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• Title: Cover: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • Ten Lectures, 23rd December
• Title: Cover Pressing Page: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • Ten Lectures, 23rd December
• Title: Foreword: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • existence to which the scientific era was restricted inasmuch
  • This mental tendency has become habitual throughout the
  • our deeper, latent faculties of knowledge the same
  • I saw any beginnings or indications that seemed to tend in
  • another circumstance. The lectures were attended by members
  • more advanced students. Thus the whole tenor of these
  • in written books intended for the world at large. In these
  • which I should certainly have had to change had I intended it
  • “Competent judgment on the
  • content of these privately printed lectures will of course
  • there be in existence a Science of Nature permeated with the
• Title: Prefatory Note: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • not only to extend the range of information but who look
• Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • have just been read out, some of which were written over 30 years
  • fundamental trend and tendency in Science, which should permeate your
  • of Physics. There is one thing however to which we may draw attention
  • is to some extent, this kind of scientific outlook was predominant in
  • do not envisage the distinction clearly. They always tend rather to
  • clear, to what extent these truths are applicable to that which meets
  • mechanics. Not till we get to mechanics, have we the content of what
  • question only bears in it the possibility, the potentiality as it
  • such point or space forces are concentrated, able potentially to work
  • measures, how strongly such a point or centre has the potentiality of
  • thus centred and concentrated a “potential” or
  • “potential force”. In studying these effects of Nature we
  • then have to trace the potentials of the centric forces, — so
  • sources of potential forces.
  • potentials. In this respect our need will be to take one essential
  • this method, looking only for the potentials of centric forces. Say
  • understand even organic phenomena in terms of potentials, of centric
  • look for centres, — to study the potential effects that may go
  • the potentials, say for the three points a, b and
  • potentials of such and such centric forces. Yet in this way I could
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• Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • also make it move quicker and quicker, but to a lesser extent; a
  • movement. To that extent, the formula is phoronomical. When I write
  • it is, try making the pressure ever more intense. Try it, — or
  • then go on making it ever more intense. What will happen? If you go
  • only happens to a slight extent we can still bear it; if to a great
  • extent, we can bear it no longer. What underlies it is the same in
  • we come into regions which are opposed to our consciousness and tend
  • balance. We find the object has become lighter to the extent of the
  • the brain displaces is about 1230 grammes. To that extent the brain
  • is lightened, leaving only about 20 grammes. What does this signify?
  • of which the brain is really tending upward, contrary to its own
  • exception of the spinal cord — are only to a very slight extent
  • in this condition. Taken as a whole, their tendency is down-ward.
  • Will in matter and on the other hand the lightening of Will into
  • only bound to downward tending matter. And now please think of this:
  • then see upon the one hand the lightening into Intelligence, brought
  • intelligence is to some extent permeated by Will. In the main
  • ponderable matter. We always tend to go up and out beyond our head
  • Nature. We need a knowledge with a strongly spiritual content,
  • extent that 1230 grammes' weight is lost. Even to this extent is
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• Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • yourselves to some extent still have to take the same direction with
  • often happens, one does not get down to a thing right away. Now
  • circle that the colours extend inward from the edges to the middle.
  • Where I should otherwise merely get the image extending from red to
  • thing happens. I see the object lifted to some extent. I see it, and
  • shorten the force and so I myself draw the object upward. In meeting
  • the stronger resistance I draw in the force and shorten it. If I
  • denser medium to a more tenuous, the ray is refracted away from the
  • Finding increased resistance in the water, we are obliged to shorten
  • is sinewy, — of bony or cartilaginous consistency. Towards the
  • very remarkable features. Examining the contents of this fluid that
  • senses the light we should expect it to do so more intensely at the
• Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • beg you now, pay very careful attention to the pure facts; we want to
  • of attenuated air. Through these successions of compression and
  • is compression here, then comes attenuation, and all this moves on.
  • spectrum extending from violet to red — engendered directly by
  • get a darker. Why is it so? It simply depends on the intensity of
  • effect of it is not to intensify but to extinguish. As a real active
• Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • is at one place a far more intense yellow line, making the rest seem
  • even darker by contrast. Sodium is therefore often spoken of as
  • existence so to speak, develop such relation to the light that one
  • alchemy was still pursued to some extent, they spoke of so-called
  • green. But if you take your stand to some extent behind it — if
  • is really there. This then, to some extent, is our procedure. We see
  • It is intended to be, what you will find in neither of the two, and
• Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • was said to penetrate from a more tenuous into a denser medium.
  • When the light passes from a more tenuous into a denser medium, to
  • light is sometimes more and sometimes less intense. There can be
  • less strong; he will admit every degree of intensity of light, but he
  • intensity; so likewise, when a space is filled with darkness, it is
  • filled with darkness of a certain intensity. We must proceed from the
  • the other we shall be able to ascribe a certain degree of intensity,
  • material existence. We have indeed paved the way, in that we first
  • has been completely lost; nay, the deliberate tendency has been,
  • it still is to a great extent today. There have indeed been
  • individuals who have attempted from time to time to draw attention to
  • have lost the faculty of focusing attention purely and simply on the
  • bottom of it all? This tendency to add to the phenomena in thought
  • Often I have made the
  • have existence by being of the rose-bush. The cut rose therefore,
  • phenomenon, we must examine to what extent it is a reality in itself,
  • essential thing; observe to what extent a thing is whole, or but a
  • planetary system. The tendency has been, first to regard as wholes
  • sound. For this field of phenomena it is quite patent: vibrations are
  • ether, a tenuous elastic substance. And since the laws of impact and
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• Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • — that is, darkened to some extent. As a result, you will see
  • with this, I also drew your attention to what appears, as is
  • no other relation to the objectively existent ether than all the
  • within us. We human beings, after all, are to a very small extent
  • tension, a relaxation, for the whole of our organic system beneath
  • was especially Julius Robert Mayer who drew attention to this fact,
• Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • confirm what I so often speak of more generally in Spiritual
  • their attention was the velocity with which sound is propagated. To
  • of the earliest things to which men became attentive in this
  • domain. They also became attentive to the so-called phenomena of
  • elements. It has first a certain intensity; secondly a certain
  • this branch of Science. I have already drawn your attention to the
  • strong tendency, above all things, not to enter spiritually into
  • Physics nowadays, is fundamentally a product of the said tendency,
  • oscillation of condensation and attenuation gives, as regards the
  • they may well contend. There are the waves of condensation and
  • attenuation. Then, when my ear is in the act of
  • condensations and attenuations; that unknown something within me
  • type, still connected to some extent with the outer world, could be
  • to some extent analyzing the human eye. Today we will do the same
  • itself. It can only come to existence by virtue of its connection
  • animals the pecten, which man only has etherically, or the
  • of the pecten, these I may rightly compare to what expands in the
  • as you would do if you were listening intently and every time, to
  • is the eye's activity, — it is as though you were listening
  • already in existence, only it is outside of space. It is not yet in
• Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • intention of continuing when I am here again, so that in time these
  • draw your attention to the development of electrical discoveries,
  • other. They confront each other with a certain tension, which they
  • another, are in a certain tension, striving to resolve it. No doubt
  • you have often witnessed the experiment.
  • we turn attention to the discovery made by Galvani. We have what
  • electricity”. It is a force of tension which is really always
  • is a state of tension between muscle and nerve, which, when it
  • which they riveted attention. They were encouraged to do this by
  • and manifold as they appear. These tendencies were crowned to some
  • extent when near the end of the century Heinrich Hertz, a physicist
  • might already have been gathered from the existence of induction
  • necessary tension, you can produce the following result. Suppose we
  • extent. For sound and light, they were imagining wave-trains,
  • life since we are looking rather intently in their direction. Look
  • Hertz's discoveries were still the twilight of the old, tending as
  • afterwards ensued, and was to some extent already on the way in his
  • glass tube from which the air has to a certain extent been pumped
  • through air of very high dilution. High tension is engendered in
  • when it goes through the highly attenuated air. It becomes even
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• Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • TENTH AND LAST LECTURE
  • content in the matter through which it passes.
  • gaseous but even more attenuated, — revealing also that
  • the property of making the glass intensely fluorescent. Please
  • flowing electricity has become manifest to some extent, as a form
  • anthroposophical lectures I have often given instances of how the
  • in a merely symbolizing way, — in no way consistent with the
  • — optical, acoustic and even thermal to some extent (the
  • be cited. Reality today — especially in Physics — often
  • You swim in the elements of wave and undulation, the real existence
  • Nature. It can indeed become so if we follow up all that is latent
  • intentions we set before us. All I could give were a few hints and
  • untenable ideas — ideas derived from the belief that the
  • conceptions of modern Physics, terrible as these conceptions often
  • are. In public lectures I have often quoted Hermann Grimm.