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  • Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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    • mentioned here only as being typical. I will only draw your
    • and now knows: you bear these imperfections with you as a comet
    • bears its tail. You bore them in yourself in other lives and
    • must compensate for them in later lives. What you have stepped
    • over until now, without having an awareness of it, now you can
    • you take this all together, with what I have referred to as
    • used in order to penetrate into the spiritual world, you will
    • we use them in the life of the physical sense world. If you
    • himself/herself through and through with the insight: you
    • should not use the features that make you into an evil human
    • much as you use them here, so much you take away from the
    • much you need to awaken yourself to the spiritual world. There
    • were to draw conclusions from what has just been said: that you
    • who says: so you maintain that it is entirely good, if a human
    • yes, cannot old Christianity satisfy souls much more than your
    • fifty-third year, the thought came to him: your strength has
    • been used lovelessly, since you more quickly offer what appears
    • as your salvation of humanity, than when you still used it
    • thought: you now use more strength, when you pour out your
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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    • a picture. In the astral world you do not perceive pain or joy in an
    • by little you will have learnt to understand these images. There is
    • murder. Matters namely stand as follows: Whenever you relate something,
    • you produced the corresponding thought-form; but also the fact which
    • you relate rays out a thought-form. If your thought-form corresponds
    • astral plane and strengthen each other. You thus strengthen the life
    • of the being you are talking about. But in the case of an untruth the
    • thought-form streaming out of your words does not correspond with that
    • To a clairvoyant a man's inner life is not concealed. When you acquire
    • clairvoyance, you can see a person's aura, the image of his soul-life,
    • which hovers around him. The souls of men lie open before your eyes.
    • Even as you see the complexion and the hand of a person, you then see
    • before you the pictures of his soul-life.
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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    • the images of the astral world. This also shows you why we should strive
    • through a process of transformation. Think of your childhood years!
    • How many thoughts and concepts approached you and how much you took in!
    • And how your thoughts and concepts changed from the 10th to the 20th
    • year! Your temperament undergoes a far weaker change. A passionate child
    • In the East there is a proverb which says: what you think to-day, you
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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    • Today I should give you
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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    • his astral body. First you must live through his whole past life backwards,
    • you will reap what you sowed.
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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    • that this person will soon grow old and not evince much youthfulness.
  • Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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    • you will feel that the critic in you becomes a mere apprentice.”
  • Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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    • human being as the spiritual. But it existed in a — I beg you not to misunderstand the word
    • You see, the whole polarity between the ancient
    • death. You can go through the whole of Hegel's philosophy and you will find nothing that goes
    • which a great deal can be traced). You see, Kant was still — this is clearly evident from
    • the World Fellowship of Schools, in accordance with the conviction you have been able to gain
  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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    • You see, this is why it is so difficult to speak
  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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    • I have drawn your attention, from the most varied
    • of the older development of humanity, but I should like to draw your attention to a few things.
    • in the young Goethe and which one senses strongly when one reads the scenes, which gushed from
    • Goethe in his youth, of
    • And then you see how, on
    • You see how in old age he turns, in Part Two of
    • as a young man, comforts himself with what after all also contains a great deal of the West: the
    • If you take Hegel's philosophy, you find — I have often mentioned this here — that
    • this philosophy develops in every respect towards the spirit. Yet nowhere in Hegel do you find
    • anything which goes beyond the physical-sense life. Instead of a real teaching on the spirit you
    • sum of abstractions of what lives in the human being himself; and you find what is supposed to be
    • the world-view of science. You can sense this if you let the — albeit rather coquettish
    • work on you. Even though, in Tagore,
    • something much deeper. You see, when one looks to the West one finds primarily a certain
    • exceptionally suited to the economic life. I have shown you how this scientific way of thinking
    • If you go to the East there is no understanding at
    • — I mean the elder, who was more orientated towards the West — and you
    • where the Germanic element is meant to be shown with its dualism, you see the
    • — the red-yellow of revelation and the black-brown of reason. You see there, felt in
  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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    • One cannot do it like this. You, dear friend, picture the
    • human being far too simplistically. You picture three forces. This is not how it is with the
    • development, these two soul-constitutions, which I have characterized for you, stand side by
    • would have been a good way of coming into what you find in my
    • Herman Grimm which I just read out continues as follows: 'You can see it today: no one seemed to
  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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    • of transition. And now try and grasp a thought which, however strange it may seem to you, must be
    • that you were born, that you exist, is not what matters!' This did not interest him. It was the
    • today. Tomorrow and the following day we shall have to link up this prelude which, as you will
  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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    • in the accounts of the old clairvoyants and, basically, as you know from my
    • wave which had already taken root in Greece, as I have described to you, which had its source
    • The old spiritual life based on spiritual vision — which, as you know, had abolished the
    • You know from history and from what I have related
    • try sometime to hold in mind for yourself everything that people accept nowadays as being true,
    • the most comfortable way, in the way they learnt in their youth — if people knew that in
    • their eyes so as not to see what the external symptoms are saying. You won't believe how, even
  • Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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    • I tried yesterday to describe to you something of
    • easiest way and of value. From the way in which I had to speak yesterday it will be clear to you
    • must be absolutely correct. But what must be regarded as imminent is what I characterized for you
    • soul the outlook on life of today's younger generation, and compares this with the outlook of
    • their eiders when they were in their youth. The difference between older people and the
    • youth of today has been depicted again and again, particularly by poets; and if people did not
    • those who are old today and those who are young.
    • youth, was a dowry from the spiritual worlds which he had experienced before entering into
    • You have only to think of the demands that have arisen as the outcome of a gigantic piece of
    • denies the spirit utterly. I put you through a trial yesterday. In order to spare your delicate
    • You know that spiritual science shows how our
    • But you will know, if you reflect on how much of
    • this cosmic-earthly evolution can be brought to you, that during earth-evolution only the germs
    • you will see that, essentially,
    • situations. However many more national states you set up you will provide only so many more seeds
    • youth in its care. One can deduce from this that there is an attack here on spiritual science.
    • profession it is to speak about Christology, who gains his daily bread by educating youth in
    • just ask this hobgoblin: Which Gospel? One should ask him: What have you done to the Gospels with
    • your theology? You have brought it about that the whole of Christology has vanished from modern
    • necessary in receiving spiritual science and what is actually there. You see, one can disregard
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  • Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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    • If you put together what I told you yesterday
    • week ago, you will obtain an important key, as it were, to many things in
    • Spiritual Science. I will now give you only the chief ideas needed for the
    • further course of our considerations, in order to enable you to find your
    • phenomena. No doubt the following question has often arisen before your
    • Picture to yourselves that when we enter physical existence we are born
    • quite specific conditions. You should consider deeply that our life between
    • Now you will
    • life between birth and death. But if you also take into consideration what
    • surrounds you, this does not stand there by itself but is the result of
    • what went before. I would say, you are brought together with what went
    • physical conditions of the succession of the generations, you will say:
    • descendants, and so on. But if you study historical life you will say that
    • Now you will
    • into which they are born disappear. If you can grasp this last thought, you
    • will realise that, to a certain extent, you help the spiritual beings to
    • guide the world by devoting yourselves to what lies in their intentions.
    • order to see how it is ripe for downfall. Here on Earth you are made
    • acquainted with things which one can get to know only on Earth. But you
    • bear that up into the spiritual world, you behold the downfall of the epoch
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  • Title: Talk To Young People:
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    • A Talk to Young People
    • Rudolf Steiner raises the social challenge for youth of our time:
    • If this anthroposophical movement is sincere and if young people find
    • Rudolf Steiner raises the social challenge for youth of our time:
    • If this anthroposophical movement is sincere and if young people find
    • The Epistemological Task of Youth,
    • You have come to this Youth Conference
    • with all the questions and problems in your hearts that assail young
    • We don't see much light yet. You can
    • begun to influence our development. Young people
    • same as always. Youth continually rampages against everything their
    • epoch the young have rebelled against the old.
    • what is living and working today in young people, more or less
    • have already seen the various groups and the movements young people
    • them hippies today. Tr.] and other youth groups — we've seen them
    • You see,
    • subconscious of most of today's young people there is the peculiarly
    • in human evolution. Sometimes you can observe this quite intensely,
    • as happened to me in Norway. A very young high school lad wanted to
    • such a young fellow would only bother me. (In these matters it's
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  • Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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    • You all know that human
    • You will all be aware that in
    • though you are perfectly unaware of this dreamer, other Beings know
    • So now you have obtained
    • evolution. And you will realize that, if this is the fact, we, by means
    • You see, under these
    • Now you will see that we
    • Saturn man in you the mineral Jupiter comes into existence. So true is
    • this, as it is true that in the fowl that runs out of your way nothing
    • This will show you that
    • centre — (you may call him the Christ, if you wish), with Lucifer
    • keep on saying: “What we learn (or practice) is esoteric! What you
  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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    • this great problem. And I beg you to be entirely clear that only
    • You remember the pronouncement of the
    • plays so great a role in the education of youth even up to our own
    • observed — but you need only read the Bible
    • — and already in the first chapters you will
    • I had to give you this historical
  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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    • life-without-knowledge, which unites itself like a young shoot in
    • Tree of Life? You will perhaps no longer find incomprehensible what I
    • have to say concerning these words if you bring before your soul in a
    • When you keep in mind that our whole
    • no longer appear to you so inconceivable if I now bring before you a
    • draw this somewhat diagrammatically (see p.5a) so that you may
    • body. You must not be horrified that it is Lucifer who weaves with us
    • things, as must be self-evident to you, through our ego. It is a
    • ego. This, you see, prevents us from re-living in the night the
    • Our daily life consists, as you know, of
    • I hope you mark how this is: the
    • Thus you see: Faith is Knowledge held
    • phrases what perhaps can remain in your memory from the
  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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    • I called your attention here once to the
    • Now you must be clear whence all that I
    • have just analysed actually comes. You will all remember the account
    • When you call to mind the Moon evolution as described in my Occult
    • Science you find that during that time the separation of the moon
    • great significance, as you can gather from
    • Now if you examine both Greek literature
    • and Grecian art you will everywhere find how the Greek strove to
    • sculpture as well as in poetry, in fact in philosophy too. If you
    • acquaint yourself with the manner in which Plato still sought, not to
    • whom thought works humanly, thoughts externalise, you will find this
    • You must, however, inscribe in your
    • closely to the wonderful words: ‘I am with you all
    • But you gather something else from what
    • I have just explained. When you observe this motion- (Diagram (a)
    • being, then you will understand: In Greece the evolution of humanity
    • the component parts of man into the cosmos. You can follow this in
    • character. If you do not forget that, in mentioning something like
    • if you remember that in all that concerns our work on this Building
    • only the first most imperfect steps have been taken, you will not
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  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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    • there arises through this, as you can readily imagine, a kind of
    • beg you to pay great attention to this, for it is full of importance,
    • to have done during the Moon-evolution. When you consider this
    • earnestly you will understand that something of immense significance
    • You can
    • refer to Kant: There on the one page you always have proofs brought
    • on the other page you have just as strict proofs advanced, that the
    • Golgotha. You see, in ordinary life and also in modern science what
    • Consider a corpse. Can you say that this corpse is the man? No, this
    • (as you will find in
    • universal truth. Here you have the facts as to how, from a certain
    • You see,
    • wished to place these indications before you today, since it is
    • You see,
  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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    • arable land, meadow, or what you will (a drawing was made), and
    • Now you
    • see, it is quite clear to you, I think, that this worm-philosophy
    • You see,
    • You also
    • it can be a world-conception completely tenable inwardly. You will
    • dwells. You see from this that you cannot rely on so-called proofs,
    • unless you first come to understand where these proofs originate. For
    • Now you
    • can raise a question, my dear friends, you can say:
    • ‘Fine, you have now compared the world in which the
    • neighbouring planet (you may read this in my
    • departure of the Moon from the earth. You see from this that two
    • concept of possession? You could not imagine that an Archangel during
    • senses shall be developed: ‘Your eyes shall be
    • should have to say: You will become as gods, your senses will be
    • opened; you will distinguish between what pleases you and does not
    • please you, what you call good and evil, and you will wish to possess
    • all that pleases you, that you call good. — One
    • what is given. One must reflect upon something; In developing for you
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  • Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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    • sense-organs are today essentially physical organs. You will easily
    • Now you can conclude from this that the
    • of what in fact works as the external world. You can indeed follow
    • You see from this that it lay in the
    • ‘Ye shall be as gods, your sense shall be opened
    • and said: ‘I dare not, as you know, speak of
    • tell you what the others are like and all the bad things they are
    • than we are really entitled to do. By saying this I wish to give you
    • Your eyes shall be opened’ ... Very
    • diagram — MISSING). You must not imagine this
    • is exactly as if you picture a column of Seltzer-water and there are
    • You see how we must take in hand an
  • Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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    • merely an ancient belief but an actual truth for, as you know,
    • ‘circuited’, as we say. You know quite well how this
    • conceptions of the blood, of the body, of flesh. Turn your
    • prepared on the Earth around you without the influence of
    • the Moon; turn your minds to what comes from the Sun! For we
    • Here, you see, the mind of man is turned not to the kind of
    • that it was the source of your conception of the Divine. But
    • those days have passed away. The Earth can no longer give you
    • anything. Your own forces and your own forces alone must lead
    • you to the Logos, the creative principle. Hitherto you have
    • existence; now you are to revere the principle that is
    • the power of your Ego, of your Spirit.
    • is to say, as the Earth is Nature. I have reminded you many
    • are inculcated into the minds of the young in the form of their
    • What I have told you here is not only the result of Spiritual
    • Erigena and, secondly, to show you the paths along which we can
  • Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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    • me give a simple example. Imagine, for instance, that you have a seal
  • 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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    • supplement to many of the things which I brought before you last year in
    • would like to speak of in this introduction is this: to what I gave you
    • were to take shape in you gradually, if it were to develop further through
    • your own thinking and feeling.
    • so: here matters are quite different. The essential point is that you can
    • unfold a certain kind of effectiveness in your actions only if the impulses
    • nonetheless it will become clear to you. I should have to say a great deal
    • entire civilization of our time. If we think of the education of young
    • that come from the West. If you were to trace back all the educational
    • ideas considered reasonable in Central Europe today, you would find their
    • Nonetheless these paths exist and are to be found. And if you take the
    • Fichte (I will not lay any special importance on its details), you will
    • precisely the opposite of what it ought to be. Let me draw your attention
    • — institutions for teaching mature young men and women,
    • you saw last year that our pedagogy is not to be built upon abstract
    • nature but rather develop his individuality, etc. You know that our art of
    • at them as we went along. I must put this in the form of a paradox. Your
    • teaching has been good if you did not know to start with what you have
    • learned by the end of the year; your teaching would have been harmful, had
    • you known at the beginning what you have learned at the end. A remarkable
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  • Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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    • furnished — as you know from the various hints I have
    • the man, but spread more over the entire organism. You know that between
    • you will see that the presence of this feeling will accomplish more than
    • all the intellectual speculation as to what you should do. The feelings
    • purposes. All the abstract chatter you find today in books on psychology or
    • you the difference between man and animal. In an animal what is taken in of
    • not retarded before the fourteenth year. This you must not take to mean
    • If you
    • allow this insight to ripen in you and have the necessary enthusiasm for
    • it, then you will be able to say: with what you permit to resound in the
    • years, when that battle is still present and you are working also upon his
    • bodily nature and not merely on his soul — with this you
    • help you understand the matter still better, I should just like to mention
    • until he lays it aside — you are familiar with this from
    • bring the matter closer to your understanding, if you know that the music a
    • spiritual experience. You need only wake up during the night after hearing
    • a concert; you will become aware that you have experienced the whole
    • concert once more before waking. Indeed, you experience it still better
    • would like to draw your attention to a fact that must have our particular
    • exaggeration you will see what I mean), this force working outward from
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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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    • by man. This shows you that the essential thing is that certain things
    • taking a lesson. If you study education as a science, consisting of all
    • But if you undertake a study of the being of man, and learn to understand
    • the human being in this way, what you are then receiving corresponds to
    • point where we understand what is actually going on in the body. You will
    • movement and set them in motion. You will realise that from the standpoint
    • You
    • teaching, between just listening and working on his own. Now supposing you
    • sufficiently exerted. The will, as you know, is connected with the
    • metabolism. So if you let the child get too much into the habit of watching
    • and listening do not let him do enough work by himself, you will not be
    • Therefore you have to find the right rhythm between listening and watching
    • convey the actual perception of musical experiences. So if you look for the
    • you will also find the nerves that convey the actual perception of sound.
    • organism upwards. And you must now combine this with what I said in the
    • first talk. You can do this very well if you feel it. Through the fact that
    • You
    • see, if you reflect on these things, you will be impressed by how
    • remarkable way, and to help you understand it fully perhaps I may remind
    • you of Goethe's theory of colour. Quite apart from the fact that
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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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    • happening in different ways, and you have so far met mainly two ways in
    • melody in a single tone. You must characterise it from different sides.
    • by the bodily organisation, becoming too dependent on it. You will
    • understand the utter seriousness of this matter when I tell you that the
    • known to you, which manifest fully only in later years, reveal themselves
    • situation which draws the ego into the organism. You will see from this
    • drawing. In history, for example, it can be done excellently when you
    • develop your story in such a way — this is of importance
    • in it deeply, so that you call up in him reverence, or if you like hatred,
    • for a character if the personality you describe is deserving hatred. Such a
    • — if you look at the human constitution you will find on
    • the ego is involved in this breathing process, you can see that we shall
    • you have all learnt some physics and you will remember how hard teachers
    • children or the young people that air, which consists of oxygen and
    • stream up and pour in from the rest of the organism. In your thinking you
    • them in a different way. If you want to consider the changes which take
    • place within the head, you must approach them with the feelings of a
    • sculptor; if, on the other hand, you wish to consider those changes which
    • the rest of the organism undergoes, you must feel yourself a musician doing
    • little use to observe how, for example, the fingers grow, etc; instead you
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  • 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
    • draw you attention to some deeper aspects of the being of man.
    • As you
    • You will see that the latter is the case. As my little book
    • tells you, we can see human life running its
    • you do not regard man purely superficially you will be struck by the fact
    • forth from your being when you do the sort of exercises I describe in
    • intuitive knowledge are the same forces that you grow with at the time of
    • forces you use in supersensible knowledge to reach Intuition.
    • the source of youthful ideals between the fourteenth and the twenty-first
    • in the physical body for these ideals of youth, are the same forces you can
    • this you will see that the forces of Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition
    • just shown you the connections between the forces of supersensible
    • as you all know, there is something peculiar about the power of memory. We
    • body can make use of. If you eat a piece of bread and this bread is
    • transformed inside your body into the sort of substance that serves life,
    • forces you use when you remember. So the same kind of forces are being used
    • foodstuffs in the human body. And you actually always have to oscillate a
    • bit between your soul and your body if you want to dwell in memory. If your
    • body is carrying out the process of digesting too well, you may find you
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  • Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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    • was reborn and was again an old man when Jesus was young, namely the Simeon
    • “Lord, now let your servant depart in peace, for my eyes
    • have seen your Savior.†— Thus, after five
    • different abilities in his early youth than the Nazarene one. The former
  • Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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    • flows into Christianity. You have to think of this in concrete terms, not
    • just in the abstract. If you want to understand how this happens in
    • reality, you have to be able to point to the concrete event where the
    • as a divine law given from the heights. Buddha said: You will find in the
    • deepest power of the soul itself the law that I tell you.
    • speak, on the condition that one reckoned that this people is on a younger
    • this current could bring in younger life forces. For a long, long time the
    • not have had the youthful forces later. Therefore, it had to receive from
    • Then it has preserved something of youthful strength. Then forces come out
    • You see how this
  • Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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    • before God. In the same way, if you look back for that matter to the
    • someone can be a presumptuous young whippersnapper and still have his
    • today. I ask you to consider, after all, that in order to answer the
    • You will already be more
    • Ahriman.” You may have become aware that the attempt is to
    • result in regular figures, seeing them as empty voids. You can read about
    • something invisible, something imperceptible. And only if you begin to
    • then do the dead begin to see the form. If you look at a normal,
    • related that I once knew a young person, a sculptor, who had even
    • about Hegel, you might be led to believe I adhered to
    • Hegel's viewpoint. Then, in reading about Stirner, you
    • known to you, as also various things on the social question contained in
    • comprehend you, me, Himself?” “A name is
    • soul-spiritual. In more people than you might think, this mood will call
    • soul question. That is what I wanted to say to you today.
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    • Raphael; about the beautiful young painter who surpassed all others; who was
    • to think of yourself as the centre of this eternally existing
    • subsequently dies at thirty-seven, he is still young. So as to
    • Perugia, where Raphael underwent his youthful development,
    • wonderful excess of youth, for Raphael died at 37 years of age.
    • beautiful young painter who surpassed all others; who was fated
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    • satisfied? Did he say to himself: You have achieved what lived
    • in your soul?
    • talent in drawing could be exploited. The young Leonardo was
    • the youthful Leonardo. We encounter him, fresh in mind and
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    • You are emerging out of a spiritual world in which
    • them through life? You have to imagine that these
    • you give me, if I spin the straw into gold for you?” The
    • appears and says, “What will you give me, if I spin the
    • straw to gold for you?” She gives him a little ring, and
    • little man then says to her: “If you can tell me what my
    • name is, you can be free of your promise.” The miller's
    • which it can say to itself: As imperfect as you now still
    • are — this being within you is cleverer. It is at
    • work within you; it can carry you to the point of attaining the
    • greatest skill. It can grant you wings, enabling you to see an
    • endless perspective spread out before you, leading into a
    • limitless future. You will be capable of accomplishing
    • what you cannot as yet accomplish, for within you there is
    • something that is infinitely more than your
    • “knowing” self. It is your loyal helper. You must
    • only gain a relation to it. You have really only to be able to
    • than you yourself are, residing within you.
    • Esoteric Science you will find a
    • at the same time: Within you, there is something that
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    • from youth onwards, as it were, amid personalities who stood in
    • to dismiss you!” As though a matter of course, it
    • getting hold of it as a young person, and able to find the
    • has an older and a younger class of humanity play into one
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    • “Holy” you have a whiff of what was divine during the
    • Certainly Mohammed never said: Mohammed is your God — as it
    • terrible, isn't it. But you see, it's a question of guiding the
    • It will roll on in the words. You can find innumerable expressions
    • of imperialism into the third. For in the Anglo-American people you
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    • I have spoken to you about the
    • historical origin of what today may be called imperialism, and you
    • without was only an illusion. What was the reality? You see, with
    • You can really study history when you seek
    • involution in evolution, in that you look for what is happening
    • the reality: Lenin or Trotsky. And, continuing this analogy, if you
    • obvious if you study the constitution, the content of the secret
    • If you look back to England in 1720,
    • you will find very few members of these secret societies. Members are
    • form, or symbols which are also platitudes in a different form. You
    • parliaments and congresses. Then you have the use of symbols in the
    • I have described for you the substantial
    • nature of the times. You know that in the middle of the nineteenth
    • course superficial, but wherever you look you will find such things,
    • You see, to want the threefold society means
    • suggested, but your thirst cannot be quenched that way. If you go
    • sufficiently far, you will reach reality. You can have platitudes in
    • in the economy do not work because you can't eat them, or at least
    • arrives at some remarkable things. When you look into the origin of
    • things like Whigs and Tories, you find that they were originally
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    • When you consider what has been said here
    • during the past two days you will see that what belongs to the
    • attributes of the second stage, which I have described for you. Thus
    • to you yesterday, is the one in which the inner substance has also
    • read to you a definition of the law that Woodrow Wilson gave so you
    • to you about yesterday — the codex of platitudes:
    • Only in parenthesis I would like to draw your attention to what
    • to the facts. If you decide to decide according to objective
    • We say today — I beg you to pay
    • which is common to the second stage of human development. Perhaps you
    • will understand me better if you imagine that we try to paint this
    • opinion — that “the tree is green.” You cannot
    • the tree is painted which isn't green all you do is disturb the
    • effect even more. If you try to paint “The tree is
    • green,” you are painting something dead. The way we combine
    • Yesterday I indicated to you that in many
    • You know that a great enmity existed between
    • such meaninglessness plays a much greater role than you imagine. It is a
    • the well-being of humanity. I have already indicated to you what is
    • known to you, so that you should never say to yourself: We have
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    • you to take up this first lecture.
    • instance when you engage scientifically with lifeless,
    • inorganic nature you necessarily come to linking thoughts, to a
    • thoughts, as it stands, you now want to extend when you enter
    • phenomena in nature, in order to understand it. You would want
    • causalities which you would be doing with regard to lifeless,
    • inorganic nature. What you have appropriated as a system of
    • thought derived from lifeless nature, you simply apply to
    • metamorphosed idea need to be contained, so that if you want to
    • go from one sphere of world phenomena into another, that you
    • don't merely apply what you have learnt from lifeless natural
    • way in which you can position yourself internally to what can
    • of the triangle. When you consider this, you can see that with
    • a mathematical proof you have simultaneously something which is
    • as an inner creation. If you then have an outer triangle you
    • plants. Just as the sum of the triangle's corners, when you
    • if you go through an entire row of plants.
    • to “read” as well. You may remain within the
    • When you position yourself in this particular way
    • basic conviction you had in one area on to other areas. One
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    • would like you to consider that I had assumed last night, to
    • you.
    • During the time when Goethe, already as a young student and
    • You
    • and animal as you find everywhere in the 18th
    • metamorphosis, then one has to, if you are looking for
    • if you admit to everything which has been presented by recent
    • If you apply this same kind of consideration to the sense of
    • equilibrium, you obtain everything which you have experienced
    • through the sense of equilibrium in your own organism, rising
    • If you want to recall mechanistic laws you have to access them
    • through the image perceptibility of your sense of equilibrium.
    • When you think about this, you would understand the innermost
    • equilibrium in the cosmos. Then you could say to yourself: With
    • Through this you have gained an insight into the extraordinary
    • Here you have a few suggestions which can indicate the way how,
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    • dear venerated friends! It is always difficult when you have a
    • expression of “Logos” into some or other younger
    • philosophy's blossoming, you look back at the great philosophic
    • era of the Fichtes, Schellings, and Hegels; surrounding you
    • What I'm sketching for you now as a situation in which the
    • science you can ask — what are the concepts? From organic
    • science you can ask — what are the concepts? Likewise
    • really looks at it, it raises questions. In Central Europe you
    • through the anthroposophical experience you let the blood of
    • today at the start of our consideration, which I believe you
  • Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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    • When you direct your gaze in order to learn what really happens
    • nature. Thus, you can say the following. Just as for instance
    • You
    • see that through this manner of observation you can reach a
    • position where you are able to recognise a real relationship
    • you were to enter more into the details, which Anthroposophy
    • superficial definitions, you would soon see what kind of a
    • is. Then, however, when in this way you gain the world of
    • you have to admit nevertheless, with all great educational
    • such. Even in having the most beautiful principles in which you
    • frequently taught from a young age as having something like
    • has improved even in some public tuition. But, you all know
    • satisfactory” and so on. I have to confess to you, I was
    • understand the child — and even young people!
    • strike our bridge across to the young people and the child. What
    • appears in various forms as the youth movement — one can
    • is nothing other than the cry of the youth: ‘You grownups
    • When you go down from the general cultural point of view to the
    • individual you will once again find that these syllabi which
    • You
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    • social life in general. At that time you could say to yourself
    • could raise doubts when you oppose practitioners and get
    • repeated about the social question, if you question
    • other thing you could come across would be that at first those,
    • happens but you can't tell what it will actually be. This is
    • appeared in ancient times — you know this from my lectures I
    • place of today's scientific thinking then you will know that
    • appear in the way employees and employers — if you want to
    • You can't intertwine the one with the other in this
    • organised and while organising yourself also enjoy life and
    • the one hand you have the economic theorists who created axioms
    • You
    • you take a stand in opposition to such abstract attitudes,
    • flow. The social organism is something which becomes young, and
    • which I am trying to present to you to discuss through these
    • You
    • right: Capital is saved labour. You can do this with all
    • economic concepts if you remain within intellectualism. But
    • is not necessary to wait twenty years; you only need to go from
    • the concept which you had created in one place is no longer
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    • Thus, you will also allow, my dear friends, that not all sorts
    • I can't give you proof of this. This remains a truth: for all
    • Once you have understood this in a lively manner then there is
    • admits that out of the seedling, if you have an inner image of
    • it, you gain a truth which is that the mind itself can't be
    • is learnt from natural existence when you make an attempt to
    • When you make this attempt in earnest then the rest is a direct
    • personality: ‘It is actually remarkable that you even get a
    • large audience, because you avoid actually talking in the way
    • which is considered popular, which we call understandable. You
    • actually wonder how you still manage to find such a large
    • communion service. Still you can find many Catholics who search
    • ask themselves: What have you actually done? What justifies you
    • through Anthroposophical research you can say: To not come to a
    • with you every day until the end of the world.” He lives
    • characterise this again — you can find from the
    • found anything in your lecture which could be challenged from a
    • it is not what you say but it is the manner and way
    • how you present it. We must add that you speak to people
    • who are prepared in a certain way. You lecture to a kind of
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  • Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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    • when sensing his human dignity, must say to himself: you must
    • obey a law which penetrates you, you must devote yourself to
    • the law which you have grasped intellectually. This is roughly
    • and in the speech, you have nuances of the entire folk soul.
    • You are going to see that in the soul of central Europeans, in
    • needs to have the entire living person before you who expresses
    • you now open the dictionary you would find a multitude of words
    • You
    • must first make this experience lively if you want to
    • something which had to be carried; one didn't feel as if you
    • completely. It is something quite different to feel yourself
    • sense also symbols, and if you deny the ability of words to
    • indicate symbols, you would be totally unable to be impressed
    • more of his inner life in speech. That is why you have ‘m’ at
    • When you have Sanskrit terms in front of yourself, you soon
    • notice you can experience the nature of the consonants and
    • vowels within it. You notice how in this activity an inner
    • experience. If today you hear someone speaking in Sanskrit or
    • This is still noticeable today. When for instance you compare
    • you notice that in the English language the process of
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    • you will be able to consider this School as an institution
    • card, to begin in a way that will make you conscious of the
    • First of all, I would like to present to your hearts and to
    • your souls what should stand over our School as a kind of
    • Where you, O man, your bodily being
    • There your true being enters
    • You ask in the dark sweeping expanse
    • No longer, who you are and were and will be.
    • For your own being the day grows dimly
    • And you turn with angst of soul
    • Where you, O man, your bodily being
    • There your true being enters
    • You ask in the dark sweeping expanse
    • No longer, who you are and were and will be.
    • For your own being the day grows dimly
    • And you turn with angst of soul
    • from out the darkness you appear,
    • Your likeness manifesting you,
    • Yet also a parable of you,
    • Heard by your heart, giving strength
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    • sensation will be given through the words I provided to you the
    • Where you yourself, O Man, derive
    • Your bodily existence from earth and air and light:
    • There you do enter, for your own true-being,
    • In vain you ask of the dumb expanse
    • What you are, what you were, or will become.
    • For your own being, this light of day grows dim
    • Then do you turn your anxious seeking soul
    • In your own likeness manifesting you,
    • Yet forming you into a deeper parable,
    • The solemn spirit-word your heart can hear.
    • The Spirit-Messenger to you: he who alone
    • Can lighten up your path.
    • you must beware of the abyss;
    • You, if you pass by me in haste.
    • Your cosmic age has placed them there
    • In you as enemies of knowledge.
    • Your fear of creative spiritual being
    • Begat the monster in your will;
    • Your hate of spiritual revelation
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    • That is what I will speak to you about today, my dear friends,
    • their thoughts. And that includes all of you, else you wouldn't
    • Just imagine, my dear friends, that you were to go through life
    • between birth and death in a way that you could never really
    • know whether something that confronts you is truth or illusion.
    • You could not determine whether a person who stands before you
    • and speaks to you is a real person or the semblance of one. You
    • could not differentiate between something happening to you
    • what terrible insecurity that would cause in your life.
    • exactly as you would feel if life were to withdraw the
    • possibility of knowing whether you were dreaming or confronting
    • all the knowledge of the senses and reason you may have gleaned
    • in the physical world, you would never be able to know whether
    • a real spiritual being, a real spiritual fact stands before you
    • deceive himself by saying: well, now you have the spiritual
    • where does this come from? You see, when you confront the outer
    • world as a physical person, you think about this outer world.
    • And at the same time you have impressions from the physical
    • world, which in a certain sense slip under your thoughts,
    • supporting them. You don't have to do very much in order to
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    • would like to tell you a story taken from ancient esoteric
    • Behold, when I talk to you the words I speak are not human
    • What I have to say to you are the gods' thoughts, and these
    • gods' thoughts are imparted to you by human words. But it must
    • be clear to you that I am thus appealing to everything in your
    • soul. You must meet the words which I direct to you on behalf
    • of the gods with all your thinking, all your feeling, all your
    • willing. You must receive these words with all your soul's
    • enthusiasm, all its inner warmth, all its inner fire. You must
    • receive them with total alertness, to the limit of your mind's
    • there is one soul-force in you to which I am not appealing.
    • Your memory. And I will be satisfied if you do not hold in your
    • memory what I am now saying to you. I will be satisfied if
    • tomorrow you forget what I have said today. Because what you
    • usually call your memory, and what others call your memory, is
    • when you appear before me again tomorrow, and when I again
    • speak to you, appealing to your thinking, feeling, willing, and
    • to all your enthusiasm, all your warmth, all your inner fire,
    • to your mind's alertness, then these soul forces will be
    • said that I do not appeal to your memory, to your capacity for
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    • Well, you see, at the moment when one enters the esoteric, a
    • the element of warmth say: We give you your humanity through
    • When you think, O man, your being is not in you, it is in the
    • light. When you feel, your being is not in you, it is in the
    • warmth. When you will, your being is not in you, it is in the
    • air. Keep not within yourself, O man. Think not that your
    • thinking is in your head. Think that your willing is none other
    • mystically to say that you are one with the world by merely
    • thinking that you are, if you do not begin to experience the
    • fact that when you are thinking you are living in the entire
    • by doing so, by becoming one with the light of the earth, you
    • go out of yourself - go out, so to speak, through all the pores
    • of your skin into a divine-spiritual being - you become one
    • You
    • of me and say: You, human, we will not let you out of the light
    • again, we will hold you back in the light. This expresses the
    • They live in the periphery of the earth and say: You, human
    • being, should not remain with your soul in your body; with the
    • sun's first light of dawn you yourself should shine down on the
    • earth, you should set with the sun's afterglow, and encircle
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    • of nature in the outside world. But as you know, my dear
    • Well, my dear friends, you have already seen from the previous
    • Just think how much you directly feel warmth and cold to be
    • part of you. The difference between warm and cold affects you
    • strongly. Even air circulation affects you less. Whether the
    • air is good or bad you notice indirectly according to its
    • effect on your organism. The effect of light is the same.
    • how your perspiration, that is, the secretion of the watery
    • becomes aware enough to say: In reality you are related to the
    • vegetable kingdom. There is something in you that is as sleepy
    • try to think seriously about your innermost feelings and you
    • then you will have the feeling that you are not only in danger
    • yourself to humanity. The feeling of vegetable lameness must be
    • You
    • Philosopher's Stone. You will find them saying: The
    • You
    • With forces of your will unfolding
    • thinker you bestride the earthly realm,
    • Your animality will be shown
    • To you by your own force of thought
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    • quote almost verbatim. And you can see that the difficulties
    • You
    • human being: See, that is how you are over there, as you appear
    • in the physical world; here with me you are as your inner being
    • When you in earthly life
    • When you in earthly life
    • When you in earthly life
    • If you observe the human head in its true cosmic significance,
    • it is a mirror image of the heavenly universe. You must look
    • naively appears physically to be.) In looking up you must
    • recall that your round head is a true image of the heavenly
    • When you in earthly life
    • you should then try, after letting these mantric verses work on
    • around you for a while, so that you are living totally in the
    • atmosphere through which these words pass. And in this way you
    • will transport yourself to the sphere in initiation which in
    • You can will it
    • And willing provides you with
    • You can feel it;
    • And feeling provides you with
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    • develop as much as possible, and I ask that you be patient in
    • can promise you that in the future membership in the School
    • who continually claim that you can't confront people with
    • anthroposophy immediately, that you must somehow talk them into
    • the reason why you have had to wait so long for the lesson to
    • wish to begin today's lesson - without you taking notes, only
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • You feel it vast in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • Is it you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • Let flow through your soul's force
    • This imagination must gradually stand before you, my dear
    • flow through your soul's force
    • Let flow through your soul's force
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    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • You feel it vast in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • Is it you yourself who
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • now, my dear sisters and brothers, what is flowing to you from
    • the spiritual world through this School wishes to speak to you
    • about how by means of an intimate exercise you can become more
    • aware of the connection of humanity with the world than you are
    • You
    • you. You perceive the pressure. Or you perceive the texture of
    • the surface you are touching. But in reality, you are
    • continually touching in that you place your whole body from top
    • your feet. Only you are so used to it that you don't notice.
    • When you begin to notice it, then you will first feel
    • yourselves as human beings standing amidst the earth's forces.
    • man, touch and sense in your body's being
    • How earth forces support your existence.
    • man, experience in the whole round of your touch
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    • between people. For if you honestly consider that you possess a
    • one proceeds farther and farther along the esoteric path. You
    • can use whichever of the verses provided here which you
    • consider appropriate for you. But you should apply them
    • would like to again provide an indication of how you can leave
    • the body — if only by means of so slight a jolt that you
    • change the direction of your gaze from what surrounds you on
    • or if you really want to be affected by it, in reality. Behold
    • the planets, behold the stars, fill yourselves with the
    • infinite transcendence of what shines back to you from the
    • universe, and say to yourself: as human beings we are related
    • pictures in their constellations. And, you see, if we can
    • it becomes a plenitude of imaginations. You know the old
    • You see,
    • feeling comes to us: When you are here on earth you are in the
    • robust sense-perceptible reality. But you are blind, you live
    • in darkness. When you rise up with your sensibility then you
    • live in what otherwise only shines down to you from the distant
    • universe, and you live in the illusion of the distant universe.
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    • You have all probably been deeply affected this morning by the
    • If you will remember what was presented here in the last
    • Lesson, then what I have just said can live in your hearts.
    • You all know, my dear sisters and brothers, what has
    • Thus you
    • Thus you live in the earth-body
    • Thus you live in the earth-body
    • So you stride in earth's course
    • Thus you stride in earth's course
    • Thus you stride in earth's course
    • Thus do you strive in earthly works
    • Thus do you strive in earthly works
    • Thus do you strive in earthly works
    • Thus you live in an earthly body
    • Thus you stride in earth's course
    • Thus do you strive in earthly works
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    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • You feel it vast in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • Is it you yourself who
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • of the spiritual world. And many of you, my dear sisters and
    • you think. You are only not aware of it. You do not pay
    • enable you to feel how the human soul lives in the spiritual
    • world – for knowledge is meant to flow to you directly
    • doesn't matter much which one it is, it can be any mantra you
    • are familiar with. For your meditation select any mantra and
    • recite it in the fairest way you can. Do it therefor not
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • You feel it vast in spirit.
    • And then, once you have recited such a mantra to yourself,
    • try to sense how the reciting reacts within you. Try to come to
    • the point where you can sense the speaking, that you sense the
    • difference in your bodies between when you are silent and when
    • you are speaking. Try to sense the speaking in your organism,
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    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • Is it you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • The one who wants to show to you
    • Behold your senses' shining radiance.
    • The one who wants to carry you,
    • Your soul conveyed to souls
    • Behold the forces working in your thinking.
    • Desires to give you the ground of being.
    • calls you to cosmic existence:
    • Feel in your breath life awakening.
    • The one speaks who gives to you
    • Feel in your blood's weaving waves.
    • You must, my dear sisters and brothers, adopt these
    • intimate concepts if you want to penetrate into what the
    • Imagine yourself walking, and perhaps moving your
    • brothers, that you should go out into the world of triviality
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    • The Guardian of the Threshold must call out to him: You may not
    • do that. You may not succumb to Lucifer. You may not merely
    • fire, air. When you return to the physical world you must
    • otherwise in the future you will be an unstable person in the
    • contemptuous of ordinary consciousness. That you must not do.
    • So let us imagine, my dear sisters and brothers, that you are
    • beckons. You look at his face. At first he calls out to you,
    • Where is the earth's solidity which supported you?
    • earth's solidity, which supported you?
    • pervaded you?
    • You must understand, my dear friends, the reality that this
    • awakened you? — awakened you to existence.
    • Where is the air's stimulating force, which awakened you?
    • awakened you?
    • your attention to the ascending direction:
    • or purification — which ignited your I?
    • words correctly, which have come to you here today as mantric
    • Where is the earth's solidity, which supported you?
    • Where is the water's formative force which pervaded you?
    • Where is the air's stimulating force, which awakened you?
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  • Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • you?
    • you?
    • you?
    • Where is the fire's cleansing, that enflamed your I?
    • you?
    • Feel! as we feel in your thinking.
    • Experience! as we experience in your feeling.
    • Perceive! as we perceive in your willing.
    • When a thought is passing through your minds, my dear
    • Angeloi touch something when you think. When you are feeling,
    • something. When you are willing, while your willing is
    • supported you?
    • Feel! as we feel in your thinking.
    • Experience! as we experience in your feeling.
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  • Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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    • From this you will understand that membership in the School
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • However, a moment comes as you look around at the expanse of
    • grandeur and awesome beauty in your surroundings, you cannot
    • find there what the inner nature of your being is. So you
    • must say to yourself: the inner source of my being is to be
    • Those of you who do not yet have these mantric
    • What becomes of the earth's solidity, which supports you?
    • Feel as we feel in your thinking.
    • Experience, as we experience in your feeling.
    • Perceive, as we perceive in your will.
    • which penetrated you?
    • power, which awakened you?
    • Knowingly grasp inner being in your divine
    • Warm your inner life in divine cosmic
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  • Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • your I?
    • Has your spirit understood?
    • Has your soul apprehended?
    • Has your body experienced?
    • 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
    • When we look back from out there, if you imagine that you go
    • Pass through your eyes,
    • Your I penetrate the circle,
    • Pass through your eyes,
    • Your I penetrate the circle,
    • sisters and brothers, and you must put yourself correctly in the
    • Pass through your eyes,
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  • Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • Pass through your eyes,
    • Your I penetrate the circle,
    • What you have received
    • In the willing of your worlds
    • So you can illuminate thought,
    • So you can illuminate thought,
    • That you may live in feeling
    • That you may live in feeling
    • That you may work in willing,
    • That you may work in willing,
    • So you can illuminate thought,
    • That you may live in feeling
    • That you may work in willing,
    • You hear it strong in soul,
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  • Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • Pass through your eyes,
    • Your I penetrate the circle,
    • What you have received
    • In the willing of your worlds
    • My dear sisters and brothers! It was, as you
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • copied what I told you yesterday. Another notebook was left
    • assure you, my dear sisters and brothers, that the strict
    • observance of rules I informed you of at the beginning and
  • Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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    • only then, my dear friends, can you correctly understand what
    • is being said here — when you are aware that nothing else
    • that is willed in this School. You are all students of Michael
    • in that you are present in the right way in this School. Only
    • then, when you are aware of this, is it possible to be present
    • disposition and attitude, feeling yourselves to be members not
    • you — I'm speaking now to those of you who are here for
    • the first time — if you receive the words spoken here as
    • then you will be here in the right way, in the only way you
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • seeking, my dear sisters and brothers, you will be rewarded to
    • the extent it lies in your karma. But the first step will be to
    • transcendence, magnificence and majesty. When you can stand
    • there as an observer of all that surrounds you — of the
    • and radiance, then can you first say with complete intensity:
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    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • Yet you must beware of the abyss;
    • You, if you pass by me in haste.
    • Your cosmic age has placed them there
    • In you as enemies of knowledge.
    • Your fear of creative spiritual being
    • Begot the monster in your willing;
    • Your fearless knowledge alone overcomes it.
    • Your hate of spiritual revelation
    • Begot this weakling in your feeling;
    • Your burning thirst for knowledge must subdue him.
    • Dirty-red its form appears to you;
    • Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
    • Begot this ghost within your thinking;
    • Only when you have overcome all three
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  • Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • See in yourself the weaving thoughts:
    • Seeming world is what you see,
    • Selfhood's being hides in you;
    • Etheric essence flows in you;
    • Guiding Beings of your spirit.
    • Within you mingle seeming and being,
    • Your selfhood tends towards the seeming;
    • So plunge into your seeming being:
    • In you exist the cosmic-psychic forces;
    • Your selfhood then should understand
    • Your own soul's living powers.
    • Your life in full should turn to it:
    • Your inner Self should truly grasp
    • See in yourself the weaving thoughts:
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    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • Wherever you look, my sisters and brothers, light and darkness
    • intermingle. Look at your hair. The light plants it in your
    • head. But it must be permeated with darkness, otherwise your
    • hair would be entirely rays of light. Look at your whole body:
    • In that realm, where your thinking
    • You find, striving lightward,
    • Your Self, taken from you by spirit;
    • You can, when darkness entices you,
    • In that realm, where your feeling would
    • You find, loving warmth, your Self
    • You can, if cold does harden you,
    • In that realm where your will
    • You find, holding on to life,
    • Your Self vanishing in spirit's power;
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    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • not forget that as long as you are an earthly human being, even
    • when you have crossed over to the spiritual world, that once
    • you have returned you must adhere to the laws of the earth.
    • When you enter the spiritual world with your thinking, you may
    • not believe that when you return and organize your work and
    • your thoughts in the earthly environment you may fly around
    • dreaming within the earthly environment. You must reserve the
    • flying for your thinking when you are in the spiritual world.
    • You must practice deep, inner, intimate modesty, always wanting
    • to be a man among men when you cross back to the ordinary world
    • spiritual life in the ordinary world, that you will have the
    • strength to grasp thinking in a way that it can serve you in
    • You climb down to the earthly element
    • With forces of your will unfolding;
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    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • When you in earthly life
    • When you in earthly life
    • dear sisters and brothers: Learn to extend your thoughts out to
    • the world as you learn to stretch out your hands through
    • willing. Just as the objects of the world respond when you
    • extend your will to them, offering resistance, so do the
    • spirits offer resistance when you extend your thoughts to them,
    • You can will it;
    • provides you with
    • You interweave with wisdom.
    • This line must read as follows: “And feeling becomes your
    • will's thinking, your thinking's will, the awakening seed of
    • cosmic life.” Then you live in the glow. This is not a
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    • manner - what can be clear to you, my sisters and brothers,
    • lesson, your attention is expressly drawn to the fact that the
    • Therefore, my dear sisters and brothers, you must not take
    • mention this so that you can see how little arbitrariness is
    • You hear it strong in soul,
    • You feel it firm in spirit.
    • Into your senses' sense of being?
    • Into your life's evolving stream?
    • It's you yourself who,
    • Because you lose the force of thought
    • You will become
    • indicates to him: turn around and look back! Until now you have
    • been looking at what appeared to you as black, night-cloaked
    • gloom, about which you had to say that it will become inner
    • light and will illumine your own Self. With the last
    • become lighter, at first most gently. You feel now the first
    • light around you. But turn around, look back!
    • is like looking into a dark cell, for you do not see the
    • creative light within it. The truth is that what you had as
    • Observe the brain's convolutions, observe what you carry within
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  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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    • consider themselves practical you can certainly doubt that a
    • burning social question of the present. However, if you look
    • you in the most imminent way — a movement born out of thoughts.
    • to today you have quite powerful evolutionary processes taking
    • which can in turn take on other forms. If you look at science
    • then you see that the most pervasive statement it has to admit
    • be recognised in its true nature if you have the ability to see
  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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    • in turn be applied to the social organization. When you simply
    • take the belief you learnt about natural organisms and apply
    • then it shows you are unwilling to develop a capability to consider
    • research it according to its own laws, just as you do with
    • natural organisms. In order for you to understand me I have
    • you continue, like the researcher in nature, objectively
    • meeting the natural organism, as you would place yourself
    • regarding the earnestness of your observation, will stop.
    • want to call your attention now to how this play of analogies
    • when considered objectively. On the one side, you can
    • If you look for analogies, then you most likely will experience
    • the following. You would say that this human head- or
    • crudest of systems in the human organism. What then, if you
    • You could, if you wanted to play the analogy game, believe that
    • ask you to consider comprehensively, because it is important
    • instance, you can imagine how in various parts on earth,
    • wish to say I can understand every objection raised but ask you
    • which we have been driven?’ — I told you the day before
    • clear, not even recognised. To some I have said: You have been
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  • Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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    • and social soul wisdom than you actually realize, on both
    • is, in my view, extraordinarily interesting, that if you have a
    • spirituality. Yes, you can have the experience that when
    • you take this expression in order to really spiritually
    • to these things, to actualize the Christian “change your
    • want to say. Let us take some or other young student, in other
    • those who are implicated with it, already know. Now the young
    • know a dissertation where a young man was terribly plagued by
    • young man needs true diligence for possibly a year and so he
    • I said, I've asked you to excuse me with this grotesque
    • in order to show you how necessary it is to develop a feeling
    • You
    • result of slavery and you will, even by employing the greatest
    • regarding many human lives, arrive at no solution. You will
    • way, you may combine something out of ingredients of
    • — and your result will be a social Homunculus! Just as we
    • This will not be accomplished in any other way, if you look
    • then, when these three members exists side by side, when you
    • considered. You can study the actual events. It is a lovely
    • areas and the chambers of commerce. You see nothing about basic
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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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    • exploring certain sides of human thinking, you can feel what I
    • — whatever you want to call it, it is the same thing
    • time. I only want to draw your attention to one thing —
    • necessary, or you contradict them and by so doing, damage the
    • prosper and this is different again with spiritual life. You
    • could, if you wanted to bring something more or less concretely
    • Law. If you try and find what lies behind such real Law,
    • his use with the exclusion of others — you find it is the
    • so you find nothing other than that it finally comes back to
    • you try to tackle it. Without me getting entangled — and
    • one takes the pains, you come to say nothing other than legal
    • However paradoxical it sounds, when you examine the real
    • you will find the following: it originates in people and
    • Even though basically this law is easy to understand, you could
    • history, those like me, who is speaking to you now, who during
    • judges from the German region. You can see how beneficial this
    • days ago I made you aware how it doesn't depend on an outer
    • of the state. If you look into modern relationships then you
    • the layout for the management of spiritual life as well. To an
    • Central and Eastern Europe, above all in Europe. You have the
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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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    • they want to accomplish, or, as you can hear from various
    • first, not from the basis as perhaps some of you may believe
    • social movement. You need to try and recognise the will
    • You
    • important trust. You see, we are talking about the Proletarian
    • — I ask you to please take note, I don't say natural
    • Isn't it true, you could say: ‘Yet, the scientific way of
    • circles.’ — If you consider intelligent middle-class
    • circles, you will think about people whose beliefs are quite
    • You should not consider her formulation but what kind
    • of the spiritual life from that of the state. You can imagine
    • You
    • goods market and there is a demand for it, so you bring your
    • labour — the only thing you own — on to the labour
    • market, and it is only valid as goods. You are sold like goods;
    • you stand in the more modern economic process as goods.
    • With this you have already bought it! However, one needs to hold
    • However, if you have between the spiritual and the economic
    • then you have something which is capable of life inserted into
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    • basically because — and you might find this grotesque, a
    • scientific researcher like Büchner, and still your
    • relate something to you.
    • you glance over everything which relates to the question of how
    • Proletarian has been made into goods, you will gradually be
    • coerced through your observations regarding the economic life
    • to arrive at a point where you have to say to yourself: It has
    • science I would like to say a few words to you.
    • really lie, there you have the old merging which certainly had
    • You only need to think of taking the German history
    • history of the Hohenzollern, and ask yourself whether,
    • real practical people. What I have given you is not clouds of
    • connected to this money. You know how this money intervenes
    • can always swap other goods, whereas if for instance you had
    • the misfortune of only manufacturing tables and chairs, you
    • would have to go around dragging your tables and chairs and
    • wait for someone who had vegetables. Instead you could swap
    • your tables and chairs for the money they are worth and then
    • find what's applicable according to your needs. While the one
    • the same way, if you have insight into the necessity of
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    • we could prove to you that he never thought of them in connection with
    • help you to understand these things. We know that the world evolves
    • early spring flowers. The sight of the young plants revealed to him
  • Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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    • Let me try to tell you in brief words how Ammonius Saccas spoke of
    • orders. Look to the far East — so said Iamblichus — and you
    • you will find the same. According to the Egyptian priests, a God and
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    • frame of mind in which I speak to you today is not that in
    • which I was privileged to speak to you in earlier days; for,
    • like, however, to call your special attention to two things: to
    • extraordinarily gratifying youth movement. On the basis of
    • number of young theologians who were preparing for the vocation
    • five of the comrades of his youth or childhood, with whom he
    • that time to those young theological friends who had come to me
    • all that you shall give attention, not only to the mystery of
    • in such a way that we say to ourselves: “What you have
    • perceived here in the world of the senses, if you lift it up to
    • alive when you permeate it in the right way with impulses of
    • heart and will. When you truly irradiate your whole inner being
    • with will, apply your enthusiasm to it, then, as you idealize
    • your sense experience, you move with it in the direction
    • opposite to that which you follow when you bring the mysteries
    • is something that belongs to the upper man. If you give
    • attention to the whole human being, you will find in the common
    • sending forth new growth. And, dear friends, if you have once
    • souls and spirits to spirits, so that you enter the
    • this understanding, you receive Anthroposophical ideas into an
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    • more exclusive sense, if not to all of you together at one
    • time, yet on repeated occasions to single groups among you. But
    • among other persons a crass egotist. You need only reflect
    • about this and you will find that such is the case. Such a
    • the higher worlds, as you all know from my book Knowledge of
    • will occur if we do not say to ourselves: “You must look
    • world, entirely differently from the way in which you look upon
    • what is in the sense world. You must learn to transform your
    • thinking and your feeling. Just as the dreamer must enter
    • Theosophy. One is to read it, or, if you please, even to
    • Here, my dear friends, you have the conditions giving rise to
    • worlds, this requires a certain attitude of soul, as you can
    • understand from what I presented to you yesterday and today
    • sense world. You must admit that one who communicates to his
    • science, requires much time for his research. You will,
    • the tolerance I have just described to you. Why should I be so
    • only.” You can go to public libraries in Germany and
    • possible. If I strove for this, I should not be advising you to
    • loose association. For you will see how many more channels will
    • experiment that may seem to you very insignificant, I was
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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    • before. Thinking of this you will want to be aware of the
    • You know
    • consent. I should like to give you a brief example which
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    • can be raised to what you have been saying’ —
    • fathers, surely it is like this: You or I may have some
    • speaking for everybody, just as you think you do; that is
    • the facts. Subjectively you believe you are speaking for
    • everybody. But now let me ask you about the facts. Does
    • everybody still come to your church? That would show that
    • you are speaking for everybody. You see, I speak to those
    • who do not come to your church to hear you speak. My
    • Once you have got at least to some extent into the habit
    • of liking to hear the facts you will often suffer
    • tortures when people of the present age want to tell you
    • something. Very often the kind of thing you hear people
    • You say is was terrible but that only tells me how you
    • subjective feelings concerning the matter, whilst you
    • saw. It is especially when people tell you something
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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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    • habitat. You can conclude from this — and spiritual
    • If you want to show up the clear difference which exists
    • streams in Asia compared to European culture you have to
    • say to yourselves: Asians are thinking more with their
    • nurtured entirely at soul level. You cannot understand
    • the peculiar nature of Asian culture unless you look at
    • alive. Thus you have on the one hand a tradition designed
    • 19th century particularly in Central Europe you really
    • Europeans. You come across some odd things in this
    • time I was here I told you that vilification is rife not
    • Note 08 ] I told you about
    • to talk to you today about a matter that in the opinion
    • representatives of initiation knowledge will tell you
    • themselves. You will find that when genuine initiates in
    • of the things of which they are writing. You will find
    • them’. Take a look, you will find this kind of
    • initiates. If you ask why it is done like this you will
    • certainly true for Western initiation science. You will
    • oneself. If your eyes look straight ahead you will not
    • see a single object. In the same way you will not
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    • training a person or preparing them for something. You
    • very much alive in Roman times. Whichever way you may
    • observation… for, behold, it is within you. [
    • drawing your attention to things that give our public
    • Let me say just one thing. When you look to the West you
    • young and German in the first half of the 19th century
    • young when he was young in Germany, for someone to
    • that are happening. You can see that when people are told
  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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    • from which we make paper. There you have human cleverness
    • within animal nature. If you now take all the cleverness
    • follow only their egotistical instincts, you can see that
    • a few minutes to give you a very concrete picture. Just a
    • some of the things I have told you. What is the essential
    • processes You see all around; then think of them merely
    • everything you have around you by way of natural forces
    • the present earth life. Just think that there you have
    • everything that happens to your soul between death and
    • everything you have there and this shadow becomes the
    • content of Your head, the content of your thoughts; it is
    • your faculty of thought. What you are thinking now, those
    • are the forces active before you were born. That is
    • you all know what life after death is like. I do not need
    • desiring power. It is easiest to get people into your
    • most courageous of our young protagonists, called on
    • come, and in the end you will see!’ Well, all I
    • Well, you
    • underestimate it! You have to realize that it is going to
    • clear about one thing. You may feel tempted now and then
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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    • as it really is. I think I have already given you an
    • You see,
    • you what lies behind this. You can draw it like this. I
    • You can say that the human being has two organs of
    • deliberately did not tell you where these organs are to
    • differences. You know that the head we carry today is the
    • if you have the dogmas of the Catholic or Protestant
    • thinking only starts when you enter into concrete events,
    • when you come to realize that looking at the human head
    • you are looking at the transformed body of your previous
    • earth life, and that the head you had then was the
    • transformed body of the preceding life — you must
    • imagine it without the head, of course. The head you see
    • earth. The rest of the organism as you see it now will be
    • specific, so that you can see the things we are
    • Production—you will find further details in my book
    • little understanding will say: ‘You are using
    • You can see
    • present this to you again today in a slightly different
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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    • It is immaterial, however, if you assume atoms to be
    • physical or ideal points. What matters is whether you
    • take a living comprehension of spiritual entities as your
    • starting point or whether you consider the idea of such
    • living comprehension an abomination and base yourself
    • are located. As soon as you base yourself on atomistic
    • ideas you find yourself in a materialism that must lead
    • impresses itself on the senses. You will come to see this
    • if you read what our anthroposophical literature has to
    • You then
    • correct their views. Instead we must say: ‘If you
    • are on the road to sickness, to feeblemindedness, you
    • again.’ You see it is not enough to correct the
    • we become mystics. You can find out about it from the
    • looking into your stomachs, hearts and so on. That is the
    • So you see
    • physics. You know it discusses gravitation, earthly
    • experience of growing heavier. You cannot gain this
    • drop from his hand. You do not observe the gravitational
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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    • like those I dared to put to you yesterday are
    • we must look for its reality. Let me ask you this. Would
    • it not be possible for You to see that more of the spirit
    • parties. You know that the most miserable, sterile
    • usually taken seriously. You cannot give your allegiance
    • to a party programme when you have gone past the Guardian
    • of the Threshold, you can only hold to the essential
    • essential spirit. You can merely hold to a spirit of the
    • when it occurs here in the physical world. You see I am
    • not using empty words when I tell you that what matters
    • tried to characterize for you. Believe me, this is not to
    • touch your hearts, nor to gain a little more support.
    • what I have wanted to put to you on these two occasions.
    • tried, however, to present just a little of it to you on
  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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    • As you are
    • something that is infinite, permanent, supersensible. You
    • told people: 'You will come to materiality if you follow
    • us, if you make use of the power we provide in the form
    • of later divine knowledge, if you use it to strengthen
    • your soul and spirit. You will then find yourselves the
    • conquerors of all that this earth holds for you; you will
    • conquer the earth quickly and easily when you have a
    • example, is really good, you will gain more from reading
    • So you see
    • Imagine someone calls and you are brought a visiting card
    • on which it says ‘Ernest Miller’. Surely you
    • whose clothes are covered in flour. Nor would you expect
    • horses. If you have lived in a village you may still
    • than words or phrases. You can draw no conclusions as to
    • card says he is Mr Miller. In the same way you will have
    • will not tell you what your ideas about the world ought
    • If you
    • necessity of the present time you find yourself little
    • various courses of lectures and you will see that I have
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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    • state — which you are familiar with, perhaps not in
    • state? As you know, the sensory organism ceases to be
    • our dream life shines into our souls, in a way. If you
    • consider this dream life you will be able to say that it
    • presents you with a kind of surrounding scenery that in
    • some respects is similar to the outside world you
    • outside world you perceive with the senses. Human beings
    • changes the human brain had undergone. If you take an
    • unbiased view you will have to agree that spiritual
    • of will, however. If you consider the way the sense
    • dream state you will find that when the brain acts as the
    • hypothesis, if you like, that it provides the physical
    • things were the way I have just described. You only need
    • ancient oriental culture and you will find that the
    • If you were
    • to put yourself in the state of soul of someone living in
    • the ancient Orient you would be able to say: For him,
    • into decadence. If you take a good look at oriental
    • culture as it essentially is today you will find that the
    • nature of those great minds and you will see that I am
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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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    • had gone before. You can get an idea of the different forms it took if
    • you consider one of the fundamental aspects of modern technology, let us
    • Let me give you some more
    • France. You can see now that it would be quite correct to say that,
    • evolution. If you now take the following and add it to what has been
    • already said you will see that forces independent of humanity,
    • power years. This gives you the relative figures for energies mobilized
    • Looking at it like this, you will have to admit that the power of these
    • rest of our life as well. So you see what goes on in a world constructed
    • At that time people looked at the phenomena in the world and, as you
    • — and I have often told you that the will is alseep. They work at
    • You will perceive the trend
    • or rather years, taking hold of large numbers of people. You will be
    • teaching children in your school and you will note that these children
    • of these young people. A great longing is going to come, a kind of
    • There will be people — we shall find them among the young in the
    • what I mean let me remind you that during the 18th century people who had
    • itself to humankind in those four forms. You cannot, however, use the
    • done in the Gospels, for then contradictions, will arise. The moment you
    • thoughts and ideas. Yet it arises in a form similar to fear. You will
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  • Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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    • If you
    • consider the whole evolution of the human being you will
    • Christ spirit. If you take an honest, unbiased look at
    • modern science you will find that it has no real
    • think you will agree that Goethe's figures were subtle
    • possible to imagine that a time will come when a young
    • gentleman or even a young lady, aged somewhere around
    • personal. The young person would therefore visit
    • all this, however. The young man or woman would be
    • Empire had free and equal general suffrage. You could not
    • You see,
    • something you really must come to realize.
    • spiritual science enables us to do. You see, the
    • and must become the threefold social order. You will
    • all the gold. If you take a good look at the world around
    • us today you will see this phenomenon. In November 1918
    • don't you see now how the various ministers who have held
    • painful for me as it is for you and I know that we cannot
    • threefold order is often considered too polemical. You
    • argue against; you should have the courage to address
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    • also of the etheric body. You will not only have observed it from your
    • own life experience in yourself and in other people, you will also have
    • develop at death. Well, if you have followed yesterday's public
    • lecture, you will understand that those people who are able to see into
    • into all things. At the moment immediately after death you do not feel
    • a here and there, but an everywhere; it is as if you yourself slipped
    • into all things. Then a total recollection of your whole past life
    • occurs, which stands before you with all its details like a great
    • the past life, however good it may be, as you know the recollection in
    • observe a partial exit of the etheric body on other occasions. When you
    • the Kamaloka time, the Kamaloka state, begins for man. If you want to
    • make clear what kind of state this is, you must consider that man,
    • desire could be satisfied. If you have a knife to cut with, this is the
    • instrument, and you do not lose the ability to cut when you put the
    • important for the further development of man. Imagine that you are
    • thirsty and you are in a place where there is no water, no beer, no
    • wine, no drink of any kind. There you suffer burning thirst that cannot
    • enjoys absolute bliss. For, what is actually the time of Devachan? You
    • can get an idea of it if you consider that here man makes the
    • with bliss, you can get an idea of that if you look at a chicken
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    • Speaking to you here for the first time in these rooms on an
    • I speak, as from you all, to thank our friends most heartily
    • draw your attention to-day to this important fact in human
    • on you — the Beings of the Hierarchy of Angeloi,
    • From my description in Knowledge of Higher Worlds you know that
    • have put before you some of the important things which may give
    • you an idea of the necessities of our present age. I speak in
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    • and death. For as you know, this life is also a
    • their old age as only the young are nowadays. A child goes
    • from the most varied points of view, a young man got up (let us
    • call him “a young man” though he might equally well
    • proved that old age no longer understands its own youth,”
    • youth, but through its whole span between birth and death. For
    • invigorating source of life. Now this will bring, as you can
    • must be considerably widened. I will show you how that
    • altered their ideas somewhat, but not their feelings. You hear
    • of pre-natal life, remaining young notwithstanding white hair
    • have given you an idea of how to work up into the sphere of the
    • have, always been taught to look back to Ancient Greece. Young
    • men (and in recent times young women also) have had to go
    • possessed a clear, sense. We occupy our young people, not with
    • we are really doing. It is not only that we teach our young
    • children (I suppose I should say our “young ladies”
    • and “young gentlemen”) the Greek language: for in a
    • marry the love of his youth. He had become engaged at eighteen,
    • calling and take their place in that. The State takes young
    • question. Instead of this he is told: “You need only
  • Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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    • have told you how at the present epoch in the history of human
    • knowledge necessary to-day. Suppose you asked a natural
    • this is a complete error. If you put together the various
    • things to be found in our twenty years of lecturing, you will
    • speeches have been translated. Read them and you will find in
    • Folk-spirits. If you read those lectures you will find many
    • have shown you during these few days how man should regard his
    • soul-land and spirit-land, you will find this expressed in
    • for the God Whom you must seek in another being than
    • During these few days it has been my task to show you, from
    • necessary might penetrate your hearts — it is not your
    • matters before you because I believe that through them the most
  • Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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    • unpractical. I give you an illustration of this; for to-day,
    • therefore I may be pardoned if I give you one of my own. It is
    • That is the conflict to which I would draw your attention
    • youthful mind, I speak as one who has already reached the
    • with the title “Social Democratic.” You might as
    • you that, as a result of the Associations created simply
    • describe to you in pictorial fashion. We are very proud
    • hope you will allow me in closing, to sum up in a comparison
    • State, does it not enfold and uphold you, myself,



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