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  • Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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    • This lecture is presented here with the kind permission of the
    • Be sure to compare this with another version of this lecture,
    • Basically, what we have to deal with today is an ancient issue
    • far more of a question that human souls are confronted with
    • and of our time, and we will find that even with these
    • striving towards knowledge, precisely when faced with this
    • of the Stoics, and how this all is connected with the general
    • holding back the pain and emotion within the human soul, and
    • up. That world development was also shot through with wisdom,
    • embed itself into the cosmic order) to unite firstly with that
    • secondly with what wickedness has set up in opposition to human
    • with regard to this assumption of evil and wickedness?
    • Something had already surfaced within Stoics, which even today
    • with this it must be allowed, that one can also remain behind
    • with those features, from which one strives upwards; it must be
    • compared with what one might imagine is thinking that has
    • progressed for a few centuries. But how things truly stand with
    • for anyone who can think with an open mind free of prejudice,
    • positive. But if one turns around when it is cold, with no furs
    • how little one straightens things out with this answer that
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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    • connections. We shall have to deal with problems such as the cause of
    • Those who are endowed with clairvoyance see the etheric body as follows:
    • with theosophy as it is meant here. Those who develop their higher soul-forces
    • body with our hands. Let us now leave aside the etheric body. Where
    • are all as real as the former. This is the astral body seen from within.
    • still more closely connected with clairvoyance, used to paint this aura
    • from within. Consequently, during this period, the only way of educating
    • finished things to play with. He should instead make something for himself,
    • upon the etheric body? Observe, to begin with, the process which takes
    • still connected with the physical body lying on the bed, and only the
    • occurred? His etheric body was more loosely connected with the physical
    • him with the aid of fairy tales and beautiful stories. During this period
    • with puberty, consequently a little sooner in girls than boys. The astral
    • body with everything mineral, his of etheric body with all plants, his
    • astral body with all the animals. But man rises above all these things
    • of holy awe ran through the assembled people, who were filled with reverence.
    • Jahve is the God who speaks within man ... and the word Jahve (Jehovah)
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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    • with also after death. If we no longer open our senses to the physical
    • is very confusing. In the physical world, when dealing with circumstances
    • connected with time, we reckon everything from the beginning to the
    • person is unable to cope with them and thinks that they are illusions,
    • special character and was formed with love. Those who formed these objects
    • receives anything from outside, it nevertheless bears deep within it
    • the yearning for religious things; this feeling lies deeply buried within
    • indicate something connected with the sympathetic side of life wereas darkly
    • colored pictures always indicate things connected with the antipathetic
    • it clothes itself with natural substance and condenses itself into certain
    • with it and agrees with it, then the two forms flow together upon the
    • thought-form streaming out of your words does not correspond with that
    • in the astral world when he is asleep. What takes place with him when
    • falls asleep and sees a reddish-brown shape rising up before him, with
    • world is to begin with, silent. The time comes when these pictures begin
    • it ends with thunder-step ,,,
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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    • astral world. To-day we shall deal with man's life after death in the
    • with physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the Ego go
    • in other pictures with flames of fire. In fact, the soul suffers a burning
    • everything which linked him up with the physical world. Kamaloca is
    • some accident. Such a sudden death also brings with it an avidity for
    • after death. The soul could never do this without a life in the physical
    • enjoyment. The savage with but a few incarnations enjoys the many colors
    • and the simplest sense-impressions. With each incarnation his senses
    • ever lost. Without the school of sensuality, we can never reach spirituality.
    • out of our earthly life becomes interwoven with the soul, with the spirit.
    • lose our friends in Devachan; our connections with them are simply of
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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    • We may compare this with the photographic negative. The physical object
    • be compared with the ocean. This is the second region of Devachan. There
    • of Devachan, have a great regularity. One might compare them with the
    • All the thoughts connected with human deeds are everlastingly
    • way with every other form of physical existence. With every incarnation
    • unity of all life. Little by little, with the development of a theosophical
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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    • Earth. There, our experiences were linked up with feelings and soul-impressions, the
    • pain, every joy once connected with them, are silent. This life picture
    • and moods are lacking. I see myself, my relatives and friends within
    • cosmos. A clairvoyant to observes a person with course feelings in this
    • And with each incarnation the causal body grew. Each time the pictures
    • every detail of our past life in reverse order, brings with it that
    • them from within. In Kamaloca there is nothing which we did to others
    • with the materialistic direction of modern science. The position of
    • will be interwoven with his Karma.
    • corpse. He then continues to live with his Ego and his causal body.
    • can see in them shapes, which resemble bells shooting with incredible
    • fact that a returning human being must surround himself with new astral
    • and this may be compared with the following process: There are iron
    • in accordance with the direction of the forces streaming out of the
    • its own accord in order to be incorporated with man's structure, but is
    • who, to begin with, have nothing to do with man's individuality. They
    • Other beings dwell in his three bodies and are active within them. Man is completely
    • Ego. The mahadevas are among those Beings that live within man; they
    • with hereditary conditions to that family and human germ which are most
    • conception the astral body becomes enveloped with the etheric body.
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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    • comes flying towards them in accordance with the inner force-streams
    • body with physical germ of man only takes place in the seventh month
    • and their effects appear to begin with, in the external favorable or unfavorable
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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    • with the fact of reincarnation and Karma? Many will try to oppose reincarnation
    • with the objection that there are our families in which all generations
    • is false. Man continually works upon his astral body with his Ego; A
    • transformed by the Ego is designated by the occultists with the Oriental
    • is called Atma. In this lecture we cannot deal with the mystery of
    • working into the physical body, and with the flashing up of Atma, which
    • and marked, resemblance is slight. Let us take a human nucleus with
    • tends towards a new incarnation. In accordance with his capacities he
    • correspond with his capacities. He seeks out the family whose bodily
    • with the best organ for his musical activities. This is the meaning contained
    • kingdom cannot change of its own accord. Everything that changes within
    • with the transformation of the vegetable and animal kingdoms of the
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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    • we shall deal with the evolution of man and of the earth itself, with
    • the evolution of the whole solar system. Also with the methods of an
    • occult inner training, particularly with the difference between the
    • oriental and the occidental initiation. Then with the Christian initiation,
    • evolution goes back far into the times dealt with by history and natural
    • speak. They completely harmonize with the investigations of natural
    • past with what can be seen through the eyes, but the old science of
    • the only thing which varied with the degree of moisture. Only when the
    • the sentence: “With the growth of knowledge and understanding,
    • him to say “I” to himself with a certain conviction. He
    • in plants. The vehicles of the Atlanteans were fed with grains of wheat,
    • in the same way in which our railways are fed with coal. In this field
    • no lifeless matter. The Atlantean was far more closely connected with
    • ancient Mysteries as the city with the golden portals. At that time,
    • animal and man. The human soul flowed together with the body towards
    • was a time when the human being could not as yet have a soul within
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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    • are the first representatives of real men with bodies permeated by souls.
    • was filled with the kind of watery mass, out of which emerged islands
    • This is very significant, for with the development of the lungs is connected
    • the fact that man was endowed with a living soul.
    • How was the human soul connected with the body, before giving life to
    • outside the body, it soared above it and drew it with it to an earth
    • lived in a sleep-like condition which may be compared with our dream-consciousness
    • actually breathed in his soul, with the air he breathed. This process
    • too is described with literal accuracy in Genesis, in the Six Days'
    • Creation, with the words: And God breathed his breath into man and he
    • with them; for they are quite degenerate descendants. At that time there
    • speak of a cosmic event of greatest importance, without which the soul
    • the earth with all its forces, with its whole aura, or its astral part.
    • connection with everything which one calls fecundation and procreation.
    • The separation of the sexes coincided with the separation of the moon.
    • forth descendants without the aid of another being. These forces were
    • beings, animals and plants, still lived together with sun. At that time
    • they say with their blossom they strove towards the center of the planet,
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  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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    • science arose, with the study of the forces of Nature and of their laws.
    • these "Planets" are not identical with our present planets, but refer to
    • These seven incarnations of the earth are intimately connected with man's
    • closely connected with ordinary life. The ancient Egyptians still arranged
    • their whole civilisation in accordance with the stars, the affairs of State,
    • consists in becoming reunited with the Spirit.
    • requirement is devotion, the capacity to look up to something with feelings
    • change with the times.
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  • Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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    • central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
    • of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
    • experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
    • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
    • time, it is especially important to consider. With regard to the historical course of humanity's
    • development, the much-debated question mentioned to begin with was whether the outstanding and
    • appeared with a definite declaration,
    • also drawn to the fact that, with regard to this last question, one can only come to clarity
    • method would be in complete accord with Goetheanism. For
    • that, within the abundance of facts, the important thing is to find a
    • becoming acquainted with Christianity. The ransom was paid to Death by the cosmic powers.
    • quiet note, for much of Greek culture was still alive in him. It develops then with particular
    • vehemence in the Roman culture within which it had been prepared long before Aristotle, and,
    • and not to confuse it with usual dreaming — it existed in a dreamlike, dim way, so that
    • the creation of the world out of nothing with `nothing' seen as absolute `zero'. In the Orient,
    • lived in the Greek who, at the court of Charlemagne, had to debate with Alcuin. And in this
    • significant moment when Alcuin debated at the court of Charlemagne with the Greek. For, what was
    • death. And the constitution of soul which occupies itself primarily with the human being's
    • way of thinking that we ourselves find religious feeling permeated with a legalistic element. In
    • within this occidental culture, the way of thinking which comprehends primarily what takes place
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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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    • central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
    • of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
    • experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
    • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
    • in earlier epochs, and very exceptional things are making their appearance within humanity's
    • how these differentes within humanity express themselves in the civilized world.
    • side with materialism or was directly produced through the materialism of other classes. This
    • distortion exists, which occurred with the inundation of the East through Peter the Great
    • its terrible aspect will show itself throughout all Asia, because it works with all the fervour
    • political, and works with a religious fervour eastwards from Russia over into Asia. Over and
    • Anglo-Saxon. And, in its basic instincts, this 'Anglo-Saxondom' moves completely with the
    • impulses that have arisen naturally within human development in the last three or four centuries.
    • all its achievements. This way of thinking and its achievements, together with the inherent
    • modern historical development, to the year 1651, when the ingenious Cromwell with his Navigation
    • how, based an a political-military standpoint, Napoleon, with his 'Continental System',
    • politically, purely politically and without any economic impulse — in fact, against all
    • conceived contrary to the course of human evolution. And thus it could be shown, with regard to
    • way; the individuality of the East in an antiquated way, in accordance with the ancient
    • repeated lives on earth. In reality these are human bodies with a physical, etheric and astral
    • the physical world. For one who can observe life with a certain accuracy, people of this kind
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  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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    • central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
    • of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
    • experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
    • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
    • the human 'I' and astral body — and then asserting themselves, without the people realizing
    • Greece there mingled in with it what then became Aristotelianism, what was already intellectual,
    • civilization, and, with the exception of what stems from natural science and what can stem from
    • take the trouble to confront and come to terms with the external physical world of the
    • chaotically with one another. It can truly be said that the Roman Empire and particularly the
    • Here, to begin with, we have the Western branch. I
    • Western regions to begin with, is that Roman culture spreads as a sum-total of people towards
    • [of the human being being penetrated from without by everything that arises from language]
    • human beings who have permeated themselves to a lesser degree with the Roman element than have
    • ignores the spirit and that which lives into the soul from the spirit. Anyone who looks without
    • lived on as Puritanism and the like but which had no connection with the real world culture. We
    • the other hand, moves more towards the centre of Europe. But it unites there with what lies there
    • with the essential Germanic element; namely, a certain wish to be one with the language. But it
    • is possible to maintain this wish to be one with the language only as long as the people who live
    • immersed in the Latin element. This 'being one with the language' only remained in the centre of
    • long as it is bound together with the human being. This is connected with the whole nature of the
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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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    • central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
    • of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
    • experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
    • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
    • instincts to such a degree that he can give himself up to them without their dragging him down,
    • without their enslaving him, and in which, on the other hand, logical necessity is taken up into
    • is filled with underlinings and marginal comments knows how Goethe had really studied
    • other the senses with their sensual needs, as Schiller said, and the third, the middle condition
    • (the Copper King) and in which the Mixed King falls to pieces. Goethe wanted to deal with this in
    • which, in essence, deals with the same theme but in the way required by the beginning of the
    • human being far too simplistically. You picture three forces. This is not how it is with the
    • permeated here with feeling and soul, is permeated by the whole human being. Now there is a
    • taken by Schiller using logic or intellectual analysis without becoming philistine and abstract.
    • with dry concepts; it
    • D or X deals with the subject because what is presented does not arise from the whole human
    • in objectifying what he felt inwardly. But he drew a halt and paused with his forms of reasoning
    • higher level of the Personality — which I will colour with red (see diagram) — was
    • Thus one can say: Schiller held back with his
    • Goethe had to do battle with the other spirits, with
    • remain within firm contours. He did not go off into wild fantasy or ecstasies. He gave himself a
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  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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    • central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
    • of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
    • experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
    • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
    • amount of preparation, and today, to begin with, I shall try to characterize again from a certain
    • attention to the challenges that are placed before us with regard to the evolution of humanity
    • good deal since then; but it is impossible, when one looks completely without prejudice at the
    • development of humanity, to compare the longing for knowledge which holds sway today with the
    • there as a longing for knowledge has become less and less comparable with what has been emerging
    • the first half of the nineteenth century, we are presented with ingenious elaborations of the
    • concerned with daily life. Although in olden times these faculties arose from the soul in a
    • that it is impossible to grasp and know anything at all with the pure intellect. The intellect is
    • knowledge again only when they concern themselves with what lies at the basis of
    • in Imaginations, will inspire him, with whom he will become united intuitively and whom he will
    • This is all connected with the fact that, in those
    • took its course there and was shone through with wisdom — everything, fundamentally,
    • way that he could be brought to this place was replaced with another in a dialectical-legal
    • economic element, which from the West has conquered the world with the aid of technology, is
    • money to pay the troops. The Romans paid their troops with money. In the Middle Ages feudalism
    • developed, and with it a particular type of professional soldiery. All this came about because,
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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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    • central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
    • of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
    • experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
    • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
    • the form of speaking about the Mystery of Golgotha in the way that was possible with these
    • vision, there took shape the pure dialectical theology which went hand in hand with the
    • brought with it.
    • one individual these came less; in another, more. With the blood, so to say, echoes from the
    • bear witness to the will of the spiritual world with regard to the physical world. It was human
    • the kings and other princes — were ascribed with a certain authority on earth, and ascribed
    • however, one only had images. A symbol of this kind is the mass with the sacred Last Supper and
    • the original understanding of Christ. The first understanding occurred in Gnosis with the remains
    • about, with its culmination in the nineteenth century, in which the Christ-impulse as something
    • irreconcilable with a common knowledge of the Gospels. For the Gospel in its true form actually
    • Gospels to the great mass of the faithful, the faithful would straightaway be confronted with
    • contradictory accounts which, with the dawning intellectuality, they could only grasp as
    • something to be understood as one understands things of the physical plane. After all, with an
    • ways. For an event that has to be understood by higher forces one is concerned with how it looks
    • can take place within them but the pictures that are formed can differ in the most manifold ways.
    • wanted to describe Jesus the man and believed that with that they could still remain within
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  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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    • central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
    • of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
    • experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
    • is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
    • European development, of modern civilisation generally, will inevitably be bound up with the
    • that, for many who would rather go through the coming times in a comfortable sleep, with a
    • And this experience will have a clearly definable connection with the modern outlook on life
    • from this clinging by force of habit to what has been inculcated when one observes with a wakeful
    • soul the outlook on life of today's younger generation, and compares this with the outlook of
    • encapsulate themselves in their habitual ideas so that nothing can penetrate which conflicts with
    • science. And this is connected with the fact that popular science has totally captivated the
    • with furious speed and we shall see how, out of the chaos of modern civilization, this
    • When someone acquainted with the modern scientific
    • outlook on the world, observes it with awakened eyes of the soul, he cannot fail to realize that
    • But there is, as yet, no unified feeling for it. Such a feeling will arise with vigour from
    • as, I should say, a fundamental social demand. Side by side with the inability of the science of
    • existence through conception and birth, in a spiritual world. He knew that he brought with him
    • disposition, as aspiration, and remained with him through the whole of his life on earth. In
    • Point of becoming unbearable, for it is connected with another feeling, a certain feeling of the
    • instead, to bring it about that the social structure corresponds only with what men are as
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    • This lecture series is presented here with the kind permission of the
    • with the other lectures (Dornach 23, 24, 29 May 1915) which I gave here, a
    • reality in the same sense when they look upon the gradual withering and
    • etheric bodies, the merging of the physical and etheric bodies with the
    • connected intimately with everything which can be learned with regard to
    • with our souls into quite specific conditions. We are born into a
    • birth and death is, in reality, filled with everything into which we are
    • what went before. I would say, you are brought together with what went
    • before, with people. These people are children of other people, who are in
    • certain current which goes beyond our birth. This current hp brought with
    • feelings and ideas. The children in turn did the same with their own
    • trace in the descendants anything identical with or even similar to the
    • process is connected with the successive return of our incarnation on
    • connected with the conditions and things on the Earth. He also
    • in order to make amends, in order now really to live with the conditions
    • with which he must live in order to learn to understand their gradual
    • destruction. Someone who has not lived with earthly conditions does not
    • period have the tendency above all, if nothing interferes with this, to
    • particular. Let us suppose that we become familiar with a movement such as
    • harmony with what surrounds it, when it is completely alien to its
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    • This translation is presented here with the kind permission of the
    • with all the questions and problems in your hearts that assail young
    • divine forces concerned with the destiny of the earth. Then we will
    • with supernatural strength. Now we have matured into a new era;
    • certain spiritual beings have withdrawn, while others, whose central
    • it is clearly present within them. What they feel clearly and very
    • for nature, we should develop the most elementary forces within
    • Its result was the loneliness that young people feel today within
    • century find this sort of thing, if they are honest with themselves,
    • falsify the issue by spelling it out with ordinary narrow-minded
    • describe — please don't misunderstand the phrase — as filled with
    • with each other are downright unimportant; the essential thing is
    • others; it is also necessary that the individual leaders within the
    • be able to accomplish very much with our Youth Section.
    • efforts, without a lot of blather.
    • can cover up this inscription with negation, argumentative remarks
    • movement must be able to find its way to unite with what I have
    • with Michael what he once had under his dominion. Young people will
    • spirit is alive and real; we must learn how to deal with it. We have
    • is truly young, if today's youth, with understanding, can lay hold of
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  • Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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    • This lecture series is presented here with the kind permission of the
    • — (or the dreamer in man) become, with aid of the Angeloi,
    • path of Man within the Cosmos?
    • can say: we carry with us the Earth man, but the Earth man surrounds
    • Sin man in turn encloses the Saturn man; so we carry within us, in
    • do we live in a time which, compared with the Saturn, Sun and Moon
    • previously we have to do with evolutions or developments that
    • deciding point came with the fourth post-Atlantean cultural period in
    • old clairvoyance inherited from the Moon with the real, outer,
    • — and that, this materialism we endeavour to impregnate with the
    • usually perceive these dreams within our subconsciousness, we fail to
    • take notice of them. As we go through the world with our waking
    • the minerals. This Saturn man, in his turn, with his deep-sleep
    • within a Being, but resound out into the universe as the music of the
    • intuitions are preserved within the Spirits of Personality. But when
    • the Saturn man, but as this Saturn man is in close connection with the
    • within us is transformed to this Jupiter, because this Saturn man in his
    • earthly man can never again experience with his physical body: it is
    • With all that we absorb
    • direction of a mineral Jupiter. And without Spiritual Science this
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  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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    • become the living thing it must be, in accordance with the general
    • connected with the evolution of the earth and mankind is the
    • Christ-riddle, the riddle of Christ-Jesus. And with regard to this,
    • that the Mystery of Golgotha, in so far as it was accomplished within
    • been enacted without any of the men on earth having understood or
    • in his soul, and that which has happened objectively within the human
    • What has actually come about with the Mystery of Golgotha, what has
    • understanding and which then gradually dried up and withered into
    • begins approximately with the Mystery of Golgotha, with the reign of
    • multiplicity by withdrawing, as it were, into external
    • how something withered comes to expression in the far-spread Roman
    • how Roman thought is at great pains to seize with its ideas what lay
    • Augustine first accepts all the elements of the old withered
    • form of the old Roman language with its marvellously structured
    • logic, but with its almost entirely lost life-element. This Latin
    • speech was preserved with its fixed and rigid logic, but with its
    • of Golgotha with dead concepts.
    • through all aeons of earthly evolution with regard to certain
    • struggling with life, we see how desperately it strives to
    • must be something of a soul-nature that the Gods have laid within
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  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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    • with this wisdom. It is an example of the cooperation
    • life-without-knowledge, which unites itself like a young shoot in
    • humanity's evolution with the knowledge-principle, brought down from
    • antiquity and becoming dry and withered.
    • it in direct connection with a consideration of the nature of man. We
    • — the union of the physical man with the etheric
    • man, and of the ego with the astral man.
    • it can happen that, without any special development having been
    • waking up to going to sleep. One was with one's whole being
    • But all the same, and even without any
    • weaving in such an element as he cannot fully take with him into the
    • things with our intellect and reason in order to get certain
    • circumstances, where Lucifer works within our existence.
    • perhaps see more exactly what we are concerned with. I might describe
    • remains in bed I will indicate with this (ochre yellow).
    • body. You must not be horrified that it is Lucifer who weaves with us
    • with what is Luciferic or Ahrimanic. It is a matter of appreciating
    • bargain and settle their pact with one another, something comes to
    • knowledge that our intellect combines, putting one thing with another
    • We traverse Ahriman's realm with our
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  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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    • to meet with full understanding when one speaks out of the sources of
    • how intimately connected is the thought-content with what we are as
    • Seen with the eyes of spiritual science
    • every thought appears like a head with a sort of continuation
    • downwards, so that with every thought we actually insert in us
    • him, and that breathing has something to do with his re-building and
    • forces within us we can hardly reach a right understanding, based on
    • for meditation; for meditation should be a familiarising oneself with
    • such expressions as: A becoming one, in meditation, with Brahma, with
    • separation had not taken place. But on the other hand, with every
    • uniting again with the Sun. Thus the Moon broke away, and at the
    • later reunion with the Sun they refused to take this step, and be
    • reunited with the Sun.
    • at that time, were not willing to reunite with the Sun in the last
    • the inner life element that is connected with the Sun, they want to
    • connected with inner fashioning, but feels instead that thinking is
    • only connected with the external, precisely with that which is
    • formative living element with it, but can only grasp the external.
    • humanity to make acquaintance with these spirits, who falsify
    • human being, for what unites him inwardly with the living
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  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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    • connected with the forming of our ideas and concepts, is in a certain
    • then entirely and solely within himself, that he is concerned only
    • with himself, and that what takes place in the impulses of feeling
    • and will has nothing to do with anything in the outside world, in the
    • connected only with this inner nature.
    • step of separation, but remained, as it were, with the progressing
    • confined to us ourselves, to live only within us as our impulses of
    • with our intellectual life (Diagram 1 yellow) which turns to the
    • fact that here within, it is raying out and continually calling forth
    • here in the interior (violet), they radiate only within us and we are
    • within us. It is a connecting link (light red) but in ordinary life
    • his senses, and then combining the observation with his intellect and
    • our thinking, our intellect and conceptual life, is connected with
    • is connected with the fact that certain Luciferic beings of the
    • time they did not want to take the step of the union of the moon with
    • conceiving and thinking in the right way with human nature. This they
    • formerly; they now wish to bind the intellect with the human being;
    • thinking wished to unite with our inner being, wanted to belong to
    • receive them within us.’ But that is sheer Luciferic
    • would light up something like a connection with a star apparently
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  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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    • speak of in connection with our present subject.
    • downwards; that causes alterations in the roots. With the further
    • That is, that the sun comes with its warmth and light and brings
    • himself genuinely with his whole heart and soul into this
    • able or not able to prove something with the instruments of the world
    • This we are not concerned with, whether or not a man can prove
    • something with the means offered by the world in which he dwells.
    • what one finds with the majority of the philosophies of today and the
    • are only constructed with the means of the worlds in which man
    • human being lives with his senses to the world under the earth. Show
    • with what was brought to completion in those worlds as ... well, let
    • us say, as the forms of the letters of the alphabet have to do with
    • Space only has meaning for that which evolves within the span of
    • within, runs its course in time — we are thereby
    • Sun, etc. With the forming of time and the forming of space, the
    • that we have to do with the separation of the Sun on the one hand,
    • that we have to do with separations so that our Earth could come into
    • Sun and Moon were united with the earth and that then they separated,
    • our own person unites itself with something which is outside the
    • Sun and Moon were united as Sun with what were processes of Earth;
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  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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    • revealed with particular clearness, when we regard the whole course
    • with what we can call physical operations. On Old Saturn the first
    • nevertheless that all has to do with the
    • not concerned with them. If we had our eyes open during sleep, it is
    • must be drawn in this way, with something left outside the
    • this with physical cognition: the eye can be looked on as a camera
    • photographic apparatus, and what is created within is then seized
    • physical reciprocal action with the outer world which takes place in
    • our periphery. And it is on this reciprocal action with the outer
    • would have stood with man if he had developed purely in the way the
    • these physical processes with his astral body and ego. He would
    • perceived what was within him, he would have the feeling: in me is a
    • zone which is entirely interpenetrated with activities of the
    • activity meets with the divine-spiritual activity which also moves
    • meets with and interlaces himself with the normal divine-spiritual
    • without inwards.
    • One must be clear that with regard to
    • societies will most certainly not cease without further ado! But how
    • So we have furnished ourselves with a
    • into his soul, is connected with the separation of the Old Moon from
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    • This translation is presented here with the kind permission of the
    • later on when, with increasing consciousness, men began to work
    • were attributed to the Angel working within the human being. An
    • once again, was drawn forth as it were with effort from the
    • and without him was not anything made that was made.’
    • Logos — rightly identified with the Christ in the sense
    • as the primal ancestor he then worked with divine power upon
    • kingdom within it, the forces of the Earth are working
    • human blood there work not only the forces introduced with the
    • of a wire with the telegraphic apparatus in station B, this is
    • of the Godhead with the very body of the Earth. They felt the
    • another conception too was associated with this picture of the
    • short, the Earth is not working alone, but together with the
    • Moon. And with this mingling of Earth and Moon forces there was
    • engaged in perpetual warfare with the powers who oppose him,
    • centuries of Christendom were imbued with the idea that the
    • combined with the kingdom of Nature. It was from this
    • of the Earth we perceive with our senses, the things that are
    • through the body. And they associated with this the
    • them. Think of the bread — the substance wherewith
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    • Presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner
    • of the soul, create an impression of dissatisfaction with life. Such
    • in order to realize thereby that we endow them with their true value by
    • of Nature. With genuine Natural Science this ideal is justifiable. It may
    • be to our inner life, with its thirst for knowledge. True to its ideal,
    • never grapple with the phenomenon haunting space in the guise of matter. To
    • coincide with knowledge of Nature. This insight can prove a turning point
    • Science, however perfect its future development, can supply us with the
    • advanced in the experiences that are possible within the scope of Natural
    • belief that actual reality, or something in the nature of unity with the
    • helpless in the face of reality. With however powerful a grip we may be
    • experiences, on the one hand with Natural Science and on the other with
    • reality by filling the gap with cognitional experiences which are not yet
    • forthcoming in ordinary consciousness, but must be developed. With true
    • can be the case with Mysticism.
    • With due experience of Natural Science and the Mysticism confined to
    • is nothing but logical judgment and inference within the confines of
    • and Mysticism only a deepened inner life which, however, remains within the
    • Science with its wonderful achievements and great expansion, and to certain
    • Anthroposophy. (I have dealt at greater length with this tendency of all
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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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    • today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
    • the proceedings and debates taking place within the body of teachers. The
    • meaning of such a statement is not particularly clear to begin with;
    • with I say the following.
    • reason that our textbooks are written with this in mind (and it would occur
    • to nobody to alter, re-think or do away with textbooks.) It is a fact, for
    • to train children to deal with objects, say plants or animals, in such a
    • life unfolds within a true art of education. Because of his talent! Which
    • been deemed that the teacher as such has something in common with the
    • this is the peculiar state of affairs: to begin with, out of the Western
    • culture comes a pedagogy with a scientific, even a natural-scientific
    • foundations of spiritual science. With regard to all those things which
    • have been looked upon with such pride over the last 40 years in Germany, on
    • With
    • understanding it. We must know how to guard it, with a certain confidence,
    • leading philosopher of the present time, in complete contradiction with
    • education should have its foundation in genuine empathy with the child's
    • ourselves with this unfolding being of the child, then out of this
    • teaching to begin with, let us say, the six or seven year old children in a
    • fulfilled its purpose, if after working for a year with this first class we
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    • today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
    • emerges in a broader way, not perceptible in a single organ only, as with
    • instruction with which we have to do preferably in elementary education.
    • activity, notwithstanding the fact that it proceeds from the physical body.
    • forces, working earlier within the organism, are from his seventh year
    • forces had taken their course unconsciously within the body. If later on
    • proper architect, one who works with forms), the reason is that such a man
    • are not sustained, if with the change of teeth everything translates into
    • is the medium — and I am in fact working with forces
    • wonder-worker in teaching. If I have the feeling that I am in contact with
    • reverence is something that works on the child with enormous formative
    • from within, these forces come now from outside and proceed from there down
    • linear, of the sculptural, this comes from within, proceeding from the
    • element of music and language, developing gradually from within outward.
    • of this is caused by an element from within, bearing more the character of
    • will, that is living itself out in battle with a willed element from
    • element from outside battles with a willed element from within, and this
    • matters witness that in the life of the soul we have to do with something
    • related to the body in accordance with the nonsensical theories thought out
    • by the psychosomatic parallelists. We are concerned with an influence of
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  • Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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    • today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
    • essential, in life, that man's connections with his environment are
    • see. Other sense qualities are intermingled with what we hear on the one
    • process of movement the moment it happens; they have nothing to do with
    • a break, as it were, at the centre, and has to jump across, without however
    • perception as such. This perception as such actually takes place within the
    • The belief is that understanding has something to do with man's nervous
    • the rhythmic system is connected with understanding, understanding becomes
    • intimately connected with man's feeling. And whoever looks at himself very
    • agree with it. For it is our rhythmic system that supplies the meeting
    • memory can retain it. Thus with each process of this kind we have to
    • memory to retain it. And this third element is connected with the metabolic
    • organism are connected with memory, and we should pay attention to these,
    • different kind of memory pale children have compared with children who have
    • nice rosy cheeks, or how different with regard to memory the various human
    • sufficiently exerted. The will, as you know, is connected with the
    • him well — because inner assimilation is connected with
    • everything to do with what we hear, living more in language and so on. I am
    • with all the nerves that present-day physiology calls motor nerves, but
    • to seize hold of the nerves deep within our organism those nerves in which
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  • Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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    • today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
    • body, organised the body, emancipates itself from the body with the change
    • understanding from a different point of view and it was said: with the
    • spiritual science nothing can be characterised without approaching a fact
    • that is to hear the various explanations in harmony with one
    • time with the whole organism. From another point of view we can therefore
    • say with regard to the child: in puberty the birth of the astral body takes
    • itself with that which is being liberated, so that from birth to puberty,
    • that is up to the age of about fourteen or more, we are concerned with a
    • organism, if the ego unites with them too intensively, man becomes too much
    • an exclusively corporeal being; he will then think only with his brain,
    • bodily organisation. And if there is such a man born with the earlobe of a
    • true artistic treatment in education we can avoid that even in a man with
    • into the opposite. With regard to a child it is therefore the intimate
    • see to it that the ego unites with the organism in a right way, then it can
    • children who are inclined to theosophy bring with them at birth
    • work in one direction or another, when we acquaint ourselves with the means
    • something which is more concerned with the meaning and the content of what
    • is said. I will work with the child in such a way that I call upon him for
    • all this must be integrated within the curriculum. One must start at the
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  • Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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    • today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education.
    • with ordinary everyday life.
    • connection with knowledge of supersensible worlds or whether these
    • I have often mentioned, is connected with the development of forces that
    • organs, but fill our whole physical body. There is work in progress within
    • to an end with the pushing through of our permanent teeth.
    • within the being of man; they go to sleep within him. And they can be drawn
    • intuitive knowledge are the same forces that you grow with at the time of
    • forces that are active within the human body until the seventh year are the
    • forces as those we grow with from our birth to the age of twenty-one. So
    • growth and that go to sleep within his body when the corresponding phases
    • within us when, as we say, we remember something we have experienced. But,
    • through the fact that the force we use in our souls to remember with is the
    • the spirit within it.
    • supersensible and which are subsensible? All the forces connected with
    • that are connected with these forces of the planets, these forces of the
    • forces of our own planet earth live within us. The moment we enter birth
    • the forces of planet earth are active within us.
    • till the age of seven, for these are the forces from within the earth. To
    • spaces are filled with our own actual planetary system, up till the
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  • Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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    • at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
    • Gospels with special emphasis on the Gospel of Matthew. The topics
    • touched upon within the German Section until then. Of course, the Christ
    • connection with the Gospel of John. By connecting to the Gospel of Luke, as
    • called the prehistory of Christ. Here one has to do with very complicated
    • exactly only in connection with a gospel, which covers the history of Jesus
    • world building cannot be drawn with a few strokes or grasped with a few
    • without connection to a particular document. Only afterwards it is shown
    • Gospels, which can be understood correctly only with the help of the facts
    • but we were endowed with quite different abilities than we have today; old
    • what it had previously been instilled with. It was the same for compassion
    • which assumes an individuality without containing the physical body, is
    • origin of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke and compares it with the one
    • Joseph and Mary, were also given a child in Palestine, with the same name
    • parents with the same name. The one Jesus is the Bethlehemite. He lived
    • with his parents in Bethlehem; the other had his parents living in
    • also died soon after, and the mother moved with her children to Nazareth to
    • Nirmanakaya worked with the ‘I’ of
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    • at Berlin in October of 1909. They deal with the occult knowledge of the two
    • Gospels with special emphasis on the Gospel of Matthew. The topics
    • what we are looking for within the spiritual-scientific research should not
    • down, but as something that can be researched with the means of spiritual
    • of exploring how the event of Palestine presents itself, without drawing on
    • any document. Without taking into account any document, he starts his
    • We have chosen the way with the Gospel of Luke
    • with the personality of Jesus of Nazareth at the time when he was thirty
    • dealing here with the last three years of the life of the Christ
    • us to become acquainted with those significant events which made it
    • time as a human personality, born as a child with very special inner
    • qualities, but at first not with those qualities which would have led man
    • physical body on earth. What we see as a physical body with an
    • conditions, to everything that brings man into harmony with world
    • from within themselves the teaching of compassion and love, the teaching of
    • Just with this, the possibility was given that
    • within a people that had gone through a different development than the one
    • could find it within their own souls. Moses brought a law in a completely
    • commandments of Yahweh had worked within this people. If this people had
    • until the tenth year. Then this child comes with quite different powers.
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    • true form with active comprehension. On this point one has only to avoid
    • leading classes and social ranks have allied themselves with certain
    • the large number of slaves who not only partially, with regard to their
    • capacity for work, but with respect to their entire humanity, were viewed
    • imbued with the higher elements of spiritual life, but this spiritual
    • of how Christianity endeavored for centuries to imbue humanity with a
    • times that essentially replaced the old pictorial element with what is
    • standpoint with regard to even the most mature way of thinking. The
    • extraordinarily little as compared with the connection the human being
    • to have nothing to do with understanding the social question, it
    • intimately connected with understanding the social question. This will
    • or less familiar with the “Group Statue”
    • corresponds only to the human countenance with its features. The human
    • countenance with its features is an expression of the soul-life. With
    • with our eyes. It is actually rather difficult to point to what the dead
    • Well, the dead see nothing at all of human beings, with the exception of
    • reality, a work of art should have nothing in common with such a mere
    • “Is that in accordance with nature, is there something
    • In this respect, we cannot keep up with nature, after all. Whatever is
    • true, living, feeling-connection with the spiritual world.
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    • This lecture is presented here with the kind permission of
    • organism. One has this feeling quite especially with
    • preceding age leaves us with the impression that it already
    • him joins with his own creative activity to form an organic
    • then one may ask: How does it stand with this overall
    • attention is necessarily drawn to an important age with which
    • Raphael is intimately connected, the age that coincides with
    • certain respect with the founding of Christianity, presents a
    • the soul and spirit were much more intimately connected with
    • the human soul, the withdrawal of the human soul in turning to
    • objects with his senses, sensing at the same time, in having
    • organs. A withdrawal from sense impressions, in giving oneself
    • came Greek civilization with its own characteristic world of
    • inwardly is still seen in connection with what goes on
    • no longer given in such an immediate fashion together with
    • connection with them. In the time preceding Greece, the human
    • creations of the Greeks appear as fully permeated with
    • along with sense impressions. These are times in which the
    • human soul had to withdraw into itself and experience its own
    • forth in his writings, with what has come down to us from the
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    • We can say that he [Leonardo] bore within him the whole spirit of
    • his age, and yet he was often misunderstood or out of sync with his time,
    • We can say that he [Leonardo] bore within him the whole
    • or out of sync with his time, precisely because he
    • see these twelve apostles with profoundly expressive movements
    • and gestures. With each of the twelve figures their gestures
    • of the twelve — so intimately associated with the
    • With dramatic power, in his “Last Supper” Leonardo
    • not exactly conduct themselves with special piety in regard to
    • can acquaint ourselves with other works of Leonardo, by means
    • of the Dominicans in Milan with quite particular feelings. For,
    • conjured onto the wall. One stands with a certain wistful
    • points out with reference to earlier biographies that one has
    • the impression, in Leonardo a personality appeared working with
    • fresh life forces, viewing life with joyful expectation and
    • enthusiasm, with an enormous urge for knowledge — fresh
    • Leonardo, the countenance with expressive furrows —
    • expressive of pain and suffering, with the embittered mouth and
    • Maria delle Grazie we may attempt as it were with the
    • comparing it with the oldest engravings, the oldest
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    • together, their composition, is commensurate with the
    • with one's power of judgment in what wells up so pristinely
    • Even so, with the methods of spiritual science it proves
    • otherwise. This applies even with regard to the most compelling
    • connection with powers the poet tells us derive from the
    • since for the most part we penetrate only with difficulty
    • us in the tragedy with their particular sets of
    • approaching fairy tales with sympathetic understanding,
    • rooted in the soul that we identify with it no matter whether
    • little to do with each other in the first instance, and
    • radiates and pours forth out of itself joins forces with the
    • with one's whole being, this remains profoundly concealed
    • processes, it must be said, are connected with one's own being.
    • into the unfathomable spiritual connections within which the
    • without ordinary consciousness knowing anything of it,
    • spiritual path, with the stupendous forces of natural
    • Though arising with stupendous force, even such rare
    • a trifling matter as compared with the inner battle
    • itself existentially, the soul has now to unite itself with the
    • fulfils itself with every awakening. There is at the same
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    • Mongolian sagas and stories live on. Even without as yet
    • herself that it is not her lost child. She does the same with
    • all certainly know that with a child after birth the bones up
    • primeval times, with which human beings were able to look out
    • freely and unhindered into what we call the astral world. With
    • bear this ancient organ, with which they were able to
    • today within the soul. It is the yearning for these worlds, the
    • spiritual regions surrounding them, with their eyes they now
    • see physical forms around them with defined contours.
    • Mongolian fairy tale of the woman with the single eye - will
    • looking at physical objects in our surrounding world, as with
    • which they can clasp with affection.
    • this with patience, then the power of the eye situated on the
    • wither away. Human beings are called upon, however, to permeate
    • everything on their planet with love, to take the planet with
    • take place without the redemption of what is outside us. Human
    • beings have to redeem the planet along with themselves.
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    • personality. To anyone having occupied himself with
    • connected in a quite special sense with everything associated
    • with the name of Goethe. Herman Grimm was related to her in
    • had brought out Goethe's remarkable exchange of letters with a
    • [Goethe's Exchange of Letters with a Child],
    • By virtue of the connection with this circle — as mentioned,
    • With inner participation, Herman Grimm experienced the
    • his own “kingdom” within this German cultural
    • Within this domain in which Herman Grimm felt himself at home,
    • “governor” with respect to Goethe. Goethe's spirit
    • derived from Goethe and what was compatible with him in
    • in which everything to do with Goethe receded, following his
    • account of his connection with Goethe, Herman Grimm regarded
    • recall being together with Herman Grimm in Weimar, which he
    • that he wanted to have this conversation with me — about
    • with Herman Grimm's whole manner of conducting himself, so
    • writings, with their harmonious and so succinctly constructed
    • sentences without feeling: all this affects one as though the
    • author's personality stood behind it, regarding one with
    • becomes apparent that with him the Goethean element has
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    • much as possible with them. Therefore I will structure this lecture
    • account, or at least not enough, is that we live within the
    • without reaching back to even earlier oriental conditions. Even in
    • imperialism without knowing the conscious relationship between people
    • envoy, or inspired by the god, interpenetrated with divinity.
    • they did with the power of higher beings.
    • as interpenetrated with divinity, as representatives. That is very
    • earthly churchly hierarchy is mirrored what God is with his
    • With the advancement of
    • Therewith royal dignity became a symbol, so that what existed here on
    • the way to find god within, whereas earlier god was a reality in the
    • imperialistic, without having a king. It has to do with the mood of
    • symbol. God acted within men. Third form of imperialism: Just as the
    • facts, without being emotionally tinged. Since the seventeenth
    • identified with the true reality. Now the state can spread its wings,
    • physical reality. The human being must move around here within the
    • empty vessel with spirit, about which can be said: “This
    • we do with what has come about. That is the situation.
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    • dealing with an economic life which only becomes
    • otherwise with platitudes, as I also explained yesterday. At that
    • Human evolution can not advance further without this moment of truth.
    • dawn on them with the necessary intensity. For them other conditions
    • It was also the case with social
    • people of Central Europe were left with a striving in all directions,
    • 1870/71 with its inner contradictions. A German “empire”
    • people had a talent for mere names without meaning; that on one hand
    • without was only an illusion. What was the reality? You see, with
    • illustrating historical phenomena with abstract concepts, but of
    • substantial content of what actually exists within these lodges, for
    • kept as tradition without any attempt to reach back to their original
    • lodges, are confronted with the ceremonies, which are mannered as I
    • beliefs are not touched. Also no attention is to be paid within the
    • them. But that has nothing to do with the principle. Those who are
    • within are totally united under the slogan: We are all brothers.
    • have nothing to do with the external social position of the members.
    • The members are really united in a way which has nothing to do with
    • indifference, it becomes a community with particularly strong
    • the age of platitudes. For side by side with the public platitudes
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  • Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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    • aggressive character. It is so with all empires, except the original
    • are wrong, because basically within the world of platitudes
    • retained within the next stages. Therefore the inner impulse to
    • describes this with the following sentences: “The final
    • united with the rest of Germany and the German Empire was founded in
    • man wrote that who a short time later in Versailles united with those
    • burdened with the most ridiculous misunderstandings. For this new
    • of human thinking and feeling will have to take place within the
    • something meant in a spiritual-scientific sense with a mere yes or no
    • culture of secret societies, which are sated with empty symbols. But
    • something, it begins with us, everything waited for us until we
    • all-inclusive entity, but is exclusively concerned with rights alone,
    • of really living within humanity. The inner social order can only be
    • royalty, before he was chased out carried around along with his other
    • real thinking again when the inner soul-life is filled with substance
    • complete person, after having been constipated with platitudes. What
    • loopholes, as was the case with the Waldorf School because the
    • this tendency does not reckon with the fact that with every new
    • should take with them, that now, in this worldwide important historic
    • impulse. The bell tolls with extreme urgency at present — with
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  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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    • scientifically orientated process. It will be conducted with
    • science and of life, and with these introductory words I ask
    • corresponding manner. In any case, with the idea of further
    • instance when you engage scientifically with lifeless,
    • with this causal orientation, which has proved itself so
    • causalities which you would be doing with regard to lifeless,
    • way in which the human being is positioned within the
    • phenomenology, to which Anthroposophy with regard to natural
    • fertile points of view, if one complies with his boundaries.
    • achieved? What I'm referring to can't but be set within the
    • within it. Now obviously mathematics can be introduced into
    • Ernst Mach became involved, considering it with his more
    • Goethe is usually regarded — with a certain right —
    • Goethe couldn't achieve much with mathematical details, that he
    • within the soul process also with the content of imagination
    • of the triangle. When you consider this, you can see that with
    • will find that the outer facts can be verified with one's
    • previous inner scrutiny. That is so with all mathematics.
    • observations of nature. Thus, he began with a few lines —
    • then I can see my ideas with my eyes.’
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  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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    • “Human beings, like the animals, are attributed with an
    • University Institute dependent on him, lived with these
    • discovering the difference within the form, within the human
    • only have to follow the enthusiasm with which Goethe pointed
    • intermaxillary jaw bone in common with the animals, and how out
    • within man, and in such a way reveal the transformed
    • only about the metamorphosed animal organisation within the
    • have to do with the development of the lymph and blood?
    • experience, what takes place in the process and function with
    • our own organisation, we perceive inwardly, while with our eyes
    • to us, through speech. When we follow the words of others with
    • presuppose there is within the human organization a special
    • may also, when we go to work without prejudice, not say: we get
    • corresponds to something special within them which can be
    • of people in this unprejudiced way, then we need to, with the
    • same authorization with which we spoke about the sense of
    • with observation of the inner organization remains the same for
    • with Haeckel.
    • with certain animal, bird types or even mammals, where the
    • predisposition, while with people there is already a
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  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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    • included with, I'd rather not call it science, but scientific
    • aims, and on the other hand with something which points to
    • ourselves with philosophy. This vague experience is extremely
    • without trying to enter into the personal experience which ran
    • involvement they were looking for with philosophy was quite a
    • along with the purely scientifically based world view but could
    • create something within his thoughts, which originate in
    • nuances who agreed with the call “Back to Kant”,
    • basically remained within the epistemological and didn't get to
    • thoughts and imaginative nature from within himself and find a
    • with science and out of this agreement arrives at a conclusion:
    • into clear scientific forms with which to create his world
    • What lay ahead for the West with this? It meant that scientific
    • outer sensory reality into the smallest detail, without
    • to remain within this outer sense-world of facts. There was
    • scientific exploration. So we see with Herbert Spencer, who in
    • other hand with a spiritual content for people who wanted
    • nothing to do with science.
    • Let's go now from Herbert Spencer to what we meet with Hegel.
    • antipathy against this universalist natural scientific way with
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  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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    • with their research results being presented in such a way that
    • every other individual can prove it for themselves, simply with
    • circumstances and start with the children in the
    • other, without looking for any exchange taking place between
    • appears, without the usual kind of warmth coming forth as
    • which happen in the human organisation with the change of teeth
    • to recognise how with the change of teeth an entire change in
    • fullest sense of the word, comes from his surroundings, with
    • his whole being. This alters completely with the development at
    • seventh year of life. With the change of teeth, the child
    • which begins with the change of teeth up to adolescence, is
    • course only approximate numbers — the hidden forces within the
    • withdraw completely out of the bodily, yet it does to a high
    • still in harmony with the bodily-physical.
    • you have to admit nevertheless, with all great educational
    • can almost glow with enthusiasm — as long as these principles
    • with spirituality, living spirituality, which merges with the
    • those parents who withdraw their children from religious
    • sharp contours in its soul. This is false! With anything which
    • and so on. With us in the Waldorf School it involves that out
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  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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    • with that which moves in the entire circumference of the social
    • life within the social organism needs to establish its own
    • independent position, such an independent position within which
    • those who stand within it, formed out of their personal actions
    • stands within the structure of the general social organism. We
    • reality and is being offered with suggestions based on reality,
    • with this clarity achieve relationships.
    • anthroposophical grounds, created with anthroposophical methods
    • directly in life; we have to deal with these problems out of
    • precisely those practicing economists who work routinely within
    • With the first appearance of my
    • paradise. Now it shows in such demands that tampering with only
    • economic relationships, that with such a cure of a symptom the
    • sense with the “Key notes” to understand them
    • Conference”. With this once again our daily situation is
    • into the epoch of the shift. With this shift intellectualism
    • been dealt with — has shown itself as completely incapable of
    • well as social relationships. With this intellectualism, this
    • You can't intertwine the one with the other in this
    • we observe and experiment with our entire scientific way of
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  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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    • dealing with today could be understood as an “unequivocal
    • apart within the work, with today's theology. This has happened
    • confronted on the one hand with the fact of fully recognising
    • natural world I'm as much in agreement with Haeckel as at that
    • time. It deals more with the experience of natural scientific
    • observe the human mind as a seedling which can grow within.
    • without further ado — is clothed inadequately in words
    • we have with words, of already being more or less orientated to
    • a result, we always struggle with words if we need to dress in
    • this, that some or other suggestive means is applied, with one
    • person it is a conscious and with another it is an unconscious
    • Movement. It is true that whoever thinks it over with a healthy
    • Movement — with more or less naive minds with strong soul
    • could be found in a conscientious way within anthroposophic
    • never came into conflict with religious needs of people who
    • themselves in our midst whether in connection with religious
    • With Catholics I must say: Obviously it is possible for a good
    • is spoken about without entering into any kind of polemic.
    • happen this way in life. Still, within the Anthroposophical
    • intimate relationship with the congregation. One can have
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  • Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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    • However, this is then a discussion which happens purely within
    • like harmonics, move with it in an unconscious or subconscious
    • within the current speech habits of people, acquire a certain
    • Rittelmeyer responded so clearly with a comparison between the
    • nationalities, the latter with their frame of mind being that
    • what is directed from within, like how thoughts are being
    • characterised. However, with this I want to bring into
    • relation to this, it looks quite different compared with souls
    • differently in speech by central Europeans compared with the
    • should be clear about one thing. With nature observation the
    • with language was quite varied. It was quite different for
    • because the experience within the words and the experience
    • within thoughts, within mental images, flow together,
    • inwardly with what at the time of Sanskrit's origin was living
    • in the words. We may not at any stage confront Sanskrit with
    • its language, as we would do with a language today.
    • anger, zeal and so on. Basically, with such a translation one
    • nearly. Within the epoch when Sanskrit lived at the height of
    • its vitality, with a different soul constitution as it has
    • conscious dream — with its inward living within the
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  • Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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    • With this lesson, I would like to restore to the Free School
    • importance of this moment by indicating the seriousness with
    • Therefore, I wish to begin the School today, with those members
    • fact that every word spoken within this School is based on the
    • received with all earnestness. For this — I must say it
    • accompany us on the difficult path strewn with obstacles and
    • engraving. That we really identify with what emerges from the
    • understanding. We shall begin with the words:
    • And you turn with angst of soul
    • And you turn with angst of soul
    • lives in leaf and blossom flows to our eyes with color on color
    • this it is necessary that we prepare ourselves, without levity,
    • though he were a mere parable of man. He warns that without the
    • then, when we hear that voice and have grasped it with due
    • Yellow with gray spots is its body;
    • the third beast, with cloven muzzle,
    • Begat this ghost within your thinking;
    • Yellow with gray spots is its body;
    • the third beast, with cloven muzzle,
    • Begat this ghost within your thinking;
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    • with a short recapitulation of the last lesson.
    • with normal consciousness can grasp the sense-world, which is
    • senses, which however he is not able to identify with his own
    • with this sensation, which one can have when one gazes out to
    • the depths of cosmic space with the question of his own being
    • which is one with the inner human being, then the corresponding
    • prepared. They would be receiving it without the preparatory
    • spiritual cosmic knowledge of the being which is one with our
    • Yellow with gray spots is its body;
    • That is the second thing that we have within us - which plants
    • the third beast, with cloven muzzle,
    • Begat this ghost within your thinking;
    • thinking. When we create with ordinary consciousness we create
    • Humor may be called for with respect to some aspects of life.
    • with mere game-playing, it is not sentimentality, false piety
    • someone says: that is not the case with me, it could be quite
    • to think it is not the case with me? In respect to all
    • be possible for the Class to continue without being burdened by
    • from what everyday life shows, patched up as it is with so many
    • beginning of work within the Class. For only with this notion
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    • us begin, my dear friends, with the words the Guardian speaks -
    • world to those who are striving to be initiates and stand with
    • existence with their senses. Rather should one say: When even
    • exactly as you would feel if life were to withdraw the
    • the Threshold's words are heard, as we learned last time - with
    • within each other by the physical body.
    • which have nothing to do with your willing; but these thoughts
    • with your willing; but these feelings contribute to your
    • his feeling does not stay with him. Thinking at least goes out
    • holding you together. One no longer feels within the confines
    • life. And with your volition you feel yourself in your previous
    • prayerfully, with reverence and devotion, to the beings with
    • Yellow with gray spots is its body;
    • the third beast, with cloven muzzle,
    • Begat this ghost within your thinking;
    • on earth to do so, which is conceded to us with the words:
    • With light from the force of the sun
    • grasp this threefold element within us, that we firmly direct
    • our gaze within in order to be alert to what our thinking
    • discouraging, perhaps frightening words, he continues with the
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    • the previous lessons, we were concerned with meeting the
    • with the Guardian of the Threshold is the first thing one
    • experiences when a relationship with the spiritual world truly
    • and earnestly takes place. A relationship with the spiritual
    • world cannot take place without this understanding of the
    • meeting with the Guardian of the Threshold, because the
    • relationship with the spiritual world.
    • relationship with the spiritual world, the relationship where,
    • of the gods with all your thinking, all your feeling, all your
    • willing. You must receive these words with all your soul's
    • receive them with total alertness, to the limit of your mind's
    • time it approaches you it should be relived without the help of
    • is in fact true that whenever we are dealing with esoteric
    • normal consciousness. Let's say you know someone, anyone, with
    • things you experienced with him or her have been retained in
    • with her these things lead you to certain actions in your
    • behavior towards her. You go on in life with such thoughts and
    • with her, this is also recalled. You cannot separate what you
    • feel and will towards this person with what you think about
    • With this kind of attitude it is not possible to understand
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    • that upon entering the spiritual world a growing together with
    • when we look within ourselves, concerning an external nature
    • bridge over this must be built. We must, in a sense, merge with
    • which has nothing to do with morality. We don't ask the
    • consciousness is passive thinking, with which we can indeed
    • with these words, words which must be understood anew in every
    • divine. One would like to say: divinity is hidden within
    • physical body with what is solid, with what is characteristic
    • etheric body with what is characteristic of water. However,
    • this relationship of the human physical body with the earthly,
    • and the relationship of the human etheric body with the liquid
    • with an object that is colder than our body, a cold knitting
    • with an object that is warmer than our body, we don't feel the
    • to normal consciousness. But with this consciousness man feels
    • something that touches him from without, and he also feels that
    • later, then it is again outside, the same air which was within
    • are beings of air, that what we hold within us we let out
    • become one with the whole life and being of the element of air
    • our muscles and bones within us, so we are only conscious of
    • case. We then feel how with every exhalation we fly out on the
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    • his external world, and with normal consciousness he is
    • deep relationship to that world exists within him.
    • or heart within us as having clear boundaries. Only when they
    • around us and at the same time within us, so that we must
    • up to what we have always described with a dry, abstract
    • lives in a completely intimate relationship with the element of
    • element merges in a certain sense with the outer world's watery
    • element. And with this easy transition from our own watery
    • he acts together with the cosmos in dissolving the sugar or the
    • salt within his organism, how certain cosmic forces work into
    • lives closely with these middle elements [Air, Warmth, Light],
    • whereas his consciousness has been withdrawn from his relation
    • relationship with the elements in the correct way. When one
    • relationship to the elements. With normal consciousness: We
    • elements in their relationship with us, then we may not look
    • feel our relationship with the world.
    • becomes aware of his relationship with the earth, then he will
    • when he feels himself as one with the water element on earth he
    • if one becomes aware of his relationship with the air, he feels
    • the mineral element within him. He feels something filling him
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    • gradually absorbed into this School, because with the Christmas
    • content. Within the Anthroposophical Society, Anthroposophy
    • friends, and above all it must be grasped with deep
    • within the Anthroposophical Society. The Anthroposophical
    • What I will now say is within the circle of the School, and
    • what is said within the circle of the School remains within the
    • out of them - I am only reporting - with the exception of the
    • consider their membership in this School with heartfelt
    • been primarily concerned with what can be told about the
    • encounter with the Guardian of the Threshold, the encounter
    • is not possible to claim that the encounter with the Guardian
    • what it means to be outside the physical body with the human I
    • within the physical body, the only things he can perceive in
    • his surroundings are those which he perceives with the
    • surroundings exactly as he perceives the physical world with
    • his senses when within the physical body. He perceives the
    • which can then fly over the abyss with the means indicated in
    • in the physical world; here with me you are as your inner being
    •  The triangle pointing downward combines with the one
    • nothing with the ears, perceive nothing and have darkness
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    • It is to be remembered in all earnestness that with the
    • declare myself willing, together with the Executive Committee
    • with whom the appropriate work to be done can be carried out,
    • Christmas the Anthroposophical Society must occupy itself with
    • position of the Vorstand at Dornach within the Anthroposophical
    • Society is therewith given. And it must be clear that from now
    • on every relationship within the Anthroposophical Society will
    • made with my signature. I'm not going to do that - despite it
    • a concrete beginning is made within our society.
    • based upon an understanding with the Vorstand at the
    • unless an understanding with the Vorstand at the Goetheanum has
    • cannot agree to work together with someone as a member under
    • with whom it wishes to work and with whom not. Therefore, if
    • School's activities. We were able to make a beginning with a
    • spiritual world has been obtained with the means which are
    • has been the case with the Mysteries in all times. Therefore,
    • esoteric activity within the anthroposophical movement.
    • work in the world without a connection to the Vorstand at the
    • Goetheanum, they must either reach an understanding with the
    • with the School must be clearly understood. So the members must
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    • First - without taking notes - let us be reminded of the
    • then when we merge with the path of our earth in the universe,
    • merge with what the planets say to us meaningfully from space
    • approaching them with all the characteristics of the sensory
    • perceived with what is spiritual in man. But spiritual is what
    • With common sense we can understand all of anthroposophy, but
    • aware of the connection of humanity with the world than you are
    • because everything continues to vibrate within him; and in the
    • same way in which it vibrates within him, it seeks to emerge by
    • from doing with its senses what we as adults do with them. The
    • which lives in everything air-forming within us. For only
    • what lives in us as warmth can be reached with thoughts. And
    • dear sisters and brothers, you cannot reach with thought, but
    • only with the sense of touch, how earth forces act on you and
    • support you. You cannot reach with thought, but only with inner
    • You cannot reach with thought, but only with inner feeling, how
    • cannot directly reach them with thought. But what man can reach
    • physician comes with a thermometer; he measures warmth from
    • without. Just as warmth can differ on different places of the
    • One can reach his own warmth organism with thought.
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    • organization, in not a facilitator; that is, to live with the
    • our senses and reason only in connection with the
    • starts with this understanding through healthy common sense and
    • together with the indications as to how they relate to the
    • within — if only by means of thinking — and become
    • the planets, behold the stars, fill yourselves with the
    • from life in the darkness by rising with our soul-spiritual
    • star-studded sky with physical eyes, but also in
    • dream-consciousness or sleep-consciousness out there with their
    • flocks they turned their souls with closed eyes towards outer
    • instinctive clairvoyance. But we can do something else. With
    • even the materialist talks about here, but without having any
    • in darkness. When you rise up with your sensibility then you
    • we have journeyed out we are together with our etheric being
    • within the imaginative cosmic web. If we can accomplish this,
    • when we encircle it from without. And it is a task of our
    • consciousness to encircle it from without. Then we begin to
    • spiritual way. Then the gods speak with us. When the gods speak
    • with us we are within the spiritual world.
    • really immerse yourself in what the initiate relates with your
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    • themselves to the School with great diligence, Miss Maryon
    • work on her and lived with them in an extraordinarily
    • This was the result of her having been familiar with
    • intensely during the years with us on the physical plane. She
    • hinders achieving everything which is otherwise within one's
    • achieved without these karmic residues takes
    • can accomplish it with sufficient good
    • brothers, if we are permeated with the will to understand
    • stars' rays. From without it looks as though the stars were
    • so what has been received is within our heads. From here is
    • looks quite different than from without, but it is the same,
    • the whole starry sky rolled together, so to speak, within our
    • the blackboard]: What unfolds without as the shining element
    • [yellow arc and rays from the stars]. It is also here within
    • interior of his head [arrow with the word “Ich”,
    • from those beings who are with us humans: the angeloi, and in
    • Speaks with head-held-high
    • Speaks with head-held-high
    • Speaks with head-held-high
    • That is the first dialog with the cosmos and with the
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    • spiritual world in the right way, and then to stand within the
    • wants something different than really standing within the
    • attention to how the spirit acts and weaves within psychic
    • are familiar with. For your meditation select any mantra and
    • try to sense how the reciting reacts within you. Try to come to
    • way. It is better to stand within the tumult of life, exposed
    • but at the same time within it, purely by means of your inner
    • force. That is best. To withdraw in solitude in order to have
    • Today's mantras will be given with this objective. The
    • Thus have we listened with quiet souls to the threefold
    • Therewith we have inwardly
    • exercise, without thinking about it, the image remains before
    • mantra] we are made more attentive to what is already within
    • I: when we say “I” [drawing: circle with the word
    • before us after all this has taken place within us, and in
    • world-knowledge; but only if the Self can be in connection with
    • I, then we must experience it together with the beings from the
    • hierarchies and not with external nature. For what we can call
    • intervene in order that we do this with all our strength, that
    • way, and if we experience ourselves within the spiritual world
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    • Who speaks with cosmic might?
    • which can bring our humanity into contact with what is
    • revealed by the spiritual hierarchies – with which the
    • on the words which begin with: “Perceive the field of
    • loud, we feel the speaking within and we can designate the
    • place where we feel the speaking within us. Then we have a
    • us, so to speak, and therewith the Guardian of the Threshold
    • by means of this mantric verse we come in contact with the
    • Likewise do we come into contact with the beings of
    • Thus we come into contact with the Exusiai, Dynamis,
    • which is least experienced with real attention. For man
    • an unknown force, for nobody with normal consciousness can
    • we believe that we walk with the legs, with the physical
    • But within these physical human legs is the human etheric
    • I-organization [violet]. We don't walk with the physical
    • legs, we don't walk with the etheric legs, not even with the
    • astral legs, but we walk with the forces that correspond to
    • the I-organization. We live with these forces, which
    • with arrows]. These gravitational forces of the earth we
    • experience with our I-organization forces [short strokes on
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    • is, with all its amazing variety of colors and forms, what I
    • we associate with the beings of the three nature kingdoms and
    • with men; beyond we associate with disembodied souls and with
    • with the fact that when he crosses the abyss and experiences
    • so with a completely different state of mind.
    • can be a reality within him: the one on this side
    • of the abyss with normal consciousness; and the one beyond
    • present within the psyche, but which are pathological
    • The moment we leave the physical body — also with the first
    • ice melts in warm water, for we have become one with the
    • one with the all-pervading watery element of the universe.
    • we are a Self within the warmth. It all ends. We must meet
    • is on the other side of the threshold, where one lives within
    • love with release from the solid earth, from the formative
    • If he is so susceptible that he is utterly in love with the
    • that when we cross over with separated thinking, feeling and
    • cross with the congealed formative forces of water. If so, he
    • That is how one speaks with arrogance, with pride, as though he
    • with the spirit's power, and bring it over with
    • if it wants to replace the temporal with the eternal, which
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    • Today we will also begin with the mantric verse
    • events and cosmic beings, if they can truly understand with
    • Who speaks with cosmic might?
    • in order to grasp with full understanding what the content of
    • how the pictures of life appear before the soul when with
    • us, with the abyss in front of it.
    • which we belong with the most inner, true being of our
    • humanity; we are really within it, that must be emphasized.
    • us – which bears and supports us, which we touch with
    • with each of the elements, so that we may feel ourselves to
    • with the spiritual element – but also so that we know
    • as we are in the spiritual world we should be one with this
    • earthly beings, for only with the spirit should we wish to be
    • to stay in the spiritual world, to merge with it, to merge
    • with the feeling of wellbeing of the spiritual world.
    • abyss, warning us with his right hand extended, asking us
    • I will hammer it more firmly with the spirit's force.
    • a start in the spiritual world with the right feelings.
    • enables us to be human beings within the earthly realm.
    • being within the confines of our skin, we bear it in our
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    • connected, also be with the approval of the leadership of the
    • School, that is, with the esoteric Executive Committee
    • membership without anyone claiming that his free will is in
    • Who speaks with cosmic might?
    • other senses perceive, what we can grasp with our reason.
    • be radiant with the sun, we find it to be shining light. But
    • over the abyss, for with our thinking, feeling and willing
    • which we recognize our own being, and therewith the true form
    • meditation with which we were to imagine how the Guardian
    • hearts, to the extent that we feel ourselves to be within the
    • of the Threshold together with the hierarchies, which bring
    • us with regularity, when we have too much breath in us, or
    • We feel ourselves most intimately united with
    • stage — what happens when as souls we cooperate with
    • other human souls and with the beings of the higher
    • We must feel ourselves completely within this
    • connects us with the riddle of life.
    • are standing within this black, night enclosed darkness,
    • ourselves are within this glimmering light. We feel ourselves
    • with us, as though he were leaning more to us now, as though
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    • We also begin today with that verse which, by a correct
    • Who speaks with such cosmic might?
    • Who speaks with depth of heart?
    • threshold at first feels himself to be within light, and
    • answers with humility, as was explained last time, but exchanging
    • words as in a deeply intimate conversation with the Guardian.
    • It held its breath within
    • Guardian stands, feels himself to be within weaving, living
    • without hearing another deeply founded admonition from the
    • within the universe like a mighty imagination.
    • left together with our capacities for knowledge.
    • exact words): Try, with the force you normally use to see with
    • your eyes, to prepare the substance with which you will penetrate
    • this rainbow, with which you will pass below, through the rainbow
    • bow, we see a powerful bowl extending over half the sky, within
    • observe the cosmic bowl with its content of color-flooding
    • discerned from within the physical-sensory world; we can discern
    • before us. We are now within it. It brightens: it is sun, the
    • cosmic bowl with its flood of colors seen from the other side of
    • consciousness within the human soul of how they breathe in the
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    • Who speaks with such cosmic might?
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • intoned with these words as they are directed to the human
    • Who manifest with love
    • And then — impelled from within — we must turn our
    • speak to each other, so penetrated with what the highest beings
    • heart may resonate with it, we must feel ourselves to be within
    • earth we give names to nullities, we fall with our nullities into
    • speak to each other. And with presence of mind we think for a
    • Angeloi receive enlightens, without our knowing, human thinking.
    • They turn to the Dynamis with their concern:
    • They must breathe life into feeling. And with
    • answer with a mighty cosmic voice in the combined voices of all
    • for the world the gods are forming with their divine speech, do
    • clairvoyance. Their souls were filled with dreamlike pictures,
    • finds himself in the reality of the spiritual worlds, within the
    • schools with the force of the Michael age. Then it can be
    • first heard within the earthly sphere:
    • the gods speak to each other with powerful words, it sounds to
    • Who speaks with such cosmic might?
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    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • itself were acting together with the higher hierarchies.
    • Who manifest with love
    • Now we stand within the Spirit-Word, the
    • woven within this Spirit-Word. We feel it penetrating into
    • interwoven with the Word.
    • With the voice
    • am” within us, we must hear the Cosmic-Word. So we
    • through the cosmic waves with spiritual flames of
    • With the voice
    • With the voice
    • With thoughts
    • With thoughts
    • This is what the human being who stands within it all says.
    • With thoughts
    • With thoughts
    • are permeated with forces; the thoughts stream; and cosmic
    • With forces
    • Spirit-Word that is within it.
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    • impossible to simply continue in the same way as we have with
    • something else: it means an acquaintance with the beginning of
    • the impulse of the Christmas Conference with the spiritual
    • noted in everything undertaken within the Anthroposophical
    • formed together with me as the Christmas impulse was that the
    • Free School for Spiritual Science, with its various sections,
    • his impulses, and the reign of Anael — with whom we are
    • coincides with the great international, cosmopolitan impulses
    • in this School in the right way — with the correct
    • what flows within the anthroposophical spiritual movement. One
    • anthroposophy before the world with all his thinking, feeling
    • same way. One cannot play around with true esoteric matters;
    • they must be realized with utmost earnestness. In this way,
    • heart open, if he can listen with the ears of soul, the
    • Who speaks with such cosmic might?
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • and radiance, then can you first say with complete intensity:
    • then we direct our questioning gaze, laden with riddles, to the
    • being in it, with our gaze directed to the limits of sensory
    • weighted by gravity, but human-like nevertheless. With earnest,
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    • Who speaks with such cosmic might?
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • Guardian calls us to stand close to him. He looks at us with
    • we carry within us from the spirit of our times, is shown to us
    • Mockingly it lies with warped countenance,
    • Yellow with gray spots is its body;
    • Behold the third beast, with cloven muzzle,
    • Begot this ghost within your thinking;
    • [The mantra, with underlining's, is written on the blackboard.]
    • mockingly it lies with a warped countenance,
    • Yellow with gray spots is its body;
    • Behold the third beast, with cloven muzzle,
    • Begot this ghost within your thinking;
    • clarification about the third beast, which is interwoven with
    • our thinking; about the second beast, which is interwoven with
    • our feeling; about the first beast, which is interwoven with
    • remains of a living human being, who was once within it, who
    • He says it to us with special intimacy.
    • [The mantra is written in the blackboard, with underlining.]
    • us to have wings to cross the abyss of being, for with human
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    • Who speaks with such cosmic might?
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • — selfhood in the good sense — arises with half its
    • Perceive within the flow of feeling:
    • Within you mingle seeming and being,
    • Let strive with thrust of will
    • With creative actual Self it rises;
    • It is filled with cosmic-spirit-force;
    • Perceive within the flow of feeling:
    • Within you mingle seeming and being,
    • Let strive within the thrust of will
    • With creative actual self it rises;
    • It's filled with cosmic-spirit-force;
    • which we should not only receive its content, but rather with
    • spiritual world. Each line begins with a stressed syllable,
    • spoken with the appropriate stress]
    • the spiritual world is with this intonation do we receive this
    • verse in our souls correctly, feeling it deeply within us:
    • next verse is the opposite: Now we should rise with our feeling
    • is spoken with the corresponding intonation:]
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  • Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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    • Who speaks with such cosmic might?
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • involved with the battle between light and darkness: The light
    • to give us divine forces without our own effort. We would be
    • region into which, with enormous all-embracing intellectuality,
    • the ahrimanic powers wish to seduce us with coldness. We must
    • face with two powers — the powers of life and the powers
    • of death. We can succumb with our willing to the powers of
    • with materiality.
    • head. But it must be permeated with darkness, otherwise your
    • belong with our senses, become darker and darker as it becomes
    • will be light within by means of the force which we ourselves
    • The light does battle with powers of darkness
    • The warmth does battle with the cold
    • Thus, life does battle with death
    • Would act with spiritual creation.
    • The light does battle with powers of darkness
    • The warmth does battle with the cold
    • Thus, life does battle with death
    • Would act with spiritual creation.
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    • Who speaks with such cosmic might?
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • extent we can perceive it with the senses and with our reason
    • spirit were within it. The living person, the ensouled person,
    • at the same time the Guardian shows us how we are placed with
    • warmth and cold with our feeling, and how we can vanish in the
    • which we must fly over, because with earthly feet we cannot
    • When you enter the spiritual world with your thinking, you may
    • dreaming within the earthly environment. You must reserve the
    • With forces of your will unfolding;
    • Thirdly, when we feel ourselves to be in the air element with
    • our willing — first in the earth-element with thinking,
    • then in the water-element with feeling, then with willing in
    • which rest passively in our thoughts, with the will; then we
    • life, with the feeling we had before we descended to earthly
    • the air-element with our memory, we feel sclerotic and
    • shivering with cold. But it is just when we feel this shivering
    • You live with the water-element
    • mantra is written on the blackboard with the corresponding
    • The Guardian speaks with great earnestness:
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    • character and the responsibilities connected with the School
    • Today we will once again begin with the words which contain the
    • Who speaks with such cosmic might?
    • Who speaks with such depth of heart?
    • therewith the being and essence and interweaving of the
    • see what we have carried out, again with thought. But the will
    • within the black gloom that we are approaching.
    • and the Guardian of the Threshold points to it with an
    • thinking merges with willing? The thought — of what is
    • wanted — is grasped; then this thought merges with
    • universe, we are Three: our thinking merges with light across
    • do this once we are permeated with what could otherwise be a
    • that in its roundness, with an opening below, it imitates the
    • that we want to view the head from within, how this perspective
    • in our body, because of what is enclosed within the skin; we
    • not merely what is within us: it is the universal
    • strength to not only will what is within us. Consider for a
    • provides you with
    • You interweave with wisdom.
    • unite with the spirit
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    • flows through all the work within the anthroposophical movement
    • and therewith the necessity arose to build a bridge to the
    • esoteric school could not have been created without first
    •    And everything connected with the Christmas
    • lives with the deepest sincerity. They must feel that they
    • manner to those who feel they belong with him in this age.
    • that what membership in this School means be taken with the
    • the utmost earnest manner the sacred earnestness with which the
    • here within the School it must be repeatedly said: in
    • whether this is the case or not must lie with the School's
    • anthroposophical movement is still grasped with complete
    • Even with things that in everyday life are taken seriously, at
    • the moment when those within the anthroposophical movement are
    • These are things which must be considered in connection with
    • that begins with having to request permission from the School's
    • leadership for acts having to do with the School. Not the one
    • been in effect within the anthroposophical movement, have been
    • surreptitiously copied it and then did mischief with it by
    • Nevertheless, the rules are applied with an iron necessity.
    • pretend otherwise. There's nothing wrong with coming to Dornach
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  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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    • something which thinking humanity has been occupied with for
    • I wish to place the social enigma within the totality of
    • within the social movement, call for hope in themselves and
    • wants to become familiar with present day habits, can gather
    • of humanity have been occupied with for an extremely long time.
    • similar which for many decades have appeared within meetings
    • and in discussions with the intention of relating them to the
    • question been approached with such liveliness as today. Today
    • capabilities, it was still insufficient to deal with the social
    • those who weren't occupied with the social question from the
    • orientated towards the modern social movement. When within the
    • midst of a discussion, standing within the will of a modern
    • pointed out in the striving within social life, drives away
    • this doubt. One sees how important personalities within the
    • that a still unknown mind with an elementary intelligence could
    • forceful thought impulse within the workforce, within the
    • with universal human claims has never stood nearly as totally
    • that without the enormous turnaround, without the technical
    • the modern proletariat. Those who are familiar with a spiritual
    • interrelationships in life where some people are involved with
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    • With reference to my presentations I would like to ask you to
    • enterprise. Not necessarily only those with a conscious focus
    • organised forces within the social structure of the human
    • the health of the social organism as it was with the economic
    • of the social question. Please consider that with a comparison
    • relationship with breathing, blood circulation and everything
    • human organism. I have tried, in full agreement with all the
    • wait. Not with some or other expert but for every human soul
    • social organization. With all these analogy games, nothing relates
    • — would prove that the real spirit within the meaning has
    • have done too, likewise with
    • research it according to its own laws, just as you do with
    • made this comparison with a natural organism. The very moment
    • nerve-system relates to human spiritual life with its spiritual
    • abilities; the circulatory system rules the relation with this
    • spiritual system with the crudest system, and the materialistic
    • system with the digestive system. The digestive system could be
    • Spiritual life develops within a person. That is one member.
    • Within a person his actual political life develops too —
    • — and also his economic or business life develops within.
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    • appears far more important what happens within the awareness of
    • form of the social organism can actually be observed within
    • itself soon enough.’ — People are always preoccupied with
    • does this modern proletarian point of view actually mean within
    • modern proletariat with their opportunities in life, with their
    • living conditions, with the manner in which they are positioned
    • in the modern social order and how they feel within themselves,
    • class without decadence, with unused intellectuality, with so
    • accepted such a scientific theory as happened with the modern
    • more important for me than going along with elementary
    • when these things are considered without bias, without
    • However, with this penetration one has the general feeling that
    • humanity at present, standing within the thought forms and
    • point of view being considered here, just now within this world
    • presented with these urgent and burning facts but how even in
    • Many people are filled with good will but not in one of them
    • virtues, how they should relate through love with their fellow
    • Now everyday life takes on a form which has nothing to do with
    • surreptitiously — without one noticing it as it is masked
    • side it is fanaticism when someone, without being cognisant of
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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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    • able to understand their position within the human community
    • which heaves and pulses with social impulses under examination,
    • development; results arrive without a leap out of what went
    • sixth or seventh year of life with the change of teeth, how
    • understanding of life and to point out such things with radical
    • be expressed as follows: the social impulse lived within the
    • socially, ordered their affairs socially within their
    • medieval and ancient humanity. Here we see immediately how with
    • with all their interests as modern time came along, are linked
    • relationships of one person to another. As with ancient
    • traditions and also with a certain reference to newer
    • endeavour took on a certain course and we see that within
    • Proletarians. Now with the awakening in newer times the modern
    • Proletarians didn't involve themselves as much within the real
    • impulses of the actual political structures. With both streams,
    • plays with so much meaning into the current situation of
    • personality, experiencing human nature within, actually makes
    • with it but brings an experience which lives in feelings and
    • this way can those within the three members experience their
    • with state- and spiritual life, there appears also in this
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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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    • I consider necessary with regard to the facts which the social
    • assimilated in the human mind into something with being,
    • alive with them, was Goethe's concern in particular. The Middle
    • thoughts which familiarise one's own will with the forces in
    • natural events which weave within the world's own powers. To a
    • certain extent one must be allied in one's own will with the
    • proceed if they think: ‘What must happen in order to withdraw
    • intolerable, is to replace it with a feasible social
    • going to allow myself to deal with the spiritual question
    • least an attempt is made, not only with antiquated thoughts and
    • old will impulses active in the social movement, but with new
    • the course of time a belief has developed within the
    • met with one final important trust and they, not out of their
    • in a remarkable contrast with the challenges and social
    • but within the proletarian feelings, within the social culture
    • must surely allow the observer to notice that within this
    • relationship with regards to human feelings for their sense of
    • be found within those who were not dependent on the outer
    • possibility to think with the Proletarian, with the thoughts of
    • entire life experience, they stand within relationships which
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  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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    • rescue boat with conditions they usually insist upon. About
    • civilization has developed out of a foundation. Without this
    • with its numerous illiterates. It meant that of the
    • far as they could, into a connection with the modern state. The
    • So it came about that the Proletariat on the one hand within
    • other hand with the help of the state, tried to win the
    • trade unions the modern working community within the economic
    • scraps of what human dignity within a healthy economic order
    • most varied forms, addressed the leading circles with the cry:
    • intensely everything connected to Marxism penetrated with
    • itself with sociology, with national economics, that it
    • to be compared with other commodities. Comparability is the
    • something. The value of human labour can never be compared with
    • compare it with the achievement which the ten has produced
    • That a remedy must be found, as everyone with insight must find
    • People who do not agree with this should really not be resented
    • if they are being sincere with honest feelings which they
    • of humanity with an inner understanding for what has emerged,
    • the view of life. In doing so one could say: with reference to
    • Those who, out of the leading circles with their prejudices,
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    • we could prove to you that he never thought of them in connection with
    • with the word ‘Mysticism’ itself. Quite recently it happened that
    • associated ‘Mysticism’ with all ideas about which there is something
    • blindly among the secrets of Nature with vague feelings, and Mysticism
    • the depths of existence with a light as radiant and clear as that of
    • the word will be used here in connection with the name of Richard
    • “The sun with many a sister-sphere
    • that a poet with Goethe's deep insight would use such an image without
    • connection with instrumental music (Eine Pilgerfahrt zu
    • was not one of those artists who think they must ‘out’ with everything
    • because we are here concerned with Mysticism as such, and Mysticism
    • ceremonies were connected with the secrets of spiritual forces from
    • with their eyes, they also heard with their ears. Wisdom was presented
    • time had now come for a re-union of the arts, and with his great gifts
    • dramatist who, with marvellous inner certainty, staged human action as
    • able to express with the same inner certainty experiences which arise
    • within him and he expresses in action what he feels and experiences in
    • more deeply connected with the sources of life than can be expressed
    • of his being, Richard Wagner was connected with the teachings of
    • Now what does Mysticism tell us with regard to the relation of one
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  • Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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    • The second kind of knowledge was held to be within the scope of
    • research and investigation, albeit those who stood wholly within the
    • and were thus able, with super-sensible knowledge, to realise the
    • before the Mystery of Golgotha had not been united with earthly
    • evolution, had passed into an earthly body and linked Himself with the
    • regarded as one with whom true Christians could have no dealings.
    • lived within the streams of spiritual life which were wholly exhausted
    • in connection with Greek philosophy could have anything very valuable
    • penetrate with the same intensity into this spiritual substance.
    • with real substance.
    • hundred and sixty heavenly Powers are connected with the
    • head-organisation of man, the seventy-two sub-heavenly Powers with the
    • Powers with the purely earthly system in man (e.g. digestion,
    • phosphorus, lime-stone, etc., within the human organism. We relate the
    • four centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha. With this wisdom men
    • And now let me deal with another chapter of the wisdom taught by
    • respect grows up within us. Profound wisdom was taught in the early
    • Golgotha, it was only possible to learn of the union of Christ with
    • side, now from another. A deep love for Hellenism grew up within him
    • Egyptian priests declared that Plotinus bore a God within him, not a
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    • 'searching of conscience' and without reservation makes an assessment of
    • encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
    • view, this life. Intimately united was this building with
    • most intimate harmony with these movements. One could really
    • the platform and spoke with one's whole heart out of the
    • together with one. The endeavor had been to achieve this. To be
    • and will with these forms — which were molded so
    • take the place of that which we have lost. With all possible
    • dear friends, I wish to connect these things with the theme
    • which I had to choose for these two days, with the description
    • community. I wish to connect these things with this theme for
    • impulses came from the hearts that were filled with enthusiasm
    • community of human beings imbued with the Anthroposophical
    • criticized in it, and with full justification. In this regard,
    • assertion, laden with content because laden with life, with
    • sorrow, and with suffering: “For us in common has our
    • final link of a long-continued life within the Anthroposophical
    • concern with the mere surface of things? This we must not do,
    • without the sun — though the sun also suffers eclipse
    • — not without the sun, in the appropriate meaning of the
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    • 'searching of conscience' and without reservation makes an assessment of
    • encounters with others and describes how the 'reversed cultus' forms the
    • induces me to deal with such questions as lie within the sphere
    • of view for precisely what is to be dealt with here. I spoke
    • like in connection with this to say something about the manner
    • one can take it without this.
    • I should like here to begin with something well known to those
    • who are familiar with the history of such societies as rest
    • — marked by gradations, of course, in accordance with
    • content is charlatanry. But those who are familiar with the
    • statutes of such a society — and, as I have said, with a
    • well known to those familiar with the history of such societies
    • is that, within these societies based upon brotherliness and
    • within the larger society, for the withdrawal of groups, for
    • who have withdrawn, and the like. In short, what may be called
    • course, with the meeting.
    • with him in the physical world. They have no experience in
    • common with him. For what he is experiencing there is no means
    • which he experiences together with other persons, just so long
    • his waking consciousness of day, when he is together with other
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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    • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
    • the things we are given for granted, without giving them
    • much thought. We are now generally dealing with the
    • with the intellect, and we have come to believe that
    • immediately bound up with the objects of the world around
    • them. They were much more bound up with the feelings and
    • and continue to be present side by side with those that
    • isolated within the world. The world is outside us, it
    • withdrawing into ourselves. The human ancestor who was
    • he experienced with what went on in the world. We see the
    • wither; it would no longer be my finger. The human
    • body also pulses within me; the whole of my organic life
    • the universe; the power that pulses within me as I evolve
    • with the whole world.
    • nothing, as it were, of what is alive and active within
    • be bound up with the existing world; he knew that this
    • the universe in common with them. The ancestor was not
    • to be in communion with nature spirits. Today we may say
    • independent of the guidance of spirits with whom they had
    • yet have the mineral kingdom within them. Their
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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    • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
    • begin with let us refer to things which in the main are
    • Europe brought civilization with them, as it were:
    • different with the people who had remained in Europe.
    • Asian peoples got more into the habit of thinking with
    • more with their bodies. That is in fact the major
    • say to yourselves: Asians are thinking more with their
    • souls, Europeans more with their bodies.
    • element into a higher aspect of their human nature, with
    • reach the soul and spirit of the world without resorting
    • came to thinking; they merely carried their bodies with
    • endowed with intelligence at soul level, still were more
    • is more bound up with the body than is the case with the
    • people of Asia who have developed intelligence within the
    • this was able to find concepts with which to grasp the
    • cannot demonstrate this with the methods of ordinary
    • that once held within it the tidings of the Mystery of
    • and should be alive in everything connected with art,
    • hearts and minds with the realization that new insight
    • with more profound insight at what has become cultural
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    • their inner soul life with the spiritual, the divine
    • human evolution and do not fit in with the way of
    • that with this kind of preparation the person called to
    • called to hold important offices, to be leaders within
    • the same place as the world within which people moved on
    • humanity thus connected the spiritual hierarchies with
    • stage in the evolution of empires came with the
    • divine power — now no longer within him but in a
    • exist side be side with the earthly realm, one that has
    • the god, the ruler given the grace of God, within it. The
    • their heads with illusions, wanting to understand history
    • divine could unite with the whole physical human being,
    • that the human soul element could unite with the god.
    • people but within certain limits also to what was being
    • to do with what went on in spiritual worlds. When people
    • connected with divine and spiritual happenings in the
    • lost and words become empty symbols, signs without
    • able to use to express their relationship with the realm
    • be told: ‘The Kingdom of the gods cometh not with
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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    • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
    • particularly taken into account however is connected with
    • with the help of just a few thousand. That particular
    • movement with the interest those other movements have
    • aroused within a relatively short time, and with the
    • who go along with this spiritual-scientific movement, or
    • at least tell themselves that they go along with it.
    • really took note of the intensity with which those other
    • the fore, and then compared this with the intensity of
    • within the animal kingdom — I have often stressed
    • within animal nature. If you now take all the cleverness
    • of this kind that exists within the whole animal kingdom,
    • therefore dealing with three schools of initiation. Two
    • within genuine spiritual knowledge. A true goal and
    • that is evolving hand in hand with the planned
    • nowadays with regard to souls fast asleep in the present
    • that is evolving hand in hand with the planned
    • continue with the mystical small talk within closed
    • ideal! I do not think it is right to continue with this
    • humankind without bias. We must make an effort and become
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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    • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
    • is something alive. It cannot be compared with a system
    • of channels or the like with water flowing through them,
    • water kept circulating with the aid of a pump. Our
    • professor of physiology is teaching today, with the
    • sense organ incorporated within the human organism to
    • within the circulatory system, yet exactly the opposite
    • with everything else in life, and because of this
    • I stand with my two feet on the ground. I really perceive
    • On the one occasion I have the whole organism within the
    • angle, on the other within the rest of the organism.
    • perceive gravity and everything connected with it. We see
    • Everything my legs see with regard to gravity and all
    • the cosmic sphere are present in the subconscious. With
    • with my arms and not with my ears.
    • say that we have a lower organism, as it is called, with
    • subconscious cosmic awareness, and we have a head with
    • imagine it without the head, of course. The head you see
    • with the feeling I have that I was really able to achieve
    • thinking that puts the human brain side by side with the
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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    • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
    • made in connection with the anthroposophical movement
    • been in accord with that basic theme. It should also help
    • do people regard the search for truth within this
    • with will impulses, a deed in the total context of the
    • with let me use a more methodological approach to show
    • materialistic stream. The latter has developed with the
    • be more subtle forms of matter, with people imagining
    • people imagine. This can only be transformed with the aid
    • has to give. We have to reckon with materialism.
    • around us in the world we perceive with the senses,
    • to doom. We can only deal properly with the world we
    • kind of outer reality—like a solid bridge with its
    • can be had with the Guardian of the Threshold. They are
    • with the senses — is mistaken, and the error
    • perceive with the senses’, they cannot be said to
    • matter is to be found within the outside world, which we
    • perceive with the senses, and to tell them to change
    • reality be satisfied with this. The essential thing is to
    • matter is to be found in the world we perceive with the
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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    • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
    • shall have to continue with some of the topics I
    • combine the things we see, hear and Perceive with the
    • found within ourselves. We shall find it particularly if
    • but the flame, I would say, that is lit within us by
    • it must be sought within us, through mysticism. There we
    • not to be found with the aid of Atwood's machine. [
    • well imagine, and it would be in accord with the truth,
    • mystical element within us it is not what many mystics
    • necessary to grasp what I mean, and to do so with the
    • with the senses offers only phenomena; it does not reveal
    • but it is essential to make this point with real
    • science has nothing to do with purely theoretical
    • concepts. It is concerned with reality. Anyone looking
    • ideas and concepts has nothing to do with merely agreeing
    • or disagreeing with the views of others; it has to do
    • with sickness and health, very real things in our lives.
    • illness. This is entirely within the sphere of
    • abstract spirituality within themselves. Someone looking
    • Physical to the non-physical world, with the Guardian of
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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    • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
    • cannot have anything to do with real knowledge, with
    • should only concern itself with things perceptible to the
    • senses, or at most with things that can be established
    • be known with certainty and must remain a matter of
    • power filled with divine light substance, divine life
    • substance, that felt itself to be in communion with
    • with divine spheres; they felt this and perceived it the
    • beings they were filled with what the gods instilled into
    • earliest stages of human evolution, and it had to do with
    • themselves to be united with the gods, and being given
    • with the gods, people were also aware of the divine
    • continued to be filled with the divine spirit for ever,
    • would have had to say: ‘A god within me is moving
    • had to say: ‘A god within me is moving my
    • put it like this. Divine knowledge withdrew so that human
    • employed in the mysteries to maintain contact with the
    • legitimate at the time. To deluge human beings with
    • to do with faith. Spiritual science working towards
    • world to encourage people to associate knowledge with the
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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    • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
    • sleeping and waking that human beings experience within a
    • state — which you are familiar with, perhaps not in
    • presents you with a kind of surrounding scenery that in
    • Perceive with the senses. It contains images from the
    • outside world you perceive with the senses. Human beings
    • presents them with images that, in a way, derive from the
    • outside world we perceive with the senses. When we then
    • use their will to connect one thought with another, this
    • organs face the outside world and compare this with the
    • spirits experienced their relationship with the heavenly
    • and spirit, and themselves as soul and spirit within that
    • they were very much concerned with life before birth, and
    • This can only be done with the aid of spiritual science.
    • instinctive culture with a marked emphasis on life before
    • to live in accord with our age. Orientals were left with
    • past, not even when what they came face to face with was
    • Their greatness and significance has to do with
    • time after death. This connection with the time after
    • inhabitants of the earth endowed with soul and spirit as
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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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    • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
    • and still are, acting in accord with the demands of earlier times and
    • their actions are not at all in accord with the needs of the present
    • spontaneously come forth from within them, but from completely external
    • A very superficial comparison with the population figure for Germany
    • large proportion of this work was then used for the purposes of war, with
    • laws that had nothing to do with human beings. Add to this the fact that
    • with ideas thought up by human individuals and so on. The things people
    • within their own skins.
    • forces with their own objective activity that human beings have created
    • nature. These forces are completely at odds with everything that came
    • This only concerns itself with forces that can be abstracted from nature
    • without people being aware of it a completely new world developed in a
    • soul came to an understanding with the phenomena Of nature, and the
    • with an ahrimanic world that is growing completely independent of
    • machines, with human labour made into something quite separate from the
    • they will find the right way of dealing with the forces influencing them
    • without having the support of the Christ force.
    • concerned with earthly matters. ‘There can be no such thing as a
    • with the conscious sphere. There will be no conscious awareness of this,
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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    • the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
    • connected with the whole cosmos and with cosmic
    • bound up with the forces of the earth.
    • to develop it without taking the earthly realm as our
    • continue with this development for the rest of Earth
    • the ego. With reference to human nature, therefore, the
    • ourselves we would have to do without spirit-self,
    • something united with this earth that came from outside,
    • inner strength, filling us with inner warmth and light.
    • with longing to the spheres beyond this earth because we
    • must take hold, with the whole of our being, of what to
    • begin with is more in form of concepts, of ideas. We must
    • that we do not need to stay united with the earthly
    • as it were, for all eternity, with the potential of
    • something within this earthly realm that will take us
    • power of Christ within us. And we really must come to
    • scientific element and everything connected with it has
    • persisting, and people grasped it with those remnants of
    • thinking. Science will only be filled with the Christ
    • started with completely abstract ideas. The first was the
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    • This lecture series is presented here with the kind permission of the
    • place with man between death and a new rebirth. This is one of the most
    • since the physical existence of man is connected and interwoven with
    • senses, which we can feel with our hands and which is bound to the
    • indeed man has this physical body in common with the mineral world. We
    • life body in common with every other living creature; the animal has
    • second member. Already with the intellect alone, with logic, we are
    • with our eyes, touch with our hands. And each of us knows it also quite
    • this third limb of his being in common with the animal, for the latter
    • the Old Testament. There the name "I" is synonymous with the name of
    • consider first. And on the way they are connected with each other
    • body, which is connected with the etheric body, like a large shining
    • astral body comes out with the ego-body, while the physical body,
    • connected with the etheric body, remains in bed. In the morning, or
    • and currents emanate from it which connect it with the physical body
    • sets in, the astral body with the I-bearer leaves the physical body
    • connected with the etheric body, then in ordinary life a separation of
    • body leave the four-membered human being with the ego, as in sleep, but
    • occurs, which stands before you with all its details like a great
    • tableau. This recollection cannot be compared with a recollection of
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    • was deeply concerned with social questions. Having published a book on the
    • energy if we would understand our place as man within
    • times, attend with so great care to such outward things of
    • be the case. The three or four centuries ending with the
    • may say without hesitation that the great movement of the
    • In times like the present, filled with bewilderment, in which
    • subjects connected with the seriousness of the present time,
    • in our hearts thoughts deeply concerned with human evolution,
    • decline prevalent in all spheres of life. If with due
    • connection of the word used with the inner fount of truth. We
    • “catch-saying” with its absence of truth. These
    • faith to have said something which does not correspond with
    • thrust forwards into the first place in dealing with them.
    • all subjective opinions and reach some sort of objectivity with
    • climax within the last four or five years. In these recent
    • within it and see, for instance, their effects in the
    • that, as man, he has his position within the Earth's history,
    • Archangels and Archai have always occupied themselves with man
    • new birth, but have also been occupied and concerned with him
    • our age, however, this preoccupation with mankind has in a
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  • Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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    • was deeply concerned with social questions. Having published a book on the
    • reality, in which the rule of the spirit within human
    • I said, the middle of the fifteenth century brought with it a
    • not lose all connection with the spiritual worlds, we
    • must occupy ourselves with them in the near future, for the
    • spiritual beings who have been connected with us so far
    • again concern ourselves with the spiritual world, fostering
    • with the spiritual worlds as to maintain their connection with
    • answer may deal with things which apparently have little to do
    • with the question; but we shall see that they do provide the
    • connection with the spiritual world.
    • deal with the subject of immortality from this point of view is
    • being, forces which have come with birth and work so as
    • through a physical evolution about its seventh year with the
    • the threads with “I must therefore claim to have
    • developing farther. Seldom nowadays do we find people with grey
    • hair and wrinkles welcoming with joy the dawn of each year
    • within reach. At the inconsiderable age of thirty men are
    • the soul-spiritual within themselves, of experiencing something
    • stimulated from without.
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    • was deeply concerned with social questions. Having published a book on the
    • evolution men are confronted with great tests, though for the
    • happens with humanity itself, in that it has to experience
    • supersensible world. All this is bound up with significant
    • and etheric bodies and become completely one with them as to
    • 28th year. Conditions will change again with time. This is a
    • scientific thinking which is wholly bound up with the physical
    • body. With this fact is connected everything else I have
    • completely into the physical body and therewith learn of the
    • present stage of culture, without such a consciousness men live
    • “broken” natures to be met with, natures unfitted
    • to cope with life. Why are they not equal to it? Because, they
    • them, and can cope with it. If we have them not, we lack that
    • of responsibility we ought to foster with regard to
    • to unite Himself with that body for earthly activity. Through
    • Golgotha, entered human life. With the passage of time
    • vanish with the altered soul constitution of civilized
    • man. In consequence, with the uprising of the Consciousness
    • accomplished within the supersensible and reveal itself in the
    • such depths in human nature that, confronted with these depths,
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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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    • was deeply concerned with social questions. Having published a book on the
    • in dealing with the social question, to abandon limited ideas
    • and measures which deal with it piecemeal. They will be forced
    • through the last ten years with our eyes shut we must have
    • proletariat with regard to the social question. We saw what
    • with its heart's blood proved inadequate when realization
    • the economic life solely with regard to production,
    • the “Social Question” with more intensity of
    • when the destiny of the individual is so closely bound up with
    • anyone looking with open eyes at what was going on in the
    • illness within our economic and. social life must express
    • that the relations with St. Petersburg were the most friendly
    • relations with St. Petersburg would continue friendly, as
    • before. Negotiations with England were expected to be concluded
    • not a trivial but a tremendous settling up with the old which
    • is too foul and decayed, to be allowed to mingle with what the
    • closely confined within the economic system, so confined that
    • the purpose, with the merit (rare in slogans) of being
    • when carried to its logical conclusion with practical sense and
    • we would be honest with the proletariat, we must say that this
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