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Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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knowledge of Man and of the Cosmos in its spiritual essence; also of
outcome of research into the spiritual world.”
deeply into the marvellous creation of the Divine-Spiritual Powers
into the spiritual world. The physical body in its ordinary state is
an awakening of our spiritual senses. In the night, of course, we are
the present time is sleep as regards the spiritual world.
Spiritual Powers, then the impulses we receive are reflections from
the very heart's blood of Divine Spiritual life to stream through our
for the knowledge contained in Spiritual Science and be able so to
a corpse and its spiritual part prepare for the Jupiter embodiment.
for otherwise the spiritual could not become free. We shall also learn
to value what is positive, namely the penetration of spiritual forces
life too by the direct working of the Good from the spiritual world.
the Pauline saying holds good, that the spirit is willing but the
spiritual worlds.
spiritual part of the Earth to become free, leaving the grosser part
understanding of the life of the spirit through what we to-day call
Divine-spiritual Worlds are the bodily members of the Beings of the
spiritual world. Realisation of this should make him conscious of his
images of the spiritual world we nevertheless fall far short of what
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Title: Lecture: The Four Sacrifices of Christ
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upon us of the science of the spirit. Much, however, that today bears the
spiritual world, and we have in a sense, three Mysteries of Golgotha that
to his own devices. The spirit who said, as related in the Bible, “Your
spiritual heights became manifest — one might say, as a sort of prophecy
themselves to be aligned with spiritual science, it will be known that
understanding of the spiritual world, a feeling of gratitude toward the
spiritual beings upon whom humanity depends. He will say in true piety,
generated in the spiritual world made possible the harmonization of
Spirit be reflected upon earth from supramundane spheres as I have just
wonderful mythology made copies of what happened in the spiritual world
at the end of the Atlantean age, revered the Sun Spirit as the harmonizer
of man's thinking, feeling and willing. “Thou Sun Spirit,” so
in an etheric spirit form,” for such is the form of those we call
So the Sun Spirit became the guardian of the wild, stormy passions when
became a sibyl. For the Greeks, Apollo, the Sun Spirit, represented the
Mystery wisdom, “The great Sun Spirit, Who in the future will live as a
statements of spiritual science are fictitious, truly it is not so. You may
adduced by spiritual research are that Christ chose three times an
Yes, the science of the spirit will impress upon us ever more deeply that
“Not I, but Christ in me.” Every step into the spiritual world
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Title: Lecture: The Threshold In Nature and In Man
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occasions that the Spiritual Science cultivated at the Goetheanum has
necessary consequences of the whole trend and spirit of modern
a vision of reality, a “standing within” spirit-filled reality.
new way about what one may call the “Threshold of the Spiritual
World.” Spiritual Science is no “warming up” of Gnostic
aspect; but if we were to consider it, as we try to do in spiritual
lost our awareness of the spiritual in the objects perceived by the
by virtue of the powers of his soul, enters into the spiritual world
But he must be able also to stay in the spiritual world with full
a kind of spiritual faintness, they would not allow him to attempt
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science would go further on the same path. This
spirit does he now behold the spiritual. By the practice of certain intimate
It is at this point that Anthroposophical Spiritual Science steps in
with its methods for attaining higher knowledge. This spiritual
does it support itself, like spiritualism, on external experiment. The
foundation for the whole method of spiritual scientific research lies
Spiritual Science then leads on further, to “inspired”
creative power which comes down from spiritual worlds at the time of
of the eternal and spiritual in his soul.
but as spirit, he finds that he is also now within the inner being of
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Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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Privately printed for the members of the College of Spiritual
two mighty pillars of the spirit have the two annual
spiritual pillars upon which are inscribed the two great
manifestation of the spiritual. But we can never view with our
pillars of the spirit — the thought of Christmas and the
heart. And we can truly say that our age of new spiritual
old conception, a call to a new revelation of the spirit. It
physical plane, and in which the spiritual is so dominant that
spiritual world. No vision of the natural world can ever
which the intervention of the spirit is manifested directly in
spiritual life of Switzerland of the fifteenth century, with
physical manifestation as spiritual events, such as could never
the contrary, spiritual divine Powers intervene, as is evident
the world as a child he withdraws from the world of spirit. For
his deepest being withdraws from the spiritual world. Man is
born out of the spirit into a body. When the Rosicrucian said:
journeys out of the spirit into the physical world. Through
looked down from the land of the spirit before his
But, in his centre-most being, man comes out of the spiritual
of the spirit. What we experience in connection with the
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Title: Purpose of the Goetheanum and Anthroposophy
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talk of all kinds of spiritistic seances, of nebulous mystic
spiritual world, which can fully take its place beside the
purposes to be a serious knowledge of the spiritual world.
to be knowledge of the spiritual world is regarded somewhat
on the other hand, knowledge of the spiritual is declined, by
despondency, that with regard to the spiritual there are
barriers to man's knowledge, that with regard to the spirit man
concepts about the spiritual world similar to those they have
spiritual world, not for concepts of belief. Such
super-sensible-spiritual.
him as his soul-spirit-being related to the transformations and
now the great question concerning a knowledge of spirit may be
saying with regard to the spiritual world,
deliberation, that it points to a spiritual activity of
penetrate into the super-sensible, spiritual worlds. Above all,
Is it possible for anyone, by soul-spiritual work, to
— is filled with a soul-spiritual content, just as in
Truly, real Anthroposophy, as spirit-knowledge, is based upon
spiritual world; and the first experience that results is this:
is only because one feels himself to be a spirit-soul being in
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Title: Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse,
The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse,
to full spiritual knowledge and experience were always
awakened within him. It is especially the task of Spiritual
developing the consciousness or spiritual soul [Since
Consciousness Soul to Spiritual Soul. – Ed]
The spirit-self will only come into prominence in the sixth age of
to think with greater readiness of what is spiritual and to
spiritual science. Wisdom is the fuel for interest and we may
The Spiritual Guidance of Mankind.
spiritual powers. And that which drew mankind closer to the
divine spiritual powers, was instinctive wisdom.
which originally was instinctive, which was only spiritual,
independent of the divine spiritual powers. Hence we see that
counteracted by a spiritual conception of the world, so that
Consciousness or Spiritual-Soul. When we consider the fourth
chief virtue of the Spiritual-Soul. Again they comprehended
Spiritual-Soul. The Spiritual-Soul consists in man's becoming
body is primarily the instrument of the Spiritual-Soul, and
has developed for the building up of the Spiritual-soul can
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Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture III: The Supersensible Being of Man
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spiritual requirements of the 20th century.
point the recognition that his being is spiritual. For it is
the spiritual evolution of humanity who, through tremendous
What I have just said leads the scientist of spirit on a
scientist of spirit has to proceed with the various functions
of the soul, but his spiritually-scientific analysis consists
by the scientist of spirit to the inner experience of his
spirit, arrives at is that on the one hand he feels his
those times when he is practicing spiritual investigation
scientist of spirit is aware at this important point in his
experience of the scientist of spirit has been characterized in
development which the scientist of spirit goes through involves
of spirit works, as I have been describing it here, can come
were always people who penetrated into the spiritual worlds,
spirit in the past also reached the point referred to here,
death, when death really divides the spirit-soul nature from
an objective, spirit-soul viewpoint.
consciousness. The scientist of spirit has therefore to
the scientist of spirit has to do exercises which enable him to
the spiritual worlds. And here again there are exercises to
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Title: Lecture: Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny
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task of our spiritual-scientific movement, we are not content with
Who descended from spiritual worlds in order, through His birth in a
underlying necessity. When anthroposophical spiritual science is
Before the inner eye of the Gnostic lay a glorious vista of spiritual
spiritual Hierarchies to enter into the sheaths of a mortal man — all
how the Christ had come from heights of spirit, how He had been
stars; the spiritual eyes of those who were guiding souls from cosmic
special brightness into the spiritual heights.
among those who might believe themselves united with the spiritual
between the secret of man and the secrets of the heavens. A spiritual
concerned saw this in the spirit. Later, when the Mystery-impulse in
spiritual world was sought in an irregular way — at the wrong time.
through spiritual science — turns into the very betrayer of what lies
birth. What happened then in the spiritual world was known best on the
spiritual realities once reflected in the Nertus-symbol of the ancient
Northern Mysteries. The symbol had moved eastward. Spiritual science
spiritual science reveals their deep, deep source, the Gospels will
spirit-being. And just as the greatest human genius could not stand at
descended from spiritual heights ... hence the revelation of the
European spiritual life. And then the indelible record will remain:
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Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ Within Us
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conscious devotion to the Spiritual Powers working in the world we
any other matter presented by spiritual science, it may truly be said
spirit — for through these realms He descended. It was inevitable
The spiritual worlds are ranged one above the other in the heavenly
the Saturn evolution is to be found in the very highest spiritual
disappear and an intervening period — an Aeon devoid of spirit — to
arise. But this new vision must again be directed to the spiritual
spiritual worlds lies before you, will you ever say: This is a man?
Thus spiritual science turns our eyes with awe and reverence to the
spiritual science have come to life, to look up to the Christ as a
a world of loving Creator-Spirits. Who, after hiding us in their heart
Those whose hearts are kindled by spiritual science feel and know that
And so spiritual science enables us to understand the Christ Impulse
Those who have allied themselves with spiritual science can receive
See: The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Mankind; also the

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IX: The Etherization of the Blood
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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
divine-spiritual powers of the world, which can appear as man.
is to say, one can become clairvoyant and see into the spiritual
his spiritual senses. In the night, of course, we are asleep in the
present time is sleep in relation to the spiritual world.
thinking during the night with the influence of divine-spiritual
blood of divine-spiritual life to stream through our intellectual
should learn to understand that the knowledge contained in spiritual
and its spiritual part prepare for the Jupiter embodiment. Forces
earth to be destroyed; otherwise, the spirit will not become free. We
of spiritual forces into our existence on earth.
the spiritual world. Whereas now the will sleeps by day, and man is
saying holds good, that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
spiritual worlds.
eventually enable the spiritual part of the earth to become free,
to succeed must acquire understanding of the spiritual life through
the divine-spiritual beings, the higher worlds are the bodily members
in high, divine-spiritual worlds.
the spiritual world. Realization of this should make him conscious of
are pictures of the spiritual world we nevertheless fall far short of
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture One
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considered in the light of spiritual-scientific Investigation.
the deeper strata of spiritual life, we must distinguish between one
Imaginative Cognition is possessed by one before whose eye of spirit
by spirit just as in the physical world it was filled by the living
nature of a spiritual being imperceptible in the world of the
becomes for the clairvoyant the expression of spiritual beings. Now
expression of beings of soul-and-spirit, so that you can say to
the expressions of beings of soul-and-spirit behind them — and
soul-and-spirit at the stage of Inspiration than can be learnt
in its spiritual-scientific sense, not in that of day-to-day
spiritually to what the beings communicate to us, but we become one
spiritual knowledge for it requires, at the outset, that there shall
spiritual environment, but to pour forth his very self into the
beings with whom he has spiritual communion. Because this can take
place only in a spiritual world, the expression
Imagination only is reached. Then the spheres of the spiritual world
person to be led to the higher stages of spiritual experience before
Mystery-centres there were men whose eyes of spirit were open in such
spiritual perception were open to Inspiration and Intuition. For
the spiritual world that a man knows with full assurance: Thither
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Two
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Beings of the spiritual world are revealed in sublime pictures.
the manifestation of spiritual Beings from on high, and the
faculties from the Akashic Chronicle. With opened eyes of spirit we
the spiritual impulse poured into Earth evolution at that time?
Currents of spiritual
us of the manifestation to the shepherds of spiritual Beings from on
high: first, the picture is of a spiritual Being, an Angel, who is
one of the great spiritual streams that flowed through the process of
only from spiritual heights. From the angelic host revealed to the
one of the greatest streams of spiritual life in the evolution of
even to-day is spiritual nourishment for a very large section of
spiritual-scientific research) the significance of Buddha and what
Spiritual Hierarchies and their Reflection in the physical World,
evolution of humanity considered from the viewpoint of spiritual
highly developed by virtue of their spiritual faculties and could
hold converse in the Mysteries with divine-spiritual Beings even
intercourse in the Mysteries with divine-spiritual Beings in higher
have inter-course with divine-spiritual Beings in order to bring down
whose faculties enable him to commune with divine-spiritual
divine-spiritual Beings. In remote, primeval ages of Earth evolution,
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Three
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whole worlds, vast spiritual worlds, are revealed by this Gospel. After
heard, spiritual research shows how the Buddhistic world-conception, with
ascent to the pure, ethereal heights of the Spirit; a very great deal
spiritual substance is contained in the Gospel of St. Luke in a form
only are the spiritual attainments of Buddhism presented to us
love and compassion streamed into the whole spiritual evolution of
Buddha's teachings themselves and discerning with spiritual eyes the
and, acting as an intermediary, conveyed to man from the spiritual
divine-spiritual worlds in order that he might bring down from there
higher stages of consciousness, how his spiritual vision became ever
when an all-pervading light appeared to me from the spiritual world,
realize that spiritual beings were expressing themselves in these
kingdoms of the spiritual world these beings belonged: my
of the various kingdoms of the spiritual world these several beings
had acquired their place in the spiritual realms, nor what was their
spiritual beings had acquired their place in the spiritual realms,
with which particular spiritual beings I myself had lived in former
himself was an Initiate — could gaze into the spiritual world; for
they led him from divine-spiritual heights more deeply into material
spiritual world, he perceived the influences of Lucifer and Ahriman
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Four
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with a definite entity consisting of the Nirmanakaya (or spiritual
both physically and spiritually; the forces of soul develop by
astral sheath, so that a Being who were to descend from spiritual
ancient Lemuria. Spiritual science is able to reveal facts concerning
material world. Spiritual science tells us that humanity passed
outer form and passed through a spiritual world in order then to
spiritual world, wanted to descend again to the Earth; but the human
the others were obliged to withdraw again into the spiritual world.
the Sun Spirit from the profoundest depths of the spiritual world to
the great Spirit who later appeared as Christ; it was he who proclaimed:
Mazdao. Only his profound spiritual knowledge and highly developed
significance for humanity he proclaimed. A spirit of great maturity
spiritual substance might be led down to humanity; he knew that a
directly from the spiritual world and in the words of the Gospel was a
descendant, in order that the spirit too might he led down to the
it was difficult to understand for it came from great spiritual
The Spiritual Ground of Education
Education and Modern Spiritual Life
meaning a place where the intentions of spiritual Beings are

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Five
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Every great spiritual
illustration of one most significant fusion of the spiritual streams
be presented by an Individuality, and when these spiritual streams
perceived by those whose spiritual eyes are opened. Christianity is a
spirit of the external, physical sun. Hence Zarathustra was able to
the mighty Being who sends down His spiritual blessings as the
the great Cosmos spiritually. Buddha directed man's attention to his own
present in the human body. In the same way, all the spiritual forces
organized, to begin with, out of divine-spiritual forces. Hence for every
again Zarathustra was directing attention to spiritual realities in
the bosom of a divine-spiritual world and can therefore say to
alone. You live in a Cosmos permeated by Spirit, among cosmic Gods
and spiritual Beings; you are born of the Spirit and rest in the
Spirit; with every indrawn breath you inhale divine Spirit; with
every exhalation you may make an offering to the great Spirit!’
from the deep foundations of the divine-spiritual world. Symbols for
and its spiritual consequences: the absorption of all the forces he now
spirit, is transmitted by the maternal element. With his profound
incarnation of an Individuality was announced from the spiritual
evolution in the spiritual realm, from thence the streams are sent
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Six
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himself, however deeply the spirit may have penetrated into him. The
What the Bodhisattva was as a spiritual Being did not fully
sheath; his connection with the spiritual world was never wholly
relinquished; he lived in a spiritual and in a physical body
the spiritual world; he could send only part of himself into the
spiritual world was known to all religions and cognate modes of
‘being filled with the Holy Spirit’. This is a quite definite,
he was ‘filled with the Holy Spirit’ — meaning that the
within his human organism and that something spiritual must work from
previous incarnations, was ‘filled with the Holy Spirit’.
one stream has fertilized the other. Spiritual streams must run their
provision must be made accordingly by the spiritual guidance of the
brought to his spiritual stream in the form of deep inwardness, the
with the aim of understanding it through spiritual insight.
his teachings about the great spiritual laws and beings of the Cosmos
concerning the Spirit of the Sun amounted to no more than
to-day — knowledge relating to the Cosmos and the spiritual causes
Persian people about the external spiritual causes of the material
with the eyes of spirit.
and the other in the spiritual world. Elijah was an Individuality of
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Seven
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spiritual occurrence which in some respects resembles physical birth:
eyes of spirit, the development of the human being shows itself to be
becomes free, and later the spiritual soul (or consciousness-soul).
guided by spiritual science clearly reveals these stages of development.
acquired by man, the spiritual soul, they called ‘dianoetikon’.
spiritual nature of Ahura Mazdao; there developed a sentient soul
which men had hitherto been able to acquire only through spiritual
mother of the Nathan Jesus died and the spiritual part of her being
was translated into the spiritual world, she took with her what was
mother of the Nathan Jesus with her into the spiritual world.
translated into the spiritual world, and the Zarathustra-Ego; for
direction to the spiritual stream of Christianity. He is the Inspirer
stands behind the great spiritual figures of Christianity, ever
alone. The Christ is the Leader of those spiritual Beings who left
the Sun are but the physical vestment of the spiritual Beings behind
spiritual rays of power which stream from the Sun to the Earth. The
Light-Spirit; but when we look up to the Sun we behold the spiritual
light that streams to us is the body of the Sun-Spirit, Ahura Mazdao,
even as the human physical body is the body of the human spirit. But
us consider, in its spiritual aspect, the process in evidence at
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Eight
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The Mission of Spiritual Science: Mastery of the Physical by the
Spiritual. Illness and Healing. The Influences proceeding from the
able to gaze into the depths of existence, into the spiritual world.
for a future is approaching when the spiritual will reacquire its
this spiritual way of working is beginning again on the soil where
the spiritual-scientific conception of the world takes root, for this
spiritual truths into their souls. These spiritual truths will
the soul-and-spirit will again acquire great power over the physical
a far more spiritual process than it can be to-day — I say expressly,
spiritual heights as a world-conception, as a number of truths
corresponding to the great spiritual realities of the Universe this
being of man himself. Spiritual science is the great remedy for souls
spiritual influences have steadily lost strength, that the lowest
stream of culture in which the spiritual had maintained mastery over
soul-and-spirit — in other words, the mastery of soul-and-spirit
ascend once more to spiritual heights. Since the Graeco-Latin epoch,
spiritual world. He had to acquire inner strength.
mastery and dominates the soul-and-spirit which has become powerless
strength through having absorbed more and more spiritual nourishment,
living wisdom, living truth. The spiritual will then be so
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Nine
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pictured from the higher vantage-point of spiritual science — in
spiritual over the bodily nature were transformed to such an extent
soul-and-spirit over the physical continued to exist. Hence before
listening to people who approach spiritual science from one sphere or
some religious body comes to a lecture on spiritual science ...
everybody go to your Church? Thus facts prove the contrary. Spiritual
Science is not there for people whose spiritual needs you are able to
of European civilization. Either mankind will receive spiritual
they would lose the Bible altogether and with it untold spiritual
treasures — actually the greatest and most significant spiritual
heart is demanding the spiritual-scientific elucidation of the Bible.
the old mastery of the soul and spirit over the body would have
comprehension — faculties that have been unaffected by spiritual
knowledge of the foundations of the Gospels made through spiritual
spiritual science — there and there alone. Spiritual science is
want to exclude everything that leads to the spiritual, everything in
spiritual foundations of the phenomena of Nature. And those who,
spiritual explanations. It is they who hinder progress; for
investigating biblical records. Spiritual science will have to
understood in a really living way. Spiritual science itself must
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Ten
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St. Luke to the culminating point indicated by spiritual
lectures indicated how the convergence of streams of spiritual life
leaf must develop according to definite laws, so too the spiritual
faculties that can be kindled by spiritual science will realize from
been detrimental to evolution if the present content of spiritual
become sufficiently mature to assimilate the spiritual content of the
great in heaven” — i.e. in the spiritual worlds.
for Individualities to appear later on and care for the spiritual
aspirant and the laws and happenings of the spiritual world are
spiritual world did not flow into the self-conscious Ego, for men
received this spiritual stream through the physical, etheric and
when, as in previous epochs, divine-spiritual forces flowed into men.
7:21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. \
spiritual science. I must now refer to a matter of which I can touch
only the very fringe but which will show you what depths spiritual
the conscious faculties of researchers are permeated by the spiritual
study of the Bible is illumined by spiritual science, it will be
penetrated into the spiritual world, or how — to use biblical
led into the spiritual world were carefully prepared and their souls
trained in knowledge of the spiritual life; then they were withdrawn
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Title: Et Incarnatus Est
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“et incarnatus est de spiritu sancto ex Maria
virgine” (“and is born of the Holy Spirit from the
spiritual world, just as incredible as the Christmas mystery,
with those who desire to take this mystery in a spiritual
by the Holy Spirit through the Virgin begins to exert its
astrologers, they had knowledge of those spiritual processes
Christian words, “incarnatus de spiritu sancto ex Maria
spiritually understood — and that the blazing candles on
austere spirit — a spirit less sharply monotheistic, if I
extraordinary spirit was equipped with the qualities of the
nineteenth century, by denying their own spirit, have given to
the international spirit, Heinrich Heine, and what he has to
philosopher, “that the spiritual faculties of Jesus could
of an infallible and all-knowing spirit can be heard, since I
heaven who are poor in spirit. I am such a one, but it makes me
a breath of Mother Earth, from which the seed of their spirit
show that this spirit now enters directly into earthly
the Easter thirty-three years ahead, and the spirits of these
revelations from spiritual worlds were certainly there when
revelations can still come to us from the spiritual world. Thus
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture I
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thought that Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy desires to
lectures it will be our task, with the aid of Spiritual
out the relation of Spiritual Science to religious records in
general. Spiritual Science enables us to understand the
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science takes Christianity as it
spiritual life of humanity. It has been made impossible for
the mental and spiritual life of the present day to
only be gained through Anthroposophical Spiritual Science. If
compare Spiritual Science with philology. We can also study
Spiritual Science leads us into the spirit of these
Spiritual
being. Anthroposophy or Spiritual Science is to present
Spiritual Science to arrive at:
documents from a certain spiritual standpoint do this in a
St. John's Gospel according to the spirit and not only
aletheia — is Spirit Self, devotion — charis
— is Life Spirit, and wisdom — sophia —
is Spirit Man.)

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture II
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Spiritual Science man, as he stands before us, is divided
inner being. In Spiritual Science this is called the astral
astral body, for from the standpoint of Spiritual Science
common ego in the centre of the earth, in the lower spiritual
forming a centre in the spirit world, for the ego of the
minerals is to be found in the higher spiritual world
the world of the Holy Spirit, and the world which contains
the egos of the plants — the lower spiritual world
spiritual world — is called the world of the Father
Spirit.
forms the fifth principle of human nature: the Spirit
called Life Spirit. The etheric body is transformed under the
ego is called Spirit Man or Atma. The force for the
of the Holy Spirit; the force for the transformation of the
flows to us from the world of the Father Spirit or the Divine

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture III
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to the senses is, in the view of Spiritual Science, only the
body of the spirit dwelling in it. This spiritual Being goes
through repeated incarnations just as man does. Spiritual
Spiritual Science these seven incarnations of the Earth are
spiritual state a Pralaya. The period between two planetary
is a time of spiritual activity and preparation for the next
Spiritual
particles. But to Spiritual Science warmth is also a
substance, one much finer than air. According to Spiritual
body exist, but there was also the Spirit, the inmost being
of man, the Spirit Man. This Spirit Man rested in the bosom
of the Deity, which formed the spiritual atmosphere of
Saturn. The Spirit Man was not an independent being, any more
and on the spiritual side the Deity descends, as it were, a
step further and forms the Life Spirit.
other hand (from the spiritual side) the Spirit Self. Man at
ego-bearer. On the other hand, the Spirit had so far
Spirit Man
Spirit Man
Spirit Man
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture IV
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Spiritual Science is very important. In Christian occult
Spirits worked upon it. As a rule the physical body is looked
bearer of the ego, inclined towards the Spirit Self, Life
Spirit and Spirit Man. But a final union could not have come
the expression of spirit. We breathe in and out not air
alone, we breathe in the Spirit it contains. Air is the body
also spirit.
Moon there were the same spiritual Beings as live upon the
become spirits of air. In cosmic evolution Beings remain
fire-spirits to air-spirits; but a great host of beings had
spiritual forces from outside, from Sun and Moon. Man takes
highly developed Sun-Spirits there are the spiritual Beings,
the Moon, but not as fast as the Sun-Spirits and Jehovah.
They were the Fire-Spirits who had not completed their task.
Air-spirits, who live in his breathing (the highest Spirits
who permeate him with Spirit), and the fire-spirits who live
The Fire-spirits directed their attacks against this, with
the God of blood-love. The action of the Fire-spirits was
These Spirits are also called Luciferic Spirits. The further
Love; then there appeared the Fire-spirit, the Serpent, in
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture V
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two spiritual streams made themselves felt in this evolution:
them for the purely spiritual tie which was to come.
transformed into Spirit Self. But this takes place step by
the intellectual soul, and finally the spiritual soul; then
the Spirit Self pours into the purified and mature spiritual
that he might be able to see in the spiritual world, was
astral body into Spirit Self. This Spirit Self then impresses
thereby changed into Life Spirit. When this has come about
completely, the Life Spirit then imprints itself in the
physical body and makes it into Spirit Man. Now it was only
possible to imprint the Life Spirit directly into the life
had taken place in the spiritual world.
the spiritual world with the spiritual or divine Beings; He
33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, \
body to the Spirit Self so simply. The Ego transforms the
intellectual soul and spiritual soul. The Ego goes on working
and only when it has developed the spiritual soul is it able
so to purify it that Spirit Self can arise in it.
The Spirit Man
will only be developed in the distant future, and Life Spirit
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VI
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writing the spirit one wants to have in it. In St. John's
present day; he has only developed as far as to the Spiritual
Soul. The Spirit Self is only just beginning to unfold. Let
spiritual world that they looked upon the physical as maya,
continually directing it to the spiritual. This is the origin
spiritual world by diminishing the consciousness. They
in the spiritual world. To the spiritual investigator the
and reach the only reality, the spiritual world.
him a place for work, in order to embody the Spirit in
the Spirit has descended most deeply into matter. This
the Spirit has descended fully into matter can its reascent
embodied in matter in these things, but the spiritual
spirit into matter. But the purpose of this descent is the
conquest of matter, this great opponent of the Spirit; for
after the deepest descent, an ascent to conscious, spiritual
Descent of the Spirit.
Spiritual soul
Spirit Self
Life Spirit
to rise to the Spirit. All the former ages of civilisation
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VII
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why does the Holy Spirit appear in the form of a dove? If we
enter into the ideas of Spiritual Science on the subject of
spiritual research. Let us take, for example, the peoples
into the mental and spiritual life of these peoples. As is
“great Spirit” in the rustling of the trees in
thunder the Great Spirit announces to him what is right and
preserved their belief in a monotheistic Spirit, which speaks
manifestations the voice of the great creative Spirit;
that originated from a spiritual clairvoyance. But the
time when the spiritual being of man had not yet taken
spiritual beings stop, who had no need to descend to the
the spiritual. These are the beings of the astral plane (the
world of the Holy Spirit) which kept the air as their
represent the Holy Spirit who descended into the spiritual
soul of Jesus and filled it as the Spirit Self, under the
fruit. In Spiritual Science this fertilising action of the
fertilised from the Spiritual. This is represented in the
of the significance of this Spirit for the cosmic evolution.
force of the Christ Spirit sank down to the Earth at the same
of the Earth, the Sun Spirit Christ became the Spirit of the
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VIII
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seeds are the three divine parts; Spirit Self, Life Spirit
and Spirit Man. That which is eternal in all, was laid in the
the spiritual world.
spiritual world, he had to enter into the state of sleep.
teaching that man can be born of the Spirit.
astral body and forms out of it the Spirit Self; it works on
the etheric body and forms out of it the Life Spirit; it
works on the physical body and forms out of it the Spirit
body, the Spirit Self is formed, and in it then arises the
Life Spirit. In this way man comes to the true life. In the
Spirit Self
Life Spirit
Spirit Man
man must take in order to unfold Spirit Self, Life Spirit,
and Spirit Man.
we view it with the knowledge of Spiritual Science. Christ
life in the Sixth Age. In that Age the Spirit Self, which
will have developed out of the Spiritual Soul, will unite
with the Life Spirit. The Christ-power shone forth
Spirit Self unites with the Life Spirit. Humanity will then
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 1
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when those persons whose spiritual life was at all concerned
spiritually the Greeks conquered the Romans. During this
spiritually, it poured into Rome through hundreds and
nineteenth century if he concerned himself with spiritual
one thing, that the intellectual and spiritual life of that
mental and spiritual life of Europe. It was not only that to
and spiritual life of the whole earth. As to what took place
philosophy, or any aspect of spiritual life with something
unity, the spiritual God who lives in all things but can no
who participate in any way in spiritual life have them within
our spiritual movement desires today is the answering of
spiritual movement is convinced that these questions cannot
science. Spiritual science, research into the spiritual
from the spiritual life of the West things that are once more
spiritual life itself, and that it need no more be taken as
through spiritual science.
endeavor with the light that modern spiritual science can
spirituality. When we look back to Empedocles we find that he
lived an adventurous as well as a deeply spiritual life.
by some, but spiritual science knows that Empedocles went
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 2
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spiritual science, examples that showed us souls of olden
with a certain artistic spiritual feeling so that we
spiritual dramatic power lies in the whole structure and
unitary spirit of the Bible. We shall see how from the first
control of this unitary spirit from the time of the
Zoroastrianism. You may still have before your spiritual eyes
the manifestation, the externalization of inner spiritual
processes and of inner spiritual forces. What external
an expression of the inward and spiritual, of the facts which
move in the spiritual realm. Let us place before our souls
correspond with inner processes, spiritual soul-processes.
observes these things from the point of view of spiritual
we have obtained from spiritual science allows us to observe
the great spiritual leaders of the earth in ancient times, to
know that these initiates attained their spiritual height
of cognition to spiritual vision, and thus to union with the
true spiritual impulses in the world. In this way they were
they themselves received in the spiritual world. When we meet
become a leader, and thus a spiritual guide of his
initiation. The spiritual vision of the Jewish prophets
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 3
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Baptist against the background of spiritual science does he
According to spiritual science, if we wish to
(Turning Points in Spiritual History,
All that spiritual science and
the priests of Baal because no spiritual greatness was
21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread? \
great spirit who roamed invisibly through the land of Ahab.
entitled, “The Prophet Elijah in the Light of Spiritual
wish to consider the whole spirit of Elijah's work, and the
whole spirit of Elijah as it is presented in the Bible, and
are confronted by the spirit of the whole ancient Hebrew
encompassed within the spirit of Elijah. We may refer to him
as the folk spirit of the ancient Hebrew folk. Spiritual
that through Elijah's relationship to the divine spiritual
same spirit that lived in Elijah-Naboth now reappears as John
saw their life in the spirit and the influence of the spirit
consider this connection does the spirit of Elijah, which
light. Then we see that Elijah was the spirit of the old
Jewish people. What kind of spirit was this? In a certain
respect it was already the spirit of the “I.”
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 4
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links it to its divine spiritual origin. Such were the
the soul shining into the spiritual that is experienced in
compassion; to become absorbed in striving for spiritual
be thought of as if it was the utterance of the spirits of
place all this before our spiritual eye so that we may learn
been called the art of a spiritual midwife because he wished
had thus received from the spiritual world to stream down to
to the child who comes into the world. Thus the spiritual
the spiritual midwifery of Socrates when he left each person
spirit.” If we wish to characterize in the same way
lead them upward to the spiritual worlds through what he
penetrate joyfully into the world of spirit? Should I not be
soul. I am referring to the soul-mood, the spiritual tension
in spiritual studies it usually is in accord with reality. It
spiritual matters. It would be unacceptable to say that
that enabled men to see into the spiritual worlds the common
spiritual matters while Socrates spoke rather about the
When Christ spoke to His intimate pupils about spiritual
to his disciples and expounded spiritual matters he showed
sojourn of the human soul in the spiritual world. When Christ
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 5
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thousands of years has shone into the spiritual development
heights of human spiritual evolution, instilling the feeling
consideration how Krishna speaks about the divine spiritual
spirituality to which we ourselves must rise if we wish to
achieve the inner capacity to ascend to those spiritual
that such revelations hover above us at a certain spiritual
spirituality. Anyone who simply picks up the words that are
toward the spiritual heights. Yet there is a significant
idea of the strength of that spiritual light that shines over
spirit of creation, its beginning, its center and its end.
into being; among spiritual beings I am Vishnu, I am the sun
says of his nature that he is the spirit of all that has come
into being, that he is among the heavenly spirits Vishnu,
etheric body is freed through spiritual scientific training,
now be the case as a result of spiritual scientific training.
spiritual, the super-sensible. But in former times men could
exhale spirit. The spirit that lives in the air we breathe
aware that the etheric element of the spirit, Brahman, from
people often ask similar questions about spiritual matters,
even about the highest spiritual things, in just the same way
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 6
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spiritual science. But as regards what man is first of all
humanity receives certain revelations; a stream of spiritual
happen especially when a man has strong spiritual potential,
certain way it dies by retaining only the spiritual, what
remains spiritual, in its faith and religion, as we see so
was in His mind, “Now that the spirit of Elijah has
died out. But because Elijah's spirit as a group soul came
the spirit of Elijah-John they could, when the Twelve were
enter because the spirit of Elijah-John now overshadows them.
disciples see in the spirit what is described here as the
understandable only through spiritual research. Let us, for
forward spiritually into all perspectives of the future. They
of the Mark Gospel is permeated by the spiritual. How the
understood only through the spiritual scientific method of
entire passage really mean? Unless we engage in spiritual

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 7
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particularly what was said yesterday, that the spirit of
entire Christ spirit. For this reason it must be pictured
stage, and how after the spirit of Elijah-John had passed
earlier into the comprehension of spiritual secrets. And one
dead for three days, during which his spirit remained in the
spiritual worlds outside his body. Then his spirit was
brought back into his body in such a way that the spirit in
spiritual world, and could then appear as a messenger,
proclaiming the secrets of the spiritual world. Thus we can
death the spirit is not separated entirely from the body, but
of the physical body of Jesus of Nazareth. The spirit of
that the prophetic spirit, and what was given by this
prophetic spirit to the ancient Hebrew people, differed from
the spirit of initiation prevalent among other peoples. These
we have to do with an elemental emergence of the spirit
something resembling “geniuses of spirituality”
spiritual life did not shine into the ancient Hebrew people
are therefore entirely in accord with the spiritual content
the spiritual world, returning later to his body, what had he
that they bore in their souls the secrets of the spiritual
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 8
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spiritual cosmic conditions, then it becomes evident how
transfigured, that is in their spiritual nature, Elijah on
the form in which in His spiritual nature He could be
men, when they lost their ability to see into the spiritual
that on the one side there is the spiritual stream pictured
spirituality of earth evolution, the essence of which flowed
these spiritual streams, flowed together. When yesterday I
withdrawn from sense life and offered to the spirit, to the
spirit, given to the ego when it has been freed from the
the spiritual is recognized. This example will be recognized
as pertinent wherever the spiritual is truly recognized.
speak of the hunger for the spirit that all men felt in the

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 9
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the modern classical epoch spirits like Goethe sought in the
men should behave toward the one woman in the spiritual
recognize Christ as a cosmic spirit? Did they recognize that
the Mark Gospel clearly describes occult and spiritual facts
that He did, and all that radiated from Him as spiritual
briefly shown how the youth is a spiritual, super-sensible
name, then He works with us; and He is spiritually among

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 10
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human and superhuman, and at the same time spiritual and
something spiritual in man. If you look at human beings
spiritual base.
how the human being has come forth from the spiritual, and
spiritual corruption. If one had the spiritual eyes for it,
unspiritual manner, in the culture, especially the science of
experiencing something that a spirit like Mark could
directed toward spiritual beings are now directed only toward
reaction within human souls: the longing for the spiritual
unreality and lack of logic may well make fun of spiritual
clearly and sincerely in the spiritual life, and allow it to
aware that the inner vitality of spiritual life must be
that truly progressive science is in harmony with spiritual
spiritual science.
longing for spiritual science. Such a reaction that belongs
had descended from its former spiritual height and had become
spiritual powers have given to man his outer image, his outer
man in the form originally given to man by divine spiritual
powers. There He stood, but ennobled and spiritualized by the
spiritual world and was brought down into the physical world.
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Title: Karma of Untruthfulness I: Lecture Eight
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Out of his insights into the spiritual impulses of human evolution, he
illusion veiling the true spiritual struggle taking place behind the outer
much to teach us about a spiritual understanding of the political world
our spiritual scientific movement, a task of which we must never
We have often contemplated with the eyes of our spirit the fact
Being, One Who came down from spiritual worlds in order to give
accusation that anthroposophical spiritual science intends to warm up
The eye of the Gnostic — his spiritual eye — saw the
spiritual worlds. He thought of the spiritual hierarchies arranged in
through the world of the spiritual hierarchies in order to enter into
how Christ came down from spiritual heights and was received on
came down from spiritual heights, spiritual distances, spiritual
to the heavens and sees the stars. The spiritual eye of those who led
which shone out strongly into spiritual heights.
truly connected with the spiritual worlds were allowed to practise
of heaven. A spiritual being appeared to the one who was conceiving
give birth saw this in spirit. Later, when the Mystery-impulse in
woman with the spiritual world was sought in an unlawful way, that
later ages — as spiritual science reveals — actually appears as a
in the spiritual world was known, above all, on the Danish peninsula.
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture I: The Human Soul in the Supersensible Realm and Its Relationship to the Body
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Soul-spiritual with the Corporeality of Man, published in German as,
that this anthroposophic spiritual knowledge wants to cover a
who contemplated the human spiritual life. These light flashes
knowledge, which arises from such impulses, with spiritual
satisfy spiritually.
questions of the spiritual life have cast single light flashes
However, one thing always struck just spirited persons when
had to say, the human being whom spiritual science considers is
with those who call themselves spiritual researchers —
spiritual researcher what he has to do, actually, to behold
into the spiritual world with his soul if one does not realise
spiritual researcher does, of the outer physical course, of
prepared to spiritual research cognitively, actually, just by
about the spiritual life. But while one applies them devotedly,
the spiritists, Vischer states such a place where he shows what
from spiritual depths that it cannot experience without this
from the undifferentiated cells, a spiritual existence arises
spiritual world. You really bump against the spiritual world.
undeveloped soul organism, which the outside spiritual world
faces, then however, this soul develops spiritual senses of
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture II: Anthroposophy Does not Disturb Any Religious Confession
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Soul-spiritual with the Corporeality of Man, published in German as,
the thoughts have to come from the spirit of time in every
epoch. The spirit of humanity is continually developing. That
spiritual attempts and currents; its relationship to other
spiritual currents, other opinions, other views depends on it.
them in order to grasp the spiritual. If one wants to grasp the
spiritual just with the same scientific severity as one grasps
the natural, one has to work into the spiritual world as I have
which one has also looked into the spiritual border areas it
actually, the spirit has no place. This must be like that. Just
spirit from their research fields. If one takes the human being
research the spirit is excluded as it were.
natural existence to the spiritual world. The spiritual world
becomes such a reality to the spiritual senses, as the mineral
One works the way up to the spiritual.
about natural sciences; one cannot grasp the spirit with the
scientific methods, one cannot know anything of the spirit;
the spirit, into this unknown land with certain spiritual
a human being into the spiritual world — using those
truth the human being lives with his soul. In this spiritual
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture III: What Spiritual Science Has to Say About the Eternal Aspect of the Human Soul and the Nature of Freedom
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What Spiritual Science Has to Say About the Eternal Aspect of the
Soul-spiritual with the Corporeality of Man, published in German as,
Spiritual Science Has to Say About the Eternal Aspect of the
the modern spiritual striving because of the already recognised
speak of spiritual-mental goods, which in a certain respect the
Spiritual science wants to illuminate the spiritual area
extend scientific severity to the spiritual area has a hard
spirit of that what I have to bring forward in these talks
sense-perceptible area to the spiritual life.
spiritual researcher has carried out is necessary to come into
it prepares itself to observe what it concerns in the spiritual
spiritual science the following must be demanded what the
lead to the view of the spiritual world.
to perceive in the spiritual world. It can attain this ability
something of the peculiarities of this spiritual way into the
concerning this way. The spiritual researcher must develop
dealt with them. The spiritual-scientific knowledge has to go
considers the mental pictures and concepts of spiritual science
the outer world. If the spiritual researcher brings up those
attempt at first. Experiences of the spiritual world,
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture IV: The Science of the Supersensible and the Moral-Social Ideas
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Soul-spiritual with the Corporeality of Man, published in German as,
apply the anthroposophic spiritual science to the moral-social
What spiritual science can show with its means leads us to the
difficult to spiritual science than to the one-sided scientific
else to the spiritual researcher, the sleep, the dream life of
animals and that of human beings is different to spiritual
Spiritual science finds out for itself with its means that we
Hence, spiritual science shows that the nature of dream, for
Spiritual science shows that it is true that something
spiritual-scientifically.
Spiritual science shows that this is a wrong opinion. The state
have pointed out in the first talk that that which spiritual
the nature of dream. However, one called Vischer a spiritist
course of the spiritual human development about the nature of
Spiritual science now shows that it sees with the beholding
Inspired knowledge spiritual science fetches the true figure of
Yesterday I have pointed to the fact that spiritual science
impulses the awareness of which spiritual science has to
one looks back in time where one recognised nature and spirit
Even in our words “spirit” and “soul”
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VII: The Nature of the Human Soul and the Nature of the Human Body
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Soul-spiritual with the Corporeality of Man, published in German as,
spiritual science.
get to a real psychology. Spiritual science follows this way.
will explain the details of the spiritual-scientific soul
how from two sides spiritual science tries to prepare the
spiritual science if one believes that it deals with any
spiritistic or mystic method. This spiritual science will prove
the methods to which modern spiritual science has to point.
This modern spiritual science, while it urges the human being
support the spiritual-scientific method. While the meditative
method, which spiritual science has in this area, enables the
that one lives, indeed, during sleep in a spiritual world which
our body the spiritual reality existed. From there you gain the
learn from this fact that modern spiritual-scientific
whole antenatal spiritual-mental life take place, as well as at
spiritual-mental experience appears independently which has
spiritual-mental life before birth or conception only if you
the imagining is rooted in the spiritual. On the other side,
the spiritual-mental that you experience from falling asleep
until awakening is not able to enter. That spiritual-mental
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VIII: How Natural Sciences Justify the Supersensible Knowledge
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Soul-spiritual with the Corporeality of Man, published in German as,
contemporaries assess the anthroposophically oriented spiritual
Indeed if spiritual science were not able to justify itself to
discussion here today: how can the spiritual-scientific
intimately with the just mentioned one is that spiritual
science leads to a dark mystic spiritual condition and
spiritual science, has to pass through two gates of knowledge
not passed these two gates. One gate is that the spiritual
the spiritual researcher knowledge of nature must not remain
others from a certain logical speculation the spiritual
researcher has to transfer to life. The spiritual researcher
to overcome the obstacles of spiritual striving with it. He
get. This experience must exist in the soul of the spiritual
spiritual researcher wants to recognise by real introspection
ways, as I have characterised them yesterday. As spiritual
This is the first significant experience that the spiritual
spiritual researcher can also point only to the observation
may say, I do not want to develop my spiritual condition in
spiritual-scientific discovery if one has attained, for
as modern spiritual science does it in such a way.
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 1: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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hidden spiritual battle raging today and the need for a renewal
of the spirit have the annual festivals of Christmas and Easter been
a symbol of the course of human life. On these spiritual pillars standing
with our senses the external manifestation of the spirit. But we can
two pillars of the spirit, possessing an eternal value.
of the human heart. One can truly say that this age of new spiritual
conceptions, the call for a new revelation of the spirit. It will be
spiritual element prevails. No one who reflects earnestly can possibly
of a spiritual world. No physical observation of birth and death will
grasp, other than events in which the spirit is directly manifested
with the images associated with that spiritual genius of fifteenth-century
reveal themselves even in their physical appearance as spiritual events
which, on the contrary, divine spiritual Powers actually intervene.
this world as a child, he has come directly from the spiritual world.
than by saying: man's central being leaves the spiritual world. He is
born out of the spirit into the body. When the Rosicrucian says “Ex
from the spirit into this physical world. Through what takes place in
the physical world — which he is able to observe from spiritual
the spiritual world. And he reveals — to one who wants to see
that he has come out of the spirit. One's experiences with a child,
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Basel, 6-3-'14
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are suited to bring us into the spiritual world. We're also in the
spiritual world at night, but not consciously. Why not? Because we
reality, inspirations through which spiritual beings
spiritual beings press into us with every breath, with every
be small in the physical world and be big in the spiritual world and
the spiritual world, and it was supposed to be the Elohim's
Spirit
Now becomes dense spirit existence
Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus

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spiritual world. The attitude of soul with which a pupil receives
divine, spiritual hierarchies for every thought and experience form
an experience presents itself from the spiritual world he should
spiritual truths into exoteric and esoteric theosophical life. An
enormous spiritual treasure has been entrusted to us during this
along with what flowed down from spiritual worlds. We can work on
spiritual worlds — this will open them for us and let us get into

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Basel, 9-22-12
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not indifferent whether this playing in of the spiritual world
spiritual world. Through esoteric training our thinking becomes
finer, more spiritual and more independent of the brain. Look at how
yet time and space are maya in the spiritual world. An esoteric pupil
it at special moments. The feeling that something spiritual wants to
spiritual worlds, fear must be transformed into reverence;
hang together. This is a wrong working in of spiritual forces upon
we're a piece of the unity of spiritual worlds. One also sees
spiritual world is conscience. This keeps us from doing things that
spiritual worlds. Conscience changes through our meditations. The
truths from the spiritual world. We must learn to lead a double life,
must gradually spiritualize the physical to such an extent that
develop everything in us beyond the corporeal and spiritualize
the spirit lay the germ of my body.
And the spirit has imprinted in my body
And the spirit has imprinted in my body
In the spirit lay the germ of my body.
In my body lies the germ of the spirit.
And I will incorporate into my spirit
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.
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Title: Esoteric Lesson: Basel, 11-23-1907
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is the revelation of the Spirit, the form.

Title: Anthroposophy in Daily Life
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If we really grasp Spiritual
this sphere and accumulate spiritual truths it is not a help but a hindrance in a sound
human life. Why, they ask, do we need all this knowledge of the spirit, why should we have
But we must affirm that neither of these notions correspond in any way to what Spiritual
which will compel people to think in a spiritual-scientific way. Generally speaking,
Spiritual Science, but also towards scientific facts which force us in the present time to
seek spiritual laws.
soul we calculate, but the higher Spirits made these calculations long ago and set into the
those who seek the spirit should more and more acquire a feeling that life is complicated;
is an easy matter to grasp the whole of life, and that a few sentences taken from Spiritual
Spiritual Science we endeavour to make the best possible comparisons. In a certain way the
important element given by Spiritual Science. We may say: I live in this world and I find
mighty wisdom of those Spiritual Beings.
divine-spiritual world. If we are pervaded by the right feelings, the truths which we
spiritual world will then live in all our feelings.
world are brought into the spiritual-scientific movement; they are mistakes which do not
come from Spiritual Science, but which are brought into it from outside. For example, a
The disciple of Spiritual Science
may be acquired by accepting in the right way what Spiritual Science can give us. Those who
spiritually like slaves to obtain an immediate answer to the problems which rise up. But
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