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• Title: Foreword: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • individualities have also chosen the very hardest task, namely
  • reality is experienced more intimately than by the physical
  • forms of reality — those of organic life for example
  • of reality first need to be awakened.
  • higher forms of reality”, the time will surely come when
  • impossibility and untruth of this world-picture. Then will the
• Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • reflecting, perhaps a little theoretically, upon the premisses of
  • colour, what we subjectively describe as the quality of colour is the
  • scientific literature to this day.
  • — perhaps a little ball, a grain of shot — which in one
  • some little grain of material substance. I exert a force to draw it
  • movement as such; now I am saying that a force draws the little ball
  • of five grammes I am pulling the little ball from a to
  • involves realities of the outer world. What, in effect, must be
  • kinematics, to which they also add a little dose of mechanics, they
  • question only bears in it the possibility, the potentiality as it
  • assume that there are centres, charged as it were with possibilities
  • measuring these possibilities of action; we can express in stated
  • measures, how strongly such a point or centre has the potentiality of
  • abstraction. There is reality for him only where centric forces and
  • the more so as the time has come at last when the impossibility of
• Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • yesterday, present-day Physics (though now a little less sure in this
  • presence known, to begin with, simply by this: by its ability to
  • is still bearable. Only in that case you lose, a little of the force
  • little farther and you will no longer be so remote from understanding
  • time and can build no bridge from thence to the outer reality of
  • indeed high time, if I may say so, for Physics to get a little grit
  • relations too, and about one of these — leaping a little ahead
  • opposite and polar qualities, no less than magnetism does, to take
  • — there is no less of a polar quality in the realm of colour.
  • world of colour meets us with a polar quality? Because in fact the
  • Through a narrow slit
  • IIb). We let the light pour in through the slit. Opposite the
  • out a little above and below, and edged with blue above and yellowish
  • respect, however little, every material medium is dim. So is this
  • quality of dimness that is in the prism. How then does it ray in?
  • the possibility of understanding why yellowish colours on the one
• Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • terms of qualities as you are here, you may well be saying to
  • and split up. For in some such way the phenomena were interpreted. If
  • himself: It is not that the light is split up or that anything is
  • split up into them. It is because this picture which I am projecting
  • possibility. We let the cylinder of light go through the space and
  • another possibility. We could set up a double prism, not as in the
  • slit. And if I say, “the light moves in this direction”,
  • the source of light upward, the light that falls on the slit would
  • given realities. They put a merely fancied activity in place of what
  • they will not do is to go into the qualities. Thus in the first place
  • vitality, — there is life. Truth is, the farther back we go
  • vitality. This difference, between what is contained in this more
  • the right-hand eye is a little to the right of the point of entry the
  • enveloped with a little halo. The rim of a circle for example will be
  • rather unalive, the vitreous body is full of vitality. Now in the
• Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • through a space that is lit up. Thus you are seeing something darker
  • corpuscles — tiny little bodies. Striking the surface of the
  • physicists said to themselves: The theory of little corpuscular
  • reflected a little differently. Part of the cone of light, as
  • bombards the first mirror, hurling its little cannon-balls in this
  • little bodies are going on their way after reflection, the others are
  • grasp what happens in reality in this experiment. Suppose that this
  • a lighting-up but in reality darkness is reflected across here. So we
  • more a little cylinder of light from above impinges on a light place,
  • materialistic way. Bombarding little balls of matter would no longer
• Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • light or little bands of light at different places, according to the
  • quality of light which would be appearing at this place (i.e. in the
  • trough in which there is a little iodine dissolved in carbon
  • “phosphor” or “phosphorus” in the literature
  • only one that has reality. What is really there in the world outside
  • splitting up the given totality, the v, into two abstract
  • totality, the quickly moving body; instead, we think in terms of two
  • as v, are no realities at all, they are abstractions which
  • with outer reality, my dear Friends, till we are thoroughly clear on
  • duality of space and time. The real thing we have outside us is the
  • reality in its own right — a reality of which the essence is,
  • perceiving the reality outside us the — velocity — we
  • we are united by space and time with the objective reality, while we
  • without going into these realities. We with our etheric body swim in
  • astrality you are united with them. If you would reach any genuine
• Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • reality we are dealing with is the light. Yet, what we have before us
  • in reality is never simply light as such; it is always something
  • progress to a qualitative way of thinking, which very largely
  • that is filled with light and we shall call it “qualitatively
  • darkness and we shall judge it “qualitatively negative”
  • quality of coming towards us and imparting something to us; the dark
  • colours on the other hand have a quality of drawing on us, sucking at
  • reflect a little on the facts and we shall recognize an immense
  • I should have no reality in mind if I were to say: There is a head,
  • ponder the reality of what I see. The mere fact that I see a thing
  • respect a totality. (Everything will be so in some respect). The
  • on, this rose is no totality. It cannot, like the cube of rock-salt,
  • real abstraction; you may not call it a reality by itself.
  • phenomenon, we must examine to what extent it is a reality in itself,
  • have in mind are not totalities; they are but parts and members of
  • the crystal cube of rock-salt is a totality only in some respect; it
  • is placed in the totality of Nature in quite another way. The only
  • could compute what these vibrating little cobolds must be up to in
  • the ether. They only had to regard them as little elastic bodies,
  • light is in reality, — it is vibrations in the elastic ether.
• Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • yourselves. Take a little tube and look through it, so that you
  • reality.
  • Such, in reality is hearing. The real process of hearing —
  • farther in you go, the more is it permeated with vitality. We
  • since they get so little help from the psychologists. The latter,
  • thermometer inside, you would find it a little over
  • please! — where in reality all that they had before them was
• Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • pitch; thirdly a certain quality or colouring of sound. The problem
  • with air, the mobility of the tiny spheres of dust enables us to
  • life of thought but which consists of outer realities. In effect, I
  • said, outward realities can never be merely spatial, or
  • realities, — they always are. And of course this remains so
  • n can be experienced as an external reality, for the
  • have no realities; I only have what is abstracted, separated out
  • hand I want to look at the reality of the sound — at what is
  • will lead me to a qualitative study of the sound, whereas the way
  • of the qualitative reality which finds expression simply and solely
  • bodies into the quality that is the ‘sound’ or
  • obtains of a horse corresponds to an outward reality, understands
  • qualitative. All I am out to investigate are the external, spatial
  • my researches. These I abstract from the totality; what is
  • qualitative is no concern of mine. A man who speaks like this is at
  • considerable vitality. Then there is the fluid between the lens and
  • take it to be a finished reality, for it need not be so at all. The
  • rose I cut off from the shrub is no reality. It cannot be by
  • itself, it is in truth an abstraction. I must go on to the totality
  • hearing: the ear alone is no reality, though it is nearly always
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• Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • the qualitative descriptions which these phenomena suggest, one
  • little. If we charged this sufficiently, the positive electricity
  • had discovered what Volta, a little later, was able to describe
  • Physics a somewhat wider and more qualitative aspect, — this
  • a little vessel made of lead; we can examine the radiation with a
  • please pay heed a little to what the anthroposophists alone, we
  • electricity as a specific quality in the way we perceive light, for
  • other hand, the moment we go on to the essential qualities of
  • magnetism? We are then studying matter, in all reality. It
• Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • when Science thought that it had golden proofs of the universality
  • hidden as it were in wires, and one had little more to go on than
  • space. I need only assume that the two lines meet, in reality,
  • — with the volitional part of our soul.
  • little, my dear Friends, as the idea-forming faculty which you
  • has no other value for reality than what finds expression in the
  • our Science gives us reality. What people fondly believe to be the
  • thinking must in themselves become more saturated with reality. It
  • of the old wave-theory, you will find many of them feeling a little
  • calculus of probabilities. Along these lines it is permissible to
  • very act of losing it get more into reality. Conceivably for
  • be cited. Reality today — especially in Physics — often
  • penetrate into reality; you must begin again from another
  • sound you are dividing yourself as it were into a human duality.
  • akin to the quality of light, and the Ahrimanic, akin to
  • guiding line with which I wished provisionally to sum up the little
  • Yet, little as it is, I think what has been given may be of help to
  • is most essential to give the realities a chance to unfold. We must
  • reality. If you yourselves are imbued with the kind of scientific
  • made the bond between Militarism and the scientific laboratory work
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