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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Preface
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  • It was the year of challenge, 1922, and Rudolf Steiner responded to
  • develop a new ear to perceive something of a new dawn of the spirit,
  • pathway to a Michaelic harvest for ears which have the good will to
  • hear. If they only now appear in English — forty five years
  • after the sowing — we should neither be disheartened by the
  • Much rather when we have read, listened and heard and have become
• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture I
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  • even today reveal themselves very clearly to him who can see them,
  • but in the near future they will become ever more apparent. In the
  • think, my dear friends, that you feel you can no longer find
  • world today. You see, as early as the seventies, eighties and
  • their capacity as graduates, always to wear cap and gown. After we
  • impression I had when this friend appeared in cap and gown. It seemed
  • wear it, often to their great annoyance.
  • learned or scholarly but possessing an average degree of culture, and
  • more advanced years in the present-day world of thought — we
  • this externally, my dear friends. Things that crop up in a certain
  • dear friends, when words sound forth without soul from the mouth —
  • a being whose nature is not understood today, and yet it is clear
  • is felt to grow near, in soul, to other human beings. Everyone passes
  • Nowadays you continually hear: “That is my standpoint.”
  • that a man should have a sound will and a sound heart so that he can
  • not get any nearer to each other by such means. We can only come
  • nearer to each other when we know how to place our different
  • now, my dear friends, when it is said that thoughts have become
  • be so strong that they stream down through the heart and through the
  • heart too, and not merely thoughts. Best of all is for thoughts to
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture II
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  • among the youth, a clear distinction can be made between the youth
  • recently it has reached a climax making it more clearly perceptible.
  • investigators, researchers. The Universities established themselves
  • as institutes for research. They were no longer there for human
  • research institutes have been established. But the young, especially,
  • are not looking for libraries or research institutes. They are
  • years of youth. We must come together with human beings with whom we
  • and we hear the names from the old, but they do not tally because the
  • wandering about on the earth. This state of things came gradually but
  • go about nevertheless, for I still bear something of the sublime
  • thirty years.
  • well, my dear friends, suppose you were to ask anybody who lived at
  • must grow old in earthly life — however young we may still be.
  • earth-evolution.
  • There you will find that the earth is shown as a heritage of other
  • Saturn, Sun and Moon existences. But the first earth-epoch was only
  • the repetition of earlier world-existences. On the earth there have
  • Then came the earth period proper. But this earth period proper, this
  • earlier conditions.
  • were really unwritten pages. Now the earth was new — new for
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture III
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  • was it not always so? Did human beings in earlier times include in
  • back to the conditions in earlier epochs of civilization. That is not
  • in order to find our bearings we may turn back, look back, rather,
  • this knowledge as a basis we cannot understand earlier times. Later
  • the end of our twentieth year — and more repulsively old than
  • nearest spiritual horizon: people believe they at last know the truth
  • us think of some earlier book on natural science. From the modern
  • there are people who struggle against materialism. My dear friends,
  • more they love it. In earlier times people felt a tingling when they
  • But modern thinking is a product of the brain; earlier thinking was
  • this demand is in his very blood. You must be clear about this. You
  • earlier kind of thinking could be carried over into sleep when the
  • cleverest and most learned people, but we are clever only during the
  • taught to seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds, you would soon see what
  • happened when a man of earlier times passed with his soul into sleep?
  • force to nourish our being. To make this clear, let me say the
  • clear I said: It is all the same to me whether people speak of
  • is what I wanted to say quite clearly, my dear friends, that in what
  • most incredible twaddle is heard when people suddenly feel themselves
  • the spiritual plane. It was stated that repeated earth-lives —
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IV
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  • us be clear as to what is said. The attempt is made in this very
  • this mood of the age, my dear friends, I sent my Philosophy of
  • example shows clearly that the turning-point of the nineteenth
  • Nietzsche, through his tragic destiny, clearly indicates the twilight
  • character of Greek culture as it appears in the writings of
  • Aeschylus, of Sophocles, in the early sculpture and in the mighty
  • through life and meeting individuals we must have an open heart —
  • early seventies of the nineteenth century there grew in his soul the
  • in what Nietzsche lived through during the years of which I am
  • on the ears, then it is evil. And so judgments pile up. The sum of
  • But he was also quite clear that when views on natural science were
  • nebulous ideals they make nothing clear. In fact everything is
  • century, yet it was already there earlier, in a form that made itself
  • view of psychology a very great deal might be learnt from it.
  • You will not come to any clear view, to any tangible experience, of
  • naturally, it is not so clear when expressed in words. Young people
  • and what appears as the character of the youth movement is, for one
  • warm-hearted relation between man and man; beyond routine to the
• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture V
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  • earlier times people also spoke of moral intuitions, that is to say,
  • have known what was meant. In earlier times they would have known
  • called divine; this God appears primitive and incomplete in the eyes
  • capable of reaching. But the men of that age had no desire to hear
  • how the life of soul developed from the earliest times until the
  • earth. External science cannot get much beyond, shall I say, a
  • paleontology of the soul. Just as in the earth we find fossils,
  • indicating an earlier form of life, so in fossilized moral ideas we
  • simply disappear; science has silenced them. Human beings even when
  • one's grandfather: “Have you heard that there were once
  • answer: “One would have to search the libraries; at second or
  • been able to ferret out antiquated moral impulses. After some years,
  • not only the thirty-year-olds but also the twenty-year-olds would
  • have been going about with bald heads, and the fifteen-year-olds with
  • earlier times the outer man received moral impulses from outside. Now
  • pre-earthly existence had for a long time been wiped out. Western
  • civilization had lost it in very early times. So that in the West
  • permeates this physical earth-being.”
  • in this connection the following presents itself quite clearly to our
  • thinking, out of which our whole modern civilization flows, bears the
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VI
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  • looks at his epoch, he should not only bear in mind the generation
  • character of a longing, of an undefined yearning, than was the case
  • of the pre-earthly existence of the soul has been lost. If we take
  • human heart in the West during the past centuries, we can but say:
  • For a long time existence before the descent into a physical earthly
  • to week, from year to year. Observed in this way, the child becomes a
  • that we never reach an end. We know that we bear the solution of the
  • come to an end of what there is to search for in ourselves. From such
  • has resounded from human hearts, but that the questioning will go on
  • distant future to learn to live their answer. We are not directed in
  • points to what has not been learnt from formulae, but from that book
  • appear in man; if single individuals are challenged in the
  • that the words, “Joy and love are the pinions which bear man to
  • like the early flush of dawn. You will often have heard those fine
  • later age in a way suitable to an earlier epoch. Perhaps that would
  • learn in the presence of every human being to unfold feelings which
  • my dear friends, what men have ever felt in the depths of their souls
  • of pre-earthly existence and unites with his physical body in order
  • to use it as an instrument on earth between birth and death —
  • surely as the child, from its first movement on earth, is a human
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VII
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  • Janus-headed. Certainly, this appears to be permeated by enthusiasm
  • full spread of the sails as it was some twenty years ago is no longer
  • in the feelings of those who had grown older in years but were not
  • inwardly old. It was not clearly expressed in words, but in other
  • education, for example, has been discussed, I have often heard it
  • said that there must be an education which makes learning a game for
  • children, so that the children laugh all the time, so that learning
  • is play and at the same time they are learning something. This is the
  • all is learnt.
  • injured through learning being made into a game. For it is essential
  • Tiredness existed among the young in earlier times, too, when they
  • dear friends, there may be some here who take the above statement
  • stood as a kind of ideal for those anxious to learn, this idea
  • appears to many as unrealizable. For, at the present time, it is
  • at the time referred to, innumerable forces yearned for activity and
  • these forces appeared, for example, in the academic youth. And then
  • power of pictorial expression for what appear abstract things, there
  • kinds of learned circles, and there I had much reason to rejoice, and
  • one might begin like that but very soon one heard: No, there is to be
  • was taboo. The man who knew his subject was only heard from the
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VIII
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  • moment would be the year 333 A.D., yet this date is of course only
  • can enter earthly evolution only as revelation.
  • have, my dear friends, only an external history, we have no history
  • take the souls born approximately after the year 333. These souls
  • thought in man. Whereas mankind before the year 333 really had the
  • idea: There is a divine weaving streaming around the earth just as in
  • surrounding the earth, which are graven into men as thoughts. Whereas
  • those souls who before the year 333 considered that in the
  • unable to express in clear concepts, but which was present in them as
  • century, being reincarnations from the time before the year 333 from
  • which souls living in the Middle Ages had in an earlier earth-life
  • incarnation had lived not long after the year 333. Up to the eighth,
  • the men who in their previous earth-life had already felt the world
  • time in which souls were incarnated who could no longer hear from
  • earth-life was experienced as tragedy.
  • life on earth before the sixth or seventh century, particularly
  • Kepler. Johannes Kepler was as much a natural scientist of an earlier
  • longer lived from their previous earth-life the impulse that thought
  • this. For although the sense for the individual past earth-life had
  • but subconsciously) from which we were torn in our previous earthly
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IX
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  • at present was different before the year 333 A.D.
  • towards the world and our own. This will be made clearer by our
  • appeared in an entirely new way. Problems must be regarded in a new
  • suppose that a three-year-old child were to resolve not to pass
  • seventh year, but this child were to say: It is weary work to go
  • through four more years until I get my second teeth; I will get them
  • at once. (I could use other comparisons which would appear still more
  • between about the eighteenth and nineteenth years. Just as it is
  • impossible to get the second teeth before the seventh year so it is
  • eighteenth year. It is simply impossible before the eighteenth year
  • have heard something, may believe something on authority. But one
  • eyes or ears. Such things are hardly mentioned today. They are,
  • then, follows from the fact that before his eighteenth year the human
  • In the earliest of those times it was definitely realized that no one
  • could be brought before his eighteenth year to the point of real
  • possible to give anyone real knowledge before his eighteenth year. At
  • this is all upside-down, because what in earlier times was demanded
  • artistic that appeared then we have but the scantiest remains. Here
  • bears with it the title: “Doctor of Philosophy and of the Seven
  • of instruction given to the young of earlier times, with the result
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture X
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  • drew attention to how in earlier times the teacher took his start
  • generations. For this relationship, my dear friends, can never
  • is so constituted that when it is a matter of making something clear
  • documentary history can go back only a few thousand years before the
  • convey what was experienced. In the earliest times philosophy was
  • we go very far back, some seven or eight thousand years before the
  • today only in earliest youth existed then for the whole evolution of
  • eighth year. Man's soul becomes different, and again it changes
  • seventh year and again in the fourteenth or fifteenth. But what
  • cured of certain childlike religious ideas by the Lisbon earthquake,
  • forces in the earth? — Especially in these decisive moments of
  • of the Earth, to me art nearer.”
  • the earth-spirit to approach him. And when at the beginning of the
  • ancient times, six thousand, seven thousand years before the Mystery
  • thirty-fifth or thirty-sixth year, life was on the up-grade. But then
  • and the other Michelet. Zeller was seventy years old and thought he
  • Michelet was, as I said, ninety years old!
  • learns something through one's own development that one cannot
  • of Greek culture, we should bear in mind that the Greeks were still
  • six-and-thirty years, whereas a more ancient humanity grew in
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XI
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  • heart and the rest of his organism is concerned, as if he had nothing
  • the organism; to learn to think not only with the head but with the
  • whole man; to learn to experience the world with the whole man and
  • human beings today still have the capacity of learning to experience
  • the world with the whole man at an early age. For what I have just
  • child learning to speak. For then the head which has to take part in
  • learning to speak begins to stir and develops the first stage of
  • insatiability. The head in return for giving itself up to learning to
  • appear, planting the whole sole of his foot and especially his heels
  • but fifty years ago was a boy, can remember how some philosophy of
  • the head is lost today with the change of teeth in early childhood.
  • years of childhood, but to a feeling for the whole man in the soul of
  • earthly existence from super-sensible, spiritual worlds, from his
  • pre-earthly existence. My dear friends, it is never the head that
  • recognizes what man brings with him out of his pre-earthly life. The
  • head is made for the purpose of grasping what is on the earth. And on
  • the earth there is only the physical part of man. The head
  • and comes from pre-earthly existence. In the particular coloring the
  • the human being has brought down from pre-earthly existence; and
  • particularly disposed to feel in his heart what meets him in the
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XII
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  • during the last few days it will be clear that nowadays one human
  • so, we should be understanding only the old again. We must learn to
  • earth-catastrophe, to the seventh or eighth millennium before Christ,
  • years, or of the plastic development of new leaves and blossoms in a
  • forth the plants from the earth. In a certain way they saw — it
  • the human being bears on his head a kind of etheric, astral cap. In
  • our foot, we come into a different relation to the earth and to the
  • scientifically do today. In the human heart and mind there was
  • natural that during a certain period of the year the earth breathes
  • in the being of the heavens, and during another period of the year
  • say: During the summer the earth sleeps, gives herself up to the
  • this power of the sun pours into the earth's unconsciousness.
  • Summer is the sleep of the earth. Winter is her waking. During the
  • winter the earth thinks through her own forces what during the summer
  • heavens. During the winter the earth works over in her own being what
  • a dull, repressed form between the seventh and fourteenth years. They
  • Nature. The outer had become clearly perceptible and man is beginning
  • was already a clearly established separation between the body and the
  • the bodily and the soul-spiritual. Thus in earlier epochs man really
  • learn all the teachings about the ego. It is not a question of
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• Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XIII
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  • there appears in the picture of the man-devouring dragon what is the
  • intellectuality as he could master through forces of the heart. Now,
  • man — could but say: Ultimately such activity must disappear
  • development to originate in illusions and disappear when the
  • and slays the heart. Why is this so? It comes about because man can
  • what occurs nowhere else in the earthly world around us. He takes in
  • is clear proof that the human being is no longer inwardly understood.
  • shrinking away from this consequence is the fearful untruth that has
  • penetrated right into the human heart, into the human soul, and has
  • untruth upon the earth. We must acquire the vision of Michael who
  • shows us that what is material on earth does not merely pass through
  • what is in the earth begins to be transformed into the new life, into
  • realms into our earthly realm. He does not force himself upon us.
  • dragon rears up to meet one.
  • memory — who found no answer to their search for man, because
  • the dragon has devoured him. This lived in the hearts of many human
  • pre-earthly life is still working. Here we find, if we nurture it,
  • out of super-sensible worlds into the earthly life and manifests
  • there, precisely in the early periods of human life. But for such an
  • education we must have a heart. We must learn — speaking
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