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Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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we, as human beings, have striven for knowledge, whether as mystics or
self-knowledge so difficult? Man is very a complicated being. If we
being — physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego —
little the will is directly influenced from the centre of your being.
thoughts. Human thinking is the shadowing forth of ideas and beings
pictured as living beings on the Astral plane. Beings of the most
Thoughts: Shadow-images of Beings of the Astral Plane (Waking)
Sympathy and Antipathy: Shadow-images of Beings of Lower Devachan (Dreaming)
Moral Impulses: Shadow-images of Beings of Higher Devachan (Sleeping)
sleep-consciousness. Human beings need also to dream by day if they do
etherisation of the blood — can be perceived in the human being
vary greatly in different individuals. Sleeping human beings differ
the streams which flow into human beings during sleep; in an
being transformed into etheric substance, a similar process takes
this event is the appearance of the Christ as an Etheric Being in
preparation is being made for this — that some individual here
that what he saw was a super-sensible being, because it immediately
vanishes. Many a human being will have this experience when sitting
Light itself is being destroyed in this post-Atlantean age of the
know as electricity is light that is being destroyed in matter. And
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Title: Lecture: The Four Sacrifices of Christ
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whole soul-being, an education in selflessness. We may say that what
the earth. The Being whom we acknowledge as the Christ clothed
the greatest misfortune for earthly man if certain sections of his being
averted in the Lemurian age by a Being Who later, through the Mystery of
While the earth was working through the Lemurian age, a Being living in
what makes it possible for us as sensory beings to enjoy without pain all
The human being will gradually learn to develop this deep, significant
I am so placed in the world that I can look at it around me, my senses being
the human being looked at a fruit or something else in the outer world
when a human being gathers cherries from a tree and eats them,
organ would have felt an inordinate greed. The human being would have felt,
second step was taken toward the Mystery of Golgotha. The Christ Being
being will acquire, when he is able to imbue himself with a true
spiritual beings upon whom humanity depends. He will say in true piety,
the human being would have intended this or that, and followed this or
Christ Being ensouled Himself in an archangel, and the power thus
What would have become of the human being without this third Christ
within the earth and break through its surface. If a human being should
Christ Being Who had ensouled Himself three times in archangelic form
I admit that it may seem strange when I say that this great Being was
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Title: Lecture: The Threshold In Nature and In Man
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within him, and on the other being brought face to face with deep doubts
and riddles. These two ideas are: the inner being of Nature and the
inner being of the human soul.
knowledge, that man feels separated from the inner being of Nature.
being of Nature to allow him to gain some degree of satisfaction from
last resort can be known concerning the being of Nature is somehow
also connected with what we may call the being of man's soul.
Now this question of the being of the human soul has presented itself
being of Nature, on the other with the self-knowledge of man. Let us
of his own being. They described how man feels the ground sink away
enveloped in a kind of blindness that protects him from being overcome
they were relating real experiences when they spoke of man being
feeling of standing on firm ground; he sees himself being hurled
contemplate her inner being from without. And with this detachment of
inner being of Nature grows.
not so; they were always intimately connected with the human being.
lives in his own inner being must on no account be allowed to play a
was to be guided into the inner being of the things of the world, into
the inner being of Nature. They were afraid lest he be hurt in his
from being overcome by faintness of soul. And their description of the
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Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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external manifestation — without being brought face
birth and death of the human being, no matter how we may
as they work upon the human being that man is the citizen of a
reflect upon so many millions of human beings who have met
dear friends, the very moment when the human being enters into
his deepest being withdraws from the spiritual world. Man is
being to the extent that he enters the physical world.
being, which renders him a physical totality here on the
being, at the inner midmost entity, we must say that man
But, in his centre-most being, man comes out of the spiritual
materialism — he is of such a nature, this human being,
thinking, declares in its simplicity that the human being
sheathing at the birth of the human being out of the
that, as the human being progressively develops in the physical
declare that the entire fullness of the being of man gradually
manifest. As the human being lives his physical life here upon
Thus man enters the world as a spiritual being. His bodily
can perceive this spiritual being, in ordinary physical life,
bodies. But the fact that we do not perceive a being does not
make it less perfect. This is what the human being has to
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Title: Purpose of the Goetheanum and Anthroposophy
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inimical to religion were being practiced; and there is even
Anthroposophy has been able to come into being through a logic
course of the years in which the Goetheanum was being built,
then we human beings would regard the dream-world as the only
the human being lives also in his will, for it is
being in the sense-world, the feeling of union with this
insertion of the whole soul-being into this world by
him as his soul-spirit-being related to the transformations and
feels as his own being, in his thinking and feeling, his
he unites himself, to which he allows his whole being to open
with the universal etheric world. When as physical human being
human being in this etheric world. But with all this one has
is only because one feels himself to be a spirit-soul being in
Ordinarily, we ourselves as human beings interrupt the quiet of
articulated speech for outward expression as human beings,
etheric being, he will no longer hold firmly to this ego. He
one may struggle through to the vision of the soul-being before
But now, when he looks into the pre-earthly existence, being
world, where the soul was among spiritual beings, in just the
beings on earth. And one now comes to know that the spiritual
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Title: Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree
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these two lines of opposition are considered as being like
the true idea when the human being, standing in the centre of
beings and objects. He then becomes a being shut up within
man being continually able to strike out in two directions
Freedom in this consists rather in man's being always able to
which originates when the human being is lost to the world,
being obliged, perhaps in the next life, to strike out again
in the opposite direction, and thus being about the
being crushed, or when the world loses him? In each of these
proper interest in objects and beings. In our last lecture,
able to transpose ourselves with understanding into beings
being; and if, as anthroposophists, we set ourselves the task
upon this wisdom as the gift of super-human beings, for up to
really something divine, and something which we human beings
guided by another virtue, by the interest in the being to
a quality of human nature without being guided by wisdom and
based upon the interest of human beings in one another.
We ought to consider what otherwise binds us as being of
distinctions as being of little account, and clings to the
uncultivated human being, is but little affected by the great
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Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture III: The Supersensible Being of Man
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SUPERSENSIBLE BEING OF MAN
point the recognition that his being is spiritual. For it is
that something further is needed to show that the real being of
situation which prevents the recognition of what the being of
raises questions that lead man away from his real being. In his
expect to find something that will lead him to the real being
where the real being of man is. In fact, at last we become
those worlds where the real being of man can be known, or, as
consciousness and in being related to them in such a way that
possible to find the being of man. We see that because our
normal person. Everything depends upon our being able to
normally exists in the human being, is a power that is only
super-sensible being of man.
but they approach us as living beings. Our thinking altogether
inner, living and logical being can arise out of the
“logic” of the statue, a being that we feel to the
investigating the super-sensible being of man, we should not
into being only in our own time. For everything that comes into
being in the course of the cultural evolution of humanity
This is the danger of not being inwardly able to carry what is
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Title: Lecture: Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny
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THE yearly celebration of the physical birth of the Being Who entered
comprehension goes, two Beings merge as it were into one: the Christ
Being and the human Jesus Being. In the evolution of Christianity
meaning of the union of Christ with Jesus, in the Being whose physical
course, recognise in the Christ a cosmic, super-earthly Being, a Being
preparation, to unite the Christ Being with himself, to receive the
Christ Being into himself.
sublimity of the Christ Being. And at that time there existed a wisdom
conception of the Christ Being, we have but to steep ourselves in the
humility by the grandeur of the conception of the Christ Being
the Gnostic conception, in which vision of the Christ Being was
Solomon knew that when men were being accompanied into earthly bodies
apprehending the full compass of the Christ Being from the reflections
days the Christ Being could have been understood through the Gnosis.
human evolution. And to believe that such Mystery-truths are now being
cosmos, comes into operation when a human being enters physical
inferior being. For the impulse went out from that Mystery-centre at
being appeared to the woman who was to conceive and in a kind of
vision announced to her the human being who, through her, was to come
of a human being into the physical world is taking place;
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Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ Within Us
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These deep forces of the soul are aware of their union with the Being
human being in earthly evolution to-day can become conscious of the
human beings passing from incarnation to incarnation attain greater
Figure, a living Being, had not become such intense reality that he
human beings.
These are deeply moving words. Every human being on the earth is
by the Being dwelling in the body whose birth is celebrated in the
at Christmastime, is a Cosmic Being, increasing in majesty and
highest wisdom is enshrined. In this Child was born a Being Who
This being upon earth
(this ‘being’ is the human soul)
worlds are still living realities, the most ancient being present to
Being. This loss was inevitable, for the old clairvoyance had to
outward sight, the Being Who in the Holy Night entered into the
Being descended from heavenly sphere to heavenly sphere and thence to
This being upon earth
essential being? If the corpse of one whose soul already dwells in
place, that the Cosmic Being Whom we call Christ had not entered
Cosmic Being. Again and again let it be repeated that the infinite
dedication to the Living Being of the Cosmic Christ.
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IX: The Etherization of the Blood
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beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
Wherever we, as human beings, have striven for
difficult for us. Man is truly a complicated being, and if we speak
waking life the four members of a man's being — physical body,
There are thus two poles in human beings, the life of
the human being is related in entirely opposite ways to these two
thinking is the shadow-image of mental pictures and beings belonging
living beings on the astral plane. Beings of the most varied kinds
that cast their shadow-images into human beings, and these processes
place in the human being as thoughts points to the astral plane, so
Shadow-images of Beings of the Astral Plane
Shadow-images of Beings of Lower Devachan
Beings of Higher Devachan
individuals are always fully awake in waking life. Human beings
beings need by day if they do not wish to lead an arid, empty,
can be shown in the human being throughout his waking life. It is
different now, however, in the sleeping human being. When a human
being sleeps, the occult observer is able to see a continual
rays vary greatly in different individuals. Sleeping human beings
particular coloring of the streams that flow into human beings during
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture One
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categories of human beings who have found their way into the spheres
beings you must recall the facts described in my book
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
expresses to me the fact that an intellectual being is behind it;
of a being with a fiery, violent nature.’ Now imagine this
the expressions of beings of soul-and-spirit behind them — and
acquainted with the outward aspect of higher beings, just as you
beings of the super-sensible world. A clairvoyant who comes to
recognize these beings through Imaginative Cognition knows only their
Inspiration. He then has actual intercourse with these beings. They
Imagination, and more is learnt about the beings of the world of
spiritually to what the beings communicate to us, but we become one
with the very beings themselves. This is a very lofty stage of
be in the human being that quality of universal love which causes him
to make no distinction between himself and the other beings in his
beings with whom he has spiritual communion. Because this can take
and thither without being really aware of its direction or goal. In
those times, therefore, and among peoples where certain human beings
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Two
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Beings of the spiritual world are revealed in sublime pictures.
follows: ‘The Divine Beings manifest themselves from on high, that
the manifestation of spiritual Beings from on high, and the
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
faculties possessed and developed by human beings in any particular
teachers — by Beings who though incarnated among men were more
hold converse in the Mysteries with divine-spiritual Beings even
intercourse in the Mysteries with divine-spiritual Beings in higher
are one category of Beings who, though incarnated in physical bodies,
have inter-course with divine-spiritual Beings in order to bring down
Teachers. The Bodhisattva is a Being incarnated in a human body,
Beings.
divine-spiritual Beings. In remote, primeval ages of Earth evolution,
a Being such as the Bodhisattva was entrusted in the higher world
impart to Earth evolution as much as the beings concerned enabled it
A human faculty to-day was once a faculty of divine-spiritual Beings
is to say, the time has come when he, as a Being with the particular
When the Being who
through him as an individual — that Being is a
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Three
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say, a very lofty Being able to gaze deeply into the mysteries of
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
spiritual beings had acquired their place in the spiritual realms,
with which particular spiritual beings I myself had lived in former
was together with certain beings in particular epochs and was related
being. Only the highest degree of enlightenment could enable the soul
philosophies were being taught in India. From them were derived the
there were times in the ancient past when many human beings were dimly
that in men's earlier incarnations on the Earth certain beings worked
Luciferic beings penetrated into human nature, and their influences
epoch onwards, man was also worked upon by beings under the
Luciferic and Ahrimanic beings. Had these beings not worked upon him,
these Beings. There was a time — so said Buddha — when men
say: At birth, the human being brings with him, in his Linga Sharira,
everything that confronts man from the Luciferic and Ahrimanic beings and
being of man a kind of inner organ of thought formed from Samskara,
him from his fellows. This made him into a being best described as having
a particular form of soul. Each human being had a name which distinguished
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Four
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the sheath that is detached from the growing human being at puberty
incorporation in a higher Being such as Buddha in his Nirmanakaya.
Being must have been incarnated in the body of this
Jesus-child — a Being from whom proceeded the forces that were
human being but a very special Being who grew up in the Jesus-child
of the human being evolving under normal conditions from birth to
it possible for a young human being to develop in a way that is less
child into a specially creative human being. In that case we shall
supposedly we wish to train a human being to develop an especially
being develop quite differently and the soul makes something
Being such as Buddha in his Nirmanakaya. Not only would a
astral sheath, so that a Being who were to descend from spiritual
experiment; they guarded the childhood of such a human being and made
Bible to a single pair of human beings, Adam and Eve, from whom all
inhabited, but by human beings who as yet bore no Ego within them.
Saturn, Old Sun and Old Moon. These human beings consisted of
necessary for all the Moon-substances and beings to be cast out.
successive embodiments; in other words, man's in-most being left his
the differences among human beings. For those souls who had waited on
clairvoyance could behold that Being of whom the Holy Rishis said that
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Five
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They are borne by Beings, by Individualities. When
dead but as a living Being, and what He has to reveal can always be
living stream and its revelations will endure as long as human beings
Being. We know that this Sun Being must be regarded as the soul and
the mighty Being who sends down His spiritual blessings as the
as a Being who had sojourned on the Earth. Pointing to the sun,
presented in the Eightfold Path — this being an enumeration of
possible for the souls of all human beings to unfold what we call
a man can only develop from his own being by expelling the content of his
regarded as a self-contained being apart from the great Universe
creators and moulders of the organs of the human being. Zarathustra
pointed to forces and beings below the Amshaspands, calling them the
has not only shelter and support in his own inner being but rests in
and spiritual Beings; you are born of the Spirit and rest in the
quality in the human being that is connected more with will and power,
John as the herald of the Being who was to come in Jesus. John proclaimed
same holy region (Stätte) as that from which the soul-being
upon the body of John the Baptist; thus the soul-being in Jesus of
the Gospel of St. Luke and the Ego-being in John the Baptist were
soul-being of the Nathan Jesus. Hence according to the Gospel of St.
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Six
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St. Luke if during our preparatory study the beings and
before Buddha could there have existed on the Earth a human being
progressed sufficiently to enable any human being to discover these
Everything in the world comes into being and develops; for everything
suitable form. Consequently a Being such as the Bodhisattva, before
What the Bodhisattva was as a spiritual Being did not fully
Buddha we should find that part of his being was obliged to remain in
The fact that some men lived with part of their being in the
thought. It was known that there were Beings destined to work on the
‘being filled with the Holy Spirit’. This is a quite definite,
been said of a Being such as a Bodhisattva while incarnated on Earth that
forces and powers possessed by such a Being were not fully contained
being so young and entirely untouched by any experiences of earthly
destined to assimilate. Would an ordinary human being who had passed
influences — being united with the etheric body of this
East were destined by cosmic wisdom to advance to the stage of being
scale in the case of a human being who develops to a certain degree of
the ancient Hebraic, the possibility of producing human beings
evolve Dharma, the Law of the Soul, from their inmost being; the
his teachings about the great spiritual laws and beings of the Cosmos
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Seven
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development of the central Being of our Earth — Christ Jesus
of this child the Ego once incarnated in the Being who had been the
Being more closely, bearing in mind something for which our previous
the human being occurs, approximately at the close of the seventh
being becomes free. If followed with close attention and with the
eyes of spirit, the development of the human being shows itself to be
human being, but this idea arises from very rough and ready
birth, the part of the human being then born is really his physical
speaking, however, the constitution of the human being cannot be
This applies, to the human being of to-day. Observation of human life
thirty-five man's being has progressed to the point where the can
‘kinetikon’, and the most precious possession now being
Such is the development of the human being when considered in detail.
mother of the Nathan Jesus died and the spiritual part of her being
no eternal use is discarded and the human being takes with him a kind
physical body. This resulted in the birth of the Being who thereafter
between physical death and rebirth; whenever this Being left the
relinquished in the circumstances indicated, this Being went on his way
body and another Being descended into it. This happened, as all the
moment the sublime Being we call the Christ descended into his
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Eight
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something about the Being who in the thirtieth year of his life
physical body. Not being so closely bound to the physical body, the
soul to stream directly into the soul of another human being and
is possible for human beings to come together in order to receive
being of man himself. Spiritual science is the great remedy for souls
Beings; such consciousness is made impossible by hindrances existing
truths, but they do not become part of its very substance and being.
very life and steep their whole being in it; they are also the
our own being. We are then able to say: If here or there this
because of unhealthy conditions encountered in human beings
beings by no means always! Quite obviously, therefore, it is not
human beings can be communicated. If certain deeper truths were
which they were obliged to lose. It was being slowly lost from the
epoch. But during the latter epoch there were always human beings in
beings who must gradually acquire the capacity to recognize and
considerable number of human beings will be capable of this. But a
number of human beings have reached the stage where the principles of
beings will have made great progress in another respect as well.
sign being the stage of development reached by the sixteen-petalled
the Eightfold Path part of his very being. Others ‘study’
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Nine
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individuals can understand what is being said here.’ This statement
attitude towards the Bible. Such, therefore, is the jump now being
utterly egotistical beings. That is the point of importance.
provide human beings to-day with the nourishment they need. This is
are being considered; for otherwise what happens is that information
must become and allowing the living power to flow into our very being so
human beings will have reached the stage of being able to evolve the
— for the time being — achieve. Therefore when he had
(O generation of vipers, how can ye, beingMatt. XII, 34.)
beings have evolved from within themselves the teachings of the
human beings must have developed the precepts of the Eightfold Path
find human beings capable of thinking out the teachings of the
order that the Maitreya Buddha may find not only human beings who
be brought down from heavenly heights to the Earth by the Being who
to the status of the Christ-Being before it was possible for Him to
the seed of Christ, embodied in those human beings who say: ‘Not
the world.’ And then, together with such human beings, the Maitreya
into the beings of the Earth and into the constitution of man. This is
alone — flows through his whole being. The redemption of souls
O generation of vipers, how can ye, beingMatt. XII, 34,

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Ten
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in the course of the incarnations of an individual human being? It
large numbers of human beings will have progressed sufficiently to
Zarathustra passed this Ego-Being alone could bring to fulfilment
Being who appeared on Earth as Christ had to take care that His
being able to read the meaning — that in earlier times the
7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. \
7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. \
unadulterated, from bygone times. He regarded John as being the last
that the whole human being comes into existence through the
it can he proved that the whole human being is thus produced. But
only one part of the human being is determined by the intermingling
human being something that does not arise from the seed but is, so to
seed of the human being that is not derived from father and mother,
in the human being which unites with the Christ-principle in the course
not enter into man's inner being by way of the seed. Something has
connection with the faculties of the human being since Christ came to
materialistic thought; but it can be sublimated if he lets his being
from the world for three-and-a-half days, being taken to a place
manner of being transported into the spiritual world had come down
unite his being with what belongs to the kingdoms of Heaven.’ The
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Title: Et Incarnatus Est
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human being to whom we bring the frankincense.
we can now present the question, “Do human beings really
of the nineteenth century to the being whom humanity for
that being whom humanity for centuries has recognized as the
large numbers of human beings in the nineteenth century. Paul
wonderful of human beings, I have found much that greatly
with my being by ties of human need.”
happily and comfortably linked with her being by ties of human
to do to check a development that has led human beings right
of today are being inoculated to their detriment.
can this be fulfilled? It can be fulfilled by human beings
being held, and other events of a like nature were taking place
demands the highest powers of wisdom of which the human being
beings asked knowledge of the stars, and the stars gave an
and weaves in so far as it is not a mere personal being but is
“transformation of being” within the spiritual
filled with love for the great being for whom the deeds, in
is lost, that love that rules and lives warmingly in all beings
sentimental speeches; to love means to comprehend the being for
intellect but through our innermost being, to understand with
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture I
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being. Anthroposophy or Spiritual Science is to present
to materialistic thinking to accept a Being who towers above
noble human being only, “the humble man of
not only as a very great man, but as a Being who embraces the
beings, even into the ego-men; but the individual human
beings, the ego-men, did not receive Him.
animal, and man make up the series of being in evolution
which require the physical body. Above them are beings who do
Thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim, and Beings were still
Beginnings are real Beings. They are those who, at the
rightly looked upon as divine Beings. At the beginning of the

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture II
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part of the human being. Man possesses this physical body in
inner being. In Spiritual Science this is called the astral
of a human being is, however, very much greater than when a
operation. Every human being knows this astral world,
that of the earth. The earth is a living being and the plants
ourselves. When this “I” sounds in a being, then
being; in the same way the animal would have to point to an
ego which belongs to a being living in the astral world. All
for the ego of the minerals, we should not find it in a being

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture III
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evolution of the individual human being. The planet visible
body of the spirit dwelling in it. This spiritual Being goes
Being.
to take all the substances and Beings contained in the Earth,
forth as a body without any being; the present humanity was
which the modern physicist would not recognise as being
body exist, but there was also the Spirit, the inmost being
Saturn. The Spirit Man was not an independent being, any more
then contained within it the substances and beings now
higher spiritual Beings with a suitable field of action
— those spiritual Beings who till then had been united
activity. These higher Beings had reached the goal of human
spiritual Beings had already reached in the Sun Period of the
the Venus Period. These are the Beings who now send down
kinds of Beings separated from the Earth and, taking with
was still within it. There was a danger of man being immersed
form, the human beings would have become statues and, as
one of the Sun-Beings uniting himself with the Moon that
way. The Beings standing at the stage of the Gods separated
with the Sun; that one of these Beings separated himself from
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture IV
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darkness of Pralaya, the rudiments of the human being which
membered into the human being.
Moon there were the same spiritual Beings as live upon the
become spirits of air. In cosmic evolution Beings remain
at school. The Beings who made the Sun their dwelling-place
fire-spirits to air-spirits; but a great host of beings had
highly developed Sun-Spirits there are the spiritual Beings,
beings; they would have had to develop love involuntarily.
beings, from families to tribes and peoples. A characteristic
beings, is only the preparation for the activity of a higher
Being who was to come. This higher Being was called in the
beginning; but when the Earth has one day passed on its being

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture V
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groups and generations of human beings had one Ego in common.
step, through the sentient soul being developed first, then
from the physical body . The raising of a human being, so
to keep the body alive. Through the etheric body being
come to the Earth for the first time a Being who, while still
the spiritual world with the spiritual or divine Beings; He
exercises clairvoyance develops in the human being and he can
49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, \
51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; \
St. John's Gospel being initiated by the Lord Himself that
the astral body. The human being thus consists of nine parts
esoteric Christianity, is the guiding Being in the astral
beings who had brought the Spirit Self to birth within them,
man is born of the union of two human beings; but the higher
the beings around him there and become active in that-world.
He then meets Beings who are incarnated in astral bodies; he
Beings who in Christianity are called angels. On being
the human being then extends into the Lower Spiritual World.
with higher and higher Beings.
beings who lived before the appearance of Christ on Earth are

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VI
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of this mystical number five. Let us consider the human being
bearer of the evolution of the future. A very advanced Being
Atlantis was being gradually submerged; present-day Africa
and beings around him less clearly than he did their inner
outer world; he now began to embody his own inner being, his
the Life Spirit. At first but a number of human beings will

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VII
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at hand. The human being now living on the Earth are not all
pale man has small signs in which are magical beings, and in
see beings branch off and stand still. These bodies develop
of the Lemurian man as being like the present man. The
present day; he was more or less a being of the air, and all
therefore, worked upon the outer form, and the beings which
these caricatures of the present human beings originated;
lower stage as soulless beings (we mean the higher soul, not
times, the unicellular beings Haeckel calls Monera, which are
human beings. Man is actually the firstborn of the Earth; he
the other beings behind at the various stages.
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
as his kingdom. We must conceive of these beings also in the
being turned vertically towards the earth, man as turned
too, was an etheric being of plant-like nature; at that time
tell us of hermaphrodites; those were beings who did not
fig-leaf which the first human beings had in Paradise is an
human being will then be chaste and purified, and what at a
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VIII
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a single human being, but an ego-consciousness that embraced
something that flows through his own inner being. The first
live in each individual human being, a Power which enables
into each human being. This Power would say: —
when man had received red blood he became a being who
as one being, for if we were to take away the plants, the
being. The ego lived even in Adam, but it had first to be
more and more on the being of the ‘I am,’ then
the fact that in each human being there is an individual ego,
in him may be made manifest.” Each human being through

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 1
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
came into being in relation to all views that had hitherto
calling into being important political institutions, and he
nevertheless described him as such, without being aware that
felt the need to have dealings with demonic beings who made
hierarchical beings, among whom are the angels and

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 2
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
to him, even being subjugated by the Persian element, because
their own inner being. It is a memory of what they acquired
In another passage other beings of the higher hierarchies
Testament concerning the consciousness of being accepted by
God, of being taken away from the earth and being part of the
Jehovah, there gradually comes into being an active inner
He is also recognized by beings other than man. That is the
speak of Him. Beings from the super-sensible world recognize
Him, so it is said; that being is entering who is not only
considered dangerous by super-sensible beings. That is the
recognized and feared by super-sensible beings — who
beings of earth and is also recognized by super-sensible
beings needs the best element of human nature to enable Him
first become accustomed to being a specific individuality.
condition of being dependent upon himself alone. The Twelve
planetary system as being on a par with Venus, Jupiter, or
is a cosmic being. The Indians speak of their national gods.
God a Being who was, to be sure, never incarnated in their

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 3
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
described as happening when a man receives the shock of being
human being but as the collective folk spirit of the whole
expect something further, that this spiritual being of
if he were away. What does this spiritual being desire? It
left, but his spiritual being like a spiritual atmosphere may
personality of John the Baptist, but the full being of
super-sensible beings and this is presented to us in a sharply
of the Gospel of St. Mark is to show us that the being of
terrible to the demons who were in possession of human beings
beings who were possessed through the power of what lives in
personality confronts other human beings quite individually,
opinion that it is hard to avoid being an atheist when one
curing human beings by the methods of modern natural
healing acted quite differently. Human beings were
The whole natural being of Christ Jesus that was poured forth
being. They recognized that now among the people there stands
with the help of beings who live in the super-sensible world
ourselves the curative process as being something special. In
higher worlds, and it hovered over the human being. Now the
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 4
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
about the coming into being and the evolution of mankind.
say to human beings about higher worlds. It was thus a
streams comes into being through Christ Jesus. We have

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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
The main point is that the more we allow the being of Krishna
and the being of the Buddha to affect us, the more clearly do
being, nonbeing, becoming, existence, and the like. We have
words his real being, we arrive at thoughts, feelings and
Among all beings I am always the noblest of all that has come
into being; among spiritual beings I am Vishnu, I am the sun
all the beings that live; among the serpents I am the one
into being, that he is among the heavenly spirits Vishnu,
seek to find behind them the nature of their true being, we
arrive at the being of Krishna. If we take a number of plants
this being as identical with any single plant but must think
his being as it appears to him in ordinary life, but
lives as being in all things.
our own being we first of all glimpse the ego as you will
over the being of all things. So when we speak of our higher
ego, the higher being dwelling in man, we do not speak of
beings were accustomed to rising to clairvoyant vision when
they looked into the being of things. And we can understand a
all human beings he was not placed among things in such a way
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 6
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
being is applicable to all mankind, we can say that in the
individual human being, and of this we can say that time
process: coming into being, growth and flourishing, and then
what lies behind coming into being, passing away, and
analogous to the life of an individual human being insofar as
we may think of as being possible through his physical
describes the kind of religious faith that came into being
bloodstream in the natural life of the individual human being
fully. Bodily well-being is produced through pleasant
perceive how all human beings of the future come near. In
holiest part of his being. Then, a few lines later, Christ is

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 7
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
and being raised from the dead. This is a description of
was active in the inner being of man. This human inner self
reason those human beings who bear within themselves more of
strength into His bodily being, that this body had to appear
wounds. These were necessary because the Christ-Being, that
single human being.
the true nature of the human being and of humanity, and the
the very being of the earth itself. From our study of the
of the being of Christ, in other words, the primal ego of
serpent being, comes into conflict with all that stems from
merely as abstract passing time but as a real being in a
ether, as a living self-perpetuating being; while Chthon,
earth. Then a kind of serpent being interferes, and
seen as a real being.
abstract, prosaic concepts; when ‘being,’ that
‘being’ and ‘becoming,’ so that we
Golgotha was approaching. We must enter into their being in
with such concepts as abstract “being,”
Ophioneus, the serpent-being, enters into conflict with the
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 8
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
writings if such expressions as “being led to the
mountain,” or “being led to a house,”
beings possessed the ancient clairvoyance, their way of
crudely organized his ordinary being is.
by the lake, when being by the lake is referred to, definite
forces are being applied and healing powers or powers of
prove themselves to be capable of being initiated into the
within his inner being which has already experienced the
the natural being of man through the organization of the
organization of the human being had to be experienced fully
man's own being through the blood relationship was to rise up
you will find that Christ was being callous when He said that

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 9
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
Christ is to be seen as a cosmic being, an earthly and
earth beings, of earthly human beings to bring their
understanding that can come into being only with the further
marrying among beings of the supra-earthly world. In the case
beings of earth.
have had an understanding of Christ as a cosmic being,
lives in the individual human being. Indeed, He speaks of the
abundantly clear how human beings hear what He preaches and
passed away from Him; the chosen human beings had shown no
the failure of human beings to understand this connection the
(Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, beingMark 15:34.)
being, who becomes sense-perceptible only through special
that we may misunderstand the being of Christ; and this was

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 10
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
enable human beings to come to an understanding of the
they ought to hold firmly to the belief in His being as both
time went on materialism came into being, and with it
something spiritual in man. If you look at human beings
time, then from a materialistic viewpoint all human beings
viewpoint all human beings look much the same. So why should
that is equally important also in other human beings.
from a materialistic viewpoint, not being able to handle the
that Jesus of Nazareth was a superior human being, something
facts. But these men, in spite of being in the clutches of
point is the tremendous effect that emanates from that being
these descriptions come into being? It is of the utmost
Mystery of Golgotha came into being. But the impulse that
how the human being has come forth from the spiritual, and
our planet came into being. But Mark could also see,
directed toward spiritual beings are now directed only toward
dignity, his true being, at a time when mankind had descended
understanding have come into being. It is no wonder that just
exactly at that time the true super-sensible being of man
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Title: Karma of Untruthfulness I: Lecture Eight
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birth of that Being Who entered into earthly evolution in order to
that in Christ Jesus two Beings flow together to form one: the
Christ-Being and the human Jesus-Being. This is something that people
Being, One Who came down from spiritual worlds in order to give
meaning to earthly evolution by being born in a physical human being.
And in the human being Jesus we recognize one who was destined, in
the manner known to us, to unite as a human being with the
Christ-Being, to take this Being into himself after thirty years of
itself the Christ-Being there came about a possibility, like an
picture, an idea of the whole lofty stature of the Christ-Being.
attacks now being made on us. This accusation is made by people who
the enveloping bodies of a mortal human being. All this was revealed
understanding of the Christ-Being compared with that of Gnosis,
dust before the greatness of this picture of the Christ-Being Who
human beings a lofty concept of Christ. It has receded now. For all
those dogmas that came into being subsequently, the creeds of Arius
universe with the view of the Christ-Being. Only remnants of this
them into true human beings. The Temple of Solomon was to pour the
human beings down through all the signs of the Zodiac into their
take in the full extent of the Christ-Being. But the Christ-Being
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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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quite different origins of the human being than the knowledge
beings illuminate this field by such light flashes repeatedly,
riddles which the human being has to face over and over
again with his feeling, thinking and willing. The human being
human beings were less eager to satisfy their desire for
usual life. What the human beings searched in sanitariums and
in the human being, as he walks on earth today, another human
being sleeps and rests who is not perceived due to the
usual human being than dream images exist in him which emerge
they found out for themselves how this second human being rests
in the usual human being: they could not conceive this sleeping
human being without bringing him together with death in any
being sleeping in the first is associated intimately with
higher human being in the usual human being associated with the
“If we call ourselves living beings and attribute a
big and complete consciousness, an awakening of the whole being
actually, the human being. Fortlage gets to an idea of the
which seizes all human beings at once at the moment of death
enclosing consciousness, which puts the human being into a
interests the whole human being in psychology, which are far
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture II: Anthroposophy Does not Disturb Any Religious Confession
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being et cetera, because it is deeply penetrated by the idea of
spirit from their research fields. If one takes the human being
biology can study the bodily existence of the human being only
all human beings know nothing — because they themselves
a human being into the spiritual world — using those
truth the human being lives with his soul. In this spiritual
religious confessions that referred the human beings to the
dupe the human beings into regarding the outer
in the human beings, they would gradually entice them because
spiritual world. They would bring along that the human beings
respect, until an sufficiently big number of human beings
also originated that comes into being in the Dornach building
beings come together and carry out events, but only that which
thinking, to a part of the human being, to the head. By no
human being with his whole soul: feeling, thinking, and
willing. However, the human being thereby gets a more intimate
spiritual world approached the human beings. They took the view
beings who were very well prepared for such activities. With
the whole human being and his whole soul. Hence, one has
really approaches the human being and the human being combines
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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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needs of the human beings. However, if one notes that the
being of the soul and with it about the real core of the human
being. In the talks that I have held here weeks ago it was my
side to unveil the secrets of his own soul being to the human
being, just if it wants to remain strong in the area that is
again, what the human beings have lost as instinctive
knowledge. Most certainly, the human beings who feel this
its being as they have appeared in the time in which the
its basis in the bodily of the human being. However, this
how a human will impulse, how everything that the human being
being or the animal have taken up with their food is the amount
of energy which the human being or the animal develop if they
being. Everything that we exert in the work with movement and
intervene of its own accord in the human being, create anything
active from the human being outwardly is only a transformation
product of that what the human being takes up from the world?
say if the human being accomplishes a so-called free, arbitrary
only if it makes its inner being independent from the body.
every human being would like to do the object of his
questions for every human being. The old instinctive knowledge
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture IV: The Science of the Supersensible and the Moral-Social Ideas
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what natural sciences have to say about the being of the events
scientific ideas one cannot penetrate into the being of
come close anyhow to the being of the life phenomena just with
long as it concerns penetrating only into the being of nature,
appear. Nevertheless, they appear if the human being wants to
consideration of the human being has become relatively
being but into his whole nature.
only considers how the human being is active in the wake day
the dream life, to take the whole human being into account.
of the human being much more intensely than one believes in the
animals, of the human beings, it would turn out that it is more
As death of the plants, animals, and human beings is something
animals and that of human beings is different to spiritual
we experience the sleep as human beings. It is a trivial view
that the human being must sleep because he is tired. However,
bodily tools to the soul being.
human being has to spend his life as it were, — as well
essence of the human being, one will also be able to recognise
that — if the human being withdraws from the wake day
being, than while awake. Save that the human being, as he is in
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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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birth and death of the human being? What has it to say about
being?
of the everlasting of the human being by psychology.
human being. You receive a feeling if you open yourself to the
all probably know that if the human being looks at those big
more human beings this internal boldness awakes to prepare
promising and fertile way for the human beings, this step is
inside of the human being in such a way that it can really
inside of the human being attunes itself if it follows a bare
modern human being in strange way, just if you have tried to
because I believe that that which the modern human being thinks
centuries. Not that the human beings have learnt to think from
the human beings knew that are to be driven from the field by
This modern spiritual science, while it urges the human being
from the real being: I think, therefore I am not. You
out: while I think, I cease being.
human being who takes these things seriously that, while he
Then one also acknowledges the unreality of our being while
is the first that the human being recognises if he is able to
we study that carefully what manifested of Goethe's being
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VIII: How Natural Sciences Justify the Supersensible Knowledge
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being with reference to the big riddles of knowledge? — I
one, he thought that the human being can never get to any
organisation, in the human being himself. One notices at last:
cornerstones. The same force that prevents the human being from
would a being have to be constituted — it would not be a
human being — that developed such scientific views that
Such a human being would have to have a mental organisation
first instinctively, in the human being that must appear in the
the human being must be connected in any way if they concern
human being. Since this inside of the human being often proves
human being is connected in his consciousness with that what
all kinds of what they call a feeling of being one with the
being: as well as the force of loving must be there which
prevents the human being from submerging in the undergrounds of
his being, as the mystic wants it, with the usual
consciousness. If the human being had the ability to descend
able to find in the human inside, then the human being would
make the human being useless for life of course if one removed
human being thereby associates himself emotionally with another
pictures only which are organised by their own being towards
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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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willing, and an uplifting of our whole being. They stand there, these
human being, however intently we may observe and analyze them, manifest
beings who have met their death in these last years, must think of countless
human beings hungering for food. At this time surely nothing is fitting
When a human being enters
than by saying: man's central being leaves the spiritual world. He is
Deo Nascimur,” he is speaking of the human being entering the
physical being here on earth: this is what is referred to by the words
human being, his innermost core of being, one must say: he comes down
in such a body. But he has come, in his central core of being, out of
thinking asserts in its simplicity that a human being develops his ego
the human being. For one knows that as the human being grows physically
fullness of a man's being gradually disappears into the body; it becomes
Thus the human being enters
the world as a spiritual being. His bodily nature while he is a child
and etheric bodies. But the fact that we do not perceive a being does
not make it less perfect. This is what the human being has to accomplish
in this way. His soul and spirit being must lose themselves for a while
It will then become powerful again for humanity. Human beings will once
time. Think how it is with the human being as he enters sense-existence:
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Basel, 6-3-'14
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reality, inspirations through which spiritual beings
united with divine beings. All of this is contained in the percept,
spiritual beings press into us with every breath, with every
Floats over real developing being

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own being. Such a thought flits by unnoticed if there isn't
waking ego-consciousness being involved. Thereby we become aware that
powers who can take over human beings. What do these powers tell each
these beings take possession of such souls and draw them away from
time to understand everything that was and is being said about Christ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Basel, 9-22-12
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other beings, a feeling of sorrow and joy as if it were our own, is
pole of the consciousness soul is the feeling of being able to
Being
“without conscience” is a feeling of being completely

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Basel, 11-23-1907
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u is resting, being ensheathed.
colors of objects flame out of objects or beings there, and stream,

Title: Anthroposophy in Daily Life
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self within us and are enabled thereby to advance as human beings. There are others whose
minds are more theoretical and who enjoy hearing of the different members of man's being,
But it is a mistake to think that by enumerating them we know something of man's being for
within the human being. When we look upon a human being, it is essential to know how his
closer observation shows that the relationship between these members of the human being
incarnations, we shall find in him a human being whose physical, etheric and astral bodies
were loosely knit together. But when we consider a human being of the present time, we find
enveloping members always changes, so that the human being whom we meet in the external
differently constituted. Because of these differences our experiences as human beings are
calling the world into being, God is a mathematician" seems to come into play. On the other
man's inner being has any share in the destiny of his life. For if birth and death are
possible to calculate when we have to die and in that case our inner being really appears
speaking of special laws which rule our inner being. External reasons may however be
being.
away the connection between the inner nucleus of our being and the external course of life.
for the soul's being. Similarly, the figures that result from the calculations of Fliess
a definite stream controlled by laws which are connected with our inner being only through
that lie at the foundation of the world's structure, are also valid for the human being. If
similar is the case with human Karma and the stream of life which it controls. The Beings
contained in the universe, is what we may acquire, so that we become better human beings.
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