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Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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has insulted him. Without thinking, he is roused to anger and gives
contemplation, thinking — and about the will and its impulses on
your own thinking, of your personal resolutions. When someone knocks
a decision of your own thinking and will. If you are hungry and seat
way, namely through sleep. When we are asleep we do not think;
thoughts. Human thinking is the shadowing forth of ideas and beings
you represent thinking rightly to yourself when you picture the human
processes are reflected in the human head as thinking.

Title: Lecture: The Four Sacrifices of Christ
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humanity is aware of color and light without having to think of the seeing
nature? You need only think what it is like when injured by organic
Thinking, feeling and willing were threatened with disorder through the
that impulse of will, while his thinking would have impelled him in quite
human evolution that thinking, feeling and willing should become
thinking, feeling and willing. Truly, as the rays of the physical sun must
thinking were harmonized at this period by forces that descended from
brought thinking, feeling and willing into disorder. All who turn their
of man's thinking, feeling and willing. “Thou Sun Spirit,” so
archangels today; “Thou has brought thinking, feeling and willing,
Atlantean era the soul organs, the organs that underlie thinking, feeling
being.” Let them think me a fool; I regard them as belonging to the
science. If we thus consider this and, in addition, think of it as a school of

Title: Lecture: The Threshold In Nature and In Man
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T will be clear, I think, from what has been said on earlier
any satisfying conviction. In our day we are not accustomed to think of
march of progress; and we in these days have to think in an entirely
natural science, as I think will have been evident from the example we
called “pure thinking” — that thinking which is completely
higher level. For when we permeate pure thinking with moral ideas and
will enable him to rise to pure thinking; and on this path he becomes
for the deed that has been envisaged in pure thinking.
condition, namely, of pure thinking, to which man is able to surrender
experiment. And through the work he does in thinking, man develops an
himself. True, he thinks his thoughts, and in thinking remains always
united with his thoughts; but he thinks them in such a way that they
of his life of instinct. He is under necessity so to think that,
make man's thinking correspond with what he saw with his eyes. So
the development of thinking; and the consciousness of self has grown
thinking such as is necessary, for example, to grasp the heliocentric
who shared Haller's attitude towards Nature, labeled such thinkers
We think, through every part
perception. Goethe says he never thought about thinking; what he set
We are accustomed to think of the course of our life as divided
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Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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thinking, declares in its simplicity that the human being
way of thinking, my dear friends. For, if we look upon the true
human thinking is always perverted. Some one who
42 or 40 years of age? Human beings tend always to think from
and to think in harmony with this time, then shall we

Title: Purpose of the Goetheanum and Anthroposophy
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thinking and a logic of life. And anyone who immerses himself
in Goethe, not merely with a logic of thinking, but who takes
he will believe — no matter what he may think of the true
Hence, I often said, I think even here in this place, in the
us think first of the strange world which each of you knows as
of human consciousness — let us think of the dream-world.
feels as his own being, in his thinking and feeling, his
thinking and representation, a notable aliveness is developed,
know it, he begins to think somewhat as follows: A muscle we
thinking force of our soul-life is strengthened, if we do not
this way we finally reach the point where the thinking —
way, streams into thinking that has thus become active.
different. And anyone who strengthens his thinking more and
recollections. But when we actively work on our thinking in the
know that with this thinking life we go farther down than the
now penetrated, and from which, with our strengthened thinking,
strengthened, invigorated thinking, is this: A man sees himself
with strengthened thinking, one enters into what I may call the
try to make the thinking inwardly very active, very much alive,
so that, instead of passive thinking, we have within an active
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Title: Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree
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to think with greater readiness of what is spiritual and to
are allowed to think and reflect upon as the divine thoughts
think the evolution of the gods. If we understand this
thinks is right, but it is also his duty to say only what is
following is a materialistic thinker: “When one thinks,
moves depends upon what thoughts we think. This is exactly
those who think of these three virtues being ever more
thinking of ourselves as being united with him in his work?
should think in this way of our gathering, that we should

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture III: The Supersensible Being of Man
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like to bring to your notice one of the very first thinkers in
effort in his own thinking, even told his students at the
think the wall.” Well, of course, this was easy. The
audience tried to put itself into the position of thinking the
wall. Then after he had let the people think the wall for a
while he said, “Now try to think the person who has been
thinking the wall.” Fichte knew what he wanted, and
was completely nonplussed when they tried to think the person
who had thought the wall, and how their thinking was in a way
thinking about thinking. Goethe always sought to be aware of
felt that the attempt to think thinking put a person, keeping
to the ordinary means of thinking, into an impossible
super-sensible worlds can only rely on the thinking at the
thinking he is within himself, and in employing the power of
his soul to penetrate the inner activity of his thinking he can
with our thinking as employed in ordinary life, the greater our
convinced through this experience of our thinking that —
think thinking than we can wash water.
we shall see later, be experienced, is by way of the thinking.
However, this method does not use the thinking as we do in
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Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ Within Us
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when it begins really to think, cannot do otherwise. And so, inasmuch

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IX: The Etherization of the Blood
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thinking, he is roused to anger and gives vent to it by striking the
forming mental pictures, thinking, and the will and its impulses
really the outcome of your own thinking and forming of mental
a true decision of your own thinking and willing. If you are hungry
way, namely, through sleep. When you are asleep you do not think; you
thinking is the shadow-image of mental pictures and beings belonging
thinking rightly to yourself when you picture the human head thus
are reflected in the human head as thinking. Continuous streams move
thinking during the night with the influence of divine-spiritual

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture One
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chronicle. It is no ordinary script. Think of the course of events,
just as they happened, presented to your spiritual vision; think, let

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Two
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will now think of the nature of the Bodhisattvas in relation to the
example, before men acquired the faculty of logical thinking by
means of which they themselves are able to think logically to-day,
themselves were not able to think logically through faculties
themselves were able, out of their own earthly nature, to think
sense-observation, in intellectual, logical thinking. By degrees he
thinking without having first gained the requisite moral strength,

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Three
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assimiliate the principles of logic and unfold logical thinking.
Logical thinking is now one of the general faculties possessed by man
great Greek thinker, that this faculty first arose from a human soul.
rumble darkly within him from previous incarnations. Man's present thinking
cycle of human evolution, nobody is able, without further effort, to think
between objective thinking which has nothing but the ‘object’ in
view, and thinking influenced by the forces arising from the Linga
acquired as an apparent truth, not as the result of objective thinking,
what a man thinks because certain experiences in former incarnations
ensured for men the possibility of right thinking! And whatever
erroneous to think that such a Being then withdraws altogether from
world, may be understood by thinking of the following facts.

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Four
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creative turn of mind, not only keeping his thinking very alert but
times. Think of some personality in ancient India: he incarnated

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Five
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thinking, feeling and willing; hence the pupils of Zarathustra strove
symbol of thinking, frankincense — the symbol of the piety which

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Seven
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The Christ Being cannot be understood if we think of Earth evolution
Earth from outside. If we think back to the pre-Christian period of
the feelings as forms of light. But the thinking that is experienced
phantom of thinking — as you will readily believe, because
Thinking .......................... Tone- or Sound-Ether
feeling to thinking — yes, even to the expression of thoughts, to
individual feelings and individual impulses of will; but thinking is

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Eight
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shepherds, and so on — again, when I think of the other stream and of
materialistic thinkers. It is as well that these lectures are being

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Nine
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very fact is essential and fundamental. Think, for example, of how
the forcefulness of these words by thinking of analogous happenings
Think of the steward who, as a child of the world, realized that one cannot
the days of Christ Jesus, for then once again we should be thinking
find human beings capable of thinking out the teachings of the

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Ten
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than any finding of the blundering thinking applied in modern
how firmly he may he bound to that world. Let us think of a man

Title: Et Incarnatus Est
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of the voices of leading thinkers of the nineteenth century.
centuries, is attractive to a thinker of the nineteenth century
followers, has been able to think out the speeches ascribed to
sense of which was recognized by some of the greatest thinkers,
us take another thinker of the nineteenth century. You know
that I think very highly of Edward von Hartmann. I mention only
cause. From this method of thinking, that fable convenue
generation would think of its successor in the following way:

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture I
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acuteness. In Germany many former Freethinkers have come to
to materialistic thinking to accept a Being who towers above

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture IV
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Before that time the Atlanteans could not reckon, think

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture V
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56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast? \

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VI
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quite different now. Think of the immense expenditure of

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VII
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man of the present day. It would be quite incorrect to think
consisted of plant-like substance. Many people think that the
materialistic thinker; it is a mistake to think that the

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VIII
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life. Think how man continually breathes in air which
thinking, and the opinion we have described above in respect

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 1
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of all human thinking and feeling took place — not
men, through an inner urge, were compelled to think
reincarnation was not the center of thinking) to the figure
others think he must have been a beggar wandering through the

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 2
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unreasonable to look at the human soul in this way? I think
evident that Steiner was thinking of the general

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 3
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has often been described even by the materialistic thinkers
Because they think in this way, men do not correctly realize
that death on the Cross. There is no point in thinking that

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 4
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thinking and human philosophy from the human to the
thinking, feeling, and perception the great figure of the
from the sorrow of life. In the midst of all their thinking
We can think
same time a higher unity. If we think of the Buddha face to
knowledge. Both science and popular thinking which today make
their thinking. Actually it is difficult for a man of today
to imagine this because today one thinks about everything.
But ancient man did not think in this way. He passed by
anthroposophists how they ought not to think. Sometimes we
are confronted with blatant examples of how not to think,
although many people believe we should indeed think like
example of an odd kind of thinking which I am quoting here
beginning now to study them! This is a way of thinking that
accepted that such things must be unthinkable, absolutely
unthinkable in our anthroposophical movement. For it is a
unable to think in this way. We can make no step

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 5
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possess the words, and with them think they have everything.
these most mature thinkers of Christianity, we meet with in a
essence, the answer is: Krishna! But we must not think of
this being as identical with any single plant but must think
believe they are able to think with great subtlety. But when
all respect for the thinking of today, especially for its
logical thinking. At this point I really must engage
People think
elevation which it did not achieve through thinking but
came down to us. When there are thinkers like Fichte,
in their thinking, then we can meet with these things again,
of touch; it could think with the intellect about things, the
he said, “Change your way of thinking. Do not continue

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 6
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different when we think of individual human lives. As you all
When we think
may think of as a predisposition in favor of events that
reversion to a kind of thinking that had already been
outgrown by mankind, for the way of thinking suited to
may think of as the general, recurring, identical
think it would be better if we looked for successive
thinking, to a concept of history, as the only conception in
we may think of as being possible through his physical
hear, and you do not think of what I did. I broke the five
of course think of black magic, though if a plentiful
this way. “Get behind me, Satan! You are thinking
are thinking only of what is convenient for men, not for
came from. To this the disciples reply, “People think
Let us think

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 7
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achieved through human thinking, nor is it thought out like
through the power of logical thinking and logical judgment
remarkable thinker emerged in Syros. Certainly he describes
things differently from other thinkers, who were later to be
something of what these first lonely Greek thinkers
think of a soul which is rooted in the West, prepared for the
able to see into the elemental world. Now let us think of one
Let us think
yearning they could not understand it. In Indian thinking
in the lonely Greek thinkers. Therefore Indian philosophy

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 8
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these people are thinking like a certain other person. For it

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 9
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Think of the loneliness of this man, permeated as He was by

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 10
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the centuries for them to think it necessary to ask whether
something that someone else thinks is “quite
right to accept from the materialistic thinking of our time
grounds for saying that a man can think with one part of his
brain or cannot think if this part of the brain is missing,
physical corporeality is much better adapted to think himself
feelings that arise in us when we think of the great
being of the Mystery of Golgotha. We may also think of this

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture I: The Human Soul in the Supersensible Realm and Its Relationship to the Body
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again with his feeling, thinking and willing. The human being
moment for persons of knowledge if they have to think the
and can apply the strict discipline and methodology of thinking
only the human thinking that takes the sense impressions as
Well, thinking is important, because strictly speaking a big
organs consists of a higher development of thinking than the
thinking is which one uses in natural sciences. However, if you
only abandon yourself to the usual thinking, that originates
sleeping in you. This thinking does not lead into the spiritual
world; this thinking can only realise that it is in the
of inspiration where to the human thinking leads if it is left
the experience that he had with thinking that he had
the thinking, he expressed himself as follows:
of thinking. No investigation gets to this necessity, as
the necessity of thinking — “every attempt to prove
the necessity of thinking. Someone who gets to the knowledge of
thinking but experiences it, he does not experience, indeed,
that beyond the thinking that Gideon Spicker describes, the
this thinking that bears the sense-perceptible reality. He
However, one must say that the thinking — if it is left
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture II: Anthroposophy Does not Disturb Any Religious Confession
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contemporary opinions and views as one thinks frequently. Since
one thinks if one gets to know anything about anthroposophy
anthroposophy intends; one thinks that anthroposophy is a
others. Hence, one thinks that anthroposophy is also such a
shown it yesterday from the way of thinking and attitude of
thinking, to a part of the human being, to the head. By no
in it, they would realise that the thinking and the logic that
head, not only the thinking, but it seizes the whole
human being with his whole soul: feeling, thinking, and
intertwine at first. However, thereby the thinking comes into a
inner discipline. For he thinks, he may be able to transfer
paradoxical concepts immediately begin with it. I think, for
of thinking, feeling and experiencing are there to criticise
history too cursorily. One thinks, one has to familiarise wide
enlightened thinking of the present, they noticed that they are

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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scientific thinking has taken possession of the human souls and
scientific way of thinking already had an impact, we realise
natural sciences extend their way of thinking to the soul, they
they take place in time. The scientific way of thinking can
of the outer world. The scientific way of thinking finds laws
However, mainly the scientific way of thinking develops these
performances, with asceticism. Think only that certain mystics
science that thinking, feeling, and willing have their
“Nature thinks and is continuously reflecting”
already the concept of spirit is included for such a thinker
think: everywhere we are inside.

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture IV: The Science of the Supersensible and the Moral-Social Ideas
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present habitual ways of thinking because of the prejudices
it is superstitious to think of the pictures, which appear in
scientific thinking and which belong completely only to the
the contents of the modern scientific thinking that do no
While skipping the scientific way of thinking the instinctive
concepts that developed with the scientific thinking. Since
professors who think scientifically. Let it legislate, and then
scientific, supported the emergence of this thinking most
thinking. I would not dream of that. Since this view has
— skipping the scientific way of thinking — the
scientifically thinking theorists can find social concepts, but

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VII: The Nature of the Human Soul and the Nature of the Human Body
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thinking, this modern soul science got more or less into cloudy
same methods and way of thinking which one uses in natural
by the scientific way of thinking and methods psychology does
calls thinking, feeling, and willing in psychological books
scientific thinking if it gets along with itself does not get
one resorts to a completely transformed thinking, generally to
thinking, of imagining. One forms a quite wrong idea of
strengthening the imagining, the thinking. It concerns that we
only carry out the thinking as it were as a concomitant of life
actually, if you only think, only imagine. It is completely
imagining and this thinking in such a way that you dedicate
this thinking what you cannot experience, otherwise, that the
you really experience the thinking internally as methodically
Someone who settles in the meditative thinking comes into
in any thinking which approaches the soul with old methods,
with old thinking.
ergo sum.” “I think, therefore I am.”
Augustine said this already. It is that to which the thinkers
directly experienced, and this is the fact that I think. Since
nevertheless, I must just doubt, that is I think. Hence, I am
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VIII: How Natural Sciences Justify the Supersensible Knowledge
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scientific thinking and must have tried to apply this
scientific thinking conscientiously in the most different
with the same way of thinking with which one penetrates
penetrate with thinking is integrated into the physiological so
with thinking.
if he develops his thinking in such a way that he carries out
results in the following: to that thinking which accompanies,
a thinking, which must always be produced anew.
a thinking that is like looking, an internally produced looking
that is like thinking. This can only inform you about the
However, if you develop such vivid thinking, you also get to
dress in the most different pictures. Only such a thinking, as
a representative not only how many people think but also of the
way to which generally the thinking of our time tends.
conscientious scientific thinker does not get to the brainless

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 1: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
illuminating strength for our thinking, a powerful incentive for our
beings who have met their death in these last years, must think of countless
thinking asserts in its simplicity that a human being develops his ego
is a naive way of thinking! If one observes the true human ego that
time. Think how it is with the human being as he enters sense-existence:
due to our ancient heritage, our thinking is not yet sufficiently powerful
at age forty-two or age forty? People think the wrong way around! They
to his thinking. And his feeling should support the power and light
if we think of ourselves as human beings here on earth. In Christ we
duty is to think and act in harmony with the time in which we live.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Basel, 6-3-'14
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anatomists think that it's still the same thing when it's taken out

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Basel, 9-22-12
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spiritual world. Through esoteric training our thinking becomes
it's not he who's thinking at this moment but that
Something is thinking in me. This weaving and working of thoughts is
think, feel and will in us must increasingly awaken. Someone could
from today's brutal logical thinking — not only brutal with
respect to men, but also brutal with respect to thinking. However an
esoteric must learn to think subtly and he must be aware that
sensory life a man is aware of his three soul forces — thinking,
whole body is an organ for thinking, feeling and willing.
get to the point where he is not only thinking with his brain
for instance, hands are better organs for thinking than the brain. He

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Basel, 11-23-1907
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one must think that the color is floating free I space. This

Title: Anthroposophy in Daily Life
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so that it may help us to advance? Many people think that when they acquire knowledge in
But it is a mistake to think that by enumerating them we know something of man's being for
which will compel people to think in a spiritual-scientific way. Generally speaking,
think that anyone will admit that he will have to die on the day fixed by arithmetical
it is something that cannot be encompassed by slack, easy thoughts. Those who think that it
If we begin to think and live in

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