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Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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being — physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego —
physical and etheric bodies remain in bed, while the astral body and
ego are outpoured into the great world bordering on physical
that in his present physical existence man is, in a certain sense,
into the spiritual world. The physical body in its ordinary state is
sleep as regards the outer physical world; daytime consciousness at
we realise that in the ordinary waking condition of physical life, man
streamings arise because human blood, which is a physical substance,
constitution of the physical body and etheric bodies lying in the bed,
into a physical body. But the evolution of humanity progresses and in
contradistinction to the Physical Christ of Palestine. For we have
believes that what he saw is a physical man. He will come to realise
specially prepared in order that He might be visible to physical eyes.
did the Physical Christ in Palestine. If men observe such happenings
will move about in the physical world, but is the only etheric
body able to work in the physical world as a human physical body
works. It will differ from a physical body in this respect only, that
physical form. What will be accomplished in humanity through this
not in physically embodiment but as pure Akashic forms within the
Sons of Fire, will appear in a physical body as Bodhisattva, can be
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Title: Lecture: The Four Sacrifices of Christ
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This mystery, as we know it, took place once in the physical evolution of
had not yet been fulfilled upon the physical plane. Only the fourth took
place in the physical realm, as related in the Gospels and in the Pauline
constitution holds us up securely in the physical world only when we do
this world if we had such physical organs that we were tossed to and fro
“I realize that I am able to exist as a physical man with unselfish
thinking, feeling and willing. Truly, as the rays of the physical sun must
dependent upon our natural ability, just as what we do physically is not
physical plane in 1904, and entered the spiritual world. Such people go
life and life in superphysical worlds. From the spiritual world Christ
descended from superphysical worlds through the Mystery of Golgotha

Title: Lecture: The Threshold In Nature and In Man
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condition comparable, in the realm of soul, with physical faintness.
the physical eye colours, or light and darkness, so with the eye of the

Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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mysteries of man's physical existence which he must look upon
the course of his physical life. It is true that a
super-sensible element is projected into this physical
the course of the physical life which are in their external
appearance purely physical but which — in contrast
with all other physical events — do not immediately
manifest themselves as physical events. We can look upon the
physical life of man as we look upon nature; we can thus look
upon the external side of the physical life, the external
physical vision the two boundary experiences of the course of
to face, even through our physical vision, with the tremendous
Christ Jesus stand these two events of man's physical life
physical plane, and in which the spiritual is so dominant that
the physical. Only these two events manifest themselves thus to
that there is connected with our entrance into the physical
midst of the physical world, reveal themselves even in their
physical manifestation as spiritual events, such as could never
physical manifestation.
what occurs in the physical world, the procreation and growth
of his physical body, is only the ensheathing of that event
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Title: Purpose of the Goetheanum and Anthroposophy
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control of our physical body. We feel that the extravagant
concepts of the dream are disciplined by the physical body. And
there is a moment ' when we do not have the physical body
memory-tableau, he has little impression of his physical
with the universal etheric world. When as physical human being
with his physical senses, a man confronts the outer world, he
to the corporeal, physical space-man.
itself. He can say, that to the solid, dense, physical world is
only in the physical body now ceases.
body in the physical life, that the body gives him the
through conception and birth into a physical human body,
unity of the moral world-order and the physical world-order. In
prototypes of the forms produced during the physical
weave in the human body even in the physical earth-life. One
world works into the physical earth-world, and that the
physical corporeal.
with the physical body, and comes to consciousness first of all
in the sensations of the physical body. But there is something
in the physical earth-life which, when I name it, may perhaps
with the physical body; you experience yourself outside the
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Title: Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree
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spiritual world? If we wish to bring the physical world and
had not as yet descended so far to the physical plane, but
art of life in regard to the physical plane, and when in
consisting of physical, etheric, and astral bodies received
physical body, etheric body and astral body remained with
externally, physically, shall separate from human development
just as the physical body of a human being falls away. One
which corresponds to the physical body of man. When the earth
it like a physical body, formed through the deeds of

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture III: The Supersensible Being of Man
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a bodily instrument, the physical organism, is necessary in
the physical world, and we cannot use this thinking for
thinking is bound to the physical instrument we are prevented
upon the physical organism than any theoretical materialist
could do. But we also notice that in living within the physical
could not have were there no physical organism. I hope I may be
thinks he would not, for our ordinary physical world, be a
inner methodical training of our thinking that the physical
released from the physical organism — only not the kind
significant in the physical world and that it has to be
the physical organism.
physical organism, that his soul, inasfar as it moves in
are faced with an inner — not a physical — danger.
really more bound to the physical organism of the body than the
the physical-bodily nature. We really achieve what I would call
physical nature, from our ordinary soul life, and so on —
physical, organic life to a standstill. In sleep we achieve
see physical objects outside ourselves.
soul life that is bound to the instrument of the physical body.
embryo and are then able to perceive the physical world.
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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
things that are connected with the physical birth of Christ Jesus.
meaning of the union of Christ with Jesus, in the Being whose physical
physical man, to impart meaning to earth-evolution. And in Jesus we
It was then that the external, physical Temple of Solomon lost its
cosmos, comes into operation when a human being enters physical
of a human being into the physical world is taking place;

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
waking life the four members of a man's being — physical body,
interwoven but that in sleep the physical and etheric bodies remain
great world bordering directly on our physical existence. We could
question it becomes evident that in his present physical existence
world. The ordinary physical body is asleep to this observation, and
relation to the outer physical world; daytime consciousness at the
physical life, man has, as a rule, little power or control over his
human blood, which is a physical substance, is continually dissolving
inner constitution of the physical and etheric bodies lying in the
about to descend into a physical body. The evolution of humanity
the etheric Christ in contradistinction to the physical Christ of
although he believes that what he sees is a physical man. He will
visible to physical eyes. Through what came to pass during those
life as truly and effectively as did the physical Christ in
about within the physical world, but they will know that this is the
only etheric body able to work in the physical world as a human
physical body works. It will differ from a physical body in this
etheric, not for a physical form. What will be accomplished in
physically embodied form but as pure Akashic forms within the earth's
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture One
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by spirit just as in the physical world it was filled by the living
physical senses. That is to say, the colour in the physical plant
and is imperceptible to the physical senses — for instance, the
become acquainted with the outward, physical aspect of a man in the
physical world who, let us say, passes in front of you in the
in the physical world between man and man.
the physical world! With the help of an example I should like to give
elementary Anthroposophy that man consists of physical body, etheric
on the physical plane but rise into the spiritual world, the
difficulties begin. When we have a human being physically before us,
we see a unity formed by physical body, etheric body, astral body and
perceive his astral body — which is now outside the physical
He sees their physical bodies lying there and, if he is clairvoyant,
mistake which astral body belonged to some particular physical body
clairvoyant or initiate he asks: ‘Who were the physical
Akashic Chronicle the physical ancestors of the man — the
physical body evolved in the line of physical descent. But then there
different path must be taken than when looking for the physical
streams: the physical body as it stands before you is not a
line of physical heredity; nor is the Ego a completely new creation,
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Two
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Spiritual Hierarchies and their Reflection in the physical World,
incarnated in physical bodies, could have intercourse with still
developed in the physical body itself, but only through their
are one category of Beings who, though incarnated in physical bodies,
physical body; he has incarnated for the last time in such a body and
physical depravity in the outer world, with its accompanying
in the world of physical humanity, he perceived everything as
humanity in the physical world. From Bodhisattva he was to become
incarnations and to turn outwards to the physical plane in order to
he encountered the phenomenon of advanced age on the physical plane.
manifestation of death on the physical plane. All this came before
first to learn on the physical plane everything that as Bodhisattva
physical body to the highest pitch of perfection possible in that
an abundance of external, physical possessions — ‘the kingdoms

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Three
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his complete descent into a physical human body. If we enter into
passed completely into the physical body, there were organs which it
the external organs of the physical body only, experiencing in the
what the physical body transmitted. All this passed through the soul
physical bodies.’
astral body and his Ego leave the physical and etheric bodies. Then
clairvoyant and beheld the world lying behind physical existence, they
observe in the external physical world. What is thus kindled in the
co-operation of the physical body — although not actually
He had now brought into the world a physical body able to unfold out
above became reality in the physical world at that time. It is a
Earth-existence. True, he does not enter directly into a physical
being, consisting of physical body, etheric body, astral body and
this rank, who no longer descends into a physical body but still has
not in a physical body but in an astral body. He had assumed a body in
the physical body, everything he has within him. This body is called the
At what is called ‘physical birth’ the human being strips off,
as it were, the maternal physical sheath; at the seventh year he strips
as the maternal physical sheath enveloped him until physical birth. At

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Four
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both physically and spiritually; the forces of soul develop by
physical plane if you approach these facts in the right way and do
can be learnt in the physical world from documents and the findings
during the previous embodiments: the physical body (in rudimentary
physical body, etheric body, astral body. We know of the processes in
which prevented the further evolution of mankind; physical matter
Eve’ to be transmitted to their descendants. The physical body had
describes a human being whose physical body, in respect of
from the physically oldest generations of mankind but was also, in a

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Five
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spirit of the external, physical sun. Hence Zarathustra was able to
say: ‘Behold not only the radiance of the physical sun; behold, too,
physical sun sends down its beneficient light and warmth!’

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Six
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relinquished; he lived in a spiritual and in a physical body
physical body. It was not until the fifth/sixth century
kind of union of a higher Individuality with a physical body was called
the physical plane; the Ego-hood of Elijah could not penetrate fully
into his physical body. He must therefore be called a personality
physical processes the Individuality who has been incarnated
previously simply unites with the physical embryo. In the case of an
active while the physical body of the human being is developing in the
penetrating right into the physical substance.
Knowing that these Beings appear on the physical plane at different
lived in a physical body.
they did not see merely what was happening on the physical plane in
in the physical world. A Being whose mission it is to proclaim the

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Seven
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rather His physical body was born — as the Nathan Jesus of the
spiritual occurrence which in some respects resembles physical birth:
When the physical environment of the mother's body is abandoned at
birth, the part of the human being then born is really his physical
physical body. In various lectures on the education of children the
It must be borne in mind that up to the twelfth year the physical
etheric body leaves the physical body at death, everything that is of
Now the etheric body forms and shapes the physical body of man and it
physical body. This resulted in the birth of the Being who thereafter
between physical death and rebirth; whenever this Being left the
physical body at death, he soon appeared again on the Earth in a new
physical body and is freed from its power. This happened to most of
the Sun are but the physical vestment of the spiritual Beings behind
the Sun's light; for behind the physical phenomena are hidden the
even as the human physical body is the body of the human spirit. But
Man's physical body — as everything else that is physical — is
as it were a shadow of this ether that can be perceived in the physical
Physical tone or sound is a mere phantom of spiritual tone, of
As physical man is constituted to-day, everything that is of the
nature of soul expresses itself in his physical and etheric
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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
as deeply in the physical body as was the case later on. Without
physical body and was less firmly knit with it than is the case
power over the physical body. The more deeply the
etheric body penetrated into the physical body, the weaker it became
and the less power it had over the physical body. In the ancient
physical body, but to a certain extent this was still the case in the
processes in the physical body.
physical body and is therefore closely bound up with it. But we are
emerge again, emancipate itself from the physical body and become
physical body. Not being so closely bound to the physical body, the
soul; this gave it greater power over the physical body, with the
had a tremendously strong effect upon the physical body. In the
into the physical organism. The soul still had an actual effect upon
the etheric body and the etheric body in turn upon the physical body.
of expansion, affecting his physical body too. Therefore much
body penetrated into the physical body.
possibly still feel in our physical heart to-day when loving or
effect penetrates into his physical organism. This is not
there be strong enough to work right down into the physical body.
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Nine
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soul-and-spirit over the physical continued to exist. Hence before
physical, etheric and astral bodies; the Ego had long since been
was still obscured by the three sheaths: physical body, etheric body
astral, etheric and physical bodies, all the old clairvoyance, all
streamed from Christ, working upon the astral, etheric and physical
higher stage and need not again descend into a physical body. The

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Ten
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etheric and physical bodies of men, the Ego was now to become fully
insight into the processes of physical life; the latter healing was an
received this spiritual stream through the physical, etheric and
through our physical, etheric and astral bodies such faculties as we
us, can be explained as having come into existence through physical
they fall asleep immediately after being torn out of their physical
began, the human Ego was connected physically with the blood. The
all wrongs the physical world can inflict. Words expressing this
to transform the whole of physical existence. We shall in time give

Title: Et Incarnatus Est
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Ernst Renan regarded the cities of Palestine with his physical
spiritual knowledge. No physical scientist can give answer to
part they do in the physical world. Just as Christ Jesus passed
which birth and death both lose their physical meaning will the

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture I
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which require the physical body. Above them are beings who do
not need the physical body, namely, the Angels, Archangels,

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture II
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which the physical body perceptible to our senses is only one
part of the human being. Man possesses this physical body in
the forces at work in our physical body are the same as those
This physical
materials of which they are constituted follow physical,
unnatural and is forced upon them. The physical materials
etheric body withdraws from the physical body, the substances
of the physical body group themselves in the manner natural
destruction of the physical body.
the physical body has behind it this etheric body. Man has an
the corresponding physical organ. One is naturally tempted to
that in its upper part it is an exact image of the physical
coincide with the physical body. There is a great secret
underlying the relationship between the etheric and physical
larger than the physical body. Thus, for example, in the case
just as truly, it surrounds and permeates the physical world,
tiredness is only disharmony in the physical and astral
bodies. The relationship between the physical and astral
very greatest strength to change the physical body
physical body that has been consciously transformed by the
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture III
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On Saturn we formed the first foundations of the physical
body. We can gain an idea of the physical constitution of man
indicated even then. Not only did the germ of the physical
etheric body of man was added to the existing physical body,
Physical body
Physical body
Physical body
Physical body
their forces to us with the physical sunlight. These two
this life into firm forms. The form of the physical
They possessed four principles, physical body, etheric body,

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture IV
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physical, etheric and astral bodies. On the Old Moon Wisdom
construction of the physical body, less in that of the
Spirits worked upon it. As a rule the physical body is looked
greatest wisdom can be seen just in the physical body. Only
through this wisdom is it possible for the physical body to
desires which hold sway in the physical body when tea and
astral body on the physical body, and especially on the
have now to distinguish in men the physical body, the etheric
physical body; then the fertilising Ego could gradually be
into the physical vehicle of the Ego.
Jehovah made the blood, into the physical vehicle of the Ego.
ancestors on the Old Moon consisting of physical, etheric and
relationship between the etheric and physical bodies was then
other in the physical brain, between the eyes, about half an
the etheric brain projected some distance beyond the physical
clairvoyant. They did not see the outlines of physical

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture V
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from the physical body . The raising of a human being, so
etheric body remains united with the physical body, whereas
from the physical body. During this time the Hierophant had
physical brain. That was the method of initiation in
physical body and makes it into Spirit Man. Now it was only
could henceforth be embodied in the physical brain without
experiences of initiation outside the physical body; they had
then descended again into the physical body and could from
remaining in the physical body, could see the life of the
the physical body for the first time through Christ Jesus,
physical body; that is to say, to develop within themselves
seen that man consists of physical, etheric and astral
The Physical
“I”-consciousness of man is in the physical
the ego of the physical body. Thus through our physical body
in the physical world with our individual Ego only. When, in
individual ego permeates the ego of the physical body,
Ego of the Physical body.
Physical World.
inner light in man, just as the physical Sun has enkindled

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VI
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head and the physical head coincided. This people was at that
physical eyes. If we picture this fact clearly, we can easily
spiritual world that they looked upon the physical as maya,
conquest of the physical plane. The men of the first
for what was outside in physical nature; for the Initiates it
physical existence.
made a further step forward in the conquest of the physical
plane. To the Persians the world was physically an
study another side of the evolution of humanity. The physical
penetrated into the physical; how in the fifth age humanity
sank most deeply into the physical world; now, after humanity
has gained the mastery over this physical world, it will gain
was an expression in the physical of the fear of the Huns
were decadent descendants of the Atlanteans. Their physical
physical bodies of later generations.
expresses itself later in the physical body. The nervousness
principles, which work upon the physical, and the sixth, the

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VII
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physical body. To-day the astral body is still outside the
physical body during sleep; it is only during sleep,
the physical body, because his astral body is then outside
the physical body and is thus able to work upon it. Further
influences on the physical body are now no longer possible,
Epoch and the more the etheric body was outside the physical
the physical body. The mastery of the etheric body over the
physical was so complete in former times because the physical
in human evolution when the physical body only had the first
body over the physical body was so great that man was able to
partly outside the physical body. The etheric body,
apes were unable to do this; their physical body hardened,
whereas man was able to keep his physical body soft and
that at that time there were actually physical human forms
physical plane, and after they had come down to this stage of
evolution in the physical world, they developed up again to
kingdom, just as man takes possession of the physical earth
form of the bird, if they are to make themselves physically
possesses physical body and etheric body only, and for this

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VIII
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works on the physical body and forms out of it the Spirit
alcohol, and this will then disappear again from the physical
physical body. The Event on Golgotha is the initiation of a

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 2
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able to embody in the life of the physical plane the impulses

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 3
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Naboth. So Naboth is the physical personality of Elijah; when
physical personage of Elijah. In the biblical sense, Elijah
physical world. All this I have shown in detail in my lecture
the physical body. As a consequence, something happens that
that the physical personality of the Baptist may perhaps have
that is to say, his physical personality was then prevented
many assumptions were made, not only after the physical
though the physical personality of John had gone away, he is
Baptist had met his physical death, Christ Jesus came to the
the reincarnated Elijah leaves his physical body and Christ
the Baptist just when the physical personage was withdrawing
physical plane altogether. But it is shown in very clear
is today; hence the physical body could be worked on
governed the physical body, psychospiritual methods of
because the union between the physical and etheric body is
outer physical and the inner moral flowed together in a new
and the moral and the physical aspects of the healing worked
expression of the moral in the physical element is not
must not look upon a physical defect as the bringing together
of the physical and moral elements within one incarnation.
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 4
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forth the desire for physical incarnation, with the aim of at
physical senses and physical organs, but to ascend and take
leave the physical for the etheric, entering in this way the
stands behind the physical will also understand why so much

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 6
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we may think of as being possible through his physical

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 7
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Elijah, after it had been freed from the physical body of
outside the physical body and returning into it, thereby
instrument of his physical body. Then after these three and a
half days he had to unite himself again with his physical
Nazareth had actually resulted in the genuine physical death
of the physical body of Jesus of Nazareth. The spirit of
Christ remained for three days outside the physical body but
it then returned. And now it was not in the physical body but
cross had to be erected on the physical plane of world
spoke of water, but he did not mean physical, material water
any more than Heraclitus meant physical material fire. But it
work in the physical material world. It cannot see through to

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 8
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they lived in quite different physical conditions. This was
linked to the fact that the physical body was entirely
the physical body, the disciples see Him. In such an
everything that can be fully experienced through the physical
his physical organization; and from the physical organization
bound to the blood, had to be conveyed to the physical
physical vessel for egohood could be given to mankind. That
this physical vessel, the ancient Jewish people, was a gift
at the same time have sacrificed that physical organization
that was to give mankind the physical basis for the

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 9
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not see Him physically at all, does recognize Him. So what
of a merely physical son of David, for David himself speaks
of the “Lord” and not of a physical son
intermingled at random with purely physical facts. And we
an external form but outside His physical body. So while His
physical body might be in one place or another, He could
His physical body. What He says lives in their souls; though
The physical could not have
Lord” could be incarnated anywhere in the physical
presenting Him, out of vanity, in a physical form. Rightly

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 10
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by suggesting that He did not walk on the lake with physical
the disciples were simply unaware of the physical laws of the
physical plane. And everyone knows for certain that no
with their physical eyes because they fled. The eyes of
Mystery of Golgotha took place on the physical plane, the
memory in that they were able to remember physical material
of Golgotha is an event that occurred on the physical plane,
of Golgotha is a physical-material event, but the path
for in a superphysical, super-sensible way and in spite of the
spiritual world and was brought down into the physical world.
the physical plane, whereas the man — again not a
physical corporeality is much better adapted to think himself
the physical events afterward. This must be understood, as

Title: Karma of Untruthfulness I: Lecture Eight
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Many people have the custom of celebrating every year the physical
of what is connected with the meaning of the physical birth of Christ
physical birth we celebrate in the Christmas festival. Let us start
meaning to earthly evolution by being born in a physical human being.
not of this world!’ So the external, physical Temple of Solomon
cosmos, how it works when man enters on the physical earth into his
physical existence, all this, at a certain period of earthly
the process of entering into physical, earthly reality. Subconsciously

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture I: The Human Soul in the Supersensible Realm and Its Relationship to the Body
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sense perceptible physical life are associated with the laws of
supersensible world, while he is put into the physical world if
his soul needs the physical body between birth and death.
spiritual researcher does, of the outer physical course, of
of knowledge. As the sense of touch arises as a physical sense
way as you move with your senses in the physical-sensory, then
world as one lives with the senses in a physical world. As one
physical world, one distinguishes realms in the spiritual
physical realms. Briefly, the soul consciously enters in the
anthroposophy. Goethe differed in his view of the physical
grasp the outer physical things with his theory of
while developing physical laws. The physical laws will be the
which only is just used to thinking physical laws. More and
physical scientist. Just the greatest experts spoke this way.
immutable physical principles. However, if now these putative

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture II: Anthroposophy Does not Disturb Any Religious Confession
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spiritual senses to itself beside the physical senses to
the physical senses in the physical world. This requires that
is nothing but an image, a photo which one gets in the physical
Goethe was a Goetheanist up to 1832 here in the physical world.

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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physical human beings with that which exists about which we
mental pictures of the physical reality. However, that of the
the term — its physical counter-image in the nervous
nervous system is the physical basis of the imagining activity,
processes are the physical basis of the emotional life.
formative forces. While the substances of our physical body are
comparison: the child is physically a result of the parents;
only gradually gained in the course of the physical human
human being is assigned to the whole physical human being, his

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture IV: The Science of the Supersensible and the Moral-Social Ideas
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penetrate not only into the pure physical side of the human

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VII: The Nature of the Human Soul and the Nature of the Human Body
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the soul life and the physical life outdoors, so that they
the human soul life. Soul life and physical life were not yet
inspired which lead us to the physical principles. The thoughts
physical-sensory world. About that, I want to speak more
ourselves independent of the physical body. We notice this

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VIII: How Natural Sciences Justify the Supersensible Knowledge
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physical knowledge as fulfilled, one could never answer two
finds that the ability of memory is bound to the physical

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 1: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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mysteries of mankind's physical existence. We must regard them very
physical life.
element reaches into this physical life through our sense observation
would seem perhaps to be completely physical events; and yet, in contrast
to all other physical events, they do not — indeed, they cannot
by their very nature — present themselves as simply physical events.
We can observe human physical life as we observe nature, perceiving
physical occurrence, without confronting through physical perception
physical life stand before our soul, addressing the Christian heart.
themselves as events happening on the physical plane but in which a
of a spiritual world. No physical observation of birth and death will
in the physical. Only these two earthly events appear in this way to
before his birth, before he breathed the outer air, he beheld the physical
he saw the light of the physical world.
is something connected with our entrance into physical life that only
and death, the two boundary pillars standing there in the physical world,
reveal themselves even in their physical appearance as spiritual events
remain mysteries, even in their physical manifestation.
What happens in physical life, the procreation and growth of his physical
physical world. What first en-sheathes him, what makes him a complete
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are in the habit of perceiving through physical senses, and we're too
be small in the physical world and be big in the spiritual world and
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that's why it's good to cultivate it on the physical
only the soul but also of the physical body, violent rages can arise,
don't feel in the physical body but in meditation; and then
it's only beneficial through meditation. In physical existence
see to it that we develop conscience in the right way on the physical
to have the feeling that we're carrying our physical body
must gradually spiritualize the physical to such an extent that
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learning that man consists of a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body and an Ego.
etheric body is connected with his physical body, whether the etheric and astral body tend
incarnations, we shall find in him a human being whose physical, etheric and astral bodies
etheric body and the physical body. In reality, ordinary science does not know anything
forces besides those we have the moment we step into physical existence.
When we enter physical life, the
physical body when passing through the portal of death, the Beings of the Higher
a new birth, even as here we share the physical substances of the earth. These physical
Hierarchies are filled with the wisdom which we need, even as we are filled with physical
knowledge that during our physical life we have absorbed only a very small portion of the
would be the same as trying to live on earth without taking in certain physical substances,
am able to say: I look up to you, ye rocks and mountains; fall down upon me, crush my physical
confidence in life, which penetrates into the very forces of our physical body. Maya,
illusion to say that our physical body decays into dust when we die. No! The structure of
our physical body, the way in which we formed it, is not an indifferent matter. If this
confidence in all that is eternal lives in the physical body, we give back to the earth
the forces acquired during our life. Through our physical body we give the world confidence
in life. The decadent part of our physical body is only a Maya. When we trace the physical
body, our etheric body and our physical body by wisdom, devoutness and in life-confidence,

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