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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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thinking and reflection unfolds, in order to fully persuade us
significant and prominent thinkers of the nineteenth century
prominent thinkers a halt was called to all philosophy, to all
souls of significant thinkers throughout long ages. We can go
refer to thinkers in the last centuries before the foundation
remarkable thinkers which, following the views of Socrates and
Augustine. Augustine too had to think over and research
compared with what one might imagine is thinking that has
for anyone who can think with an open mind free of prejudice,
could put forward a whole group of other thinkers, who through
at the same time a large number of other thinkers who have
individual thinkers as a satisfactory answer to this major
our situation more precisely clear. I will refer to a thinker
thinker, who was a pupil of the Chinese thinker Wang Yang Ming:
all beings arose, according to him. For this thinker from the
thinker from the East, who lived a reasonably short time before
meet us in the most remote circles of human thinking. A thinker
would like to briefly portray the main points of his thinking.
Lotze, one of the most significant thinkers of the
could add still other matters that Lotze and other thinkers
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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person is unable to cope with them and thinks that they are illusions,
for the soul. But think of all the things that people read to-day: sensational
mean? — My friend — he thinks — is in New York, and

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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through a process of transformation. Think of your childhood years!
In the East there is a proverb which says: what you think to-day, you

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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world, between death and a new birth. We should not think of this world

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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in human life. Man does not master his own body to the extent he thinks.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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yet possess the capacity of abstract thinking, nor the power enabling

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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thought. Think of a morally degenerate and of a highly ethical man. The

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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through Christ Jesus, was the ransom actually paid? He, the Greek thinker, came to the solution
theory that this Greek developed from his thoroughly Greek mode of thinking, which was now just
Now criticism of Alcuin's way of thinking is not
impulses. For what is expressed in these ways of thinking went over later into the feeling life
thinking right down to Plato — the impulse of eternity of an ancient world-view —
oriental way of thinking, reaching to Plato, and what followed later is expressed in this
spread of Romanism? There had entered that way of thinking which one has to comprehend through
of all, a legal one. The Occident brought logical, legal thinking so strongly into the oriental
way of thinking that we ourselves find religious feeling permeated with a legalistic element. In
thinking. There was nothing there like guilt and atonement or redemptinn. For
[in this oriental way of thinking]
within this occidental culture, the way of thinking which comprehends primarily what takes place
of dialectics, of logical-dialectical-legal thinking is there, in which everything is tending
far as he can understand it, Kant, if he could really think to the end, would have to think the
same as me. It is so inexplicable to Fichte that Kant thinks differently from him, that he says:
If Kant would only take things to their full conclusion, he would have to think
which has a claim to being truly scientific, a metaphysics for what in his way of thinking can be
Those individuals did not, of course, think in this
full demand of the 'I'; letting it, however, sink down into the thinking, feeling and willing
life of the soul. One could say: In the oriental the 'I' is still above thinking,
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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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importance. For it is not simply a matter of individual human beings thinking in an egotistical
scientific way of thinking about social life, a certain view of life has been developed. This
all that was then forced upon the social life through the modern scientific way of thinking and
all its achievements. This way of thinking and its achievements, together with the inherent
a completely economic way of thinking, out of the impulses of economic ideas. This is why
arose. On the other hand, in the West where thinking follows the lines of economics in the sense
brutal — this arose nevertheless from an economic thinking. When, in modern times,
what preponderates here is economic thinking. Whereas Germany has gone to pieces because the
One should not think in an abstract way that
fact that it is given to the West to develop a specifically economic way of thinking. The
expression of the present epoch — in economic concepts, economic thinking.

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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dialectical thinking. So what came from oriental wisdom penetrated then into Western
thinking. And one can only understand the role played by what then developed out of the Roman
pre-eminently suited to adopting and Anglo-Saxon developing natural-scientific thinking and to
artificial head on top as spirit, in the materialistic way of thinking that arises out of
of thinking in the
inclination in the whole people to adopt the natural-scientific way of thinking, which is so
exceptionally suited to the economic life. I have shown you how this scientific way of thinking
the economic life without having economic thinking. For everything that the economy did in this

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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being in psychological terms, where only the head thinks about the matter, and Schiller, out of
this that they think up leads to destruction; leads definitely to destruction if it is not
organism, one should be under no illusion that the economic thinking of the present is a
properly. They think that this book is written in the same way most books are written today
could also be the preparation for acquiring that configuration of thinking
this comment from a Goethean way of thinking
knows that in his style, in his whole way of expressing himself, in his way of thinking, he had
Darwinism, a crude economic thinking, has spread out there and would in the end, if the
thinks in the terms of this economic life can prove

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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interest in the progress of human development and because, for the time being, they only think to
reality they do not repeat at all; everyone just says what he thinks so that the one man can
think about these things.

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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but in which this intellectuality already lived. Dialectical-legal thinking spread out and, in
turn, led to civic-political thinking. This spread from the South into those northern regions
forms. Many external facts show how this dialectical-legal, political thinking, in which the old
dialectical-legal mode of thinking, calumniates everything which resists being fitted into the

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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general consciousness. People underestimate this today. Just think how rapidly, especially in the
in the near future as some deluded scientists seem to think. On the contrary, it will increase
You have only to think of the demands that have arisen as the outcome of a gigantic piece of
outgrowing the constitution of soul which permits him to think of himself as a purely earthly,

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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born. What we think, what we feel, in short the whole content of our life,
thinks realistically would look only at these arrows, which go from the
wanted to apply materialistic thinking consistently, he would examine the
this thinking and pointed out that what is generally called materialistic

Title: Talk To Young People:
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asked many of these older people what they think about adolescence;
shadow. What should we do? — not think out something to be done one

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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concepts of Spiritual Science. If we consider all we are able to think
as the physicist sees them. Instead, we must think of these atoms as
most complicated manner. Think for a moment that this atom must evolve
that man in our time thinks and judges along that line: Certain
biologists, thinking themselves particularly advanced, say: As many
only in an unreal, dead Ahrimanic thinking. And more and more will
mankind submit to this kind of thinking unless impregnated by Spiritual
“think ourselves into his mind”, as it were. All this must
our own, concerning the impulses of Spiritual Science. When we think

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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to think about solving the riddle of what had actually occurred

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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If we think of the human being in sleep
quite false if people think they must be on their guard against
It is entirely false to think that we

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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mere sense perceptions to thinking about percepts
People think thoughts, they form
world-conception that the thought, the act of thinking, is an
actuality in our inner self as man, that we do something by thinking,
that thinking is an inner activity, an inner work.
thinks, but one becomes at home in the fashioning forces of the
consciousness arise, in our Western thinking, that thinking is
the result that man does not get a conscious feeling: thinking is
connected with inner fashioning, but feels instead that thinking is
separated. Thus in respect of thinking they evoke a feeling that it
Thus they falsify our thinking.
thinking in this manner, alter it, externalise it, who endeavour to
in thinking one must seek for the inwardly forming, shaping of the
the living element of thinking about the external. What they get hold
applying thinking to outer things. Lucifer must of course cooperate
thinking: In all that takes place there is something of the nature of
mankind. Think of Plato: he did not chisel things out in his soul as
materialistically thinking average citizen said to himself: 'Oh, this

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
way — especially in the case of Western thinking
the same time as he is conceiving and thinking, something is also
willing, and as his outer world his thinking, which leads over to
our thinking, our intellect and conceptual life, is connected with
in which we, as human beings, apprehend our thinking and conceiving
thinking.
conceiving and thinking in the right way with human nature. This they
relate thinking to ourselves as we do now, but we should look back to
thinking wished to unite with our inner being, wanted to belong to
think: out there is extended the world of the senses as we see it;
the moment we now pass over to thinking, we look back to the Old
shut off from this through Lucifer. We think that feeling and will
medium, they would most certainly bethink themselves that there were
exercise them. It is necessary to think this over. I have therefore

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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see, it is quite clear to you, I think, that this worm-philosophy
need to think you are spatially distant from something when you want
thinking of the Sleeping Beauty) passes out of time and enters the
space-condition which makes us think and visualise in space and time.
only Lucifer who bewitches us into thinking that our concept is now
Just consider, how one can picture that concretely in detail, think
somewhere or somehow, think simply 'red.’™ In order
to think 'red' you need no space and you need no time; you can think
sensitivity a person can never think of possession -time at most is
of it if he were to think of possession. It would be rather like
thinking of possessing a piece of water, flowing along in a brook.
substitute had been found. And now one may think as one will about
thou must think of me eternally); he must think of Nature forever,
must therefore at least think of it eternally, it must be
it is such poems, where there is no need to think and attribute all
cosmos is placed. And we need not make assertions and think it out,
So thou ever think'st of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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leave them that man in his thinking would look back to the old
Moon-existence, and in this thinking would apprehend what the
other side. He penetrates not only speech but thinking, and out of
There was an esoteric section in which everyone was to think quite
are above all present when a man thinks he does not in the least
sense-periphery, my dear friends, we come to thinking, to the
to belong to us, whereas in reality we must perceive what we think in
ensue. And these hollow spaces ensue when man thinks, or when the
the colours and thinks he is painting man, he ought really to leave

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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of John Scotus Erigena emanate from a mode of thinking
the middle of the 4th century onwards, the thinking of men
mode of thinking of the first centuries of Christen' dom.
subsequent centuries. Think of the first verses of the Gospel
now we must try to understand the kind of thinking in which such
now try to think what is implied by the assertion that the
Logos is the creator of the world. Think of what was present
them. Think of the bread — the substance wherewith
simply thinking about the things I have experienced. And most

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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knowledge of the human being. Many a thinker has felt the thrust on this
first thinker to be considered in this sense is, in fact, Thales.
original texts were not obtainable; but thinkers had become familiar with
Master of Logic. The medieval thinkers would say to themselves: whatever be
with that technique of thinking which Aristotle discovered. And, in fact,
the inauguration of the technique of thinking was achieved by Aristotle in
his technique of thinking, that became the standard of the central period
no risk of being charged with heresy by the so-called freethinkers; but if
what Scholasticism in its prime felt of science, the technique of thinking
certain fund of wisdom which transcends the technique of thinking; that is,
by the thinkers as revelation, and the technique of thinking merely applied
Scholastic, therefore, pronounces the technique of thinking to be suitable
special technique of thinking, as applied by the Scholastics, sprang
which was eminently saturated with Aristotelian technique of thinking. Now
still paramount in the technique of thinking, yet another reason for men to
of thinking, so that ever higher and higher portions of the supersensible
thinking should also become the victims of this breach occasioned by
technique of thinking was felt by those who, so to speak, sought to save
opinion that this technique of thinking was powerless when faced by the
technique of thinking on the one hand, and supersensible truth on the
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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your own thinking and feeling.
entire civilization of our time. If we think of the education of young
manner of thinking and feeling peculiar to western man. We can say that if
impulse living in Fichte, Herder or Goethe when he is active or thinking in
capable of bringing their souls into the way of thinking and feeling that
scientific researchers or thinkers. It is true, this sort of idea is
to nobody to alter, re-think or do away with textbooks.) It is a fact, for
who have designed our education. People accustomed to thinking
sense to thinking scientifically — this he may do as a
from life and cannot issue from abstract scientific thinking.

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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thinking begins to use his memories more consciously. The thorough

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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instance, actually still thought with their souls; their thinking was still
fifteenth century, thinks with his brain. Materialism is actually a
thinks with imprints in the brain; he now thinks by means of material
thinking into the brain, if we make invisible eurythmy visible. If we did
can be thinking about something when you wake up that could have taken

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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an exclusively corporeal being; he will then think only with his brain,
a Rosetta I make him think about it, or when he writes I lead him to admire
Geography which requires a more geometrical kind of thinking, we will be
universe, the cosmos. It is wonderful to think that what we have observed
diverse variations. And — I think, I have pointed to
a modern physiologist because his thinking works on a different plane
stream up and pour in from the rest of the organism. In your thinking you
has too great an effect. It is wonderful to think that through spiritual
it than you would think. And then you will develop certain faculties which
pure joy for the children. Or think of certain tendencies in children and

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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science. It is necessary to develop a totally new way of thinking. The kind
of thinking we develop when we accustom ourselves to working with
supersensible thoughts is the kind of thinking that has an effect on our
of thinking has done more damage in the field of education than anywhere
open themseIves to the possibility of making the transition to thinking in
lacking today, to bring down to a material level what we think of on a
level what we think of as being spiritual shall we be able to grasp the
it is virtually a matter of aiming towards a way of thinking that really
impulse. A way of thinking based on anything else is not adequate. A

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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individuality, similarly as in us the faculties of thinking, feeling and
is connected to the back body only by a thin stalk. If one thinks of this

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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thinking, feeling and willing, then stands, so to speak, each for itself.
flows into Christianity. You have to think of this in concrete terms, not
Let us also think about what we have regarded as the essence of the Buddha
just not so. What we today call human thinking, feeling and willing was not
there was a logical thinking, if one had appealed to his conscience, to his
thinking, it would have been like speaking to a stone or to a

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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relegating the worker to only a proletarian education. One need but think
standpoint with regard to even the most mature way of thinking. The
said, much of recent art is formed on the basis of this way of thinking,
one thinker is accorded the same weight as the other. On first reading
the other nine are there. I now say to myself, I think about certain
in the whole world is what one is able to think and feel about oneself
soul-spiritual. In more people than you might think, this mood will call

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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to think of yourself as the centre of this eternally existing
also of individuals, since a thinker of the calibre of Herman
we should not think that the Christian ideas could appear to us
experience. And the fact that we do not need to think in terms

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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in combining in a strict manner in one's thinking all that has
the world of sense and to think only by means of reason bound

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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thinking, in which a kind of pondering has taken place,
think they do, but all day long. The soul is in truth always

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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with the forces of thinking, feeling and willing. Initial signs

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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complete truth — that in America they are thinking of declaring
world to the spiritual world. Today most people think, if they even
think about a spiritual world, that it is somewhere in the distant
consistency, for the way of thinking was so different then from what
physical reality, something like this would have been unthinkable.
themselves gods. They didn't think it was a superstition, oh no,
Just think about the basis of that
part of the empire? Think back on real cases. Adventurers who no

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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the suggestion that when someone even thinks about lemonade he has a
nevertheless it was accomplished. So little had what people think and
far. One doesn't advance today with small thinking. It is necessary
to motivate ourselves to think big. We will discuss this further

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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everything, thinks that to criticize and discuss was always present
at least think that they are right, when it can't be proved that they
of human thinking and feeling will have to take place within the
viewpoint — really think about it — the way in which
though. Think of all the public affairs that people are enthusiastic
not think about the future. This is part of the present-day approach
ones. They think: Today we instituted something, it is good,
therefore it must remain forever. The feminist movement thinks like
influence of the thinking characteristic of the second stage this is
think that if the economy is organized as described in my book
real thinking again when the inner soul-life is filled with substance
naïve to think that a low point is reached
important. And above all we should not think that the sharpest powers
think, and we should not ignore the seriousness of the times, but
truth and I think that I have best served you by really trying to

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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regards under such an idea as the expansion of thinking. A
science was the following: The methodical, the way of thinking
developed, here the mathematical way of thinking forms a
concepts, and he prized this way of thinking, which lives
understand this way of thinking at all, and finally the
of thinking as had been proven so fruitful for inorganic
mathematical thinking. It is quite understandable that Du
thinking constructing single phenomena into a whole, as far as
phenomena with the mathematical-causal way of thinking, or

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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When you think about this, you would understand the innermost
created an organ for abstract thinking.
could only briefly sketch here. However, continue to think

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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don't use “Word” but rather think about
third kind of thinker appeared in this sphere, who couldn't go
were sharp-witted thinkers like Liebman, Volkelt and so on, who
view. He even tried to think about the human community, the
unique way by thinking of the world-all as totally mechanical,
expression — according to the plan of thinking. For him
level of thinking, that he wanted to understand the experience
of the inner power, the inner liveliness of thinking, but he
thinking is directly thought of. Whoever goes along with it
European-eastern way of thinking, which is of course not
Here we see how actually this method of thinking, found mostly
necessity to cling to observation, experiment and a thinking
followed the pattern of the Western scientific way of thinking.
thinking in physics in contrast to them taking shelter under
obtain a biology more appropriate to modern thinking than to
thinking. For example, that a thought, a lively thought, can
thinking was flooded by western thinking.
thinking can be. Anthroposophists resent it when this
scientific way of thinking is cared for with as much love as
said by me in opposition to scientific thinking; if someone
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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lecture, but I think other lectures during these days would be
faithful continuator of the justifiable scientific thinking of
today don't even think about how intimately life was connected
thinking, which first needs to be experienced through others,

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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that a person could think out of this complicated world
these old cultures, that factual thinking, in the sense as it
place of today's scientific thinking then you will know that
first of all, out of this thinking the economic life could not
first become independent of human thinking, developed
broad for what lies in social life. To think scientifically —
thinking, and finally, what we have introduced into it which
thoughts. We may say that in the time when people didn't think
synthesis between economic thinking — which has gradually been
examples for how one could think about forming the future
abstract thinking that one also takes this suggestion only from
the point of view of abstract thinking, which I'm only using as
it is the way people are thinking along economic routes. They
method of social thinking in a realistic way, perhaps exactly

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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program item of the course) by thinking that what we were
account what can be achieved in modern thinking and research
Movement. It is true that whoever thinks it over with a healthy
immobilised in simple passive thinking, but that this thinking
thinking makes a person more free.
thinks enough about himself, if he only looks away from the

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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should be. For many still don't think correctly about the
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
third beast is lazy thinking, the kind of thinking that would
to think — everything is reeled out and all one has to do
the world's phenomena with passive thinking. Man is too lazy
and comfortable to activate his thinking. Humanity's thinking
pockets and thinks he can pick the thing up that way. But he
cannot. And existence cannot be comprehended by thinking with
thinking if we want to grasp the spirit.
thinking and we want to activate thinking, if we do not wish to
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
the Threshold, what is necessary in feeling, willing, thinking

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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knowledge which reveals the contamination in our own thinking,
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
thinking. When we create with ordinary consciousness we create
correctly prepare ourselves for creative thinking, the
spiritual world streams into our creative thinking. And then,
did not think about it any more. It was extinguished, just as a
to think it is not the case with me? In respect to all
our thinking, feeling and willing in order for the three beasts
to be defeated: thinking, the thought - phantom; feeling -
from real knowledge, firstly in our thinking. Normal human
thinking is reflected in the thought-phantom of the first
is the image of ordinary human thinking which thinks about
thinking is a corpse. Where did the being live whose corpse
this ordinary thinking is?
contemporary civilization - when thinking from waking in the
us in school and in life itself, our thinking is a corpse. It
human figure. You must imagine this related to thinking. A
our thinking when it lies buried in the brain as a corpse and
thinks about the external things of the world. It is a corpse.
Of thinking, that denies itself
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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leads to the spiritual world, and provided the thinking is not
world as a physical person, you think about this outer world.
thinking, your feeling, your willing are held together by the
physical body. You are a threefold human being: a thinking,
immediately becomes a triple being. His thinking goes its own
way. So you can think in the spiritual world, have thoughts
thinking flies out into distant space and that his feeling goes
his feeling does not stay with him. Thinking at least goes out
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
this threefold splitting in which one's thinking goes its way,
Of thinking, that denies itself
our gaze within in order to be alert to what our thinking
that they instruct us what should enter into our thinking,
in our thinking to accept the challenge with our selfhood which
Just as through the first mantric verse we enter thinking, we
enter the inner world of thinking through the second.
aside thinking and try to observe your own feelings. In
thinking everything is semblance. But when we descend into
threefold sequence of thinking, feeling and willing. The soul

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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of the gods with all your thinking, all your feeling, all your
speak to you, appealing to your thinking, feeling, willing, and
truths we should not think: Oh, I know that already. For the
different relationship of thinking, feeling and willing in us
everyday consciousness, thinking, feeling and willing are bound
closely bound together thinking, feeling and willing are in
feel and will towards this person with what you think about
are reminded of this person, you can think of her without the
antipathy arising. You can simply think about her.
is quite difficult, my dear friends, to just think about your
yourself: Am I able to exclusively think about certain
possible to separate thinking from feeling in the artistic
esoteric is said, it must be possible to separate thinking from
For they do not separate on their own. At first when we think
we do not understand them if we do not use pure thinking to do
engendered through thinking. Such feelings should be developed
from thinking.
which pertains to thinking, can by grasped only when we feel
thinking:
able to withstand the separation of thinking, feeling and
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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constitutes man's inner self - thinking, feeling, willing -
became clear to us how in a certain respect thinking, feeling
the spiritual world, in a certain sense thinking, feeling and
evening. Thinking, however, is the force which relates upwards
thinking the higher powers.
our thinking, feeling and willing, aware that our thinking,
consciousness is passive thinking, with which we can indeed
own thinking, that every thought is captured light - both for
physically unsighted also receive it ... when they think. Because
When you think, O man, your being is not in you, it is in the
air. Keep not within yourself, O man. Think not that your
thinking is in your head. Think that your willing is none other
to the human being, that he ceases to seriously think that he
thinking that you are, if you do not begin to experience the
fact that when you are thinking you are living in the entire
say to himself: If in my thinking I merge completely with the
I merge with the light in my thinking, light-beings grasp hold
thinking, make him one with the light, rend him from all the
aware of the true nature of thinking. Therefore we should
we meet him with our thinking, which has become independent and
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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Just think how much you directly feel warmth and cold to be
try to think seriously about your innermost feelings and you
can see how in reality all thinking - this is unknown to people
- is nothing other than a refined breathing. Thinking is
breath circulating there is known as thinking in the physical
world; sublimated breathing is thinking.
in this abstract thinking existing as a kind of tenuous
which we designate as thinking.
thinking. When breathing, completely refined, strikes the sense
when one becomes aware of this, becoming a thinker and a
refined-to-thinking breathing process is like an organized
I have described it, is related to his thinking.
thinker you bestride the earthly realm,
As thinker you bestride the earthly realm,
we refine normal breathing to thinking of what is in our
it is in this descent from thinking to perception where we
moving a thought from one place to another. We prefer to think
far as thinking is concerned, it is as though we expected our
realize how hard ordinary thinking is. Ordinary thinking is
stone hard. One really feels thinking with angles and edges
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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is that he does not merely feel obliged to say what he thinks
being which expresses itself psychically in thinking, feeling
and willing. In reality they are three humans: the thinking
Think the limbs' cosmic force
Think the limbs' cosmic force
“Think the limbs' cosmic force”
and other earthly forces. In our thinking - which as earthly
thinking is only capable of understanding the earthly - we must
in man. Now we pause again at “Think the limbs' cosmic
Think the limbs' cosmic force
the sensory world we think that the site of thinking and mental
But this thinking in the head is always mixed a little bit with
the sensory world the whole extent of thinking and a small
reverse: a small amount of thinking and much widespread willing
know that when thinking is not considered as a function of the
that thinking does not belong to an individual, but to the
Thinking's germinal-waking cosmic-life.
thinking as feeling in respect to cosmic being, when you
You can think it.
thinking to be concentrated in the head, here [in the first
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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Whoever will not do this, who thinks that one should be silent
play politics and thinks that he can advance by denying us and
soul-life, thinking, feeling and willing, here is this
earth-life are held together by our physical bodies. Thinking,
this. Feeling (green) extends into thinking (yellow); willing
following [drawing again]: thinking (yellow) is freed,
physical body had held thinking, feeling and willing together,
soon as we leave our physical bodies with our thinking, we
perceive this thinking as one with all that is manifested in
instrument of our thinking. But now we begin to feel the stars,
the other planets. Between what we experience as thinking in
What must be perfectly clear however, is that our thinking, our
thinking.
Dear friends, dear sisters and brothers, this thinking which
not live. Whatever he may think with his brain about the
And we think about our sense-perceptible surroundings on earth
before we descended to this physical world a living thinking
earthly corpse-thinking. From it spring forth - but dead - the
observe the thinking that corresponds to life on earth.
gradually we learn to see through this thinking. Within the
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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cannot merely say: I think through to the differentiations of
my warmth; one must say: I enlighten myself by thinking through
man, think in the full flow of your feeling
holds thinking, feeling and willing together through its own
experiencing, thinking, feeling and willing are no longer one,
thinking and separated from willing.
if we are able to grasp thinking in such a way that thoughts
are freed from physical existence, it is as though our thinking
the threshold: my thinking rests in the resting stars; my
unites with the earth forces. So thinking, feeling, willing are
not need to bind thinking, feeling and willing together,
unity. Thinking, feeling and willing would be constantly
other side of the threshold, they are divided so that thinking
doing this we must experience thinking, feeling and willing in
such a way that we can communicate to thinking, which has gone
thinking and willing; to willing, which is bound to the earth,
something of thinking and feeling. This something we indeed can
there is where your thinking lies. But I will bring the starry
incorporated feeling and willing into thinking, which is bound
system. Then I have assigned thinking and willing to
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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within — if only by means of thinking — and become
think: Well, it was arbitrary on the part of those ancient
think, well,the eye is here, the object seen is there. So the
depth, as though you were not thinking it, but as though you
current streams through our thinking, feeling and willing. And
leave the physical body behind with our thinking, this magical
thinking which we experience through the gravity of our soul's

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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head. We can feel this directly: when we think, our head is
active. We notice that when the head is ailing, thinking is
activity on earth: our thinking. And so we must imagine:
think of the lungs and the heart, the wonderful pulsation,
to make meditation something in which we don't merely think,

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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you think. You are only not aware of it. You do not pay
And when you have sensed this, ask yourselves: When I think
easily be able to sense the thinking which is directly induced
sense, to feel thinking by sensing speech.
thinking. Then you will be able to touch, touch internally that
[red], you will sense thinking here above
[green]. That is, the sense of thinking is moved
experience it in the region of my speech organs; when I think,
good to think like that, because you will never progress that
Listen to the field of thinking.
of thinking through a spiritually cosmic experience.
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
In general we think in normal consciousness; but we do not
apprehend thinking; we do not sense it, we do not feel it. The
thinking.”
the forces of thinking working in us, then what lies deep down,
first lines: “Listen to the field of thinking”.
Listen to the field of thinking:
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
The word “thinking” in the first line is underlined
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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souls how by concentrating on the field of thinking we could
Not meant is our everyday thinking, but
the thinking which acts behind that everyday thinking, which
thinking.”
thinking can be perceived in the human organism itself
rear of the head, we can find the inner thinking through
Perceive the field of thinking:
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
come to sense the thinking above the place of speech in the
arms. Normally we think that we move our legs and the legs
have. We think that an unknown force – it is of course
field of thinking and the field of feeling: from out of the
though we are not ourselves speaking, thinking, feeling and
of the spiritual worlds, on the fields of thinking, feeling
Taking with me thinking's heritage,

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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impure willing, feeling and thinking — that they first
willing, feeling and thinking appear in three animals —
Then the Guardian of the Threshold shows us how thinking, feeling
that when we cross over with separated thinking, feeling and
are still present in this thinking, feeling and willing.

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Feel! as we feel in your thinking.
What do the Angeloi teach us? We humans think. At
in our thinking; it is their feeling. They bring it to our
consciousness. And just as the Angeloi feel in our thinking,
Angeloi touch something when you think. When you are feeling,
something. Human thinking, human feeling, human willing, are
not mere processes in humanity. While we are thinking, the
Feel! as we feel in your thinking.
solidity the way minerals do. In our thinking we would not

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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over the abyss, for with our thinking, feeling and willing
Feel as we feel in your thinking.

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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When we create thinking;
When we create thinking;
When we create thinking;

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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When, thinking, we create.
where the spirits think their truths, where the spirits radiate
speak to each other. And with presence of mind we think for a
The human beings think!
how they should guide human souls, because humans think. Then
beings in their thinking.
The human beings think!
That we may illuminate their thinking.
When human beings think.
Angeloi receive enlightens, without our knowing, human thinking.
Now we realize what acts and weaves in human thinking: the
“Human being think!”: their
Human beings think!
That we may illuminate their thinking.
When human beings think.
human thinking. And we feel: everything in the compass of cosmic
The human beings think!
That we may illuminate their thinking.
When human beings think.
was thinking back, pictures arose which he experienced in his
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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When, thinking, we create.
When human words resound, then human thinking
resounds, then cosmic thinking speaks through the spirit's
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
of the world. Therefore, the Guardian asks who thinks the
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
The glow of the stars thinks.
the flames thinks.
The glow of the stars thinks,
Thinking soul-forming at work:
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
The glow of the stars thinks,
Thinking soul-forming at work:
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
The glow of the stars thinks,
Thinking soul-forming at work:
word-created cosmic thoughts. It is not mere thinking, it
thinks and speaks in humans, what bears the body, the
Cosmic-Word, cosmic-thinking, cosmic-body; the
speaking, thinking cosmic-body is what the Guardian's third
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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anthroposophy before the world with all his thinking, feeling
at the thinking kingdom of humanity on earth; let us direct our
thinks, is constituted today in our present evolutionary cycle
in its threefold character of willing, feeling and thinking. We
force of healing: human willing, human feeling, human thinking.
feeling, thinking in their true form — the Guardian
Begat this ghost within your thinking;

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feeling, our thinking appear before the countenance of the gods
thinking is not yet human; it is still animal-like. There the
beast emerge, which represents thinking.
Begot this ghost within your thinking;
Begot this ghost within your thinking;
our thinking; about the second beast, which is interwoven with
earthly thinking.
this thinking by which we acquire the things and events of the
unreal. What is then this thinking?
must place what this thinking really is before our souls in
the thinking that we have between birth and death is the corpse
of the living thinking we had before descending into earthly
Only, my dear sisters and brothers, when we feel our thinking
true thinking, the dead afterimage of which lives and pulses
long as we consider thinking as something living, we are not
coffin of dead thinking, and we feel it deeply, are we
when we turn from thinking and observe our feeling, then we
makes us spiritually hollow. Thinking is dead, and feeling is
Of thinking, that denies itself
Of thinking, that denies itself
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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true bridge to what the human being needs for his thinking, for
willing, feeling, thinking — appear to the eyes of the
thinking, feeling and willing, he shows us — in the
down into our thinking, but that this thinking is of a seeming
speak to our thinking so that it integrates itself in the
The Guardian instructs us on Willing, Feeling, Thinking:
must look above if our thinking wants to unite itself with the
because he wants to instruct us about thinking, feeling and
In that realm, where your thinking

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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thinking as they appear before the visage of the spiritual
dark powers in the realm from which the force of our thinking
streams into our humanity. The Guardian of the Threshold thinks
thinking, the force of our thinking in our humanity — to
look up to that realm from which our thinking comes, where
the light which wants to guide thinking along the right track,
and the powers of darkness, who want to divert thinking from
thinking is rooted above. We must know it to be so rooted if we
selfhood and find the equilibrium for our thinking between
In that realm, where your thinking
In that realm where your thinking
dear sisters and brothers, think that you tentatively touch
you touch it with, at one with the object. Now think that you
O man, think in all the streams of feeling,
O man, think in all the streams of feeling,
“think”. It is a special escalation. So in
O man, think in all the streams of feeling,

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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what the true shape of our willing, feeling and thinking is
feeling and thinking. It must be a shattering experience for us
however, how our thinking, as we use it in normal life, is the
corpse of the living thinking which was in us before we
thinking, which lies in the coffin as a corpse. But we use this
corpse for our usual abstract thinking between birth and
Once we grasp how dead this thinking is, we can learn from the
our thinking when we become aware of its deadness, and realize
that it is the corpse of the living thinking that was in us
gradually find the transition to living thinking, we should
our thinking — when we look up to the cosmic thinking in
which our earthly-physical thinking is rooted — between
from this apparent thinking, from this dead thinking
into the living essence of thinking. For this we must be
When you enter the spiritual world with your thinking, you may
flying for your thinking when you are in the spiritual world.
strength to grasp thinking in a way that it can serve you in
Guardian of the Threshold therefore teaches us about thinking
As thinker you bestride the earthly realm,
realize that our thinking is at first animal-like. We must
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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thinking, we grasp the world feeling, we act in the world by
willing. But thinking, feeling and willing are interwoven in
thinking, feeling, willing — is closely related to our
world. We are at one in thinking, feeling and willing.
illusion of thoughts as in ordinary thinking.
ourselves: There is our flowing, living thinking. It doesn't
thought, all our thinking, is there as the first brightness
thinking merges with willing? The thought — of what is
will be — in thinking, feeling and willing — no
universe, we are Three: our thinking merges with light across
thinking: All our senses and thoughts are distributed over the
many earth-lives, live in our willing. Let us think of all
Just think, my dear sisters and brothers, while still here at
(thinking, feeling, willing; man is split in three)
(otherwise we only think it, now we will it; and when we do so,
Look: thinking, the spirit's head, becomes the will; feeling
remains feeling, but rays out to thinking on one side and
will's thinking, your thinking's will, the awakening seed of
Will's thinking, thinking's will.
Will's thinking, thinking's will.
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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his thinking through the impulse of the head.
thinking over there in the sensory world is mere seeming, mere
earthly thinking is the corpse - as we have heard in previous
lessons - of a living thinking in which we were immersed in the
There thinking lived! Now thinking rests as dead
thinking, as seeming thinking in the coffin of our bodies. And
all the thinking we use in the sensory world is dead thinking.
what has this thinking accomplished? It has created everything
which rests within as thinking's support, has been created by
living thinking. [The interior of the head, yellow, is drawn on
the blackboard.] It is living thinking that creates the support
for our earthly semblance of thinking.
the dark cell that enables you to think, my sisters and
brothers, observe the semblance of thinking in the dark cell,
then you will find in what is felt above as thinking [drawing:
thinking, so that each thought is streamed through with will.
How the will streams into thinking can be sensed.
semblance of thinking in this incarnation possible.
tells us, and imagine dead thinking being cast out into the
thinkers. Within [drawing: yellow] are the creating cosmic
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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something which thinking humanity has been occupied with for
of all of this, a thinking person viewing life at present, who
life, so they think, nothing can be attributed towards the
question is placed on another basis if one thinks that, while
Proletarianism penetrated into modern thinking, into modern
is wrongly given by modern thinking. This narrow minded, modern
thinking which needs to place the third independent member into
necessity to renew thinking, the necessity to not only develop
recreate a science, a new way of thinking which will become a

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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evolution of knowledge. This means however that our thinking
human thinking, human feeling to learn through observation of
think about the social organism's relationship with the natural
learning and education, in relation to their gifts in thinking.
belief that modern technology and ancient thinking habits in
Nevertheless, I know of extraordinary thinkers, deep astute
thinkers who repeatedly in the course of the 19th
thinking can move in the search for solutions of the social
entered a crisis which some short-sighted thinkers believe are

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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Thinking and Willing.
Thinking and Willing.”
thinking and willing. One could say an abyss exists between
according to middle class thinking circles. Reports on the
he doesn't need to think, provisionally.
experience their own lives, how they think about other classes
One could say tightly meshed thinking characterises modern
humanity. This narrow thinking breaks in everywhere where one
wants to enter into real life, this very thinking has
result is that this kind of thinking becomes transformed into
able to lead into the future. Everywhere this thinking breaks
has thinking processes grown out of these facts. It is obvious
inwardly find a distinguished manner of thinking, be it in a
in those who think about the social organism today. Today the
importance is on the How, the Manner and Way in which thinking
think with independent judgement, while these judgements are
thinking adhered to abstraction, totally strange in life where
thinking which I believe has been represented through many
thinks, the way one experiences it, is within thinking, it
acknowledge it not merely by thinking about it but living into
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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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The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's
“The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's
thinking and social will have been adapting in the course of
thinking and social willing. As a result, the continuation of
community. At that time, in the place of instinctive thinking
indicating two diverging movements of social thinking and
thinking earned quite a particular form as a result, in these
entire thinking and feeling unfolded in such a way that it was
of social thinking and feeling of leading bourgeois and
exploring certain sides of human thinking, you can feel what I
respectively and they think in this or that way about the
— formed out of ways of thinking, habits of thinking. It
is not my purpose to present the social thinking of the newer
of thinking, ways of presenting the interweaving of economic
thinking had the intention of organizing economic life out of
opposition against the physiocratic thinking. It was developing
economy. One thinks about these opposites only when one
defined, how one thinks about it. For me it matters that these
actually works for himself or herself. Just think, insofar as a
life comes out of the direct content of the produce. Just think
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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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Ages don't rule our current thinking as such, but it appears to
learn. They must learn to think that they actually can't
proceed if they think: ‘What must happen in order to withdraw
thinkers of today become unbiased toward the spiritual aspect,
believed they could bring the Proletarian will and thinking
development, the newer scientific way of thinking has grown
science but the newer scientific way of thinking — in
scientific way of thinking no longer involves the same
scientific way of thinking. The old-world view was capable of
way of thinking. Obviously through a historic necessity, which
towards the newer scientific way of thinking instead of
and what he did. Just think about the relationship which
way of thinking.
thinking to their beliefs and to their concept of life; they
think about what one has learnt about the Proletarian Movement
possibility to think with the Proletarian, with the thoughts of
thinking still has been extensively accepted in middle-class
circles, you will think about people whose beliefs are quite
can be a materialistic thinker in modern times, can call him or
Worker.” I need to repeatedly think how she stirred a
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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those who really understand the Proletariat, not merely think
to simply think. Just think about it, for my sake, when ten
thinks this through’ — thus she spoke enthusiastically
thinks this through can't discriminate like the present leading
area for the future. How one usually likes to think about the
from thinking-habits in this sphere, more than elsewhere, that
You only need to think of taking the German history
life, must admit that the very frowned-upon idealists who think
think about the Proletariat not only in the manner of today's
I wanted to say to you today: think with the Proletariat, don't
think about them!
my sake think about it, it is like this — I would like to
didn't get to understand the Proletarians through thinking
extract how I actually think about this struggle. I believe
only manageable through the connection to the ancient thinking
bourgeois science out of their thinking and not to meet some or
there are many who will still think differently about what I

Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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himself.’ Such an objection is so patent that even those who think as
approach is fully justified. Does a botanist not think about a plant
phraseology, for the physical sun does not ‘sing.’ It is unthinkable
was not one of those artists who think they must ‘out’ with everything
And now think once again of old Atlantis. — Clouds and mists,
think of the beginning of the Rhinegold. Is not the coming of
And now let us think of the mystery contained in this myth as a
who has not these twain, let him think he has religion!”

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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unthinkable to him that if knowledge concerning super-sensible worlds
thinking are making their appearance. In Plato's time, thoughts

Title: Community Building
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me. One can think quite alone; one can carry out logical
when one is intensely engaged in purely logical thinking. But
adopted this ritual. And I think that the statement made by Dr.
speaking, our sentiments, our thinking, our impulses of will,

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thinking and your feeling. Just as the dreamer must enter
that which demands that one shall think in the manner of the
another here or there. There it was customary to think about
that the person has to think in one way or another, he has to
accordance with the most modern human thinking and feeling

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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before. Thinking of this you will want to be aware of the
intellectual thinking has developed since the middle of
lived when the emphasis is on intellectual thinking. They
peoples of civilized countries who are inclined to think
people have always been thinking like this. That is not
people were thinking in a different way. They simply did
not think in the abstract terms in which we think today.
Their thinking was very much more vivid and concrete,
the source from which this way of thinking, the
this way of thinking, this intellectualism. Another
remains of the human activity out of which our thinking
our thinking. Reminders, echoes of thinking, of an
activity similar to our thinking are experienced in our
in our dreams today. Present-day thinking is the fruit of
soul activity we know as thinking. I would say that when
our minds, but just when we think we are reflecting most
that we are best able to think about those external
dreamy in his thinking, if I may put it like this, did
dreams what we develop in our way when we are thinking,
clouds, we think about them, but we do not feel that the
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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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thinking, thinking as we know it, in a different way.
This type of thinking did not fully emerge until the 15th
of thinking as we know it today only developed in very
thinking as the soul itself became inwardly active. But
Asian peoples got more into the habit of thinking with
their souls; the Europeans got into the habit of thinking
say to yourselves: Asians are thinking more with their
came to thinking; they merely carried their bodies with
were basing their thinking more and more on the physical
thoroughly European in their way of thinking, people for
whom the physical body is the instrument of thinking,
thinking, but then this body gradually began to die.
this, however. They think they understand each other.
have heard from people whom we think we can believe need

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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would think of going against them — at least in
not even inclined to think about them.
thinking that has become customary in Western Europe and
office. No one thinks that development should be such
all no one thinks that something objective should enter
develop and think ahead to the future unless we broaden
possible to think whether something he had done was right
thinker, still had ideas in the 13th and 14th centuries
things which it would have been unthinkable to dispute
to an end. People no longer know what to think; yet for
to think. It always happens that certain things normal to
way of thinking when those words were symbols of
think of the god being present in an invisible world that
general way of thinking; yet if anyone were to say the
reinterpreted in the modern way of thinking into that
unthinkable for a present-day protestant Christian to

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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Ages. That was a great and significant way of thinking,
— and we are still thinking in terms of major
light of such impulses in world history I do not think it
ideal! I do not think it is right to continue with this
conception. Everything we human beings are able to think
present life on earth. When we are thinking here and now,
think of what we call the forces of nature today, of what
conceived and born and grow. Think of all the natural
processes You see all around; then think of them merely
as a picture, not the reality. So, please, think of
the present earth life. Just think that there you have
your faculty of thought. What you are thinking now, those
thinking, the existence we had before birth influences
when I am thinking.
think what would happen for instance—to give a
Just think,
Think of
thinkers. Dr Boos was going great guns in a liberal
clear thinking in every respect. Its message cannot be

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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as it really is. I think I have already given you an
example of this. The materialistic way of thinking has in
upside-down ideas. One might well think, if one was
cause real havoc in our thinking processes. It certainly
does. Our thinking is utterly ruined because it has been
dinned into us and we have become used to thinking that
thinking. How can our thinking grow purposeful in social
thinking only starts when you enter into concrete events,
talk about setting up adult education thinking that the
would never think of doing such a thing — but
today. Authoritarian thinking and belief in authority
thinking that can also apply to social life. People of
succeeded in letting their thinking escape from the
thinking to the extent that it will be possible to think
thinking that puts the human brain side by side with the
effort for anyone whose thinking is in a strait-jacket to
inclined to think if something like the anthroposophical
think at least some of you will understand what I mean.
do not think it is enough to accept Certain views just
really should not be there. If you have sound thinking
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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knowledge, the materialistic way of thinking, into
Anyone who thinks matter can be found in the world which
think that because others say it is 'matter' it really is
nowadays. If anyone thinks it is enough just to say:
to say to someone that they are wrong in thinking that
continue to think in theories. Everybody supposes that
When it comes to mysticism, people think that by
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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other senses. We then think we know something about outer
nature. Yet we are in error if we think and believe some
experiences we think we are having — are nothing
in thinking that these men had a special faculty for
think it is but the flame that is cooked inside us. That
our thinking if the decline is to become an upward
movement again. People think they are materialists or
merely a phenomenon, thinking it to be something material
erroneous ways of thinking which had to be pursued for
forcefulness—people think that some are
think spiritual science is all theory. Spiritual science
When we are thinking the usual abstract thoughts, what is
it that thinks in us? Not the human being of soul and
spirit. It is particularly when we think abstract
Physical brain in us is thinking. It is important to know
thinking they are quite correct as far as abstract
abstract thinking being merely an image. It may thus be
brain does the thinking.
thinking the thoughts that from the middle of the 15th
becoming beings that think only with the physical brain.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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empty, abstract thinking, or something like that, but a
knowledge, perception, thinking, feeling and will
that did not want human thinking, feeling and will
Jesuit sources. The approach, the way of thinking, is as
evolution it simply is no longer possible to think that a
events in Eastern Europe, people think the danger has
it much more widespread than you would think.

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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imageless thinking of their waking life, and are able to
is as if the phenomena of ordinary thinking proceed in a
permit them to think at the same time as they made
however unable to think whilst they were in that
were, before they were able to think the things that they
thinking. It came to be a culture not of visionaries but
of thinkers. This intellectual culture has a particular
thinkers, especially in Germany. Yet they only took
I think I can say, holds the balance between the two. On
the one hand we have the clear dialectical thinking of
This way of thinking goes to a point where it does not
thinking develop into Imagination, Inspiration and
machine. Think of the Keely engine. [
their thinking from being concerned entirely with the

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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present-day thinking has led to a desire to militarize the economy and
indicate in a public lecture° that the scientific thinking of the
that very few people really think about these things — which I also
century some people, certainly the more radical thinkers, did begin to
of the 19th-century idealists. Those idealistic thinkers pretended to
in a way that is quite unthinkable.
lives. The abstract thinking we use for mathematics, and the various
take account of spiritual science. Just think what it means that there

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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thinking has destroyed the spirit of Christianity that
thinking. Science will only be filled with the Christ
thinking as any other science. The aim is however not to
attracted much interest. I think I ought to mention that
beings. We have to think illogically. Freedom does not
logical thinking and instinctive feelings. Schiller felt
beautiful we are not thinking logically, yet our thoughts
think you will agree that Goethe's figures were subtle
twenty or twenty-three, cannot think of a way of
spirit-man. Our thinking has grown so abstract, however,
I think
putting these things sharply, but please do not think

Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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member of the human being. But we should not think that we are God
not cease to be. Man keeps all this in his astral body. Let us think of
His life is bliss in the spiritual world. But do not think that the
continuously in relatively short time. Think once hundred years back.

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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subject (Towards Social Renewal: Rethinking the Basis of Society), he embarked
think he was actuated by the best of motives?” And how
thinking, feeling and willing, and showing how the three, which
What now acts in man unitedly in thinking, feeling and willing,
spheres of thinking, feeling and willing fall apart. This
think that the necessity for the Threefold Order will only be
not deceive ourselves into thinking it possible to carry over

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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subject (Towards Social Renewal: Rethinking the Basis of Society), he embarked
forms. Thinking of this sort is as sensible as saying:
are permeated with all this more than we think. When we form
happened in October, 1918! And to think that this and other

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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subject (Towards Social Renewal: Rethinking the Basis of Society), he embarked
separation of the hitherto-interwoven forces of thinking,
scientific thinking which is wholly bound up with the physical
if man had taken no part in it. Thinking logically on the basis
and think differently in the future from the past and be

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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subject (Towards Social Renewal: Rethinking the Basis of Society), he embarked
their problem in all their thinking, feeling and willing, on
arrangement, but a vast alteration in thinking and learning:
are thinking. It is comparatively extraordinarily easy to
refute logically what the masses and their leaders think about
cleavage between the thinking, feeling, willing and actions of
life's destiny not only to think about the masses or
have feelings concerning them, but to think and feel
everywhere. We need to develop a real practical thinking which
consider themselves advanced thinkers, is that the State should
superficial. This idea of the “advanced” thinkers
must change our whole way of thinking and learning. The unrest
way they do think fairly accurately, that is, where
sphere they do not manage to think in the same healthy way. In
off from it; but from a social aspect we think that thirty
is easy enough to see clearly if we think impartially. We have
these words we can sum tap what men must think and say and feel

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