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  • Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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    • The Being of Man and His Future Evolution
    • bodies of the human being. Steiner shows how we can become, through our
    • it also throws light on the great span of human existence that
    • concerned; it can help us solve many problems and show us how to cope
    • fail to understand many things they are encountering every moment of
    • in life, however, can never serve man's evolution nor his true
    • word that contains many such problems is the word ‘forgetting’.
    • with what we call man's etheric body. So we can also assume that the
    • significance in the fact that the things a human being has had at
    • way, as so often happens, and say that it is a defect of the human
    • this task of retaining the impressions and thoughts in man, when the
    • body. Everything depending on repetition in man or animal is
    • growth of the plant. The fact that in man the vertebrae of the spine
    • activity of man's astral body. So we can say that everything
    • this etheric body, and man has it too. Of course there can be no
    • plant's etheric body and man's, which, in addition to the qualities
    • between a plant and a human being. Imagine planting a seed in the
    • with man? Up to a point this is certainly so, but only up to a
    • certain point. When a human being arises out of the embryo we see
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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
    • be taken into consideration in the various groups of our German
    • “Ten Commandments”.
    • into things in all manner of ways, like the way it is now speaking
    • personally affected and cannot manage with ordinary materialistic
    • scientific basis and is useful in many respects, we shall be making
    • suchlike, and fall victim in this way to all manner of one-sidedness.
    • Present-day mankind must, above all, realise more and more that man
    • is a complicated being and that everything to do with man is
    • science holding the opinion that man consists merely of a physical
    • sick human being. For health and sickness, have a relationship to man
    • point. Life does not depend on what a man says or believes. That is
    • world. So that however pious a doctor is and however many ideas he
    • is it sufficient for anthroposophy to spread the knowledge of man's
    • fourfold nature and for everybody to go repeating that man consists
    • 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
    • blood is the expression of the ego nature of man. And if Goethe's
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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
    • a series of apparently widely divergent aspects of human health and
    • last time we attempted to portray the text of The Ten Commandments.
    • with the content and the actual trend of the Commandments. Today we
    • will start today by looking at an important moment in man's earthly
    • moment in human evolution we want to recall lies a long way back. If
    • division of the sexes took place in the kingdom of man on earth. You
    • in the human kingdom. I want to emphasise that we are not speaking of
    • bisexuality occur earlier. But what we call the human kingdom did not
    • divide into two sexes until Lemurian times. Prior to that the human
    • visualise how the earlier dual sexed human being gradually developed
    • man still lived in a very insubstantial material body.
    • her wisdom had created cork so that man could make stoppers with it.
    • division into sexes occurred in human evolution. That was not so. We
    • vision can see that there was a time in mankind's earthly evolution
    • a much more delicate nature, and when human beings partook of
    • in our present cycle of humanity, these differences did not exist
    • Just imagine how infinitely dull human life would be if people were
    • and how little could actually happen in human life, as everybody
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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
    • MAN
    • must look at the human being in a way that makes it possible to
    • understand this fact and many others besides. You know from the
    • innumerable times we have referred to it that man can only be
    • body, etheric body, astral body and ego. These four members of man's
    • manifold ways. Each member influences the other, and therefore they
    • very complicated. It takes a very long time for man to get to know
    • man has a connection with the cosmos through each of his members; a
    • observe man both in a waking and sleeping state.
    • a man lies asleep, the physical and etheric bodies lie in bed and the
    • 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
    • tell ourselves that this human ego is within the human body when man
    • ego and that has a free hand in the human body, descends into 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
    • MAN
    • up to form a deeper understanding of the being of man and various
    • other things connected with man's whole life and evolution that will
    • man's being. We want to start there today and find an answer to the
    • between man's ego, astral body, etheric body and physical body. What
    • 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
    • particular organ of the human body is upset. Then the whole organism
    • various organs of the human body came into existence and developed at
    • very different periods of human evolution. What from the spiritual
    • scientific point of view is called ‘the study of the human
    • body’ is the most complicated matter imaginable, for the human
    • man's higher members, so that each physical organ expresses the
    • archetype basis of the lungs came into man on the predecessor of our
    • were planted into man by higher spiritual beings. But today I want
    • the nervous system. But man is complicated, and the development of
    • like this for all kinds of phenomena in human life. And just through
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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,
    • therefore have their physical manifestation in irregularities in the
    • irregularities in the astral body manifests in irregularities in the
    • nervous system, and what originates in the etheric body manifests in
    • connected with the span of one human lifetime. Now anyone who is able
    • connections between man's various incarnations. But the ways of karma
    • are very intricate and manifold, and we must study the more detailed
    • connected with causes made by man himself in earlier lives. In order
    • the law of karma works in human life. We shall be referring to some
    • what actually happens to man spiritually in the period after death.
    • know that on passing through the portal of death man first of all has
    • mentioned. During life, when man is asleep, he lays his etheric body
    • immediately after death have also been mentioned; man's feeling of
    • astral body without man being bound to a physical body. This is the
    • know that when man has just passed through the portal of death he
    • body that man satisfied his desires. After death he no longer has
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  • 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
    • and weeping are certainly very common things in human life. But only
    • penetrate into the deepest parts of man's being where he is
    • globe. By virtue of the fact that man has acquired on this globe the
    • reaches the spirit will really fathom man's real nature. Laughing and
    • alone can remove the preconception that would rank man's nature too
    • like to reduce man as near as possible to animal level, emphasises as
    • superior to that of man. But this does not particularly surprise the
    • there are two streams in human life. One stream includes all the
    • human capacities and characteristics we inherit from our parents and
    • Man
    • man's being which passes from life to life, from incarnation to
    • a man's being, that passes from incarnation to incarnation, is
    • should not imagine that when a man is born it is possible under
    • individuality is already united with the human body before birth.
    • work on man is a different matter. The individual kernel is already
    • birth there are active in man the causes of all those characteristics
    • kernel of man's being is there, as we said, it cannot take control
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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
    • THE MANIFESTATION OF THE
    • we became familiar with every day expressions of man's inner life,
    • inner being of man, including man's whole evolution, in a certain way
    • depend. As wide as possible a study of man is what we have been
    • studying man from as many aspects as possible.
    • man takes on a different form in different regions of the earth.
    • Looking back into the ancient past, we see how the human soul and
    • actually the human body too, developed in the different epochs of
    • various capacities that mankind has today, developed gradually in the
    • are connected with the unfolding of man's inner being. Now if even
    • what tremendous human differences must have come about since the very
    • know human conditions if we continually consider them from different
    • have been entirely different then. Man, evolving in earthly
    • also the so-called Lemurian evolution, in which man had only just
    • when man descended from higher regions on to the earth. Although man
    • had the kind of physical body like you can imagine if you picture man
    • able to distinguish this human being from his environment, just as a
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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
    • something to round off the many facts and views we have been studying
    • science should take hold of human life, and how it can become life,
    • cosmos, as these are expressed in man. And to start with I should
    • evolution of the animal and that of man. You need only say one word
    • between the concept of animal and human evolution. Think of the word
    • a radical difference between the education of a human being and what
    • know that man's development is a gradual and very complicated
    • of his life, up to the change of teeth, man develops in quite a
    • today, for you already know it. According to spiritual science man
    • 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
    • is all that the plant has in addition. Now we have seen that man's
    • that man's astral body is not actually born until then. But the
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  • Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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    • The Ten Commandments
    • The Ten Commandments, a lecture, was given in Berlin, November 16,
    • from the German by Frieda Solomon and Mel Belenson.
    • The Ten Commandments, a lecture, was given in Berlin, November 16,
    • in the Bibliographic Survey, 1961), and was translated from the German
    • Continuing the study of man's various illnesses and health that we
    • human nature than has previously been possible through anthroposophy.
    • discussion of the nature and meaning of the Ten Commandments of Moses.
    • Commandments how little the form in which men know the Bible today
    • of man's proceeding out of heaven and earth the same word is used as
    • understanding of this early document of man as well. We actually speak
    • that to restore the Bible to man in a true form is one of the most
    • the Ten Commandments.
    • The Ten Commandments are interpreted by the great majority of men
    • Commandments are more extensive and general, and have a validity
    • render the Ten Commandments into our language, and then try to
    • approach the subject more closely. It will be found that many things
    • captured, then these Ten Commandments would run as follows.
    • First Commandment. I am the eternal divine Whom you experience in
    • Second Commandment. You shall not speak in error of Me in you, for
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  • Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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    • man really possess in spiritual science? The answer to this question
    • will be based on many things that have come to our knowledge in the
    • the many others now existing. It may be argued: The riddles of
    • not correct. In what man acquires through spiritual science he has
    • afield and consider the evolutionary course of mankind from a
    • the following: Man has attained the present stage of his life of
    • the human race onward step by step to its present stage. But we must
    • than those who help human evolution forward have also intervened;
    • the progress of humanity.
    • the Luciferic Beings who intervened in man's evolution, in opposition
    • Spirits of “Ahriman” or “Mephistopheles”. The Ahrimanic or
    • back over the course taken by human evolution.
    • to lay the first foundation of the human physical body. On Old Sun the
    • Spirits of Wisdom imbued man with the ether- or life-body. And on the
    • Form. It was these Luciferic Beings who gave man the prospect of
    • into man as his innermost member at that time — the astral body. They
    • established their footing in the human astral body and took possession
    • which give man his human countenance, making him into an image of the
    • Gods, namely, of the Spirits of Form. All this man would have come to
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  • Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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    • representative of man aspiring to reach the heights of existence. In
    • Goethean research has made many attempts to find the clue to the
    • to man and is a spirit of untruth, deception and illusion.
    • upright and pious man and of how the sons of the Lord of Light present
    • earth”, seeking and trying out many things. The Lord asks: “Knowest
    • approached mankind together with his hosts and entrenched himself as
    • Mephistophelean influence upon man the same as those of Lucifer? —
    • We know when Lucifer approached man. We have studied the course of
    • human evolution on earth through the epoch when the sun with its
    • with the forces that would have made further development for man
    • impossible. And we have learned that at a time when man was still not
    • approached him. The effect upon man was twofold. It was towards the
    • end of the Lemurian epoch when, in his astral body, man was actually
    • approached, man would, it is true, have been protected from certain
    • separate and apart from man's evolution! Until the middle of the
    • Atlantean epoch man would have evolved as a being who in every impulse
    • epoch. If that had happened, man's faculties of perception and
    • instinct. As things were, under the influence of Lucifer man came
    • man would have remained a spiritualized animal — an animal who would
    • have been developed by man under the influence of Lucifer. Man would
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  • Title: Concerning the Nature of Pain, Suffering, Joy, and Bliss
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    • published in German as, Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde.
    • Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
    • published in German as,
    • are experienced in matters connected with the human soul, what explanation
    • hearing, a new sense the sense of pain, so that the human being perceives
    • through his eyes and sounds through his ears. They say that man feels
    • feeling of pain really arise? In what manner does the experience of
    • torn away from man, it does not exist any more and the etheric, forces can
    • Let us imagine a man who
    • down the metabolic processes of his physical body, without making many
    • demands on the etheric body, and then another man who likes to eat as
    • the functions of the physical body. Consequently, the man whose body
    • suppressed activity falls away when the human being enters Devachan because
    • substantiality is given to man which little by little builds up the
    • activity, and man experiences this as purest bliss.
    • In Devachan the human being
    • has emancipated himself from these hindrances, and as a result, his
    • able to understand why that which was to lead man up into the higher
    • crown of thorns”. It is meant to give man the feeling: Through
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  • Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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    • in German the title is: Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde.
    • Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
    • in German the title is:
    • Anthroposophical Knowledge of Man,
    • into past ages in the history of nations, of humanity. You
    • know that through the recent discovery of many a document we
    • describe by means of occult science and which man has to live
    • know, the life of man in those other worlds, invisible to man
    • the idea that in the regions in which man lives between death
    • and re-birth, everything remains permanently the same, that
    • soul of a man incarnated in ancient Egypt or ancient Persia,
    • — Let us picture vividly the conditions of a man born
    • time between birth and death. Now let us suppose that the man
    • justifiable to enquire into the life conditions of a man
    • between death and re-birth-between two incarnations? If a man
    • is not being enacted in all the experiences a man goes
    • rolls on? You know that when we describe the life of man
    • how after the man has developed the great memory tableau
    • describe what is developed for the man in this period between
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  • Title: Lecture: The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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    • FOUR HUMAN GROUP SOULS
    • (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
    • human evolution, through the various epochs of the post-Atlantean
    • events of that time, we find quite different forms of humanity.
    • physical body — quite a house, so to say. So, with man, too, in
    • what is physical. The physical head of man before the last third of
    • thus separated from their environment. Even in the later Atlantis man
    • man. That sounds terrible for modern man. That which today forms the
    • human head, and surrounds it, hardened out of this watery substance.
    • with the rest of man at a much earlier time.
    • the human ego then, in reality? Where was the present ego? It was not
    • really within man at that time but still in his environment. We can
    • say: the upper members of man harden through the entry of the egos.
    • Because the ego was outside man, it was still endowed with a quality
    • circle of men; these human beings can be scattered in the world in
    • the most manifold way. Let us imagine one in west France, another in
    • egos can still be connected, although the human beings are scattered
    • over the world. These human beings form, then, this “round.”
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  • Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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    • series entitled, Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
    • published in German as, Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde.
    • truths for many winters, and for a little group of you, it is now quite a
    • lead us to a deeper understanding of man's character and personality.
    • 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,
    • is the central point. Understanding human nature means, really, to
    • understand a great part of the world. But human nature is difficult to
    • of the human being, if we speak today of a few facts, only a few facts
    • of the astral world. The contents of the human soul are very manifold.
    • the most manifold feelings, perceptions, ideas, concepts, and impulses
    • from morning to evening. If we observe man superficially, this soul-life
    • it can happen that not only one person, but 50, 100, 1000 human beings,
    • Just as human beings have flesh and blood and are composed of them,
    • world for our human qualities, the contents of our souls. And in this
    • be able to show more particularly how human beings, who are individually
    • many things, have had a number of ideals from youth on that have gradually
    • in the course of life an individual man has had a number of friendships.
    • passed to a definite being of the astral world. Then the man formed
    • the different currents; it could no longer group them. Then the man
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  • Title: Astral World: Lecture II: Some Characteristics of the Astral World
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    • series entitled, Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
    • published in German as, Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde.
    • anthroposophist must be aware that with regard to many things, he speaks
    • say, “The stone consists of such and such materials, the human
    • body consists of the same, and therefore, I can treat the human body
    • the fact that in what is manifested, the hidden is always betrayed and
    • sense-organ. The sense of feeling, which in a human being is spread over
    • substantiality. So, here you see a being that predicts the human being to
    • each other, had developed together: then you have the human being and
    • occult research: namely, that in the human being, too, the most diverse
    • It is related in the Gospel, how so and so many demonic beings are in
    • the man, which have streamed together in order to form a unity. And
    • what is interconnected in the human astral body embodied physically in
    • physical. If human beings had not been able to delay their incorporation
    • we humans perceive the pressure of air — only that the conditions
    • as it were — the forces that the human being has in the lungs.
    • our human ear drumskin. The eardrum, spatially considered, stands at
    • a distance in man; it is, in fact, a portion of that membrane, and forces
    • ear, at least in part, so that in the human organ of hearing you have,
    • if the fish's swimming-bladder, were turned over the gills. In human
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  • Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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    • published in German as, Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde.
    • 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
    • man—in its direct content of feeling, does not become a means
    • a human being confronts us, expressing his or her inmost nature to us,
    • 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
    • alone Kamaloca, but is far more comprehensive. Nevertheless, a human
    • to expression in the good, the best sense? A human soul can come into
    • the forces in a human being that are opposed to privation will be the
    • in manifold nuances, so, too, can renunciation. With the smallest renunciation
    • different. What first appears before a human being ascending on the
    • human being one is led there after death — what does such a
    • sphere-harmony! The human being in Devachan will experience pure bliss
    • When a human being is led
    • of human evolution, the Masters of Wisdom and the Harmony of Feelings,
    • or in the case of the ordinary human being after death, such a one will
    • the human individuality would always take into itself the warmth of
    • own substance, they sacrificed themselves for the newly-arising humanity.
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