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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
â€œLord, now let your servant depart in peace, for my eyes
have seen your Savior.â€ â€” 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.

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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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

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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spoke the words, “There is one among you who will betray
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

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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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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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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You

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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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

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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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

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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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

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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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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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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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You see my
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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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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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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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?
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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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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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
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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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
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 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
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

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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 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
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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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
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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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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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
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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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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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
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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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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must request that those of you who were already here and have
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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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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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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social question for decades. If you hear about people who
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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With reference to my presentations I would like to ask you to
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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appear now again when you engage yourself deeply in the second
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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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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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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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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people say: ‘You tell us all kinds of things about Richard Wagner, but
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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on the history of philosophy. Those of you who are interested should
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

Title: Community Building
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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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Title: Community Building
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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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As you
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
Note 02 ] — As you know, it
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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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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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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opportunity for me to speak to you who are friends of the
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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decline — you know about the book by Oswald
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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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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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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