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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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far back into human development; but first we would like to
surfaced before the soul vision of the Stoics. — It would
the preparation of their own soul life, one would like to say,
would like to briefly portray the main points of his thinking.
omnipotence of God would contradict this idea of education;
But that would contradict the omnipotence of God: first
world, where evil exists and the wicked reigns, this would be
grasp its own self. This activity must, one would like to say,
live in the spirit world, then he/she would only be able to
would bring him/her together with other people, and with the
power, and for which the soul would immediately be useless, it
contradiction. But one would like to say, the world lives in
would not get very far. But what does that mean? It means: one
the spirit world, so mankind would go forward there.
no need to say that it would be entire nonsense, if someone
It would be a complete travesty of what has been said. This is
purpose. But I would like to refer to something else: that the
spirit who, I would like to say, went through the entire
position in a certain future of spiritual life, I would like to

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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it would be of the greatest harm to him. A time will come to which the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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world the number 365 would be 563. Especially in the beginning, this

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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be seized by an unspeakable greed for their physical body, which would

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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would exactly fit into the vacuum. It is however strange that this only

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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the Middle Ages would have thought it stupid to study life by cutting

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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forces which he would otherwise not have. What thus arises, as a result

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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stipulating that history should be treated in such a way that one would not only consider the
encompassing, synthesizing force, would see what is at work in the unfolding of history —
might wish to find ideas as the driving forces of history would never be able to prove that ideas
spiritual science, if it looks at history, would actually have to pursue a symptomatology; a
I would like to clarify this by a simple diagram.
in this way, then the real activity of the driving forces would lie beneath it (red). But there
method would be in complete accord with Goetheanism. For
approach to history, might seem insignificant — which one would perhaps not find worthy of
categories, in his perceptions of time and space, would like to encompass all nature through the
far as he can understand it, Kant, if he could really think to the end, would have to think the
If Kant would only take things to their full conclusion, he would have to think
too, would have to come to the 'I am'. And Fichte expresses this even more clearly by saying: I
would rather take the whole of Kant's critique for a random game of ideas haphazardly thrown
emphasis of the 'I am'; comes back, indeed, not with proofs — one would not look for these
associations. If only one would apply this thinking to the economic life! That is its proper
philosophy it would have been magnificent. If the human beings living in Central Europe had
was able to think, one would have been able — had one remained within the legal-political
thoughts from that sphere and apply them to the economic life, they would fit there. The
associations which would then come in there would be exactly those which do not fit into
against this threefoldness as the wave of Bolshevism, which would lead to great harm (Unheil)
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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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only seems so, for such settlements would not be real; very significant effects will issue from
import. If it were not for that distinction it would be far more evident that, even now,
everywhere and without exception human beings are subject to repeated lives on earth. This would
influences of these beings everywhere. If only, from the presence of the effects, people would

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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would be extremely constricted. Above all, however, one must be clear that what can then manifest
forms of the fourth post-Atlantean epoch — were to be stronger. What would arise then?
There would arise a strong fanatical rejection of the modern spirit; and rather than emphasizing
element, the old traditions would be superimposed: in fact only the physical and the soul element
would really be cultivated. We could then imagine that, in such a crude way, some individual
who are now lost but who have passed their language on. The Germanic people would not be able to
would never be able to leave it behind as a heritage. This language can only continue to live as
language into which they merge. It would
has been swamped. This would be tangibly apparent if one looked at this matter with

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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I would like today to point to a certain connection between what I gave yesterday as the
threefold social order does not yet exist but Goethe gives the form he would like to ascribe to
would correspond to that aspect of the social organism which we call the spiritual aspect: how
the King of Semblance, the Silver King, would correspond to the political State: how the King of
Power, the Copper King, would correspond to the economic aspect, and how the Mixed King, who
would have to arise as the threefold social order. Goethe thus said, as it were, when he received
It would be impossible to go further on the path
further one would come into the intellectual mechanism that is realized in the usual science of
Schiller, having arrived at this point here (see diagram), would have gone
Otherwise he would have fallen into the usual intellect of the nineteenth century. Goethe
to go no further than these images. For had he, from his standpoint, tried to go further he would
have come into wild, fantastic daydreams. The subject would no longer have had definite contours;
it would no longer have been applicable to real life but would have risen above and beyond it. It
would have become rapturous fantasy. One could say that Goethe had to avoid the other chasm, in
which he would have come completely into a fantastic red. Thus he adds that element which is
Goethe would have had either to
Schiller would have had either to become completely intellectual or would have had to take
and nothing more one would never come to an impetus for actual outer action. Goethe was at the point
imaginative? Neither of them had spiritual science; otherwise Schiller would have been able to
advance to the point of permeating his concepts in a spiritual-scientific way and he would then
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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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machine would simply follow us into the country, I said to him. Everything, I said, could be
forgotten; spiritual culture could be forgotten, but machines would remain. They would simply be
would prefer to bring back the old conditions of the countryside. They imagine that this can be
much human labour they save. It is simply that 500 million people would have to do the work
suppose that it were possible — the economic life would grow over peoples' heads. It would
bring forth everywhere destructive, demonic forces out of itself. It would not work because the
intellect would not be able to cope with all the economic demands that would surge up! Just as
patent. For, the economic life would grow above the human being's head if he did not show himself
equal to it, if he did not bring a spiritual insight with him to guide it. No one would associate
for it is in this area that fine beginnings are apparent — would remain incomplete. One
realms. But it would only be something incomplete and therefore unable to aid our declining
— for that would definitely lead humanity into the future prophesied by Oswald Spengler
spiritual science, would be to do the same as the priests and others in other areas do when they
This has been evident in many cases. But it would be particularly damaging if this strange kind
therefore, an indictment of faith in authority is really unjust — it would be far more
life, to take on wider dimensions. For then the opponents of anthroposophical striving would, as
past but is something necessary for the future. Nevertheless, I would of course not have referred

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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found. Had the Mystery of Golgotha come during the full flowering of the intellect it would, of
priesthood and the leading Catholic circles that it would be the most frightful thing if the
Gospels to the great mass of the faithful, the faithful would straightaway be confronted with
constitution of soul. If people would only pay more attention to how the majority of those who
their comfortable way of comprehending things — then we would get much further in rejecting
is the challenge to stand firm on the ground that would give birth to the new life of the spirit.

Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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that, for many who would rather go through the coming times in a comfortable sleep, with a
their usual habits of thought they would soon see what an immense gulf there really is between
being's own nature. Such a discrepancy in human experience would have been quite impossible in
anthroposophical literature this man would be able to answer this. Those mental pictures which he
being held he would not speak about mental-picturing activity being suppressed here. There is
the spiritual worlds, he would have seen that nothing is artificially suppressed here but that
life and appear like perceptions of the senses. Well, I would like to count up the pages where,
article that was spoken rather than written. One would like to call upon people to awaken, to

Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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what went before. I would say, you are brought together with what went
the time before our birth, we would have a long period during which we
thinks realistically would look only at these arrows, which go from the
then the mouths here in the next year would have nothing left to eat. If the
mouths of the year 1914 would have had nothing left to eat.
wanted to apply materialistic thinking consistently, he would examine the
possible nutritional products. But such a study would not be worthwhile,
would say, must draw back in fear and trembling from the necessity to

Title: Talk To Young People:
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such a young fellow would only bother me. (In these matters it's
this question seriously it would require plenty of good solid thought
profession. Had I done so, there would be no anthroposophical
tradition. Even the smallest link to something from the past would
times the kind of sunrise Herder or Goethe wrote about we would be
One can imagine how this fellow would pull on a silk vest after he

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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the ultimate aim of human evolution! He would like to know what will
which in a specific sense, belongs to the earth, we would have to
and human beings; we ourselves — as mankind — would find it
Archangelos would realize only inspirations; and were things to proceed
as they have so far been described, a mineral Jupiter would arise and
over and around it would flow inspirations — densified,
certainly, but they would merely pass over Jupiter. In order that some
would merely prove to be a dead slagheap, quite incapable of sustaining
to incorporate this concept into a composition (group), he would no
doubt make use of the old materials, and that would be wrong, for the
result would be a symbolical representation of an idea — part of
materialistic art! Or it would have to be taken from clairvoyant
has been able to make towards that end. Of course, it would be entirely
One would hardly believe

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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of earthly evolution. It would be-hypothetically possible, one might
say, it would be conceivable, for the Mystery of Golgotha, that is,
remained unknown to men, that no single person would have been able
own way to comprehend the Mystery of Golgotha. If we would find the
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, then this would have been
original European peoples this would be seen with great clarity in
speak of a science of the ancient European population would be
work upon one another in the evolving humanity. What would have
this Latin knowledge would have been able to pour itself out over the
For then, what these souls would have
received through this knowledge would gradually have led to men's
would not have been able to unite with the forces which kept mankind
living. It would have dried men up. Under the influence of the after
effects of Latin culture, European humanity would in a sense have
been parched and withered. People would have come to have
the whole human life would have remained cold under these fine spun,
I say that that would be hypothetically
Latin culture; then the whole population would have dried
If exact research were made, it would be
they would have faced the danger of completely losing the power of
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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place, man would obviously be in a different position in this earthly
eat of this Tree then something similar would have come to pass for
comes in which we must unfathom if we would understand the necessary
drawn here would show how the experiences of our astral body would be
what actually ought to enter the physical body. That which would
science, where every concept which we experience would be alive in
concept; in the night all the concepts would wake up and live, and we
would happen if we were not at the mercy of the fact that on waking
up Ahriman lays claim to our night-experience? What would enter us on
in what we have as day-consciousness would intermingle what we have
a different way. Then our approach to them would be in harmony with
what comes into us from our night experiences. That would produce a
know this man. It would be entirely different if we were to bring in
physical woven through by the spiritual. And thus would the whole
would be knowledge for us if it entered the physical body. It remains
Then its development would lead it to reject the facts which are

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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Occidental. The Oriental would have fallen completely into rigid
not the correct philosophy. That would have been impossible
— it would only be possible in the case of a
he had written all that he could write, he would have had to write
all that would gradually in the course of human evolution result from
Greek temple one feels as if, one would like best to be united for
world-historical personality, this does not imply that one would like
a divine instrument!' The initiate would never have admitted that, he
would have said: He is, nevertheless, a divine instrument
appeared who saw through all this, he would have to say to himself:
this earthly evolution is to fall into the Luciferic. Men would never
in his knowledge that men would become less and less fitted to take

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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the sun. Had they done so, they would, as it were, have united
would light up something like a connection with a star apparently
shone upon by the ancient Sun and Moon-existence. And this would
as though from the subconscious inner being, man would be aware of
through this aberration from Luciferic spirits. He would immediately
single human being. It would be the gravest misapprehension of the
Europe and then to someone in America, He would have to take train
It would
instinct but purely egoistic instincts. There would be in the world
no natural foundation for love. The human being would merely use the
less consciousness. Thus here would be man #1 and man # 2 (Pg 17) had
way. People would notice in the case of man # 2 that acts purely on
medium, they would most certainly bethink themselves that there were
no one would make a special impression if he were to say:
to me as an Angel.’ Anyone speaking thus would make no
leave out the first part, he would make a strong impression. It is

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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earth as cause and effect. But it would not include that fact that
would be quite a consistent one. It could be a genuine picture of
world-conception simply does not hold good. He would have to realize
would not endure well up above, if he were forced to go out there;
first he would have to adapt himself to the new conditions. Thus it
developments, he would still have to overcome the next step, which
like this, they would never have the urge to want to possess
in this way given a boundary and yoked in? On the Moon it would have
present there — and he would soon see the futility
of it if he were to think of possession. It would be rather like
wouldst like to possess what thou seest and what pleases thy sight
with chaste heart, and every misconstruction would show a complete
home.’ She, Nature, would like to do with all her objects
as she would have done with the little rose ‘

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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obvious that just the same would happen as during waking. We can
interpenetrates to some extent the sense apparatuses, else they would
ego I must do it schematically in the following way. This ego would
really made a drawing of the human being, it would look far more
would have stood with man if he had developed purely in the way the
then the human being would always have had to wait for the physical
processes to arise in his eye, his ear, etc.; and he would grasp
these physical processes with his astral body and ego. He would
tone; he would not have his sense opened outwards, he would only have
perceived what was within him, he would have the feeling: in me is a
inasmuch as he saw himself through himself, he would have worked upon
leave them that man in his thinking would look back to the old
Moon-existence, and in this thinking would apprehend what the
had not previously worked upon him, man would never have arrived at
myself, for that would be personal and against the rules of our
much it would bring us forward if the following picture could be
clairvoyant would perceive how the thought stream into the etheric
nothing there, because it is a hollow. Thus if one would draw the
and what remains inside as empty, that would be the human being (see
it empty: then one would be painting spiritually-realistically, for

Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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For anyone who would read my Occult Science as he
would read a novel, passively giving himself to it, it is
Every' thing would be well if the earthly forces only
would feel himself dwelling as a Spirit among Spirits —
come to pass. The early Christians would have regarded the
‘new Jerusalem’. Only they would have said: We hold
would have said: Hitherto these evil spirits were within the
begin with, men would be capable of understanding them.

Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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obstacles which must be overcome if the soul would avoid being swept like a
knowledge is liable to encounter when it would enter more deeply into the
able to say to ourselves: neither method can lead our soul whither we would
“Boundaries of Natural Science,” that human knowledge would
Master of Logic. The medieval thinkers would say to themselves: whatever be
the very instrument by means of which Christianity would be really
natural thing would have been to have increasingly expanded the technique
would have receded ever farther and upwards into the supersensible regions
history; but this would lead too far from the present subject, moreover the
consider the doctrine of the specific energies of the senses, there would
differentiates in the only true and possible sense. It would entail a
thereof, would have been possible. On the contrary, two results would have
been attained. In the first place, man would have achieved an inwardly
great philosophers who lived and worked after Kant would not have been so
phantoms. Yet this would be so simple! No more is necessary than the effort
sense, it would say: “I am entirely wax; no brass passes over into
am”; in this case, however, reality would refute us during every
if it would develop an understanding of anthroposophical

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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would like to speak of in this introduction is this: to what I gave you
teacher should be taken quite aphoristically. It would indeed be best if it
And it would be necessary for the teacher especially to guard much as
ideas considered reasonable in Central Europe today, you would find their
would permit them to conceive how the intentions of a Fichte or Herder
opinion that object lessons should be so handled that they would lead over
reason that our textbooks are written with this in mind (and it would occur
would be hard to imagine a graver error in elementary school teaching, than
become botanists or zoologists, we would then be closer to the mark than if
would sooner take the students' part. For the direction things have taken
perception itself would spring awareness of how we should proceed. In this
— If we really had done this, we would most certainly
have taught badly. But we would most certainly have taught the best of all
would have been bad. We have given good lessons because we have had to work
learned by the end of the year; your teaching would have been harmful, had
different one, not that much better, just different. I would say the

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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— in this way we would get the principle forms, the
arrangement of forms in the human skeleton! This would also demonstrate for
that a musical coherence would be provided only if various skeletons were
called forth. Since the formative forces, being stronger, would overrun the
this they must have, or they would remain imperfect, not perceiving the
would like to draw your attention to a fact that must have our particular
music, then truly frightful forces would rise up in a human being. I am
more concrete. They would not have said: treason, murder, deceit (in
the ancient mysteries would always have used animal forms to describe what
within would make our eyes bulge, give us the goitre, make our nose puff
out and our ears grow — everything would swell outward.
himself, then you have controlled the line that would work destructively
Otherwise he would
] would
such a fashioning of the teacher's nature, its outer manifestation would
that would shift over from the more abstract lingual form to the artistic.

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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digested by us in a suitable way; but we would not be feeding ourselves
teaching and education two elements interweave in a remarkable way. I would
helping his memory would be to bring about a rhythm for him, in our
lives in speech, yet this sound is altered in a certain way. I would like
speaks. Nothing is arbitrary, for you would solely be making visible what
not do this, mankind would fall asleep. Although all kinds of things would
would only happen during sleep, and on awakening these things would never
performance you could wake up suddenly in the night you would see that you
asleep, and this restlessness in the soul would be the counterpart of

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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avoid everything that would lead to the ego becoming too strongly absorbed
useless in life because he only lives in fantasies. This would be the other
not develop into a chemical compound but remains a looser one than it would
united, then man's etheric body and his astral body would also be so
tightly linked that they could not be separated and we would never be able
movement we would never be able to enter into the physical world. We are
with the right rules of life had sat in Fichte's lectures he would have
), he would have
attitudes and feelings. For it would be quite the wrong method if, for
within itself, you would have to retreat and make room for the head
in a school by following a manual on pedagogy it would be just like wanting
it than you would think. And then you will develop certain faculties which
but pleasure, the child would be unable to develop a feeling for duty,
which can be acquired only if we learn to overcome ourselves. There would

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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truths in particular that I would like to develop for you. We shall then
year — it would be too much of an assertion to say that
I would now like to bring something of very great importance. When people
delve down into the earth to find the forces of the earth's interior would
be absolutely wrong. You would only find earth substances. The forces that
external anatomy and physiology; to do that they would need to investigate
was different then. And they would not even have had the chemical tests to
our blood is in the process of fading away. What would happen if a time
our present day consciousness it would be like learning that man consists
education. The important thing, today, is not to give would-be teachers a
would know him if we had no healthy longing for supersensible
and to do that you have to develop certain concepts that most people would
and such a way people would be able to lead a social existence.

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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that time, for example, man would have found nothing about the moral in
himself. He would not have understood such laws at all, if they had been
be appealed to. Thus, today there are certain truths for man which would
the laws of compassion and love. At that time, man would have searched in
as the Buddha. As a human being in the physical world, he would have found
could say to himself that this child would have the possibility in his
it, if he would make his contribution as Buddha. He therefore lowered
characteristics, which would have pointed to a giant spirit. But for it a
life. The clairvoyant would have seen the Nirmanakaya Buddha hovering over
children up to two years of age were killed. John the Baptist would also

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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other Gospels, that in a certain sense one would get the same understanding
other three gospels would not be in the sense of spiritual research. For
qualities, but at first not with those qualities which would have led man
and the physical body were especially developed, he would not have been
thinking, it would have been like speaking to a stone or to a
also have appealed to the own soul of these people, then the people would
especially creative abilities at a certain age. But one would not like to
try that! Then a child would have to be developed completely differently
which are creative forces, which otherwise would have been

Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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as a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market. Yet it would be
as a human figure appears on the earth, this figure would be quite
rendering of a human being would result from copying every detail of the
material.” I replied, “That would be as far
It would really have been a question of these people learning from bitter
while ago, would reveal themselves in our time to human beings from the
every thought that one would be unable to do whatever it is one ought to
that one would be incapable of doing something, merely because making the
attempt would be uncongenial. And the more the modern human being makes

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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culture of the human spirit is founded. We would fain draw nearer to him,
show this, one would like to say on the other hand: The
calling to mind a saying of Goethe's, one would like to transpose it,
applying this saying to temporal evolution, one would like to
founding of Christianity, would lose something for us, in
something would at once be lacking for us if the creative power
descriptions of the Bible. One would like to say, Raphael not
of Raphael as such, since this would require showing such works
of the further development of humanity. — If one would
Savonarola or his like-minded comrades would have called
likewise for souls that had no notion that it would develop
account, it would be worth the trouble of beginning human life
would not be as they are if humanity were not a unified being
higher culture of the human spirit is founded. We would fain

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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Leonardo would first of all let the idea arise of whatever he
feature interested him. He would invite all kinds of people of
which we can see what he actually intended. He would, for
example, draw a countenance and see what would result in making
proceeded in such a way that he would have some commission or
already, whether he would be able to finish it at all. And then
becomes comprehensible that Leonardo would unquestionably have
lost for a while. Never would modern natural science have been
Aurelius [175 A.D.] in Rome? Never would those who
be so, since it would not have been possible otherwise for
was able to bequeath to the world? What contradiction would

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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then one would far rather not accept explanations
arise. Actual experience would seem to gainsay the second
original that one would like best of all to bring it to
nature of fairy tales, I would have to hold many lectures.
in various fairy tales. It would of course be quite a major
this regard, collected as they are in such numbers. This would
would like to be. In conscious life it may
would necessarily go to rack and ruin if it were not after all
here. Were it not paradoxical, one would like to say: in
had he carried out his work by day, he would have been melted
amazed, they agreed among themselves that they would only be

Title: A Mongolian Legend
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same way as today, one would have seen an organ, like a shining
surroundings. One would have observed something like a
head of the ancients would not stream through their entire
would exhaust itself, and human beings would have to separate

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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that he certainly hoped would come, a time in which Goethe's
star would shine out once more in the European spiritual
But the occasional observations he makes show that he would as
little go along with those who would “dissolve”
he would go along with those who want to see Christ Jesus only
referring to this, one would like to add a further impression,
wistfulness. He states there that, though it would most likely
not come about, it would perhaps be feasible to rework into a
would humbly stand aside to let him pass; if Raphael came by, I
would follow him, to see whether or not I might have the
would be impossible even to outline the rich content of this
lie beyond death — what one would like to call his chaste
beyond, speak to the soul. I would render something incomplete
and the whole mass would fall down on her, to remain lying on
stifling loneliness all around, as though she would never come
attempted to bring at least a word over her lips, would have
possibility of moving a finger, she would have touched him. And
the last time, that the terrible darkness would break in again
not come about — since if it had been written, it would
means of reading, they would prefer most of all to read such

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interspersion into our considerations, because I would like our
in a way to be as effective as possible. Today I would like, at first
be done tomorrow perhaps — I would like to say something about
everything, I would say, seems to be hanging in the air, which more
of a region, let's say an empire, and what we today would call the
those whom we would today call rulers, lived a divine soul, a God.
would it have been necessary? When the conquered people openly
physical reality, something like this would have been unthinkable.
system held until the middle ages and, I would even say, until the
would have been said thousands of years earlier by an oriental ruler.
so platitude oriented, there would be no room for the introduction of

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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conditions the “empereur” would be understood,
play no role. And secondly no one would claim that in the external
far east as they would go when they became the apostolic kings of

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He would have to have lost all sense of reality to even conceive of
Only in parenthesis I would like to draw your attention to what
wouldn't have hurt one bit if when Woodrow Wilson arrived in Paris in
their instrument. It would go too far in this lecture to describe in
west still suffer under a great illusion. Woodrow Wilson would no
arrived in respect to the political state, otherwise we wouldn't be
would be good if the queen of England also has the title
reasons for this, but if it didn't happen, nothing would have
of Jerusalem.” It came from the crusades. It would be
earth would be possible. But one can only organize the things
would like to say: Every morning we should bear this in mind very
That's not how it is. And I would like to see that the words spoken
anthroposophical movement. I would hope that the specter which
we would have been much farther along. But perhaps what is done in
I would like to read part of a letter to you

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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phenomena in nature, in order to understand it. You would want
causalities which you would be doing with regard to lifeless,
have been overhauled. Despite that, I would like to sustain a
“Ur-triangle” and this Ur-plant would have such
ideal image of the Ur-plant would be rediscovered in each plant
would like to compare it with a trivial comparison.
will he do? If he hasn't learnt to read he would meet it as
something inexplicable. If he was literate he would
meaning within his soul. He certainly wouldn't start with each
letters. No, he would read — and not search for the
to read within their inner meaning. This would lead to a
In every case this science would be a member of the totality of
the phenomena. One would speak in a specific way about nature.
With this approach the laws of nature would be contained, but
in every instance the phenomena themselves would be contained
in the forms of expression. One would achieve what I would like
towards human conceptualising, which I would like to
small world system where the atoms would move in relation to
and was satisfied that he would find the same laws in the small
hypothetical thought structure to it, then I would remain free
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would like you to consider that I had assumed last night, to
out what I would say and I can only hope, as a whole, to
I can see through my eyes.’ We would then enter into a visual
system of the soul. We would, without having outer sight, rise
When you think about this, you would understand the innermost

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from words. I would like to say: what we have today in the word
one would more or less consider this classical time of German
thorough I would have to give an outline of the entire course
social organism, only in such a way in which his thoughts would
from science, which would proceed scientifically, and on the
wisdom. Hegel would simply not have understood how one could
I would like to express it as follows. Regarded philosophically
would like to say that the subject of the teaching in the
Only then would Hegel's philosophy be awakened to life, when

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lecture, but I think other lectures during these days would be
superficial definitions, you would soon see what kind of a
they would have no religious education. As a result, some
looked at but the whole person being considered. It would be

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sociologically, socially, and to this I would like to say a few
of people would find it, and on the basis of these suggestions
throw an impulse also into the economic development which would
—; that these ideas would be made
would perhaps have given quite a different result to what could
other thing you could come across would be that at first those,
life where now quite other additions would be necessary and not
conditions of olden times; all this would be good to be seen
grasp spiritually permeated social relations. I would like to
economic observations would become thoroughly one-sided, so
will not be a utopian invention — I would like to say the
economist can do purely out of economic impulses, which would
notes” one would find an attempt to search for this

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certainly isn't, even if it was believed to be, it would be
a challenge to the theologians. I myself would not be involved
my presentation because otherwise I would have to once again
practice it would be possible to remain Catholics when they
would like to say that Catholics may obviously take part in the
is about within the Anthroposophical Society. Now I would like
Christology, but I would like to say the following.
then less and less — what I would call instinctive
would Anthroposophy embark on something against single

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lot of time to discuss such controversial things as we would
consciousness, also when one is speaking. I would like to
to a certain degree it would be necessary to separate the
I would today again speak in front of individuals who listen in
action; and I would like to show how, through love imbuing
can be called human duty. It would be necessary for this
rarely done. If such preparation would be undertaken then one
would, if one takes linguistic history or comparative
would say a word — the word streams towards what we
its language, as we would do with a language today.
you now open the dictionary you would find a multitude of words
existed which I would like to call the experience of the
indicate symbols, you would be totally unable to be impressed

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With this lesson, I would like to restore to the Free School
friends. And I would like to emphasize that in this School
First of all, I would like to present to your hearts and to
necessary for receiving the spirit, it would shatter us and
soul. And he would like to conjure it away. So he dresses his
not conscious of what is within them. But I would say that only
third beast is lazy thinking, the kind of thinking that would
is follow what is reeled out. Even science would like to follow

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it would be terrible for them because they wouldn't be
prepared. They would be receiving it without the preparatory
friends, it would be really good for spiritual striving if all
Perhaps I would have done it if I had thought about it, but I
question. And perhaps it would not be unimportant if a large
influence in life. Therefore it would be good if all those who
That would be enormously important, if taken seriously, for
every individual who belongs to the Class. For thereby it would
Which would estrange your own body
Which would steal in future time
stolen from the gods, the human being would be united with
Which would estrange your own body
Which would steal in future time
Which would estrange your own body
Which would steal in future time
Which would estrange your own body
Which would steal in future time
Which would estrange your own body
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their thoughts. And that includes all of you, else you wouldn't
what terrible insecurity that would cause in your life.
exactly as you would feel if life were to withdraw the
in the physical world, you would never be able to know whether
dedicated to the meditation, he would like to continue in
Which would estrange your own body
Which would steal in future time
order to convert the verse into a mantram, it would be good to

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would like to tell you a story taken from ancient esoteric
such characters in real life, I would feel great antipathy
hand; it belongs to me. What would my life - which began a few
exist, I would not be thinking today. My hand is only necessary
created by the earth, which would drag us down below the human
level, which would darken our I, which would push us into the
Which would estrange your own body
Which would steal in future time
Which would estrange your own body
Which would steal in future time

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divine. One would like to say: divinity is hidden within
to the earth from another planet, he would speak to people in
other. He would say: The light which envelops the earth is
Then this being would say: I have qualitatively differentiated
Would enter into the spirit-being.
Would enter into the spirit-being.
Luciferic light-beings would in a certain sense fly away with
us from the earth towards the light, so would the Luciferic
would like to dip into the healthy cold. That is the opposite
Would like to live spiritually.
Would like to act in spirit-creation.
dear friends, we say: I would rather do without such knowledge!
Would like to act in spirit-creation.
Would like to live spiritually.
Would like to engage in spiritual being.

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would like the book to show us the sequence of thoughts; that
Earth period. In that way the human soul would be lost and a
stunted angel soul would take its place. We should listen to

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and true supersensible knowledge. Today I would like to add

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then people will come to us - they generally don't - would be
new people come, we would never get anywhere. Of course, one
And we would be very mistaken to ignore this beauty, sublimity,

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would be easy to convince people about the spiritual world if
we only had earth forces to touch in our whole being, we would
breathing and of the air. We would be helpless children if we
unity. Thinking, feeling and willing would be constantly

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member, it would not be honest of them. And honesty is the most
would like to again provide an indication of how you can leave
would be interesting — but I'm not going to bother. But
conclusion I would like to say one more thing. It should not

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It would be unseemly to say more now as she has just left
would not exist if the star-filled sky did not arch above us.

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thinking, which we would think if we did not first evoke the

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in order to walk.” For that would of course not be

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at night, for what we would then perceive, unprepared, would
be such a terrible shock that we would not be able to lead a
water. We could not float in it, for that would mean that we

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solidity the way minerals do. In our thinking we would not
would be thrown formlessly in all directions if the
Archangeloi did not live in our feeling. We would disappear

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— the rainbow would be here
On this occasion I would like to bring to your attention

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earnestness would mean more to those who have already heard

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who had not attended the previous ones. So, it would be
would form an esoteric nucleus for all the esoteric work in the
and would come again to Michael. And we would find that after
Michael era than the previous ones. I would like to emphasize
there is to experience there: he would be crushed! The Guardian

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would become problematic for the gods to whom it has belonged
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They would darken in you the I.
They would darken in you the I.
In that realm, where your feeling would
them if our Self would find itself.
Would act with spiritual creation.

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to give us divine forces without our own effort. We would be
that is permeated by ahrimanic Beings who would cause us to
light. In light alone we would be benumbed, dazzled. We may not
devote ourselves to the darkness alone, for then we would lose
hair would be entirely rays of light. Look at your whole body:
In that realm, where your feeling would
Would act with spiritual creation.
In that realm, where your feeling would
Would act with spiritual creation.
a feeling respecting the world as a finger would if it could
body. If the finger could feel for itself it would say: I am
wants to receive them should not request them; it would serve

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the middle between life and death; how life would have us
vanish in timidity; how death would have us cramped in
would be useless for the recipient to ask.

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because we are, after all, in the world, then our feeling would
he would have received the corresponding verse, he may receive
myself. It would be useless for the one who wants to receive

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what I would like to have as a calm prevailing mood in the
After that introduction, I would like to start with the verse

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would have changed in 1914 when those who had encountered
difficult decisions here or there, would no longer have stood
other. Things would have developed in a different way if this
itself for such a long time, now met only those who one would
not from one sided party views in the last decades, those would
to add a personal remark it would be this: For years I have
enterprise would be taken from them and single employers doing

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With reference to my presentations I would like to ask you to
today's lecture I would like to make a provisional outline for
consider what I would like to call the rhythmic system, in
— would prove that the real spirit within the meaning has
meeting the natural organism, as you would place yourself
the following. You would say that this human head- or
continued the game of analogy, would be the next thing? The
next thing would be to say the social organism divides into
consider origins developing in a natural way, would even refuse
yesterday I would speak about the particular relationships of
would like to say it is clear to me, as we are going to be
personalities who are involved, how different events would have
entire interrelationship of states would have been different
would mostly have an uncomfortable effect. For this reason, they
Today, I would say for example, we are in the most terrible
most terrible time of The War, it would be to say: People who
consider a remedy would work the least effectively as a remedy
decades. This I would like to found and implement and prove in

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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view the proper answer would be: ‘At the moment this is of no
have any formulation that would resemble a future state or a
rising up of a type of fanaticism, as I would like to call it.
uniformed state just like one would try to do with the human
this particular sphere, something can be achieved. I would like
lectures — that many people think that if schools would
people. I would like to show this will not be the case. Of
I might offer a comparison I would like to point to this little
their common consensus it would never have led to this
would like to use a comparison at the closing today.
would like to refer to some poor chap, Stephenson, who
would it be if I tied one tap to the other tap with a string,

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— I would like to call it, to what has been pushed down
actually I would like to shed light on several things which
left to what it would fall into if humanity freely, simply out
would like to say that what is expressed in these two opposing
human labour would be so totally engaged in economic life
Proletarians with Marxist viewpoints had hoped for, would be
rules, then human labour would be used up. Because the leading
sphere. However, these associations would be designed out of the
the economic life a restriction and limitation would have to
substantiation, I would still like to say that the law bases a
One would fully award rights over a certain territory, to those
real crossing point, I would say, of the modern social question
only, would not be through some realization of theories,
this into consideration if I would attempt establishing one
looked for then he would be brought to trial by a judge who he
of the state, the so-called state, would be propagated through
would develop in international relationship of nations through
organisms. Otherwise politics would necessarily, at least in
moment it would either culminate into the military or
had ever dared take on. Actual relationships would then clearly
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manikin who would like to be on the way to becoming a human
thoughts towards its foundation would not be mere thoughts
derived out of abstractions but out of reality; they would be
movement. I would like to say: as a negative, spiritual life
if, despite economic life, there would exist a foundation which
factors and interests would be needed. One would then have a
fundamentally in future! It would be different if a judgement
would consider that, what belongs to the most elementary
is. In the future, it would not appear more difficult to know
social organism. Its first member would be the spiritual life.
initiatives of people and it can be so, would be most fruitful,
considered towards anything damaging, which would certainly
with the interests of the individuals who would suffer during
subconscious force then it would — just like in a natural
organism it would always in an approximately natural way result
would also prevent something unhealthy being created when in
Steiner: I would like to comment on the honourable previous
would have noticed if you were listening attentively, how my
would like to add an example which I would like to draw your
imagine that Avenarius considered how his philosophy would play
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search for a rescue boat; they would not be able to find such a
That the work of the modern Proletariat was achieved, I would
would have been terribly easy if people had not forgotten how
economic process. Does this not make it clear that he would
which he can't misuse the other on the grounds that he would
How would this great cooperative be set up? Here one must take
There are those who would admit they became enlightened by what
further development and about this evolution I would like to
science I would like to say a few words to you.
— I can't describe it in detail, it would take too long
and consumption of goods. What will be of relevance here would
spiritual power. Here would be those who are in the position,
would face, through a free understanding of all colleagues,
spiritual life would replace those in positions held by
which would give the worker the possibilities to establish a
times, would arise again as the interconnection between a
conclusion, I would like to touch on one area, an area which I
would have to go around dragging your tables and chairs and
would it be impossible to place these on a healthy basis.
my sake think about it, it is like this — I would like to
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quite another matter. Detailed evidence in support of this point would
would-be learned gentleman remarked: “Goethe was really a Mystic,
deeper underlying truth, he would be using a phrase when he writes:
that a poet with Goethe's deep insight would use such an image without
into this kind of dramatic art. Again, when human feeling would fain
would lead too far. But it is everywhere apparent that in the depths
co-operation between beings, there would be no evolution. Thus is the
themselves? But if they were to do so, the world would enquire about
The pupils of the Grail were told of a state to which man would attain
would be purified, the substance of his body would become as pure and

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sense in which the latter was understood in the Middle Ages), he would
have been at a loss to know what was meant. It would have been
he would enter a world where super-sensible truth would be revealed to
would understand the universe let us not pay heed to space, for space
would be three hundred and sixty days in a year. But there are, in
human being to a lifeless nature. But Iamblichus would have
spread of Christianity. But after the extermination of what would have
related of Plotinus. The legend ran: There were many who would no
and he became the tragic figure who would fain have spoken of
There is no telling what would have come to pass in Europe if the
destroy the heathen temples. Indeed he would have been willing to
Being would fade away and that the ‘Galilean,’ the man of Galilean
stock would be worshipped as a God. In the thirtieth year of his life

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fact. In that case, something would disappear, something very
something abiding. This would remain even if the occurrences
could one any longer discuss the subject. This would be best of
the Society — would be to leave the old Anthroposophical
The result would be that we should have the old
modus vivendi between themselves. But it would be
whether you would not wish to avoid an untruth which would
than to have something which would end very soon, none the
Central Executive Committee would express themselves in regard
Anthroposophical Society as would include the possibility of

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something to do with Anthroposophy, would not necessarily have
Anthroposophical Society existed, it is likely that there would
But there would be no need to pay any attention, from the point
These persons would be scattered over the world, and might
would not need to have any external connection with them. This
I do not even know whether that would have done much good. But
most part things take place which he would not in the least
erected beside it, which would in turn, be so arranged in their
was the Anthroposophical interest. And this interest would have
been the thing that would have become fruitful in preeminent
had to be so Anthroposophically worked through that it would
Society; but in reality, this is not true. For there would not
place in which youth, the youth of today, would feel itself

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would call luciferic, others ahrimanic. I have spoken of
soul activity we know as thinking. I would say that when
from the rest of me. If I were to cut it off it would
wither; it would no longer be my finger. The human
This would normally cease the moment Earth evolution
beings would be released from the tutelage of those
organization would not have been perceptible to our
Their proper sphere would be everything that has to do
subject. It certainly would not be possible for anyone to
self-evident; otherwise we would do it differently. But
everybody still come to your church? That would show that
element will enter into our thinking. We would not have
we would merely be dreaming. But we can also rise beyond
we want to understand human life; all we would be doing
thing we would not be doing is to see human life in such
they would return from the east. It was necessary for

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Europe. Thus I would say that the physical basis for
entering into the spirit in which they wrote, we would
course, for if they were just my own I would not mention
Theosophical Society would not have excluded or
initiation wisdom would depend on that initiation wisdom

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of occasions — for that would cause tremendous
would think of going against them — at least in
certain areas no one would go against them.
times of which I have been speaking that would have been
so that spirits of the higher hierarchies would be able
humankind during that partly prehistoric period it would
special grace. Everything he did would succeed because
divine spirit. This god would be similar to them in
seriously we would give up those narrow ideas that do not
nowadays would say this more or less as a joke. Yet
things which it would have been unthinkable to dispute
was right there among human beings. There would have been
hand. He would take that to be self-evident. At the time
living in an age when it would be a nonsense to look to a
effect. We live in an age when it would be sheer madness
same thing today this would merely indicate that they are
empty phrase but in reality. It would have been treason.
say ‘I am German’ would make them criminals.
external life. It would have meant going to prison or
what it would mean for the inner soul life of someone of
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proper idea of current events one would have to take
There would be an enormous difference, however, if people
reflect on what would happen on this earth if these words
were to come true the result would be that human society
in every part of the globe would very rapidly become a
ideals expressed in those lines would then become
opposition arises in some corner or another it would be a
would treat us as a harmless sect, as odd characters, and
them say: ‘It would take the ground away from under
think what would happen for instance—to give a
made soul down to them. What would happen if criticism
issue without prejudice would find that it has nothing
Christian faith. They would find that during the Middle
committed murder, they would have to look back on this
masquerading as Christian dogma would be scared out of
to become known there would be no room any more for such
the matter they would find that the spiritual science
God is more powerful than a priest would say so because
bring to expression what he has in him. for this would

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This would
would be cause for general alarm. After all, it does make
serious about it, that being hung up on wrong ideas would
relationship to these. In diagrammatic form I would draw
would serve to indicate perception by the eyes and ears.
now has been alive inside them. It would mean teaching
would teach anthroposophy to the children — we
would never think of doing such a thing — but
would be taking the easy way simply to teach
particularly public opinion, they would free their
action of the heart, in respiration—that would be
also have to eat and drink--would be compared to the
very different than mere analogy would make them to be.
would be a good thing to be fully aware that there has
further appeal that would make it known internationally
— that I would not dream of making a similar appeal
Stuttgart — I would spend three or four days here
the way we are going would mean that the institutions
which have now been established would swallow up the
original spiritual movement. We would be taking away 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 Jesuits, by positive Protestantism and so on, would
be able to do their part. They would be of no account,
produces the flame.' That would be nonsense of course. It
through a telescope, would it see our plants, animals and
Pointing a telescope at the earth the moon would be
someone looking from outside would see what goes on
to follow the path that would lead to feeblemindedness if
— it would be quite amusing to represent this in a

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but the flame, I would say, that is lit within us by
earth from Mars, for instance, none of these would
well imagine, and it would be in accord with the truth,
observe the earth — would perceive nothing of the
kingdoms. He would only perceive what goes on inside the
would vanish before the eye of an inhabitant of Mars. He
would perceive only what goes on inwardly in the organic
life of human beings and for him that would be the
would simply refute him. A spiritual scientist finds
concern about the things one would like to see overcome.
by the content, even a fool would find it relatively easy
we must look for its reality. Let me ask you this. Would
organizations — everybody would admit this. The
final word on the subject, because that would be too
Buechner and Vogt would have been unfair to their
ahrimanic sphere, where egoity would be lost. It is not a
would encourage materialism to become real and not mere
opportunity would arise to say these things to a

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remained as it was, people would in a sense have
would have had to say: ‘A god within me is moving
my arms.’ When they were walking, they would have
beings would find the right way of growing out of that
the faculties that would lead to freedom, and for that
terms; these words would have to be translated into the
science of the spirit would however apply the same
of the] Jesuits would be excellent if they confined
individuals suggested that human beings would gain
What would
for which the earth would provide the basis. The very
would not expect to see someone come through the door
whose clothes are covered in flour. Nor would you expect
— and that would have been a genuine miller —
the modern desire for scientific terminology, I would not
always been applied in a sense that would be in accord
it much more widespread than you would think.
way I have described today. It would be more comfortable

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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were as alive to us as the word 'immortality', we would
the ancient Orient you would be able to say: For him,
in their pure original form we would have to go a long
economists. Spencer would have done a great deal better
Middle people would be utterly remiss, however, if they
vibrations would be intensified in that machine. The
vibrations of human nerves would be transferred to the

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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human beings that will then work more or less independently. I would say,
France. You can see now that it would be quite correct to say that,
something occurred that in the past would have taken quite a different
as a horse would have done. That is the characteristic feature of modern
I would say, however, that
Perceived in the phenomena of nature in the past. Then, people would look
would be superstitious to say that demonic spirits are active in the
[play] I referred to this as the reappearance of the Christ. I would also
Gospels. The Albigenses, Waldenses and others who would not accept this
aware what would happen if the Gospels became accessible to the masses.
would be magnificent and important to say of our age that human beings
speak of ‘scribes and Pharisees’. Our judgement would be
statement that Spengler is wrong. We would simply be lying to ourselves.

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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we would never be able to develop a spirit-man, a
ourselves we would have to do without spirit-self,
indeed a cultural life of that kind, that would be
People would then find that good things were also
would then also share a social life that would give rise
was being written the time had indeed come when one would
to transform these images into concrete forms that would
never develop the spirit-self. All we could develop would
be a dead science. We would therefore be adding more and
excluded. We would walk about among these
'thought-corpses', they would cast their spell upon us,
and we would thus live up to Ahriman's ideal. One of the
thesis would be rejected as being subjective and
personal. The young person would therefore visit
would mean taking out yet another book. The whole thing
would then be put together to make a thesis. Only the
outer physical individual would actually be involved in
all this, however. The young man or woman would be
would consist in getting hungry when one has been at it
for a few hours, and this hunger would be felt to be
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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I would
of us. If this second member were not in man, the body would at every
moment follow only the physical forces; it would decay. The fighter
knows. If, however, on the part of the ignorant, the reproach would be
reproach of arrogance would lie entirely on the side of those who know

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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energy if we would understand our place as man within
would argue a very poor understanding of the future if we
stress. It would, further, be wrong to assume that the future
fewer socialist “programmes” would be formed; they
would only take time and trouble to observe even the outer
longer work into man, for that would darken man's consciousness
time; but we would fail in our, duty to the present if we did
and education which would take into account the fact that in a
would give the reason for the fall in the mark; but men's souls

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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worlds, out of free will and of their own accord. If we would
springs from an egoistic interest in people. They would prefer
preceding night, how different events would have been! These
developed in two quite different directions. If we would see
an Oriental would say: “I look at what is going on in the
tragedy of the bourgeois system is that it would grasp

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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scientist of the day, what the evolution of the Earth would be
man were absent, the Earth would develop without him, bring
forth its minerals, plants and animals: things would go on more
or less as they do now, except that man would not be there, and
no cities or houses would be built. Therefore, from the
Earth would have developed without man, just as it has done
in its evolution would long ago have fallen into decay and
same way the Earth would not be able to develop unless it
ferment. By their means the Earth, which would otherwise long
people who die before 28 — to consider this to-day would
two forms in which this temptation can arise; one I would call
that if it exerted its full weight it would crush the
would be no possibility of poets being born among us, of
minds only that I would reach, for it is from hearts that must

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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relations with St. Petersburg would continue friendly, as
we would be honest with the proletariat, we must say that this
That is the conflict to which I would draw your attention
would be no share for each worth having. I repeat, it is
would not improve the condition of the masses at all; but
“accurately” reckons? In that case there would be
regulations were to be made as would favour the growth of that
Eastern Europe and which has conclusively proved that it would
Treasury as taxes grew there somehow or other, and would
shall see, for instance, how foolish it would be for men in
I would gladly give a whole course of lectures to deal with
would be a terrible mistake to push to extremes the State
of the Threefold Organization, would aim particularly at
Many things would look very different — for example,
what I fain would discuss at greater, length. I have only been
of mankind in the future. Many a manufacturer would be only too
itself?” — only he would have to clap his hand over

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