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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture I: The Problem of Faust
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    • My dear friends,
    • powerful, and during the sixty years in which he was creating
    • colourless theory. In the souls of men in the earlier
    • appear to the soul modern man, to human souls in the present
    • one's bearings in it. The wisdom contained there was no
    • that was right for an earlier age. The art of healing, as it
    • heart, with those soul forces that have specially to do with
    • We shall shortly hear how completely in the ancient wisdom
    • in every sphere this wisdom had to disappear so that man
    • today. Here we see clearly that Faust both is and feels
    • In evil days when death was near.
    • With tears and sighs and frenzied wringing
    • And now the crowd's applause rings in my ears like
    • O could'st thou read what in my heart is hidden.
    • Till I must hear their shameless murderers
    • Earth-spirit who storms hither and thither in the tumult of
    • Hearer and ever nearer yet he steals,
    • something that belongs to the poodle appearing as if
    • Wagner: “He frisks in doubt and fear around us,
    • Now stress of deed and storm of yearning
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture II: The Romantic Walpurgis-Night
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    • like, my dear friends, to make a few remarks about the
    • heart. (You will find a note on Schröer in my recent
    • appear very unnatural to see him now, two days after,
    • strolling — as it appears in the text — at his
    • the poem as a whole. The poet is clearly no longer in a
    • whole is quite clear. Mephistopheles takes Faust away to
    • dream was actually written a year earlier than the
    • bear in mind that Goethe's meaning was really of a spiritual
    • Faust written up to the year 1900, but not so much of
    • long ago, nearly thirty years, in the eighties of the 19th
    • tried to convince his hearers that Freemasonry was a very
    • another priest alleged that he had heard in Rome that ten
    • when she again appears, also glides along. Thus with Goethe
    • dear friends, Faust, that is, Faust's soul, and
    • clear that when a man leaves his body he will meet with other
    • dead, so long does he bear about with him, on going out with
    • Ahrimanic being has no understanding of the present earth; he
    • connected with the present moon, now that it is Earth-moon,
    • fiery, illuminating forces issued from the Earth — that
    • moon element still in the Earth, it is in accordance with the
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture III: Goethe's Feeling for the Concrete.
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    • often appears foolish. This is why such a great spirit as
    • charm from the heart of the world order. Hegel had begun to
    • hearts, we are able to form a very clear idea of the frame of
    • into any heart, any soul; for they all thought themselves
    • mother speaks in the empty phrases he learnt there. These are
    • appears no doubt, very witty but it is really nothing more
    • be clear from the correspondence between Goethe and Fichte
    • spiritual secrets of the early Greek days. He wanted to unite
    • paralyzed by the sudden appearance of Helen, paralyzed by
    • truth. This collision is made clear to us, and it is
    • clear to us through the unsuspecting Famulus now introduced,
    • clearly refers to when announcing that he has created the
    • Yes, my dear
    • find some way, but was by no means clear how to find it.
    • Mephistopheles, the ahrimanic element, appears. For the
    • represented the way Goethe had learnt from Paracelsus'
    • this, Goethe comes very near true Occultism, that through
    • the general and abstract. For what is most feared today by
    • Mephistopheles does not understand him, shows him clearly how
    • born,’ and is clear evidence that in language there was
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IV: Faust and the "Mothers"
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    • My dear friends,
    • on Faust's reappearing and coming forth from the Mothers, the
    • course of years, we need reflect only upon how the Greek
    • initiated as having learnt to know the three world-Mothers
    • said to be learnt through direct perception by those
    • considering during these past years, what is supposed to
    • remember clearly how I have already said that the crossing of
    • clearly shown here in the way this scene is handled by Goethe
    • dear friends, what Faust really has to experience, If it were
    • the matter appear from Mephistopheles' point of view? We must
    • Faust may acquire the new state of consciousness, learn to
    • learn to know a world where the latter had no place. With
    • Earth. We divide our Earth into:
    • we still have to add the Earth that has not yet
    • when we take our Earth upon which we are still evolving, and
    • when we look from this Earth to Saturn, Sun and Moon, there
    • is at the same time in the Earth. The being of the Moon
    • belongs to the being of the Earth. If you only want a
    • Earth (see diagram); here you have a shaft connected with the
    • Earth.
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture V: Faust and the Problem of Evil
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    • human evolution on the earth (referring, to begin with, only
    • about the fifth, our own time, which began about the year
    • phenomena of Birth and Death entered the heart and mind of
    • less at the beginning of it, for it began in the year 1413;
    • and an epoch lasts 2166 years) We have to solve in the widest
    • have characterised during these weeks will be clearly
    • illustrated. Many things will appear as consequences of this
    • to wrestle with Evil in the historic evolution of Earth-life.
    • where Helena herself appears. For these three scenes
    • Helena appears: —
    • the scene at the Emperor's Court, and finally appears in its
    • nothing that we hear it again out of the lips of Faust
    • experiences in his heart, in his life of feeling. That which
    • where Helena appears not merely as a spectre, but as a
    • Here Goethe clearly indicates that the
    • very fact that Goethe chooses Helena to appear to Faust, is
    • in the old Greek Mysteries, one learned to know something of
    • Menelaus. He appeared in Greece; and with Helena's consent
    • behind with Proteus in Egypt. Paris, therefore, appeared in
    • perhaps aware that Goethe very clearly hints at this esoteric
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VI: The Helena Saga and the Riddle of Freedom
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    • beings will have to learn to know all that the soul must
    • founding of Rome in the year 747 before the Birth of Christ.
    • Thus, of the 2160 years of the fourth post-Atlantean epoch,
    • 747 years had to run their course before the main impulse
    • possible for men to bring Evil over the Earth, by exploiting
    • Electricity itself, Evil comes over the Earth.
    • cannot clearly realise how they are interwoven with
    • rather not hear of what is really contained in the impusles
    • to the Spirits of Darkness who will stand far nearer to man
    • human being very nearly and intimately. They do not merely
    • more make clear to ourselves, what was the nature of the
    • weakness of many people to-day, when they hear of Lucifer and
    • developed. At an early age his soul was beset by doubts
    • To-day we will only make clear that this deed reveals him as
    • reached the ears of his father, so that he had his son
    • carries Helena away when she is ten years old, and keeps her
    • to exclaim: “From her tenth year onward she was nothing
    • Mankind might learn from such things; it can very easily
    • ship over the Earth, for ‘Asia’ at that time
    • signified the rulership of the entire Earth. Pallas Athene
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VII: Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations
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    • yet come to him in clearly defined ideas. A poet whose
    • time. I shall only say enough to make it clear to you that
    • knowledge, If we wish to learn the truth about these matters,
    • we have to bear in mind that man is really a complicated
    • being. We only understand man by first becoming clear to what
    • through Moon, Sun and Saturn ages and later through the Earth
    • that in the course of his earthly development he should
    • the earthly and thus is akin to earthly substances and to the
    • interplay of earthly forces, I mean that these divine beings
    • as earthly man, can pursue it, If man had only first awakened
    • self-knowledge appears comparatively early in man, though not
    • prevents man, as he is on earth at present, from attaining in
    • life. But he felt, he divined — divined very clearly
    • knowledge, so clearly divined, flowed into the creation of
    • we have about the substances and forces of the earth? How can
    • anyone imagine that those ingredients of earth-existence
    • would have lived within you from your earliest youth.
    • that the knowledge of man possible to acquire by earthly
    • concerning man bear as little relation to what man is in
    • knowledge at least, grow near to what in reality man is
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VIII: Spiritual Science Considered with the Classical Walpurgis-Night
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    • I particularly wanted to make clear in connection with
    • further, and then we shall come increasingly near to the
    • my dear friends, all officially accepted science that deals
    • with the spiritual, in reality relates only to earthly being
    • — what has being on the earth-planet. What is called
    • the processes of the earth-planet. But man is not earthly man
    • alone. As earth-man he has behind him the evolutions of
    • earthly; for the laws of science apply only to what is
    • earthly. Man in his entirety, therefore, cannot be known by
    • beyond what is earthly.
    • clearer about dream-life, if we tried to perceive the
    • my dear friends, we know there are scientifically conceived
    • when consciousness is dimmed, these wishes appear before the
    • earth-fire and water-air. While unconscious in sleep, to a
    • While passing through the earlier stages of our evolution we
    • extraordinarily difficult to give a clear interpretation of
    • shall immediately see the profound difference if we are clear
    • you speak, for speaking is only learnt in waking day life,
    • learn during his earth-mission, nor be able to manage the
    • this; during sleep you don't want to hear anything this
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IX: Goethe's Life of the Soul from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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    • life of spirit contains that this life appears in the right
    • also it only becomes clear how such a life of soul is
    • understanding. nevertheless, it appears to me of quite
    • What physics does not recognize today, my dear firends, the
    • naturally, must appear to modern physics both primitive and
    • appearance of colors from the point of view of physics. do,
    • concerning the appearance of colors. It goes without saying
    • (This would, as has been said, appear to the modern physicist
    • notions this was foolish but, my dear firends, it was sound
    • appearances, primal phenomena.
    • became clear that, when color is perceived, at the basis of
    • bright colors appear; if lightness laps over darkenss, then
    • there appear the deep colors, blue, violet and so forth. If
    • bright colors appear, red, yellow and so on. Here it is not a
    • appear. Goethe's way was not to add to phenomena hypotheses
    • is characteristic of Goethe, my dear friends, that he rejects
    • This, my dear
    • white appears and he has to realize: The wall is still white
    • supposed to appear. This has not happened. and Goethe's way
    • dear friends, that man is not only the being who lives
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture X: Faust's Knowledge and Understanding of Himself
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    • may be stated that Goethe was perfectly clear that it is
    • of his reason, of his ordinary earthly knowledge. How can
    • but pushes on to the homo? It is clear to Goethe that this
    • who plunges lightheartedly into such matters. His whole life
    • For it was clear to him that when a man grows old, he does
    • Imaginations appearing to different people in different
    • you, my dear friends, to remember what an important part in
    • all that bound him to earth, above all through his bodily
    • the world of so and spirit, then in all earnestness
    • decided to descend to these parents when coming to earth,
    • confusion by most fearful volcanic storms. The nature-demons
    • world corresponds to what happens on earth when, for an
    • look at man simply as a figure standing on the physical earth
    • be said that the Samothracian Initiate learned to know man
    • from one incarnation to another, from one earth-life to
    • connection with all that is earthly — thus giving us the
    • said: Were Goethe to appear among us today, wishing, in
    • man — then the nearer you come to this secret.
    • dear friends, is something much worse than all materialism.
    • primeval peoples appear primitive to man today — mere
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture XI: The Vision of Reality in the Greek Myths
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    • Faust for about sixty years. Moreover, we have to do here
    • yesterday that this scene shows clearly how Goethe was
    • present latent in mankind. But Goethe sees clearly that
    • mediaeval research, the copy of a human being that, within
    • Classical Walpurgis-Night shows how clearly Goethe saw
    • am no longer connected with the solid earth and its definite
    • earth's rigid outlines.” — This is why, when
    • Samothrace were above all destined to learn the secret of
    • dear friends, is very much rarer in the sphere of knowledge
    • Mystery. Yes, my dear friends, the honest seeker after
    • those who light-heartedly piece together information from
    • knowledge thus light-heartedly. he knew that, even if he had
    • striven for it from the year 1749 to the year 1829, in which
    • most difficult circumstances about two years before his
    • never relaxed, nevertheless, for the honest searcher after
    • clear and definite outline. It is precisely in this intimate
    • dear friends, the modern man of research sees everything
    • appearing as a human being. The same processes that then take
    • delicately the Greeks might have felt, shows clearly how it
    • order to draw nearer the process by which, in man's
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture XII: Goetheanism In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism
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    • clearly and forcibly as possible, in his own opinion, at
    • distinguishes the man of learning who is fundamentally
    • thinking, my dear friends, it is exactly as if a man were
    • darkness. he imagines it will only become clear when he
    • near the goal but a considerable distance from it, some being
    • when by trying to think as deeply and clearly as possible, we
    • realise, my dear friends, that in this connection the
    • the near future, experience a significant change. Hitherto,
    • existed has been lost again in the materialistic research of
    • researches of Spiritual Science, and through a spiritual kind
    • This my dear
    • deep in human hearts and souls; and they must be healed if
    • earth-evolution is to proceed.
    • be described by saying: The one boundary makes it clear that
    • earth. When he feels a kind of oscillation between the two,
    • then he feels himself man on earth. In spite of this
    • dear friends, I have often called your attention to the
    • human being between birth and the seventh year; then the
    • learnt at school nowadays, notions which in future will be
    • the earlier — this is an abnormal idea of present-day
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