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  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Contents
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    • Rhythm in Breathing and Cognition
    • processes of breathing. Since the Mystery of Golgotha the possibility
  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Foreword
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    • breathing. The lecture should be read carefully, for it is
    • something that looks new but is in fact old enough to feel quite comfortable.
    • Confronted by anything beyond that they refuse even to examine the evidence
    • knowledge. Neither things nor beings can be spoken of without being
    • have learned to speak or to understand anything at all.
  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 1
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    • thinker and he gained nothing of significance from his contact with
    • nothing is more certain than when man thinks, he is then active as a
    • dealing with something which is qualitatively utterly different from
    • are eternal. In the external world everything is transitory; what is
    • something he simply experienced as a fact. He argued that what we experience
    • by certain mystics, African Spir comes to the realization that everything
    • to confirm this from another aspect he said something like the following:
    • it in so many words, but declares that everything around us, be it our
    • course of the 19th Century, had a premonition that something like spiritual
    • means that instead of clothing it in images obtained through living
    • by bringing things of this nature together, and relating them with a
    • and passes into the spiritual world. In such cases something very remarkable
    • any arbitrary reason or merely to tell you something interesting. It
    • to inscribe in your souls a picture of African Spir, something comes
    • to seek union through thinking with the spiritual world. That is something
    • life, has produced some strange results. For one thing it cannot come
    • as such has gradually become a ghostly something of which science is
    • something very awkward that causes uncertainty the moment one looks
    • that there is no spiritual world, they will have nothing to do with
    • These things must be seen
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  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 2
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    • result of something organic; i.e., something living adapting to its
    • such somersaults in ideas. These things are simply looked upon as signs
    • refer to something physical which can be verified under a microscope.
    • their application results in foolishness. These things must be recognized,
    • things the true idea of individual freedom, seen here in its natural
    • things are related spiritually; they therefore apply also to the spiritual
    • occurrence happens in his life. Culture is nothing else than the totality
    • These things are symptoms
    • increase. These things are staring one in the face and it is so much
    • things being evaluated rightly, but what happens is usually something
    • the minds to other views. In his speech Virchow said among other things
    • it is commendable of Virchow to admit knowing nothing of chemistry.
    • concern themselves with chemistry, simply saying they know nothing about
    • nothing about spiritual science. But this is not said; the same honest
    • understanding of this greatness. Many things which are now part of mankind's
    • something different from what traditional values can offer, souls who
    • have been searching without finding anything which could give them a
    • world view has absolutely nothing to say about how man's soul, let alone
    • evolution. Nothing physically was then present, except conditions of
    • the cosmic all. Another aspect is that the soul feels it has nothing
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  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 3
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    • earthly man's essential nature — manifests itself through breathing.
    • his earth-existence. Last time I summarized briefly things spoken about
    • on earlier occasions, namely that the rhythm of breathing is in wonderful
    • harmonious agreement that exists between our microcosmic breathing process
    • observation, that the rhythm of breathing, more than anything else,
    • shows man to be a microcosm, a little world. Man's breathing copies
    • characteristics. The fact is that there are no two people whose breathing
    • chord within the cosmos. However, in man's present earth-existence everything
    • abnormal conditions or through some illness does the process of breathing
    • the process of breathing and is, as a consequence, not so closely bound
    • up with the cosmos. If cognition had been based on the rhythm of breathing
    • and sense organs instead of to the chest and breathing. This is looking
    • man's intellect. Man knew nothing of this but as a consequence he had,
    • around at everything that surrounds us affecting our senses we are not
    • of these things? As already mentioned the process of breathing is subconscious,
    • consciousness. What happens in our breathing lies below our
    • of breathing so is the force of Christ, indeed the whole Mystery of
    • man's consciousness. One could say that man's breathing has been deprived
    • to bring consciousness into their breathing. To imitate this procedure
    • today is harmful. The aim of the breathing exercises, described in Oriental
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  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 4
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    • the one hand this artistic influence came to expression in everything
    • blood so was there something in Herman Joachim's spiritual makeup which
    • to learn this as you will understand after the many things I have said,
    • as something self-evident; while at the same time this matter-of-factness
    • protects them from superficial surrender to anything of a spiritualistic
    • I was strongly aware of something else; namely, that human beings themselves
    • experiencing a death of this kind. In these circumstances things must
    • to me as something he freely chose because, from that other world his
    • Steiner and I suffer over this irreplaceable loss I venture to say something
    • know. She strongly rejected everything which nowadays, as a kind of
    • it with spiritual insight. Certainly there are things in our society
    • which are open to criticism, often they are things which the society
    • itself brings to light. But we also see all around us other things which
    • Movement, things which belong to our most beautiful, loftiest and significant
    • the effect that I know nothing of science and that my supporters have
    • that come to nothing especially in our times? Why is it, we may ask,
    • being, they come to nothing. How gladly we set our hopes on many a person
    • prevents them from committing themselves to spiritual science. Yet nothing
    • not explain everything; faith must come to its aid. But the courage
    • with them. It is therefore not reason which proves to us whether something
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  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 5
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    • ‘I’ and is therefore something inward and intimate. The
    • to other things whereas the word ‘I’ can never refer to
    • anything except to the one who speaks it. Because of the inner relationship
    • the Mystery of Golgotha things were different. Man then had a surplus
    • Something else had to take
    • Christianity is the Resurrection. Anything calling itself by that name
    • Nothing else provides a true understanding of Christianity. Modern so-called
    • life man's thinking is adapted to the way he looks at things and he
    • the most hateful thing that could happen, it had to be eliminated. This
    • Two things in particular
    • This was something Judaic law had of necessity to reject. Secondly,
    • These things can be understood
    • with something called “the Christ,” whereas our inner life
    • things we feel our innermost being intimately connected with the historical
    • not only through lack of something but also through overabundance of
    • something. Numerous people who appear weak are in reality strong. Paradoxical
    • other a shrinking away from such knowledge. Many things show that the
    • way such things are usually conveyed these days — that he simply
    • Only one thing bothered the writer: the conversation he had with the
    • Johannes Müller was nothing like what he had visualized. He describes
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  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 6
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    • It is manifestly not on the agenda when things of importance are debated.
    • things, and has opportunity to talk more intimately with people, a situation
    • embarrassed by talking about things of a spiritual nature. When one
    • one looks at these things and is able to assess the situation, more
    • often than not things are done because of some spiritual influence,
    • it cannot be foreseen what might happen if certain things were imparted
    • is at present, to discuss such things with the living it can often be
    • the physical plane and someone who has died. In this situation something
    • very curious can happen, something that could be termed a "transcendental
    • person either then or later has visions of some kind and can hear things
    • able to observe such happenings that countless things, obtained through
    • Nothing is more effective than when some lower elemental spirit (Kobold)
    • the way people take these things in, it speaks, not to the reader's
    • not to say anything against mediumship as such, only the way it is used.
    • Many things occur in the course of human karma which, in order to come
    • this you will understand better when I now say something which may seem
    • in relation to events in Europe. However, one thing is certain: no documentary
    • to pass it on to the proper quarters a few minutes later. Such things
    • about them are truly not the real issue. That is something quite different.
    • such things did not happen to the same extent in events of a similar
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  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 7
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    • We look directly at things, but how much of what we see do we take into
    • of things can be grasped only if one is able to listen to higher beings
    • it occurs, still is, do we see something of the becoming of the rose.
    • maintained anything contrary to this rigid doctrine. He had also another
    • through present-day consciousness is the dying aspects of things and
    • hand, so too is man nothing, if torn out of his organic connection with
    • because she knows that there are things which neither natural science
    • nor physiology can explain, things which must come from the devil. She
    • but from mental pictures. Such things are rather prevalent; in this
    • physical things. Spiritual experiences must be described in pictures,
    • his words strike us as genuine because he saw things in a much wider
    • when someone is able to look into the spiritual world he sees things
    • to these things is to recognize that individual aspects of something
    • only does Western thinking understand nothing about the Russian people;
    • the Russians. There is in the Russian people still something childlike,
    • something that points to the future. And in the future it is destined
    • at something very remarkable in the contrast between Luther's experience
  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 8
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    • took place, particularly in the human soul; this is something taken
    • have nothing but their physical senses to rely on, whereas in earlier
    • nothing, for the ability to behold it will have vanished. If you nonetheless
    • no longer reach. Luther may not have been conscious of these things
    • exactly the way I describe them. However as things stood it is understandable
    • to something different. At the moment I am occupied with certain aspects
    • Valentin Andreae and this brings certain things connected with
    • an effect of the spirit in nature. This is something that will be known
    • Today the teaching of the Catholic sacrament is something quite different
    • be able to acknowledge anything spiritual in matter, Luther sought to
    • these things today but spiritual science must draw attention to them
    • be able to experience something of the spiritual world only in exceptional
    • something was lost. What they had lost was caused by the fact that in
    • attain it if he regards this connection as something separate and apart
    • spiritual world by means of something that in no way linked him with
    • the physical world. That something is faith.
    • the inner truth of things, the attention is focused only on the external
    • him inwardly is something quite different. The man of today who is truly
    • spoke so that everything he said was permeated with his impulse to preserve
    • is much easier to speak openly of these things than it was at the time
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  • Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 9
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    • Most people's view of life is based on natural science. And what things
    • all over the globe to face openly and courageously the things that are
    • all over the world which is far worse than anything that has happened
    • of perfection is something that is inborn in them and manifests as intellectual
    • darkness; i.e., into nothingness, you will then see the red surface
    • and the hole as a black circle. You look into nothingness. In your inner
    • in fact a gap in his soul life. Though nothing is there, or very little,
    • leads him of necessity to develop something else which has declined
    • based on good will and justice. But if things are handled the way they
    • have been so far they will result in something similar to the situation
    • far up the other side. In regard to physical phenomena these things
    • will it is certainly an excellent thing. However, just as the pendulum
    • of thing I have indicated. If people in one age one-sidedly cultivate
    • exhibit the corresponding vice. Seen in their true light these things
    • something perfect, it need only wait and people will come who know of
    • things still more perfect.
    • perfection with which things are arranged on the physical plane, which
    • on earth; i.e., they want to realize something perfect on the physical
    • something impossible, for in the physical world there is perpetual oscillation.
    • the socialistic or some other sense, know nothing about reality. If
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