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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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world does not make much impression, and whose education has
recovery from an illness, it makes the world of difference if we have
world with your eyes open and notice how mentally lazy and mentally
through before entering Devachan, the spiritual world proper?
being to the physical world. So if man wants to enter Devachan, he
must first learn to forget all that binds him to the physical world.
memories of the physical world. Just as worries can torment man when
of the physical world do the achievements and fruits of his previous
physical world, and then the physical world hovers in front of him
world. Just as these forgotten memories can become a source of health
life in the world of the senses.
remembering. The happenings of the world have not disappeared, of
psychologically and physically, I am of no use to the world. We can
do. Knowledge of the facts of the spiritual world, as imparted by

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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limited to the sense world but have an existence in the spiritual
world. So that however pious a doctor is and however many ideas he
has regarding this or the other spiritual world, if he nevertheless
materialistic world conception, that is, he treats people as though
living motion the forces behind the external world of the senses. Nor
understood. There have always been scientists in the world working
but only as a rule, for things are not so clear cut in the world,
realise that everything around us in the wide world of the macrocosm
has a relationship with our complicated inner world of the microcosm,
Germany. And just because of his responsible position in the world,

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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meaning from higher worlds. As long as we are in the physical world,
our world, we must step beyond the physical world and enter the
to come into the world today with identical appearance and character,
and more, and the spiritual world withdrew from men's sight. Men
beheld the sense world more and more clearly. We must picture this
from the spiritual world of the gods. It was the gods themselves who
withdrawal of the spiritual worlds, and the more independent and
passions and instincts aroused in the physical world. We must look
for this incitement in the physical world after human beings had
taken into himself from the world of the senses.
world. So we now have two types of human being. These two types live
in the physical world and perceive the world through their senses,
fructification, it is implanted into them. And this worldly life of
theirs, received not from the world of the gods but from the external
side of the divine-spiritual world, is passed on to their offspring
experiences in the physical world. Every time the sexes glow with
who is descending from the astral world. When a human being
incarnates he comes down from the Devachanic world and forms his
still connected with the divine-spiritual world the possibility of
in the same way to the animal world.
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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but also with the cosmos, the whole world about us. For what we have
feelings at another time. At one time he felt more alive in the world
world, and vice versa. They combine and balance one another and this
out into the world again out of the strength of his own inner
time transfer his rhythms to the world, when he has reached the stage
the same way as the animal world is classified nowadays according to
world with a consciousness for these things, will find in some

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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lead us deeper and deeper into the secrets of the world. Today I
the objects of the physical sense world appear round you again. You
world. And in a public lecture I also indicated a remarkable fact
sense phenomena into the spiritual world, knows of these rhythms, and
world. And we must penetrate further and further. Now let us enquire
true image of the great world relationships, for he is created out of
they live in higher-worlds. But in regard to the particular things we
not imagine though, that all this is being said to encourage a world
take an external fact of the world and stir up a mass of thoughts
wisdom of the world. When we bring the inner rhythm of number to life
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
will take into himself more and more from the world of his origins.
importance and world significance of the anthroposophical mission
divine-spiritual worlds which are the basis of anthroposophy. And
then we must let them flow out of us again into the world, so that

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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understanding of man's being and task in the world. You will remember
to look at world existence in a spiritual scientific way has an
etheric body, is laid aside and absorbed by the general world ether,
until man has grown accustomed to live solely in the world of the
the spiritual world or the kingdom of Heaven: ‘Except ye ...
Devachan or the kingdom of Heaven, and be in the spiritual world from
another being or creature or the world in general, hinders the doer
at all. Then the world would be the poorer. We must altogether
solely at the wisdom of the world that intended, right from the
of the world allowed man to become evil and gave him the possibility
in the spiritual world everything you yourself did in the external
world, and in the process you acquire the strength and the
is, in the physical world, where the injury was done. The force of
comes down from the spiritual world our soul is attracted to the kind
acquire his strength by overcoming obstacles in the world, one after
we are touching on matters that our profane world would certainly
outer world, moving forward from incarnation to incarnation until the
relationship with the outside world was he capable of doing wrong and

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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we see into the depths of the world. For the things of the spirit,
until the child has come into the world.
the child has entered the world this kernel of individuality begins
itself does not begin until the child has come into the world. And
weakness in relation to the outer world cannot occur. Being in
this form is imprinted upon it out of the astral world, and
our being. Thus you could say that pain and joy became creative world
of teeth to those regions of world existence in which primarily
sorrow and tears in that world where they can no longer be overcome.
spiritual world behind the physical, and that what appears in human
These two aspects are absolutely there at the root of our world, and
we must understand our middle world as deriving its forces from these
arise in anyone who understands the world when the elevating of the
surrounding world all the time, then sorrow and joy will be real
because we can see that it is in and through the outer world that the
relationship between ego and outer world has been disturbed. That is
The right relationship is there with the outside world, when she has
them in the outer world, can also laugh while he cries and cry while

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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grasp all the wisdom of the world with their etheric bodies, as
weaving the life of world spaces. But you could almost say that their
level. With them, devotion to the outer world and ego-feeling
were more susceptible to influences from the outer world than they
to the outer world. Thus it was the normal human beings that were the
between this and their devotion to the outer world. Those are the
completely passive Negro soul entirely given up to the outer world of
given to losing themselves in the outer world; their inner character
altogether, and only listen to what the outside world says! They did
today who say: Oh, the anthroposophists talk of a spiritual world
about a higher world! Of course everything is more spiritual today
finding the wisdom of the world in all its different aspects. And we
the world in all its aspects. Anthroposophical development is a
ego is there outside, manifest in the wonders of the world. For we
are born out of the world and want to live our way back into it.

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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world. To a certain extent you can train the animal to do things that
physical world when he leaves his mother's body and frees himself of
outer world, just as the physical body is enveloped until birth in a
perceives the outer world, of course, but its brain is not yet an
thought what he perceives in the external world, but these connecting
its physical and etheric body here in the physical world, whereas its
world when puberty occurs, and after it has been fertilised, it
Then the plant has nothing else to develop in the physical world, and
astral body of the animal has no ego within it in the physical world.
as group ego in the astral world, where its possibilities of
in the physical world. What the animal possesses as astral body has a
world. The lion has something in his astral body that expresses
development. There are things like this in the world that arise
him into contact with the outer world. Because he feels this joy,
the objective world who has done the stealing, but you know nothing
man does not merely look at the external world or merely observe it,
something in the world that strikes you as silly, and you laugh at
further. The ego puts this into our world, and what is thus put into
the world does not perish. What men have introduced into the world
view of our human world conception we call an abstraction: the spirit
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Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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out of the living sources of our anthroposophic world view when we say
important tasks of this world view, indeed, of anthroposophy itself.
what lives in you as “I” created the world in six days and lived
the plant world. Images from the animal world can symbolize for him
as ‘I’ created the world in six days and lived within Himself on the
everything that happens in the world. While the right of inheritance

Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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science may appear, at first, to be one conception of the world among
knowledge on a par with other modern world-conceptions. But this is
external world surrounding him on earth, he would never have become
to passion and desire in the world of sense. Where did these Luciferic
wholly to the world of sense?
should not utterly succumb to this world of sense. And so there is
exactly as much suffering and pain in the world as there is interest
soon as he actually did. His passion and craving for the world of
man would have had sight of the surrounding world only from the middle
with the result that he does not see through this material world to
when he bases himself solely upon the manifestations of the world of
from the material world? They saw to it — the process was of course
material world as such; this enabled him to shoulder and work out his
enticement of the Luciferic Beings brought into the world suffering,
sense-world, made it possible for man, through his karma, eventually
to blot out all the error, all the evil he has wrought in the world.
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
world only; they hue him to a kind of theoretic materialism. But as
spiritual world. More and more he will not only teach that the highest
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Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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cognition would not have been directed to the material world until a
would have confronted the world of sense as it were in a state of
was that he was detached in a certain way from the spiritual world. To
whole material world of sense would have lain around him — but gazing
Divine-Spiritual world behind every physical object. If, therefore, in
world of sense in its entirety would have been outspread in
lost. One spiritual world would have closed behind him and a new
spiritual world opened before him. Man would have remained a child in
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
parallel with initiation, figures which from a world of Light
penetrate into our world decked in the raiment provided by the astral
world. In the ancient Oracle centers the Atlantean Initiate beheld in
world and who had therefore remained invisible to ordinary sight when
opponent of these worlds of Light, it was inevitable that he too
sleeping and waking, could be transported into the spiritual world.
When part of the world of Light was accessible to these Atlantean men,
part of the world opposing the world of Light was also visible; the
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Title: Concerning the Nature of Pain, Suffering, Joy, and Bliss
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external physical world The finger is permeated with the etheric and
of the astral world will rise up before such a person. For example,
to the spiritual worlds. Even as suppressed activity means privation in
blissfulness. In one world we can always follow the traces of something
that passes through all the worlds.
worlds was sought through renunciation.

Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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“History” refers to the external physical world:
world by means of external history. When we speak regarding
meaning for this external physical world, whether only in the
know, the life of man in those other worlds, invisible to man
today, is a longer life than that in the physical world. Has
the word “history” a significance for that world,
existence how differently is the world presented to the soul
the spiritual world, there he found definite facts, definite
the other world, and so on, are we not justified in asking
physical world and is still present within him, how he passes
into Devachan, into a purely spiritual world. We further
descriptions of the spiritual world it is necessary to
for that world also in which man lives between death and
in the physical world. We relate distinctive events following
itself absolutely one with a spiritual world, in a world of
consciousness, he entered a world of the spirit. There
world of higher and lower spiritual beings according to the
depth of his sleep. Man grew accustomed to this world; and
when at death the Atlantean passed into the world beyond,
this world of spiritual Beings, spiritual events, appeared
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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
together. Where the laws of the spiritual world are in question the
over the world. These human beings form, then, this “round.”
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

Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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The Astral World
The Astral World
the higher worlds as one speaks of events and experiences of the ordinary
physical world. We have been able to learn about the various spiritual
beings and those worlds, which are, in fact, supersensible in regard to
our sense-world. And not only could we introduce an inner system into our
about the higher worlds as about something — one might say —
hesitation to speak on a certain chapter of the higher worlds that will
worlds? We talk about the astral world, about the devachanic world.
In what sense do we members of the physical world talk about them in
the first place? We talk of these higher worlds not at all with the
of connection with the physical world. Rather are we conscious that
the higher worlds, as we call them, lie all around us, that we live
in them, that they project into our physical world, and that in these
higher worlds lie the causes and grounds for facts that take place before
at what belongs to other worlds in order to be able to form a judgment
as to where it plays into our physical world. Normal and abnormal phenomena
understand a great part of the world. But human nature is difficult to
of the astral world. The contents of the human soul are very manifold.
to higher worlds. Today let us consider this relation as regards the
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Title: Astral World: Lecture II: Some Characteristics of the Astral World
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The Astral World
Some Characteristics of the Astral World
The Astral World
Some Characteristics of the Astral World
special way of observing the world, which underlies it — stands in
with the spiritual conception of the world, students of spiritual science
sinking down and the plant itself. The plant-world is there for the
the active soul-nature in the astrality of the plant-world and that
there is spatial connection. This is not so in the astral world, and
now described to some extent of the mysteries of the astral world. It
moving hands and feet, forces from the astral world are sunk into you,
depends on the laws of the physical world. The different force-masses
confirmed in its effect on the physical world. For there are certain
of the physical world, you see the confirmation of what is shown by
principle, which asserts that everything present in the spiritual world
ultimately betrays itself somewhere in the world of the senses. So you see
such a siphonophore. The hidden world spies through a peep-hole into the

Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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The Astral World
The Astral World
within us and come to an experience and observation of the higher worlds.
does one attain knowledge of the Higher Worlds? [Now in book form],
the path of knowledge, when wishing to press up into the higher worlds.
higher worlds is connected with the development of thinking, feeling
of expressing facts in both the sense-world and the higher worlds, so,
of expression of a higher world. This type of feeling is personal. The
facts or beings of the astral world express themselves by symbols. Feeling
not see as one sees a rose, for instance, in the physical world with
what we see in the physical world corresponds to physical facts. One
a new world will emerge at the stage of Imagination. In the same way,
world of Higher Devachan.
the physical, the astral and devachanic worlds are distinguished from
one another spatially. We know, in fact, that where the physical world
side’ how do I distinguish the astral world and the devachanic
world from each other?” One distinguishes them through the fact
world, the colors resound. What before was spiritually luminous becomes,
henceforth, spiritual resounding. In experiencing the higher worlds
there are also differences, so that when we rise up to these worlds,
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