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Title: Memória e Amor
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Prova abundante disso reside na maneira como a arte se desenvolveu. Originalmente era uma com a vida religiosa. Nas eras primitivas da humanidade, ela era imbuÃda nos cultos religiosos. As imagens que os homens formavam de seus deuses eram a fonte das artes plÃ¡sticas. A tÃtulo de exemplo, recordemos os MistÃ©rios da SamotrÃ¡cia a que alude Goethe na segunda parte de Fausto, onde fala dos Cabiros. [Vide ciclo de palestrasGoetheanism as an impulse for man's transformation,Dornach, janeiro de 1919.] Em meu estÃºdio em Dornach tentei fazer um desenho desses Cabiros. E o que resultou disso? Foi algo muito interessante. Simplesmente me propus a desvendar intuitivamente a maneira como os Cabiros teriam aparecido nos MistÃ©rios da SamotrÃ¡cia. E imagine sÃ³: cheguei a trÃªs jarros, mas jarros, Ã© verdade, moldados plÃ¡stica e artisticamente. A princÃpio fiquei pasmo, embora Goethe tenha realmente falado de jarros. O assunto ficou claro para mim apenas quando descobri que esses jarros ficavam sobre um altar: entÃ£o, algo semelhante a incenso era colocado neles, as palavras sacrificiais eram cantadas, e pelo poder das palavras de sacrifÃcio â€“ que nos tempos mais antigos da humanidade carregavam uma forÃ§a de estÃmulo vibratÃ³rio bastante diferente de qualquer coisa possÃvel hoje â€“ a fumaÃ§a do incenso era formada na imagem desejada da divindade. Assim, no ritual, o cÃ¢ntico imediatamente se expressava plasticamente na fumaÃ§a do incenso.
Conforme publicado em Golden Blade 1983

Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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thinking and reflection unfolds, in order to fully persuade us
holding back the pain and emotion within the human soul, and
then is cold? Cold is only something negative, namely the
positive. But if one turns around when it is cold, with no furs
positive” is precisely as negative as cold is compared
a position so to speak, to unfold our soul-spiritual being to
so to speak. In my last book “The Threshold of the
wished to limit mankind to this, to only unfold goodness in the
yes, cannot old Christianity satisfy souls much more than your
it is not there, he told himself; the sense world must be
perform; they are hungry because they hold back the forces,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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ideal sends out white-gold rays. The painters of past times, who were
in the child. From the first to the seventh year the physical body unfolds;
of his being have still have to unfold. A sound education will therefore
itself wholly from the fourteenth to the 21st year. It begins to unfold

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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The sun resounds according to an old measure (or:

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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the whole earthly life unfolds itself in every detail before the soul
describe it as a life in purgatory. And old painter sometimes depicted
will still be passionate in old age. The temperament is engraved in

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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that this person will soon grow old and not evince much youthfulness.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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past with what can be seen through the eyes, but the old science of
sunshine alternated. This may be found in the description of the Old
ancient Mysteries as the city with the golden portals. At that time,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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which were all of a volcanic kind. Typical for Lemuria is the manifold
circled round the sun. But the moon maintained the old movement of the

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
century Wilhelm von Humboldt
encompassing, synthesizing force, would see what is at work in the unfolding of history —
accessible to Humboldt. He spoke of ideas, but ideas indeed have no driving force
the facts, the view that death is not something real resembles the view which says: Cold is not
something real, it is just a decrease in warmth, it is only a lesser warmth. Because the cold
which the minerals are to be found, in which the plants unfold, the animals move and the human
it happens in the Occident that the human being feels an inner urge to lay hold of his 'I' as
how this 'I' is experienced in the most manifold metamorphoses. First of all in that dim, dawning
configuration which, in the threefold organism, we wish to separate out as the structure of the
that appears in all areas as a three-foldness that has evolved of its own accord. This science
must really consider the threefold aspect also in social life; in this case (as a three-foldness)
threefold social impulse that can come from spiritual science and that which throws itself
against this threefoldness as the wave of Bolshevism, which would lead to great harm (Unheil)
2. See Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835):
in Volume IV of Humboldt's Works published by Leitzman, Berlin 1905 (see pages 35-56).
poet, to give his material over to the dominion of the form of necessity but to hold steadily

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
Marxist ideology and took hold of the broad masses of the population. It also found its way into
all individual phenomena, how this, let us say historical threefoldness, really does exist; in
the world in this way are the real enemies and opponents of the threefold impulse. The beings of
in this way against the impulse of the threefold social organism. And anyone who, in a deeper
sense, wishes to work for the spread of this threefold impulse must be aware that he has also to
the beings who seek in the East to hold back the economic life as it is needed in the threefold
described, to human beings of the East are those beings that hold back the spiritual life from
of the threefold social organism. In this way the threefold impulse is hemmed in from the
threefolding in the European Centre so that, from a spiritual point of view, we gradually gain an
Europe, in a way which I shall relate tomorrow — can be met by the threefold idea with an

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
present, the impulse of the threefolding of the social organism.
Hellenistic culture there developed, as we know, what took hold of the human beings of the Centre
of the older development of humanity, but I should like to draw your attention to a few things.
provides a foothold for beings of the kind I described yesterday,
leadership in those regions I have mentioned. What is primarily taken hold of in the West by
element, the old traditions would be superimposed: in fact only the physical and the soul element
nevertheless be taken hold of. It was quite possible for the beings of the three types I
You see how in old age he turns, in Part Two of
imaginations are taken hold of in abstract concepts, as in Soloviev.
scientific world-view of the West will never find a foothold in the Orient because it simply
through reason. It is something which, going out from the spirit, takes hold of the human being
hold of the human body and soul through the will and from those spirits, on the other hand, who,
in the East, wished to take hold of spirit and soul through imaginations. It is from this that
over the civilized world, is taken hold of in the West by economic life — the element that
which a new spirit wishes to arise, for the old is completely decadent.

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
being given over to the logical world of reason. Schiller holds that, in both cases, the human
the King of Wisdom (the Golden King), the King of Semblance (the Silver King), the King of Power
a threefoldness if the human being is to thrive in it. What in a later epoch had to emerge as the
threefold social order is given here by Goethe still in the form of an image. Of course, the
threefold social order does not yet exist but Goethe gives the form he would like to ascribe to
it in these three kings; in the Golden, the Silver, and the Copper King. And what cannot hold
a certain way — even though Goethe had not himself yet done so — how the Golden King
would have to arise as the threefold social order. Goethe thus said, as it were, when he received
Golden King, the Silver King, and the Copper King — we see a prefiguration of everything
that we must find through spiritual science concerning the threefold nature of the human being as
well as the threefold differentiation of the social community representing, as these do, the most
threefolding of the social organism is not brought to the surface arbitrarily but that even the
in the social organism, the Golden King; to the political element in the social organism, the
soon as it gets hold of the economic life in the uniform State, in the Mixed King, destroys that
the social organism, and a spiritual life which holds the balance, which builds up again. If one
post-Atlantean epoch, people were to hold on to capital even when they themselves could no longer
the threefolding of the social organism; namely that, in a properly thought out threefold social
hold of this in education — this is something spiritual — and incorporate it into the
take hold with any effect on life itself. I would leave the economic life below me like something
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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
development of humanity, to compare the longing for knowledge which holds sway today with the
gradually prepared for. The last traces of the old clairvoyance had long since become extremely
dim. But one can nevertheless say that, to a certain degree, the last effects of the old
clairvoyance — though not the old clairvoyance itself — were still present even in
concerned with daily life. Although in olden times these faculties arose from the soul in a
beings but where he will o take hold of the divine-spiritual in supersensible knowledge and will,
developed, and with it a particular type of professional soldiery. All this came about because,
would prefer to bring back the old conditions of the countryside. They imagine that this can be
and prefer to get along with the old. The machine age has arrived. Machines themselves show how
of humanity's evolution that one recognizes how this evolution requires the threefolding of the
the physical world call it fantastic to talk about Old Moon, Old Sun and Old Saturn. They find
economic life. It is necessary that old usages, old habits, be truly dropped and that everyday
the so blatantly visible signs of our declining economic life. This old economic life cannot be
— so, too, no one should be proud of what he can gain from the old economic life by way of
abilities that correspond to this old form. Today no one can be proud of being a physicist, a
an industrialist in the old sense. But this 'old sense' is the only thing we have today. Nowhere
our present human evolution: on the one side the traditional bearers of the old spiritual life
hold back this evolution of humanity. Sometimes they do so in a truly grotesque manner, like that

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
still strong remnants of this old clairvoyant condition of humanity existing at the time of the
who still had a remnant of the old clairvoyance. It could be described — the symbolism too
by those people who, out of the remains of the old clairvoyance, had understood what had really
his conviction — what those who had preserved the remains of an old clairvoyance could
old clairvoyance spoke about the Mystery of Golgotha is called Gnosis. And, if I can put it so,
remnants of old clairvoyance — this was Christian Gnosis. And the presentation of the
was attained through these remains of the old clairvoyance; through the ancient, instinctive
in the accounts of the old clairvoyants and, basically, as you know from my
here people could no longer themselves behold the Mystery in the sense of the old spirituality,
forms. Many external facts show how this dialectical-legal, political thinking, in which the old
The old spiritual life based on spiritual vision — which, as you know, had abolished the
spirit in 869 — this old spiritual life moves over entirely into a political Church-Empire
was entirely permeated by the spirit, by the old instinctive clairvoyance, and all that this
Christ-experience. But they did have the old accounts concerning the Christ. And this rebellion
this holds true even for dreams. People can dream the same thing; that is to say the same thing
can take place within them but the pictures that are formed can differ in the most manifold ways.
classes of the people. And for dialectics one could not simply give out a fourfold mutually
standard for the world. Just look how easily people are satisfied when they are told somewhere
try sometime to hold in mind for yourself everything that people accept nowadays as being true,
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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
because of the impossibility of adhering to the old prohibition against reading the Gospels
remnants of the old instinctive clairvoyance could lead to it at the time of the Mystery of
their eiders when they were in their youth. The difference between older people and the
those who are old today and those who are young.
have taken universal hold, right down to the least educated classes. Certainly there are many who
still cling to a certain piety, a piety that wants to know nothing of what is laying hold of
today — can give the human being, a twofold feeling will develop. On the one hand he will
constitution of soul, he can gather from the meditation successes of a bunch of old cronies. This
He goes on to say that through holding back these
pictures being dammed up like water — that, through this holding back, Imaginations come to

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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If you put together what I told you yesterday
moment of death, at this beholding of destruction; this beholding of the
take hold of the life of culture.
bear that up into the spiritual world, you behold the downfall of the epoch

Title: Talk To Young People:
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epoch the young have rebelled against the old.
all; they were attempts to escape from what older people call
will help in every way possible,â€ I told him, â€œif you can get things
subconsciously in him was what older people call â€œthe adolescent
asked many of these older people what they think about adolescence;
modern civilization. They feel that the world has grown old. The
grow up, even as children, alongside older people who could have
this old world steering towards? If we're comfortable in it, we're
not living in the three dimensions revealed by the threefold nature
cannot be pressed into a profession or work in the old, traditional
is truly young, if today's youth, with understanding, can lay hold of
our old habits. Let us try to divide our sleeping and waking, to keep
hearts will burn out like this if we can lay hold of them and make
from the old hearts. If wetake
they said I was the youngest of all, though I was three times older
clear in the old sense of the word. But there is the real necessity

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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old clairvoyance inherited from the Moon with the real, outer,
the old dreamlike perceptions; but today he is unsuitable to form the
holds a nebulous idea, for the concrete fact is that everything is
the most inner essence of the Moon man — i.e., the man on the old
upon Jupiter, will hold the rank of Spirits of Form. Thus, is the world
over into the future new evolution, anything of this old culture!
doubt make use of the old materials, and that would be wrong, for the
the old mediums of artistic production.
vegetation, again the Moon man holds potencies that will be transformed

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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Now behind this primordial two-foldness
the final relics of the old clairvoyance that spoke to their
old Roman age.
Augustine first accepts all the elements of the old withered
when the old clairvoyant perceptions could still speak to men, how
form of the old Roman language with its marvellously structured
evolved from the old Latin heritage to comprehend in full what had
the Tree of Life’: this is a saying which also holds good
and life will stream out from it. But this older knowledge shall not
and the Golden Legend’ — Rudolf
according to the saga, a threefold divine nature flowed into man. It
that in the human soul a threefold nature lives, that the Gods have
the whole human life would have remained cold under these fine spun,
descendants of the old Celtic peoples, in the South the descendants
let us consider it still occupied by the descendants of the old Roman
population. Let us further imagine that on this old Italian peninsula
of the old Romans, and the Latin culture had gone on working in them,
the further evolution and unfoldment of this southern civilisation
But one can also consider older
relations which had been created in old Roman times. So even in the
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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two-fold saying to which we referred yesterday, that two-fold
two-fold utterance implies. It means that the knowledge we obtain of
it, is extinguished every night. So let us hold these facts before
Threshold’ Munich,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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part of the Old Moon time. To be sure, they were obliged to descend
the living element of thinking about the external. What they get hold
(diagram (b)) is a musical one; of the old world (a) is a plastic
dare not recapitulate the old plastic element, but must strive
the end of all that has been handed down from old times to the
idea which was active in the conception of the old republican Roman,
which was derived from the old world conception —
hold such sentiments, and this finally led to the end of the Roman
a stage lying beneath the threshold of consciousness because men had
old Mysteries, but he had no understanding for what was then emerging
in the Spiritual element in the old way. There is an immense tragedy
which cannot be grasped with the old Mystery knowledge, with which
the old Mystery knowledge was not in keeping. What could, however, be
a breaking away from the old elements, and we can understand that
a certain spiritual eminence in the old sense, the sense of the
have been told of one, Christus, who has spread certain teachings.
told them that some person had been condemned, had died on the cross,
which is given by the old wisdom, the way it explains the cosmos,
was handed down from the old time. We will consider just three of
existed for only a short time, and, like a shadow of the old times,
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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separation of the Old Moon from the Sun-evolution, did not take the
the moment we now pass over to thinking, we look back to the Old
foundation of the old Moon existence.
which consists in this — that Lucifer holds before
in us from the Old Moon-existence — that is from
mighty memory of the Old Moon. We do not see continually in the
and the Moon-Picture. We ought to be able to hold them apart; the
the other the moon-view. To one who cannot hold them apart, they
a still older kind of deviation from the forward course of evolution
Sun-evolution. As man ought to be aware in his intellect of the Old
to us from the Old. Moon. Just as on seeing a human corpse we
what it was when it was still alive during the Old-Moon
ther dead one. But when we hold living ideas, then we shall no longer
hold of our intellect. That is the way which all spiritual
twofold nature lies concealed. In the first place, the connection of
must hold good. It is obvious that anything coming from some kind of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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world-conception simply does not hold good. He would have to realize
the separation of the Old Moon from the Sun; that is the strict point
in which the Old Moon separated from the Sun. Then for the first time
this meaning already present, in the old evolution of the Moon, the
Moon in the following way. We can say: We have an Old Saturn
existence which is surrounded by the cosmos; we have an Old
Sun-existence, again surrounded by the cosmos; we have an Old
Moon to the earth. Our life was quite different on the Old Sun. There
is connected with something else. Imagine an Archangel on the old
already been prepared on Old Saturn, they were only opened upon the
the Sun-existence wished to possess anything. He does not behold
of concepts is really in the Old Moon. But now it follows from this
that the Old Moon is actually present, has remained, and that it is
the angels on the Old Moon for they had no desire to distribute red
what one might call a prelude; it is an old folksong. And I have
secrets of art too gradually reveal themselves to us. They unfold as

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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with what we can call physical operations. On Old Saturn the first
spirits — regularly lay hold of them, one might
away from himself and to behold the world round about him and be
leave them that man in his thinking would look back to the old
admit Ahriman from the other side, so that he takes hold from the
a golden rule.
the sphere of the Old Moon which still endures. This gives us the
whole meaning of the separation of the Old Moon from the Sun-Earth
into his soul, is connected with the separation of the Old Moon from
fact that something separated itself, as Old Moon, from the

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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colder zones. The bodily nature and the forces working in the
instinctive knowledge possessed by the men of old. They knew
olden times men knew nothing about electricity or electric
of mechanics. But the men of old connected their picture
distinguish him from the Nature Spirits. What these men of old
was for the upholding of the teaching contained in the first
from physical, earthly things, man must behold the Divine in
In the days of the old dispensation the Earth was so powerful
‘new Jerusalem’. Only they would have said: We hold
the East, and to hold fast to him in the throes of this
told: He Whom thou seekest is not here. Seek for Him in the
the teachings of the old pagan wisdom into connection with the
Therefore, they preserved the mysteries of olden times in the
What I have told you here is not only the result of Spiritual

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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of laying hold on true reality and retaining it. The mystic pursuing this
beyond ordinary consciousness, hold that Anthroposophy disowns the true
Most exponents of the history of philosophy, especially of the older
entirely from the soil of Aristotelian logic. There was, in fact, a twofold
found easier at the end of the Middle Ages to have recourse to the old
approach this threefold difference, no genuine insight is possible, in this
threefold “I” is at hand; a pure “I” belonging to
the “I,” the threefold “I” becomes merged into one.
we enfold it in pure thought.

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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unfold a certain kind of effectiveness in your actions only if the impulses
life unfolds within a true art of education. Because of his talent! Which
sufficient understanding for the Threefold Social Order, so that on the
ourselves with this unfolding being of the child, then out of this
teaching to begin with, let us say, the six or seven year old children in a
eight and nine-year-old children what I could learn only in this way. At
do not merely behold redness but when we grow into it, how we spread our

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unfold in quite different ways. We must distinguish accurately between the
forces that are unfolding down from the spiritual world, from the time
the non-physical in the air of music, that unfolds its true effect only
the other side of the threshold, men here are actually like savages; only
beyond the threshold are men really men. We only work our way out of our
when this lives itself into the etheric body and thereby takes hold of the
this happen too quickly. We hold a protective hand over the child at all

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to seize hold of the nerves deep within our organism those nerves in which
about when the speech process unfolds from within. But it comes about in a
cold, let us recall how he brings the perception of colour and the
in the child before the seventh year, as I told you previously. From this
the former imprinting of soul in the body, that is, we have to take hold,

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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and cosmic-musical forces. This interplay unfolds of course in the most
above. Such processes take place in infinitely manifold ways in man
hands, the manner of holding his head, were the features that called on us
again to sit still, to be quiet; told him: calm, calm, calm, please, and

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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are not just any old forces got from we do not know where, but are the same
were to come when human beings completely lost hold of their youth, and
physiological sense until we understand it. — I told you
organism. And when I told you today that memory is the same force that
“Threefold Social Organism”

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outlines some things about the Jesus of Nazareth shall be told, in order to
but we were endowed with quite different abilities than we have today; old
this child. In the Indian legend we are told that an old sage came to the
Buddha. The old man burst into tears because he was not allowed to
was reborn and was again an old man when Jesus was young, namely the Simeon
the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple. It was inexplicable to his parents
the Bethlehemite Jesus was already an old man when the Jesus was born. He

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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years old. In him we meet the high solar entity, the Christ entity. We are
principle of the physical body that holds the etheric body
As a third current the old Hebrew current
it, what the old Hebrew spiritual current was? We want to see how we have
the most manifold circumstances and currents must now flow

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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as a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market. Yet it would be
times that essentially replaced the old pictorial element with what is
something like this? Because in our time the endeavor has to take hold
emerging materialistic naturalism of recent times that has taken hold of
manner human beings of older epochs possessed —
as Faust's instruction to a sixteen-year-old girl.
what is appropriate for the sixteen-year-old Gretchen, than what is not
appropriate for a sixteen-year-old Gretchen, but for mature human beings.

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Lessing [Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781]
did not exist in those older times. The human being beheld
the world, was not necessary in older times.
psycho-spiritual hold each other in balance. The spiritual was
culture of ancient Greece in which humanity holds the balance
life unfolded within a narrow circle. In viewing his life, how
the old, but in a new sense. There was not much trace of
scientific terms, what is much older than all the creatures
which Raphael lived, to the gold-gleaming sunrise. There, even
the sun. Then there arises for us, out of the golden lustre,
beholds the same sunrise seen by Raphael and that the natural
by the sun-gold there can arise for us — or it can at least
despite the conditions that prevailed around him, he holds
being, taking hold of this human soul in inner battles. Hence,
belonging to the “golden” pronouncements of
excavated not only in that it was fetched from old manuscripts,
There we see the old
Thus, spiritual science points to a further life in a two-fold

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in Milan, in that old Dominican church of
self-portrait in Turin, we see a portrait of the old
comparing it with the oldest engravings, the oldest
anecdote is told from this period, that Leonardo was to paint a
year 1499; soldiers shot at the model as though for target
Supper.” He often went there, sat on the scaffold and
remained from older times. It was not then a matter of the
belongs to the inherent laws of evolution that the old
able to blossom, had the old clairvoyance remained. This older
scientifically. Only by virtue of the loss of the old spiritual
to appear in an age in which the old way of conceiving things
take hold of the entire feeling life of human beings and become
the old man in whose countenance so much is engraved of painful

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“Old fairy tales that are an expression of the
nature of fairy tales, I would have to hold many lectures.
years, or whether in having grown old.
such spiritual processes unfolding in the soul's depths surface
as a hindrance, holding it back morally. Other moral
having developed out of older forms of human consciousness.
into gold and is requested to have her come to the castle, so
you give me, if I spin the straw into gold for you?” The
thereupon spins the straw into gold for her. The king is quite
gold once again. The miller's daughter is again locked in a
straw to gold for you?” She gives him a little ring, and
the straw is once more spun into gold by the little man. But
the miller's daughter who cannot spin straw into gold, but
old Sun. If spiritual scientific investigation
day, in order to catch fish. And behold, the man who actually
suffice for the plant to grow and unfold itself. For
Grimm collected in the form told them by relatives and
are even older than the heroic sagas. Heroic sagas after
terms, but as corresponds to depictions of the manifold battles
However, the man told him: “I simply had the bears jump
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child. Seizing the object, she holds it to her eye and, her
take hold of it and press it lovingly to their hearts. They

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sagas and fairy tales told them by simple folk, that were
nine-year old boy, and not merely via book-learning.
the nineteenth century, he was able to hold his famous Goethe
getting hold of it as a young person, and able to find the
oldest times to which he wished to return, up to his own
to say, an “older” class of beings wandering on the
has an older and a younger class of humanity play into one
— as a continual supplanting of older cultural cycles by
newer ones and an interplay of older cycles with newer
something new into the general development of humanity. The old
particularly in the oldest periods. Even someone like
everywhere at how the manifold Christ impulse makes itself
courage and boldness are required to a greater extent than in
impressions then become bold, powerful ideas — and what
then stands before us with such boldness that we are sometimes
boldly started out from the view that every other book he had
title, status and rank. Deriving from an old lineage, an
which the world of old prejudices and rankings encounters the
America. In addition, there is the contrast of the old Prussian
spiritual research. We see a karmic destiny unfold; we see
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We cannot understand the old oriental
back to the oldest form of imperialism, we find it based on the king
empires. That already began in the old Roman Empire during
others and make them their subjects, just as it was in older times
a spiritual empire. Precisely because everything old has now become
by the old words the empty platitude lives, in which there is no
which has nothing of the old in it, can find room. The old must first

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factors in social life, are now merely leftovers from older times as
far as reality is concerned. In olden times institutions and customs
the old realities had not transformed themselves into platitudes,
want to hold on to the old realities, even when they have become
the traditions they have preserved from olden times and of which they
untruth, but proof for the necessity of the threefold society.
You see, to want the threefold society means

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in the historical evolution of mankind. We find that in the oldest
heavenly facts and personalities, then one can hold the opinion that
predicate to a subject. In the oldest forms of human expression this
citizens who are bound by it.” So the state unfolds a will! One
traditionally preserve the old forms, the slogan
took what still remained from older times and poured it into the new.
development. Whereas during the oldest, the first stage the Church
brought up a child until he is eighteen years old and I say: I have
older, and he will also die, as does everything in the course of
actually gain a foothold.
social order is tripartite, threefold: The economy is auto-
which is, however, nothing more than a play on words of the old
are the verbal representatives of the old concepts that stagger
threefold nature. It is just those whose favorable economic position
necessary — humanity lives today from reserves, from old
about the Threefold Society, he talked against us, or rather against

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told Goethe. Goethe said he understood how a certain
imagery. Let's hold on to this firmly: outwardly there's the

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unfolds out of the functioning of his organs, and how an animal
sense life unfolds — as I have indicated years ago how it is
lives as a feeling, a feeling I have towards warm or cold

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unfolds it as philosophy, he can evermore be measured and
we see how the threefold nature of the philosophic world view
unfolded. By our tracing how the threefold philosophic world
Soloviev speaks like the old priest who lived in higher worlds
that of olden times. The progress in the 19th

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something. I asked: “How old is the child?” The

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must speak about the threefold divisions of the social organism
involvement in economic life — in the old sense; under the
should be judged according to whether they fit into old party
these old cultures, that factual thinking, in the sense as it
conditions of olden times; all this would be good to be seen
apply a modern expression to olden times — lived in relation to
one another during ancient Greece, old Egypt and right over to
practitioners with their old practices which had become a
the old class system will not be recalled. It won't be people
forces in history's unfolding, which are separate from the
older, into which new impulses must flow, of which the
threefoldness also work towards unity.

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working scientifically. This then holds true for all
research methods in the supersensible world, will be told and
needs — they were never told anything other than what
spirit of the Old Testament has particularly and successfully
done totally in the spirit of the Old Testament; in a certain
everywhere in religious imagination — not only in the Old
begun on earth, a time about which all the old religious

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means that through a person speaking, something is unfolding
In olden times people lived in their dream-like imaginations in
consciousness lies over speech. Old dreamlike imaginations
dreamlike manner in olden times when the word
understand the content of older words. We must realise that
This experience does not underlie the older revelations of the
I-concept. In these olden times a person felt his own I as
differs from Old High German as the latter refers to
observation how the soul unfolds when it is given over to the
to really behold and earnestly study the results, when it comes

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Deep, night-enveloped, cold darkness;
Deep, night-enveloped, cold darkness;
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
yawns before us and from which the Messenger holds us back less
acquired an awareness of the Guardian of the Threshold's
the earnest Guardian of the Threshold to the spiritual world.
Behold
Behold
Behold
Behold
Behold
Behold
Guardian of the Threshold characterizes the first beast, which
alongside the Guardian of the Threshold for today's humanity.
And the Guardian of the Threshold makes it quite clear to the
Threshold in a similar way. It emerges alongside the other
the Guardian of the Threshold characterizes the third beast,
Guardian of the Threshold's warning, we encounter the yawning
steps of prejudice are threefold and will cast us into the
of the experiences with the Guardian of the Threshold.
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Cold, night-enveloped darkness.
Behold, I am the only gate of knowledge.
obtain on this side of the threshold of spiritual existence,
Behold the first beast, the crooked back
time that cowardice is what holds back most people from even
Behold
Behold
such heavy baggage. For everyone who keeps to the old humdrum
what will be unfolded in our souls from lesson to lesson in
Behold
is true, and esoteric knowledge must hold to the truth.
That is the meaning of the Guardian of the Threshold's words.
of the Threshold speaks about this beast as I have just
these words from the Guardian of the Threshold's mouth resound
Guardian of the Threshold and into the spiritual world.

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feel on the threshold of the spiritual world as he strides past
the sense world to unfold his will, when he proceeds from
threshold of the spiritual world. That is the very first
side of the threshold is the spiritual world.
the Threshold's words are heard, as we learned last time - with
physical body. You are a threefold human being: a thinking,
threshold of the spiritual world it seems to him that his
really something which comes very close to the threshold of the
you have become 50 years old, then you have gone back in time
the threshold of the spiritual world. The physical body ceases
holding you together. One no longer feels within the confines
Behold
second beast appears on the threshold:
Behold
Behold
this threefold splitting in which one's thinking goes its way,
the Guardian of the Threshold says to the adept. We heard them
grasp this threefold element within us, that we firmly direct
the threshold into the spiritual world, if only in our
the verse should also be threefold which should flow into us in
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Guardian of the Threshold. And we must understand this meeting
with the Guardian of the Threshold is the first thing one
meeting with the Guardian of the Threshold, because the
spiritual world is on the other side of this threshold. So when
Behold, when I talk to you the words I speak are not human
Your memory. And I will be satisfied if you do not hold in your
in order that the esoteric not remain a cold, icy field, which
willing. Within ourselves, our corporeal “I” holds
threefold gaze our relationship to the world is determined. I
come before the Guardian of the Threshold. Living
Guardian of the Threshold shows you the third beast of which we

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encounters the Guardian of the Threshold. And whether he or she
Threshold's domain. Especially in the last lesson here, it
Feeling shows itself to be related to the forces which hold man
the Guardian of the Threshold, this Guardian draws his
threshold itself. And our being able to perceive the threshold
with an object that is colder than our body, a cold knitting
needle for example, we feel the cold places that have been
other. We are very sensitive to the cold. If we touch our skin
difference so clearly. We can hold two cold knitting needles
very close to each other and feel the coldness of both. If we
hold two warmed needles, the close contacts flow together at
one point, and we must hold them quite far apart in order to
cold than to warmth. Why? We endure warmth much better then
cold because we are creatures of warmth, because warmth is our
own nature and we live and act in it. Cold is foreign to us and
brings him near to the Guardian of the Threshold, he becomes
are beings of air, that what we hold within us we let out
cold.
the thoughts which we hold within us, which we capture, is
Threshold he admonishes us in the following way:
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be learned from the Guardian of the Threshold. And the
Just think how much you directly feel warmth and cold to be
part of you. The difference between warm and cold affects you
directly than warmth. Whether it is warm or cold, man feels it
is cold, he is cold. When we walk into fog, for example, the
the days when the old instinctive consciousness prevailed,
stream, holding the breath, and breathing out act, in a more
Read how the old instinctive clairvoyants described the
With forces of your will unfolding
such exhortations by the Guardian of the Threshold, my dear
by the Guardian of the Threshold:
With forces of your will unfolding;
Threshold:
about this that the Guardian of the Threshold admonishes:
As coldly hardened stone
as coldly hardened stone.” But when one consciously
your selfhood's death by cold
Threshold directs to those who come to the threshold by showing
That is also what the Guardian of the Threshold calls out to
in plant-like lameness; then the desire to oppose the coldness
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been primarily concerned with what can be told about the
encounter with the Guardian of the Threshold, the encounter
of the Threshold has been successful until one has experienced
the Guardian of the Threshold extracts his true human essence -
the mantric verses. And then from beyond the threshold he can
behold his own sensory physical being.
dear friends, when the Guardian of the Threshold can say to the
Threshold - that the person is called upon, now that he is on
from the lips of the Guardian of the Threshold in the following
Guardian of the Threshold is indicating here how the Three -
head, heart and limbs, and the Guardian of the Threshold says:
Therefore, pause again - the Guardian of the Threshold says -
Guardian of the Threshold. This is one of the ways by which one
can take the first step beyond the threshold.
threshold everything is different from the sensory world. In
cross over the Threshold and encounter the Guardian it is the
Therefore, once we have crossed beyond the threshold, the
man perceives as warmth and cold, as rough and smooth, smells
on seeing the head from the other side of the threshold one
The senses' manifold heavenly weave.
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lesson today to be a kind of preparation. I will hold a second
consciousness which moves us on to what we call the threshold
to the spiritual world. This threshold, which lies immediately
Then we must know: at this threshold stands a spiritual figure
called the Guardian of the Threshold. This Guardian takes care
- beneficially to man - that one does not cross the threshold
healthy human understanding of what he has been told, for both
the Threshold to reach out with a helping hand and allow him to
look over the abyss. There, beyond the threshold where the
by the physical body, now becomes threefold. And we learn to
feel this threefold nature above all when we observe
thinking, feeling, willing] becomes threefold.

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hold the soul separate from the body, we need to inwardly
the planets, what we can experience in the forces which hold us
Therefore, the admonition at the threshold to the spiritual
spirit-world, then we are beyond the threshold to the spiritual
Then, however, once we are beyond the threshold to the
holds thinking, feeling and willing together through its own
but threefold. Then it is as though by binding ourselves to the
the threshold: my thinking rests in the resting stars; my
other side of the threshold, they are divided so that thinking

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or if you really want to be affected by it, in reality. Behold
the planets, behold the stars, fill yourselves with the
it becomes a plenitude of imaginations. You know the old
see virtually from behind, as Moses was told that he always had

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Much old karmic residue may exist to be worked out which
often been described as the threefold human nature: the
intensively and intimately keep this threefold man in
But in that man is a threefold being, he speaks and acts
through what holds him together: his I — through all
the blackboard]: What unfolds without as the shining element
the threefold verse: objective murmur through our body in the
Each of these verses must be felt as being threefold in
Again the threefold verse:

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threshold; that the Guardian of the Threshold stands at the
threshold, the Guardian who protects the person in normal
other side of the threshold standing before the Guardian in the
Behold your senses' shining radiance.
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
First we had “Behold your senses' shining radiance.” This
“Behold your senses' shining
admonishes us: “Behold the forces working in your
After the Guardian of the Threshold has thus spoken, the being from
Behold the imagery of remembrance.
below speech, in the memory images: “Behold” the
Thus have we listened with quiet souls to the threefold
Threshold, and then to the beings who belong to us from the
Behold your senses' shining radiance.
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
Behold the imagery of remembrance.
Behold your senses' shining radiance.
Behold the forces working in your
Behold the imagery of remembrance.
We call this image to mind and hold it there: the eye
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us, so to speak, and therewith the Guardian of the Threshold
Threshold again admonishes us to be attentive to the beings
Behold your senses' shining radiance.
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
Behold the imagery of remembrance.
Guardian of the Threshold speaking to us, the ranks of the
of the Threshold tells us to listen to the Thrones speaking
Then Guardian of the threshold:
Behold your fiery instinctual drives.
Therefore, the Guardian of the Threshold admonishes us
Behold the soul-guide of your conscience.
Behold the field of will.
Guardian of the Threshold admonishes us:
Behold your fiery instinctual drives.
Then the Guardian of the Threshold continues:
Behold conscience's soul-guidance.
Then the Guardian of the Threshold speaks:
Behold your destiny's spiritual trial
Universal heat; and feel in this threefold
III. Behold the field of will.
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Guardian of the Threshold and have led our souls step by step
to see what our relation is to the Guardian of the Threshold
Guardian of the Threshold is the one who protects us from
The Guardian of the Threshold also makes it clear to us that he
— the Guardian of the Threshold — is the true,
But the Guardian of the Threshold calls forth to him how to
Then the Guardian of the Threshold shows us how thinking, feeling
It is again the task of the Guardian of the Threshold to strongly
may lose the everyday capacity for understanding, which holds
Here on this side of the threshold we are standing on the earth,
The Guardian of the Threshold calls out to us, we should turn
He stands on the other side. The Guardian of the Threshold
is on the other side of the threshold, where one lives within
The Guardian of the Threshold must call out to him: You may not
world, from beyond the threshold, one becomes an unstable,
And the Guardian of the Threshold urgently admonishes us that
But the Guardian of the Threshold adds a second admonishment:
side of the threshold because of having the earth's support,
and cross the threshold in a materialistic state of mind,
threshold — in many leading personalities at the
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maturity. The Guardian of the Threshold is there to warn us
It is the Guardian of the Threshold himself who
of the Threshold who first admonishes us to look back at our
of the Guardian of the Threshold's admonishment, whose words
water-element. The Guardian of the Threshold's admonishment
through the active fire in us, the Guardian of the Threshold
answer forms in us to what the Guardian of the Threshold is
utter darkness. The Guardian of the Threshold is at the
each question a threefold answer comes from us: Christ's
self-unfoldment.
strongly feel ourselves on the other side of this threshold
of the abyss, the warning Guardian of the Threshold at our
will hold to the orientation which makes it possible to make
darkness on the other side of the threshold in the spiritual
Guardian of the Threshold speaks to us. The words resound
threefold teaching about the Guardian of the Threshold's
unfolding, a being from the hierarchy of the Archai perceives
Threshold raises his questions. The beings of the first
Thus we feel integrated in that threefold
unfold the spirit in us, our own spirit, in which they live
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existence, the threshold to the spiritual world, appears
The Guardian of the Threshold is the first
Threshold protects us from entering immaturely. But now as we
Threshold asks what becomes of the earth's solidity.
— answers when the Guardian of the Threshold asks us
situation. The Guardian of the Threshold poses the testing,
of the Threshold together with the hierarchies, which bring
the warmth element. We ourselves are what is warm or cold in
Therefore, when the Guardian of the Threshold
the Guardian of the Threshold's warning reminders, the
situation: the speaking Guardian of the Threshold — his
moving toward the Guardian of the Threshold. We had only seen
Guardian of the Threshold seeking help. It is a unique
felt; in this felt light the Guardian of the Threshold,
conversation with the Guardian of the Threshold in weaving,
the Threshold says in confidence: “Has your spirit
Threshold and the hierarchies, the soul answers the

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the Threshold stands, appeared before our souls. We heard the
teachings the Guardian gives to those who cross the threshold. We
threshold at first feels himself to be within light, and
The human being beyond the threshold of existence, where the
of the Threshold, the Guardian now indicates (we will hear the
Threshold's pupil finds himself when he is called to
it only beyond the threshold of existence, once we have heard the
Guardian of the Threshold's various admonitions.
spirit-world. We now hear from them what we see when we behold
And it is as though the Guardian of the Threshold were touching
When the Guardian of the Threshold — if we may express with

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to the Guardian of the Threshold, to the abyss of being. We have
progressed to where the Guardian of the Threshold instructs us so
Threshold, who stands at the abyss of being. He doesn't speak
person from olden times. When he was not working, and was resting

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Guardian of the Threshold into what is at first a dark,
must listen to the Guardian of the Threshold's question:
Threshold's question posed from the distance – we
of the Threshold asks from afar is indicated:
the Threshold, which led us to self-knowledge, and through
threefold “It is I” streams from the heart,
Cherubim, Thrones. Even the Guardian of the Threshold only
folder and two notebooks – have been simply left
lying around. The folder with the typewritten verses was
copied what I told you yesterday. Another notebook was left

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Guardian of the Threshold. For between the sun-radiating
Threshold stands before us on this side of the abyss. We call
of the Threshold protects us — therefore he is the
Guardian of the Threshold — protects us against crossing
darkness every night. He guards the threshold so that the human
That is what the Guardian of the Threshold reveals to our
Deep, night-cloaked, cold darkness;
That is the Guardian of the Threshold's first admonishment, the
Guardian of the Threshold continues:
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
Deep, night-cloaked, cold darkness;
(the Guardian of the Threshold) who alone
Behold, I am the only gate to knowledge.
Guardian of the Threshold himself. The same words: two
Threshold made us aware of how our Self, before being
in its threefold character of willing, feeling and thinking. We
Behold the first beast, the crooked back,
Behold the second beast, it bares
Behold the third beast, with cloven muzzle,

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and feeling, the figure of the Guardian of the Threshold
Behold the first beast, the crooked back,
Behold the second beast, it bares its teeth,
Behold the third beast, with cloven muzzle,
Behold the first beast, the crooked back,
Behold the second beast, it bares its teeth,
Behold the third beast, with cloven muzzle,
Threshold at the yawning abyss of being tells us, whose words
the Threshold tells us privately, in intimacy.
itself to half a being; there cosmic forces hold us, which are
meditation verses from the Guardian of the Threshold on behalf

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knowledge has led us to the Guardian of the Threshold. Once the
Guardian of the Threshold, at the edge of the abyss of being,
us by the Guardian of the Threshold; after the Guardian of the
Threshold has placed this shattering view before our souls, he
These were the Guardian of the Threshold's words at the edge of
in it. There the Guardian of the Threshold says these mantric
Guardian of the Threshold has spoken a mantric verse to us, of
After the Guardian of the Threshold has presented this to our
must carry this out, as the Guardian of the Threshold indicates
Thus, speaks the Guardian of the Threshold to our willing on
respect to feeling, the Guardian of the Threshold, at the
And when the Guardian of the Threshold wants to
Again, the Guardian of the Threshold speaks to us at the
Threshold, on behalf of Michael, points us there and he tells
Guardian of the Threshold's admonition.
The warmth does battle with the cold
You can, if cold does harden you,
feeling: between the loving warmth, between warm love and cold
hardness, the hardening cold. We must find the path between
of the Threshold admonishes us:
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of the Threshold, how — after the seeker of knowledge has
the Threshold.
we have already heard what the Guardian of the Threshold speaks
streams into our humanity. The Guardian of the Threshold thinks
warmth of soul and the coldness of soul.
on the other side are the powers of cold, the coldness of soul
lose our Selves in the cold. We must find the equilibrium
the ahrimanic powers wish to seduce us with coldness. We must
use our will forces in the cosmos. We must hold our Self erect,
Guardian of the Threshold exhorts us at this point to maintain
equilibrium between warmth and cold, in equilibrium between
warmth and cold, and for equilibrium between life and death.
have become bolder in confidence that through the Guardian's
The warmth does battle with the cold
You can, if cold does harden you,
You find, holding on to life,
The warmth does battle with the cold
You can, if cold does harden you,
You find, holding on to life,
the Threshold at the yawning abyss of being. Next the Guardian
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Guardian at the abyss of being. The Guardian of the Threshold
Then we reached the Guardian of the Threshold. He showed us
when the Guardian of the Threshold awakens the forces which
Then the Guardian of the Threshold raised us, first showing us,
Guardian of the Threshold also reminds us that in order to
warmth and cold with our feeling, and how we can vanish in the
warmth, and on the other hand harden in the cold.
Guardian of the Threshold indicates to us how we should walk in
the middle between soul-warmth and soul-cold on the
Christ-path. The Guardian of the Threshold indicates to us that
Guardian of the Threshold, before whom we stand as the earnest
prescribed for every esotericist in golden letters — he
must only seize the gold — which the Guardian of the
Threshold now repeats to us.
night-cloaked, cold darkness. Out of it warmth must come to us,
the Guardian of the Threshold, who now says:
Guardian of the Threshold therefore teaches us about thinking
With forces of your will unfolding;
we need. That is the Guardian of the Threshold's urgently
elements from the Guardian of the Threshold.
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must find the way past the Guardian of the Threshold, who has
told us so much about the meaning of the spiritual world, over
abyss of being, past the Guardian of the Threshold, in that
humanity as it unfolds between birth and death in the physical
Threshold had revealed them to be illusory. They are bright and
stand beside the Guardian of the Threshold. The abyss of being
threshold — is the black, night-cloaked gloom; but from
and the Guardian of the Threshold points to it with an
is a powerful picture which the Guardian of the Threshold
the threshold; our will becomes fire; our feeling becomes
so that it holds the Three together when we cross over. We can
the Guardian of the Threshold's side he points over to the
we hear, resounding, what the Guardian of the Threshold has to
Behold
Behold the Three,
The Guardian of the Threshold makes the other sign:
the Guardian of the Threshold strengthens it again:
Threshold's admonition. In this situation, as we are preparing
interweaving reality in wisdom. The Guardian of the Threshold's
next thing the Guardian of the Threshold points to is the
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Guardian of the Threshold giving the last admonitions before
Threshold spoke the weighty, moving words:
meaningful words spoken by the Guardian of the Threshold on
the yawning abyss of being. The Guardian of the Threshold
admonitions — the Guardian of the Threshold says — I let it
Guardian of the Threshold has shown, by the three beasts, what
now the Guardian of the Threshold points directly back there to
Therefore the Guardian of the Threshold directs us to look at
the Guardian of the Threshold now says: Look into this head. It
Guardian of the Threshold admonishes us to be very aware of
now we look back from the other side of the threshold at how
Therefore, we must be strong, the Guardian of the Threshold
Therefore, the first words the Guardian of the Threshold speaks
after he has let us cross the threshold, and after he has
then the Guardian of the Threshold adds - and one must strain
unfold, with this picture as the marker for the gradual
secondly, the Guardian of the Threshold points with a stronger
feeling enfold in numerous dream-pictures during the day. We
to be on the other side of the threshold, on the other side of
Guardian of the Threshold indicates to us that we should look
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thought, a certain stream of thought has taken hold of these
example expressed in the handwork or other crafts of olden
for fulfilment, wants to unfold its entire circumference. The
lives were not brought out of old instincts as radically and
longer wanted to uphold a living relationship with the actual
see how old instincts within this proletarian movement were
more during the gradual evolution of the old serfdom of bodily
this idea that labour is sold to the employee just like goods,
olden times, there were slaves. An entire person was sold as
goods. In serfdom, a little less of a person was sold, but
is in fact threefold.
the same way, the social organism is threefold. Today the

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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research science has claimed, to characterise this threefold
this threefold head-, circulation-, (or chest system) and
must be a natural threefold organism.
instinctive knowledge of the necessity for a threefoldness in
old constitutional state it could be called the actual life of
to develop the right relationship to the threefold social order
clear, it will be recognised as necessarily a threefold social
freedom. Now suddenly the three golden ideals gain their real
according to laws within the threefold organism in which each
law. I found with those to whom I've explained this threefold
which we have been driven?’ — I told you the day before
these wars to their causes and their unfolding in relation to
independent state with threefold representatives working
threefoldness enters the social organism. The desire of the

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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be found just like economic- and community building in the old
only unfold when the driving forces of all ethical religious
a rule they don't hold water. One soon finds out these things
threefold way and that the three individual members work
unfolding of the physical and spiritual arrangement of the
swear words of an old Roman writer. Such things really exist as
be interesting to write about swear words of some old writer. I
the subject of parenthesis used by an old Greek writer.
it can only uphold its self-contained content when this
goods are brought to the market and sold. There are owners of
held up, how has it wanted to hold since more than half a
Genesis of this terrible war, which is no war in the old sense

Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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consciously from the old instinctive social life to the modern
entire thinking and feeling unfolded in such a way that it was
engulfed by one of the others but that they unfold freely
can unfold as we have seen in the example of the human
unfold its relative processes by itself, when, as it happens in
unfold in relative independence. Whatever arises out of this
unfolding and is being limited, becomes changed by an adjacent
That holds no truth, it is hidden through social relation means
lectures towards the foundation of the Threefoldness of the
modern life, to a higher degree than it had been in olden times
meaning of the renewal of the old platonic idea of dividing the
state.’ No, this is no renewal of old platonic ideas but is in
becomes excluded. However, my presentation of the threefold
This fanaticism gets a hold on people if they don't gradually
have been representing the Threefoldness, when across the
Threefoldness.
divisible anyhow. They could only unfold in a healthy way, if
they worked within one of the state formed three-fold social
the influence of the social Threefoldness. One could then say:
the influence of a Threefoldness. Such alliance training which
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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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mutual harmony in their reciprocal relationships to unfold what
uniform abstract formulation, should be seen in a threefold
old will impulses active in the social movement, but with new
such a way out of the old spiritual impulses, but that this
spiritual power which the old-world view had. The old-world
scientific way of thinking. The old-world view was capable of
is no less of a historical disaster, the old-world view
clearly continued in the old crafts up to the 13th
old classes didn't need to apply this scientific way of
of olden times. The Proletarians were the only ones who were
life which was connected to the old outlook on life. They were,
follows, as it spread itself from olden times into the direct
their experiences out of the old connections of life which have
classifications according to the old ruling classes and this is
connected to representations of what old spiritual viewpoints
out of an old viewpoint of life, from within middle-class
was called out of the old relationship to the machine and
unfold itself properly, calls for the ability to always develop
again, so that it can unfold its own supporting power and then
found the stronghold of their rights in this state.
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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is more than half a century old. However, what has actually led
up to the social question is much, much older; it has come out
civilization in the old patriarch conditions could not progress
Berlin, where Wilhelm Liebknecht, the dear old
enormous, an all-encompassing white lie, because labour is sold
and according to their being this can never be sold.
olden times. Here the entire person was goods. Today what has
another but that they unfold side by side, and as a result
in a healthy social organism such a three-foldness should take
really lie, there you have the old merging which certainly had
career circles the manifold cooperatives — one could name
them with the old word of ‘brotherhood’ — need to be
spiritual life: everything which involves the unfolding and
from the foundation of their old craft, where they grew with
must be taken according to this social three-foldness, this
three-foldness of the social organism. — As much as these
the three-foldness steps in.
it came from the old Liebknecht, the labour school was founded
old Liebknecht with founding an arbitrary educational
they could bring about and these old thoughts are the proof
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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spoken of in the old Pythagorean Schools was no mere figure of speech,
it unfolds in outer happenings. He saw in Beethoven the artist who was
say, science is already beginning to speak of old Atlantis. An article
In old Atlantis, the atmosphere was quite different from the
Atlanteans. The old Germanic peoples looked back to the ages when
flowed out of the mists of old Atlantis. In those ancient times wisdom
of egoism was entirely absent. Now the age-old symbol of a wisdom that
is common to all is gold. This gold was brought over from
Nifelheim. What became of the gold? It became a possession of the
the old universal wisdom and they now forged the Ring which
world of phantasy and imagination. Gold represents the remaining
And now think once again of old Atlantis. — Clouds and mists,
And now let us consider the time of transition from the old phase of
realisation on his part. — The old Atlanteans were possessed
think of the beginning of the Rhinegold. Is not the coming of
spirit emerges from the old. Two ‘Spirits of an Age’ confront one
But later on, a different principle began to hold sway — the
The pupils of the Grail were told of a state to which man would attain

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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man could unfold higher faculties of knowledge and that by these means
age when very much of the old Initiation-wisdom was still living in
But then we find that from the fifth century A.D. onwards, this old
were immediate pupils of the older Initiates. The wisdom might only be
could still have been discovered by means of the old
a forgery. In this document it was said: Behold the godless Hellenes!
the School which not only set out to exterminate the old principle of
Newer geological strata always overlay those that are older and the
through these layers and so rediscover that old wisdom which was swept

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every molded form, was something that responded, that spoke
and will with these forms — which were molded so
religious renewal that can lay hold upon many human souls in
our time as they desire to be laid hold of but cannot be within
rich in pictures, full of significance and manifold in meaning,
dreaming so beautifully and splendidly and with such manifold
reading together of Anthroposophy — is a threshold we
somewhat further. This awaking is an awaking in unfolding and
constitutes its own proof, that Spirits hold a spiritual
then are we actually engaged in laying hold of the spiritual.
that it shall be laid hold upon by a true understanding of
the Society — would be to leave the old Anthroposophical
The result would be that we should have the old
consist in tong glued together no matter whether the old is
that which constitutes the continuation of the old

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the world leads one to take hold of life in a truer way than
constitute, by the side of the old Anthroposophical Society, a
which older members feel they must keep in their bookcases. But
taken hold of in the right way, and, most of all, that this
great number of persons when it is molded into a different
external unfolding of Anthroposophy to become intimately united
through the continuance of the old Society and the founding of

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
that older evolutionary forces persist into later ages
the Old Moon evolution. Human beings were part of this as
floating into them during the Old Moon stage. So we must
Old Moon stage, then, human beings did not have this
able to think. The older form of thinking in images had
human beings had at the time of the Old Moon lost that
spirits that should only have influenced the old form of
someone else has told them, that it is quite impossible
to bring to realization what people are told is a
take firm hold of this earthly, mineral aspect of human
definition of history, like the historian Leopold von
does search through the old writings, and does not

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
bony European body has been such that in the end that old
say: Let us cast off the old tradition; we want to put
really all one had was the outer shell of the Word of old
those were the old times when the Mystery of Golgotha was
respects. It is necessary, however, that they take hold
time I was here I told you that vilification is rife not
Note 08 ] I told you about
be told that anyone learning something directly from the
age; it cannot hold true in Central Europe, and the

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
called to hold important offices, to be leaders within
hold today, ideas only three or four hundred years old as
older times and have lost their meaning in the present
years old. The ideas used by people nowadays to fill
trained to hold special office. Oddly enough things
begin to disagree about such things, old ideas are coming
be told: ‘The Kingdom of the gods cometh not with
observation… for, behold, it is within you. [
older awareness lost its substance and became empty and
that are happening. You can see that when people are told

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
— enable them to hold a position of authority in
hold more or less socialist views, and there are many of
holds the potential for getting rid of human civilization
want is to hold on to the old ideas. If we had some kind
some of the things I have told you. What is the essential
being told untruths, a state of mind where it is no
told lies by people who know that those lies will be
borrowing from that old tome, the Akashic records, for
Aristotelianism which holds the idea that souls are

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
also holds true for other things. Everything is connected
the idea of a threefold social order offends people
natural threefold order of the human organism, of the way
analogy in applying the threefold order of the human body
threefold by nature and so is the human organism. The
life in the threefold organism. The rhythmical system
the struggling threefold movement, the Association for a
Threefold Social Organism. This has not yet been able to
threefold order following that appeal — we will
for example. When our movement evolved out of older
familiar with the old theosophical practices joined our
all the time where one is told, for instance, that
approached, told the same story as the first. When it
absolute opposite of what the first had told me. I do not
Yet it happens that I am told about something
threefold order is a good thing; we must take it
much in accord with the threefold order; aren't I good!
that is a nucleus of threefoldness’. Licking your
sense of reality. The threefold idea is true to reality
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
course be taken hold of, whilst in the case of the
rainbow we could not take hold of anything. Yet although
can be had with the Guardian of the Threshold. They are
definition that takes hold of realities, in this case the
ideas to take hold of reality. We cannot do so whilst we
in meeting the Guardian of the Threshold. When we
encounter the Guardian of the Threshold and thus enter
conviction. He actually told how he had scrupulously
is difficult. This is a threshold truth. We do not get
uncomfortable threshold truth that it is mysticism which
spiritual science in the light of anthroposophy holds the
understand that human beings must hold the balance
in the middle, holding the balance. These things can be
Guardian of the Threshold. We must aim for a state of
produce their mysticism. That is the threshold truth, the
unpalatable threshold truth. Everything that is abstract
step boldly into reality, saying to himself: 'I will have
a true sense of life. The sense of life holds the balance
holding on to childishness in the right measure is a
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
through spiritual science. Our eyes behold the outside
vanished, disappeared. Human bodies hold the germ for a
of today, drawing a conclusion that may be bold but
threshold.) If we call this the threshold from the
the Threshold standing there, the quality we call
called childishness on the other side of the threshold.
are able to retain into ripe old age a quality of soul
true form from beyond the threshold. If however that
which apply when we go across the threshold to the
cross the threshold to the spiritual world we are no
of the Threshold, you can only hold to the essential
essential spirit. You can merely hold to a spirit of the
as we look beyond the threshold we find three essential
is of the essence beyond the threshold! We are always
in the spiritual world beyond the threshold. There is
word cannot yet be said, I want to hold back concerning
soldiers of a spiritual entity. The do not say this is
exist beyond the threshold.
the old faculty of tearing themselves away that lies in
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
that there Was a group that still wanted the old
told people: 'You will come to materiality if you follow
conquerors of all that this earth holds for you; you will
science to be transformed into a way of taking hold of
may hold whatever views he or she likes.
the old days the intention was to prevent humanity from
Entente due to the efforts of the Threefold Order people
me in an article headed ‘Threefold Order
had created a threefold order some time ago. (The lady
find out from the literature that my threefold order was
to a great many people about the threefold order in
threefold order and to have sent the manuscript to a
and took the threefold idea from that manuscript. Of
agreement between the threefold order I am presenting and
maintains that the threefold idea was plagiarized from
different! She has now written a work about her threefold
order. According to her this consists of the golden
with everything again determined by the golden section.
— exactly the same as postulated in the threefold
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
dreamless sleep. Dreams hold a middle position between
to hold in awareness. Some people already have an idea of
after death. Remember what I have told you about these
I think I can say, holds the balance between the two. On
Humboldt [ Note 65 ] for
evolve into the threefold social order. The idea of the
therefore be said that the idea of a threefold social
idea of the state developed by Humboldt, Schiller, Herder
for a threefold order of the social organism.
with our understanding of the threefold nature of the
grown old, and on the other hand to the West. It must
materialism holds the seed of a spirituality of the
East, on the other hand, the old spirituality is
senile old person. This human being still has no
something grown old, and has to be studied as something
historical that has grown old — something of no
only do so if we grasp the impulse for a threefold order
showed how the old oriental culture had grown completely
important however to consider the old geographical limits
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
— and I have often told you that the will is alseep. They work at
an unconscious level, taking hold of the unconscious human mind. The
perceived in the phenomena of nature in older times were luciferic by
ahrimanic world will take hold of the human will and human beings will
ways. The ahrimanic element is taking hold of people. The luciferic is
effective role; it is possible to have a state system in which the old
were told during that disastrous war? After all, during the 19th century
or rather years, taking hold of large numbers of people. You will be
walking unseen among human beings, and they will need to hold on to him
The old way of approaching
grow able to behold the Christ power that can become part of us and
their origin in old religious persuasions. You cannot use them to create

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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Steiner unfolds here the spiritual background to many social
hold of the whole human being; if we come to feel the
of holding. We must be able to ask ourselves in all
must take hold, with the whole of our being, of what to
Golden King as the king of wisdom, the Silver King as the
not enough, therefore, merely to interpret the Golden
mind and spirit (Golden King), the political element
the followers of the Golden King.
develop the icy coldness of modern ideas. Goethe kept his
competing with the old-established professorial chairs.
that Goethe presented in fairy-tale images of a Golden, a
and must become the threefold social order. You will
all the gold. If you take a good look at the world around
the gold? Then the whole form of the Mixed King, a form
about fairy-tale images of a Golden, a Silver, and a
like to cling to the old ways. Yet we are doing something
entirely new in really getting to grips with the Golden,
cannot do such a thing as licking the gold away from the
threefold order is often considered too polemical. You
because of this you ought to uphold those sharp words and
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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the Old Testament. There the name "I" is synonymous with the name of
four-foldness, the first member of which is the visible physical body,
it depends on how old man was when he died, that is, how long he lived

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
threefolding in the historical context of his time.
serious times, we did not hold outward festival, but
small scale. So the highest festival we can hold is to consider
that we may hold any view if it is agreeable to us, a belief
During the last few months I have often been told that what I
evolution, for by holding fast to this thought we can best
came to the point where, through transformation of older forms,
by a course for teachers which I ventured to hold. The
previous incarnation. To hold the theory, of repeated
evident as the foundation for a new pedagogy; the old times and
crossing of the Threshold.” It is described there by
the Threshold. In many ways the life-course of human evolution
This, the crossing of the Threshold, which a man must
through, this “crossing of the Threshold,” the
or spiritual life. This demand for the “Threefold
not imagine that what is to become effective as the Threefold
think that the necessity for the Threefold Order will only be
must impress upon ourselves that; the old era is done with and
into the new what has been dear to us in the old; we must begin
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
threefolding in the historical context of his time.
learn to hold — that the life here is a continuation of
their old age as only the young are nowadays. A child goes
outwardly less noticeable. In olden times this was not so; what
later stages of life. Nowadays old age sets in at seventeen or
be called an “old boy”!) who told us we needed
proved that old age no longer understands its own youth,”
been those of an old man; he had in fact enunciated as
abstractions. Old age, nowadays, means the limit up to which a
look back at our own schooldays evokes few pleasant thoughts.
We must manage to shape schooldays for the children of
decades we have heard repeated in socialist circles holding the
of The Threefold Commonwealth). This means that a view
civilized world in manifold forms. Looking at the West,
their own inner being, not to be bound by the old forms of
reality, but with those of an olden time. We have no idea what
fashion. I once had an old friend, sixty-four years of age; one
question. Instead of this he is told: “You need only
not be transplanted from the old life into the new — the

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on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
threefolding in the historical context of his time.
have told you how at the present epoch in the history of human
pass over the Threshold of the invisible world,” when
independent in the individual who passes the Threshold of the
thoughts and unfold ideas of the scientific, materialistic type
mentioned about the activity men must unfold in their
dwellings of souls, though now deserted by them. In olden days
understanding of what is included in our idea of the Threefold
the Threefold Commonwealth must be proclaimed in the external
what is given from the spiritual world to enable man to unfold
who now hold a position so different from their former one. In
when told the truth, but this shutting of the eyes to facts
present position. We must have the courage to lay hold of

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
threefolding in the historical context of his time.
AND THE THREEFOLD ORDER OF THE SOCIAL
least in Central and Eastern Europe, by the old ruling powers.
seemed to me the view we ought to hold about the social
not a trivial but a tremendous settling up with the old which
of the old order have proved itself much more effective than it
thousand fold, bringing to our lips the question: “What
actually to fitting the idea of the threefold organization into
of the threefold organism which we have to set up. If we
threefold social order.
of the old State built up of power and might. We can never have
threefold social organism of the future.
of the Threefold Organization, would aim particularly at
for Germany's spiritual life-treasure to be boldly displayed
Three fold Commonwealth, where I have shown how the
the threefold social organism we shall speak
towards the sixteen-year-old Gretchen. It is like the lessons
All-enfolding, the All-upholding, folds and upholds
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