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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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Translated by Mark Willan
and of our time, and we will find that even with these
or winter clothes on, so one will then feel this negative as
comment that I will not suppress, because maybe it will make
our situation more precisely clear. I will refer to a thinker
from Ki the will streams out against it — and with will
willing and desiring, and so it stands before the possibility
through the will of any conscious being; but evil is connected
mentioned here only as being typical. I will only draw your
that will be important for us later. So Lotze turned against
will seem more or less pedantic, because they show us with what
in super-sensible worlds? Now it will specially interest us,
what I will now set out here, I should have to speak for
several hours; but I will only set this out and each person may
that follow as a consequence. They will also be followed up on
used in order to penetrate into the spiritual world, you will
strengthening. What we have to do in that world, we will hear
physical sense world, then there they will take us further,
ever more and more into the human soul life. For one will find
it will never come to an end, if it does not want to seek, to
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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things will present a very different aspect in a hundred years. In the
are able, by their will-power, to throw out of their field of vision
them. The same space occupied by the physical body will then be occupied
will be of immense value in education, in pedagogy. Much will be gained
when spiritual science will be included in our educational system. It
of his being have still have to unfold. A sound education will therefore
it would be of the greatest harm to him. A time will come to which the
science of the spirit will be applied in pedagogy.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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of these three worlds will it be possible to discuss the nature of the
I will try to speak of the astral and devachanic worlds by keeping as
who suddenly acquires the power of sight; he too will not be transferred
sight. They will read things wrongly if they begin to read them as in
by little you will have learnt to understand these images. There is
forms. At first these will be transient realities surging up and down,

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
to his senses, his life in Kamaloca will be long and difficult. Ordinarily
his death, the more readily will he disaccustom himself to the world
of the senses. In the case of suicides this will be most difficult of all,
violently severing themselves from the life of the senses, they will
the physical world, for the physical body, but later on this will be
will still be passionate in old age. The temperament is engraved in
to transform the will.
friendship will find its full, pure expression.
we thus work for the next one. In my next lecture I will describe man's

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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mentality, this truth of the one life contained in everything, will
earthly lives. This is only a question of development. Everyone will
will impress these pictures so deeply upon us, that our ordinary memory
will suffice.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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condition, will observe that his etheric body needs a long time before
dissolves. In the case of an idealist it will dissolve very quickly.
But there will be hardly any dissolution after death in the case of
you will reap what you sowed.
will be interwoven with his Karma.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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will show us that behind them always lies a definite character-disposition.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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does nothing but criticize, this inclination will express itself in
that this person will soon grow old and not evince much youthfulness.
with the fact of reincarnation and Karma? Many will try to oppose reincarnation
were musicians, and they will trace this back to heredity. A great theosophist
A great musician will need a line of ancestors that can give him a body
will be a hard one, he may have a strong shock, and under certan

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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you will feel that the critic in you becomes a mere apprentice.”
to work in the outside world through his will. By a special volitional
impulse he could stimulate the growth of plants, for his will-power
many important discoveries will be made in the future.
bend at will. For their dwellings they only used living substances and
also the way of teaching was different. By strong will-power, a suggestive

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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of mankind back as far as Atlantis and will now proceed to the study
the will, which also had the greatest influence on the form of the physical
later on there will be a compensation for those who were expelled.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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reincarnation. It passed through earlier stages and in future it will pass
development. The conditions which will follow are "Jupiter" and "Venus",
will be to lead external civilisation again to a more spiritual life. Its
seed in the East of Europe; it will be the carrier of the spiritual culture
A time will come when the
human being will have overcome bi-sexuality. Lower forces, sexual instincts
will change into higher ones. It is not a question of destroying any
imagination. In future all human beings will be able to perceive as
spiritual beings will be produced through the word, and finally the word
itself will become creative; then the human beings will be magicians of the
soul. At first there will be an inner feeling of emptiness and sadness; but

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
propelling forces of history lie, even though these spiritual forces will have to be expressed
of humanity and we will do so today in such a way that, through our considerations, certain facts
come to us which, precisely for a discerning judgement of the situation of modern humanity, will
something that isn't real. But we will leave that aside. We want rather to take the argument
between Alcuin and the Greek purely positively and will ask what was really happening there. For
I will not go into the question of the authorship now, I have already spoken about it on a number
thoughts, feelings and will-impulses occur. The oriental was fully aware that one must go beyond
European will probably admit to the reality of debts for, in the real world, there always has to
death. You can go through the whole of Hegel's philosophy and you will find nothing that goes
feelings, mental pictures and sensations, and say these associate — and also will-impulses
full demand of the 'I'; letting it, however, sink down into the thinking, feeling and willing
feeling and willing; it has not yet descended to the level of thinking, feeling and willing. In
the surface of thinking, feeling and willing so that it is no longer noticed, and thinking,
feeling and willing are then spoken of as independent forces.
One will only be able to come to an understanding
thinking, feeling and willing; and where, in the mental and feeling life, people speak of
depths of spiritual science. No good will come from instincts, but only from the understanding
human reason. Thus there will come a culture in which the single individual, with his ever-deeper
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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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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
more and more in full I-consciousness. The forces which elaborate this I-consciousness will grow
will take place in the sign of this development of the individuality. This, however, means that
what comes from the spiritual world and plays into our physical world will take such a course
that, in humanity as a whole, the individual element of the human being will take on greater
only seems so, for such settlements would not be real; very significant effects will issue from
through earlier religious impulses and will continue to do so. And it is precisely in this that
its terrible aspect will show itself throughout all Asia, because it works with all the fervour
in a subsequent earlier life, and which will be there in a later life and again in a still later
completely different spirituality is working into present-day human beings and it will be an

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
direction of perceiving, feeling and willing, is descended from what, as the Germanic element,
world evolution. This is why the concept of one's will and testament first arose in Rome —
the assertion of egoism beyond death. The wish to extend one's will beyond death led to the
concept of the will and testament. Thus, too, the continuance of the language worked an beyond
prejudice at the results of Darwin's research will understand that something was present there
which was unwilling to consider the human being from the aspect of his spirit. 'Spirit' was only
towards the East (see diagram). But we will first look at something that goes out from ancient
their will, and crippled it. When these individuals slept, when the astral body and the 'I' were
characteristic personality from the civilization of the Centre and one will be able to touch
attacks of the spirits of the West that asserted themselves in his will, that surged particularly
tends merely to the spirit and soul was mastered in him, was permeated with this will element.
scientific world-view of the West will never find a foothold in the Orient because it simply
will see that a great question arose for the spirits of later Central-European Scholasticism,
hold of the human body and soul through the will and from those spirits, on the other hand, who,
the spiritual life. Then the Centre can take up beside its political life — which will be
re-fructified. The Orient will understand the spiritual life that blossoms in the Occident only
Occident; as soon as this is allowed to cross into the Orient, it will be understood there, even
Spiritual Science, will also be taken up in the Orient with great eagerness. The Orient will then
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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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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
personalities of Goethe and Schiller. I will only point out in addition how in Schiller's
that if human beings are educated to this middle mood they will also represent a social community
higher level of the Personality — which I will colour with red (see diagram) — was
clings today to the uniform State, the economic life will absorb this uniform State together with
I will come into the economic life and will have
to apply the intellect to it. I will not then be portraying what grows and thrives but what lives
the spirits of the West. This was the effect of preventing the will from coming into its own and
which today is actually no longer so very civilized — will have had to sink into the most
willing to engage themselves absolutely whole-heartedly for spiritual science, nothing beneficial
will come from the present chaos. People should not believe that one can somehow progress by
everywhere, and yet humanity will not take a stand. Until it makes a stand in all three spheres

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
a kind of renewed manifestation of the Christ-Event is to take place. This will need a certain
the belief that the intellect is there for gaining knowledge. People will attain to true
spiritual-scientific research; which, at the least, can be given by Imagination. People will only
it will not be the phenomena of nature that will speak directly — for nature, as such,
works silently. But beings will speak to the human being — beings who will appeal, to him
in Imaginations, will inspire him, with whom he will become united intuitively and whom he will
intellect. Nature remains spiritless. The human being will lift himself up to a condition where
he can again truly know; where, indeed, nature will no longer speak to him of divine-spiritual
beings but where he will o take hold of the divine-spiritual in supersensible knowledge and will,
the will of the gods. And there were no dialectics for deciding what the gods willed.
taken out to the land. What has arisen in the cities will transplant itself into the country.
generally today: that they have no will — to form ideas concerning true progress. They
abstract. But he will very soon make a certain discovery. Strange though it may still seem to the
human being of the present that such a discovery will be made, people will nevertheless discover
his technical machines of the economic sphere the human being will perceive that, although
only in the economic sphere. But he will notice more and more in what he himself creates that it
idea of this, but it will be so nevertheless. People will discover, in fact, how the objects of
life. If one could do this for a time — this initial experiment will not work, but let us
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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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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
Today we will remind ourselves that there were
bear witness to the will of the spiritual world with regard to the physical world. It was human
it will be necessary to develop in himself something which cannot be developed of itself. The
must look in the growing child towards what will emerge. When a child reaches the age of fifteen
today is unwilling to grasp. Everything that is hemmed in between West and East is razed to the

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
European development, of modern civilisation generally, will inevitably be bound up with the
easiest way and of value. From the way in which I had to speak yesterday it will be clear to you
culture of Middle Europe, as we have come to know it in recent weeks, will be wedged.
world-conception, based on science, that the most intense need will have to arise for what I have
becoming prevalent in modern civilization will again lead to experience of the Christ, just as
the Christ-experience of the first half of the twentieth century will come in an unexpected way.
And this experience will have a clearly definable connection with the modern outlook on life
The spread of this materialism will not be checked
in the near future as some deluded scientists seem to think. On the contrary, it will increase
materialistic mood will become stronger and stronger. And if sufficient preparation has been
this chaos, individual souls can emerge who will have a very strong sense of something which I
But there is, as yet, no unified feeling for it. Such a feeling will arise with vigour from
properly conducted elementary education. The children will come out of properly conducted
elementary school in such a way that they will already have the feeling: 'We have a science which
characteristics — the more oppressive and dreadful will it gradually become. And this
feeling will increase in strength very rapidly. In the decades ahead it will intensify to the
worthlessness of human existence. This will arise more and more: that the human being will feel
there are poets who have already expressed it as experience. But it will emerge as a feeling, as
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Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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week ago, you will obtain an important key, as it were, to many things in
Spiritual Science. I will now give you only the chief ideas needed for the
Now you will
physical conditions of the succession of the generations, you will say:
descendants, and so on. But if you study historical life you will say that
Now you will
of which we will that it should enter the spiritual development of earthly
will realise that, to a certain extent, you help the spiritual beings to
and you will return again when that calls forth a new epoch, which lies in
Perhaps you will be acquainted with the
concern themselves with the fact that they will also be eaten; that does
by. Each grain of cereal, if I may put it like this, has the will, the
it will be interesting to see whether it will be understood or whether even
such a very plausible thought will be met again and again with the foolish

Title: Talk To Young People:
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divine forces concerned with the destiny of the earth. Then we will
will help in every way possible,” I told him, “if you can get things
when you are aware of such an attitude, you will feel deeply, very
there is a lot of revolution and too much horrible willingness
we need from young persons is first and foremost the will to try to
beyond the endless unproductive discussions. The will to understand
anthroposophical movement and its principles. Otherwise we will not
anthroposophical movement, we will be able to achieve everything I
feelings, what spade-thrusts of will. We were ready to accept
abstract kind of dreaminess. Then the big problems will turn up. No
narrow-minded man on the street will understand what you mean when
with Michael what he once had under his dominion. Young people will
others, today, it will sound like abstractions
the real spiritual world that is here, then Michael's time will come.
and pedantry will be infinitely greater in our century than that
things will get sour. We have to make sure that when we have to plan
reform movements and revolutions will be useless; it is almost always
heart of ours. It then will help us to understand spiritual science.
hearts will burn out like this if we can lay hold of them and make
them new. And if we are to be serious about spirituality we will have
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Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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'Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away'
“Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away”,
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and Earth will pass away but my words
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the ultimate aim of human evolution! He would like to know what will
You will all be aware that in
all perceptions, emotions, will impulses, etc. — so is the
the earth will pass through another evolutionary period in the future.
Then will the intuitions of the Spirits of Personality become more and
these intuitions become denser. The earth will pass away, but these
Saturn forms, they will be mineral. Thus: at the end of the earth
Jupiter will be constituted of nothing but these forms. We have in us
Jupiter will obtain all his mineral foundation from the Saturn man we
evolution. And you will realize that, if this is the fact, we, by means
of everything we may develop in this direction, will be able to evolve
a mineral Jupiter. But this mineral Jupiter will take shape
conceptions into inspirations, which will become more and more
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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expect just that regarding this Christ-riddle much will be solved for
becomes still more difficult. Other things will emerge that bring new
concealed something which cuts deep into life. Today we will turn our
pronouncement: we will bring to mind what we have long known: i.e.,
addition: ‘The Tree of Life will also draw near in
and life will stream out from it. But this older knowledge shall not
— and already in the first chapters you will
the edge of a great secret, a deep mystery. But it will be readily
life-without-knowledge, for life will have nothing to do with an

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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Now today we will consider the world of
the same facts somewhat more subjectively, will give our attention to
will place once more before our soul the familiar fact of the
from waking up to going to sleep. It will certainly have already
Tree of Life? You will perhaps no longer find incomprehensible what I
having eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, it will
physical I will indicate through this (yellow); what of our physical
remains in bed I will indicate with this (ochre yellow).
physical body. To distinguish it as Ahrimanic I will draw it like
man's quite justifiable feeling that he will keep within normal life,
he will not come to this making concrete, he is afraid of possible
overpowered by Ahriman it will not penetrate into a concrete grasp of
consciously. And this he will do when he seeks through Spiritual
which we venture to assume will one day find a place in an
will be enacted in mankind's future evolution as regards the Trinity
We will speak of this next

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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spreads itself out in them. Now and again a man will feel in
have just analysed actually comes. You will all remember the account
an unwillingness to take part in later phases of evolution. And
at that time, were not willing to reunite with the Sun in the last
of the last lectures. And it is they who will not let the
and Grecian art you will everywhere find how the Greek strove to
whom thought works humanly, thoughts externalise, you will find this
the books in the world could not contain will come to pass. We have
heard the Christ, but our descendants will also hear Him, and so we
later it will be other processes. Processes of inner feeling will
cosmos, such processes as these will arise.
being, then you will understand: In Greece the evolution of humanity
will become more and more musical. And to know how man is rightly
important site in our Building there will be set up the figure of
will have Lucifer on the one side and Ahriman on the other. What is
only the first most imperfect steps have been taken, you will not
one day it becomes more perfect, will always stand there in such a
One will experience this building in the
come in through the walls. Here, with our Building, one will
the blood, so that what the Gods willed might be transmitted in this
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
opposite of this, namely, how the impulses of feeling and will are
brings his will into activity, he has the consciousness that he is
and will has nothing to do with anything in the outside world, in the
willing from the outer cosmic existence. They confine this feeling
and willing of ours to our inner nature.
feeling and willing, and something else which pays little heed to
our form. On the other hand we have an element of will and feeling
willing, and as his outer world his thinking, which leads over to
inner being of man something thrusts up which lives in willing and
own part what in that earlier time he did not share? What will be the
earnestly you will understand that something of immense significance
Archangeloi who live in our impulses of feeling and will. Therefore
cosmos; he only allows us to feel the impulses of feeling and will
this, then, instead of feeling that will impulses and feeling arise
his impulses of feeling and willing the radiating cosmic sun arise.
In feeling and willing he should see — as the
shut off from this through Lucifer. We think that feeling and will
spirit-light shining within feeling and will; then we should have an
is formed in him. Cosmic light penetrates feeling and willing like
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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should like to put together various things today which will give us
the possibility of going into some important matters that we will
arable land, meadow, or what you will (a drawing was made), and
recognise the roots. And what will happen is the following, is it
which will give a proper picture of the condition under the earth,
scientifically philosophical-technical way. Then this worm will creep
about down below and will call one thing a cause and another an
processes he will represent the one as cause and the further
picture will emerge, which classifies all the processes under the
it can be a world-conception completely tenable inwardly. You will
I have called attention to this, I will lead these studies over to
of materialistic thought (I will suppose what is most favourable for
should have to say: You will become as gods, your senses will be
opened; you will distinguish between what pleases you and does not
please you, what you call good and evil, and you will wish to possess
you study myths you will remark that in the arising of myths there is
timeless, but when you examine myths you will see that you do not
said last time you will see a wonderful connection. I said that if a
his possession-concept, this remains, this will also still be in
Ahrimanic temptations, one will see how social orders were formed on
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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sense-organs are today essentially physical organs. You will easily
this. For only when science will one day be real spiritual science
and what is now being said is understood, only then will the time
have come when it will also be realised that Lucifer was somewhat
deceive himself but only looks at facts. Only the good will,
are really desiring, inasmuch as we say, ‘We will
societies will most certainly not cease without further ado! But how
‘I will now go away’ ... then the
together ... there that will be very active, that is taken out of the

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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of his own soul, and through his most intimate willing,
it is our own time. The modern mind will find it exceedingly
will say that their belief concerning the end of the world was
now, in the 20th century — and it will be so increasingly
world downfall will become more and more widespread.
that will make the bloodshed of wars more and more terrible.
spiritual world they know it not, nor are willing to know it.
in his acts of knowledge he is an Angel. He will say: But I am
certainly he will not say that in his ‘knowing’ he is a
Intuition which will lead them into the spiritual world. The

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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also be admitted that an incalculably distant future will reveal the method
cognitional method in response to which the real world will reveal itself.
following exposition will prove how little this reproach of dilettantism
development will show how often philosophy has estranged itself from true
thought. The reader will find a description of this historical transition
historical indication will suffice to characterize in a few words the point
thought will be found today almost unaltered, if compared with what
reader will find the question adequately treated in my
a dullard who will not agree with their definition of conceptual thought
involve; some elementary notions, however, in this connection will help us
essential universalia ante rem will naturally appear as a fanciful
this experience will be indicated in the course of this treatise. At this
the greatest philosopher in the world being understood. People will only by
us say, of brass, no property of the brass will pass over into the wax.
possible unless matter passes over from one to the other, they will in
theory and investigation of knowledge, and it will soon become apparent to
assertions are applicable to the things will depend upon the things
path be pursued, it will be found that it must eventually lead to
description of these processes will be found in my book, among others,
and willing is necessary, in addition to the above-mentioned exercise,
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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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nonetheless it will become clear to you. I should have to say a great deal
to make it fully understandable, but it will become clearer if to begin
feelings, the ideas, the will impulses of the next generation. We must be
tasks that will have to be accomplished sometime in the future of mankind.
Fichte (I will not lay any special importance on its details), you will
of developing this pedagogy. There is much that will become possible for
Central European this the peoples of the West will not be able to
comprehend. On the contrary it will infuriate them. We can first speak to
basis of this understanding, the peoples of the West will take it
first class. Now our teaching will be bad every time, will never have
time to time we will have the feeling, with, one or another kind of child
there is not much to be done, but we will have taken pains with them.
Through the special gifts of other children we will have learned certain
and growth, but it is incomplete. Indeed, it will not be until our death
more will come from this feeling than from any abstract principles. If we
life in it — then we will teach well. If on the other
will. Consider that you have gone once through all the classes of an
excellent teacher! But it won't be that way. Experience will bring you
something quite different. You will say to yourself at the end of the
will not know what you should really do. For now you will correct what you
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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you will see that the presence of this feeling will accomplish more than
will, that is living itself out in battle with a willed element from
the etheric body. Then the ego and astral body turn against this; a willed
element from outside battles with a willed element from within, and this
differentiation between a male and female skeleton, will see in the
it, then you will be able to say: with what you permit to resound in the
are preparing what will work beyond death, what man carries with him beyond
believe the future of education will consist in this: teachers will no
pictures that are capable of translation into feelings. For nothing will be
and remains as spheric music until some time before the new birth. It will
human being will be better formed in his next life, if he can have many
a concert; you will become aware that you have experienced the whole
exaggeration you will see what I mean), this force working outward from
retarding its influence. For this reason our drawing classes will have
really wills, something related to the being and becoming in human nature.
case an element pertaining more to the will is restrained through eurythmy,
live with the child — then the best will come of it. If
that future conviction, which will consist in this: the possession of
No one who is merely a scientist will have the urge to transform the
these education will have to play its part — will lead

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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of this knowledge of man there will arise in us, in a very individual form,
point where we understand what is actually going on in the body. You will
movement and set them in motion. You will realise that from the standpoint
actually giving the impulse of will. So we can say that we have nerves that
closely will see the connections between understanding and actual feeling.
let the child listen too much. He will manage to perceive, and he will also
keeping his brain fluid moving; but the will of the child will not be
sufficiently exerted. The will, as you know, is connected with the
and listening do not let him do enough work by himself, you will not be
the metabolism and the will, and the will is not being active enough.
and working individually. For retention will not be good unless the will
are delicate physiological matters that spiritual science will gradually
otherwise only the will is active. For those
you will also find the nerves that convey the actual perception of sound.
music into such intimate connection with the will. Musical perceptions are
the realms of the will. The place where musical perceptions are understood
thing — will find how entirely different it is from the
it is also related to the will, and therefore to the metabolism, it is
visual perceptions, which is likewise connected with the will.
see, if you reflect on these things, you will be impressed by how
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certain point of view that an element of will, a musical element is being
an exclusively corporeal being; he will then think only with his brain,
will be entirely dependent on his organism, in short he will become too
earthly, the ego will have been too strongly absorbed by the bodily
by the bodily organisation, becoming too dependent on it. You will
criminal, it is all the more important that we see to it, that his ego will
other side will not rise; if it is too large, it will rise too high and we
happen that it remains too much outside, and the consequence will be that
the organism. Music will be specially beneficial for a somewhat fanciful
situation which draws the ego into the organism. You will see from this
that this happens too strongly in a child, I will try to involve him in
is said. I will work with the child in such a way that I call upon him for
becoming fanciful, then I will rather make him take up recitation, rhythm
with a child who is in danger of becoming too earthbound; we will lead such
Geography which requires a more geometrical kind of thinking, we will be
value of these things will only be fully appreciated when one can perceive
— if you look at the human constitution you will find on
you have all learnt some physics and you will remember how hard teachers
usually tried, tried as conscientious teachers will , to explain to the
teacher, I should like to say as a real soul habit, then the following will
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have, and that is what we will talk about tomorrow. Today I just want to
— You will see that the latter is the case. As my little book
you do not regard man purely superficially you will be struck by the fact
this you will see that the forces of Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition
will not be able to draw enough forces away from it to remember certain
on the one hand and supersensible existence on the other, you will never
spread out around us (see horizontal line of drawing). You will only have a
are will forces. All the will forces, everything in man that is of the
nature of will, is subsensible.
obvious question is where do these subsensible forces, these will forces,
the earth are perpetually working into man. And it is our forces of will
The forces of will enter into us from the planet itself. This is how the
the twenty-first year. The will working in us up till the seventh year
past. As you will probably know, man has not learnt to release the
because of the infectious quality of his teacher's enthusiasm, he will not
will remember what the child took in, perhaps at the age of ten. He
takes in what it understands — for that will disappear
with the passing years, and neither joy nor enthusiasm will come from it
later — the more you will be doing for the person's
right way you will find an opportunity somewhere in life of making
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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Christ event will then come to us in a completely different light in such a
to our world. By about three thousand years from now, enough people will
will have become proper to humanity. Then a new event will come and bring a
willing. The clairvoyant perceives this host of related entities of the

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thinking, feeling and willing, then stands, so to speak, each for itself.
Man will once become ruler over these; he is afterwards a trinity, one
just not so. What we today call human thinking, feeling and willing was not
people are picked who have understanding for the teaching. Perhaps one will
as a divine law given from the heights. Buddha said: You will find in the
â€” But Moses said: There is the law of the God who will

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intimately connected with understanding the social question. This will
will only really be solved, however, in seeing spiritual experience as
the basis of all human striving, feeling and willing —
You will already be more
comprehension, one will not be surprised that such a debacle has befallen
will after all find in the end, that actually what is of least interest
Cultural World” contained in GA 23 and GA 189] which will be
this an everyday rule, the more will he attain the mood of the
soul-spiritual. In more people than you might think, this mood will call
social understanding and the social interest will develop. For when do we
anthroposophical spiritual science will know to sense it rightly as a

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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All the world will want to know about the life-work of such a human
From this translation: “Human beings will always want to know about
are finally lost, his name will remain engraved in human memory.”
translation will be of interest to the readers of the Rudolf Steiner
However, it will not be possible to enter into particular works
still greater chasm will loom between everything that goes on
further in the course of evolution? Indeed, the human soul will
developments of humanity, participation in which will be denied
will no longer be able to experience the original works. But we
know, humanity will progress ever further.
Some will already have experienced how the soul actually
will some day no longer exist. But, do the originals not still
Raphael gave to humanity will live on as evidence of the fact
But what Raphael created will continue to have an effect in all
future times. Confirmation of this will be what Raphael will
continue to say to humanity. Thus, Raphael's creations will
future lives, Raphael's spirit will have ever greater things,
been given and that will be spoken of further, becoming our
of Raphael: Even if Raphael's works will eventually have faded
or been destroyed, Raphael will still live on. For, with him
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spoke the words, “There is one among you who will betray
which one can believe that it will confirm itself still
we know that out of the ruins new life will always blossom

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Hence, it will only be possible today to put forward a few
already spoken of the fact — and will do so again in
of our understanding, our reason, feeling and will. This
a manikin appears before her. He says to her: “What will
appears and says, “What will you give me, if I spin the
limitless future. You will be capable of accomplishing
in a personal sense. The essential point will become
Esoteric Science you will find a
for me.” The man says: “I am willing to do
task. He says to him: “Now the giants will soon
indeed of all human souls. They will do so
declared, will prove well-founded. This is what a certain

Title: A Mongolian Legend
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every object, each time believing she will find her lost
mother of humanity, searches the world, seeking for what will
Mongolian fairy tale of the woman with the single eye - will
The power of spiritual seeing will come alive again in human
the head-eye will no longer leave them feeling dissatisfied in
vicinity. This power will begin to permeate the current nature
of human beings, and they will come to see not only the
material will then be spiritual for them. Their now hardened
physical bodies will be spiritualized once again. That woman of
the Mongolian legend will live again and look out into the
looking for, human beings of the future will again see the
will find in other entities the spirituality of the world,
Human evolution will evolve as a gradual ascent into the
cosmos. This will have to occur by degrees, it cannot be caught

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recognizes it as a spiritual stream open to new sources will
life in various ways. It will be seen that this manner of
right relation to it, will undoubtedly speak of it in later
with the forces of thinking, feeling and willing. Initial signs
imagine that Raphael will present ever new riddles to
Whoever takes up his book on Homer will possibly find it not
the single Homeric figures, some scholars will inevitably say,
will find the preliminary studies, only they look different
spiritual world. This will lead us again to the question as to
death. Hence, it will not be difficult for us, where Herman
Perhaps it will not seem unjustified if it is even asserted
They too will join in declaring: ‘Yes, he was one of

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Today's lecture will be episodic, a kind of
English friends, who will soon be going home, to be able to take as
much as possible with them. Therefore I will structure this lecture
what will show itself to be an even more effective imperialism in the
future will be its bearer — the Anglo-American people. As far
the future it will again have to be spoken about as being present
preconditions to what we may call the people's will, the voting
brought other preconditions to what we may call the people's will.
century what has been called the will of the people in the public
people will continue to speak in the usual terminology, things that
come from the past. It will continue to roll on like a bowling ball.
It will roll on in the words. You can find innumerable expressions
the kingdom of Christ will propagate, there will exist much that has
the west, in the Anglo-American world, all human tradition will
Tomorrow we will speak about what can be

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will have already noticed from what I said yesterday that it is
development of a new spiritual life will be possible. In order to
deception, they feel that they are adrift. They will no longer feel
new spiritual life. And we live in the age when we will have to be
participants in the fall of the platitude stage and will have to be
participants in the rise of the [new] spiritual life. And this will
But a moment will come, a moment which is
moment we will recognize the inanity of the human being who merely
the economy is the only reality, we will not be able to admit what it
fact will always be another fact, not an abstract concept. Therefore
you will find very few members of these secret societies. Members are
course superficial, but wherever you look you will find such things,
sufficiently far, you will reach reality. You can have platitudes in
recognized as platitude, a strong feeling of shame will arise: We
Justice is a people's will — and so on. Yes, my dear friends,
the law is the will of a people! People — but today
this sum is supposed to have a will. That is the kind of explanation
assume that it will also be translated into other languages, but I
observing everywhere the realities in these things, we will not get
to motivate ourselves to think big. We will discuss this further

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during the past two days you will see that what belongs to the
times the will of the individual who was seen as divine was the
will and was thus secure passed over to the second stage. In that
thing that mattered was the concrete will of a physical person. To
try to judge whether this will was justified or not makes no sense.
write in: “The king's will is sublime law” — what
the first stage it was really the case that the ruler's will was
rights will have noticed that there is something shimmering in the
I will now
said: “The law is the will of the state in respect to those
citizens who are bound by it.” So the state unfolds a will! One
the same — can claim that the state is supposed to have a will.
will understand me better if you imagine that we try to paint this
paint it! There will be some white surface and green will be added,
of human thinking and feeling will have to take place within the
innermost life of the soul. This will take a long time to accomplish,
but when it does it will affect social conditions and how people
longer speak of the will of the Church, but he speaks of the will
in Great Britain see in the state something that can well have a will
exists and it will continue to exist forever. It's as though I have
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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each day regarding the course which will take place in a
scientifically orientated process. It will be conducted with
will find that the outer facts can be verified with one's
will he do? If he hasn't learnt to read he would meet it as
Here lies the point of difference. The Anthroposophist will not
manner, it will not sin against justified atomic theory; it
This will happen if one says to oneself: ‘In the phenomena I
itself. People will learn to understand how the empowered inner
and if it is expanded further, will show that the scientific
introduce something which will lead to further observations in
the coming days; something which will show how this
sense for observing the outer material world, will make the
inner image permeated by experiences and will impulses of the
scope of natural science: thousands will be dissatisfied with
Anthroposophy and its methods will gradually gain an opinion
able to give as a sketch, it will point out how Anthroposophy,

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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Goethe's accomplishments in the natural scientific area, will
and as a result we will for the sake of brevity only hint at
how the entire organisation is adjusted. We will also see how
will see the differences between the imagined remnant obtained
relevant — will see how the human being's particular
about these ideas and the results will actually be a way for

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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examination the present will produce something special.
can hardly see what it will become and yet still carries the
central Europe, like Soloviev, then he will primarily have an
for the researcher himself. Nothing, absolutely nothing will be
will present them, like Haeckel in his genial way did it
as they are experienced in the West, because then it will not
of philosophy a real Anthroposophy will develop and philosophy
will now understand.

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of Anthroposophy in detail. It will of course not be possible
deeply. Whoever trains his abilities of observation will learn
our epoch. Today one will hardly find any evidence in the outer
this Anthroposophy will contribute.
individual you will once again find that these syllabi which
has a relationship to development of the will forces. As a
to be applied, it will still affirm that the child enters more
teacher will acquire an inner overall view so that he out of an
against great pedagogic accomplishments but that it will be the

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question here, where it will be pointed out how the economic
situation: Perhaps no stone will remain standing as he has
it in a utopian sense by asking: How will this be, how will
happens but you can't tell what it will actually be. This is
place of today's scientific thinking then you will know that
such things in a somewhat radical manner because then one will
will not be a utopian invention — I would like to say the
the old class system will not be recalled. It won't be people
individuation and will not be divided into some particular
created among people will they develop something of a real
parliament, but it will emerge from continued ongoing
which will give healthy pricing. Above all people have the
people can live socially. They will live socially when the

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Anthroposophic University Course will take place in Berlin. The
Thus, you will also allow, my dear friends, that not all sorts
of misunderstandings will again be linked to what I have to say
new misunderstandings to arise; I will renounce some of them in
research methods in the supersensible world, will be told and
Movement will be forced in any way to participate in something
other than through their own free will. What is said about
everyone, who wants to live into it, will not merely become
will make them inwardly mobile and powerful, and this empowered
Anthroposophic Movement, but it will only come into one single
their life of will and finally in the way in which they place
process clear — this will also emerge out of the lectures
person follows only this route then he will come to a
godly-Father experience, then he will realise he must go
following this inner development one will, if by open-mindedly
approach Anthroposophy. Anthroposophy will only do what is
making the Waldorf School a school which will splice
have within them a Being who through their destiny will let

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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some remarks and so I will introduce today's work in a certain
experienced consciously, will actually be unable to obtain a
study of dialects will enter into how the different dialects in
speech lives within people, will find that everything
will impulses — we really experience it this way today
experience in its inner concreteness, because only then will
will be unable to penetrate the actual living object of
Anthroposophy is accomplished, will it show how fruitful

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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years. In this introductory lecture, I will not go further into
kind of preparatory introduction will be given today, my dear
you will be able to consider this School as an institution
card, to begin in a way that will make you conscious of the
epoch in a special way. And this spirit will only give to
deeply ingrained in the School's members, will have to go. It
will be necessary to investigate how one finds the path to his
will however be demanded of the members of the School that they
Where sentient Beings, strong in will
No longer, who you are and were and will be.
I will
Where sentient Beings, strong in will
No longer, who you are and were and will be.
of the spirit, about whom we will hear more and more during the
next lessons, whom we will want to know always better and
which tells us what we are and were and will be; then we must
I will
he will also have to use on that other existential journey
realize that it will only emerge from the stage of
Otherwise its beasts will devour
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will relate what is said today to the previous lesson, partly
will do shortly.
sensation will be given through the words I provided to you the
Where the sentient beings, powerful in will,
What you are, what you were, or will become.
having this sensation we will be carried up into the spiritual
Guardian's mouth, if he looks back upon himself, will realize
feeling and willing in terrible but true images; as three
Otherwise its beasts will devour
Begat the monster in your will;
Knowledge bravery alone will overcome it.
Will wings sprout from your soul
what will be unfolded in our souls from lesson to lesson in
we will only be able to recognize what must be cultivated in
our thinking, feeling and willing in order for the three beasts
mockery; willing - the bony crookedness of spirit. For these
will repeat it:
Otherwise your beasts will consume you
Thinking, if it is not colored by feeling and willing, is the
self-knowledge as feeling human beings, then we will always
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which one will actually take when seeking access to the
superficial, he will experience and feel fully what it means to
That is what I will speak to you about today, my dear friends,
which will lead them into the spiritual world, but also for
the sense world to unfold his will, when he proceeds from
will gradually be able to differentiate between truth and
thinking, your feeling, your willing are held together by the
feeling and a willing human being. But they are all unified
way, his feeling goes its own way, his willing goes its own
which have nothing to do with your willing; but these thoughts
with your willing; but these feelings contribute to your
willing, if you take it seriously, leads you ever farther back
really meditates honestly will see what drives live in his soul
exist in mediation. When it is there we can see what the will's
Begat the monster in your will;
feeling goes its way and willing goes its way, which otherwise
The will's evil creative power,
feeling and a different way of willing from what prevails in
really is, what our feeling really is, what our willing really
thoughts. For the fact is that the gods place will-power before
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an example of what we will receive today, my dear friends, I
willing. You must receive these words with all your soul's
Your memory. And I will be satisfied if you do not hold in your
memory what I am now saying to you. I will be satisfied if
speak to you, appealing to your thinking, feeling, willing, and
to your mind's alertness, then these soul forces will be
you reflect on this, my dear friends, it will be of great help
different relationship of thinking, feeling and willing in us
everyday consciousness, thinking, feeling and willing are bound
closely bound together thinking, feeling and willing are in
feel and will towards this person with what you think about
must develop feelings and will-impulses apart from those
that it has been willed and instated by the spiritual world. If
we see it in this way, the School's existence will give us the
then we will understand something else. Yes, my dear friends,
sense has been developed it will be possible to acquire - in
and should be relayed to the world. We will need much time,
it's again different when we come to the will. To do so, we
through feeling's strength give birth to the will-impulse. That
strive in you with thrust of will:
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constitutes man's inner self - thinking, feeling, willing -
and willing go different ways upon entering the spiritual
have seen how through his will man is greatly influenced by
willing become separated. The will, now living much more
will the earth, through his feeling the periphery, through his
our thinking, feeling and willing, aware that our thinking,
feeling and willing are somewhat separated, apart from external
are separated through it from the world. Our will does
When we go even higher we come to a region - which we will
warmth. When you will, your being is not in you, it is in the
thinking is in your head. Think that your willing is none other
light, his feelings are as wide as the warmth, his will is as
and all willing is in the atmosphere, in the cloak of air.
light, I will lose myself in the light. For in the moment when
of me and say: You, human, we will not let you out of the light
again, we will hold you back in the light. This expresses the
light-beings' will. They want to draw man to them through his
These light-beings will be found enticing us ever and again. At
it is equally dangerous to yield to pure darkness. And we will
us in spirit-land: Light's enticements will not be able to
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carry out his own will impulses, etc. Man considers them to be
then we will call what is highest in the etheric: Life-Ether,
we develop this feeling in the right way, we will make a
becomes aware of his relationship with the earth, then he will
no longer feel himself in his humanity, he will feel himself in
to be the same as our own will. And we feel the relationship of
our own will with the animal world.
will feel the vegetative nature of the life of feeling. And
then you will have the feeling that you are not only in danger
Philosopher's Stone. You will find them saying: The
he will be aware of his relationship with the earth-element,
which is related to his will; with the water-element which is
With forces of your will unfolding
This is an unconscious process. Every time we will something,
will exactly become an elephant or a bull, but something like
that for the element of will, yes, he gives the impression of
Your animality will be shown
where the will is heading, we become aware of our animality and
With forces of your will unfolding;
Your animality will be shown
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Society will, as a matter of course and according to the
Esoteric School, which will gradually be expanded to include
spirit will have to be utilized in the management of the
founded by men, but in fact by the will of the world's
School - in the sense of objective truth, will we be able to
steer through all the difficulties which will assail
What I will now say is within the circle of the School, and
Roman Church will do everything in their power to make the
will spread its power over the neighboring regions. Then - they
say - we will need to completely destroy from the roots up the
it will be successful, but if not, we will find other means to
and willing. In reality they are three humans: the thinking
one, the feeling one, the willing one, which exist in every
will feel the Guardian's words as they should affect the human
will transport yourself to the sphere in initiation which in
willing, something which is also perceptible for normal
we must use the will just as we use it when moving an arm or a
leg, or when willing in general. But it is a fine, delicate
willing which transfers one thought to another. When we are in
amount of willing are bound together in the head. As soon as we
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declare myself willing, together with the Executive Committee
on every relationship within the Anthroposophical Society will
not be based on some bureaucratic measure or other, but it will
membership cards, little by little. But I will not have the
other relationships will be even more human, but by this means
Anthroposophical Society will be recognized by us here as valid
taken place. In the future, no abstract relationship will be
Step by step we will try to make arrangements so that those who
do here since the Christmas Conference. But it will all be
arranged to the extent possible. We will have a newsletter
able to participate in the work of the School. Things will
School for our times. Thus, it will be the soul of the
esoteric work achieved here will flow into the School's work.
circumstances. Here esoteric studies will take place which are
Whoever will not do this, who thinks that one should be silent
then people will come to us - they generally don't - would be
will be taken very seriously indeed. For those members of the
something else, this will be accepted readily and gladly. Those
lesson today to be a kind of preparation. I will hold a second
today will be admitted to the next lesson. It will be a
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in the sublimity of what the vast universe offers, we will gain
itself to create it, then it will be able, through this
itself, then we will gradually and harmoniously be more and
means of the will.
When you begin to notice it, then you will first feel
inwardly. When we feel our breathing, for example, we will
can direct your thoughts down to the individual organs and will
feeling, my dear sisters and brothers, will now be revealed to
preserve what is thus written in the starry heavens we will
we will note that once the first part of the exercise is
holds thinking, feeling and willing together through its own
experiencing, thinking, feeling and willing are no longer one,
will to the earth we become one with the earth through our
will.
thinking and separated from willing.
feeling moves in the wandering stars [planets]; my willing
unites with the earth forces. So thinking, feeling, willing are
not need to bind thinking, feeling and willing together,
unity. Thinking, feeling and willing would be constantly
and willing unites with the forces of the earth. And with
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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spiritual world is what will be provided in these class lessons
communications from the spiritual world, will coalesce in such
for those who could be here — will have a complete
sense-perceptible world which surrounds us, it will be
Then, however, we will also feel more and more what the
will draw it —.
And you will
into the other, and then try to feel with your will what you
The will
The will
recall each one and add the outpouring of will as a
will.
in the soul which will gradually lead this soul onto the
is in a process, it is a seed which will have meaning once I
earth-life, then we will be aware of the gravity of what we are
current streams through our thinking, feeling and willing. And
meditation to work in the right way, our meditation will

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are all gathered here, I will say what I have to say about
friends are here, it will be my task to say what is to be
When the right time has come, we will surely find what has
will.
about correctly in the future the Goetheanum's work will be
brothers, if we are permeated with the will to understand
If you will remember what was presented here in the last
objective way, then will he be able to follow that intimate,
For the moment we will not dispute what the astronomers say
we will learn today the different ways he sends this I into
these dwellings will act in him. We meditate correctly when
meditate. And then we will be conscious of what we have to
will. We must not “speak”, not
Therefore we answer from within pouring will into our
will”:
will”:
will”:
will” —
[“will” is underlined.]
feel or will, but which also streams and weaves and radiates
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how it passes through. You will sense it as all kinds of
Well, if you have learned to sense speaking, then you will
thinking. Then you will be able to touch, touch internally that
[red], you will sense thinking here above
And you will have the sensation: I feel this under the region
[yellow]. And you will then say to yourselves: When I speak, I
people, where nothing can bother me, where I will have absolute
good to think like that, because you will never progress that
Today's mantras will be given with this objective. The
from the beings who will be identified later in the mantra.
The sense of spirit from earthly will.
The sense of spirit from earthly will.
us that a being from the ranks of the Exusiai will speak to
that what exists in us on earth as will is taken out to the
use it as spirit-will. Earthly will is only a transformation of
spirit-will. Earthly will is constantly being taken up and
brought down again. Above it is heavenly will; below it is
earthly will. Finally the Guardian reminds us that a being from
The sense of spirit from earthly will.
The sense of spirit from earthly will.
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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sense of spirit from earthly will.
– and where the will arises, but which is only
felt as will – and through which a connection is
sisters and brothers, is the field of volition, of will. The
field of the will is the one which most dominates the human
usually knows little of how the will acts.
Let us take first where the will is most evident in
the arrows] – and the will which governs movement
learn to sense it. And then we will sense the interweaving,
will.
Therefore, we will let the third part of this mantra
Perceive the field of will
the human will's actions in this deep meditative practice we
We will gain an important place for this meditation
Behold the field of will.
“will” and the last lines of all three parts are
III. Behold the field of will.
man and the first Hierarchy in the field of will:
Perceive the field of will:
willing; rather that we completely forget ourselves and feel
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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I will repeat what has been considered in the previous lessons
impure willing, feeling and thinking — that they first
willing, feeling and thinking appear in three animals —
and willing can strengthen themselves after having consciously
And from what has entered our souls through the mantras, we will
is beyond the abyss. We will realize ever more: Here on earth
The person will realize that two states of mind
occur, not even in the slightest degree. The person will
knowledge of the spirit will be revealed to him.
the luciferic forces will apprehend him and
he will no longer leave this state of mind. He succumbs to
otherwise in the future you will be an unstable person in the
willing, we must pay attention to what extent earthly inclinations
are still present in this thinking, feeling and willing.
will succumb to the Ahrimanic temptation. Then he will not be
able to return, because before he does so he will become
faint. He will be more or less unconscious. His consciousness
will be paralyzed. Because his consciousness has been
I will hammer it down even harder — the support —
Ahriman: I will hammer it down even harder —
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Today we will also begin with the mantric verse
been present previously, it will be necessary to say certain
being we meet if we have the earnest, real will to look into
activate in us, can come from Christ: then it will be the
right answer. It can come from Lucifer: then it will be the
wrong answer. It can come from Ahriman: then it will again be
Christ's council will always be shaped in conjunction
Christ will always speak to us, counseling: as long
Lucifer will always spur us on and tempt us to want
Ahriman will always tempt us to enter into his
I will hammer it more firmly with the spirit's force.
how we will comport ourselves in respect to the earth's firm
called in the innermost depths of soul, we will be liberated
will hold to the orientation which makes it possible to make
they will have the force, through the simple way they are
the elements – at first earth, water and air; fire will
Perceive! as we perceive in your willing.
perceive in our willing.
something. When you are willing, while your willing is
something. Human thinking, human feeling, human willing, are
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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We will again start by letting the words resound
I will put it briefly. This School must be
From this you will understand that membership in the School
School, but that it depends on his free will to be a member,
membership without anyone claiming that his free will is in
And I must again emphasize that this measure will have to be
personalities involved, because we will be entering ever more
And now the words will be spoken which are
over the abyss, for with our thinking, feeling and willing
existence, they have also shown us what our souls will feel
Perceive, as we perceive in your will.
Will the spirit's cosmic working in the
hopes that from the harmonies the I will be so formed that
transformed into will-forces. The soul feels the cosmic
And today we will compare the opening words
“O man, know thyself!” We will see how we, as

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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of the Threshold, the Guardian now indicates (we will hear the
your eyes, to prepare the substance with which you will penetrate
this rainbow, with which you will pass below, through the rainbow
If we have heard and have absorbed all this, then we will see
In your worlds of will
When we willing live;
World is I-Willing Spirit-Word.
The world is the spirit-word which wills the I; and the
In your worlds of will
When we willing live;
World is I-Willing Spirit-Word.
The spirit-word, which wills the I, is the world. And as
In your worlds of will
When we willing live;
World is I-Willing Spirit-Word.
arise within me which I will place at the end of the lesson, to
I will to feel the presence of Christ.
announce here that in the future no application to the Class will
directed to either one of these two addresses will be considered.
which state: If I don'ive a reply, I will assume the
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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and spiritual life, will pass before our souls again at the
In the willing of your worlds
When we live in willing:
World is the I-willing Spirit-Word.
hear what the spiritual-illuminating, divine-willing beings
hierarchy, to the Archai. They have concern for the will of the
for the human being's will, the Archai need the forces of
The human beings will!
That we may work in willing.
That you may work in willing,
When human beings will.
The human beings will!
That we may work in willing.
That you may work in willing,
When human beings will.
creation, of which we will be witnesses in spiritual worlds, as
The human beings will!
That we may work in willing.
That you may work in willing,
When human beings will.
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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that is, was in the past and will be in the future, calls
In the willing of your worlds
When we live in willing:
World is the I-willing Spirit-Word.
these Class Lessons, it will be Michael's will to describe
content – were held. These will be the contents of
That will be the second section.
What has been presented to us in mantric words, will stand
before our souls as pictures, which will be – to the
The third stage of this School will consist of
what will lead us directly to the interpretations of the

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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— and probably will to the next lessons as well —
these Class Lessons will not be a disadvantage for those
bring to humanity in the present time. All the words which will
be spoken in this School are Michael words. Michael will is all
that is willed in this School. You are all students of Michael
and willing. One cannot otherwise be a member of this
This strict measure will have to continue to be followed in the
then you will be here in the right way, in the only way you
seeking, my dear sisters and brothers, you will be rewarded to
the extent it lies in your karma. But the first step will be to
esoteric path will be described in Michael-words here in this
School. It will be described in such a way that everyone can
humanity will flow in mantric words. These mantric words will
Again, it will depend on karma how these words for meditation
far distance. From here on, the esoteric path will be described
Where sentient Beings, strong in will
No longer, who you are and were and will be.
Where sentient Beings, strong in will
No longer, who you are and were and will be.
makes us aware of how this, our Self, which wills and feels and
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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classes, it will not be possible to repeat the introductory
the verses from other members in the manner I will describe
to then in the present, and will be said to them in the
earnest countenance. And he shows us how our willing, our
as imaginations. There this willing, this feeling, this
represents willing, to arise from the yawning abyss of being.
first beast — the true spiritual form of our willing,
Otherwise its beasts will devour
Begot the monster in your willing;
Will wings sprout from your soul
Otherwise its beasts will devour
Begot the monster in your willing;
Will wings sprout from your soul
our willing. And he gives us a certain teaching in what he then
we will then hear, words which can serve us as a mantric verse.
only when we feel that our will, although it lives in us, is
wish to divert us in our will from our actual divine task and
completely enmesh us in earthly existence, then we will feel
how these opposing powers, by usurping our will, want to bring
do it, if we were not alert enough to dedicate our will to the
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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which I will describe at the end of this lesson.
dear sisters and brothers, we will again begin by letting our
in the present and will hear in the future, which allow them to
his willing, for his working in the world if he wishes to be
willing, feeling, thinking — appear to the eyes of the
thinking, feeling and willing, he shows us — in the
Only when we descend into the will do we feel being streaming
descends into the will, and we feel the cosmic creating powers
streaming through our will.
Let strive with thrust of will
Let strive within the thrust of will
will. We stand alongside being. Two high-toned syllables
Let strive within the thrust of will
Let strive within the thrust of will
ourselves and let our body become the whole world. Then will
the cosmos. The spirit will integrate our narrow humanity into
down, which bind our will to the earth if we don't make
want to localize our will. We must feel ourselves one with the
will to be one with the cosmos.
You will lose yourself in them
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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new members are again present, I will not give the
introduction, but will continue from where we left off last
must to do so under the conditions which I will mention at the
present, and will exhort humans in the future. These exhorting
which show the true nature of his present willing, feeling and
Then, when we observe our willing, we must look below. There is
our will comes for our earthly life. For the earth does not
contains the force of human will. Once again, we stand face to
of death. We can succumb with our willing to the powers of
use our will forces in the cosmos. We must hold our Self erect,
constricted space in order to eternally interweave our will
will be light within by means of the force which we ourselves
admonitions we will grow wings to cross the abyss in order to
In that realm where your will
In that realm, where your will
will find, my dear sisters and brothers, that if you devote
devotion to the spirit, you will find that what instills
we heed all that is entailed in these demands, we will find the
it is mechanical and exterior. It will become more inward, but
of light, so to speak. Then it will be filled with what our
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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so in the manner I will describe at the end of the Lesson, and
so, we will also begin directly today to inscribe in our souls
the rocks. They sound forth to him in the present; they will
what the true shape of our willing, feeling and thinking is
driven it into us. He showed us the animal form of our willing,
half-alive, whereas our willing is fully alive, but we are only
an idea of the nature of will we should look to the world's
when we seek willing in the earthly depths we find ourselves in
nothingness; that we must find willing in the Middle Way.
cross; how we will have then entered the spiritual world, for
spiritual life in the ordinary world, that you will have the
With forces of your will unfolding;
Your animal-likeness will be shown
the fear will give birth to its opposite and become the courage
how lame our Self is. We will awaken once we have the humility
our willing — first in the earth-element with thinking,
then in the water-element with feeling, then with willing in
the air-element — then we will feel in this air-element
that we have nothing in willing except what our normal memory
which rest passively in our thoughts, with the will; then we
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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Today we will once again begin with the words which contain the
willing. But thinking, feeling and willing are interwoven in
out in impulses of will. We feel that it is worthy. We feel
and are urged forward to willing. But all that —
thinking, feeling, willing — is closely related to our
world. We are at one in thinking, feeling and willing.
will, however, as it emerges from our being, remains at first
see what we have carried out, again with thought. But the will
as our willing comes towards us over the abyss of being. The
thinking merges with willing? The thought — of what is
corporeality as beneficent fire. What brings the will to
existence is warmth, which is fire when our own will meets us
between this warmth, from which our willing streams toward us
across the abyss of being (for our human will is a mere
reflection of our cosmic will) — between this warm, dark
will be — in thinking, feeling and willing — no
the threshold; our will becomes fire; our feeling becomes
we consider how our limbs work through willing, it gives us the
strength to not only will what is within us. Consider for a
many earth-lives, live in our willing. Let us think of all
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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members' lectures will have noted how this esoteric breath
a certain sense the spiritual world had to manifest the will
asking the will of Michael, which since the last third of the
the course of time this will of Michael again and again
that this same Michael-Will - which we can also call the
to Asia and Africa. Where the Michael-Will reigns, there is
Therefore, what these lessons contain will be Michael's message
it is because of this that the anthroposophical movement will
movement. For only then will this School be what it should be
our friends come to Dornach, a will to sacrifice is involved,
the present and will speak in the future:
You will become
now, now, my dear sisters and brothers, will be described what
gloom, about which you had to say that it will become inner
light and will illumine your own Self. With the last
we actually are. Now will be described how in the gloom that is
then you will find in what is felt above as thinking [drawing:
red arrows] from out of which streams the force of will into
thinking, so that each thought is streamed through with will.
How the will streams into thinking can be sensed.
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
under the fear of the question: ‘What will happen if the social
efforts, penetrating thoughts, despite the best will being
midst of a discussion, standing within the will of a modern
direction. However, in what one could call social will is
convincing result will solve some relevant question out of
movement, where it is carried by the workers, will know what a
personal honour and personal will impulses. They were to some
the actual foundation of social will. It is like this: the
labour as goods. Humanity will only realize what hides behind
recreate a science, a new way of thinking which will become a
will have to lead to so much unhappiness in modern times being
in all party directions, misfortunes will not come to an end
but will spread out immensely. The real life-practitioners must
the belief that it will lead nowhere else other than to the
life and the community's structure of humanity, I will allow

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
and science regarding the human organism which will see how
ideals, they will soon come to the view that such observations
thought and experience, a healthy will and desire in relation
then it shows you are unwilling to develop a capability to consider
regarding the earnestness of your observation, will stop.
If you look for analogies, then you most likely will experience
we will speak about this division of branches afterwards
from the mere game of analogy will know that in reality, things
socializing will not become a healing process but a fake
for now we will start on the economic side as this obviously
organism as business life, or economic life, will be looked at.
This economic life, we will partly today and partly in the
We will soon consider its characteristics in order to
third system to have a name it will be called the spiritual
member of the social organisation must be — I will in the
proficiencies. Only then will both these spheres work in the
does happen we will see it is valid for the third member as
will only work with the laws of production, work with the
social organism. It will depend on the vitality of association.
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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Thinking and Willing.
present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
Thinking and Willing.”
thinking and willing. One could say an abyss exists between
many, will stand out, that the modern Proletarian, considered
Considering the sceptics will not be considered here, instead
we will refer to the historical importance of this matter.
steer itself ad absurdum. What will happen then, will reveal
psychology. When a direct answer is not found — we will
will be the first consideration. What kind of experience is had
Many people are filled with good will but not in one of them
of goodwill the inability to establish the real bridge to outer
best of will in relation to the community of fellow human
beings, a display of the best will to do their utter best
criticism nor to good will, but it comes down to how they place
spiritual. Present time will be better served this way than
some inner paradoxes. It will appear for example as a surprise,
goodwill. It comes down to this feeling: through the way one
soul-spiritual power will enter into the evolution of mankind.
social question. As long as people will not realize that the
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's
present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
“The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's
thinking and social will have been adapting in the course of
people suspect, the social impulse will penetrate directly into
the life of single people — this penetration will happen
more and more. It will become the determining factor towards
thinking and social willing. As a result, the continuation of
things will one not know how radically different everything is
and willing, a change started to take place towards a more
willing.
two mentioned social classes. So it must come about as we will
grasp community life superficially, will take on gigantic forms
organism into a living form, a form which will allow humanity
go into this form of political state which will regulate
the forces, or it will let others impose on it. If it is the
one will touch on some riddles of life and be able to find
many theoretically orientated souls in current times will see
organism. I will once again use this example — I don't
and on each other, then a healthy social life will be formed.
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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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The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure.
present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
“The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific
“The social will as a basis towards a new, scientific
other side, having something sneaking into this social will,
social will and allow some superstitions to dominate. One can
stuck on mere instinctive will impulses, that simply out of the
structure out of a conscious will. If it is to be prepared
through a conscious will, then the will needs a basis of
thoughts which familiarise one's own will with the forces in
certain extent one must be allied in one's own will with the
social movement. You need to try and recognise the will
circles. Above all, the origins of these will impulses need to
of will and the non-proletarian life today lies a gap, no one
old will impulses active in the social movement, but with new
thoughts and will impulses.
goodwill, their ideas and so on. There has, if I may say so,
believed they could bring the Proletarian will and thinking
these thoughts and will impulses. What comes as challenges out
circles, you will think about people whose beliefs are quite
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
will in fact ask: How can human labour legitimately be
for them it will be noticeable that this modern Proletarian
scientific orientation will be different to that of the modern
Proletarian has been made into goods, you will gradually be
nature will as much admit that the social organism within the
economic life develops the life of rights by itself, as it will
ownership within the modern economic order and we will
organism will always relate to the fulfilment of one sphere of
and consumption of goods. What will be of relevance here would
process will rest; on a purely democratic basis, on the
one another will rest, in a narrower sense, the actual
something quite different will develop compared to the economic
separated from the political life, something will rise as a
into the economic process. It will be different if, independent
labour law can come into existence. What will happen then?
What will then happen is that a person, through his own labour,
will stand through his particular relationship towards the
one will encounter the most resistance. The opinion has come
will no longer be directed out of an addition of sums of what
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into the culture of the present and immediate future. It will begin to
lead us too far, but a comparison will show that our method of
this the very thing that helps him to understand its nature? And will
the word will be used here in connection with the name of Richard
open, the higher world will emerge out of the darkness. To the
our interpretation of these words will be put down as inartistic
I shall here repeat certain teachings of Spiritual Science which will
the Holy Grail the following teaching was given: — (I will give
realise step by step. Many people will say: This is unheard of! None
the less it is truth but truth that will be subjected to the same fate
was that the man of the future will have powers of reproduction not
Grail Ideal will be fulfilled when man brings forth his like with the

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the planetary Spirits. I will draw (on the blackboard) this pentagonal
will there find peoples who give names to their Gods. Turn to the
Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans — all will name their Gods. The four
develop to a point where he will understand how the Christ took up His
destroy the heathen temples. Indeed he would have been willing to
you will find the same. According to the Egyptian priests, a God and

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life, and Anthroposophical will. In the drawing of every line,
everything which willed to work otherwise in the
and will with these forms — which were molded so
community-building there will grow out of the Movement for
once more create a community, and will most certainly create
creating of a community, it will have to find means suited to
the Movement for Religious Renewal, although neither will be
heart and will. When you truly irradiate your whole inner being
with will, apply your enthusiasm to it, then, as you idealize
place may otherwise be, it will be rendered sacred by the
there will be present a real spiritual Being. Just as the
speaking, our sentiments, our thinking, our impulses of will,
attention to the whole human being, you will find in the common
Anthroposophical Society, if it wills to develop further, is
by karma will then actually be formed. They will be a fruit of
will our discussions take a fruitful course.
saying: “What interest will all these reports have for us
for no one will ever deny that I know the meaning of bearing
anxiety on behalf of Anthroposophy. Just as little will anyone
worked out in sharp outline. I will not at all assert that the
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opportunity will again occur to speak of Anthroposophy in the
certain necessity — there will be found included the
yet it will be an Anthroposophical lecture, but connected, of
will he live in his dream world and in the ordinary world of
lower condition, is taken over into what we will call a higher
about this and you will find that such is the case. Such a
will occur if we do not say to ourselves: “You must look
they will fall to disputing one another, because they have
are not willing to undertake this. For this reason, there has
science, requires much time for his research. You will,
spiritual world, will acquire the characteristic — as a
Everything will get on the right track through the natural
Anthroposophical Society will depend upon whether these
loose association. For you will see how many more channels will
un-Anthroposophical way within the Society. Then will the world
will! the college course, I have again and again proposed
more closely with the purposes of our Research Institute will
present will be found to have been said already by me myself.
Anthroposophical Society. One will then stand firm in the
Society. One will stand firm equally in the physical world and
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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before. Thinking of this you will want to be aware of the
will impulses that can be experienced in the human soul.
himself happened out of will impulses of the spirits of
their function. We will have to picture those spirits
will who may admit that there is more to life than is
ask why they do not submit to the will of the gods who
experience dreams and we experience our will the way we
evolves in our thinking. We therefore will not manage our
principles will not help us achieve this, only life
such a single lecture will impress one person in one way
is the subject for example, it will of course be
element will enter into our thinking. We would not have
of liking to hear the facts you will often suffer
facts, on a real world that will get us out of the habit
we will of course have been thinking with the aid of our
material organization, but we will have used this to
all it needs is the will to do so out of a materialistic
they can take a course that will lead to human beings on
materialistic attitude then this attitude will be made to
external characterization will not get us anywhere when
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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— though no one is willing to admit it — that
physical body is able to give we will be unable to do so.
straight for the spirit. It will have to be different in
evolved. Europeans of the present time will need to
achieve it by their own efforts. They will have to
nurture spiritual science. They will have to create an
such a spiritual science the Mystery of Golgotha will
soul that belonged to the Orient. A new wisdom will have
to William II [ Note 10 ]
and had a major share in all the bad advice William II
Ferriére wrote, ‘will of course not have been
deceived; they will have realized that what I wrote was
representatives of initiation knowledge will tell you
again and again that it simply will not do for anyone to
themselves. You will find that when genuine initiates in
of the things of which they are writing. You will find
them’. Take a look, you will find this kind of
initiates. If you ask why it is done like this you will
certainly true for Western initiation science. You will
personal experience — these will be the words used
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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only ideas to fire the human will and human actions.
seem strange to modern minds, but modern minds will
might be willing or not, the act of transubstantiation
referring to something rather serious will often become
look for new well-springs that will give real substance
will be able to confirm the following. Herman Grimm [
events will go. People hear of deeply significant things

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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plane, though it is an initiation of tremendous will
power, almost unlimited will power. The only thing that
genuine sincerity will however only come from this
an incredible pace, civilization will be doomed. The
be our will to consider those wider interests of
got used to it over the centuries, indeed soon it will be
not letting it come to light. People will go on saying
other. They will provoke something that makes people go
Then people will ignore it, being afraid of it, and the
told lies by people who know that those lies will be
those lies where it becomes the willing tool of those
created with lies. That will be the inevitable
come, and in the end you will see!’ Well, all I
will without doubt never emerge, however long it takes
said. They will write that this man Steiner is borrowing
principle. The knives will come out to fight this idea.
we will not even notice where the idea of power, the
people will not accept any other view nowadays. People
speak to you again. I hope this will be soon.

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organism will be the head in our next life. The head,
earth. The rest of the organism as you see it now will be
the head in the next life. Then the arms will have
metamorphosed and become ears, and the legs will have
second half of the 19th century, human beings will indeed
people say today: Something else will have to take the
subject matter. It will of course be necessary for
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little understanding will say: ‘You are using
thinking to the extent that it will be possible to think
substance, will never come to sensible conclusions.
analogies and elaborate symbolism. We will then arrive at
is the head in the social organism, will have to live on
undermined in the human organism, the head will suffer.
threefold order following that appeal — we will
had happened in the meantime — people will
changed since the spring of last year and this will have
think at least some of you will understand what I mean.
Things will not be different unless we accept it as a
involved in a desperate struggle. People Will find that
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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their souls. We will continue along these lines. Today I
with will impulses, a deed in the total context of the
impresses itself on the senses. You will come to see this
uncomfortable; yet unless we enter into them we will make
search for knowledge based on strong will impulses, that
their inner life they will find the spark of which
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view will have to penetrate this second, equally
will note that their hair has turned grey; it also
exactly the type of the mystic, though the mystic will
They will of course feel different, those experiences,
it will kick its legs in the air and wave its arms about
to yourself that it will cause feeblemindedness. Quite
step boldly into reality, saying to himself: 'I will have
cannot be bothered to see these things clearly will not
spirit. That will happen as the rest of the body
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one side and that of mysticism on the other. I will then
Then humankind will not slither into the doom of the

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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form of science will help us to find physical matter and
flame inside us. To find the right path it will be
spiritualist will say: ‘He's a materialist and has
follow a rigid line; he will have to say that Oswald
Will be more and more to consider what they are actually
fact will count for much more in future than the actual
extent we are all part of this, willy-nilly, unless we
this battle of minds and they will use all available
refutation of materialism will not achieve anything,
on the scene, those people will say: ‘These are
them, will indeed make use of it and try and understand
therefore a question of having the will to understand
and want to think, use their will and feel out of matter.
beginning of the 3rd millenium humankind will have
an abstract mysticism that Will give them everything they
it will be rightly seen why things that for a time were
It will be seen that the necessity arises in our age to
It will have to happen that outer events follow not on
situation. Words will only evoke a little bit of the
become part of the whole of our being, there will be an
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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knowledge, perception, thinking, feeling and will
that did not want human thinking, feeling and will
told people: 'You will come to materiality if you follow
your soul and spirit. You will then find yourselves the
conquerors of all that this earth holds for you; you will
regular progress of science it will however be necessary
on, except that they will be applied in a different
example, is really good, you will gain more from reading
to indicate clearly that Rome will overcome the
Protestant element, and Rome will continue to make great
the language will follow the same road, and people will
card says he is Mr Miller. In the same way you will have
will not tell you what your ideas about the world ought
follows: ‘The truth will certainly never be found
variety of angles. The photographs will look very
various courses of lectures and you will see that I have
things human beings need today, things that will serve
Miller but on quite different aspects. It will be
what will happen after death, however. It is easy to
beings. This will of course lead us to see education and
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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consider this dream life you will be able to say that it
use their will to connect one thought with another, this
watered-down way, as if they lack drive and will.
traced in dream life. It will be evident from everything
spiritual science will be able to establish this beyond
state. In the waking state the situation is that our will
unbiased view you will have to agree that spiritual
of will, however. If you consider the way the sense
dream state you will find that when the brain acts as the
will not take time at this point to consider the nature
ancient oriental culture and you will find that the
culture as it essentially is today you will find that the
nature of those great minds and you will see that I am
example. You will find that great emphasis is put on the
death. You will find nothing about the intervention of
kind of life that will evolve in times to come, when a
spiritual Principle that is free of the body will come
sleep and waking up. This will be different in times to
this, particularly in the West. Thus William James [
time will come when the unconscious contents —
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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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my starting point. This will lead us to the event I referred to in just a
into the present and will still make themselves felt for a long time, we
human beings that will then work more or less independently. I would say,
will find, for instance, that during the period preceding the outbreak of
figures. For a start I will just add the fact that in 1870, a year when
already said you will see that forces independent of humanity,
Looking at it like this, you will have to admit that the power of these
in the whole world of technology created by the human race. Nor will they
find it easy to see this, because those powers are acting on the will
— and I have often told you that the will is alseep. They work at
their activities extend into the sphere of the human will, but human
You will perceive the trend
quite a fast pace. This ahrimanic world acts on the human will, and the
immediate conscious awareness of the will. The great danger is that the
ahrimanic world will take hold of the human will and human beings will
human being. Behind it lies the will to call forth will demons, for it is
this Christ event will be such that more people will be having objective
experiences and will then know that the etheric Christ is walking on
earth, the Christ who will represent the power that once walked on earth
they will find the right way of dealing with the forces influencing them
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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considerations. In a sense these will continue the theme
consider the whole evolution of the human being you will
developed to go beyond this earthly realm; we will have
and Vulcan periods. During those periods we will have to
such thoughts forward as mere theories. They will only
will have to grow beyond this earthly realm.
Anthroposophy will be only be able to serve human beings
will be like a spiritualized Mystery of Golgotha.
gain an energy principle; a principle that will give
This will take us beyond the earthly realm because it has
recognize Him as the spirit who will make it possible
realm, we might say; that we will not be buried on earth,
we thus come to see Christ as the One who will redeem our
something within this earthly realm that will take us
beyond it, when we feel that it is He who will lead us to
modern science you will find that it has no real
thinking. Science will only be filled with the Christ
science will succeed in penetrating to the Christ
will this enlivened science take? Some things are in
think you will agree that Goethe's figures were subtle
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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for some time, what will be explained in the introduction should not be
also of the etheric body. You will not only have observed it from your
own life experience in yourself and in other people, you will also have
certain exceptional cases, which will be mentioned later. Only in death
lecture, you will understand that those people who are able to see into
things, the easier this Kamaloka time will be for him. He becomes freer
death. But just as surely there will come a time for man when he will
reality, and all people will once be embraced in eternal love, even if
they will no longer descend into the cycle of incarnations.

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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development. So strong is their demand upon our will and
beautiful: otherwise mankind will sink into mere
will so develop that personality and all that has its origin in
the personal and individual will diminish in value by reason of
what men call the “objective events.” That will not
the world-machine. The task of the immediate future will be for
and, if uncountered, it will become more dominant. Nor is there
before he makes it! The time must, come when it will not be
given expression to an untruth. Rather when men will feel the
facts will not excuse it, when a man will realize that
time to come our age will be envisaged in a quite peculiar way.
Therefore, we ought to get some idea how future ages will look
arrogant. There will be no further perfecting of the physical
spiritual investigation, will become something in our human
soul which will restore the interest of the Beings of
the three higher Hierarchies. They will be in the thoughts and
knowledge, sensitiveness to it, and a will obedient to
course, lasts through centuries. Outer observations will not
consideration. I will show this in a concrete case.
could be perceived through the bodily nature. That will not be
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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of man. They will only enter into a new relationship to us when
worlds, out of free will and of their own accord. If we would
thoughts, sentiments, and impulses of will, into which
spiritual realms, but in future they will help to detach man
continued existence after death will be assumed in all
Many things will follow on this. For one thing we shall
this a new education will be necessary. We elders find that to
to-day so that to remember them will provide an ever new and
invigorating source of life. Now this will bring, as you can
Other knowledge will be recognized as necessary. There is a
instincts. From such feelings will arise that which will
Hierarchy of the Angels, who will once more be able to interest
must be considerably widened. I will show you how that
events which will take place in quite other spheres, but which
economic life and all other changes will ensue, since
necessary to contribute anything from the will
all that will happen of itself. Something fatalistic has
concentrated in private capital will pass over into other
mere observation and contemplation to the exertion of will and
intention. We must rouse our wills by developing impulses from
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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feeling and willing, when they fall apart, just as they become
for comfort in man to-day, the unwillingness to know what is
28th year. Conditions will change again with time. This is a
Wherein will consist the success of our efforts towards a
experience it brings. Anyone observing life to-day will
mankind, will be as wreaths of vapour. These differences lie in
understanding of Christ Jesus. Nor will
willing to accept the most impossible contradictions if
from human impulses suited to the times, on a basis which will
will be no remedy for the wounds of our times. What is designed
things to be found in our twenty years of lecturing, you will
world, but the real, fundamental understanding which will lead
speeches have been translated. Read them and you will find in
Folk-spirits. If you read those lectures you will find many
unless we develop the good will to take part in the whole
through our will-impulses, brotherliness love for humanity,
life, at the results of our will to work for others, there
soul-land and spirit-land, you will find this expressed in
will be no healing, no peace, until the necessity for
wills the truth, rejecting the lies which have entangled
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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will become more and more significant.
will find themselves compelled by force of circumstances,
and measures which deal with it piecemeal. They will be forced
to turn their thoughts and direct their will to the social
to-day and in the immediate future. While they will only
their problem in all their thinking, feeling and willing, on
the other hand it will be necessary for the masses, the
market.” He who will is able to see that since the social
have become inadequate for the developing facts, yet men will
cleavage between the thinking, feeling, willing and actions of
with them, will have taught him to observe what is
of the new era, will know more about this question that I have,
feelings, speaking as man to man, will know what a spiritual
further, how the form of education will differ from our present
But healthy conditions will never be found until education and
then the teaching of the future will be seen to have little
of life will resemble a model republic. Teaching will be
being, are at his disposal, he will not be weak-willed or
crushed, as so many men are to-day, but will be equal to his
for that, there will be no money, therefore we shall have
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