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Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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outcome of research into the spiritual world.”
are to reach a worthy goal in world-existence and if our actions are
present in the world, so there are two poles in man's life of soul.
ego are outpoured into the great world bordering on physical
into the spiritual world. The physical body in its ordinary state is
sleep as regards the outer physical world; daytime consciousness at
the present time is sleep as regards the spiritual world.
higher worlds.
belonging to a higher world, the world we call the Astral plane. And
Processes in the Heavenly World, or Devachan, are projected, mainly
shadow-reflections of the Heavenly World or Lower Devachan.
Higher Devachan, of the Higher Heavenly World.
The Astral world is reflected in the world of thought; the Devachanic
world is reflected in the aesthetic sphere of pleasure and
displeasure; and the Higher Devachanic world is reflected as morality.
Higher Devachan, the Higher Heavenly World. These reflections are the
the external world is contrived with the aid of products of
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
Christ in the world; more and more they will be influenced in waking
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Title: Lecture: The Four Sacrifices of Christ
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We can search through the entire evolution of the world without finding a
spiritual world, and we have in a sense, three Mysteries of Golgotha that
In relation to our moral life, our understanding of the world, and in
the world order, we shall say, looking back to these ancient times, that
I am so placed in the world that I can look at it around me, my senses being
constitution holds us up securely in the physical world only when we do
the human being looked at a fruit or something else in the outer world
organs. Someday these relations of the outer world with our organs will
something harmful were present, for while certain things in the world are
resources, we should have been chased about the world by animal desires
this world if we had such physical organs that we were tossed to and fro
In our connection with the outer world we should be continuously
understanding of the spiritual world, a feeling of gratitude toward the
organs because not I alone have developed myself in the world, but Christ
generated in the spiritual world made possible the harmonization of
supramundane worlds, but the sign of this memory is not rightly
wonderful mythology made copies of what happened in the spiritual world
harmony the ego that was to come into the world.
“Not I, but Christ in me.” Every step into the spiritual world
without, does one who lives in spiritual worlds know what is within
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Title: Lecture: The Threshold In Nature and In Man
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The Human Soul and the World of Nature.
questions concerning our inner life and our knowledge of the world;
have a different answer according to his outlook on the world —
penetrates into the depths of world-existence, or into the knowledge
men have had. In earlier times, quite another picture of the world
that is to say, a geocentric picture of the world. Copernicus replaced
it with a heliocentric picture of the world. Man has now no longer the
Now, this heliocentric picture of the world already existed in earlier
world. Let me read you a passage translated from his writings.
in which Aristarchus conceived the world. We are therefore taken back
We find thus in Greek times the heliocentric conception of the world;
olden times, however, this heliocentric conception of the world was a
world could quite well be worked out for other spheres of knowledge.
World.” Spiritual Science is no “warming up” of Gnostic
self-consciousness that was fully detached from the external world.
When he thought about the world, he felt himself, so to speak, “grown
thoughts too from the external world. He had not yet the independence
of observation. In this way one arrives at a world system that is
completely detached from man. The world systems of ancient times were
Man felt himself within the world; he was part of it. In our time man
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Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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the world in the newborn Jesus.
the present world events the call to a renovation of many an
soul, is working its way up through the present course of world
spiritual world. No vision of the natural world can ever
before he beheld the light of the world.
human birth, which confronts world history so
midst of the physical world, reveal themselves even in their
place in the world surely does not give occasion for lapsing
within world history which impel humanity in its onward course,
the world as a child he withdraws from the world of spirit. For
what occurs in the physical world, the procreation and growth
his deepest being withdraws from the spiritual world. Man is
being to the extent that he enters the physical world.
journeys out of the spirit into the physical world. Through
that which occurs in the physical world, that upon which he has
world. And he is of such a nature that in his earliest years
in the world, who are not blinded by the illusion of
experiences in the spiritual world.
spiritual world, we then express ourselves very differently
here in the physical world between birth and death is only a
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Title: Purpose of the Goetheanum and Anthroposophy
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anthroposophical knowledge and conception of the world with
what fantastic notions there are in the world linked with all
decades to Goethe's world-conception, and to his whole
activity. Of course if anyone studies Goethe's world-conception
those friends of the anthroposophical world-conception who made
all the rest of the anthroposophical world-view. But of course
world-view in a living way from Goethe. And then this name was
because the anthroposophical world-view feels the deepest
gratitude for what has come into the world through Goethe.
anthroposophical world-view, when approaching the
anthroposophical world-view. Therefore, I shall be able to form
spiritual world, which can fully take its place beside the
of what I have cited as the opinions of the world about it.
of the world is not Anthroposophy, but that Anthroposophy
purposes to be a serious knowledge of the spiritual world.
to be knowledge of the spiritual world is regarded somewhat
the strict basis of this natural-scientific world-view. For it
concepts about the spiritual world similar to those they have
about the natural world; but this causes in many of them,
spiritual world, not for concepts of belief. Such
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Title: Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree
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world and the straining of the forces at one's disposal to
world; on the other hand, he may degenerate not merely in
thy deeds thou dost not lose thyself in the world, and that
the world also does not lose thee.
be lost to the world, the world lays hold on him, and crushes
him, as is the case in foolhardiness; or the world may be
which originates when the human being is lost to the world,
or the world is lost to him. Goodness consists in avoiding
through the world. We can now answer the Question as to why
too-little takes place, when man is lost to the world by
being crushed, or when the world loses him? In each of these
in the world — to show that all evil brings about a
destructive process, that it takes away from the world
man which enables him to perceive the objective world, to
the world ignorant of all the diversified objects it
contains, but to go through the world in such a way that he
objective world? It is what may be called interest or
mischief in the world. An apathetic person only lives in
that surrounds us. Apathy separates us from the world, while
interest unites us with it. The world loses us through
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Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture III: The Supersensible Being of Man
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operates within the world of the senses is not able to reach
man is to be found outside the world of the senses. I would
super-sensible worlds can only rely on the thinking at the
doubts become of finding in it a gateway into the world
those worlds where the real being of man can be known, or, as
worlds — that we learn to experience how the thinking can
Knowledge of Higher Worlds and also in the second part
the super-sensible worlds. It comes about by strengthening the
of super-sensible worlds. In particular we notice that in
forces that lead us into the super-sensible worlds. And such
the physical world, and we cannot use this thinking for
penetrating any world except the one in which it is not
from penetrating into the super-sensible worlds. We observe this
thinks he would not, for our ordinary physical world, be a
significant in the physical world and that it has to be
arrives at the mysteries of the material world by separating
passive copies that imitate the outer world, that they do not
different world. From this moment onward we know that what in
were always people who penetrated into the spiritual worlds,
otherwise our normal everyday self-consciousness into the world
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Title: Lecture: Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny
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Who descended from spiritual worlds in order, through His birth in a
worlds, with the Hierarchies ranged in their order, one above the
other. How the Christ had descended through the worlds of the
then existing is to reflect that everything produced by the world
cosmic worlds.
Christ came into the world at a time when the wisdom capable of
the Temple of Solomon was to inculcate the meaning of worlds into the
worlds to the earth gazed downwards and beheld the Temple of Solomon
every single human soul was this: "My kingdom is not of this world!"
But according to the world-plan it was not to be — although the
world as became the dignity of man, was sexual union permissible. The
of a human being into the physical world is taking place;
Everything that comes into the world calls forth a Luciferic and an
spiritual world was sought in an irregular way — at the wrong time.
external world. One such fragment consists of the words of Tacitus
birth. What happened then in the spiritual world was known best on the
world which the mind tries to grasp externally. And when the men of the
But whatever has once existed in the world and has taken root,
Who had come down from the world of the stars to the earth, something
Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing
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Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ Within Us
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conscious devotion to the Spiritual Powers working in the world we
A famous modern historian was once asked by a man interested in world
Christ-forces that stream through happenings in the world belong to a
to, stands in no connection with the general history of the world in
world, to the general religion of the world, the religion we have
destiny. But what Christ Jesus has brought into the world penetrates
happenings and actions in the world are presented, but only in an
prepared, have withdrawn from things pertaining to the worldly history
alive that the Christ Who came into the world through the Child born
traversed the heavenly worlds before His appearance on earth. —
The spiritual worlds are ranged one above the other in the heavenly
worlds are still living realities, the most ancient being present to
worlds, must not characterise in forms such as are presented to men's
spiritual worlds lies before you, will you ever say: This is a man?
a world of loving Creator-Spirits. Who, after hiding us in their heart

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
world existence and if our actions are to be worthy of us as members
divine-spiritual powers of the world, which can appear as man.
darkness are present in the world as the principle poles of the
great world bordering directly on our physical existence. We could
ask what there is to be said about contemplation of the world,
world. The ordinary physical body is asleep to this observation, and
relation to the outer physical world; daytime consciousness at the
present time is sleep in relation to the spiritual world.
life of soul into relation to what we know as the higher worlds.
to a higher world, the world called the astral plane. You represent
mental pictures and the astral world, so now in relation to feeling I
can point upward to Devachan or the heavenly world. Processes in the
heavenly world, or Devachan, are projected, mainly into our breast,
moral-aesthetic world, we bear within our souls shades of the
heavenly world or Lower Devachan.
heavenly world.
three realms which, in the macrocosm, the great world, lie one above
the other. The astral world is shadowed in the world of thought, the
intellectual world; the Devachanic world is shadowed in the aesthetic
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture One
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Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment,
leading beyond ordinary perception of the world.
the world through his senses and assimilates what he perceives by
all that lies behind the world of the senses is unfolded in mighty,
anything in the world of the senses.
An idea of the world
by spirit just as in the physical world it was filled by the living
nature of a spiritual being imperceptible in the world of the
imagine a world filled with such colour-forms, reflected in manifold
you have what is called the ‘Imaginative’ world, the
world of Imagination. It is nothing to which the word
applied; it is a real world, requiring a mode of comprehension
Within this world of
Imagination you encounter everything that is behind the sense-world
etheric and astral bodies. A man whose knowledge of the world is
physical world who, let us say, passes in front of you in the
beings of the super-sensible world. A clairvoyant who comes to
Imagination, and more is learnt about the beings of the world of
place only in a spiritual world, the expression
super-sensible worlds: Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition.
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Two
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world was born. Then come the words: ‘And suddenly there was with
Beings of the spiritual world are revealed in sublime pictures.
world-conceptions that had arisen in various regions of the Earth in
religion of love and compassion, as a great world-conception, and
Spiritual Hierarchies and their Reflection in the physical World,
from revelations they received from higher worlds in times before men
a Being such as the Bodhisattva was entrusted in the higher world
humanity was clairvoyant and able to gaze into the spiritual worlds,
altogether from the spiritual world and to engage in pure
to such Beings from the higher worlds and they were able to teach men
form of vision of the astral world, a vision of those demonic forces
Initiation we can look into the spiritual world and perceive forces
world can of course perceive all this himself; true vision depends
physical depravity in the outer world, with its accompanying
in the world of physical humanity, he perceived everything as
spiritual forces in the spiritual world. He saw all this because he
Bodhisattva he felt impelled to go out into the world in order to
world around him in the palace. Every picture kindled within him an
urge to go out and see the world, to leave his prison. That was the
with humanity in the world in which man can assimilate this teaching
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Three
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whole worlds, vast spiritual worlds, are revealed by this Gospel. After
heard, spiritual research shows how the Buddhistic world-conception, with
understand Buddhism as presented to the world in the teachings of the
and love; from the place in the world where Buddha worked a gospel of
the outer world from all living creatures. There we encounter
worlds the teachings indicated in the lecture yesterday. He had been
divine-spiritual worlds in order that he might bring down from there
when an all-pervading light appeared to me from the spiritual world,
kingdoms of the spiritual world these beings belonged: my
of the various kingdoms of the spiritual world these several beings
the world he himself could again experience and behold would be
himself was an Initiate — could gaze into the spiritual world; for
learn from the outer world through the instrumentality of their
the outer world as the latter with its light, colours, sounds, and so
forth, affects his senses, he would pass through the world without
impressions of the outer world become fraught with suffering? Then he
spiritual world, he perceived the influences of Lucifer and Ahriman
as with his vision of the astral world he perceived the harmful
for external life, for experience in the world, by his thirst and
enjoyment in the world, so that he does not merely move though the
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Four
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world at the moment when, according to the writer of the Gospel of
world in a new form and were rejuvenated through the circumstance
dissolves into the universal astral world. In the case of an average
higher worlds entrusts them to humanity; and if they come from the
can be learnt in the physical world from documents and the findings
material world. Spiritual science tells us that humanity passed
outer form and passed through a spiritual world in order then to
spiritual world, wanted to descend again to the Earth; but the human
the others were obliged to withdraw again into the spiritual world.
to one place or another in order to carry into the world, as the
found in any single individual who had worked in the world outside.
Whoever works for the world wears out his strength, and this wearing
the Sun Spirit from the profoundest depths of the spiritual world to
directly from the spiritual world and in the words of the Gospel was a
world. The shepherds, being for the moment clairvoyant, see him in
different task to fulfil. The wisdom of the world is indeed profound!

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Five
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stream in the world has its particular mission. These streams are not
But conceptions of the world and of life do not, as some people seem to
world-conceptions in question. The concrete facts connected with the
bearers of these world-conceptions as well as to call attention to
the Gospels — that the world itself could not contain the books
kind that could have been written down and presented to the world
am with you always, until the end of the world!’ He is there not as a
consider what Buddha gave to the world. Buddha's teaching was
‘Fravashars’, to the ‘world-creative thoughts’
that arise in man are everywhere in existence in the world outside.
world, to present a view of the Universe to a people whose task was
to labour in the outer world. This mission was in keeping with the
the bosom of a divine-spiritual world and can therefore say to
himself: ‘Whatever your place in the world may be, you are not
again be made manifest and take effect in the outer world. The
world.
harmony in the outer world. His mission also included the art of
world.
upon men. This most precious gift was knowledge of the outer world,
from the deep foundations of the divine-spiritual world. Symbols for
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Six
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Everything in the world comes into being and develops; for everything
Mystery-schools, where it was possible to rise to the higher worlds
sheath; his connection with the spiritual world was never wholly
the spiritual world; he could send only part of himself into the
spiritual world was known to all religions and cognate modes of
world.
to the outer world. Whereas Buddha gave deeply penetrating teachings
should be enlightened about the world out of which they are born.
Buddha's gaze was directed inwards, Zarathustra's to the outer world,
world, Zarathustra spoke of two Powers: Ormuzd and Ahriman or ‘Angra
essentially with the outer world. Man was made acquainted with the
beings governing the material world, with everything that prevails in
the world as a good, or as a sinister influence. He felt himself
forces from the evil beings of the world were streaming through him,
primarily concerned with the outer world — viewed, of course,
Zarathustra had perceived, the forces at work in the external world;
of the moral power holding sway in the world, the power that can take
and the other in the spiritual world. Elijah was an Individuality of
which other men are placed in the world. In the normal way the human
reached into the spiritual world. His development was necessarily
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Seven
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regards the outer world until about the twenty-first year. Then what
was translated into the spiritual world, she took with her what was
mother of the Nathan Jesus with her into the spiritual world.
translated into the spiritual world, and the Zarathustra-Ego; for
the wisdom of the world, and because He has revealed Himself in so
composed of the elements also to be found in the world outside: the
world as tone or sound. Behind external ‘sound’, however,
character of the world of feeling and the world of will. This
world of the Gods, in order not to be given to man until a later time.

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Eight
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worked in the world for three years as ‘Christ’ in a human
able to gaze into the depths of existence, into the spiritual world.
view of the world held by our ancestors in ancient India and upon the
the spiritual-scientific conception of the world takes root, for this
spiritual heights as a world-conception, as a number of truths
impetus for penetration into the physical world. In respect of the
already descended just so far into the physical world as to enable a
spiritual world. He had to acquire inner strength.
able to show how wisdom in the world's evolution created the two
beautiful in the process of world-evolution!’ We ourselves can have
in the world.
in what is thus made manifest through the happenings of world-existence.
anthroposophical conception of the world. The seed is the Kingdom of
the world and any consciousness of the realm of the divine-spiritual
applies to what Anthroposophy has to bring into the world to-day; it
yet be found in the outer world; we must penetrate deeply into this
At the right moment something of the kind is established in the world
mighty deed. Thus in his day Buddha brought to the world the teaching
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment
manifestation had necessarily to appear in the world at exactly the
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Nine
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outer world was instilled, impressed into it. The Law of Sinai came
do anything for others or for the world.
reality in the outer world. That would have been the real meaning of the
16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. \
cleverness. Then the verse continues: ‘For the children of this world
reflected upon what is meant by ‘the children of this world are in
text correctly, it would read: ‘for the children of this world in
in their way the children of this world are wiser than the children of
restore the biblical records in their true form to the world, for
the world to-day does not, properly speaking, possess the Bible and can
Think of the steward who, as a child of the world, realized that one cannot
must I do to enable my Ego to fulfil its function in the world as
that it may stream forth again from the Ego into all the world as it
from self-interest, must work in the world.
effect in the outer world. Another Evangelist, who because of his
spiritual world and now works in his Nirmanakaya. He has risen to a
power into the world.
the present, however, when so many factors unknown to the external world
the world.’ And then, together with such human beings, the Maitreya
Buddha will be able to carry out his further mission in the world's

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Ten
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on the outer plane of World-History.
it is not always the task of the great emissaries in world-evolution
great in heaven” — i.e. in the spiritual worlds.
been completed, knowledge of the higher worlds flashes up in the
aspirant and the laws and happenings of the spiritual world are
the higher worlds. It was not until his next incarnation that the
spiritual world did not flow into the self-conscious Ego, for men
behind him the Powers which direct and guide the world, and these
Earth but from out of the divine worlds unite with the seed. Teachers
is to come into the world through Him is something altogether new, a
penetrated into the spiritual world, or how — to use biblical
which he was completely withdrawn from the outer world and from the
organs through which that world is perceived. Those who were to be
led into the spiritual world were carefully prepared and their souls
from the world for three-and-a-half days, being taken to a place
their vision of the spiritual worlds and to testify of those worlds.
entirely different world, was shut off from the environment and
penetrated into the spiritual world. Men who could bear witness to
the realities of the spiritual world were always to be found among
themselves to testify of the spiritual world.
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Title: Et Incarnatus Est
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spiritual world, just as incredible as the Christmas mystery,
the impulse of the Christ. When the cosmic symbol of world
virgine” have resounded in the world, and so it has been
world. This is what he says:
country in the world is perhaps the region round about
remote from the world's historic events, so as to make it seem
Savior of the world.
has boldly offered and what the world has accepted.”
world.
Savior of the world. Let us hear another voice, the voice of
world, as worthy of praise because we ourselves would have
of Christ Jesus, and those who know the world well will
beauty, goodness, and serenity of the world, yet while we are
— the joy of this world is vanity — we are directed
“But this picture of a world forlorn alarms and estranges
protest against this natural scientific caricature of world
world only by looking back across the thirty-three years of
always even to the end of the world.” Those, however, who
revelations from spiritual worlds were certainly there when
revelations can still come to us from the spiritual world. Thus
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture I
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youth, not one view of the world only but two: the one from
various religions in the world. One who is acquainted with
view of the world contained in the books of Büchner,
enlighteneth all men, was to come into the world.
10. He was in the world, and the world
was made by Him, but the world did not recognize Him.
beginning of the evolution of our world, were already at the
outset of the evolution of our world and can therefore be

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture II
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born blind only knows the world around him imperfectly; for
him the world of colour and light does not exist. Man is in
the same position in respect of the astral world; it exists
just as truly, it surrounds and permeates the physical world,
opened the astral world becomes visible to him. The
operation. Every human being knows this astral world,
the astral world in order to restore the harmony of the
whole world of plants has one astral body in common, namely
animal, plant and mineral worlds are in a different position.
ego which belongs to a being living in the astral world. All
world. When an animal is injured it feels pain. In the plant
astral world as pain.
forming a centre in the spirit world, for the ego of the
minerals is to be found in the higher spiritual world
Christian occult doctrine the world in which the egos of the
animals are found — the astral world — is called
the world of the Holy Spirit, and the world which contains
the egos of the plants — the lower spiritual world
— the world of the Son. When the seer begins to have
perceptions in this world, the “Word,” the
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture IV
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the foundation of the construction of the world, and it is
there. But wisdom did not come suddenly into the world, it
replaced by Christ, Who brought a higher love into the world

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture V
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the world will be brought about through their voluntary
trained, so that they were able to look into higher worlds;
that he might be able to see in the spiritual world, was
other parts, into the higher worlds, in order there to
body; and the experiences undergone in the higher worlds
had taken place in the spiritual world.
higher worlds. The teachings of Buddha, Moses, etc., were
passed on what they had experienced in the higher worlds.
world before Christ appeared; but that is not the point. The
the spiritual world with the spiritual or divine Beings; He
9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. \
27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. \
of the world could be revealed. As we have already said, the
world. According to the same teaching, Life Spirit is called
this stage had to bring information from the outer world into
world; men walk the Earth with their Ego. But the egos of the
in the astral world, not only the ego of the animal, but also
the ego of the human astral body. In the Lower Spirit World
World, we there find the ego of the minerals and the ego of
we are connected with the Higher Spiritual World. We are here
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VI
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the outer world, appeared more and more clearly before the
the whole world, condensed into the firm human form. In
spiritual world that they looked upon the physical as maya,
spiritual world by diminishing the consciousness. They
world in dim, unclear outlines; the Atlantean lived chiefly
in the spiritual world. To the spiritual investigator the
and reach the only reality, the spiritual world.
to the outer world than was thg Indian. He learned to
plane. To the Persians the world was physically an
outer world; he now began to embody his own inner being, his
still further in the mastery of the outer world. In our age
sank most deeply into the physical world; now, after humanity
has gained the mastery over this physical world, it will gain
Anthroposophical Movement was brought into the world to

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VII
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evolution in the physical world, they developed up again to
world of the Holy Spirit) which kept the air as their
expressed this when he said: “The World-Soul is
crucified on the ancient World-Cross.” The Cross is a
world.
into the development of the world. In the plant, therefore,
sensuality of the world of passionate desire, so will he rise

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VIII
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the spiritual world.
spiritual world, he had to enter into the state of sleep.
sins of the world. But when this matter is rightly grasped,
karma signifies for life in the world that which the ledger
again in the earthly world. This story points, in a very
deed, we can look very deeply into the evolution of the world
the history of humanity and the world; and it will disappear
world.

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world, while during this time Christianity streamed more and
the second millennium of the world's history passed away,
emotional nuance about the world was aroused, differing
of the nineteenth century that all over the civilized world
world historical fact, on death and resurrection. But that
world. It is remarkable to hear this Indian speaking about
been held. So it is that in the world, even today such
modern natural science, or by that conception of the world
worlds, is necessary. In other words, mankind today, in
Empedocles toward the world the fact confronts us — and
him roam through the world leaving him marveling but
archangels. It descends through the world that rises above
the human world. So do we gain an inkling of the deeper

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must come into the world precisely from our anthroposophical
the history of the world and in human life, is really only
mean? World historical facts do indeed have a meaning; they
true spiritual impulses in the world. In this way they were
they themselves received in the spiritual world. When we meet
the future course of the world's history. Such indications
in its parts over the whole world should be brought together
generations. All that belongs to the world-historical mission
with the spiritual world. I wish to draw your attention to
into the world of man in such a way that man sees the divine
outer world. In the Book of Tobit, Raphael confronts the
connections with the spiritual world are regulated in this
soul that is taken up by God and embodied in the divine world
the world is He presented in so simple and at the same time
speak of Him. Beings from the super-sensible world recognize
this is the Gospel that comes from the world of angels and
world connected with our own is the elemental world, through
which what plays into our world can first be explained.
world borders on a super-sensible one. He gives them names in
accordance with the characteristics of the elemental world.
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physical world. All this I have shown in detail in my lecture
worlds the drought was ended and the needs of the land at
Baptist expressed a world-historical fact.
world. It was not yet in every human breast, and it could not
super-sensible worlds and worked from these worlds you must
enter human hearts, so that in the further course of world
act in such a way as to impress its impulses into world
so comprehensive and world encompassing now appears in such a
the book Raphael as World-Power. For it seemed to
described in any way other than as a world-power, unless one
fails to see through to what is actively at work in world
describes Raphael as a world-power, as a spirit striding on
world-history; he is like one of the four rivers which,
according to the belief of the ancient world, flowed out of
of Elijah-John a wholly new impulse enters the world. In
conceptions of the world. We could characterize this attitude
if the Lord God had left the organizing of the world to them,
really perfect God if he had created the world in accordance
world as established by God is indeed bungled by comparison
understood if the world is to reach its goal, and it is
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and let their only link with the world be the perception of
the Buddha wandered through the world, and it was in this
our gaze to another picture from world history. For in the
the West spreads through the waves of world history more
of the world and the way he presented it comes from the fact
had thus received from the spiritual world to stream down to
to the child who comes into the world. Thus the spiritual
lead them upward to the spiritual worlds through what he
heavenly world coming from beyond the earth, spoken through
to become free from the world of sense? Now when my soul is
penetrate joyfully into the world of spirit? Should I not be
world events and human evolution are indicated to the crowd
worldly cares, the temptation of riches, and other kinds of
4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. \
all of one kind. Similarly the entire world can become pupils
that enabled men to see into the spiritual worlds the common
worlds? Their vision took the form of perceiving the secrets
those ancient times. In confronting the external world men
into his dreamlike imaginative world and saw pictures he was
say to human beings about higher worlds. It was thus a
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view the world-historical position that existed at the moment
worlds and the relation of these worlds to mankind, and about
of the world, it is fire; it is the sun and it is also the
Knowledge of Higher Worlds and its Attainment.
higher, super-sensible ego which does not appear in the world
clairvoyant view of the world, when we recognize that when a
the super-sensible worlds and how the best of us have
perceived their relationship to the world. In future times
super-sensible world, the etheric world that borders on our
material world. Here in this world is to be found the cause
God?” “How did the world begin?” “How
will the world end?” There are many people who have no
men could see directly into the spiritual worlds, nor will
see into the spiritual world. Only through the Akasha
documents. As the third world age came to an end and men lost
tradition says that Krishna appeared in the third world-age,
wisdom of the spiritual world that lies behind the sense
world, the world of causes and spiritual facts. This wisdom
Krishna, then we may say that this is the world in which man
is at home, the world which lies behind what our eyes can
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grandeur of this ancient world view was limited by what we
recur and are timeless. And when this world view comes to a
East looks at the world unhistorically, while the West,
prompted by a new impulse, begins to look at the world from a
historical point of view. It was the world view of the
world view actually are. We are always told of recurring
world ages, of what happens at the beginning of the first and
beginning of the second world age, and its end, then the
beginning of the third and its end. And the secret of world
the ancient culture of the third world age had become dry and
individual world ages appear to us like successive years in
the life of a plant. In the Oriental world view the cycles of
compare these world views in their timelessness, their
Testament. What a mighty difference we find from the world
plant world as the form reveals itself each year, and the
world, must come to an understanding: the subject of
nations and peoples spread across the world will have to come
external world are also reflected in the manifestations of
the world had been only waiting for just that specific
philosophy. It then seems as if the world had only been
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monologue in world history” can easily be misunderstood
of Christ Jesus, but with a rich world of external and occult
world history,” the soliloquy of the God. We must
the great world-historical monologue of Christ Jesus. It is
from the depths of the mysteries onto the plane of world
spiritual worlds outside his body. Then his spirit was
spiritual world, and could then appear as a messenger,
proclaiming the secrets of the spiritual world. Thus we can
becoming a messenger for the secrets of the divine world. It
withdrawing into a higher world unconnected with ordinary
the ancient world came to an end and the new era began.
he was in a higher world while he was outside his body; he
was not in the ordinary sense-perceptible world. We may say
the spiritual world, returning later to his body, what had he
worlds in the same way that the human soul retains in memory
the secrets of the spiritual world that they carried within
the kingdoms of the heavens, the super-sensible worlds, to
worlds. But within the ego there was no comprehension, no
understanding of the higher worlds. This is how it was in
not unite himself with the spiritual worlds even by making
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of St. Mark directly after the great world-historical
and to the natural world around him. As man is today, we
world, it is more or less immaterial whether he crosses the
world-historical and cosmic manifestation, again the mountain
world-historical wisdom chose to bridge the span between
world, thus enabling him to prepare, on a lower stage, as it
world to pour into that stream that flowed through the
world, when the power of judgment took its place; and
the Jewish people lives on. At that moment of world history,
world-historical discourse that now actually took place. The
to you, wherever in the whole world this Gospel is
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“Wherever in the whole world this Gospel is
(Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her. \
world into himself, and it is important to pay attention also
world-historical point of view it was still the “time
From the point of view of world history it was a fact that
place of that scene of world history when the Buddha sat

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world-historical impulses pictured in the Gospels will be
pointed to those lonely figures in the Hellenic world who
world. This is a well-known Sadducean objection which, as
marrying among beings of the supra-earthly world. In the case
prevailing in the extraterrestrial worlds which He wishes to
cosmic aspect of this world-historical fact. This might have
Judaism spread indirectly over the whole Western world by way
for the fact that the moment in world history had arrived for
of the Jews as a part of the world. That they did not
well put to itself the world-historical question, “Is
the world had the Mystery of Golgotha, but at the time it
worldly powers, that He is to be condemned, and excuses are
crucified. Then the world-historical loneliness of the Son of
Christ wanted to come about in the world. This new

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world conception cannot tolerate the idea that something like
world. One far-fetched explanation from this Jesus research
view of the world. And he experienced in particular one thing
this way to the outside world because it could not bear it;
spiritual world and was brought down into the physical world.
something was there with which nothing in the world is
therefore was the world-historical moment, and this is the
spiritual worlds, when they understand how the spiritual
leaders of humanity that the world has ever known were sent
Golgotha, as we have seen. And so all the world's religions
world. And if representatives of other religions with a
wide world as we take up into ourselves with full

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In the midst of the turmoil and upheavals of the First World War, before
gradually leads his audience to an understanding of the new world and new
much to teach us about a spiritual understanding of the political world
Being, One Who came down from spiritual worlds in order to give
spiritual worlds. He thought of the spiritual hierarchies arranged in
through the world of the spiritual hierarchies in order to enter into
imagine that everything that has come into the world since the
that Christ came into the world at a time when the wisdom which could
not of this world!’ So the external, physical Temple of Solomon
truly connected with the spiritual worlds were allowed to practise
Everything that takes place in the world comes to have a luciferic
woman with the spiritual world was sought in an unlawful way, that
Ingaevones. In the external world only fragments remained of what was
in the spiritual world was known, above all, on the Danish peninsula.
‘being’, with being or existing in the material world
world should be taxed. And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius
Those who take seriously the anthroposophical view of the world,
atavistic, yet it is infinitely higher than the materialistic world

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture I: The Human Soul in the Supersensible Realm and Its Relationship to the Body
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supersensible world, while he is put into the physical world if
this world that usually seems to be fantastic, the sense of
world. One has to raise the images with certain soul forces, so
How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?.
into the spiritual world with his soul if one does not realise
natural sciences have to say about the outside world in their
whether the world is infinite or limited spatially or
world riddles. You can experience the deepest impression if you
outside world. An inner life existed; it is confronted with the
outer world, adapts itself to the outer world, and experiences
the impulses of the outer world. While before the life pulsates
learns in the contact with the outside world to adapt itself;
it forms a kind of picture of the outside world by the sense of
spiritual world. You really bump against the spiritual world.
undeveloped soul organism, which the outside spiritual world
experience something of the spiritual world would prefer if one
could teach the ability of perceiving the spiritual world while
spiritual world to us is inner soul work. This inner soul work
can experience the supersensible outside world, in which it
world; this thinking can only realise that it is in the
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture II: Anthroposophy Does not Disturb Any Religious Confession
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all other opinions and views that arise about world and human
Human opinions and worldviews feel contented only if they can
is why that what appears as opinion in the world in an age must
appears to the world today, it knows that after centuries that
developing ideas about the world is a religious view beside
sect, as many sects exist in the world.
the world beside or in contrast to any faith. It did not appear
the public consciousness and work on its worldview, one has to
the natural, one has to work into the spiritual world as I have
has happened that one has developed a worldview in which,
natural existence to the spiritual world. The spiritual world
a human being into the spiritual world — using those
world, he experiences immortality and freedom, the real
spiritual world. Hence, a special spiritual science was not yet
spiritual world. They would bring along that the human beings
about the sense-perceptible world; anything else that is beyond
the sense-perceptible world is subject to faith that can never
penetrate into the real spiritual world. It will still last
realise that one can really penetrate into the spiritual world
the spiritual world because of its research seizes not only the
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of the outer world. The scientific way of thinking finds laws
product of that what the human being takes up from the world?
world of the senses puts questions to us. This is not the case
with anthroposophy. There the world itself must be disclosed
the world at which he wants to look.
world, actually.
insight of the supersensible world, one has to develop the
lead to the view of the spiritual world.
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to perceive in the spiritual world. It can attain this ability
sense-perceptible outside world that just is there from the
supersensible world in which the human being is interested
the outer world. If the spiritual researcher brings up those
into the supersensible world, he can look with the
of the outer sense-perceptible world, he would do a vain
attempt at first. Experiences of the spiritual world,
of the spiritual world, one knows which exercises one has to
in the outer sense-perceptible world even if a lot must seem to
in the sense-perceptible world.
prejudice prevails, as if a withdrawal from the outer world,
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture IV: The Science of the Supersensible and the Moral-Social Ideas
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mental pictures, for concepts of the world that are rooted in
pictures and ideas of the scientific worldview are. Indeed,
one-sided just under the influence of the modern world view, so
starting point and cannot encompass the whole world with them.
the present world period, has developed little of this
consciousness into the supersensible world. With the levels of
world which exists for the usual consciousness only in the
chaotic dream world. To the human being with the usual
world of the everlasting which works beneath the outer
state. Hence, Spencer's worldview depends on considering the
typical only that for the consideration of the outer world the
the conscious cognition of the same world, which is dreamt in
describe the world from a pantheistic, theistic, monotheistic,

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approaches the world riddles also scientifically. That is why
have come who said to themselves: well, if the outer world
if I also doubt everything that the world manifests to me,
relation to the outside world. As well as we have the thinking
nuanced to the world et cetera? If one has got ideas of it, one
himself, you emerge from a world that was interspersed with
that one lives, indeed, during sleep in a spiritual world which
is just the typical that this world cannot enter —, then
outside world. Thinking and imagining is nothing but a
correspondent to a world which cannot enter into the human
physical-sensory world. About that, I want to speak more

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worldview.
the scientific worldview, one would have to condemn it. That is
worldview be justified towards the present natural
worldview. From the today's considerations should arise that
and can find connections in the atomistic world behind these
world.
Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?, in my Occult
the soul life is if it faces the outer sense-perceptible world:
Thus, the spiritual researcher starts facing the world that he
usual sense-perceptible world becomes an imagery of the
of the supersensible experience as the dream world, otherwise,
affectionately in the objective world.
researcher has to develop to a high degree. Then the world
know about the world? — He has answered this question
Richard Wahle tried to ask the modern worldviews: what can one
if we look at the world after scientific pattern, we can
view of nature gives no true picture of the outer world but a

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 1: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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placed by the Christian world within the course of the year, itself
the world as the newborn Jesus.
hear the call in present world events for a rejuvenation of many old
way out of world events for the strengthening and uplifting of the human
of a spiritual world. No physical observation of birth and death will
he saw the light of the physical world.
of human birth, which is so magnificently symbolized for world history
and death, the two boundary pillars standing there in the physical world,
And in our own time, all that is happening in the world can surely be
but to contemplate the mighty thoughts in world history that have impelled
this world as a child, he has come directly from the spiritual world.
than by saying: man's central being leaves the spiritual world. He is
physical world. What first en-sheathes him, what makes him a complete
from the spirit into this physical world. Through what takes place in
the physical world — which he is able to observe from spiritual
the spiritual world. And he reveals — to one who wants to see
things as they really are in this world, who is not blinded by materialistic
after-effects of his recent life in the spiritual world.
comes from the spiritual world into its physical sheath through birth,
develops here in the physical world between birth and death is only
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are suited to bring us into the spiritual world. We're also in the
spiritual world at night, but not consciously. Why not? Because we
be small in the physical world and be big in the spiritual world and
the spiritual world, and it was supposed to be the Elohim's
place a counterweight on the other scale pan of the cosmic world
our heart. It sounds as if there was only one heart in the world, and
attain this: it's the taking of a position towards the new, outer world.)

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spiritual world. The attitude of soul with which a pupil receives
an experience presents itself from the spiritual world he should
along with what flowed down from spiritual worlds. We can work on
spiritual worlds — this will open them for us and let us get into

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world, although an esoteric training tends to make one lose interest
not indifferent whether this playing in of the spiritual world
spiritual world. Through esoteric training our thinking becomes
yet time and space are maya in the spiritual world. An esoteric pupil
to mingle when one goes into higher worlds, and yet they're
spiritual worlds, fear must be transformed into reverence;
we're a piece of the unity of spiritual worlds. One also sees
enjoy the tremendous bliss of working creatively in the world.
immaterial for world evolution who make the progress, but for us the
spiritual world is conscience. This keeps us from doing things that
spiritual worlds. Conscience changes through our meditations. The
truths from the spiritual world. We must learn to lead a double life,

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The world aroma that goes through the whole universe is the Father's
The world of light; that's the Son, the force of life.
World sound, the sound that reverberates and weaves through the world,
The East Indian path soon goes up into the astral world. A pupil is
contradictory precepts in the astral world.
There's only an inner orienting in the astral world, for instance the
experience leads into the astral world. The experience of odor as
world aroma leads to the Father. Imagination is the separation of

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world during the different epochs, also changes. When we were Chaldeans, we had a quite
calling the world into being, God is a mathematician" seems to come into play. On the other
that lie at the foundation of the world's structure, are also valid for the human being. If
important element given by Spiritual Science. We may say: I live in this world and I find
divine-spiritual world. If we are pervaded by the right feelings, the truths which we
spiritual world will then live in all our feelings.
this way, we shall also discover the true balance in the environing world, for thoughts of
world are brought into the spiritual-scientific movement; they are mistakes which do not
person may be diligent and active in the outside world, but his activity might be
external world. But he also brings into Theosophy his own characteristic qualities. He may,
himself) until the Beings of the spiritual world send 3ou this answer. A true disciple of
the spiritual world may give him an answer. Perhaps after many years, even after many
astral body absorbs the truths which come from the spiritual world, in the same way in
spiritual world and will be filled with darkness. But if it is filled with the truths which
spiritual world.
future light of the spiritual world does not yet exist, we may say: It has not yet come,
With this inheritance he could penetrate into the spiritual world. This lasted until the
constitute the power enabling him to enter the spiritual world, guided by the light in his
during the 15th and 10th century A.D. When the human being entered the spiritual world, he
world. These feelings undergo a change. The wisdom absorbed by the astral body changes into
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