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• Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 2
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  • speak today not only in general abstract ideas about the world in
• Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 1: The Present Position of Spiritual Science
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  • world. Besides all the usual ideas which flow through our souls at
  • those who are interested in our Movement should form some idea of its
  • quite new and unaccustomed ideas before one's hearers. In the
  • slow to take in new ideas. Indeed it is a characteristic feature of
  • not the remotest idea of the forces governing the historical life of
  • conscious concepts and ideas going, and with the help of these, to
  • feeling for a great drawing together of mankind, for ideas having
  • circumstances in the face, must be: in socialism. Ideas were there,
  • material life and alas, these ideas encountered no other world of
  • ideas to stand against them. If we really understood the ideas which
  • in a sense historical ideas, dreams of humanity; — but what
  • How has it come about that these socialistic ideas have taken root in
  • understand in abstract ideas what holds people together and makes the
  • ordinary ideas, runs its course in the subconsciousness; but on the
  • Wilson's ideas are very widespread (far more people are of his way of
• Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 2: A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Human Being
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  • etheric, but in youth we must learn to supply spiritual ideas as
  • through his head a certain number of ideas which, if directed to the
  • that if at 15 years of age he can produce ideas of sufficient force
  • such sustenance of spiritual ideas that they suffice for working into
  • idea of how children ought to be taught in earliest childhood that
  • wholly changed, ideas formed before the 20th century have gradually
  • become more and more abstract, they have become ideas of the head.
  • When we compare the rich ideas of the 13th and 14th centuries with
  • difference in the abstract ideas, the dry conformity to law of the
  • he could not, for, read with the ideas derived from modern physics
  • is most spiritual; for these abstract ideas are the most spiritual
  • through the spiritual ideas he has developed. It is precisely in them
  • that he has become so remarkably materialistic. When these ideas come
  • simple existence of abstract ideas is the first refutation of
  • these impulses and ideas something will come to humanity which to-day
• Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 3: The Living and the Dead
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  • our ideas less so; in our feelings we are not awake. F. T. Vischer.
  • world in the ideal sense. To ordinary observation the apparent fact
  • respect of our life of ideas, as accurate self-observation will
  • ideas. When withdrawn from sense-perception, that is, not outwardly
  • awake’ purely in the life of ideas has always a shade of
  • life of ideas, yet, taken as a whole, we can say that, when we form
  • feeling, because ideas, that is, waking activities, are mingled with
  • we were always able to illumine with ideas what we dream (the greater
  • of our life of will is, in its turn, illumined by the life of ideas;
  • perception in the world of sense and in our life of ideas; even in
  • perception of the sense-world and our world of ideas; and, imbedded
  • idea that the forces of the dead may live in what we dream or sleep
  • get accustomed to the idea that we ourselves are in the other as the
  • these ideas if we do not form wrong thoughts about a connection I
  • flow to it from the content of the life of ideas but from the
  • understanding, and thereby to bear within one a real world of ideas
  • with concrete ideas when it is deepened by Spiritual Science.
• Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 4: The Cosmic Thoughts and our Dead
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  • very meagre idea of how we make ourselves get up; perhaps, even the
  • place changes when he enters it. Other people have an idea of this at
  • life; in Jesus, too, I see the greatest bearer of ideas who has at
  • ideal, which the man of to-day should set before his soul, is to be
• Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 5: Man's Connection with the Spiritual World
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  • least some idea of the things which man must feel rather than think,
  • day, we shall gain an idea of all that might have happened. We shall
  • To obtain a really clear idea of
  • much of it is lost in [the] course of a year. If we extend this idea
  • idea.
  • rest all got out of its way, but the peculiar idea occurred to her,
  • various ideas about fatigue. We know from the public lecture on
• Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 6: Feelings of Unity and Sentiments of Gratitude: A Bridge to the Dead
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  • its ideas. Those who find it easy are not always those who benefit.
  • ideas and thoughts must be entirely different from those we must
  • the idea: ‘I will go now across the street;’ we then walk
  • we gain an idea of how we leave behind everywhere the stamp of our
  • the idea that we have them no more, for that is an ungrateful
  • ‘difficult.’ They just think, they grasp their ideas
  • a certain effort is needed to accept its ideas. People avoid effort.
  • side of the human perception; how ordinary ideas are grasped by the
  • brain, but intimate ideas pass through it as through a sieve, into
• Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 7: Confidence in Life and Rejuvenation of the Soul: A Bridge to the Dead
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  • ideas by which they claim that the world is easy to understand, and
• Title: Life Gifts: Lecture II: The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology
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  • the idea: One thing is right — and another is wrong. But I must
  • view, it is one definite way of making pictures, thoughts and ideas
  • certain ideal of natural science would be to turn out the light and
  • we shall gradually gain the idea that in the relations between the
  • of acquiring, by means of such Imaginations, ideas of the Universe
  • pictorial ideas. Copernicus has led man to calculate the universe;
• Title: Life Gifts: Lecture III: Thoughts about the Life Between Death and Rebirth
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  • In the idea
  • clearly upon ourselves certain ideas in Spiritual culture
  • something that is of main importance, that certain ideas now
  • ideas. Although all sorts of world-conceptions have appeared,
  • nature, they all deal with old ideas which have been in use
  • traditionally; for instance, ideas which appeared in Plato or
  • the object. This can be found in Plato. The more recent ideas
  • understand nothing of it. It is the kind of idea which you
  • because such ideas rests upon something which existed in
  • times certain ideas have been lost which must be
  • fundamental, basic ideas; ideas which must, as it were, again
  • draw your attention to two ideas which must be
  • possible. One of these is that an idea exists that really the
  • no idea! For that reason it does not know what physiological
  • can find this idea introduced by psychologists and especially
  • This idea too is the opposite of what is true. Instead of
  • idea. For if we do, we shall no longer say that what runs
  • reverse many of our ideas. If we seriously consider that in
  • are not able to form correct ideas as to what is happening on
  • the ordinary physical plane. We form false ideas about what
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• Title: Life Gifts: Lecture IV: The Eternal and the Imperishable
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  • only get reliable ideas concerning the incisive events of the
  • page I had for instance the sentence: “The idea is an
  • spirit by means of intuition. The idea is an individualized
• Title: Life Gifts: Lecture V: Thoughts on Life and Death
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  • an idea which one may have concerning the life of the soul
  • animals can gain an idea of how in reality the
  • will, he considers thought or the idea as an illusion. That
  • This idea is
  • and it would be possible also to gain an idea of the
  • such ideas, such concepts might form the bridge from the
  • that, it is of immeasurable importance that the living ideas,
  • the spiritual life to find a place. To the ideas disseminated
  • Into this pregnant atmosphere, Darwin threw his ideas. All he
  • the ideas of Lamarck, for these things have been known to
  • to grasp the concept of how very different the ideas of the
  • idea, but also into the profoundest depth of the human being.
• Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VI: Spiritual Science, the Practice of Life and the Destinies of Souls
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  • and ideas which come to us from Spiritual Science. It might
  • through its ideas and its thoughts, would not be affected
  • forming of ideas) through which we then work upon these outer
  • back again. It has been repeatedly said that such an idea is
  • from this point of view what thoughts and ideas of Spiritual
  • possibility of making the ideas more mobile, occasions the
  • such an idea!
  • “Another idea is the discovery of the stealthy
  • tendency which has at last stripped off the old idealistic
  • ideas, a newspaper reporter wrote that I myself used symbolic
  • ideas which were untenable: the idea of
  • idea). It caught on, and now a second edition has appeared.
  • nature of the concept, ideas and thought in our soul, so that
• Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VII: Whitsuntide Lecture
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  • of flesh and blood. That however is an ideal which has been
  • have correct ideas as to what is taking place.
  • correct or false forces into our life of idea. The times can
  • 1914. Yet no man today can be really awake if all his ideas
  • will unconsciously conceive of it according to the ideas of
  • form new ideas is uncomfortable to man, and what I have just
  • disclosed is a new idea; it is nowhere to be found among the
  • required before we can grasp such ideas aright. I must
  • ideas. We know however that humanity becomes
  • change of ideas. One thing which must especially be
  • and the insipid tones which come from Wagner, to gain an idea
  • times; we must renew our world of ideas, we must renew our
• Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture I: States of Consciousness
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  • limbs, to a dim idea of what has just been said, and this
  • which are not to be clothed in ordinary ideas. They have, as
  • Nobody carrying out the idea, “I move my hand”,
  • theory, not a result of forming ideas about it; but something
  • subjective ideal or tendency which Spiritual Science has to
  • research. Certain concepts and ideas are necessary in order
• Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture II: The Building at Dornach
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  • and so among our friends the idea arose of providing an
  • idea of our building with that of a cake-mould. This is made
  • architecture. That was the first idea. — After much
  • driven to give up the idea of realising our hopes in Munich
  • near Basle, we set about building. The idea of the encircling
  • work on walls has been in connection with this idea, that the
  • idea of the wooden building. As it stands, it has really no
  • of pillars. If the windows were to carry out the idea of the
  • without a model, some idea of what the Bau is meant to be. As
  • idea of it came to me, for I believe I have grasped as
  • artistic idea was not to produce a representation of Him. The
  • idea rests purely in the artistic form, in its manner of
  • programmatic idea. The artistic thought must rest in the
  • show you a few pictures, to give you an idea of the principal
  • idea of the carving; therefore this elemental being sprang
  • idea of what is intended, and I hope that you have at least
• Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture III: East and West
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  • from one earth-life to another are hidden, disguised. An idea
  • striving after a remarkable and strange ideal: no longer to
  • thus to be directed to the ideal of making life here on earth
  • spiritual ideal such as I have described is set up. By this
  • physical life will be overcome, and by degrees the ideal will
  • guise. A very interesting point is that this ideal can be
  • such an ideal as I have described. This will set the pattern
  • West. In the West a sort of battle against such an idea will
  • the idea: “I feel as if something were there; something
  • Those who seek the ideal humanity, because the first step
  • peoples, is inwardly connected with the ideal of becoming
  • idea were to establish a sort of pan-nature, a universal
  • by ideas taken from the spiritual world. What is taught in
  • chaos. Ideas that not long ago were recognised as significant
• Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture IV: History and Repeated Earth-Lives
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  • no possibility nowadays of giving an adequate idea of how he
  • ideas, pagan culture and pagan experiences, they understood
  • Son. Nowadays people unite no conceptions with these ideas,
  • ideas which lead into the spiritual world; they were strong,
  • conceal the greatness of the Christ-idea and the profound
  • Golgotha. That is why the favourite idea was brought out:
  • favourite idea — that truth must be
  • independent of Rome. It was an idea which held sway for
  • such ideas should sink into men's souls; they are needed
  • in which the ideas of the transition-period of the new age
• Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture V: The Being and Evolution of Man
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  • hindrances, he would have quite a different idea of his
  • a soul-being, he has not much idea of how he has
  • altered in the course of time. Strangely, but truly, his idea
  • centre.” We speak of our Ego and we have the idea:
  • give us a really coherent idea of ourselves if we could but
  • ego, we cannot arrive at the idea of the ego being so
  • the idea of what does remain true to the species through long
  • divest ourselves of the fantastic ideas of modern learning
  • and resources: sharply circumscribed ideas for organising the
  • different ideas He says: Supposing that Christianity had not
  • prudence. A school of ideas which would replace
• Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture VI: Problems of the Time (I)
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  • ideas and conceptions which would fit it to deal with the
  • all thse efforts went towards getting certain dogmatic ideas
  • themselves, here on earth, to certain ideas concerning the
  • man's horizon no longer extended to the idea of a connection
  • same aim — to prove that human ideas and concept should
  • No idea, no conception, engendered in the inwardness of the
  • credulous in respect of theories, taking the content of ideas
  • was concerned only with the “content” of ideas
  • ideas are never carried into life in accordance with their
  • it. No one knows the truth unless he knows that ideas often
  • content of their ideas, but anyone who knows how things
  • ideas are not derived from spiritual knowledge they may enter
  • applies to the ideas of Marx, which are intended to banish
  • to turn away from abstract ideas and say: “Daylight has
  • “subject-matter” of ideas, and refuse to reckon
  • men with admirable ideas through which they wanted to reform
  • the world, and these men were admired; yet the ideas became
  • abortions! For ideas themselves are but dead things; they
  • people. I can only outline this, but it gives an idea of what
• Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture VII: Problems of the Time (II)
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  • and ideas devoid of life and vigor. It should be
  • with the same ideas as on the past, the determined, is
  • One idea, according to this view, must be received
  • intelligent leaders of thought: the idea of “the
  • means of the ideas and concepts that can be
  • reform is necessary in our ideas concerning this most
  • such conceptions, and this habit spreads into ideas concerned
  • familiarizes himself with the ideas of this school knows that
  • possessed of the ideas of the future, whereas they have only
  • throughout it refuses admittance to ideas with a fruitful
  • this view refuses to entertain ideas with any germ of life in
  • passing away; and the only effect of these ideas is to
  • concepts are rooted in reality. These ideas are useless for
  • ideas held hitherto may talk as much as they wish — they
  • that their ideas point to the future, are very often immersed
  • lifeless, barren thoughts and ideas, because fertile ones can
  • cannot reach the ideas they really need in order to learn
  • idea is brought into modern life — but it is not really
  • incorrect ideas, for example, created by Woodrow Wilson out
  • — deals and ideas that apply only to the transient, in
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