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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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as, Geisteswissenschaft als Lebensgut. It is also known as, On Evil,
It is also known as,
usually thrown up, when one is at the start of striving for
down into a kingdom that is not their own human kingdom, but
reject the wise cosmic order, so that a human can plunge down
human being can plunge down, from which his wisdom is far
be from his/her own free choice, his/her wisdom.
one cannot say that the grasp of evil as such has shown any
the preparation of their own soul life, one would like to say,
from a spiritual and a material-bodily nature. By plunging down
down of the spirit into matter lies the very
soul must plunge down with its Ri into Ki in its experience,
one's own true being and its true worth.
evil and wickedness into an unknown world of wisdom.
God in his own inner being; and he now tried to make clear to
grasp its own self. This activity must, one would like to say,
a certain point create its own opposite on the surrounding
for it to create its own adversary. Now through taking part in
divine being set itself up against its own adversary, in order
that it is a beloved prejudice of our own time, to take our
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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of great danger, for example when a person is drowning or suddenly precipitates
is hanging down, it is loosened. In a hypnotized person this condition
is very dangerous, for his etheric brain is hanging down limply at both
its own movements and memory is more free than ever. Normally, the etheric

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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The physical world need not be described, for it is clearly known to everybody.
mirrored picture, upside down, or in the reverse order. In the astral
are their own passions which go out from them and appear as a reflected
and picture to ourselves a German town of that time. There everything
lock, each key had its own characteristic quality: everything had its
that surround man: namely his own thoughts. Just imagine the influence
forms. At first these will be transient realities surging up and down,
falls asleep and sees a reddish-brown shape rising up before him, with
pictures, of images. Do only images surge up and down? Is the astral

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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is known on Earth as feeling and sensation. There, the currents of pain
to his own body. He learns to compare his physical existence in a selfless

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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we can only now have a true knowledge of our own actions, for we experience
which does not become our own experience. Here we must apply this sentence:
of our own deeds, the feelings and moods which we experience, stream
its own accord in order to be incorporated with man's structure, but is
in human life. Man does not master his own body to the extent he thinks.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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to live for a time in an existence of its own and then it is absorbed by
physically in the next generation, we not only work our own benefit

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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body is in part man's own work, in so far as it is the result of former deeds,
do not accumulate of their own accord and become a house, so the animal
kingdom cannot change of its own accord. Everything that changes within

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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and was always known to occult investigation. It is important to bear
floods of water began to recede and Atlantis had gone down, rain and

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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earth-moon planet, for it does not turn around its own axis as does
upwards and the root downwards. the animals only made a right-angle turn,
the first-born of creation. He has thrown out animals, plants and minerals;

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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[of their own].
by what lives in the human being when he becomes clearly conscious of his 'I' and his own being. The
thinking right down to Plato — the impulse of eternity of an ancient world-view —
nature, for him, breaks down into subjective views
would rather take the whole of Kant's critique for a random game of ideas haphazardly thrown
full demand of the 'I'; letting it, however, sink down into the thinking, feeling and willing
that appears in all areas as a three-foldness that has evolved of its own accord. This science
wanted something for the building in Dornach, or some such thing — as has been shown
producing what does not already exist, but by forming out of his own inner strength that
can be deduced or, rather, which of its own will brings forth a great deal and presents this

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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everything that can foster this social living together. We have shown in the past,
down in the instincts of die West.
conceived contrary to the course of human evolution. And thus it could be shown, with regard to
State has absorbed the economy, because industry and commerce have submerged and bowed down under
radiate like an epidemic their own exceptional qualities onto other human beings. These three
which work down from the spiritual world and do not incarnate into human beings, are the enemies

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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their own interests incarnate into human beings in order to work against the true impulse of the
grown into what, embodied in the language, has streamed up to it there. For it lay in the nature
science, there remained, as an external appendage, leading an abstract existence of its own, what
down into the Banat; as Siebenbürger Saxons towards Transylvania. In all these places it is,
The human being of the Centre was thrown into all
exceptionally suited to the economic life. I have shown you how this scientific way of thinking
where the Germanic element is meant to be shown with its dualism, you see the
elements of this duality clashing against one another in the red-yellow and the black-brown
— the red-yellow of revelation and the black-brown of reason. You see there, felt in
out of its own roots. The anti-spirituality that has been organized in Central Europe in recent

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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instincts to such a degree that he can give himself up to them without their dragging him down,
to him. Anyone who, like myself, has seen how Goethe's own copy of Kant's
way. I have shown this in my first Mystery Drama
seriously what he became — it is well known that he was made a 'French citizen' by the
as the side of the scales that would sink far down and therefore has to work destructively. But
at school, something is given to us; something is sent down from the spiritual world. We take
economic life and thereby ward off its destruction. For the economic life, if it runs its own
have indicated this fact — that the economic life today continually works towards its own
the spirits of the West. This was the effect of preventing the will from coming into its own and
own deepest inherent peculiarities.' This is what
Spiritual Science. And now, in the town where the newspaper is published, Arthur Drews
nation it was deemed untrue. If it came from one's own nation it was true. This still echoes on
1. See Rudolf Steiner's own review (GA 51) of his lecture to the Vienna Goethe

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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there could be no contradiction. Jurisprudence was unknown in the mission here in the world of
to use concepts, dialectics, to decide what justice was, was quite unknown and alien to the
he constructed and made them, they nevertheless gradually take on a life of their own
gains a life of its own and that, despite the fact that he brought it forth from the intellect,
at its beginnings, it has at least been shown how, in certain areas of the sciences, knowledge
economic life — and that it may be shown how the downfall can be averted if a consciousness

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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but received the accounts, the traditions, and clothed these in the forms of their own
grasped Christ out of one's own inner being.
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
continued through authority, and were terrified of the Gospels becoming generally known among the
still exist. Human beings can still just about understand it. They set down this understanding in
grown-ups in its environment. Then came the principle of authority. And now the human being is
bogged down in economics. And yet they talk as if of a future perspective — as though the
makes known about the predestination of Czechoslovakia, because they have no idea of the

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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nineteenth century and our own time, the soul-constitution of humanity as a whole has undergone a
have taken universal hold, right down to the least educated classes. Certainly there are many who
the most perfect and lays down the view that man also derives his origin from this line of
we hear the demand that man should stand solely on the basis of his own being. This comes forward
being's own nature. Such a discrepancy in human experience would have been quite impossible in
more there weighs down upon the human being, half unconsciously, the feeling of his inherited
gathered strength during recent centuries and then came to a climax in our own day. The great
the limitations of natural science and directs his soul's gaze upon its own nature. He will have
known intellectually; he has no place in the social structure.
be a cosmic being. This feeling will weigh down on him. And when this is no longer mere theory
the conception of man as an earthly being. But precisely in our own day the human being is
We had to refer directly to attacks on our own
conscientiousness', he has never directed his mind to the fact that, as has been shown, nothing
of spiritual science! This man thereby prepares the ground in order to say, in his own way, that
which weighs down these days upon someone who sees through things. One feels it so often when one
inner pleasure-seeking, to bow down to tradition — and if people do not want to be aware
that, bowing down like this, they burden the day with a deep untruth — then people will not
means goblin, brownie or imp. Steiner plays on this here in connection with the name of

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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destroyed. I have shown that those processes which life brings forth in us
of consciousness must come from destructive processes. And I have shown
feelings and ideas. The children in turn did the same with their own
downward direction. Certainly the most earnest co-workers of Spiritual
have eminently what goes into decadence and downfall. Those who have a
order to see how it is ripe for downfall. Here on Earth you are made
bear that up into the spiritual world, you behold the downfall of the epoch

Title: Talk To Young People:
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this: “The emperor's enemy is the crown prince.” Certainly in every
than any in our own time. What was the result of that early 19th
modern civilization. They feel that the world has grown old. The
have grown into the various activities of the movement. However, what
with each other are downright unimportant; the essential thing is
enthusiasm. It comes down to this: we should not only learn to sit
down but we should learn to stand up. Nietzsche had an apt phrase for

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 dreams of this dreamer are transposed by them into their own
intuitions are no mere abstract things like our own thoughts, concepts
more densified. In our own age they still are extremely attenuated
down under his feeling of defeat. That is the idea. What its completion
our own, concerning the impulses of Spiritual Science. When we think

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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single rays of light can ever be thrown from the circuit of human
pronouncement: we will bring to mind what we have long known: i.e.,
perhaps even known what had taken place there. It might quite well
remained unknown to men, that no single person would have been able
own way to comprehend the Mystery of Golgotha. If we would find the
plays so great a role in the education of youth even up to our own
For much of what I have said is still fulfilling itself in our own
with what comes down from above as original life-without-knowledge.
physiognomy of Europe shows that up to our own day there is an
such new life has not been preserved in its own special character,
of affairs. That is what must be known regarding the primeval Bible

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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out how the after-effect is to be perceived right into our own times,
humanity's evolution with the knowledge-principle, brought down from
fact to be known from many occult perceptions. This is the fact that
described should dip down into both the etheric body and the physical
have shown in particular the share of Ahriman and Lucifer in our
life, have shown how Lucifer and Ahriman work together so that we may
been Shown as happening, had to happen; mankind had to be led in the
Jesus-Christ or Christ-Jesus as a unity in the way shown by Spiritual
Christ-Jesus. This, too, is what is to be shown in that carved work

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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downwards, so that with every thought we actually insert in us
definite inner activity, a working on our own
become known to us during meditating. Therefore we find in the Orient
. Man in his own evolution has taken his proper
produce the human form from his own inner experiencing; this is so in
had formerly worked from the cosmos and who could only be known from
rightly known — it is not yet rightly experienced,
it overcomes its own boundaries; all that forms walls really wants to
the end of all that has been handed down from old times to the
the spectacles of what they see directly in their own environment.
down what comes from the gods. But if one looks at the later Consuls
where the man's own development was in opposition to the divine, that
down, as it were, the instreaming of the divine into a sphere which
way. The continuance of the divine element in man was pressed down to
beings come down into matter, but could not conceive how the divine
known to men through the Mystery of Golgotha itself was still very
deceptive, whereas the ancient wisdom which was handed down to them
was handed down from the old time. We will consider just three of
these things which were thus handed down.

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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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
not merely through his own disposition, but because of his whole
own part what in that earlier time he did not share? What will be the
as the centre from which, as shown yesterday, we can receive the
also shown that Christology, that which the Christ really is, has
of law not entering human consciousness, all that lives down below,
of nothing but that down below where the fire of the lower desires
medium through his own desires and instincts succumbs to these
They look down with arrogance upon those people who have no
hides his own inner self. (Diagram II. Man) (Pg. 17)
and Christianized spiritual science, but that he had his own
historical development, and he had grown up within this region with
territories. Now if he simply goes ahead and represents in his own
his own behalf in the world, and he has the power of clothing in an
gives out is his own position. The ego of man #1 has not got it as
its own possession but takes it from the other as something objective
— since it is not his own personally
the arrangements, that which is actually pulsating in his own sense
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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world-conception. Thus it creeps about there down below the earth and
about down below and will call one thing a cause and another an
downwards; that causes alterations in the roots. With the further
about what the worm actually observes down there below; it is clear,
the cause of all he has puzzled out down below is, as a matter of
space and time, as the worm dwells down there in its earth. Space and
our own person unites itself with something which is outside the
light-rays shine on the object and are thrown back to us. Were the
deeply with one's own soul into natural existence, can feel with
in the first line we are shown at once that we are concerned with
illusion we now ascribe our feelings to ourselves as I have shown,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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but observes the perceptions it has in its own inner being. This
own bodies, do not notice the outer world, but have a dreamy
meeting between our own etheric activity, life activity, and that of
‘I do this or that not for my own sake, but in the
shown — that outside the contesting that surrounds
sense, the etheric of his own being and the etheric of the
where such things must be known.
works down into the etheric body. Now, one can observe: if this is a
body they then stream down as it were into the etheric body. (See
forth hollowness here in its surroundings. For what the etheric
nothing, it is a hollowness in the world.

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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World Downfall and Resurrection
of his own soul, and through his most intimate willing,
experience in his own soul of the true piece of
World Downfall andResurrection
out their own thoughts for themselves. Now the kind of
Logos. The Logos is known as the Son, but the Father, not the
everywhere that veneration was paid to the element flowing down
still held sway, down to the very latest generation. Men
all through pre-Christian antiquity but had grown somewhat dim
direction of the Sun, to the forces poured down by the Sun to
own organic being and these forces then arose within him in the
anything. Your own forces and your own forces alone must lead
world is at hand. They meant the downfall of that Earth from
Spiritual Being Who had come down to the Earth — of the
Logos, of the Christ. And so, this downfall of the world was
downfall of the Earth and the dawn of that kingdom in which man
it is our own time. The modern mind will find it exceedingly
must be known in the Supersensible and to Whom men must aspire
were expecting the downfall of the world. They did not yet
misinterpreted feeling that the downfall of the world was at
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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erred into false tracks, fails to perceive that the nature of its own
of our own human reality produces quite a definite experience. The latter
comprehension of our own human self. Man as a natural product consists of a
us concerning our own being, is a sign that we have not sufficiently
finally proves to be some effect of an unknown being; we remain incapable
merely the starting-point of our path, for we are shown the chasm that
beyond ordinary consciousness, hold that Anthroposophy disowns the true
of philosophy traced from him onwards in continuity down to our times. Some
easily be shown. [Under “Wisdom of the
Aristotle set down. The additions made today are due to a somewhat mistaken
the belief had grown in that quarter that nothing but a kind of Pantheism
by his own ideas and conceptions. We could not describe Kant's fundamental
remains unknown. Thus when man finds the thing-in-itself before him, he
captive of the forms of his own mind. This view was finally expressed by
It was Helmholtz in particular who laid this down in the crudest manner as
upon the Scholastics as learned pedants and condemns them downright. He is
higher questions; they are not clear in their own minds as to the nature
thing-in-itself remains forever unknown to me.” With this final
in all its hollowness. On the contrary, Science, failing to recognize
true that we are limited by our own conception, but the element that
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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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your own thinking and feeling.
children in such a way that when they are grown up and the opportunity
opposite of what Spencer laid down as a true educational principle. It
scientists. And then the mischief is passed on down the line to the
carve according to the principles laid down there, so should it be quite
very much assurance in our own capacity, and then at the end of the year
you known at the beginning what you have learned at the end. A remarkable
the spirit I have just described, and now you take your way back down

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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strongly by the nerve-sense system, operating from above downward. The
limbs, takes place through rays proceeding from the head downward to the
the forces shooting downward from the head are held in check. Thus during
between forces striving downward from above and others springing upward
down-raying forces, to retain rather more of them in the head, so that
later on these childhood forces are still raying downward. However, if they
spiritual world that sends these forces down — the child
directed down from the spiritual world. This reverence before the
forces that are unfolding down from the spiritual world, from the time
from within, these forces come now from outside and proceed from there down
high-flown words about psychosomatic parallelism, are no more than a
our own forces with these, knowing that we are fertilizing the
characteristic is to be noted: everything which proceeds downward from the
above on its way downward shows itself as defence. Were we not to have
Shakespeare this has already been toned down), but rather: serpent, wolf
does of its own accord. Eurythmy is no more than a reading of all of its

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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is essential that we really understand these processes right down to the
teaching, between just listening and working on his own. Now supposing you
it down' when we speak. This is really not just a metaphor but something
evolution consists in gradually bringing down into the sense world what
receptive to the spiritual world, for the movements want to come down from

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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be kept too much outside. If it settles down too firmly in the human
known to you, which manifest fully only in later years, reveal themselves
right way. When one notices the well- known Theosophists mark, which all
hand, we see how the same thing one step lower down happens in the physical
if one wants to assess rightly a human being whose arms and legs have grown

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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just shown you the connections between the forces of supersensible
its capacity to take what it has grasped in the spirit and bring it down
After having as it were shown you how these things can really be gone into,
forces of our own planet earth live within us. The moment we enter birth
delve down into the earth to find the forces of the earth's interior would
The forces streaming down from cosmic spaces in so far as these cosmic
spaces are filled with our own actual planetary system, up till the
blood has grown weaker. And the great turning-point when human blood began
importance to getting down to the mental level of the child as far as
commonplace concepts if they avoid giving the child anything beyond its own
is absolutely on his own mental level, but because his teacher's warmth of
what he has taken in lives in his soul. At the age of thirty the grown-up
the child afresh each time, how he has to be taught; it must be man's own
shown how the education of children under the age of twenty-one can be made
worked. But our blood has grown weak and has lost its power. This activity,
and do not get down to developing ideas about a world that is not limited
other has brown. But they notice nothing of man's inner being that
lacking today, to bring down to a material level what we think of on a
spiritual level. Not until we are capable of bringing down on to a material
be set up on its own basis. Then thought life will be able to give

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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circumstances. As is known, a high solar being moved into the body of Jesus
is usually such that first facts of the Akashic Chronicle are made known,
without connection to a particular document. Only afterwards it is shown
bring down such teachings as that of compassion and love. There comes a
in his own being, but on the whole earth in general. At that time, the
experienced at that time, has this matter become the own and proper concern
new mission down from the spiritual to the physical world.
to descend into a physical body. It can only incarnate down to the etheric
known to the writer of Luke's gospel. He also knew that the Nirmanakaya
as is known, had his astral body to Hermes and his etheric body to Moses.

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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down, but as something that can be researched with the means of spiritual
shown that in the Gospel of Luke one has the opportunity to discuss
hears such principles, he can say today: Certainly, my own reason tells me
the power of love flowed down and manifested itself through this high solar
could find it within their own souls. Moses brought a law in a completely
also have appealed to the own soul of these people, then the people would
its lawgiver commandments in which one did not appeal to one's own soul.
have to look for that which flows down through the generations of a people?
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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widespread human suffering. The correspondence to our own times
the relation of the higher hierarchies in his own thoughts, the
the feeling, this other thought complements our own.
within ourselves, circling continuously around our own self, we
known to you, as also various things on the social question contained in
consciously cultivated that we send down once again into subconscious

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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Raphael's influence, his renown, through the times that follow
Raphael's own age, up to our own day. He was able to show that
him joins with his own creative activity to form an organic
came Greek civilization with its own characteristic world of
human soul had to withdraw into itself and experience its own
forth in his writings, with what has come down to us from the
ancient Greek times is what has come down to us in Raphael's
turned to look down upon the people gathered there, who had for
he created pictures of worldwide renown. Yet Raphael and his
one of his best-known paintings may be singled out, so as to
the symbol of what floats down in order to take on the vesture
the eternally celestial in the human being, that wafts down to
traversed the Urseler Loch, one all of a sudden looks down on
Christianity that goes far beyond the narrowness of the
to Herman Grimm and is written down: “I see before me

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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known picture of all, the famous “Last Supper,”
course. Such a question arises of its own accord in
students, there are still a great number from his own hand.
its own greatness.
be built and taken down again. At the same time, he worked on
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
gradually with all that can be known about the picture. This
colour composition are to be approached. It is shown that one
everywhere in his own painting to study how reality presents
the wall in Milan, even in his own time the picture did not
that has evolved from the time of Leonardo up to our own day.
own bodies, feeling themselves at one with the soul forces of
one's way into the inner, self-sufficient nature of one's own
Hence, they are shown at an age when growth is ascendant. Here
frequently had no effect at all in his own time. We find these
the downward inclination of the human spirit. We need to

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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these fairy tale sources lie far deeper down in the human soul
years, or whether in having grown old.
is likewise far removed from what takes place deep down
processes, it must be said, are connected with one's own being.
the human soul may be called a feeling of its own
consciousness. Just as a weaker light is drowned out by a
is drowned out by day consciousness. Though not generally
only experienced, not “known,” and that come
relation in which it finds itself in regard to its own immense
discovered and written down by me in
question was quite unknown to me. That is the personal
with certainty that it was quite unknown to me, since I
earthly matter, in which it could look down on earthly
fairy tale, let us remind ourselves that, as shown by spiritual
between day and night was still unknown. Quatl then learns that
characteristic fairy tales are those handed down from former
did the arrow come down again and said: “That's how
arrow came back down again, the one I have shot, however, goes
up so high that it does not come back down at all!” For
becoming aware of its own shrewdness over against these
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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door to which has closed, the door of one's own head. The

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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relates to Goethe, and to our own spiritual life.
his own “kingdom” within this German cultural
development of his own powers. In this way, out of the whole
Grimm. Known for inaugurating modern linguistic research,
oldest times to which he wished to return, up to his own
impulse according to their own outlook. In Ernest Renan
than on what he had only written down, and on what he had
written down, no more value than on what lived in his
soul needs to identify itself more fully with its own being,
said, he brings the highest spiritual spheres down to the
Grimm's Goethe portrayal, we sense everywhere that he had grown
to his own satisfaction in uniting himself completely with the
author. In this work it is shown how a man acquires a deep,
Mrs. Forster, who has grown up with American values. We see
marriage, the count is shot down by this individual.
if I did not add in conclusion Herman Grimm's own words on the
and the whole mass would fall down on her, to remain lying on

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as its name is concerned, it has shown itself to be something new:
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
But Karl the Great was crowned by the Pope in Rome.
to crown them. Istwan I was also crowned king of Hungary by the Pope
rigorously penetrated, no prince could have been crowned “by
longer rightly fit into the empire, who are somewhat down at heel,
realities, or symbolic crowns on princes and tsars, also from the
speech thrown overboard, and something completely new must enter,

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unknown, which cannot be penetrated by knowledge.
Emperor Franz Joseph I abdicated the German crown. It lost the power
form. At that time the things spoken and especially the things shown

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began the possibility to judge on one's own, that is, to add a
such a thing let alone write it down. But it is in the book I spoke
from the most varied sides, and it is senseless to try and nail down
Charlemagne and the Otto's crowned by the pope, thereby using
of its own.
obligation exists to allow one's own spiritual substance to flow into
in which people are downtrodden much can be done to free spiritual
not downtrodden politically, economically and, obviously, not
spiritually downtrodden. Above all it must be realized that we have
downhill, they will go uphill again! No, if people do not act for
but will continue downhill. Humanity does not live today from what it
known to you, so that you should never say to yourself: We have
his own way in the sense of the social triformation in the school
blacklist should be simply shot down or, as they say, rendered
friends, so that when they return to their own country, where it will
order to say the truth. I have known theosophists who when they speak

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rationalism when it came down to it to elucidate the
phenomenology was narrowed down to not going directly from some
narrow down descriptions of mutual relationships in sensory
comes down to entering into the field of phenomena and learning
natural science has validated. However, it comes down to
However even today it comes down to some spooks of the
nailed down by it. It is extraordinary how such conceptual
frameworks nail people down. Through them they become more
developed and nailed down for a specific area of nature, and
actually laws of nature — ‘with my own eyes.’
person sees that his horse is brown or a gray
dissatisfaction. It acknowledges matter in its own organisation

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who should be, to some degree, the crown of creation, and the
our own organisation, we perceive inwardly, while with our eyes
thoughts, for an organisation of the Self — not for one's own
self, because for one own Self it is dependent on something
through the sense of equilibrium in your own organism, rising

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science, as the crown of his philosophic structure.
present time, but he saw them in mental pictures, thrown on to
content of our own philosophic striving, who must now become so
down on, is something against which the truth and knowledge he
is not able to soar up into self-owned terminological
known that Newton had tried in a one-sided mystical way to
had his own mystical needs.
the reality by looking at ourselves in our own inner being. As
works down into the thought; but one couldn't come as far as

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before that, as shown in the small publication “The
means not the entire education should be put down to what is
to grownups, and to stuff it into our children. As a result, we
mind, but it comes down to the teachers working through
receives a kind of powerful verse which echoes with his own nature,
appropriate for grownups, which has as its most important
tone is set towards grown adults, we are actually unable to
the human nature of the child. It just needs our own effort to
is nothing other than the cry of the youth: ‘You grownups
When you go down from the general cultural point of view to the
been before he came down into the physical sense world. Up to
then — this is shown in anthroposophic research —

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life within the social organism needs to establish its own
develops its individual branches from out of its own
written down, but thought through from the immediate world
as a social futuristic organism, but it comes down to people
enough triumphs. However, this intellectualism — it was shown
been dealt with — has shown itself as completely incapable of
its own conditions in which the spiritual life itself works;
considered out of its own conditions, then the state life can
because this attempt has grown from the soil where realities
fanaticism or false mysticism — because this attempt is grown

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its own working methods. On the one hand it wants to take into
writings should not be applied, but it comes down to quite a
shown what can be discovered in this way. Nobody in this
other than through their own free will. What is said about
are carried within his own spirit, so he can — if he only
his own activity he comes to the conclusion culminating in a
world, in order to gradually observe their own past actions and
natural science has grown to its maximum intensity and where
fails immediately when applied to one's own human development;
comes to seeing before his own eyes, the Mystery of Golgotha,
at his own inner development — just as since the Mystery of
Some years ago, I once held a lecture in a southern German town
— at that time it was a German town but it no longer is
said: “Reverend, it doesn't come down to how our
subjective experiences decide, but it comes down to us living
grown-ups — but we try with all our good intensions to

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through human research capabilities of an unknown origin.
for. When it became known that this course was going to take
world, love for the world and his or her own activity and
of things with their own inner, but restrained gestures, want
the vowels, he forms his own inner relationship to the outer
I-concept. In these olden times a person felt his own I as
is thrown out of the direct
which are thrown out of the stream of speech, and which are not
longer acceptable. Further down his list is the “theory
down to Anthroposophy sticking its nose into everything, only

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own obstinacy, which hinders understanding what the School
For your own being the day grows dimly
For your own being the day grows dimly
world and delights in its own existence and the warmth of its
And it reminds us that we owe our own bodies to all those
lives in our own feeling and, as the enemy of knowledge,
For your own being the day grows dimly
which we recognize the light of our own humanity, and thus

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super-sensible, related to a being which corresponds to his own
senses, which however he is not able to identify with his own
the depths of cosmic space with the question of his own being
There you do enter, for your own true-being,
For your own being, this light of day grows dim
that we can never find our own being in this world. For the
world, which in reality is the world of his own being.
such insight were provided to everyone walking down the street
In your own likeness manifesting you,
own humanity. And then the knowledge arises which one can
knowledge which reveals the contamination in our own thinking,
corpse buried in our own heads, in our brains. And just as if a
feeling down from full consciousness into the halfway
development of knowledge. Through constant review of our own
Which hollows out its own soul
person who lives only for himself, and seeks only his own way.
Which would estrange your own body
Which would estrange your own body
Which hollows out its own soul
Which would estrange your own body
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acquire the correct feeling of your own true reality. Then you
When you sit down on a chair - at the moment you don't fall on
immediately becomes a triple being. His thinking goes its own
way, his feeling goes its own way, his willing goes its own
our own being, the more we find in us the true human who can
Which hollows out its own soul
Which would estrange your own body
and led by his own spiritual guides:
selfhood, one's own I, reveres the spiritual guides which
becomes the weaving of our own thoughts.
Your own soul's living powers.
aside thinking and try to observe your own feelings. In
thoughts are to be brought down into feeling. We then encounter
Your own soul's living powers
[in the first verse] your own
Your own soul's living powers.
Your own soul's living powers.
your own being the day grows dimly

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For they do not separate on their own. At first when we think
have placed us down into the valleys, where we encompass and
Your soul's own vital powers.
Ancient Moon - grown out of the whole earth organism. What was
down at the earth. We feel dependent on this earth; it gives us
morning; it goes down in the evening; its light streams across
look downward, I look out afar, I look upward. But let us do
us to the earth with our own humanity. We look down at the
belong to the earth. When we look down and ask what the earth
created by the earth, which would drag us down below the human
over its surface, for us humans the downward force is at the
Then we will be able to not only look downward in our
development, but also to look afar in the distance at our own
downward pulling earthly forces. Through the downward pulling
Which would estrange your own body
is what draws us downward. We escape from it by saying with
Which hollows out its own soul
Which would estrange your own body
is, by means of our own courageous soul-force:
we integrate our own being into the shining light-being of the

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powerless. Our thoughts are at first things we own which allow
own nature and we live and act in it. Cold is foreign to us and
spiritual world flows into us when inhaling; our own being
spirit entering us when inhaling, our own being streaming out
own thinking, that every thought is captured light - both for
sun's first light of dawn you yourself should shine down on the
not yet been woken up: he doesn't fall down. For someone who
man - that he does not let the abyss be seen until his own
Mysteries of all times, that the abyss is shown to the adept
over-abundance of his own element, of the element in which he
side - that of the Ahrimanic nitrogen-spirits - we are thrown

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which are external to his own being - the animal kingdom, the
carry out his own will impulses, etc. Man considers them to be
feet to what is to a certain extent at our own height, what is
and in order to use it in his own organism it must be
as we are related to our own bodies, we are also, to a larger
I'll put it this way: We walk into fog - and our own watery
element. And with this easy transition from our own watery
out of their own being. And then we say to ourselves: All that
to be the same as our own will. And we feel the relationship of
our own will with the animal world.
can see how in reality all thinking - this is unknown to people
breath circulating there is known as thinking in the physical
its own place - in the earth. They describe in detail how
climb down to the earth element
we climb down into the earth-element. But normal consciousness
knows nothing of this. At the moment when the downward climb
Your animality will be shown
To you by your own force of thought
we fear our own self which, however, must be transformed into
Here we have the first descent, climbing downward to the
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behold his own sensory physical being.
feel what works in the heart upward as well as downward.
The triangle pointing downward combines with the one
look downward to grasp what streams out from the earth to work
force” in the triangle pointing downward:
speaks the verse while making the sign pointing downward:
spirit works in the world in humanity, as the crown of

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order to see in the light the origin of our own being. At first
detaching itself from feeling, feeling [green] is on its own as
human organization, we consider to be our own. And we point up:
as we speak on earth of our hair. We call our own organism what
the stars. Here on earth we call our brain our own, as the
out in the universe and look down at man external to us.
we perceive the circling planets as our own feeling. Our
stars and so on - as one's own organs, observation of humanity
is revealed [Drawing: white arrow pointing downwards]; here we
down to the will from the head, although man with normal

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vision rest upon what radiates down to us from the universe in
picture arises from our own inner being, if the soul empowers
we can also observe all that radiates down and streams through
forces and it must find its own equilibrium, at that moment the
attentive to our own fulfilling warmth which is in breath,
can direct your thoughts down to the individual organs and will
One can reach his own warmth organism with thought.
down into your own body, the thought appears to you as
stretches downward, so does thought illumine the inner organs,
become aware of our own spirituality, that spirituality which
holds thinking, feeling and willing together through its own
strong inner determination, with our own forces, we must bring
wandering stars] my own feeling wanders. But I will attempt to
[fixed] star by my own meditating force of thought.

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just as much to what radiates down from the universe as we are
live in what otherwise only shines down to you from the distant
But at the same time you take your own etheric being out into
down and, because we have learned to read, we read it. By being
leads the human being through his own interior cosmic
imagine that another being is speaking to you from an unknown
bring us forth, engender us in the spiritual world by their own
to a group. It is especially frowned upon, my dear friends,

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limbs-metabolism-organization, localized downward and
That which can be known theoretically can also be
sending their rays down to us. Our heads receive these rays;
melodiously from the star-circles into our own
sense of the planets' course; our own intimate speech; the
their coming into being: The objective resounding; our own
our own intimate inner self; that the angel interprets and

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makes known to us the admonishments if we wish to enter the
through one's own forces. That is what definitely and securely
the forces of thinking working in us, then what lies deep down,
brought down again. Above it is heavenly will; below it is

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have. We think that an unknown force – it is of course
an unknown force, for nobody with normal consciousness can
is true is unknown – that almost everything normal
consciousness one does not penetrate so deeply into one's own
lightning down with heat. And in this interweaving heat from
the clouds: their own being or essence.
Your own being's truth.

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which also participates in the formation of our own bodies.
Imagine that we have already flown over the abyss. We
I will hammer it down even harder — the support —
written on the blackboard. (Writing is always shown in
Ahriman: I will hammer it down even harder —
Man lives downward by converting oxygen to carbon dioxide. He
downward and outward through breath: carbon dioxide; toward
Ahriman: My I has its own fire, which ignites through
The I wills not to blaze in the spirit, but to develop its own
earth, water, air and fire; then as when we let our own soul
I will hammer it down even harder with the spirit's power.
My I has its own fire, which ignites through self-enfolding.

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look down at the lowest creatures and up at the glowing,
own self in order to seek the foundation of cosmic knowledge
enable us to understand our situation once we have flown over
My I has its own fire, which flames purely through
can really make the spiritual element our own.
only sink downward but to all directions if the Angeloi did
would be thrown formlessly in all directions if the
own souls with which, where we are standing in darkness
more glowing and shining, and through our own power the
to develop the kindling force of our own selves, the kindling
fiery force of our own humanity – for it is light in
unfold the spirit in us, our own spirit, in which they live

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recognized as one which brings down its information from the
seriously is shown by the fact that since the relatively
as we look all around us we find our own self nowhere. Then
These verses have not only shown us how our
existence, they have also shown us what our souls will feel
once we have overflown the abyss and gradually sense —
which we recognize our own being, and therewith the true form

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[red arrow pointing down and left in the
into their own angelic beings.
colors, taking them into their own being.
colors flooding within — which we normally see toned down
— that every such letter can form its own answer as being a
letters must be regarded as containing their own rejection.

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experience down below. Now beyond the abyss of existence all that
The truth of your own being.

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imaginative ritual brought down at the beginning of the
earnestness by its own character, must also be treated with

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nineteenth century. And it was made known that this guidance
is not by being ascetic that we can solve the riddle of our own
down on us from the stars, for all that enters through the
like a path is shown, a path that leads to a black,
and radiance of sensory perception, but not finding our own
are the sources of our own humanity. From out of there the
surroundings, but that in this beauty we cannot find our own
For your own being the day grows dimly
For your own being the day grows dimly

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is in that other world, in which one's own self finds its
we carry within us from the spirit of our times, is shown to us
itself the strength to create in one's own soul [Gemüt]
own being which at first confronts us as the answer to the call
has shown us this picture, he approaches us in order to give us
psychic-spiritual life, which is our own true humanity, was
Which hollows out your own soul
Of will, which from your own body
Which hollows out your own soul
Of will, which from your own body
close to our being. We come deeper into our own being when we
half of our own being when we are feeling; for feeling has
There we should ponder in this interweaving of our own being in
of our own soul, which we cannot ponder by thinking because
seeming and creates our own being, our own true being. We
of the cosmic spirit. Our own being should grasp the cosmic
Plunge down beneath the seeming:
So plunge down in seeming being:
Your own soul's powers of life.
With your own self creating;
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has shown us how the forces of our inner humanity —
Beings of the spiritual world; after the Guardian has shown us
divine-spiritual powers as the three beasts, which are shown to
down into our thinking, but that this thinking is of a seeming
Then he shows us how we can delve down into feeling, how in
Delve down beneath the seeming:
Your own soul's living powers.
Delve down beneath the seeming:
Your own soul's living powers.
that in its rhythm it appears as having moved downward from the
Delve down beneath the seeming:
This coming down by the spiritual world to us is to be felt in
correctly in our souls. Only when this speaking down to us by
Delve down beneath the seeming:
Your own soul's living powers.
Your own soul's living powers.
ourselves, remaining in our own skin, if we do not go out of
down, which bind our will to the earth if we don't make
cosmos, he doesn't direct us down to the will, which should
In spirit-longing blown away;
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to give us divine forces without our own effort. We would be
In spirit-longing blown away;
In spirit-longing blown away;
life and death, can find our own Self.
supports us so we don't sink down, is what the Guardian of the
which is in the human being — something also known by
everything is of a fluid nature. Our own formative forces are
Furthermore, whoever writes down more than the verses is

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world can never reveal our own being to us; how our observation
— all that offers nothing to clarify the being of our own
out of it must come light which illumines our own Self, which
warms our own Self. We cannot find the firm support-point in
You climb down to the earthly element
Your animal-likeness will be shown
To you by your own force of thought;
experience fear of our own Self that is still animal-like; then
not be aware of fear of our own Self, but we should be aware of
are grasping the air-element in inner images. And our own soul
Your own soul will threaten you
You climb down to the earthly element
Your animal-likeness will be shown
To you by your own force of thought
Your own soul will threaten you
can work in us with their force and really bring our I downward
— we become aware of our own powerlessness —
Today, though, after this has been shown to our souls, let us

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own being, and also exhort him to recognize, through his own
own being in all that lives in the depths, flows in the air,
illumine before the eyes of our soul our own being, and
then we see something further down. We have the feeling —
existence is warmth, which is fire when our own will meets us
light streaming down: that is our feeling.
which we interweave what rays upward and downward.
what we do is the result of exerting our own force, but that we

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kingdoms, what sparkles down from the stars, what acts into our
light and will illumine your own Self. With the last
which now lies in the earthly sphere. He observes his own human
we said to ourselves: our own humanity is not here; we must
Guardian of the Threshold has shown, by the three beasts, what
dreams. Our thinking is our own. That's why it's illusion. The
works downward - I explained it last time, so may say it now -,
how as the thought carries warmth downward into our limbs'
earthly man, sinks down into the limbs. Then it becomes light
thinking sinks downward and light from below streams upward,
streams upward, and which meets with the downward streaming
Thinking sinks down from head forces;
Thinking sinks down from head forces;
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years has thrown its dark light on the social question in
shown in the last decades which have been instilled in
Here in Zurich and in other Swiss towns I have often spoken
that a still unknown mind with an elementary intelligence could
Many people have fiercely shown how this modern proletarian
during the last few centuries. Vehemently it was shown how the
mention it then it is clearly shown as is the fashion today,
common ownership. In addition, this depended basically upon
words his own labour.
and demand, it comes down to disgust for the labour commodity
not need to disbelieve their own knowledge. However, as

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are their own. However, regarding the examination and
research it according to its own laws, just as you do with
own production, because the economic life involves the
It has so to speak penetrated human life with its own rules.
position to bring their own independent laws in the right way
its own laws.
the economic life having its own laws, that the legal life, the
narrower description of political, has its own laws and its own
system has its own lungs, just as the nerve-sense system has
its own brain system, so in a single management system its own
value when it is known that they may not reach success through
in its own place, this bridge is quite another matter. This

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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this movement became known when it was examined more at that
experience their own lives, how they think about other classes
were active forces in their own life forces, that it could have
forces, then I steer it towards this becoming his own reality.
has thinking processes grown out of these facts. It is obvious
Utopia appears full of criticism, it neither comes down to the
criticism nor to good will, but it comes down to how they place
world but comes down to how people feel while in this spiritual
goodwill. It comes down to this feeling: through the way one
flashes like lightening through one's own soul as the vital
people placed on their own — this is how the
will be shown in the social organism. There are states where
human organism. Economics has its own laws. The character of
goods are brought to the market and sold. There are owners of
goods, prospective owners and buyers of goods. Between these
nothing other than his own labour. For each unit of goods, a
organism which lives under its own laws. Just as little as the
economic organism develop law out of its own forces. Economics
will never develop its own laws when it works only from its own
with one another, when each of these members out of its own
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— I would like to call it, to what has been pushed down
had not been known in earlier times. Assertion of the human
life be responsible for its own natural laws, wanting it to be
of his own interests guide the economic life. Experts had
others are not needed and economic life develops its own laws,
its own being. Whatever has come through its own content of
life, through its own thriving and sprouting impulses of life,
consumerism, it all comes down to a corresponding creation of
economic member of the social organism only follow its own
own laws and when the totality of state life is only made into
develop fully out of its own latent forces, is allowed to
body manages itself on its own terms and the legal and
political bodies manage themselves, whether along their own
own existence, that they both work adjacent to one another and
ownership is also based on law; the relationship of ownership
others are to our benefit; our own work never reverts back on
little live from his own labour in the social organism as one
sovereignty, its own system of representation, its own
because it is known that the entire actual productive spiritual
down to it — because between the platonic thoughts
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thoughts which familiarise one's own will with the forces in
natural events which weave within the world's own powers. To a
certain extent one must be allied in one's own will with the
development, the newer scientific way of thinking has grown
relationship a large number of people were thrown at the
of carriers of the social movement it wasn't known but was
spiritual life, or not. It doesn't come down to that but it
comes down to spiritual life being experienced by the majority
really protect its own true worth, which it carries within,
when it can govern itself through its own forces, when out of
again, so that it can unfold its own supporting power and then
state we must see as something which in recent times has grown
ownership. What is property finally? Ownership is only the
personally and alone may possess and work on. Ownership has
labour — the only thing you own — on to the labour
is fully developed from its own basis as merely economic
maintains and governs itself out of its own forces, and out of
Commerce, the great land owner, from the curia of the cities,
each creating its own laws and own management. They will stand
which it has grown. They need to grow into the economic life,
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What it comes down to is this — now the modern
centralised in itself, each has its own approach to the outer
ownership within the modern economic order and we will
ownership relationship in relation to land — everything
the owner of the ground and land has the right to own a piece
already improved a bit — but fundamentally it comes down
What will then happen is that a person, through his own labour,
to their own comforts and needs. Is it basically right to say
then can the spiritual life continue with its own legislation
of spiritual life right down into those branches which
organism its own legislation and administration in relation to
certain capital fund, to undertake nothing related to their own
right down to the last worker, the free understanding of their
their leadership, flows for his own benefit into the social
work is shown how little people grow together with their
can look at the spiritual life according to their own
having their own parliament and their own management, which
down to its fertile sprout and from there continue to build
their own thought patterns, considering themselves practical in
life, must admit that the very frowned-upon idealists who think
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thought to be akin to mathematics but because it was known that the
far better than by logic. And from his own experience he knew that the
our interpretation of these words will be put down as inartistic
is aware of desires and passions which rise up and die down again
in art. Wagner felt that his own particular mission lay in this same
in art. When he tells us in his own words that symphonic music is a
revelation of an unknown world, that the instruments represent primal
the deeds of Beings belonging to an unknown world through the dramatic
destined to be thrust down. There is a law of which we learn in
of our ancient forefathers whose form was very unlike our own. As I
of doors with the full heat of the sun pouring down upon him. Dreams
influences down into a later age, that they were ‘Spirits’ because
Water and air, is known to thee.
All, it is said, is known to thee.”
All is known to Erda in this consciousness. And so step by step, we
Initiates send down their influences into human life. We must always
humanity, a precious stone dropped from his crown. This stone was the
parallelism of the progress of human evolution, as indeed it is known
A stone falls from Lucifer's crown and this stone becomes the holy cup
purity and chastity of the plant, when he brings forth his own image
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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obliterate all that had previously been known of these individuals.
like Plotinus, for example, of whom very little was known but who was
Very little real understanding of Plato is shown in modern text-books
nothing down was because they held that wisdom must be something
evolved independently were unknown. Whereas the Initiates of earlier
eyes of men was brought down in more ancient times merely in the form
— but these concepts poured down as it were from the world of
known to represent a confluence of forces streaming from the spiritual
highest of these Gods, the God who came down to earth at a definite
crown of wisdom was to understand how the Christ Being had entered
Ammonius Saccas and Iamblichus have come down to us. Of many other
Jesus in the form of an abstract dogma laid down by the Councils and
still knew something of the spiritual universe reaching down into
of Iamblichus of the spiritual forces working down into every animal

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to build for it a home center of its own, which should be
felt that his own emotions, which he had embodied in this work,
also can embody our own soul life? And each of us needs only to
arranges things — with persons whom he has known as
evokes, simply through its own nature, the community feeling.
down out of the spiritual worlds that which constitutes the
of the fact that, just as he brings a spiritual world down into
hovering above us were looking down upon us and listening to us
constitutes its own proof, that Spirits hold a spiritual
have shown you today one part of the way to this; tomorrow I
form, the best thing we could do — I express only my own
foster, each on its own basis, what they have on their hearts.
another, each going her own way, united only in a common ideal,

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I should like here to begin with something well known to those
from the most serious and important down to those whose inner
well known to those familiar with the history of such societies
affords us the possibility through its own knowledge of
being said but only in his own opinion. This may do, however
— please, listen to this! — as his own, then only
spiritual-scientist goes his own way in a positive manner and
Now, what I have just stated is known to many persons. Only it
as an example, something drawn from my own experience. During
only from a standpoint different, perhaps, from one's own.' I
individual detail on its own merits.
come to be known. My dear friends, in the course of various
needs only to be taken by the opponents out of my own writings.

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has its own processes. We reflect on those processes in
thinking has grown abstract. Our thinking tells us
thinking that has evolved out of their own sphere, human
listen to anything that does not arise from their own
ago I gave a lecture in a town in southern Germany
stand on its own. That is how luciferic and ahrimanic
historians—well-known names—who say that the
since those times has been the narrowing down of human

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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already known to us.
had fewer abstract concepts, a culture that found its own
the great culture which had grown out of the soul and
blending their own unique characteristic into this
European bodies of today have grown bony, paralyzed,
which came as though of its own accord as human beings
achieve it by their own efforts. They will have to
human evolution in more recent times. They have their own
course generally known that I was ‘Rasputin’
came to be widely known particularly in French-speaking
down the truth of the matter, stating the bare facts. I
Ferriére the necessary set-down. The matter was
the following: ‘None of these things are my own, of
course, for if they were just my own I would not mention
encounter your own ideas of the spirit as a Western
initiate unless you can see your own ideas repeated by
our own wisdom with our fellow human beings. There is no
certain higher levels cannot be made known today because

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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civic communities of towns formed a relative whole, and
down from spiritual heights to take up its abode in a
something in a spiritual realm next to our own realm that
centuries, indeed millennia, they had known exactly what
we use with spiritual contents of our own experience. We

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own peculiar way Leninism also has initiation knowledge.
— the conceit shown by humans when they invented
our own world does. It is however an initiation that also
the true Mystery of Christ comes to be known; all they
down to us from our life before birth or life before
soul up above, a fresh new soul; it is then sent down to
all. The water they have to pour down from their
made soul down to them. What would happen if criticism
if the truth were to become known, instead of
who speak about what has grown in the soil of spiritual
to become known there would be no room any more for such
the writer must have known that there were no Akashic
in his library and so he ought to have known; he must
nature by making these things one's own on the basis of
compromise. It is useless for us to play down the
must not play down this difference. If we do play it down

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upside-down ideas. One might well think, if one was
directions, as shown in the diagram.
that is in accord. I perceive my own gravity, as it were,
which are destroying the world. A view of history known
of course also the reason why I was thrown °in, for
rhythmical organism and a metabolic organism, as shown in
tend to look down on to some extent, though they say they
however, three things have grown out of this spiritual
further appeal that would make it known internationally
heading for a breakdown, appeal usually follows appeal,
die. Materialism does not arise of its own accord; you
illusion for our own private pleasure. This must be
an hour, because things are thrown into the pool that

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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of Thomism, as I have shown in Dornach, [
of our own inner processes. The bewildering multitude of
ground, the cloud formations, brown or grey earth and so
to distant stars become ignited in our own inner
known.
fall down when I let go of it? The force called gravity
feeblemindedness. I have shown that we must not be
I have shown that the wisdom involved in giving shape and
from the head down into the rest of the organism. So you
world evaporate downwards — that the following may
downward and not an upward direction.’ Some

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origin lies inside our own skins. Anything we see outside
which exerts a downward pull here on earth, exerts an
to speak of what draws us down in a way that makes it the
presenting his own views in opposition to Oswald Spengler
their own way, I am uniting with that one, I take his
every world has its own laws, and today we face the
up and cast down, when we want to despair over a word, or

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be known with certainty and must remain a matter of
demonstrating the truth of something, were not known
activity out of their own resources. In a way the gods
abandoned them, but it was for their own good, if I may
to reach human ears. At a time when they had grown beyond
divine knowledge, which they had grown out of by that
powers their own by having supersensible knowledge at the
Christ, if one is shown the image of Jesus the King,
bring Christ down and make Him a physical Jesus even in
known before that in certain circles; she gives a time

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images have their own order. Human beings are passive
watered-down way, as if they lack drive and will.
down.
our own brains — except that their brains were
perceived themselves as their own deal model. Please pay
original tradition that had not welled up from their own
awareness. The truth is that down below In our human
Down below
once saw their own heavenly and spiritual image in
down, as the ancient orientals saw it. It had a downward
something of the heavenly human being hanging down, as it
were, reaching down into the physical world. Later the
idea remained in a culture grown decadent, and people no
being reaching down into the human being on earth.
of the heavenly human being reaching down from the
the result. This is beautifully shown in Hegel's
grown old, and on the other hand to the West. It must
element has grown completely senile. It is always a great
something grown old, and has to be studied as something
historical that has grown old — something of no
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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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within their own skins.
forces with their own objective activity that human beings have created
comprehension of social concepts. I have shown that people really 'run on
technical, and they do not go beyond this. They have got it all down in
sphere today. The things that are not written down in the books are today
question mark as to one's own nature as a human being’ It will
solely and only be achieved with the things we gain by going down to the
this has grown abstract. It no longer has relevance in ordinary life. The

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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the earth, the forces of the earth that are known to us
— or perhaps not known to us — is the
Christ we are able to join our own essential nature to
what we need to develop our own nature and take it beyond
grown particularly strong over recent centuries, from the
comprehend, it interpreted the Gospels in its own way.
in his own way, in his letters on aesthetic education. He
so that they could no longer drag them down. Human beings
Mixed Metals. It had to be shown that the social life of
people will no longer need to lay down as an objective
spirit-man. Our thinking has grown so abstract, however,
in our own ranks, and yet we need people to be fully
that when we really got down to it, many of the people
who had put their names down so that they would be able

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destroyed at death by its own law of physico-chemical substances, and
there is a fourth member in the human being, the crown of the earthly
kingdom, the crown of human nature. We can catch sight of this fourth
this; only out of him, out of his own deepest inner being can it come,
the fact that man can say: "I am", that is the crown of creation. This
own life experience in yourself and in other people, you will also have
between life and death. If it was shown earlier that as soon as sleep
drowning, falling, that is, in such cases where the consciousness
death is also known. It is three to four days. It is not easy to give
draws him down after that period of weaning, when he has become capable
occasionally pass through the bodies of living people, through our own
creation of one's own being, and every creation, every production is
future, for his own future.
down and built up by the mind forces of the people. But there are still
obedience to his own force of attraction. For here highly exalted

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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Looking at our own time critically, yet not captiously, we
Nothing is so essential to-day as to work our own way through
acquired, out of “obedience,” but through man's own
delusions men have grown accustomed to during these last years,
related downwards to them, so he is related upwards to the
Then is to be observed the peculiar fact, shown by true
what has been handed down to us so that we are able to judge of
its own perfection. What had arisen in earlier times as
world. In this way we shall once again link our own being to
man must now begin to work from his own soul-content, in order
of achieving it by an inner work on our own being. We have
life was nurtured in the past does indeed extend into our own,

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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Archai. Hitherto it has been out of their own interests and
worlds, out of free will and of their own accord. If we would
can only arouse their interest anew if out of our own souls we
human evolution, known from an anthroposophical
he finally broke down, and, having no more to say, gathered up
proved that old age no longer understands its own youth,”
our own inner being in
look back at our own schooldays evokes few pleasant thoughts.
human evolution, which is not known to-day. In earlier times,
his before birth. It must be made known that man in future
revelation of the Divine in his own being, and that through all
down on me from the stars, and what I myself am as to my bodily
(known here as the “November” Revolution) has
what touches his own personal life but what affects the
German town, though it was a truth necessary for the present
their own inner being, not to be bound by the old forms of
interests from our own personality and our nationality to take
own spiritual education, we unite aristocracy with it at the
parsonage, with all the parish registers, had been burned down
difficulties had shown him the much greater importance of a
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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have long been known to us. Let us recollect how the human ego
spoken of this from our own point of view. We must educate
trivial speech. The Earth acquired its own meaning in relation
We carry the Western form with peculiar strength in our own
body and ego to plunge down into the physical and etheric
their own immediate interests. We cannot fulfil our task to-day
have shown you during these few days how man should regard his
a sense we do “on our own” because we are part of
conditions. We build up our own spiritual life with forces
his own head in exchange, as he deemed fit and proper. (The
different from their earlier ones. I have known people who look
perverse fantasy to cling to our own pet ideas because they
us, now that things are clear and we have their own
reality as it is but wish to mould it according to their own

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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their own course. Their thoughts and ideas had become so
facts, which had grown above their heads, out of reach. This
therefore I may be pardoned if I give you one of my own. It is
theory.” This theory, which might, after the break-down
transformation of private ownership into common property; but
one, which has grown up during the last three or four hundred
culture. They had to be taken to the museums and shown what had
Then if men were honest they must have known (if not, they
thirteen years of age are sent down. In the middle of the
down before sunrise and only came up again after sunset, so
and must be under its own control.
schools, passes from the control of the State into its own
men.” The State laid down the laws according to which men
economics, the economic sphere must have a place of its own,
If some article is too cheap, factories must close down and the
is produced in that realm by anyone is his own work, he has to
Three fold Commonwealth, where I have shown how the
grown-up person.
individuals, who have shown themselves expert and competent,
State, where all grown men will be equal in rights; finally,
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