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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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take us too far, if we were to exhaustively portray the ideals
were to allow the clarity of the I to be submerged, to be
clever, as if one were to reject the wise cosmic order, since
If one were to hear the Church Father Augustine speak about
That could only happen, if humans were to organise this inner
were to enter into this world weak and not empowered in this
a spiritual step up were only to develop selfishness, then it
physical world, and which there establish evil, were used in
were to draw conclusions from what has just been said: that you
were held back in souls through this, they will now lead human

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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lowered state of consciousness, positive and negative suggestion which
ideal sends out white-gold rays. The painters of past times, who were
of holy awe ran through the assembled people, who were filled with reverence.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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they were used to seeing, that they must first grow accustomed to the
hatred and love, appear as if they were rushing towards us. A clairvoyant
sees as if they were rushing towards him. To an unexperienced person
were inspired by a feeling which still exercises an influence upon us
past, there were few books, but in those few books one could find something
indicate something connected with the sympathetic side of life wereas darkly
which they gave them were intended for the Spirits of the Planets. The
were inspired, that is to say, they were initiates who possessed the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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as if it were a kind of sleep. But this is not the case; soon after death
for they were the prey of an illusion: they do not consider that in

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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as it were, the firm foundation of Devachan: the continent of Devachan.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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Earth. There, our experiences were linked up with feelings and soul-impressions, the
faces the soul as if it were quite estranged from it. The feelings
themselves as if they were some kind of nourishment for the astral body.
physicians in particular, were still clairvoyant and they could therefore

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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were musicians, and they will trace this back to heredity. A great theosophist
but in part it is also the work of other higher Beings who were active when the
Devachan. We ourselves prepared the nest where we were born. In Kamaloca,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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not have high foreheads; their foreheads were flat
Atlantean were as follows: His etheric body protruded far, especially
gliding machines were propelled by the life-forces that lie concealed
in plants. The vehicles of the Atlanteans were fed with grains of wheat,
The Lemurians were the forerunners

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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which were all of a volcanic kind. Typical for Lemuria is the manifold
were in the case of the Lemurians, still more strongly marked, especially
snake does not quite correspond to the reality); his companions were
were no mammals. To-day no remains can be found either of these reptiles
human beings who were expelled and condemned to degeneration. The ascent
later on there will be a compensation for those who were expelled.
Formally, moon and earth were one planet. Thus the evolution of the
sexes began to separate; before that time the human beings were hermaphrodites.
This applies to all living beings. At that time, certain forces were
forth descendants without the aid of another being. These forces were
were one body, and everything which now exists in the form of human
These sun-plants were of

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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Persias were already able to harmonize spirit and matter and. began to work

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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several things were mentioned which, particularly at the present
were pursued but only a sense that was developed for the external world of facts. Attention was
indeed, this is the case. The Greek continued, as it were, the direction which, in the Greek
the `I am'. It was as if it were dull and hazy, as though poured out in a broad perception of the
where these things were originally conceived, the world does not arise out of nothing but out of
truly scientific must follow from this `I am'. One should be able, as it were, to deduce, to read
then flowered as German idealistic philosophy in
the thoughts and feelings which one treats as though they were independent of it, associating and
just that people did not know that they were still living from this heritage of the ancient East.
thinking and economic thinking were apportioned to the East, the Centre, and the West
because the masses and the individual were in accord with one another; individuals were, in a
this respect. I don't believe that much understanding would arise if we were to say that we
in a very different way in our course, has spoken to humanity through those who were here and of
1. These were the lectures given by Dr Karl Heyer on 14, 15 and 16 October

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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consciousness-soul is, as it were, giving itself contour, becoming integrated in itself —
the special characteristics of this epoch are not directed from the spiritual world as they were
economic conflict, were diverted and fixed into legal-political concepts which lived then in
import. If it were not for that distinction it would be far more evident that, even now,
economic life is, as it were, the ground and soil from which something like this can spring up.
effect that when today the consciousness of this Eastern human being is lowered, when he is in a
West, but this being works into his soul nature; these beings, as it were, appear to him. Whereas
the earth; that spread, as it were, a dull mystical atmosphere over human beings, as can be found

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,
in which Rome developed to particular splendour and in which the Roman Empire arose — were
Byzantine Empire were a kind of symbol of the decay of the fourth post-Atlantean epoch, the
their beds! The others were either poisoned or maimed and died in prison, or left prison to join
Spain, over present-day France, and also over a part of Britain. These were Roman people who
And other things, too, were preserved apart from
freedom of action, far greater room to move in as it were. In the Latin countries proper they
body and soul, and not the spirit, were particularly
were the people of the West. Initially they left the spirit out of consideration, taking body and
science. And because people were ashamed, as it were, to make a universal religion out of natural
forms of the fourth post-Atlantean epoch — were to be stronger. What would arise then?
in that language remain together. When the Goths, the Vandals and so on moved westwards they were
Europe. This has the effect that human beings came to the fore in Central Europe who were not
in their true nature we can say: When they were awake there was working in them something of the
their will, and crippled it. When these individuals slept, when the astral body and the 'I' were
— almost, as it were, with one's bare hands — the fact that this is as I have
from the impulses of the West; who, as it were, is tormented by the spirits of the West and who,
which were at work in Greece — and also, most especially, in the Gothic style — but
which nonetheless were basically the successors of those spirits which once inspired the oriental
follow these leaders — their characteristic stamp. The human beings of the Centre were
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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were written just at the time when Goethe and Schiller were founding the magazine
picture form — as reply, as it were, to Schiller's
would have to arise as the threefold social order. Goethe thus said, as it were, when he received
two presentations of the same thing. One by Schiller, from the intellect as it were, though not
into a dark blue, as it were, of mere abstraction, of intellectuality, had he proceeded further
were, avoided the blue, the Ahrimanic-intellectuality; Goethe had avoided the red, excessive
remained, as it were, at this point, for it just required the intercession of spiritual science
finest spirits of modern human evolution have already moved in this direction. But if there were
organism in a reforming way. One can only describe as an idealist, as it were, what ought to take
social questions were met by remaining in the images of the myths. And it is here, when one
so the Oracle arose. The gods were not pictured here merely imaginatively but were called upon
post-Atlantean epoch, people were to hold on to capital even when they themselves could no longer
Goethe: I want sharply contoured images, not excessive vague ones. For if I were to go any
were little understood in the time that followed them. I have often spoken about
November in Mainz. His articles opposing Anthroposophy were published as a collection under the

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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clairvoyance — though not the old clairvoyance itself — were still present even in
dreamlike way, they were nevertheless faculties different from those of everyday life and it was
Europe. European thought and culture was, as it were, closed off from access to the Orient. But
of the spiritual life which had been received from the Orient, to which the doors were now closed
importance were the abilities, the forces, brought by the human being into physical existence
because, against the verdict of the gods, according to which people were allotted their place,
already in Greece but then particularly also in Rome, by which Central Europeans were beginning
the will of the gods. And there were no dialectics for deciding what the gods willed.
which were permeated by the divine-spiritual. People did there in the economic life what arose as
primitively, became caught up, as it were, in the threads of the dialectical-legal life. For, at
this brought about all those forms of military service which were necessary because there was no
century was 1,400 million but that as much work was being accomplished as though there were 2,000
machines do if their work on the earth were to be done by people.
up to the divine-spiritual beings of the higher Hierarchies. He saw all this, as it were, through
spirits are again working which in earlier times were perceived by the human being in nature. In
suppose that it were possible — the economic life would grow over peoples' heads. It would
were sought in nature. And the purely intellectual life is only an intermediary stage which has
how, for the ancient oriental, the relationships of the blood line were of very particular
importance, for the wise men of the Mysteries were guided by these as though by signs from the
that you were born, that you exist, is not what matters!' This did not interest him. It was the
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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Today we will remind ourselves that there were
the earth, there were still strong remnants of the ancient clairvoyance existing in many people.
Other people had already lost this clairvoyance — were already definitely in the beginnings
was everywhere permeated by dialectical-legal forms. The clergy were the bureaucracy. They held
inborn faculties of such a nature that they were able to come to this instinctive perception. Out
of the great mass of people those were chosen in whose blood it lay to have such vision. Thus one
simply knew that in the human beings that were sent as children from the spiritual worlds into
memories of experiences before birth or conception were the suitable pupils for the Mysteries.
They were able to comprehend and see, or, rather, were able through comprehending vision to
birth and had an instinctive memory of it in this life on earth. And they were sought out by the
beings such as these who were the first ones able to speak about the Mystery of Golgotha. One can
ancient times decisions were made as to what should happen in the social life according to what
the kings and other princes — were ascribed with a certain authority on earth, and ascribed
dialectical-legal Roman element also bore in its bosom, as it were, its other side. It bore the
Golgotha were taken up by the Roman principle into a purely juristic dialectics; that they were
later Middle Ages; that the faithful were forbidden to read the Bible. It was considered by the
Gospels were to become known among the broad mass of the faithful. For the Gospels originate out
therefore impossible for those times, in which the intellect and dialectics were prepared, to
continued through authority, and were terrified of the Gospels becoming generally known among the
very last traces of understanding for the Last Supper were gone — the play of dialectics
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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their eiders when they were in their youth. The difference between older people and the
crisis of the second decade of the twentieth century was ushered in when those who were supposed
question of cosmic man can be answered only if He who unites Himself with the earth from out of
as it were, killed off at least once. The most recent of these death-blows was the one dealt by a
our times — and people receive it as though it were barely anything other than a magazine
science as though it were nothing but a magazine article that was spoken rather than written.

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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week ago, you will obtain an important key, as it were, to many things in
were, out of nothing and attains a perceptible existence. Thus people speak
But the following question should burn, as it were, in our souls:
it, as it were, everything that constitutes our environment during the life
time when we were on the Earth in an earlier incarnation. When we speak of
look back to our former incarnations, we were surrounded during our time on
Earth by conditions; these conditions had their effects. We were surrounded
it is there, when the things which, as it were, mattered to us in previous
anew when everything for the sake of which we were born before has been
bring about the destruction of what they were born into and to appear again
heart and a soul for Spiritual Science were placed into this period in
grains were to follow the direction of these arrows (→),

Title: Talk To Young People:
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sounds) at the same standpoint where they were before they were
discover that we have emerged from an epoch in time when we were
all; they were attempts to escape from what older people call
were also full of enthusiasm and later kept their enthusiasm into
who were not able to grow into the traditional professions awaiting
shame. Young people were not able to reveal what they felt. What was
to ask themselves the reason for their suffering and what they were
a Youth Section should be; we hoped to hear what thoughts were
feelings, what spade-thrusts of will. We were ready to accept
were

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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reality, of course, the Moon man does not sit inside as if he were
the post-Atlantean period. The three first earth periods were, in a
were repetitions of the Saturn, Sun and Moon man.
Archangelos would realize only inspirations; and were things to proceed
achieved, and which does not lead to the Spiritual-Scientific man, were
moon — but used by those Beings who were in advance of man in
“think ourselves into his mind”, as it were. All this must

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
were before, and in a certain respect they become also more sacred.
protected, as it were, from being partaken of by men who had already
Whence were these concepts derived? We
multiplicity by withdrawing, as it were, into external
vividly alive concepts were in this ancient time, concepts which were
the soul were necessary to sharpen these attenuated concepts
which indicates that in Europe, confronting as it were the starting
we are led to a tree, or rather to trees, which were found on the
shore of the sea by the gods Wotan, Wile and We. And men were formed
from two trees, the Ash and the Elm. Thus men were created by the
Europe something was left over, as it were, like a treasured remnant
humanity were, in a way, protected from understanding anything that
Mystery of Golgotha should not be grasped through wisdom; they were
among those people who were, so to say, threatened with receiving
If exact research were made, it would be
Rome were displaced and there was poured into this region where
important leading personalities to create a harmony, as it were,
in the centre. One can then see, for instance, how pains were taken
those who were the descendants of the European peoples with the Life
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
they were when awake. The majority of men must on awaking have said
Jahve-deities we were to gain the knowledge during the day and live
would happen if we were not at the mercy of the fact that on waking
something else that we have gone through by day. If the position were
know this man. It would be entirely different if we were to bring in
in the gradually dying knowledge. There were certain peoples of the
were so constituted that they had rather developed this condition
subject to the predisposition of being overpowered by Ahriman during
overpowered by Ahriman it will not penetrate into a concrete grasp of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
and concepts they are, as it were, learning something of the world,
moulder. Every thought that arises in us seizes, as it were, upon our
were transposing oneself into a living being; but there is a
the Angeloi, who were at the human stage during the Moon evolution,
that certain beings from the Hierarchy of the Angeloi, who were human
at that time, were not willing to reunite with the Sun in the last
part of the Old Moon time. To be sure, they were obliged to descend
longing for the Moon existence. They were out of place, they were not
Occidental. The Greeks were to find the transition from Oriental to
expressing itself so abstractly, but it clothes itself as it were in
related to people in the same way as he is. And to pour, as it were,
evolution in a spiritual respect strove as it were to grasp the
revelation. One stands as it were ever confronting the Christ, and
the Christ in an inward spiritual way, drawn together as it were, and
p.10a) where one has gathered up out of the cosmos, as it were, the
particularly feel: If only these walls were not so tiresomely there
], were to the ancient Romans actual beings, who
were intimately connected with the divine, with the divinely
done upon earth. That was a living consciousness. The kings were the
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
yesterday we were able to show how the intellect, all that is
step of separation, but remained, as it were, with the progressing
feeling. But since the connection remained unknown to him there were
it were against man gives a certain inner compulsion.’
moving and forming. Thus Lucifer, as it were, dwells in our
the sun. Had they done so, they would, as it were, have united
background, shining, as it were, into the nape of our neck, the
and ought to feel as though our neck and the back of our head were
which live in our inner nature. If he were not to shut us off like
them. If we were to feel these sun-forces, were we really to feel the
with the Christ-impulse, regarding, as it were, this Christ-impulse
though it were only a complicated cooperation of purely mechanical
things were once living and have died, that what we can find today as
If we were
that Actually, in the different members which were united through the
the human being, can, as it were emancipate itself from the Jahve
seems to come from the unspoiled intellect of man #1 as if it were a
to examine what was passed over to her by people who were not always
These persons concocted things which were not always irreproachable;
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
suppose that here were the surface of the earth —
were a worm or some little creature, that lives and burrows under the
— that this caterpillar or grub were a
comprehends. And let us suppose the worm were not an ordinary
would not endure well up above, if he were forced to go out there;
pointed out here in one connection that rudiments were already
a certain meaning to what goes on around us, we must as it were see
existence as Earth. That is to say, we were left behind on the Earth
Sun and Moon were united with the earth and that then they separated,
Sun and Moon were united as Sun with what were processes of Earth;
they were inwardly united with the whole human existence. There the
light-rays shine on the object and are thrown back to us. Were the
do now. Such perceptions were naturally not present during the
already been prepared on Old Saturn, they were only opened upon the
Earth, only there were they made organs of perception. These
rudiments on Saturn were blind and unperceiving sense-organs. The
sense-organs were first opened by the separation of the Sun and the
things; he is everything. If all objects and beings of the earth were
The senses were on the one side, and something like the
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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They were given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in July and August of
stressed that the first rudiments of the sense-organs were present in
the time of ancient Saturn, and that of course they were not then
today. During the Saturn condition they were still lifeless germinal
sense is, as it were, a thin zone, a thin outer zone of the physical,
Earth-existence. Thus, there remains, as it were, outside this
physical sense-zone. But if this were really to be the case in man
the danger of being really more egotistic than we were before and
this circle, Lucifer and his hosts were assuredly lurking
body they then stream down as it were into the etheric body. (See
dissolve, as it were, and movement appears in the etheric body. It is

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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were attributed to the Angel working within the human being. An
once again, was drawn forth as it were with effort from the
many things were no longer understood at all, as, for example,
then: ‘All things were made by him [i.e.: by the Logos];
namely, that all things visible were made by the Logos, that
early centuries, even among men who were by no means learned
were built up by this blood, the bodies of the members of the
the blood, in the whole human body, were held to be workings of
were working upon the being of man, but this is not the
forces working upon body and blood were woven into this ancient
as it were of the Father God, and we have an echo of this in the
conceptions were relics of the ancient era of paganism. Let me
centuries of Christendom were imbued with the idea that the
earliest Church Fathers were to the effect that in the
Christian Church were fighting. So difficult was it for the
and from no other source. Men were directed to the Spiritual
early Christians, therefore, were wont to say: The end of the
would have said: Hitherto these evil spirits were within the
were expecting the downfall of the world. They did not yet
the Spirit was not understood by men who once again were imbued
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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experience that we were bound to follow the course of Natural Science, but
that we were disappointed in the expectations raised by our diligent
Chaldean wisdom were entirely different, both in respect of method and
philosophies were in reality but abstractions inspired by the wisdom of the
inner experience of the soul whereby the secrets of the Cosmos were
period, however, were acquainted with the wisdom of the Mysteries, either
later times also. His achievements were not only embodied in the
original texts were not obtainable; but thinkers had become familiar with
be admitted that if the Arabian interpretation of Aristotelianism were
Christianity, yet upon the other they were bound by all their traditions to
acknowledge that the logic and the thought technique of Aristotle were
alone right and true. Placed in this dilemma, the Scholastics were faced by
achievement of which the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas were largely
for instance, were applicable to the highest regions, and which could have
were taken to accentuate the breach between faith on the one hand, which
their faith from this invasion of independent thought. They were of the
those limits which were imposed upon knowledge in the way described
the Scholastics, for thinkers of that period were necessarily acquainted
Kant's principles of thought were the dominating influence and prevented
Were the sealing-wax to exercise the function of cognition in the Kantian
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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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were to take shape in you gradually, if it were to develop further through
that come from the West. If you were to trace back all the educational
we were to follow the Spencerian axiom. For nobody should become a botanist
truthfully, if we were to ask ourselves whether we should be more on the
nature of the growing child. If we as teachers were able to engage
we entered it; we have learned to do what we were incapable of doing when
year, of everything we were able to do at the year's end, then our teaching

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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understood figuratively thus: as if someone were to play a sonata and were
that a musical coherence would be provided only if various skeletons were
above on its way downward shows itself as defence. Were we not to have
ancient mysteries were at work, and that people in these times still wrote
in the ancient mysteries spoke rather differently. Their expressions were

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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properly if we were to imbibe produce that had already been partly digested
a break, as it were, at the centre, and has to jump across, without however
of the spectrum 'sounds' different from the blue-violet side, as it were,
scientific works that were published in the Weimar edition, from his
arrive at something remarkable. When we speak it is, as it were, the sound
sounding forth from every colour, as it were. We do not see a colour when
there. By preparing themselves for this the eurythmists are, as it were,
body and ego are intensified, as it were. If after seeing a eurythmy
ordinary life than you were before.

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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and nitrogen formed a chemical compound in the air, if they were chemically
later. But he looks at this process as if every part of it were of the same
hands, the manner of holding his head, were the features that called on us
nevertheless. Were, for instance, the teacher to give to the child nothing

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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organisation during the first seven years of his life, become, as it were,
After having as it were shown you how these things can really be gone into,
of them as though material existence were spread out in the world and as
though supersensible, non-perceptible existence were somewhere behind or
and pour into us as it were from outside, from the outside of the planet.
away, as it were, from the influences brought about in him from outside by
were to come when human beings completely lost hold of their youth, and
were unable to draw on their youthful forces, if there were no means of
that education has to be a real art. In the time of transition people were
the social question nowadays, that if certain things were arranged in such

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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but we were endowed with quite different abilities than we have today; old
the Bodhi tree â€” important things were going on not only
it, if he would make his contribution as Buddha. He therefore lowered
not have to imagine a closed body as we have it, but what otherwise were
Such relations were well
same time when Jesus was born, another set of parents, who were also named
Joseph and Mary, were also given a child in Palestine, with the same name
Jesus. So, at that time there were two Jesus children from two sets of
children up to two years of age were killed. John the Baptist would also
at the birth the wise magicians of the Orient, who were led by the star to

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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If this were so, then an explanation of the
and the physical body were especially developed, he would not have been
same faculties were always there, which gradually developed from primitive
has been carried out in the Near East. The Hebrew people were held back.
people were most advanced, the Bodhisattva Buddha could bring this
ancestors have also shed. We have, as it were, such a chain.

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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capacity for work, but with respect to their entire humanity, were viewed
of earlier ages assumed this direction. In ancient times there were
cultural life of the ancient Hebrews, there were of course the scribes
and Pharisees, single communities that stood out, that were in possession
human being between birth and death. The further attempt was, as it were,
form not at all. Thus if we were to form the Representative of Humanity
— we were talking about artistic monuments

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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as it were, from the realm of space to the realm of time.
looking back into pre-historic times, if we were not able to
the soul and spirit were much more intimately connected with
welled up as it were in the Greek soul as something inwardly
soul was poured, as it were, into the bodily nature. It had
bloody battles were the order of the day. The city was
times, the streets of Perugia were covered in blood and strewn
some sort were to be founded. And we then see Savonarola fall
Nominally great figures, these popes were certainly not what
see how disparate were the actual circumstances and Raphael's
were only human pictures; in memory, their beautiful forms palpable
buried for centuries under rubble and debris on Roman soil were
And it need not astonish us if Raphael's soul were to have
rubble, products of the Greek spirit, the manuscripts that were
Having been doubly buried, Greek culture waited, as it were, in
would not be as they are if humanity were not a unified being
engravings, photographs and reproductions of his works were made.
though he were not fully permitted to enter — as though the
in the widest circles people were unable to immerse themselves

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making use of powers that were only to emerge in later centuries. --
making use of powers that were only to emerge in later
as it were no more than the coming together of the apostles.
soon these oil colours were undermined by dampness, the
the Saviour were eliminated.]
most barbaric manner. And then there were charlatans —
Maria delle Grazie we may attempt as it were with the
picture in which three or four figures were to appear, he went
world-famous picture. There were people at the time in Milan
Jesus and Judas were to be represented in the picture: two of
he added: In the end, if no model were found for Judas, he
the external means were wholly inadequate. Should he in fact
concepts were formed by means of natural science. And where
him. The times were approaching — the dawn of which had
human form. Things were not viewed from outside, but created
most significant things were brought by him only up to a
consequence of the technical means by which they were produced,
judgement, so clarity and comprehension were integral to this

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and listened to those who were able to relate the
one were to destroy the blossom of a plant, if one intrudes
(If I were to say all that I should like to say about the
Applying the word in the positive sense, these were clairvoyant
states between waking and sleeping, human beings were able to
not yet fully self-conscious, human beings were by no means as
constitution people were able — in sensing the hunger
would necessarily go to rack and ruin if it were not after all
piece of it, so to speak. Thus, we may speak, as it were, of
here. Were it not paradoxical, one would like to say: in
were the highest animal organisms, where the present sun,
until then. — When the time came, and the bears were
they were full to excess, finally lying there as though
out of it. The giants were astonished at his strength in
the lark did not return at all. At that, the giants were so
that they were renewing something that belongs intimately

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closer to the spiritual worlds and were themselves still able
primeval times, with which human beings were able to look out
bear this ancient organ, with which they were able to
in a flash. Were human beings not to want to participate in

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from youth onwards, as it were, amid personalities who stood in
These were decades of struggle in German cultural life, decades
sagas and fairy tales told them by simple folk, that were
abolition of their country's constitution. They were
significant event and its aftermath. For there were
as it were, and one no longer feels the connection to immediate
materials, external facts, were of enormous importance for
Herman Grimm, they were nonetheless not at all the main thing.
Greeks, as though he were to say: In looking to the Greeks,
Christ, as it were, to the point of a mere thought impulse, as
Shakespeare and others, such as Goethe, were in a manner
as though it were excerpted from this mighty stream of
were cut out from a colossal work setting forth the whole
one were reading a few pages in it. It is the same with an
“If, by some miracle, Michelangelo were called from the
dead, to live among us again, and if I were to meet him, I
once were in their day; with Raphael one has to start from what
other matters, as it were. Besides personally acquainting
himself with other matters, he succeeds in standing as it were,
of Raphael. It is as though Herman Grimm were never able to
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peoples and so forth. All these things were not
somewhat disrespectfully, were beings of a divine nature. For it was
they had become something greater than ordinary people. They were
conquests were justified. They were simply carried out. The
the ruler wore was the fashion of the gods. And his paladins were not
were the leaders tending more towards being divine representatives,
priestly, where the priests were kings; on the other hand the
Basically these were the two forms: the churches and the empires.
ancient times in the Orient men lived on the physical earth who were
consciousness that earthly men were representatives of God was lost.
certain individuals were representatives of God is Protestantism
appearances until then. The local German princes were the outer
were symbols for an inspirational kingdom of heaven.
the way some others were. The Muslims were content to defeat the
people. His paladins were the gods who surrounded him, sub-gods. The

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essential to see how contemporary occurrences, which were once real
had their real meaning. To a certain extent they were realities.
the Roman empire. For the Roman emperors were, at least according to
participates in physical life as though it were the only reality.
Central European tribes of Germanic origin were united since the time
people of Central Europe were left with a striving in all directions,
surface in the previous decades, during which illusions were
were to skin people like Caprivi or Hohenlohe or Bethman Hollweg
These are the real figures; the others were mere illusions.
But there were very few
century there were two opposing parties in the English parliament
Tories were in opposition. What kind of names were they? In the first
half of the nineteenth century these names were seriously meant. The
liberals were called Whigs, and no embarrassment was involved: the
others were called Tories, also without embarrassment. But when these
names were adopted during the dawn of the English parliament, what
were called Whigs. And the platitude spread so far that a cussword
were called Tories. Later that name, a cussword for Irish papists,
Wilson, when ones sees through the fact that Wilsonian politics were
things like Whigs and Tories, you find that they were originally

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were once justified or explicable, but no longer are.
how the efforts to found it were finally successful in 1870/71. He
freedom has been poured into the state. And those who were educated
were seeking mystical spirituality turned to those whom they had

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plant. That realization was, as it were, the task of nature, and
meant that what the outer world offered the senses were seen as
According to this astronomical conception not only were the
particularly in the 19th Century and how people were
naively: ‘Then I see my ideas in Nature’ — which were
itself. People will learn to understand how the empowered inner

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animals. He noticed how people all around him were focused on
man and animal were created according to their entire
organ formation were transformed and then gradually through its
really different to when we, as it were, hear directly through
followed in the stenographic text. The omissions were filled in

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into question when philosophy was created, that only words were
involvement they were looking for with philosophy was quite a
who lean towards the former idealistic philosophy. There were
outer world? — There were epistemologists of different
were sharp-witted thinkers like Liebman, Volkelt and so on, who
concepts in the West simply were not available and simply got
constituted as such, as we already were before and take part in

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child — as it were not through imitation but through
you were to enter more into the details, which Anthroposophy
can readily understand how the spiritual utterances which were
Reading and writing were in earlier times something quite
parents answered: “Five years.” I said: “Then

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eastern European states were essentially different. Not from
up out of those who were there. Still, it could be grasped and
were absolutely not in the position to what was being battered
suggestions were thought about. The whole terrible
on the one hand were the economic theorists — without the
entered. What were these fourteen points actually? They were
European personalities who were interested but who were not
following it, but were either approached or brought to it, how
were received with enthusiasm. At that time, I tried to show
Woodrow Wilson principles were the most condensed utopian,
even those very ideas which were considered at that time as

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program item of the course) by thinking that what we were
People were not always, one could call it, theoretically and
will make them inwardly mobile and powerful, and this empowered
needs — they were never told anything other than what
one is then, as it were, abandoned. By deepening this inner
actually diminished gradually and were no longer there the
Catholic priests were present at the lecture. After the lecture
answered: “If only I could always be so lucky!”

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his mind when he spoke; for him thoughts were the
organism when the vocals and consonants were pronounced.
were within it. One then experienced the I to some extent as a
possible, then it must be answered: Certainly it is apparent

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No longer, who you are and were and will be.
No longer, who you are and were and will be.
which tells us what we are and were and will be; then we must
though he were a mere parable of man. He warns that without the
seat of this fear. We must tell ourselves that we were born and
No longer, who you are and were and will be.

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present who were not here last time. We shall therefore start
What you are, what you were, or will become.
such insight were provided to everyone walking down the street
number of our friends were to undertake something in this
were the same as it was before the Christmas Conference. And if
lived before we were born; it lived when our souls were in
corpse in the tomb were to declare: I am the man! so declares

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Just imagine, my dear friends, that you were to go through life
exactly as you would feel if life were to withdraw the
possibility of knowing whether you were dreaming or confronting
into the presently existing universe. It disperses, as it were,
feel as though your thoughts, which were previously confined by
how do you stand within? Not as though you were standing with
feeling is as though one were a small cloud around which a
longer, who you are and were and will be.

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the previous lessons, we were concerned with meeting the
despicable characters in Shakespeare's works? If I were to meet
were descending from the mountain into the valley with the

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a being of sufficiently developed consciousness were to descend

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they were cautioned: Trust the Fire, trust the Air, also trust
from the earthly world where he stands alone, as it were, where
the sun's light shines. Also, as though one were inside and

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Christmas Conference at the Goetheanum. Previously there were
as if this human heart were only beating as a result of the
it previously was. Previously the senses were the transmitters

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members must believe or agree to were not presented;
School's activities. We were able to make a beginning with a
newsletter that Dr Wegman sent to the physicians who were thus
people, which cannot be answered outside the esoteric.
have on earth were alive, but our physical body is the grave in

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empowered force, to liberate itself from its corporeality.
for example a table from the spiritual world were to approach
Firstly, we humans should in later life be more like we were to
a great extent when we were children. As children we are almost
body were a sense organ. That's why he imitates everything,
weren't continually nurtured by the forces of breathing flowing
were to fly out to the [resting] stars and rest there
falling apart if they were not held together by the physical
to it as if I were guiding the earth through cosmic space.

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were so named that the corresponding pictures were added. But
depth, as though you were not thinking it, but as though you
were hearing it, as if another being were speaking. You really
which you are doing. As though someone were speaking to you from

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especially flowered is to be reenacted in the correct form
stars' rays. From without it looks as though the stars were
were sought in the times when instinctive clairvoyance knew
early peoples needed outer temples. But these temples were

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these lessons were like that. We have however advanced to
souls which were spoken at the beginning of the Class lesson

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though it were around us, then in relation to the schematic
should feel that the meditation is present, that we were once
as if we were walking completely naked along a street crowded

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the spiritual world it is as though we were dissolving, as
were still separate from it. The blood is no longer a
objective: “My I”, as though it were another, as
if one were to speak of the other as a possession. One is

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in us, acts in us as though we were cosmic beings, beings

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meditation with which we were to imagine how the Guardian
him as long as we were in the field of the senses. Then we
manifesting himself, as though he were becoming more intimate
with us, as though he were leaning more to us now, as though
we were also stepping closer to him.
in our ear. And what were at first admonishing, earnest
planets of a planetary system were circling and contributing

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earth — which were made living by the beings of the third
What is remarkable is this: first we were witnesses to a
first it seems as though we were only to be listeners to a
And it is as though the Guardian of the Threshold were touching
negative. In the future such letters will not be answered, because

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clairvoyance. Their souls were filled with dreamlike pictures,
initiates and their teachings were there. They explained the

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itself were acting together with the higher hierarchies.
beings of the second hierarchy were saying to where the
the beings of the first hierarchy were giving us
heartfelt teachings first resounded. They were the powerful
nineteenth century, where the souls who were selected to be
close to Michael were taught the School's revelations of
the words of Michael which were to characterize the path
content – were held. These will be the contents of
March of 1925, the Esoteric School lessons were left
mantric words that were given in the super-sensible Michael
We were in the realm of the Seraphim,

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were the bearers of civilization — the reign of Samuel,
spiritual facts between falling asleep and awakening; were he
No longer, who you are and were and will be.
No longer, who you are and were and will be.

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the future of the earth under their power. If they were able to
do it, if we were not alert enough to dedicate our will to the

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mantric verses which were cited at the end of the previous
These were the Guardian of the Threshold's words at the edge of

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unfree and lacking independence if they were to catch us.
were not also interwoven in it. Look at any object, my sisters
self-knowledge were intoned from all creation still in an

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spirit were within it. The living person, the ensouled person,
will appear to us as if it were ossified. If we eliminate the
The Guardian speaks as though the Cosmic-Word itself were

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must request that those of you who were already here and have
they were in before the human being had descended from the
thought, as though it were being pushed out. We must sense the
we could feel the heart as if the world were feeling our heart,
observe it as if we stepped out of our bodies and were standing

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friends were sleeping in the same room, the clairvoyant friend,
stands there in the region, in which we first were with all our
lessons - of a living thinking in which we were immersed in the
strong force to look below, as though a lake were there and we
were looking at this image as now being within the earth, but

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fear and misunderstanding were not there. Then again, in the
like to believe had authority, but for which they were
those who weren't occupied with the social question from the
When people were introduced to machines, when they entered into
capital became most important, so people were driven on the one
personal honour and personal will impulses. They were to some
life, were torn loose from a full human life and were urged to
lives were not brought out of old instincts as radically and
circumstances more or less were delivered to abstract science.
see how old instincts within this proletarian movement were
olden times, there were slaves. An entire person was sold as

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were introduced into life, but their focus was on the more or

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Because this is so the souls of these modern proletarians were
were active forces in their own life forces, that it could have
millions upon millions of the modern proletarians were gripped
truth, they were either not understood or misunderstood or
and souls were left dissatisfied and empty. Out of this soul
this question can't be discussed, can't be answered
theoretically, but can only be answered through life itself,
were powerless under the influence of modern developments, as
thoughts were too tightly meshed, too limiting because they
were there and they served the state power forces during the
against one another. Were they held to develop merely on the
armies were sent into the fields on their behalf.

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the state were to be in terms of the constitutional state. As
certain circles single economic sectors were gradually drawn
structure. Still, the Proletarians were driven into the
beginning of the century. However, people were sermonizing about
south-eastern Europe, and how these were being convoluted in an
unnatural way in the relationships which were to have developed
these were and which led to the catastrophes of the last four
Small things were presented in a comprehensive way; yet just

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relationship a large number of people were thrown at the
they were actually doing. This is how it came about that this
This question is not to be answered out of a context, of life
having become overpowered and worthless, but the answer is to
be found within those who were not dependent on the outer
of olden times. The Proletarians were the only ones who were
life which was connected to the old outlook on life. They were,
capitalistic age, when machines and capitalism overpowered the
will, how can it be fired up and empowered? This is a question
that the free schools of earlier times, which were
independently built opposite the state, were filled out by
also what the later human development has overpowered in the
economic circles. These economic circles were not represented
determined the being of the state, therefore public laws were
these mistakes were quite numerous. It appears that exactly in
possible kinds of questions were discussed, questions which
actually were not far from the most intimate particulars of the
would have noticed if you were listening attentively, how my
but these consequences were drawn out of the basis which today
ancient subdivisions which you find with Plato and which were
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There were a number of people who we can best describe by
there were increasingly more people who out of their deepest
circulation has tried to accomplish something: there were
civilisation. And so, some things were done through the trade
While the ruling classes were amassing their luxuries, which
could only be fed and empowered by capitalism, the Proletarian,
were, which crossed the tracks of the modern Proletariat in
they were the ones who had created this world view. One could
Luxemburg. We were addressing the gathering regarding the
supplemented the ideas which the modern Proletarians were taken
life by the state. People were unable to see through the
discovered their interests were satisfied by the state; they
catastrophes, the carriers of the spiritual life were connected
were not liberated from it.
the attached discussion, various speakers were heard and the
that one can't say: ‘the workers were merely spoken to.’
the “ordinary bourgeois liberals” but were entirely
comprised of workers who were none other than social democrats
have the firm belief — if people were capable of arguing

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judgment can prevail against them. Such words as these were not
uttered at random; they were indications of a deep and profound theory
poet as great as Goethe does not use phrases; and if there were no
To Richard Wagner the tones of outer music were an expression, a
evolution of humanity — to the Mysteries. What were the
Among all the ancient peoples there were Mystery-centres. These
centres were temples as well as institutes of learning and they
alike of religion, science and art, they were the source of new
And now let us briefly consider the nature of the Mysteries. What were
the experiences of those to whom the hidden teachings were revealed
after certain trials and tests had been undergone? They were able to
course of later evolution were destined to separate into three
domains. The great riddles of the universe were presented to those who
were admitted to the rites enacted in the Mysteries. The rites and
ceremonies were connected with the secrets of spiritual forces from
the universe were not the abstract conceptions they have become
to-day. Cosmic laws were presented in a garb of beauty —
such a way that men's hearts and souls were attuned to piety and
Mysteries, religion, science and art were one, so were the arts which
representation were part of one whole, and when Wagner looked back to
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had reached its prime, two streams of spiritual life were flowing
sharply defined, clear-cut concepts. But these concepts were
preserved as it were by tradition. But it was not always so, for if we
revelation was less sharply emphasised than they were in medieval
men. And indeed there were many who applied their Initiation-wisdom
and were thus able, with super-sensible knowledge, to realise the
His descent to the earth — such were the questions which even at
the time of the Mystery of Golgotha men were trying to answer by means
certain individuals, saying that their teachings were to be avoided at
all costs by true Christians. Moreover, efforts were made to
lived within the streams of spiritual life which were wholly exhausted
the impulses living in Plato and Aristotle were working on and of
human souls were treading the path to the spiritual world in other
evolved independently were unknown. Whereas the Initiates of earlier
of imaginations. In Plato, the imaginations were already concepts
— but these concepts poured down as it were from the world of
like Ammonius Saccas and his pupil Plotinus were rich in spiritual
experiences and their conceptions of the spiritual world were filled
that spiritual world of which they were conscious.
We can form some idea of how such men were wont to speak, if we study
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feel as if the movements of the persons on the stage were born
and will with these forms — which were molded so
impulses came from the hearts that were filled with enthusiasm
here were taking a far worse course than has actually been
number of young theologians who were preparing for the vocation
which they were once associated in hundreds of details which
encased as we were within the dream world, although we were
hovering above us were looking down upon us and listening to us
and large, in which preparations were being made for what has
elemental natural interest, as it were, in the life within the
This question must be answered. For we cannot today put these

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the Anthroposophical Society. Cycles of lectures were printed
that persons were present who observed what I greatly desire to
form or another at the time when the foundations were at the
This is the negative aspect, as it were, of community-building,
October 1920, we were able to conduct for three weeks the first
that time the scholars, the scientists, were by no means in our
fact that the single fields of specialization were dealt with
spoken. They were delivered upon an initiative proceeding from
— in essence — that people were not aware of the

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beings had to find out, as it were, how human life can be
people were thinking in a different way. They simply did
them. They were much more bound up with the feelings and
the Old Moon evolution. Human beings were part of this as
the powers alive in a cloud were also alive in his
from the rest of me. If I were to cut it off it would
nothing, as it were, of what is alive and active within
its forces into them, as it were. What significance does
were images in the distant past, were then relieved of
and two Roman Catholic priests were in the audience. They
body, as it were. This mineral body is indeed the organ
it were, a language which tells us that we must once

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Europe brought civilization with them, as it were:
say that due to local conditions the peoples of Asia were
were basing their thinking more and more on the physical
body. That is also why the foundations were more strongly
endowed with intelligence at soul level, still were more
and understood by minds that were the product of Asian
Earth evolution, were still perceived gnostically. It
dwindled more and more as Europeans were increasingly
times the human bodies of Europeans were very much the
compared to those ancient bodies that were inwardly
those were the old times when the Mystery of Golgotha was
were already dying, but they still were so much alive
that the people were able to rise to a world of ideas
we were to pick up the thread of the writings and
course, for if they were just my own I would not mention
initiation wisdom were not there to be found we could

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realms were ruled by individuals, or by particular
course that regents were prepared for their office by the
were then of no account. People felt that if they spoke
instruments. Those instruments were prepared by training,
accepted the fact that they were ruled by gods who walked
earth, not only ordinary human individuals were walking
everything that happened on earth. Those hierarchies were
there in their midst; they were not something to which
means. No, they were present in the mysteries as the
established. In earliest times empires were so
constituted that a number of people were governed by a
realm were the reflection of something streaming in from
right theory concerning the way human empires were ruled
created among humans were a symbol of what existed in the
were heavenly hierarchies behind the human hierarchies on
earthly principle were seen to be one: the Holy Roman
were added [to the German title] to show that the empire
Such were
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were to take such things in historical evolution
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were to come true the result would be that human society
were. There have been well-meaning people who have said
our feet if we were to go for the truth; let us therefore
we have brought into the physical world when we were
before we were born. All the thoughts we evolve whilst we
shadow image of something that was at work before we were
are the forces active before you were born. That is
particular example—if someone were freely and in
were to be aimed at this? Someone going into the whole
if the truth were to become known, instead of
People might find out that their priests were not
creed among humankind might cover. For if the truth were
left we were forced to arrange for a lecture—for we
the writer must have known that there were no Akashic
again. These words were spoken in awareness of the fact
someone trying to act morally, as it were. People merely
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their writings, such things were admitted. The present

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stretches out, as it were, to perceive, and two others
that is in accord. I perceive my own gravity, as it were,
were to change the two things over, entirely in organic
were and still are as great in the socialist movement as
liver, examining everything as though it were of the same
sphere, people were quite rightly comparing this, the
continuing in the ways we got used to when we were only
the way they were. It is necessary, however, to look at
we were following, would very soon be in conflict with
be helped. There were quite a number of things that I
things that were put to me more or less in passing,

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find the right inner attitude, as it were, to the
It if were
in those circles, where these bodies were merely said to
some kind of mist or cloud, surely were nothing more or
that other star, let us say the moon, were to look at us
I were one-sided in my pursuit; but I am armed against

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valleys and so on. Yet if someone were to observe the
to force them, as it were, finally to give up the
seek for the spirit as though it were a system of logic;
going to be. They were wrong only in so far as they
it will be rightly seen why things that for a time were

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the gods, as it were. Such things as proof, as
demonstrating the truth of something, were not known
divine worlds. Human beings knew that they were connected
beings they were filled with what the gods instilled into
with the gods, people were also aware of the divine
origin of man. They were aware that humankind had
my arms.’ When they were walking, they would have
like that. They felt, as it were, that a divine spirit
humankind were to be trained, as it were, so that human
crossed. Human associations were formed, in a way, that
the rightful representatives of mystery knowledge were
were, of the knowledge then evolving. They did not want
humanity to achieve freedom. Efforts were indeed made in
Their inclinations to develop human knowledge were
It has to be said that the individuals concerned were
Luciferic powers were alive in them, luciferic powers
activity to descend as far as the earth, as it were.
Human beings were supposed to grow more and more
earth. The individuals concerned were the spiritualists
of post-primeval times. They were against human progress.
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when human beings were able to use the brain as a sense
brain was still very much a sense organ when they were
Orient were in the world of soul and spirit they were
in their brains, which had become sense organs. They were
however unable to think whilst they were in that
condition. They had to wait until they were awake, as it
were, before they were able to think the things that they
things were the way I have just described. You only need
our own brains — except that their brains were
constituted in such a way that when they were awake they
were able to remember what they had experienced during
daily lives in the ancient Orient they were able to
night-time experiences. Those were the original oriental
model contains specific models, as it were, of the inside
earthly human being. They were therefore less interested
in the earthly human being than they were in the heavenly
those heavenly and divine ideals before they were
oriental times human beings were so constituted that they
they were very much concerned with life before birth, and
were as alive to us as the word 'immortality', we would
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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that relatively speaking were not that long ago.
example, just by way of introduction as it were. We have a — well,
thoughts that were in people's minds, and that this spectre is still
given rise to opinions, all kinds of measures were taken, and people had
one was a conflict between human beings; human beings were fighting each
war, 79 million 'horse power years' of that kind of energy were produced
in Germany. These were energies controlled by humans, but in fact derived
79 million horse Power years were produced. Energy production was then
until this was achieved. When war broke out, therefore, not only were
those energies were of course used in the war industries and therefore
reached the front lines indirectly. Those energies were opposed by Great
produced — and these were quite independent of human beings. Thus
were of course limited to a channelling function, or at best to stopping
that objectively speaking were not under their control. Some of these
were able to overcome the others, as it were, on the basis of objective
countries were able to field the number of horse power years I have
mentioned, the Americans were in a position to mobilize 179 million horse
to the powers that were active in the objects they themselves had
years were available in Germany; that is not very much per human being.
In 1912, 79 million horse power years were produced in Germany. That is
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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ourselves that if we were entirely dependent on the earth
exactly the right moment, as it were. In the Christ
as it were, for all eternity, with the potential of
when remnants of ancient clairvoyance were still
human beings, saying that when they were in this
condition human beings were not enslaved by a higher
principle, nor by a lower one, but were indeed free. He
People would then find that good things were also
personal level, as it were. 19th century science
think you will agree that Goethe's figures were subtle
that were still half fantasy and half living in
saying is that Goethe and Schiller were able to reach a
earth, as it were. If we were to develop only the
half-developed Imaginations — if we were to take
were the last who could still keep to the personal level,
to hear the things that are said within the movement were
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we were able to discuss a few things about the ways leading into the
of us. If this second member were not in man, the body would at every
all other things, but as it were inside of them, as if he were crawling
ancient times, there were highly learned people at the top of the state
crisscrossed by railroads? What were the localities like where our
great cities are today, what were they like a thousand years ago? For
lawless. They are not new bonds. They were already present in previous

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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of soul. If the social sense were more natural and obvious,
period or even into the Egyptian: men were different even in
joyful anticipation. We were to have “double
intelligence” in particular elections, because women were

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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Hitherto they were necessary, to guide the heart and, mind to
People in those days were as capable of development right into
feeling had permeated men that their doings in the day were in
last three or four hundred years, but which they were too timid
were greatly vexed by something I said in a lecture in a South
sense in the same case as were the people of Europe during the,
developed than the. German. The Germans were barbarians. But
the brains of the Greeks and Romans were decadent,
the culture; the rest were slaves. In Greece no
There were the ordinary masses: then those people of a higher
Romans were dull, prosaic people, but they did develop other
and 'eighties of last century, the regulations were very small:
brought out of different epochs have, as it were, been joined

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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experience were more instinctive than they are to-day: this
war there were no “victors” and no
man were absent, the Earth would develop without him, bring
to the belief that the Earth could evolve even if man were not
we called the World War, that whirlpool into which were poured
force while those who faced reality were called Utopian
saw, for our lips were sealed) that men of absolute
incompetence were called to positions of authority —

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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motive for regulation; in which ideas were active, not moulding
later, the so-called practical men were giving out —
those men who were not practical at all, only revolutionists
that the relations with St. Petersburg were the most friendly
before. Negotiations with England were expected to be concluded
be if profit were ignored and consumption only were of
decisive events were taking place within the social movements
that in their souls kindred strings were sounding and that they
were receiving a knowledge which they could absorb. But a time
Then if men were honest they must have known (if not, they
men who were divided by a deep golf from the great masses to
life were in leading-strings to religion and theology.”
intellectual life as its train-bearer?” Nor were things
regulations were to be made as would favour the growth of that
of education, who were creative spiritually. But to-day we have
I was answered in the discussion at the end of a lecture by a
one another. Before the War the two contradictory impulses were
labour-power in the market, as if it were a
and Fraternity,” three ideals which were capable of being
these ideals were really contradictory, that where absolute
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