and we are now
which he looks at the three kingdoms, knowing that, as he is
world, and this part of our task is now completed.
men. There is little “genius” on Earth now, for the
important thing now is to seek afresh, from ourselves outwards,
have approached us; they have worked on us. Now we must work
world to the human world.” Till now divine Beings have
man must now begin to work from his own soul-content, in order
of a body, which has now reached its completion, and develop
knowledge, sensitiveness to it, and a will obedient to
destiny; but he has not always possessed a knowledge of it. How
not emphasize that new relations between human beings must now
that in another Earth-life. Now it is of moment — the
institutions concretely and in the full light of knowledge, not
only to profess some formula but to carry this knowledge right
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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and death. For as you know, this life is also a
are now in the physical world. That is the view which men must
human evolution, known from an anthroposophical
their old age as only the young are nowadays. A child goes
later stages of life. Nowadays old age sets in at seventeen or
abstractions. Old age, nowadays, means the limit up to which a
developing farther. Seldom nowadays do we find people with grey
the organism and new knowledge, unattainable before, is
invigorating source of life. Now this will bring, as you can
Other knowledge will be recognized as necessary. There is a
human evolution, which is not known to-day. In earlier times,
things must be spoken of now, to point out how man must learn
his before birth. It must be made known that man in future
to admit, has been frankly acknowledged by the socialists of
meaning, knows that the words “Maya” in the East
(known here as the “November” Revolution) has
Fatalism of the West, Fatalism of the East — we know them
when we develop such knowledge of our position within it at the
until they could. He returned to his birthplace, now that the
“registered” nowadays, and the political essence of
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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Men, as I said, can know, and must know what it means “to
for comfort in man to-day, the unwillingness to know what is
have long been known to us. Let us recollect how the human ego
know that at the present time there are a remarkable number of
a sign of progress that men no longer desire to know anything
Nowadays men talk of the so-called “League of
world-events as she does now, that the League could only be
what is said about the League now; the two cannot be
to that evolution through the Event of Golgotha, and now the
is felt, how men avoid approaching the great knowledge or
knowledge necessary to-day. Suppose you asked a natural
or less as they do now, except that man would not be there, and
dwellings of souls, though now deserted by them. In olden days
when bread was baked (nowadays the thing is more artificial) a
especially just now, in the whole evolution of the Earth, and
nowadays it is essential that men should absorb them into their
of knowledge — much more than that. To take them
science. The ordinary superficial knowledge possessed by people
People do not really know how, through their organization, they
Now according to the principle of Archimedes, a body
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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catastrophe we know as the World War. Then came the end of that
Now
time from some knowledge of its underlying idea. What did these
aspect, now and in the immediate future. In this we are much
of the new era, will know more about this question that I have,
feelings, speaking as man to man, will know what a spiritual
were receiving a knowledge which they could absorb. But a time
Then if men were honest they must have known (if not, they
was a vast cultural lie, and nowadays no benevolent mask must
are assumed to be agitating nowadays if we talk like this. Not
nowadays has taken the place of the Church which formerly used
real knowledge of the growing human being. Social class and
notice certain things which are nowadays taken as a matter of
hand must the economic life. Now, two demands, rather
consequences, and now there is a new form for the social
knowledge of the facts, with its catchwords of an
commonplace nowadays to maintain that so long as the economic
go on as they do now, we are shutting our eyes to the different
is to be based only on knowledge of facts and on practical
composed of men whose position is justified by their knowledge
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