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necessary to an understanding of our subject.
understand clearly that at the time when man rose at night through dim
participating thus in humanity. In order rightly to understand the
understand his true position. We have said that the earth is the
within that personality. We must try to understand the mood of this
ancient civilization, we shall then understand this turning away from
Now, we must clearly understand that everything that has to be
plane, man made himself sufficiently mature to understand the God-man

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spiritual. We must get to know this, in order to understand the

Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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the simple world of the senses and the understanding related to
to the senses and to the understanding that is related to the
understanding portray. But he must assume a spirit world. But
may laugh more or less at this; whoever better understands the
correctly understand our soul, must live up against the
Whoever wants to understand life

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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by little you will have learnt to understand these images. There is

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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astral world. This will give us a basis for an understanding of reincarnation

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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meaning, thus reaching again a literal understanding of the words. For
the sentence: “With the growth of knowledge and understanding,

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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into decadence. In Plato, if we are able to understand him properly, we find the last offshoots,
human being as the spiritual. But it existed in a — I beg you not to misunderstand the word
soul-constitution was completely different from that of later humanity when, for an understanding
It was only through misunderstanding that there
man's being. He had little understanding for what took place between birth and death. And now,
towards the 'I', but he cannot reach the point of really understanding the 'I' philosophically.
far as he can understand it, Kant, if he could really think to the end, would have to think the
still only a reaction, a last reaction to something else. For one can understand Kant only when
understand? There entered into Kant here — it fitted badly in his case because he was too
One will only be able to come to an understanding
respectively. But we have arrived at a point of humanity's development when understanding, a
common understanding, must spread equally over all humanity. How can this come about?
depths of spiritual science. No good will come from instincts, but only from the understanding
Entente. Understanding must be developed here for what is to become a unified culture containing
follow those who also understand something of politics and economics, who do not work only in
evolve is understanding of the political-state element, which has other sources than the economic
But for this we need the understanding support of the widest circles.
ten such Waldorf schools and then others'. The world did not understand this, it had no money for
up if, before then, an understanding is not forthcoming which dips vigorously into its
It is thus a matter of awakening understanding in
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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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has no understanding at all of the foment of deeper forces in the whole of our present
world. The more recent life of humanity can only be understood if one understands this
different types of beings do indeed work through human beings and we understand human character

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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one wants to understand how the human beings of the European Centre are wedged in, as it were,
thinking. And one can only understand the role played by what then developed out of the Roman
prejudice at the results of Darwin's research will understand that something was present there
understanding. One saw how the German element evolved into the Magyar in an artificial way and
If you go to the East there is no understanding at
understanding at all for what is called rational in the West? Let us be under no illusion here.
The Russian has not the slightest understanding for what, in the West, one calls rationality. The
understands nothing; that is, he does not feel in this word what Western people feel. But what
worlds into human beings — this he understands well. Through the nature of what is spoken
by nature not the slightest understanding for what one must refer to as the relation of the
slightest understanding for this. For this is something quite different from what is given
re-fructified. The Orient will understand the spiritual life that blossoms in the Occident only
have a great deal of understanding for an independent spiritual life. And it will also take

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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really able to understand something like

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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is a matter here of gaining a true understanding of the child one is educating so that one can
perceptive understanding of practical life is brought to bear — especially of the practical

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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If an understanding for what one can call the
create a preparatory understanding for the course that the Christ-idea, the image people have had
Thus the first understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha
before the intellect broke in and understanding for the Mystery of Golgotha could no longer be
the original understanding of Christ. The first understanding occurred in Gnosis with the remains
something to be understood as one understands things of the physical plane. After all, with an
event on the physical plane one cannot understand why it ought to be described in four different
those circles who had no understanding at all for the Mystery of Golgotha, who had only tradition
to understand this on the basis of the development of European humanity. One must, for example,
understand the development of the universities. How have the universities developed? One should
social authority principle. One must only understand how deeply this has penetrated into the
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
priest speaks words in a language they do not understand. For it is not a matter for them of
understanding but a matter, at most, of living in the general atmosphere which is directed to the
soon as people begin to debate something it means they no longer understand it. What lives in the
very last traces of understanding for the Last Supper were gone — the play of dialectics
West, who conclude a peace of which they understand nothing, cover up their eyes. They do not see
everywhere; people cite it as something which they pretend to understand and must pass judgment

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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world-views. But this science has not been capable of raising man's power of understanding to the
learn of nature, the less we understand of ourselves, the less we understand of the human
weight on the soul. It is here that the inability of natural science to give man an understanding
understand that this has to happen. He can already embrace the thought that it must
understand.'
the earth who has united Himself with earthly humanity. People will have to understand that the
specialized science, is well able to understand what this man can understand. One simply cannot
not understand and does not wish to understand.
understanding it as such.
expectation, develops an understanding for the great experience of the twentieth century that is
that, in all reality, we can move forward to an understanding of Him.

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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But for one who wishes to understand the
readily understand that what thus surrounds us when we are born into
understand that someone who takes no interest at all in what surrounds him
with which he must live in order to learn to understand their gradual
understand their destruction and disintegration. Those people, however, who

Title: Talk To Young People:
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crisis” they can hardly understand.
describe — please don't misunderstand the phrase — as filled with
anthroposophical movement. A singular understanding came about
understand other people in the most human way. Otherwise we won't get
beyond the endless unproductive discussions. The will to understand
agree. What is so necessary is that we fully and heartily understand
understanding. You see, it was an attempt to search out and explore
have made it impossible. Anyone who cannot understand this is an
narrow-minded man on the street will understand what you mean when
begin to understand this when they begin to understand themselves. To
begin to understand these gestures of the spiritual world we can
is truly young, if today's youth, with understanding, can lay hold of
heart of ours. It then will help us to understand spiritual science.
an etheric heart. It is our etheric heart that will understand that

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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without any sort of attempt to understand the other — to

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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understandable, one might even say justifiable. But something else
has already been said that may bring us again some understanding of
gradually to reach an understanding of what had happened through the
took pains to understand Nature around them. And so we can say that
understanding and which then gradually dried up and withered into
conception in order to understand what hid behind this Mystery of
despairing struggle towards an understanding, a real understanding of
understanding what is flowing to him from the Christ Impulse. And so
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, then this would have been
humanity were, in a way, protected from understanding anything that
fundamentally only another way of pointing to the understanding of
One cannot understand Europe if one does
not bear this connection in mind; one can, however, understand Europe
of Europe, if we are to understand this European

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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say, the arms of Lucifer. And one can understand the deep mystery
comes in which we must unfathom if we would understand the necessary
realm; and indeed that is very easy to understand since Ahriman as we
developed and strove for an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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to meet with full understanding when one speaks out of the sources of
forces within us we can hardly reach a right understanding, based on
has neglected to acquire an understanding for the Mystery of
papier-mÃ¢chÃ©; they have little understanding of
Hence we may understand as living
as one has received it to relate it to the world with understanding,
being, then you will understand: In Greece the evolution of humanity
misunderstand what is meant when I speak about it. It is of course
radically different, and one does not really understand the age of
divine. You only arrive at a real understanding of this
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, that he only saw how human
understanding of the fact that something entirely new had now arisen
old Mysteries, but he had no understanding for what was then emerging
today only at the beginning of understanding what has flowed into
a breaking away from the old elements, and we can understand that
understand Julian the Apostate, whose entire mood can be understood
this viewpoint. One must understand that he felt, through the whole
understand the Christ Event. That is just the interesting thing in
the West — had no longer understanding for the
it with the human understanding. Thus what prevailed at that time in

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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earnestly you will understand that something of immense significance
solved in any case with earthly understanding. But we have seen that
it flow into the world of our concepts and understanding. Thus,
what a man must really understand to comprehend Christology. Why do
so many people not understand it? Why do they connect no right ideas
open to ideas which permit an understanding of the Mystery of
has died, and that they are trying to learn to understand the living
the dead, they are trying to understand and explain the living from
must take pains, always take pains to replace an understanding
through the dead by an understanding through the living. The whole
science must disappear. In its place must arise an understanding of
be wanting in an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. For we
understanding of the world must take in the future. But for a long
by other races if they say things that these people do not understand
or have no intention of understanding — another
one must understand the whole nature of what arises; one must not

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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unless you first come to understand where these proofs originate. For
already, if one understands things aright, one finds the enduring

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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my dear friends, is necessary: to understand how the impulses of
can only understand this through spiritual science. The question is

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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that is why it is so difficult for us today to understand the
Indeed, this understanding can only come from Spiritual
now we must try to understand the kind of thinking in which such
try to understand the attitude of men living in the first
wine). There was a real understanding of this mystery in those
growing faculty of human intellect to understand this teaching
Only in the light of this knowledge can we begin to understand
understand the thoughts of the early Christians but out of this
Understanding these things was hardly possible any longer in
understand John Scotus Erigena when he speaks of the Godhead
only a question of understanding the real meaning of the
begin with, men would be capable of understanding them.
men were not supposed to understand. These dogmas are not
if we really understand them and shake off Alexandrian
come to an understanding of the now faded wisdom of antiquity.

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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the soul, sought to gain an understanding of the world by the rational
of cognition who pride themselves on understanding Kant, consider every man
real understanding of Aristotle enables us to find that an entirely
to understand Aristotle's teaching of “matter” and
definitions in the Scholastic writings. We must understand what is meant
one with a dubious impression: men no longer understand each other on
degrees ripen an understanding of all that Hegel has given to the world;
upon the theory of knowledge, no understanding is possible of what is here
Anthroposophy. Very few philosophers, however, have any understanding of
Science will find its way. An understanding of anthroposophy is also
if it would develop an understanding of anthroposophical

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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to make it fully understandable, but it will become clearer if to begin
sufficient understanding for the Threefold Social Order, so that on the
basis of this understanding, the peoples of the West will take it
understanding it. We must know how to guard it, with a certain confidence,

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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later appear in the child as his powers of understanding and intellect, and
help you understand the matter still better, I should just like to mention
bring the matter closer to your understanding, if you know that the music a

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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But if you undertake a study of the being of man, and learn to understand
is essential that we really understand these processes right down to the
point where we understand what is actually going on in the body. You will
to distinguish understanding. And here we have to be clear about the fact
that all understanding is conveyed by man's rhythmic system, not by his
nerve-senses system, and we only understand a picture process, for example,
vibrations that are the actual bodily conveyers of understanding. We can
understand, because we breathe.
The belief is that understanding has something to do with man's nervous
the rhythmic system is connected with understanding, understanding becomes
closely will see the connections between understanding and actual feeling.
Actually we have to see the truth of something we understand before we can
place for our understanding of knowledge and the soul's element of
distinguish perception, understanding, and sufficient assimilation for the
understand at a pinch, because he is breathing all the time and therefore
have to understand in great detail.
intimately connected with the organs of speech, understanding only comes
remarkable way, and to help you understand it fully perhaps I may remind
you properly understand the marvellous organism that comes forth from man
understanding of man. And if you meditate on them these things are bound to
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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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understanding from a different point of view and it was said: with the
understanding only if we bring two such aspects to a synthesis. In
understand the utter seriousness of this matter when I tell you that the
painting understand the meaning of what he draws: when I let the child draw
of it, taking it in, perceiving it, and so understand it and, as I
are teachers who are inclined towards an understanding of Karma and less in
understand him with greater and greater love. And precisely through that we
dilettante tirades through a deeper understanding of the human being. Even

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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UNDERSTANDING THROUGH SPIRITUAL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.
our time. In that case it is vital to understand what its connection is
to remember something. Looking at memory is the best way to understand how
they despise material existence instead of understanding it and looking for
understand man. There is no way of really grasping man if you look at
understanding are supersensible, that is, everything we make use of for
understanding. And these are the same forces that also form our head. So we
understanding.
earth. The forces of understanding come to us from the world's periphery,
child absorbs something that reaches beyond his understanding, purely
yet understand what he has taken in, as people say in superficial life. Yet
re-experiences it. He has become mature now, and he can understand what he
is able to release from the depths of his soul; he can understand the thing
in your younger days with inadequate understanding, and which you can now
takes in what it understands — for that will disappear
difference if you understand the kind of things that are being put to
practical use by spiritual science. Because if you understand them in the
understand it properly, you will find an opportunity to make use of the
physiological sense until we understand it. — I told you
it this way yet, thank goodness! It is important to understand that
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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for the understanding of the Christ Mystery.

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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for the understanding of the Christ Mystery.
other Gospels, that in a certain sense one would get the same understanding
especially to the understanding of the outer, present physical world. Above
just in the abstract. If you want to understand how this happens in
understandable for the writer of the gospel of Matthew, who added the
understand Christianity in all its deep meaning, we have to realize that
above all, go out, so to speak, to an understanding mastery of world
to understand the most original of the ancient Hebrew spiritual current.
compassion and love. If we want to understand this, we must tell ourselves
pronounce certain moral principles; man then understands them. When he
people are picked who have understanding for the teaching. Perhaps one will
One usually understands as development that

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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understanding. The proletarian masses have increasingly had to regard
literary. Ever less understanding showed itself for the pictorial, for
human beings became less and less capable of understanding each other in
understand each other so little — indeed to an
conceived of as born out of the entire world. Understanding the human
being presupposes understanding the world. Yet, how little is a real
understanding of the world actually sought (and hence a real
understanding of the human being) in a natural scientific age that enters
to have nothing to do with understanding the social question, it
intimately connected with understanding the social question. This will
once more of calling forth a common understanding between beings that
understand that. A “casting” actually
acquire understanding for the many-sidedness of human beings, and gain
not notice such things. But it is easier, self-evidently, to understand
social understanding and the social interest will develop. For when do we
have no social understanding? We have no social understanding only when
understanding awakens at once when we take an interest in what lies
allied to understanding the social question. In many respects the social

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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aspires to in wanting to ascend to an understanding of
come to an understanding of the characteristic soul quality in
Perhaps it is not too audacious, in attempting to understand
serenity in Raphael. Then we come to understand why he had to
understand the profound empathy with which he contemplated
understand Herman Grimm when he relates that he once hung a large
by means of spiritual science — do we come to understand
We can understand our relation to Raphael and such thoughts as
discourse on Raphael. We understand these words; and we
understand him again in concluding, at the end of his work on

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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to secret and never finished. One has to understand this
of this hypothesis, one understands that in striving everywhere
understand! — In order to be able to reveal various
becomes understandable when Goethe states: “Of regular
from this human countenance. We begin to understand the age,
endure. In comprehending the age, we understand this great
understanding, while immersing ourselves in spiritual

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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the need to understand the specific human beings presented to
approaching fairy tales with sympathetic understanding,
of our understanding, our reason, feeling and will. This
understanding them, it sensed more or less consciously
Grimm, understandably had the feeling — even if

Title: A Mongolian Legend
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spiritual science do we come to understand their deep

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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enable one to understand the Greek world. Yet what the Greeks
becomes understandable that such a spirit had to struggle in
even those distance themselves from him, if they but understand

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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historical evolutionary epoch and that we can only understand this
was of course a question of power. And in order to understand what
We cannot understand the old oriental
ruler or the rulers. It is very difficult to understand the feelings
more or less forgotten. Even Catholics understand little of the fact
If we wish to understand such a
necessary because only thus can we understand what tasks and what

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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understand the contemporary world under such disagreeable conditions,
exist in Central Europe. And in order to understand what happened in
secret societies, whose members usually don't understand them —

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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necessarily justified, but understandable — later continued on
understanding of what is necessary for rights in society is
new spiritual life. And it is therefore understandable that it is
burdened with the most ridiculous misunderstandings. For this new
will understand me better if you imagine that we try to paint this
tell the truth. And we will understand each other best when our
mutual understanding is based on the desire to hear the unvarnished

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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contemporaries find the most difficult to understand, is this,
development something else needs understanding, if one wants to
arrive at an anthroposophic understanding, than that which one
phenomena in nature, in order to understand it. You would want
second item which commonly leads to misunderstandings is
he wanted to arrive at a certain causal understanding of the
then misunderstandings arise — somewhat in the sense that
understand this way of thinking at all, and finally the
it — misunderstandings developed relating to battles
is very easy — I understand totally where
misunderstandings come from — to find such phenomenology
mathematical thinking. It is quite understandable that Du
understanding” in which he, I could call it, celebrated
mathematical understanding to it. Here one must differentiate:
and only possible system of understanding everything in the
itself. People will learn to understand how the empowered inner
on, and as a result bring about an understanding with

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understanding through biological differences, by finding a
beings. For those who want to understand if one could speak
inner understanding it doesn't involve mere judgement, but a
of the animal. Here the most impossible misunderstandings come
naturally understand quite well, and said: ‘When we sleep, we
When you think about this, you would understand the innermost

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in science to determine certain steps to understand concepts,
grandiose manner, he wanted to understand actually only on the
level of thinking, that he wanted to understand the experience
wanted to attain a true understanding of the Logos, then the
wisdom. We understand that in ancient times, philosophy could
on an understanding of a mathematical nature. Time was short to
the understanding of nature. So it happened that certain
believes this then it is a misunderstanding. However, I must
understand the scientific way of thinking in its purity and
will now understand.

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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view understandable, it is always accused of having its ideas
ordinary human understanding and ordinary healthy logic. In any
understanding. One of these areas in which results can really
are simply verified through healthy human understanding, is not
— life skill, on his understanding of life, and it is this
understanding which enables him to grasp the most varied of
to a self-understanding which one can't achieve in
all teaching is based on the understanding of the human being,
can readily understand how the spiritual utterances which were
understand the child — and even young people!
the possibility to fully understand the child and enter into
have a civilization which we simply don't understand, when we

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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can only say I fully understand these misconceptions which have
misunderstandings are phenomena of our time. However, I must be
discovering and understanding: real problems exist here,
an ever wider understanding for them.
external symptoms are wanted. It has little understanding that
sense with the “Key notes” to understand them
point of view object according to today's understanding of
arrived into the soul constitution; the drive to understand the
understanding the phenomena of human life and human nature as
can be taken up every day. It was a call to the understanding
about really understanding how each day the members of the
only; we need to understand them in a lively form. If
Today it must again be grasped that a new understanding must be

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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of misunderstandings will again be linked to what I have to say
new misunderstandings to arise; I will renounce some of them in
which is considered popular, which we call understandable. You
this basis one can understand the entire medieval theology,
systems in order to understand them and not to oppose them.
understandable why Catholicism has become Catholic, Protestants

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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book and the mind, which understandably I didn't wish to
understand that human evolution already existed as a deep
understand the content of older words. We must realise that
wants to really understand literal fluency. One can't

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own obstinacy, which hinders understanding what the School
understanding. We shall begin with the words:
understanding, and can only be revealed by the countenance of
which he achieves when he understands what the Spirit-Messenger

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understand.

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Guardian of the Threshold. And we must understand this meeting
world cannot take place without this understanding of the
in understanding true esoteric life as we continue. For what
the esoteric, our very understanding of it brings about a
With this kind of attitude it is not possible to understand
we do not understand them if we do not use pure thinking to do
merely pours through our understanding, when it should immerse
then we will understand something else. Yes, my dear friends,
words. And when we understand the words, the thoughts they are
in ordinary life to the deeper understanding in the soul. And
trochaic rhythm, and we should understand how this rhythm,
I said last time, it is not a question of understanding the

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is able to approach and come to an understanding of the
spiritual world in any form, depends upon understanding the
the senses, and how reason understands it, it is certainly not
is more difficult for normal consciousness to understand light.
Then we must do our best to understand, with spiritual
matter, our thinking is extinguished. By understanding this,
between warmth and cold is what one must understand as the
instinctive clairvoyance that he could understand the words
understand what was being called out to him. And now we live in
understand the words called out to them in spirit-language.
out to him and he does not understand them and must therefore
live through the torments of not understanding. And what do
and our willing will be able to understand and to grasp the

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don't merely understand this theoretically, as is mostly the
lessons, my dear friends. You should not understand the things
will you experience the heart of the matter if you understand
those who realize that the light is there will understand the

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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thinking is only capable of understanding the earthly - we must

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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based upon an understanding with the Vorstand at the
unless an understanding with the Vorstand at the Goetheanum has
Goetheanum, they must either reach an understanding with the
unrecognized by it, but must clearly understand that it cannot
understand that [the leadership of] the School must be able to
reveal the grand cosmic script. For one who understands the
healthy human understanding of what he has been told, for both
we can understand the human being so that we look through the
should therefore try to better understand and bring closer the
must not pretend to understand these things with the intellect,
in the will of the limbs. He understands the human being who

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desires to understand in the right way must do so inwardly.
With common sense we can understand all of anthroposophy, but
to understand inwardly means to transfer more and more what is
understanding, that is, with ever greater cosmic experience

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individual must find the way to understanding what it means to
understand everything offered by anthroposophy, if it exerts
common sense which understands anthroposophy, then at the
common sense which understands anthroposophy is the beginning
starts with this understanding through healthy common sense and
due to purely external circumstances. They do not understand

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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brothers, if we are permeated with the will to understand
understand what the content of this esoteric school is meant to be.

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been said that understanding must exist for true spiritual
that we must understand that the person who is able to transmit
at first by means of healthy human understanding – then
spiritual understanding. But a substantial seclusion from the

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And to your understanding's power,

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normal human understanding, first in knowledge and also through
may lose the everyday capacity for understanding, which holds
You must understand, my dear friends, the reality that this

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events and cosmic beings, if they can truly understand with
in order to grasp with full understanding what the content of
enable us to understand our situation once we have flown over

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who correctly understands the world. But before doing so,
From this you will understand that membership in the School
heart to understand them: the admonition to self-knowledge,
prepares us for understanding.

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understanding of the universe, resounds to human hearts from all

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understand the connection between his earthly existence and that
passes through the gate of death will only be able to understand
And what is extremely important in understanding
understand what is resonating there.
should already have heard here. They don't understand it. When
understand what is resonating there, if we can only hear the
incomprehensible sounds instead of the understandable words of
understand the spiritual world into which he enters if
And your power of understanding,

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fleeting thoughts understand as “I am” is only
point out to our souls the path to understanding the true

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only then, my dear friends, can you correctly understand what
our true humanity flows. To really understand these words means
understand the inner meaning of the esoteric path. This
that it be understood; for such understanding is in itself the
work for each individual. And the first thing is to understand
and if we correctly understand the words which resound:
beings in our surroundings say, if we understand them

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strength; how, however, we should understand that not only what
Your selfhood then should understand
Your selfhood then should understand
Your selfhood then should understand
Your selfhood then should understand
we then “understand”, where we gradually come
“understand”; It is “grasp”, which is

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then, if we understand what striving towards the light is, we
understanding impossible. Least of all in esoteric matters

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death in order to understand the things of the physical-sensory
But it is just this understanding of ourselves as earthly human
Thus, we may understand what is spoken as having been

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on the one hand and under complete misunderstanding of some
fear and misunderstanding were not there. Then again, in the
possibility exists for the understanding, the mutual
understanding of the classes. The middle class has difficulty
can hardly understand how it came about, one could call it,
understanding of themselves, whereas before they had been
to is that basically it is hardly appropriate for understanding
members of the social organism. Only when the understanding is
together. If one can't understand the human organism in this
reform it, not understand the social organism correctly. Today
an understanding of the function of human labour in the entire

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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understanding in order to orientate it towards the healing of
a real understanding of this organism it is necessary to
understand that this social organism, if it is to be healthy,
natural organisms. In order for you to understand me I have
order for no misunderstanding to arise in a belief that the
understandably also start on the side of the spiritual life but
understand it more closely.
to understand that the human organism can only be alive as a
but the deepest sympathy and deepest understanding for the
are just what work together in a unit. Through an understanding
wish to say I can understand every objection raised but ask you
understand objections being raised as I'm just trying to
not yet clear. I must say I can understand every objection
established between understanding such content and the will to
Another particular obstacle towards understanding is some or
This must take place in relation to the real understanding of

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made an understanding between different classes of humanity
between them, how difficult understanding is; this failure to
understand is both a world historic and also a social fact of
dismissed by the proletarian, does not understand that the
thoughts also want to penetrate the understanding and
comprehensive reformation, reforming the understanding of the
understanding is too closely meshed. They can't grasp the
present. Whoever is, in full earnestness, able to understand
of the world and takes on an inner soul understanding into
to understand it in depth, that the development of modern
social understanding, out of a certain inclination to purely
life's branches should be conceived with social understanding,
Proletariat. This understanding, while it has altered in some
understanding or out of national economic created ingredients

Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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able to understand their position within the human community
found towards understanding such things by doing what one
order to really understand the history of life. As much as
understanding of life and to point out such things with radical
understanding, to find a mutual understanding between both the
newer times, that social understanding, an understanding for
enters, but that this understanding brings no learned aspect
in their current situation to understand it in a lively way,
order to make it understandable, say the following: in economic
coalitions which essentially exist on the understanding of the
understanding of the difficulties when one looks for instance
of law which I've just been speaking about. An understanding,
but not an understanding for some or other general abstract
definition of law, but an understanding for the effectiveness
that end it is necessary for people to also really understand,
I could say, understand out of the very foundation, what is
Even though basically this law is easy to understand, you could
processed in the right social understanding where human labour
to work and have an understanding about work. This is what a
have gone. Understandably what has happened is historically
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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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necessary to make the following clear, in order to understand
Brotherhood, then it is easy to understand that it is being
speaker's words as follows. Understandably with every lecture
rightly understand out of which omissions my talk should come
statements. Understandably I don't want to discuss such
I don't quite understand what this whole irrational element has
question possibly contains a misunderstanding with Dr
convicted by a Czech in a language he fails to understand. He
a Czech who can't understand German. What I am indicating is

Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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concluded that now again an understanding needs to be
addressed, an understanding so strongly yearned for which has
those who are searching for such an understanding, it is so
quickly come to an understanding; how far humanity has come
come to such a frightening expression for those who understand
hand, hardly an understandable word can be heard in response.
those who really understand the Proletariat, not merely think
resisted everything which presented itself as an understanding
understand its needs to be considered as a question of human
understand these things correctly, how they have developed,
of humanity with an inner understanding for what has emerged,
to understand as science.
on the free understanding of those who need the acceptance.
out of a free understanding with their colleagues and with a
needs but directed to a social understanding which has been
would face, through a free understanding of all colleagues,
right down to the last worker, the free understanding of their
appointed posts, then a relationship of free understanding will
free understanding that manual work was the precursor, because
bring you to understand — that with reference to the
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this the very thing that helps him to understand its nature? And will
which help us to understand the achievements of an artist need not be
this simply means that they have never taken the trouble to understand
uses his intellect when he endeavours to understand the laws of the
organs of creation, we can well understand why in his musical dramas
help you to understand these things. We know that the world evolves
But even nowadays it is quite easy to understand the real origin of
We can never understand such marvellous interweavings by reference to
put such questions shows such a lack of understanding of his mission
to be by those who understand the mysteries of the Grail. In the

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strained every nerve to understand how a Being like the Christ, Who
Very little real understanding of Plato is shown in modern text-books
is little real understanding of Platonic philosophy. Modern
intellectualism is incapable of it. Nor is it possible to understand
would understand the universe let us not pay heed to space, for space
learning in those days, and one can readily understand that Plotinus
also tried to understand the descent of the Christ into Jesus of
crown of wisdom was to understand how the Christ Being had entered
where they were able to understand the essence and being of the
of understanding the value and worth of personality, of
develop to a point where he will understand how the Christ took up His
been so splendid a preparation for an understanding of the Mystery of
third and fourth centuries A.D. to gloss over a deep misunderstanding.

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guard against such a misunderstanding as this. One who has
understandable to anyone who knows that he can achieve that
however, to understand first how a community-building element
human heart, in essence, understands the language of the
understand that other element which must play a corresponding
the like, we do not thereby as yet understand the spiritual
world. We begin to develop the first understanding of the
other person. Only then does real understanding of
start from that state for the real understanding of
within the earthly world and learned to know and understand
awake that we then understand Anthroposophy for the first time
this understanding, you receive Anthroposophical ideas into an
that it shall be laid hold upon by a true understanding of
Anthroposophy. If this true understanding of Anthroposophy is
parties, two groups of persons, who fail mutually to understand
very first step toward mutual understanding. Why? It is
continues to be such that one side does not understand the

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understanding this phenomenon. And what I have to say in these
that this person does not understand other persons and that
they likewise do not understand him unless they simply consider
Therein lies the difficulty of mutual understanding between
reach mutual understanding with a person who is telling him
their understanding of the teaching drawn from the higher
Thus, does it become understandable, precisely from a
never been any understanding when I have said that there are
understand from what I presented to you yesterday and today
simply fails to understand its innermost impulse. All the more
Please, understand that I am not asserting in a
understanding of the higher worlds requires a consciousness of
understanding of the Anthroposophical world view.
An understanding of the nature of religious

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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quite clear on a number of occasions that to understand
evolution to get a real understanding of the origins of
clearly understand this in the case of a plant, for it
understand it’. My reply was: ‘Reverend
understand. All the time they want to describe their
we want to understand human life; all we would be doing
humankind is concerned. We cannot gain understanding of
human understanding in the vertical direction to become

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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nurtured entirely at soul level. You cannot understand
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, out of the
understand little, if any of it. The point is that it is
understands. Europe can only be made to rise if people
this, however. They think they understand each other.
to understand the Mystery of Golgotha in the new and
to understand the presence of the Christ in huMan
make no progress in social understanding. It is no longer

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their heads with illusions, wanting to understand history
limited ideas. Yet it is only possible to understand the
understand the way things were said in works written and

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that are understandable and indeed also justifiable. In
clearly understand — making it the centre of both
than that humankind should today gain true understanding

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number of people to fully understand the following. To
managed to get a real understanding of the physical
absolutely essential if one wishes to understand the
understand it in its transformed non-physical form, our
understanding of this today. It is a serious matter when
matters is to gain a clear understanding of social
relations in this world. Real understanding of the
little understanding will say: ‘You are using
us understand the essential nature of the human being. It
understand that because our friends Molt, Kühn,
understand what I mean if they want to — could be
think at least some of you will understand what I mean.
human understanding, must be there as well; it is the
pole of human understanding where it is possible to enter
to get a clear understanding of the world, of the things

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we must clearly understand that the fruits of mysticism
understand that human beings must hold the balance
want to understand the language of heaven. Since it has
people to understand the language of heaven.
cultural life. If we understand what the present age asks

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understand nature in a way when we use the intellect to
to understand on the basis of different facts. Modern
gets a clear understanding of the spiritual paths, using
the whole human being in arriving at such understanding
them, will indeed make use of it and try and understand
therefore a question of having the will to understand
anthroposophy is so difficult to understand. We shall
never understand spiritual science by merely thinking it;
we shall only come to understand it if every one of its

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is to help us understand why in the present age humankind

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not have far to go to understand what happens in
of this outside world; we merely need to understand
understanding of the body, this materialism, will one day
We must understand it before we can consciously take our
understanding of the physical, sense-perceptible world.
understand very clearly how a balance is achieved between
with our understanding of the threefold nature of the
understanding of what is in preparation there in a
and understand what is in progress there.
understanding for the things of the earth, for the things
The West understands earthly things only, the East has no
understanding of them. Because of this, the heavenly

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understanding of current events. We must above all understand where the
soul came to an understanding with the phenomena Of nature, and the
us to understand that humanity has created a completely new world around
to praise the beauty of those speeches, we fail to understand the signs
mystical heights for moral uplift will not understand this language. The
is the new understanding we must gain for the Christ event; otherwise we
during the first half of the 20th century?’ If we understand the
new understanding of the Christ must be found so that humanity may be led

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understand human beings if we add other aspects to these
spiritual understanding of the outer world must arise. To
Brazen King, but with firm understanding for the three

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mysteries if one wants to understand the human being at all.
and a new birth, but in order to be able to understand what is
the outset in order to prepare ourselves for a complete understanding
lecture, you will understand that those people who are able to see into

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energy if we would understand our place as man within
would argue a very poor understanding of the future if we
hard to understand as to be incomprehensible, and I have had to
and we can really only understand what has entered its
“So difficult to understand,” people comment on all
this! They must take the trouble to understand it, however,
bring genuine social transformation. The best understanding of

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proved that old age no longer understands its own youth,”
to understand what is meant by the spiritual world. But the
death”; he will not understand. He has been made wholly
unaccustomed to direct his understanding to such a
disentangle them again. To understand that these three strata
— unless we can understand these things from their

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shall get the best understanding of my subject to-day by
power. It is in this sense that we must understand the feeling
that time. It was natural for this instinctive understanding to
understanding of the Event of Golgotha which existed in the
that the understanding of what really happened on Golgotha
Here, too, we stand at a turning-point. A new understanding of
sensible. The new understanding of Christ must arise from
understanding of Christ Jesus. Nor will
understanding be complete, really satisfying the needs of
how they long to understand reality by means of abstractions.
nations, torn asunder by hatred and misunderstanding, can only
way. Until men realize the duty of this understanding there
understanding of what is included in our idea of the Threefold
world, but the real, fundamental understanding which will lead
understand things deeply enough. All that is connected , with
and fire, so that the necessary understanding may be given to
understanding for our time. So it is that as we pass through
survey humanity's historical development and understand
this sense we must come to understand race-psychology. In the
to-day to understand. How do they work? They work in all that
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understand their times by adopting a wholly new conception of
latter. We do not even understand adequately what is the demand
proletariat. We may understand the form of the words when they
produced by the leading classes, did not understand them, and
understand him. As it fell to me to give the preliminary course
the hypnotism of this idea and can understand the necessity for

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