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Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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night and sleep during the day. Of this we can be convinced in a
during the day, that is to say, one can become clairvoyant and see
sleep as regards the outer physical world; daytime consciousness at
man actually sleeps by day, that is to say he is not in the real sense
the waking life of day, our will is influenced only in an indirect
of will sleeps by day; the life of thought sleeps by night.
by day.
awake. During the day he is awake in respect of his intellect; during
can become active and effective. In his ordinary life today man is
the intellect which is awake by day, lies the sphere of aesthetic
appreciation which is continuously present in man. During the day man
able to dream a little even by day when we are awake; we must be able
sleep-consciousness. Human beings need also to dream by day if they do
required. Midway between the two poles of night dreaming and day
Astral Plane when by day we give ourselves up to a thought —
us today in his waking state and we observe him with the eye of
described today as the result of the most scrupulously careful occult
in our day; these achievements are essential for the welfare and the
in modern life. In those days they made use of all kinds of growing
whereas today men must build with broken fragments. All the culture of
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Title: Lecture: Buddha and Christ: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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incarnations. To-day, in our intellectual age, intellectuality and
quite possible nowadays for a man to be very clever and at the same
natural matter of course. To-day we can learn from the Akashic
14:23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven. \
14:24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food. \
14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint. \
14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? \
14:31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint. \
14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day. \
14:37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day. \
14:38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day. \
remarkable inasmuch as until the days of Schopenhauer —
Spiritual Science to-day? We are teaching what Oriental wisdom so
can as yet have no conception. It is possible to-day through higher
But to-day — because mankind is insufficiently mature
Christ. Occult investigations show us to-day that in a certain
to-day for Anthroposophy to be presented in such a way as to be based
Much that I have said today
to-day is to be a synthesis of religions. We can conceive of one form of

Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture III: The Death of A God and Its Fruits In Humanity
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I SHALL Speak to-day of certain matters in a way that could not be
lay emphasis to-day upon one aspect of what spiritual science must
would not have been possible to speak, as we can speak to-day, of a
as well as this, when we look over the earth to-day we perceive a
of it outside that region. But nowadays, news flashes around the whole
understanding can be discerned to-day in the fact that the science of
plead to-day: ‘Do not take from us the individual, personal Jesus who
As I have spoken here to-day, so did the Rosicrucians speak in
their small, enclosed circles. To-day these things can be communicated

Title: Faith, Love, Hope: The Third Revelation
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to-day we are, to some extent, facing a new revelation, a new
imitates what it hears; but that in the early days of talking it has
to-day and forms the basis of the law in all countries, in so far as,
yesterday in the public lecture, “From Jesus to Christ”. It
tradition has a different conception from that of present-day science.
of the earth and since that time has remained so. In our day, however,
— and certainly this applies to the young people of to-day —
during the Atlantean Age, present-day men have become accustomed to
guiding Spirit of the world, when to-day our heart urges us towards
most various points of view. To-day we will begin by first saying a
speak about the human sheaths in another way, and to-day we will take
To-day people must have knowledge of everything and should no longer
were much cleverer than those to-day with a scientific
that, when we don't know what will happen to us here from one day to
following day? We may have no knowledge of what is important for the
— that if we are physically alive the next day there will be
morning, midday, evening, just as there are to-day. If to-day as a
made to-day; and if I have sown seeds I know that next year they will
table to-day without being sure it would not be destroyed in the
To-day, also, there are people who thus interpret what is to be
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Title: Faith, Love, Hope: Towards the Sixth Epoch
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YESTERDAY we tried to gain a conception of the importance in human
the souls in human bodies to-day, irrespective of what they absorb at
The souls incorporated to-day have only recently advanced to the stage
the people of those ancient days, up to the time when the great change
gradually freeing itself from a consciousness of which present-day
people no longer have any real knowledge. To-day modern men generally
from the present-day standpoint they can regard it only as a kind of
as I have mentioned before — has to-day been given a place,
problems for present-day commentators, who have no key to such
growing up to the joy of his parents. One day he fell ill, and his
this one day, he passed through the gate of death. Thus for the
present-day consciousness this interpretation at first seems fairly
present-day organisation that men know nothing of their connection
dreamer's degree of understanding. To-day it is the peculiar feature
far more than is feasible nowadays. There is no need to look back many
The history of those olden days offers ample evidence of this living
human soul was brought about. From indications given yesterday it can
faculties. The example I gave you yesterday of how a man will see, in
Thus we see that the ego-consciousness men have to-day does not go
had no ego-feeling such as is characteristic of them to-day. And as
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IX: The Etherization of the Blood
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the day. You can be convinced of this in a purely outer way, because
you know that one can wake in the esoteric sense during the day, that
relation to the outer physical world; daytime consciousness at the
man actually sleeps by day; that is, he does not really live within
day; the life of thought sleeps by night.
restore what has been used up by day.
in which man is intellectually awake. During the day man is awake
activity. In his ordinary life today, man is capable of accomplishing
night and that of the intellect that is awake by day, lies the sphere
the day man is not fully awake; only the most prosaic, pedantic
basically must actually dream by day, they must always be able to
beings need by day if they do not wish to lead an arid, empty,
night dreaming and day dreaming lies the condition that can live in
shadow-images of the astral plane when by day we give ourselves up to
front of us today in his waking state and we observe him with the
Endeavors to disguise one's nature by day are useless. In the face of
described today as the result of the most scrupulously careful
made by culture in our day; these achievements are essential for the
quite different from those used today. In those days they made use of
interlace with one another, and so on. Today, human beings must build
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse in Historical Development - Lecture 1
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
day's impressions before going to sleep, we are conscious that all day
day's impressions surge up and down in our souls. We know that we are
trivial matters, we call these memories of the day our own individual
with external impressions. During the day, whilst we observe the
everyday life even better. For example, what is a lazy person? He is
today. In fact, the human Organisation changes from one century to
actions is the highest level a man can reach in the world today.
not at all as he is today. In the Greek age man was so constituted
aesthetic sphere is nowadays felt to be so in the intellectual sphere:
they do today. Strengthening the intellectual element causes the
occultists of the present day, it is recognised as an essential that

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse in Historical Development - Lecture 2
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
I am very happy to be speaking to you today — among these
of us who have gathered here today to visit our Alpine friends, is
man's present-day longing for the spirit. And perhaps it is no
their present incarnation. How many people there are today, especially
who today have the privilege of enjoying peace and health in nature?
Spiritual Science, than we could if we kept aloof from it. Nowadays we
in the form of words today, will become vision, vision in the young,
future have that fire in it for which our present-day theories are the
an understanding of occult life as I have described it today.
Schelling and Soloviev today,
in time today to a point when not even the name of Buddha was
sense we can also speak today of new times, in preparation for which
you today.

Title: Esoteric Christianity: Rosicrucian Christianity - Lecture 1
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Rosenkreutz himself today, and tomorrow we shall talk about his work.
prepare for what is characteristic of our present age: today's
intellectual, rational development. That is what is important today in
epoch the development of the intellect was not as it is today. Direct
then as we do today, and as we ought to do, for this is the task of
After a few days the body of the thirteenth became quite transparent,
and for days he lay as though dead. The twelve now gathered round him
highest initiates know it. Today, for instance, only those occurrences
again today. The inspiration for the work of H.P. Blavatsky, Isis
mankind today. And we can be sure, that wherever students of

Title: Esoteric Christianity: Rosicrucian Christianity - Lecture 2
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
My task today will be to tell you something about the work of
still going on today, and will continue right into eternity. The work
began, of course, with what I told you yesterday of the initiation of
the same until today. However, the etheric body of Christian
its forces working in ever growing circles, until today many people
happened to you. We give too little attention to such things today. We
at his life from that time onwards as a gift, nowadays this makes him
today it is more like Spiritual Science. In earlier times, for
called it astrology. Today we consider things from a more spiritual
described yesterday.
to practise rosicrucianism in the Spiritual Scientific way today. What
that for several days he lay as though dead, and during this time he

Title: Esoteric Christianity: Jeshu ben Pandira - Lecture 1
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
relationship to higher realms? In essence, both today's lecture and
the day — if we are not actually void of thought. Throughout the
day we have concepts; and, when we grow tired in the evening, these
have so overwhelmingly taken possession of him during the day, and
which our waking life of day impart to us do not appear in dreams,
any good will impulses during the day, it is as though something of
the fact that, on the following day our concepts of the preceding day
we experienced remorse, we sense this the next day in our body as
the preceding day through our good moral impulses. In reality nothing
the preceding day in the form of good moral impulses. We may say,
of thought. And science is so specially beloved in our day because in
as it is taught today; this would not have been understood by anyone
Today it is possible by means of the physically uttered word, in
speech of today will be superseded in later periods of time by forces
by our larynx as it is today. But such a spiritual power will one day
today that a person may be very able intellectually but be immoral, we
who develop today the highest intelligence, if they do not develop
who has developed intelligence today and who neglects the
reached their climax. Whereas a person can be very dangerous today by

Title: Esoteric Christianity: Jeshu ben Pandira - Lecture 2
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Since we spoke yesterday of the differentiation of the soul life of
ourselves: The joy which comes to meet us today ought to kindle in us
stick against another person in days gone by. Yes, it is you yourself
yesterday is that of the emotions. What affects the emotions
during the day, acceptance of his destiny, and thus prepares his will
thinking in our day. One can suffer the pains of martyrdom from the
was only afraid that the pharmacies might be closed for Sunday when
increasingly stimulate himself. Just as we explained to you yesterday
way can we understand what must one day appear: that is, that those
could not develop such magical words. Today only thoughts can be
Christ in a manner entirely different from what is possible today.
Spiritual Science must prepare that which will one day take place upon
the opportunity today to devote himself to spirit knowledge, enjoys a
steep myself in today's mysteries. It is my duty to feel that as a

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 1
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
dogmas are based on the outlook and results of present day science but
back on good deeds in his day's review can experience a moment of
he has to prove it nowadays with a lengthy argument, in order to be
one day, in a great state of agitation: I have just this moment
investigations, even those of the present-day, show us that someone
can be very clever and intellectual without being moral. Nowadays
morality, and in a way we can only dream of today. We cannot even
this day defamed in rabbinical literature, Jeshu ben Pandira, and he

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 2
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Yesterday [Public lecture, Munich 19th November 1911,
owing to lack of time they cannot all be mentioned today. We shall
what existed in those days of the kind of culture which was to
establish the synthesis of the great religions. His influence today is
a pupil chosen by Christian Rosenkreutz. Already today it is possible
research today, in shedding new light upon the Gospels, to go back to

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age - Lecture 1
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Today's lecture will be historical in character, and the day after
rosicrucianism as it is today when we realise that it was never a
different human beings of us from one day to the next, because through
successive epochs of culture. Today we shall speak in greater detail
is that we have this kind of culture today in the fifth post-Atlantean
reason as he does today, and needs must do, for this is the task of
We shall speak today of the dawn of occultism in the modern age. Twelve
a time when for some days the soul departed altogether from the body.
the day after tomorrow. It remains now to be said that the young man
to the very highest initiates. Today, for example, it is only
be substantiated from the Akashic Record that the day which represents

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age - Lecture 2
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Today we will lead on from the lecture of the day before yesterday to
seem to be purely fortuitous in our lives. Every human being today is
which led to the apparently chance happenings of today. Thereby we
before coming down into the body. Every human being today can have
thought today we may be able to remember it quite distinctly and in
found in the lives of many people today, but it is usually passed by
An attempt has been made today to show that certain happenings,
sense indicated today — they and they alone are true
forever will transform our whole spiritual life today.
different; there are children today of ten or twelve years of age who

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
be answered in a moment, as so many people would like to think. Today,
everyday existence, namely, that of consolation for suffering, for
not have come to me if in those days I had possessed all the virtues
facing our karma in the way indicated in the lecture yesterday, we
days was a form of resistance against the gods. We must learn to
karma can be extended further, which we shall do today and tomorrow.
I said yesterday that we cannot carry our thoughts and ideas with us

Title: Esoteric Christianity: Intimate Workings of Karma
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
There was one point in the lecture yesterday about which I should not
like misunderstanding to arise, but a conversation I had today
clear at the first time of hearing. In the lecture yesterday it was
Today we will extend and widen the scope of our studies of karma, and
happen. In our day, when someone sets out to expound a particular
less until he finally took no nourishment at all. Then he lay for days
returned into it again after a few days. The youth was now inwardly
To this very day he is at work — during the brief intervals, too,
numbers of human beings nowadays have had such experiences. Now when I
the things I wanted to call your attention to today, for they do

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Friends have expressed the wish that I should speak today on the
individuality has worked unceasingly throughout the centuries. Today
and others. Nowadays people are
taught about Copernicus in their early schooldays, and the impressions
lived centuries ago. Before the days of Copernicus everyone believed
from what they had been before the days of Copernicus. And now let us
nowadays that the sun is firmly fixed in the middle and the planets
for meditation today. The essential point is that in rosicrucian
kind. Today I have indicated that a basic factor in these matters is

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture I. The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
THE lecture today will be historical in character and the day after
today when we realise that it was never a model laid down once and for
us from one day to the next, because through our karma we have been
successive epochs of culture. Today we shall speak in closer detail of
have this kind of culture today in the Fifth post-Atlantean
and reason as he does today, and needs must do, for this is the task
We shall, speak today of the dawn of occultism in the modern age.
light. Then there came a time when for some days the soul departed
we shall speak the day after tomorrow. It remains now to be said that
prize. And other psychologists of the day also acknowledged their
been known only to the very highest Initiates. Today, for example, it
be substantiated from the Akasha Chronicle that the day which

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture II. The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Today we will lead on from the lecture of the day before yesterday to
seem to be purely fortuitous in our lives. Every human being today is
today. Thereby we reach a deep-rooted conviction that we were already
in existence before coming down into the body. Every human being today
thought today we may be able to remember it quite distinctly and in
occurrence is to be found in the lives of many people today but
An attempt has been made today to show that certain happenings,
today — they and they alone are true theosophists. —
different; there are children today of 10 or 11 years old who give the

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture III. The True Attitude to Karma
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Today, therefore, we will consider certain questions which are often
a question arising in everyday existence, namely, that of consolation
would not have come to me if in those days I had possessed all the
whole, facing our karma in the way indicated in the lecture yesterday,
self-torture practised by the ascetics and monks in olden days was a
this will be the theme of the lectures today and tomorrow.
that we may acquire — what is it, in reality? I said yesterday

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture IV. Intimate Workings of Karma
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
There was one point in the lecture yesterday upon which I should not
like misunderstanding to arise, but a conversation I had today
first time of hearing. In the lecture yesterday it was said that we
Today we will amplify our study of karma and of certain experiences in
I want to speak to you today of something which may seem remote from
not happen. In our day, when someone sets out to expound a particular
nourishment at all. Then he lay for days in a condition of complete
torpor: the soul had left the body, but returned after a few days. The
To this very day he is at work — during the brief intervals, too,
beings nowadays have had such experiences.
things to which I wanted to call your attention today, for they do

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture V. The Christ Impulse as Living Reality
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Yesterday we heard that in still later epochs men will be able to
owing to lack of time they cannot all be mentioned today. We shall
and Graeco-Latin epochs respectively. And what existed in those days
synthesis of the great religions. His influence today is waxing and
it, is a pupil chosen by Christian Rosenkreutz. Even today it is
for spiritual research today to shed new light upon the Gospels.
people who never feel the need of religion! Life today is such that

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture VI. The Starry Heaven Above Me - The Moral Law Within Me
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
The last lecture given in Neuchatel in the year 1912 was to have been supplemented by that given the following day in St. Gallen, a full report of which is, unfortunately, not available. All that exists is in the form of notes and headings, so scattered and sparse that one is almost afraid to reproduce them. Yet their importance for the explanation of how the karma of man plays between his microcosmic and macrocosmic being is such that they are made accessible in order that the discerning render may lose nothing.
the millennia. Existence today is such that we are strong enough to
learn how to achieve union with the Macrocosm. Today the human being

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture VII. The Mission of Gautama Buddha on Mars
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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Friends have expressed the wish that I should speak today on the
Individuality has worked unceasingly in the spiritual life. Today we
and others. Human beings today are taught about Copernicus in their
early schooldays and the impressions then received remain with them
age and one who lived centuries ago. Before the days of Copernicus,
from what they had been before the days of Copernicus! And now let us
Today men regard it as self-evident that the sun stands firmly at the
today. The essential point is that in Rosicrucian training,
practical activities of every kind. Today I have indicated that a

Title: Lecture: Esoteric Studies: Cosmic Ego and Human Ego
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Today we shall have to discuss an aspect of the question which to many
possessing human beings; and they are still doing that today.
to us again today. If we allow the Gospels to work upon us — we can
the human intellect is permeated by the Luciferic forces. If we today,
some one whom he had seen only a few days before, especially if he
All these things can be understood today through occult principles, on

Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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are inclined to believe. Therefore, today, we will shed light on some of
everyday life — a question known to all of us. How can we find comfort in
it has been explained in the lecture two days ago, we will come to the
which we shall do today and tomorrow.
of karma, as described.the day before yesterday, are to become fruitful,
Yesterday I referred to the fact that our ideas cannot be taken immediately

Title: Jeshu ben Pandira: Lecture I
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essence, both today's lecture and that of tomorrow will be
course throughout the day — if we are not actually void of
thought. Throughout the day we have concepts; and, when we grow
taken possession of him during the day, and which he always has
life of day impart to us do not appear in dreams, this proves that
look back upon any good will impulses during the day, the effect of
following day our concepts of the preceding day confront us again;
remorse, we sense this the next day in our body as weakness,
preceding day through our good moral impulses. In reality nothing so
preceding day in the form of good moral impulses. We may say,
science is so specially beloved in our day because in it thought is
is taught today; this would not have been understood by any one
Today it is possible by
enthusiasm for aesthetic and moral ideals. But the speech of today
by our larynx as it is today. But such a power of spirit will one day
possible today that a person may be very keen intellectually but
battle together, all against all. Even those who develop today the
has developed intelligence today and who shall neglect the succeeding
reached their climax. Whereas a person can be very dangerous today by

Title: Jeshu ben Pandira: Lecture II
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Since we spoke yesterday of
The joy which comes to meet us today ought to kindle in us the will
stick against another person in days gone by. Yes, it is you yourself
aspects of the super-sensible life we mentioned yesterday is that of
mood of serenity during the day, acceptance of his destiny, and thus
day. One can suffer the pains of martyrdom from the terribly
afraid that the pharmacies might be closed for Sunday when she
impulses to himself. Just as we explained to you yesterday that human
one day appear: that is, that those who are shrewd and immoral will
this at present — could not develop such magical words. Today
possible today.
prepare that which will one day take place upon our earth.
to occur in future. Whoever has the opportunity today to devote
the mysteries about which we can learn today. It rests upon me

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