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The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge
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The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge
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The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge
Rudolf Steiner e.Lib Document
Lectures Section
Three lectures given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in the Fall of 1917,
the seventh, eighth, and ninth of nine lectures in the series entitled,
Individual Spiritual Beings Working in the Human Soul,
published in German as,
Individuelle Geistwesen und Ihr Wirken in der Seele des Menschen.
Geistige Wesen und ihre Wirkungen.
Prior publication of the lectures has been with the titles,
Individual Spiritual Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World
(published in 1930), and,
Secret Brotherhoods (published in 1931). We present them here
with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung,
in Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn/GA 178.
By Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Charles Davy
Bn/GA 178
Three lectures given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in the Fall of
1917, the seventh, eighth, and ninth of nine lectures in the series
entitled,
Individual Spiritual Beings Working in the Human Soul,
published in German as,
Individuelle Geistwesen und Ihr Wirken in der Seele des Menschen.
Geistige Wesen und ihre Wirkungen.
Prior publication of the lectures has been with the titles,
Individual Spiritual Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World
(published in 1930), and,
Secret Brotherhoods (published in 1931). We present them here
with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung,
in Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn/GA 178.
Copyright © 1966
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| Publisher's Note |
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| Contents |
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| Lecture 1 |
November 18, 1917 |
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Wherever spirit is,
there is consciousness. We have to learn to know what kind of
consciousness belongs to a given form of spirituality. A
fully conscious comprehension of evil is a necessity for
the 5th post-Atlantean epoch. The souls of the dead can
become centres of destruction in the earthly sphere
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| Lecture 2 |
November 19, 1917 |
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Historical elucidation
of the intentions of various kinds of spiritual brotherhoods.
When the individuals in a group are pursuing independent
aims, disagreements will always occur. The
independence of the elemental kingdoms and of their
beings. Understanding the Christ-secret with human reason.
The special character of the island of Ireland
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| Lecture 3 |
November 25, 1917 |
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Signs of the times:
the interaction between human labour and machines. The
welding together of human nature with the being of
machines. The radiating influence of human states of mind
on machines. The egotism of groups should not be allowed
to gain power through the possibility which the
alchemists once envisaged — and called the
Philosopher's Stone. The secret of gold, of
earth-magnetism and of the instreaming of influences from
different directions in the cosmos. Only elemental
nature-forces should be brought into the working of
machines; human beings must never be treated as units in
a mechanised industrial process
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