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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Cover Sheet
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    • Düsseldorf, April, 1909. Published in German as:
    • to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
    • in an equivalent manner recognised by the
  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Synopses
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    • Düsseldorf, April, 1909. Published in German as:
    • to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
    • release the world bewitched. During man's life he is a place of
    • passage refer to the human self, but to the elementals. Elemental
    • released by man's activity and chained by his sloth and
    • re-inhaling it leads to manhood consciousness, objective
    • who guided humanity in Lemuria. The Sons of Mercury guided nations
    • etheric bodies. Oracles. Manu the Sun-Oracle. The Rishis In
    • Mars or Ancient Moon. Aquarius the Waterman. Earth, Taurus the Bull,
    • Zodiac and the animal forms of man's body formed on old Saturn.
    • to receive. Man's development in Kamaloka. The astral must be
    • becomes a counterpart of it. This is Nirmana Kaya when no remnants
    • Archangels then came to help and guide man. They descended into the
    • never interfered with man's free will. He did nothing to
    • The redemption of Luciferic powers makes man stronger. It is the
    • allotted them but man will fulfil his own task. Man will be the
  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 1
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    • Düsseldorf, April, 1909. Published in German as:
    • to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
    • the problem of humanity. In order to make the human being
    • the sphere of our earth, have a higher existence than man. In the
    • world, the animal world and the human world. Above man begins a world
    • world, and man is able (as far as it is possible for him) to rise a
    • primeval world-wisdom; — all that man can fathom, all that he
    • it is indeed only this kind of connection that man can have with
    • we see it, was formed. Man finds these thoughts and ideas in the
    • world, was imparted to man later. Man with his thoughts could see
    • this wisdom of the creators of the world had worked through many
    • forms, it appeared in a form known to many of you: after the great
    • expressed itself in a form which the man of the present day can but
    • little understand. The human capacities of feeling and thinking have
    • taught man in the first epoch of civilisation after Atlantis; and if
    • to humanity in the first epoch after Atlantis. For all that is found
    • echo of what this really is which in many ways is but a deceptive,
    • has been preserved and guarded for humanity; it was always to be
    • primeval wisdom of humanity has been safely preserved up to our
    • era. The very holy wisdom which the Rishis gave to man was continued
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 2
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    • Düsseldorf, April, 1909. Published in German as:
    • to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
    • surrounds man in the world was then referred back to the so-called
    • that we ourselves are in a certain state of warmth. Man feels his own
    • and the realm of the soul on the other, which can be known by man
    • lesson of primeval human wisdom.
    • of fire. It is most probable that many people when asked whether they
    • the following. A man stands in front of a crystal, or a lump of gold,
    • or anything of that kind. He looks at it. What happens when a man
    • object? A continual interplay occurs between the man and the
    • bewitched elemental spirits. The man and that which is bewitched in
    • that the man only stares at the object and takes in only what is
    • elemental being into the man. Something from those bewitched
    • elementals passes continually into the man, from morning till night.
    • surroundings into you. Let us take it that the man staring at the
    • fact of having passed from the outer world into man. Let us take
    • another kind of man, one who works spiritually on the impressions he
    • impressions. What does such a man do? Through his own spiritual
    • to their own element. During the whole of his earthly life, man lets
    • things, enter into man? They remain at first within him. Also those
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 3
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    • Düsseldorf, April, 1909. Published in German as:
    • to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
    • questions may have arisen in many souls towards the end of
    • the following lectures will throw light on many points. One thing
    • it? This question might arise in many minds. As I have said before;
    • for thinking as the Earth gives to man, these questions cannot really
    • covered by Maya, and human thought sees things quite differently from
    • thoughts of man are continually led astray. We get a clearer idea of
    • things when we go back into more ancient times. Just as man passes
    • circles. Just as man in this life is the reincarnation of a previous
    • Pralaya, in the same way as man passes through a spiritual condition
    • after death. Just as man reincarnates, so this lunar planet is a
    • task. What is the task of our earth? It is to make human existence
    • possible for man as man. All the activities of the earth are such
    • that through them man may become an I-being, an Ego being. This was
    • not the case in the former conditions it has passed through. Man has
    • only become human, in the present sense of the word, on earth. The
    • similar task. Other beings became human on those other planets, and now
    • stand at a higher stage than man. Perhaps you will remember in my book
    • once men and had once passed through the human stage. A dangerous
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 4
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    • Saturn? It is no other than that which we know in modern man as the
    • stronger potentiality than is the case with modern humanity. What is
    • the power behind the force of ideas, or concepts, in modern humanity?
    • permanence of that form cannot be distinguished in the outer physical
    • It is perfectly comprehensible that an entity, who is really human
    • passed through their human stage on the ancient Sun; that there the
    • passed through their human evolution so very long ago, that on the
    • man himself, for man will also, some day, become a divine being.
    • We know that the man of to-day, as he stands before us, consists in
    • his human nature of four parts which are the key to all spiritual
    • science — that the man consists of the physical, etheric and
    • astral bodies, and of the ‘I.’ We know how a man develops
    • such a nature that it can contain the Spirit-self or Manas. It is the
    • forces, the forces of the physical body, then the man has in him the
    • Spirit-man or Atma. So he should be a seven-membered man when he had
    • transmuted his physical body to Atma or Spirit-man. Externally, the
    • Budhi, the astral is astral body and Spirit-self or Manas; the ‘I’
    • has now become the general Ruler. Thus man pushes onwards to higher
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 5
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    • to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
    • to be said which many of you have already heard. But even apart from
    • the fact that there are many listeners here who have not yet heard
    • to the opinion of many modern people, our solar system has formed
    • to express in human words such sublime activities, for which, in
    • truth, this human language has not been created. No human words exist
    • naive proceeding. For the man who tries to make the Kant-Laplace
    • hand of God, must be so appointed that within Saturn these commands
    • inside Saturn hold, as it were, the highest command, the latter
    • popular writing — this gas is as thick as honey or tar. The man
    • in ordinary human life. Where beings are evolving there are some who
    • advance and others who remain behind, as many a father knows, who
  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 6
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    • spiritual life of Beings who stand above man. Especially such a
    • lecture, the fight in heaven, which has left, so to speak, so many
    • the Beings who, counting upwards, stand nearest to man, and are
    • These Beings who stand, as it were, in between man and those others
    • naturally stand in a nearer relation to man on the earth itself.
    • First we have the Angels or Angeloi. They passed through their human
    • speaking, only as far on during our present earth evolution as man
    • than man. What is the task of these Beings? Their task can be
    • realised when we take into account the development of man upon earth.
    • Man develops from incarnation to incarnation. Our human evolution as
    • forms of human development will have come in. Now you know that what
    • we call the eternal nucleus or kernel of the human being, the
    • What sequence would there be between a man's incarnations upon
    • have to assign one of these Beings to each man, a being who,
    • as the man is not himself aware of it. These Beings are the Angels.
    • Each man is a personality in each incarnation, and over each man a
    • inferior grades of initiation, man is able, even if he does not
    • have to keep watch over the whole human thread of life, which is spun
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 7
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    • to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
    • of the Hierarchies, standing immediately above man. It is good to
    • study this and to begin for once with man. For only if we have quite
    • nature of man and of his developments, can we rise to the
    • We know that man, as he first appeared upon earth, and as he has
    • draw the human physical body as a circle, the same with the etheric
    • circle. You know how the development of man proceeds. During the
    • course of his earthly evolution man begins to work on his astral
    • Generally speaking we may say: as much of his astral body as man has
    • so much of it is called Manas or Spirit self, this — as has
    • has entered man, but simply as a transformed product of the astral
    • applies to man only. It is important that we should not generalise,
    • very much from each other. Let us then draw the fifth part of man the
    • transformed astral body, that is to say Manas, as a separate circle:
    • when we consider man in his perfected state, which he will attain in
    • when man will have reached his highest perfection in the Vulcan
    • way: we could say that we have here his Atma, Budhi, Manas, the ‘I’
    • observe in man is, that with his seven principles he is an entire
    • the case is different. This scheme applies to man, but not to the
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 8
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    • of the human physical body was formed. That first foundation was
    • formed the germ of that organ of the human body which, when its
    • human body from rest to movement — this is the heart. Here,
    • Each member of the human body was given a distinct name in ancient
    • foundations of the human heart? They pointed upwards, and named the
    • (Lion). Man received the first outline of his physical body projected
    • Thus also have all the other foundations or germs of the human organs
    • man projected outwards into universal space who has given these
    • an etheric body, which is not so dense. Man already had the
    • human body to rest; in the region of the Scorpion are these forces
    • organised into man, so that he received his first consciousness. The
    • body of that man consisted of the moon substance or moon-water. Just
    • as the body of the man of to-day is formed out of the substance of
    • the Earth, so was the body of the man of that day formed of fire,
    • have called that man the water-man. He became this especially,
    • because the astral body was infused into him. He was not yet a man
    • with an Ego, but a man with astral endowments. This entrance of the
    • Zodiac which is designated as the Waterman. So that you have to see
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 9
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    • sort of system. But one question which may arise in many minds must
    • of fire, thus reaching its highest point. It was in this manner that
    • Spirits of Personality were passing through their human stage of
    • were passing through their human stage; during the Moon evolution the
    • Angels, and on the earth Man, is passing through his human existence.
    • But it must be realised that this Man had also taken part in all that
    • the bearer of the spiritual earth-man of to-day. Very slowly and
    • different signs of the Zodiac slowly revolved, and the human body
    • the Crab; the foundation of the symmetrical shape of man, that is the
    • piece the formation of the human body, and when we look up to that
    • under the sign of the Bull. And when you think of man distributed
    • of the human organs.
    • each sign, but the different human members were drawn in the
    • the lower parts of the legs, for the Waterman; and to the feet, for
    • Pisces. Think of such a Zodiacal circle as a man designed out there
    • of the physical human body. This is the great Cosmic Man, the Man who
    • the great Cosmos; microcosmic man is formed out of this giant. Up
    • above is the macrocosmic man who is a Creator, who, out there,
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 10
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    • to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
    • man had reached so far in his general development that he had already
    • one incarnation to the other. But after a certain time that human
    • earth would become a sort of deserted rubbish-heap when man had left
    • creations of human thought. Put yourselves now in thought into that
    • come forth from a human mind, have naturally no importance for the
    • higher worlds, but have it only for the earth. But when man shall
    • Earth into dust, and will all that man has made out of the earth
    • not be one stone of it lying on the other; but the fact that man once
    • man takes with him away from the earth, we are considering the earth
    • world's origin have manifold connections, and something which
    • ourselves: What position has man towards those Beings of the higher
    • Hierarchies who, fundamentally speaking, were his human forefathers?
    • Thrones, and in describing them, get a good idea of man. If we could
    • of GOD.’ That which man has to seek for
    • Beings. For them, there only exists the sight of the commands of the
    • which the mind of man could ever imagine. What did this mean? To show
    • were placed in such a manner within the course of evolution that,
    • word — ‘adversely-commanded’ Mights were thrown
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