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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture I: The Problem of Faust
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    • and are published in German as,
    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • human evolution — a transition from the Greco-Latin age
    • important trends of thought of the new man? Goethe could
    • what history tells of man's mood of soul, of his capacities
    • appear to the soul modern man, to human souls in the present
    • personality, who looks back in the right way on man's mood of
    • indeed of many centuries to come. Hence we see Goethe's Faust
    • the well-being, the soundness, of man. He wanted to find an
    • wanted to know how a man, continually advancing, could arrive
    • course of human affairs had now to die out. For this reason
    • of the deepest secrets of humanity — these secrets
    • how little what is called the new freedom in human evolution
    • the epoch following the Greco-Roman. We shall see what it
    • in every sphere this wisdom had to disappear so that man
    • And many a man stands here alive
    • ancient wisdom could be really helpful to humanity, for it is
    • My father was a worthy gentleman,
    • manner of those days Goethe had thoroughly studied how the
    • medicines had been manufactured from them. But all that no
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture II: The Romantic Walpurgis-Night
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    • The Romantic Walpurgis-Night
    • and are published in German as,
    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • The Romantic Walpurgis-Night
    • Riddles of Man.)
    • man having a real love for Faust cannot explain to his
    • 1800–1. As a quite young man Goethe began to write his
    • he is often pictured; he was a man, as the details of this
    • would not allow that there was anything spiritual and many of
    • such brotherhoods. Now, a man is listening to those who had
    • this was all described very exactly in the man continued: now
    • not recommended to those who, like Franz in Hermann Barr's
    • affair in the correct way. I know well that many would consider
    • clear that when a man leaves his body he will meet with other
    • So long as the conditions are there are for man to go back
    • outside it. When a man is outside his physical body, as Faust
    • solid things he can only perceive the fluid in them. Man is
    • imagine that when outside he is unable to see another man; he
    • in this way. But Mephistopheles, that is Ahriman, as an
    • Ahrimanic being has no understanding of the present earth; he
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture III: Goethe's Feeling for the Concrete.
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    • and are published in German as,
    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • today. For these scenes contain many germs of the evolution
    • understanding in our approach to this deepest manifestation
    • “Riddles of Man,”
    • formulate the divine spiritual dwelling in man's innermost
    • soul, in such a way that, by developing this in his soul, man
    • tried to grasp the full life of the ego in the soul of man,
    • By this means he sought to feel the union of the inner human
    • “Philosophy of Manifestation.”
    • human freedom and other subjects akin to it written round
    • applied to the different branches of human knowledge what to
    • is relative in the world, beyond all that controls mankind in
    • on the one hand to the ahrimanic, on the other to the
    • of world-evolution is always swaying between the ahrimanic
    • how dangerous the best may be when Ahriman and Lucifer take a
    • Mephistopheles is in it, through him everything ahrimanic
    • him as representing the type of man who is the victim of an
    • been accepted as the Kantian philosophy by many
    • We once knew a man who was so infected with this philosophy
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IV: Faust and the "Mothers"
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    • and are published in German as,
    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • upon the significant manner in which Goethe speaks in this
    • human soul. The state of Faust's consciousness has to be
    • ahrimanic force, belongs to our world of the senses, but as a
    • yourselves the coming into physical existence of the human
    • is consummated. The man who is about to become physical
    • inthe woman all the forces that lead to the physical human
    • spheres takes place; into the woman work cosmic forces. The
    • human embryo is always a result of cosmic activity. What is
    • this picture in mind — this becoming of the human
    • the human cell. These forces however do not come from the
    • emancipating himself from Mephistopheles for he would then
    • and that here he is showing the way in which man can relate
    • the Roman story-teller whom Goethe read, speaks of the
    • to have made a deep impreression on Goethe. The Romans were
    • at war with Carthage. Nicias is in favour of the Romans and
    • of man when this normal understandin is not present. It is
    • how many worlds we get if we make a correct
    • soul as it should work, for Faust has gone through many
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture V: Faust and the Problem of Evil
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    • and are published in German as,
    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • human evolution on the earth (referring, to begin with, only
    • before the human being of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. He
    • the human being of the fourth post-Atlantean epoch. We human
    • Evil will approach the human being of the fifth
    • and Death stood before the human beings of that evolutionary
    • is, in effect, far more concealed to-day from human vision
    • and from human feeling. Now the Graeco-Latin time,
    • — with all that springs from Evil. For the human being
    • sufficiently intense and vivid way, and many things which we
    • illustrated. Many things will appear as consequences of this
    • drama he showed Faust as the representative of humanity,
    • peculiar to man that he can only come to terms with the
    • be aware that now, in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, man has
    • Graeco-Latin epoch must also become impulses of human beings
    • derived as it is from the very nature of human evolution
    • — of the historic evolution of mankind. Goethe longed
    • another kind of vision. Many things could be cited in
    • man of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch within the evolution of
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VI: The Helena Saga and the Riddle of Freedom
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    • and are published in German as,
    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • IN the evolution of mankind, as I have
    • which send their influences through the soul of man. I showed
    • Ahrimanic power. I then tried to show how Faust had to dive
    • unconsciously in human souls by virtue of the laws of
    • Evil, — the mastery of Evil in all directions. Human
    • that summons into the evolution of mankind problems of Birth
    • wrestling of the soul of man with the problem of Birth and
    • subject to the power of individual human beings. I have
    • natural degree. The good and evil forces in the human being
    • things one did as human being and what took place in the
    • in our epoch, in the fifth, human beings will have to grapple
    • in a gigantic way. In the resistance which human beings will
    • touch on interests of human beings which they do not wish to
    • have molested. In this respect, human beings are divided. On
    • other hand are those who in many ways are caught up in this
    • of the nineteenth century there have been working among human
    • remained behind, they work into the inner impulses of human
    • thereby in an Ahrimanic way — all that which is
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VII: Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations
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    • and are published in German as,
    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • Since, however, on account of illness, the performance is not
    • evolution of man as a physical-temporal being could not have
    • life man first gains, through his bodily organism, the
    • twenties that man, through the forces he develops out of his
    • we have to bear in mind that man is really a complicated
    • being. We only understand man by first becoming clear to what
    • of spiritual chemistry, so to say, we can extract from man
    • universe reaches its culmination in the creation of man, on
    • those beings with whom man, as man, must therefore feel
    • himself quite specially connected. If we separate man out in
    • that this circle represents man at a given point in his
    • evolution; if we then trace the human being indicated by this
    • orange. Were we to go back and examine now man has evolved
    • this connection of man with the hierarchies, we should perceive
    • go on to ask what man would be like in the course of his
    • creative beings set themselves the task of so forming man
    • intended to give man the opportunity through his bodily
    • a very different measure from that in which man, as he now is
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VIII: Spiritual Science Considered with the Classical Walpurgis-Night
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    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • making of man's being than can be known or fathomed either by
    • the understanding or by other forces of the human soul.
    • be developed today in man's conscious life, cannot go so far
    • as man by nature reaches. Those who believe that what is
    • one gains only a very limited knowledge of man. But this
    • knowledge of man.
    • short-sighted outlook and is untrue. Knowledge of man does
    • unknowable within the being of man can, in no case, ever be
    • the processes of the earth-planet. But man is not earthly man
    • alone. As earth-man he has behind him the evolutions of
    • earthly. Man in his entirety, therefore, cannot be known by
    • I pointed out how man exists in states of consciousness
    • they sleep too — sleep as regards a very great many
    • which man is active with his whole will. Only in a small part
    • of the whole world of human ideas does a man find that he
    • images evoked in man by certain wishes in his life not having
    • been fulfilled. A man goes throughout life wishing all kinds
    • undeniable that many of our wishes are not fulfilled. Then,
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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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    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • connection with the whole evolution of mankind. Out I wish to
    • to comprehend the whole structure, the whole manner, of
    • possible within the course of human development, when we look
    • manifestations of Goethe's soul-life, manifestations that,
    • for ordinary human life, may perhaps seem — but only
    • greatest interest to every man. I have spoken to you of the
    • I have been doing my best to give mankind, from various
    • managed to procure the apparatus to see, through his own
    • [In Man or Matter by Dr. Ernst Lehrs
    • reference to moral associations, in which are found so many
    • such concepts, therefore, that the majority of mankind is too
    • think about nature in the way that is possible during human
    • indeed a caricature of the human etheric body and also of the
    • astral body, thereby having a disturbing effect on man's life
    • demanded for itself by the etheric body. This is exactly what
    • dear friends, that man is not only the being who lives
    • the spirit either ahrimanically luciferically. Theories of
    • you yesterday that man has not lived only on the earth, but
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture X: Faust's Knowledge and Understanding of Himself
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    • Forces Actually Slumbering in Man
    • and are published in German as,
    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • Forces Actually Slumbering in Man
    • both universe and the mystery of man, in so far as the latter
    • self-knowledge and self-understanding in human evolution? It
    • impossible for man ever to arrive at a true conception of his
    • knowledge of man can only be imparted through true spiritual
    • perception. So that all the knowledge and perception of man
    • real knowledge of man at all. Goethe indicates this by
    • Homunculus is the result of the knowledge of man to which
    • nature that a human being could be intellectually put
    • together out of various ingredients. But it is no man who
    • perfection — no man arises, no homo, but only a
    • simply the image of himself that a man can form with the help
    • this man-made image that is a homunculus provide a true
    • conception of man? How can it be brought about that in this
    • conception man does not stop short at the simple homunculus
    • human soul and spirit when free of the body.
    • human being must come if he wishes to acquire complete
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture XI: The Vision of Reality in the Greek Myths
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    • (After a Performance of the Classical Walpurgis-Night)
    • and are published in German as,
    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • (After a Performance of the Classical Walpurgis-Night)
    • Eckermann, namely, that there is much concealed in his
    • Faust, many riddles of man to be recognised by
    • following up the problem of man's self-knowledge, man's
    • will increasingly be for future human evolution — what
    • experience all that life can bring to man in the way of
    • makes on a man, as regards his behaviour towards society as a
    • meant to be represented merely as a man striving after the
    • with all that life demands and brings. To this end, Goethe
    • seeks knowledge for his Faust, that is, knowledge of man,
    • present latent in mankind. But Goethe sees clearly that
    • mediaeval research, the copy of a human being that, within
    • he wished to represent what a man, here in the physical
    • man in accordance with Goethe's conception. He will never
    • know Homo, the human being; he will be able to picture in his
    • standstill on the path to becoming man. Goethe wrestles with
    • that the problem of human nature con only be solved by a
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  • Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture XII: Goetheanism In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism
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    • Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
    • lectures following the performance of the later
    • from man having to think, having to form ideas, as he lives
    • think you will agree that we should not be complete human
    • turn to the other pole of human activity, the willing. Man is
    • trivially-minded, average man looks upon what can be attained
    • distinguishes the man of learning who is fundamentally
    • thinking, my dear friends, it is exactly as if a man were
    • constitution of his soul, a man can fancy he is able to reach
    • feeling of being frustrated in thought is a profound human
    • not the only boundary set to the human being's full
    • Man is driven to willing in the crudest sense through hunger
    • the second feeling which, when experienced by man, leads him
    • that a man reaches his goal by sufficiently developing his
    • birth and death. A man is tested when, with suitable
    • that can be experienced, but rather what leads a man to his
    • transform, to metamorphose, the whole human being in certain
    • moments of life, cannot press forward to knowledge of man, to
    • the understanding of man.
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