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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
one of those aspects of spiritual science that show us how well
Spiritual
the development of soul and spiritual qualities. If you imagine two
through the impressions of education, through man's spiritual
being, your whole spiritual organism. Far from it. If you saw a rose
remains within the whole spiritual organism. What does it do there?
through before entering Devachan, the spiritual world proper?
something useful is answered by spiritual science. And we see, too,
way: If I am ill and feeble, and if I ruin my health spiritually,
considerations. And we shall see that if spiritual science works into
human life by showing man the truth about specific spiritual
do. Knowledge of the facts of the spiritual world, as imparted by
spiritual science is, therefore, a powerful impulse which also in

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
of view of spiritual science. As a rule people are not concerned
However it is just the task of a really spiritual movement to awaken
limited to the sense world but have an existence in the spiritual
has regarding this or the other spiritual world, if he nevertheless
they only had a body, then however spiritually minded he believes
Unless you make it your business to know what spiritual science can
through a knowledge of man arising out of spiritual science that we
of view in the blood and from the spiritual point of view in the ego.
by those people who look at the being of man from a spiritual point
connected physically with the blood and spiritually with the ego.
we come to those illnesses that have their spiritual origin mainly in
have to turn to spiritual science for the actual basis of our
treatment. We need quite a different basis, for spiritual knowledge
this would show spiritually in the etheric body — without the
much of a spiritual nature. When we have looked at the fourth type we
arose from spiritual knowledge and has become more and more
attention to the difference between medicine based on spiritual
to any insight into the real, spiritual nature of man. What

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
sexes. It is only when we have a spiritual scientific basis that we
spiritual. Thus purpose, meaning and goal are words that we can apply
to evolution only when we consider them on a spiritual scientific
etheric, more spiritual, and not so firmly embedded in matter, then
man was still in a softer, more spiritual body he was much more open
beings, for when we are based on spiritual science we must not assume
spiritual science that everything around us which influences us, be
spiritual. And in those ancient times man did not at all perceive
external sense impressions, he perceived the spiritual. When he
Mazdao, the Great Aura’. The spiritual part, all the spiritual
fructification were received: it was a phenomenon of the spiritual
forth his kind, and this was also experienced and seen as a spiritual
little by little it became impossible for men to see the spiritual in
to forget the spiritual background, and the influence of the spirit
himself off from his spiritual surroundings. The further we go back
into these ancient times the more spiritually godlike was this
organised in such a way that they were a likeness of the spiritual
and more, and the spiritual world withdrew from men's sight. Men
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
lectures; the one on ‘Superstition from the Spiritual
investigate the causes because they have no idea of the spiritual
higher beings. It is due to the action of these spiritual beings, who
fill both physical and spiritual space with their deeds, that these
The spiritual members of man that were developing their ego-hood had
of the spiritual. Spirit is always there first. And it is the spirit
can see, then, that spiritual science helps us to form a judgment of
results when man is permeated with the great truths of spiritual
spiritual science is not a collection of abstract ideas for those
today, has these rhythms within him as a heritage of this spiritual
science also lost its depth. Through spiritual knowledge this depth
have spiritual scientific knowledge, and that it has to find its way

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
sense phenomena into the spiritual world, knows of these rhythms, and
very different periods of human evolution. What from the spiritual
were planted into man by higher spiritual beings. But today I want
course, it is the hierarchies of spiritual beings who regulate the
regulated by spiritual beings bringing the moon into a corresponding
they are beings of a much more spiritual nature than man. Therefore
man's. In spiritual matters they conform absolutely to the cosmic
like an angel not to think in harmony with the great spiritual
were they not to acquire an inner rhythm. Look at spiritual science
will see the element you are in when you begin to study spiritual
covered with this basic formula of spiritual science. Think of the
spiritualised form at the fifth stage as Jupiter, the Sun at the
transformed and spiritualised. So that here too, when we look at the
are still only at the beginning of our spiritual scientific activity,
spiritual science, because it is in harmony with the great laws of
can see how spiritual science is connected with the course of the
macrocosm. When we grasp what is there in the spiritual world behind
must look to the spiritual world to find the impulse to carry forward
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
to look at world existence in a spiritual scientific way has an
karma, on that great law of causes which show the spiritual
what actually happens to man spiritually in the period after death.
the spiritual world or the kingdom of Heaven: ‘Except ye ...
Devachan or the kingdom of Heaven, and be in the spiritual world from
soul back to the spiritual — man would need only a very short
in the spiritual world everything you yourself did in the external
comes down from the spiritual world our soul is attracted to the kind
and the illness. The spiritual cause of the illness will guide the
must not necessarily think of spiritual enlightenment every time;
Lemurian epoch. Man gradually descended from divine-spiritual
this is to look back into those times when divine-spiritual powers
spiritual fact, that must be of particular interest to us, coming as
happenings of life when human beings get beyond the ABC of spiritual
spiritual science will grow into something that will become part of
everyday life. Men will live spiritual science, and not until that
time comes will the original intention of spiritual science come to
realisation. Spiritual science will become the great impulse for the

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
given a whole series of talks on spiritual science with the specific
theme of laughing and weeping from the spiritual scientific point of
spiritual science can bring a deeper understanding of these
phenomena, because spiritual science is the only thing that can
spiritual scientist, for he knows that when the animal does something
That is the spiritual process underlying weeping. Take weeping as an
of the astral body. That is the spiritual state of affairs. Every
everything spiritual in man finds expression in the body, and the
the spiritual point of view if we become clear about the following:
unless we know what is actually happening in the spiritual part of
spiritual world behind the physical, and that what appears in human
we understand it, the real expression of the spiritual. Laughing and

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
earth evolution. In the sphere of spiritual science we have looked
spiritual science has to say about these things will make sense. It
spiritual species that did not concern itself very much with the
spiritual point of view, seen by a present-day eye, this species
dependent on the earth, and these spiritually more advanced beings
North Pole, we should have found a spiritualising of the earth
population: one kind that had still remained spiritual, and whose
spiritual being, and another kind that had already descended into
of great spiritual significance, were physically small in those days,
whereas a person who was not very significant spiritually had in
not on a very high level spiritually, for he has rushed into his body
myths, we feel it to be absolutely correct, from the spiritual
physical size expressed the inability to retain the spiritual. In
according to spiritual characteristics. Therefore it could also take
spiritual scientific way you will see evidence of them right into the
still spiritual, just as with the ancient Lemurians everything was
still spiritual, and the bodily nature was only developed to a small
remnants of spiritual perception existed, there was still something
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
here this winter. We have often emphasised the way in which spiritual
today, for you already know it. According to spiritual science man
light or etheric body of the lily of the valley. When a spiritual
small and only the spiritual part is large, he says: the actual being
successive states of a plant. During evolution the spiritual
spiritual become greater and greater.
interpenetrate to form the physical, and the spiritual
spiritual. Then man passes through Devachan, where he is in
spiritual science, the spirits of personality who change. These
man in a world in which he can also work on his own spiritual part,
most advanced, and who, as the result of spiritual training have

Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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but the effect of the work of spiritual beings can only become
divine spiritual beings. Then on the moon the astral body was
incorporated — all the work of divine spiritual beings. What made man
spiritual science know the subtle ways in which health and sickness
Only people familiar with spiritual science will know what it means to
to imagine that beyond all that can be spiritually expressed by means
The external character of health is traced back to the spiritual,
the fourth Commandment have been aware that spiritual forces extend
correct sense only by means of spiritual science. Everything connected

Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers.
man really possess in spiritual science? The answer to this question
course of lectures, especially those given last winter. Spiritual
desire for knowledge. Spiritual science may well be considered just
not correct. In what man acquires through spiritual science he has
higher spiritual Beings in the cosmos have also been at work in
there are spiritual Beings who oppose the progressive Powers. And for
to indicate which particular spiritual Beings bring the “hindrances”,
which spiritual Beings are the opponents of those whose only aim is
In our own epoch, as time goes on, other spiritual Beings of whom we
time from the Spirits of Form or from the higher spiritual realms as a
spiritually, not as he sees it to-day; he would have seen it as the
direct expression of spiritual beings. Because man came prematurely
its true, spiritual foundations. Were man to have perceived the
Spiritual in every stone, in every plant, in every animal, he would
How did those spiritual Beings who desire to further man's progress
the consciousness soul (spiritual soul), arising from an unconscious
consciousness soul. And in the age now, approaching, those spiritual
material world and to be oblivious of the realty of spiritual beings
and spiritual worlds. True, the Asuric powers corrupt man to-day in a
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Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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explained from the spiritual point of view. I have already spoken here
I have also indicated what spiritual vistas are
spiritual Beings of a higher rank than himself; these Beings would
him by higher spiritual Beings. The instincts prompting him to action
animals to-day, but more spiritual. His every deed on earth would have
been prompted, not by mere impulses, but by a kind of spiritual
was that he was detached in a certain way from the spiritual world. To
man would have remained a spiritualized animal — an animal who would
upon it he would simultaneously have perceived the Divine-Spiritual, a
Divine-Spiritual world behind every physical object. If, therefore, in
Divine-Spiritual Beings who had taken the place of what had now been
lost. One spiritual world would have closed behind him and a new
spiritual world opened before him. Man would have remained a child in
the hands of higher, Divine-Spiritual Beings; independence would not
of the underlying spiritual world invisible to him. The personal
spread a cloud of darkness over the spiritual Beings of the world out
spiritual world which had been concealed as the result of Lucifer's
enable them to perceive that part of the spiritual world of light
the spirit those figures who were in truth spiritual Beings of a
sleeping and waking, could be transported into the spiritual world.
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Title: Concerning the Nature of Pain, Suffering, Joy, and Bliss
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Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
to the spiritual worlds. Even as suppressed activity means privation in
which lustfully longs for the physical. In Devachan a spiritual
as it were, how spiritual science explains to us by the simplest things,
the smallest things which face us, in the way, in which spiritual science
explains it to us, we gradually rise to a spiritual height enabling

Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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lectures is: Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
Spiritual Science you can gather that by means of occult
the spiritual world, there he found definite facts, definite
into Devachan, into a purely spiritual world. We further
death and re-birth, in this purely spiritual existence. You
descriptions of the spiritual world it is necessary to
will keep to quite definite spiritual facts. In order to be
itself absolutely one with a spiritual world, in a world of
appeared to him the vision of spiritual beings. Just as here
world of higher and lower spiritual beings according to the
this world of spiritual Beings, spiritual events, appeared
of spiritual events and spiritual Beings. If only we were to
physical world. When he passed up into the spiritual world
at home in the spiritual world, he felt that world to be
physical world, the consciousness in the spiritual world
the spheres of the ancient spiritual country. We have seen
whole, part of a reflection of earlier spiritual Beings, the
being part of the existence of higher spiritual Beings was
to them, that which he performed according to the spiritual
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Title: Lecture: The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man.
in Atlantis — that then, if we turn our spiritual gaze on the
times, then one would see spiritually very little of the physical
together. Where the laws of the spiritual world are in question the
accordance with the laws of the spiritual world. The group souls of
from out of the spiritual world. Everything was a detour in order to
the spiritual, a non-sexual procreation. The bull race, however,
came from above, out of the spiritual, whereas here this process
The spiritual in man
received nothing of this spiritual element changed in quite another
Those who shared nothing of spirituality formed the modern lion,

Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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series entitled, Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
from earlier times their fundamental spiritual conviction, have united
another direction, and with the help of those spiritual Powers, who
are always present when the work of spiritual science is carried out
today. We began, with the aid of the simplest basic concepts of spiritual
physical world. We have been able to learn about the various spiritual
absorbed inwardly for a length of time what spiritual science has to give,
the spiritual life lying behind it — the spiritual life that is far
us how we can penetrate into the understanding of the spiritual world
over all these currents through the deepening of our spiritual life.
through conflict. One who gradually becomes familiar with the spiritual
world must learn to adjust oneself to the customs of the spiritual world.
The first part of the spiritual world is the astral world, where such
becomes familiar, with the spiritual world, the customs, too, of the
spiritual world, and we shall bring more harmony into our world if we
world precisely within a spiritual movement. That will be a great field of
education, which the spiritual-scientific movement will have to cultivate
increasingly obvious to the adherents of a spiritual world-conception
beings into the spiritual world occurs in some tumultuous way; it happens
living into the spiritual world. The spiritual worlds gradually dawn

Title: Astral World: Lecture II: Some Characteristics of the Astral World
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series entitled, Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
purpose. It is to show that spiritual science — or rather the
public. When spiritual science meets with an unprepared public, the
movement of spiritual science.
is given to us through the knowledge of the spiritual, the higher, the
exists between what is maintained by the spiritual researcher and the
of spiritual research. And so in the majority of cases, they cannot
understanding for spiritual science can be achieved only if one speaks
quite openly and frankly from the spiritual standpoint, even before
natural for a large part of those who come to a lecture on spiritual
themselves find their way and form a nucleus through whom spiritual
be given today to show how easy it is for prepared students of spiritual
conceptions aroused by spiritual science, to come to terms with the
the more we will realize what a good foundation spiritual research is
calmness to meet the storms pouring out against spiritual science, because
“I know that through what spiritual science can give, full harmony
with the spiritual conception of the world, students of spiritual science
spiritual scientist says, “The physical body of the plant would dry
from the spiritual standpoint, we can say: “What is within, in
can really regard these things spiritually can affirm that the astral
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Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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series entitled, Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
of the different goals of spiritual life. For a definite goal, willing,
knowledge, so that a spiritual content reveals itself in symbols. The
spiritual music, the sphere-harmony from which there streams to us the
world, the colors resound. What before was spiritually luminous becomes,
henceforth, spiritual resounding. In experiencing the higher worlds
forth, production, and in respect of knowledge, a spiritual hearing.
upwards through the methods of spiritual knowledge, through the leaders
an absorption of the spiritual tones of bliss.
of indifference to one who is within the Movement of Spiritual Science

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