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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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under humanity there is a kingdom of animal, plants and

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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In plants, animals and children projects greatly by the physical head.
body with everything mineral, his of etheric body with all plants, his

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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therefore gradually learns to read on the astral plane and he learns
contains beings that we can never learn to know on the physical plane.
so to speak, in flesh. But on the astral plane we also come across Beings
world. Upon the astral plane, thoughts are realities. Each thought which
the physical plane a lie is a lie, but upon the astral plane it is a
astral plane and strengthen each other. You thus strengthen the life
which they gave them were intended for the Spirits of the Planets. The

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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including the mineral parts of plants, animals and men, is a negative,
life here on earth, all that enables plants and animals to grow, may
takes place in the physical plane can be heard in this region. For example,
in Devachan. At the foundation of each animal, each plant, each crystal,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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life implants itself in the next one. After death man leaves behind
the astral corpses on the astral plane, for the dissolve slowly.
speed through the astral plane in every direction. These forms arise through the
from the astral plane from many different directions, and the substance

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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plane have their origin in the spiritual worlds. What produced the changes
the animal kingdom proceeds from the astral plane, at least as far as
plane the human spirit gradually formed communities and states out of

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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impulse he could stimulate the growth of plants, for his will-power
in plants. The vehicles of the Atlanteans were fed with grains of wheat,
upon the astral plane. But we shall speak of this to-morrow.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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The moon severed itself from the earth and formed a secondary planet.
Formally, moon and earth were one planet. Thus the evolution of the
earth-moon planet, for it does not turn around its own axis as does
time the earth-moon planet always turned the same side to the sun.
Sun, moon and planets are
beings, animals and plants, still lived together with sun. At that time
a kind of plant-existence. Animal forms and human forms arose much later,
for at that time everything still stood at one stage of planned-existence.
These sun-plants were of
course entirely different from the plants of to-day. Nevertheless when
they say with their blossom they strove towards the center of the planet,
itself from the earth, the plants turned completely around and again
Man made a complete turn, so that he is a reversed plant, even as the plant
the first-born of creation. He has thrown out animals, plants and minerals;

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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through further incarnations. One speaks of seven planetary conditions or
Planets", through which the earth passes in its development. The names of
these "Planets" are not identical with our present planets, but refer to
the planets after which they are named. The first incarnation of our earth
conquest of the physical plane. The task of the subsequent sixth epoch
astral plane the Ptolemaic system is correct; for there one sets out from

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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which the minerals are to be found, in which the plants unfold, the animals move and the human
the mind, but different planes of its radiance."

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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economic instincts. Today it has been wiped off the face of the earth because it was planned and

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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every plant. In the way people came to know the manifestations and beings of nature they also
taken out to the land. What has arisen in the cities will transplant itself into the country.

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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something to be understood as one understands things of the physical plane. After all, with an
event on the physical plane one cannot understand why it ought to be described in four different
spirit, where they are read in the same way one reads an account of the physical plane, they

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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what has been implanted in his blood and in his other organs by physically-inherited
earth-planet, upon which the human being has to experience his present destiny, is the

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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of reality when they see the plant shoot up from the root and develop from
extent the plans of the spiritual leaders and guides of earthly

Title: Talk To Young People:
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things will get sour. We have to make sure that when we have to plan

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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one similar to that of the plants (Diagram II). Thus, we carry not only
the dreamer in us, but also a kind of plant man, who always sleeps like
the plants. His dull imaginations are transmitted by the Beings of the
this Jupiter possesses as yet nothing equivalent to our plants, animals
vegetation, as this took place also in the case of earthly plants: they
growth of plants.
impulses for the Jupiterian plant world through the
earth, from the plants and animals of earth — in short —
the death of an animal or man, to say nothing of plants. Death is, by
plants have the characteristic quality of consuming insects, such
plants possess something akin to the animal or human soul! An outer
implant the germ of Spiritual Science into all our cultural impulses,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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ordinary outer physical plane, because all death is allotted to him.

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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planet from the sun took place; that it proceeded for the first time
interconnected condition of the planetary world, at the separation of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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explanation of all that the senses conjure up before us. We ought to
proffer the explanation of real, living concepts, concepts which are
Godhead himself lives in this lower nature and implants the instinct
there on the physical plane, takes complete responsibility for his
plane, or who, if he is dead, can be found among the dead by
place and is propagated on the physical plane, a physical personality
as an imposter and implanted a one-sided world concept in Blavatsky,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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plants, any kind of plants grew in this meadow. And suppose that here
these plants. Naturally, as this creature never comes out above the
surface of the earth, it only learns to know the roots of the plants,
processes are going on up above in the plants, in the whole plant
which the plants are undergoing naturally also bring about changes in
the roots. When the plant above begins to put out fresh shoots and to
the sun, the coming forth of the plants; this indeed is self-evident.
the sun shines, and the plants come out, and through this the
the realm of soul and spirit. Just as the coming plant is already
neighbouring planet (you may read this in my
plant's root- and leaf-building happen in order to make possible the
planet, and Sun and Moon separated from us and work on the earth from
me.’ This Planet or Fixed Star Sun had to be separated so

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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divine-spiritual beings had planned. But we know that

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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foodstuffs but the forces that are active in the planetary body
course, quite true that plant life continues; animals and human

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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a system in which the elliptical courses of the planets are shown, with the
unprejudiced technique of thought which were implanted in Aristotelianism.

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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school about minerals, plants, animals, etc. and become then proper
to train children to deal with objects, say plants or animals, in such a
zoologist. If, on the contrary, we could plan our lessons, when presenting
facts about plants or animals, so that it is made difficult for children to
all the harm that is done to education when it has been planned by

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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etc. In the main these are forces planted in the child from the spiritual
this spheric harmony is incorporated in every plant, in every animal. This
has his astral body. This can be studied on a relatively inferior plane of

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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that is to hear the various explanations in harmony with one
a modern physiologist because his thinking works on a different plane

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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come from? They are the same forces as the forces of the planets, that is,
that are connected with these forces of the planets, these forces of the
and pour into us as it were from outside, from the outside of the planet.
The forces of will enter into us from the planet itself. This is how the
forces of our own planet earth live within us. The moment we enter birth
the forces of planet earth are active within us.
works entirely from out of the planet's interior. It is very interesting to
spaces are filled with our own actual planetary system, up till the
the planets and the planetary system belonging to these.
the forces from the planet's interior bring about up till the seventh year.
draw on what comes from the earth and its planetary system in the way we
the forces of the planet and the planetary system.
planetary forces, himself, after the age of twenty-one. And yet he has been

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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If this were so, then an explanation of the
plant.
preconditions. If we observe the plant in its growth, we see first the
flow in, a speck of dust from another plant. Especially in spiritual life

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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Of the plants the dead do not see in the first place the forms we see
see of the plant world. For them, the whole of the
earth's plant world is like a vast body, but they do
not see the green plant forms that we see, only a certain movement, the
growth process of the plants. They see precisely what escapes the human
of the earth — for the plants are spiritualized.
same way we do for something on the physical plane, then only do we gain

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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to another what is to be implanted in mankind's spiritual
harmonious disposition. However, we then see him transplanted
Then in the year 1504 we again see Raphael transplanted, now to
the plant or even the mineral kingdom came into being. We look
see this in the development of the plant, from the green leaf
something has been implanted in the spirit of humanity that

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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continual new plans. He had commissions from people who
also working out all manner of war plans and other plans, as
law-imbued principles — just as the blossom of the plant
earth stood still in cosmic space and the sun and other planets

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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conviction in regard to explanations and commentaries
then one would far rather not accept explanations
one were to destroy the blossom of a plant, if one intrudes
explanation remains something that touches the source so
fairy tales that explanations cannot ultimately destroy their
a planet in the cosmos, comparable to human lives that
earth has gone through various planetary life-stages,
Sun-existence, a planetary predecessor existence of our
significance in the cosmos. We direct our gaze to the plant
world and tell ourselves: The plant grows, but it can
We have before us the plant rooted in the earth. In spiritual
science we say: the plant consists of its physical body
suffice for the plant to grow and unfold itself. For
that, the forces are required that work on the plant from
plant. As a sleeping body it is comparable to the plant in
having the same potential to grow as the plant. However, the
the plant. The plant has to wait for the sun to exert its
— upon the plant-like physical body, equivalent to what
the sun exerts on the plant. Just as the sun pours its light
out over the plants, so does the human “I” pour its
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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been transplanted as far as the eastern part of Europe, where
everything on their planet with love, to take the planet with
beings have to redeem the planet along with themselves.

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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his comprehensive life-plans. And when a certain time had
— as a continual supplanting of older cultural cycles by
the physical plane. The first of these novellas, “The
a wonderful description, that tells how the friend plants

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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this sum is supposed to have a will. That is the kind of explanation

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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looking for hypothetical, assumed reasons for explanations.
It is self explanatory that in the course of the
done in terms of explanations of causality was done extensively
“Urpflanze” (Original Plant), how it can be thought
about, looked at inwardly — not like some or other plant
“Ur-triangle” and this Ur-plant would have such
plants. Just as the sum of the triangle's corners, when you
ideal image of the Ur-plant would be rediscovered in each plant
if you go through an entire row of plants.
Italy, how he developed the idea of the Ur-plant ever further.
He more or less said: ‘Here among the plants in South Italy and
Sicily in the multiplicity of the plant world the Ur-plant rose
actual plants possibly have within them, an image in which many
elongated or other plant forms, soon forming the flower, soon
according to which all plants could be formed. It is quite
Physician and lawyer. — “The plant and Its Life”,
Plants”, p. 86: “The idea of such laws for the design
of the plant was first developed by Goethe in his idea of
plant. That realization was, as it were, the task of nature, and
was looking for an actual plant to fit his Ur-plant. This is
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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the finer areas of the human, animal and plant forms, because

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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instance in plants, how the leaves spread out and how they drew
trouble to go back to Kepler's planetary movement formulations,
he analysed Kepler's formulations about planetary movements and
expression — according to the plan of thinking. For him
plane which is filled with thoughts. From up above the
spiritual worlds throw their shadow images on the plane of the
the plane of the soul it is shadowed as thoughts. Hegel was
the plane of the soul.
me Hegel's logic looks like the seed of a plant in which one
cares for it and plants it into the soul's earth through

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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growth processes seen in the plant and animal. One remains

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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observation of the living plant world and which, when in one's

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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planted the sum of its secrets. Thus, they can be discovered
earthly civilization, and are implanted in his nature by that

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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That is the second thing that we have within us - which plants

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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been implanted in him as a physical being on earth between

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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in the plant, mineral, animal kingdoms, to which we have access
us, nor do we ask the plants, or the animals - and in this
to the earth from another planet, he would speak to people in

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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animals, plants and minerals and also in our physical human
look around, recognize the animals, plants and minerals as
the plants, animals and minerals exist outside of us, are
and as dreamy as the plants.
related to the animals, plants, stones. And we feel differently
[?] ... just as we feel ourselves to be plant-like by the watery
Essentially plant-like dull
Essentially plant-like dull
How he must be aware of his own plant nature and therewith the
plant life of his environment by virtue of his kinship with the
in plant-like lameness; then the desire to oppose the coldness
Essentially plant-like dull

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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When we look up at what the planets reveal by their movements,
first the sun and moon, but also the planets which belong to
planetary movements reveal the heart and feeling content.
we perceive the circling planets as our own feeling. Our
the other planets. Between what we experience as thinking in
thinking appears as a magical being of will that transplants

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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us from the planets which circle the earth, and in their
merge with what the planets say to us meaningfully from space
the planets, what we can experience in the forces which hold us
rather must we concentrate on what pulls the planets that
The cosmic powers that guide the planets.
the specified way, by the movement of the planets, by the
movements of the planets, that is, for the spiritual beings who
planets. In this lecture there is much play on words between
feeling moves in the wandering stars [planets]; my willing
rests above with the stars, feeling circles with the planets,
which is circling with the planets, communicate something of
planets, in spirit I will slowly move the starry sky. I feel
Then I look up to the planets and feel: In these planets [Ger.
lungs belong - I will become as one with the entire planetary
should set the earth in motion so that like a planet I
The cosmic powers that guide the planets.

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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plants in our environment to the extent that we feel them
work in order to eat. They do not realize that in the plants
the planets, behold the stars, fill yourselves with the

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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news that Miss Maryon* has departed from the physical plane
Miss Maryon's departure from the physical plane. For now it
intensely during the years with us on the physical plane. She
has departed from the physical plane but certainly not from
the physical plane. Tomorrow, though, when the members, the
of the planets, of the moon, the sun, of Mars, Mercury,
so also the movements of the whole planetary system —
planets, represented by the sun, have to say through
other planets in our breathing and in our blood circulation
planets:
the activity of the gods in the planets' movements, which is
sense of the planets' course; our own intimate speech; the
planets, then we hear the dull rumbling of the

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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of this war can not be written from the physical plane alone.

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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We look at the world of plants. We know: we take into
ourselves the essence of plants, we have it in our earthly
that we evolve in sleep. We feel the essence of plants in us
as we observe the plants around us.

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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plant-like existence to sentient-feeling
plant-like existence, warmth is present. Warmth is
planets of a planetary system were circling and contributing
— like the planets in the solar system — and

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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Pflanzen (plants), Tiere (animals).]
Nothing; call it plants, a second kind of Nothing; call it
us by minerals, by plants, by animals, by physical human beings;
pre-earthly existence. Such an explanation is not possible

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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from every plant, from every moving cloud, from every

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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substance of the planetary system, to which the sun, earth and
at the sprouting plant kingdom, at the mobile animal kingdom,
plants, of the stones, of the animals, of the stars, of the
self-knowledge, of our true Self, which is implanted in us by

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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intermingle. Look at your hair. The light plants it in your
and brothers! Blossoming plants: they are created from light;
from light and darkness what the plants represent in their
solid consistency — the nature of plants on earth —
to the planets. He points out to us how we should feel about
what mutually draws the planets' orbits around the earth, how
one planet or another draws the orbit. The orbits have a
in his soul to this secret of the universe-pointing, planetary
kingdom of the planets and their orbits. The Guardian of the
The universe-pointing planetary powers.
The universe-pointing planetary powers.
feel to be at one with the secrets of the planets:
cosmic orbits of the various planets are drawn together into
soul with the planets.
neither look to the elements nor to the secrets of the planets,
The planets' words proclaimed in heaven.
The planets' words proclaimed in heaven.
The universe-pointing planetary powers.
The planets' words proclaimed in heaven.
And on this side of the threshold every stone and every plant,

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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words sounded forth to man from all the stones and plants,
conscious that we live a plant-like existence in our earthly
To be a sluggish plant-like being;
To be a sluggish plant-like being;

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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mountains and springs, in rocks, in the plants and animals, in

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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transplanted on to the social organisation. What I want is for

Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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plan, where they may really become the most important and most

Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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approach is fully justified. Does a botanist not think about a plant
anyone deny him the right to speak about the plant from this aspect
just because the plant itself is not conscious of these laws? There is
consciously realised by the plant. I say this at the outset in order
higher worlds living in the minerals and plants, reaching a stage of
plants and omitted all mention of human beings, but Spiritual Science
intimate relationship with Nature, with stone, plant and animal.
said to the pupils of the Grail: ‘Look at the plant. Its flower may
man. It is the root of the plant that corresponds to the human
head.’ Darwin himself once rightly compared the root of the plant with
the head of man. The human being is a plant reversed. He has
accomplished the complete turn. In chastity and purity the plant
The animal has turned only half-way. — The plant, whose ‘head’
the soul pervading plant, animal and man, lives in bodies which,
insight of true Mysticism, the plant has the consciousness of
sense, like a plant. He has acquired the consciousness that is his
to-day by having permeated the pure plant-body with desires, with the
permeating pure plant-substance with desire.
chaste as that of the plant, and his organs of reproduction
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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the planetary Spirits. I will draw (on the blackboard) this pentagonal
Powers, the seventy-two sub-heavenly or planetary Powers, and the
Powers, seventy-two planetary Powers, forty-two earthly Powers —
and plant from the three hundred and sixty heavenly Powers, the
seventy-two planetary Powers and the forty-two earthly Powers. In
Nature, in animal and in plant. Let no man be so sinful as to believe

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through the implanting of spiritual idealism within a human

Title: Community Building
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physical plane become bound up with the Anthroposophical
physical plane to be clever through being able to prove a
very good for the physical plane and also for the sciences
which apply for the physical plane. And even for the spiritual
reality and reality of the physical plane must not be confused

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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however, we look at a plant in exactly the same way we
look at a stone. In reality it is not the actual plant we
see. A plant is really something entirely beyond sensory
the kingdom. I have a plant before me. It is an invisible
something the plant, which is not perceptible to the
plant. When we talk about plants today we are really
not about the plants themselves. It is important that we
clearly understand this in the case of a plant, for it
course of the stars, the planets, and their position

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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only the culture, the civilization, has been transplanted
word. Europe initially was given the explanation, its

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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merely implanting intellectual knowledge into their

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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are on the plane of human evolution and one is below that
plane, though it is an initiation of tremendous will
that is evolving hand in hand with the planned
that is evolving hand in hand with the planned
plants rise from the ground, in the way animals are
power by planting illusions in their unsuspecting minds.

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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Material things in particular have found no explanation
Imagine this is the horizontal plane. The two arrows
head, though the plane has turned through a 90°
vertical plane, and is physical. In the final instance

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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(mineral, plant and animal) and also the fourth kingdom,
actually seeing when we look at a distant planet, say, or
seeing? We do not see the green plant cover of the
through a telescope, would it see our plants, animals and

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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of the chaos of the planet, the way modern scientists do,
the plants, the animals, the cloud cover; we see the
matter. An inhabitant of the planet Mars observing the
the phenomena relating to the mineral, plant and animal

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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and something that follows. Yet in a plant the calyx is

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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troops to march; that could be planned and projected by trained minds.

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