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• Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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  • bodies of the human being. Steiner shows how we can become, through our
  • experience mount up, and, being unanswered, remain problems that have
  • a disturbing effect on life, breeding discontent. Being discontented
  • significance in the fact that the things a human being has had at
  • between a plant and a human being. Imagine planting a seed in the
  • certain point. When a human being arises out of the embryo we see
  • temperament and instincts of his ancestors. But if the human being
  • Plants cannot be educated, but human beings can. We can pass
  • something on to the human being and put something into him, whereas
  • being that is also enclosed within certain limits like the plant,
  • which does not have a natural use unless the human being is taught
  • man whose free etheric body, instead of being heavy and lethargic has
  • being, your whole spiritual organism. Far from it. If you saw a rose
  • function. From the moment of being forgotten it begins to work in the
  • digested until then. As long as the human being uses it for acquiring
  • actually is Kamaloca, that period of transition human beings go
  • Kamaloca exists because immediately after death the human being
  • being to the physical world. So if man wants to enter Devachan, he
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• Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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  • bodies of the human being. Steiner shows how we can become, through our
  • being held here alongside the actual group evenings, and which are
  • being effected in the method based on occultism, or cares whether the
  • is a complicated being and that everything to do with man is
  • connected with this complexity of his being. If there is a kind of
  • sick human being. For health and sickness, have a relationship to man
  • profession, who would never admit to being sworn materialists; they
  • deny the accusation of being materialistic. But this is not the
  • living interplay of these members of man's being and the part the
  • and in the sick human being and what their interrelationship implies.
  • tell you about the nature of the fourth member of man's being, the
  • man's being, namely the ego. And scientific methods must be
  • the ego, a member of the human being that is at a high level. Even as
  • manifold nature, with the complicity of his being; hence it is only
  • an irregularity of that part of the human being that we call the
  • by those people who look at the being of man from a spiritual point
  • example a great mistake is being made in the field of medicine, for
  • the heart being the sun and the brain the moon. So we have to know,
  • being. Thus when a chronic illness of this type occurs, one that is
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• Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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  • bodies of the human being. Steiner shows how we can become, through our
  • visualise how the earlier dual sexed human being gradually developed
  • thinking of a clock as having little demonic beings behind it wise
  • and those beings which in those early times were male-female received
  • a much more delicate nature, and when human beings partook of
  • these nourishing fluids which gave these beings the possibility of
  • bringing forth another being of like kind. You must realise, however,
  • these beings of bisexuality had the power of fructification as well
  • The beings that arose then were similar to one another and to their
  • forefathers. All these beings that were still undivided into two
  • at birth and on into childhood human beings were really very similar
  • being. Although the people were different in character at different
  • this respect the human being does everything the other person is
  • individualisation of man. If it had been possible for human beings to
  • alike. Through the co-operation of the male element human beings are
  • human being at birth. That is the significance of the inter-working
  • beings, for when we are based on spiritual science we must not assume
  • in human beings than in animals. So what is being said applies solely
  • sun beings appeared to him, and it was the same with the air, water
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• Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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  • bodies of the human being. Steiner shows how we can become, through our
  • must look at the human being in a way that makes it possible to
  • being are connected with and dependent on one another in the most
  • certain forces, processes and beings in the cosmos as a whole. For
  • Nor could the etheric body exist without being interpenetrated by
  • higher entities. When the human being's own astral body and ego
  • human body cannot remain without there being an ego and an astral
  • body active when the human being is asleep. To be exact, we would
  • human being's sleeping physical body are also within the human being
  • activity of the human being's own astral body and ego. If we want to
  • being awake — and that the ego is changing all this while. It
  • changes during the night, about which the ordinary human being knows
  • human being is continuously undergoing certain changes, the outer
  • That is how it would be if the human being were entirely left to the
  • man's being. If you like, you can imagine each of the four rhythms as
  • that in the course of a year the human being turns around as it were;
  • higher beings. It is due to the action of these spiritual beings, who
  • of a physical nature is an expression of those beings — had to
  • is not an illness; it is the human being calling together all the
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• Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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  • bodies of the human being. Steiner shows how we can become, through our
  • RHYTHMS IN THE BEING OF
  • up to form a deeper understanding of the being of man and various
  • man's being. We want to start there today and find an answer to the
  • rotation’ for the four members of man's being. This is of
  • some damage in the organism, in the lungs, say. When the human being
  • were planted into man by higher spiritual beings. But today I want
  • you to look at the fact of the lungs being an expression of the
  • these rhythms, these mysterious inner workings, man's whole being
  • seven; The point being that if the trouble decreases then, you can
  • beings, always have an influence on regulating the life of their
  • with life, on the contrary it is regulated by those beings we have
  • course, it is the hierarchies of spiritual beings who regulate the
  • of our own human members. For the time being, however, we need only
  • regulated by spiritual beings bringing the moon into a corresponding
  • times twenty-eight days between the conception of a human being and
  • asleep when they ought to be awake. If anything like being awake at
  • also been displaced. Man would never have become an independent being
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• Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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  • bodies of the human being. Steiner shows how we can become, through our
  • understanding of man's being and task in the world. You will remember
  • possible for the human being to be ill, and we indicated that
  • explained before that the division of man's being into four members,
  • physical body being there. He has, as it were, laid that aside. This
  • etheric body is kept, being the fruit of life experience. Then
  • astral body without man being bound to a physical body. This is the
  • first moments and being absolved of everything, he can then enter
  • accustomed to time being absolute, like it is on the physical plane.
  • another being or creature or the world in general, hinders the doer
  • make him the strong being he must become by the end of earth
  • very exalted being with this process of destroying and rebuilding. In
  • can be used. This was all due to the organ being unusable. In the
  • not only think of karma in the past and of illness as being the
  • ancient time in which man came into being in his present form, the
  • elsewhere on the earth. What kind of being is Chiron the centaur? He
  • is a being of the kind that existed before man descended in Lemurian
  • times: a being half man and half animal. This myth tells us that
  • happenings of life when human beings get beyond the ABC of spiritual
• Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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  • bodies of the human being. Steiner shows how we can become, through our
  • man's being. We have looked at the great riddle of man from as many
  • penetrate into the deepest parts of man's being where he is
  • have by virtue of being born an individuality. This stream takes on
  • is essentially a twofold being: one part of his nature he inherits
  • man's being which passes from life to life, from incarnation to
  • a man's being, that passes from incarnation to incarnation, is
  • kernel of man's being is there, as we said, it cannot take control
  • little, to come to expression in the human being after birth.
  • laughing and weeping in a being such as man. Laughing and weeping are
  • only possible in a being that has his ego within his own organism and
  • weakness in relation to the outer world cannot occur. Being in
  • it. For example, sorrow can be the expression of being forsaken by
  • body, compresses it as it were, to defend itself against being
  • ego, the fourth member of man's being, contracts the forces of the
  • because the ego is active within man's being and not working as a
  • an expression of intelligence on its face as a human being, unless he
  • from within. It is this fact of being able to work creatively on
  • processes really are. And that is why only a being that is capable of
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• Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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  • bodies of the human being. Steiner shows how we can become, through our
  • inner being of man, including man's whole evolution, in a certain way
  • are connected with the unfolding of man's inner being. Now if even
  • being on the periphery of the earth. A present-day eye would not be
  • able to distinguish this human being from his environment, just as a
  • being wafting through the air. Not until after the separation of the
  • beings congregated who, if I may express it this way, laid no claim
  • etheric body and were beings of a more ethereal nature, having only a
  • dependent on the earth, and these spiritually more advanced beings
  • they are skilful and intelligent; it is as though they were being
  • human being did not descend on to the earth's surface. That is why
  • highest degree ethereal beings with highly developed etheric bodies
  • but underdeveloped physical bodies; beings that as it were could
  • the starry Heavens with an understanding of the beings who were
  • senses would assume these beings to be the most highly developed
  • physical human beings, whilst he would reckon the northern peoples to
  • each of these beings that did not descend but was still ethereal
  • souls, and each human being was much more inside his own body. Thus
  • had, in Lemurian times, the characteristics of group soul beings to
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• Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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  • bodies of the human being. Steiner shows how we can become, through our
  • a radical difference between the education of a human being and what
  • passes through several births. The human being is born into the
  • actual ego of man is born. Not until then does the human being awaken
  • say. Immediately after the birth of a human being his brain is not
  • to another, the human being learns by degrees to link together in
  • go on working at the whole development of the growing human being
  • outside the human being during the first months of his existence and
  • let us consider the gradual development of the human being and
  • Take the may-fly; it comes into being, lives until it is fertilised,
  • already within the human being from the beginning, right from
  • of twenty-one, he is from the outset no animal being, for the ego,
  • then, for him, the being that was hidden to begin with is developed.
  • small and only the spiritual part is large, he says: the actual being
  • different states. One state is where the whole being of the lily of
  • the valley is in involution: the seed contains the being rolled up,
  • the whole being of the lily of the valley slips more into the newly
  • alternating in man to an even greater extent. In the human being
  • interpenetrates them too in a certain way, as an earthly being man is
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• Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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  • actual original ground of the fourth part of man's being, so
  • of His Being into man so that his fourth member became the bearer of
  • but the effect of the work of spiritual beings can only become
  • into being as concept, as idea, and as actual soul force. It was
  • seen as a kind of transition being who pours the drop into the
  • well-being of the astral, etheric and physical bodies. But where does
  • divine spiritual beings. Then on the moon the astral body was
  • incorporated — all the work of divine spiritual beings. What made man
  • be fully conscious of this fourth member of his being, he could have
  • within him. Man must say to himself, “Divine beings have worked upon
  • Through his acceptance of the other gods man is not a free being, but
  • rather a being that worships the gods of his lower members. When,
  • within his ego, then he is a free being — one who confronts his
  • fellowmen as a free being. Today, man does not stand in the same
  • has evolved it to a divine being. Though the ego was the last to
  • worked upon the lower members of man's being. When they made an image
  • their general well-being. The direction and guidance of the people
  • consciousness of present-day man. Quite terrible wrongs are being
  • That is why everything in the dictionary is currently being used in
  • take on an entirely new form, because an entirely new life was being
• Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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  • higher spiritual Beings in the cosmos have also been at work in
  • earth-existence. We have spoken of these Beings as the “Thrones”,
  • bring clearly before our minds to-day that Spirits and Beings other
  • 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
  • the Luciferic Beings who intervened in man's evolution, in opposition
  • In our own epoch, as time goes on, other spiritual Beings of whom we
  • become an independent being. But even if through the deed of the
  • the Luciferic Beings set themselves in opposition to the Spirits of
  • Form. It was these Luciferic Beings who gave man the prospect of
  • Beings actually take hold? They took hold of what had been instilled
  • of it. Had it not been for the coming of the Luciferic Beings this
  • The Luciferic Beings had crept, as it were, into man's astral body, so
  • that Beings of two kinds were now working in it: the Beings who bring
  • man forward and the Beings who, while obstructing this constant
  • independence. Had the luciferic Beings not approached, man would have
  • densified, debased, as it were, by the Luciferic Beings. Had they not
  • measures; they inculcated into the being of man what would otherwise
  • countermeasures the higher Beings introduced illness and suffering as
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• Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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  • the title — strange as it may seem to begin with — being:
  • Mephistopheles is a Being — we shall not enter to-day into the
  • this name as belonging to a being who brings corruption and hindrances
  • beings, and subsequently the moon, separated from the earth together
  • Atlantean epoch man would have evolved as a being who in every impulse
  • spiritual Beings of a higher rank than himself; these Beings would
  • him by higher spiritual Beings. The instincts prompting him to action
  • independent being, with a measure of inner freedom. The consequence
  • have remained far more of an angelic being if Lucifer's influence had
  • higher Beings would have guided him as it were on leading-strings. In
  • Divine-Spiritual Beings who had taken the place of what had now been
  • the hands of higher, Divine-Spiritual Beings; independence would not
  • spread a cloud of darkness over the spiritual Beings of the world out
  • the spirit those figures who were in truth spiritual Beings of a
  • higher rank than he — Beings who had not descended into the physical
  • unmistakable presence of Divine-Spiritual Beings. Because Lucifer's
  • character from Lucifer approached man, namely the Being who casts such
  • Being the physical world in its totality became like a dense rind,
  • Being who since the middle of the Atlantean epoch had approached
  • of that Being whom Zarathustra taught his people to know as Ahriman
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• Title: Concerning the Nature of Pain, Suffering, Joy, and Bliss
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  • hearing, a new sense the sense of pain, so that the human being perceives
  • suppressed activity falls away when the human being enters Devachan because
  • In Devachan the human being
  • not all the forces of the etheric body are being used, then the opposite
• Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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  • beings; then if he again entered physical existence during
  • is not being enacted in all the experiences a man goes
  • appeared to him the vision of spiritual beings. Just as here
  • by day he is together with plants, animals, and human beings,
  • 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
  • self-conscious being, of feeling oneself as an
  • instead of the feeling: “I am a self-conscious being, I
  • with higher Beings, I plunge, as it were, into the life of
  • these higher Beings”. The man felt himself one with the
  • higher beings and in this feeling of oneness with them he
  • whole, part of a reflection of earlier spiritual Beings, the
  • being part of the existence of higher spiritual Beings was
  • to be a depleted being, a Non-being in this world of shades.
  • Beings and spiritual activities, but the condition of
  • the beings there were his companions just as were the beings
• Title: Lecture: The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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  • circle of men; these human beings can be scattered in the world in
  • egos can still be connected, although the human beings are scattered
  • over the world. These human beings form, then, this “round.”
  • actually four such group egos. You must imagine these human beings in
  • physical beings were on earth, which would even seem grotesque
  • watery, or fiery — human beings, as well as the environment.
  • heart was specially developed, formed the human beings whose group
  • said: Those are physical beings who remind one somewhat of the lion,
  • lion men, so that these were beings who had outwardly a lion body —
  • being with a male character, and a small part of this etheric being
  • in their work. These divine beings cooperate and, in the man of
• Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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  • beings and those worlds, which are, in fact, supersensible in regard to
  • us with its human beings and nature-events, only when we look at what
  • section of it. The human being stands, and must stand for all our studies,
  • of the human being, if we speak today of a few facts, only a few facts
  • direction, but it takes its way to a being of the astral world. Let
  • to a being of the astral world. And so it is for every thought, every
  • the soul, currents continually go towards the most diverse beings of
  • that all these currents went to one single being of the astral world.
  • diverse beings of the astral world. That is the peculiarity of this
  • fact: as individuals, we stand in connection, not with one such being,
  • but we spin the most diverse threads towards the most diverse beings
  • beings just as the physical world, and they stand in connection with
  • go to one and the same being of the astral world. We can say, therefore,
  • that there is a being, an inhabitant of the astral world, with whom
  • both beings of the physical world put themselves in connection. And
  • it can happen that not only one person, but 50, 100, 1000 human beings,
  • having a similar sensation, send out currents to one single being of
  • the astral world. In so far as these 1000 beings people agree on one
  • point, they stand in connection with the same being of the astral world.
  • Through these, they stand in connection with other beings of the astral
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• Title: Astral World: Lecture II: Some Characteristics of the Astral World
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  • recapitulation. A being, standing solely under its etheric and physical
  • being of the plant also feels joy and pain, pleasure and sadness through
  • as, for instance, physical beings on our earth.
  • single being. Yes — three, four, five such spatially separated
  • being that has not embodied itself physically anywhere at all, and you
  • you can perceive in the second being, spatially separated from the first,
  • as absorption of food. On the one hand, the being eats — on the
  • When the beings take physical embodiment, you can still find echoes of
  • can be quite different members of astral being through which, when they
  • itself upright. It is a kind of balance-being which gives equilibrium
  • to the whole being, cannot exist without nourishment. It is of an animal
  • In that way, the air-balance-being is also nourished.
  • Thus, on the one hand, there is a being that can only keep the balance,
  • and then other beings that provide movement.
  • If such a being, however,
  • In a hollow space inside these beings, male and female fertilization
  • substances are developed; they mutually fructify each other and beings of
  • beings is delegated to quite distinct formations that have no other
  • common stem; these are beings in which everything is stunted; they are
  • sense-organ. The sense of feeling, which in a human being is spread over
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• Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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  • you have a picture of much that a human being has to fulfill when treading
  • are concerned with the fact that human beings have soul forces of various
  • can become a means of expression for the inmost being of the thing —
  • believe that one can state with knowledge: I have a being before me,
  • and I feel something of this being — not that what one has there
  • facts or beings of the astral world express themselves by symbols. Feeling
  • then if a being confronts one, one does not say, “It awakens in
  • we must ourselves “unriddle” the beings who are showing
  • plane. Rather, the inmost being of the thing itself speaks to us. When
  • a human being confronts us, expressing his or her inmost nature to us,
  • we experience their being in what they say to us. That is how it is
  • their being! It would have no meaning for someone to say, “When
  • For devachanic beings must look different and cannot be compared with
  • what is on the physical plane. In Devachan, the being itself says what
  • being it is, as if human beings should tell us not only their names
  • is the time during which a human being has to live through directly
  • being who has lived only in the physical world and experienced solely
  • the forces in a human being that are opposed to privation will be the
  • different. What first appears before a human being ascending on the
  • human being one is led there after death — what does such a
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