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- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture I: Research into the Life of the Spirit During the Middle Ages
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- such vision had been common human experience, but they knew that in
- a certain human being. You feel his presence gives you warmth. But
- is like our human desire, like our impulse to strive after
- how it is from the human being himself. Your Ego and your astral body
- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture II: Hidden Centres of the Mysteries in the Middle Ages
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- the Christmas Foundation how the human being who was an Initiate or
- and 28 or so, felt strongly and definitely that the humanity of the
- he was made aware of all the single organs of his human organisation
- human organism. Down there in the depths he felt the forces of the
- mystery of each single word is to be sought in the whole human being,
- human being, by diving down, as it were, from the speech organs into
- the whole organism of the human being; and then in the Cosmos, for
- the whole human organism is to be explained and understood out of the
- attitude or gesture of the human being out into the Cosmos and say,
- to come forth as it were, to rise out of the human being into the
- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture III: The Time of Transition
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- to human thinking as the means of attaining knowledge.
- the Middle Ages we can see this human thinking developing and
- disembodied human being, purely spiritual, and yet at the same time
- human.
- human intellect and understanding will be so constituted that it will
- able to speak to the human soul. Therefore remain in your mystic and
- human speech. The others could and did. And this is the source of a
- fraud. Indeed at no time of human evolution have charlatanism and the
- human language. What the three give would be nothing but quite
- among the very highest of human attributes. Such small groups of men
- evolution of humanity towards freedom is such that the bond between
- in a significant manner, it is still, shall we say, human in
- spiritual world, who are not of human kind, who do not come to Earth
- in human incarnation, accepted the sacrifice in order to fulfil
- the human beings in the world. And when one descends deep down into
- the Human, what God is and what Man is, was taught and made known to
- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture IV: The Relationship of Earthly Man to the Sun
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- himself, the human being as such. They saw in Man a being who had
- the etheric human form, which should itself establish its own
- human form, but etheric still; then Man should draw to himself
- Man — three different shades or gradations of the human, but
- human kingdom. This was the picture of how Man stood in the world.
- Human striving for true manhood must be abandoned, earthly man must
- brought about by human sin. This knowledge was entrusted to the pupil
- they take to be correct, is the outcome of their own human guilt. It
- is really nothing else than the expression, the revelation of human
- verily human experience? No, for were it human experience, it could
- not flow out of inner human experience; rather it approaches man as
- thoroughly human. When a man was taught to think logically, he had a
- eighteenth century who speak of a downfall of all that is human, and
- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture V: Occult Schools in the 18th and First Half of the 19th Century
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- concerning Man, in respect especially of two human faculties. We may
- being of the human organisation itself.
- legs upwards, these four lines came to view in the human organism
- human organism itself writes into space these two intersecting
- Logic, it must be understood by the whole human being. And in point
- then it passes over into the whole human being.
- is today. Man had insight to perceive around the human being, a very
- of the Moon. They saw in the form and shape of the human spinal
- inpouring of the Moon-streams. In short, in what the human being
- has to the Sun, we have a year of twelve months; and from the human
- actual, miniature human being in front, here, in his head. And then
- the pupil was made to observe that anatomically this miniature human
- a kind of embryonic development of a miniature human being.
- human being no longer divided as to Form and Content, but as one
- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture VI: The Tasks of the Michael Age
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- the nineteenth century, and into which human beings will have to
- humanity.
- knowledge of the world. The Rosicrucians perceived in their own human
- secrets of existence. For the humanity of olden times it really was
- drawing forth their knowledge from the inner being of the human soul.
- human heart to its depths, to inform the human heart and mind with
- depended on many and varied things in the course of human evolution.
- the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Then human beings began to
- human life.
- read? We — the humanity of today — read what we ourselves
- former epochs of culture the humanity of today must read in the
- already there. As human beings we must find our humanity again in the
- what becomes of human deeds, receives it and carries it on and out
- to arise out of human freedom. But when man does things out of
- human earthly deed out into the Cosmos; so it becomes cosmic deed.
- clear gesture of repulsion, for many things in which the human being
- what man discovers in the human and animal and plant kingdoms
- He also sternly rejects all separating elements, such as the human
- entered the evolution of humanity. The Michael impulse is there. But
- on the other hand, in the evolution of humanity there is much that
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- Title: Lecture: Festivals and The Mysteries. The Adonis Mystery. The Easter Thought
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- Easter is felt by large numbers of human beings as a festival
- of the human soul, and on the other hand with cosmic mysteries and
- humanity. These things will show us the immense values which mankind
- We have here touched something of infinite significance in human
- youth in man, of all that appears as beauty in the human being.
- human beings saw in the image the actual and present God the
- With songs and acts of ritual representing the deepest human grief and
- every human being who was about to reach initiation. For within the
- Mysteries in those ancient times every human being who was to receive
- have to undergo what the human being undergoes in the first three days
- took place with chosen human beings in the Mysteries. Indeed the cult
- experience that in the human being which is only half like the death
- earthly realm events enacted there upon the human being
- in the human soul, portrayed in the God Adonis. Even the God Adonis
- Ether, approximately three days after the human being here upon Earth
- human being shall turn his gaze to the death of Nature, in order to
- Then in the further course of human evolution the great Event took
- could be undergone in the entire human nature by Christ Jesus upon
- thousands and thousands of years, human beings have been led through
- What was thus experienced in the soul by a number of chosen human
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- Title: Lecture: Moon-birth and Sun-birth. Necessity and Freedom. Stages of the Ancient
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- The original idea of any sacred festival is to make the human being
- centuries humanity of the civilised world has undergone an evolution
- human body, we must realise on the other hand that the ancient
- today. The inner change that takes place in the human being about the
- thirtieth year of life remains for present day humanity to a large
- were sharply separated in the course of human life. Hence in those
- said of the great majority of human beings and it was
- second birth was the Sun-birth of the human being; the first was
- the Sun that we, as human beings upon Earth, are able to make anything
- long, a human being evolving by Necessity. These Sun forces
- maintains the human being when he passes through the gate of death
- But humanity evolves. There came a time when the ancient knowledge of
- which had been attainable only in the ancient Mysteries by human
- taken place. It was the same transformation which all human beings had
- the Christ descended into human evolution and took up
- celebrated the Easter Festival in its full human form, by which I mean
- over the human being, that he no longer considered himself a human
- being at all, but said: I must first become a human being.
- life no longer to consider himself a human being. But in those times
- not consider himself a human being. He must say to himself: Certainly
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- Title: Lecture: The Moon-secret Spring and Autumn mysteries
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- movements of the wandering stars, nothing at all has remained in human
- conditions of movement of the human body in complete unconsciousness
- Now in the human being a single soul-and-spirit gathered together in
- connected with the human being's inner life, just as the substances of
- the Earth environment available for human nourishment are connected
- and notably for humanity on Earth. For the Moon especially we must
- human being from the Earth. Man was of course a very different being
- Thus we may say: The Moon forces once rayed through the human being,
- Sunlight can provide no forces enabling the human body to form his
- cosmic relationships connected with the forming of the human etheric
- Then we come to that which permeates the human being with the faculty
- with Jupiter. And that which flows through the human being by way of
- which the human being must be protected so that he may become a human
- also learn to recognise how the human etheric body is formed when man
- in which Mercury guides the movements of the human being. Nor did he
- members. Thus he knew that for the human etheric body he cannot turn
- It is for the astral body and especially for the human Ego that he
- Initiation imagine this inner human Easter experience of former
- human experience, it was conceived that something or other, not man
- that is left of a real process of the Mysteries which many human
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- Title: Lecture: The Mysteries of Ephesus The Aristotelian Categories
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- the ancient Mysteries. For a period of time human beings had to stand
- number of human beings have passed through incarnations in which the
- harvest is not yet, nevertheless it is there within the human being,
- once again, human beings will indeed evolve in time what in their dim
- life that has evolved in the course of human history. We shall learn
- We know in the first place that human individuals themselves return to
- human beings themselves are the most important factor in the
- progressive evolution of all that has taken place in human history.
- But the human beings of every age live in a particular environment.
- mankind to carry from one age into another what human beings
- understand how these ethereal forces are transmitted to the human
- and minds be impressed by the part which human beings took in such a
- Never did human hearts and minds partake so intimately in this descent
- human being. He felt a premonition of the physical body which he would
- At this stage the human being was still human being in the widest
- the greatest things that pulsated through his human being.
- And it is so with many things. Very much of what is now human wisdom
- in the intervening time of human evolution between the two spiritual
- Anthroposophy is there indeed; it lies at rest in human hearts, only
- these human hearts must be able to open themselves in the true way.
- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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- sensibilities of the human soul, but on the other, with cosmic
- which humanity has endowed this Easter Festival in the course of its
- conceptions of the most vital problems during the course of human
- This points to something of enormous importance in human
- spiritual representative of all that appears in the human being as
- accompaniment of songs and of rites representing the deepest human
- three days the immortal human soul. It arises in order to be born for
- impression, the terrific shock inflicted on the human life by this
- beauty, youth and the glory of the human soul, to the god Adonis. He
- Now, during the course of human evolution a most significant
- in the body of Jesus of Nazareth, it was possible for all the human
- human being had evolved. Christ could no longer have been found in
- Then, in the following centuries, the evolution of humanity took
- longer has the power to reveal, through the inner force of the human
- human soul knows that man passes physically through the portal of
- the human soul arises in spiritual
- resurrection of the human soul after three days. When the god —
- instructed believer saw in this act the image of the human soul a few
- human destiny was awakened within the spirit of men. At that time it
- lay deep down in the substrata of the human soul. So up to our own
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- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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- human being and the Moon forces but the inspiration they impart to
- contain the potential human body, we must observe, on the other hand,
- this development depended his creed. We human beings have been
- when humanity began to develop in such a way that this second or
- knowledge of human life.
- the Moon-birth of the human being as the creation of man by the
- enables us human beings upon Earth to make something of
- sustained the human being after passing through the portal of death;
- human being was sustained by the forces of Saturn, which at that time
- But humanity changed as a result of evolution, and the time came
- Sun, the Christ Himself, Who descended to enter human evolution and
- human institution in those days, for it meant initiation. Primarily
- the neophyte was that he could not think of himself as a human being
- life he was not a human being. But that was the very first
- Before descending into an earthly body I was indeed a human being; in
- pre-earthly existence I was a human being of soul and spirit. In this
- his eyes: the most he can do is to dissect the human corpse and then
- way people go to work nowadays. They dissect the human being and cut
- learn to know him, for that is not at all the human being. If we
- would learn to know the human being we must be able to look back
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- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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- planets, nothing has remained in human consciousness but the outer
- movement in the human organism, remaining unaware that a
- In the human being a unified psycho-spiritual element manifests
- one with the Earth its influences upon human beings were exerted from
- in human consciousness, the Moon with the forces of other planets,
- contexts that are linked with the forming of the human etheric body.
- other we find the whole sequence of the planets inscribed in human
- Mercury experiences, the human capacity for speech becomes the
- time we learn how the human etheric body is formed and constituted
- Mercury directs the movements of the human being. Nor did he possess
- intervene in the building of the human etheric body. The Sun appeared
- light-being; and imagine this inner, human Easter experience of
- with the clear knowledge that this could be a human experience,
- Thus the confusion manifesting itself in the course of human
- confused men's minds concerning an issue that at one period of human
- fullness of human experience. They would pass from a sanctuary where
- to the human spirit. Easter was a festival of admonition regarding
- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- in the entire evolution of humanity. Really everything of a spiritual
- for humanity to be less closely linked, for a time, with the powerful
- enlightenment and a spiritual life of humanity is really not
- spiritual as they have evolved during the course of human history; if
- over their experiences of earlier epochs into later ones. Human
- factor in the progress of humanity is the carrying over of what has
- the advancement of human freedom — in the sense that
- human progress.
- human being, in descending from the pre-earthly to the earthly
- But it is important to ponder in our souls the human element as well,
- he felt the complete human
- human being: resonant ego, resonant astral body, in a shimmering
- the human being was man in general, in the sense that the
- as a human being; for through them he became aware of the relation
- Now the human
- Saturn may gather up all that rounds off the human being within and
- way things work out: much human wisdom that in olden times had been
- grave during this interlude in human evolution between the two
- must make of Easter an experience for all humanity. And just as it
- for these human hearts to open in the right way. That is what we must
- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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- the deepest feelings and sensibilities of the human soul, and
- lectures to come. As for Easter's connection with the human
- importance have occurred in the course of humanity's
- in the development of humanity. Consider for a moment the
- all that manifests itself in human beings as vigorous
- grandeur of which humanity is capable.
- the accompaniment of songs and rites portraying humanity's
- nature. Human beings die as well. Each of us has his autumn.
- stands for beauty, youth, and human grandeur. You see that he
- else. You must remember that although human beings pass through
- the immortal human soul awakens after three days. Three
- encompassed procedures representing what human beings
- by nature in the fall must also overtake human beings, overtake
- youthfulness, and grandeur of the human soul. The god Adonis
- so too is the human soul raised from the waters of the world,
- namely, with the eternal essence of the human being. Humanity
- that human beings die as well, but that in accordance with
- humanity developed, the time came when a particular
- undergo on Golgotha in the entirety of his human nature
- performed. Over time human nature had changed. Evolution had
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- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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- can say that the original purpose of festivals is to make human
- times, he would not at all understand how human beings can live
- counting of human embryonic life in ten lunar months. But older
- world views were clearly aware that the human being, who exists
- earth forces alone hold them together? The moment the human
- these civilizations human beings still developed very
- During the last two thousand years or more, human beings have
- that takes place in human beings around the thirtieth year
- sun forces' influence on the human being is entirely
- While the moon forces determine the human being, permeate us
- of the moon and the sun upon human life were sharply
- born not once, but twice. As humanity began to develop in such
- true understanding of human life.
- sets human beings free. Consider what it does for us. Only
- After death the human being is maintained by the Saturn
- humanity changes, and the time came when the sun forces'
- the most part, however, human beings lost this knowledge of the
- sun being himself, the Christ, descended into human evolution
- was as yet a human affair, for it was initiation.
- believe that he was not yet really human, that this was a goal
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- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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- of the moon. Inasmuch as human beings participate in the cosmos
- as a whole, this secret was related to human nature. It
- the human organism while ignoring that it is animated by a
- This spirit and soul, as they manifest themselves in the human
- humanity's inner nature in the same way that earthly foodstuffs
- everything the moon means to earth and to earthly humanity.
- when it was still joined with the earth, it acted upon human
- Humanity, of course, lived and developed completely differently
- by which humanity was shaped and held fast from then on were
- forces that once acted upon human beings from within the earth
- one time the lunar forces radiated into the human being from
- acquired a completely different role in the life of humanity
- the human being has very definite experiences. When he has
- death and a new birth, the human being prepares to come down to
- that time, human beings who had completed the life between
- split off, human beings have obtained the necessary forces from
- they enter earthly existence, then, human beings must call upon
- fashioning the outer side of the etheric body human beings need
- cannot bestow the forces that enable human beings to shape
- assure human beings of the forces they need to fashion their
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- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- have seen how the Mysteries provided human beings with a
- in humanity's development. Indeed, in ancient times
- essentially all of humanity's spiritual life and
- Human beings, however, were destined to achieve freedom, which
- diminish and for a time leave human beings more or less
- nor humanity's spiritual life would be possible.
- developed throughout human history. Through the festivals we
- even though human beings are the most fundamental link in the
- A most important factor for the progress of humanity is
- Mysteries, which in turn have their effect upon humanity as a
- turn out to be useful for human freedom on another level. Such
- forward in human evolution.
- planets, and that these observations guide human beings in
- available to human beings, we can look to the cosmos;
- appreciate the interest human beings have taken in these
- himself as a complete human being. Through the consonants, he
- he felt himself living within the light. Now truly human, he
- the cosmic human being.
- from there. In this condition he was still a human being in
- Indeed, he felt himself to be truly human when these verses
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- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 1: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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- COUNTLESS numbers of human
- related on one side to the profoundest feelings of the human
- an intimate connection with humanity have been associated with
- facts concerning our human evolution. This is nothing less than
- in human evolution. But let us consider for a moment the
- profoundest human grief and woe the divine image was on this
- him also. When life draws to an end it is well that the human
- impression, the tremendous forward push that human life
- human soul. The god Adonis dies also. He passes into the water,
- it, so the human soul is raised out of the water of the world;
- the course of human evolution a most important thing now took
- part of his human nature what the ancient Initiate of the
- living content of human consciousness at that time gradually
- in the same way as before, for the simple reason that human
- extraordinary development in humanity. The penetration of
- force of the human soul. Man has need of the support of Nature,
- power contained in the festival of Adonis was lost. Humanity
- god, men saw the death of all that was beautiful in humanity,
- concerning the super-sensible resurrection of the human soul
- saw in this image the representative of the human soul a few
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- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 2: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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- inclined humanity to turn its attention more and more away from
- its connection with cosmic forces and cosmic powers. Human
- they cannot construct their human form. Those forces living in
- contains the forces by which the human body is formed, we must
- civilizations human development was very different from what it
- humanity, inwardly, at about their thirtieth year, has also
- humanity that lived eight or nine thousand years before the
- from the Moon-forces. What does present-day humanity know of
- referred, the difference between these two forces in human
- part of humanity: a man was born not once but twice. For it was
- came about in the course of human evolution that the second of
- human evolution goes on. A time arrived when it was no longer
- was lost to humanity; and while for a considerable time
- the Christ himself, came down into human evolution and took up
- entirely human concern, was actually carried out in the Ancient
- that he knew nothing at all of human nature
- therefore, as he had no self-consciousness of human nature, he
- enterest now into the grotto of the human temple
- He now learnt to know this grotto of the human
- humanity
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- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 3: The Secret of the Moon
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- loss of consciousness on the part of humanity, of the
- if one were to study the human physical organism, completely
- Moon-forces have had an entirely different task for humanity
- the original teachers of humanity and withdrew along with the
- the human etheric body were determined; and these Moon-forces
- experience with regard to Mercury, we pass from the human
- aptitude for sound-production to the human aptitude for
- this way he also learns how the human etheric body is formed
- movements of human beings. A man did not then attain to wisdom
- formation of the human etheric body. In observing the sun he
- proceed from the higher members of human nature, from the ego
- planets, for the human etheric body. One looked to the sun for
- the human astral body, and especially for the ego; but that for
- human being, rises to the existence of a Light-being, and think
- of this earlier inward human Easter experience as changed to a
- entered into human evolution, and how this not only gave rise
- totality of human experiences. Prom one Mystery
- of the Festival of Human Spirituality; it was a festival for
- for primitive humanity as summer approached. Thus the Easter
- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 4: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- humanity was ordained from the beginning to develop freedom.
- evolved in the course of human history; when we endeavour to
- the most important factors in the further development of human
- agents in human progress is the power to carry over what was
- be in the Mysteries themselves, where it works into humanity at
- may be used in accordance with human freedom in such a way that
- real human progress can be achieved through it.
- it is most important that the human interest, which throughout
- pupil now felt his whole human being in the
- human being was still a universal being
- greatest consequence to his humanity.
- so has it been with many things. Much of the wisdom of humanity
- human evolution between the two spiritual epochs, will again be
- at that time humanity was blessed by a divine spiritual
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