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Title: Karma of Materialism: Contents
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
The different members of man's soul come to expression in the
many great thinkers, one of whom was African Spir. Because they
man's thoughts do not relate to the events around him the result
is chaos. Events go their own way. Human beings are becoming more
and more differentiated. Two impulses active in all human beings.
ahrimanic substance. Where physics describes lines of force the
really have the title: “Lucifer and Ahriman.” Einstein's
theory of relativity has no connection with reality. Ahriman and
other. Man's eternal striving must be to achieve that balance.
the human breath and rhythms in the cosmos. Before the Mystery
of Golgotha man had imaginative clairvoyance because the Angeloi
were active in his intellect. Man's senses were then exposed to
in sense perception and man's intellect is exposed to ahrimanic
There is no possibility for man to attain higher knowledge through
Obituaries of Herman
Hermann Bahr, a striking example of a gifted modern personality
through lack of initiative, turning instead to faith. Many examples
general deity whom they call the Christ. People like Hermann Bahr
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Cover Sheet
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
containing the German texts is entitled, Menschliche
German by Rita Stebbing.

Title: Karma of Materialism: Back Cover Sheet
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
failure is materialism in human culture which in turn generates a

Title: Karma of Materialism: Foreword
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
notion that human consciousness itself is in process of evolution; that
(largely erroneous) about the nature of the world and humanity towards
the whole relation between man and nature, has been changing through
at an unconscious level in the development of a human individuality,
theory manifests first in natural science, but the change of consciousness
of theory and affects the whole life of humanity. These lectures were
political life, of humanity, both national and international, that they
wholly, and will become less and less, beyond the reach of human knowledge.
There are many minds in our time acutely aware of the apparent impotence
of the human spirit to deal with the complex and apparently insoluble
demanded of us. What is wanted, these uneasy people say, is altogether
For many readers there will
Ahriman, especially the latter. If the reader is wise, he will reflect
responsibility, alike to the truth and to humanity, that breathe through

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 1
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
nature of thinking. He wanted to discover what actually happens in man
while he is thinking. He also wanted to find out how man is related,
only when it is seen as a power in man which, in its own essential nature,
the possibility to experience ourselves as thinkers. If man becomes
nothing is more certain than when man thinks, he is then active as a
myself to be in a world of permanence, subject to neither space nor
external phenomena, man's evolution, his history or his life in society.
“Man, in fact all living creatures, is subject to pain. However,
African Spir felt that man
itself in man's thinking and in the constant striving to overcome pain
of the real nature of what in man is the most abstract: pure thinking,
spiritual world. Basically he asserts that man belongs to two worlds,
it in so many words, but declares that everything around us, be it our
such thinkers one comes to recognize that there were many who, in the
How does a man come to recognize the reality of the spiritual world
latter with Russian characteristics. He did not learn German till he
during the course of mankind's evolution the sentient soul in the Latin
seem sheer nonsense to him to regard man the way the West does: as a
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 2
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
that from spiritual knowledge there must flow into man's thinking, feeling
impulses are needed must be obvious to many from even a superficial
insight. Many examples related to our recent studies could be chosen,
of contemporary man's thinking, feeling and willing. Provided one refrains
Many who are firmly in the clutches of materialism, nevertheless believe
a special example the concept of man, just as the animal kingdom is
man we must turn to the animal kingdom; to understand the animal we
discovery, for he says: “No one can deny this fact (that man is
of biological evolution. Man differs from the rest of the animal kingdom
be the source of all man's cultural achievements. So we must study how
According to him the human organism is no different from the animal
just mentioned. One asks in despair if a man in his position can really
[ Note 2 ] ; to which Hermann
Bahr, then a young man, wrote a rejoinder with the title: “The
spoke about the structure of the human organism and the animal organism
— Verworn is here referring to the human organism. Thus groups
are enjoying freedom in their interaction with brain cells, human freedom
connections in man's animal-human organism. But when concepts are derived
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 3
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
the fact that, had evolution run its intended course, earthly man would
of spiritual science this aspect of mankind's evolution is directly
connected with the fact that man's essential nature — that is,
earthly man's essential nature — manifests itself through breathing.
cognition, was predestined to be man's most significant experience during
harmony with the cosmos. I mentioned how, in a normal human life, the
shows man to be a microcosm, a little world. Man's breathing copies
to man, far too little attention is paid to slight differences, to individual
chord within the cosmos. However, in man's present earth-existence everything
mankind, breathed into man the breath of life and he became a living
true rendering of the facts. As far as his intellect is concerned man
we have considered the Mystery of Golgotha from many aspects; today
man was exposed to the influence of Lucifer, his knowledge, indeed his
developed higher up in man's organism and became related to the head
the body itself has a deeper significance. The difference in man before
as Anthroposophy explains, man had as a matter of course a relationship
distinguish to begin with, immediately bordering on the human realm,
As human beings we have a relationship to the Angeloi and they in turn
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 4
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
the physical plane, Herman Joachim. He could be seen here in
The name Herman Joachim
for in recent cultural achievements. However, if Herman Joachim —
in his human relationships with others a cultural artistic quality of
Herman Joachim thought and did, but it was carried and enhanced by the
blood so was there something in Herman Joachim's spiritual makeup which
had a beautiful beginning in his life by the fact that Herman Grimm
For Herman Grimm was godfather to Herman Joachim. I was very pleased
to learn this as you will understand after the many things I have said,
especially in this circle, in appreciation of Herman Grimm's contributions
personality Walter Robert Tornow died, Herman Grimm wrote:
just who it is that joins their ranks.” Herman Grimm did not intend
them in the sense that they express a feeling which is present in human
further life of a now infinite being. For every human individuality
there are moments in a human life which are of special significance,
it is then possible to look deeper into a human individuality. In such
moment of this kind because I consider it symptomatic of Herman Joachim.
During this conversation it was revealed to me how this man had related
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 5
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
be approached from many aspects as we have done in our anthroposophical
the many-sidedness of a spiritual reality. All we can hope is that we
shall come near it by approaching it from as many aspects as possible.
that seeking Christ is deeply connected with the nature of the human
special nature of the human ‘I’ comes to expression in the
between the Being of Christ and the human ‘I’ the Christ
importance to pay attention to mankind's historical evolution especially
all the more important to be mindful of man's historical development
We know that man's inner
in his writings a remarkable description of human consciousness to which,
that human consciousness is related to death, to dying, and as we, in
not life as such which develops death, but the consciousness in man
that despite the significance of this statement in relation to man's
for every period of man's evolution. If we go back thousands of years
was engendered by a surplus of spiritual life over man's organic life.
the Mystery of Golgotha things were different. Man then had a surplus
between man's inner life of soul and the organic life of his body. After
of Golgotha man gained knowledge through the forces of birth; after
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 6
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
the way people interpret this reality. We live in an age when human
understanding and human conduct are strongly influenced by materialism.
time, to observe an abundance of effects in human life which are purely
spiritual. They are everywhere in evidence and, the way they manifest,
outlook, are incapable of seeing what is manifestly there. All they
the attitude of a great many people today in regard to spiritual matters
It is manifestly not on the agenda when things of importance are debated.
the spirit is present, only it is not put on the agenda when human affairs
an influx of spiritual impulses throughout mankind's evolution and one
and, entering into his human frailties, instills in him a particular
Many things occur in the course of human karma which, in order to come
Many feel moral indignation on learning that Suchomlinoff lied to the
order in his pocket, gave the German Military Attache his solemn promise
lost his reason. He says in so many words: “I lost my reason over
gives splendid opportunity for ahrimanic beings to take possession of
him and instill into his soul all kinds of suggestions. Ahriman uses
then ahrimanic beings have immediate access. Dimmed consciousness is
for ahrimanic and luciferic beings the window or door through which
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 7
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
mankind's evolution it arrives at results which in many respects differ
especially to the human soul. The view obtained through spiritual knowledge
of the human soul's evolution during hundreds and thousands of years
investigation. Looking back into earlier ages we recognize that man
was subdued, spiritual beings did still enter into man's will, into
man's relationship to the spiritual world. Naturally it can cause clashes
human mediator for what the Angel proclaimed concerning a higher world.
life we see him as a living proof that man does not develop his individuality
of the inner presence of the spiritual world in human consciousness
than the ordinary one which only grasps the dying aspect, can man unite
as processes of becoming. In such inspired consciousness man can know
hand, so too is man nothing, if torn out of his organic connection with
there for man, but man is equally, in the adjoining spiritual world,
a member of the greater organism of the earth. Man cannot tear himself
the hand. I have often expressed this thought as an antidote to man's
like a half-forgotten dream, of man's interconnection with the whole
This small book: the “Theologia Germanica” had also made
who made it available to wider circles in Germany. Henry More became
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 8
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
humanity. To the unprejudiced observer Luther appears at first sight
took place, particularly in the human soul; this is something taken
but cannot be emphasized enough. When, at that time, man turned his
science reveals that at this time the human soul came completely within
the confines of the physical world by virtue of changes in man's inner
man of his time inasmuch as in this, the fifth post-Atlantean cultural
epoch, man's former connection with the spiritual world has grown dim.
kind of realization that man in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, the
deeper strata of the human soul weighed heavily upon Luther. Today one
in these words: What is to become of man when his vision is cut off
one hand very much a man of the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch.
But because he was also inwardly very much a man of the fourth post-Atlantean
such deep roots in his soul that he inwardly felt as a man of the fourth
Roman had felt. Odd as it may seem this had the effect that he could
man whose view is that the apex of knowledge has been reached and that
very soul constitution of man enables him to have ready understanding
the universe which occupied the human mind at the dawn of the fifth
cultural epoch. Whereas the way man felt and experienced his place within
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 9
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its consequences for human evolution. This volume along with Aspects of
Human Evolution completes the entire German Volume GA 176. It includes
in mankind's evolution when the riddle of existence becomes ever more
significant for the human soul. Some are aware of the riddle but there
to an aspect of the riddle which many people come up against in everyday
is a discrepancy between man's intellectual and moral development? At
present man's intellectual development expresses itself mainly in what
has man not produced thanks to his intellect! I need not enumerate all
human life, for enabling men to slaughter one another, then, leaving
of death with which men mangle each other, causing untold suffering.
as a result of man's highly developed intellect. It has certainly progressed
Haeckel pointed out how man has progressed intellectually but
in regard to morality he has in many respects remained at a primitive
on in the world. However, due to modern man's lethargy and love of ease,
for the human soul. If one is to find one's way through the complexities
before in human evolution. Let us for once look at the relationship
between man's intellectual and moral development in the light of spiritual
what exactly takes place in the human being when he is engaged in intellectual
appropriate mental pictures. This activity engages parts of man's being
the tool of the intellect then we are looking at those aspects of man
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