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• Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture I: Research into the Life of the Spirit During the Middle Ages
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  • being felt itself warm in soul, the feeling would be actually the
  • person himself doesn't interest me, I will imagine him absent;
  • in any case only there when the man is there. In itself it is
  • himself, how he uses his words.
  • is Man. Man himself is the fourth Hierarchy. But by the Fourth
  • how it is from the human being himself. Your Ego and your astral body
  • tell myself: There is the man! What does it matter to me what
  • in true Kantian fashion as to what the “thing-in-itself”
  • “thing-in-itself” of the clothes cannot be known. Very
  • ‘thing-in-itself’ cannot be known,” or in the
  • fashion of Helmholtz and think to yourself: “But these clothes,
• Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture II: Hidden Centres of the Mysteries in the Middle Ages
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  • soul, cannot come through, it has hindrances in itself.
  • your ears what goes on in Nature; the Spiritual reveals itself
  • cannot help feeling how it reveals itself in these.
  • him his own self in the 10th or 11th year of his age. What stood
  • Spirit of his boyhood, his very self. He, with his 15 or 28 years,
  • between the pupil and his own younger self. Such a conversation has a
  • himself become that old man. He knew that there stood before him his
  • own self in future old age. And now followed a similar conversation,
  • this time between the pupil and his own older self — himself as
  • when the old man, who was himself, had disappeared, the pupil could
  • given him by the teacher, showing him how self-knowledge really
  • Mysticism.” It was a mysticism that sought for self-knowledge,
  • but always in order to find in the self the way to the divine. In
  • he shows himself to you as someone quite different from what the
  • historical documents make him out to be. For he shows himself to be
  • had been in olden times. He set himself to renew the Mysteries of the
  • Logos by means of that self-knowledge for which so powerful an
  • of view. He said to himself: When man speaks, then we really have in
  • was an intensive striving, first to immerse oneself in man, and then
  • to a true self-knowledge, if he would find again his adjustment to
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• Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture III: The Time of Transition
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  • surface itself) which came to man in a more unconscious form.
  • spreading, asserting itself in an impressive manner. It sets out on
  • however, it showed itself with a peculiar intensity, and whilst these
  • little company of men. This being revealed himself as the same who
  • inner being of man, if it holds itself aright, can yet find the way
  • period. One has to discover for oneself what it really means, by
  • knows well that the old, real, and genuine Astrology expresses itself
  • idea of “boundaries” to knowledge. The idea shows itself
  • of a knowledge of these cosmic causes; he has to limit himself to the
  • may be able to find for himself in freedom of will what in earlier
• Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture IV: The Relationship of Earthly Man to the Sun
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  • knowledge, showed itself in this later age more in a devotion of
  • himself, the human being as such. They saw in Man a being who had
  • shown himself equal to the task, had fallen from his high estate.
  • on Earth today, is really a creature who is self-contained, who
  • generally, where shall we find one who accounts himself a scientist,
  • who seriously occupies himself with these great and far-reaching
  • itself from the Earth, or rather separated the Earth off from itself,
  • the etheric human form, which should itself establish its own
  • relationship to the physical substances of the Earth, and itself take
  • Earth as an etheric being, give himself earthly form. The seeds of
  • human form, but etheric still; then Man should draw to himself
  • the Earth and all that is thereon, incorporating it into himself from
  • not find his proper task on the Earth, the Earth herself has not her
  • Earth, not being governed from herself in her place in the Cosmos, to
  • Goethe himself did not understand this. Recall, my dear friends, how
  • Who is it that Faust is really conjuring up? Goethe himself, when he
  • really and truly bears within herself the forces that are needed to
  • man looks on himself and on the Universe. And with this weakening of
  • man's living connection with himself, with this estrangement of
  • man from himself came afterwards the tendency to cling to the
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• Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture V: Occult Schools in the 18th and First Half of the 19th Century
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  • essence of what was hidden in it subsequently again disclosed itself
  • not speak of it, had I not myself, so to speak, found the things
  • being of the human organisation itself.
  • itself as it were inscribed this symbol. He made them stand with
  • itself. A line was then drawn to unite the feet, and another line to
  • human organism itself writes into space these two intersecting
  • were externalises himself. It is the exact opposite that occurs when,
  • oneself with them. There is always something in man whereby he can
  • himself one with the fairy tale. And so it is with these true symbols
  • go out of yourself. And this going out of oneself, this going to the
  • shows itself plastically in man, in plastic forms and structures —
  • spinal marrow itself, they saw something that unites him with the
  • himself has fashioned, in his eye, in his sense-world-beholding eye,
  • fashioned for himself a copy of what the Gods have made of him.
  • Aristotle himself, however,
  • mineral kingdom itself they come together in crystallisation. When
  • And if now man experiences Man himself, then he experiences the Form
• Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture VI: The Tasks of the Michael Age
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  • himself real knowledge about the spiritual world. In doing the
  • exercises of the old Mysteries, he could draw forth from himself the
  • see the secrets he draws out of himself while in the very act of
  • them hearingly in Inspiration; he united himself with them in
  • board, thereby bringing home to myself what is really there within
  • resistance. The writing itself is done, needless to say, with
  • inscribed, of course, on the Earth itself; they are written into the
  • must familiarise yourself with the idea. The ancients had not the
  • that out of Man, the Logos, the Divine Word revealed Himself through
  • with the proper spirit he duly prepares himself by the learning of
  • draw anything forth from himself as did the old Initiates. The soul
  • forth nothing more out of itself; it stands over against what is
  • itself with entering into certain dream-like conditions, and, as it
  • Michael concerns Himself most of all with that which men
  • man come forth. He who does so, by and by accustoms himself not to
  • spiritual Progress of the Universe. Thereby, man himself becomes a
• Title: Lecture: Festivals and The Mysteries. The Adonis Mystery. The Easter Thought
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  • will he behold himself growing ever greater and greater, till the
  • Cosmos. Sacred cult is itself an image of what is enacted in the
  • It was the secret of death itself which those ancient Mysteries sought
  • himself. Such was the meaning and intention of the Mysteries: the
  • become aware how he himself dies in the outward semblance, while in
  • succeeding periods? I must now represent Time itself: the Earth in one
  • true perception of the Spiritual itself. Autumn no longer has the
  • thought of death itself was able to live on, but the thought of the
  • Anthroposophy itself must become like an inner festival of Resurrection for
• Title: Lecture: Moon-birth and Sun-birth. Necessity and Freedom. Stages of the Ancient
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  • hold good between himself and the Earthly powers and forces.
  • are related to himself. If we did not hold our body together by forces
  • man, say, three or four years younger than himself. His friend would
  • by my own inner freedom, can make of myself something which I was not
  • The consciousness in man that he could transform himself, that he
  • could make something of himself — this was attributed to the Sun
  • him the opportunity to make something of himself — the same Sun
  • this point in their life. Now the essence and Being of the Sun Himself
  • over the human being, that he no longer considered himself a human
  • 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
  • not say ‘clothed itself’, for that would be a wrong
  • expression — the soul and spirit permeated itself with the
  • considers himself a fully evolved and grown-up human being? What can
  • through the eyes into himself. At most he can flay the physical corpse
  • of man, and then imagine he is looking into himself. But he is not
  • self-consciousness of man, he could not be one. He must first
  • himself in the pre-earthly life. For then he knew: I am in my own
  • perceives when he now no longer gazes into himself through the eyes,
  • enters into himself. At this stage it was said to the
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• Title: Lecture: The Moon-secret Spring and Autumn mysteries
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  • man, inasmuch as man himself, in his full nature, is connected with
  • by the Sun and thus showing itself to our vision in varying shapes and
  • that represents itself to us so evidently in physical surfaces as the
  • different in its appearance from what it is when it reveals itself as
  • which it stands, cannot reveal itself directly. We must now, however,
  • reveal itself as an outward phenomenon. At the times when through the
  • task for man than they had before. How does this manifest itself? It
  • manifests itself as follows. When man descends from the pre-earthly
  • clothe himself in an etheric body which he draws into him from the
  • The Moon itself in fact contains a multitude of spiritual beings.
  • express myself pictorially I would say: the spiritual Beings of the
  • Friday; and with Saturn Saturday, and at length with the Sun itself.
  • being self-contained through the incorporation of the etheric body.
  • earthly environment. He could free himself from his physical body and
  • live in his etheric body. He could hold himself apart from the
  • must look up to the Sun. Such indeed was this initiation. Man himself
  • own being he gazed into the Sun. And now he said to himself: The Sun
  • but a bearer of the Sun Being. Just as the Moon itself when it is Full
  • really go forth from the earthly realm, unite himself with the Moon
  • himself and said: “I can unite myself with the Moonlight”,
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• Title: Lecture: The Mysteries of Ephesus The Aristotelian Categories
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  • He knew what it was to feel himself as a form of light, for this
  • himself as Ego, as astral body, as ether body.
  • Earth — for man himself was transported into cosmic regions
  • And in this feeling of the J O A one felt oneself as the very
  • he bore this within him, he really felt himself as though transported
  • the disciple felt himself transported up into this region of the
  • Mysteries felt himself as man fully and intensely, when there
  • Here man is feeling himself within the power of the Moonlight.
  • clothe himself in a physical body that he may live on, on Earth, as
  • astral light, even as man himself is filled with living soul. In other
  • and give myself up to the impression of it all. And if I have the
  • Cosmic Script resolves itself into these simple things which we must
  • say today: “Anthroposophy itself, in all its working, is an
  • sentimentality but out of the reality of the thing itself. Then even
• Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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  • way into the vast cosmic ether. During three days he sees himself
  • death itself, that is what the autumn festivals were intended to
  • precisely where Nature presents herself as ephemeral, as dying
  • anthroposophy must add the idea of resurrection. Anthroposophy itself
• Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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  • him there, and from which he severs himself, as physical man,
  • to make something of himself through his inner freedom,
  • consciousness of his ability to transform himself, to make something
  • of himself.
  • freedom, the ability to make something of himself — namely, the
  • Sun, the Christ Himself, Who descended to enter human evolution and
  • the neophyte was that he could not think of himself as a human being
  • so far permeated a man's physical body that he considers himself a
  • perceive outward, not inward. He cannot look into himself with
  • imagine he is looking into himself. But in reality he is not.
  • nothing of the human being; and having no human self-consciousness,
  • himself also in his pre-earthly existence, for then he knew that he
  • into himself. Then he was told that he was about to enter the human
  • himself. This Temple Grotto, he was told, was made up of three
  • Thus the mystic entered into himself and came to know the human
  • into himself, comprehending his spiritual self, but when his
  • spiritual self learned about the body as well. In all the old
  • recognize himself as a psycho-spiritual human being, as an initiate,
  • to receive by having freed yourself from the body, you will no longer
  • passed beyond the third stage and could now feel himself as a bearer
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• Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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  • itself, held together by the ego. But spiritual observation discloses
  • that the cosmic organism expresses itself, not in a unified
  • but we must not conclude that because it does not express itself as a
  • he must provide himself with an etheric body, which he attracts from
  • he is to become complete in himself through the integration of the
  • not a Sun-being recipient. Just as the Moon itself, when at full, is
  • people imagined that something or other — not man himself
  • Thus the confusion manifesting itself in the course of human
  • himself, I come to a place where the Adonis Festivals are celebrated,
  • become aware of and inwardly experience the eternal in himself
  • firmament itself. Tomorrow I shall endeavor, as far as time permits,
• 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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  • everyone's own experience to feel himself as a light-being,
  • forming himself out of the sunlight that circles around the
  • with the J O A vibrating in him, he felt himself to be composed of
  • time felt himself to be the sound J O A in the light. Then he was a
  • to Earth occurred. Man felt himself transported into this pre-earthly
  • there was something about them that made him feel himself completely
  • being feels himself to be in the power of the moonlight.
  • without, prepare him to descend to Earth and there to clothe himself
  • contemplate the firmament and throw myself open to it. Then, if I
  • at this Easter time; for to permeate yourself with something that can
  • from the cause itself and bear the mark of solemnity. When the
• Title: Easter Festival: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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  • all that manifests itself in human beings as vigorous
  • shall experience that part of yourself that is similar to
  • secret of death itself was thus portrayed in the ancient
  • example — which was itself a picture of the Mysteries,
  • hearts that precisely where nature presents itself as
  • celebrate the idea of resurrection itself.
• Title: Easter Festival: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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  • completely misrepresents them, basing itself, as it must,
  • himself be guided by them was the Christ-bearer, Jesus of
  • sun being himself, the Christ, descended into human evolution
  • “clothe itself” with the body — for
  • permeated itself with a physical body.
  • human being, and that, having no consciousness of himself
  • look inside himself, he experienced how he had been in
  • pre-earthly existence, for then he knew himself to be a being
  • could begin to acquaint himself with what today we would call
  • entering into himself. Here the candidate for initiation was
  • the part of himself physically permeated by the soul-spiritual
  • came to know himself there as spirit. That was the first
  • chamber. In the second he acquainted himself with feeling; and
  • candidate thus entered into himself and came to know the cosmic
  • himself, coming to know himself spiritually, but as spirit he
  • of itself, namely, freedom from the body; we must hold
  • candidate was far enough advanced to recognize himself as
  • outside himself and could live with the sun rather than with
  • experience when one frees oneself from the body he would no
  • through the three stages and now felt himself to be a bearer of
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• Title: Easter Festival: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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  • object presents itself to us as the new moon, which obviously
  • cannot manifest itself in a visible, physical way due to the
  • earth, to unite himself with a physical body provided by an
  • himself in an etheric body, which he gathers form the
  • To express myself pictorially, these beings first direct their
  • shield us if we are to become self-contained beings through the
  • observe what revealed itself there.
  • revealed the extent to which an initiate carried within himself
  • bearer. Just as the moon itself, when it is full, is a
  • moon itself, they thought, then looked toward the sun, that is,
• 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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  • was able to experience himself as a figure of light formed by
  • capable of performing it into a process of building himself up
  • As these sounds vibrated within him, he experienced himself as ego,
  • himself as a complete human being. Through the consonants, he
  • he felt himself living within the light. Now truly human, he
  • While carrying I O A within himself, the Ephesian
  • student felt himself transported to the sphere of the
  • Mysteries this self-elevation into the sphere of the moon was
  • Every Ephesian bore this reality within himself, counting
  • Indeed, he felt himself to be truly human when these verses
  • human being is experiencing himself here within the power of
  • again. Anthroposophy must base itself upon this spirit that
• Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 1: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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  • wide spaces of universal ether. There he sees himself
  • who had presented himself for initiation. The notable
  • soul when preparing himself for initiation into the Mysteries
  • thought of death the thought of resurrection. She must herself
• Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 2: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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  • who was considerably younger than himself — perhaps three
  • freedom to make something of myself during my life on
  • This consciousness that he could transform himself, could make
  • something out of himself, is what men saw in the forces of the
  • of making something out of himself — the Sun- or
  • the Christ himself, came down into human evolution and took up
  • consider himself to be a man at all, but says rather: I have
  • then, not clothed itself with the physical body — that
  • itself with this physical body
  • look into himself with his eyes; he can at most remove
  • therefore, as he had no self-consciousness of human nature, he
  • a man perceived when he not only looked inwards into himself
  • actually entered into himself
  • The neophyte seeking initiation then said to himself: Thou
  • his own self and learnt to know the men of the three chambers
  • sinking down into himself
  • by getting to know himself as spiritual being,
  • death comes of itself), and had to maintain it for a certain
  • might feel himself to be a bearer of cabbages — knew that
  • olden times. Such an Initiate said to himself: Through
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• Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 3: The Secret of the Moon
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  • does not show itself that its powers and activities are not
  • what way did this task show itself? It became evident through
  • earth, to the union of himself with what in a physical,
  • be clothed with an etheric body which he attracts to himself
  • through all the surrounding universe, around himself, his ego,
  • they regard the world around them. And were I to express myself
  • the Sun itself; which does not work directly with its forces
  • because he was able to unite himself with the Moon-beings who
  • actual result of this initiation was that a man felt himself to
  • could gaze into the sun. He now said to himself: The sun sends
  • Something, not the man himself, streamed up towards the full
• 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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  • from observation of the cosmos itself, where it is inscribed,
  • stage of this descent, in man's clothing of himself with the
  • feel himself as a light-form was an individual experience to
  • self-construction out of Sunlight that came to them, though
  • was the experiencing of himself in the
  • the J O A was such that he felt himself to be in the light,
  • the Ephesian Mysteries to feel himself most truly man. To put
  • man now consciously felt himself within the power of the