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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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they could say to themselves: if a human should strive through
working for themselves, that is organise our working the way
evil and wickedness show themselves as black spots, one could
themselves to be completely blunt against such an enigma, which
bears its tail. You bore them in yourself in other lives and
must compensate for them in later lives. What you have stepped
then follow up for themselves with the further run of thoughts
we use them in the life of the physical sense world. If you
them and live them out in the spirit world instead of the
much as you use them here, so much you take away from the
and bear them into another world where it is out of place.
Through humans using forces that are lent to them in an
who are not concerned with what is around them, what the times
they love, and do not concern themselves about anything else,
them —, and even philosophers are devoted to the maxim:
before the greatest riddles. The capacities that led them to
themselves: and catch sight of the longing for the spirit

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
them. The same space occupied by the physical body will then be occupied
body and astral body separate themselves from it and ascend. It is not
astral body separates itself from them. But at the moment of death something

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
places, but we are surrounded by them the same way in which we are surrounded
world, the senses of the astral world disclose themselves. When we become
sight. They will read things wrongly if they begin to read them as in
towards them and throwing themselves upon them. In reality these shapes
are their own passions which go out from them and appear as a reflected
towards them, because in the astral world everything is reversed and
a tiger that attacks them. This is how all these wild shape should be
person is unable to cope with them and thinks that they are illusions,
that never clothed themselves in flesh. They continually hover to and
Anyone who can look into the astral world may perceive them.
to incarnate themselves, to form themselves an astral body; these Beings
have a real lust to materialize themselves astrally.
very evil Beings occasion to incorporate themselves, and these Beings
them. To speak of morality in the occult meaning, does not mean to preach
the organs enabling them to see this. But for a clairvoyant, the night
which they gave them were intended for the Spirits of the Planets. The
say that the religious documents are inspired. Those who wrote them

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
violently severing themselves from the life of the senses, they will
keep them in close proximity to the physical world. A similar fate —
lose our friends in Devachan; our connections with them are simply of

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
of Devachan, have a great regularity. One might compare them with the
look upon them objectively, recognize their full significance. We come

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
does not quite resembled experiences themselves which we had here on
soul was inwardly interested in them. Now however, all these experiences
pain, every joy once connected with them, are silent. This life picture
forces which impressed themselves upon the astral body. They transformed
themselves as if they were some kind of nourishment for the astral body.
them from within. In Kamaloca there is nothing which we did to others
can see in them shapes, which resemble bells shooting with incredible
filings in a box a magnet underneath it. The filings arranged themselves
Other beings dwell in his three bodies and are active within them. Man is completely

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
comes flying towards them in accordance with the inner force-streams
forms and colors and is expressed in them.
will show us that behind them always lies a definite character-disposition.
karma. Also the character, the inclinations and habits express themselves
elaborated in the physical body. They transformed themselves into forces

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
in a loving way and not reject them.
error. Mathematical truths also arise through the fact that the opposite
the true causes for such transformations, a clairvoyant can see them.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
them by investigating the Akasha Chronicle. This living chronicle of
be viewed from four aspects. 1) By taking them naïvely and literally.
clairvoyance. They did not see things materially, as we see them to-day,
which enabled them to rise from the ground and soar above it. But these

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
with them; for they are quite degenerate descendants. At that time there
themselves. The higher expels the lower, in order to rise still higher;

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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interest for those who are now themselves giving lectures to a
instinct, but of refining, ennobling them. Thus phantasy is a product of

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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if I can so call them, of this primal oriental wisdom. And then, like a rapidly developing
What mattered for them was to have a clean, self-contained system of proof, in
express themselves, spread out, in imaginative pictures. In the Western culture we find that, in
Schelling, and Hegel. After them the culture of the West overwhelms everything that is there,
limited to the State what is given them as their natural endowment, and if they had not, at the
them. In accordance with the historical development of humanity, spiritual thinking, political
in themselves what was divided between three spheres. They themselves organize it in the social
ancient times we see individual personalities, we see them expressing in their words what was the
thoughts from that sphere and apply them to the economic life, they would fit there. The
bring dirty money to them; better to keep it in our pockets; that's the proper place for dirty
money. The ideals, oh, they're too pure, one can't contaminate them with money! Of course, with
them. And thus we have to consider that, up to now, we have stopped at one Waldorf school which
These have been obviated for the time being, but at Easter we shall be faced with them again. And
them as far as they are necessary; but here it is a matter, above all, of nurturing that
question of depending on them for this 'World Fellowship'. It depends on those who, as friends,
with the theme:
13. Baron Christian von Wolff, philosopher and mathematician,

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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how these differentes within humanity express themselves in the civilized world.
there. He, however, transformed them into a theory, into a conception of life. And Marxism as a
but out of political-legal-militaristic ones must succumb to them. We have a crude example of
North America. She lost these colonies to England. The colonies freed themselves again. The
work through them. There are in fact a large number of people, for example in the West, who are
even show outwardly that this is how it is with them. Thus, for example, a large number of those
that set themselves the task within their sphere of action of suppressing consciousness of self,
other people around them, amongst whom something like this spreads like an epidemic, a certain
desire not to call themselves to account concerning the real motives behind their actions. One
them; uses beautiful words, and all the while there is beneath it nothing, basically, but
probably perfectly upright men in themselves (I do not impute strong Ahrimanic impulses to them)
— are themselves bearers of such premature beings; but the pupilship to such beings lies
within them. These
And what then, in total, is the task these beings have set themselves?
They have set themselves the task of keeping life
allow themselves to be convinced a little of the existence of the causes!
and also inspire them during sleep at night.
East, who fancifully attribute to themselves all possible selflessness — a selflessness

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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past, but wish now to work into and to influence human lives, assert themselves; not, indeed,
through human beings themselves, but by appearing to them. We spoke of how these beings influence
the human 'I' and astral body — and then asserting themselves, without the people realizing
personalities who, under the influence of beings from the past who appear to them in
enabling them to incarnate into the human being. But particularly favourable for this incarnating
human beings who have permeated themselves to a lesser degree with the Roman element than have
of whom we have to speak here, is that through them those spiritual beings I described yesterday
make themselves felt in the world. In the East this is different. A different stream moves
pass on their language. The Germanic people have their language as something living in them and
human constitution of those peoples who have gradually asserted themselves in the centre of
described yesterday to assert themselves in the leaders of the people of Central Europe. But this
in their true nature we can say: When they were awake there was working in them something of the
separated, beings asserted themselves in them of the kind that often worked unconsciously on
attacks of the spirits of the West that asserted themselves in his will, that surged particularly
people allow themselves to be absorbed by the
spirits of Central Europe were faced with an immense question, a question that was set them as
human beings placed between West and East — a West that pulled them towards reason and an
East that pulled them towards revelation. Just study later Scholasticism, the brilliant age of
and so on. Compare them with such spirits as Roger Bacon
in the Middle Ages people could only bring them together by feeling the split, the duality in
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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instincts to such a degree that he can give himself up to them without their dragging him down,
which, in essence, deals with the same theme but in the way required by the beginning of the
yield to them but held back and did not fall into mere intellectuality. Goethe had to battle with
where things go on in the usual way, the Greeks considered themselves dependant on their gods, on
the Greeks concerned themselves when they wanted to receive social impulses. Here they ascended
imaginative? Neither of them had spiritual science; otherwise Schiller would have been able to
post-Atlantean epoch, people were to hold on to capital even when they themselves could no longer
were little understood in the time that followed them. I have often spoken about
this. People gave them little attention. Otherwise the study of Schiller's
prevent this spiritual science from arising assert themselves. And, basically, there are only a
that in recent years individual nations have only found to be true what comes from them and have
willing to engage themselves absolutely whole-heartedly for spiritual science, nothing beneficial

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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nature. People felt themselves to be in the realm of knowledge when gods spoke through the
that they revealed the spirit to them. The spiritual spoke out of every spring, every cloud,
knowledge again only when they concern themselves with what lies at the basis of
a matter of course according to the place and rank into which the gods had placed them through
particularly among those who pride themselves on being practical, who, for example, go into
me recently: 'yes, the new age has brought us machines, and with them urban life; we must take
and prefer to get along with the old. The machine age has arrived. Machines themselves show how
nature. But nature no longer speaks of these divine-spiritual beings. We have to grasp them as
spiritual reality beyond nature and then relate them again back to nature. The period of
being quite abstractly. He works with them in an entirely abstract way. He has his mathematics,
geometry, mechanics. With these he constructs his machines and regards them altogether in the
he constructed and made them, they nevertheless gradually take on a life of their own
— a life certainly which he can still deny because they manifest themselves to begin with
these people are not interested in the spiritual life. For them the spiritual life must be an
the human being in ancient times beheld nature and the manifestations of nature and saw in them
beings have not diverted into machines, are still in human beings themselves and manifest as the
themselves.
qualified him really to control the spirits which assert themselves in the economic life. An
that, when one speaks about these former embodiments of the earth, it strikes no chord in them.
that they have no notion of them because they do not want to know about the spiritual world.
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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here people could no longer themselves behold the Mystery in the sense of the old spirituality,
was placed in this social order by the gods themselves through the recognizing of this fact by
and so on, who set themselves against the bare principle of
spiritual constitution of soul. A dialectical soul-constitution can make nothing of them. It was
known and regarded those who went against the prohibition of reading them as the most flagrant
themselves about the Mystery of Golgotha through the Gospels. The Church opposed this because it
can take place within them but the pictures that are formed can differ in the most manifold ways.
authority, on absolute faith in authority — it is only that people delude themselves about
way the majority lost the power to face the truth for themselves and in the last resort this has
visionary gift and say all sorts of things they do not understand themselves against this modern
priest speaks words in a language they do not understand. For it is not a matter for them of
Gospels were a unity. Even today it is strictly forbidden for Catholics to occupy themselves with
reads all sorts of things into them. These people know that the connection with the Mystery of
worked with such a powerful force that other human beings followed them, as the child follows the
someone or other who comes from Paris and holds forth to them brilliantly, as one says, on the
present conditions. They make innocent women dance naked before them and then thrust bayonets
how, in what is actually going on, significant things proclaim themselves. And, for the most

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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habitually stick to what was once instilled into them. At most, one can notice a breaking out
encapsulate themselves in their habitual ideas so that nothing can penetrate which conflicts with
the transformation of the earth into its three following conditions for them to appear fully. And
have to do is to prepare, to prefigure, them in my soul. And by developing the consciousness-soul
but is experienced by individual human beings whose karma enables them to grow beyond the trivial
upon them from which they feel: 'I must regard myself as an earth-being. The intellectual
article; it is meant as a force for life and people will have gradually to accustom themselves to
make themselves mature and ready for the Christ-event of the twentieth century. But everything

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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not given themselves up to egoism alone, but who have spent their life
Science prepare themselves to appear in earthly existence again as soon as
evolution are furthered through what people take up into themselves who
concern themselves with something which is not, so to speak, the culture of
people of the present time; that they concern themselves with something
Earth-existence busy, themselves with something which has a significance
concern themselves with the fact that they will also be eaten; that does
not bother them at all. That is a side effect, something that arises by the
grains let themselves be distracted from preparing those of the next year,

Title: Talk To Young People:
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seen them a hundred years ago or even earlier. Not only have they
them hippies today. Tr.] and other youth groups — we've seen them
of them claim to be taking part in — but they, too, haven't had much
of an answer for me. Yet I know that many of them know very well this
it is clearly present within them. What they feel clearly and very
century find this sort of thing, if they are honest with themselves,
helped them develop a really joyful enthusiasm for nature. Actually,
them. I saw young people in those years die early when it seemed
impossible to them to step into the human conditions of the time.
to ask themselves the reason for their suffering and what they were
been moving them into the various youth groups of our
hearts. Today, although it's been only a short time, many of them
clearly and honestly perceived in themselves “hunger for a truly
in routine, and habit. Cliché, convention, routine — we find them
descend more deeply into themselves, while giving up all their
begin to understand this when they begin to understand themselves. To
a clear gulf between them. We must be able to sleep in the right way
hearts will burn out like this if we can lay hold of them and make
them new. And if we are to be serious about spirituality we will have
than most of them.

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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take notice of them. As we go through the world with our waking
the dreams of this dreamer are transposed by them into their own
conscious ideas, which, for them, are imaginations. Our dreams are
they win for themselves the impulses which they then ray forth into the
Angeloi and carried by them to Jupiter, to further enrich Jupiter by
by man at the end of the Atlantean period to enable them to inaugurate
as the physicist sees them. Instead, we must think of these atoms as
biologists, thinking themselves particularly advanced, say: As many
analogy causes them to make this assert. But it is no more logical than

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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took pains to understand Nature around them. And so we can say that
at its starting point have been formed by human beings themselves. It
sufficiently to grasp in them the living life existing in the Mystery
movement and intelligence, and We gives them the outer figure,
nonsense. One can only speak of them as living with all that
given themselves up more and more to thought, but the human heart,
and in the first place there flows into them what we have now
of the old Romans, and the Latin culture had gone on working in them,

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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element in which they felt themselves to be actually cleverer than
to themselves: Yes, this or the other came; it placed itself before
day-consciousness — because Lucifer hands them
a different way. Then our approach to them would be in harmony with
observing things, forming ideas and concepts of them. Then of course

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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percepts into himself and then lives them over again.
have no inner feeling of how the thought grips them, how it really
spreads itself out in them. Now and again a man will feel in
at that time rebelled against, showed themselves in antipathy to,
at home in the existing evolution; they felt themselves to be
modern philosopher, (for this rests secretly in the mind of them
into them. This is at the same time a proof of how humanity's
Mystery of Golgotha; for them everything flowed together out of the
result which arise from ourselves and pour themselves into the
dissolve them into a sort of etheric eye, so that they may lead one
ideas, but received them as outflow of the divine being. So too in
ancient Rome they did not say to themselves: One man rules other men,
themselves: if the Republic is said to have a significance in the
What was received from them was of immeasurable significance, a
Such men said to themselves: Yes, we
they heard of them seemed to be like warmed-up ancient wisdom. It was
told them that some person had been condemned, had died on the cross,
had taught this and that. This generally seemed to them false and
deceptive, whereas the ancient wisdom which was handed down to them

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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bear something in them which is just as much derived from the cosmos
the inner nature — as he calls them: all higher
receive them within us.’ But that is sheer Luciferic
and the Moon-Picture. We ought to be able to hold them apart; the
the other the moon-view. To one who cannot hold them apart, they
within them living sun-forces, sun-forces that are actually within
them. If we were to feel these sun-forces, were we really to feel the
with the Mystery of Golgotha? Because it is asking too much of them
as the Moon existence, which stands behind them, —
but will replace them by living ones. Therefore it is necessary to
but they pour them into a mediumistic person. This person takes them
over, passes them on and lets them work upon other people through
world speak of the Mahatma standing behind them, and what they
world which men perceive with their senses lives around them, but
medium, they would most certainly bethink themselves that there were
themselves: what it is will soon be evident. They wanted to know
directly confronts them; it is his affair whether he believes in them
one who communicates them with his own personality, as he stands
beings, but one must not appeal to them as authorities. That is a
realities. The moment that one puts a false garment on them, one
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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World-conceptions can have ever such fine proofs in themselves, they
themselves in a really extraordinarily logical way, they have an
worlds permeate our world, for the way other worlds allow themselves
belonging to them that they do not speak of a possession. But what
objects, we should not see them. Thus something else still is
picture these things to himself, if he sketches them on a board, he
them as I have just done with you, you gradually come out beyond the
persons concerned are prevented from coming and excuse themselves; so
presented to them: he runs to see it close to! And now the next line,
sorts of dry allegories to them, but where one only needs to remember
secrets of art too gradually reveal themselves to us. They unfold as

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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not concerned with them. If we had our eyes open during sleep, it is
Luciferic-Ahrimanic beings have asserted themselves. And here we can
spirits — regularly lay hold of them, one might
macrocosm, and I perceive them.
thrusting them in from outside. And in our senses there is the
Lucifer who thrusts his tentacles into them. So that we can say: the
...’ for it was not intended to open them, but so to
leave them that man in his thinking would look back to the old
Society might not speak of themselves, they always spoke about
others, and what the others did to them. They did not become more
earth-existence. One cannot escape them but can only come to the
point of controlling them, of having them in full control.
not there, if we know nothing of them: they are always there. And in
happenings, but mixes his nature into them.

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out their own thoughts for themselves. Now the kind of
veins of them all. The body and the blood are one. And in
soul and spirit worked upon and through them as a people. They
We are content to rely on mathematical formulae and the science
Father God in the days of antiquity. Men said to themselves:
themselves created. These other Divinities are the Beings
insinuated themselves into the things of the Earth. The things
said to themselves: The Godhead works through the blood,
back again to them. The Gods desire the blood for themselves.
themselves. Christ directed the minds of men to all that
them. Think of the bread — the substance wherewith
bread and drink the wine we receive in them the powers and
beings who subsequently had insinuated themselves into the
and the time had now come when it was possible to say to them:
against them.
begin with, men would be capable of understanding them.
themselves, only they must be understood in the right way,
intellect. They allow themselves to be misled by this intellect
Intuition which will lead them into the spiritual world. The
mathematical and mechanical conceptions we apply to outer
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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reach, indeed, both obstacles, but not to remain stationary before them.
When confronted by them, we must still retain sufficient detachment to be
in order to realize thereby that we endow them with their true value by
first advancing beyond them. We must seek access to both methods of
knowledge; once we have found them, the way of escape from them becomes
they can themselves take their stand upon true reality. Others, who aim at
seership being the source from which both of them draw. The chief interest
has no access to them), and works exclusively with the technique of ideas.
do not mean that men had Aristotle's philosophy before them as a system, as
Master of Logic. The medieval thinkers would say to themselves: whatever be
thirteenth century) to concern themselves with Aristotle. The first
concern themselves with his teachings, for in the interpretation placed
the founders themselves presented in the right way. Instead of looking to
invoked the book of Aristotle, their opponents confronted them with
coloured glass; we receive them into ourselves, grouping them according to
thrusts into the things he must also extract from them. Of the
of cognition who pride themselves on understanding Kant, consider every man
however, begin to think, the things group themselves; we gather diverse
(Entelechies). The latter (universalia in re) have incorporated themselves
upon the Scholastics as learned pedants and condemns them downright. He is
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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that produce them are guarded in the soul as a most sacred, hidden wealth.
would permit them to conceive how the intentions of a Fichte or Herder
these reveal themselves quite simply in the choice that must result when
comprehend. On the contrary it will infuriate them. We can first speak to
list of axioms, or 'principles' as he calls them, concerning intellectual
there is not much to be done, but we will have taken pains with them.
at them as we went along. I must put this in the form of a paradox. Your

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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down-raying forces, to retain rather more of them in the head, so that
body to execute them, these movements are checked in the etheric body, but

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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like to call one of them the musical element, the element of sound that we
movement and set them in motion. You will realise that from the standpoint
for as teachers we have particular reason to know about them. Notice what a
to be sense-nerve organs, and external physiology calls them that, yet in
there. By preparing themselves for this the eurythmists are, as it were,
making themselves into organs for receiving processes from the spiritual
together and meditate on them, you can be sure of one thing, and that is
understanding of man. And if you meditate on them these things are bound to
been written about things of this kind of people who have experienced them.

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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organism, if the ego unites with them too intensively, man becomes too much
known to you, which manifest fully only in later years, reveal themselves
children who are inclined to theosophy bring with them at birth
in his ego and his astral body and on falling asleep he breathes them out
separating themselves out from the mixture, while the lighter parts remain
them in a different way. If you want to consider the changes which take
place within the head, you must approach them with the feelings of a
so long that he does not know what to do with them, then one will have to
not be pleasurable for children but that they will have to experience them
love in children, then more than joy and pleasure will be developed in them

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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of them as though material existence were spread out in the world and as
theories, they may be interesting, but to take them as theories is not
practical use by spiritual science. Because if you understand them in the
practical use of them for the good of humanity. In this case, if you
to give them the sort of thing that makes them become teachers and
these rules yesterday and will teach according to them to-morrow and the
but you can only speak about them by pointing to something alive, something
of acquiring relatively more for themselves from other people compared with
what they produce from out of themselves. In earlier times it was
these days. Yet these people who do not put themselves out to accept the
one another, but live entirely within themselves. Human beings can only
between them. This is the root of the social problem. Most people say of
civil servant, you will not educate them to recognise the human quality in
of education that makes human beings of people also enables them to
everything, even revolutionise them. But if you talk to these people about
honestly to a particular conviction about reforming things. Yet one of them
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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flow together in them. It is necessary, therefore, to study such entities
continues to live in them since the Buddha gave the impetus for it. When a

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these gospels in this way, one gets to know them in a certain sense. I have
pronounce certain moral principles; man then understands them. When he
from within themselves the teaching of compassion and love, the teaching of
That has been given to them as a commandment. They had not received the
Buddha's appeal to develop from within themselves the teaching of

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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leading classes and social ranks have allied themselves with certain
themselves as excluded by virtue of their entire life situation from what
the leading classes have essentially concocted for themselves. As regards
the church, where everyone could see them, where the highest nobility
could see them, where the last of the poor could see them. Spiritual life
what people claim for themselves today as religious content is after all
result in regular figures, seeing them as empty voids. You can read about
see of the plant world. For them, the whole of the
people see them — of such a so-called work of art the
hardly come to any other judgment than in asking themselves,
reality. In this manner, human beings have torn themselves away from a
proceeding to such concrete ideas do real thoughts reveal themselves
number of people, ten individuals (a sketch was made), I am one of them,
requires them to engage in new trains of thought. People reject
experience to act of themselves as necessity demanded. In speaking to one
appeared as though they exerted themselves to arrive at a thought in this
are polite and do not conduct themselves as when they are only supposed
while ago, would reveal themselves in our time to human beings from the
depths. Most people today do not really know what to do with themselves.

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themselves into cultural life as a whole, as into a great
see them as they re-emerged in the soul of Raphael. Only there
from the things themselves, from making use of their sense
connection with them. In the time preceding Greece, the human
Savonarola reverberate in us if we give ourselves over to them;
higher spirit stood before them in that ascetic body.
them, including artists, the words of Savonarola still echoed
them as though condenses to become the Child of the Madonna.
present themselves to us again in sleep, upon awakening or in
ideas, but forms them into a picture. By virtue of its inner
in themselves.
in the widest circles people were unable to immerse themselves

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not exactly conduct themselves with special piety in regard to
painted them. In thus getting to know Leonardo's creations,
the most varied standing to his abode, telling them all manner
of things that amused or alarmed them. For, he wanted to study
— or to where the horses are left to themselves. In this
hypothesis to which anyone can come on familiarizing themselves
have presented them. It is marvellous, for instance, to read
orient themselves to what is presented to the senses, to reason
become ready of themselves to feel drawn to spiritual science.
elevated themselves in the ancient manner to apprehending the
human beings felt themselves the immediate creators of their
own bodies, feeling themselves at one with the soul forces of
on things, but not to enter into them. And so, in human terms,
certain point; then his students worked on them. And even in
Immersing oneself in them, it becomes evident that as an artist
Leonardo are themselves real life-enigmas, embodying cosmic
Leonardo, and they are applicable to him, we can apply them to

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those who shaped them for the world harkened
spiritual secrets to them, so that how they are put
spiritual secrets themselves.”
tales in the light of spiritual investigation. One of them is
not revealing themselves in their totality.
the elements vent themselves upon the defenseless human
presenting themselves as boundless in relation to
themselves off. They do so much as a single drop of water
from an external stimulus. We connect them by means
connection with the spiritual world around them.
passing through the soul and felt themselves much more
understanding them, it sensed more or less consciously
them in pictures bearing only a distant similarity to what had
them through life? You have to imagine that these
human soul is actually not only cognizant of them in
a few fairy tales can be applied to all of them, in so far as
ladder, one of them during the day, the other during the night.
One of them became the sun, and the other became the
that manifest themselves in the fixed stars and planets. And
takes place for them as a soul experience.
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closer to the spiritual worlds and were themselves still able
actually lived in the souls around them.
experience the spiritual worlds around them, as an heirloom
spiritual regions surrounding them, with their eyes they now
see physical forms around them with defined contours.
Only in contemplating them from the standpoint of true
the head-eye will no longer leave them feeling dissatisfied in
material will then be spiritual for them. Their now hardened
their sense-perceptible side, not finding in them what she is
spirit in matter and find what belongs to them. They can then
themselves off in love-lessness from what is outside them and
them and to redeem it. The redemption of our inner self cannot
beings have to redeem the planet along with themselves.

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period, numerous other things asserted themselves in the
sagas and fairy tales told them by simple folk, that were
is required for someone to submerge themselves fully in the
Immersing oneself in them, letting the Greek spirit affect one,
assembling external facts. In this way, the facts themselves
such research themselves.
human beings did not yet incorporate themselves in physical
on seeing them against the background of the ongoing stream of
has passed over them, but not over Raphael. He belongs among
speak for themselves, giving expression to these powers that,
and that at any moment the fingers holding them could loosen,
acquaint themselves prefer with what happens on the earth by
even those distance themselves from him, if they but understand
themselves aright, who differ from him in their ideas and in
when his mild figure appears before them — prompting them

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much as possible with them. Therefore I will structure this lecture
said about them, a more profound observation of the historical course
true, for what was behind them was something completely different, it
case in more ancient times, but they saw in them godly
to crown them. Istwan I was also crowned king of Hungary by the Pope
themselves gods. They didn't think it was a superstition, oh no,
others and make them their subjects, just as it was in older times
that doesn't make them respectable, they are still adventurers,

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the old realities had not transformed themselves into platitudes,
to deceive themselves, and when they recognize the deception as
themselves to be adrift when they can really feel the solidity of the
recognized them for what they are, as long as we do not realize that
dawn on them with the necessary intensity. For them other conditions
usually merely tools, the really powerful people stand behind them.
and the other areas dependent upon them, two layers of cultural
secret societies, whose members usually don't understand them —
for these societies is power, not insight. It is important for them
them. But that has nothing to do with the principle. Those who are
lodges, however, those who belong to them are brothers.
however keep them together on a real spiritual foundation.
in the economy do not work because you can't eat them, or at least
can't be filled by them.
deceive themselves as to what is real. What good does it do to
cusswords, and it was necessary to take them seriously because

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and fraternity. What must accompany them is the awareness that life
principle already resides in them and they therefore have no wish to
that is, cultural life, are dependent only upon themselves.
allows them to spread an [economic] imperialism over practically the
should take with them, that now, in this worldwide important historic
our evolution. How could people let themselves be deceived by

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back to the application of mathematical methods because even
where pure mathematics aren't applied, but thoughts steered
developed, here the mathematical way of thinking forms a
of mathematics. The Kantian saying claims that there is only as
much certainty in a science as there is mathematics contained
within it. Now obviously mathematics can be introduced into
mathematical developments of concepts. However, what has been
according to the pattern of mathematical conceptions. When
mathematical function. For instance, if I say: X equals Y,
I have in mathematics, when I created a concept of function. It
mathematics has been brought into the sphere of science.’
as a non-mathematician; he even called himself as such.
However, if one places Goethe there as a non-mathematician,
Goethe couldn't achieve much with mathematical details, that he
was not particularly talented in his time to solve mathematical
detailed mathematical examples, if it was more algebraic. That
paradoxical as it might sound, more of a mathematician's brain
than some mathematicians; because he had fine insight into
mathematized nature, in the nature of building mathematical
mathematician, when building concepts, scrutinizes everything
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theme in question today, specifically the very first of
corresponds to something special within them which can be
lectures I've just given, I spoke about the mathematical
Mathematic and mechanistic laws
have not been discovered by outer experience. Mathematic and
If you want to recall mechanistic laws you have to access them
we create mathematics and we believe we have a purely a-priori
science. However, mathematics is no pure a-priori science. We
balance is what we translate into mathematical geometric
within itself than a person does mathematically. We find the
mathematical simply as a result of us being placed in the
in our earliest childhood reflects later in us as mathematics;
visible as mathematics and mechanics. We often take mathematics
what is sensed with the five senses, extricating themselves
themselves from the bondage of the sense world, they become

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type. For them a big question came about: How can a person
philosophic zealots found themselves in the last third of the
but exist in what the sense world presented to them, simply
present time, but he saw them in mental pictures, thrown on to
which they express themselves, and as a result remain in vague,
thinking in physics in contrast to them taking shelter under
on an understanding of a mathematical nature. Time was short to
will present them, like Haeckel in his genial way did it

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every other individual can prove it for themselves, simply with
bring them into present-day cultural conditions, into practical
life, where they felt themselves particularly ready to actually
people, when they allow themselves to be directed by these
themselves.
them. These are all psychological speculations. At the moment
and nutritional powers in them: the power of authority. What
child's age and regard them as something complete and force
them to remain as they are in childhood. It is obvious that we
them, can imitate them right into the imponderable thoughts
within them. This proves the reality of thoughts. Not only our
master of them, it is necessary that you, through true inner

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an ever wider understanding for them.
question and as a result, prove themselves to be abstract
‘Yes, such proposals’ — they called them proposals
sense with the “Key notes” to understand them
finds this connection at least in one of them. Recently a kind
intellectualised meaning which we attach to them today. These
only; we need to understand them in a lively form. If
I spoke about impulses angered them terribly because they

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theme: The relationship of Anthroposophy to Theology. I want no
new misunderstandings to arise; I will renounce some of them in
in which I participate as well, never attempted to set them
others — defends themselves. Anthroposophy wants to
will make them inwardly mobile and powerful, and this empowered
them, after they had heard a course of my lectures at that
themselves in our midst whether in connection with religious
they observe and process whatever is presented to them in their
themselves in the sensory physical world. When a person looks
ask themselves: What have you actually done? What justifies you
that for example Jewish confessors found themselves in the most
themselves, except through a revelation.
and who are unable to fulfil them through current declarations,
Both of them couldn't say yes because naturally they knew that
systems in order to understand them and not to oppose them.
of them — I believe that is a Christian concept —
have within them a Being who through their destiny will let
them experience the true Christ.

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Goetheanum regarding pedagogical didactic themes. This lecture
to them. I thought this was something through which its
express them in three words — we're talking about
objects present themselves, or one can clean them up through
as essentially the same and can condense them into one word,
our current epoch differentiations show themselves in this
regard. The Greek always felt words themselves rolled around in
resembling consonants depends upon people placing themselves
we restrain our gestures and they transform themselves within
do today in our soul life, because people felt themselves to be
enumerated them in his theory of language and picked them apart

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Warm themselves in joy of existence;
Warm themselves in joy of existence;
all those who consider themselves members of this School should
Your cosmic age has placed them there
Your cosmic age has placed them there
these spirits. And conjuring them away doesn't mean that they
not conscious of what is within them. But I would say that only
we approach spirit-knowledge accompanied by them, ignoring the
Warm themselves in joy of existence;
Your cosmic age has placed them there

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being. We shall therefore develop this theme. And although the
it would be terrible for them because they wouldn't be
Your cosmic age has placed them there
themselves the following question: How often have I resolved to
wish to belong to the Class ask themselves: Isn't there
three beasts are the enemies of knowledge. We see them in the
Your cosmic age has put them in
the worst possible way. Because people feel themselves as only
mockery even to themselves, but they are still mocking the

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which will lead them into the spiritual world, but also for
supporting them. You don't have to do very much in order to
the Guardian of the Threshold says to the adept. We heard them
is required. You don't reach them as you achieve breathing by
movement of the lungs; you reach them, however, by learning to
revere them.
rhythms, let them act in your soul and you will come near to
themselves in joy of existence;

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receive them with total alertness, to the limit of your mind's
towards them. When artistically presented, however, I can
regard them objectively, perhaps just because they are
we do not understand them if we do not use pure thinking to do
Yes, the gods have raised us to themselves by giving us
You lose yourself in them,
You lose yourself in them,
Find yourself in them loving,
can continue to walk in them. For the gods do not want to leave
They want to make us into beings who live among them. The deep
You lose yourself in them,
Find yourself in them loving,

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one point, and we must hold them quite far apart in order to
sense them as separate. In fact we are far more sensitive to
accommodate themselves within the earth's world of light. And
light-beings' will. They want to draw man to them through his
integrate them with the sunlight which flows over the earth.
light-beings, that is when we want to escape from them, if we
extreme: the cold can harden them there. And then, when the
been close to them to direct thoughts towards them in the
understand the words called out to them in spirit-language.
out to him and he does not understand them and must therefore

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offer him the opportunity to admire them and to use them to
carry out his own will impulses, etc. Man considers them to be
rather must one return to what is revealed between them.
them as we speak of the other beings of the nature-kingdoms,
are made into objects, in anatomy, do we see them so. But just
them.
denser ones - even though he is related to them. Nevertheless,
them as well. We feel the inner relationship to these kingdoms
us, where we can look at them, then we feel that the earth, in
Philosopher's Stone. You will find them saying: The
And if man lets them work with deep feeling on his sensibility
according to the guidebook as events present themselves. We
them how man must be aware of his kinship with the three
when it penetrates the eye - warmth is between them - the
them. It is all perception when one experiences it from
That has been the nature of all Mystery Schools, that in them

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Furthermore, all those who consider themselves to be legitimate
out of them - I am only reporting - with the exception of the

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anthroposophy immediately, that you must somehow talk them into
mention them today because so many anthroposophical friends are
acts in our bodies - earth, water, fire, air - through them the
had pressed them into each other. [Around the first drawing an
but must let them live in feeling as meditation. And these

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approaching them with all the characteristics of the sensory
them. But there are no tables in the spiritual world, there are
them.
from doing with its senses what we as adults do with them. The
cannot directly reach them with thought. But what man can reach
themselves.
[Translator's Note: in German the stars themselves can be
them back together as a unity.
words, they are mantric words, and he who experiences them will

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anthroposophical truths, lets them work on him and considers
them to be self-evident. It is obvious that everyone sitting
member, it would not be honest of them. And honesty is the most
consider appropriate for you. But you should apply them
plants in our environment to the extent that we feel them
imaginations, read them from the other side, the spiritual
— when I read them —
themselves, where the gods not only let us read, but
second line, we hear the spirits calling us to them, how
them during the period between death and a new birth. We sense

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themselves to the School with great diligence, Miss Maryon
work on her and lived with them in an extraordinarily
we look up at them. But they don't only approach us, we also
receive them. And what we receive of the rays of light we
dwellings of the gods, then the gods themselves who live in
the beings of the higher hierarchies themselves, at first
which the godly beings themselves speak, and should let
to them if one exercises the soul in the way that has been
nothing. I sense walls, I don't see them.

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incarnation. It speaks of these goals. We hear them in inner
help us advance. For only then will we feel them with the right
mantras or create an inner connection with them, so that we do
not desecrate them inwardly, desecrate their force – that
we do not think of them with the usual, dry, common way of

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not make it easy for us to see them. They are more hidden
than the Thrones. They do not show themselves in the
reveal themselves by their being; the Cherubim reveal
themselves by their tools; the Seraphim reveal themselves by
undertake them earnestly.

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and willing can strengthen themselves after having consciously
them from each other and the individual attributes of
outbreak of the war, many of them had dimmed consciousness at
preserved the habits of the mind and carried them over beyond

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may tell them.
kingdoms of nature, much of what is derived from them being
asking. This answer, which the cosmic-powers themselves
three kingdoms of nature and to let them flow through us, to
be among them. When we are in the spirit-soul world, it must
formulated and the repetitions contained in them, to awaken
Angeloi really live in them. And when we feel with our senses

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the Anthroposophical Society than that they feel themselves
heart to understand them: the admonition to self-knowledge,
verses can obtain them from other members of the School. But
gives them.
Who answers? The hierarchies themselves answer
our souls ever forward if we experience them more and more in
which gives form to our organs, causing them to develop and
throughout the succession of earth lives. The soul feels them

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colors, taking them into their own being.
penetrated them through the rainbow, what they have transformed
themselves, to the even higher spirits, to the spirits of the
spirit-world. We now hear from them what we see when we behold
them. These are not dead thoughts, such as we have. The dead
living by them; and we see that a powerful resurrection of a new
Thus we hear them speaking, not to us; we are witnesses to a
Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes receive from them and transform into
be saved for next time; I do not wish to include them as a mantra

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to humanity in blessing. From them we hear:
them like incomprehensible ringing, mere sounds, cosmic
through the teachings of Christ men should protect themselves

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hear them speaking in harmony as a chorus.
them. In it, in the thought bearing Cosmic-Word live the
themselves; we have let the images and inspirations which
here what this School means. One of them loses the verses
on the street, another leaves themhere, the third leaves
them lying in the Glasshaus: so it was necessary to expel

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entrust those who wanted to try something, to let them try. In
Anthroposophical Society other than what they themselves
glittering in space, not by despising them as outer sensible
heaven's space. But your being, O man, is not among them. You
Warm themselves in joy of existence;
Warm themselves in joy of existence;
potent from our souls. He speaks them aloud, does the Guardian,
different ways to grasp them. These words are mantric, for
explains them:
Your cosmic age has placed them there
beings in our surroundings say, if we understand them
we say the words “Ex deo nascimur”, we feel them
these words. Of course, those may have them who for some reason
School they can receive them from other members.
permission, but only the one who passes them on. He or she

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to the new members are duty bound to inform them of the
to then in the present, and will be said to them in the
Your cosmic age has placed them there
Your cosmic age has placed them there
any reason could not acquire them personally, may receive them
from another member of the school who has them. However,
is to receive them, but the one who gives. One asks someone who
can give them, and that one then asks.
themselves, then I ask them to only keep it for eight days and

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[mantric] verses also inform them of the conditions involved,
ears to hear them — can hear from all the Beings of the
in the present and will hear in the future, which allow them to
comes to them from the entire universe — which is the
You will lose yourself in them
Be yourself loving in them, and
You will lose yourself in them
Be yourself loving in them,
them if our Self would find itself.
them from another member who has them. For this it is necessary
able to have them here, it is necessary to ask either Dr.
Wegman or me. But not the one who wants them is to ask, but the
one who gives them. This must be said as a foregone

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unbiased sense that in them lies the exhortation to seek true
the spirit exhorted humans in the past, exhort them in the
words that urge the soul of man, if he wants to hear them, from
But we must seek the state of equilibrium between them —
maintain our equilibrium between both of them in order to find
equilibrium in the soul is present in the words themselves.
subconscious. The powers of air thrust themselves in only when
will always adhere to his admonitions, letting them run through
receive them from those who have received them in the School
wants to receive them should not request them; it would serve
no purpose. He can go to someone and ask that he be given them;
but the one who gives them must ask permission in every case.

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to give them the introduction, which everyone who wishes to be
presents to our souls. Only if we observe them well and have
established Michael School. If we receive them with the right
from another member who has rightfully received them here in
to receive them. Therefore, one can request the verses from
to receive the verses, but the one who is to give them. It

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Threshold had revealed them to be illusory. They are bright and
clear, we are awake in them.
extend your will to them, offering resistance, so do the
spirits offer resistance when you extend your thoughts to them,
in that the will permeates them. If we do this, we are
Guardian speaks them to us:
members of this Class may possess them, no one else. If someone
them should ask. So, if one wants to have the verses, he must
go to someone who has them legitimately. The latter should then
ask for each individual to whom he wishes to give them.
he is only authorized to keep them for one week; after that

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reserved their seats by placing on them the blue membership
certificates, which gives them the right to participate in the
expected to do so, they do not take them seriously.
given, another member, who has the verses, may give them to
to give them, using the modality that I have just described. If
mantras, he is obliged to keep them for only one week, and then
to burn them.
gave them to a certain person, who had a friend. The friend was
the world are saying, if one listens to them with the soul. For
and finally, when we follow them back to the turning points of
your legs and arms when you let them relax: that is what
when he spoke the words and wrote them, or only spoke them.

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within the social movement, call for hope in themselves and
and in discussions with the intention of relating them to the
consider themselves practical you can certainly doubt that a
or that spiritual effort; they smile because for them it is an
in placing themselves into the souls of the proletarians, they
carriers of the soul life are often not conscious, for them it
not directly related to what surrounds them and the economic
situation in which they are involved. What is awakened in them
them something personal, something towards personal joy,
understanding of themselves, whereas before they had been
enterprise would be taken from them and single employers doing
lost to them. Nationalization was striven for because it was
call themselves practical, by saying: ‘Oh, from such

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way. The relative theme is so comprehensive that it can only be
Whoever can consider things for themselves and stay far away
into this social organism. For them it is necessary that people
three members of the social organism. This corresponds to them
develop an independent life for themselves, such as the
themselves. Shrewdly he referred to the example of how
compose themselves and say: ‘It all sounds a bit like a dream
themselves with the course of events. Not a revolutionary

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forces playing into communal human relationships, for them it
between them, how difficult understanding is; this failure to
in the modern social order and how they feel within themselves,
this modern proletarian experience themselves as the criticism
themselves have the answer and that it does not come from some
themselves. It is a criticism. That the modern proletarians
complicated phenomena of the social life by themselves. They
Many people are filled with good will but not in one of them
towards them, while they neglect actually doing anything,
sides by fanatics who see themselves sometimes as good
themselves in practical life. Today it does not involve people
paralysed that people didn't know any more that within them the
need to believe in things right away, as I present them; what
personalities to edit some theme which has hardy or never been
may reveal themselves. Someone might create poems, as many as
could not plunge into them. People took the economic life as a
observations, entering into detail in some of them which must
label themselves as practical might soon give way to knowledge
could enter into the realities of life, that it could be them

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only social form, namely the state. As a result of them moving
Proletarians didn't involve themselves as much within the real
Proletarians themselves, and on the other side that the
situate themselves in the human community. For this reason, it
statements still haunts many people's thoughts. It haunts them
because modern humanity, even though they consider themselves
necessary, or you contradict them and by so doing, damage the
political bodies manage themselves, whether along their own
themselves independently because they are working side by side
connection of people with economic powers themselves. The
like a god to them. Focus is not being orientated towards the
which suited them no longer. Out of modern life itself an
themselves in the sense of the Threefoldness of a healthy
They have started already and will show themselves in other
themselves to work towards an understanding of these things, at
that it is necessary for thoughts themselves to change. Only

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theme for this evening's lecture has been requested as
proposing this theme, but when the request came to me I found
alive with them, was Goethe's concern in particular. The Middle
opinions, they want it carried out themselves, which means,
themselves, how they live together in the community and bring
themselves. If I want to briefly express what I mean, I must
herself enlightened, call themselves atheists, can acknowledge
tragic way. She addressed the theme of “Science and the
Certainly mathematics doesn't have a state characteristic, but
everything connected to them; such laws found themselves best
or she can do themselves, in the economic process. Isn't it so,
place themselves within the economic life as a constant factor,
determined according to them. Just as it is impossible for a
forces within their own circles, which are appropriate to them,
that it no longer depends on them being goods, drawn as the
varied areas of life, tendencies which focus themselves in the
Everything doesn't get confused and allow them to get mixed
Now I ask you with reference to this theme, to consider the

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When the theme for today's lecture was announced, the question
insight any more but it enabled them to pose this question in
offered by economic life, among them really live the basic,
for them it will be noticeable that this modern Proletarian
social order which cuts them off from the modern Proletariat.
by them compared with those in the leading circles. This
them with the old word of ‘brotherhood’ — need to be
those laws which they have created themselves, as equals.’
relationship is between the life of all of them which
such a superstructure. Certainly chemistry or mathematics can't
practiced, especially the light which falls on them from other
directs them today, so he directs them out of the economic life
them from out of a healthy social organism, so it comes out of
capitalist entrepreneurs today and reveal themselves in regard
to their human dignity, tear them away to where they are
unhealthy proof is produced in them that they can obtain no
effect on them; there is nothing in such a spiritual life which
their own thought patterns, considering themselves practical in
workers and spoken to them about these things. I haven't
think about them!
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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we could prove to you that he never thought of them in connection with
thought to be akin to mathematics but because it was known that the
mathematical concepts. Men must have patience to find their bearings
judgment can prevail against them. Such words as these were not
days of creation, when as yet there was no human being to receive them
to them through colour, light and sound and to such men the laws of
repudiates them. But that matters not. — Just as in the ancient
much deeper relationships between them. The soul living in the one man
Therefore he uses themes in which he is able to show that laws far
find that the mystical life is the source of them all.
the Atlanteans themselves. They understood all that was living in
Nature around them; the rippling brooks were not inarticulate but the
Instead of objects in space, colour-phenomena arose before them. They
connection with Nature, wisdom is uniform among them, for they live
their homes, a figure of a woman appears and puts a question to them.
If they cannot answer within a given time, the woman slays them. This
divest these ancient legends of the magic dew upon them.
Central Europe. It seemed to them that the waters of the Rhine had
confronting them as a separate independent power in each individual.
thence-forward surrounded them as the Rising of Egoism. This
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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the Ideas subsist in and through themselves. Plato could not
those who write them are regarded as authorities. People read such
To them, Christ is Christ indeed, whereas the Romans speak merely of
had been fulfilled the training whereby men could themselves have
Truly these things are grave when we see them as they really are. I

Title: Community Building
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say to themselves, “We have suffered a common
disaster,” this unites them in a certain way, so that
dear friends, I wish to connect these things with the theme
community. I wish to connect these things with this theme for
themselves, for the very purpose of regaining the right vehicle
of the pastorale, there was within them most of all the impulse
unite them, but, on the contrary, isolates them: it atomizes
what is read to them and transform it into their thoughts, but
each time that they gather together, as each of them in the
considerations. Matters of the daily life flowed of themselves
wish to learn about them?” On the one side there is an
modus vivendi between themselves. But it would be
Central Executive Committee would express themselves in regard
to the matter. It is not a question of defending themselves, or
without any one's being responsible for them. This must not be
seriousness. And all must give attention to them; we must

Title: Community Building
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Anthroposophical themes. But the whole course of this meeting
fact that a certain moral atmosphere is created in them —
into potentialities for comprehending things, for having them
number of persons come together with that within them which
themselves with their whole inner feeling to the supersensible
become egotists among themselves in the most natural way
their purpose is. For there are among them persons well
for them to employ is to bombard continually with antagonistic
To know them is simply a duty of those who wish justifiably to
that they possess them, though it is difficult at times to
obtain them. But these people shrink from difficulties in many
of view of a Society, to the question as to who read them.
would not need to have any external connection with them. This
emphatically today than hitherto, but I asserted them in one
point of being established. I could not, however, whisper them
theme of the Goetheanum that has perished. In September and
necessity that chemistry, physics, etc., mathematics, should be
most urgent need was to use them in order to bring about a
problems — one again for the mathematical physicists at
in mathematical formulae in comparison with space from the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
them. We have no clear idea today of the extent to which
the things we are given for granted, without giving them
them. They were much more bound up with the feelings and
ourselves entirely outside them. Indeed we often feel
processes if we keep ourselves well isolated from them,
clouds, we think about them, but we do not feel that the
the universe in common with them. The ancestor was not
floating into them during the Old Moon stage. So we must
yet have the mineral kingdom within them. Their
talking only of the minerals contained within them and
not about the plants themselves. It is important that we
its forces into them, as it were. What significance does
beings have received a mineral body into them. As human
to feel themselves connected, in forming those ideas that
jurisprudence in them. We let the gods mete out
today's lecture we refer to them as luciferic spirits.
themselves to our dreaming, our life of the imagination,
influence our thoughts and make them dependent on
the facts speak for themselves. We must learn to look to
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
Europe brought civilization with them, as it were:
them through life on earth. The life of the mind was
laid among them than in Asia for a culture in which
have nothing in them that permits them to acknowledge the
them in the form of a tradition or through the written
characteristics that enable them in particular to take up
things that are much more sublime but we let them sleep
it highly dangerous to touch on them even today. I want
themselves. You will find that when genuine initiates in
them’. Take a look, you will find this kind of

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
of ideas by which people allow themselves to be governed
would think of going against them — at least in
certain areas no one would go against them.
not even inclined to think about them.
training a person or preparing them for something. You
it was not the ordinary ego that spoke to them: i.e. an
something was speaking to them that had been made to come
through these individuals, using them as their
to speak through them. There was general awareness of
was right among them, made absolute and visible under the
we know them today, and take a wider view. We cannot
merely made them marvel that a god could walk on earth in
divine spirit. This god would be similar to them in
represent the god or gods and are symbols for them.
performed in them reflected what went on in the spiritual
certain secret societies preserved them in a luciferic
disturbing to those who grasp them rightly. We must
themselves for centuries—he said something that was
say ‘I am German’ would make them criminals.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
— enable them to hold a position of authority in
them all over the globe. The ideas current among them
among them. This has made it possible for people like
at least tell themselves that they go along with it.
contrary, we need to discuss them over and over again.
obscure them yet further.
principle. This makes them sit up and listen; it makes
them say: ‘It would take the ground away from under
processes You see all around; then think of them merely
themselves to us as pictures. The relationship that
confessions address themselves? They address themselves
does i not allow them to accept is the thought that death
them—must make it clear to them—I mean
made soul down to them. What would happen if criticism
Records in his library. He could not possibly have them
present-day life, and then also finds them written in
ideas as the Jesuits, only they take them the other way
themselves: ‘What was the person [
courage to say to themselves: ‘If scientists
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
them once again today.
of channels or the like with water flowing through them,
them like this (b):
now has been alive inside them. It would mean teaching
very different than mere analogy would make them to be.
class and point of view suggested to them. Now at last it
is important that those who call themselves friends of
other events as we know them.
and yet it is necessary to speak of them, let me draw
movement stands behind them.
movement, in a way, each of them quite distinct. A
impulses of those who consider themselves the bearers of
the grain with them. The first and most essential thing
the only way for them to be effective, simply come to

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
been a basic theme to everything we have been considering
been in accord with that basic theme. It should also help
firmly on the ground, considering themselves to be
in evidence even in people who themselves are quite
perceive around us and to consider them to be real, or
be real but use them as ideograms, ideal points in space.
Matter is not behind any of them! All we perceive are
material, we cannot look to them to find the world of
uncomfortable; yet unless we enter into them we will make
perceive with the senses, and to tell them to change
theories, to oppose theories, to correct them — all
considering themselves superior to such things — as
given up to our egotistical desires that allow themselves
are in fact rather pleased with themselves when they
if people apply to themselves what it says in my book
them, endeavouring also to let each enter into the
possible to represent them in art, but then we have to
forget about mere ideas and seek to find them—in
them, they see it as something low that must be overcome.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
have the kind of organization that enables them to
this now. These things present themselves to human minds
to force them, as it were, finally to give up the
abstract spirituality within themselves. Someone looking
justice to such phenomena if we do not simply refute them
but show the genius that is in them, speaking with inner
there is a spiritual quality to them. It is more
are to get them clear in our minds. Consider the parties
for parties always base themselves on manifestos, systems
know them and consider them to be fair makes no
physical brain. People must tear themselves free. It is
the old faculty of tearing themselves away that lies in
them, will indeed make use of it and try and understand
people want to slither into them, want to be sheer matter
of losing soul and spirit and of losing themselves as
make It as easy as possible for others, telling them to
see how wrong materialism is and inviting them to turn to
an abstract mysticism that Will give them everything they
come to know about them, must now become reality, why we
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
them. This certainly was ‘knowledge’ in the
themselves to be united with the gods, and being given
abandoned them, but it was for their own good, if I may
beings — by and large instructing them in such a
Luciferic powers were alive in them, luciferic powers
spiritual, to stop them from achieving their mission on
deny this. They therefore did not call themselves
leaders of certain parts of humanity gave themselves the
themselves to the material world; it is a deliberate aim
people who are now supporting materialism call themselves
spirit that was no longer justifiable called themselves
call themselves representatives of the spiritual world.
to materialism. This is done by letting them develop
different, but putting them together one sees something
longer called themselves Christians or followers of
Christ; they really ought to call themselves Jesuits,
before; egotistical reasons make them interested to know
soon as I tell you that one of them concludes with the
spy on them, to get on to their tricks. He has reported

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
presents them with images that, in a way, derive from the
processes them, at least to some extent. The way a sense
themselves unconsciously in the outside world of soul and
world between going to sleep and waking up. For them, the
permit them to think at the same time as they made
found themselves in the outer world and their souls and
world around them and focus it on the great illuminating
Imaginations. Echoes of them are to be found in the Veda
did the people of those times have of themselves? It
form. At that time human beings experienced themselves as
and spirit, and themselves as soul and spirit within that
cosmos. Exactly how did they experience themselves? They
perceived themselves as their own deal model. Please pay
did not have the experience of themselves that we are
beings, and at the same time experienced themselves as
this was only instinctive, but it did give them the firm
did the people of the ancient Orient take themselves very
orientals, for it came to them as an illumination, as I
Fichte, Schelling, even Goethe. What made them great?
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
into the present and will still make themselves felt for a long time, we
spontaneously come forth from within them, but from completely external
to the powers that were active in the objects they themselves had
outside themselves that did the same amount of work for every individual
outside themselves in modern civilization; forces that work for them day
they are ahrimanic. Human beings find themselves in the middle between
know, they looked at them in such a way that they perceived a certain
They saw elemental in everything nature presented to them. Thus we may
around them, that did not depend on them for its existence. The modern
on them, just as formerly it had depended on natural phenomena. These
Demons elemental powers — are active in them, but their effects on
are ahrimanic by nature. Human beings are thus surrounding themselves
them.
people come to know this Christ power, if they let it enter into them,
they will find the right way of dealing with the forces influencing them
making themselves felt in strikes and revolutionary movements. They show
themselves in life and they arise out of the work done in industry, in
themselves that states were Christian. The truth is that they were not.
pretended to themselves and others that the modern states which had
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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questions around the theme of the polarities of West and East,
and use them as a starting point for important
considerations. In a sense these will continue the theme
them to be fully developed at the present time. We can
merely refer to them as future potentials inherent in
really touch us as human beings if we allow them to take
rightly if they are able to ask themselves questions like
particularly in the 19th century — and found them
personal mastery, overcoming them. On the other hand art
because they had purified them and made them spiritual,
so that they could no longer drag them down. Human beings
them. Instead, the ‘tale’ of the green Snake
them reflected human evolution. Schiller attempted to
breath of an individual spirit in them. Knowledge was
had a personal element in them. He did not yet allow
them would cease. The thesis made up from what one has
have the Christ spirit within them.
and this was due to something still accessible to them
Imaginations at a personal level and did not let them
might perhaps have beautiful conversations about them in
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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permitted to say something about the higher worlds themselves, and we
it, and the plant also has such a perpetual fighter. In them, too,
all other things, but as it were inside of them, as if he were crawling
stood before them like a tableau, so that the vanished experiences of
much, and he has taken these experiences with him. He has taken them
themselves the changed scene for a new incarnation.
the attraction of a magnet and arrange and group themselves around it,
with the strangest circumstances in order to learn through them.
love unite them permanently also in the higher worlds in eternal

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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absence, have devoted themselves to the arrangement of
aims, so devoted that men can work towards them together,
themselves to its culture.
judge of it as is agreeable to them, not according to its
thrust forwards into the first place in dealing with them.
These men — their destiny has overtaken them — but
have been made and people have taken them in. They could not
the three kingdoms as outside of themselves, because their view
times people understood them as being spiritually controlled.
related downwards to them, so he is related upwards to the
Archangels and Archai have always occupied themselves with man
them. Man's full clear day-consciousness is established
are fitted for them? It is due to the work of bygone
problem immediately before them, to avoid involving themselves
Central Europe men have accepted the falsehoods told them from
events. Three syllables — I can only hint at them —
to take part in them. Then we had the “National
should feel themselves as a centre from which may radiate the

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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must occupy ourselves with them in the near future, for the
have of themselves no reason to be further interested in us. We
how can human beings manage so to concern themselves
ashamed to make themselves capable of development, or to learn
to-day so that to remember them will provide an ever new and
the soul-spiritual within themselves, of experiencing something
themselves on our behalf. Men's attitude to the spiritual_
we must put forth our best efforts to be equal to them.
Fatalism of the West, Fatalism of the East — we know them
them in the same way as it was when it reached the Germans.
them. To-day we have dreadfully neglected our language,
them the physical tone loses its significance, while the
among the peoples who, as we have seen, sink themselves into
thus acquired an impulse which was enough to lead them to feel
occupied themselves with immediate reality, for which they
“shapeless,” so it leaves them for a time to their
parents, then, stretching out its talons, it trains them to be
useful to it, taking good care that they are so. It gives them
an economic life, gives them everything prescribed, and then
pensions them off. It means a great deal when a man can assure
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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fall asleep and return to them as we awake. That is a general
and etheric bodies and become completely one with them as to
to mankind. We owe it to them that we have the power to plunge
in a kind of sleep. That is why events happening around them do
body, educate them to be able to take the complete plunge.
them, and can cope with it. If we have them not, we lack that
only an interval of time separates them. It is as though
dwellings of souls, though now deserted by them. In olden days
nowadays it is essential that men should absorb them into their
of knowledge — much more than that. To take them
seriously and experience them in, the soul with full import
released from them when we consciously overcome the force of
overcome the forces which are active in them. I once mentioned
not come into immediate contact with them. The temptation
speeches have been translated. Read them and you will find in
them an atmosphere quite different from anything spoken by a
Jesus of Nazareth spoke them, these words meant “render
themselves in their true colours. They had arrived at
make. All the miserable endeavours to justify themselves before
the world are the strongest accusations against them. There
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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will find themselves compelled by force of circumstances,
world of affairs had arrived at the state of letting them take
restricted that they could not stretch them to include the
and public affairs have accustomed them to account it practical
them: on the other, the proletariat with its acquired, abstract
banknotes, etc., is so small that, divided among them, there
all that is betokened by them concerning capital, labour and
social question present themselves. To have learnt through his
have feelings concerning them, but to think and feel
with them, will have taught him to observe what is
capitalist puts them on the market and gives the worker just
to them. The proletariat stood on one side of the abyss, looked
produced by the leading classes, did not understand them, and
took them to be something which only concerned those classes, a
of the Christian virtues, while a fire warms them which is fed
this, that my comments on them arise from no irresponsible
consider themselves advanced thinkers, is that the State should
they will rule themselves democratically.
grounds and prices will follow them, regulated according to
them, but that is impossible. I must just indicate what form
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