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• Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Preface
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  • citizen of the spiritual as well as of the earthly world. Many of the
  • whole story of man's development on the earth. There is therefore no
• Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Synopsis of Lectures
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  • plant belongs to the earth. This is the true picture and gives
• Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 1
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  • god-given, within his nature after he has descended from pre-earthly
  • life into earthly life? This is the kind of question which can be
  • habits of life before birth or conception, in its pre-earthly
  • his pre-earthly life? Well, my dear friends, suppose all you clever
  • earthly conditions. The spirit, suddenly transported into a
  • pre-earthly world which is endeavouring to make the child's body
  • In so doing one learns not of the earth, but of heaven; and this not
  • a clumsy way, for it has been transported from heaven to earth; but
  • descending to earth he would soon notice this difficulty: if the
  • child were still living in this pre-earthly consciousness his life
  • the child comes down to earth; before this he has been
  • own spiritual garment, as it were. Now he has to descend to earth. I
  • ordinary things of the earth. One can speak of them thus because they
  • on the earth.
  • change every seven years as long as a man is on the earth. If the
  • individualities who are weakly when they descend to earth; these form
  • There are, however, also strong individualities descending to earth,
  • a being whose nature is of God and the spirit has descended to earth.
  • before descending to earth, and that which one has to become here
  • On earth man is very little
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• Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 2
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  • spiritual pre-earthly world is weak, then this second life organism
  • in the pre-earthly existence, then indeed the children would become
  • incarnation, that he was interested in everything in his former earth
  • through their former earth life in a superficial way. You will not be
• Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 3
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  • plant belongs to the earth. This is the true picture and gives the
  • hair of the earth. For the plants belong to the earth just in the
  • very long way. And when you realise that the small clod of earth
  • it, then you will see how necessary it is to manure the earth in
  • the plant; the earth lives with the plant.
  • fruit in autumn. Then they wither and die and remain in the earth
  • earth forces out of their environment. If this is the earth, then the
  • the living earth itself has as it were withdrawn into the tree. Under
  • plants, for the earth is an organism and the plants are like the hair
  • of this organism. The child must be able to see that the earth and
  • earth, and to give the child a clear feeling that the earth is a
  • the earth. People speak of the earth as having the force of gravity.
  • This is spoken of as belonging to the earth. But the plants with
  • their force of growth belong to the earth just as much. The earth and
  • something in themselves apart from the earth. The plant is no more an
  • to understand how the earth is really a part of plant life you must
  • can only be arrived at by considering earth and plant world as a
  • unity, and by looking upon the earth as an organism and the plant as
  • earth. This is of great significance for his whole life. For think
  • completely to the earth) but also granite, gneiss and so on were
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• Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 4
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  • working of human destiny in repeated lives on earth. See Rudolf
• Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 5
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  • earthly life. It is there for beauty's sake, it is true, because our
  • man's former earth-life. The head is a metamorphosis of the former
  • life on earth, and the fact of having a head only begins to have a
  • real meaning for man when he knows something of his former earth
• Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 6
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  • earth, he has no possibility of understanding the so-called
  • and were not present before the descent to earth, are copies of the
  • become so accustomed to think of the earth as round that when someone
• Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 7
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  • “living.” We can now speak of the whole earth as living.
  • a collection of minerals, but start from the earth, the soil, and
  • configuration of the earth; then we can speak of how the mountains