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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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one that easily throws up the highest questions, as they are
they could say to themselves: if a human should strive through
sentiment and pain. Then, as the Stoics thought, they plunge
they are simply something negative in that they are the
one cannot enquire about evil and wickedness, because they show
thought about evil and wickedness in the world. They tried to
this field as regards education, can they not also run into the
will seem more or less pedantic, because they show us with what
says, they are completely unsuitable.
that follow as a consequence. They will also be followed up on
and human evil, regardless of whether they are portrayed to us
find that they run on, in order to strengthen certain soul
physical sense world, then there they will take us further,
when they observe the sense world and say: we cannot penetrate
should be stated today, that people are wrong if they believe
evil, which they have borne into the sense world, and which
being used in the sense world, and they undergo a kind of
immediate metamorphosis if they are used in the spirit world.
evil in that place; used right in the right place, are they
who both saw the solution for mankind, in that they said: an
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
first of all, they must deviate their attention completely away from
the physical body, they must — so to speak — suggest it
a certain amount of instincts, pains, joys, ideals, and passions. They
in regard to these three bodies. They do not develop simultaneously
the other two bodies are not free and they influence the physical body

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
by the physical world and they permeate the physical world. After death,
mass of phenomena. What they first perceive, is so different from what
they were used to seeing, that they must first grow accustomed to the
sight. They will read things wrongly if they begin to read them as in
hatred and love, appear as if they were rushing towards us. A clairvoyant
sees as if they were rushing towards him. To an unexperienced person
tell us of such experiences. They are really to be pitied, when through
some illness they attain such an abnormal vision of the astral world.
of the brain or some other cause, they perceive terrible shapes rushing
they cannot read its phenomena. Everything appears in the form of pictures
person is unable to cope with them and thinks that they are illusions,
that never clothed themselves in flesh. They continually hover to and
fro among physical shapes, but they remain invisible to the ordinary
power vision. But they are not inventions nor fairy-tale characters:
their evening-pint of beer or wine. What are their thoughts? They talk
then do all manner of horrible things, just because they incorporate
when they fall asleep and regain it when they wake up; but they are
unable to perceive what takes place astrally, because they do not have
which they gave them were intended for the Spirits of the Planets. The
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
for they were the prey of an illusion: they do not consider that in
violently severing themselves from the life of the senses, they will

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
images of his life-panorama are of great importance, for they now become
forces which impressed themselves upon the astral body. They transformed
themselves as if they were some kind of nourishment for the astral body.
physicians in particular, were still clairvoyant and they could therefore
who, to begin with, have nothing to do with man's individuality. They
are called Mahadevas. Also outside Devachan they have a certain significance
Ego. The mahadevas are among those Beings that live within man; they

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
of man are contained in the etheric body and in the next life they are
elaborated in the physical body. They transformed themselves into forces
because they had this decadent astral substance. But fear and terror

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
were musicians, and they will trace this back to heredity. A great theosophist

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
speak. They completely harmonize with the investigations of natural
clairvoyance. They did not see things materially, as we see them to-day,
Atlantean ages, they controlled the life-forces. They built machines
the life-forces, they could build their houses out of trees which they
bend at will. For their dwellings they only used living substances and

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
with them; for they are quite degenerate descendants. At that time there
man descends from the imperfect one. They need not descend from one
another at all, but they may have a common father and be brothers!
they say with their blossom they strove towards the center of the planet,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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given at Leipzig as early as 1906. But they are of historical
development are called Initiates. The path which they tread and teach is that
East. From there, they wandered into the region of present-day India. An
the planets after which they are named. The first incarnation of our earth
development must first be below and feel that they are there below.

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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really do anything because they are nothing of real substantiality, and only something of
negative amount, but for the person to whom they are owed they are a very positive amount!
the way that they see proof. Kant lived in this sphere, but there was still something there
in him they are filled with life. So, too, are they in Schelling and in Hegel. So what then had
the phenomena. And here, for example, people develop a strange psychology. They do not talk here
of the 'I', but they talk about thoughts which come together by association. People talk about
the thoughts and feelings which one treats as though they were independent of it, associating and
the American philosophers. When they come to talk of psychology there is this curious view that
place. People went completely amiss when they started applying
Mill and David Hume applied to the institutions of the economic life what they wasted on
limited to the State what is given them as their natural endowment, and if they had not, at the
before these minds the idea that they had to create a structure for the State which included the
just that people did not know that they were still living from this heritage of the ancient East.
economically than the pupils of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel. When they began to create a State
which, above all, was to become great through its economy, they had of necessity
separate areas. The unity of human beings all over the earth is due to the fact that they combine
in themselves what was divided between three spheres. They themselves organize it in the social
thoughts from that sphere and apply them to the economic life, they would fit there. The
will have to realize that something else must evolve in addition to the special gift they will
money. The ideals, oh, they're too pure, one can't contaminate them with money! Of course, with
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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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the special characteristics of this epoch are not directed from the spiritual world as they were
comprehensible only if they can be seen in this light. One can say: To a certain extent,
of the new age, political affairs, even if they take an unfavourable course, do not
the metabolic system of these Western human beings. Of the three members of the human nature they
use the metabolic system and do so in such a way that, through these human beings, they work into
human being, namely in the metabolic system. But they also work in the trunk, in the rhythmic
They have set themselves the task of keeping life
as a whole restricted to the mere life of economics. They seek gradually to root out everything
human beings? They are nevertheless there, these spiritual beings! And anyone who does not merely
egoism. They want to be absolutely good, they want to be as good as it is ever possible to be.

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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it, in the after-effects during waking. And in this way they bring in everything they wish to pit
— aspirations of the social life — take on such a spiritual character that they have
freedom of action, far greater room to move in as it were. In the Latin countries proper they
these beings, who then secure for the human body in which they incarnate a certain position of
were the people of the West. Initially they left the spirit out of consideration, taking body and
soul in the way they are represented particularly in Darwin's descriptions and simply put an
in that language remain together. When the Goths, the Vandals and so on moved westwards they were
suitable for such beings to incarnate into, as was the case in the West. But they could
so pale during the day that they appear only as concepts, as ideas. The same applies also to what
individuals of the West. They cannot have the same effect here, but nevertheless give
in their true nature we can say: When they were awake there was working in them something of the
no longer bear the spirits of the West, how they torment him. And he tries to balance this by
to imaginations is natural and, even if they do not come to consciousness, they nevertheless
peoples are. The Germanic peoples really live in their language as long as they have it. Just
language into which they merge. It would
cannot get into the oriental languages. The languages of the Orient reject it; they do not adopt

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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truly free being? In the West they asked: How must the external social conditions be changed so
that if human beings are educated to this middle mood they will also represent a social community
con-fronted the spirits of the West. They wanted to lead him astray into the solely intellectual.
the spirits of the East; they tried to pull him into ecstatic reveries
side. They live anyway, so to speak, in every significant Central-European individuality but in
Schiller and Goethe they stand in a certain way simultaneously side by side. Schiller and Goethe
the Greeks concerned themselves when they wanted to receive social impulses. Here they ascended
from imagination to inspiration, but an inspiration which they attained by means of outer nature.
reality in matters of the social sphere — just as they did not stop at imaginations but
not aware, because they lack the sensitivity of feeling for it, that every economic system like
this that they think up leads to destruction; leads definitely to destruction if it is not
post-Atlantean epoch, people were to hold on to capital even when they themselves could no longer
properly. They think that this book is written in the same way most books are written today
consciously, but they sensed it nevertheless. Both felt — and one can read this everywhere
the really terrible and awful thing; this is what has already pushed people so far that they are

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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dreamlike way, they were nevertheless faculties different from those of everyday life and it was
nature, they sensed, they perceived, how spiritual elemental beings worked in the individual
that they revealed the spirit to them. The spiritual spoke out of every spring, every cloud,
every plant. In the way people came to know the manifestations and beings of nature they also
knowledge again only when they concern themselves with what lies at the basis of
know truly again when they say: In ancient times divine-spiritual beings spoke from the
manifestations of nature. For the intellect they are silent. For higher, super-sensible knowledge
in the Crusades and brought it back to Europe — and after they had stilled this longing
little practical experience people have usually evaporates as soon as they take it into a
forgotten; spiritual culture could be forgotten, but machines would remain. They would simply be
style — when they no longer feel inclined — and this is the characteristic of people
generally today: that they have no will — to form ideas concerning true progress. They
would prefer to bring back the old conditions of the countryside. They imagine that this can be
done. They believe that one can shut out what the centuries have brought. That is nonsense! But
people today love this nonsense so tremendously because they are too complacent to grasp the new
much human labour they save. It is simply that 500 million people would have to do the work
that (in this mechanistic element which they have incorporated into the economic life) those
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
they can become free. They have to develop a faculty that has absolutely nothing to do with
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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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was everywhere permeated by dialectical-legal forms. The clergy were the bureaucracy. They held
inborn faculties of such a nature that they were able to come to this instinctive perception. Out
They were able to comprehend and see, or, rather, were able through comprehending vision to
recognize the intentions of the gods regarding human beings, for they had experienced this before
birth and had an instinctive memory of it in this life on earth. And they were sought out by the
blood then gave way to the medieval wave. Human beings then had nothing, or they had less and
mystics in the Middle Ages also spoke of the Christ, but they did not yet have the
Christ-experience. But they did have the old accounts concerning the Christ. And this rebellion
Golgotha were taken up by the Roman principle into a purely juristic dialectics; that they were
accounts, as they existed, come into the hands of the faithful. Thus the strict forbiddance for
consists of four Gospels which contradict one another. They knew that if they gave out the
contradictory accounts which, with the dawning intellectuality, they could only grasp as
not stand in a spiritual relation; they stood in the sign of dialectics right into the lowest
wanted to describe Jesus the man and believed that with that they could still remain within
standard for the world. Just look how easily people are satisfied when they are told somewhere
that something has been 'scientifically proven'. They know nothing more about this proof than
look at history from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries. They developed out of the Church.
professors and others fight against this perception; they confuse it with the old Gnostic
visionary gift and say all sorts of things they do not understand themselves against this modern
still exist. Human beings can still just about understand it. They set down this understanding in
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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their eiders when they were in their youth. The difference between older people and the
their usual habits of thought they would soon see what an immense gulf there really is between
elementary school in such a way that they will already have the feeling: 'We have a science which
accordance with characteristics inherited through the blood because they have come more and more
nerves, which I noticed yesterday to some extent, I will not add any more trials, although they
being is growing into states of consciousness of which he must say that they are really of such a
nature that, during the period of earth-existence, they cannot emerge fully. These states of
beings are not prepared for Him. But they can be prepared only in the way I have just
upon them from which they feel: 'I must regard myself as an earth-being. The intellectual
science such that they fight against it out of an inner untruthfulness.
they are therefore described as being experiences free of the body. Again, in his 'scientific
reckon with insights of this kind. The opponents are ready at their posts. They are developing
carry what can come from spiritual science into the way they shape all aspects of life. But,
instead, one sees how people just let life run its course; how they look at those who direct life
out of falsehood, and listen, greedy for entertainment, to what they receive from spiritual
that, bowing down like this, they burden the day with a deep untruth — then people will not

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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of reality when they see the plant shoot up from the root and develop from
leaf to leaf toward the blossom, and so on. But they do not speak of
reality in the same sense when they look upon the gradual withering and
go further and further back in order to find the causes of what they
naturally very numerous, but they all lie in the direction which I indicated
bring about the destruction of what they were born into and to appear again
possible, in that they work at the same time to the end that the conditions
into which they are born disappear. If you can grasp this last thought, you
people of the present time; that they concern themselves with something
this arrow. They do not bother about that at all. Rather they have only the
are interested only in this arrow (↑), they do not
concern themselves with the fact that they will also be eaten; that does
grains to see how they are composed chemically so that they yield the best
for this tendency does not lie in the grains of cereal; rather they have
they are eaten has nothing at all to do with their inner nature. Just as
and dense and that they may be softened again only slowly. So no one, I

Title: Talk To Young People:
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seen them a hundred years ago or even earlier. Not only have they
remained at a certain age but they are still (however ridiculous this
sounds) at the same standpoint where they were before they were
experience they are having and the actual inner experience itself. We
all; they were attempts to escape from what older people call
crisis” they can hardly understand.
asked many of these older people what they think about adolescence;
of them claim to be taking part in — but they, too, haven't had much
it is clearly present within them. What they feel clearly and very
way as the younger generation does today. Perhaps they go at it less
perfectly but as they look out at nature, their distinct feeling is,
modern civilization. They feel that the world has grown old. The
young feel this strongly. They feel even much more. (However, in this
century find this sort of thing, if they are honest with themselves,
not altogether what they are looking for. They feel that they did not
what they regarded as grey middle age, still acting like the young
people they had been. Such a young person — to put it concretely — I
shame. Young people were not able to reveal what they felt. What was
to ask themselves the reason for their suffering and what they were
modern life style.” If they can actually find their way to the
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Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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him, and they are the Beings of the Hierarchy of Angeloi — and
becomes ideas for the Angeloi Beings, and they change these to
more densified. In our own age they still are extremely attenuated
rank of Spirits of Form, and. the impulses they have learned to form
during the earth-age now become actual forms; and because they are
Saturn forms, they will be mineral. Thus: at the end of the earth
forms. (Jupiter) (Diagram III.) And when they become forms upon
Jupiter, they constitute the mineral foundation of Jupiter. During the
they win for themselves the impulses which they then ray forth into the
as they have so far been described, a mineral Jupiter would arise and
certainly, but they would merely pass over Jupiter. In order that some
vegetation, as this took place also in the case of earthly plants: they
should produce a vegetable kingdom; in the depths of their souls they
— they are there in order to be discarded — but from the
important thing — they are not equal but different.
fact, but I also trace its evolution.” But they only trace the
evolution of the physical, — they always cling to the fact.
they may appear to be. The culture of Spiritual Science demands deep
transform the entire frame of mind and mood of the Soul from what they

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
1915. In this lecrure series, they are the 8th through the 13th
riddles actually become more numerous for the human soul than they
were before, and in a certain respect they become also more sacred.
appear as the riddles they are.
and Evil they must be banished from their present abode, so that they
grasp what had taken place in the Mystery of Golgotha, just as they
in ancient times, which could be given to men because they still had
still imaginations, and how they more and more dry up and die and
become thin and poor. They are so thin that in the middle of the
for which they have earned divine punishment. In Europe man is aware
through with life. What they believed they knew was something that
Mystery of Golgotha should not be grasped through wisdom; they were
they have ‘life’ but no ’knowledge.’
these peoples gone to? We know that for the most part they have
ask this. In a certain respect they no longer exist as nations, but
what they possessed as life exists, exists somewhat in the following
they would have faced the danger of completely losing the power of
remained Romans they would have faced the danger of never being able

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
1915. In this lecrure series, they are the 8th through the 13th
conditions are favourable, that they do not awake from sleep as if
out of a nothingness, but as if they emerged from a full but much
struck many people, in waking, that they lived during sleep in an
element in which they felt themselves to be actually cleverer than
they were when awake. The majority of men must on awaking have said
distinguish good and evil, because they have eaten of the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil, they shall not eat of the Tree of
quite false if people think they must be on their guard against
Spiritual beings are not there because they actually ought not to be
the Ahrimanic beings when they seem to wish to have nothing to do
beings where they are in their element and knowing that they only
work harmfully in elements where they do not belong. So it is right
over to Ahriman at the moment of waking. Only while they strike their
fact that they felt: Beneath what we can grasp in concepts lies the
were so constituted that they had rather developed this condition

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
1915. In this lecrure series, they are the 8th through the 13th
People think thoughts, they form
concepts, and they have the consciousness that through these thoughts
and concepts they are, as it were, learning something of the world,
practically no knowledge of this at all. People do not notice, they
later reunion with the Sun they refused to take this step, and be
part of the Old Moon time. To be sure, they were obliged to descend
again, but in their feeling, in their inner nature, they preserved a
longing for the Moon existence. They were out of place, they were not
at home in the existing evolution; they felt themselves to be
of being. They also live in us in the manner I have indicated in one
of the last lectures. And it is they who will not let the
inwardly alive. They want to keep it of a Moon-nature, cut off from
the inner life element that is connected with the Sun, they want to
separated. Thus in respect of thinking they evoke a feeling that it
Thus they falsify our thinking.
of Luciferic element. Hence they retained more the consciousness that
they have no real idea that one can also come into connection with
the living element of thinking about the external. What they get hold
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
1915. In this lecrure series, they are the 8th through the 13th
made this step of sharing in the Moon existence, they are now going
through, in as much as they take part in our earthly existence. They
willing from the outer cosmic existence. They confine this feeling
here in the interior (violet), they radiate only within us and we are
not aware that they now also go out into the cosmos, that they really
hierarchy of the Angels who, through what they had become, did not
time they did not want to take the step of the union of the moon with
the sun. Had they done so, they would, as it were, have united
conceiving and thinking in the right way with human nature. This they
did not do, so now they contribute nothing to it.
however, during Earth-existence, they wish to do what they did not do
formerly; they now wish to bind the intellect with the human being;
they wish to do during the Earth-evolution what they ought actually
to crack open a beautiful problem, which they call
equally conclusive proofs. They must be there, because the one point
the other the moon-view. To one who cannot hold them apart, they
are only something within us, we do not realise that they contain
so many people not understand it? Why do they connect no right ideas
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
1915. In this lecrure series, they are the 8th through the 13th
through sense observation, and they simply do not perceive the
spiritual extended everywhere, that causes the causes. They do not
World-conceptions can have ever such fine proofs in themselves, they
immediate past; they are worm-conceptions. They are complete in
themselves in a really extraordinarily logical way, they have an
immense amount of value for the worlds in which man dwells; but they
as they are, but rather as signs, as images of these worlds. For
processes, happen in order to make possible our life on earth; they
Sun and Moon were united with the earth and that then they separated,
belonging to them that they do not speak of a possession. But what
they were inwardly united with the whole human existence. There the
already been prepared on Old Saturn, they were only opened upon the
Earth, only there were they made organs of perception. These
like this, they would never have the urge to want to possess
time really do not-play the eminent role in your experience that they
succession of events in our space and time existence, or, if they
earth through the possession-idea. They will then present something
reality they are enduring, in reality they go on subsisting. And
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
1915. In this lecrure series, they are the 8th through the 13th
the time of ancient Saturn, and that of course they were not then
today. During the Saturn condition they were still lifeless germinal
just as they are during waking life; only the ego and astral body are
interpenetrates to some extent the sense apparatuses, else they would
consciousness that they are enclosed as if in a sphere which really
tell you what the others are like and all the bad things they are
Society might not speak of themselves, they always spoke about
others, and what the others did to them. They did not become more
after they have been there a short time quarrel far more than they
it is to guide us to accept things as they are. As long as we cannot
take these things into our thoughts they remain in the sphere of
sympathy and antipathy, and there they burrow. They are not somehow
not there, if we know nothing of them: they are always there. And in
body they then stream down as it were into the etheric body. (See

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they are commonly rendered. If we read the first verses of this
the new civilisation, and of how they still harked back in
they had already adopted a different form of worship, the
under this ancestral sway. These bodies are all related, they
soul and spirit worked upon and through them as a people. They
flowing through the generations and they felt the presence of a
instinctive knowledge possessed by the men of old. They knew
currents, but on the other hand they knew something about their
blood. Standing on the Earth they knew: there is something in
the Earth which also lives in the blood. They did not speak of
of the Godhead with the very body of the Earth. They felt the
exponents. They said: The Father God has worked in the blood
that they conceived the visible world to have proceeded. But,
Nature Gods are working in Nature but at a certain stage they
through the body. And they associated with this the
blood, they said, is the lawful possession of the Gods.
world is at hand. They meant the downfall of that Earth from
‘new Jerusalem’. Only they would have said: We hold
things of Nature; now they have been released and are whirling
were expecting the downfall of the world. They did not yet
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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knowledge of the human being. They consist of two illusions, towering as
appear in a natural way upon the path of human life. But they must be
inwardly experienced if they are to prove helpful. Whether or not we can
of reality. The more perfect the results, the more foreign are they felt to
observe that they do not result from comprehension or feeling, and we shall
they can themselves take their stand upon true reality. Others, who aim at
through inner vision (if they still retained this faculty) or through
this extremity. Upon the one side they adhered firmly to the truth of
Christianity, yet upon the other they were bound by all their traditions to
their faith from this invasion of independent thought. They were of the
hard words; but when considered from the standpoint of the new era, they
lengthy exposition to treat exhaustively of these concepts and all they
they found that the human soul, by observing the things inwardly, endows
higher questions; they are not clear in their own minds as to the nature
with the aspect of every concept they used. A way of penetrating to the
succeeded by Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel; what are they to the man of
today? They are held to be philosophers who sought to fashion a world from
only when they have east off this hampering web of theories and cognitional
possible unless matter passes over from one to the other, they will in
approach, it is found that they became united with the things in a previous
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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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matters among other topics that they should utilize the habits of thought
opinion that object lessons should be so handled that they would lead over
children in such a way that when they are grown up and the opportunity
presents itself, they can pursue further what they have learned from us in
conceived that they serve the future zoologist but not human beings in
or research institutes? They try to be both, and precisely for this reason
they have become the caricatures they are today. People usually go so far
they are at one and the same time teaching and research institutions. But
than of this when they decide to take their stand on the esoteric

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world in which the child's soul lived before conception. They are active
later on these childhood forces are still raying downward. However, if they
to say, they are the same forces that are active in speech and in music.
They are forces taken in from the world.
children musical to such a high degree. All of this they are taking up into
their bodily organism. Whatever they experience of formed movement, of the
are matters we should consider carefully; they show us what feelings we
formative forces offer the stronger resistance; hence they are arrested as
human organism, the counter pressure is greater. For this reason they must
this they must have, or they would remain imperfect, not perceiving the
imperfect things they have done. But we introduce a possibility that the
more concrete. They would not have said: treason, murder, deceit (in

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can be of secondary importance for the lesson, but they are not as
process of movement the moment it happens; they have nothing to do with
that run from the centre to the ends of the organs of movement. But they
and are interwoven in a common inner soul experience because they are both
reality they are connected with the metabolism, and convey the delicate
lemniscate in the rhythmic system where they intermesh.
speech. They work in man in other ways, too, of course. But they get
unusually excited, gather up in the area of the larynx where they receive
carrying on in the direction in which the gods worked when they imprinted
eurythmists, for they all get something of importance from it. In the case
feelings they will just pour out of us. If you meditate on the study of man

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which can achieve this. They are the following: everything in teaching and
separate from each other between birth and death: in a certain way they are
one falls asleep and they join again when one wakes up. Thus we can see
and nitrogen formed a chemical compound in the air, if they were chemically
tightly linked that they could not be separated and we would never be able
they are of the order of the soul. Outside, in nature, we have to deal with
himself. And they must be part of all that we relate to by becoming aware
carriage which is then to carry a passenger: they come towards each other
their dynamics. If someone has got enormously long legs and arms, then they
has a distinct effect but the force of weight with which they work; and it
feel that the child's legs, because they are too long, have the tendency of
or that the arms never know what they are meant to do because their weight
will say to oneself: they will be far less inclined to box somebody's ear
they are the way in which we express ourselves in our human-social
educational matters is that they are affecting the next generation. But, as
children. We do not take it amiss when such a thing is said by laymen; they
not be pleasurable for children but that they will have to experience them
love so strongly that, under our guidance, they will do things that do not
— they will develop devotion (
towards the teacher and then they will feel quite differently. They will
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acquire knowledge of supersensible worlds. They try to answer this question
connections are between these forces and man's being, they do not usually
they work. These supersensible forces, active in the whole of man's
appeared. At the age of seven these forces go to sleep. They are hidden
within the being of man; they go to sleep within him. And they can be drawn
healthy forces. They are the forces a human being uses for his healthy
they despise material existence instead of understanding it and looking for
speak of material existence and supersensible existence they usually speak
come from? They are the same forces as the forces of the planets, that is,
are active in the earth come to manifestation in the work they do in the
bodily influences are of course included. They are bodily processes that
They are bodily processes that are formed by the circulating air in
fourteenth year. There is no doubt that they are bodily processes, in fact
external anatomy and physiology; to do that they would need to investigate
was different then. And they would not even have had the chemical tests to
theories, they may be interesting, but to take them as theories is not
enough. Nowadays they have to be put into practice, for they are connected
with the practical matter of the evolution of mankind. They must be put
are still working contrary to this requirement. For instance they are proud
of the visual aids used in primary school education, and they attach great
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at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
Jesus children in relation to the Buddha, and how they are expressed in the
currents much too abstractly. In fact, however, they are realized in
himself. He would not have understood such laws at all, if they had been
however, the bodhisattvas rose to the spiritual regions where they could
They became clairvoyant for certain reasons at that moment.

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at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
Jesus children in relation to the Buddha, and how they are expressed in the
endowments of the astral body. They could be given to him only by a lineage
They could not yet absorb the Buddha's teachings of compassion and love.
That has been given to them as a commandment. They had not received the

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of a certain spiritual life, but what they gave out of this spiritual
life, they gave in the same way to all classes of people. Class division
deceive oneself in that people still go to church, maintaining they have
what the dead learn of our language — what they
perceive, in so far as they perceive anything of our earth.
as they are called. Basically, of the earth element the dead see only
earth's plant world is like a vast body, but they do
growth process of the plants. They see precisely what escapes the human
being. They see the earth as a great unified organism and the
And, in as much as they
just a few parts. They perceive the soul, the spiritual, but the outer
other! And if they have no relation at all to a spiritual world, they can
humanity. Nowadays people are glad if they can gain a rough idea of
something in just a few words! They are pleased if they can encompass
hence they are so dissatisfied with life. We never become interesting in
— they repudiate it for the reason that it does not
roll on in the well-worn trains of thought they are used to, since it
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
the only thing they had actually heard, the one thing that has been said

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that one has the feeling, they arise quite suddenly from
individualities, of whom one had at first assumed, they light
see them as they re-emerged in the soul of Raphael. Only there
do they attain a certain completion in the powerful visual
attained and what they experienced out of their inherent nature
him, they viewed him as a heretic. However, in a few among
exalted, perfect forms, they appear to us as possessing a
that had not been there in the Greek period. That they could be
art, they appear to us as the confluence of two ages clearly
Yet, at the same time, in standing before these pictures, they
Raphael are not only an end-result. They lead us to acknowledge
feeling of hope, since they strengthen us in our belief in the
would not be as they are if humanity were not a unified being

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the picture. They found the door too low that led underneath
they have to be called such — who painted over the
they continued to feel. Though this feeling had become weak,
they nonetheless felt united in the centre of their being with
Greek female figures, we find they are all directly felt.
Hence, they are shown at an age when growth is ascendant. Here
consequence of the technical means by which they were produced,
they soon lost their lustre. We also see how Leonardo could
supersensible existence, while what they leave to the world is
only a “by-product” of what they undergo
and souls are in fact embedded in the supersensible realm. They
accept the existence of a supersensible realm in which they are
us. Contemplating spirits like Leonardo, we can say: They enter
unfavourable circumstances of his birth, we recognize that they
Leonardo, and they are applicable to him, we can apply them to

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spiritual secrets to them, so that how they are put
that they destroy the immediate living impression
into the particular make up of the individual. Still, they can
sources of fairy tales and of the moods out of which they arise
They can be apprehended almost the same way as a
in particular, namely that people not only dream when they
think they do, but all day long. The soul is in truth always
themselves off. They do so much as a single drop of water
They saw what takes place in the soul, the events
spiritual in the universe. They saw spiritual realities
Grimm [in “Tales About Toads”]. They tell
this regard, collected as they are in such numbers. This would
they are genuine.
They can be discovered only by means of spiritual
scientific investigation. At the time they had been
investigated in the spiritual world, since they are
avenge him. And they shot arrows. They shot arrows that formed
ladder arose reaching up to heaven. They climbed up this
his country, they too come to experience the alternating states
sense how they reverberate in the fairy tale
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this, they could see not only bodies, but also souls, and what
bear this ancient organ, with which they were able to
spiritual regions surrounding them, with their eyes they now
of human beings, and they will come to see not only the
spirit in matter and find what belongs to them. They can then
take hold of it and press it lovingly to their hearts. They
which they can clasp with affection.

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quality in Herman Grimm's writings. In every respect they are
meantime profoundly permeated German life. They listened to the
Brought to life again by the Brothers Grimm, they now live
abolition of their country's constitution. They were
consequences both for his father and his uncle, in that they
Herman Grimm, they were nonetheless not at all the main thing.
say, they melted away from his world-picture. What remained in
period, the age of Goethe. They therefore represent an ongoing
they do not appear constituted like human beings of today,
reminded of the Gospel writers. It is just that they wrote more
and Michelangelo one can confine oneself to reporting what they
will find the preliminary studies, only they look different
and from which they emerge. Only this much can be indicated:
real once they have gone through the portal of death.
means of reading, they would prefer most of all to read such
They too will join in declaring: ‘Yes, he was one of
even those distance themselves from him, if they but understand
seek paths to the spirit! What kinship to him must they feel,

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They are also contained in the published volume,
complete truth — that in America they are thinking of declaring
century — we must realize that they are the recent products of
an evolution and they go back to a remote past, and can only be
world to the spiritual world. Today most people think, if they even
times are referred to by people of today they can hardly imagine much
obvious that because of the mystery schooling they had gone through,
they had become something greater than ordinary people. They were
conquests were justified. They were simply carried out. The
justification was that they had to expand more and more the God's
subjects, then they had to worship the conqueror as their god. During
recognized the conqueror, followed him, then all was in order, they
could believe whatever they wanted. Belief — personal opinion
they did with the power of higher beings.
archdeacons, wear certain clothes, and they perform their rituals;
they are symbols. The first phase was characterized by realities, the
case in more ancient times, but they saw in them godly
themselves gods. They didn't think it was a superstition, oh no,
rather they thought that such gods could no longer live on the earth
definite, they later become ambiguous. And thus in Europe diversity
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They are also contained in the published volume,
had their real meaning. To a certain extent they were realities.
a certain soil from which to grow, and on the other hand they are a
their meaning. They have passed through the stage of symbols and have
want to hold on to the old realities, even when they have become
platitudes; for to realize that they have become platitudes causes a
feeling of insecurity. They feel that there is no longer solid ground
to deceive themselves, and when they recognize the deception as
deception, they feel that they are adrift. They will no longer feel
themselves to be adrift when they can really feel the solidity of the
the traditions they have preserved from olden times and of which they
recognized them for what they are, as long as we do not realize that
so radically, as they can be seen through by the English-speaking
people recoiled when they approached the spiritual by means of the
symbols; they recoiled in fear of a clear, sharp comprehension. On
the contrary, they preferred to characterize the thing as being half
countries, a power unsuspected by the general public. They are
presented as examples are often nebulous, perhaps even quackery. They
go so far back that we can say that the time they started was during
in these lodges today made some sense. Then they became symbolic. The
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They are also contained in the published volume,
involved must remain. They want to continue to exercise their
stage the things which can be observed in physical life, be they
persons, be they the persons' insignias, be they the deeds of the
at least think that they are right, when it can't be proved that they
idealism, not to mention materialism — for they are practically
states towards their powerful neighbor in the northern end; they
situation in life one must do this or that. They generalize. But it
the imperialism of the soul as the means of mundane anointment. They
ones. They think: Today we instituted something, it is good,
principle already resides in them and they therefore have no wish to
the whole world was founded on the British Isles and then when they
were seeking mystical spirituality turned to those whom they had
Wilsonian ideas if they really had the intense desire for truthful
downhill, they will go uphill again! No, if people do not act for
reserves, and they are being used up. And it is childish and
opponents are not interested in the truth. They prefer to ignore as
He is associated with the Zionists. And the editor added that they,
blacklist should be simply shot down or, as they say, rendered
anti-Semitism as such, that's only on the face of it. They choose
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metamorphosis, and how they often become unrecognisable from
forms when they enter into other spheres. One thing remains the
scientific consideration. They had both attended a lecture held
As they departed from
they had heard was a very fragmentary method of observing
the plant; they only become absorbed into a higher principle,
frameworks nail people down. Through them they become more
organic through quite different concepts which they find from
nature and how they now appear in our thoughts. If we allow
being? It is our physical organs. They respond to me in what

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equilibrium, they are degenerating in a certain sense, or they
themselves from the bondage of the sense world, they become
being is fitted out with the same forms as the animal but they
they are discovered they can be verified by science.
changed in such a way that they become the human organ of

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involvement they were looking for with philosophy was quite a
instance in plants, how the leaves spread out and how they drew
encompassing amalgamation. Because they could do nothing else
When people are presented with Hegel, they say: ‘This is a dark
become something quite different, when they become alive. For
which they express themselves, and as a result remain in vague,
ways in the West, central Europe and the East, how they love
— they are nevertheless grasped with the same concepts which
research, when they are thus left and not reinterpreted
as they are experienced in the West, because then it will not

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life, where they felt themselves particularly ready to actually
Whatever is taken up through anthroposophic ideas, when they
people, when they allow themselves to be directed by these
practice they are to some extent successful. We didn't have all
They pose the following question, for example: what is the
aspects of the human being? They have developed all possible
remain abstract, they can't obtain any kind of favourable
they would have no religious education. As a result, some
such a way that they really fulfil true human education.
highly foolish to take the feet or hands as they are at a
them to remain as they are in childhood. It is obvious that we
different to what they are today. Take for example the letters:
they are something abstract, strangers in relation to life
about these means which have entered in modern times; they must
Here are a few indications which I was able to give; they could

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should be judged according to whether they fit into old party
‘Yes, such proposals’ — they called them proposals
Asia. Today these things are taken in such a way that they
basis of these principles on which they built a complete
means people gradually believed they have discovered through
connection with the permeating social connection that they
entered. What were these fourteen points actually? They were
central European population, they unfortunately also fell for
conditions out of which they are negotiated, to do something
created among people will they develop something of a real
every day out of economic foundations. They are concerned with
desire, the broad outline of what they want at the time and
people can live socially. They will live socially when the
they can achieve the following, which I want to explain through
it is the way people are thinking along economic routes. They
they believe these ideas must always have the same validity. It
as little as today's practitioners want to believe it — they
I spoke about impulses angered them terribly because they
the economic life knows they have essentially changed since the

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conceived by me. Those individuals — and they make a very
needs — they were never told anything other than what
them, after they had heard a course of my lectures at that
practice it would be possible to remain Catholics when they
they have their soul and spirit life in their physical being,
that they are bound to their physical body in relation to what
they observe and process whatever is presented to them in their
their life of will and finally in the way in which they place
people when they try to turn their gaze away from the outer
religions, then we see how the images they made of their gods,
the supernatural when they turn to their gods in their souls.
they both approached me and said: “We actually haven't
this they both replied: “Yes, but we noticed something,
Both of them couldn't say yes because naturally they knew that
instruction as such, towards Christianity and they come in

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English teachers coming to the lectures which they had asked
their activity and actions they are steered to something which
“Pflicht”-impulse, which they call
“speech” (Sprache) or when they say
“reason” (Vernunft), they consider both these words
we restrain our gestures and they transform themselves within
they sensed it, like they sensed hunger and thirst, only in a
flowed continuously in the language. So when they said the word
“manas” they felt as if in some kind of shell, they
within theology, for they are experiencing a decline.
for current humanity because today the question they ask is how
even when people say they don't need to wait for her —

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will however be demanded of the members of the School that they
They
They gleam in the spirit-thoughts,
They
They gleam in the spirit-thoughts,
planted the sum of its secrets. Thus, they can be discovered
these three abysses, they are not three abysses, they are only
wander in the turning points of time to where they originate at
to three different stops. They all lead to the same
these spirits. And conjuring them away doesn't mean that they
nowadays — or what they say does — that can provide
is the third of the knowledge enemies that lurks in us. They
They
They gleam in the spirit-thoughts,

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it would be terrible for them because they wouldn't be
prepared. They would be receiving it without the preparatory
the Orientals, in that they thought of thinking as being the
work of the spirit, of the gods. They knew, in that they
of our times, my dear friends. When people think clearly they
are citizens of the world, for they well know that thinking
especially today they let this unconscious feeling dominate in
are the scoffers. They are sometimes embarrassed to express the
mockery even to themselves, but they are still mocking the
such as they the Guardian speaks:
according to its inner meaning. And they can become a guide on
three by the one decisive word towards an inner soul- then they

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spiritual world illuminates life, in which they only pay
feeling and a willing human being. But they are all unified
thoughts expand. They had previously been held together and now
stream out into cosmos space. At the same time they become
Also, one judges people not only because they have something
is and what they must become for us to be able to step across
the bliss of knowledge and they require it.
that they instruct us what should enter into our thinking,

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communications are received from the spiritual world, they
the innermost feelings of your soul; they should preserve what
regard them objectively, perhaps just because they are
For they do not separate on their own. At first when we think
esoteric things, they are so strongly present within the
thoughts, and they are so distant from personal feelings, that
words. And when we understand the words, the thoughts they are
meant to express come to us because they are contained in the
consciousness. Outside, they must be held together by the gods.
and, because they pass through us humans, act differently than
And they creating, wisdom weaving
They want to make us into beings who live among them. The deep
mantras sound similar in that they both characterize the
And they creating, wisdom weaving
eye”. They belong together.

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world, how they enter into different relationships than those
us to recognize the objects in the world. As thoughts they have
dreams to see how dependent they are on irregularities,
touched as separate even though they are very close to each
physically unsighted also receive it ... when they think. Because
many as there are human beings on the earth. They all
light-beings' will. They want to draw man to them through his
They live in the periphery of the earth and say: You, human
chained to the earth by its gravity. They wish to absorb him in
lives: warmth. They want all his feelings to be soaked up by
of how dangerous it is to bask in the pleasure of warmth. They
milestones along this journey. And they say to us:
asked me how they should act in respect to the dead who have
that they play that role continually. These things are
the milestones again appear. They call out to us
of these words during their life on earth, they will not
these torments mean? They mean the ever increasing prevalence

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or heart within us as having clear boundaries. Only when they
water, we live in air, we live in warmth. They belong to us.
They are too close to us to be understood as very sharply
He knows that salt is salty, that sugar is sweet. They belong
they were cautioned: Trust the Fire, trust the Air, also trust
the fact that they lie so deeply in the unconscious, Lucifer's
its own place - in the earth. They describe in detail how
friends, are not to be taken as concepts or theories. They are
are satisfied when they do. It is as if we expected that
thoughts can only live in us if they are illumined by the
the blackboard.] They are illumined by light. [Yellow marks.]

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the members than that they honestly recognize what
anthroposophy is and that they are in a certain sense listeners
to what anthroposophy says; and that they receive from it what
become members of this School declare that they want to be true
members of this School must know that they must adapt to those
difficulties. They are not merely anthroposophists, they are
will spread its power over the neighboring regions. Then - they
most dangerous, the worst movements. And, they add, if the
most dangerous movements of the present, and they are the
therefore, they choose sharp, strong rather than weak means [to
and willing. In reality they are three humans: the thinking
They are the one,
They are the one,
They are the three
They are the one,
They are the three
will feel the Guardian's words as they should affect the human
They are the one,
They are the Three
They are the one,
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Goetheanum, they must either reach an understanding with the
Vorstand or they cannot include things which originate in the
cannot be a member of this School. They must then do the
then people will come to us - they generally don't - would be
I schematically draw how they are conjoined, it looks like
When we have prepared our souls enough so that they can
sun and the moon and clouds and rivers and mountains and they
thoughts do not live. They lived in pre-earthly existence. They
words have force. They are constructed harmoniously.
in inner organization of thoughts so they can work on the
conscious as thinking is. They are as conscious as the pictures

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spiritual world. They disdain experiencing so intimately. They
only spiritual beings in the spiritual world, and they must be
they must be again joined together. Here on the earth man does
because they already are so due to the physical body being a
falling apart if they were not held together by the physical
other side of the threshold, they are divided so that thinking
words, they are mantric words, and he who experiences them will
Therefore, if you let the words work on your soul, they are a

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visionaries. These people show by their behavior that they are
together with the indications as to how they relate to the
due to purely external circumstances. They do not understand
existence. Perhaps they do not know much more than that they
work in order to eat. They do not realize that in the plants
they eat cosmic forces from the distant boundaries of the
painted, but in which they have been recapitulated symbolically
flocks they turned their souls with closed eyes towards outer
space. They did not see the constellations which physical eyes
see. But they actually perceived those pictures, those
afterward we feel: the spirits have called us so that they can
that these verses or their interpretation be sent by post. They

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that existed in the Mysteries in the past when they
we look up at them. But they don't only approach us, we also
which rays toward us? It is the domicile of the gods. They
The limbs do not participate in our spiritual being. They are

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by the soul – let alone externally – when they are

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movement when we are sleeping. They are the Thrones, beings
they are called – the instinctual drives which are
not make it easy for us to see them. They are more hidden
than the Thrones. They do not show themselves in the
formations. They show us their tools in the lightning bolts.
They do not show us their being in the lightning bolts, only
seriously. Then they are effective, as they are meant to be.
Then they bring us forward, forward on the threefold fields

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impure willing, feeling and thinking — that they first
In ordinary life they are separate from each other. Where there
the decisive moments. They became instruments for the
muted, and they became instruments of the ahrimanic powers.
in the spiritual world. They never say “I”, but
they say “my I”. I have not yet heard a dead
after death. But after a certain time after death they always
say “my I”, for they see the I with the eyes of
the gods. They become completely objective. It is characteristic.

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events and cosmic beings, if they can truly understand with
worm or the majestic stars because they belong to the visible
sublimity, nor feel the importance they have for us.
they will have the force, through the simple way they are
from out of the darkness, as if they came from under the
in our thinking; it is their feeling. They bring it to our
They admonish us that we should be conscious of how the
unfold the spirit in us, our own spirit, in which they live

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the Anthroposophical Society than that they feel themselves
existence, they have also shown us what our souls will feel
Archangeloi, Dynamis, Cherubim — they
that in what they say not an individual entity is present,
magnetic forces, as warmth forces, as light forces, when they
They judge the acts of men
They judge the acts of men
They judge the acts of men

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They judge the acts of men
We must pass through such images. And if they work deeply into
flood of colors that fill the bowl. They are breathing the colors
consciousness within the human soul of how they breathe in the
breathed in what they took from the sensible world, what has
penetrated them through the rainbow, what they have transformed
— they go as helpers, with what they have absorbed within
They breathe these colors. The thoughts of the beings of the
hierarchy, the Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes, whom they serve. And
how the Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes give over what they received
us, what they had previously been given from the realm of the
the second hierarchy weave in world-thoughts, but also what they
hierarchy. And now we hear how they also give to these raying
whole cosmos; how they entrust it to the rays of the stars, to
creative forces from which they — Thrones, Cherubim,
choirs ring out together, that what they are intoning is directed
members have not followed this procedure, but have done as they

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intoned with these words as they are directed to the human
the higher spirits, which they serve, to the Exusiai, Dynamis,
which we have wasted on the Nothings. And they keep these names
spirits of the second hierarchy, which they wish to serve. We
This weighs on the Angeloi. They are concerned as to
how they should guide human souls, because humans think. Then
they turn to the Dynamis for the force needed to guide human
illumination they receive from the Dynamis.
They turn to the Dynamis with their concern:
multitude of Archangeloi turning to the second hierarchy. They
for human beings' feeling. And they request from the Exusiai and
Kyriotetes what they need in order to guide human beings in their
They must breathe life into feeling. And with
hierarchy, to the Archai. They have concern for the will of the
they create from the heights to the Archai for their concern for
over to the Archangeloi so that they can guide human feeling. And
the deep. They speak:
initiates and their teachings were there. They explained the
to all the people. So they lived in the earthly world
because humans have forgotten what they experienced in
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they wish to serve the spirits of the second hierarchy for
They flame also in my heart.
They flame also in my heart.
They flame also in my heart.
They are the thoughts that come from all the
hierarchies. They form and shape everything in the kingdoms
They also glow in my head.
They also glow in my head.
They also glow in my head.
awkward in English, as they are in German. But embody does
They also embody in my limbs.
They also embody in my limbs.
They also embody in my limbs.
They flame also in my heart.
They also glow in my head.
They also embody in my limbs.
can come from the spiritual worlds pass through us. They
heartfelt teachings first resounded. They were the powerful
founded by Michael. We feel ourselves to be in it. They are

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again they return to the beginning. This return to the
Anthroposophical Society other than what they themselves
demand: that they receive through the Anthroposophical Society
they must be realized with utmost earnestness. In this way,
They resound in the speech of the soul,
They gleam in the spirit-thoughts,
“O man, know thyself!”, or if they now resound
meditation, they are words which awaken the capacity in the
soul to come near to the spiritual world, if they are able to
They resound in the speech of the soul,
They gleam in the spirit-thoughts,
As they appear one after the other — willing,
are the words of the Michael-School. When they are spoken,
Michael's spirit flows in waves through the room in which they
School they can receive them from other members.
letters, but only personally; they may not be entrusted to the

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They arise one after the other thus:
the future of the earth under their power. If they were able to

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souls hear the words that human beings — if they have
surrounding world, which they could hear in the past, can hear
they are inwardly observed, but that these forces appear to the
They would darken in you the I.
They'll create, wisdom-weaving,
They would darken in you the I.
And they'll create, wisdom-weaving,
verses up to the lesson in which they have participated. Only
permissible, they lose their effectiveness, for the act of

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previous mantras to the newcomers in the usual way, that they
end of this lesson. They should also describe the conditions
thinking as they appear before the visage of the spiritual
unfree and lacking independence if they were to catch us.
and brothers! Blossoming plants: they are created from light;
solidly formed, but they solidify from out of the fluid
they are abnormal, when they don't work normally. But we feel
way in the elemental world. There they are neither merely
supporters, nor our sculptors, nor our caregivers — they
“helpers”, enabling us to be earthly beings. They
abstract form, how they rang out to us from all sides of
then to burn it. For it is not good that they somehow remain
longer. They can go in all possible directions. Esoteric
incorrect way by the members who have the right because they
correct way as described — if they are received by others
in an incorrect way, they lose all their spiritual force. That

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the rocks. They sound forth to him in the present; they will
ourselves a very long time, especially at this point, so they

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being, the world in its true spiritual nature. They resound
They are bright and clear, although the Guardian of the
Threshold had revealed them to be illusory. They are bright and
they were in before the human being had descended from the
They are the One,
They are the Three,
They are the One,
They are the Three,
things perceived by our senses, whereas they came to us
they must be burned. We must really observe the occult rules.

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lives with the deepest sincerity. They must feel that they
understood as my words, insofar as they are the content of the
manner to those who feel they belong with him in this age.
Conscientious care of the mantric verses so that they do not
expected to do so, they do not take them seriously.
things must be said, because if they are not observed, one
these things are not arbitrary rules, but they relate to the
occult fact that esoteric matters are only effective if they
their effectiveness if they fall into the wrong hands. And it
time which lead to our previous incarnations, how they create

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like to believe had authority, but for which they were
or that spiritual effort; they smile because for them it is an
life, so they think, nothing can be attributed towards the
not lie in what they are talking about, but it lies in their
in placing themselves into the souls of the proletarians, they
situation in which they are involved. What is awakened in them
These changes are less obvious later but they are there. Just
felt and acted, what they treasured for their honour, their joy
When people were introduced to machines, when they entered into
personal honour and personal will impulses. They were to some
goods and capital, which they did not basically care for on a
understanding of themselves, whereas before they had been
however scientific battles, economic causes; they represent
to economic life. They no longer believed a spiritual or soul
realm of the social movement. They believed that only through
could a sense of man's worth be brought about. They aimed at
that through their correct development and processes they are
but out of life itself, as I believe they have done so during
and catastrophes lately. If they are able to economise further
are the ones upon whom we may depend. They are the ones who do
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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observe this modern technology and modern capitalism as they
these three systems are the combined effects, when they
say yes, science can wait, they may gradually rush to their
ideals, they will soon come to the view that such observations
scientific laws are simply transferred on to, what they call, the
but they both can only be recognised as independent as such,
Just as with the education of humanity the various gifts they
these three things, but when they are realized, when they
penetrate human social structure, they will contradict
they should be living reality and through their lively activity
members are independent they contradict one another in a
value when it is known that they may not reach success through
an inter-scrambled mixture but that they are orientated
social organism and who have understood some of it, that they
entities they ensure equality of all people before the law,
would mostly have an uncomfortable effect. For this reason, they
to me, quite impractical.’ — They remain calm only
because they don't have the will forces to really involve
regional politics. I say they have the choice to either
modern socialist is certainly legitimate as a desire; what they
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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discuss the underlying impulses rather than see how they
what people have to say about their feelings, how they
experience their own lives, how they think about other classes
living conditions, with the manner in which they are positioned
in the modern social order and how they feel within themselves,
discussions because they eventually lead towards social
understanding is too closely meshed. They can't grasp the
complicated phenomena of the social life by themselves. They
remain abstract, they remain delineated and they don't allow
virtues, how they should relate through love with their fellow
human beings, how they can become blessed. We notice how
dignity — they believe — and how they show only the
towards them, while they neglect actually doing anything,
because they have acquired nothing socially in their life of
spirituality, to a spiritual view of life.’ They do not tire
criticism nor to good will, but it comes down to how they place
— and these days they are not low in numbers — on
a rule they don't hold water. One soon finds out these things
qualities of fanatics, they could be good people, they could be
in an epidemic; coming from America they flooded Europe in the
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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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appear later in life even if they are not taken in as decisive
consciousness, they thought as a result of anything related to
tried to establish it in the structure of the state. They
relationship, they stood quite removed from the interests of the
they developed more and more in such a way that even these days
engulfed by one of the others but that they unfold freely
respectively and they think in this or that way about the
because modern humanity, even though they consider themselves
same direction as the economic ones then they are not
bourgeois circles do not take this into account, they have
two branches need to be side by side and that they each develop
themselves independently because they are working side by side
own existence, that they both work adjacent to one another and
stripped off. They must become purely economic serving entities
has the right to something they lay their eyes on? Still, when
what they should not becoming dependent on if the spiritual
organism. People just become independent through it; they are
This fanaticism gets a hold on people if they don't gradually
foundations need to be freed from being restrained. They can
where they both work, running simultaneously. They are not
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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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they want to accomplish, or, as you can hear from various
opinions, they want it carried out themselves, which means,
they can create something called a social organism.
derived out of abstractions but out of reality; they would be
learn. They must learn to think that they actually can't
proceed if they think: ‘What must happen in order to withdraw
themselves, how they live together in the community and bring
nothing from the present ruling class if they build on their
met with one final important trust and they, not out of their
believed they could bring the Proletarian will and thinking
they had stood up to then which had quite a different
they were actually doing. This is how it came about that this
thinking to their beliefs and to their concept of life; they
only needed to apply it to their theoretical principles. They
torn out of all they could not identify as their concept of
life which was connected to the old outlook on life. They were,
entire life experience, they stand within relationships which
solely from angelic, divine origins but they had at one time
they connected all their needs to it. Out of this impulse grew
fundamental social facts in what I've just said. They will
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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mouths and they are no longer able to swim in this sea. They
search for a rescue boat; they would not be able to find such a
rescue boat with conditions they usually insist upon. About
saying they lived in a capitalistic economic order and felt
countries and continents but over world oceans they could
through a certain education and taken part in what they called
spiritual life, imagining they had reached impressive heights
they feel comfortable or at least feel satisfied in modern
civilisation, but out of which they can only feel satisfied
they can basically have no share.
consider their situation; they didn't arrive at an instinctive
far as they could, into a connection with the modern state. The
permitted, did they accommodate the bourgeois leaders, allowing
understand these things correctly, how they have developed,
terrors to the modern proletarian movement but they clearly
such a way that they had the experience: Above all things
if they are being sincere with honest feelings which they
cherish, for they do not yet see results coming from the
There are those who would admit they became enlightened by what
what the ruling classes had to give him because they didn't
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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this simply means that they have never taken the trouble to understand
uttered at random; they were indications of a deep and profound theory
knowledge in definite terms. They say: In the act of knowledge, man
which is, however, more than an image. Those who really know what they
Goethe, albeit they are generally thought to be mere fantasy. Indeed
never be defined in clear, hard-and-fast terms, for once again they
was not one of those artists who think they must ‘out’ with everything
centres were temples as well as institutes of learning and they
alike of religion, science and art, they were the source of new
after certain trials and tests had been undergone? They were able to
in the form of ritual to the eyes of the spectators. And what they saw
with their eyes, they also heard with their ears. Wisdom was presented
the universe were not the abstract conceptions they have become
indissolubly united, they had been forced into divergence as a result
in the physical world they work upon each other when they speak
are explained by Spiritual Science, however contradictory they may be
the Atlanteans themselves. They understood all that was living in
Instead of objects in space, colour-phenomena arose before them. They
and clouds and they perceived it with these powers. Such things can,
connection with Nature, wisdom is uniform among them, for they live
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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revelation was less sharply emphasised than they were in medieval
knowledge was beyond the reach of man's ordinary cognition, but they
there. They are subsistent and independent. The Idea of the Good
things and never notice that they are out-and-out nonsense. It is
nothing down was because they held that wisdom must be something
sense in which we speak of Nature to-day. In their schools they spoke
that spiritual world of which they were conscious.
Egyptians and to other peoples — they too name their Gods.
where they were able to understand the essence and being of the
The less men understood Christianity, the more they spoke of the
Galileans; the less they knew of the Christ, the more emphasis they
In very creatures of nature they see the Divine-Spiritual. This is
Truly these things are grave when we see them as they really are. I

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on our hearts — they direct our attention to one of the
should not be recognized within this circle as they present
than they are viewed elsewhere. We should simply not be
persons, if we could not view things otherwise than they are
our time as they desire to be laid hold of but cannot be within
of that time when they lived together as children. Memory lies
which they were once associated in hundreds of details which
the human intellect; they speak to the human heart, for the
as a certain number of persons who take in what they hear or
another, and they awake to each other in a changed condition
each time that they gather together, as each of them in the
by karma will then actually be formed. They will be a fruit of
of life and the discussion of these, they should come to the
evening if things continue in the same direction that they have
if they continue to be served up to us at a time when the real
foster, each on its own basis, what they have on their hearts.
the prerequisites for their existence now that they are here.
Movement. They will ruin every Central Executive Committee, no
anything of the sort, but only the question as to what they
the case, since they do exist. The questions are of the utmost

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with him in the physical world. They have no experience in
they likewise do not understand him unless they simply consider
into discord with others because they cannot see into his
they derive from the everyday consciousness, and do not lift
sphere — when they come together simply to listen in the
they will fall to disputing one another, because they have
when two persons are conversing, they are often not concerned
ego, and so forth, they receive this in a sensational way but
ordinary temper of soul over into what they supposed to be
character that they live in some sort of quite definite
circumstances. They have, for instance, studied one thing or
Anthroposophy — and they are aware that the best means
For they are well aware that refuting opponents cannot be
harmonized with spiritual research. They wish to place a
spiritual-scientist. And they attach special importance to
that they possess them, though it is difficult at times to
which older members feel they must keep in their bookcases. But
spoken. They were delivered upon an initiative proceeding from
had the feeling: “Well, they ought really not to have
manner of things and have not continued to work at what they
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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lived when the emphasis is on intellectual thinking. They
people were thinking in a different way. They simply did
them. They were much more bound up with the feelings and
though human beings might feel that they had citizenry of
spiritual powers, powers they had felt to be flowing and
independent of the guidance of spirits with whom they had
earth have been made in such a way that they need the
way they did at the earlier stage. As evolution
ask why they do not submit to the will of the gods who
guide normal progress. They simply do not. We have to
they should only influence dreams within the human sphere
with dreaming and anything related to this. They are not
satisfied with this, however. They haunt the human way of
They have retained their power and instead of limiting
our creative artistic work, they are constantly trying to
all else. They come from the sphere of our feelings and
their personal preferences. They are not in the habit of
behind a single lecture if they just listened to that one
and two Roman Catholic priests were in the audience. They
understand. All the time they want to describe their
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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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they moved on, and that the European and Asian peoples of
always have some relationship to the locality where they
came to thinking; they merely carried their bodies with
even to find any kind of inner reason; they merely
be given something in an external way that they cannot
tradition. They had to bring their particular
physical body into the way they saw these things. The
People believe they have the Word when in fact they only
generally interpret or translate the Gospels; they
achieve it by their own efforts. They will have to
nurture spiritual science. They will have to create an
respects. It is necessary, however, that they take hold
were already dying, but they still were so much alive
they speak of food and drink. The same applies to Fichte.
human evolution in more recent times. They have their own
entering into the spirit in which they wrote, we would
this, however. They think they understand each other.
They do not realize that they are not communicating their
deceived; they will have realized that what I wrote was
these things have come to the fore; very often they are
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considering. They may help to make some of the ideas on
today. We really need such concrete ideas, for they are
human beings, and therefore into real life. They are the
worse, they are so much taken for granted that people are
office by the priesthood and its institutions. They felt
were then of no account. People felt that if they spoke
some social background or other. Instead they felt that
people at large their ruler was God. Basically they had
accepted the fact that they were ruled by gods who walked
there in their midst; they were not something to which
means. No, they were present in the mysteries as the
finally have to leave behind the narrow-minded views they
things as time progresses, but in certain areas they are
retained. They are often retained by becoming external,
very well, of course, why they keep throwing such things
into human minds. They have become just as meaningless as
not so limited in their ideas they could take a wider
believed, as they had believed in earlier times, that the
adjoining the physical realm, but they also thought that
before. They were in disagreement on the significance of
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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edge of the abyss if they are allowed to come into
fact quite considerable. They are of course clever people
because they impress people.
also know very well what they want. They are the
as regards the way they form ideas, present-day people
that is almost limitless. They cringe before anything
at least tell themselves that they go along with it.
three movements work for the things they want to bring to
believe they are sincerely devoted to it, yet the
interest they muster is still rather superficial, subject
— the conceit shown by humans when they invented
human heads as a reflexive response to the way they
human heads as a reflexive response to the way they
the true Mystery of Christ comes to be known; all they
of strange and peculiar creed concerning Christ they
we are in error, they fight us because it is realized in
on in our modern civilized worlds. They all teach that
confessions address themselves? They address themselves
bear the thought of being extinguished when they die. Yet
they are able to bear the thought — for they have
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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things are the opposite of what they really are. That is
perception, and the direction in which they perceive is
where they pass through my arms. Here we have something
less physical form where they extend from the brain
so ethereal that they now extend from our ears and touch
they are quite different when this influence is there. It
philosophy, Marxist views are widespread today. They have
particularly public opinion, they would free their
tend to look down on to some extent, though they say they
see things as they really are and not to produce
understand what I mean if they want to — could be
the way they were. It is necessary, however, to look at
movements, because they all aim to develop the human
failure; we have to say today that they shall succeed.
They must not however swallow up the original
because they are easy to accept. We must look at life
up.’ Feeling rather good about it they will say:
idea as far as it can go, but they are not unworldly
people living for some private pleasure; they take hold
they did not waste so much time, their work, which let us
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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culture, irrespective of the degree to which they even
admit to this? People who imagine they have both feet
real progress of human evolution the way they are
presented nowadays. They could however play a role in
be able to do their part. They would be of no account,
is new; they must fight intensely against anything that
about in the present time, though they are of course
proud to say that they do not take atoms and molecules to
example, though they may appear more solid than a
however solid they may appear. A rock crystal can of
phenomena, are not the reality of matter. They are mere
phenomena; they come and go out of another reality that
because they come very close to the experience we know
can be had with the Guardian of the Threshold. They are
perceive with the senses’, they cannot be said to
to say to someone that they are wrong in thinking that
they only need to have good instruction to change their
correct or incorrect views. We have to say that they
dissatisfied With materialism. They find that materialism
is not right and therefore feel they must follow a
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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physical matter but because materialists thought they
outside world. People saying they do not want to know
and that they want to follow the inner mystical path to a
recent times are in error when they look for the
ignited. They found the material world through mysticism.
movement again. People think they are materialists or
idealists or spiritualists because they follow a
three thousand years before the Mystery of Golgotha. They
if they see matter as point sources of energy or as tiny
science. They must be replaced with concepts that not
science with their ordinary mental attitudes. They want
to agree or disagree the way they usually do in the
outside world; they want to continue in their habitual
ways as they approach spiritual science. Spiritual
the age of materialism — when they approach
Will be more and more to consider what they are actually
fact of life. They go back to better times, to the
They know very well that to follow a party programme
right and this is wrong. They say: ‘It is part of
exactly three logical defenses and they are all equally
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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divine worlds. Human beings knew that they were connected
with divine spheres; they felt this and perceived it the
logical demonstration. All they knew was that as human
beings they were filled with what the gods instilled into
origin of man. They were aware that humankind had
but they could not have achieved freedom, the ability to
make free decisions. As soon as their arms moved, they
my arms.’ When they were walking, they would have
like that. They felt, as it were, that a divine spirit
to reach human ears. At a time when they had grown beyond
the state where they had divine knowledge, people found
such a thing? They wanted to strike at the root, as it
were, of the knowledge then evolving. They did not want
divine knowledge, which they had grown out of by that
of post-primeval times. They were against human progress.
deny this. They therefore did not call themselves
terms in which people thought in primeval times. They
they presented to humanity, notions that the ideal was to
it gradually. They said people should make certain divine
wrong time, and that they should use this knowledge to
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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the head and that they are in fact present everywhere in
know very well when they are awake, that dream life
connected—that they relate to each other; they
where they are concerned. If we then reflect on the way
watered-down way, as if they lack drive and will.
constitution of human beings is such that they experience
brain was still very much a sense organ when they were
permit them to think at the same time as they made
Orient were in the world of soul and spirit they were
actually able to perceive what they experienced between
in their brains, which had become sense organs. They were
however unable to think whilst they were in that
condition. They had to wait until they were awake, as it
were, before they were able to think the things that they
these things between going to sleep and waking up. They
bodies. When they woke up, their brains changed from
constituted in such a way that when they were awake they
were able to remember what they had experienced during
sleep. The things they remembered lit up in their minds
daily lives in the ancient Orient they were able to
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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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have not yet become fully aware of what has come upon us. They have been,
they call it a ‘war’ behind us; a much greater war than any
on to what they imagined the events of the time to be.
from coal-mining. They did not arise from something that human beings let
beings are capable of producing. Indirectly they are of course connected
to the powers that were active in the objects they themselves had
forces are concerned. They are dependent on many factors that do not lie
they influence human destiny we perceive the power that we have come to
which are active in this. In the past they were luciferic powers and now
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
which their minds perceived when they looked at the phenomena of nature.
They saw elemental in everything nature presented to them. Thus we may
phenomena. They have not the least idea that demonic spirits are active
in the whole world of technology created by the human race. Nor will they
— and I have often told you that the will is alseep. They work at
machines they have produced. They are active nevertheless. The spirits
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
they meet this Christ event in a living way.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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such thoughts forward as mere theories. They will only
rightly if they are able to ask themselves questions like
these and really feel it; if they are aware of the
earth; they want the whole potential of human beings to
possible at the present time. They are making attempts in
because they tell the secrets of Golgotha. The
Christ they are not being entirely honest, not entirely
truthful, or they construe all kinds of conflicting
preparation now, but I regret to say that they have not
achievement they are capable of, the logical necessity
human beings, saying that when they were in this
pleasing and that they could follow their instincts
because they had purified them and made them spiritual,
so that they could no longer drag them down. Human beings
What exactly was it that they had done? Schiller used a
can be made, the closer scientists feel they are to this
'thought-corpses', they would cast their spell upon us,
be met when they came to mind after those few hours. The
our books, for they are the coffins of knowledge. We must
legal system nowadays as they have with the sphere of
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everywhere in the ancient Mysteries they spoke of the sacred
consider first. And on the way they are connected with each other
clarity. Such narratives are not based on deception, but on truth; they
feeling they have, have often been heard to say the expression: I feel
visible, and it takes twenty, thirty to forty years until they have
dissolved. Since such astral corpses are continually there, they
great cities are today, what were they like a thousand years ago? For
The plant cover and the animal world, they change before our eyes; they
drastic changes of his condition as they are present today as birth and
lawless. They are not new bonds. They were already present in previous
they will no longer descend into the cycle of incarnations.

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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social question. They complement Steiner's very practical efforts to realize
for the work which they have accomplished in this time of
fewer socialist “programmes” would be formed; they
easily to be studied in the attitude they adopt towards current
have been made and people have taken them in. They could not
have done that if they had possessed, a straightforward sense
of truth — yet, they did it “to order,”
they brought forth the model which to-day underlies the
Graeco-Latin age, we find that they had a lively interest in
To-day they really have no further interest in it. They feel
that they have finished their task and their interest from that
important fact, piercing deeply' into human nature, if they
work on it. They have lost their interest in the bodily
the connection with the activity of these Beings. Hitherto they
have approached us; they have worked on us. Now we must work
the three higher Hierarchies. They will be in the thoughts and
fellows, no realization that they stood before him as souls
what they brought into being. How about the earlier teachers
— did they educate “technically” not
this! They must take the trouble to understand it, however,
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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social question. They complement Steiner's very practical efforts to realize
impulses that they worked in human evolution. In our times,
this connection has come to an end. They have for the moment no
of man. They will only enter into a new relationship to us when
with the question; but we shall see that they do provide the
Hitherto they were necessary, to guide the heart and, mind to
spiritual realms, but in future they will help to detach man
from the spiritual world, unless they admit something entirely
is generally handled by the creeds, that they appeal largely to
springs from an egoistic interest in people. They would prefer
different language about immortality from that to which they
they should realize in a fruitful way what they have arranged
time claim that they appeal to unselfish, not to egoistic human
“God” and “The Divine.” What do they
and of “Christ,” but all the time they only mean
the “Angel” — the Angel to which they turn
because they meet a response in their souls. Whatever the
the Angeloi, they may rise in their feelings to the
They must realize that they have passed through terrible
last three or four hundred years, but which they were too timid
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social question. They complement Steiner's very practical efforts to realize
they go: through some kind of initiation and enter it
feeling and willing, when they fall apart, just as they become
people from childhood onwards so that they can rightly enter.
to cope with life. Why are they not equal to it? Because, they
childhood. Once developed they remain throughout life; we have
experience were more instinctive than they are to-day: this
how they long to understand reality by means of abstractions.
or less as they do now, except that man would not be there, and
People do not really know how, through their organization, they
to-day to understand. How do they work? They work in all that
back into the spiritual world at death.. There they accompany
in our time that they are correctly interpreted, and not as
they usually are; so that we may be able thereby to struggle
opening eyes to reality. To-day they are all but closed. Man's
things because they throw light on our times. A number of
themselves in their true colours. They had arrived at
perverse fantasy to cling to our own pet ideas because they

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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social question. They complement Steiner's very practical efforts to realize
and measures which deal with it piecemeal. They will be forced
to-day and in the immediate future. While they will only
They showed that the hitherto ruling classes had, during the
restricted that they could not stretch them to include the
making pleasing progress, so that they could be assured of
inadequate men's thoughts have become, that they are no longer
merely. to look round on the proletariat to find out how they
same defect. They often have their origin in deep truths yet,
from the facts of life, because they have no contact with the
facts and are placed in an isolation from whence they can
proletariat. We may understand the form of the words when they
what are they in reality as expression of their wishes and
ideas? Can they be regarded merely as a subject for logical
that in their souls kindred strings were sounding and that they
were receiving a knowledge which they could absorb. But a time
culture. They had to be taken to the museums and shown what had
Then if men were honest they must have known (if not, they
science, religion can only be understood if they issue from
be spread over these things, but they must be brought into
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