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Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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also be remembered that certain premises were taken for granted when
what may be called ‘anthroposophical history’, told as an
spectacle presented to him, and we are aware that inwardly he is
picturing his environment. That is one situation. Another is the
following: a man is walking along the street and feels that someone
manifestation of impulses of will, and it is easy to imagine that if
— that of sleeping and waking. From the elementary concepts of
Anthroposophy we know that in waking life the four members of a man's
are organically and actively interwoven, but that in sleep the
of view. We might ask: what is there to be said about ideation,
that in his present physical existence man is, in a certain sense,
purely external way, for we know that we can wake in the occult sense
during the day, that is to say, one can become clairvoyant and see
asleep to what is then and there happening and we can rightly speak of
we realise that in the ordinary waking condition of physical life, man
at the door and you say “Come in!”, that cannot be called
yourself at a table, that cannot be called a decision made by the
Why is this the case? Occultism shows us that in respect of his will
man actually sleeps by day, that is to say he is not in the real sense
strengthened in the morning because what has penetrated into our
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Title: Lecture: Buddha and Christ: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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realise that this repetition has its own good purpose in the Earth's
that our experiences differ in each of the epochs during which we are
that in the times directly after the Atlantean catastrophe, souls were
man has developed in such a way that great progress has been achieved
characteristic of the sixth epoch will be that very definite feelings
regarding what is moral and what is immoral will arise in the
pleasure will be a moral impulse, that is to say there will be
a firm resolve to do what is moral. There is a great difference
the seeds of what will become part of mankind in future epochs are contained
in the human soul and it can be said that all these aptitudes or
In our present age it is mainly the forces of the astral world that
it will be the forces of Lower Devachan that penetrate more deeply
that in the preceding fourth post-Atlantean epoch (the Græco-Roman)
it was the forces of the physical plane that exercised the strongest
influence upon the soul of man. That is why Greek culture was able to
such magnificent expression on the physical plane. Conditions in that
what will be the characteristic qualities of the soul in future
wore symbols, of which they had such profound understanding that if
between what was good in a moral sense and what was wise. The priests
identified, but the biblical references suggest that they were
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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
development of mankind, we shall find that in the comparatively recent
Now let us ask: What is the peculiarity of this element that
of it outside that region. But nowadays, news flashes around the whole
understand with greater clarity that no body can subsist without a
earth, so must knowledge of the spirit be the soul that extends over
the human soul. The longings and questionings that will arise
soul and soul over the whole earth. And what will weave from soul to
something that is sacred to individual souls everywhere, namely, how
place of what led in past times to bitterest conflict and disharmony
nothing of each other. But what will operate on a universal scale over
operate also between soul and soul. What a distance still separates
That humanity is coming a little nearer to this intimate
understanding can be discerned to-day in the fact that the science of
what is really brought to light when the different teachings of the
But what is the aim of spiritual science in regard to the various
religions? It seeks for something that lies beyond the reach of the
From what does spiritual science take its start? From the fact that
mankind has originated from a common Godhead and that a primeval
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Title: Faith, Love, Hope: The Third Revelation
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that Rittelmeyer could have heard. Certainly we may find in them an
indication of the great mysteries of destiny that worked in these
From various indications I have given here you will have grasped that
man's evolution, it may well be that we shall best understand what is
doing so we shall be considering, it is true, only what has been
of a child. Observing the child rightly, we find that on its first
around it; it has no means of expressing what is going on within it or
of formulating in thought what affects its soul. To begin with, the
The Education of the Child — will know that first it
imitates what it hears; but that in the early days of talking it has
no understanding which can be attributed to thinking. What the child
what previously it was prompted to say out of the obscure depths of
conscious of the thought-content in what it says. With these three
stages in the child's development we may compare what mankind has gone
into the significance of what was revealed to mankind in these
that men take these spiritual treasures so much for granted that
significance have to know how remarkable it is that in these Ten
into it, that a man is enabled to conform to the norms, the laws,
The second revelation came about through the Mystery of Golgotha. What
can we say about this Mystery? What can be said was indicated
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Title: Faith, Love, Hope: Towards the Sixth Epoch
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life of what may be termed the super-sensible revelation of our age. We
indicated that this was to be reckoned the third revelation in the
realisation that men, in their evolution, are neglecting something
essential if they hold aloof from all that is being announced to us
now and will be announced in the future. It is quite appropriate that
sheer fantasy; and quite natural also that, to begin with, many people
what is here in question. But Anthroposophists should be clear that
the souls in human bodies to-day, irrespective of what they absorb at
present, are approaching an ineluctable future. What I shall have to
of that genuine ego-consciousness which has been in preparation during
form that the dreamer is scarcely ever able to interpret rightly their
condition worsened in a few hours to such a degree that, at the end of
had exactly the same dream. They dreamed that their son appeared to
and that they merely had to look into the matter to be convinced that
The parents told each other what they had thus dreamed on the same
night, and such was their attitude to life that they immediately asked
intelligible. The parents were thinking so much about their son that
thing was that they should have had the same dream on the same night.
assume that one parent had the dream, and the other, hearing it when
awake, got the idea that he (or she) had dreamt it also. To
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IX: The Etherization of the Blood
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from the spectacle presented to him, and we are aware that he is
engaged in making an inner picture of what he sees. We say that he is
absorbed in contemplation of what surrounds him. That is one
feels that someone has insulted him, injured him. Without much
we can easily imagine that if the action had been preceded by thought
polarity confronts us — that of sleeping and waking. We know
waking. From the elementary concepts of anthroposophy we know that in
interwoven but that in sleep the physical and etheric bodies remain
ask what there is to be said about contemplation of the world,
You see that if one penetrates more deeply into this
question it becomes evident that in his present physical existence
you know that one can wake in the esoteric sense during the day, that
one can rightly say that it is an awakening when man learns to use
normal way. One can therefore say that ordinary sleep is sleep in
deeper scrutiny one realizes that in the ordinary waking condition of
attentively what we call the human will, and you will see how little
at the door and you say “Come in!” that cannot be called
and seat yourself for a meal, that cannot be called a decision made
is this the case? Esoteric teachings show us that regarding his will
man actually sleeps by day; that is, he does not really live within
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse in Historical Development - Lecture 1
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aspect that especially interests you. I would like to make some
— you can all get sufficient knowledge from that —
immediately struck by the fact that we experience the world about us
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
thinking about them, our soul is now within the after-effects of what
beings, beings with an intellect, that we are capable of receiving
those we have had pass through our soul, then we know very well that
these are our pictures of what is outside. Our impressions of the
outer world merge with what we are as individuals. They become one.
What you can experience first of all in your
inner life, is that you feel you are not absolutely dependent in your
about what happened on Saturn, Sun and Moon, then he has higher
impressions of what happened on old Saturn, old Sun and old Moon. We
For what does this mean? What does it mean for the human being to
through experience, even of things that are independent of external
impressions? It means that he is becoming more independent in his
etheric body. That is the first step of a long process. At the
beginning he does not even notice that to some extent he is lifting
and to a certain extent understand it if we remember what our
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse in Historical Development - Lecture 2
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appealing to our deepest interests, that is, revelations, realities of
the life of the spirit. And the most obvious fact that strikes those
this: that a number of our friends have withdrawn up here, not
charm of the mountains. And if we then ask ourselves what our hearts
are looking for, we might find that it is something very similar to
illusion to assume that in the world outside the same impulse is at
work as the one that spurred you on to come up here into the solitude
Man knows, or senses dimly, that there is spirituality in all that
thinking. We cannot help sensing that in everything that surrounds us
that there is spirit in everything that expresses itself in nature
ancient past we can tell ourselves that we descend from a spiritual
works of art, exploring what we can make of the material to hand, in
feeling, the whole of nature will gradually become for us what it has
will become the kind of maya that is beautiful and great, for the very
reason that it is the creation of the divine-spiritual. So when we go
activity that took place in ancient pre-earthly times. Then we are
filled with that tremendous enthusiasm that deepens our feeling for
we should also feel that it is in a certain respect a privilege to
power of observation that has been enhanced by spiritual science, then
we know the intimate connection that exists between what we feel for
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Rosicrucian Christianity - Lecture 1
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Neuchatel, 27th September 1911
about Christian Rosenkreutz at greater length. What is contained in
century. At that time these forces worked extraordinarily strongly,
ever since. There is a law that this spiritual stream of force has to
wisdom is contained in this book that is still a long way from being
That this is said can only be the wish of H.P. Blavatsky who is not in
the thirteenth century we see that primitive clairvoyance had
gradually disappeared. We know that in earlier times everybody had an
to what remained in their memories. People only knew about the
their memories of what they had previously experienced. For a short
This short period of darkness had to take place at that time to
prepare for what is characteristic of our present age: today's
intellectual, rational development. That is what is important today in
beings identified with what they saw and heard, in fact even with what
The rosicrucian stream began in the thirteenth century. During that
In a place in Europe that cannot be named yet
men who lived in that dark era, twelve outstanding individualities,
life in themselves memories of what they had experienced through
earlier initiations. And the karma of mankind brought it about that in
seven of the twelve all that still remained to mankind of the ancient
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Rosicrucian Christianity - Lecture 2
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Neuchatel, 28th September 1911
began, of course, with what I told you yesterday of the initiation of
Christian Rosenkreutz, and all that took place between the council of
At that time hardly anyone else came to know Christian Rosenkreutz
Rosenkreutz did not meet other people, but only that the other people
did not recognise him for what he was. Fundamentally this has remained
kind: Christian Rosenkreutz chooses people so that, for instance,
life. Let us assume that a man is about to commit an action that would
a voice saying ‘Stop!’ — so that he has to stop without knowing
course, that this is only the external sign of being outwardly
means of a human voice. The event always occurs in such a way that the
person concerned knows quite clearly that the voice comes from the
spiritual world. He may at first imagine that the voice has come from
enough he discovers that it was not a physical person intervening in
his life. In short, this event convinces the pupil that there are
times in life. We have to understand what effect this has on the soul
It can happen, of course, that even though a man has already
course of your lives and you will find that similar occurrences have
your life should actually have ended at that moment. You had forfeited
Since that hour a second life has been grafted onto the first, as it
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Jeshu ben Pandira - Lecture 1
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worlds in addition to our physical world, and declare that the human
also to super-sensible realms, one may ask what is to be found within
capacity — which is super-sensible, which gives an indication that
What first confronts us when we direct attention to ourselves as souls
something which points to higher worlds. What this conceptual world is
what we call feelings of love and hate, what we designate in our
thing beautiful, another ugly; perhaps, we love one thing and hate
summarise what thus appears in our inner life, we may call it
Of a third we become aware when we say to ourselves, not only that we
consider a thing beautiful or ugly, good or evil, but that we feel
impelled to do this or that, we have an impulse to act. When we
impulses to bear in connection with everything that we do. When we go
suppose that, when he is really sleeping — that is, if he is not
But the human being must recognise that the concepts he has, which
to his falling asleep. That this is so is best seen when we surrender
interested, such as a novel containing much that captivates our
emotions is something that hinders us from falling asleep. When we go
to bed with our feelings vividly stirred, when we know that we have
heart which has not yet subsided, it frequently happens that we turn
concepts unaccompanied by emotions weary us, so that we easily fall
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Jeshu ben Pandira - Lecture 2
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impulses, and shall ask ourselves: What characteristics must we
characteristic, serenity and acceptance of our destiny. And what
What do we mean by this? It means that — not merely theoretically
fate, we shall really be fully aware that, in a certain higher sense,
this means developing such a mood that we accept an experience of joy
joy, that we must not go to excess, since this is perilous. If we
investigate karma by occult means, we always discover that in most
And we must then realise with the utmost clarity that we have often
external life in the presence of what causes us pain in such a way
that our conduct shall seem to be an acceptance of our destiny. We do
ourselves outwardly in such a way, yet the principal thing is that we
souls that we ourselves have been the cause of all such things.
Suppose, for instance, that someone strikes us, that he beats us with
ask: ‘Who is it that strikes me?’ No one says in such a case: ‘It is I
that beat myself.’ Only in the rarest cases do people say that they
punish themselves. And yet it is true that we ourselves lifted the
our life, to a broadening of our self, when we say: ‘Everything that
Of course, we must view within a broad compass what we consider as
destiny. We must conceive this destiny of ours in such a way that we
say to ourselves, for instance, that the development of precisely one
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 1
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understand what is at work in the cultural periods of our own epoch.
Science in relation to what is at work beneath the surface of life,
and so that occult research can help us direct our lives in harmony
to what is also taking place in the super-sensible world in our time.
By way of introduction we must also take into account what we have
ours is a time of dogmatism and abstraction. The strange thing is that
people believe generally that their thoughts and actions are free from
down of ready-made dogmas that enlightened people are required to
chief dogmas from modern natural science, in fact that particular
And anyone who is of the opinion that he is right because he is
convinced of these dogmas himself, believes that the others have
human individuality, and strive only to cram their heads with what the
All that comprises the Anthroposophically orientated spiritual
social life that is based on a mutual interchange founded on the sort
of confidence that each personality has in the other. Human beings
this or that and do not disturb the other people in the course of your
work. Nothing could be worse than this, that the bad modern habit of
only when you are in full agreement with your neighbour that you
this sort of thing. It aims at generalities. What is right for one can
must make a clean sweep of that. If this attitude were not prevalent
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 2
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of mankind by the Christ that its waves surge onwards into future
will manifest in such a way that human beings will behold the Christ
we heard that in still later epochs men will be able to behold Him in even
theosophical movement in the West should have become that stream of
certain occult processes, the wisdom that had passed over from
what existed in those days of the kind of culture which was to
Now it was known at that time that a certain individuality who had
a way that a radiant, shining spirit indwelt a body that had become
received back what he had originally given, but now in a different
united into one interconnected whole. And henceforward what we call
not until the fourteenth century that he was known by this name. In
from his ether body, inspiring all that was done in the West to
materialist), suddenly he hears a voice saying: ‘Stop what you purpose
to do!’ And he will be aware that this was no physical voice. But now
suppose that he abstains from his project. Then he will be able to
realise that if he had continued ruthlessly towards his goal, he would
These are the two fundamentals: that he knows with certainty, firstly,
that the warning came from the spiritual world, and secondly, that
spiritual movement. If the resolve is taken, this means that the
The human beings of whom it can be said that they were, or will be,
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age - Lecture 1
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rosicrucianism as it is today when we realise that it was never a
the conditions of the times. It is quite obvious to us that the
way into the culture of the present age; but we know, too, that
simple as that of the representatives of communities based upon race
must be that we are not rooted in the soil of a specific creed but
fast to the principle of historical development, realising that
more than once. What is the purpose of these reincarnations? Why must
new. There must be a purpose in the fact that we pass through
different incarnations, and the purpose is that in each of them the
in incarnation at that time lived through an experience which had not
fallen to the lot of others. What I am now about to say is known to
Whatever knowledge of the spiritual worlds existed in the thirteenth
been initiates and were able to call up memories of what they had then
is that we have this kind of culture today in the fifth post-Atlantean
dominant faculty; the human being was one, as it were, with what he
saw and heard, even with what he thought. He did not cogitate and
itself could only take place after that brief period of darkness had
that I shall now describe took place cannot yet be communicated, but
memories of what they had experienced through earlier initiation. And
it is stated that the seven wise
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age - Lecture 2
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recognise the justice of many things in our destiny and realise that
nevertheless, that there is justice in it. Then again, looking back on
for there seems no explanation for them whatever. These two categories
perception of everything that seems to him to be due to chance. We
which are disagreeable to me, and imagine that I myself actually
really wanted them? In other words we imagine with all intensity that
existence, to realise that this being does actually exist within us.
become aware that this imagined being is by no means without
in existence and at that time you had within you the impulses of will
reach a deeply rooted conviction that we were already in existence
the human being. What is it that reincarnates? How can we discover the
complete neutrality; we need not love or hate what we picture
life of feeling is that we like or love one thing, dislike or abhor
difficult to realise that the life of thought is the most closely
when we bear in mind that speech is the instrument whereby we express
diary. The idea occurred to him that a scene in which the reincarnated
when we ask ourselves what actually passes on from one incarnation to
of what tumultuous feelings, what teeming impulses of will were
working in Bismarck at that time! But even when writing his memoirs,
be, of course, that even after ten or twenty years a feeling of pain
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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that Anthroposophy must not be regarded merely as a
is rather something that can be transformed in the soul into actual
life, into an elixir of life. What really matters is that we shall not
only acquire knowledge through Anthroposophy, but that forces shall
and a new birth. The more we feel that Anthroposophy bestows upon us
ask: If Anthroposophy is to be a power that strengthens and infuses
the earth? Why is it necessary to learn about things that happened in
forth? Many people might think that Anthroposophy is just another kind
that habitual slackness in life which we know only too well; that man
into such questions? Let us admit that we really do begin by thinking
that there is an easier path to Anthroposophy than all that is
lightheartedly that, after all, a man need only know himself, need
this gives us the deeper knowledge that there is nothing more
difficult than to be a good man in the real sense and that nothing
As to the question concerning self-knowledge, that can certainly not
everyday existence, namely, that of consolation for suffering, for
distress when they need it? Every individual must of course apply what
natural for a man to feel that something in him rebels against this
ourselves justice or, find our proper hearings in life. That is what I
mean by inner suffering. Why does life bring so much that leaves us
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Intimate Workings of Karma
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indicated that this might be possible. It is, of course, difficult to
said that we have to regard our sufferings as having been sought out
by the wiser being within us in order that certain imperfections may
be overcome, and that by bearing these sufferings calmly we may make
progress along our path. That, however, was not the point on which
that happiness and joy must not be regarded as due to our own merit or
with the all-prevailing spirit. Please do not think that the emphasis
here lies in the fact that joy comes to us as a mark of favour from
the divine-spiritual powers; the emphasis lies in the fact that these
experiences are made possible through grace. That is what our attitude
and joy are acts of grace. A man who imagines that the happiness and
We must never imagine that happiness is allotted to us as a mark of
favour or distinction but rather as a reason for feeling that we have
ever believe that joy comes to him because of special karmic
privileges; he should far rather believe that it comes to him because
we are suffering the pangs of sorrow. What brings us forward is the
realisation that we must make ourselves worthy of grace. There is no
justification for the very prevalent view that one whose life abounds
in happiness has deserved it. This is the very attitude that must be
avoided. Please take this as an indication so that no misunderstanding
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
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Neuchatel, 18th December 1912
Friends have expressed the wish that I should speak today on the
when it was said that the
circumstances in the thirteenth century, and that since then this
dawn of the intellectual age in order that provision might be made for
what a contrast there is between a man of the modern age and one who
that the earth remains at rest in cosmic space with the sun and the
feet when Copernicus came forward with the doctrine that the earth is
from what they had been before the days of Copernicus. And now let us
ask: What has occultism to say about this revolution in thinking?
Anyone who asks from the standpoint of occultism what kind of world
admit that although these ideas can lead to great achievements in the
evolution. The reason for this is that all these Copernican concepts
nowadays that the sun is firmly fixed in the middle and the planets
realised that the view of the world of the stars held by Copernicus is
with those twelve individualities of that earlier time and certain
be the truth — that the Buddha who in his twenty-ninth year rose
from the rank of Bodhisattva to that of Buddha, had incarnated then
for the last time in a physical body. It is absolutely true that when
that he ceases to be active in the affairs of the earth. The Buddha
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture I. The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age
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today when we realise that it was never a model laid down once and for
this is that Rosicrucianism must always adapt itself to the conditions
of the times. It is quite obvious to us that the fundamental impulses
present age; but we know, too, that the culture of the West presents
born into Western culture. Our task is not as simple as that of the
particular religion. For our fundamental principle must be that we are
principle of historical development, realising that Spiritual
once. What is the purpose of these reincarnations? Why must the human
purpose in the fact that we pass through different incarnations, and
the purpose is that in each of them the human being shall add new
incarnation at that time lived through an experience which has not
fallen to the lot of others. What I am now about to say is known to
Whatever knowledge of the spiritual worlds existed in the thirteenth
been Initiates and were able to call up remembrances of what they had
was obliged to fall for this short period in order that preparation
characteristic of our modern age. The point of importance is that we
what he saw and heard, even with what he thought. He did not cogitate
itself could only take place after that brief period of darkness had
them remembrances of what they had experienced through earlier
it is said that the seven wise Teachers of the ancient, holy Indian
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture II. The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age
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and realise that we have deserved them. — Suppose someone has
frivolousness, but a feeling arises, nevertheless, that there is
explanation whatever. These two categories of experiences are to be
everything that seems to him to be chance. We must try, above all, to
me and imagine that I myself actually willed them? In other
words, we imagine with all intensity that we ourselves willed our
into existence, to realise that this being actually exists within us.
become aware that this “imagined” being is by no means
already once in existence and at that time you had within you the
today. Thereby we reach a deep-rooted conviction that we were already
of the successive incarnations of the human being. What is it that
complete neutrality; we need not love or hate what we picture
life of feeling is that we like or love one thing, dislike or abhor
to realise that the life of thought is the most closely bound up with
bear in mind that speech is the instrument whereby we express our
— The idea occurred to him that a scene in which the reincarnated
impulses of the will, when we ask: What is it that actually passes on
decision to go to war in 1866; think of what tumultuous feelings, what
teeming impulses of will were working in Bismarck at that time! But
thoughts and mental pictures. It may, of course, be that even after
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture III. The True Attitude to Karma
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It was not without purpose that at the end of each of the two public
lectures, I emphasised that Theosophy must not be regarded merely as a
theory or a science, nor even a specific form of what is usually known
as a body of knowledge, but must be something that can be transformed
in the soul into actual life, into an elixir of life. What really
matters is that we shall not only acquire knowledge through Theosophy
but that there shall flow into us, from Theosophy, forces which help
that Theosophy bestows upon us forces whereby life itself is
that strengthens and infuses vigour into life, why is it necessary to
things that happen in remote ages of the past? Why are we also
that Theosophy is just another kind of science, on a par with the many
whether or not such questions are tainted by that habitual slackness
into such questions? Let us admit that we really do begin by thinking
that there is an easier path to Theosophy than all that is presented,
for example, in our literature! It is often said light-heartedly that,
deeper knowledge that there is nothing more difficult than to be a
good man in the real sense and that nothing needs so much preparation
As to the question concerning Self-Knowledge — that can certainly
a question arising in everyday existence, namely, that of consolation
case what may be said about such matters. In addressing a number of
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture IV. Intimate Workings of Karma
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indicated that this might be possible. It is, of course, difficult to
first time of hearing. In the lecture yesterday it was said that we
“wiser being” within us in order that certain imperfections
may be overcome, and that by bearing these sufferings calmly we may
make progress along our path. That, however, was not the point on
namely, that happiness and joy must not be regarded as due to our own
interwoven with the all-prevailing Spirit. Please do not think that
the emphasis here lies in the fact that joy comes to us as a mark of
that these experiences are made possible through Grace. That is
what our attitude must be if we are to reach a true understanding of
that the happiness and joy in his karma indicate a desire on the part
achieve this goal. We must never imagine that happiness is vouchsafed
that we have been recipients of the Grace outpoured by the
development. Nobody should ever believe that joy comes to him because
of special merit in his karma; far rather he should believe that joy
realisation that we must make ourselves worthy of Grace — that is
what brings us forward. There is no justification for the very
prevalent view that one whose life abounds with happiness, has
deserved it. This is the very attitude that must be avoided. Please,
then, take this as an indication, in order that no misunderstanding
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture V. The Christ Impulse as Living Reality
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As a supplement to the lectures given in the year 1912 on the mission of Christian Rosenkreutz, we publish certain material from the year 1911. It will help us find the thread between the work of Jeshu ben Pandira, [footnote: See Jeshu ben Pandira by Rudolf Steiner, also lectures 5 and 6 of the “Gospel of St. Matthew.’] the teacher of the Essenes, and that of Christian Rosenkreutz.
essentially different being, in that when he (Jesus of Nazareth)
Gospel known by that name had already been in existence since the time
physical plane. What were previously only pictures from the Mysteries,
It is also necessary for us to know that one of the characteristics of
the incarnations of the Bodhisattva is that in his youth he cannot be
the sounds of the speech that will be uttered when this Bodhisattva
therefore, it can be said: 5,000 years after Gautama Buddha, that is
nature of the Christ Impulse and in that age the Buddha stream and the
into the evolution of mankind that its waves surge onwards into future
Impulse will manifest in such a way that human beings will behold the
Yesterday we heard that in still later epochs men will be able to
in the West should have become that stream of spiritual life which out
name to become part of the spiritual life of the modern age. At that
transmitted to seven of these twelve wise men, the wisdom that had
and Graeco-Latin epochs respectively. And what existed in those days
Now it was known at that time that a certain Individuality who had
a way that a radiant, shining Spirit indwelt a body that had become
received back what he had originally given, but now in a different
lived in the twelve men what we call Rosicrucian Christianity.
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture VI. The Starry Heaven Above Me - The Moral Law Within Me
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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.
Theosophy teaches us that the processes in operation between death and
And now, after his death, we have learnt from him something that was
hates it; hence there is a spirit of opposition between them.
often yearns for what, in his conscious life, he hates. How can we be
his sufferings even when there was no evidence in his life that he
and a new birth. Many living people will feel that they are intimately
connected with the Dead; they will also be conscious that they help
whatever it perceives, fills it through and through.
so that the one is shut off from the other. A hermit has a dull,
clairvoyants, we then observe the human being, we perceive that if he
was a moral, religious man, he is able, from that time onwards, to
culture, conditions were such that the Throne of Christ was to be seen
the millennia. Existence today is such that we are strong enough to
shrinks and shrinks in size — until it is so tiny that he can
we must unfold a true understanding of Christ in order that we shall
the knowledge that before this life they were in a spiritual world,
received the essence and content of my inner life; what I lived
existence of evil impulses in my soul is due to the fact that during
can have only a dim premonition of what happens between death and a

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture VII. The Mission of Gautama Buddha on Mars
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Friends have expressed the wish that I should speak today on the
subject of the lecture here a year ago, when it was said that the
circumstances in the thirteenth century and that since then this
order that provision might be made for the future of humanity.
Try to picture what a contrast there is between a man of the modern
everyone believed that the Earth remains at rest in cosmic space with
that the Earth is moving with tremendous speed through the universe!
from what they had been before the days of Copernicus! And now let us
ask: What has occultism to say about this revolution in thinking?
One who asks from the standpoint of occultism, what kind of
to admit that although these ideas can lead to great achievements in
the evolution of the human mind! The reason for this is that all these
Today men regard it as self-evident that the sun stands firmly at the
distant future, however, it will be realised that the view of the
be the truth — that the Buddha who in his twenty-ninth year rose
from the rank of Bodhisattva to that of Buddha, had incarnated then
for the last time in a physical body. It is absolutely true that when
that he ceases to be active in the affairs of the Earth. The Buddha
from the spiritual world that the forces of Buddha were streaming into
that have been necessary for the sake of progress in the evolution of
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Title: Lecture: Esoteric Studies: Cosmic Ego and Human Ego
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IT is necessary that we speak somewhat further this evening concerning
the nature of Christ Jesus. This necessity arises from the fact that
especially in Theosophical circles, and on that account the need
may perhaps appear somewhat strange, but it is very important
course, that this has progressed in such a way that the whole of
epochs. And we have often spoken of the fact that we can distinguish
five cultural periods, up to and including our time, since that great
new continents — that is, our life. We speak of the first, the
of the epochs, appropriated this or that from their experiences, brought
appeared as souls at a stage of development dependent upon what they had
But now we can also speak of the fact that, of the various members of
was formed and developed in each cultural epoch — but note well that
this was only generally the case. Thus, we can say that if human
beings permit to work upon them all that our epoch of civilization can
give, they are especially called in our time to develop what in our
body; and in the old Indian, what we call the etheric or life body.
And in that epoch which will follow our own as the sixth
post-Atlantean epoch, that member will be especially developed which
epoch, that which we characterize as Life-Spirit, and which in
our civilization, of what is called the Consciousness Soul.
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Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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that anthroposophy should not be considered a theory or mere science, nor
as knowledge in the ordinary sense. It is rather something that grows in our
we receive forces that help us in our ordinary lives during physical
existence as well as in the total life that we spend during physical existence
strengthening of life, why do we have to acquire so much of what appears
earth? Why do we have to learn about things that took place long ago?
Some people may believe that they are being offered just another science.
This problem, which forces itself upon us, demands that we eliminate all
some of the easy-going ways of life that become manifest when we are
question that is being asked. As it is, we are led to believe that the highest
goal that anthroposophy may offer us can be attained on easier roads than
on that taken by us through our own literature.
It is often said, almost nonchalantly, that man has only to know himself,
that all he has to do in order to be an anthroposophist is to be good. Yes, it
is profound wisdom to know that to be a good person is one of the most
difficult tasks, and that nothing in life demands more in the way of
these questions that have been raised. We then will come to see how
science, but that it also offers in an eminent sense a path toward self-
knowledge and what may be called the pilgrimage toward becoming a
Let us take a specific question that does not concern scientific research, but
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Title: Jeshu ben Pandira: Lecture I
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physical world, and declare that the human being sustains a
super-sensible realms, the question may arise as to what is to be
indication that the human being is connected with super-sensible
essence, both today's lecture and that of tomorrow will be
The first thing that
thought-life he has something which points to the higher worlds. What
do, indeed, have something else. It is what we call feelings of
love and hate, what we designate in our thinking by the terms
another ugly; perhaps, we love one thing and hate another; one we
feel to be good, the other evil. If we wish to summarize what thus
when we say to ourselves, not only that we consider a thing beautiful
or ugly, good or evil, but that we feel impelled to do this or that,
in connection with everything that we do. When we go out, for
emotions, and our will impulses. If we reflect somewhat about our
disappears the moment we fall asleep. No one will suppose that, when
he is really sleeping — that is, if he is not clairvoyant during
recognize that the concepts he has, which have so overwhelmingly
to sleep. That this is so is best seen when we surrender ourselves to
interested, such as a novel containing much that captivates our
emotions is something that hinders us from falling asleep. When
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Title: Jeshu ben Pandira: Lecture II
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shall ask ourselves: What characteristics must we cultivate very
What is the meaning of
making karma a real content of life? This means that — not merely
heaviest blow of fate, we shall really be fully aware that, in a
painful blow of fate; that is, the development of such a mood as to
aware, especially in regard to joy, that we must not go to excess,
occult means, we always discover that in most cases the joy one
experiences has not been merited, and that the manner in which we
contrary, our actions have generally been such that we have merited
this, that we always find the reason in the course of our present
clarity that we have often failed to conduct ourselves in our
to conduct ourselves always in external life in the presence of what
causes us pain that our conduct shall seem to be an acceptance
thing is that we shall do this inwardly.
yet we should say to ourselves in the depths of our souls that we
instance, that some one strikes us, that he beats us with a
ask: "Who is it that strikes me?" No one says in such a case: "It is
I that beat myself." Only in the rarest cases do people say that they
punish themselves. And yet it is true that we ourselves lifted the
self, when we say: "Everything that befalls us comes from ourselves.
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