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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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position itself in the whole structure of the cosmic order?
secondly with what wickedness has set up in opposition to human
something positive; but in the end a human being in his/her
something positive, as little as the shadows that are cast
forth by the light, need to be explained as something positive.
nothing positive, but are simply something negative. We do not
positive. But if one turns around when it is cold, with no furs
something very positive! This image should make it fully clear,
anything positive. It may be that in this regard, we have
nothing to do with anything positive; but this “not
positive” is precisely as negative as cold is compared
in opposition to the activity of the spirit. In this plunging
our situation more precisely clear. I will refer to a thinker
Ki. And from the particular juxtaposition of Ri and Ki
since today he is seen more as a kind of curiosity. Jakob
a position so to speak, to unfold our soul-spiritual being to
a certain point create its own opposite on the surrounding
how what we usually call evil in everyday life positions itself
come into the position, as soon as we live our way into the
spiritual in the opposite way in the sense world, that leads to
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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lowered state of consciousness, positive and negative suggestion which

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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end. In the astral world it is the very opposite. In the astral world,
our responsibility in life. Imagine a room where men sit around enjoying

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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is situated somewhere else. It always surrounds us. But an ordinary
in Devachan as a positive. Everything consisted of firm, mineral substances,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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with the materialistic direction of modern science. The position of
US form and out of astral substance. His whole disposition thus obtains

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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will show us that behind them always lies a definite character-disposition.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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an acquisition of later incarnations. Everything in life must first
error. Mathematical truths also arise through the fact that the opposite

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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lifeless has arisen out of life. The minerals are deposits of living

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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character. The soul-constitution of the ancient Hindoo was the very opposite

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
the course of the nineteenth century it was precisely the opposite historical mode of thought and
come to us which, precisely for a discerning judgement of the situation of modern humanity, will
between Alcuin and the Greek purely positively and will ask what was really happening there. For
great difference in one's whole situation in life between having nothing and having fifty francs'
worth of debts. These debts of fifty francs are forces just as influential on one's situation in
life as, on the other side and in an opposite sense, are fifty francs of credit. In this area the
negative amount, but for the person to whom they are owed they are a very positive amount!
but of the world, the opposite side of zero from the credit side is truly something very real.
necessitated it he felt: Here, on the one side, I experience that which cannot be observed in
which, above all, was to become great through its economy, they had of necessity
In our times we see the development of the opposite extreme. We see instincts arising in the
masses which are the opposite of what is beneficial for humanity. We see things arising that
— the grave situation —in which we find ourselves.
seriousness of the present world situation, knows what a great battle is taking place between the
university education of the future — here we have to show the way. In the foundation of the
spiritual culture whose necessity will indeed prove itself through what this course
who are still sitting here now — that they understand these words 'World Fellowship of
this, however, we have to be in a position to complete this building and everything that belongs
trying to do from Dornach is an historical necessity. One will only be able to talk of the
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
necessity of founding a social life consciously. And we must take a conscious stand towards
Today I want only to indicate the diversity of views
that is spiritual Byzantine religiosity, and so on. The individual phenomena of history become
about a situation such that, in the East, there is a strong decadence in humanity; that, in a
strengthened the position of
10. In October 1920, professors and doctors of Oxford University sent an

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
described yesterday, who are dispersed there, and who take leading positions, particularly in
that in the Roman Empire the untenable situation arose which always arises when these three human
favourable, then this situation
but only to single individuals who, however, have an extraordinarily strong position of
these beings, who then secure for the human body in which they incarnate a certain position of
of necessity from Anglo-Saxondom, so from later Romanism there arose Ignatius of Loyola.
still work into the consciousness. The whole disposition
situation is this: as the fifth post-Atlantean epoch was approaching — around the tenth,
universities was not objective history but party-wisdom, distinctly politically coloured. And
9. Roger Bacon (1214–1294), Franciscan, taught at Oxford University. Return

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
is unfree. But he is also unfree when he surrenders himself completely to the necessity of
reason, to logical necessity; for then he is coerced under the tyranny of the laws of logic. But
without their enslaving him, and in which, on the other hand, logical necessity is taken up into
so that these logical necessities do not also enslave the human being.
Schiller came to this composition of his
this whole construction of the human being — on the one hand logical necessity and on the
conditions — the condition of the necessity of reason, the condition of the necessity of
intellect, of necessity works destructively in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. In the present age
the spiritual life, and uniform States like these must of necessity lead to destruction. And
not aware, because they lack the sensitivity of feeling for it, that every economic system like
Grimm, who also did not know spiritual science, gave in a beautiful way, out of his sensitive
constructed purely intellectually must of necessity lead to ruin. And anyone who, like Oswald
University is now busying itself with anthroposophically-orientated spiritual science.
furnished university philosophy with the Arthur Drews's who, however, are actually represented
University at Karlsruhe, spoke on 10 October 1920 in lectures organized by the free religious
(Metaphysics and Anthropasophy in their Position Regarding Knowledge of the Supersensible),

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
one, then this must be the increasing ascendancy, the increasing intensity of the human power of
intensity of the longing for knowledge that held sway before the middle of the fifteenth century.
into a deterioration. And it is this decline of real intensity in the pursuit of knowledge that
only a transitional condition. For what is the deepest characteristic of this intellect? It is
spiritual appeared to the human being through nature. In our transitional condition we have the
called to the leadership of the people by the Mysteries was brought to this position because his
question of any kind of legal proof as to whether anyone was rightly in this position or not
entitled to his position, or to do this or that, and so on.
governmental positions with their practical experience where it then usually evaporates. The
of transition. And now try and grasp a thought which, however strange it may seem to you, must be
transition came. Man created machines as an addition to nature. These he regards for the time
position. And all these
area one can definitely speak of an inner opposition, sometimes quite unintentional, against what
Movement — the fact that precisely in this area a kind of inner opposition is clearly
opposite. Now this is the real rule of blind faith in authority. A strange faith in authority!
of opposition — there has actually always been more opposition than faith in authority and,
fatal if what I refer to here as inner opposition were, particularly in the sphere of practical

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
Thus was prepared the situation which then came
that it has been stated by someone who has been to grammar school and university, has become a
understand the development of the universities. How have the universities developed? One should
The monastery schools have become universities. Everything that was taught had to have the stamp
without a belief in Rome itself, is the mentality of our universities today. It is also the
faculty. But this new vision is rising up as a necessity which must take hold of humanity. And it
should be in the position to comprehend once again the whole being of humanity. Above all, it is
to build upon something which, with a certain necessity, developed out of the still quite

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
disposition, as aspiration, and remained with him through the whole of his life on earth. In
to be leading the several nations — who at any rate held positions which imply leadership
and yet understood nothing of the situation mankind is in - when these people began talking about
situations. However many more national states you set up you will provide only so many more seeds
all the intensity of battle. Our battle — what we are capable of — is weak, very weak
positions of this kind? Until one puts this question most intensely to oneself, until one is
This is what, in both a positive and negative

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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opposition to Spiritual Science and of appearing again when the Earth is
would say, must draw back in fear and trembling from the necessity to

Title: Talk To Young People:
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usually just the opposite.)
and sensitivity. How we are to proceed depends actually on our honest
enthusiasm. It comes down to this: we should not only learn to sit
he got warmly enthusiastic, without hesitation, to take off his coat.
clear in the old sense of the word. But there is the real necessity

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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reality, of course, the Moon man does not sit inside as if he were
to incorporate this concept into a composition (group), he would no
but from what has here been said will emerge the necessity for that

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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point of the East, a kind of primordial opposition was made. There is
something like a sort of archetypal opposition set against the

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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place, man would obviously be in a different position in this earthly
ordinary instruments of the physical body. There within sits
something else that we have gone through by day. If the position were
subject to the predisposition of being overpowered by Ahriman during
Golgotha belongs of necessity to what had to enter earthly
outstanding position in our Building. The Archetype of Man in the

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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the transition between the one and the other.
Occidental. The Greeks were to find the transition from Oriental to
important site in our Building there will be set up the figure of
Pompilius, who visited the
where the man's own development was in opposition to the divine, that

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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opposite of this, namely, how the impulses of feeling and will are
not merely through his own disposition, but because of his whole
which is inanimate has once been alive. Men must find the transition
gives out is his own position. The ego of man #1 has not got it as
of necessity to say: This personality shows strong evidences of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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completely opposite: men makes researches into what their senses see;
say: at the transition from Moon- to Earth-existence one can feel how
external position of the sun betokens something real.
sensitivity,’ since there he is not bound to space. I
‘world of flowing sensitivity.’ For the
sensitivity a person can never think of possession -time at most is
human soul that is really sensitive to nature: that there, in the

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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then only in the position of being somewhat more untruthful through
the same, inasmuch as he deceives himself as to the true situation in

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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following exposition will prove how little this reproach of dilettantism
are in a position to name the period when it originated (and must have
thought. The reader will find a description of this historical transition
the source of the knowledge of positive facts, be it due to man's
have simply to be accepted, on the one hand as the deposition of the
misunderstood, because a positive and most intolerant ecclesiastical
necessity for the early Scholastics (whose period drew to its close in the
necessity was provided by historical evolution. Aristotelianism had become
alive to the necessity of demonstrating to what extent something absolute
lengthy exposition to treat exhaustively of these concepts and all they
University of Vienna, was in the habit of explaining to his hearers the
of such intensity as only external tone or colour or another
this purpose, and that the requisite instrument must first be developed.

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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precisely the opposite of what it ought to be. Let me draw your attention
opposite of what Spencer laid down as a true educational principle. It
can be observed best in our universities. What are our universities in fact
as to point to this as a particular advantage of our universities, that
notice that he is carrying out the opposite of the principles which he has
find yourself in the same position. But to be sure you will teach in a
different. We bring about diversity in life, but this does not derive from
the elaboration of abstract principles. In fact this diversity of life is
are to present. Thus we should really be in a position as we picture one

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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has the predisposition to retain in his organism somewhat more of the
This is the positive side of kamaloca, and if we know this we are
essentially in a position to ease for people what the Catholics call the
must work more out of an inner disposition, the musician more out of a
we feel our way into this process and incorporate it into our sensitive

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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position to see that he gets some sound sleep, so that the delicate
it is exactly the opposite process of the one I have just described. The
situated in an entirely different realm of the body from the memory of
from the supersensible world. Therefore we now have to do the opposite of
any situation.

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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can, on the other hand, fall a prey to making the opposite mistake. There
into the opposite. With regard to a child it is therefore the intimate
education which is geometry and. arithmetic, everything which necessitates
situation which draws the ego into the organism. You will see from this
process of out and in breathing. Looking at this we can positively see how
transition from the spiritual to the physical world, it completely changes
again to sit still, to be quiet; told him: calm, calm, calm, please, and
So your feelings are just the opposite when sculpturing the head or all the
spring up in you, because many more people have the right disposition for

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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as leading to Intuition. For the forces that are applied in the acquisition of
draw forth from their state of slumber and use for the acquisition of
— You visit someone who has a scale standing beside his
that education has to be a real art. In the time of transition people were
an entirely new situation. Nevertheless the essential thing is that people
open themseIves to the possibility of making the transition to thinking in

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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exactly in their inner composition.
century before Christ â€” sitting of the Bodhisattva under
experience the great Buddha himself. Asita, that was the name of the sage,
other child Jesus showed a more inward disposition.

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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which inherited from generations just these dispositions. If Zarathustra

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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themselves as excluded by virtue of their entire life situation from what
the division into classes, the situation in ancient Greece, for example,
prerequisites of any kind, everyone actually has his standpoint. Today
after visiting an exhibition of modern art, Dr. Steiner said,
experience to act of themselves as necessity demanded. In speaking to one

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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Noting in this way what, from birth on, was a predisposition in
harmonious disposition. However, we then see him transplanted
following a visit to Dresden:
its whole disposition, — one that must have gone through epochs
quite inward disposition.
his disposition appeared in the Greek artefacts then being
disposition — Christian feeling, combined with an especially
of all, since in his whole disposition he had fully assimilated
position to recreate the evolution of humanity in figures. How
form. In the picture opposite, the “Disputa,” we
wonderful colour composition. It appears to us in the picture's
no longer in a position to enter into all the nuances and

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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of the animal hundreds of times in hundreds of positions, and
colour composition are to be approached. It is shown that one
behind this countenance grants it luminosity of itself, so that
disposition, brings qualities over from earlier earth-lives.

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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together, their composition, is commensurate with the
the individual human soul-disposition. It is really as though
compositions.
a particular life situation may become involved in. It is
life, in a certain situation, encounters something of the kind.
Applying the word in the positive sense, these were clairvoyant
a saga, or if one is of an artistic disposition,
disposition frequently creates something for
the child's soul disposition when a
room, and as she sits in front of all the straw, the little man
the king wants still more. And when she now sits for the third
particular situations, while what lives in fairy tales is of a
straightforward soul disposition. For there is no stage
of life and no human situation that can estrange us altogether

Title: A Mongolian Legend
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this with patience, then the power of the eye situated on the

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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often liked to visit. On one occasion, he invited me as his
consequently expelled from the University of Göttingen.
not only lost their positions, bur their daily bread as well,
University of Berlin, also published in book form. Anyone
development of humanity. One feels oneself positively placed
have stressed that for the spiritual path, the intensity of
was, for example, in a position to describe works of art in
wandering the streets, visiting every palace in Florence. ...
composition appears to us inwardly coherent. But apart from

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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Egypt, for there we find a true transition to a later form. If we go
definite, they later become ambiguous. And thus in Europe diversity
the schools and universities. That history does not call things by
we do with what has come about. That is the situation.

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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greatest talent for this truth. All the prerequisites for the dawning
other European peoples have little disposition for such a truth to
dawn on them with the necessary intensity. For them other conditions
have nothing to do with the external social position of the members.
their external social position. In our society people are divided
Tories were in opposition. What kind of names were they? In the first
untruth, but proof for the necessity of the threefold society.
the awareness of the necessity for renewal of spiritual/cultural life.
the contemporary situation. What good does it do if people only
the situation with many things nowadays. In public life we try to

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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perhaps originating due to the necessity for defense, takes on an
situation in life one must do this or that. They generalize. But it
we create must of necessity also cease to exist, because the death
built through a transition to inner truthfulness. In the age of
threefold nature. It is just those whose favorable economic position
the exterior economic empire. It's an either/or situation: Either
of opposition are not active from all sides against what strives for
being done in the world in opposition to our movement, what hostility
not so bad. We must expect and overcome more serious opposition. But
slogans in these situations, with which they try to accomplish as
whose visit has pleased us greatly — especially to our English
truth calls forth opposition now more than ever. Do not be afraid of
opposition, for they are one and the same: to have enemies and to

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
anthroposophical research method is the opposition,
position to those of natural science which has developed
This is of course quite the opposite of what Anthroposophy
way in which you can position yourself internally to what can
way in which the human being is positioned within the
When you position yourself in this particular way

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
University Institute dependent on him, lived with these
other, and so on. By our position as humans in the world, we
much duller position than that of our perceiving through the
spine can be brought into more or less of a vertical position,
predisposition, while with people there is already a
predisposition for the spine to be vertical.
but what matters is in the relationship to the situation, let's
the human's spine is horizontal during sleep, but this position
human being finds himself in a vertical position he lives in
relationship of the human organism with its position of
given its equilibrium position and sense of equilibrium, the
talk about three dimensions because we are positioned in three
ourselves into the vertical position. What we have experienced
standing within the cosmos. When we now compare the position of
position of equilibrium.
is quite a cosmic position which lives in the human being, to
position from the earth, so the human thoughts extricate
being, through his upright spinal axis, a certain position of
limited by the special equilibrium position in humans.
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
What I'm sketching for you now as a situation in which the
Today the situation in the entire world of philosophy is such
situation in the last third of the nineteenth century, in its
the philosophic situation, our glance which we have homed in
characteristics of the philosophic situation only appear today
his, I could call it, emotional predisposition, lies a certain
we find ourselves today in the following situation. In the West
necessity to cling to observation, experiment and a thinking
said by me in opposition to scientific thinking; if someone
system. Only when one is in the position of not using a foreign

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
a practical situation is present, through psychology, through
position where you are able to recognise a real relationship
Dear friends! Anthroposophy is the last to be in opposition to
So it's not about depositing Anthroposophy into the childish
at a particular human age out of its latent position and in the
way look at for instance a stenographer or a typist sitting at
sensitive for everything which is beautiful, every encounter in

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
situation of the economic life existing in the civilised world
is in the background. Into this desolate situation was also
independent position, such an independent position within which
such a situation doesn't exist, in which the economic life
am thus in an unusual position today by giving this
situation in such a way that I hoped to believe a large number
situation: Perhaps no stone will remain standing as he has
were absolutely not in the position to what was being battered
are not at all in the position to resonate in the original
Conference”. With this once again our daily situation is
During this time intellectualism fell into the transition from
are actually still basically in this situation today. Just when
one is in the situation of encountering decisive experiences, I
way, then one sees the situation one is in.
you take a stand in opposition to such abstract attitudes,
social organism is not so, that people sit together in one

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
Anthroposophic University Course will take place in Berlin. The
lectures and introductory observations in this university
characterises the position of Anthroposophy regarding
natural science has grown to its maximum intensity and where
with those who have engaged positively in these fields of
Anthroposophy comes to the proposition that atheism is actually
a hidden illness, it arrives at a second proposition: Not
positions Himself there as that Being who has gone through the

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
11 March 1922 at the University.
dear venerated guests! The organisers of this university course
lectures. Because this course couldn't contain the 900 visitors

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explaining that situation, but I wanted to stress the
must be clear from the very beginning that it is not animosity
follow a difficult path in face of the opposition and
is afraid of the spirit's creativity. Fear sits deep in his
approach the spirit in dreamy lassitude, but receive the spirit

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necessity for a certain attitude of soul in order to achieve
the friends who are sitting here - especially those who have

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be sitting here.
When you sit down on a chair - at the moment you don't fall on
the floor, but are able to sit safely on the chair, you know
disposition really is, which is reflected in the words we have
position to really solve the riddle, insofar as it is possible
revisit such correspondences.

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enemy without letting the animosity towards him arise. One can
spiritual ladder to the gods. Feeling puts us in the opposite
inner disposition. And this disposition, this mood, comes both
that person shows by his attitude that the opposite is the

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which disappears from sight on the opposite side in the
other. We are very sensitive to the cold. If we touch our skin
sense them as separate. In fact we are far more sensitive to
we are very sensitive to it.
for this visitor from space all human thoughts are in this
turn to the opposite side and seek relief in darkness, against
light to darkness we fall into the opposite extreme. So this
to be ignorant of the true situation. We may think that courage
would like to dip into the healthy cold. That is the opposite
if you turn to the opposite side, then the nitrogen forces, the

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element. And with this easy transition from our own watery
connection to the whole cosmos - contrary to the transition
what is considered positive - that whoever enters into esoteric
transformation to the opposite of this sleep-filled dreaminess,
characteristics, but must metamorphose into the positive

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seriously by the opposition than by many of the members.
the sensory world we think that the site of thinking and mental
the opposite of the sensory world.

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Goetheanum. Since the Christmas Conference the opposite is the
case. And only because the opposite is the case was I able to
position of the Vorstand at Dornach within the Anthroposophical
universities are organized. But that doesn't work under certain
not found in other universities. And there is no intention to
compete with other universities in the world, but to begin with
in the zodiac, which through their composition in certain forms

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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them to be self-evident. It is obvious that everyone sitting

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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made the complete transition to anthroposophy quickly. The
For the transition is made for meditation to really enter
calculate their positions and angles to each
present when the meaning dissolves into situation and

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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distant universe – we must experience this situation

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So if we can always feel ourselves in this situation
saying it; we should transpose ourselves into the situation I
experience if we let it work upon us in this situation as we
if we imagine the situation thus:
“Sitze” – after denuding it of all
triviality – instead of Thrones say “Sitze”
feel the word “Sitze”,
Sitze (seats)
written over “Sitze”]
Sitze, Blitze, Hitze.
In this situation, it is necessary that we feel as
with people. We should experience the transition from

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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situation of standing before the Guardian in order to advance
regarding this situation. Man leaves the physical world in
situation-meditations, in order to feel how the cosmos speaks
difficult when the air's composition is not right and with
One gets to know this way of speaking in all its intensity, my
in this situation. When one practices the meditation of this

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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Now we to situational meditation: how to see ourselves already
enable us to understand our situation once we have flown over
we correctly feel the situation of the human being when he
situation. Then, my dear sisters and brothers, because we are
Today we must review this situation again. We must
Archai. We feel ourselves to be in this situation. The

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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esoteric situation in which we feel ourselves: first of all,
situation. The Guardian of the Threshold poses the testing,
situation: the speaking Guardian of the Threshold — his
And we find ourselves in the situation where we know that we
directs to the person in this situation is this:

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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image-filled situation in which the Guardian of the
listen. It is the first time in the course of situational

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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disposition and attitude, feeling yourselves to be members not
and radiance, then can you first say with complete intensity:
Then we go, hesitating, towards the black darkness and become

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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next verse is the opposite: Now we should rise with our feeling
Again, we are standing between polar opposites with our

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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gradually find the transition to living thinking, we should
situation, after having received the previous admonitions from
the fear will give birth to its opposite and become the courage
from the cold the opposite happens, the spiritual fire awakens,

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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say to us in this situation:
Threshold's admonition. In this situation, as we are preparing

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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This was a necessity which, above all, flows from the spiritual
Therefore, the necessity arose to create a certain nucleus for
and therewith the necessity arose to build a bridge to the
fall into unauthorized hands is the first requisite; but also,
Nevertheless, the rules are applied with an iron necessity.
hearts and souls of all who are sitting here now could not
which are mostly situated in the head, and that he perceives

Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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solve the social problems and necessities required by life, by studying
been left in the conquered countries: the most urgent necessity
position regarding the social question, because such a small
as coming from mere scientific oppositions, mere scientific
situation in which they are involved. What is awakened in them
the opportunity to proletarians while being positioned beside
opposition to their souls, science which did not instil trust
arising from life's necessities of present day humanity which
in the world. By examining the more modern necessities of life
necessity to renew thinking, the necessity to not only develop
maintain their proper positions in the public sphere and speak

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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Based on Life's Realities and the Necessity for a Scientific
solve the social problems and necessities required by life, by studying
Social Question Based on Life's Realities and the Necessity
knowledge of the necessities of this social organism. Healthy
analogy. See, the social organism lies opposite the economic
production and consumption, opposite the economic circulation
instinctive knowledge of the necessity for a threefoldness in
position to bring their own independent laws in the right way
social membership, each in its place, where it is positioned.
with just such an independence be positioned in the whole
with nationalism — but it involves far more the necessity
which are brought together out of necessities for new
every human being also wants the necessity for freedom to be
question, attempts at solutions based on necessities of life,
time of the war. Expressing the social necessity in this, the
capitalism has to stand in opposition to the most inner human
some one-sided class or party position but from the side of the

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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solve the social problems and necessities required by life, by studying
social situation, particularly where restrictions and
positions of power and control. The overpowering of the
living conditions, with the manner in which they are positioned
elementary sensitive and sentient proletarian soul, how
situation of life, into life which appears even less
are powerless in the face of insensitive people. No bridge can
situations but these situations actually have to relation to
unable to introduce any positive impulses into the modern
life regarding spiritual culture, positioned on a communal but
positioning of such a thing in the totality of the social
position within the social organism the following is valid: the
position itself completely free of competition, resting on no
spiritual life, everything from school to university life,
nature of the thing, the necessity for a free spiritual life
other members instruct schools and universities, when I only
Spiritual life stands opposite pure economic life just like the
digestive system stands opposite the head system in the natural
acquisition of nourishment, clothing and so on, and so the
Just like the circulation of goods stand opposite nature
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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solve the social problems and necessities required by life, by studying
that it is justified to say that the situation of current
able to understand their position within the human community
intensity. One of the last big changes — this I explored
shifting modern humanity radically away from the situation of
arrangement of mankind's situation in present times, the
plays with so much meaning into the current situation of
expresses itself in individuals as this or that necessity to
situate themselves in the human community. For this reason, it
in their current situation to understand it in a lively way,
impulse starts according to spiritual presuppositions
the state organism and this formed itself as by necessity in
opposition against the physiocratic thinking. It was developing
economy. One thinks about these opposites only when one
has in real life an opposition to it. The social organism, in
order to be a reality, must have oppositions within itself.
situation but an economic, legal and spiritual one, so that it
contributed to the situation that within economic life and the
position of the Proletariat in economic life, the very nerve of
independently even with the predisposition of developing damage
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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solve the social problems and necessities required by life, by studying
way of thinking. Obviously through a historic necessity, which
positioned itself at a decisive moment in a hostile opposition
which are in relation to human social situations are human
people at the transition into the more recent machine and
Proletarian humanity above all things; as a positive, that it
time was through their situation in life connected to, what we
independently built opposite the state, were filled out by
spiritual goods — the legislation regarding universities
life in the right way and see the necessity, that whatever is
other side; in the middle, the state is positioned.
hours and employee-employer relationships. The opposite will
situation within world events; they come out of a social will
markets and industrial sites and the curia of the established
proletarian world sensitive thinkers, for instance,
would say, and always evolve it in the opposite direction from
have said is the opposite of divisions into nutrition, defence
itself so that people can look at their life situation

Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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solve the social problems and necessities required by life, by studying
soul sensitivities had to let the call be heard: ‘Does modern
consider their situation; they didn't arrive at an instinctive
social situation, should form the base for this modern
professors of sociology, university professors. It is typical
which goods is necessitated to have. In the economic process,
into the position which only he can experience. The only help
exactly the opposite direction it must be considered, not
positioned in the economic process, the price of labour as
labour rights, which is situated on the basis of an independent
spiritual life. Like the political state necessitated
newer social order. Of necessity, here is to figure out which
schooling system through to the university system, right into
particular position in the social order, but instead it has
spiritual power. Here would be those who are in the position,
spiritual life would replace those in positions held by
from the basis of evolutionary necessities of mankind, are the
the same way, if you have insight into the necessity of
accept that there is no necessity to create capitalistic
sensitive dignity of the modern Proletarian, to be established
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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It is not the aim of Spiritual Science merely to satisfy curiosity or
begins.’ But the opposite is the case! The true Mystic enters a world
And now let us consider the time of transition from the old phase of
This was followed by the transition to Ego-consciousness. And now
The time of transition from the universal clairvoyant consciousness to
who is working from spiritual worlds, for the position of an Initiate

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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penetrate with the same intensity into this spiritual substance.
This requisite of spiritual culture was recognised everywhere in

Title: Community Building
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any other similar situation — the building of a home for
the situation was that Anthroposophy stands upon a spiritual
of the prerequisites for the formation of an Anthroposophical
transition to the development of the consciousness soul in the
find himself in later life, by disposition of karma, in his
understood in our feelings. It is simply a matter of necessity,
opposite to that which you follow when you bring the mysteries
we are occupied with Anthroposophy we do not merely sit there
Indeed, my dear friends, visit the primitive communities: there
oneself as to the necessities of this study. This is the spirit
left as it has been or is transformed. If the situation
the prerequisites for their existence now that they are here.

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and as a matter of necessity where certain conditions are
certain necessity — there will be found included the
awakes now simply through the natural impulses and necessities
knows that the most diametrically opposite views may be
opposite view of the other person with the same tolerance
higher worlds. This moral basis is a matter of necessity for a
spiritual-scientist goes his own way in a positive manner and
some. But, when the Society makes the transition of taking
the situation within our Anthroposophical Society has become
This is the inner situation. Externally, the situation is such
written is the act of opposition. Those who really know what
needful is it, then, that the prerequisites for such a Society
point for this. But this self-education is a necessity within
whereas I gave you yesterday the positive aspect. I wish to say
described to you in a positive way from the viewpoint of its
prerequisites must be aware of all that is connected in the
Naturally, there existed a necessity that all this became what
necessity that chemistry, physics, etc., mathematics, should be
was created during the period when it was a necessity in
this, again, growing out of a necessity — to deliver

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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hand there is the absolute necessity today to do
horse-shoes. People have no hesitation in speaking of
positive and negative electricity in the inorganic
sphere, or of positive and negative magnetism, yet they
hesitate to speak of luciferic and ahrimanic elements in
positive and negative magnetism are in the inorganic
sphere. It is just that the idea of positive and negative
course of the stars, the planets, and their position
human beings and the movements and positions of the stars

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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of the gravity of the situation, irrespective of our
position in life.
took the opposite route and people coming to colonize
Quite specifically the situation was that physical
written by university professors. There is of course no
going sadly astray. People are no longer in a position
present situation absolutely demands that there shall be
initiation wisdom than in the situation where people talk

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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transition from a ruler who was a god to one who ruled by
now entirely in the beyond. The opposite of what had
vision. For us the gods no longer descend to sit on
present situation is, and out of this realization were to

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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— enable them to hold a position of authority in
outline. Basically the only opposition to these trends
really took note of the intensity with which those other
the fore, and then compared this with the intensity of
arousing a limitless intensity of feeling.
opposition to arise against the principle that is growing
opposition arises in some corner or another it would be a
not fight us with the intensity we have come to
principle. This makes them sit up and listen; it makes
the greatest opposition to this idea? The greatest
opposition is put up by religious confessions that
followed by the people who sit there below

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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facts are therefore entirely the opposite of what every
within the circulatory system, yet exactly the opposite
things are the opposite of what they really are. That is
opposite direction?
universities. It is the work done at the universities
that has brought us to these disastrous situations,
simply by teaching outside the universities what until
and positive developing. These are the things one wishes
the Waldorf School, that anthroposophy has positively
applies if we consider the real situation in comparing
produce. The situation is therefore exactly the other way
could then proceed until the next time. Now the position
situation cannot remain as it is, but a united effort
visit such things have come up again countless times
absolute opposite of what the first had told me. I do not
seventh says the opposite. It evidently follows that one
because the situation is serious. We are looking at
to achieve a situation where social exchange, social
entirely based on reality; to say the opposite would be
properly at a certain density will of course be useless
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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situation. In principle everything I have said so far has
frequently spoken of two streams going in opposite
the Jesuits, by positive Protestantism and so on, would
must be taken into account and taken positively into
the situation gets uncomfortable.
present situation is such that the pathological nature of
polar opposite of this, is the mystical approach.
materialists. Taking the opposite route, mystics mostly
realities become polar opposites when knowledge is
at something else. The opposite extreme is abstract
opposite to the concentration of activity in the heart.
necessity to find new forms of speech if the truth of our

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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the opposite view over the last centuries.
exact opposite. It is not surprising then that anyone
presenting his own views in opposition to Oswald Spengler
no effective opposition, for it merely means playing with
growing necessity to work our way up into the spiritual
because the situation is like this where the human being
It will be seen that the necessity arises in our age to
situation. Words will only evoke a little bit of the

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
the finite, transitory realm of the senses and belief in
way that the right transition could be made from primal
since been concentrating on guiding the transition from
totally involved in guiding the transition from the
oppose the regular progress of science, the acquisition
Jesuitism, which is more or less its polar opposite. The
and the true aim turned into its opposite. Knowledge of
about? The aim is to do the opposite of what those
oneself by the opposite name, as it were. Humanity must
Imagine someone calls and you are brought a visiting card
the nature of a person from the fact that his visiting
necessity of the present time you find yourself little

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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human beings and then make the transition to certain
and the brain organism situated inside.
state. In the waking state the situation is that our will
dreamless sleep. Dreams hold a middle position between
position to make use of this sense organ in normal life.
full of life and luminosity. Gradually it darkened and
the transition between the two.
of transition. Every age is one of transition of course,
transition, a time that stands out in the historical
refused to wake up and ignored the great necessity that
necessities of which I have spoken. It causes me pain

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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root causes lie that have led to the disastrous situation we are facing
whole situation, where the destiny fabric of human beings is concerned.
situation.
position of Great Britain those 98 million horse power years could not
mentioned, the Americans were in a position to mobilize 179 million horse
the war the situation then was that objective force met objective force
into the situation to give human beings their bearings. The nature of
something very concrete and positive when we refer to this event that is
positions on account of the fact that they were not Christians. People
difficult position that has arisen because of their inner untruthfulness.
become deposited on the human soul. The influence of the external
the souls of people is a positive power, and out of this positive power
been travelling in Eastern Europe—are in no position to give a true
about the economic situation, and no bridge exists to words that take
out of this situation.

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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Basically the situation is now that thanks to scientific
idea of logical necessity. He said to himself:
‘This logical necessity is compulsive for us human
but subject to necessity. In a certain way, therefore,
achievement they are capable of, the logical necessity
is possible, however, to find a middle position between
apparent to the senses. The object of natural necessity,
logical necessity, and the free condition of aesthetic
yet be established. He felt some hesitation about sharply
personal. The young person would therefore visit
sitting at a desk piled with books. Personal involvement
would be a terrible situation. Human individuality would
impersonal situation.
however that when these people have been sitting in their
to try again later on. Although my visits have been
even taken by people who are sitting in this room and
situation if they ask that we use polite untruthful terms

Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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Kamaloka time. Thus, the opposite feelings occur, for everything that

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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At the present time man's soul is of, necessity involved in
look, but we need only observe their transitory nature in the
time of transition may result in some dimming of the
may say without hesitation that the great movement of the
towards falsity. Nowadays we can find plenty of people
raised to their dominant position to the detriment of mankind!
that, as man, he has his position within the Earth's history,
knowledge, sensitiveness to it, and a will obedient to
word, of two necessities- — first, the discovery of our
think that the necessity for the Threefold Order will only be
disposition to recognize such facts. Men like to attend to the
you an idea of the necessities of our present age. I speak in

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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is no subject for human curiosity, but a matter for practical
consciousness and human curiosity has no part in it.
Increasing opposition is threatened in the soul-attitude of
time. The context of my lecture necessitated the remark that
when we develop such knowledge of our position within it at the
been saying about the opposition of Ideology-Maya, etc., works
the position of nose and ears in the Hermes-type with that of

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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— just as we comprehend the position of Caesar Augustus
Eastern view is exactly the opposite. The Oriental remains, in
spiritual world, these are the two opposite poles of
of “rights” is the opposite of the impulses
remarkable positions, remarkable because so very
who now hold a position so different from their former one. In
will be no healing, no peace, until the necessity for
spiritual movement, I feel it a duty — a necessity
incompetence were called to positions of authority —
present position. We must have the courage to lay hold of

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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position, no longer confined by a social order dominated, at
opposition, even a conflict. The facts of world-history taking
before his spiritual eye to-day's necessity of looking more
the “Social Question” with more intensity of
general relaxation of tension in the political situation was
the “worker” in this life, but his social position
composed of men whose position is justified by their knowledge
the hypnotism of this idea and can understand the necessity for
The necessity of the threefold ordering must be realized,

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