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Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Preface
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today it looms even larger, with no end of its precipitate growth in
To be “deeply involved” is the demand of the day, but
less within our understanding today than at the time these lectures
these lectures are not less applicable today. The reader, provided he
today:
those listeners, like the readers of these lectures today, could

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture I
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shall have to say in the coming days will inevitably be a kind of
even today reveal themselves very clearly to him who can see them,
next few days we shall describe these forces in their most intimate
century. But today, I shall speak about these forces in their more
world today. You see, as early as the seventies, eighties and
considered today. Today the younger and the older generation speak
newspapers from the style that is current today. Thoughts were finely
changed. But what is raw and crude today has proceeded from what,
more advanced years in the present-day world of thought — we
days the ‘cliché’ did not yet dominate Middle
a being whose nature is not understood today, and yet it is clear
Nowadays you continually hear: “That is my standpoint.”
physical. Yesterday I stood in Dornach, today I am standing here.
look at the world from every standpoint. But people today do not want
simply not there today. Only in the spirit is there a world that is
routine.” Although not clearly expressed — for today
for a long time and still exists at the present day.
say today: He is not a true scientist who does not interpret
asked today quite from the external aspect: Why have you come here
today? — I shall answer: In order to find this. For you are
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Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture II
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feeling, and it still is the feeling today. It can only be understood
human being of today. This was so because in the life of feeling and
Ages. But nowadays souls are placed into the world without it. The
way. Today people cannot be old and young in a way that is true to
ago all this was quite a matter of course. Today a great deal is said
said on this subject. Nowadays almost everyone is talking about
that nothing more was to be got out of the men of the day. Such was
today. Little by little the human being has lost the connection he
Christ away from Jesus pass as the greatest theologians today. Quite
spoken today about the Waldorf School can be found by them in books.
to have answered today and which are ostensibly answered by other
needed today. First of all, the teachers must be awakened, and then
of the present day, when they feel a soul within them, are seeking
unrolled and human beings were not altogether cut off from it. Today,
of sleep. That is how the human being feels today — as if he
light today into the souls of the young. It expresses itself in the
something. I said yesterday: Man has lost man, and is seeking him
communities people are seeking for today. The Spirit must be the
world-happenings in our day, namely, that we are facing the
the next few days, my dear friends, we will try to find this Spirit.

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture III
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TODAY I shall speak in
for the next few days, and I must appeal to you to try to arouse a
is taken into account by the human being today? He attaches
to describe radically to you yesterday. What men of that time said
about the world is looked upon today as mere phantasy, as not
things in the meaning which people are anxious to exclude today.
say nowadays: “Yes, in those days men added something out of
today. But we must realize that people saw something in phosphorus,
any more than he does today; but when people in those days woke up,
over into the day and man's perception was richer; his
people today. We cannot always be awake, because the forces we need
the candidates for initiation — the students of those days-were
remain. A sharp line is drawn between what has been achieved today
absorbed today, from the point of view of world-historical progress?
was read — and it was not so easy to read books in those days,
something real was there. Today everything is logical and formal.
Today
People are made to believe that thinking was always as it is today.
bound to the brain but this cannot help us during sleep. Today,
day. We cease to be clever during the night, in face of that world
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Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IV
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TODAY I shall begin with
of the soul; that even for the moral impulses of everyday life, they
will not be superfluous for our study during the next few days to say
had, as I said yesterday, come upon the scene only since the
he had experienced the idealistic tendencies manifest in his day. He
in his own way, he said: “When a man of the present day speaks
Human, The Dawn of Day and The Joyful Wisdom — works in which
with the natural science of the day. Paul Rée has written the
such as they were in his day, it is impossible to think about Ethics
day would not have felt that they had to smash the ideals with a
mentioned yesterday, theoretical refutations of materialism as
being today honestly admits: I must grasp the living, the active
is what lives in the feelings of young people today although,
today say many things, annoying things when one gets to the bottom of
people today, we need something more than a revival of old concepts
omega of what we need today, and when your Chairman said yesterday
person today acknowledges the condition of his own soul, he can only
ordinary everyday actions. We must come to spirituality in action, to

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture V
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YESTERDAY
of man's life of soul, as we see it today in the West. In
symptoms. In the days when speech, from being an inner reality was
impulses for today. When in the first third of the fifteenth century
called up that are strenuously worked for. Today what man works for
thinking we have today is derived from the living thinking of an
thinking which human beings today do not like because they feel as if
puberty, whereas in earlier days he had God-given intuitions;
so, in spite of all the thought given today to principles of
is it that today we no longer have any real philosophies? It is

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VI
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the spiritual world. Something is revealed from day to day, from week
begins with birth or conception, and who, as is said nowadays,
whole world. You know that in former days this fundamental feeling
times primeval until today, that the answer to these world-questions
the full import of what I put before you yesterday is grasped,
characterized yesterday as God-given commandments. When we imagine
in the same way as we were obliged to call attention yesterday to how
self-acquired moral intuitions, of which I spoke yesterday, have to
although misjudged and misunderstood today by the majority of
differently. There are people today in whom there no longer echoes
and still is, so little understood. Today we relegate to the sphere
today sees any trace of a religious act in healing, for instance, an
in a wonderful way from day to day permeating the physical out of the
everyday life. In olden times all moral life was a special part of

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VII
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YESTERDAY I pointed out
how the longing of the young today is permeated by something
one speaks to people in the way I have during the past days, it is as
they have slept through and towards which even today they adopt an
To pass our days in such a way that we go to sleep at night simply
with mild scepticism. There are many people today who would take it
because of the indifference with which people study nowadays what is
spending a day that has not been tiring and the taking of a sleeping
as the word is applied in ordinary intercourse today, but literally —
Today
Today
Today it will be natural to feel this. But from the human standpoint
soul and spirit by what I described yesterday as a necessary factor
Today
in the next few days. I should like to give you a graphic description
infants. And so in the coming days we shall consider the question of

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VIII
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man's spiritual culture. Today, in order to find the bridge to
feeling among the educated today — and among the uneducated —
day and the souls of that time. I am speaking of some souls only.
described. Today we can barely imagine what can be experienced when,
you only give yourself up to that passive thinking so specially loved today,
experienced through feeling. Infinitely much depends today upon
we are seeking today. Courageous, strong will alone can bring the
us devote the next few days to the question of how to find this

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IX
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yesterday about the course of historical evolution, you will have
itself, as we understand it today, is a special characteristic of the
certainly not what it is today. But you will have been able to gather
that from yesterday's lecture.
is today when it is the result of effort. Intellectualism has first
lecture today.
intellectual or mind soul. Today we face the consciousness soul. But
way nowadays, otherwise the connecting bridge between consciousness
so, too, it is a condition of natural development, for which today
eyes or ears. Such things are hardly mentioned today. They are,
people are not conscious today that this is so; generally in the
Today
time may today arouse a sense of antipathy because of its division
even in those days. But to justify the right to be taken seriously
It was not customary in those days to impart knowledge. It is so foreign
to us today to connect any definite concept with the remark: We do
what it is today; it was the art of combining and separating thoughts
Today
intellectual or mind soul. And today people are still not able to put
understood in those days, and it was not the dry, abstract stuff of
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Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture X
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YESTERDAY I wanted to
arts what today has become entirely abstract and scientific, namely,
today only in earliest youth existed then for the whole evolution of
done today, we find that the whole evolution of the human soul
Nowadays we only notice them when we deliberately train ourselves to
today. And, indeed, approximately up to the middle of life, up to the
set free with the drying up of the body. And people in olden days
Today
course of man's evolution. And today if anyone does not
Today
is for those present to do their share of the work. But today that is
today. Spiritual Science is an invitation to this inner activity,
cannot be read as other books are today. It must really
intellectualism is regarded without prejudice today — that
this, my dear friends, is like-wise the attitude we need today in the
of the way writing is taught today, it often happens that even as a
the child today are B, G, or any other sign that has developed
spiritual-scientific knowledge. That is why I said a few days ago:
into the world in a healthy way. What the human being of today grows
yesterday, the eighteenth or nineteenth — woe betide it if
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Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XI
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is held fast today in the abstract ideas of the head. But there lives
from Nature through the head. Between man and Nature today there
human beings today still have the capacity of learning to experience
not many people do nowadays because they find it too difficult —
Today
the wonderful plasticity of dialect reveal that what today is seen
the head is lost today with the change of teeth in early childhood.
so today, after the change of teeth, we must simply pass over to a
described yesterday, so that through the outer man the soul-nature of
alike. It would be quite a thing — so say people today —
not through the content of science as science is understood today.
intellectual concepts, in abstractions. Today even the farmer loves
of yesterday. We must purify our thinking and mould it, into will. To
the pupil will be some day. Nevertheless he will still be a good
if we study what is working upon the human being we find how today,
Today
they are today. Our school text-books ensure that the child remains a
become for us? Do we judge today as humanly as this? No, for the most
culture. He said: When one looks at human beings today, they cannot
serious extent the etheric and astral heads do it already today. And

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XII
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during the last few days it will be clear that nowadays one human
poetical language no longer suitable for today, former ages foretold
perceive it anew with the spiritual means of today. We must permeate
as today only the child confronts grownups, with comprehension of the
complete human being as I characterized it yesterday, a comprehension
consider soul and spirit in the abstract way that we do today, with a
to us entirely spiritual which are misunderstood today. We
growth of the hair. People today are prone to believe that the hair
this covering. They would have felt as we do today about a scalped
which today lies deep beneath the threshold of consciousness. Why do
scientifically do today. In the human heart and mind there was
civilization to which I referred yesterday, felt it as entirely
Nowadays
make calculations about Nature. Calculations in those days meant
materiality renders today, yet one must mention how different the
preserved during the whole of their life what is today experienced in
spirit and soul. Today we can do no other than keep these two apart,
though slowly, today. I shall not speak in the usual sense of our age
Jean Paul never got rid of it to the day of his death. We must have
medieval councilors. Today — I must confess — it would be
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Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XIII
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civilized human being today lives in intellectualism in a life of
from outside today, from external Nature observed by the senses. And
Today
him. In those days man contributed to his experience only as much
live in all souls today? Because the dragon penetrates even to the
now consider how infinitely difficult it is today not to be
of intellectualism. Nowadays the dragon has become quite external.
Nowadays the dragon encounters us from outside, threatening
man can again become man in a real sense. Today we dare not; for so
Today everything must spring out of man's freedom. The dragon
Imagination. That is not possible today for external consciousness.
soul. Nowadays a great deal of what constitutes a library is only
of this feeling, let me give you my farewell greeting today by
feeling we will separate today; with this feeling, however, we shall

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