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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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presented by a spiritual scientist as truth gained through his
spiritual teacher's statements, following them as it were in thought
himself inner abilities, soul forces and spiritual perception by his
inner spiritual development needs to change his everyday occupation in
insight into spiritual worlds, becomes an anti-social, inferior member
word but in a spiritual sense. While the occult teacher need not know
These are the two prerequisites for a person desirous of spiritual
for reality. Above all an aspirant for spiritual enlightenment must be
enter into the schooling prerequisite for spiritual teaching. It would
such a spiritual truth is. The more the love for such inner truths
He who proclaims spiritual truths by his own experiences is familiar
with this contemplative inner life. The great spiritual truths that he
proclaims day by day are part of a vast spiritual world panorama that
day. This is the secret of the spiritual investigator that the immense
arrive at clarity. It is essential that the spiritual investigator's
truths of anthroposophy and spiritual science. In this way does the
spiritual investigator function and thus must everybody begin, that
enveloped in a cloud of light. The aura of a spiritually undeveloped
can they develop. He who rails in this will never enjoy true spiritual
understanding for fellowmen, the spiritual organ located in the
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Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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IT MIGHT SEEM as if our world conception, based on spiritual science, could
they had undergone a certain experience in spiritual life or had lived a
it from the spiritual death it otherwise, because of the eternal laws of
spiritual world, remaining, as it were, in the childhood stage of mankind
striving to attain in spiritual science. The hunting party halts before
the spiritual world keep their childish form.
The Spiritual Guidance of Man.
divine spiritual heights, and they tried to express it in this painting in
in him of its spiritual counterpart.
down in his soul, as a spiritual sun that would reign triumphant during the
his link with the divine spiritual worlds. Now we are living in the winter
have the divine spiritual world of the earth's spring and summer around us.
for the victory of the spiritual sun in the depths of the human soul.
in spring. We also know that the spiritual impulse of the sun that flowed
painting as the childlike soul, borne aloft spiritually by the wings of
Man's higher destiny is to preserve this spiritual youth in relation to the

Title: The Manicheans
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spiritual streams with which it is connected. An even more important
spiritual stream than that of the Rosicrucians was that of
Manicheanism founded a mighty spiritual stream to which the mediaeval
Temple Legend. All these Spiritual Streams came to expression
Divine-Spiritual Light of the soul, a rebellion of the soul against
contrary, supports himself on the inner spiritual light of the soul.
especially in the Spiritual. There will be men who are mighty in Love
spiritual stream. It appears in forms which many can call to mind, and

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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the mineral world with human spirit. Spiritualised natural
spiritual world — that is a very different matter. All of you have
on-flowing life in the spiritual world.
only serves that end, just so much is lost in the way of spiritual gain. On
spiritual than our own, the individual name was of less importance.
Spirituality in those days was directed to reality; whereas our epoch
knew: In future times the mineral world will be spiritualized; to build
means nothing else than to spiritualize the mineral world. He knew that the
mankind to spiritualise — as far as this can be achieved — the
we must make our way upwards through intellect to spirituality before we
can picture the spirituality that was once actively at work.
spiritual science works to level out the colours of the astral bodies of

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the
No one who studies the spiritual
investigation; whereas the answers given by Spiritual Science to the
external physical, but to spiritual forms, — agree with
concepts which Spiritual Science has to bring forward, coincide in
by people whose immaturity in the realm of Spiritual Science makes
them wholly incapable of real judgment in matters of the spiritual
life. Modern Spiritual Science, the ideas of which we will try briefly
spiritual stream. I will indicate one such aspect, at once the most
significant and in the most complete accord with what Spiritual
origin of man led us back to a form still hovering in spiritual
spiritual form, gradually descended to become the material being we
forms, whereas Spiritual Science leads us back to forms which more
wholly spiritual origin. In those regions where spiritual man dwelt
other purely spiritual beings and spiritual processes — in that
existence, the Christ Being remained above in purely spiritual worlds
material world — passed from the spiritual into the physical
through primordial evolutionary epochs, he was a spiritual being
conception of this descent of a purely spiritual Being into human
was ready to receive directly from the spiritual world That Which as
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Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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spiritual world, he will, to a certain extent have that experience
strives to attain clairvoyance in the spiritual world, namely, the
LIFE and CULTURAL or SPIRITUAL LIFE. This need of a three-partition
existed in recognising a goal of a spiritual character, and because
taken into account from a SPIRITUAL standpoint! We should not delude
Americanization of the spirit represents a mechanization of spiritual
we designate as a spiritual-scientific movement oriented towards
only be the outcome of SPIRITUAL IMPULSES!
soul-spiritual life before birth. We must speak of the fact that
the face of the spiritual world than the more abstract feelings of
beings. Man's attitude and feelings towards the spiritual world
spiritual world which is more encompassing than the one which
battles, of the SPIRITUAL battles of the civilised world! Let us
we develop in the physical world in the form of SPIRITUAL LIFE. It
possibility whatever for the development of a spiritual life, if
impulses for what we then carry along into the spiritual world in the
from the spiritual world forces that constitute, above all, our
spiritual life upon the earth, so do we bring back again into the
spiritual world those forces that we develop through our economic
accompany us in the spiritual world; there, they are important
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Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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us pictures of happenings in the spiritual life of the Cosmos and in
changing styles. He gives us pictures of happenings in the spiritual
aspirant for spiritual knowledge — is called Johannes
would be worthy of the spiritual grandeur of the Plays and the
IN the Building that is to be a home for Spiritual Science, full
we have a deep responsibility to the laws of the spiritual life, the
spiritual Powers and the conditions of human evolution of which we
spiritual activity to the test. True, the Gods do not refuse their
Soul, the Spiritual Soul. And if the future is to receive from us
spiritual impulses our work must be grounded, only if what we do is
the dwelling place of the Divine-Spiritual; but the outer structure
of the downstreaming spiritual forces and be united with them. This
The spiritual picture given by Anthroposophy of the physical nature
that early Art of Building. Man as a physical being has his spiritual
be an expression of the spiritual realities of human evolution. We
described by Pneumatosophy. Can we not then picture man spiritually
Spirit and receives the Spirit! To say that the Spirit is spiritual
powers that Spiritual Science can awaken in us, we must try to create
spiritual atmosphere. And now let us ask: Where does the
spirituality which is expressing itself in the physical human being.
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Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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high spiritual development to penetrate into the chaos of the peoples,
spirituality with the doctrine of reincarnation. In the Hamitic branch
reason why Druidic Culture had so much spirituality was because it was
still able to absorb the sublime spirituality that surpassed the
In Rome, therefore, something was being prepared which the Spiritual
spiritual life at its highest level was needed, and it was only to be
found where the greatest number of spiritual impulses had been given,
spiritual life. The new impulse could proceed only from a personality
care by the spiritual guidance of the world. The ancient Rishi Culture
Spiritual Will manifested in the personality, they were also able to
Therefore, fructification must be brought from the original spiritual
of their own spirituality that they have to carry things out ...”

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
one of those aspects of spiritual science that show us how well
Spiritual
the development of soul and spiritual qualities. If you imagine two
through the impressions of education, through man's spiritual
being, your whole spiritual organism. Far from it. If you saw a rose
remains within the whole spiritual organism. What does it do there?
through before entering Devachan, the spiritual world proper?
something useful is answered by spiritual science. And we see, too,
way: If I am ill and feeble, and if I ruin my health spiritually,
considerations. And we shall see that if spiritual science works into
human life by showing man the truth about specific spiritual
do. Knowledge of the facts of the spiritual world, as imparted by
spiritual science is, therefore, a powerful impulse which also in

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
of view of spiritual science. As a rule people are not concerned
However it is just the task of a really spiritual movement to awaken
limited to the sense world but have an existence in the spiritual
has regarding this or the other spiritual world, if he nevertheless
they only had a body, then however spiritually minded he believes
Unless you make it your business to know what spiritual science can
through a knowledge of man arising out of spiritual science that we
of view in the blood and from the spiritual point of view in the ego.
by those people who look at the being of man from a spiritual point
connected physically with the blood and spiritually with the ego.
we come to those illnesses that have their spiritual origin mainly in
have to turn to spiritual science for the actual basis of our
treatment. We need quite a different basis, for spiritual knowledge
this would show spiritually in the etheric body — without the
much of a spiritual nature. When we have looked at the fourth type we
arose from spiritual knowledge and has become more and more
attention to the difference between medicine based on spiritual
to any insight into the real, spiritual nature of man. What

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
sexes. It is only when we have a spiritual scientific basis that we
spiritual. Thus purpose, meaning and goal are words that we can apply
to evolution only when we consider them on a spiritual scientific
etheric, more spiritual, and not so firmly embedded in matter, then
man was still in a softer, more spiritual body he was much more open
beings, for when we are based on spiritual science we must not assume
spiritual science that everything around us which influences us, be
spiritual. And in those ancient times man did not at all perceive
external sense impressions, he perceived the spiritual. When he
Mazdao, the Great Aura’. The spiritual part, all the spiritual
fructification were received: it was a phenomenon of the spiritual
forth his kind, and this was also experienced and seen as a spiritual
little by little it became impossible for men to see the spiritual in
to forget the spiritual background, and the influence of the spirit
himself off from his spiritual surroundings. The further we go back
into these ancient times the more spiritually godlike was this
organised in such a way that they were a likeness of the spiritual
and more, and the spiritual world withdrew from men's sight. Men
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
lectures; the one on ‘Superstition from the Spiritual
investigate the causes because they have no idea of the spiritual
higher beings. It is due to the action of these spiritual beings, who
fill both physical and spiritual space with their deeds, that these
The spiritual members of man that were developing their ego-hood had
of the spiritual. Spirit is always there first. And it is the spirit
can see, then, that spiritual science helps us to form a judgment of
results when man is permeated with the great truths of spiritual
spiritual science is not a collection of abstract ideas for those
today, has these rhythms within him as a heritage of this spiritual
science also lost its depth. Through spiritual knowledge this depth
have spiritual scientific knowledge, and that it has to find its way

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
sense phenomena into the spiritual world, knows of these rhythms, and
very different periods of human evolution. What from the spiritual
were planted into man by higher spiritual beings. But today I want
course, it is the hierarchies of spiritual beings who regulate the
regulated by spiritual beings bringing the moon into a corresponding
they are beings of a much more spiritual nature than man. Therefore
man's. In spiritual matters they conform absolutely to the cosmic
like an angel not to think in harmony with the great spiritual
were they not to acquire an inner rhythm. Look at spiritual science
will see the element you are in when you begin to study spiritual
covered with this basic formula of spiritual science. Think of the
spiritualised form at the fifth stage as Jupiter, the Sun at the
transformed and spiritualised. So that here too, when we look at the
are still only at the beginning of our spiritual scientific activity,
spiritual science, because it is in harmony with the great laws of
can see how spiritual science is connected with the course of the
macrocosm. When we grasp what is there in the spiritual world behind
must look to the spiritual world to find the impulse to carry forward
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
to look at world existence in a spiritual scientific way has an
karma, on that great law of causes which show the spiritual
what actually happens to man spiritually in the period after death.
the spiritual world or the kingdom of Heaven: ‘Except ye ...
Devachan or the kingdom of Heaven, and be in the spiritual world from
soul back to the spiritual — man would need only a very short
in the spiritual world everything you yourself did in the external
comes down from the spiritual world our soul is attracted to the kind
and the illness. The spiritual cause of the illness will guide the
must not necessarily think of spiritual enlightenment every time;
Lemurian epoch. Man gradually descended from divine-spiritual
this is to look back into those times when divine-spiritual powers
spiritual fact, that must be of particular interest to us, coming as
happenings of life when human beings get beyond the ABC of spiritual
spiritual science will grow into something that will become part of
everyday life. Men will live spiritual science, and not until that
time comes will the original intention of spiritual science come to
realisation. Spiritual science will become the great impulse for the

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
given a whole series of talks on spiritual science with the specific
theme of laughing and weeping from the spiritual scientific point of
spiritual science can bring a deeper understanding of these
phenomena, because spiritual science is the only thing that can
spiritual scientist, for he knows that when the animal does something
That is the spiritual process underlying weeping. Take weeping as an
of the astral body. That is the spiritual state of affairs. Every
everything spiritual in man finds expression in the body, and the
the spiritual point of view if we become clear about the following:
unless we know what is actually happening in the spiritual part of
spiritual world behind the physical, and that what appears in human
we understand it, the real expression of the spiritual. Laughing and

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
earth evolution. In the sphere of spiritual science we have looked
spiritual science has to say about these things will make sense. It
spiritual species that did not concern itself very much with the
spiritual point of view, seen by a present-day eye, this species
dependent on the earth, and these spiritually more advanced beings
North Pole, we should have found a spiritualising of the earth
population: one kind that had still remained spiritual, and whose
spiritual being, and another kind that had already descended into
of great spiritual significance, were physically small in those days,
whereas a person who was not very significant spiritually had in
not on a very high level spiritually, for he has rushed into his body
myths, we feel it to be absolutely correct, from the spiritual
physical size expressed the inability to retain the spiritual. In
according to spiritual characteristics. Therefore it could also take
spiritual scientific way you will see evidence of them right into the
still spiritual, just as with the ancient Lemurians everything was
still spiritual, and the bodily nature was only developed to a small
remnants of spiritual perception existed, there was still something
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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Spiritual science can help us penetrate to a realm where new possibilities
insights into the spiritual nature of everyday matters such as forgetting,
here this winter. We have often emphasised the way in which spiritual
today, for you already know it. According to spiritual science man
light or etheric body of the lily of the valley. When a spiritual
small and only the spiritual part is large, he says: the actual being
successive states of a plant. During evolution the spiritual
spiritual become greater and greater.
interpenetrate to form the physical, and the spiritual
spiritual. Then man passes through Devachan, where he is in
spiritual science, the spirits of personality who change. These
man in a world in which he can also work on his own spiritual part,
most advanced, and who, as the result of spiritual training have

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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the spiritual world. Activity in the physical world, quietude in the
spiritual world. Since 1899, spiritual influences must take effect
the Medici tombs in Florence. Our attitude to spiritual knowledge can
On Spiritual Light and Darkness of Life.]
acquired of the content of Spiritual Science or, let us say, of
seriousness when speaking of the spiritual worlds. This, after all,
process of humanity and in the spiritual content of our present age.
appeared have been the natural outcome of that original spiritual
direct experience of the spiritual facts for concepts, theories and
undertake further spiritual research into this realm and to present
knowledge brought from the spiritual world.
living on the physical plane to the spiritual worlds has changed from
the last third of that century men had little access to the spiritual
prepared and revelations from the spiritual worlds will be able to
this inflow of spiritual knowledge to be a reality. Hence the further
can make its way into the soul today from the spiritual worlds.
of two characteristics of the spiritual life to which special
experiences the realities of the spiritual world in a very definite
spiritual worlds. Hence it is true to say that what takes place
in the spiritual world — can be revealed through Initiation.
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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him the fruits of a moral life, is what may be called a spiritually
divine-spiritual reality. On the other hand, anyone who is a
connected with divine-spiritual life through the various religions
Initiate experiences in the spiritual worlds is in a certain respect
has this effect in the spiritual worlds.
to make men conscious of the divine-spiritual core of being within
body of man. A considerable spiritual heirloom is available for all
evolution proceeds. Abraham's spiritual eyes were fully open to the
necessary in the present cycle of human evolution that spiritual
Spiritual-scientific understanding will eventually be replaced by
co-operate with the spiritual world in order that the Earth shall not

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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physical world and the spiritual world. Possibilities which do not
the spiritual world. Actual experiences are only a fractional part of
creation of an actual link between the physical and spiritual worlds.
spiritual world after death, the relationship between us is, at
spiritual world we come into contact with a friend or an individual
circumstances. Viewed from the spiritual world things look different
resulting from the admission: I am now in the spiritual world and
physical world, not directly from the spiritual world.
gap between the physical and the spiritual worlds, and that will
to him from the spiritual world. The bridge between the physical
world and the spiritual world cannot be built until we realise that
superphysical, spiritual existence; furthermore that man is on Earth
spiritual world only in their Ego-consciousness, only in what
world and the spiritual world. But we can also ask: Is mediation also
possible in the other direction, from the spiritual to the physical
them as an astral or devachanic or other spiritual world. But if
direct attention to the spiritual world that is round about them and
How can we become aware of this spiritual world?
world in the spiritual world and reverberate through it. It is not
within the physical life of men. The truth is that the spiritual life
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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spiritual insight into the connection of certain events with heavenly
constellations. Anthroposophy is a torch by which the spiritual world
needs for his further life in the spiritual worlds, also for his
the centre. Translated into terms of spiritual reality, this is
maintained between the spiritual man, that is to say, Ego and astral
becomes possible only as we progress patiently in Spiritual Science
the standpoint of Spiritual Science the sleep that occurs at a more
spiritual reality connected with the passage of a constellation such
spiritual reality in cosmic space. Something came into their
the physical stars implanted in a mighty spiritual Being whom they
experience of spiritual processes has ceased and that we are left
in the Egypto-Chaldean epoch men spoke of the spiritual Beings in
these men of old experienced the spiritual sphere that is connected,
vision of the spiritual Beings of the heavens, but remembrance of
was no longer able to perceive anything of the spiritual realities in
Spheres’, of spiritual Beings. And a great many of his
even the remembrance in Graeco-Latin times of the Spiritual Beings in
approach. The more spiritually minded among men still drew from their
remembrance the consciousness that spiritual Beings are connected
constellations in the heavens genuine knowledge of spiritual events.
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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their missions and achievements in the spiritual history of mankind.
with whose name we ourselves connect the spiritual impulses of
physical body but can continue his work in purely spiritual worlds.
present in lofty spiritual worlds continuing to influence evolution
the song which tells of the revelation of the divine-spiritual forces
in the spiritual worlds and the reflection of these forces in the
spiritual heights to the Mystery of Golgotha. The Buddha united with
longer working in a human body but in the spiritual body in which he
come to men in purely spiritual bodies.
Mystery Centre in spiritual bodies. One such Teacher was the Being
co-operated from the spiritual world in the development of
descending from divine-spiritual heights to a certain nadir. The
Christmas Festival, our thoughts are directed to the spiritual
enough into the spiritual nature of other planets and planetary
systems as well as into that of the Earth. In the spiritual life of
from the spiritual worlds was undergoing a phase of descent, just as
spiritual worlds; all his study was rooted in the spiritual worlds,
every iota of spirituality and thinking only of the external
Cusa and was wholly dedicated to the spiritual worlds, could appear
soar into the spiritual worlds. The souls who passed through the Mars
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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spreading in the world in the form of occult teachings, of Spiritual

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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spiritual life. The Baptism by John the Baptist and its effects. In
will be characteristic of those who are to become spiritual leaders
side and on the other between death and rebirth in the spiritual
spiritual domain, whereas the forces working in the material sphere
backward spiritual Beings belonging to the different Hierarchies. In
spiritual to the corporeal, from within outwards and is of interest
reality? You may remember that I have spoken of certain spiritual
The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity,
you will find a great deal on the subject of spiritual
spiritual heritage, a spiritual endowment. But in the course of time
this spiritual endowment had undergone decline. Individuals who
Christianity had within them much stronger, more extensive spiritual
of Golgotha. The spiritual heritage which once came to the Earth with
spiritual heritage. If we go back to the epoch long before the
In the fullest sense it is true that the spiritual life
the spiritual life had reached the stage of its greatest darkness.
the spiritual treasure that he had once been able to take with him
realise that a rich and abundant spiritual life streams from the
second Adam, the spiritual Adam. It is a profound truth that Paul
wholly lost the original spiritual treasure, who still retain some
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Eight
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himself. The thoughts conceived by divine-spiritual Beings in the
the spiritual world that which bears a new life germinally within it,
Vision of spiritual realities gradually lost by human souls in the
man's inner spirituality.
we know from Spiritual Science, namely that the three kingdoms of
The thoughts conceived by divine-spiritual Beings in the past live on
present, living, divine-spiritual Beings but the memory-pictures, the
fugitive stage of created existence. But when we waken spiritually
thoughts which the divine-spiritual Beings kept in reserve in order
everything except the real being of man, through the spiritual
spiritually during sleep.
precondition of man's true spiritual development. No being who did
forward by Spiritual Science. It is just as if someone were to say:
and other factors. In principle, therefore, Spiritual Science cannot
intolerant, for example, in rejecting Spiritual Science. Someone may
their characteristics from the spiritual world. Thus Goethe —
his ancestors because he worked continuously in the spiritual world
and the new birth. It is the spiritual embryo, the spiritual seed of
difference between what is seen when we wake spiritually during sleep
cannot be regarded from the spiritual standpoint exactly as it is
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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Spiritual investigation discloses that the super-sensible
contacts between death and rebirth. Rejection of spiritual ideas in
earthly life means loneliness and darkness in the spiritual world
spiritual knowledge while on Earth. The power exercised by Ahrimanic
sense of duty enables contact to be made after death with spiritual
health. Life in the spiritual world depends upon the mode of our life
is disclosed to spiritual investigation when the facts connected with
the life between death and rebirth are considered in their spiritual
brought with him from the spiritual worlds when he enters again into
from the spiritual world forces by means of which we have been able
which we pass through this spiritual world, which of the two ways we
through a world of darkness. For the light, the spiritual light we
into the spiritual life no relevant ideas and concepts, we shall pass
during the present cycle of time has rejected all spiritual ideas,
relationship with the spiritual worlds; in the next life he has no
feel or will the truths of spiritual life. He remains dull and
indifferent to spiritual things and spiritual life passes him by as
Earth such an individual can take no interest in spiritual worlds;
spiritual world, the life that follows the dull, unreceptive one, the
relating to a spiritual world. That is the karmic connection. Such
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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progress of culture on Earth possible. The stream of spirituality
firmament itself. The soul or, let us say, the actual spiritual
as a kind of spiritual region of the Soul-World. Read the description of
the soul passes into cosmic-spiritual life and finds its place in the
is spiritual to the extent of being able to behold as something
soul begins to live more deeply into spiritual conditions of
region of the Spiritland, man is surrounded by the spiritual
clearer to us through spiritual experience. And man himself comes to
regarded as one who was to prepare spiritually for this Mystery —
example of how the details of spiritual research harmonise with each
beyond the region of Soul-Life in the true sense, is spiritual; it
liberates itself spiritually by recognising that all ties of blood
progress is brought about by the stream of spirituality that flows
of the spiritual world than do the planetary spheres. For these
connections — in their spiritual aspect too — there is
Spiritual Science and that its method must be to gather from every
possible side whatever can throw light on the nature of the spiritual

Title: Michelangelo
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Spiritual Science as “Lebensgut”.
art, and my purpose is to show you how Spiritual Science aims to
what influenced them in one life is carried over into the spiritual
Spiritual Science we can once again regard history as a science.
place which Michelangelo holds in the spiritual life of the West.
spiritual life of the West and indeed of the whole of humanity in the
periods of history and especially if with the help of Spiritual
own spiritual power and pours his own will over a whole people and
spiritual development of humanity a special task was laid upon
faculties which he brought with him from the spiritual world. Our
image of what is spiritual.” I don't know how many people
Spiritual Science into the male and female principles.
“Christ in the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail”
these utterances? The investigations of Spiritual Science show that
live within her which are related to the spiritual evolution of
and matter significant facts from the spiritual world. He stood
things which by a sort of spiritual compulsion I always look at
Spiritual Science gives you to look at them and think about them;
should select to represent plastically the truth which Spiritual
Spiritual Science describes him as being — we know that he
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Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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the spiritual world. When the soul progresses in its development,
aspect of a spiritual world. We might say: Little by little, the
pertaining to the spiritual world.
penetrate into the spiritual world (we are then outside the
spiritual development we identify ourselves with the world. We
freeze up the vegetation or spiritual plant growth which arises
divine essence that streams through the world and spiritualizes
it. Real knowledge of the spiritual world cannot therefore take
spiritual reality; for what we appear to our own sight, in our
spiritual, things are frequently reversed) his best part is
whereas the spiritual is something which may spatially be
path leading into the spiritual world we learn that man is not a
his spirit he belongs to the spiritual world. We reach into these
we enter the spiritual world we really experience ourselves in a
should instead be left to its own resources. Spiritual science
spiritual hierarchies, the Angeloi, still willed for man. During
spiritual beings, the Angeloi, willed for us during the Moon
evolution, so higher spiritual beings are now at work in
the spiritual beings of higher hierarchies. Only if our will can
which passes through the portal of death and enters the spiritual
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Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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Errors in Spiritual Investigation:
Results of Spiritual Investigation
Pitfalls await those on the path of spiritual knowledge. Dr. Steiner's
rises like a force of nature in one who follows a spiritual path. He
Results of Spiritual Investigation
SPIRITUAL INVESTIGATION:Meeting the Guardian of the Threshold
SPIRITUAL INVESTIGATION:Meeting the Guardian of the Threshold
here, the realm of spiritual science, of spiritual investigation. In
with sources of error that accompany every step of the spiritual
way that one keeps, as it were, a spiritual eye on these experiences
soul, man can fall into untruth on the path of spiritual
greater significance in the realm of spiritual investigation. A
develop into a real spiritual investigator, how he brings into use
super-sensible world. These spiritual organs must be developed in the
the reality, of higher spiritual worlds. As we have seen, this
development of the higher spiritual organs, which can be brought
spiritual world must, and this is quite natural and proper, take his
spiritual world.
before the beginning of a spiritual training, the future spiritual
surrenders itself to the object, leads to unsound organs of spiritual
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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spiritual ‘clear-seeing’ know that the effects of
The entire spiritual sphere
spiritual sphere of the Earth. Other men are impressed by the
divine-spiritual Powers. Through a deeply shattering event
spirituality, would have allied himself with Christ had he
Steiner) here recited a poem from the Spiritual Songs of Novalis.)
As pupils of Spiritual
they went to sleep at night they passed into a spiritual
in the days of Atlantis, they beheld the divine-spiritual Beings who
— all this constitutes the body of divine-spiritual
divine-spiritual Beings above him, surged through his soul.
relic of the ancient state of sublime spirituality in which
living as a spiritual being among other spiritual beings,
grew clearer, man's vision on the spiritual planes grew dim. But
have come forth. The spiritual and physical realities you see
the Indian people, of the reality of a spiritual world, for
Spiritual, but the Spiritual itself they could not see. Yet
with the fire of spiritual inspiration, been able to teach
spiritual gaze could turn in two directions — back to
beholding merely the physical expression of a spiritual
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Title: Lecture: Buddha
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the
felt comparatively recently in the spiritual life of the West. Think
the spiritual life of the East has steadily increased, until in our
the history of Western spiritual life should tell us that the idea of
you in the course of these lectures that Spiritual Science has taken
unprejudiced observation of life in the sense of Spiritual Science.
evolution of mankind, and when with the help of Spiritual Science we
soul with a spiritual world. In his intellectual consciousness
concerned, he had come forth from the spiritual world into which he
speak, can only be understood if this spiritual origin of man's
and more evident that sublime conceptions of a spiritual world were
the original spirituality of man but represent the decadence of
by Spiritual Science and fully corroborated by Natural Science. What
Spiritual Science has to say about the future evolution of man will
connection with the spiritual world.
man was once united with the spiritual world but has descended into
illusion.” Only when he was linked with the spiritual world
warriors. “The same Divine-Spiritual essence of which we
Ours [is] the task to unite with the good spiritual elements and so
In India arose a spiritual
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Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the
could weigh like a nightmare on the world-conception based on spiritual
human progress. But it would be particularly depressing if spiritual
relationship in which spiritual science must stand to geology —
spiritual science — that knowledge which has always formed the
spiritual science to reveal about the origin of the earth? (Concerning
cannot lead us any further, we quite simply set down what spiritual
spiritual-scientific research also reveals this gradual advance in
must ask: What has geology, what has spiritual science, to regard as
spiritual science — with the specific outlook often
this way, spiritual science finds that there is a stupendous
established by the investigations of spiritual science. They show
spiritual science leads us back to the earth as an organism —
point of view of spiritual science one must practically reverse the
we approach the Spiritual and we let spiritual science tell us that
phenomena, but that all this has taken shape out of the Spiritual,
responding to spiritual functions of a new order. For if we now
yes, by spiritual and soul-processes. But what is taking place on the
processes — and then spiritual processes. This foundation
with the outlook of spiritual science, we thus observe life as it is
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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to make the convictions and knowledge of the spiritual world too
the spiritual world. And yet, as the years go by it is more and more
call itself by the name of a great spiritual individuality, after the
which, till now, no one in spiritual life had any conception, —
in occult work, such for instance, as my book The Spiritual
there it is said that He will only appear as a Spiritual Being. These

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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about the Gospels and other spiritual documents of humanity would not
be read as though registered in a delicate spiritual substance, the
grade of spiritual development to support such a vision. It is indeed
penetrate into the spiritual worlds without the Gospels through a
which enables a man to understand the impressions of the spiritual
immersed as a spiritual being, feeling one with the Christ-being,
spiritual beings. In the Saturn existence they are nothing but time.
spiritual foundation of our life is present, though it is not yet

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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being; and we have seen that spiritual achievements formed in truth
the spiritual deeds then existing. We have said that the Spirits of
soil-spiritual nature which is behind the heat and brings about the
substance of the ancient Sun through something of a spiritual
science, such as that set forth in spiritual science or Theosophy; I
meet us from the spiritual world. If we wish to describe what thus
spiritual being of air. Wherever there is air we are concerned with
contemplated in a more spiritual sense, what I have just described as
the earth, we can then go still more deeply into the actual spiritual
radiant light, spiritually grasped, radiated back by those selected
will be our task to study the Christ-Being in the spiritual nature of
the Sun, in order to pass on from that to the spiritual nature of the

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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something spiritual is to be sought. We endeavoured to describe the
spiritual to be found behind the phenomenon of heat, and then that
had to glance into our own soul-life to describe the spiritual
conceptions. As we have seen, the spiritual conditions to which we
bestowal,’ the devotional pouring forth by spiritual Beings of
from maya to the incorporeal, the spiritual, do we obtain the correct
as bear upon the spiritual world — do not, strange to say, now
efforts we must make. But in the spiritual world this is not so,
smallest purely spiritual facts. We do not attain any spiritual
ourselves as much as possible; no — in the spiritual world we
spiritual workings. To do this he would have to prepare himself by
the spiritual world, when we wish to attain something important we
statement, and not given by way of advice). The greatest spiritual,
spiritual activities intended to lead to spiritual effects in the
spiritual self-indulgence, for a person may practise it in order to
these intrinsically Spiritual cloud-formations is seen to take place
Spiritual Beings, that they resigned the sacrifice and all that might
would not be in the world at all were it not that its spiritual
resignation. We acquire a peculiar kind of spiritual insight into the

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 2)
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discover to some extent the spiritual behind the phenomena of the
revealing little of the fact that the spiritual in its own
peculiar form stands behind them, as we experience this spiritual in
recognised that nevertheless spiritual qualities and properties
our ideas, seems to reveal so little of its spiritual nature, we have
recognised the bestowing virtue of certain Spiritual Beings. And we
there was naturally a greater sense of the spiritual behind the outer
‘Spirit’ to-day. Even in saying “Spiritual”;
word with very little application to spiritual things, on one
spiritualist union at Munich, and so little did the postman know what
a spiritualistic circle was, that the letter was delivered to the
the spiritual. We must now start from that point which we reached in
essentially in the refusal of Beings of exalted Spiritual rank to
ourselves into what went on spiritually in the evolutionary
as Wisdom, and Spirituality behind air and gas. This then combines
both the spiritual basis of what developed during the Moon-phase of
really have an explanation of what has been spiritually brought over
those who enter our own movement of Spiritual Science. In external
wonder at a man who at the present day longs through spiritual
this spiritual wisdom had not been given, had been unable to have it,
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 6: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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that we call Maya or the great illusion, there is the Spiritual. Let
the spiritual is to be discerned behind everything perceptible to our
this spiritual essence we were obliged in the last lecture to sweep
that we must reduce the elements of heat back to the spiritual, to
what we recognise as the spiritual in ourselves.
forward spiritually through the Saturn, Sun and Moon-existence, and
when those Beings found their sacrifice rejected. In a spiritual
spiritual atmosphere, may be described in many respects by saying
Entities resigned it. The peculiar feature of the spiritual
spiritual characteristic of what we call the fourth element in the
spiritual counterpart: Sacrifice — if (2) behind all the air
element of fluidity as spiritual resignation or renunciation, so must
the fluidic. For this too reflects a spiritual process, in a certain
spiritual process of the Earth's becoming; for as far as the
must be looked for in the spiritual behind it — we have now
be in the spiritual world may be called death. Thus something is cut
meaning in the spiritual; and as soon as it enters Maya it encounters
the physical plane, but the cause of it is up above in the spiritual
look for a spiritual prototype for each one of them — but not

Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the
its spiritual essence; also of what may be called anthroposophical
history told as an outcome of research into the spiritual
How spiritual science must recognize the living
think of taking into his own spirit — as spiritual content —
concepts and ideas, this spiritual content through which the human
drawing forth of the spiritual from things and beings would be pure
small circles, this general presupposition of the spiritual content
spirit in general, i.e., they speak about the existence of spiritual
weaving, of spiritual life lying at the basis of the mineral, plant,
behind this or that phenomenon. Nevertheless, in our spiritual
spiritual science — we stand firm on the ground of natural
that in contrast to what spiritual science has to say today about
the spiritual investigator must consider in relation to the whole
spiritual investigator becomes aware that it is generally impossible
spiritual investigator the plant world at once relates itself to the
nevertheless for the spiritual scientific view. We come to look
mineral element, of lifeless matter. Spiritual science may not speak
exist at all for the spiritual investigator, because the lower is
that spiritual research shows how everything rock-like,
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Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the Present Time,
Turning Points in Spiritual History.
Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the
Turning Points in Spiritual History.
MONG the ideas advanced by Spiritual Science, that
questions arise in Spiritual Science, among them that of the meaning
study the evolution of human life on Earth in the light of Spiritual
conceived ideas of morality exactly as he does to-day. But Spiritual
regard to the epoch in which Zarathustra lived. Spiritual Science,
with the spiritual world. The spiritual world actually entered into
his consciousness. Nowadays the door into the spiritual world
states between waking and sleep when the spiritual world appeared
world of sense. He had direct experience of the spiritual world,
spiritual world.”
possessed of understanding the spiritual world became less and
spirituality to mankind. I refer to the peoples of India, from whom
consider that man can reach the spiritual world along two paths of
belongs to the physical world, we may indeed find our real spiritual
if we so strengthen our spiritual powers that they can penetrate
physical phenomena — then our strengthened spiritual forces
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Title: Lecture: Hermes
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the Present Time,
Turning Points in Spiritual History.
Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the
Turning Points in Spiritual History.
vital importance in Spiritual Science to study the whole spiritual
deeply into this ancient Egyptian spiritual life.
of Spiritual Science is cast upon the whole mode and nature of
admitting what Spiritual Science tells us, namely, that in olden
spiritual world behind. In reality, all clairvoyant consciousness,
to the spiritual realities lying behind the sense-realities of the
these pictures indicate an actual vision of the spiritual world. If
man's spiritual achievements — the strange stories related in
spiritual reality permeates the old mythologies and religious systems.
those still able to gaze into the spiritual world contained less and
less of spiritual force. The higher worlds gradually closed their
doors until only the lowest stages of spiritual activity were
understand aright) proves the truth of what Spiritual Science
clairvoyance, to gaze into the spiritual worlds. In the people of
life, a vision enabling man to see into the spiritual world. But they
to gaze into the very depths of the spiritual world.
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Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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of spiritual life; it only wants to say:— Recognise the
laws of spiritual life and you will find these higher laws
but elementary Spiritual Science; and he has to make use of
modern Natural Science might lead Spiritual Science into a
present and to await a more hopeful time to harmonise Spiritual
possesses spiritual attributes, in the same way as the worm has
spiritual in mans One has accustomed oneself to look on these
which man shares with animals and the higher spiritual qualities
thinker bring the spiritual soul into the same scheme of thought
regards the spiritual life by one who fears insecurity in this
we not find that which we call higher human spiritual activity,
followers are in the right, all talk of higher spiritual laws of
speaks a thinker who is not willing to drowse into spiritual
to the organic and organic-spiritual forces. The human soul as a
connection with the spiritual development of the time, and has
or the great laws of cause and effect in spiritual life. Those
spiritual considerations were to look upon the above
development in the spiritual-psychic realm.
the spiritual so that it may become the ruling power of your

Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the Present Time,
Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the
Spiritual Science, we must remember that what is taken into
Spiritual Science). Not long ago the great natural scientist,
to proclaim such things as relate to Spiritual, development,
are condemned to suffer a Spiritual death. But the fate of the
develops in a Spiritual way, as the animal develops in his
something which is of a Spiritual nature. That is to say that
a Spiritual kernel, which enters into being at the birth of
“man”, in so far as man goes back to a Spiritual
spirit and soul-substance, which is the Spiritual — not
developing Spiritually. Only a man who cannot see that the
from an individual human life to an individual Spiritual seed
and from this again to another Spiritual seed; that is, we
recognised; but this truth that the Spiritual can only
originate from the Spiritual, will certainly make its mark in
pain and joy, we shall then see in this Spiritual life itself
Spiritual being of man to advance and grow, allows it to
take up into ourselves any Spiritual process of death. Only
the Spiritual process of death. That is really the case
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Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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this or that circle are, considering the spiritual current in
spiritual air of mutual love and peace that radiates through
spiritual light or means of light to the dawn of the great
love and peace. On this night — spiritually, or in our
they need in order to find their way upwards to those spiritual
‘Kings’ in the spiritual sense of the word: magic kings come to
pay homage to the great spiritual King Who appears in the high
order to reach the height of the spiritual King whom the magic
Matthew's Gospel confront our spiritual gaze: He brings into
challenged in the figure of Herod; and the spiritual King must
flee before that which is the enemy of spiritual kingship. So
spiritual, an entirely new spirit appeared before mankind: new
itself quite immersed in the old Pagan spiritual
spiritual side of it, it works out magnificently in the old
pre-Christian spiritual powers. Thus in Eudocia's poem we hear
spiritual kings, magic kings. The Child of St. Luke's Gospel
the world felt itself challenged by his kingly spiritual power.
Strength and Wisdom. As human spiritual individualities, above
spiritual. Thus did the feeling of equality from man to man
from the spiritual world! It is a kind of understanding of the
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Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the Present Time,
Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the
Spiritual Science has reached to-day. The same great impulse
be, in a certain sense, given to this of Spiritual Science in
people, their sole means of participating in Spiritual and
refer, in Spiritual matters, to the authority of the
Spiritual Science the place Galileo and Giordano Bruno took
was able to see behind the material world into the Spiritual.
learnt by means of Spiritual Science about the super-sensible
means that it was from the Spiritual forces of Michelangelo
Nature speaks the Divine Spiritual. We men approach Nature,
senses, is implanted in Nature by Divine Spiritual Beings. At
first, the thoughts of the Divine Spiritual Beings exist
mind of the Divine Spiritual beings. Thus the human mind
exists that it may read what the Divine Spiritual Beings have
a Spiritual sense. As then understood, it was indeed an
important pioneers of the modern Spiritual development of
thoughts of the Divine Spiritual, and it was only from
the Divine Spiritual. Thus, according to Aristotle, the
looks up to the Spiritual World, we can have no doubt of his
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Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
lecture 9 of 13 in the lecture series entitled, Results of Spiritual
Results of Spiritual Investigation,
Mission of Raphael in the Lightof Spiritual Science
figures in the spiritual [area] of mankind who rise[s] like a star. These
depths of the spiritual evolution of humanity and then disappear, when
spiritual history of man. On closer observation it becomes evident that
brightly and then disappears again, becomes a member of the whole spiritual
element, and that a uniform stream of spiritual development has flowed
the other side of the spiritual conception of history it may be said that
great significance when we thus see how a uniform spiritual essence
emphasized from the spiritual-scientific standpoint in connection with
the spiritual evolution of humanity is perceived with special vividness
to the other what is destined to be implanted in the spiritual evolution
of humanity. Spiritual Science is seeking the meaning and purpose in the
from the standpoint of Spiritual Science in regard to Raphael's relationship
a philosophical survey of the spiritual life of humanity for the sake
applying itself to the spiritual or the spiritual becoming conscious of
the Spiritual underlying the universe, — this inwardness did not
organs in those days, the spiritual mysteries of existence simultaneously
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Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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Spring Valley, N.Y.), and “Spiritual Science and the Social
Press, Spring Valley, N.Y.), and “Spiritual Science and the
Spiritual Science and the Social Question,
same year in the essay “Spiritual Science and the Social
how, in higher spiritual realms, what obtains as law is nothing
spiritual life. Christianity brought the message of equality
“Spiritual Science and the Social Question” in

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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consideration the homogeneous spiritual bond existing in all the
of modern spiritual science.
sets in motion higher spiritual forces, which are not applied to
Now whoever is able to look into Goethe's whole spiritual
spiritual, the world of ideas. We see that for this reason Goethe's
shall see what unique results Goethe's spiritual standard has in
fact produced. If we take three philosophers of German spiritual
who has succeeded must admit that he has gained food for spiritual
the spirituality of feeling. To your feeling therefore, philosophy
rightly turns. The spirituality of your feeling is the normal
spiritual phenomena, which he calls the proto-phenomena, as he
While he speaks from the heights of the spiritual world as
can trace the debt to Goethe. Spiritualistic and materialistic
our frequent studies here of spiritual science and a
world-conception based on the spiritual, we consider what he did
should he not also be a stimulant for that spiritual tendency
(Spiritual Stream) one of whose highest and most beautiful aims is
alone can one see the deeper spiritual foundations? We shall now
we look up to him whenever the current attitude to deeper spiritual
it is possible for man to awake in himself spiritual organs in
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture II
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certain way — stands the spiritual scientific world-conception
But on the other hand Spiritual Science is far from
It lies thus in the purview of Spiritual Science that man
not see before because he was not capable of seeing it. Spiritual
world-conceptions, whether spiritualistic, or materialistic,
and powers that lie in him? One may say that Spiritual Science is as
to recognize also the spiritual element in things, therefore
If a man takes his stand on the ground of spiritual science,
in it a spiritual element, and I can so stimulate my mode of
soul-condition, that the spiritual influences, inspirations, are
follows from step to step how the spiritual reality or form creeps
regards the conceptions of spiritual science as exercises for life,
of the world, with the Creative, Spiritual forces. The
Those are the two ways to reach a spiritual picture of the world. The
man who aspires to the spiritual world — not with human
river which separates us from the spiritual. But there is another
spiritual kingdom, but remains unconscious and is carried across like
indicates the current of Spiritual Science which to-day has already
to make popular the content of Spiritual Science, of the principle of
from the kingdom of the senses into the kingdom of the spiritual, and
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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one can say that he who experiences it has had his spiritual eyes
opened, so that he can see into the surrounding spiritual world.
worlds, between the spiritual world to which man can raise himself
Mephistopheles, the messenger of the evil spirituality:
of a spiritual kind by means of which man climbs the stages of
place where the human soul is united with the spirituality of the
to have such experiences, spiritual eyes and spiritual ears are
allegories in what is for the spiritual inquirer, who can
experience it in the spiritual worlds, something far more true and
human inner life with the spiritual weaving and living in the
them expands to a spiritual universe.’ At that time at
it is expressed there: ‘How the spiritual forces of heaven
spiritual vision to the creative power of the world, enthroned in
be reached through the spiritual eye and the spiritual ear; and on
are only to be perceived through spiritual eyes and spiritual ears
laboratories. What should have been experienced in a spiritual
imposture. In a certain sense the way to the spiritual is connected with
blamelessly for the spiritual forces in nature, were branded as
spiritual movement as a rosy evening which at the same time became
the spiritual world. Theology he had studied and had turned away
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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which is aware of the spiritual experience which we may call
‘experience in the sense of the new Spiritual Science.’
of the spiritual world in the two parts of ‘Faust,’ we
the spiritual world, and who tries to enter it through
personality which has learnt to know the reality of the spiritual,
experienced in Part II, he has seen it. He was in the spiritual,
order to await the rising of the spiritual sun. We find in the
restless, endeavouring to sleep,’ surrounded by spiritual
sleep. Beings from the spiritual world are busy with his spirit,
to grow into the spiritual world. Then we are shown how his soul
spiritual world in the ‘Prologue in Heaven,’ in
pupil in the School of Pythagoras, that he who enters the spiritual
This must be the music from the worlds of the spiritual
II Faust is withdrawn into the spiritual world, it is written again:
physical sun makes no sound! It is the spiritual sun behind the
spiritual life. They are spiritual, not physical sounds. In this
spirit and the human soul. He looked up to the spiritual sun and
Before the spiritual sun rises in the soul, the learner
After the spiritual beings which surrounded him had been
the spiritual sun:
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Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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of Spiritual Economy and was published in German as Das Christentum
der spirituellen Ökonomie, The Principles of Spiritual Economy
Spiritual Science, Goetheanum, Class One. No person is held
spiritual-scientific world-view, what we could give in the
among other things, spiritual science is intended to give:
shall be able to coordinate the spiritual lines and forces
soul-spiritual development which will be attained by the normal
their development in higher, more spiritual regions, who, in
human body. A spiritual being who descends thus into a human
spiritual sphere of our super-sensible world — this Being
mentioned at the beginning that there is also a spiritual
own etheric body was also preserved in the spiritual world; for
special mission — in somewhat the way a spiritually
etheric body was preserved in the spiritual world, so that it
able to point to such facts: to facts of a spiritual nature
Avatar-being the essential soul-spiritual members of the
appeared Who is known as Christ Jesus; that other spiritual
spiritual scientists: namely, that as long as people
spiritual-scientific field we come to understand more and more
profounder understanding of Christianity through spiritual
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Title: An Impulse for the Future
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guarantee for a later resurrection of the spiritual impact through
spiritual ur-source, so that by going through the coldness of
must be revealed. On such trials often fail the attempts of spiritual
spiritual world. It was a call delivered to humanity – followed
third time, it is taken back to the spiritual world for a long time.
no echo. This was the second time. It concerns purely spiritual
has thought about this difference. Therefore the spiritual powers
spiritual task should develop, a task which is to result in a
spiritual method of working and in its results.
own recognition of our spiritual stream, and thereby the sovereignty
and the independence of all spiritual striving, which is an absolute
exist in the spiritual world – as interpreter of what is to be
within our spiritual movement will be placed with the corresponding
from the spiritual world. Furthermore it will present itself as
flowing from the spiritual world in that the membership will be
always and exclusively concerned with spiritual interests and the
recognition of spiritual interests – with the exclusion of
spiritual world work can be done, the principle that not only all
deeds are based on the spiritual, super-sensible world.
spiritual world as the basic reality. All other principles
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
audience with the kind of issues investigated by spiritual
science, for example, our relation to the spiritual world,
of spiritual investigation will become apparent. These
lectures will also deal — from a spiritual-scientific
demonstrate that spiritual science is not a mere theory, but
on which only spiritual science can throw light. Later
Existence in the Light of Spiritual Science”;
aspect. The results of spiritual-scientific investigation can
by spiritual-scientific investigation, and the significance
to understand every religion and spiritual aspiration. Every
civilization, are to receive the impulse for true spiritual
conflict between the world outlook of spiritual science and
the great religions. Spiritual science, while resting on its
apparent that spiritual science reflects an aspect of all of
them. Far from wanting to become another religion, spiritual
objectively consider why spiritual science would neither wish
is past for founding new religions. Spiritual truths can no
development far into the future. Spiritual science should be
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
with knowledge provided by spiritual research we delve into
described in exact terms by means of modern spiritual
spiritual scientific methods. Whatever legends have to say
but from that of spiritual science. It will be a help if
spiritual science that the world accessible to our five
of a spiritual world hidden behind it. This hidden world is
expression of the spiritual world above it. The physical
world is therefore not complete to the spiritual researcher,
spiritual researcher does in regard to the whole world. The
Spiritual science has often pointed to the fact that human
possess. Spiritual science recognizes in wisdom something
spiritual knowledge. This will happen more and more
Spiritual
Spiritual science maintains that what thus surrounds us can
physiognomic expression in the blood. Once the spiritual
such knowledge must of necessity influence our spiritual and
once insight is gained into the spiritual nature of
enter into the mysterious laws of the spiritual realm that
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture III: The Origin of Suffering
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Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
learned through spiritual research to look back into earlier
today's subject. We shall consider in the sense of spiritual
science the connection between suffering and spirituality
Spiritual
the spirit from the corporeal. When the spiritual researcher
preceding two lectures that in the light of spiritual science
can be perceived physically, spiritual science maintains is
nature, which no other earthly being possesses. Spiritual
spiritual science know that the “I” of a human
spiritual investigator sees the human being as a fourfold
being. At a certain point spiritual research differs
decisively from external research because spiritual
existence. However, the spiritual investigator also sees
self-consciousness. But to spiritual research the sequence is
consciousness, is seen by the spiritual investigator as the
rather, Where does matter come from? Spiritual research shows
spiritual science has always maintained, namely, that organic
you could follow with spiritual sight what happens at the
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IV: The Origin of Evil
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Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
light of spiritual science.
especially. Spiritual science is the first to show that to
Spiritual
place through which the spiritual eyes and ears are opened.
spiritual vision, for the new clairvoyance is the fruit of
worlds. The task of the human soul is to spiritualize sense
spiritualized, and no longer needs a physical body, he will
attain spiritual leadership and work on a new planet from
to the highest spiritualized love. Untold numbers of beings
to the highest spiritual love, but all love, the highest as

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture V: Illness and Death
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Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
or spiritual science, would wish to contribute to present-day
other sciences, spiritual science cannot speak in such an
beings, it is important to bear in mind that, as spiritual
the “I.” From the viewpoint of spiritual science,
spiritual-scientific viewpoint, you will realize that the
happens spiritually that is similar to what happens
teeth the spiritual forces of the ether world act on the
that is, not yet born from their spiritual sheaths.
closely, you will realize, even without spiritual sight, that
Spiritual
spiritual science wishes to bring to humanity. Many will see
they are from spiritual knowledge, can be dangerous! We have
one can argue about; it acts as a spiritual power of healing,
Spiritual
therefore, when spiritual forces work upon the ether body,
both spiritual and bodily health. Living proof of its truth
Spiritual science is like the so-called poison which, when

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VII: Education and Spiritual Science
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Education and Spiritual Science
Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
Education and Spiritual Science
on the whole a valuable spiritual foundation, but it must be
Spiritual
spiritual world. The will that flowed through their limbs was
which great spiritual teachers have appeared among men. Buddha,
those days, the influence of the spiritual world was much
rich imaginative pictures. The spiritual behind the
living fingers. Vigorous spiritual forces are to be
must feel that he or she belongs to a spiritual world-order

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science.
Spiritual
something about so-called spiritual or mental illness. The
that the spiritual, by transforming itself, adapts to the
from a spiritual scientific viewpoint, has much of interest
so-called spiritual or mental illnesses, natural and
spiritual science must work together. What is needed is
Spiritual
one must of necessity learn to understand the spiritual
that the material world is an imprint of the spiritual world.
connected with the spiritual world, we wish to find the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
Spiritual
are capable of developing spiritual forces of greater
the one least understood. Spiritual knowledge guides the
that through spiritual science egoistical wishes should be
which fostered spiritual knowledge. In the region where
healing, which they practiced by combining their spiritual
insight with knowledge of matter. When spiritual knowledge is
absorbed, healing forces are absorbed also. Spiritual science
person might as well know nothing about spiritual science if
inner being must be steeped in spiritual science; one must
but even more consider the how." Spiritual science is rightly
understood if it is assimilated like a spiritual food, and
Spiritual
as the expression of soul-spiritual universal life. Just as
the spirit. Spiritual knowledge must penetrate a human's
we discover the spiritual world. What is required is that we
The spiritual world is there and should not be sought as if
spiritual knowledge becomes a personal quest.
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture X: Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
Spiritual Science
spiritual eyes and continually does so. Therefore,
pleasure in what is beautiful, artistic and spiritual, will
spiritual world where everything the “I” has
to spiritual sight, are not part of a person's own nature,
spiritual science we can gain insight into what would be done
nutrition it must be realized that there exists a spiritual
chemical components; spiritually it is related to the child.
It is evident from spiritual research that the milk issues
with a pure spiritual delight in the world, for these are
Those with spiritual insight have always regarded this age as
his life of thoughts and feelings of a spiritual nature comes
more spiritual. All this is certainly greatly enhanced and
take note of this fact from the point of view of spiritual
attaining spiritual insight and developing spiritual
for developing spiritual insight. Development in the first
as indicated by spiritual science, they also exist in the
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XI: Who are the Rosicrucians?
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Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
gain even elementary knowledge of this spiritual stream that
faculties enable a person to look into the spiritual world
an expression of the spiritual world of which it is a
knowledge of the spiritual world is attained. An individual
conscientiousness and devotion to Truth in spiritual
highest secrets of nature and the spiritual world, to that
The spiritual
members is apparent to spiritual research, though not to the
wonderful spiritual knowledge, and also the method whereby
to perceive and to investigate the spiritual world.
method developed by the Rishis, the great spiritual teachers
recognize that spiritual research and its achievements are in
be the right method of initiation into spiritual life. When
training that applies to spiritual scientific training,
to be an initiate. Spiritual knowledge and scholarship have
to enter spiritual realms. A person who is inclined to see
spiritual world.
astral world, that is from the spiritual world next to the
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XII: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
spiritual-scientific viewpoint is impermissible. Other
in his nature of which the observer with spiritual insight is
spiritual worlds. Properly understood, mysticism, far from
can indeed be discussed from the highest spiritual scientific
This happens irrespective of whether the spiritual realm a
When spiritual
indicated by spiritual science. This inner awareness linked
him to spiritual science and to all genuine mysticism. He
but also all spiritual and cultural streams within various
Spiritual
nothing is known save what spiritual science has to say.
descended from spiritual heights and let their essence stream
deep conviction of the reality of spiritual life. Richard
existence of a spiritual world behind the physical. You must
artistic impulse developed according to spiritual laws, as a
spiritual world behind the physical, one is aware also of
meaning, is aware that this legend expresses a spiritual
namely, that purely spiritually one soul can influence
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XIII: The Bible and Wisdom
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Steiner demonstrates in these lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
lecture, [ unknown reference ] we discussed spiritual science
today is known to every educated person. From the spiritual
spiritual science, in particular those concerned with the
lecture, go straight to the subject from the spiritual
the Bible had been inspired by a higher spiritual source.
interpret the Bible in the light of spiritual science. The
short of tragic. Spiritual scientific explanations are
spiritual scientific explanations is in effect like saying:
Spiritual
oppose spiritual science. Rejection of true explanations is
and disposition of the spiritual scientist than this passage
by the inner disposition of the spiritual scientist? We mean
our being, our spirituality. What builds our body comes from
them and human beings are themselves spiritual. Furthermore,
if a person truly will, he can attain that spiritual world
soul begins to evolve spiritual eyes and ears. We must not
spiritual development say: Granted that man, in regard to his
true that a human being who has reached a certain stage in spiritual
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture I: The Past Shows Us a Picture of Necessity
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firmly to the belief that the world is pervaded by spiritual
look outside of what we call spiritual science. Only the
background spiritual science can give will enable you to
people — a pastor gave a speech opposing our spiritual
spiritual life, about an aspect of theosophy that completely
have often emphasized, that spiritual science does not in the
spiritual level, had been lost. It now has to emerge again
was inspired by the spiritual world. But it came about that the
doesn't it? Through an act of grace from the spiritual world
world. This feeling for perceiving the world spiritually had to
the human being. Anyone who knows nothing about spiritual
spiritual realm we often have the opposite of what exists on
regard to the spiritual aspect can look quite different. Not
where one would have to say that on the spiritual level there
something special in the spiritual world, something that
spiritual world. In short, the clairvoyant person may have seen
happiness in the spiritual world and at the same time shower
spiritual world requires their having this experience here on
spiritual one, may necessarily belong together.
general statement that there is a spiritual world underlying
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture II: The Legend of the Prague Clock
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sense of spiritual science. For it is a very trivial thing to
spiritual world, as indicated in the legend, when it tells us
spiritual world, when our souls are stimulated to do a
preceding one. But we are also within the spiritual world. In
to start with, are only words for real spiritual facts. And the
real spiritual facts are the deeds of Lucifer and Ahriman. In a
does this happen? We shall not progress with our spiritual
point of view for a spiritual scientist. He learns to
of spiritual science. We are now living in earth existence, a
behind. What is happening now in nature is spiritual, and we do
the spiritual realm matters are very different. So you must
spiritual world, this latter event being the other half of the
that it has a hidden spiritual content in addition to the
spiritually that belongs to the outer event and is of immensely
experienced in the spiritual world may be infinitely more
atonement, and so on, if we add the spiritual aspect to the

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture III: Three Teachers with Different Attitudes
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studied the sort of thing people call spiritual science. And I
accordance with spiritual science we have to say that the first
clinging to the past, like Lucifer does, who, on a spiritual
possibly to be found in the spiritual world. If we merely trace
have to grasp this with what you have acquired from spiritual
(Of Central European Cultural and Spiritual Life),
individual being originating in the spiritual world comes from
down in us centuries before, and unites them on a spiritual
spiritual world and uniting with the physical being as a kind

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture IV: The Roman World and the Teutonic Tribes
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Spiritual Freedom)
actually enter forces we sense as coming from the spiritual
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
impulses from the spiritual world. In one passage it is
spiritual world. However, that does not exclude the utmost
purely external physical necessity and spiritual
we can do it another way. We can follow the spiritual
conception of Faust arose out of the spiritual problems
like the kind of thing that came down from the spiritual world
impulses that came from the spiritual world to the
within him through looking down from the spiritual world. For
nothing but spiritual necessity.” These things cannot be
spiritual beings above human beings. With them the intention
is ready for spiritual science ought to take it up. Nobody is
say, we become acquainted with spiritual necessity, thereby
into a spiritual necessity we ought to become more and more
thus free ourselves through our knowledge of spiritual
the spiritual plane, we become freer and freer of the
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture V: The "I" is Found on the Physical Plane in Acts of Will
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us take another look at one of our basic truths of spiritual
spiritual science has been successful — there will be
something more, something of an etheric-spiritual nature,
the truths of spiritual science. People who do understand these
efforts to do the exercises of spiritual science in order to
coming from spiritual science for the invigorating and
is actually as follows. What has to be developed by spiritual
he were to approach nature as spiritual science does, he would
spiritual science, he falls down just like a somnambulist who
moment they accept what spiritual science says about the outer
approached on the spiritual plane. Now these dreamers had
This means giving people spiritual science that, far from
making the soul drunk, awakens the soul to spiritual
have said before that if we offer the challenge of spiritual
familiarize himself with the impulses coming from spiritual
awaken his soul to the ideals of spiritual science, yet you
if you bring spiritual science to someone who is completely
spiritual science is familiar to them but still undigested, and
ought to acquire ideas and knowledge about spiritual
necessity. If it can come about that spiritual science brings
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Title: Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe," Theosophy
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I am aware that to a student of spiritual
bear upon the development of spiritual life is bound to
century a totally different spiritual attitude prevailed from
of that old spiritualism which is clearly conscious that,
lurks something spiritual to be sought for. Haeckel has again
aspiration towards a spiritual life.
centuries, a time when a greater spiritual sensitiveness
humanity. By this means everything of a spiritual nature became
spiritual consciousness working side by side with his
shows plainly enough that Haeckel possesses a spiritual as well
learnt from that; we may learn how to acquire spiritually
spiritual being.” At that time, owing to a lack of
the spirituality that transcends it, because he lacks precisely
the knowledge of that which makes of man a spiritual being.
unable to investigate matters spiritual. Natural science
entity by which man becomes a spiritual being. No mental
only depends on his sense-perceptions — spiritual eyes
spiritual observer; he must become one. become a
“seer.” in order that he may see what is spiritual
it is possible for organs — spiritual eyes — to
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Title: Spirit of Fichte: Lecture I: The Spirit of Fichte Present in Our Midst
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Out of a Middle European Spiritual Life,
to promote spiritual growth. What was to be done? He resolved to
a sign to be given him from the spiritual worlds as to what he
unable to find his spiritual food there. It struck him that he
avert his attention from the spiritual processes taking place
for all the spiritual changes going on around him, he became
element which appealed so happily to Fichte's own spiritual
the manner in which spiritual things are set before men a different
form of spiritual expression which he sought as his object in life.
freely cultivate his spiritual aspirations; and it was intolerable
other. Let us first consider the results of his spiritual
works as creator; we must lay hold of this spiritual life and act
from the point where the Ego unites with the spiritual processes of
inwardly the divine being, the divine spiritual ebb and flow
awaken spiritual activity and spiritual being. From the souls of
self-renewing spiritual activity. He did not merely
this, entering the spiritual world with his hearers, and, as it
were, taking each one by the hand to guide him into the spiritual
of men up to a direct contact with creative spiritual reality —
against the background, as it were, of his whole spiritual life,
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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new spiritual attitude brought by anthroposophy.
hearts they can admit: Precisely through Spiritual Science something
awareness of belonging to a spiritual Being, Who descended from
Spiritual heights, and united Himself with the earth, so that every
supported by the spiritual power just described, and that all men of
spiritual power. Thereby they can also find together the right ways of
Spiritual Science.
which permeated humanity like a gentle spiritual breeze during those
after spiritual knowledge we are able to do so, because through our
spiritual seeker can understand today what was essential in those
descent of man from spiritual heights to the physical world — and
Impulse, upward again towards the spiritual worlds.
the spiritual world to the world of the senses, and then, of the
not as impossible to look towards the spiritual worlds as it is today.
exist then. In those times the spiritual world was accepted as
spiritual world and how it differs from the world of the senses. Today
people can hardly conceive how one could feel spiritually as late as
the 15th or 16th century, and how an awareness of spirituality was
for the spiritual mood that lives in such plays. For us, certain lines
we recognize the spiritual sensitivity of the people who were to
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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 1
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nature of the Mysteries and their connection with the spiritual life
completely changed when, after our passage through the spiritual
Initiation. He can go so far that the existence of the spiritual world
understanding of the spiritual worlds. The Way of Initiation can now
upon this evolution through his spiritual power. It would be childish
that a number of persons should be capable of judging what spiritual
Moses”, would have known that this was the particular spiritual

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 2
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Natural laws and moral laws intermingle in the spiritual world. The
illnesses, are caused by forces and beings of the spiritual world.
spiritual worlds depends upon the strengthening of the inner forces of
spiritually substantial content of his soul, and receives into it the
spiritual worlds which then present themselves to him.
spiritual world where a different kind of judgment is necessary;
law intermingle when one enters the spiritual world.
first the impression that in the spiritual world these souls — of
described in the course of our lectures on spiritual science —
about by the spiritual worlds. But everything that happens in the
physical world comes about through influences from the spiritual
happen through influences from the spiritual worlds; that is, they are
caused by forces and beings of the spiritual world.
of the spiritual worlds into the physical world the forces which call
obstacles are directed from the spiritual worlds and the Lord of
ordinary world. From the experiences in the spiritual worlds, however,
spiritual world; people who in the physical world “hear the grass
physical world from the spiritual world and looks for instance, at a
spiritually at midnight and felt himself united with the forces of the
but becomes acquainted with the spiritual beings and worlds belonging
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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 3
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Ascent into the spiritual worlds is accompanied by certain unavoidable
enters by means of this training into the spiritual worlds; and there
an expression for spiritual facts and for the meeting with spiritual
spiritual universe, which are working on the physical and etheric
spiritual sight; and that in which you sheathe yourself when you are
inward satisfaction in perceiving how the spiritual beings whose
upon the physical form of the Sun but upon the spiritual beings who
and knew that they were now within a world of spiritual facts and
spiritual beings. Wide was the circuit of vision through which these
towards you a force like unto spiritual cosmic Warmth, one that
towards you the spiritual Light that illumines souls between death and
spiritual Being, and has lived in him with longing for the solution
this spiritual Being with whom he is united, the force of his own
solution of the riddle streams out into the spiritual Being, after a
spiritual world. The aspirant knows this. Thus he does not say: Now a
birth. Everything that has to be thus poured out from the spiritual
spiritual world. But that was up to a certain point of time only in
knowledge of the spiritual worlds, but could not be satisfied.
and etheric bodies and in the spiritual worlds, he felt himself as a
God. As one feels with a person when he is passing into the spiritual
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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 4
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The Being formerly known spiritually as the Creative Word first became
spiritual worlds became a participant in the fate of Osiris, the God
spiritual worlds, I found Osiris permeating cosmic space with the
The Being who had been known spiritually to human souls in earlier
the spiritual worlds: “Ejeh asher Ejeh!” — “I AM
of mind of one of these candidates, and realise how in the spiritual
spiritual sight. Let us follow the evolution of the Earth, and we
shall see that for spiritual sight this Creative Word now goes forward
into spiritual regions of the Cosmos, and which simultaneously
the spiritual forces of the Sun and Moon were represented by King
is to be initiated, if it is to have understanding for the spiritual
stars but also the spiritual beings united with them. And so, when in
looked out into the universe and saw something spiritual, the
out from their bodies into starry space, took part in the spiritual
once looked out into the universe and received spiritual impressions
spiritual world which go with the vivifying and building up of the
successors of the evil spiritual beings of earlier times who had
have undergone a karmic fate such as has been indicated. Spiritual
The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind. Hence when in
transition from life in space and time into more spiritual forms of
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Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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familiar with spiritual science. It would, however, take us
soul life and spiritual devotion. Only with the help of
spiritual science can one understand why this is so. Many a
time have I told you how spiritual science helps towards a
world of the senses, there are soul-spiritual things, and
you, then spiritually, it is as if you had a physical brain

Title: Second Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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initiation of a man into the spiritual world. Every sentence
some contact with spiritual life know that there is an
esoteric side to our spiritual scientific strivings. The
begins to work on his spiritual development, he must also
trials. They were not only physical but spiritual
who is able to live spiritually in the higher world, who has
spiritual world as the crowning with thorns. One sees oneself
body. In the spiritual world he sees himself with the cross
spiritual and original aim. He gazes into a quite new, world.
spiritual world.

Title: Third Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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followed the seven stages of spiritual ascent in the life of
spiritual heights. There were no such documents in
outer sense world into spiritual life. The idea of the raven
spiritual, in man awakens it can happen that God has to
spiritual element.
the spiritual element become established in man? For someone
who directs his gaze towards the spiritual world to become
sooner to reach the spiritual world. This shows ignorance. It
maturity in order to enter the spiritual world itself, so
wheels, which enable him to enter the spiritual world and see
the way. Moses is the spiritual scientific word for truth. By
spiritual truths. They brought down a vast knowledge of the
spiritual world, but they used the most primitive tools, and
times which had true knowledge of spiritual life and not a
physical man, but one saw something higher, the spiritual,
(Jacobus). James really means water. Water is the spiritual
made manifest spiritually that through the appearance of
organism. He will have them until he has spiritualised

Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture VI: Easter: The Mystery of the Future
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and will have become a potent spiritual influence in the whole of
the spiritual environment of those districts. To one who has some
knowledge of the Spiritual it is in a sense an actual fact, that
and legend, not only in the poetic, but also in the spiritual sense,
very midst of all the evidences of spirituality dating from the times
who, in remembrance at least, pervade the spiritual atmosphere of
into the wider horizons of modern spiritual culture. One can discern
Spiritual Hierarchies. Those lectures, however, will have been a help,
perception of the spiritual beings, around him — unlike to-day
which he was conscious, were the garments, the sheaths, of spiritual
the spiritual alike by day and by night. By night they were surrounded
they were experienced in the spiritual world with as much reality as a
spiritual investigation. The Initiation-consciousness of man's early
forefathers worked in the spiritual world as powerfully as the
Why was spiritual vision a natural condition in the far distant
although these are no longer expressions of the inmost spiritual
body, the candidate experienced in his etheric body the spiritual
his physical consciousness. He had been a witness of the spiritual
the solid earth and to behold the Sun, the spiritual “Sun at
from receiving the impressions of the spiritual world — in the
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND LIFE BETWEEN DEATH AND
And that Spirit whom we are seeking thro' the deepening of Spiritual
our gaze to a knowledge of the spiritual world, which stands more or
Cosmic existence to which the gaze of Spiritual Science is also
from material life. In how many ways does the voice of the spiritual
to penetrate into the spiritual world, but whose hearts are
nevertheless the windows into the spiritual world. How clearly and in
how manifold a way does the spiritual world knock at these windows in
to know concerning this spiritual world.
existence of a spiritual world). The view of those who do not deny the
existence of a spiritual world but merely maintain that man can learn
ripened by life as to admit at least the existence of a spiritual
kingdom in the spiritual world lying behind the physical-sensible.
“No matter how far the spiritual world may extend, however great
whole kingdom of the spiritual world. Although to sense-perception,
those depths of the soul into which the deeper parts of the spiritual
product of the spiritual world, and how far in him are really to be
spiritual science — not enough to be termed knowledge but enough
we pass in the spiritual world between death and rebirth. From many
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 2: On the forming of Destiny
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the world, we reckon on the help of those in the spiritual-world
best forces, that they work among us from the spiritual world with
spiritual means. The trust in our cause that we require, will often be
spiritual civilisation of the world. I should now like to continue the
man is certainly able to acquire regarding the spiritual world. Times
to the beings of the spiritual world. For who does not see at each
even in its spiritual relations. Just consider that in all its
look, the configuration of the spiritual civilisation of all the
scientific and spiritual culture it may be said — though this is
times of ours, on the spiritual which mankind must learn to grasp. For
Now, many who to-day oppose what we call Spiritual Science, cannot
fail to feel the entirely different nature of that which Spiritual
beings of the spiritual world. Thereby we accustom ourselves to that
possible for us to take up spiritual truths in a different way from
parts of spiritual knowledge. We cannot always start afresh from the
the special manner of verifying our spiritual knowledge, and of taking
will, even if he does not himself see into the spiritual world, feel
that through the mutual support of spiritual truths the value of these
for the truth of this spiritual knowledge. I must often appeal to
we have around us the spiritual world which we describe as the world
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 3: The Subconscious Strata of the Soul-Life and the Life of the Spirit After Premature Death
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‘consciousness soul’ to ‘spiritual soul.’]
the conscious or spiritual soul. The soul, according to its experience
in our epoch, are living in the conscious or spiritual soul, and the
spiritual soul.
lives, not only in the spiritual soul, but also in the other
— by our life in the spiritual soul — for through the medium
has come in which we no longer know very much of spiritual processes
of the spiritual world. Then, during the Vulcan epoch, an
wonderful manner our connection with the spiritual world. We men in
Now for the spiritual investigator who has to investigate those
he dies slowly in his bed. Now for the spiritual investigator there
brings something quite different into the spiritual world from what he
spiritual world. What does this signify for the spiritual world? This
relation of the spiritual world to the physical world (as one can in
spiritual investigation. It is the following. In reality all our
conceptions and ideas change on entering the spiritual world; not only
on entering the spiritual world through initiation, but also on
In the evolution of the spiritual world the reverse is the case.
object, is for the man in the spiritual world something inimical,
nothing. And if one enters without further ado into a spiritual region
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 4: The Connection Between the Spiritual and the Physical Worlds, and How They Are Experienced After Death
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The Connection Between the Spiritual and the Physical Worlds, and How
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PHYSICAL WORLDS, AND HOW
In every domain Spiritual Science has to show us the connection
between the spiritual worlds and the world which we perceive through
have always been able to convince ourselves through our Spiritual
between the spiritual and sense world, from a special standpoint, we
have absorbed some of the thoughts of Spiritual Science, then the
spiritual world. That to which those thoughts are directed is present,
that we carry in our souls thoughts of a being who is in the spiritual
spiritual world, but that the consciousness of those who have passed
the spiritual world, receive into their consciousness, from the
physical world, that which their spiritual gaze and their spiritual
living in the spiritual world must continually be active in order to
the spiritual world comes first the thought of an ‘existing
the picture, which refers to those souls already in the spiritual
in the spiritual world entirely from itself, and it must be thoroughly
and lives the life of the spiritual world, it not only beholds the
with it in the spiritual world, but there also appears the world of
spirit, this is reversed on entering the spiritual world. What the
in the spiritual world, it is that world on which he must continually
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 5: Concerning the Subconscious Soul Impulses
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varied sides, as must be done in Spiritual Science.
into the spiritual worlds, yet through illuminating these worlds from
into touch with the spiritual world, consist in trying to see
we notice in memory there lies that which is seen with spiritual eyes
and heard with spiritual ears. So that what I have already explained
spiritual world, we use the same force which we otherwise employ in
acquiring spiritual sight, but it does mean as already characterised
we perceive spiritually, we cannot always take it in, for it to live
gives a lecture on what one really sees in the spiritual world, one
ordinary things, for one must bring it ever again out of the spiritual
the things afresh. When the spiritual seer really looks into the
spiritual world that which is usually the veil of memory becomes
the spiritual world. If a student performs his occult exercises with
a memory. When, however, we enter the spiritual world we must be
can do nothing but wait until the secrets of the spiritual world
similarly, when the spiritual world reveals itself, the imagination
with ordinary senses what position we occupy in a spiritual world
Above all we must understand this world as spiritual, and not think of
must conceive of it as spiritual. I have often drawn attention to the
relates to the spiritual world. For truly, not only because of the
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The Darkness of the Present-day Spiritual Life and the Lack of Truth
THE DARKNESS OF THE PRESENT-DAY SPIRITUAL LIFE AND THE LACK OF TRUTH
nights he experiences the secrets of the spiritual world; he
mingles its spiritual nature with what the spirit of the earth then
nature, rise to a vision of the spiritual world such as humanity as a
from out of the spiritual world. For whether he says Brooksvalin and
we say Kamaloka or soul-world and spiritual world, or whether we use
of union with the spiritual world, and that this had to be lost so
again develop a higher perception of the spiritual world. I might say
that this spiritual world which the primitive clairvoyance has
way into this spiritual world in a different manner. It is important
to develop the feeling that in reality the inner spiritual psychic
development of a spiritual psychic being is connected with the
psychic spiritual being is connected with the earth as a man's soul
nature in whom we live, undergo states of spiritual transformations as
Nature and the experiencing of it, the spiritual living with it has a
through which man can live more and more into the spiritual world. The
clear light of spiritual vision. We shall now bring this Saga before
have learnt through Spiritual Science in the course of the year. We
external man, there lies a spiritual kernel of man's being which in a
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
spiritual organism which perceives, sees, hears and so on through the
invertebrate animals. The Earth-Spirit is such a common spiritual
super-psychic and spiritual consciousness. Actually these are in all

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
Threshold at their side. If now the influence of spirituality were not
spirituality of the East should bring a central point into the chaos

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
organs divided into the physical-sensible and the spiritual organs. He

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture IV
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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
kingdom will be spiritualised by man. He transforms it with the
organs of movement. Then they became organs for the spiritual. In the
body of a higher spiritual being. The human spirit also comes

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
just a small instrument of a higher spiritual power which also stood
behind the Gothic initiate Ulfilas. This spiritual power uses Tolstoi

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
spiritual possession. What he has won for himself on the Earth will

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture VII
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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
different kinds of beings (spiritual & physical parts) resulting
adaptation of the spiritual and physical parts. Past and future
is the reason why many people practicing a one-sided spiritual
lower comes to the surface because one occupies oneself with spiritual
of them from within. Finally the spiritual penetrates the physical.
himself spiritually. The breaking of the male voice is connected with

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
but they did not know the connection with spiritual forces. When out
will again be the forerunner of Christ, when the Sixth, the spiritual
spiritual culture, that of the Water-Man. Preparation has also to be
Christ the spiritual had to be betrayed by the purely material. Judas
materialistic age has obscured and darkened the spiritual. Through his

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
itself as the spiritual in matter. At this stage the life of the
Idealism and spiritual impulses. It was in accordance with this law
the materialistic civic sense. The spiritual life had, however, to be
founded the Rosicrucian Order. Spiritual life remained in the Mystery
elementary teachings of spiritual life in order to create once again a

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture X
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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
(epochs) he will have become so spiritualised that he will again have

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XI
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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
one works as though on a spiritual task. This living purely in the

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
living relationship to divine spiritual beings. This living
foundation of the teaching about the higher spiritual beings and to

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
of devachanic organs on Earth through spiritual activity and soul
possibility of experiencing the spiritual in action. To the extent to
the spirit, will over there perceive just as much of the spiritual as
means of awakening the organs for Devachan exists other than spiritual
unite on a purely spiritual basis. It is the will of the Masters to
group the opening of a spiritual eye in Devachan. One will then see
to a spiritual endeavour, this actually is among those things which
indeed even more intensely conscious of this spiritual relationship.
But ever more and more spiritual organs are being formed in the Mental

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
pursue the study of the sciences, when we develop intimate spiritual
will one day become active as spiritual organs.
common with the animal, but he experiences it more spiritually and it
is the task of man to spiritualise what is gross in this soul element.

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
words. Behind our words a spiritual being is working with us, standing
impinge upon the body of a spiritual being who is incarnated in this
nevertheless beings of a spiritual nature are active with us in our
this thought a spiritual being is present. If we imagine ourselves
enveloped on all sides by the body of a spiritual being, we can
spiritual being working into us. Every time a thought flashes through
spiritual being, just as if we were walking over damp ground, leaving
footprints, and were to say: ‘Here a person walked’. This spiritual
spiritual being because this higher being has a body formed of the
In the higher spiritual world there is a counter-image for every
sealing wax. The substance is the higher spiritual being which
spiritual beings who are involved in the creation of races. One who
beings; thus one can see these higher spiritual beings on the Astral
same spiritual level are at work. Behind all plants Imaginations are
and behind it stands a spiritual being: and everything imbued with
Through thought we leave behind traces in all the spiritual beings who
spiritual ideas. Those desires and wishes live in man which are

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
that time, higher spiritual beings had an influence on the unfree will;
the pole of the spiritual. The pole of animality is called ‘etheric
body’, the pole of the spiritual, ‘mental-body’. The mental body is

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
when materialisations occur during spiritualistic seances, a
spiritual predecessors stand occultly bound up with the passions and

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
we incline the astral body to take in lofty spiritual
strives to spiritualise it once again. The other power, the left or

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
entire spiritual world and it is of the utmost importance to know this

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
joined together like a great blackberry and enclosed by a spiritual
astral air lived spiritual beings — both lower and higher —

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
Lemurian Race, man raised himself up to spirituality. Now for the
The interest of the Moon Adepts lay in spiritualising mankind. Jahve,
reproduction, but not yet having the possibility of spiritualising
human independence and spirituality were saved. Then Jehovah, so that
man should not be completely spiritualised, divided the
Sixth Root-Race, when man will have become so spiritualised that he
of their spiritual force into the imperfect human bodies and the third
the physical Earth, and also spiritual human beings who were becoming
karma, man is led upwards to spiritualisation. Christianity therefore
spiritualisation would then be a missed opportunity. The battle in the
earth towards spirituality is Lucifer. In order to live in accordance

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
(Future) Vulcan = Spiritual or self-conscious universal consciousness

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
A kind of spiritual darkness came about at a certain moment of
Fifth Round mankind will once again be able to see spiritually, having
thoughts, we receive as answer: These were the thoughts of spiritual
beings who are in connection with the Earth. Such spiritual beings as,
the spiritual beings in the Arupa-Globe.
Spiritual beings worked on these as a master builder works on his
to develop in astral substance his passion for premature spirituality.
others would be too quickly spiritualised through Lucifer. Means of
hardening on the one side and spiritualisation on the other side were
more spiritualised, quicksilver will also become solid. At one time

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
Saturn evolution, we have in the spiritual beings then in

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
spiritual beings for the benefit of man. Human beings drew their
warmth from a particular kind of spiritual being — the Agni.

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
This resistance to its downfall is a spiritual expression of something
engendered in the Europeans created spiritual forms. If such an
They come from earlier spiritual causes, from sinfulness. This is
are traced back to their spiritual origin. This is an esoteric
spiritually and how in particular circumstances people have it in
the physical with its spiritual origin. For example, if one knows how
material arises out of the spiritual.
The spiritual process of the embedding of the Monad in the lower man
something spiritual. When there was still a consciousness of this,
and also the soul-spiritual. This terminology stems from times in

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXX
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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
spiritual life still exists, there are those who have become healers
plane. Wine cuts human beings off from everything spiritual. Whoever
takes wine cannot attain the spiritual. He can know nothing of Atma,
working as hidden spirituality out of the Russian peasantry. It will
spirituality of the future culture of the East. This is a completely

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physical and spiritual organs, illness, reincarnation, and much more.
spiritual vision of the highest order combined with a completely
must realise that this great primal spiritual teaching underwent a
was recognised by the spiritual vision of the (ancient) Indians. This
venerated there were more or less personal-spiritual Divinities.
heavenly-spiritual powers with what was carried out by human work.
wisdom brought down from the spiritual world makes its appearance in
clear day consciousness future peoples will develop a spiritual

Title: Lecture: The Four Temperaments
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between hereditary factors and the inner spiritual nature.
himself. Both natural and spiritual science ultimately try to solve
being. Thus we can only hope that spiritual science will tell us what
science and observation. Only when we hear what spiritual science has
Spiritual science tells us first of all that the human being is part
to that is the individuality he brings with him out of the spiritual
truth, for example, that psycho-spiritual entities must be traced back
to earlier psycho-spiritual entities, he won't exactly be burned at
does the spiritual-psychic stream, of which man forms a part through
to be a spiritual scientist for that. If you observe the gait of a
Thus you see how significantly spiritual science can contribute to the
its entirety, which includes the spiritual, can knowledge bear
practical fruit. Accordingly, only spiritual science can give us
spiritual science can address practical problems. These principles can
and gradually, spiritual science illuminates our minds, making us
Spiritual science makes it possible that when two souls meet and one
beings can come to know each other. Spiritual science is the ground of
spiritual science may claim to lay the foundation for humankind's most

Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Animal Soul
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the Present Time.
existence are viewed in the light of spiritual science, the task is
When we speak of “soul” in the sense of spiritual
“soul” when the spiritual — that which we
above all to disavow the results of spiritual investigation which
skeptical when it is said as the outcome of spiritual investigation
the hypothetical ether of physics. Equally, according to spiritual
deny the validity of what is stated by spiritual science; it is easy
whole character and method of spiritual-scientific research must to
To the spiritual investigator himself, these four members of the
realities only to the spiritual investigator, it may nevertheless be
spiritual investigator recognizes the bearer of all the phenomena of
deserted by the etheric or life body. Therefore the spiritual
from the fact that the etheric body is a reality to the spiritual
body. Therefore in spiritual science we ascribe an etheric body also
spiritual science, there is a long, long path. But this feeling is a
spiritual investigator says. When we observe how this spirit which
very organism the spiritual activity which is made manifest in all
spiritual which are also to be discovered in the whole range of
it will then be possible to have an inkling of what the spiritual
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Title: Lecture: The Human Spirit and the Animal Spirit
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the Present Time.
respect of certain spiritual attributes. To refute such a view we
namely, that in the animal all spiritual achievements immediately
environment. Naturally Spiritual Science does not adopt the view that
childish were Spiritual Science to assume a gulf between man and the
spiritual life which are emancipated from the soul bound up with the
elephant, and so on. But no spiritual investigator would ascribe to
investigation should not, and spiritual investigation will not, be in
spiritual into the bodily without the intervention of the soul. In
spiritual and physical side he is an unfolding in space, gestures and
man and the human spiritual life altogether, insofar as it plays its
spiritual end of man, so to speak, we have also the reverse side —
spiritual sphere. For then we are definitely shown that through an
of the spiritual world, before the spiritual world is reflected into
ego has direct intercourse with what lives in the spiritual world.
efforts to establish spiritual conditions in its environment which
immediate intercourse with the spiritual world.
ego enters into direct intercourse with the spiritual world
intervention of a self-conscious ego between spiritual and bodily
advance to direct vision into the spiritual world.
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Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 1: The Birth of the Light
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It is interesting to investigate in the spiritual accounts called the
Even the spiritual scientist, who is able to decipher these wondrous
Earthly events are determined by what occurs in spiritual realms. Take
or spirit-self, is the spiritual principle that rules human
spirituality we call manas had awakened was considered to be a full
as we have said, and in spiritual science we speak of the knowledge of
spirituality arose from the great cold.
spiritual science. Spiritual science is practical in the best sense
Exalted spiritual leaders of mankind have prescribed this festival for
Advanced human brothers are the leaders of the spiritual movement.
bliss attainable through spiritual science. If we live in the way put
ideal that they themselves live. Spiritual science reminds us of these
radiance of spiritual light and concordance of feelings. In the glory
Masters are, and the spiritual world movement, under the guidance of

Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 2: The Christmas Festival as a Symbol of the Sun Victory
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Now let us summarize in our souls the whole range of spiritual science
arise in our hearts when, from the standpoint of spiritual science, we
spiritual-scientific concept of life that is not gray theory or an
nature and the universe, which we in spiritual science recognize in
spiritual-scientific lectures to understand what the ancient sages
living expression for a spiritual experience of the Godhead that
naturalists, but even so the spiritual, immortal part did not live in
moment in the evolution of man that spiritual science calls “the
with earth-man in the right way, one must make spiritually clear to
spirit is connected with this development. In spiritual science the
he should perceive them as the external bodies of spiritual beings.
bearers of spiritual beings. Man belongs to these spiritual beings.
them. The same spirituality is active in his soul, however, that
Our ancestors felt themselves to be spiritual children of the whole
one, who had climbed the ladder of spiritual knowledge to that stage,
spiritual life, wherever self-knowledge was practiced.
rather, spoken of a feeling for nature in all its living spirituality.
spiritual science in everyday relationships, if from the pulpits
spiritual-scientific life resounds in the words that are spoken to the
listeners, without special emphasis being put on the term, spiritual
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Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 3: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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life through a deepened spiritual world view. In a spiritual sense the
physical forces, spiritual forces are active, and that, just as the
their action, so likewise have the spiritual forces — only such
perceive the world around him filled with spiritual qualities, with
spiritual beings, to behold the world of the spirit around him in
acquainted with spiritual facts know that at that time of year, forces
existed at that time but he had no body; he was a spiritual being upon
awakened spirit organs, the spiritual light within them. This holy
sun there is a Spiritual Sun, which, like the physical sun, is born
coming Christ, of the Spiritual Light, whose festival day falls in the
but the spiritual essence will remain with all men who have become
radiant in their innermost nature through the spiritual Light. Earth
like wise does the Sun Hero, through the power of his spiritual life,
spiritual life, and no longer belonged to the material nor yet to the
spiritual world. These Ravens are to be found everywhere. They are
Tree of Paradise, which represents all of material nature. Spiritual
This shall resound from the Christmas celebration, and the spiritual

Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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but the effect of the work of spiritual beings can only become
divine spiritual beings. Then on the moon the astral body was
incorporated — all the work of divine spiritual beings. What made man
spiritual science know the subtle ways in which health and sickness
Only people familiar with spiritual science will know what it means to
to imagine that beyond all that can be spiritually expressed by means
The external character of health is traced back to the spiritual,
the fourth Commandment have been aware that spiritual forces extend
correct sense only by means of spiritual science. Everything connected

Title: The Mission of Savonarola
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spiritual-scientifically striving person should learn from this
anthroposophical spiritual science. As Anthroposophist one can

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture I - The Prometheus Saga
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Adam Cadmon. See also Rudolf Steiner's lecture given at Oxford, 22nd August, 1922, which appears in English in the book Man's Life on Earth and in the Spiritual World.

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race was first given by the Manu in its spiritual form to this
Mysteries. He is the bearer of the spiritual culture of that time.
disposal of the higher, more spiritual Odin. He himself lived later as
culture to its downfall. Its spiritual content declines and is
an initiate who represents the highest streams of spiritual life, but,
spiritual power by which they were to be superseded. On the Danube, in
through history as the guide of the Christian spiritual stream, with
Course entitled “The Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and

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their own spirituality that they have to carry things out.
Spirituality; this is the sub-race from which the Indian
inspiration direct from higher spiritual beings, from super-men. This
There we have an important transition. Spiritual life descends for the
their previous initiation stages up to their spiritual initiation. So
signify different stages of soul-life on the higher, spiritual plane.
1937 English edition as “the spiritual perceptive force in the

Title: Wisdom of Man: I. The Position of Anthroposophy in Relation to Theosophy and Anthropology.
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substantiation of our spiritual current.
spiritual research and for bringing back spiritual truths difficult
part, its ascent to exalted spiritual peaks of human cognition.
himself: between nature and the spiritual world. What is above
In our case the field-glasses are spiritual, and they
Within modern spiritual life attempts have been made to
abodes where the higher spiritual life was cultivated, where the
neophytes were guided by special methods to spiritual vision. One
learned to look into the spiritual worlds. As much of such matters as
reality within the spiritual life. Anthroposophy takes the human, the
spiritual in its point of view, employs only inflated concepts, and
at the loom of concepts, not living, spiritual observation. It is
the ultimate heights and from this spiritual summit examines
will ascend to the study of the individual spiritual regions in man's
is real. But it must keep in mind that what is spiritual, influences
illusion, for the saving thread can be spun only by spiritual
The first sense in question is the one that in spiritual
lacking the spiritual thread confuses everything. Touch is usually
penetrate the spiritual world. There we find an eleventh, a twelfth

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substrata of the human organism. This method of spiritual-scientific
etheric body as water does a sponge. Spiritual science can tell us
bestowed upon him, so to speak, by the surrounding outer spiritual
flows into him out of the spiritual world, and, as with atma, the
difference between the factual results of spiritual-scientific
anthroposophically. By means of spiritual-scientific observation, man
spiritual-scientific point of view the question must arise. What
what we have to deal with here is an eminently spiritual process. The
the instreaming matter. Spiritual science can tell you that this
Here spiritual science leads us to a strange phenomenon.
that is related to this word as the spiritual is to the material, you
Speech did not arise arbitrarily. It is a spiritual
product, and in order to perceive it in its spiritual aspect we have

Title: Wisdom of Man: III. Higher Senses, Inner Force Currents and Creative Laws in the Human Organism.
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grasp the Christ Spirit in His true being. The spiritual beings whose
there appears what is called spiritual activity; the so-called
spiritual organs of perception come into being. When the astral
astral tentacles, man develops other spiritual organs. As his ability
are still higher, purely spiritual senses, but let them here be
heart or brain, and it is the same with spiritual matters. Not only
world, borne by spiritual beings.
soul and grasping it spiritually. I have not described something
illusion. Spiritual-scientific observation actually perceives
The nature of this spiritual being helps us to
difference whatever between the spiritual scientist's statements
concerning the existence of spiritual worlds and the belief that
what he finds in his own environment. The spiritual investigator is
because I can see it. There is a spiritual perception; I believe
because the spiritual scientist tells me it is there. But there is a
embodiment of a will or other spiritual force? When I see something
spiritual activity.
stands up, and you see that the spiritual scientist was right. That
spiritual force, courses through the blood can the horizontal line
illogical to recognize the spiritual force in one case, that of the
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Title: Wisdom of Man: IV. Supersensible Currents in the Human and Animal Organizations.
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Spiritual science teaches us that the physical body is an ancient
brain is superimposed behind and above them. If spiritual science
is disclosed by spiritual science. We have seen how wonderfully
regarding it could be corrected by spiritual science. The development
built up from within, through the agency of spiritual currents.
would see a wondrous interplay of spiritual forces at work upon the
sense we now appear to have reached a dead end. Spiritual science,
out of itself. Through spiritual science we can even indicate the
to right follows from an understanding of the underlying spiritual
facts. It is the mission of spiritual science to see that light dawns

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the one side with the bodily life and on the other with the spiritual
the impulse arise that entails motion. According to spiritual

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: II. Action and Interaction of the Human Soul Forces.
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and on the other, of its eternal-spiritual content, of a temporal and
an eternal-spiritual element.
distinguishing between the physical, the psychic and the spiritual
is that a clear view of the spiritual life has disappeared.

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: III. At the Portals of the Senses.
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call a non-poet because, as compared with his other spiritual
terms and something spiritually tangible. You perceive that the
influence upon the health of the physical and spiritual life with

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spiritual. When the ego passes judgment based upon outer impressions,
out of the spiritual world and encompass it with a verdict. “Red”
spiritual world. “I is” is a fact of the spiritual life,
on the spiritual world. Now you must imagine the stream of time, and
something came to meet them from the spiritual side.

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: I. Franz Brentano and Aristotles Doctrine of the Spirit.
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we shall discuss the spiritual nature of man. Today's lecture will be
spiritual nature might attract notice, but within the realm of
spiritual science there is naturally nothing startling about this. In
between spiritual and external science.
Outside the circle of spiritual science, as you know,
spiritual scientist. It is clear to anthroposophical thinking that
spiritual-scientific research must step in if any progress is to be
threads lead from modern scientific psychology to spiritual science.
non-spiritual-scientific doctrine of the spirit is justified in
today to compare the Aristotelian and the spiritual-scientific
body and the soul out of spiritual worlds. Thus far Brentano does not
with the spiritual. According to Aristotle, the spirit as such is
added out of the spiritual world to what is born of the father and
spiritual element is added by the God.”
individual human being, it passes over into the spiritual world. It
in a purely spiritual world. In Aristotle there is no thought of a
specifically spiritual tie comes into consideration, other than the
further development in the spiritual world.
spirit, apart from that of spiritual science. It is a doctrine that
turning point. Only spiritual science, by offering scientific
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Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: II. Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
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Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
of the Spiritual World.
certain connection with the spiritual life. They do not come to us to
have the spiritual world proved to them in a so-called scientific
spiritual-scientific way of looking at the world, he will for the
often enough that the real facts about the spiritual world are
spiritual world are not directly given to man. They can be gleaned
everyday life. It might seem as though this spiritual world were
stating that the spiritual world had indeed manifested itself through
could have obtained his knowledge of the spiritual world through
there may be a spiritual world, but there is no immediately apparent
spiritualistic philosophy, namely, that recognition of the spiritual
of justification for a spiritual world, as opposed to the objection
set forth — justification for recognizing a spiritual world
a spiritual world, and because it exists in man, it exists, and is
from what can be learned within one's own spiritual world as such
and facts of the spiritual world. Thus Aristotle draws his
which spiritual science certainly cannot regard as particularly
the existence of the spiritual being. This path leads to no proof,
produce what appears to man as his spiritual life. In short, suppose
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Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: III. Imagination--Imagination; Inspiration--Self-fulfillment; Intuition--Conscience.
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proofs of the conclusions arrived at by spiritual science, but the
spiritual, super-sensible nature and can enter the realm of our
something else. All error is of a spiritual nature, and we must have
Since error is spiritual, we cannot overcome it through mere
on the path of spiritual life it would have a destructive effect in
nature of the divine-spiritual.
streaming in of what we can call the spiritual world into our
fulfilled image of the spiritual world, in intuition, an event that
impinges out of the spiritual world. An event we encounter in the
it. It is the same in the case of an event in the spiritual world
You see, in the whole spiritual life of man intuition is
spiritual world as a spiritual being, created a bridge to him. Let us
reality, he finds that before he can arrive at spiritual reality he
if he would arrive at what the spiritual world comprises, and as a
rule spiritual events are much closer to the emotions than to
reporting what has happened there. There we have the spiritual event
impinging. We are present in the spiritual world throughout our
frame of mind in directly experiencing the spiritual world.
arrived among the beings who bring about spiritual events.
spiritual world on the other side of his soul life, as it were. I
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principally upon the psycho-spiritual elements that are present in
in the face of all that he cites to the contrary. The spiritual life
earth lives seems to him to imply that a spiritual-eternal element is
element that might be well content and blissful in the spiritual
are really not dealing with matters such as spiritual science is
capable of bringing to light out of the spiritual worlds, but merely
observation based on spiritual science, observation that ascends by
spiritual world, attainable by man, can of course be described only
spiritual world.
That is readily understandable because the spiritual
spiritual world. In a purely technical way we can achieve perception
man as the spiritual tone world reveals him. There, when we have
Penetrating maya, the world of spiritual activity
of that sort of spiritual cognition, including the nature of man,
spiritual worlds, then descended in order to arrive at a kind of goal
fact, however, that spiritual science is so comprehensive that, were
Let me say at the close of this cycle that spiritual
mankind through the spiritual current we have come to call

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 1: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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(Since 1923 called by Dr. Steiner “The Spiritual Soul.”). In
from the spiritual world. That, however, was not the chief thing. The
indescribable, spiritual currents which passed from the teacher to his
represented a sort of double nature; a spiritual being lived in this
was therefore able to re-ascend into the spiritual world directly
new for the future. When the consciousness-or spiritual-soul has been
necessary that Buddha should already have developed the spiritual
spiritual soul. For that he required a brain that had remained softer.
before our era, Buddha had the task of introducing the spiritual-soul
order that the spiritual-soul might prepare itself in the right way
faculties, one who carried down a different stream of spiritual life
from the higher spiritual worlds into this world. To this other
consciousness- or spiritual-soul, possesses the peculiar attribute of
spiritual-soul, could not be developed in the intellectual soul;
was to develop in the consciousness- or spiritual-soul in the fifth
spiritual soul, becomes logical thinking. This music came forth from a
the spiritual soul; and it could not at that time have lived in an
beyond it; he knew something of a spiritual world, but he could not
and the spiritual-soul in a particular way as inner faculties —
the progressing and developing inner faculties of man with spiritual
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study, not only the generalities, but the deeper things that Spiritual
spiritual world between what takes place to-day and what has taken
When we grasp the law of the spiritual connections between past,
while a law of the spiritual world can only be proved by the spiritual
the spiritual effects reveal themselves just as long after the
exclaim, when such a feeling of reverent devotion to the Spiritual and
spiritual!’ — We can reply: ‘Look at the starry
persons desire to learn about a spiritual Movement like Anthroposophy
but that one should speak of the spiritual world in general
spiritual sense. It will be well to begin with the nature of pain, and
then pass on to the spiritual understanding of the nature of illness.
spiritual standpoint if we do not realise that the physical finger is
healing force. Whatever calls forth great activity in the spiritual
man, the spiritual principles are prevented from intervening in the
we may call up from the spiritual members of our life.
attain a more and more living comprehension of our spiritual
more and more strong and forceful. We pour a spiritual life-sap into
really intervenes in our whole spiritual life, people will then see
through the right spiritual conception in his soul, strengthens,
the spiritual, if present in the right way, is able to equalise the
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 3: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity
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to understand the Gospels completely a never-ending spiritual work is
the anthroposophical spiritual stream.
Spiritual Science, passes through various crises; it reaches an
Man, with his ego, would have remained nearer to the spiritual worlds,
ego, a member of the spiritual world, if the luciferic influence had
the spiritual world until the middle of the Atlantis epoch; neither
by Divine Spiritual Beings. The luciferic beings made it possible for
divine-spiritual world Order, but to decide for himself, creating a
Spiritual Beings implanted into man a living soul. ‘Now if this
until later on, until the Divine Spiritual Beings had brought the
had been guided and led by Divine Spiritual Beings, man thus became a
spent all the intervening time in a much more spiritual way; but as it
that time, instinctively, as it were, by Divine Spiritual Beings?
the power of free decision in everything connected with spiritual
with a part of their being into the divine-spiritual worlds; the
companionship with divine spiritual beings these Guides acquired it
spiritual, were, through that influence, less well formed, made more
under the influence of divine-spiritual beings, acting instinctively
the spiritual is always the origin of the physical, and because the
divine-spiritual, he would have been aware that when the physical
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 4: The Sermon on the Mount
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reason the connection of man with the Spiritual worlds had to be based
understand that the Divine-Spiritual Being whom we have characterised
this Divine-Spiritual Being could be described in words and
within him; but in him work other Divine Spiritual Beings, with an
ancestor, was called, (because the Divine-Spiritual Beings gave loving
mankind from the Spiritual world through this people, then, at the
these ennobled capacities, to reascend into the Spiritual world; in
much the higher, from the now finer physical into the Spiritual. The
ascent into the Spiritual had to begin from that time. For this
documents but according to what the Spiritual records can give us, we
realm of Spiritual beings through arousing in himself, — whether
vision awoke in a dreamy way; Divine-Spiritual forces worked in it and
and carried him outside himself, without his ego into the Spiritual
Divine-Spiritual or to the Divine-Spiritual within his soul. But
Divine-Spiritual kingdom. That could only come about through Christ
to say: ‘I am now in a Spiritual realm, in the Kingdoms of Heaven
no longer to believe that they could only enter the Spiritual world in
good Divine-Spiritual powers, that which still remained of the old
the good but to the evil spiritual powers. That is the great
when man dreamily rose into the Spiritual worlds by the suppression of
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 5: Correspondences Between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm
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Spiritual world. In old Egypt a candidate for initiation had to
the divine Spiritual life of the world. A descent beneath those
celebrate a Spiritual marriage — is an example of how opposites,
we should take every one of the thoughts given us by Spiritual Science
thoughts of Spiritual Science must be taken as earnestly as possible.
Spiritual Science, with the human forms of early ages, we find among
learn, through the deepening and inwardness of Spiritual Science, to
of a finer, more spiritual kind. Only in the course of ages did man
uni-form, but one which was more spiritual than the human form to-day.
undivided, and finer, more etheric, more spiritual than the later and
material form. The body of woman remained at a more spiritual stage,
more spiritual form. Thus a spiritual stage has become material. The
body of woman has, as it were, retained an earlier, more spiritual
intended to be Spiritual and which, as seen to-day, is actually false,
cognition, a woman's body is a somewhat truer imprint of the Spiritual
appearance, something of a resemblance to their spiritual counterpart.
The Spiritual behind the material form does not look like that,
the Spiritual behind them; these are the head and limbs. Others there
woman's body manifests a distorted form in the Spiritual, while the
new conception of the world arises such as that of Spiritual Science,
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 6: The Birth of Conscience
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often be apparent to our Spiritual vision. The object is to show that
to some extent become accustomed to the conceptions of a Spiritual
known to Spiritual Science are truths indeed. That is a different task
for the Spiritual Scientist, who probably brings with him certain
Spiritual world. He must gradually learn to become acquainted with
Spiritual worlds and there he perceived certain figures, which were
drove him to spiritual vision, and he saw around him figures, the
the spirits he had aroused in the spiritual world by his deed. They
enabling him to see the disorder brought about in the spiritual world
about by ourselves in the spiritual world. It is a purely
taking place in the spiritual world; it produces quite definite
invisible to sense perception can be clearly seen by spiritual sight.
These spiritual processes, radiating from one who has done wrong,
provide nourishment for certain Spiritual beings who are actually
present in the spiritual world. Such beings cannot approach man at all
certain spiritual emanations as a result of his evil action, he is
stage of development, what we call the forces of the Spiritual-
Spiritual Soul.)
Age, they could not now be living into the spiritual soul. That
or Spiritual-Soul, the ego gradually develops, crystallising itself
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 7: The Further Development of Conscience
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Spiritual stream in which we now stand. To us it would seem more
one taken from our knowledge of the Spiritual world and which should
the physical plane to one in the Spiritual worlds’. For to us it
stimulated by the Spiritual world. When to-day we remember the great
who have also now passed over into the Spiritual realm, let us in
our Spiritual movement so that it may represent a continuation of that
herself to continue her work from the Spiritual world, both now and in
in other Spiritual movements or unions of any sort, — of one or
considered as a descent, a new descent of Spiritual life, of Spiritual
wisdom and Spiritual forces, into the sensible physical world from the
great impulses through which Spiritual life has flowed down from the
Spiritual life that poured into the development of mankind through the
Holy Rishis. Then came that other stream of Spiritual life that flowed
Spiritual life poured into the physical world through the appearance
Spiritual life and a new way of understanding the old Spiritual life
development must, through the new Spiritual impulses flowing into our
Spiritual regions; only a short-sighted human observation could say:
proof that a refreshing of our Spiritual life is wanted. How often we
hear it said to-day: ‘What is the use of new Spiritual movements?
Spiritual development of mankind seriously, must, if he studies the
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Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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original conclusion a description of spiritual life in terms of
My intention in this book was to bring out this finding of Spiritual
We will not go on just yet to what we can learn from Spiritual
You see here an example of how Spiritual Science is in fact adapted
gained through Spiritual Science it is not possible, if one is
humanity. Fresh influences are always coming out of the spiritual
continually in human souls, as they live through the spiritual world
We can certainly see from this that Spiritual Science, which has to
to the heights of spiritual contemplation. Such a substructure as has

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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THE STUDY of Spiritual Science should always go hand in hand with
can point us to the study of Spiritual Science and to the pursuit of
revelation of the spiritual. Naturally, they know as well as the
underlying spiritual. Such persons may take no particular interest in
the material world and its laws. As all their ideas of the spiritual
no particular reason for supposing that it is or is not spiritual at
we have tried to follow to the activities of the spiritual
Hierarchies, but may still come to an acceptance of certain spiritual
himself the individual spiritual beings in concrete terms, as the
Spiritist does, but he reflects in the world upon the spiritual

Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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thought by the spiritual cosmos of the twelve zodiacal signs, which
form as it were our spiritual horizon.
illuminated insight into the relationships of the spiritual worlds.
not the mental, the spiritual, but the material. For a mystic of
What I have just depicted is actually the spiritual correlative of
Spiritual Science. Thus we have an external picture (not invented,
into the secrets of the universe according to the ideas of Spiritual
definite spiritual constellation. Other people get on much more
having his Sun — in spiritual sense — in Gemini, and his
in the spiritual constellation of Virgo, was induced in the pupils
the nuances connected with the spiritual Zodiac, the world-picture
here designated as Sun, Moon and Earth into the spiritual, then a man
through the twelve spiritual signs of the encircling Zodiac. And now
Spiritual Science: the task of acting as peacemaker among the various
can think of a spiritual universe: Anthropomorphism; Theism,
through the twelve spiritual Zodiacal signs. All this does exist,
only it exists spiritually. As truly as the physical cosmos exists
physically, so truly does this other universe exist spiritually.
activities of the spiritual cosmos which proceed from the upper
spiritual cosmos.
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Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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Man's Place in the Spiritual Cosmos, Astrology, Man as a
say that the spiritual constellation of such a man, according to his
that, spiritually speaking, Venus stands in Aries — Mysticism
person comes under other influences, under other spiritual signs and
spiritual astrology this so-called sextile aspect is unfavourable. We
force. In spiritual astrology things are again different from what
spiritual cosmos and the way in which man stands within it. If we
into a spiritual world-outlook, Occultism or something similar;
Realism can be sustained only if one dives down into the spiritual
Spiritual Science, comes into account for all that lies below the
soul-spiritual element has to be there first. Then, through its
the brain from out of the psychic-spiritual in preparation for the
that is here worked up in this way by means of the psychic-spiritual.
the evening fall asleep again, then the psychic-spiritual activity
must first be there; then, the soul-spiritual activity can make
is present in the spiritual cosmos as the activity producing
spiritual cosmos.
ourselves. But as little as we, in our soul-spiritual nature, are our
which we think, and so have the Spiritual Hierarchies of the cosmos
statement, so the Spiritual Hierarchies of the cosmos think two
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Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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original conclusion a description of spiritual life in terms of
My intention in this book was to bring out this finding of Spiritual
We will not go on just yet to what we can learn from Spiritual
You see here an example of how Spiritual Science is in fact adapted
gained through Spiritual Science it is not possible, if one is
humanity. Fresh influences are always coming out of the spiritual
continually in human souls, as they live through the spiritual world
We can certainly see from this that Spiritual Science, which has to
to the heights of spiritual contemplation. Such a substructure as has

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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THE STUDY of Spiritual Science should always go hand in hand with
can point us to the study of Spiritual Science and to the pursuit of
revelation of the spiritual. Naturally, they know as well as the
underlying spiritual. Such persons may take no particular interest in
the material world and its laws. As all their ideas of the spiritual
no particular reason for supposing that it is or is not spiritual at
we have tried to follow to the activities of the spiritual
Hierarchies, but may still come to an acceptance of certain spiritual
himself the individual spiritual beings in concrete terms, as the
Spiritist does, but he reflects in the world upon the spiritual

Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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thought by the spiritual cosmos of the twelve zodiacal signs, which
form as it were our spiritual horizon.
illuminated insight into the relationships of the spiritual worlds.
not the mental, the spiritual, but the material. For a mystic of
What I have just depicted is actually the spiritual correlative of
Spiritual Science. Thus we have an external picture (not invented,
into the secrets of the universe according to the ideas of Spiritual
definite spiritual constellation. Other people get on much more
having his Sun — in spiritual sense — in Gemini, and his
in the spiritual constellation of Virgo, was induced in the pupils
the nuances connected with the spiritual Zodiac, the world-picture
here designated as Sun, Moon and Earth into the spiritual, then a man
through the twelve spiritual signs of the encircling Zodiac. And now
Spiritual Science: the task of acting as peacemaker among the various
can think of a spiritual universe: Anthropomorphism; Theism,
through the twelve spiritual Zodiacal signs. All this does exist,
only it exists spiritually. As truly as the physical cosmos exists
physically, so truly does this other universe exist spiritually.
activities of the spiritual cosmos which proceed from the upper
spiritual cosmos.
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Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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Man's Place in the Spiritual Cosmos, Astrology, Man as a
say that the spiritual constellation of such a man, according to his
that, spiritually speaking, Venus stands in Aries — Mysticism
person comes under other influences, under other spiritual signs and
spiritual astrology this so-called sextile aspect is unfavourable. We
force. In spiritual astrology things are again different from what
spiritual cosmos and the way in which man stands within it. If we
into a spiritual world-outlook, Occultism or something similar;
Realism can be sustained only if one dives down into the spiritual
Spiritual Science, comes into account for all that lies below the
soul-spiritual element has to be there first. Then, through its
the brain from out of the psychic-spiritual in preparation for the
that is here worked up in this way by means of the psychic-spiritual.
the evening fall asleep again, then the psychic-spiritual activity
must first be there; then, the soul-spiritual activity can make
is present in the spiritual cosmos as the activity producing
spiritual cosmos.
ourselves. But as little as we, in our soul-spiritual nature, are our
which we think, and so have the Spiritual Hierarchies of the cosmos
statement, so the Spiritual Hierarchies of the cosmos think two
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of Suffering
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cause of suffering can be sought for in sin. But through spiritual
bridge to what we are to consider today in the light of spiritual
spirituality.
The spiritual science
shown how in the light of spiritual research we have to picture the
spiritual man. What we can see with our eyes, perceive externally
nature, is to spiritual research nothing but the first member of the
because for spiritual research the life-body is not a speculation but
see a connection of these four bodies to which spiritual research has
deeply with spiritual science know that the I works out from itself
right way. Man therefore appears to the spiritual investigator as a
four-membered being. Now comes the point where genuine spiritual
with spiritual science we see that things are just the reverse.
Spirit and therefore the spiritual researcher sees how senseless is
from? For spiritual research matter has sprung from Spirit, is
that spiritual research looks at matter. As water is related to ice
is how spiritual research looks at things. Now these three members —
spiritual science also. This is namely: Life within the physical
spiritual world. It was said that forces and faculties slumber in the
light to the spiritually born. Yet this can come about only if the
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of Evil
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consider this question from the standpoint of spiritual science.
Spiritual science
opens man's spiritual eyes and ears. It will be attained in the
it brings with it into the higher world. The soul must spiritualise
passed. When man has so spiritualised himself that he no longer needs
the physical body he works on the world from outside as spiritual
highest spiritualised love. Immense numbers of beings which the

Title: Lecture: What Do We Understand by Illness and Death
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contribute to the present-day world-conceptions what spiritual
thing will have to be made clear — that spiritual science
consider how complicated human nature is in the sense of spiritual
in a further part man's ego is active. To spiritual science men
on the earth. In the strictest sense of spiritual science these
the blood. If, therefore, in the true sense of spiritual science we
takes place in spiritual life at the changing of the teeth. At about
spiritual forces of the cosmic ether in a similar way work upon the
but united with it and not yet delivered from their spiritual sheaths
Spiritual science shows
brought to mankind by spiritual science. Today this may well speak to
something which proves itself in life to be a spiritual means of
Spiritual science knows
too that the physical is built up from the spiritual. If the
spiritual forces work upon the etheric body, they work also health
difference between the world movement of spiritual science and other
both spiritually and bodily sound. The more it shows its effect on
able to bring forward logical objections to it, spiritual science is

Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 1
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From much that you have made your own of spiritual science it will
It is necessary to be clear that for the spiritual-scientific
water does in ice. When we speak in spiritual science of material
processes, we are looking at something spiritual then too. Active
really spiritual processes. Man eats. He takes up into his own
spiritual lives in the breathing of oxygen, and in it the
and this material process is also a spiritual one. As we take in and
nation-spirits. If we try to observe by means of spiritual science
spiritual foundations, on the ways of spiritual science.
system of the head, in its spiritual differentiation, in so far as
everything, and which for a spiritual humanity of the Asiatic East is
separate individual — seeks to find spirituality through the

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cannot be this for spiritual science, but must be something which is
presented to spiritual knowledge. Why do we have a geology which
the cosmos, or from the spiritual, as a being with soul and spirit. A
living, ensouled, spiritually permeated earth has to be conceived
an ensouled and spiritually permeated organism — and the
appearance of the earth out into the cosmos, into the spiritual; he
burning red. And according to his spiritual need, which he will
language of spiritual science, for this language is spoken by all who
spiritual world. That is what matters. It is necessary to put forward
about the spiritual worlds; and it is necessary too that such
appearance of new stars. Spiritually, observed from the cosmos, the
There is a method of shutting oneself off from spiritual reality, and
spiritual reality by attempting to calculate reality.
the spiritual. The more you calculate the more you shut yourself off
from the spiritual. Kant once said: there is as much science in the
world. One approaches spiritual life the more one penetrates from
connection with the spiritual world, a connection with the higher

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas VII: The Creation of A Michael Festival Out Of The Spirit (Extract)
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were still able to perceive the spiritual nature of the year's course
On several occasions I have stated here that amongst the spiritual
are some Beings who are the ruling spiritual powers for a particular
about all these spiritual processes. The old Hebrew period spoke of
force is the ruling spiritual power in the world, and in which we must
understand how to introduce the spiritual element into our actions,
spiritual sense to the course of the seasons. There is really a deep
spiritual world, the cosmic hour is endowed with life. One cosmic hour
their way back, in the right way, through death into spiritual life.
away from the Mystery of Golgotha all its spiritual nature. To-day the
admit that the Mystery of Golgotha contains a spiritual mystery in the
But when we experience this in a spiritual manner, we prepare
ourselves to experience other things also in a spiritual manner. It is
spiritual. He will then be able to experience other spiritual things,
the spiritual worlds. At the same time, man must understand the
we shall not experience the present spiritually, linking human events
establish out of a spiritual understanding of the year's course, a
it spiritually: for we shall then have founded something in our midst
found only in the spiritual world, something which can kindle feelings
earth with the heavens, that reconnects physical with spiritual
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Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers.
man really possess in spiritual science? The answer to this question
course of lectures, especially those given last winter. Spiritual
desire for knowledge. Spiritual science may well be considered just
not correct. In what man acquires through spiritual science he has
higher spiritual Beings in the cosmos have also been at work in
there are spiritual Beings who oppose the progressive Powers. And for
to indicate which particular spiritual Beings bring the “hindrances”,
which spiritual Beings are the opponents of those whose only aim is
In our own epoch, as time goes on, other spiritual Beings of whom we
time from the Spirits of Form or from the higher spiritual realms as a
spiritually, not as he sees it to-day; he would have seen it as the
direct expression of spiritual beings. Because man came prematurely
its true, spiritual foundations. Were man to have perceived the
Spiritual in every stone, in every plant, in every animal, he would
How did those spiritual Beings who desire to further man's progress
the consciousness soul (spiritual soul), arising from an unconscious
consciousness soul. And in the age now, approaching, those spiritual
material world and to be oblivious of the realty of spiritual beings
and spiritual worlds. True, the Asuric powers corrupt man to-day in a
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Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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explained from the spiritual point of view. I have already spoken here
I have also indicated what spiritual vistas are
spiritual Beings of a higher rank than himself; these Beings would
him by higher spiritual Beings. The instincts prompting him to action
animals to-day, but more spiritual. His every deed on earth would have
been prompted, not by mere impulses, but by a kind of spiritual
was that he was detached in a certain way from the spiritual world. To
man would have remained a spiritualized animal — an animal who would
upon it he would simultaneously have perceived the Divine-Spiritual, a
Divine-Spiritual world behind every physical object. If, therefore, in
Divine-Spiritual Beings who had taken the place of what had now been
lost. One spiritual world would have closed behind him and a new
spiritual world opened before him. Man would have remained a child in
the hands of higher, Divine-Spiritual Beings; independence would not
of the underlying spiritual world invisible to him. The personal
spread a cloud of darkness over the spiritual Beings of the world out
spiritual world which had been concealed as the result of Lucifer's
enable them to perceive that part of the spiritual world of light
the spirit those figures who were in truth spiritual Beings of a
sleeping and waking, could be transported into the spiritual world.
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Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - I
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physical brain is the instrument for man's highest spiritual activity.
spiritual, will be dominant in the new race.
which developed gradually in the spiritual life of Europe. This fourth
ideas of spiritual Divinities contained in ancient Vedic Culture, that
profundities of the Vedanta. All this is spiritual teaching of a
nation or race there have been individuals of high spiritual

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - II
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simple words. This power issues from the supreme heights of spiritual
teachings were given, but the revelations of spiritual vision at its
spiritual vision extends to the realms where space and time no longer
realms of the spiritual world. Therefore the Church Father or Teacher
the heights of spiritual life. There is some indication of this in the

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respect of the Spiritual, men were still children, these Beings had
into their hands the spiritual guidance of the human race. Those whom

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 1: Spiritual Science and Language
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Spiritual Science and Language
These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
Spiritual Science and Language
spiritual science in the sense that the word is used here, the various ways
hand our individual spiritual life and on the other the spiritual life of the
spiritual-scientific point of view as we have been applying it to man and his
view of spiritual science the human being is fundamentally a very complex
the same constitution as the mineral world. Then, from a spiritual-scientific
real a member of the human being for spiritual science, if not more real,
what nature, or the spiritual forces which are active in nature, has made of
being had an ego. That is why in spiritual science we speak of the human
being as having developed in the distant past from spiritual beings the first
was a direct correspondence with the spiritual world; then it developed and
spirit, that there is a spiritual foundation to everything material, etheric
works as a spiritual being from the inside outwards, as the human being
spiritual beings
spiritual actions
before the ego was ready to establish itself within them, spiritual creation,
spiritual actions, worked on our sheaths and gave them form, movement, shape.
There are spiritual actions in the human being which occur before the
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 2: Laughing and Weeping
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
In a series of lectures on spiritual science, our subject
here for penetrating into the spiritual worlds, will be convinced that to
expressions of a person's inner spiritual life. But in order to do this
spiritual
seen by spiritual science. But that is the foundation on which we must build
ego, this deepest centre of man's spiritual life, encounters some
and most inward spirituality of man.
In spiritual
spirituality.
considering in the light of spiritual science can illuminate certain
great spiritual-scientific whole. If we observe a person laughing or weeping,
For spiritual
great catastrophe, spiritual-scientific research has the means to discover
originate from seers who knew what the spiritual-scientific researcher
discovers — spiritual vision meets spiritual vision across thousands of
started with the external facts. The spiritual element should be sought where
to what laughter fundamentally is, we can reply: It is a spiritual expression
symbol in world-history of the spiritual elevation of the ego above

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 3: What is Mysticism?
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
accordingly, we find an outlook which could be called spiritual monism. When
the divine-spiritual ground of the world, which he therefore represents as a
path leads him to unity, to one divine-spiritual Being. This he does by
similar multiplicity of spiritual grounds must exist. In modern times such
founded on the activities of a multiplicity of monads, or spiritual
And this reciprocal activity of monads, a world of monads or spiritual
into this today, but a deeper study of spiritual development would show that
many spiritual beings must work together in order to engender our world,
divine-spiritual ground of the world, for we cannot characterise it as either
a unity or a multiplicity. We must say that the divine-spiritual transcends
thrown on mysticism if we assess it in relation to the method of spiritual
science, a method drawn from the deeper levels of present-day spiritual life
the proper path of spiritual science, or spiritual research.
the outward path, leading to the spiritual basis of the sense-world and
Spiritual science says that a man is not bound to follow only those paths
spark to shine out. But in spiritual science it is fundamental that man need
there. Spiritual science is not content with that; it comes to the spark, but
path immediately. The modern form of spiritual scientific research is
because the development of higher faculties by the methods of spiritual
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 4: The Nature of Prayer
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
emphasised that modern spiritual research calls for a development of these
first step towards true spiritual investigation. If we are able to immerse
immeasurable force of spiritual knowledge that this mystical devotion gave to
only to gain illuminating insights into the general laws of spiritual
spiritual-scientific path for himself.
— as a great and wonderful preparatory school for spiritual-scientific
research. And how could it be otherwise? After all, the aim of the spiritual
shine ever more brightly of its own accord, whereas the spiritual scientist
spiritual science, we have, in turn, as a preparation for mystical devotion,
by this or that spiritual movement, and to gain a true understanding of it
marked especially by the emergence of egotistic spiritual trends which have
study prayer entirely in the light of spiritual science, free from any
are led to look beyond our limited ego towards a divine-spiritual ego. That
restrict our ascent to the spiritual?
what we know as spiritual research. Our discussion of prayer will have
spiritual research.
spiritual world in a one-sided way, if he brings to his prayers only the kind
unalterable laws, are at work in the world; but spiritual beings are also at
strengthen our spiritual life through prayer, we need only wait for the
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 5: Sickness and Healing
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
on the relevant facts in life from the point of view of spiritual science, in
so far as they are only physical expressions of spiritual causes, was
spiritual foundations which lie at the base of our reflections here, we are
justified in also inquiring into the spiritual causes of these far-reaching
facts and consequences of human existence. In other words, what can spiritual
home in the spiritual world, that they withdraw from the physical body and
ego to the spiritual world every night? Is there any reason for the human
replenish them out of the spiritual world which we enter each night and that
night and fetching from the spiritual world the forces which we use during
carry something from the physical world into the spiritual world at night?
understood in times when it was still possible to observe the spiritual
draws its matter and strength from the environment. Similarly spiritual
science today must point out that what enters existence as soul and spiritual
the matter of its environment to develop, so the soul and spiritual kernel
If we pursue the soul and spiritual nature in the human being backwards, we
come to an earlier soul and spiritual element which exists before birth and
which has nothing to do with heredity. The axiom that soul-spiritual elements
can only arise from soul-spiritual elements entails in the last instance the
axiom of repeated earth lives, of which a closer study of spiritual science
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 6: Positive and Negative Man
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
in the true sense of spiritual science, we do not picture the life of an
derived from the spiritual world, for that is how we enrich the life of the
being with a spiritual element and enrich our soul with experiences that we
his ordinary life. And finally, we saw that by real spiritual training, which
ordinary life to the level where we can see what spiritual facts and beings
realms of spiritual life. And in my
We have often explained what the spiritual researcher has to do if he wishes
nourishment can have. Anyone who is trying to lead a higher, more spiritual
the ground of genuine spiritual science, free from charlatanry, will never
connected with endeavours to lead a true spiritual life. But this means that
we may be exposed also to bad spiritual influences. When we educate ourselves
in spiritual science and eliminate everyday impressions, we open ourselves to
the spiritual facts and beings which are always around us. Among them,
certainly, will be the good spiritual powers and forces which we first learn
be open also to the evil spiritual powers and forces around us just as if we
ones. If we want to penetrate into the spiritual world, we must be clear that
we are liable to encounter the bad side of spiritual experiences. If our
approach to the spiritual world were to be entirely negative, we would be
from the spiritual world and consider ordinary life. Why should a vegetarian
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 7: Error and Mental Disorder
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
spiritual science as characterised in the first lecture here, the most
our soul here must have the hope that the spiritual-scientific method of
specialist one, will be able to note from the point of view of spiritual
how spiritual science is in harmony with true and genuine science, with
fails to draw attention to something which the spiritual researcher would
bed, that the inner human being is given over to his real home, the spiritual
withdraw from the physical and ether bodies during sleep into the spiritual
truth of spiritual science which says: soul and spirit can only originate
can only originate from living matter. Spiritual science not only reveals
physical heredity, but shows that the spiritual element is active in
spiritual science in the view that it is nonsense to ascribe to external
interact and how spiritual science can bring order and clarification to the
the physical body is only revealed by the exact investigation of spiritual
science. Those who believe that the physical can balance spiritual effort are
unaware of an essential element. The spiritual scientist knows that he can
exhausted however much he researches into the spiritual world; that could be
brain is involved, whilst spiritual research still requires the physical
spiritual activity, that there are differences whether spiritual activity is
cleanly divided by spiritual science is in many cases the cause of
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 8: Human Conscience
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
scarcely find anyone, however unprepared to reflect on higher spiritual
spiritual life. Anyone who is trying to look more deeply into a spiritual
mistakes are made both by those who think more spiritually about it, and by
trace the spiritual life of humanity back into the past, we find that our
region where the primary sources, the spiritual foundations of the
the soul reveals only the outer aspect of the spiritual. Just as we have to
life, if we are to get to know the spiritual background of our own
completely present throughout. This means that he moves among spiritual facts
understandable that as spiritual science indicates — the ego, before
of the dark spiritual powers of the world, was it then less perfect, by
physical body; we look on it as having been formed out of the spiritual world
other. Thus we look back to a primordial past where a spiritual power endowed
spiritual beings who worked on our bodily vehicles and were related to the
ego-consciousness, for he was embedded in spiritual life itself, and when his
the ego. Clairvoyant consciousness entails that spiritual
beings and spiritual facts are seen in the environment, and this applies to
spiritual world as though in a dream. Since he was not yet shone through by
the spiritual. He beheld the spiritual around him and looked on himself as
part of the spiritual world; and whatever he did was imbued, for him, with a
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 9: The Mission of Art
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
knowledge in relation to the spiritual world — what have these studies
of spiritual science, we feel that they communicate their own revelation
concerning man's search for truth, and the spiritual scientist feels
so-called spiritual revelations that people accept so light-heartedly
while the spiritual scientist feels his heart so strongly drawn to these
reach of external history but open to spiritual-scientific investigation,
later on, they perceived the spiritual world as a reality all around them. We
spiritual senses were open and with his dreamy, ego-less clairvoyance he
looked into the spiritual world from which his true inner being had emerged
behind our physical existence came before his soul. In this spiritual world
man, with his clairvoyant consciousness, was aware of spiritual forces
spiritual world. He felt that spiritual powers were active in his thinking,
and that when he accomplished anything, divine-spiritual powers had poured
himself to be a vessel through which spiritual powers expressed
have said: “I can see my gods battling in the spiritual world, which
they had lost the old clairvoyance. In the proportion that the spiritual
the gods as they unroll externally before his spiritual eye. And in that,
of the spiritual facts underlying the world. When the old clairvoyance was
that broke forth from the soul, unaccompanied by any direct spiritual vision
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Title: Excursus/Mark: I: A Retrospect
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Gospels. We spoke most fully, most radically, of what Spiritual
book or record, but it stands in the eternal spiritual records, and
what spiritual investigation tells us, and then we compare this with
Christianity, we feel we are summoned by spiritual science not only
the spiritual world in past centuries. How our horizon can be
deeply the spiritual view entered into his personality. These studies
have led us to know how we can rise to spiritual heights by sharing
expanded to satisfy our most urgent spiritual needs. Nowhere do we
we accept them. They are ideas concerning man's spiritual
nineteenth century through the liberation of certain spiritual
those great spiritual individuals who, from time to time, have made a
spiritual life of the West, and it is only when we realise what these
wide is the circle of spiritual development that has to become
he should understand concerning the education, culture, and spiritual
important that we cast our spiritual eyes, when this is possible,
when stirred by its great spiritual truths. The thing that matters
knowledge of great spiritual truths; the feeling that the nature of
spiritual facts. We cannot make progress in any real or apparent
side; it must be approached from the four spiritual directions of the
advance in spiritual life. Incidentally, everything has been done in
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permeate our whole movement, all our spiritual efforts. We realise
point of view in the spiritual world, he would be much mistaken. Many
who do not know that in spiritual life an object, being, or event,
then fade and only certain features remain. So it is with spiritual
spiritual matters is a higher one. It follows that many things seen
been gained above, on the spiritual mountain top of Theosophy, and
their not being able to prove what is told them from the spiritual
day, for the very reason that the spiritual heights from which the
in spiritual experience, and those unable to do so would know nothing
exactly with the spiritual truths given to us by spiritual science.
spiritual man, that we pass through repeated earthly lives, and so
protects us from cold, so these truths shield us from spiritual cold,
from spiritual poverty. For it is a fact that we are chilled and
impoverished spiritually when we only think and feel those things
may perhaps be only a few who can travel the spiritual path described
be seen from the spiritually higher standpoint of Theosophy. Thus
possible. This standpoint in respect to spiritual things we have
and experiences, and can participate in spiritual life in a similar
been seen is one of the most difficult in the work of spiritual
science. To make what is seen on spiritual heights so clear to the
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Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture I
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was in principle the same as was actually beheld in the spiritual
risen to spiritual worlds by initiation. What had entered thus into
this way, for knowledge flowed into them directly from the spiritual
spiritual knowledge, and they knew exactly the form this knowledge
Egypto-Chaldean age they clothed conceptions from spiritual worlds in
spiritual world should be applied to physical things? Are the things
asked: — “What right have I to apply spiritual knowledge
concern themselves in any way with spiritual science might ask:
the spiritual world, as this existed in Atlantean times. Living
spiritual world and entered into it — this was the
Christ-Impulse. The greatest spiritual Reality entered
spiritually gifted, when all that remained to him was the spiritual
compare the infinite spirituality of that essence which entered human
thin-spun thread from spiritual realms, caused man to ask shortly
before: in what way this thread connected him with spirituality. In
along-side that great Spiritual Outpouring. We can think of no
greater disparity than between the spirituality that came down to the
spiritual nature of Christ with the thin thread of ideas spun from
furthest withdrawn from the spiritual world. This is why man was at
be so, because than had descended furthest from the spiritual
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Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture II
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realms of spiritual science were incomprehensible to them, and they
might for this reason form strange opinions as to what spiritual
ones, up to that stage when the spiritual world dawned within the
soul of the would-be initiate and the secrets of the spiritual world
were revealed to him. He could then look into the spiritual world. He
person seeking initiation could see into the spiritual world, where
the Beings of the Hierarchies appeared before him spiritually —
disclosed the secrets of the spiritual world in a way that was not
soul) could come before men and speak of the secrets of the spiritual
the spiritual realms, but in a higher way than had been done before.
person initiated can look into the spiritual world, and can then go
the spiritual world, was an utter impossibility. But now, what had
possible for them to speak of the secrets of spiritual realms and
spiritual Hierarchies. And now through the events that had occurred
employed to denote outward things, a whole spiritual world stood
spiritual investigations, to put before you some important things
is not felt then the meaning of the whole passage is lost. Spiritual
enabled them to look into the spiritual world. In certain abnormal
conditions of soul the secrets of the spiritual world still poured
something within them that was to lead them to the spiritual world.
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Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture III
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heard as yet within our spiritual-scientific movement; or perhaps I
should say concerning things that lie on the border of spiritual
consideration of certain high spiritual matters. Therefore we shall
spiritual super-sensible world, were in a position to implant
and what spiritual science calls the “physical body” is
therefore when in speaking of this in spiritual science we say: The
mother appeared to him — he beheld her in her spiritual
spiritual being, the sheaths that envelop his spiritual nature only
physical body, is one path into the spiritual framework of the
felt himself to be a part of the spiritual world — “I
beheld the spiritual world as a cloud spread out before me; but as
saw the spiritual world as a widespread cloud, but could distinguish
with the spiritual world. This is one path, the mystic path, the path
boundaries are broken down beyond which lies the spiritual world. By
behold the spiritual world.
bearer, the sheath one might say, of a higher Being, of a spiritual
not himself incarnate. It was ordained from the spiritual worlds that
a Spiritual Being should enter into some child, and when the child
always to be seen, only nowadays people do not notice spiritual, but
let it go. These are pictures perceived by spiritual consciousness,
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concerning the spiritual world that we have been able, to acquire in
different spiritual or super-sensible Beings intervene in our
Archangels on the other hand, we speak of Spiritual Beings whose
“Folk-Spirit” is spoken of in spiritual science, we mean
spiritual guidance of the individuality of a people this guide or
Beginnings) are spoken of in spiritual science as being again
succeeding epochs of time we must allow that the spiritual guides of
students of spiritual science we know that the forces of nature are
spiritual nature. For we hold that super-sensible spiritual Beings
make use of that which affects his spiritual nature, his speech, and
ascribe to spiritual Beings that have to be sought among the higher
that is, than the revelations of spiritual worlds presented to me by
here presented to us as the divine revelation of Spiritual Powers
spiritual leaders of men appear whom we call Initiates, who speak not
what spiritual science has given us that we can fill once more with
at any moment to one who desires to rise to spiritual realms; and
the true man, the spiritual man (of whom in this world of Maya only a
was able to return to his original spiritual state, that state in
misunderstanding of the spiritual nature of evolution. For man takes
the spiritual world, but will have taken with him all he had gained
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Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture V
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direction of the theosophical spiritual movement so long as they do
spiritual truths be developed by those who cannot see into the
spiritual world?”
remain unopened we cannot see into the spiritual world, although from
this spiritual world all the results and revelations it contains are
always something greater than in his deeds. According to spiritual
declare that we have proof of them. For though spiritual happenings
through a spiritual training learn to connect such things with
spiritual life. It is precisely everyday things that are the most
difficult to connect with spiritual life. We have first done this as
substances have with spiritual life. We then learn that digestion is
not merely a physical process, but that there is something spiritual
in its rhythm. In any case there is a way of gradually spiritualising
that fruit, and through our spiritual knowledge can always form an
spiritualise the most material, most everyday processes, and acquire
forsake our sheaths with the spiritual part of our being we still
people give themselves up to spiritual science which directs their
spiritual science of the evolution of man, these communications stir
when questioned further: — “What specially does spiritual
what we call spiritual science in so many different ways, not because
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Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture VI
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Gospels by those who wrote them, when spiritual science has been
regarded as a Being incarnated in the flesh, but as a Spiritual
spirituality.
of Christ. In the course of the spiritual development we have
abstract spirituality of Christ — the Gospel according to
highest degree of spirituality possible in man becomes apparent when
when much that has been touched on recently as general spiritual
Spiritual science
lives by means of spiritual science. Here we have to consider the
the first time that he is in harmony with the whole spiritual world,
“Yes, my dear spiritual investigator, such laws there may be,
spirituality of the world, and when they allow themselves to be
They do not believe that Spiritual Beings enter into our inner being
activity of the Spirit is spoken of. And those who from spiritual
wherever Christ is taught from an inward understanding of Spiritual
again and again that the most important facts of spiritual life, as
put forward by Spiritual Science, will be regarded in the future as
found in the other Gospels, one notices spiritual scientific
spirituality as Thee, that is as the Christ.” And He
spiritual heights. There they learnt that this earthly man must be
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spiritual life in a somewhat external way, it can be noticed that a
the spiritual scientific matter already imparted to you.
spiritual world and entered ever more deeply into matter. This is a
direct Impulse of Christ, there was poured by spiritual means into
how these elements of the Buddha-stream must pass into the spiritual
spiritual science. To question Buddhism or any other pre-Christian
Facts will show that the spiritual science founded by European
spiritual science of the Rosicrucians. It brings all kinds of ideas
What such people say is comparable with what spiritual science says
era. But we look to a Buddha who has advanced, and who from spiritual
spiritual realms, and who imparts truths to us to-day concerning the
discover, and are really able to follow the spiritually scientific
instrumentality of the father's organism and follow a spiritual
towards the spiritual world, and by doing so experience many new
resembles the transition from sense perception to spiritual
spiritual ideas — he would gasp for air. Those people who
hindrances. In some respects it is the people who rely on spiritual
spiritual nature of the world? Why do you lay such stress on
been said is the concern of others. The task of western spiritual
be comfortable in the spiritual world must seek spirituality along
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Title: Excursus/Mark: IV: The Path of Theosophy from Former Ages until Now
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how the conceptions of spiritual
of our spiritual movement into the modern world. Many of you might be
glad to know how the spiritual nourishment you have received has
occasions that we can speak of the spread of our spiritual ideas, but
longing for what we call “spiritual science” does exist
our spiritual movement; we should rather listen attentively to what
a kind of duty at the present time to make of these spiritual.
our own age as it appears spiritually to souls, which, like our own,
are born in it. Things were very different in the spiritual world, as
trying to learn something of the spirit, and of the spiritual
spirit found extraordinarily little true spiritual nourishment where
does in life, can receive true spiritual nourishment. Whatever
entirely wiped out the spiritual communications that have been handed
feeling in man; neither spiritual life nor external culture.
spiritual endeavour would in that case fail for a certain time. The
less spiritual the source from which anything comes the sooner it
man is under the guidance of spiritual life. We know that
those who allowed this spiritual influence to pour, at first
understands spiritual life, where it may even perhaps see spiritual
thoughts and ideas which can set the spiritual life before your eyes.
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I - Lecture I: The Eternal and the Transient in the Human Being
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nature of the things. The spiritual eye was given him to behold; if
part is the eternal. It is the task of the spiritual to understand this
are that which constitutes my physical body today. The spiritual holds
sway in the spiritual realm. And as little the physical laws apply to
the spiritual realm, as little the laws of physical heredity holds sway

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to the spirit. It is not yet so far that it investigates the spiritual
view the spiritual is said to develop from life only; the soul is said
spiritual. As life only seizes the form of the animal to present itself,
The spiritual truth deals
taught goes back to this deeper spiritual truth. At the moment when
of kama, the higher mind soul builds itself from the spiritual realm.
of the spiritual. He constructs the body strictly lawfully from nature,
to originate from nothing — from the spiritual of the world. We
The spiritual soul can develop
only from something individual-spiritual. Just nobody would think that
the general spiritual contents of the universe, from the spiritual reservoirs
that third human race rose to spiritual life. The soul did not develop
can give information about the spiritual who are experts of the soul

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture III: The Nature of God from the Theosophical Standpoint
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a strong spiritual strength of beholding that in the beginning of the
existence, to the spiritual being. They cannot be connected and perceived
we exercise nothing else than theosophical life. Everything that spiritual
I am only a human being, and it is my spiritual obligation to form thoughts
spiritual modesty is that which must penetrate the theosophist if he
wants to build up a spiritual current and to bring up a centre of humankind
methods of theosophy have developed higher spiritual forces in us. God
can behold whose spiritual eye is opened for all those worlds of which

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I - Lecture IV: Theosophy and Christianity
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he expressed that any spiritual world view, also of his people in India, has
the spiritual world view in India.
of the spiritual view. As well as we have limited ourselves with regard to the
time to look up to God, to the spiritual being, which should have found fulfilment
earth. Only the theosophist can truly recognise this appearance of a lofty spiritual
died. We have to do it with a spiritual appearance which we have to imagine
the human imagination, but to something even higher, to seizing real spirituality
sense needs the spiritual deepening on the other side. It needs that knowledge
which raises us to the heights of spirituality. Theosophy wants this raising
spoken out of the deepest wisdom and the immediate spiritual cognition which
eternity of the human soul, of the reality of the spiritual existence.
the living Word that had become flesh. Therefore, He appears in his spirituality,
in that spirituality which is elated above space and time; in that spirituality
must come from their mouths if it is invigorated and spiritualised by conviction,
its true meaning understands the Christian teaching in its spirituality and
has to be looked for in a higher region, in the region of spiritual life. If
his actions in the spiritual region, and then only he has reached truth. Therefore,
the consciousness of the connection of his actions — in spiritual realm.
as that on which it depends, but the bloodless spiritual sacrifice, the Communion,
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture I: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy I
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physical existence of the things, but also into the spiritual of the things;
we can also have experiences of that which is purely spiritual.
be proved scientifically one day that the human being belongs also to a spiritual
such a common life with a spiritual world. With such a view Kant’s epistemology
from the lowest quantum of energy up to the highest spiritual reality. Because

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the spiritual, because I have brought forward almost all reasons to you which
to deliver an argument to you from the German spiritual development that it
the true realities of the world in this sense thought them as spiritual. They
thought them as something spiritual. If we go back to Giordano Bruno, to Leibniz,

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III - Lecture I: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part I: Body and Soul
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divine-spiritual very basis of the world existence.
spiritual-scientific way, to give the knowledge of the soul by means of purely
consequences of the scientific world view, indeed, from the spiritual standpoint
that a deeper, internal introspection, a deeper spiritual research is necessary
what the human mind takes into the purely spiritual world this can no longer
to us as a thought: the spirit in its purely spiritual existence progresses
feels in the spiritual world endlessly isolated. The spirit which depends on
in the spiritual world like in an unknown world. This isolation is its destiny

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III - Lecture II: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part II: Soul and Human Destiny
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of the physical follows. But where could we derive the spiritual qualities of
thoughts completely can never regard the spiritual development as analogous
to the physical one. We have rather to accept if we want to explain the spiritual
development that we must ascend in the same way to the spiritual ancestors as
The physical forefather cannot be the spiritual forefather at the same time.
this thought must be connected with the spiritual-scientific teaching of reincarnation.
compatible, yes, in spiritual area exactly the same is as the modern theory
a science of the soul in the spiritual-scientific sense, in the modern scientific
sense, indeed, not applying the scientific method in a stereotyped way but spiritually.

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Facing his death, Socrates speaks about the eternity of the spiritual core in
how can we perceive internal, spiritual life? How become we engrossed in our
about the spiritual life. Which sense did this Platonic preparation have? The
in ancient times those sites where the highest questions of the spiritual life
speaks about the world of ideas, of the spiritual world. It talks about that
spiritual things round us speak to us. That is why the theosophical teaching
a member of the spiritual world. Then he perceives himself as something that
when it has purified itself up to desire and harm of spiritual matters. Then
spoke to the dying Socrates that way, and the current of the immediate spirituality
which inserts itself between this spiritual natural force and the body, and
Compared with his spiritual surroundings
is open for the spirit which is in the environment if the things of the spiritual
similar state toward the spiritual world — but consciously — like
to perceive the spiritual environment, the language of the spirit in this environment
state where he faces spiritual truth really as the human being faces the mathematical
he wished in the everyday life, and then he wishes in the spiritual world.
his spiritual inside and everything else.
lives in the spiritual realm more affectionately and more devotedly. Then this
spiritually.
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV - Lecture I: Theosophy and Spiritism
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life went hand in hand with the investigation of the spiritual world. There
nature and the science of the material life, but also the science of the spiritual
laws if one wanted to get information about the laws of the spiritual life.
At that time no one-sidedness existed with the spiritual leaders. Almost everybody
of the spiritual life at the same time.
knowledge appeared the sharpest in the 19th century. At that time the spiritual
immense upturn is the lack of spiritual life. The harmony which existed in former
and spiritual life. It is strange that just in our time the big mass can no
to satisfy their need of spiritual knowledge non-scientifically just since the
the quarrel broke out between materialism and spiritualism as for example between
replied to the spiritualist is completely maintained, while that which the spiritualist
human soul in terms of Weber’s real spiritual science
the others on the liveliest, a counter-current exists which one calls the spiritualistic
Because this is the case, allow me to refrain for the moment from the spiritualistic
which extent these reach, and whether they obstruct a psychology based on spiritualistic
we believe on the other side that we have to doubt his researches in spiritual
there are spiritual facts and beings which are not to be reached and investigated
of a spiritual world according to its methods, theosophy also deals with these
truth in the spiritual fields, after they had gained the knowledge that the
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV - Lecture II: Theosophy and Somnambulism
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is able to find out something about spiritual processes and beings which one
such phenomena mean to the spiritual life, which role do they play in the whole
interrelation of the spiritual life, and what can we experience by such phenomena
directly from the spiritual. We want to ask ourselves how we have to consider
whose spiritual eye is opened for such appearance, as a luminous cloud within
with a person who has always lived spiritually; it is different with a person
whose spiritual eye is opened can give information about that; he exactly beholds
spiritual life. The laws which our mind thinks up in the loneliness are the
not only that of the physical nature, but also the astral and spiritual processes
world of the beings and the spiritual life which surrounds us. Today certain
gates of the senses who are in immediate contact with the spiritual environment.
go through between tables and chairs, where they perceive the spiritual world
you about spiritual processes in the environment what she/he tells you about
with the senses, about the so-called astral world or about the higher spiritual
any deceased person. Indeed, the somnambulist perceives a spiritual fact, she/he
determined view that one should enter the higher spiritual world, which can
with a waking consciousness who knows how to get used to the spiritual world,
who knows a lot about the spiritual world like about the physical one.
place. This is just the difference between spiritual science and other similar
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV - Lecture III: The History of Spiritism
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Spiritual Soul Instructions and Observation of the World
to investigate the higher spiritual worlds, those worlds which are beyond the
to the physical science. On the other side, in the great spiritual movements
regard to the spiritual views has to withhold the last word because the last
truth at first. One realised the fact that in every human being spiritual forces
slumber which are not developed with the average human being, that spiritual
in the spiritual field as today the doctor aims to achieve with the blind-born
recognise something of the super-sensible truth by immediate beholding, by spiritual
I can indicate only roughly what I have to say. A certain basis of higher, spiritual
the Christian. And now this basis of spiritual truth was removed from any human
spiritual spheres is: where do you live? — The answer is: I live in the
heaven and hell as localities in space, but that they were something spiritual
spiritual. Also Dante did not imagine his hell and his heaven
in the earthly sense; they were to be understood spiritually.
— and that is why he also depended on it as such a man who sees the spiritual
the preconditions are given by the own spiritual development of the human beings
present and took place at different places quite different spiritual manifestations
People had forgotten how to behold the spiritual in purely spiritual way. They
can be seized only by spiritual intuition. They had got to be used to get everything
by the intrusion of a spiritual world into our world.
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV - Lecture IV: The History of Hypnotism and Somnambulism
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spiritual and moral respect rise above their fellow men and become priests of
the spiritual-effective as nothing else than something material. It is a result
to be acquainted with the secrets of the higher spiritual life, and you are
humankind is led again to a higher moral, spiritual and intellectual level and
of forces in us. Moral, mental, spiritual higher development is that which makes

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture I: What Does the Modern Human Being Find in Theosophy?
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the super-sensible, psychic and spiritual worlds. There we see that — on
spiritual experiences which the primitive human being has to a greater extent
spiritual view what he can develop as his view, as his experience of the super-sensible
spiritual and astral worlds? Most of the human beings of today understand that
it flowing through the originating and passing figures with your spiritual eye.
your spiritual eye, then you are able to perceive the force in yourselves with
sensory view, but that you develop the view of the spiritual life in yourselves
idea how you can look with the spiritual eye at the life flowing from figure
with the spiritual eye and you will recognise how one has to look at life.
Somebody, however, who has developed the higher spiritual abilities in himself,
darkness, as the eye distinguishes different colours, the spiritual, the developed,
These three fields are the spiritual
calls brotherliness the ideal which the spiritual development of humankind wants

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Spiritual Soul Instructions and Observation of the World
ruling spiritual circles, then it has to fight with the reluctant powers all
old spiritual current in the world. We need only to remind that in the beginning
to the theosophical or spiritual-scientific world view as I call it since some
can give an example how today the spiritual scientist or theosophist faces his
attributes the world directly to something spiritual everywhere, looks for the
basis of something spiritual in all phenomena, even if the spiritual is considered
spirit should become evident as the inner effectiveness of a spiritual work.
things sometimes. In particular if one deals with experiences of spiritual science.
for example, or about any branch of ancient spiritual wisdom who do not want
at all to know anything about this spiritual wisdom itself. They look at this
objects which refer to the immortality of the soul, to the spiritual world,
has the time and the energy for it. This also applies to the spiritual matters.
spiritual science. Not because it has God solely as the object of its consideration,
being who slumbers in it and can be woken and uses such spiritual organs, spiritual
with the physical eye, the mind sees with the spiritual eye. Like the body hears
with the physical ear, the mind hears with the spiritual ear.
his spiritual development himself, these spiritual organs of perception can
be trained, so that the inner human being is able to look into a spiritual world.
spiritual wisdom can be investigated if those forces which slumber in every
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture III: Is Theosophy Unscientific?
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tasks of the present civilisation, to the significant spiritual currents of
the whole position of our theosophical spiritual movement is compared to science.
have developed from the higher, from the spiritual. If the researchers pursue
only the lifeless developed from life, but life itself developed from the spiritual.
The spiritual was first, it separated life at first, and then life separated
a world of thinking, and a world of the higher spiritual life which lies above
of spirituality, is still less accessible to the physical consciousness. Anybody
we call them: the physical world, the astral world and the spiritual world.
and the astral from the spiritual have arisen; where the spirit gradually condensed
where it has developed from the psycho-spiritual. That is why the physiologist
rises to the periphery, to that condition where the living becomes the spiritual.
To a more distant past the spiritual researcher rises and with it he creates
the awakening on the spiritual plane. As you have to move in a room which is
if the dark room is illuminated, everything appears new to the spiritual researcher,
perceive the events, so to speak, in the spiritual realm, the theosophist is
as the genders and human races have developed, the spiritual life has also developed.
the cultural life developed slowly. If we go back to the spiritual life of the
first sub-race of our root race, this spiritual life presents itself quite differently
than our present-day spiritual life. The thinking of these human beings was
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture IV: Is Theosophy Buddhist Propaganda?
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Something spiritual has to be in
the peculiar shading caused by the finer soul forces, the whole spiritual breath
spiritual force had an effect, and that these words had another life then, as
it became necessary to wake up the spiritual life in humankind as a counterbalance
materialistic character. It had become necessary to revive the internal spiritual
fields of the soul-life and the spiritual life. One can have immediate knowledge
human beings who had spiritual experiences; and those who had such experiences
onto humankind has come from the spiritual and psychic experience of these religious
transmit their wisdom, their spiritual knowledge into the world every now and
the spiritual force.
individualities a current of wisdom, a new spiritual wave had to flow in again
spiritual events — that the first influence of the theosophical movement
doctrine of the spiritual life of the world. This northern Buddhism can be regarded
Why had the renewal of the spiritual
of the West. It has forced back the understanding of the esoteric, of the spiritual,
of the real spiritual life more and more; and thus it happened that in the 19th
say that those who have a spiritual conscience looked for the spiritual but
spiritual life in the beginning of our root race.
civilisation had lost any spiritual power, and that is why the big stimulations
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Title: Novalis: On his Hymns to the Night
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material concerning the spiritual world in relation to the
spiritual science or Theosophy is not only something merely
manner, the precise knowledge of these spiritual scientific
Weimar, and clearly expresses how closely the spiritual high
established in the occult, in the spiritual worlds. To add to
proof of the possibility to connect this spirituality, this
the spiritual worlds, to connect this to a solid practical
spiritual being allowed mathematics to penetrate into his inner
mindset the warmest way to the spiritual life, while for many
spirituality in Novalis in a gentleness and refinement, as we
kind of spirituality within Novalis, on the same level as what
one. Through a quite specific event the spiritual experiences
unconsciousness, in actual fact sinks into the spiritual world.
spiritual worlds which are entered by the soul at night, lived
a higher spiritual reality, that the day with all its
a fragment of the entire spiritual worlds. The stars,
appeared to him only in a weak glow, while in him spiritual
during the night he shifts himself spiritually into this state.
During the night the actual spiritual worlds appeared to
result, which these spiritual experiences lifted out of this
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 1: Whitsuntide. Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit
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spiritual influences of our time. The next two public lectures
will be held in the Architektenhaus — on spiritualism a week hence,
with the holiest spiritual qualities of humanity — that is why it is
spiritual intuitions underlie them. The one was best understood by
know what Devas are. These purely spiritual beings, of the Astral or
It first made its appearance in the spiritual life of Persia. The
reincarnates. It was preceded by a most spiritual condition which
a spiritual state which will likewise obviate the necessity for
he has to reawaken that spiritual knowledge which he had received
freedom. And out of this freedom we shall again wrest spiritual life.
spiritual men. That is the goal to which the initiates would lead
moment which we have to regard as the one in which spiritual life
outpouring of spiritual life with which humanity was to be endowed.
his spiritual nature, his Deva and spiritual strivings. The water
spiritual life was brought to recollection. But Jesus connected
which man is able to kindle the spark of spiritual life within him,
and the time of spiritual awakening will be at hand.
spiritual existence in freedom.
spiritual life, to experience what is called the ‘coming of the
from an intellectual to a spiritual life just as Prometheus was set
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 2: The Contrast Between Cain and Abel
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organic level: they tend to differentiate on a spiritual level.
female, the more spiritual, in Abel-Seth. A differentiation has
does not reach spirituality through its own individual effort of
truly spiritual. The arts have sprung up from man's inner being,
not only a physical being but is spiritually both male and female at
impossible for him to separate spiritual wisdom and scientific
though acoustically [?] to the spiritual. Now the principle of
not human beings He met there, He was confronted by spiritual beings.
on the other hand there was Christ Himself who was a purely spiritual
so that practically all his spiritual life was taken up into incarnation.

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 3: The Mysteries of the Druids and the 'Drottes'
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spiritual life was disseminated. The spiritual life [of Europe]
replaced by a thinking permeated by spiritual force. The blown skin
[it denotes the same thing on a spiritual level
We have a spiritual backbone, too,
which determines whether we are to develop a spiritual brain. Man
spiritual backbone so that he can be raised up into the spiraling of
the spiritual brain. On a spiritual level, the windings of the
within the spiritual realm.
had prepared the spiritual life

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 4: The Prometheus Saga
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see how a pupil of spiritual science passes through three stages in
(The name ‘Manu’ comes from the Sanskrit root ‘man’ = ‘thinking.’ In Indian theosophical terminology this denotes high spiritualNote 2)
Root Race (the thinking of spiritual thoughts). Earthly thinking and
spiritual thinking flow side by side in the fifth Root Race.
Gradually the spiritual thinking will become more and more
spiritual power of the Atlanteans could control living nature and make
use of the latent power in seeds. The spiritual powers of the fifth Root
(Compare also: Man\'s Life on Earth and in the SpiritualNote 6)

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 5: The Mystery Known to Rosicrucians
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sense. The spiritual conception that all are equal in the sight of
but knowledge of spiritual forces, too, and from both directions

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 6: Manicheism
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understood, however, until we have examined the original spiritual
even more important spiritual current than Rosicrucianism was
with various things which influence the spiritual life of today and
as of particular importance for modern spiritual life. And that is why the
modern spiritual movement is brought into connection with the problem
one another, we must start from a spiritual tendency which first
It is that spiritual
of a spiritual movement which although at first only a small sect,
became a mighty spiritual current. The Albigenses, Waldenses and
recounted to you recently. All such spiritual currents connected with
Isis, the one who conceives, receives the divine, the spiritual into
intention is to create a spiritual current which goes beyond the
spiritually in the sixth Root Race like a prelude to this event.
become particularly evident on a spiritual level. On the one hand
stream of evolution through kindness. Then a spiritual current will
Manichean spiritual stream forcefully to prepare for this. This
spiritual stream will not die out, it will make its appearance in
in later centuries. They are the offspring of ancient spiritual currents.
Scholares, Coadjutores spirituales, Professi. The degrees of

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 7: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 1
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AND TASK OF FREEMASONRY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
will maintain a connection with the spiritual worlds. It makes a

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 8: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 2
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Spiritual Science - Lecture 2
AND TASK OF FREEMASONRY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
occult training: no calling-up of spirits or spiritualistic
activities. Anyone who practises spiritualism is strictly
ritual, the symbols for their content, but will seek the spiritual
‘and when we have found this the spiritual
through this spiritual content the absolute necessity of the form,
transform the whole of nature through his own spirituality. That is
in industry, so as to weave Organisation [his own spirituality?] into

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 9: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 3
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AND TASK OF FREEMASONRY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
it is also with spiritual currents. It is important that moulds exist
into which can be poured the spiritual metal. That is symbolised by
be the spiritual current which will again have to be cast in the

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 10: Evolution and Involution as they are Interpreted by Occult Societies [The Atom as Congealed Electricity]
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belonging in the spiritual world in concrete experience and with full
of onflowing life in the spiritual world. And there is a certain
serves that end, just so much is lost in the way of spiritual gain.
earlier epochs, more spiritual than our own, the individual name had
less importance. Spirituality in those days was directed at reality;
[by] building with the spiritualisation of the mineral world, that
means nothing else than to spiritualise the mineral world. That is
will remain empty. It must be possible for man to spiritualise as
must make our way upwards through intellect to spirituality, which

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 11: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 1
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— it could become an image of the great spiritual structure of the
spiritual structure of the universe.
stamped in wax by the spiritual world. Then we shall be engaged in
spiritual world. It was, so to speak, a stratagem of the great sages,
spirituality.
spiritual — that is its task. Today, the Freemasons themselves no
the spiritual, of the temple of the world, which is to be constructed
earlier spiritual epoch.

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expression of our spiritual life, progresses in heavenly space. When
be in the sixth cultural epoch. Then man will understand spiritually
universality, whereas the spirituality proper to Christian knighthood
fifth principle. the spiritual self of man, that must be developed,

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 13: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 3
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God, who cultivate the true spiritual part of
the spiritual inner part in which the higher tasks of humanity are
his spiritual nature is concerned, he belongs to the mineral kingdom,
also upon intuition and spiritual powers, we will then be aware we
currents [of evolution], who allows the worldly and the spiritual to
further into spiritual heights. For Christianity was born of
our anti-spiritual materialist thinking back again to Christianity.
to what is living and spiritual, if it is to understand

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he is climbing back again towards spiritual development.

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 15: Atoms and the Logos in the Light of Occultism
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plan for the whole of human evolution has actually been spiritually
spiritual influence passes from one planet to another, how therefore
spiritually developed there? They are the actual atoms which underlie
forces which were too thin, too spiritual for man, under whose
influence he would have spiritualised himself far too quickly. If man

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 16: The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement
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great centres of spiritual activity will spring up. You see,
that first Sub-Race, whose spiritual life is still extant in the
spiritual, if occult backgrounds did not come into play from another
higher knowledge. He knew that he was a cell in a spiritual organism.
spiritual view of the world. To provide this, a world-embracing
task. Spiritual movements have always had a fruitful influence on
been spiritually prepared. What difference is there, if we
Vinci? In these works you have something spiritual conjured up on to
lived in the soul of the artist as something spiritual. The spiritual
a society whose members are seized by a spiritual power such as that
we will again have a spiritual culture. And such a culture will again
an outward expression of the spiritual, if this can already be
light, and evolved out of our organism. Our spiritual organism of the
which stand before us as the expression of our spiritual culture, the
higher spiritual beings.
the times gone by in which his spiritual archetypal form was
A spiritual being confronts him in the super-sensible world: he meets
the higher forces; we once descended from spiritual worlds, and at
Twilight, and so on. All of this offers itself to our spiritual sense
express the difference between what flows as inward spiritual stream
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 17: Freemasonry and Human Evolution I
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only then did male-female become male and female. On a spiritual
cultural epoch; this was pre-eminently a spiritual culture having two
female [body] as a seed, was the male; and that was the spiritual,
everything, the spiritual. The division of the two sexes came about
then transformed, at a higher level, to spiritual wisdom. Out of this
spiritual realm. An opposition had therefore to come about, because
there was a sublime preparation for spiritually engendering the

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 18: Freemasonry and Human Evolution II
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its spiritual development. In the third Sub-Race of the fifth Root
recapitulation in the realm of spiritual life of what had happened
the two sexes separated from each other. As regards spiritual
Race: Division of spiritual evolution into male and female spirit, into
culture, is, spiritually speaking, primarily connected, not with the
events and later spiritual wisdom; for physical events arise out of
spiritual organs of fertilisation into organs of wisdom. The
Spiritual nature, too, had similarly divided itself. In female
become infertile in respect of spiritual wisdom, because she has
productive spiritual wisdom, the male or the female? We have seen
masculine, passive spirit is the one which is spiritually infertile,
but the man is the one who can fertilise physically. Spiritually, he
becomes spiritually fertilised so that he himself can fertilise
fertilised spiritually, the woman physically. Woman, by contrast, is
spiritually self-fertilising, whereas man is fertilised by the
re-spiritualises itself again, in which process the male power
Man will thus beget spiritual man by means of speech itself once the Word
physical perception, and the seed of the spirit, spiritual
perception. The spiritual, the woman, indeed bruises the head of the
Because we have seen why these spiritual currents
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 19: The Relationship Between Occult Knowledge and Everyday Life
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find that man originated from a much finer, more spiritual substance
peoples is expressed in their spiritual talents. If you try to
a spiritual culture, that something spiritual is growing there. These
towards spirituality. The Slavonic peoples have to confront
people took pains to conceive spirituality and the soul in a material
way. Thus we find a strongly material spirituality and [indeed]
spiritualism among them. With them, the spirit is sought for in
seek to see the spiritual with the eyes, it becomes psychic, and this
psychic, spiritual has to confront spiritual. Thus we have a
spiritual national thought in the east and a psychic one in the
in a spiritual way or in a psychic way. The spiritual way leads to
occult-spiritual world outlook leaves us no gaps in the comprehension

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 20: The Royal Art in a New Form
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pleasure in having something special, something spiritually
now — contained the original seed for all later spiritual culture.
extent of spiritual culture is in fact contained in these three
world, and rising to the highest spiritual realm; which streams we
principle in the spiritual realm — in that spiritual realm which is
holiest, the noblest, the greatest and the most spiritual [principle]
which is based in a spiritual sense on the freedom of man to decide
that connection with spiritual realms. Nearly everyone lives entirely
by water and steam, but by spiritual force, by spiritual morality.
principle, in the concept of uniting both male and female spiritual
lower has been conquered by applying the immediate free spiritual

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture I: Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?
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have spoken about the facts of the spiritual life through
spiritual-scientific talks span a wide range. On one side, you
find talks deeply intervening in our spiritual life; however,
it should also be shown how just spiritual science is destined
cannot face the spiritual research indifferently and
comes just the evil. The spiritual scientist would say,
however, the spiritual activity does not decrease. In addition,
without spirit. — With faint, another spiritual activity
the field to a spiritual activity different from that if the
effect, as a consequence of the material. The spiritual
external perception that way. However, for the spiritual there
from the mental to the spiritual that, however, a difference
spiritual. About the sensations, which rise in us, one cannot
mathematics, for example, gives us something spiritual, for
is something spiritual that everybody can experience it as we
mental to something spiritual.
can obtain something spiritual from a world in which no spirit
of the spiritual.
outside world as something spiritless and to show the spiritual
there is no border between the material and the spiritual. We
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture II: Goethe's Secret Revelation - Exoteric
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you pursue the history of spiritual development not only
find an unforgettable scene in the newer spiritual history
and regards the uniform spiritual tie so little which lives in
the newer spiritual science. What spoke, actually, in Goethe's
sets higher spiritual forces in motion that do not turn to
anybody can look deeper into Goethe's whole spiritual
in the sensory experience and that he finds the spiritual, the
philosophers of the German spiritual life who are very
his spiritual discipline from him. Nevertheless, it is not
the purest spirituality of feeling on the present level of
actual, spiritual phenomena that are behind the sensuous ones
note the citation of Goethe. Spiritualistic and materialistic
considerations about spiritual science as a kind of instruction
that spiritual current that has the tolerant penetration in the
preliminary orientation about deeper spiritual issues. This was
being to wake spiritual organs in himself to ascend to higher
something spiritual to him. For in the sensuous that is
expressed which the artist has put as something spiritual into

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that must apply to everybody. — The spiritual-scientific
side, spiritual science is far away to disapprove the worldview
Spiritual science has the perspective that the human being
he did not yet possess the ability to see it. Hence, spiritual
forces lying in him? Spiritual science is as old, so to speak,
as the thinking humanity. Spiritual science always had the
feeling to accept the spiritual in the things as objective,
the human being stands on the ground of spiritual science, he
spiritual lives in this thing, and I can stimulate my powers of
spiritual constitution in the beautiful lily than in the young
man. He attains that spiritual constitution if he understands
connected with the fact that the spiritual influence, the
spiritual reality or figure creeps into any sensuous form. He
considers the spiritual-scientific concepts as tasks of life
world, to the creative, spiritual powers. While we long for
are two ways to come to a spiritual world picture. That who
does not strive for the spiritual world with human concepts,
us from the spiritual. However, there is a second way, a way
spiritual world, but it remains unconscious and is led like the
shadow into the spiritual world. Goethe still subsumes
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IV: Bible and Wisdom I
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intervened so deeply and so intensively in the whole spiritual
who looks around only a little at the spiritual life of
the spiritual origin of the Bible, apart from that how the
consciousness that is able to behold into the spiritual
only briefly outlined. To somebody who knows the spiritual
spiritual-scientific or anthroposophic one. We have to deal
Bible with it? One can compare the spiritual-scientific or
spiritual-scientific viewpoint concerning the Bible the
the spiritual life of the older time, you would find that that
a quite similar way, the spiritual-scientific research faces
again in relation to the investigation of the spiritual
spiritual senses of the human being with which we can behold
also in the spiritual world as we can see with the physical
but that he can perceive a spiritual world between and behind
the sensuous, a spiritual world that is much more real than the
methods of spiritual research for a while. The big progress,
is able to behold into in the spiritual world. Hence, it is not
spiritual could also be explained from the material
into the spiritual things; now he does not know, not
the material is only like a compression of the spiritual, that
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture V: Bible and Wisdom II
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last talk should suggest with a few lines that spiritual
Nazareth, but a universal being, a spiritual-divine being that
got lost that this spiritual-divine being worked in the mortal
supersensible and spiritual from Jesus of Nazareth, if we take
world existed. What there was in the spiritual primeval grounds
However, there emerges another question from spiritual science.
the descent of a spiritual being from spiritual spheres that
spirit and has won the truth from the spiritual view that
spiritual view. In addition, he equates this appearance to the
spiritual world.
new spiritual science must separate from any only literal view
this so often in spiritual science that the human being —
by the spiritual-scientific methods in the soul of the true
pupil of spiritual science and enables him to behold into the
spiritual worlds, to behold what is there. What takes place
say the day before yesterday that if the spiritual researcher
develops higher, so that he becomes sighted in the spiritual
world and is able to behold into the spiritual undergrounds of
the things that he can survey the facts of the spiritual world
processes, which happen in you if you ascend to the spiritual
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VI: Superstition from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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Superstition from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
thoroughly in superstition from the spiritual-scientific
spiritual world beside the physical one, generally in the field
of superstition in the spiritual-scientific sense. You can read
if we considered the facts in the sense of spiritual
age, which can be pursued only by the means of spiritual
spiritual-scientific knowledge is forgotten to the external
the real spiritual science of all times and what can remain in
spiritual principles belonged to the different methods, with
disciple of spiritual science in the positive sense.
the field of spiritual science day by day. You experience the
such a phenomenon in connection with its spiritual undergrounds
and claim to lead back an everyday phenomenon to its spiritual
one end deeply into the spiritual — then he cannot
believe in a spiritual world! However, if you tell such a
explain this, consequently I believe in a spiritual world.
completely on the ground of spiritual science and theosophy
spiritual-scientific sense. When the theosophical movement had
spiritual condition that has become obvious thereby. One told
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VII: Issues of Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Issues of Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science
seems strange to people when spiritual science has something to
as the most material, as the most unspiritual subject:
particular idealism, their particular spirituality by saying:
may be right — that it is irrelevant to one's spiritual
outsiders hear more or less cursorily about spiritual science,
want to penetrate rather deeply into the spiritual life in an
However, in a certain sense spiritual science can agree with
the expression of something spiritual. A mineral, a plant or
spiritual is behind all material, and this is true of food as
materially before our eyes, but also that which is spiritual
of the food to the spiritual which is behind it. This is a
one has to understand that there is a spiritual process within
in the spiritual-scientific sense. If spiritual science puts
him by diet? So, the question is asked by spiritual science:
said about the whole position of spiritual science in regard to
understood in such a way that in no way spiritual science
innermost feeling of spiritual science. We do not want to
of his time. Spiritual science has to substitute this with the
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VIII: Issues of Health in the Light of Spiritual Science
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we allowed to hope that spiritual science, which I have
have many a time emphasised here that spiritual science aims at
We have shown many a time that spiritual science is there just
see — if you have a view sharpened by spiritual science
reality. For spiritual science, the whole human being is not
in the higher members, the more mental-spiritual members. There
issue of health connected with the mental-spiritual matters?
The spiritual scientist has to point to the fact that it
material viewpoint, to the spiritual-mental.
adult experiences the spiritual-mental, so that the right needs
of healing. In Munich, one of our spiritual-scientific friends
the views of spiritual science. Someone who believes today that
With this method of healing taken from spiritual science, which
we look at this physical-spiritual effect, the primal ground of
etheric. The physical is only a condensation of the spiritual,
and the spiritual can react again on the physical, so that it
understand that that which lives in the spiritual-mental
realises this can hope for spiritual science concerning the
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IX: Tolstoy and Carnegie
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solver of riddles of the highest social and spiritual problems
searching from the depths of spiritual life — Tolstoy;
with spiritual science or anthroposophy.
illumine the depths of his soul with the light of spiritual
this man to do generally with spiritual science, this man of
the only practical, business work? — Spiritual science
If one has understood that this spiritual science is something
spiritual science. Secondly — to speak in the sense of
and from her spiritual condition, the marvellous soul condition
figure before his spiritual eye.
prevailed once like from dark spiritual depths.
the spirit, to the spiritual view, which gives reality. The
the principle of reincarnation and of spiritual causing, karma,
find the spring, which can flow only from a spiritual approach
deepening and spiritualisation coming from spiritual science
well of the spiritual being.
as the innermost being of the soul by spiritual-scientific
ourselves deeper and deeper with spiritual science that it
spiritually if true spiritual knowledge of that is found which

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture X: The Practical Development of Thinking
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anthroposophic spiritual science that is represented here
of spiritual science can easily get to such a judgment. That
is less willing on penetrating into the real spiritual fields
the judgement is ready: oh, this spiritual science deals with
However, spiritual science feels intimately related with the
spiritual science should not be anything that hovers unworldly
think, act, and feel at every moment. Secondly, spiritual
spiritual science has a value not only for the human being who
already has open eyes to penetrate in the spiritual world, but
judgement are able to understand what the spiritual researcher
before he himself can penetrate into the spiritual fields. One
can say, spiritual science is for everybody a preparation to
the soul by which the spiritual worlds become discernible to
being has to carry out in order to penetrate into the spiritual
who wants to penetrate into the spiritual world, who wants to
apply the methods exactly given by spiritual research, so that
the spiritual senses are opened to him, that should never ever
order to reach the spiritual worlds. Someone reaches them best
of all using the methods of spiritual science who does not
that one has confidence in the inner spiritual organ of
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XI: The Invisible Human Members and Practical Life
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Spiritual science speaks of these invisible members of the
adjunct of the visible, but it speaks just of the spiritual as
someone who cannot see into in the workshop of spiritual life
spiritual scientist would not know, too. Nevertheless, the
by something spiritual. What one sees here in microcosm and
physical facts and spiritual-mental facts something that can
make him gradually understand that spiritual science must say
from its point of view: everything material has a spiritual
spiritual way of thinking defends itself with pleasure to
concluded reality. However, the spiritual scientist can
first the spiritual master builder must be there if anything
mental-spiritual is imprinted on the human beings top-down. The
for the spiritual due to the materialistic way of thinking.
Spiritual science maintains this secret of life. Indeed, it
things. It is not so comfortable to approach them. Spiritual
member of the human being is thereby stimulated; spiritual
spiritual science offers. What sets the human being aglow as
spiritual science itself penetrate all forces of the etheric
great, elated ideas of spiritual science flow into the physical
Spiritual science makes the brain a flexible, pliable tool, so
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XII: The Secret of the Human Temperaments
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spiritual science visits the sources of existence in order to
spiritual science has to say the necessary also about the
mood of the human being if we get to know what spiritual
from the spiritual world, what he adds to that which father and
back, for example, something mental-spiritual to something
mental-spiritual is not burnt at the stake today, but one
take place, the spiritual-mental current, in which the human
Thus, you recognise how significantly spiritual science can
the whole reality to which also the spiritual belongs, if one
from spiritual science, so that it is for the benefit of the
Thus, we see spiritual science intervening in the practical
if we know what is at the bottom of the soul. Spiritual science
connections, but also to the fine details. With spiritual
being can recognise the human being. Spiritual science is the
life animated by spiritual science. Hence, spiritual science is

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIII: The Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Exoteric
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spiritual respect to humanity. What Goethe completed at that
say that someone experiences it whose spiritual eye has been
opened to behold the spiritual environment. The Faust becomes a
of the spiritual, which the human being strives for by
spirituality:
the own soul. There are the highest spiritual experiences with
becomes merged with universal spirituality and survives with
physical ears, but with spiritual eyes and spiritual ears. That
seen symbols, allegories in that which is for the spiritual
flowing together with the living spirituality of the world.
extends to a spiritual universe.” Even then, in Frankfurt
spiritual powers pour forth in the centre of earth.”
looked spiritually at the creative of the world sitting
which the spiritual eye and the spiritual ear could attain. On
spiritual eyes and spiritual ears, was in a complete decline,
spiritually, what were only external formulae in the books,
is in such a way that the path to the spiritual worlds is
honestly and fairly for spiritual forces in nature, were
that saw the afterglow of an old spiritual current, which was,
the inadequate of the study about the spiritual world at that
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIV: Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Esoteric
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spiritual life is just demanded. Hence, Mephistopheles says,
experience of the spiritual, which we can call the experience
in the sense of the newer spiritual science. “Of our deep
immediate spiritual life, and Goethe probably reveals here that
immediate spiritual life. If one wants to compare the first
representation of the spiritual world, one may probably say
spiritual world. The first part of
the reality of the spiritual supersensible worlds, which are
was in the spiritual, in the supersensible worlds. He suggests
dawn” in order to wait for the rising spiritual sun.
sleep” surrounded by hovering spiritual beings. We find
him lost in reverie, wrapped in sleep. Beings of the spiritual
into the spiritual world. Then it is shown how Faust's soul
spiritual world in the
spiritual world.
has to sound from the worlds of spiritual life that way, if
carried away to the spiritual world:
spiritual sun is behind the physical one, from which someone
hears the sounds who settles down in the spiritual world. They
are, indeed, spiritual, not physical sounds. Moreover, here we
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XV: Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
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different. Only by means of spiritual science, one can explain
which humanity has acquired as spiritual goods. He lives in
with these currents like an escape of humanity to spirituality
souls escaped to something that should grant spiritual
let spirituality flow again into civilisation.
light-heartedly, and he forgets the need for a spiritual world;
creative enthusiasm, which has something divine-spiritual.
wisdom of the human being to which spiritual science goes back,
development of the Greek spiritual life could present itself to
idealism and all contemplation about the spiritual is a lie, is
he is engrossed in opposite currents of the spiritual life, in
knocked at the gate of spiritual science, just as he had once
spiritual-scientific truth of reincarnation. He stood also with
the idea of the super-human before the gate of spiritual
spiritual science. He knew nothing about that what we know if
Instead of the portrayals of the spiritual facts that can
to know spiritual science as contents. Nietzsche had to bleed
out emotionally in his longing for it. Only spiritual science
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVI: Isis and Madonna
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future by spiritual science. Goethe himself could approach this
mothers as the realm of nothingness. Faust, the spiritual human
prevail in a spiritual realm behind the sensuous reality. To
penetrate if he wakes the spiritual forces slumbering in his
soul. This is the great moment for him in which the spiritual
the blind sees colours and light; where his spiritual eye and
his spiritual ear is opened to a world which is behind the
indeed, these spiritual eyes and ears, and with them new realms
of creations weaving and floating into each other in the spiritual
unsubstantial realm, but in a realm of spiritual reality. So to
spiritual world, had to experience something in old times —
way that his soul from which the higher spiritual forces should
wake the spiritual eye in itself and penetrate into the
spiritual world. One calls the purified soul the higher inside
spiritual-mental sources, this does not have an earthly
the human being. Because that which spiritual science was at
imperfect in the same sense. Spiritual science does not regard
scientific evolution theory is completely accepted by spiritual
spiritual-mental origin of the human being. We have already
he was still completely secure in mental-spiritual existence. I
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVII: Old European Clairvoyance
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have already mentioned that spiritual science has to speak
existence. Spiritual science speaks of the development of soul
develops by spiritual-scientific methods
we went back in history in the sense of spiritual science, we
internal, as it is according to its spiritual-mental being.
who understood this process spiritually, who knew that in
everything something spiritual lives said to themselves, the
spiritual of the air must penetrate in such a way into us that
nothing else than something spiritual that has an effect on the
spiritual, and that shows nothing else than the remains of the
whole inside, his microcosm from the spiritual environment,
seen the spiritual beings that guided the construction of the
simply by the midday sun. Those who knew this spiritually
which this spiritual experience has attained in which it faces
out, spiritual beings everywhere, in the source, in the air, in
the tree — everything was animated by spiritual beings.
surrounding spiritual world. Hence, his assistants are
self-consciousness from the spiritual world into the world of
felt most intensely: I have come with my ego from the spiritual
world who is blind towards the spiritual world and kills
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVIII: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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which the soul is led to own observing in the spiritual worlds.
worlds with spiritual eyes and ears. Although the modern
today, nevertheless, they exist and lead up to the spiritual
worlds. All contents of spiritual science are contents of
to the fact that the human being has a spiritual origin, that
he once lived in spiritual worlds, that the human soul and
spirit are born out of the spiritual primeval worlds. I have
former being in the spiritual world if he rises above the
spiritual primeval being. The human being says about this
out before the senses; but behind all that is the spiritual
body is also born out of the spiritual universe; it also had a
spiritual figure. What shows the true figure of the human being
the spiritual primal ground. It is irrelevant whether in the
which he could find the connection with the spiritual primal
behind the clouds the concealed spiritual beings
world of the spiritual facts. The initiates experienced the
a higher body, and thereby they enable a higher spiritual being
higher spiritual being lived like the soul in the human body,
physical to the spiritual world; one rose to the god. They
initiation. Who was Baldr in reality? Baldr is the spiritual
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture I: The Spiritual World and Spiritual Science
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Spiritual Science as 'Lebensgut.' They were published in German as,
Spiritual World and Spiritual Science
of spiritual science. I will also try in this winter to light
spiritual-scientific point of view. Hence, I may ask you today
spiritual, the moral, and the artistic life in this course of
lectures to show how spiritual science can become an
spiritual science is treated in adversary way and is often
this view of spiritual-science someone is surprised least of
of thinking of the present against this spiritual
spiritual science thoroughly.
spiritual science establishes on some old, Oriental or other
course of spiritual science. However, I do this indication
I want to say as a prologue that spiritual
any tradition. From another side one misunderstands spiritual
spiritual science a sectarian religion. However, the opposition
against spiritual science comes from quite different
that the same applies to this spiritual science as it applied
centuries, which may also apply to spiritual science that has a
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture II: Theosophy and Antisophy
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Spiritual Science as 'Lebensgut.' They were published in German as,
spiritual science is not surprised at all, if this spiritual
the roots of any possible opposition against spiritual science.
as spiritual science as identical with that what one calls
justified viewpoint, spiritual science
days ago, you remember that spiritual science or theosophy
perceive a real spiritual world. The theosophical knowledge can
something in it that connects him with the divine-spiritual
its own self where it is rooted in the divine-spiritual
lo and behold, just spiritual science shows that antisophy is
knowledge of spiritual science if one wants to appreciate this
If the spiritual researcher attains the
other constitution of his soul, he enters into a real spiritual
world. Then before his spiritual view, the outer nature is
real spiritual world appears in which the human soul is to be
spiritual researcher that we are built up as human beings not
descends from spiritual-mental regions. It is a system of
spiritual forces that seize the physical organisation, and
earth. Spiritual science extends the memory about which I have
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture III: Spiritual Science and Denomination
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Spiritual Science as 'Lebensgut.' They were published in German as,
Spiritual
of spiritual science in this series of talks, I want to
spiritual science experiences.
among others that spiritual science allures the human being
not fear that in the present, just if spiritual science wants
something divine-spiritual. However, the single souls cannot
understanding, because spiritual science wants to introduce
spiritual-scientific point of view to show first how antisophy
spiritual science that goes into the entirety of the human
Spiritual science is less destined because
this spiritual science can have to the single branches and
spiritual-scientifically, but to show what spiritual science
Spiritual science is based on the fact that
Spiritual science requires that investigations form the basis
not concern the sensory world but the spiritual world. The
spiritual researcher transports himself by the specified
soul into the spiritual world. Then he is in the spiritual
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture IV: On Death
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attitude of spiritual science in general in the first three
to the fact that spiritual science has it not so good
as some other scientific fields. Spiritual science depends on
by death to everything living. Now just spiritual science shows
attitude of spiritual science based on single facts.
broach as anything “immortal” that has a spiritual
soul by the spiritual-scientific methods, indeed, in such a way
spiritual chemistry. Thereby it really attains a point of view
spiritual-mental activity in myself which does not have the
inner intimate exercises, so that really his spiritual-mental
the spiritual-mental of the human being from the bodily and
spiritual-mental. If he experiences internally in the
spiritual-mental this way, if he gets around to having his own
he becomes aware of that what the spiritual researchers of all
We must only keep in mind that spiritual
research existed at all times. Spiritual research was done
spiritual research could not be done as today. The human beings
development of his soul forces the spiritual world appeared to
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture V: The Meaning of Immortality of the Human Soul
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preceding talk. In case of such a spiritual-scientific
indications from the field of spiritual-scientific research
that spiritual research just wants to penetrate to the immortal
which we can really penetrate into the spiritual world. I have
suggested many a time that everything depends in spiritual
the mentioned exercises to carry out an inner spiritual-mental
I have also indicated that for the spiritual researcher who has
which spiritual science expounds for the problem of the human
spiritual testament to humanity, he renewed the ancient idea of
respect for spiritual life and pursuit cannot dismiss
mysterious education that the spiritual world bestows on the
spiritual science: how can one position the single soul life of
spiritual life and they carry them over to future epochs to
spiritual world to look for its further development. One can
embodiment in the universe to ascend to future spiritual and
without doubt that a future spiritual development brings that
epoch. There we stand on the ground of spiritual realities that
spiritual research to say to this thought gained by Lessing on
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VI: The Evil
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Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge.
to consider spiritual science today as a basis from which one
particular that spiritual science does not only look at fields
too much. It appeared to the stoic like a kind of spiritual
spiritual world one has to control the emotions and passions
surging up and down which as it were cause the spiritual
answers that remain before the gate of spiritual science
other thinkers who come close to that what spiritual science
the following. Something spiritual and something
two beings. He looks up at the one being like to the spiritual
we wake up, we can unfold our spiritual-mental activity from
our spiritual-mental into unlimited spaces. There we touch our
surroundings with our spiritual-mental activity. Because we
spiritual-scientifically. I have only stated it to show to
physical nature that it can really carry out that spiritual
chemistry which just detaches the spiritual-mental in the human
detaches his spiritual-mental from the bodily, so that he rises
in the spiritual and faces his physical nature with his
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VII: The Moral Basis of Human Life
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viewpoint of spiritual science about the bases of the moral
that a world of spiritual beings and spiritual facts forms the
spiritual world. Since maybe the requirements, views, and
briefly, how the spiritual researcher ascends to the spiritual
spiritual research it matters that everything that is already
spoken of that “spiritual chemistry” which goes
do, but which extends to the spiritual area and its forces,
this sense, I have often explained where spiritual science must
spiritual-mental in the outer human body. However, the
spiritual chemistry does not consist in tumultuous
you can penetrate into the spiritual. However, he must advance
spiritual-mental beyond the physical-bodily
necessary to separate this spiritual-mental from the
spiritual-mental, but my physical-bodily is outside of me as
spiritual-mental from the physical-bodily. Only the exercise of
unlimitedly in spiritual science: devotion to the general world
The second requirement of spiritual science
moment where one knows: now you experience spiritual-mentally.
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VIII: Voltaire
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consideration in the spiritual-scientific sense. I have
and the modern spiritual science in repeated lives on earth.
spiritual world. It appears in the next epoch again, of course
spiritual-scientifically even more exactly into that what
epochs. Then that what spiritual science has to say no longer
less about the fact that spiritual science assumes not only a
recognise an inner spiritual-mental being of the human being
Spiritual-scientifically, we distinguish
in which the spiritual life of the human being turns already
light. Spiritual science, however, shows that in the epoch that
Only with the help of spiritual science, we can imagine the
clairvoyance, he could behold in the spiritual world. He saw
spiritual beings to which we work our way up again with the
methods of spiritual science today. It was natural in those
times that one experienced nature ensouled and spiritualised.
with the help of spiritual science, but I hope that I have
to the fact that one can consider the spiritual life completely
spiritual science. It changed in particular since the aurora of
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture IX: Between Death and Rebirth of the Human Being
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Spiritual Science as 'Lebensgut.' They were published in German as,
spiritual-scientific research. I am allowed to require with
spiritual-scientific research is accepted, after I have tried
beneficiary of this spiritual research in a more general way.
spiritual-scientific results, as I got them. Although that
of spiritual science, nevertheless, I would like to do the
spiritual-scientific research.
strictest spiritual-scientific methodology that what I have to
audience about results of spiritual-scientific research. Since
spiritual-scientific research impartially. Quite briefly, I
would like to go into this spiritual condition first which must
exist with the spiritual researcher and in certain sense also
spiritual-scientific research as true.
spiritual-scientific results with the methods that I have
spiritual researcher and someone who wants to accept his
in spiritual science — I ask you not to misunderstand
wants to judge truth with the everyday spiritual condition
— this is something that you can know from spiritual
be typical of the spiritual-scientific research. More and more
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture X: Homunculus
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Often I have indicated how spiritual
science wants to position itself in the spiritual life of the
instinctively for this spiritual science out of the unconscious
spiritual science. The spiritual researcher also understands
the whole attitude of our civilisation to a possible spiritual
not want to realise how spiritual science can basically
spiritual science wants to be the large circle which extends
of course believe to be right from their viewpoints. Spiritual
spiritualism or realism
at its place. Spiritual science cannot stop there recognising
particular in spiritual-scientific fields with the opposition
“must” -- regard spiritual science from its point
reject a view as it is meant here as spiritual
The view of spiritual science has to admit
spiritual world between death and new birth after every life on
earth. I tried to show this in the last talk. Spiritual science
philosophers who stress the necessity of spiritual life, yes,
of the fact that spirit and spiritual world can be investigated
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture XI: Spiritual Science as a Treasure for Life
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Spiritual
of the spiritual science for the human life.
spiritual science does not want to be only a theory of the
spiritual science hopes to be able to be a real new element of
pointed repeatedly to the fact that spiritual research is based
spiritual science is quite different, actually. Just this fact
brings it adversaries and opponents in abundance. The spiritual
directly to the outer world the spiritual researchers uses it
scene. Nevertheless, they are applied in a spiritual process so
that the spiritual researcher uses the techniques, the inner
spiritual research for the preparation of that what one should
the spiritual researcher has compared with knowledge that he
brain, cannot supply any cognitive force to spiritual research,
fact that at every moment the spiritual-scientific researcher
to be active if we want to recognise anything in the spiritual
spiritual world, the recognised would be extinguished or would
No moment the soul is allowed to rest in the spiritual
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Title: Human History: Lecture I: The Relation of the Human Being to the Supersensible Worlds
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
of spiritual science, the science of the supersensible
justification of spiritual science in certain respect. One has
spiritual life with which spiritual science wants to be in
spiritual-scientific research itself. Let me initiate with the
spiritual, the supersensible experiences of the human being
otherwise, to a spiritual, supersensible world this material
representative of a spiritual worldview, because only such can
admitted that pure thoughts, spiritual effects, are somewhere
knowledge which one has refers to something spiritual, to
fantastic if the spiritual scientist says that with such
an idealistic or spiritual worldview, in both cases one has to
who deals with spiritual science understands Parmenides when he
spiritual worlds has to strengthen this edifice of ideas in a
spiritually that he feels in such a way as if he had not
The other side is an experience of the spiritual researchers:
penetrate through them into the living feeling of spiritual
his thoughts where the spiritual beings live where the spirit
what we call meditation spiritual-scientifically, delving into
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Title: Human History: Lecture II: Death and Immortality
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
series of spiritual-scientific talks that I have held, you yet
objects already, even if a spiritual-scientific standard.
considerations of spiritual life these important questions of
experiences are. Now spiritual science or anthroposophy is an
immortality spiritual science is also not in any opposition to
natural sciences must reject what spiritual science has to say
assumption of a real spiritual life that exceeds the only
completely. Spiritual science is not forced at all to deny
problem of life. However, spiritual science has to hear
spiritual-scientific consideration. For one can hope that one
No spiritual consideration of life
with someone who immerses himself more and more in spiritual
Spiritual science adds a spiritual core to
search within a supersensible spiritual world. So that in the
physical factors that is not physical that is of spiritual
kind. This spiritual that one cannot see with physical eyes is
spiritual origin to a spiritual lineage, that means, to
ourselves. Spiritual science is just forced to speak not only
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Title: Human History: Lecture IV: From Paracelsus to Goethe
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and intuitively from the spiritual work of nature and what had
spiritual everything only sensorily discernible. However, he
his look deeply penetrating into the spiritual how the human
him from the whole spiritual development the causes of illness
intellectual and spiritual. Call him a vagrant if you want, as
spiritual is expressed. He experienced a lot, but at the same
impression on all who searched the way to the spiritual worlds
Italian Journey spiritually observing how the single appears in
my way.” He wants to behold intuitively spiritually what
to go through a merely mental-spiritual development to reach
ascend to unselfishness, to the intimate love of the spiritual
what penetrates as something spiritual the human being and
If we look at spiritual science from these
what lives invisibly as a spiritual and supersensible behind
looks for the spiritual light in primal grounds.
The truth of the things within the spiritual tie.

Title: Human History: Lecture VII: The Prophet Elijah
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sky of the spiritual development, the Prophet Elijah shines to
personality. However, for spiritual science just this
Prophet Elijah, but also as an example how spiritual science
Prophet Elijah from the researches of spiritual science, only
and with the proving strength of the spiritual-scientific
spiritual science to say about the person and the significance
in a spiritual being of the world that intervenes by its
biblical Naboth as the physical bearer of the spiritual
spiritual-scientific research.
significant self-education to higher spiritual heights. What
which it beholds in the spiritual worlds to carry down from
starving to attain spiritual
from this God. Today we would say in spiritual science, his
spiritual-scientific research. The Baal priests, the 450
that of spiritual science, while it seems by the
spiritual-scientific research as a self-evident fact. Now
with which the religious documents speak to spiritual science,
This is a spiritual experience. He hears, so to speak, from the
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Title: Human History: Lecture VIII: The Origin of the Human Being
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What spiritual science has to say about the
all those persons who are interested in spiritual science out
sciences, and spiritual science would face each other with the
and spiritual science. But now this did not happen that way.
sciences to spiritual science, is due solely to the fact that
spiritual science has to say. Since one would like to say:
spiritual-scientific things, it will become obvious that
spiritual science contradicts the facts of natural sciences,
but as if also all spiritual activities of the human being only
today as his spiritual, as the contents of his soul life,
of such spiritual processes or spiritual contents as they were
found in the human soul today. The human spiritual life would
spiritual life to a spiritual world reaching to our physical
nothing spiritual. However, with it the spirit would be, so to
which develops from the bodily, and everything spiritual would
the origin of the human being from a spiritual world and of an
acceptance of the human being in a spiritual world when he
belongs to a spiritual world immediately, but only that the
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Title: Human History: Lecture X: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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being has shown that the spiritual-scientific answers
even if the spiritual-scientific concepts of Christ do not
spiritual-scientific maturity to distinguish the matters really
which present themselves in the spiritual life. The present
spiritual science whose ideas we want to discuss briefly this
of that what spiritual science has to say in the present.
origin of the human being to that spiritual figure which did
spiritual science gets to forms that more and more resemble the
spiritual-mental forms and, finally, completely show the
spiritual origin of the human being. In that region in which
where he felt in the midst of wholly spiritual beings and
spiritual facts the old gnosis already searched the Christ
his spiritual-mental being with a physical cover to enter into
remained in wholly spiritual worlds who did not descend to the
remained in the wholly spiritual region. Gnosis considered that
developmental epochs as a spiritual being connected with the
how did gnosis imagine this descent of a wholly spiritual being
from the spiritual world what the human beings could not
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Title: Human History: Lecture XI: Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science
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by the spiritual-divine forces intends that humanity gets
spiritual, while the official science of history was not
Of course, spiritual science tries again to
spiritual condition was quite different from that in the
spiritual development of humanity, one has also to realise that
spiritual research, only one possibility to gain a mental
reasonableness develops in the human being. Spiritual science
become a spiritual researcher and wants to behold deeper into
consciousness, so that spiritual research aims at another kind
the spiritual world independently from the body and its senses.
and today spiritual-scientific research shows that the form of
a wholly spiritual being, then one can no longer look for such
and more as a spiritual-mental one, the further we go back. So
spiritual inwardness.
Now not only the facts of spiritual
oriental spiritual life has contents different from that what
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Title: Human History: Lecture XII: Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
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of this spiritual revolution was so significant for any outer
this spiritual wave descended upon humanity, one does not at
Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science.
thing that is necessary just for spiritual science to
spiritual-mental of the human being are born out of the
the universe. But the spiritual-mental has arisen from
spiritual world, something similar originates as we find it
the world directly from the spiritual world with the
spiritual-mental essence. He would never have believed that the
spiritual-mental from that what he called the world of God from
spiritual-mental essence of the human being stop at death, but
attain that what it has to bring into the spiritual world after
body lives on after death in the spiritual world, but has to
spiritual view down, it sees its former physical body. It
while that what of it lives in the spiritual world is dependent
spiritual world so that it transforms the experiences of the
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Title: Human History: Lecture XIV: The Self-Education of the Human Being
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the usual self-education and not on the education for spiritual
for spiritual research; it is not only of importance for the
viewpoint of spiritual science. You find it summarised in my booklet
The Education of the Child from the Viewpoint of Spiritual Science.
impersonal ideal, so to a purely spiritual educational impulse
if one wants to speak spiritual-scientifically about
self-education. This is just the characteristic of spiritual
spiritual science is more difficult and more uncomfortable, but
earlier intimated one; but it is not. For spiritual science
spiritual-scientific consideration is based on the fact that
spiritual science wants to represent in much more comprehensive
spiritual-scientific development takes place. As the human
spiritual-scientifically recognising into foreign beings
the exemplary picture of any spiritual-scientific activity; it
judgements of conscience. Spiritual science is based on the
and death learns to recognise by spiritual science that he may
shared joy by immediate experience, spiritual-scientific
knows spiritual science that he himself is lost in this higher
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Title: Human History: Lecture XVI: Darwin and the Supersensible Research
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try to consider it spiritual-scientifically the work is
us aware of the task and the significance of spiritual science
perfected bodily but also as a spiritual-mental being directly
scientific disposition and spiritual condition than Darwin
worldview based on spiritual facts that the spirit prevails
as transformed vertebrae. Goethe meant that this spiritual has
leads to an idealistic spiritual result. What may it depend on
habitual ways of thinking, because to a man who is spiritually
spiritual sense as Goethe did it, that the creative, prevailing
its spiritual life by deepening in the sensory
how the human being finds somethimg enclosing mental-spiritual
normal consciousness that we have to search in a spiritual
which comes from a spiritual world while it experiences the
spiritual world by his Imaginative, Inspirative and Intuitive
ego just works there, which comes from the spiritual world, on
without going through the gate of death that a spiritual world
knowledge. If he knows his spiritual-mental essence working,
spiritual world to create a new life and a new earthly
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture I: Spirit and Matter, Life and Death
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spiritual-scientifically with spirit and matter, life and death
spiritual view to a human future which he supposed in close
give way again and another, spiritualised view has to replace
some conjectures of a spiritual world from the concepts and
imagine the spiritual world after analogies. The earth with its
But Fechner bases all these mental pictures about a spiritual
directed to the spiritual urged him to assume such things, not
to stop at the world of matter, but to rise to a spiritual
on which point this subtle spirit who reflected the spiritual
gate of that which is meant here as spiritual science.
Spiritual science must originate from that to which the outer
Spiritual science has to start from that point up to which also
usual science stops, spiritual science has to begin. Hence, it
in rest and in the inner power of the spiritual development of
itself in which the outer world is reflected spiritually is no
one does not recognise the spiritual nature of thinking.
of spiritual research just gets to them as the scientist of the
spiritual researcher just develops the inner methods of
book The Riddle of Man. If the spiritual
researcher can really figure the spiritual nature of thinking
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture II: Destiny and Soul
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world of material processes to the immediately spiritual
systematic inner soul work. The spiritual researcher works with
is not sufficient to penetrate into the spiritual world lying
able to penetrate into the real spiritual world. The human
spiritual world. You have to detach the thinking from the usual
handed over to the spiritual world. You have let the thought
flow into the spiritual life, and you can get it again from the
spiritual life.
the life of thinking as in something spiritual. The fact that
such a way, as if into the soul “spiritual eyes”
sounding, warming world is round us, now an etheric-spiritual
world is round us. But because we get to know this spiritual
imaginations, but realities which spiritual science shows. But
what reveals itself from the spiritual world at first from this
life spiritualising. We do not need to grasp a thought long if,
spiritual world and can be brought into the personal thoughts
the spiritual researcher has to attain. If he does not attain
human being dies. However, to penetrate into the real spiritual
spiritual world the spiritual world of the body of formative
thinking. This is not enough for the spiritual cognition, for
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture III: Immortality, the Forces of Destiny, and the Course of Life
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What makes it hard to come close to spiritual science with full
consciousness. Spiritual science gets to a thinking that has to
spiritual science. Even if the suitable attempts deviate from
spiritual science radically, they still demand knowledge of
certain life riddles and world riddles that head to spiritual
characterised here, spiritual science can comply with it
strictly speaking. But it is the destiny of spiritual science
unconscious mean but in which spiritual science must differ
the unconscious or subconscious. In this point, spiritual
previous talks how spiritual science just realises that,
could not be developed in his time completely. But spiritual
the one hand, spiritual science is urged to take ways different
view. Against it, spiritual science stands absolutely on the
that spiritual science still complies in a much deeper sense
with spiritual science. All possible unclear mystic mental
spiritual science, and then one confuses it with these unclear,
you occupy yourself just spiritual-scientifically more
what is a right way also in the spiritual-scientific sense to
Now spiritual science knows that the scientific view is right
refined, or we say, spiritualised passions, affects, feelings
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture IV: Human Soul and Human Body Considered Scientifically and Spiritual-Scientifically
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and Spiritual-Scientifically
Spiritual-Scientifically
spiritual-scientific area, and it could be desirable to some
spiritual attempts of modern time spread the biggest
spiritual still in any way. I would like to go back to two
matter in the sense of spiritual research. There appears that
recognises this exceptionally important truth by spiritual
this and that is imagined. Spiritual science will have to get
the psychic, of imagination itself. Then spiritual science has
normally. If the spiritual researcher proceeds Imaginatively,
Spiritual science will once throw light on these matters if
disappeared if one uses spiritual science as an aid. Since the
way as I have just described it? Spiritual science shows there
the spiritual world and combines with the body.
soul coming from the spiritual world with the brain will be
the head before birth or conception from the spiritual subsoil
experience works on the head from the spiritual world long time
spiritual researcher this miraculous creation of the human
the spiritual, and that in the spiritual the forces are which
imprint of the mental-spiritual life that I would like to
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture V: The Riddles of Soul and World in the German Cultural Life
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itself more and more on the spiritual researcher as an
spiritual-real knowledge or generally of the knowledge of the
Hence, the spiritual researcher will abandon more and more from
a spiritual existence. Hence, that who really wants to do
research in spiritual areas must not only know what militates
spiritual can only appear in the soul if you can react
the spiritual reality. Hence, it will not suit spiritual
proved or disproved. The spiritual scientist namely realises
attitude of the spiritual researcher, and that the spiritual
have said that one assigns the mental-spiritual to the brain
organism more or less if one speaks of the mental-spiritual
tried to demonstrate the results of spiritual research in this
spiritual-scientific assertions done by me will comply with the
spiritual research takes the mental-spiritual basis as starting
point. Now the spiritual researcher as the naturalist gets also
certain border, only from the other side. The spiritual
concepts from the spiritual-mental side come up as natural
to himself, if one considers the mental-spiritual life, one
recognises that this mental-spiritual life runs out downward in
really from the spiritual-mental to the border of the ether. We
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VI: Life, Death, and Immortality in the Universe
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Somebody who represents spiritual science in the scientific
contradict this spiritual-scientific worldview. Only on the
regard the spiritual-scientific ideas one does not yet get
involved with an examination of that even today which spiritual
that spiritual science does not only comply with any justified
scientific results confirm what spiritual science has to say;
spiritual-scientific research that the soul comes gradually by
this, but the whole mood which the spiritual researcher has to
Thus, the relation of the spiritual researcher to his own
In this inner life of the soul those spiritual worlds emerge
pictures saturated with reality. Then the spiritual researcher
Today the opinion is spread that spiritual science forms flimsy
comparison of spiritual science and natural sciences turns out
there is on the other side spiritual research which claims,
overcome first if spiritual science should be acknowledged. One
does not get automatically to the spiritual-scientific results.
spiritual research if one considers human beings who dedicate
about a knowledge of the spiritual conditions of the world.
spiritual world in the present because of opposing prejudices
understanding of the real spiritual-mental life. But the first
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VII: The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul
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spiritual behind the sensory. I would like to take certain
spiritual world. With this beholding consciousness, the human
human spiritual life. Goethe says in this essay, Kant excludes
important results of spiritual research; however, it will go
those results of spiritual research which I have put forward in
mentioned already once that spiritual science shows where from
this comes. The head points back to a long preceding spiritual
mental-spiritual beings from a spiritual world. What we
the soul. If the human being dies, that enters a spiritual
to perceiving real spiritual beings within this surging life of
thoughts that reveal themselves only in the spiritual. Because
we get to the real perception of a spiritual world, we are able
to perceive ourselves as spiritual beings among other spiritual
beings in the spiritual world. Then something happens that I
senses and the beyond of the soul lead into the spiritual.
about the perspective that has to arise from spiritual science.
spiritual world. In this spiritual world the Intuitive
then our moral life also has place in the spiritual world that
Spiritual science is regarded as something paradox even today;
spiritual science is only digging in a tunnel of knowledge from
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture I: The Nature of Spiritual Science and Its Significance for the Present
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spiritual science here from this place during the winter
of the spiritual world from this viewpoint in the series of the
character of the human being. We will light up the spiritual
single examples, I want to show in which way spiritual science
and geology. Then I want to explain what spiritual science can
spiritual science, its significance, its nature, and its task
within the different spiritual needs of the present.
may be allowed to say that spiritual science (German:
Geisteswissenschaft) outside our spiritual
spiritual world as a world that is essential as the human world
of contents, spiritually impregnated existence as the nature of
the human being is. One speaks about an existing spiritual
world here. That is why spiritual science is no popular thing
such spiritual-scientific research blabbers, dreamers, or
spiritual-scientific field, but rather in that field, of which
spiritual-scientific method contradicts these scientific
ground to speak generally of the investigation of a spiritual
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture V: The Nature of Sleep
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completely from spiritual-scientific or anthroposophic
this issue spiritual science or anthroposophy is not able to
For spiritual science knows very well — this has been
We have indicated this for the death, for the entire spiritual
life and for the arrangement of the spiritual life with the
beings. Spiritual research can describe this inner movement to
beholding in the spiritual life. I would like to explain here
Attain Knowledge of the Spiritual World? where the methods
provide his soul as it were with spiritual eyes, with spiritual
ears by which he is able to behold in the spiritual world that
This spiritual development, these exercises consist really of
real own spiritual researches. Now I want to speak of the very
actually clairvoyant, spiritual-scientific human being.
first beginnings of this possibility of spiritual research let
particular to someone who has gone through spiritual-mental
instrument, for example, a hammer. The spiritual researcher
now the spiritual researcher sleeps on the problem and wakes
the difference between a spiritual researcher who perceives
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VII: How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Spiritual World?
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if he wants to come to the knowledge of the spiritual
the objective-spiritual-scientific — that I start,
because the way into the spiritual world has to lead from the
immediate experience. To the beholder of the spiritual worlds
present human beings for the spiritual world. At the same time,
access to the spiritual world anyhow with the means which not
relation to the rise of the human being to the spiritual world
speaking about Goethe's specific way to the spiritual world
— we still have to discuss Goethe's way to the spiritual
followed the ways of Goethe to the spiritual world — but
artist — gets down spiritual realities from the spiritual
to him to say, oh, we cannot get to this spiritual world with
are ways beyond imagination, ways into the spiritual world that
of our age concerning the spiritual world. For I had a long
spiritual worlds that produces what the human beings create to
recognise this world of the spiritual life as different from
is the only spiritual realm for him. There I could just
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VIII: Predisposition, Talent and Education of the Human Being
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inherited by the ancestors. Spiritual science does not look
observations of the natural sciences. However, spiritual
and from which he takes his spiritual-mental food.
theories, but at facts how this spiritual-mental essence of the
influence of the spiritual-mental. The outer science can also
that then he takes up something from the spiritual treasure of
of speech. Then we must say: the spiritual-mental contents that
his spiritual-mental surroundings, but speech is something that
was there as a spiritual-mental in the vocabulary of the
plastically, and makes it a tool only for future spiritual
abilities or the future spiritual-mental life. We can see this
still stated can arise that that what sinks spiritual-mentally
speaks out the basic positions of spiritual science. I have
possibility to develop the spiritual-mental abilities as the
son must think! — A spiritual-mental structure is there
spiritual-mental organisation as it worked on the father, and
form the spiritual-mental organisation according to the
modifiable, versatile of the spiritual-mental, so that a free
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XIV: Moses
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the present only if we look back at those great spiritual men
immediately in that what is a component, spiritual contents of
Spiritual science often has the task of building up something
which deal with Moses. Since what does spiritual science show
spiritual-scientific deepening in the Bible can achieve this
biblical portrayals on the basis of spiritual-scientific
spiritual science. This makes it difficult again, so to speak,
far because he lacked the spiritual-scientific sensibility to
spiritual world in certain interstates between waking and
sleeping that that what one beheld this way in the spiritual
consciousness also externally without spiritual science? Then
experienced typically. Laistner did not advance to spiritual
of human consciousness that beheld the spiritual world in
consciousness. This ancient prehistoric state of spiritual
by our reason, removed the ancient clairvoyant spiritual
spiritual-scientific sense that we say to ourselves: all these
from eternal heights of the spiritual development keeps on
knowledge of higher spiritual worlds has to experience certain
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XV: What Has Astronomy to Say about the Origin of the World?
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want to ask ourselves from the viewpoint of spiritual science,
start immediately from that which spiritual science has to say
stars in space and the possible mental-spiritual activities
if anything mental or spiritual fills the space, no astronomy,
spiritual or mental filling the space, because one cannot
conclude anything spiritual from movements.
way to find the mental and spiritual beings filling the cosmic
space? — Therefore, spiritual science points in contrast
apodictic result! Someone who only considers the spiritual and
immediately that everything mental and spiritual is buried in
mental-spiritual causes material processes in us has to say to
are caused by the spiritual-mental processes. I ignore the
spiritual-mental causes. — May it not seem comprehensible
mental-spiritual. Therefore, we can come just from the field of
being was connected dream-like, vividly with a spiritual world.
spiritual science.
planets from the earth — that is we come to spiritual
We receive spiritual causes for the movements of the heavenly
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture I: Haeckel, the Riddles of the World and Theosophy
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extraordinary difficulties to the explorer of the spiritual
theosophy or spiritual science should spell out its purposes,
spiritual-scientific consideration of life is not there for
However, somebody who looks at the development of the spiritual
century, the spiritual orientation was different from in the
above it, the sensation of the old spiritualism still lives in
look for something spiritual.
development of the spiritual life. Somebody who believes that
that tore any view of a spiritual life out of the human heart.
the 19th century, when one still had a more spiritual
because many bearers of the spiritual life were
spiritualistic sentient soul. These both could never compensate
spiritualistic feeling soul beside his scientific thinker's
also somebody who wants to see can see how just the spiritual
it; one can see how one spiritually grasps the material
chapter of theosophy or spiritual science. You can familiarise
consciousness by which he faces us as a spiritual being.
theosophy or spiritual science because the natural sciences
spiritual, because he just lacks that which makes the human
being the spiritual being.
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture II: Our International Situation. War, Peace and Spiritual Science
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Our International Situation. War, Peace and Spiritual Science
Spiritual research cannot interfere in the immediate problems
the spiritual knowledge should be anything that floats above
us directly. Between these two cliffs, the spiritual researcher
this place: spiritual science has to make us directly
Even within our spiritual-scientific movement, voices were
order to be able to comment this spiritual-scientifically, we
being that are like a school for a spiritual attitude. Now,
of spiritual science. I could demonstrate examples speaking
we speak of a single animal species in spiritual science, we
Spiritual science distinguishes five successive races,
bit by bit if you penetrate into spiritual science. Any slave
the spiritual development that we really recognise the common
the task of spiritual science to develop this uniform soul in
only has to foster the spiritual life that penetrates us with
race finds in the spiritual life.
real society of peace strives for spiritual knowledge, and the
real peace movement is the spiritual-scientific movement. It is
spiritual life always developed from the East. The East was the
area where the spiritual life was fostered. Here in the West
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture III: Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Soul and Spirit of the Human Being
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spiritual-scientific worldview we are led to that older
the theosophical or spiritual-scientific worldview has to go
the spiritual-scientific worldview is appointed to rouse an
like by a great spiritual guide of humanity, to such eternal
physical eye has originated, the spiritual eye originates in
the soul from the everlasting spiritual contents if it becomes
the spiritual eye in the soul if he can be developed by the
spiritual contents. Such pupils awaited and awaited in
are two separate things. In the soul, the spiritual eye is
the most beautiful spiritual-scientific wisdom with him. Only
the spiritual-scientific worldview can understand him. I could
as a spiritual mirror of the world forms, as true it also forms
desire and passion, but this spiritual mirror of the world also
lives in him. One can perceive this with the spiritual eyes and
his spiritual ears to the universe, then he will really
which is hidden, otherwise, behind the things. The spiritual
spiritual. Then his soul perceives the thought as distinctly as
fields of existence. In the spiritual-scientific worldview, one
third kind of existence is the spiritual existence. In general,
the spiritual of the world. This is also the difference between
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VI: The Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Human Races
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spiritual science have always tried to bring in light to this
mystery, to lighten up this riddle, the spiritual-scientific
spiritual-scientific worldview does not speak in the same sense
the ancestors of the modern human beings, spiritual science
From this chronicle, from the higher spiritual experiences the
information comes which spiritual science announces about the
that the spiritual-scientific worldview teaches us, even if the
rest of the past world. The spiritual-scientific view teaches
world, which the natural sciences know as well as spiritual
Africa. However, spiritual science has to portray the
human beings, which the spiritual researcher gives, is not so
is spiritually completely different. The Lemurian was much more
conducted by higher influence, by higher spiritual beings, this
spiritual researcher is not able to do this. He supposes that
the spiritual led the way of the material that the primal
spiritual that the external human body of the human being is an
expression of the human soul. What the spiritual researcher
spiritual science shows us that a being did not originate from
past spiritual-scientifically, you get quite different views.
— as spiritual science also calls it — Aryan human
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VII: The Core of Wisdom in the Religions
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the spiritual is portrayed in the religious scriptures. If we
supersensible, which forms as spiritual causes the basis of the
spiritual science today to renew and animate the consciousness
Spiritual science wants nothing else than to evoke the
spiritual science. Theosophy is not knowledge of other matters
being. Hence, theosophy or spiritual science does not come from
usual senses to a consideration of the spiritual from the
senses. In addition, the spiritual research looks only at that
spiritual research sites. We call this spiritual research site
all those who are in a spiritual relationship to these teachers
also go back to the spiritual primary source. They go back, to
observation by the means of spiritual research. You may call
this basis of all religions the “spiritual laboratory of
investigated in the spiritual sense in this laboratory of the
spiritual laboratory. They were introduced into the spiritual
spiritual laboratory, and it is possible that those who advance
researchers of the spiritual laboratory, that they get to know
becomes more and more comprehensive and spiritual, Jesus
himself. There we have the spiritual connection, and we see how
to the spiritual powers differently. He has lost the strength
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VIII: Fraternity and the Struggle for Existence
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spiritual-scientific movement know our first principle to
spiritual-scientific striving human being is convinced, and not
knowledge of the spiritual world must lead to fraternity if it
the spiritual-scientific worldview seems to contradict
material life, but also to some extent in the inner spiritual
possible. The spiritual-scientific worldview does not misjudge
spiritual life became more and more abstract. Morality and
From the 16th century on, we see the spiritual life developing
which higher spiritual beings delve themselves to work using
spiritual-scientific worldview, it is not only something
Hence, the spiritual scientist does not only speak of abstract
after the abstract state principle, the abstract, spiritual
brotherhoods again, namely out of the spiritual, out of the
spiritual-scientific worldview wants to train the highest goods
you see that the spiritual-scientific world movement replaces
spiritual-scientific worldview strives for replacing this
be implemented today as a spiritual-scientific principle in
What does spiritual science show to us? It shows a higher
Being tolerant means, something else in a spiritual-scientific
— considered from a spiritual worldview — something
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture IX: Inner Development
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someone who aims at the higher spiritual science, but only,
such isolation, of such spiritual loneliness. You have to
gives to itself. This is tightly connected with the spiritual
preconditions that are necessary to wake the higher spiritual
sensory world, to a higher spiritual light. Something is born
these higher spiritual powers in a certain way and have lost
model of spirituality in it. If you look at the heart, this
also by spiritual desires and wishes.
the morning, at a particular time, one must do a spiritual
again. These spiritual exercises must not be chosen
the spiritual life, which is hidden to the human being at
perception; this is something abstract, spiritual. Had the
human being no memory, he could not get any spiritual
he recognises gradually as manifestations of spiritual truths.
next stage of the spiritual life is that where we grasp truth
world, and change our spiritual state, we experience the
spiritual supersensible world perpetually if we have exercised
spiritual life in us. Then our dream life starts becoming
spiritual qualities of the beings round us perceptible.
spiritual science gives, he starts realising during sleep. The
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture X: Christmas as Symbol of the Sun's Victory
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these various autumn talks on the spiritual-scientific horizon
hearts if we link on Christmas from the spiritual-scientific
point of view. The spiritual-scientific view of life should not
recognise as the great festivals from the spiritual-scientific
of the spiritual-scientific talks to understand something that
feeling as a living expression of a spiritual experience, of an
naturalists believe. However, the spiritual part, the immortal
the higher human soul. Spiritual science calls this great
belonging to him. Only somebody who realises spiritually the
this relationship. Spiritual science calls the universal spirit
should regard them as external bodies of spiritual beings.
heavenly bodies are the bearers of spiritual beings.
human being also belongs to these spiritual beings. As well as
same spirituality, which rules on the sun and the moon is also
ancestors felt as spiritual children of the whole universe that
because the spirit of the sun caused our spiritual form. The
had climbed up so high on the ladder of spiritual knowledge had
in the anthroposophic spiritual science. If our thinking and
significance of spirit and spiritual life, where one tried to
lively spirituality. If we go back to the word of Goethe:
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XI: The Christian Teachings of Wisdom
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However, also a legitimate sense, a kind of spiritual coherence
wisdom from the point of view of a detailed spiritual
the anthroposophic spiritual science know that the second
principle of the spiritual-scientific movement is to search for
Europe in the future, it has to be deepened. If spiritual
speak in a new form. They are those to whom the spiritual
However, spiritual science has not only to speak to those. It
a deepening, a spiritualisation of the truthful teachings of
Christianity. The spiritual-scientific saying, nothing is
we would have the right way. Just the spiritual-scientific
Who penetrates only somewhat into a spiritual investigation of
expression of the spiritual, that the spiritual is the origin
reports, is only the expression of a supernatural spiritual
being who comes from other spiritual worlds into this sensuous
understood as a rise from this fall to a new spiritual height.
reverse Adam has a deep spiritual sense (1 Corinthians
— quasi descended from spiritual heights and embodied in
the first times. Now the high spiritual human being was
to lead the other human beings. Spiritual science calls such
abilities slumbering in the matter, the great spiritual culture
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XII: Reincarnation and Karma
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or spiritual-scientific approach to life, spreading out for
There are two spiritual-scientific concepts that should form
The spiritual-scientific worldview wants to answer the riddles
What the spiritual-scientific worldview wants to give has the
spiritual-scientific worldview is understandable for every
let me say first, in which sense the spiritual-scientific
the spiritual scientist, out of an entire misunderstanding:
believe you what you say about higher, spiritual worlds and
experience at first. — The spiritual scientist can
cannot be such proofs of the spiritual-scientific truth as one
character and the sense of the spiritual-scientific truth.
Life delivers the proofs of the spiritual-scientific truth and
teach us, but life in its entirety up to the highest spiritual
well, believe it, believe that the spiritual scientists are the
spiritual-scientific teachings. No one needs to believe them.
—, applies to the spiritual-scientific worldview today.
Some run literally wild by the spiritual-scientific truth as in
which I have stated now the spiritual-scientific worldview
spiritual-scientific worldview will have seized all
from a non-mental, a non-spiritual as the earthworm from mud.
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIII: Lucifer
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pointing us to the spiritual spheres of heaven.
In the sense of the theosophical or spiritual-scientific
if the slumbering deeper, spiritual forces are woken if the
spiritual eyes are opened.
theosophical or spiritual-scientific worldview has to bring a
on earth. We say in the spiritual-scientific worldview, in the
then a creative, a spiritualised and deified being.
go over to the spiritual powers, there is exactly the same
spiritual realms contribute, what do the gods do with the human
spiritual-scientific worldview that he has developed the
of love changes into the principle of spiritual love that
Christ originates from the sensuous Jehovah. This spiritualised
spiritualises life, which once law could only control.
spiritual love due to Christ. The law itself is warmed up by
as divine, being refined and spiritualised to the mental love,
face each other in such a way: the soul glows in spiritual
spiritual love with the principle of clearness and freedom.
spiritual-scientific striving. We have science given from
Spiritual science wants nothing else than such a deepening of
soul. Spiritual science should aim at this rebirth.
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIV: The Children of Lucifer
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spiritual life, even more, as deepening of our whole culture,
deeper inclined natures to look into true spiritual life once
spiritualised Christianity as theosophy, as a divine concept,
with the higher spiritual beings. Anybody who was initiated
being can bring himself to turn his look to the spiritual
beings. These spiritual beings avoid the sensuous eye, like all
spirituality and do no longer have any existence for the
of that big spiritual art which somebody had to go through who
such a spiritual person like Marguerita Albana. What does that
behold into the spiritual environment. What other human beings
from an ancient spiritual life. He did not go as far as
these words? He understood two spiritual currents by them.
spiritual life, which flows through the whole universe.
him in the true spiritual world, in the spiritual reality.
spiritual respect, this is the own work of the human being. The
transformed. Sensuousness changes into love. It spiritualises
the human being became productive spiritual-mentally because he
spiritual currents work on the human being, who stands in the
world as a creature of the god Dionysus. These spiritual
that not blind urge, but spiritualised, deified urge prevails
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XV: Germanic and Indian Secret Doctrines
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one. Theosophy or spiritual science does not want to implant a
the German spiritual life theosophical feeling and thinking
the East in such a peculiar, spiritual way will show us how
spiritual current wanted to force something completely strange
basic view of the theosophical or spiritual-scientific
higher spiritual members of his nature up into the realms of
his branches into the spiritual-divine world. As he developed
spiritually upwards, becoming more and more similar to the
higher spiritual beings. Therefore, we can also say, the human
know now that the spiritual-scientific worldview assumes not
more and more only thereby, can ascend to spiritual regions
returns again to the spiritual world and so on. These repeated
Someone, who searches spiritual-scientifically in the other
them in such a way that they have not a spiritual core as the
spiritual and a third member beyond the sphere of devachan,
beyond the sphere of the spiritual. Thus, you see that you can
which his soul was his uppermost being in which the spiritual
theosophical or spiritual-scientific worldview. However, at the
spiritual world. Thus, the principle forms the basis of every
spiritual beings ask questions he has to answer. He shows how
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVI: German Theosophists at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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spiritual-scientific movement with our academic leaders in
directions that a spiritual movement has a hard furrow to
spiritual-scientific one in such a way, as if it were
spiritual science. If one examines these judgements, it is
obtain access to the spiritual-scientific movement from the
all pre-schools of theosophy or spiritual science which one can
in the spiritual treasures of the West in the national culture,
is true, as deplorable as it may appear, the German spiritual
modern spiritual development. The most significant spirits of
spiritual substance of the people should be checked. Only that
our spiritual-scientific talks take in this winter. I will
life of thought impeded the access to the real spiritual world
we have seen it in the spiritual development of Germany very
spiritual life of the 18th century. However, Kant's philosophy
spiritual life. Indeed, I know very well that there are people
apparently right, however, it is wrong. The real spiritual
true spiritual researcher has ever denied that in such a way,
Therefore, Kant wanted to save all spiritual for the mere faith
we do it today from the spiritual-scientific point of view. He
hand, someone can be a spiritualist and be logically weak. One
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVII: Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods
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today to penetrate from the spiritual-scientific point of view
that theosophy or spiritual science has to say something about
to show how from the point of view of deepened spiritual
and spiritual worlds existed in the German prehistoric time and
vision into the spiritual world, to our usual everyday views,
once the human beings looked into the spiritual world that is
higher spiritual view. The gods are higher experiences, are
dream up to the highest astral-spiritual experiences of the
other spiritual surroundings, but it cannot perceive because it
beheld in the spiritual world, and the reflections of the
spiritual world are in the myths, are real experiences.
spiritual and mental beings that one finds recorded in the
into the spiritual-mental world which. However, died away in
spiritual light was immersed in darkness. This race about which
What is meant by this race for which the spiritual is dark and
into the spiritual world when one lived generally quite
them. A race that had still beheld into the spiritual world now
time the theosophical or spiritual-scientific movement says for
experience, and brings it back to the spiritual world where it
spiritual light did not shine.
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVIII: Parzival and Lohengrin
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core, about the spiritual contents of those great legends in
legends up and what lives in them. The old spiritual experience
originated. It was the old spiritual experience, which still
the spiritual perception in the middle of the Middle Ages.
of King Arthur as a community from which all spiritual strength
has remained. A spiritual sediment of this old Celtic time
clairvoyantly into the spiritual regions. Ideas of the
spiritual world remained from that.
divine-spiritual world. The stories and dramatic actions are an
lord of these sages who formed a spiritual centre, a kind of
spiritual monarchy. One felt that this spiritual centre, I
something in Europe that we call a Grand Lodge in spiritual
he himself beholds into the spiritual worlds, where the primal
It belongs just that to it which theosophy or spiritual science
Again, these are twelve, but Christian spiritual knights now.
spiritual knighthood of the heart, of the inner life, over
knighthood that moved to Wales with the spiritual knighthood in
spiritualised treasure of the Nibelungs, the treasure of the
He is a spiritual human being who attains admission to the
spiritual world bit by bit. The innermost human being is the
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIX: The Easter Festival
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spiritual significance of the world Saviour was associated with
mental-spiritual being with a physical being. The physical
mental-spiritual in future that lives still like sleeping in
much, much older than his senses. Spiritual research lets us
mental and spiritual perceptible. The initiates always called
this making perceptible of the spiritual-mental around us the
awakening, the resurrection, the spiritual rebirth that adds
the gifts of the spiritual senses to the gifts of the physical
leaders of humanity who knew how the higher spiritual life of
spiritual experience is added to the physical one. Then he is
ripe for the perception of the spiritual world. If all the
the spiritual is woken to life. Therefore, Dante let this
he felt the spiritual life rising in him. The Easter festival
Easter festival and the spiritual-scientific idea of karma. It
lot of the basic view of the spiritual-scientific thought see
correctly understood by spiritual science. A future
effect are connected in the spiritual life, this big
lives. Spiritual science also deepens this festival idea. The

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XX: Inner Development
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being penetrate up to the astral and spiritual worlds? —
of the spiritual world. We also recognise ourselves only
as rudiments existing organs of the spiritual life. There we
already spiritually, and he himself has prepared the organs for
rise to the astral and the spiritual worlds is connected for
knows nothing about these spiritual and astral forces concealed
Some spiritual movements want to divert the human being from
if it is raised a little above the spiritual world.
and spiritual forces and events surround you here. These
spiritual and mental worlds are there for someone whose
spiritual and mental eye is opened. The methods are available
to open the spiritual and mental eye of the human being
cannot yet see the physical world, the spiritual and mental
mental and spiritual will see it later. There the consideration
the spirit, he spiritualises his breath, his life air. With it,
own name in the spiritual world; he is even more individual in
and spiritual knowledge is given. If the own inside feels

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XXI: Paracelsus
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much still today. Just a movement of the spiritual
investigation of matters as spiritual science is particularly
respect such a deepening in the spiritual life, in particular
in the spiritual forces and beings that form the basis of
nature, and only the spiritual-scientific approach does this.
spiritual life.
classes only had the greatest say concerning the spiritual life
art of printing pointed the spiritual life to quite different
spiritual sense. He was a person who was aware of that which
was performed once in the realms of the spiritual life and how
of the spiritual life. He was also a theosophist, while he
wanted to use all that he knew for the welfare, the spiritual
of something spiritual, of the real builder of this external
spiritual-scientific talks, we have often spoken about this
spiritual research. If one uses sensuous expressions of that
which is considered for this spiritual research, like black,
spiritual view. The pupils of Galenus already understood by
nothing of the original spiritual view. There one could no
physical world, but also in the spiritual sun. What
distinguishes Paracelsus is the uniform sight in the spiritual.
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XXII: Jacob Boehme
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one knows the spiritual life of the 19th century exactly, in
particular that German spiritual life, which especially
spiritualisation of the human being was always symbolised by
What we find with Paracelsus faces us in a spiritualised and
works are an example of how little the ways of true spiritual
spiritual life by all possible powers.
to recognise that only a profound spiritual-scientific
another, more spiritual, finer nature as its basis. Something
spiritual and sensuous at the same time as Jacob Boehme's view
This tinctura exists in the human being as a spiritual-mental
original spiritual matter was for Jacob Boehme the acerbic, the
spiritual basis in the material fire as in the human passion.
related to the spiritual side of the fire.
the fifth original form of nature if it spiritualises itself.
everything that moves like the spiritual life blood through all
divine imagination imprinted the original spiritual human being
While this spiritual human being is there from the outset, he
shows how the spiritual human being already existed in the
original tinctura, how then, however, an entire spiritual
himself, started looking his own being. Spiritual-divine
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture I: The Mission of Occult Science in Our Time
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the spiritual in the worst sense of the word.
“spiritual” science. This has happened at every
single place with full care, although the spiritual science, as
than the saying that is from a higher spiritual point of view a
occult science. One says, occult science leads to spiritual
arrogance because the spiritual scientists claim that they can
a norm for all human beings. Against it, it is spiritual
the spiritual-scientific truths. We must get clear about the
innermost soul by the power that he develops in the spiritual
spiritual-scientific truths in our inside; any external can be
today who are able to behold in the spiritual world this
reasons. It is connected with the entire spiritual progress of
(the spiritual-scientific concepts are capitalised to
understand the spiritual-scientific truths after they have been
without clairvoyance, not without developing the spiritual eyes
behold in the spiritual worlds but have no science, no
spiritual eyes and ears. What existed in occult science has
knowledge but also practical handling of spiritual forces by
still much more hostile to the use of spiritual forces than to
the aspiration to penetrate by knowledge into the spiritual
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture II: Natural Science Facing a Crucial Decision
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your attention to the both basic conditions of spiritual
science or theosophy. I said that spiritual science rests on
touch with hands a spiritual, supersensible world of the facts,
become able to intervene in this spiritual world recognising
and on a higher stage even acting. Briefly, spiritual science
expresses its conviction that there is a spiritual world and
sides, spiritual science should be illumined in the course of
especially in order to get to know the results of spiritual
explanation of such matters as the relation of spiritual
spiritual-scientific subjects in the next talks that the
misunderstandings concerning spiritual science come just from
winter talks on spiritual science.
sciences to spiritual science as objectively as possible
that spiritual science does not dispute with the natural
the scientific field? Spiritual science is completely based on
spiritual worlds. However, with regard to the methodical
of a series of spiritual-scientific talks because this is not
offers a picture of the whole spiritual life of the last
much more important for spiritual science than discussions
of the spiritual world, oppose the religious feeling, while
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture III: The Knowledge of Soul and Spirit
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who deal with spiritual science it is especially annoying that
Spiritual science deals
I have held two weeks ago here, spiritual science has to show
spiritual science? It is only another form of the spirit. If
spiritual science speaks of matter, material, and body, it
say, then spiritual science denies the matter and corporeality
matter for spiritual science. Spiritual science stands on this
himself. Thus, spiritual science does not dream of denying the
spiritual researcher finds spirit, spiritual reality behind
nature of matter answer itself for the spiritual researcher?
Thus, every mineral is spirit to us in spiritual science. The
as we know them from the point of view of spiritual science.
At first spiritual
their own principles. Hence, spiritual science says, the
spiritual science speaking of an astral body. This is the third
based on spiritual science felt this too, and, therefore, said
human beings work in the spiritual development on improving
astral body. The human being who stands in spiritual science
submits himself to a spiritual-scientific training to transform
the spiritual-scientific training takes place on the highest
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture IV: Initiation
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spiritual science, we have already dealt with some unpopular
spiritual, higher worlds, the thought will also appear of
spiritual science that we have already touched in the first
spiritual science causes the opposition of all those people who
Spiritual science stands
inside, into the spiritual of the things. It complies with his
what I have said in the sense of spiritual science: the human
is elicited. In no other sense, we speak in spiritual science
perceive with spiritual abilities. In this logical sense, one
speaks in spiritual science of higher worlds.
to initiation concerning their intellect, their spiritual and
reality on the border between the physical and the spiritual
human beings lived concerning their soul, their spiritual
imprint of the spiritual says to himself that the human beings
higher worlds from the viewpoint of the spiritual research, but
the means and instructions how he can develop his spiritual
eyes and ears to be able to behold into this spiritual world as
concepts that one can find wholly spiritually, as those of
is a wonderful great achievement of the spiritual life of
are not able to understand how a spiritually constructed circle
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VI: The So-Called Dangers of Initiation
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spiritual science. At first one points in general to such
spiritual world surrounding him. However, he who generally
emphasised repeatedly that a spiritual world underlies our
spiritual-scientific or theosophical circle. People bring these
in spiritual science experience no bigger asceticism, no bigger
life in spiritual science does not mean wailing and whimpering
like a sort of a purifying thunderstorm in our spiritual
spiritual atmosphere? It is fulfilled with all possible
spiritual world, as if it only concerns fantasies.
the longing for something spiritual lives. To someone who
involved in the spiritual-scientific research, however,
spiritual-scientific truth. Does occult science bear the blame
However, spiritual
this way, the experience in the field of the spiritual life of
our contemporaries and the spiritual-scientific worldview. This
the spiritual scientific worldview with their worldview and
spiritual-scientific worldview! How much danger exists that the
spiritual-scientific striving.
Spiritual worlds are
has never moved up to spiritual science, and that who has moved
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VII: Man, Woman and Child
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Spiritual science shall not only satisfy
What spiritual science offers shall enable us to act and manage
history of our ancestors. Spiritual science acknowledges what
spiritual world. It exists an increase of lawfulness.
the spiritual. However, we have to ascend with our insights
human being in the sense of spiritual science. According to it,
spiritual science immediately intervene in the will, in the
together in love. In the end, spiritual science teaches this
is there already. Spiritual science is a right educator of this
spiritual beings create constructing the universe for ages and

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VIII: The Soul of the Animal in the Light of Spiritual Science
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The Soul of the Animal in the Light of Spiritual Science
Soul of the Animal in the Light of Spiritual Science
to see something in the animals that is mental-spiritual as
mental and spiritual qualities of the human being. However,
as a higher animal? Spiritual science only can answer to this
Spiritual science looks
sensuous world and goes up to spiritual basis of existence, it
in particular in the last one. Spiritual science would close
the sense of spiritual science, a soul as the human being has
tip at first to that which spiritual science indicates as a
peculiarity of the animal soul. In spiritual science, we regard
the single human being with the exception that spiritual
being who has only physical perception a spiritual world exists
in which spiritual beings are. When the spiritual organs of
inspires and spiritualises the body. One cannot find the animal
the physical world. However, when the spiritual eyes of the
discover the human being. The relation of the spiritual
lead to the group-soul. Wherever spiritual science existed, one
for the animal still in a spiritual world and which manifests
recognise just in such a thing again: the spiritual eyes, the
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XI: Occupation and Earnings
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superficial about spiritual science or theosophy find it fairly
superficially that spiritual science is something that lies far
this spiritual science, it is something for single people who
speculations as the spiritual-scientific ideas are.
of their hearts to spiritual science. Among them many a man
not regard theosophy or spiritual science only as an idle
will also hold the conviction strictly that this spiritual
not cursorily, but deeper into spiritual science, who not only
However, the task of theosophy or spiritual science is not only
contentment on the other side, and no human spiritual movement
spiritual movement like the theosophical one can state anything
earnings spiritual-scientifically. Then it becomes apparent
such an impractical spiritual movement, as the theosophical one
who stands on spiritual-scientific ground and believes that he
intimate, precise judgement of life. Spiritual science is
spiritual-scientific book where the physical world, the astral
world and even higher spiritual worlds are brought forward,
spiritual science as an abstraction, as a sermon of nice
worker in the factory. It is not the task of spiritual science
human beings to work from their spiritual work for the welfare
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XII: Sun, Moon and Stars
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The stars were to him the bodies of spiritual-divine beings,
solar system, at that time he saw mental-spiritual forces
spiritual forces from star to star.
in the not materialistic but spiritual experience of the world.
spiritual content of the space, and were not yet far advanced
behind everything, the sum of the spiritual beings who reveal
as the results of exact research of spiritual science can show
them. Spiritual science does not need to deny anything that
external expression of the spiritual beings.
Spiritual science looks
repulsion; it examines which spiritual forces correspond to
the living, of the spiritual, as the human being is the
this, one must think that the spiritual research recognises the
that which corresponds in the spiritual to these forces causing
sensuous observation of the things. Their spiritual prototype
is also a fact, which arises as a result to the exact spiritual
spiritual forces of vitality, which flow down to the earth.
stiffened heavenly body, not the formative spiritual force. In
protuberances, but not the body of a spiritual being, the
spiritual science stands completely different towards that. If
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XIII: Outset and End of the Earth
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spiritual science — if it understands itself correctly — to
spiritual-scientific point of view, also here again as with
into details than the spiritual researcher can justify in this
have to say from the spiritual-scientific point of view. There
spiritual science farther than, so to speak, up to the point
sciences and spiritual science now? One says repeatedly from
the natural sciences, spiritual science does not stand on
facts. They demand from the spiritual scientist that he should
gives no cause for quarrel between spiritual science and the
that which happens internal-spiritually and what the human
first. Someone who looks from the spiritual-scientific
number of members. Above all the spiritual science shows us
somebody who stands on the ground of spiritual science, of
disappear and would rise again in the morning. Spiritual
there. Spiritual science shows that the human astral body is
spiritual-scientific observation that world differs from the
spiritual world that is in our environment as the air is round
that there is no spirit in our surroundings, that no spiritual
facts, no spiritual beings are there. The astral body, the
bearer of desire and pain, is in this spiritual world at night.
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XIV: The Hell
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sense, above all in a spiritual sense: the ideas of bad and
development from the spiritual world. All the time we notice
of the human being to the higher spiritual worlds! Again, a
spiritual science, then we take the way up to attain a
relationship to it as the spiritual-scientific viewer looks at
the sight sharpened by spiritual science at this growing human
drew your attention to the fact that spiritual science has to
—, is the modern spiritual science today. The sentence, which
one denies today, is applied to the spiritual realm: the
spiritual can originate only from spiritual. — We cannot lead
spiritual as we lead life back to life. Then the spiritual
leads us back to a spiritual-mental. If we see this
spiritual-mental dressed, as it were, in those attributes
of inheritance that colours and shades the spiritual-mental
spiritual science. It is a matter of course for us that in the
bodies in which the spiritual germ appears the attributes of
plant from a former plant, from a spiritual-mental of
the line of inheritance, and this spiritual-mental germ
the spiritual scientist does not at all deny these things or
For spiritual science,
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XV: The Heaven
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the concept due to an absolutely right and suitable spiritual
want to be regarded as leading in the today's spiritual
our days, to spiritual phenomena much discussed in certain
concern was just to talk about the spiritual-scientific
thoroughly what spiritual science puts forth about these
thoroughly. The viewpoints of spiritual science concerning such
where you also find something about the relation between spiritual
that one calls “paradise,” a spiritual world.
saying: if spiritual science once spoke of that what these
fact is that the modern spiritual science is young and that its
at all of that, what the true spiritual science has to say
mind. However, this has to do nothing with that what spiritual
relationship to the spiritual to the physical. I have to say
spiritual-scientific attitude and turn to that what develops
picture which spiritual science can completely ascertain that
supersensible spiritual essence.
human being. We speak in spiritual science of the fact that
interim, between death and new birth, in a spiritual,
supersensible world. We have discussed a part of the spiritual,
spiritual science not anything that is far away and dreamt of,
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Title: Concerning the Nature of Pain, Suffering, Joy, and Bliss
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Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
to the spiritual worlds. Even as suppressed activity means privation in
which lustfully longs for the physical. In Devachan a spiritual
as it were, how spiritual science explains to us by the simplest things,
the smallest things which face us, in the way, in which spiritual science
explains it to us, we gradually rise to a spiritual height enabling

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 1
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in its spiritual aspect only if it is recognized that external events
the world. These deeper impulses can be difficult to discern and spiritual
in its own being and nature it belongs to the spiritual world. We already
experience the spiritual world, though not consciously, when we really
spiritual being.
explanation in the light of spiritual knowledge, we must make the following
that within thinking we are in a spiritual world.
spiritual world. Basically he asserts that man belongs to two worlds,
the physical and the spiritual and that the two are not in agreement.
it were, of the existence of a spiritual world. He does not express
So although his experience of the spiritual world is not of direct vision,
whole spiritual world into a single point within thinking; draw it together
so to speak from a spiritual world otherwise unknown to him. He put
he found proof that the spiritual world exists and that the physical
course of the 19th Century, had a premonition that something like spiritual
science must come. These thinkers were prevented from reaching spiritual
How does a man come to recognize the reality of the spiritual world
the spiritual within himself with such certainty? How does he come to
just in thinking but in the Spirit-Self within the spiritual world.
He will know himself to be a citizen of the spiritual world and it will
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 2
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that from spiritual knowledge there must flow into man's thinking, feeling
and willing the impulses needed at the present time. That spiritual
the fact that at every turn we encounter proof of the need for spiritual
When one works with spiritual
things are related spiritually; they therefore apply also to the spiritual
most elementary aspects of spiritual science. While that is unthinkable
there is at least the possibility that spiritual science, through its
it. On the other hand they look upon those who confess to spiritual-scientific
Virchow says about chemistry apply also to spiritual science, then they
nothing about spiritual science. But this is not said; the same honest
process, as described by spiritual science, with that described by natural
kingdom — how this is arrived at is a separate issue — spiritual
Spiritual science shows
can describe in detail. Thus spiritual science alone can give the human
from all aspects of spiritual reality with the consequence that so many
the world consists of atoms. How does this view compare with what spiritual
the moment the very first stage of spiritual perception has been attained.
of spiritual cognition shows that where force is supposed to be active
He must seek this harmony along a more spiritual path.
are the spiritual correlate suited to the West, of that for which the
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 3
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of spiritual science this aspect of mankind's evolution is directly
through the findings of spiritual science, but also through external
says that the Divine Spiritual Being, concerned with the guidance of
with spiritual beings in the cosmos, with the beings of the higher Hierarchies.
to whom we look up, when we turn to the spiritual world are the Angeloi.
enter. It has often been emphasized in our lectures that the spiritual
The spiritual world is literally everywhere about us and it is possible
to stifle man's consciousness of his connection with the spiritual world.
spiritual world nearest to us lies above our consciousness. Within this
Mystery of Golgotha, to attain a connection with the spiritual world
that the spiritual world flows towards him and again ebbs away as it
and other spiritual beings within the spiritual world forgot man, just
exceptional individuals have been able — through spiritual knowledge
a greater part of mankind, through spiritual science, must come to understand
itself be seen. Since the Mystery of Golgotha man must see the spiritual
the spiritual world. This is why the Mystery of Golgotha is veiled in
records in the usual sense. We would become spiritually ill in the course
enables man to perceive spiritually. This is a secret connected with
clairvoyance, that Christ was there above in the spiritual world and
how these things, which I am now explaining in the light of spiritual
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 4
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engendered by knowledge which we seek through spiritual science—we
may find through this event also our own relation to the spiritual world.
him, for the bonds that bind us together are spiritual and cannot be
who has gone into the spiritual world with all his incomparable and
spirituality of his own will, his own feelings and by his striving for
spiritual insight. While his father's great influence held sway in the
blood so was there something in Herman Joachim's spiritual makeup which
the spiritual world.
moments the secrets of the spiritual world reveal themselves with particular
his innermost soul to the spiritual powers which live and weave through
between responsible human souls and those Divine-spiritual powers whose
to himself the question: How do I unite with the world-guiding spiritual
for me to think of myself as a responsible link in the world's spiritual
when man's relation to the spiritual world becomes manifest to him.
of his trust in the spiritual guidance of the world he was full of hope
those who accept spiritual science in a completely matter-of-fact way
protects them from superficial surrender to anything of a spiritualistic
towards great ideals, towards powerful, effective ideas of spiritual
spiritual science effective. As a member of the Freemasons he had looked
all he could to bring the life of spiritual knowledge into masonic formalism.
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the many-sidedness of a spiritual reality. All we can hope is that we
more feeling for spiritual knowledge, more people concerned themselves
was engendered by a surplus of spiritual life over man's organic life.
of spiritual life which was not altogether extinguished when, on waking,
he returned to the body. This surplus of spiritual life expressed itself
Slowly and gradually man lost the spiritual world from his consciousness.
Whereas formerly everyone was able to experience the spiritual world
with the spiritual world. Eventually humanity would no longer be able
hovered above them in the spiritual world. Only those souls who, in
their bodies from above. Consciousness of the spiritual world would
possible only because a Being from the spiritual world, the Christ Being,
earthly power, proves a weakling when faced with spiritual power. He
today, they are revealed to contemplation of the spiritual world; making
Christ. This is a phenomenon which spiritual science must emphasize
spiritual-scientific thoughts. A certain power of soul must be called
rebels and causes instability. The aim of spiritual science is to make
is on the one hand a need to understand the spiritual world and on the
interest in spiritual science have the task to recognize the spiritual
but in a spurious form while genuine spiritual science is not approached.
spiritual striving. Someone the writer knew well told him — the
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in our time that the reality of spiritual life is not confused with
spiritual influences are not at hand, that the spirit is not present
spiritual. They are everywhere in evidence and, the way they manifest,
at people's attitude to the spirit, at the way they react when spiritual
the attitude of a great many people today in regard to spiritual matters
embarrassed by talking about things of a spiritual nature. When one
often than not things are done because of some spiritual influence,
than is imagined takes place under the influence of spiritual powers
and impulses which flow into the physical world from the spiritual world.
People's theoretical rejection of spirituality, based on present-day
outlook, does not alter the fact that significant spiritual impulses
an influx of spiritual impulses throughout mankind's evolution and one
differently when there was more awareness of the existence of a spiritual
to convey to the world certain facts concerning spiritual matters, the
communications from the spiritual world. Such communications are all
especially at present, that those who are initiated into spiritual matters
take place about spiritual matters. When it is difficult, as it usually
plane and the spiritual world, in which the dead are living, was so
but also among certain beings in the spiritual world. There are spirits
all kinds of spiritual facts by such means. They listen to what is being
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When spiritual science investigates
especially to the human soul. The view obtained through spiritual knowledge
from spiritual realms enter their consciousness. I described some instances
between what people could still experience directly from the spiritual
in spiritual experiences was not strong enough to grasp the situation
was subdued, spiritual beings did still enter into man's will, into
into the spiritual world and is conversant with the nature of what is
man's relationship to the spiritual world. Naturally it can cause clashes
of views when an initiate, from his knowledge of the spiritual world,
he was in contact with the spiritual world. It must be realized that
of the inner presence of the spiritual world in human consciousness
even Henry More was not altogether clear that he had communed with spiritual
Thus he could not bring his experience of meeting spiritual beings into
there for man, but man is equally, in the adjoining spiritual world,
even 17th centuries people appear who know of the spiritual world through
knew most about man's connection with the spiritual world had been on
their communion with the spiritual world these individuals derived an
what is in the process of decline. Spiritual knowledge is needed to
very spiritual concepts and ideas concerning Christianity and the Bible
strange today because they originated from spiritual experiences. To
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the point of view of spiritual science rather than that of religion.
when considering Luther in the light of spiritual science is the enormous
i.e., the 16th century; which according to the spiritual-scientific
still had a direct relationship with the spiritual world through the
he would generally speaking still perceive elemental spirituality. It
was then in its dawn, it drew a veil as it were over the spiritual world
it neither historical nor substantiated by records. However, spiritual
epoch, man's former connection with the spiritual world has grown dim.
epoch of materialism, would be deprived of contact with the spiritual
from the spiritual world, as he is bound to forget what he formerly
one hand looking back at the way man was related to the spirituality
to the cosmos which separates him from its spiritual reality. Thus Luther
his connection with spiritual reality. What we designate as Imagination
pictorial and audible revelations from the spiritual world. Everyone
was aware that a divine spiritual-world lived in his soul. Man felt
epoch man is subjected to a test and his communion with the spiritual
with great exactitude. But he no longer has vision of the spiritual
world; no longer is there a path leading from the soul to the spiritual
knowledge and religious feelings concerning the spiritual world were
not abstract; the spiritual world was not closed to him. He had a living
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people fail to become aware that only spiritual knowledge can throw
them in the light of spiritual science. Anyone with a feeling for reality
between man's intellectual and moral development in the light of spiritual
from the spiritual world during sleep and bestows upon them on waking.
the realm of spiritual experience. Anyone who will really think can
penetrate to spiritual reality. Our age that prides itself in its thinking
for interest in the spiritual world must take hold of man if morality
become able actually to behold the spiritual forces and impulses that
becomes capable of functioning in the spiritual world. This means that
in his thinking he experiences the spiritual world as a reality. This
this one must be in contact with spiritual reality, which however creates
fit to present to spiritual worlds; it illustrates the kind of mistaken
to his folk. We know from spiritual science that freedom is a concept
ideas that could, in the sense of spiritual science, throw some light
moral ideas they exist entirely in the spiritual world, for they arise
does not indicate moral or spiritual ideas; it indicates rather no advance
to form mental pictures of spiritual reality. Plenty of phrases are
derived from spiritual insight. You may ask how it then comes about
pictures, derived from spiritual knowledge. Naturally, these ideas are
human morality seen in the light of spiritual knowledge. It is easy
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the spiritual world, of which we have often spoken. We
spiritual world which existed in ancient times than one
definite connection with the spiritual world. Those who o
souls are still connected with the spiritual world,
best into the spiritual world. To the modern man the
the spiritual world, at the time when nature has died
away the most it is connected with the spiritual world
spiritual world, — Olaf Oesteson. What he goes
serpent. To one who can look spiritually into the world,
spiritually in space. Then the world of Kamaloca is
year, there are spiritual facts taking place, how in the
awakens, we see that spiritually this is connected with a
of the spiritual nature of the earth. When about
the time when the spiritual part of the earth is most
Spirit of the Earth, with what lives spiritually in the
occultists is a fact, namely that the spiritual solstice
that is spiritual. Therefore to one who wishes to

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture I
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birth — that is to say, into the spiritual life — we can
inner certainty that the real soul-spiritual kernel of being within
observation by means of Spiritual Science, discloses, as a rule, the
willed, as their habits of thought are remote from spiritual truths.
The question might here be asked: Why, then, does spiritual truth
spiritual faculties does not depend upon man, but upon the whole
these people, whether their pursuits are spiritual or material, will
spiritual world, thoughts such as we now form between birth and death

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture II
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Philosophy of Spiritual Activity)
spiritual world have brought it about that at the moment when you
take us into the spiritual world proceed from spiritual facts which
of recognition, through which he can enter the spiritual
relation of our soul-life to the spiritual worlds. Anthroposophical
Spiritual Science should be for us not merely a theoretical
merely know, “There is a spiritual world to which man
“I have my place in the spiritual world, a definite
spiritual world — that is the essential point to which we are
sense men try to establish that the world may have a spiritual
sense, but may have a spiritual element within him. Our particular
individual: “This is your special connection with the spiritual

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entirely new knowledge, which must be received into the spiritual
when, in reality, there is the strongest urge towards the spiritual life.
thirst and hunger for spiritual nourishment and—whatever the
Spiritual Powers who have dedicated themselves to the goals of
right and natural spiritual impulse. It may be asked: “Who are
urge to hear about spiritual things.” This urge has nothing
something that is similar to all the great spiritual truths that have
could look up with faith to one who penetrates into a spiritual world
spiritual life after death is entirely separate from earthly
given by those with spiritualistic leanings, when the dead are
that other world, however, is ruled over by spiritual Powers of some
to light by spiritual-scientific investigation. These facts can, of
to certain others through blood-relationship? Spiritual-scientific
Spiritual-scientific investigation shows that speculative assumptions
the unbiased investigations of Spiritual Science, our whole relation
means an essential feature of modern Spiritual Science. A great deal
connected with Spiritual Science are by no means the more profound.
spiritual development of the present age . . .

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 1: Zarathustra
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Turning Points Spiritual History
process — collected them under the title, Turning Points in Spiritual
SPIRITUAL HISTORY
Spiritual Science and to which your attention has been drawn in
Spiritual Science, we find therein a progressive purport, a
dawns a true comprehension of those Great Spiritual Beings who
many such Spiritual Beings who have acted as guides to mankind,
teachings of Spiritual Science that during man’s
Spiritual Science, in its statements and theories, fully concurs
definite in their manifestation of a spirit life and of spiritual
belonging to a different region — a spiritual realm — related
spiritual realms became ever less and less pronounced. Our
a spiritual realm, where he lived in the soul, and that when he
the spiritual elements of truth, wisdom and perception, far
upon whom spiritual blessings flowed in quite a different manner.
deepening of all values of our spiritual feelings, conceptions
creep more and more into ourselves, so that our spiritual powers
strengthen our spiritual forces that we shall be aware of that
which is properly called ‘The Method of "Spiritual
Science"‘. All great spiritual personalities have followed
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 2: Hermes
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Turning Points Spiritual History
process — collected them under the title, Turning Points in Spiritual
It is of great importance to Spiritual Science to
ancient Egyptian culture and spiritual life is of especial
age‘, when the methods of Spiritual Science are employed in
centres of culture, when we accept that knowledge which Spiritual
spiritual realities, which underlie all physical perceptual
thought, but with an understanding of the creation and spiritual
religious systems a tone of spiritual reality, from which they
ever less and less of spiritual force, until towards the end,
Spiritual Science regarding the allotted task and true purpose of
mysteries of the Spirit-World. [Spiritual Science asserts that it
through this gift man was enabled to behold the spiritual realms.
discern a lower spiritual realm — we know therefore that it is
the inferior spiritual levels, nevertheless they felt and divined
regarding certain laws which govern spiritual life, and are set
the custom of the sciences of to-day outside of Spiritual Science
the perceptual world. It is the spiritual interrelation of these
spiritual essence in all mankind which did not emanate from that
spiritual condition, and it is from this primordial condition
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 3: Buddha
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Turning Points Spiritual History
process — collected them under the title, Turning Points in Spiritual
its comprehension has only recently entered into the spiritual
in Eastern spiritual conceptions has steadily increased. Hence it
spiritual thought that principle which operates in the direction
Western spiritual life, we learn that the idea of repeated
spiritual development we find ourselves confronted with a
that the idea of reincarnation, both with regard to Spiritual
spiritual investigation. Hence, to associate Buddhism so directly
Buddhism, then we must turn our spiritual eyes in quite another
however, we look back with the aid of Spiritual Science to
spiritual nature emanated from that same hidden Spirit-World
decadence from a primarily highly clairvoyant spiritual state
Spiritual Science as a result of its investigations. Here, as in
complete accord between spiritual and external science. Further,
a time will come when the conclusions which Spiritual Science has
beings in by-gone ages; and this spiritual component we must now
spiritual gift which had passed away, and was indeed
there arose a spiritual life which is entirely comprehensible,
things, to regain his union with that spiritual region from
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 4: Moses
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Turning Points Spiritual History
process — collected them under the title, Turning Points in Spiritual
great spiritual characters of by-gone times, who have helped to
his name, which yet continue to affect the spiritual content of
That movement towards true spiritual development,
which we have termed Spiritual Science, is chiefly concerned with
Spiritual Science has to say regarding the peculiar nature of
the Bible through the medium of Spiritual Science, that we
methods of Spiritual Science and thus enter gradually and
become immersed in the study of Spiritual Science, the greater is
insight, born of Spiritual Science, which would have enabled him
observed, and which were truly of the spiritual realms,
externally, and without the aid of Spiritual Science?’ we
dream world. He did not advance so far as the study of Spiritual
from the stand-point of Spiritual Science when we realize that
his contact with the lofty and eternal course of spiritual
capacity of apprehension to the higher level of the spiritual
ordinary spiritual narrative, would at once realize from the very
man may gain true understanding of those grand spiritual heights
specific and divine spiritual beings. This concept may be
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 5: Elijah
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Turning Points Spiritual History
Elijah in the Light of Spiritual Science
process — collected them under the title, Turning Points in Spiritual
THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
most resplendent stars in the firmament of man’s spiritual
consider Elijah from the stand-point of Spiritual Science. Viewed
to our spiritual vision, we need only recall the fact that
Spiritual Science weighs and regards such matters and, in virtue
statements that are the result of the investigations of Spiritual
are revealed by the researches of Spiritual Science, which
years of experience with the methods of Spiritual Science have
What now has Spiritual Science to say concerning
that ancient clairvoyant gift which was in general a spiritual
still a belief in One God — in One Great Spiritual Being in the
prophet Elijah [and, as will be seen later, his spiritual force
Such [great spiritual] personalities [as Elijah]
though, because of their limited spiritual vision, they were
such advanced spiritual beings as are found among outstanding
All truly exalted spiritual personalities, such
great spiritual personality might be found. But the true
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 6: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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Turning Points Spiritual History
process — collected them under the title, Turning Points in Spiritual
only a slight study of spiritual life, that the subject chosen
find the conclusions arrived at through the medium of Spiritual
Science, which traces man’s origin back to spiritual forms,
in connection with a certain trend of ideas and spiritual
spiritual wisdom claimed by the Gnostics], that grand and mighty
understood, because Spiritual Science would seek to cloak those
development in the field of Spiritual Science, are wholly
various events and conditions which are met with in spiritual
In many ways the concepts of the Spiritual
should at least touch upon these old spiritual conceptions. There
olden spiritual trend of thought, and we will draw attention to
the teachings of Spiritual Science in our time. During the first
with the dawn of Christianity. This higher spiritual wisdom
floated or hovered, as it were, entirely in spiritual heights and
spiritual state, gradually changed into that of a lower and
beginning has been traced to external animal forms. Spiritual
finally points definitely to a spiritual origin.
spiritual life and spiritual reality. If we understand this
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Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture IX
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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
able to descend from the spiritual world (for since the
had been in the spiritual world), and permeated the soul
is steeped in materialism. And everything that Spiritual
impulse of spirituality to counteract the steadily
while they assert their belief in this or that spiritual
spiritual world in words and theories. Mere words are of
whole soul in the current of spiritual life. It can be
ask the spiritual world — to which we
to understand the difference between facing the spiritual
against the mysteries of the spiritual life we must
the mystery of the connection between the spiritual world
remain shut off from the spiritual world if it does not
ask concerning the spiritual world, if it lacks
spiritual conception of the world that is made known in
above all is important — that the spiritual
world, because it is not for spiritual science to mingle
spiritual conception of the world.

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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
spiritual-scientific investigation, we may be able to
of the spiritual life from which John the Baptist had
(Lecture-Course XXXI. Christ and the Spiritual
God of the Earth, conceives the this Divine-Spiritual
lightening and asked: How are the Divine-Spiritual Beings
spiritual-scientific teachings were present in ancient
clairvoyantly into the spiritual worlds. He says that
there is in him a man who can look into the spiritual
Christ while He was still in the spiritual
into the spiritual Aura of the Earth. After those who
descendants. But if man had not derived spiritual power
words were written by a profoundly spiritual man. By whom
Spiritual Science. The question indicated at the
Who quickens us spiritually — to the Christ! When

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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
Golgotha. Spiritual Science conceives the Mystery of
spiritual worlds, not on the physical plane. We
others were Events in the spiritual world, as it were in
his previous existence had been spent in the spiritual
kept back in the spiritual worlds and incarnated for the
spiritual worlds. And only the Initiates in the ancient
Mysteries who were able to see into the spiritual worlds
in the spiritual worlds. In order to understand the
spiritual worlds during the epoch of ancient Lemuria in
that time with a being still living in the spiritual
say that in the spiritual world, during the Lemurian
was present in the spiritual worlds a Being of
this Being radiated His light from the spiritual worlds
three Events all worked upon man from the spiritual
cases, spiritual knowledge leads us to a much deeper
of the Divine Spiritual Beings who in the Atlantean epoch
been by great and momentous happenings in the spiritual
being passes into the spiritual world through the Gate of
of one who enters the spiritual world through death. He
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of the great sufferings of our time in our prevailing spiritual condition.
only when we remember what we know through spiritual science. Christmas
us in spiritual science, it includes much that is spiritual. As we have
what connects us to nature even when we are spiritually separated from
the spiritual world. The etheric body, though also spirit, remains bound
life and take in what is spiritual by means of it, and therefore we
sleep and enter the spiritual world — the world from which the
divine spiritual Being descended who experienced death in the person
the spiritual was more alive than it is in ours, then what I have just
with elemental nature and with the nature that brings spiritual and
that we bear a spiritual element in our astral and etheric bodies. But
again when people decide to work at understanding such spiritual things.
we bear another spiritual element in us — the I. We know how complex
body symbolizes what brings death and is connected with the higher spiritual
our renewed life in the spiritual world, which is neither nature nor
when the earth is frozen, we withdraw into ourselves and seek the spiritual
in a beautiful way to what is above the stars: the universal spiritual
being when he or she receives the spark of spiritual life from all the
spiritual science should increasingly feel this necessity of our times
to renew our spiritual life and to rise above materialism. We will overcome
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the spiritual. But the essential question is always how a
particular material phenomenon manifests the spiritual. The generalization
that all matter is a manifestation of the spiritual really says nothing
material phenomena manifest the spiritual.
to examine how our physical being reveals the spiritual. If you study
but look at the question from the point of view of spiritual science
and the nerve substance in the light of spiritual science, you will
it is true in a spiritual sense regardless of any paradox — that
through spiritual science takes on a deeply serious character. For we
not condensing spiritual science into an abstract theory but keeping
in any other science. Spiritual science shows you that our nerve substance
Now you can see in spiritual and physiological
of the spiritual in matter.
spiritual element woolly-headed pantheists speak of so glibly, but of
is a manifestation of the spiritual really does not say very much. We
being manifests the spiritual. The findings of conventional science
with spiritual understanding. Spiritual understanding can penetrate
such a spiritual understanding of the world. Last time I mentioned Hermann
Bahr as an example of a man who had always been striving for the spiritual
but was not able to make even the most elementary approach to the spiritual
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not trying to integrate spiritual science into contemporary culture
times. There will not be a lasting future if the substance of this spiritual
yet found the bridge to the life of the spirit we seek in spiritual
little other people speak about the spiritual side of his life; in fact,
who are still distant from our spiritual science.
our spiritual science as we have been able to give him. Now souls are
entering the spiritual world bearing within them what they have received
from spiritual science. What spiritual science strives for has united
to explore with the help of our spiritual science. And the souls now
many years through our spiritual science into the spiritual world, where
an age when the occult knowledge from the spiritual world must be given
As you know, I like to call our spiritual
for us because they will then be spiritualized. At the same time, the
sense of touch becomes completely spiritual. What is now subconscious
of balance and movement, will then become spiritualized and play the
We feel that we are touched by spiritual beings everywhere, while in
the spiritual world through death. What is contained in the word Boaz
them by means of spiritual knowledge. In the symbolic brotherhoods,
life for it is the transition from the spiritual to the body; nor is
find it in the exclusive search for the spiritual in the outer world.
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 4: The Human Organism Through the Incarnations
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the years about spiritual science. One of the most elementary facts
mythological figure, we can say, based on spiritual science, that this
of the development of our higher, spiritual elements, namely, the etheric
of what is coming up out of the organism is still there. What spiritual
spiritual science, but he must feel as he creates a Venus that her astral
body that gradually consumes it. And here the spiritual scientist is
age. When an artist achieves such a creation, spiritual scientists will
spiritual reality.
one who is not a spiritual scientist, when he sees such a figure created
physical body by means of the etheric body. You see, spiritual science
by spiritual science is never enough to elucidate life. However, all
things are illuminated when we approach them with the help of spiritual
approach of spiritual science. Remember the public lecture I gave in
need to be supplemented by spiritual science.
that conventional science must be complemented by spiritual science.
every turn be illuminated by the insights of spiritual science. Nowadays
work on the soul when they are seen in the light of spiritual science.
a parallel spiritual development that descends from the perfect state
in the spiritual world down to human beings adapting themselves more
the point of view of spiritual science. And when you compare Asian and
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 5: Balance in Life
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thinking, and beliefs of our times that resist and oppose spiritual
science as we understand it. We believe this spiritual science must
the outlook of spiritual science as well as to the whole impulse or
spiritual science become merely empty words. We have to warn particularly
against approaching the ideas of spiritual science — in many respects
prevailing there. However, when we arrive at the spiritual scientific
tries to understand our inner, spiritual evolution on the basis of symptoms,
course of human history depending on whether the spiritual revealed
all kinds of facts with the intention to speak about the true spiritual
but don't connect it with the spiritual. Or people may go into homes
but a shadow of what works and weaves in the spiritual world. How vividly
by the eternal powers. We can perceive the spiritual world only when
can least experience. That is why spiritual science is so difficult
and the revelation of the spiritual in various events. That is what
same on the cultural and spiritual level as stimulating the life process
cultural and spiritual realm, to use words to get to any truths about
from looking at the spiritual, from realizing that spirit reigns and
the world, are losing all connection with the spiritual. For just talking
about the spiritual does not bring it to us. A gesture pointing to a
But what will become of our world if it loses all contact with the spiritual,
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 6: The Feeling For Truth
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some things connected with the way we think and feel in our spiritual
spiritual science has to enter the culture of our times and bring something
form. Spiritual science seeks to connect the human being with the great
of spiritual science will be understood in the true sense of the word
if we want to advance in this sphere of a spiritual world view, one
in every sort of way to live himself into spiritual spheres. He was
me, stopped, and began a conversation about all sorts of things spiritual
the depths of spiritual understanding, we must not forget how to laugh.
this sense of humor, particularly in our spiritual movement. Caricatures
of the striving for the spirit love to cling to such spiritual movements.
said to sail under the colors of spiritual striving or, shall we say,
of membership in a movement that has taken on spiritual striving!
our spiritual movement in the world. Basically, there was nothing to
however, even in matters of inner, spiritual significance people in
for it with the caricatures accompanying the striving for the spiritual.
about spiritual science — not of spiritual science itself, which,
so many of our talks, namely, spiritual science as it permeates us should
from the rest of life. On the contrary, spiritual science should give
reality surrounding us. This is how it must be for the sake of spiritual
end. Spiritual science is to heal what is sick in our cultural and spiritual
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 7: Toward Imagination
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Based on the insights to be gained from spiritual
between this higher spiritual reality and that of everyday life.
use many different analogies to show the relationship between spiritual
to understand each part in its relation to the spiritual world. Remember,
the ears. It is indeed true that we study these parts for their spiritual
is completely unable to arrive at the idea that the spiritual underlies
conventional science will not lead to an understanding of spiritual
again as it was in earlier cultural epochs when a spiritual world view
that everything they had to know about the spiritual content of the
world was based on the spiritual taking hold of the soul. That is why
traditions of spiritual science, will make the matter completely clear
to you if you think it through. In spiritual science we speak of an
by describing the shape of the letters, but because something spiritual
is conveyed to us, and we are mentally and spiritually stimulated to
that what is spiritual in the world was called “The Word,”
for the world has to be read if it is to be understood spiritually.
by receiving spiritual impulses.
lead the way into the spiritual. As soon as images are crammed into
the physical world but has no meaning in the spiritual world. There
That is why it is so much easier to speak about the spiritual world
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Title: Jacob Boehme
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Results of Spiritual Investigation, published in German as, Ergebnisse
Results of Spiritual Investigation,
the point of time in modern spiritual evolution when we see the
struggled in solitude, whereas elsewhere in the spiritual life
fact that we are dealing with a deeply significant spiritual
understand every personality that appears in the spiritual life
to explain his corresponding spiritual life. It is not possible
the spiritual life of his time.
Boehme we have to do with a kind of spiritual meteor. All that
Boehme was able to soar up to his high spiritual standpoint. In
kingdom of joy, into a kingdom of spiritual reality, but that
spiritual nature of Jacob Boehme, it must be said that for
first stage of a higher spiritual life, as the stage of
like that which modern spiritual-science proclaims as its
into a spiritual world, into a “kingdom of joy.”
consciousness — in fact, of all spiritual
the whole nature of spiritual consciousness in general.
placed other spiritual beings opposite Himself. These were,
other circumstances, spend in spiritual things he had to spend
simplest spiritual culture on Central European soil. We find
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constituted; it was particularly receptive for spiritual currents
be free from every doubt. The things pertaining to the spiritual world
messenger of the super-sensible world. The depths of the spiritual
over their kingdoms and provided at the same time the spiritual
period which was still connected with the ancient spiritual culture.
Germanic spiritual civilisation and the initiates who work in an
soul with a spiritual rhythm. What we experience and what we

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overcome it, to overcome sense-life through spiritual life. Desire

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture IV
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A new spiritual
who were imbued with spiritual life lived something which the initiated
is filled with the spiritual life which the crusaders brought back from
had been overcome; love was to rise again spiritually, linked up with
when love began to take on a spiritual form, people sought to throw a
felt it just as clearly as if he had known spiritual science.
civilisations. We have one great spiritual stream coming from the South,
spiritual current of air. Wolfram von Eschenbach was entirely under
the influence of this spiritual current.
A spiritual
spiritual centre, and at the same time as an outpost of the future.
the great masses of European people, whose spiritual life remains hidden
of the coming spiritual movement. If we grasp this, we shall be able to
primordial force of the Aryan race. Some of the strong spiritual
caste. The lower castes are excluded, but a high spiritual standpoint
spiritual knowledge. Everything man doer, in the way of cruelty or of
destruction of life takes away from him the pure spiritual forces.
A powerful spiritual direction made him feel that something new must
upon it they acquired new spiritual strength.
in the power of a spirituality which rises above sensual life into
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Spiritual Cosmology
Spiritual Cosmology
biographer who will try to explain the inner spiritual aspects of the
we call the poet's biography — the soul-spiritual aspect. So we
scientific and the soul-spiritual coexist and each be relevant in its
to them. Alongside this, however, the soul-spiritual way of looking at
information about the soul-spiritual aspects goes so far back that no
began. It is not possible to discover how the spiritual leaders came
A long spiritual development in Europe had brought the European brain,
the world knows about spiritual matters today. The oriental wise men
him, but also a spiritual power that acts.
way. In the past spiritual communications had to be imparted in secret
Today we must combine spirituality with the force of thinking, by
which we kindle the thoughts so they live. The spiritual speaker
He speaks so that a kind of spiritual fluid, a spiritual force flows

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So you see, people like these with their true spiritual world
nucleus of being, this true Self, is spiritual in nature. It isn't
about the Devachan [spiritual world-tr.], and you will find an exact
evolution, the spiritual Self needs a physical brain. We could
perceive with this spiritual Self in the astral world and in the
contemporary human being is a spiritual Self embodied in a physical
it isn't eternal as is the spiritual Self. We can follow the spiritual
future. From a certain point in time this spiritual Self clothed
the human being with his spiritual Self received such an organ with
the point in which a brain can serve a spiritual Self.
He whose spiritual vision has been sufficiently trained will have the
spiritual Self had reached a certain stage in its evolution. Every one
evolution began, and to all the spiritual Selfs that are incarnated
the spiritual Self was when it entered into earthly evolution. Our
spiritual Self had a completely different consciousness when it stood
see them as a panorama. Every individual spiritual Self had such a
in which the spiritual Self was immersed at the start of earthly
level is not the same. The task our spiritual Self is to perform
had to clothe his spiritual Self with a physical body. That took a
— his spiritual Self — needed a long time to clothe himself
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Consider that the plaster is spiritual and only perceptible for
hollow form, swimming in a great, mighty sea of the highest spiritual
the highly developed seer who can consciously move in the spiritual
in space, a purely spiritual sphere in which only the spiritual is
such a spiritual state. When it awakens from the Pralaya sleep, it
does so as such a sphere. The spiritual seer perceives it in a
densification. The spiritual sphere — seen only by the seer's
Round, also only visible to the spiritual seer. Thereafter another
higher, spiritual nature. There were no chemical elements involved.
spiritual beings were active: those we call “Dhyani Chohans”
who had a partially spiritual body, and who flowed through the fiery
The second Round began in the same spiritual way. “Ether” is
the second Round. Then all flowed away; the astral and spiritual
Round to which we belong today. The Earth passed through the spiritual
spiritual and a more physical materiality, comparable to the North and
pitris or sun pitris. They had reached a higher spirituality, but
spiritually highly developed humanity arose. The sagas and myths
a lower spiritual condition. The solar Pitris could only take on
consciousness and spirituality. A particular result of the evolution
you consider the spiritual stages, as Theosophy describes them, then
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the Gospels and other spiritual documents of humanity would not
in a sense to be read as though registered in a delicate spiritual
Spiritual Science bring up such primeval subjects for discussion at
of spiritual development to support such a vision. It is indeed a
into the spiritual worlds without the Gospels through a genuine true
Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy. This is also possible. (You know
spiritual world directly through his own impressions. This is what we
immersed as a spiritual being, feeling one with the Christ-Being,
to us as Archai in the hierarchy of spiritual beings. In the
that what is at the spiritual foundation of our life is present,

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being; and we have seen that spiritual achievements formed in truth
the spiritual deeds then existing. We have said that the Spirits of
underlying it something of a soul-spiritual nature which is behind
through something of a spiritual psychic nature which we may
science, such as that set forth in Spiritual Science; I will not
meet us from the spiritual world. If we wish to describe what thus
into matter (besides everything else), this is the spiritual being of
conceived in a more spiritual sense, what we have previously considered
the earth, we can then go still more deeply into the actual spiritual
warmth-giving bliss, of the radiant light, spiritually grasped,
lecture it will be our task to study the Christ-Being in the spiritual
nature of the Sun, in order to pass on from that to the spiritual nature

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something spiritual is to be sought. We endeavoured to describe the
spiritual to be found behind the phenomenon of heat, and then that
had to glance into our own soul-life to describe the spiritual
quite definite conceptions. As we have seen, the spiritual conditions
bestowal,” the devotional pouring forth by spiritual Beings of
from maya to the incorporeal, the spiritual, do we obtain the correct
spiritual world — do not, strange to say, now depend upon the
But in the spiritual world this is not so, there the opposite comes
renouncing. Take the very smallest purely spiritual facts. We do not
attain any spiritual effects by bringing strong desires into play, or
spiritual world we attain certain results by controlling our wishes
world by means of inner spiritual workings. To do this he would have
strength thereby, so, in the spiritual world, when we wish to attain
The greatest spiritual, magical effects, always require preparation
for spiritual activities intended to lead to spiritual effects in the
spiritual self-indulgence, for a person may practise it in order to
intrinsically Spiritual cloud-formations is seen to take place
Spiritual Beings, that they resigned the sacrifice and all that might
would not be in the world at all were it not that its spiritual
resignation. We thus acquire a peculiar kind of spiritual insight

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discover to some extent the spiritual behind the phenomena of the
revealing little of the fact that the spiritual in its own peculiar
form stands behind them, as we experience this spiritual in our own
nevertheless spiritual qualities and properties do stand behind them.
reveal so little of its spiritual nature, we have recognised the
bestowing virtue of certain Spiritual Beings. And we have learnt to
naturally a greater sense of the spiritual behind the outer material
“spiritual” with very little application to spiritual
addressed to a spiritualist union at Munich, and so little did one
know what a spiritualistic circle was, that the letter was delivered
the spiritual. We must now start from that point which we reached in
essentially in the refusal of Beings of exalted Spiritual rank to
transport ourselves into what went on spiritually in the evolutionary phases
and is the spiritual element behind air and gas. This then combines
both the spiritual basis of what developed during the Moon-phase of
have a true explanation of what has been spiritually brought over
enter our own movement of Spiritual Science. In external life people
not wonder at a man who at the present day longs through spiritual
age, in which this spiritual wisdom had not been given, had been
when it could not yet have the spiritual wisdom which, like balsam,
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Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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call Maya or the great illusion, there is the Spiritual. Let us once again
ask ourselves in what way it has been made evident that the spiritual is to
to describe this spiritual element we were obliged in the course of the
that we must reduce the element of heat back to the spiritual, to the
what we recognise as the spiritual in ourselves.
moved forward spiritually through the Saturn-, Sun- and
when those Beings found their sacrifice rejected. In a spiritual
spiritual atmosphere, may be described in many respects by saying
resigned it. The peculiar feature of the spiritual atmosphere of
come to a spiritual characteristic of what we call the fourth element
wherever we encounter fire or heat, behind it there is its spiritual
fluidity as spiritual resignation or renunciation, so must we
the fluidic. For this too reflects a spiritual process, in a
ice is cut off from its purpose. This gives us the spiritual process
of solidification, the spiritual process of the Earth's
looked for in the spiritual behind it — we have now ascertained
spiritual world, may be called death. Thus something is cut off in
spiritual; and as soon as it enters Maya it encounters annihilation
the physical plane, but the cause of it is up above in the spiritual
development, we must look for a spiritual prototype for each one of

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 1: The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
building of that certainty of victory in the spiritual
thanks to spiritual science. But the building at Dornach
invasions. What the protagonist of spiritual science
unconquerable nature of spiritual life and a firm faith
spiritual science are now under fire on opposite sides,
united according to the spiritual laws familiar to us. A
the spiritual movement we have made our own, and because
our souls of this spiritual movement of ours must have
taken from our spiritual studies and our understanding of
gained in our spiritual movement and through our
spiritual outlook enable every single one of us, in what
been evidence that our spiritual movement is able to give
to be part of our spiritual endeavour may prove
from spiritual insight, words arising in a soul as it
gives loving aid, to allow practical spiritual love to
the helper — in a spiritual way — to the
spiritual worlds they also grow able to join their own
look into the spiritual world needs to send imploring
spiritual world now — so that out of the purpose
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 2: Nationalities and Nationalism in the Light of Spiritual Science
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
Light of Spiritual Science
at other times the serious purpose of our spiritual
how everything we aim for in our spiritual movement has
the centre of everything we aim for in spiritual science.
simplest and most elementary fact in our spiritual
think people with spiritual aims should be, it is proper
are seeking with every fibre of our souls in spiritual
that spiritual world and that it is not possible to take
spiritual soul, the ego and the spirit-self — are
British Isles we see it coming to expression as spiritual
to prepare for its reception into a spiritual world
lecture — a search for the spiritual, preparing for
the spiritual, something the whole of Europe would one
the means spiritual science is able to provide. We are
we see them today. Instead, spiritual entities were
physical exterior. The spiritual was seen in everything.
spiritual soul, to bring it out. The spiritual soul is
onlookers in life. They face things the way the spiritual
intellectual or mind soul and the spiritual soul,
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 3: The Nature of European Folk Souls
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
grasp. Entering into the life of spiritual science we not
for no words exist for what pertains to the spiritual
the time. And yet, when spiritual science is spoken of in
certain way to attain to perception of the spiritual
worlds, to an objective view of these spiritual worlds,
vision of the spiritual world if he first allowed himself
the spiritual world. Yet once that world is perceived,
forced, as it were, to characterize the spiritual world,
waking up. A spiritual scientist obtains the results of
question is: If the spiritual scientist brings inner life
spiritual scientist cannot live within the folk soul when
physical body. In doing his researches, the spiritual
you then: If a spiritual scientist really knows of life
objective. Of course it is not only the spiritual
something spiritual science offers so that the horizon of
often say that spiritual science is able to provide for
‘It is really senseless not love’ spiritual
spiritual science not merely as knowledge but in such a
truly becomes one with us, a spiritual nourishment that
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 4: The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It - 1
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
truth to be found through spiritual science, that the
that comes to us from spiritual science. It is only then
the spiritual world.
spiritual helpers. At the present time the term
our spiritual science enables us to grasp only a little
achieved. Spiritual science will grasp a little more
Now we have spiritual science as well, and with this we
the spiritual powers are that serve him as folk souls and
at work as a living power, directing his spiritual
spiritual world, when passing through the gate of death,
lead to the development of the spiritual soul. That is
spiritual soul — the soul able to develop by
brought with them. The spiritual soul, therefore, had to
and development of the spiritual soul is the special
thinking, the things spiritual science can teach achieve
to show Faust ascending into the spiritual world. And if
Europe to harm the very spiritual power it needs to use
illumine it with the truths derived from the spiritual
spiritual world show that it is essential for Central
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
they are given from the spiritual world for the specific
friends, it was for good reason and, spiritually, also
spiritual impulses — and particularly the spiritual
regulated from the spiritual worlds. We need to be aware
to us from the spiritual worlds. In this respect the same
the real impulse of spiritual science. And so we shall
spiritual world. Out of her inner being she was to bring
the spiritual world. In summer, at St John's tide when
Celtic mysteries, lift oneself up into the spiritual
the spiritual worlds in our innermost soul life. All who
our connection with the spiritual worlds during the time
into the physical world from the spiritual worlds. We see
to explanation through spiritual science, than this fact
for the divine spiritual powers to find a channel through
divine spiritual powers approach the human soul in such
spiritual world. In her soul these forces encountered the
manifestations of spiritual forces and spiritual powers
this rightly, in its spiritual sense, it means nothing
so. What the spiritual powers have to bring about will be
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 6: Spiritual Perception Essential at the Present Time
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
Spiritual Perception Essential at the
— the spirit we have been seeking in our spiritual
existence of a spiritual world even though they do not
more than just hint at the existence of a spiritual life.
energy to do some serious investigation of spiritual
positive relating to the field of spiritual science they
the spiritual world by applying the methods of spiritual
for getting rid of spiritual disorders, as it were, can
only be taken from the spiritual world. Yet it is only
spiritual world and the outer material world if we know
something of that spiritual world. And so one gets a
relation to what spiritual science has to say about it.
What view does spiritual science take of these
in the first instance something entirely spiritual,
is a spiritual power within it, in so far as this soul
belongs to the spiritual world. When the soul returns to
waking up the soul is living in the purely spiritual
also active as spiritual powers. In the ego and astral
active. It is something purely spiritual in them. But
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 7: Personal and Supersensible Aspects
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
spirit we are seeking as we work towards spiritual
world relates to the spiritual world, starting from
spiritual world by making contact with them when they had
one fact or another in the spiritual world. It depends
after death the impulses arose for me from the spiritual
concepts spiritual science is able to give. With
all that is alive and astir in spiritual science. It was
and experiences she had received through spiritual
of spiritual science to put their mark, their imprint, on
spiritual world.
event is our past. It is not like this for a spiritual
has not in fact passed where spiritual experience is
spiritual world all around him. But at a later time,
arising from his intense devotion to our spiritual
service of the spiritual scientific movement. This made
progress of our philosophy based on spiritual science.
spiritual world towards which we wish to direct our
spiritual movement in the present materialistic age; how
far from ready the world is for our spiritual movement.
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 8: Three Decisions on the Path to Imaginative Perception
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
spirit we are seeking as we work towards spiritual
now, have to be looked for in the spiritual worlds. And
time a soul entity spends in the spiritual world. Today I
enter into the spiritual worlds While dwelling in a body
here on earth, there to find the spiritual realms we
spiritual worlds appropriate to the soul of modern man in
friends, you know very well already that in the spiritual
To experience the spiritual worlds we must find a way of
observation of the spiritual world by going outside the
observations achieved in the spiritual world, once they
the spiritual world. As I said, I want to use the
possible to enter into the spiritual world through three
that spiritual objectivity has come to him, that the
spiritual world is paying attention to him, that it has
also a great many obstacles in the objective spiritual
spiritual world. If we succeed in standing firm within
threshold of the spiritual world, truly on the threshold
of the spiritual world. There, however,
to the threshold of the spiritual world, but let me
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 9: The Sleeping-and-Waking Rhythm in the Context of Cosmic Evolution
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
spirit we are seeking as we work towards spiritual
elements use the physical body as a tool. Spiritual
most satisfying, the greatest, knowledge of the spiritual
spiritual science can only come to our attention
outline of the facts established through spiritual
liberated and able to develop spiritual and soul
certain and sure that we are within a spiritual world,
to recognition of the spiritual world. It is an
convinced that the spiritual world does objectively
particularly when we consider that spiritual science is
what may be gained by taking the path of spiritual
gained on the path to spiritual knowledge, and, what is
illumined and truly fathomed only through spiritual
an interest in spiritual science — they are of
course awake when it comes to the gaining of spiritual
comes to spiritual insight; they are sleepyheads. And our
sleep when it comes to gaining spiritual insight. It
intuition, an inner experience dawning, of spiritual
truths, of conditions in the spiritual world. As it
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 10: Problems on Spiritual Path - National Characteristics in Europe Moulded by Folk Spirits
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
Problems on Spiritual Path —
spirit we are seeking as we work towards spiritual
spiritual worlds when we ascend to those spiritual worlds
attain to the spiritual worlds. They are indeed
inner soul, must lead to the spiritual world —
that takes the soul up into the spiritual worlds.
sense-perceptible world. Now we enter the spiritual world
that the whole of the spiritual world might lie spread
not in a position to withdraw our spiritual organs from
waking up again when it is in the spiritual worlds.
soul really enters the spiritual worlds. It is there in
out of the spiritual worlds. It retains the habit,
within the spiritual sphere it wakes up. The soul is
what happens when man learns to look into the spiritual
happens when we devote our studies to what spiritual
science has to give, for spiritual science has to do with
hold of the thougts coming to us from spiritual science
spiritual world and begins to be clairvoyant, he will
also in the spiritual world, held and supported by the
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 11:Etheric Man within Physical Man
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
spirit we are seeking as we work towards spiritual
spiritual world.
will gradually change in our eyes into the spiritual
and the forms, entities and realities of the spiritual
spiritual world—in which case we are outside our
— in that through spiritual development man grows
like a frost coming to kill the vegetation, the spiritual
spiritual world will never deprive man of religious
enter into the world of images of spiritual reality. What
nature and the spiritual part is what may be called the
take the path into the spiritual world that the human
of the spiritual world. We extend into these three
into the spiritual world he will in fact experience
concerned. This is a point where spiritual science is of
spiritually higher hierarchies, the Angeloi, willed for
evolution, therefore, spiritual entities of a higher
spiritual entities of a higher kind are active in
man which enters into the spiritual realm through the
pursuit of spiritual science to consider such things on
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 12: The Group Sculptured for the Building in Dornach
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
spirit we are seeking as we work towards spiritual
spiritual science, and to put there before our physical
spiritual movement, and, above all, to represent what our
for the further cultural and spiritual development of
that it may be seen as part not only of a spiritual
solution will only be found by applying spiritual
but on the basis of Intuitions of the spiritual world
insight gained through spiritual science. The
through spiritual science. The Christ neither hates nor
basis on which spiritual science intervenes in the
by spiritual science is Luciferic and all science that is
not spiritual science is Ahrimanic. That is how man
with spiritual science. At present we only have the
realize the mission of our age where spiritual science is
All these are things spiritual science should bring out
are concerned. Goethe wanted to show the spiritual self,
particularly if we have learned something of spiritual
spiritual philosophy where previously he followed a more
a materialistic to a spiritual point of view. And what
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 13: The Prophetic Nature of Dreams: Moon, Sun and Saturn Man
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
spirit we are seeking as we work towards spiritual
guide-lines for our work in spiritual science.
everything you have already heard in spiritual science,
that is supposed to influence us from the spiritual world
spiritual world.
French, through the spiritual soul to the English,
also wanted to show how spiritual science lets us enter
concepts developed in spiritual science; for the concepts
through spiritual science enters into the Sun man. This
is why spiritual science calls for greater activity. Its
spiritual science everything has to be actively thought
with no plant world. People going through spiritual
to make Jupiter barren is reject spiritual science. We
can establish spiritual science now in order that there
others, we spiritual scientists do not talk of the
know that we have to present spiritual science today the
when everything we now present as spiritual science will
as spiritual science today has the form appropriate for
be based on what spiritual science makes of Sun man.
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 14: The Cosmic Significance of Our Sensory Perceptions - Our Thinking, Feeling and Will Activity
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of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to
spirit we are seeking as we work towards spiritual
which stops them from accepting spiritual science in the
be a composite of purely spiritual entities and energies.
spiritual. We become immersed in a world of weaving thoughts.
who have spoken of spiritual primary causes had in mind,
that enabled people to see into the spiritual world. In
through spiritual science. We are now at the beginning of
that there is a certain measure of spiritual power that
is given to human nature. Mystical spirituality has to be
the other hand this mystical spirituality must be made
that will lead mankind towards spirituality, towards
able, through spiritual science, to look up into the
spiritual world where all the ether bodies that have come
spiritual world and will continue to be present because
down for us from the spiritual world and what the dead

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Lecture 1: The Present Position of Spiritual Science
Here Steiner presents the results of spiritual research into the
only be understood and applied by what Spiritual Science calls the
had the opportunity of discussing subjects connected with spiritual
science, it is obvious that we should call to mind that spiritual
those living in the spiritual world. This is a question we have very
In spiritual devotion, sending forth our love.’
In spiritual devotion, sending forth our love.’
to approach by means of the spiritual science we have striven to
spiritual deepening of the human soul. If so it will not have been in
through Switzerland, with respect to the relation of our spiritual
referred to the relation of our anthroposophical spiritual science to
relation of spiritual science to History; the third referred to its
come from anthroposophical spiritual science, and that the
spiritual scientific investigation, which, alas, are in many respects
disregarded and unnoticed in the spiritual life of Germany. That is a
consideration the fact that in four-fifths of the world the spiritual
spiritual life to make its voice heard in the other world — as
that is, of the true sources of spiritual life.
that while the efforts made by spiritual science are successful in
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Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 2: A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Human Being
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Here Steiner presents the results of spiritual research into the
etheric, but in youth we must learn to supply spiritual ideas as
'Early bird catches the worm.' It is in spiritual matters
somewhat unsatisfactory to the higher spiritual consideration. We
a philosophy of life which will derive from Spiritual Science much
spherically constructed. Now the investigator into Spiritual Science
The Spiritual Guidance of Man,
knowledge of Spiritual Science, they would appear in a very different
it. The scientific spiritual investigator will never recount what he
Consider the matter from Spiritual Science: we must say that
activity we exercised in the spiritual life between death and rebirth
the spiritual world, there is then added that which belongs to the
day man's thinking will turn to the knowledge of Spiritual Science,
nearest spiritual part of our being, grows younger. The older we grow
such sustenance of spiritual ideas that they suffice for working into
the whole life. The investigator of Spiritual Science can have some
drawn from the spirit or sources of Spiritual Science, then there
Spiritual Science can be introduced into life in such a way that it
out something in the concrete to which Spiritual Science can give the
likeness of the cosmic spiritual nature, then spirituality will come
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Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 3: The Living and the Dead
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Here Steiner presents the results of spiritual research into the
Spiritual Science is to implant in the general human consciousness,
the spiritual investigator, who can make a practical application of
spiritual world the lower impulses of man can be wakened. I have
super-sensible beings are related to the higher spiritual qualities of
with the spiritual world, a mystery by contact with which a man may
diverted from the world of spiritual experiences, such intercourse is
into the spiritual world.
a special bond with the spiritual world by adapting ourselves to
which he can perceive spiritually.
relations to the dead appear in the light of Spiritual Science, if we
It must pass into a more spiritual age. It must know what comes from
dead as real. I have often said that Spiritual Science does not wish
life is illuminated by Spiritual Science. When seen in the right
spiritual world. One can foresee a permeation of the religious life
with concrete ideas when it is deepened by Spiritual Science.
body and soul only, though certain spiritual qualities were to be
that ‘The soul has spiritual qualities’ was spread over
the spiritual life of the West in the twilight of the ninth century.

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 4: The Cosmic Thoughts and our Dead
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Here Steiner presents the results of spiritual research into the
is something spiritual in the subconscious. We all die leaving
souls by Spiritual Science, we know that in course of the earth's
incarnation, in his present incarnation, to the spiritual world, to
the spiritual realms? To what stage of evolution has mankind in
then, as it were, nearer to the spiritual worlds. But it was also
we are nearer while more shut off from the spiritual world. Anyone
unconscious self, in the really spiritual part of man, there is, of
course, the same relation to the whole spiritual world; but in his
bring to consciousness the relation of his soul to the spiritual
connection with the spiritual world. We must clearly understand that
into the spiritual world, and man could work from the spirit. Then he
cultivating the union with the dead under the guidance of Spiritual
we can have a world in common with them if, spurred on by Spiritual
For those who study Spiritual Science
Spiritual Science trains the soul for such development. When a man
seriously studies Spiritual Science he comes to the need of
brought to the altar of the inner spiritual life, a moment comes when
convinced by spiritual facts, that our social life, our ethical
Spiritual Science demands energy of
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Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 5: Man's Connection with the Spiritual World
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Lecture 5: Man's Connection with the Spiritual World
Here Steiner presents the results of spiritual research into the
light of the lotus flowers. A sense of humour is useful in Spiritual
Science. It defeats another mood that encroaches on Spiritual
obliged to approach the spiritual world with discernment — in
physically perceptible, remains in a spiritual
point to show clearly that there are various ‘spiritual’
understand how to observe the world spiritually, it is not inactive.
true. We have here a point where, on the one hand, Spiritual Science
to man. How the material works over against the spiritual in man is
not at present considered, nor how in him the spiritual
if with Spiritual Science we investigate actions that enter less
‘Nature and her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Research’
significance when examined in the light of Spiritual Science. It
from a genuine research of Spiritual Science. When we are fatigued
man's spiritual organism — also called lotus-flowers (see
this spiritual effect. What does come to our consciousness is
what sends us to sleep; so that the spiritual effect is not in itself
perceived, for what rays out is truly something spiritual. We can
spirituality of this radiation, we observe an action that is exposed
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Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 6: Feelings of Unity and Sentiments of Gratitude: A Bridge to the Dead
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Here Steiner presents the results of spiritual research into the
of the Spiritual world are difficult for us to grasp because between
sufficient for sacrifice. There is spiritual air between us and the
thinking; they avoid effort. They avoid Spiritual Science, not
relations with the dead, or with any being in the spiritual world at
sphere of Spiritual Science.
spiritual world; he is always in a certain connection with those of
of the spiritual world. To attain, through seeing and perceiving, a
spiritual form — the life-conditions of the Jupiter-evolution.
way — with the whole spiritual world, of course, but with the
spiritual world in so far as it is coming to fruition in some form at
far as Spiritual Science offers the possibility, man must understand
trouble to understand them by means of Spiritual Science, those
The spiritual world in which man
man's spiritual evolution from the present time, from this disastrous
his gaze from the spiritual world can find the reality from these
‘spiritual air,’ and we can now speak of the nature of
this spiritual air in which we live together with the dead. Of what
Spiritual Science must make the matter clear.
the physical world and applied to the spiritual can only be
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Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 7: Confidence in Life and Rejuvenation of the Soul: A Bridge to the Dead
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Here Steiner presents the results of spiritual research into the
death and rebirth, the chief thing is to direct the spiritual vision
spiritual guidance and wise disposition of life. Anyone who is
prepares him for the real gradual perception of what spiritually
the spiritual world, not from an undefined instinct; — we might
organism, he would certainly be very spiritualised, — but a
‘spiritualised animal’ only. Unless the head were
by a spiritual culture in this domain. Ultimately the feeling here
dead is still present as a spiritual being and can work as a spirit.
spiritual science (the ego, as we have often heard, is the youngest,
belongs to another. Expressed spiritually, we might say that each

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture I: Folk Souls and the Mystery of Golgotha
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through Spiritual Science, that the whole earth which we as
make clear to ourselves that to the spiritually-scientific observer
another form, as water into ice. Hence in spiritual science we have
the spiritual in the view even when discussing material processes.
processes are continually taking place which really are spiritual
something spiritual lives in the oxygenised breath. We do not merely
at the same time a spiritual one, and the Folk-Spirit can live in this
spiritual workings. The Folk-Spirit must take this indirect way of
if, from a spiritual-scientific point of view, we follow the by-paths
workings in their spiritual foundations, if we follow the methods of
Spiritual Science.
of the head in its spiritual differentiation, insofar as man is
a spiritually-scientific point of view; for, as a matter of fact,
to the spiritual humanity of the Asiatic East, is equivalent to a
the individual tries to find a spirituality through the Folk-Spirit;
to racial relationships, but as you see spiritually-geographical
East, the evolutionary streams are directed towards the spiritual,
will wash them away. But a spiritual understanding of the evolution
of all earthly events. It must be grasped spiritually, must
be recorded spiritually, in the process of the history of mankind.

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture II: The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology
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The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual
a certain extent, grasp the nature of the psychic and spiritual
concretely to the perception that the Earth is an ensouled, spiritual
into the ensouled spiritualized part of the Earth; the discovery that
differentiation of man over the Earth, that's the psycho-spiritual
spiritual-psychic kernel cannot subsist in what immediately confronts
with spiritual science as a very weighty truth; of course it cannot
in spiritual science, by this means, in a purely logical manner. For
the belief that Spiritual Science can only be comprehensible to one
who sees into the spiritual world, must be swept away as one of the
represent Spiritual Science chiefly as a kind of provisional
understand the spiritually scientific. Only the thought must be
phenomena of life to what Spiritual Science confirms. He who brings
the different inhabitants of the Earth, to bear upon what Spiritual
teachings of Spiritual Science by the experience of life; then a
of Spiritual Science.
containing many of the truths of Spiritual Science, are far more
times by many who possess Spiritual Scientific knowledge — the
to Spiritual Science of by far the greatest part of mankind to
publicity to things which come from the fountain of Spiritual Science
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture III: Thoughts about the Life Between Death and Rebirth
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clearly upon ourselves certain ideas in Spiritual culture
into the spiritual life of man. If we follow up the spiritual
times, the spiritual life does not contain any new
‘spiritual,’ and as the child grows, his soul and
more psychic and spiritual. Only man has not then the power
into the spiritual world. For very many people it will be a
more psychic and more spiritual. Only, when the body is worn
out, we can no longer express the psycho-spiritual which we
regards the spiritual world; there he had become
Spiritual Science to a great extent consist in the fact that we
from the knowledge which Spiritual Science is now giving out
the imaginative spiritual-body, forms itself thus; it first
together with him as are at the same time those of Spiritual
we can only gain information about it from Spiritual Science,
becomes, spiritually, blooming with youth. Here on Earth we
speak of growing old; in the spiritual world between death
when transformed into the spiritual element, between death
psycho-spiritual world during the latter part of the time
concept which the spiritual development of the future must
spiritual life. As formally in conformity with the nature of
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture IV: The Eternal and the Imperishable
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scientific truths, they too as spiritually scientific truths,
spiritual life of mankind.
first of all direct our spiritual sight to these things of
the spiritually-scientific investigator can go further. He can
force, from a spiritually-scientific point of view, is very
spiritually-scientific investigator sees this force as slung
spiritually-scientific point of view, the question:
investigations of Spiritual Science show that what in natural
on in his next incarnation. The observation of the spiritual
observe it in connection with the spiritual one.
result of the most objective discovery in Spiritual
respect from spiritually-scientific observation. Just
a new edition of the “Philosophy of Spiritual
“Philosophy of Spiritual Activity” he wrote in
“Philosophy of Spiritual Activity” I began by
representing spiritual reality in the form of thought which
understanding of the spiritual by really learning and really
experiencing what first approaches man as the spiritual: the
only in the spiritual domain. This is an example, which
use of the language which Spiritual Science employs. The

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture V: Thoughts on Life and Death
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time would not then be far off when Spiritual Science would
outer materialistic science to Spiritual Science; which is
thought of Spiritual Science. In the case of the latter the
spiritually from any connection with the Cosmos.
to mankind, through Spiritual Science. For just in those
essential point in the understanding of Spiritual Science for
the whole spiritual culture of our time. That ought really to
spiritual world. I should like to give a little example of
degree of spiritual feeble-mindedness which really lies at
thoughts characteristic of the present-based spiritual
which may really fall to Spiritual Science. What we must
which we must also perceive, that Spiritual Science must of
the spiritual and that everything spiritual desires to reveal
world will not easily be linked to the spiritual. One of the
principal tasks of Spiritual Science is that we must
spiritualization of mankind through the Christ-Mystery
communicate to humanity the secret of the spiritual power of
century we have to record another spiritual undertaking which
the spiritual life to find a place. To the ideas disseminated
He learns of the interweaving of the Sun-force, the spiritual
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VI: Spiritual Science, the Practice of Life and the Destinies of Souls
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Spiritual Science, the Practice of Life
Spiritual
question should come before the soul as to how Spiritual
enough to bring forward the side of the reality of Spiritual
Science and its significance for our age. Spiritual Science
this is the content of Spiritual Science, through which we
birth, or conception, and death. Through spiritual
through Spiritual Science the human desire for knowledge can
significance of Spiritual Science from the view of
and ideas which come to us from Spiritual Science. It might
conscientiously from the sources of Spiritual Science might
the future through the further progress of Spiritual Science.
another department of this Spiritual Science. But what it may
sharpened by Spiritual Science we can observe what has of
modified. Spiritual Science alone can lead to an
as to that. But the point of view of Spiritual Science in
for the psycho-spiritual development of man. Those natural
scientists who are of the opinion that the psycho-spiritual
psycho-spiritual development. Where man most develops his
inwardly aware, when one has gone through a psycho-spiritual
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VII: Whitsuntide Lecture
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the sense of this Whitsuntide proclamation, what Spiritual
Science intends to do. For, in this Spiritual Science it is
the spiritual germ of his own being within himself, which is
Spiritual Science in accordance with the model given in this
certain sense Spiritual Science is a perennial, continuous
spiritual scientific movement. This is now more than 15 or
Spiritual Science might be to us, what it can become
always compare what Spiritual Science may become, with what
mankind by Spiritual Science. But that is but the merest
have been given. Spiritual Science is still faced with the
the principal points of our spiritually scientific
fact that super-sensible spiritual reality flows into the soul
of man. Spiritual Science teaches us that in the course of
humanity spiritual life continually streams into men, but
spiritual world. Such a thought should really be able to
been imparted to mankind from the spiritual world, and that
spiritual stream of evolution into the events of the Earth
spiritual life was to arise illuminatingly in the different
to be spiritual life; for the greatest imaginable
which Spiritual Science can disclose; only he must absorb
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture I: States of Consciousness
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spiritual-scientific inquiries we encounter besides the two
when we are awake. From the standpoint of Spiritual Science,
consciousness in which the spiritual world is open to higher
higher consciousness as spiritual, super-sensible reality, the
progress in Spiritual Science. It lies nearest to us, yet it
One must go back to the spiritual world, not to the
share of what belongs, in the spiritual world, to the forces
their part in man's spiritual life before conception
the immediate realities. Spiritual Science sees in the shape
to spiritual consciousness is interwoven with pictures, even
point of view of spiritual consciousness, presents the next
Spiritual
us; we must attain spiritual consciousness in a different
spiritual world between death and birth. This clear
by a spiritual eye, as the karma of the past. Neither do we
subjective ideal or tendency which Spiritual Science has to
man must acquire super-sensible knowledge in spiritual ways,
to be taken intelligently into the mind, as Spiritual Science
spiritual -psychic and his physical-bodily principles must
times his spiritual-psychic part was just a little outside
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture II: The Building at Dornach
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have come to recognise as the Spiritual evolution of
consider how particular aims of Spiritual Science can come to
regarding current events from an inner, Spiritual point of
have a sequel in the future, if we observe them Spiritually.
spiritually.
takes its place, nature's own process, in which the Spiritual
surprising if I now bring Spiritual Science into connection
important from a spiritual point of view in the creation of
up with man, the forces known to us in Spiritual Science as
exactly balanced in the spiritual realm by a Luciferic
hardens on earth, spiritual correlations work into the human
Here on earth the Ahrimanic machines — in the spiritual
stream enfolding us, for each machine a Luciferic spiritual
development of modern civilisation. Regarded spiritually,
emphasise afresh; Spiritual Science has no reason for being
the cultivation of spiritual life than did the man of old,
out of the spiritual, this can be compensated for purely
spiritual forces of the past. That is impossible, quite
other, stronger, and more spiritual forces should play into
spiritual life; failing that, men will inevitably fall victim
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture III: East and West
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forward in our Spiritual Science as a theory of
spiritual world, and proves to be not by any mans a very
spiritual world, takes up its abode in physical man and
re-enters the spiritual world at death, does not crudely
certain spiritual centres in the West to cause the gradual
— of course those of a spiritual nature —
From a certain lofty spiritual point of view, we are just as
spiritual ideal such as I have described is set up. By this
means the continuing alternation of spiritual life and
are pursuing by political means.) Anglo-American spiritual
battle against spiritual life of any kind, against any
spiritual foundations for humanity, although it is just in
greatest, bitterest enemies of true spiritual development,
conflict with the spiritual is concerned to have been mere
short time ago, when the as was judged more by its spiritual
way will be made clear for the manifestation of the spiritual
Consciousness or Spiritual Soul descends into the grave. No
as a forgotten stream of spiritual life. It is
forgotten but once existed as a force of spiritual
been telling you to-day from the aspect of Spiritual Science
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture IV: History and Repeated Earth-Lives
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must do, in the light of the conclusions of spiritual
spiritual science, we see that for a long time man has really
spiritual scientific knowledge, that they are profound,
Spiritual Science shows us in our Present earth-cycle, we
spiritual aura. In the words of this man there lived a
personality there was an amazing devotion to the spiritual
taken counsel with his God in the spiritual worlds before he
conceived under the influence of the spiritual world would in
profound spiritual perception lived in the spreading waves of
people in such circles dislike, and even fear, Spiritual
knowledge of the spiritual world, the human capacity
to attain to vision of spiritual realms, as sight in the
spiritual outlook was carried on the advancing waves of
the spiritual world, arose from a certain way, a right way,
ideas which lead into the spiritual world; they were strong,
spiritual.
find that in the tenth century all spiritual vision had more
Spiritual world. For those who were first affected by the
gazed up into a spiritual world, and in a sense perceived as
things as presented in Spiritual science we simply cannot
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture V: The Being and Evolution of Man
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man not notice how different — different spiritually
thousands of years, since history began, whereas Spiritual
are confirmed by Spiritual-Scientific knowledge, but we find
spiritual. We should not have the deceptive notion, “I
childhood. He would recollect himself as a spiritual being.
spiritual conceptions of ourselves.
we talk about ourselves as though we had a “Spiritual
a kind of spiritual centre. If only we could rise to the
tiny child the bodily and the soul-spiritual activities are
materialised, densified by Ahriman; our soul-spiritual part
soul-spiritual Luciferic phantom; two phantoms, two delusive
ages, and on the other, the real soul-spiritual psychic
soul-spiritual element alters the body from year to year
to the work performed by the soul-Spiritual element on the
soul-spiritual part has fashioned his organism. This comes
rapidly becomes opaque, because the soul-spiritual element,
as yet. Man must in a sense look on it as a Spiritual being
man, comes indeed from the spiritual world, and clothes
the conceptions conveyed by Spiritual Science, the
Kingdom of Heaven,” of the spiritual kingdom, crates
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture VI: Problems of the Time (I)
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time, with its many diverse currents, spiritual and material,
us look back, as students of Spiritual Science, at the
with the universal Spiritual world. If we look back into
spiritual Cosmos. Just as the fingers on our hand feel
Chaldean felt himself to be a member of the spiritual Cosmos.
— the spiritual, the divine; and through this they felt
direct connection with the Spiritual. Thus on the earth
itself there took place a spiritual event, which went its way
Divine-Spiritual. It is very distinctive, very rremarkable,
reality of spiritual events was relegated to a region quite
outside the soul; sacred, spiritual events were not to be
spiritual, (which was restricted to the Mystery of Golgotha),
with what he conceived of as the Divine-Spiritual power
with spiritual currents and impulses. In philosophy of the
in no case attempt to grasp the course of spiritual reality,
that spiritual reality can only be, and must be, a matter of
form: “Concerning the Divine-Spiritual only faith is
Divine-Spiritual, a banishment to purely external physical
‘Spiritual Science’ because there is no such thing
as spirit. ‘Spiritual’ Science is, at best,
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture VII: Problems of the Time (II)
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of Spiritual Science), in such a way that they can be of
from Spiritual Science. If we wish to ruminate upon the
live in it without admitting any vision of the spiritual.
and what is striven for through Spiritual Science, is a sort
Spiritual World's was destined to become man's possession.
ever known of the spiritual world in ancient times through
concepts of Spiritual Science are too hard to compass, and
spiritual. Man two-day has to choose between cultivating the
spiritual science that the essential being of man, the kernel
of his life, descends from the spiritual worlds, and unites
spiritual world, he is “received” by father and
gain? A Spiritual Science shows, what he receives is the
comes from the spiritual world. This is what makes the
spiritual world-development. Then we shall learn not to stand
Spiritual Science of evolution proceeded through a
to look up to the spiritual, bemused by dead, abstract ideas;
place our Spiritual Science alongside modern concepts, and
possible only from the standpoint of Spiritual Science.
content of Spiritual Science would have required 30 volumes.
superficial opponents of Spiritual Science. Moreover, in this
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Title: On The Gospel of St. John
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ourselves spiritual forces; we become different human beings. It is
spiritually, when we have received into ourselves the Spirit of our
the spiritual life have only been applied for the purpose of making
spiritual power and we use this power for the purpose of satisfying
material existence in the simplest way possible and the spiritual
life. But in those past times a great spiritual power was in
institutions in which highly developed spiritual Beings, using
spiritual forces of great power, inspired and brought a spiritual
culture into being. A stream of spiritual life went forth from these
intercourse with the highest spiritual beings on other planes. For in
very truth, spiritual worlds are all around us. The astral world is
these Beings. In earlier times, spiritual forces brought about what
they shared in a very real sense in the spiritual life directed by
ruled by Intelligence, and with their spiritual insight the
behind it worked a spiritual life. The world is the material imprint
of a higher, spiritual life. To-day, too, there are men in whom
higher spiritual forces are alive, who see into the spiritual worlds
spiritual life has diminished in strength. And so, to-day, the
led by Spiritual beings, the comparison must always be drawn with the
transform the Earth, spiritualise everything material; we must
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Title: Occult Significance of Blood
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If from the new standpoint of spiritual investigation we meditate upon
which belong to spiritual science. Now, all that is contained in these
standpoint of a spiritual conception of the universe. We shall best
all spiritual science, and which has become known as the Hermetic
following: — It is plain to spiritual science that the world to
a deeper world hidden behind it, namely the spiritual world. Now, this
spiritual world is called — according to the Hermetic Axiom
“below,” the expression of that higher and spiritual
the spiritual element which is expressed in them.
possessed of a soul, is what the occultist, or spiritual scientist,
constitutes wisdom? Spiritual science has always maintained that human
immemorial axiom of spiritual science. You will become more and more
cognition of the “above,” the spiritual archetype, the
original Spiritual Beings, whence all things manifest have proceeded.
world of sense. When once you understand this “spiritual
nature of the spiritual essence which lies at the back of our blood.
If we would study those mysterious laws of the spiritual universe
as distinctly visible to the developed spiritual senses of the
acquire, the necessary faculties for the cognition of spiritual
upper spiritual triad secures a physiognomical expression in the lower
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Title: Lecture: The Lord's Prayer
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reveal, in specific instances, their hidden spiritual-scientific foundations.
recognize this hidden background of religions as a spiritual fact involving
and fraught with mystery are the ties binding together the spiritual life of
spiritual-scientific world view. This spiritual-scientific world
with the divine, spiritual, cosmic forces. This method is meditation, by
which a person experiences the spiritual content within himself, and receives
the spiritual content of great civilizations in which the human being
immerses himself and so identifies himself with the divine spiritual
the spiritual leaders of mankind, admitting to the mind a formula that
brings a person to union with the higher spirituality. A higher power, in
form of his prayer will be but a means of rising to higher spiritual realms
he gain a relationship with higher spiritual beings, were he himself not an
emanation of the divine-spiritual. Man's nature is twofold, as we know.
spiritual science it has always been called the higher triad, and the
course, is called spirit man in terms of spiritual or occult science. The
until he attains that central goal of existence known to spiritual science
into that image. Spiritual science in all ages has called this phenomenon
entire universe. In spiritual science, this process of Divinity repeating
So an observer, looking at the world in the sense of spiritual research,
one another in the sense of spiritual science by their names. An
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Title: Lecture: On Chaos and Cosmos
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only other words for the Chaos out of which the highest Spiritual
different; the word corresponded to the spiritual meaning of the
They are no longer applied to the spiritual meaning. Whoever hears a
no longer thinks of relating it to the Spiritual World. Among the
manifold reasons for the founding of this spiritual movement is one
spiritual movement, this spiritual stream, did not find entry into
spiritual teachings at all, because everything would at once be
applied to the material world. Spiritual knowledge must bring about
is the task of this spiritual movement to carry up into the higher
attracted to the Spiritual World than the feelings of our time.
referring to the spiritual background of spiritual forces and beings.
men and events, and discovered deep spiritual relationships. He is a
means of letting such spiritual movements flow into the general life
stealing of thoughts, of the spiritual property of others. Lawsuits
possessed higher knowledge as a result of a high spiritual
instrument for a spiritual being. He sees in it the expression for a
spiritual being, and he calls this Spirit by a new name: Gas. He was
time, the whole Universe was Spiritum, purely spiritual. As the
transparent, radiant, unclouded infinity of the Spiritual, all things
spiritual way. In the breath that flows from the mouth, that turns to
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Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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lectures is: Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
Spiritual Science you can gather that by means of occult
the spiritual world, there he found definite facts, definite
into Devachan, into a purely spiritual world. We further
death and re-birth, in this purely spiritual existence. You
descriptions of the spiritual world it is necessary to
will keep to quite definite spiritual facts. In order to be
itself absolutely one with a spiritual world, in a world of
appeared to him the vision of spiritual beings. Just as here
world of higher and lower spiritual beings according to the
this world of spiritual Beings, spiritual events, appeared
of spiritual events and spiritual Beings. If only we were to
physical world. When he passed up into the spiritual world
at home in the spiritual world, he felt that world to be
physical world, the consciousness in the spiritual world
the spheres of the ancient spiritual country. We have seen
whole, part of a reflection of earlier spiritual Beings, the
being part of the existence of higher spiritual Beings was
to them, that which he performed according to the spiritual
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Title: Lecture: The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man.
in Atlantis — that then, if we turn our spiritual gaze on the
times, then one would see spiritually very little of the physical
together. Where the laws of the spiritual world are in question the
accordance with the laws of the spiritual world. The group souls of
from out of the spiritual world. Everything was a detour in order to
the spiritual, a non-sexual procreation. The bull race, however,
came from above, out of the spiritual, whereas here this process
The spiritual in man
received nothing of this spiritual element changed in quite another
Those who shared nothing of spirituality formed the modern lion,

Title: Lecture: Christianity in Human Evolution
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The Principle of Spiritual Economy
the development of the spiritual scientific view of the world,
higher truths. Only through them will what spiritual science is
a long way to go before we shall be able to coordinate the spiritual
soul-spiritual development that will be attained by normal men
in higher, more spiritual regions and who did not need to descend
A spiritual being who descends thus into a human body in order to
time has been connected with the astral sphere, the spiritual sphere
that there is also a spiritual economy consisting in the fact
the spiritual world because it could later be useful in the mission
condescend, in somewhat the way a spiritually advanced person would
was preserved in the spiritual world so that it could be borne at a
facts of a spiritual nature lying behind the physical ones. History
Through the descent of an avatar being the essential soul-spiritual
also that other spiritual beings of whom the religious documents
special importance to spiritual scientists. As long as people knew
that in spiritual science we come increasingly to understand that the
of Christianity through spiritual science. Having been carefully
opened so that he may henceforth see into his spiritual environment
capable also of seeing in all phenomena spiritual facts that are
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Title: Isis and Madonna
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From the text: “In truth, whoever has knowledge of the spiritual
the living quality these Madonnas portray, and beholds the spiritual
complete spiritual freedom. He will unite in his soul science or wisdom
popular knowledge in the future through spiritual science. Goethe
nothingness. Faust, the spiritual human being, with his bent towards
a spiritual realm behind the reality of the senses. Faust must
spiritual forces in his soul. This is for him the great moment in
which are revealed to him the spiritual beings and facts which are
the spiritual eyes and ears are opened to a world lying behind the
and will, then his spiritual eyes and ears actually become open and
outline from which we take our bearings, in the spiritual world we
spiritual reality. The Mother problem of the world stood before Goethe
the spiritual world, has had at all times to undertake, besides other
higher spiritual forces are to be derived is free of all urge and
itself the spiritual eye and penetrate into the spiritual realm. The
but in sources of a higher soul and spiritual nature; it has not an
been spiritual science through the ages has never been able to speak
accordance with the senses. Spiritual science does not condemn as
recognized by spiritual science, but at the same time it is pointed
more we meet with man's origin as a soul spiritual being. We have
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Title: Lecture: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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man to have actual vision of the spiritual worlds. They are schools,
trained that he can finally perceive the higher worlds with spiritual
means whereby man can be led consciously to the spiritual worlds.
— And the whole content of Spiritual Science, everything that is
communicated in Spiritual Science, is, in its essence, Mystery-wisdom.
has a spiritual origin, that his home was once in spiritual worlds
spiritual world. To-day, this last remnant — the human soul
densification of the primordial spiritual being. When he has conscious
the senses and grasped by the intellect there is the spiritual
born. The body too is born from them but at first in spiritual form.
faculty which will unite it again with its spiritual origin. Whether
to certain processes whereby he might be united with his spiritual
— the spiritual world. The Initiate experienced the union between
thus make it possible for a higher spiritual being to dwell among
knew that a higher spiritual being was living among them as the soul
rising out of the physical into the spiritual world, rising to their
the Spiritual in man, the principle for which the soul is
man's being that is incapable of beholding the spiritual world. This
of spiritual forces and those who have learnt to use them can also
misunderstood. For if Spiritual Science does not help a man to realise
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This lecture, spoken like a poetic story, refers to concrete spiritual
experience would lead one to anticipate in a spiritual
manifesting this emotion, for I belong to a high spiritual
thyself — a spiritually free being — above thy
steps, led me up to the spiritual hierarchies to which I
of the spiritual worlds. Thy spiritual dance would be
from the spiritual world, such as the Pyramids
science of building to the erection of a spiritual temple and
spiritual world. They understand how to apply only my name
the spiritual world is spoken of among men — as the
declare spiritual events to men. For I am Imagination! My
spiritual world, it is true, by reason of her awakening; yet
spirit life of spiritual imagination. This is how she came to
premonitions. That which her new spiritual powers sang to her

Title: Lecture: Buddha and Christ
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THE Spiritual Science Movement has often, since its
to implant one or another of the Oriental spiritual influences —
interest for spiritual research, for it will present certain
and Christianity from the standpoint of Spiritual Science.
cannot, to begin with, regard Spiritual Science, which never
within this sphere of Spiritual Science, is being more and more
that which passes onward from life to life as spiritual cause and
The function of Anthroposophy, or of Spiritual Science
is analogous, where present day Spiritual Science is concerned, to
equally unjustifiable to accuse Spiritual Science, when it makes the
Spiritual Science is the instrument which we must use in order to
If we would now, in the sense of Spiritual Science,
spiritually-minded King Milinda desires to question Nagasena, the
it all there stands, as Man, a Spiritual Being, who not only brings
When we, as knowers of Spiritual Science, consider
various spiritual tendencies by turning our attention especially to
passionate longing to forsake the Spiritual World and enter into a
revealed at last in its true spiritual form. What is apparently
spiritual, has its resurrection in a degree more perfect than before
; is spiritually embodied. Nothing in existence is worthless, because
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag IV: Menschengeist und Tiergeist
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tatsächlich ist, obwohl er Spiritualist sein will,

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nicht. Er ist Spiritualist im eminentesten Sinne des Wortes.
etwas von der Spiritualität des Giordano Bruno verstanden.

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Science and Speech
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Spiritual Science and Speech
Also known as Spiritual Science and Language.
Also known as Spiritual Science and Language.
SPIRITUAL SCIENCE AND SPEECH
Spiritual Science the different ways in which the being of man
expresses itself, — that is to say Spiritual Science in our
individual spiritual life on the one hand, and the common spiritual
the point of view of Spiritual Science.
According to Spiritual Science man is a highly complex
body. This astral body is, to Spiritual Science, as real a part of
the spiritual powers existing in Nature, have made of them.
Ego. Therefore Spiritual Science teaches us that in a primordial past
Spiritual Beings. To this was added the etheric body, then the astral
existed in direct correspondence with the spiritual world, then
etheric, astral, we must say: just as the Ego itself, as a spiritual
the three members of his being, so must Spiritual Beings, or
spiritual activities, if you will, have worked upon his
these three members. Thus it must be said that spiritual creation,
spiritual activity has been at work on our sheaths, imparting form,
therein. We must speak of the existence of spiritual activities in
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Title: Lecture: Prayer
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Medieval mysticism prepared the way for spiritual science; prayer
itself. In contrast, we pointed out that modern spiritual
thus the beginning of true higher spiritual research that
true spiritual investigation. If we have the ability to sink
what an immeasurable force of spiritual knowledge it brought
spiritual order but also to utter with glowing rapturous
anyone who wants to tread the path of spiritual
spiritual research. Indeed, how could it be otherwise? After
to burn ever more brilliantly of itself. Spiritual science,
spiritual science, and the soul activity that may in the true
development of the last centuries, even from a spiritual
ways by various spiritual currents or thought. Thus, it will
currents of spiritual thought that have laid hold of all
spiritual science.
limited egos to a divine spiritual ego. Such is the
restricts our ascent to the spiritual?
know as spiritual investigation. From this discussion it
directed to the real work of spiritual research.
be God. If we approach the spiritual world by seeking God
necessity. Spiritual beings also are at work in the world
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Title: Lecture: Mendelssohn's 'Overture of the Hebrides'
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The Mission of the New Spiritual Revelation.
Here we must understand that a spiritual world such as still existed
architecturally formed entirely out of the spiritual world, a
into the spiritual world, and that those who, with powerful life
working out of the spiritual world which directed them in battle.
they ascended into the spiritual world, and that their spirits then
vibrated as tone — sounding through the air as a spiritual
spiritual world and that bards would appear who would preserve all
spiritual powers which sound forth out of the whole of Nature. For he
able to make a great impression upon spiritual Europe. The whole
the spiritual world and the world of Nature in which the spiritual
ancient songs, heard out of the spiritual world — the ancient
ascended into the spiritual realm, what their descendants heard in
spiritual world which sank deep into these peoples, into the souls of
melodies of the spiritual world, prepared them for a later time when
the spiritual world as the deeds of their forefathers, but as if in
battles in order to prepare themselves for further deeds of spiritual

Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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series entitled, Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
from earlier times their fundamental spiritual conviction, have united
another direction, and with the help of those spiritual Powers, who
are always present when the work of spiritual science is carried out
today. We began, with the aid of the simplest basic concepts of spiritual
physical world. We have been able to learn about the various spiritual
absorbed inwardly for a length of time what spiritual science has to give,
the spiritual life lying behind it — the spiritual life that is far
us how we can penetrate into the understanding of the spiritual world
over all these currents through the deepening of our spiritual life.
through conflict. One who gradually becomes familiar with the spiritual
world must learn to adjust oneself to the customs of the spiritual world.
The first part of the spiritual world is the astral world, where such
becomes familiar, with the spiritual world, the customs, too, of the
spiritual world, and we shall bring more harmony into our world if we
world precisely within a spiritual movement. That will be a great field of
education, which the spiritual-scientific movement will have to cultivate
increasingly obvious to the adherents of a spiritual world-conception
beings into the spiritual world occurs in some tumultuous way; it happens
living into the spiritual world. The spiritual worlds gradually dawn

Title: Astral World: Lecture II: Some Characteristics of the Astral World
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series entitled, Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
purpose. It is to show that spiritual science — or rather the
public. When spiritual science meets with an unprepared public, the
movement of spiritual science.
is given to us through the knowledge of the spiritual, the higher, the
exists between what is maintained by the spiritual researcher and the
of spiritual research. And so in the majority of cases, they cannot
understanding for spiritual science can be achieved only if one speaks
quite openly and frankly from the spiritual standpoint, even before
natural for a large part of those who come to a lecture on spiritual
themselves find their way and form a nucleus through whom spiritual
be given today to show how easy it is for prepared students of spiritual
conceptions aroused by spiritual science, to come to terms with the
the more we will realize what a good foundation spiritual research is
calmness to meet the storms pouring out against spiritual science, because
“I know that through what spiritual science can give, full harmony
with the spiritual conception of the world, students of spiritual science
spiritual scientist says, “The physical body of the plant would dry
from the spiritual standpoint, we can say: “What is within, in
can really regard these things spiritually can affirm that the astral
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Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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series entitled, Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man,
of the different goals of spiritual life. For a definite goal, willing,
knowledge, so that a spiritual content reveals itself in symbols. The
spiritual music, the sphere-harmony from which there streams to us the
world, the colors resound. What before was spiritually luminous becomes,
henceforth, spiritual resounding. In experiencing the higher worlds
forth, production, and in respect of knowledge, a spiritual hearing.
upwards through the methods of spiritual knowledge, through the leaders
an absorption of the spiritual tones of bliss.
of indifference to one who is within the Movement of Spiritual Science

Title: Prophecy -- Its Nature and Meaning
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
nowadays to many things in the domain of Spiritual Science. It seems
emphatically than other branches of Spiritual Science. If in these
other branches of Spiritual Science — in many of them at least
teachings of Spiritual Science, I must speak in a way which will
connected with the whole Universe, but that the spiritual experiences
evolution of humanity in the light of Spiritual Science that there is
evidence of spiritual law in the flow of happenings, in the stream of
spiritual life, so that his knowledge is drawn not merely from his
presented to us by Spiritual Science is that no happenings —
and this also applies to the domain of the Spiritual — float
The Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science,
vantage-points for the observation and study of life, and Spiritual
do this or that for the sake of spiritual evolution. This,
Spiritual Science will bring the recognition that although there have

Title: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
of Spiritual Investigation. The volume of the Complete Edition of
statements of spiritual science imparted in these lectures.
If spiritual science
Spiritual science cannot
physical body — spiritual science must set up in contrast the
spiritual science must place over against the outer physical body what
And when spiritual
But spiritual science
the language of spiritual science we first distinguish two parts of our
spiritual science declares. This is especially apparent when one
examines the more detailed evidence spiritual science offers. One finds
man sinks into subconsciousness. So according to spiritual science,
spiritual science are correct, how do we explain our relation to the
the etheric or life body, which spiritual science shows us to be also
spiritual science. In wider circles it is scarcely known that a science
when spiritual science informs us that from falling asleep to
anyone who on reaching the spiritual world in his sleep can yield
man's world of reality. Now what light can spiritual science shed on
“Philosophy of Spiritual Activity”
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Title: Good Fortune Its Reality and Its Semblance
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‘anthroposophical history’ in the communications from the spiritual
It is without question that among the teachings of spiritual science least
spiritual causation or Karma. It is easy to understand that men of the
enlightening nature of these basic truths of spiritual science. But an
of spiritual science — indeed, if he clings to misunderstood or primitive
fortune were he through misunderstanding the principles of spiritual
only egoism, and spiritual science makes every effort to lead men away
man who thinks he has fathomed spiritual science when he has only perceived
the sense, that is, of spiritual science; if we comprehend it not simply as
karma, or spiritual causation, receives a stroke of good fortune as a spur to
from the point of view of spiritual science. Let us recall Hamerling's
where the outlook of spiritual science was accepted, where this outlook
spiritual being transcending birth and death, showing to the outer world the
explicable to my spiritual understanding through my relation to the
concerned, only spiritual science can give life-this can become
but I also live in what is only a spiritual line of causation, and yet can
associated it is with the conception of spiritual science, that man stands
world-conception of spiritual science that we have been able to touch upon
spiritual science can give us, thoughts that do not merely touch upon life as

Title: Lecture: The Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
at present to explain the origin of man spiritual-scientifically
present world conception, an influence of spiritual events, spiritual
contradict what Spiritual Science has to say: that all substances,
and then in general, all life can be traced back to spiritual causes.
spiritual causes, fundamental for these phenomena.
spiritual realities at any point in earth evolution. He felt himself
out of the spiritual, then we also could expect of this life of
with, and inspired by, spiritual fundamental forces. How else could
also imagine that spiritual impulses were originally holding sway in
ascending farther to that which must be spiritually fundamental for
the whole process of evolution. He consigns the spiritual to a world
Spiritual Science must add
to the achievements of Francesco Redi the sentence that the spiritual
can only originate from spiritual. And because the entirety of earth
evolution finally culminates in the spiritual, as it presents itself
spirit itself, thus this spiritual likewise originating itself at
last out of the seeming unspiritual, can only be traced back to an
original spiritual. If Spiritual Science is compelled today to state
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Title: Lecture: Death in Man, Animal, and Plant
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
that Spiritual Science has certainly no need to lag behind in any
closely, the point of contact which draws the spiritual and the
conscience are to be examined, we may — even as spiritual
dilettante theosophical or other spiritual-scientific sources. These
as spiritual scientist one feels peculiarly placed with regard to
find that precisely from the standpoint of Spiritual Science, we can
Spiritual Science represents. Faced, however, with the theories and
in connection with Spiritual Science. This is Metschnikoff, the man
that the spiritual element may intervene actively and effectively in
organic life, and that perhaps this spiritual element as such may
necessary accompanying phenomena of the spiritual forces which
me to emphasize that it will not be easy for Spiritual Science —
old doctrine” progresses; namely, by following the spiritual,
Spiritual Science, because from its point of view it is necessary to
lectures; namely, that Spiritual Science must regard the earth as a
even in our present time, Spiritual Science cannot think of the earth
basis of our existence, the ground which we tread, Spiritual Science
the earth processes, must in the sense of Spiritual Science be
The assertions thus maintained by Spiritual Science are to be
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Title: Lecture: The Nature of Eternity
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Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation.
thus: whatever may be maintained by any form of spiritual
the sense of Spiritual Science, it is so intimately bound up
existence as a surplus force. The spiritual scientist need
by those disinclined to apply to the spiritual life the laws
common sense in order to follow what Spiritual Science tells
Spiritual Science goes on to speak in more detail about life
spiritual scientist, for he knows that neither their laughter
acquiesce in what the spiritual scientist, as a result of his
figment of a dream. You know how Spiritual Science shows that
scientist the spiritual scientist can learn a good deal, and
what Spiritual Science has to say — that in sleep a man
that external vesture of the soul, called in Spiritual
in a certain sense, to his physical body. Spiritual Science
constituted in the main as he is during sleep. But Spiritual
knowledge of the spiritual world can become absolute reality
spiritual world, a world where men live between death and
perceptive knowledge of the spiritual world beyond the gate
himself: ‘I am able only to perceive the spiritual
Buddhism to see how modern Spiritual Science, speaking from an
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Title: Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci
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Results of Spiritual Investigation.
His Spiritual and Intellectual Greatness
bring forward a hypothesis of Spiritual Science, which may be reached
according to Spiritual Science but according to the external view, it
said, a hypothesis of Spiritual Science, but one that has developed
with the whole figure and spiritual greatness of Leonardo. He left it
the principles of Spiritual Science. For we know clearly that the
these predispositions finds itself confronting what the spiritual
enters into existence with an inner spiritual inheritance that had
which the human soul returns again and again from the spiritual
light of Spiritual Science? We have repeatedly drawn attention to the
into the spiritual world. This original clairvoyance was lost in the
was a feeling that the human soul was connected with the spiritual
with the spiritual that lived and wove in the world, even as physical
between man's soul and the spiritual world had to be lost for a
only made possible through the loss of the old spiritual perception
it will again be possible for man, through modern Spiritual Science,
to attain to a spiritual view of things. For the development of
be driven into Spiritual Science. Human souls had, however, first to
spiritual contemplation of the mysteries of existence. We find him
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 1. Materialism and Spirituality.
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LECTURE 1MATERIALISM AND SPIRITUALITY.Life and Death.Berlin, 6th February, 1917.
the Mystery of Golgotha; that Spirit Whom in our Spiritual Science we
Spiritual Science, but that we must be up-borne through this difficult
follow with our gaze this beloved and pure soul into the spiritual
whom she has now so quickly found again in the spiritual world. She
borne by one who is conscious of an actual hold on the spiritual
Spiritual knowledge will signify to the human race of the present day
thoughts able to throw light on the objects and aims of the Spiritual
this Spiritual Science of ours in a few short thoughts, — or
rather the views which naturally come as the result of this Spiritual
humanity who are developing a longing to draw nearer to the Spiritual
Spiritual is taking. For these reasons we must specify and bring
at the present time, the research into the Spiritual world made by one
about the relationship of man on earth with the Spiritual world, and
to the Spiritual world, — describes in this book a series of
Spiritual world. The case is as follows.
materialistic-Spiritualistic tendencies, must certainly have appeared
Spiritual worlds, and who himself now in the Spiritual world,
that the individuality enters the Spiritual world with the astral body
was on earth. Now we must clearly understand that in Spiritualistic
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 2. The Metamorphoses of the Soul-Forces
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fact, well known to the Spiritual investigator, that although in the
course of time, must lead to a spiritualising and permeating of the
understood Spiritually. Spiritual Science is in this respect to be a
speaking really very near to the Spiritual world; but the ideas and
materialistic earth existence and the Spiritual world can be found by
force the soul shares in something super-human and Spiritual. This
the connection between the human soul and the Spiritual world is to be
spirit, the spiritual world, draws near to us. The language of modern
a real impression of that part of the spiritual world which stands
Spiritual is experienced in the feeling of gratitude which comes
whenever one experiences the Spiritual; one feels: I am grateful to
it. Take special note of this: we owe gratitude to the spiritual
sequence of external kingdoms; but as far as the Spiritual kingdoms
the Spiritual and the physical, which indeed goes on unceasingly, but
with the Spiritual world, and that indeed was but dim, and
to learn by them, for these pictures were true to spiritual reality.
back again to the Spiritual world, and must now be able to grasp it in
man perceived the Spiritual world in pictures, he lived in the company
passed into the Spiritual world through the portal of death. It was
different form of union with the Spiritual world. It is now only
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 3. The Human Soul and the Universe (part 1)
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What we possess as the first fruit of Spiritual Science is in its most
forms and images — manifestations — of the divine Spiritual beings by
by the divine-spiritual beings that permeate the outer universe and
awe; if we reflect that we too belong to the divine Spiritual universe
the divine-Spiritual Beings whom we have learnt to know as the Higher
present only in rudiment — (and in the Spiritual world rudiments
Spiritual — a state of things very difficult to endure — did we not
which in a Spiritual respect is of like nature to the Hierarchy of
when it comes to us, it brings about in us a Spiritual change, which
Spiritual World and perceive the things and the beings therein. The time
in the Spiritual-world could be perceived in a much wider and more
expressly states: ‘The rest of the Spiritual part of man can to a
without significance in the perception of the Spiritual principles of
an event Spiritually, he will find that each time two human beings
meet a Spiritual process is established, which, among other things, is
in connection with the objective facts of the Spiritual world; but
inner union with the Spirit-Self — that is, with the Spiritual
connection with the Spiritual world proceed from this meeting with
waking state, of our connection with the Spiritual world, is an
Spiritual Science, until their souls become refined enough to observe
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 4. Morality, As A Germinating Force
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Spiritual world. I shall have to say a few more things as to these,
meetings with the Spiritual world still clearer, I intend to insert,
the Spiritual development of the last century, we observe how strongly
followers of Haeckel, picturing everything Spiritual in a material
something Spiritual; but do not give the matter further thought. If
for the Spiritual and especially for the moral, in a certain sense.
Spiritual world, Beings of a like nature to his Spirit Self as we are
Spiritual being, and though he may be quite unconscious of having had
today, unless he busies himself with Spiritual Science, knows very
side of the matter; there are Spiritual laws behind, as I have already
from the Spiritual world which would raise him once again above the
by them as a spiritual marriage, whether with Christ or another. Many
Valentine Andrea, as the result of certain conceptions and Spiritual
force whereby man can be borne up once more into the Spiritual world.
are not formed in connection with a Spiritual conception of the world,
reality through being permeated by the Spiritual, by a grasp of
Spiritual reality.
Spiritual reality. Then the cinema will do him no harm, and he can see
it, until at last, they are entirely shut off from the Spiritual

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that life, bring it into touch with the Spiritual worlds. Today let us
this meeting we refresh and strengthen our whole spiritual being.
with the spiritual world, no merely materialistic explanation of
and man enters into relation with the spiritual world; that makes the
the spiritual world, only arrives at half-true concepts and ideas,
meeting with the spiritual world. If we were to say we want to sleep
then does the soul do when it sleeps?’ The non-spiritual science
spiritual world, our sleep does not therefore consist merely of
spiritual training is really needed, so that people may learn to
Through connection with spiritual knowledge, one may conceive a
physical world and in the spiritual world. In the physical world I
meet with the external physical nature; in the spiritual world I meet
we, who have Spiritual Science, which to Plato was not attainable in
spiritual observation shows us that what we call the ego of man —
within the spiritual world; we are really and truly within that world.
spirituality; for of course, everything connected with the body is
spiritual. Now it must be carefully noted that while during the waking
hours the ego stands at the lowest stage of spirituality, during the
head, to make its outer form a manifestation of the spiritual, that
spiritualised, have least been worked upon in a spiritual sense, there
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 6. Man and the Super-Terrestrial
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periods man has a meeting with the Spiritual world. We explained this
in the Spiritual world, during each one of his normal periods of
merely the physical stars, but perceived the Spiritual part of the
external eyes; but he saw the Spiritual part of the physical stars.
and profound part in the whole Spiritual civilisation of the ancient
that meeting with the Spiritual world, which he cannot now have every
time he sleeps. It came from the meeting with the Spiritual world in
which dwell those Spiritual beings we reckon as belonging to the world
the Spiritual world had become blurred, as I have just explained.
express an intense inner recognition of the Spiritual content of the
necessary for the Spiritual development of humanity. For the two
Spiritual Science by certain religious sects, is, that according to
Spiritual Science the Christ-Impulse must once again be bound up with
the whole universe. I have often emphatically stated that Spiritual
the earth to the whole universe. Spiritual Science does not seek
Events. This attitude would be comprehensible if Spiritual Science
that we are approaching a time in which we can speak of a Spiritual
return, the Spiritual return, of the Christ. Especially with respect
fading twilight, there dwells something Spiritual; and just as we
belong to the air with our lungs, so do we belong to the Spiritual
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 7. Errors and Truths.
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concerning the Spiritual attitude of the present day, by which we are
Spiritual life, and the effects of which were much greater than is
especially to those who in the interests of Spiritual Science wish to
in the right way. One who has a thorough knowledge of Spiritual
in the development of European humanity, from the Spiritual aspect. I
Spiritual impulses from the Spiritual world which from time to time
history, in the light of the fall from Spiritual life into matter. I
wish to put the doctrine of de Saint-Martin in the place of Spiritual
true Spiritual Scientist can read a great deal between the lines in
things when the impulses given by Spiritual Science have grown into
lofty-mindedness through Spiritual Science, which will enable them to
correct on the basis of Spiritual Science, and on the other fully
dividing line in Spiritual evolution which falls in the year 1842 (in
By this you see, my dear friends, that it is possible in the Spiritual
necessary in the Spiritual development of mankind that that way of
Spiritual Science wishes to stimulate in us; for of course what de
against the spiritualism which reduced the realities of the world of
Ötinger as well as Rothe, strove for true Spiritual life. True Spirits
Spiritual, not merely talking of an ideal archetype at the back of
Richard Rothe) — ‘if transplanted into any other Spiritual
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Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Universe
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What we possess as the first fruit of Spiritual Science is in its most
forms and images — manifestations — of the divine Spiritual beings by
by the divine-spiritual beings that permeate the outer universe and
awe; if we reflect that we too belong to the divine Spiritual universe
the divine-Spiritual Beings whom we have learnt to know as the Higher
present only in rudiment — (and in the Spiritual world rudiments
Spiritual — a state of things very difficult to endure — did we not
which in a Spiritual respect is of like nature to the Hierarchy of
when it comes to us, it brings about in us a Spiritual change, which
people — though this will soon alter — few can gaze into the Spiritual
the Spiritual-world could be perceived in a much wider and more
expressly states: ‘The rest of the Spiritual part of man can to a
without significance in the perception of the Spiritual principles of
an event Spiritually, he will find that each time two human beings
meet a Spiritual process is established, which, among other things, is
in connection with the objective facts of the Spiritual world; but
inner union with the Spirit-Self — that is, with the Spiritual
connection with the Spiritual world proceed from this meeting with
waking state, of our connection with the Spiritual world, is an
Spiritual Science, until their souls become refined enough to observe
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Title: The Story of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily: Lecture I
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Spiritual life which to the ordinary man is mere thought. But the
question was always called “Spiritual Alchemy.” The
Alchemy had a Spiritual side, and knew that ordinary Alchemy was
nothing but a reflection of the Spiritual, and all that is known of
spiritually. All that the great Spirits have disclosed about the
Spiritual Realms to those men who are still bound to the life of
Spiritual Alchemy in which every activity flows into the stream of
through Spiritual Alchemy, — that it is with which man should
his spiritual nature is concerned, comes originally from higher
spiritual existence and the sense-world there flows the River, the
the Spiritual and the world of senses, is the River over which the
transmutation as Spiritual Alchemy — then the space around him
become light, he then learns to recognise the highest Spiritual
Spiritual can uplift itself in the Temple, in the clear light of day,
yield himself to the highest Spiritual light; but he is always drawn
Spiritual life, in Art, after he had gone through the study of
from the world of sense to the world of the Spiritual.
to his lower nature and has become entirely spiritualised, then the
use them in his service. His work will be the hour-hand of Spiritual
Spiritual soul forces Atma, Buddhi, Manas, which we represented as
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Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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spiritual life of man. In the spiritual life of man and of mankind the
significant point about spiritual development in our own time is that
(the Aryan Race), starting from the spirituality of the ancient Vedic
principles of spiritual science, what must happen when a form
spiritual science were we unable to understand such a phenomenon
worthy representative of spiritual science. The ancient wisdom is not
life that is to be sought in all these forms. The spiritual
we have this conception of the spiritual ideal we may claim to have
merely an instrument of a higher spiritual force which was also behind
the Gothic Initiate Wulfila. This spiritual force uses Tolstoy as its

Title: Lecture: On The Three Magi
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understanding of spiritual science.

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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As in every science, in every spiritual process one must first learn
before that the essentially spiritual in things is a resounding. I
in a correct sense, talks of a sound in the spiritual world in the
escorted by the spirits into the spiritual world: “Tönend wird für Geistesohren schon der neue Tag
spiritual world, and because he thereby no longer has his home,
spiritual world sounds within man, and through this sounding of the
spiritual world man overcomes an illusion, the illusion which takes
member of the universal divine spirituality. Here man overcomes
within it there sounds a word from the spiritual world. Then his own
great laws of the spiritual world. This script is not, like ours, an
born out of the spiritual law of nature itself, because the man who
ray from the spiritual world fell upon Isis, fertilizing her through
path of development, for those who see the spiritual forces behind
spiritual world but also to the leaders of mankind. It was only from
divine spark leading towards the point to which spiritual science

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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spiritual world.
totally lacking in our culture. One is isolation, what spiritual
unattainable. Isolation, or spiritual solitude, is very
yogis. A yogi is one who strives for higher spiritual knowledge, but
to call forth the forces of the soul, methods of spiritual science
even the concept of such isolation is lacking. This spiritual
with the spiritual development of man. An important
prerequisite for spiritual development is not to seek it out of
is concerned — and that alone can ascend to the spiritual world
for awakening higher spiritual life.
physical light of the sun into a higher spiritual light. Something is
become a liar when he is introduced into the spiritual world, because
would like to say, abandoned by these higher spiritual forces, and
it an example for spirituality. If you consider the heart, this
wishes, including spiritual desires and wishes.
morning, at a definite time, one must undertake one spiritual action;
spiritual exercises must not be chosen arbitrarily, but must be
not too long a time; that is, the spiritual life hidden from man for
already something remote, spiritual. If man had no memory, he could
uphold no spiritual development.
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun
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knowledge revealed to us by Spiritual Science. I do not, of course,
Spiritual Science not as a dull, grey theory, not as an outer
were instituted and with the knowledge we have gleaned from Spiritual
bodies of Spiritual Beings.
not see in Sun and Moon the bodies of Spiritual Beings cannot
the heavenly bodies are the bodies of Spiritual Beings, so is the
Spiritual Beings. Just as his body is separate from the forces of the
Moon, so the same spirituality which reigns in Sun and Moon is
And so in days of old, our forefathers felt themselves to be spiritual
this level on the ladder of spiritual knowledge a man must have
Hero were to deviate from the divine path of this spiritual harmony,
course. A man whose spiritual life had found a path as sure as that of
for Nature but of a feeling that is full of life and spirituality. And
The aim of Spiritual Science is to stimulate a true and deep
When in all that pertains to his daily life man applies spiritual
unnecessary to utter the actual words ‘Spiritual Science’ at all. When
spiritual perception, when at the bed of sickness the doctor
spiritually perceives and spiritually heals, when in the schools the
teacher brings spiritual knowledge to the growing child, when in the
very streets men think and feel and act spiritually, then we shall
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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The Rosicrucian Spiritual Path
circles of students of spiritual science. The main matter at hand is
the Rosicrucian, Western spiritual stream, which has guided European
culture spiritually by invisible threads since the fourteenth
man wanted to take another spiritual path than the one appropriate to
spiritual training is undergone are also a matter of
indifference. But one who knows the deeply spiritual influences
teachings of spiritual science. It is unjustified to object: What
races. The range of elementary spiritual science as it is
spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid
being, which now itself appears in the color as spiritual being. The
physical world clothes the spiritual beings of astral
entire spiritual organization of the macrocosm spiritually within
higher worlds. Whoever takes up these things through spiritual
experiencing. One who has lived with the teachings of spiritual

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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him spiritual beings from other worlds. It has already been said,
the actual spiritual life of the earth. Thus certain plants become
Eleusinian. The pupils there actually beheld how the spiritual
spiritual world view permeated and saturated everything. In the
in these forms. The world will be filled again with a spiritual
content through the diffusion of the teachings of spiritual science.
Then later, when spiritual life comes to expression in external
forms, we shall have a style which expresses this spiritual life.
What lives in spiritual science must stamp itself later in external
forms. Thus we must look on the mission of spiritual science as a

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture II
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This spiritual scientific study is full of insights into the nature of
spiritual scientific investigation, we see how the world and all
standpoint of spiritual science, allowing it to cast its light on
spiritualized. Man has the sensation that he himself lives in this
this deep stillness begins to resound spiritually, softly at first,
comprehensible to a spiritual scientist, because he discerns their
spiritual scientist understands all this. One must not believe,
experiencing a foretaste of the spiritual world, this would be found
victory of the spiritual over merely animated corporeality
home. The vibrations flowing through the spiritual world are felt in
Devachan, and the echoes from this homeland, the spiritual world,
thrill it with vibrations of purest joy and sublime spirituality,
home, the spiritual world, the sounds of music are borne across to us

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture III
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This spiritual scientific study is full of insights into the nature of
to find themselves in the spiritual world and who bring with them
above in Devachan. Even if the individual's spiritual sojourn
to the physical plane. The time in the spiritual world thus can be
spiritual that they are unable to unite themselves with our coarse

Title: Lecture: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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new life when a deeper, more spiritual conception of the world is
brought to bear upon it. In a spiritual sense the Christmas Festival
chemical and physical forces, spiritual forces are also at work and
he saw the world around him filled with spirit, with spiritual Beings;
because those who are cognisant of the spiritual facts know that at
spiritual being. No sunlight fell from outside upon these spiritual
was the moment when, as chosen ones, they experienced the spiritual
truth that as well as the physical sun there is a Spiritual Sun which,
experienced the rising of the spiritual Sun, of the Christos, they
coming Christ, of the spiritual Light, he whose festival day in the
in this decreasing there grows the power of the coming spiritual
into dust, but the spiritual essence will remain with all human beings
who have been made inwardly radiant by the spiritual Light. And the
spiritual re-birth, as the great Ideal of all humanity and moreover
power of his spiritual life had gained the victory over death, night
outer world of material life and the inner world of the spiritual
as yet, to the spiritual world. We find these ‘Ravens’ again and
of the rising of the spiritual Sun in the Mysteries. Hence the birth
Paradise, representing all-embracing material nature. Spiritual Nature
This should resound and the spiritual Light ray forth from the

Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: Lecture 2: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
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and waking where they actually experienced the spiritual world in
spiritual world. In this intermediate state it was as though a veil
were lifted, the veil of the physical world, and the spiritual world
became visible. Everything in the spiritual world was seen in some
directed to its spiritual surroundings, we will see all those beings
can see all those spiritual beings that have remained behind at the
spiritual world, the outer events in life appear to be what they
to the spiritual world.
but able to conceive the relationship of life to spiritual reality,
something of spiritual reality, the following may happen. If he is a
in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world are reflected the
in consequence stronger in spiritual strength. Whenever the
himself; he has lost sight of the spiritual world, but he says to
spiritual world. He then recounts what has happened in the
spiritual world, and must recount it in such a way that he says:
still happening behind the world of sense in the spiritual world,
happened in the spiritual world did not perish, if it is not dead, it
possible a picture of what he can find in the spiritual world as his
guiding human beings to the spiritual world. He is able to give the
determined only by his archetypes in the spiritual world. Therefore
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture II: Christianity in Human Evolution: Leading Individualities and Avatar Beings
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The Principle of Spiritual Economy
guided spiritually throughout history - by the life forces
complicated question of reincarnation that the spiritual
what Spiritual Science intends to give us: the opportunity to
spiritual lines and forces that exist behind the world of the
plane of soul-spiritual development, one that will be reached
spiritual realms who did not need to descend into corporeal
spiritual being who descends in this way into a human body in
spiritual, sphere of our super-sensible world; this Being has
already said in a previous lecture, a spiritual economy
preserved in the spiritual world because it could later be
body was preserved in the spiritual world so that it could be
a spiritual nature that are behind the facts of the physical
descent of an avatar being affects the soul-spiritual
addition, other spiritual beings of whom religious documents
significance to the spiritual scientist: As long as people
and again in Spiritual Science we learn to understand that
Spiritual Science. Having been carefully prepared through the
spiritual environment with the eye that the Christ can open
world the spiritual facts that are so intimately linked with
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture X: The God of the Alpha and the God of the Omega
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The Principle of Spiritual Economy
guided spiritually throughout history - by the life forces
emphasized, and with good reason, that Spiritual Science
If one approaches Spiritual Science with the right attitude,
because Spiritual Science is much like everything that grows
fact that nobody could hope to extract from Spiritual Science
of its truths. Judging Spiritual Science by its outward
doctrines of reincarnation and of karma, Spiritual Science is
all courage, this doctrine is proclaimed only by Spiritual
Spiritual Science. Its fruit does not consist in the fact
nobody can enjoy this fruit of our spiritual scientific world
view without the seed, that is without spiritual scientific
is possible only on the basis of knowledge — Spiritual
of knowledge, Spiritual Science has an advantage over other
substance of one's life. Spiritual scientific teaching
and in spiritual scientific thinking we must therefore soar
to higher worlds. Every hour spent in spiritual scientific
then united with the spiritual world out of which it was
born. Thus, when we think in a spiritual scientific way, we
are with our ego in our spiritual home, at the fountainhead
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 1: The Mission of Spiritual Science
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Lecture 1: The Mission of Spiritual Science
These lectures deal with the mission of spiritual science, anger,
The Mission of Spiritual Science
related to Spiritual Science, as I have done now for several years past.
meant here by the term, Spiritual Science
sense-perceptible. Spiritual Science says that it is possible for human
introductory lecture will describe the role of Spiritual Science in
present-day life, and will show how in the past this Spiritual Science
which spiritual life has had the particular character which has come to full
back over the spiritual life of mankind will see that “a time of
so described. Yet there are times when spiritual life takes a leap forward,
and spiritual life of human beings and the outer world has been different
— a personality who lived at the dawn of modern spiritual life and was
view of Spiritual Science, this is thoroughly congenial. Anyone who has
sojourned in the realm of Spiritual Science will know how distracting it is
spiritual world makes him to be.
gained direct from the spiritual world. Now if he had been troubled by the
to the questions concerning man's spiritual life, his real being in so far as
it is spiritual. Clearly, he had no means of finding persons who themselves
had had experiences in the spiritual world and so could communicate to him
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 3: The Mission of Truth
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These lectures deal with the mission of spiritual science, anger,
man's being. Man is most spiritual in his Ego, and that was our
scale. Anyone who looks at the true spiritual evolution of mankind, and
only kind of spirituality he recognised. For him, an object was beautiful
only in so far as the spiritual was manifest through it. Solger was a
preconceptions, he sought to attain to the spiritual by way of a misconceived
truths of Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy are of this kind. They cannot be
from observation to arise in his soul. All spiritual-scientific truths
spiritual-scientific truths we can now approach man himself. He cannot be
confirmation of spiritual-scientific truths that we encounter. This is what
some idea of how deeply he had penetrated into the problems of spiritual
spiritual-scientific way of thinking. They can experience a satisfying,

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 4: The Mission of Reverence
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These lectures deal with the mission of spiritual science, anger,
far off spiritually but within human reach.
undefined darkness; in fainting by the soul, the Ego loses itself spiritually
be deceived by information said to come from the spiritual world if he has
will suffice, and this is something that every spiritual researcher will
possibility of gaining true, clear and certain knowledge of the spiritual

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 6: Asceticism and Illness
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These lectures deal with the mission of spiritual science, anger,
unbiased study, such as Spiritual Science demands, is impossible unless we
Spiritual Science, as characterised in previous lectures, is called upon to
Spiritual
Science and spiritual research, as they have been represented here for some
know?”, is for Spiritual Science misdirected. It does not ask what man
concern; for Spiritual Science takes its stand on the firm ground of
we have advanced a little in developing our spiritual faculties.
by Spiritual Science. It does not ask where the boundaries of our knowledge
consideration shows that it is not irrational for Spiritual Science to
Spiritual Science the physical body, which can be seen with the eyes and
can teach us that it is not irrational for Spiritual Science to declare that
from spiritual-scientific experience, man can come to such a condition: a
let us take a symbol which is of use for spiritual development, and expound
wishes to rise into spiritual worlds, is an invention. That is just what it
these forces and really penetrate into the spiritual world, how can we be
with the spiritual world. When we awaken the forces and faculties which are
world which shines out as though from a dark spiritual depth, then someone
exercises, we do not see a spiritual world; we are occupied in awakening the
towards a spiritual world, just as we have learnt to adapt the eye with the
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 7: Human Egoism
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These lectures deal with the mission of spiritual science, anger,
things from the standpoint of Spiritual Science, we are not so much concerned
of egoism in their case. If we consider the plant world in a spiritual and
and spiritual life in terms of the spirit, we find that something quite
In Spiritual
examples of what Spiritual Science is.
Egoism is seen by Spiritual Science.
subject, like all things, to laws — indeed, spiritual laws. Therefore
this type of spiritual element in the soul, where it estranges a person from
world is not debased by being only an expression of the spiritual rather than
the spiritual itself, or because it represents a decadence of the spiritual;
physical senses as external image recedes and becomes purely spiritual
detail and circumstance of daily life, the imprint of the spiritual; and she
be called intercourse with the spiritual world; but also that to shut himself
commonplace: the spiritual can be found only by looking within oneself. And
we can indeed find the spiritual there, on a very high level. But we are then
and now we find that the commonplace has a spiritual dimension. The same
Monism; the latter, having first enriched his spiritual faculties and
developed the appropriate organs in himself, is aware of the spiritual behind
life, and that a certain spiritual guidance of mankind does exist. The
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 8: Buddha and Christ
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These lectures deal with the mission of spiritual science, anger,
foundation, the spiritual-scientific movement has suffered from being
Particularly it is accused of trying to transplant certain eastern spiritual
our subject today has a special relevance for spiritual research: we are
and that of Christianity on the other, from the standpoint of Spiritual
from the point of view of spiritual life.
Buddhism from Spiritual Science, for Spiritual Science never refuses to speak
aspect of Spiritual Science is being more and more confused with Buddhism
spiritual causes from earlier lives into later ones — it is strange
that Spiritual Science should be charged on this account with being a form of
Buddhism. By now people should surely have grasped that Spiritual Science is
Spiritual Science than the fact that the elements of geometry are found in
against Spiritual Science because it has a doctrine of reincarnation and
clear that Spiritual Science provides a means of testing the spiritual
Spiritual Science wants to be “Buddhism” is not confined to
immerse ourselves in the spirit of Buddhism in the sense of Spiritual
man only because behind him stands a spiritual man who activates his
this question of repeated earth-lives from the standpoint of Spiritual
recognise the character of a spiritual movement from its typical
quite objectively. It is precisely Spiritual Science that is the right
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 9: Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Lecture 9: Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
These lectures deal with the mission of spiritual science, anger,
Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
they really are: the outcome of spiritual-scientific research.
Light of Spiritual Science”.
truly spiritual-scientific one — whether the moon has any special
stands on the ground of Spiritual Science, and is used to examining
everything related to the spiritual in as strictly scientific a sense as the
that science compels us to talk no more about the spiritual background of
spiritual behind what we perceive with our senses or are told by external
may well ask. Is it really science that compels us to reject spiritual
agreeing from the spiritual-scientific point of view either with Schleiden or
outlook embraced the spiritual, and though he made one error after another he
spiritual-scientific research is directed towards the practical, and that the
standpoint of Spiritual Science, we are of course not obliged to swear to
Spiritual Science with superstition. Quite often today we encounter a piece
are told it is part of Spiritual Science. A superstition about the moon can
coming now to a particular question where at last we touch on Spiritual
little way into the spiritual-scientific way of thinking, I would like to
means the only great thinker who looked with a spiritual eye on such things
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture One: On the Investigation and Communication of Spiritual Truths
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SPIRITUAL TRUTHS
extreme terms, and made it clear that Spiritual Science would
spiritual record known as the Akasha Chronicle, decipherable
learned from spiritual investigations with what is recorded
shall expect Spiritual Science not merely to satisfy our own
understanding of the spiritual world. Here is a simple
studies have helped us to understand what depths of spiritual
ourselves can attain a high level of spiritual understanding
for our most urgent spiritual needs. There is no indication
spiritual evolution of humanity which first became accessible
documentary records of the spiritual achievements of the
named in Oriental philosophy. They are the great spiritual
that study of an extensive phase of the spiritual development
we have when we confront great spiritual truths. For what
be to the great spiritual truths. We can make no progress at
least from the four directions of the spiritual heavens
no progress in the spiritual life is possible. Again and
for any progress in spiritual knowledge, and anyone who has
spiritual knowledge — this is of course one of the basic
in knowledge made possible by Spiritual Science should throw
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Two: Higher Knowledge and Man's Life of Soul
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I said that the whole spiritual-scientific Movement must be
the spiritual world from a single glimpse of that world, he
know that in spiritual life an object or a being or an event
who is only beginning his study of Spiritual Science. He will
the deeper understanding of Spiritual Science. The greater
the heights of Spiritual Science and the feelings and
ask why it is that spiritual truths seem illuminating and
incapable of testing what they have been told from spiritual
in our own day, because the spiritual level from which
have for human life. But once spiritual truths have been
given us through Spiritual Science. We must apply them in our
bear within us a spiritual man, that we pass through many
these truths protect us from spiritual cold and from the
spiritual poverty we should experience if we were capable of
sense-world presents to us. Spiritual truths are brought down
namely those who have trodden the spiritual path already
can be observed from the higher, spiritual standpoint of
relation to spiritual life. Later lectures on
one of the most difficult tasks of Spiritual Science. There
at high levels of the spiritual world intelligible to a
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Three: The Tasks of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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Soul, the Intellectual or Mind-Soul and the Spiritual Soul
spiritual world by natural clairvoyants and also by very many
the Rishis, had risen through Initiation to the spiritual
understood through such a comparison. In a spiritual respect
directly from the spiritual world. In the epoch of
physical world what has come from the spiritual world. Is
what has been spiritually acquired in fact applicable to
reject Spiritual Science should just ask themselves why man
related in a certain way to the connection with the spiritual
spiritual knowledge died out with the Old Indian
spiritual world since his descent into the physical world.
And at the very time when he had left the spiritual world
world: the Christ Impulse. The greatest of all spiritual
the only spiritual quality remaining to him was his feeling
side the infinite spirituality of the Christ Being who
spirituality within him was connected with the supersensible
between the spirituality which came down to the physical
plane in the Being of Christ and the spirituality which man
comprehend the spiritual nature of Christ. And then,
was further removed from the spiritual world than he had ever
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Four: The Symbolic Language of the Macrocosm in the Gospel of St. Mark
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emphasised that those relatively new to the study of Spiritual
Spiritual Science, erroneous ideas would be inevitable.]
Initiation itself the spiritual world penetrated into his
the spiritual worlds and a vista of the Beings of the
where they were able to gaze into the spiritual world and the
Beings of the Hierarchies were before them as spiritual —
secrets of the spiritual world in a new way, not in the way
able to speak to others about the secrets of the spiritual
secrets of the spiritual worlds. Christ made manifest on the
spiritual worlds. We can imagine ourselves looking into
able to look into the spiritual worlds and go forth to teach
spiritual worlds. But now, what had been enacted time and
before he could proclaim the secrets of the spiritual worlds
things, spiritual worlds could be apprehended with great
from spiritual-scientific investigations, to clarify the most
Spiritual Science alone can provide the basis for
enabled them to see into the spiritual world. In certain
abnormal conditions of soul the secrets of the spiritual
leading them into the spiritual worlds; they regarded this
the implanting of spiritual powers in their souls. Hence the
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Five: The Two Main Streams of Post-Atlantean Civilisation
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better said, to matters at spiritual levels we have not yet
holds good to an even greater extent in the case of Spiritual
and with the spiritual, supersensible worlds, were in a
with the spiritual worlds can be envisaged if we think of the
in Spiritual Science. What we know of the world to-day is
we speak of this in terms of Spiritual Science, we rightly
the mother of Buddha appears to his spiritual vision and
originally a wholly spiritual being. In course of time
sheaths gathered around this spiritual being. Man was born
leading to the spiritual texture of the universe, enabling
he was in a certain respect one with the spiritual world, he
feel part of the spiritual world — I beheld that world
spiritual world outspread like a cloud but I could
spiritual Beings but I could also recognise what order of
relationship with the spiritual world.
bounds beyond which lies the spiritual world are broken
man can develop vision of the spiritual worlds and rise to
sheath, of a spiritual Being who cannot himself incarnate in
higher spiritual Being. This is not poetic imagery but a
was filled with living spirituality. Such personalities were
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Six: The Son of God and the Son of Man. The Sacrifice of Orpheus
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ideas about the spiritual world acquired in the course of
are the Beings who as messengers of the spiritual world to
Archangeloi are spiritual Beings whose activities embrace a
happen to populate the same territory. But in Spiritual
the case of a single man. The spiritual guidance of a whole
differ essentially from each other. The guiding spiritual
by spiritual Beings belonging to ranks from that of the
constitution. Knowing from Spiritual Science that
hand, spiritual Beings from the rank of the Exousiai upwards
spiritual Beings of the Hierarchies higher than the Angeloi,
revelation of divine-spiritual Powers is far greater.
spiritual leaders of mankind, the Initiates, appear before
inspiration. Great works of art, works of spiritual genius,
through knowledge of Spiritual Science that we shall be able
reach the spiritual world and that as a result of his
effect: The being we must call the spiritual man, the real
original, spiritual state that had been his before he
complete misunderstanding of the spiritual meaning of
will find his way again into the spiritual world; but he will
Spiritual Science is more systematic than people usually
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Seven: The Higher Members of Man's Constitution
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spiritual-scientific thought, will always fail to understand
conviction of spiritual truths come to those who cannot see
into the spiritual worlds? Here we must keep on repeating
that although it is not possible to see into the spiritual
standpoint of Spiritual Science the mark of the idealist is
time, even for one who is undergoing spiritual development,
to relate these things too to the spiritual life. In point of
bring into relation with the spiritual life. In the case of
these physical substances have with spiritual life. We then
spiritual.
gradually spiritualised. When we are eating fruit, let us
say, such spiritual knowledge as we possess enables us to
thus spiritualise the most material, everyday processes and
spiritual part of our being abandons its physical sheath, the
shall find it possible if we devote ourselves to Spiritual
Science. When, for instance, we learn from Spiritual Science
Spiritual Science is to pour fresh, youthful, fertile forces
attitudes to Spiritual Science adopted by individuals in this
disbelieve in Spiritual Science may hear that the physical
spiritual core of his being becomes dependent upon his
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eight: Laws of Rhythm in the Domain of Soul-and-Spirit.
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the Gospels in the light of Spiritual Science we find
is only when Spiritual Science has been studied much more
of the spiritual experiences undergone by their authors. They
divine-spiritual Beings. Thus St. Luke's Gospel takes
earthly being incarnated in the flesh, but as a spiritual
being born from the womb of divine spirituality. In St.
of the development of Spiritual Science we have followed a
spirituality of Christ — namely, the Gospel of St. John.
understand how the highest spirituality in human nature
Spiritual
study his life in the light of Spiritual Science for we can
whole spiritual world and will realise that it brings
spirituality which works in the world in obedience to law and
They do not believe that spiritual beings will lay hold of
on spiritual-scientific knowledge will find that certain
instinctively avoid Spiritual Science. It will not be
facts of the spiritual life as presented by Spiritual Science
essential spirituality to be Thou, the Christ!’ And
the heights of spiritual life. Such individuals learnt that
age of the development of the Consciousness or Spiritual Soul
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Nine: The Moon-Religion of Jahve and its Reflection in Arabism
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superficial consideration of spiritual life we must admit
spiritual-scientific knowledge already communicated to
driven out of the spiritual world and sank more and more
made its way via Africa and Spain into the spiritual life of
post-Atlantean epoch poured, spiritually, into the souls of
spiritual development of the West, for instance, the teaching
central fact of our world-conception, of our Spiritual
find is that the Spiritual Science founded by European
possibility of following this onward march of Spiritual
than Western Rosicrucian Spiritual Science about the nature
compare this with what Rosicrucian Spiritual Science has to
from spiritual realms exercises an enduring influence upon
of Europe from the spiritual-scientific point of view you
well as all the other contributions which Spiritual Science
others come from the Macrocosm by spiritual channels through
lectures, grow into the spiritual world and in so doing
spiritual perception will have made his soul capable of using
becoming evident on the physical plane. The spiritual
be gasping for spiritual concepts. Those who want to retain
a certain sense it is the adherents of Spiritual Science who
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Ten: Rosicrucian WIsdom in Folk-Mythology
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doubt that the Spiritual Science we have been studying for
to speak of how the ideas of Spiritual Science are being made
spiritual nourishment you have yourselves received has had
I can speak of this spread of spiritual-scientific thought in
The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind.
is a need and also a longing for what we call Spiritual
spiritual thoughts into real nourishment for our souls. You
our own epoch and see how its spiritual aspect appears to
attempt now and then to hear about the spiritual guidance and
leadership of the world, about the spiritual forces and
spiritual nourishment has found very little. This longing has
spiritual nourishment, whatever his position in life and
near future very little spiritual nourishment would be left.
spiritual life were still present, although in a different
spiritual traditions handed down from the past.
truly spiritual life and no external culture. Everything that
fact that although in certain periods spiritual striving
under the guidance of the spiritual life, the very smallest
regions where it can understand the spiritual life, and
trying to let concepts and ideas which mirror the spiritual
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Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: Lecture 1: The Poetry of Fairy Tales
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fairy tales in the light of spiritual science.
soul. The methods of spiritual science that I have often described
spiritual research does find it possible to throw some light into
the explanations of spiritual science will touch those depths so
resources of spiritual research is to discover something quite
person who attempts the spiritual exploration of the fairy tale
fairy tale substance flowing through its spiritual veins.
the higher worlds, you will discover, at a certain level of spiritual
knowledge, the spiritual processes working unconsciously in the
emerging out of a spiritual world where there is thinking and where
is often the same story with the spiritual researcher, even when he
has progressed as far as experiencing a world of spiritual beings and
spiritual deeds. However much further he then advances, he
whose deep unconsciousness there come towards him spiritual impulses,
impulses connected with himself. They appear to his spiritual gaze
unfathomable spiritual relationships belonging to the human soul. It
such soul conflict discovered by spiritual research takes place
engaged in a battle that the spiritual researcher can catch only to a
the wing by spiritual research; it occurs at the moment of falling
spiritual existence between falling asleep and waking up.
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Vierter Vortrag, Berlin, 6. Januar 1914
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Fortgang im Sinne der Spiritualität braucht. Dazu aber

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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we seek through spiritual knowledge, the Spirit who for the salvation
be sought in spiritual worlds. Certain things were said about these
spiritual world. Today I propose to direct our study more to
that path to the spiritual world which the human soul can take while
it is still in the body, in order to find those spiritual realms
the spiritual worlds that is suitable for souls of the present day
spiritual world only when it is not using the instrument of the body.
to have experience of the spiritual worlds, we must find the
experience the spiritual world while outside the body. Moreover it is
always possible, once observations of the spiritual world have been
how it enters the spiritual world. A week ago we spoke of this from
The spiritual world can be
reality of the spiritual world; he realizes that the spiritual world,
the spiritual world without previously feeling forsaken by the
spiritual world all kinds of hindrances which prevent this from
threshold of the spiritual world. When one reaches the point I have
just described, one is actually on the threshold of the spiritual
them to the threshold of the spiritual world, but I will allude to
curious experiences in this respect. When the spiritual
months and said that spiritual science was not for her because it
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Title: Lecture IV: WHITSUN: A Symbol of the Immortality of the Ego
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spiritual, and that it is vitally urgent to work for the development
we recall many things made real to us by Spiritual Science. Think only
and powers of nature. But because the birth of which Spiritual Science
nature when he has separated from her spiritually, as he does in
sleep, when in his ego and astral body he has gone into the spiritual
we have to receive the spiritual, means that, in doing so, we bring
with him and enters the spiritual world whence descended that
Divine-Spiritual Being Who in Jesus of Nazareth actually passed
spiritual than is our own, what I have just said would be recognised
that he is connected with spiritual nature, with that nature that
the spiritual. — In our days these things have been forgotten.
understanding of spiritual truths such as these.
us as that which is supremely spiritual, our Ego. We know something of
with the higher spirituality, so we can say that the Ego represents
spiritual realm which is neither nature nor the world of stars, but
frost-bound, we withdraw into ourselves and seek for the spiritual
universal, spiritual, cosmic fire which individualises and in the
spiritual life out of the whole universe. What is bestowed upon
And so for those who are seeking for the spiritual, this festival of
and again for perpetual renewal of the spiritual quest.
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Title: Social Forms: Address: On the Occasion of the General Meeting of the Berlin Branch
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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
spoke of the spiritual world had to speak of a sickness, of a
spiritual research and from social insight is either thrown
Furthermore, the worst is that what comes from spiritual
the worst way possible. Thus, anthroposophical spiritual
souls who, out of the totality of the principles of spiritual
enter into mankind particularly through spiritual science.
Europe, namely, a re-enlivening of the spiritual life that
Spiritual science is basically the revitalization of this
spiritual life in the form it must take in modern
would have some understanding of what is meant by spiritual
prerequisite had to be placed before the spiritual eye.
spiritual life in their souls. After the publication of the
associate themselves with what is born out of spiritual
spiritual foundations and to represent it in such a way that
Goetheanum. For, in regard to spiritual matters, we are
facing worldwide tasks! Today, we cannot face spiritual

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XVII: Consciousness of Pre-Existence
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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
concepts of anthroposophically oriented spiritual science
the viewpoints of spiritual science will have taken hold of a
speak of the human soul's sojourn in spiritual worlds before
human being was conceived and born, its soul-spiritual entity
was above in soul-spiritual worlds. There, it had experiences
from spiritual science that the human soul does, in fact,
of immortality. Spiritual science cannot appeal to these
motives. In fact, spiritual science will not make any appeal
the spiritual worlds. Penetration into the spiritual worlds
in the face of true spiritual knowledge, has as much
spiritual worlds and has embodied himself in a physical body.
the divine spiritual world; you know that this life here is a
continuation of a spiritual life. Everything that we bear in
is special about spiritual science — it does not just
practical use of anthroposophically oriented spiritual
eternal spiritual world into this physical world. The
descended to him out of spiritual worlds, is the basis of the
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Title: Brotherhood and the Fight for Survival
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Spiritual Scientific Movement know that our first aim is to form the
Spiritual Science are convinced that the deepest recognition of the
Spiritual World, if it is truly and totally taking hold of a person,
knowing is just this mutual help. This Spiritual Scientific World
worldview of Friedrich Nietzsche, which arose out of a spiritual
field of the inner spiritual life that it has true validity.
us who cannot do enough to support this principle. The Spiritual
who has an ideal spiritual power but a weak body or the one who has
less spiritual power but a robust body? As you can see one cannot
relationship. On one hand spiritual life has become more and more
from life. Only in the sixteenth century we see spiritual life
higher spiritual beings descend to act through the individual human
Spiritual Scientific World View, it is not only an image but in the
highest sense, reality. Because of this spiritual scientists are not
spiritual life took the place of the real in-each-other feelings.
reaches its peak. The Spiritual Scientific World View wants to lead
help principle, and you will see that the Spiritual Scientific World
The Spiritual Scientific World View strives to
life as Spiritual Scientific basic statement. Human beings who unite
What does Spiritual Science show us? She shows
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Title: Lecture: Easter
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spiritual significance of the World redeemer was brought into
as a dual being, connecting a psycho-spiritual essentiality
— the psycho-spiritual constitution will in future be
very, very much older than his senses. Spiritual
perception which makes visible the psychic and spiritual.
This making visible of the psycho-spiritual environment was
“resurrection”, “spiritual rebirth”
spiritual perception the Easter festival is not connected
of mankind, who were aware of how the higher spiritual life
for spiritual experience to augment the physical; he is ripe
for spiritual perception. When the growing, evolving physical
of the spiritual. For that rise Dante's vision falls into the
Spiritual Science. Certainly, Karma and redemption through
through Spiritual Science. A Christianity of the future will
complementary in the spiritual world, this great act of
these thoughts of the Easter festival also does Spiritual
(we) read in them, is fundamentally deepened by Spiritual

Title: Lecture: Manifestations of the Unconscious
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with the content of Spiritual Science as presented here. On
are often irksome, because Spiritual Science is bound to show
into the spiritual life; and to be obliged to turn to
if the study of Spiritual Science is free from preconceived
Spiritual Science has to offer. But people are not willing,
above all in the case of Spiritual Science, to apply this
facts presented by Spiritual Science can be investigated only
makes people hesitate to penetrate into Spiritual Science,
spiritual life, people who cannot bring themselves to
approach Spiritual Science itself often prefer to concern
elucidate certain riddles of existence. That is why Spiritual
endeavours to gain knowledge of spiritual reality by investigating
but can only really be understood through Spiritual Science
the true nature of spiritual life. The vast range, the
explained in the light of Spiritual Science must bear in mind
those essentials of genuine spiritual investigation through
phenomena in question. Spiritual Science must depend upon
into the true spiritual life. I must now briefly describe the
spiritual reality must differ from that adopted to external
is experienced in the spiritual world by the soul when free
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 2-8-'13
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far into high spiritual worlds. Moderns don't need anything more to
get into very high spiritual worlds. We must live entirely in
but what's eternal is the spiritual part — what went on in the
equanimity with respect to spiritual experiences, just as we should

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have seen the working of spiritual beings at night, and we would have
willed by the good Gods. Our will would be the will of the spiritual
reverence for high spiritual beings.
man a mighty push forwards into the spiritual world all by itself

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for thoughts are the only spiritual things on the physical plane, and
they assert themselves whenever we get into a spiritual
was imaginary or whether it was a reality in the spiritual realm. One
in the spiritual world at all.
main thing. The most important thing is that the spiritual being who
created through spiritual science belong to the physical plane and
exception of the spiritual-scientific ones mentioned we must

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spiritual worlds again.

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ideas about the spiritual world and also Imaginations very
difficult for men to ascend into spiritual worlds. Their worries are
things in the spiritual world, and when they speak about this we
for the feeling type to get into the spiritual world. When they stand
devils. They would like to enter the spiritual world, but they

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only as if in a sheath in which spiritual forces surge stormily up

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that can help you to get into the spiritual world. Let's recall what
the astral body and ego are outside in the spiritual world. Why is it
like a darkening of the brightness of the spiritual
from consciously experiencing spiritual worlds during sleep. If he
ego lives. Things are different in the spiritual world; we shouldn't
spiritual world are mobile pictures which we recognize to be
elemental beings who work on man's warmth sense. In the spiritual
we wake up the Guardian of the Threshold conceals the spiritual
in day consciousness Ahriman sees to it that the spiritual world is
beings or souls that work on man's spiritual organization disappear
the spiritual world.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 12-28-'04
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astral world behind and we resound in the spiritual world in a full
hindered by our karma, character and circumstances. In the spiritual
The spiritual world resounds in spheres.
has a name in the spiritual world that will be disclosed to us in the
course of developments; it's not our earthly name. The spiritual world

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-4-10
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east. The pupil can orient himself in the spiritual, he no longer falls
now stand and walk in the spiritual.
spiritual life flows from the lines in between.

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pupil hears a spiritual sound from the east. But if a pupil would now want
to say that he knew what the spiritual sounds like, that he had now heard
his first spiritual sound, he would be making a big mistake. For this sound
The spiritual world is for
colors that we might see are nothing spiritual — they come from our
nothing spiritual, but something that comes out of us. If someone becomes
think about them. We should look upon and treat our whole spiritual
sounds, colors, etc. don't come from the spiritual realm but
phenomena are nothing spiritual, we must let our ego go and as it
occult experience. After we've seen that the spiritual world is empty for
and dead as the cross's wood. Then the higher, spiritual ego
it's the ones that make us suffer that are genuine and from the spiritual
until we've grasped their meaning. The spiritual from them must

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 12-20-10
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that's just pseudonym for the highest spiritual being. Only the

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-17-11
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us up into the spiritual world. If a man thinks of a scoundrel or

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by beings in the spiritual world, so that we feel: now we're
see and hear things in the spiritual world that one has never seen or
over there will never be able to press into the spiritual world. That's

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 6-12-11
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us whether we exhale this spiritual substance again as lethal air or
and not just for us. If we inhale this spiritual substance without
we increase these spiritual forces around the earth.
spiritual substance around us flow into us, to build up our cognition
What is it that we take in with this spiritual substance? It's
this spiritual substance and to take in Christ completely with it, so

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 10-24-11
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with all of our might to make a connection with the spiritual world,
and dullness with respect to spiritual worlds. Many pupils listen to an
can't raise themselves spiritually or occupy themselves with
spiritual thoughts. Others are curious and would like to see or
experience something in the spiritual world, and they mediate without

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but the more we learn to look into spiritual worlds, the more we'll see
that a number of spiritual beings are working in us — often to undo
every disease has a physical cause and also a spiritual one that must
would immediately take us up into the spiritual world before we took
respect to the spiritual world. We take over Azael's work when
starry heavens we have before us is the result of spiritual beings
penetrate the spiritual world.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-6-12
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that one should practice is one of thankfulness towards spiritual

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-7-12
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even when we meet the most beloved people. The spiritual
that conditions pure spiritual life. But this doesn't'
friends at the same spiritual level, but it's important that

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-26-12
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seeing the sun at midnight, and meeting spiritual beings face to
exercises are designed to bring us into the spiritual world, but

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 4-24-12
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try to grasp it purely spiritually, and place a second picture beside
pure mother forces that a man could only be given in the spiritual
this spiritual force. The father or upbuilding nature force works in
mother force, we must strive and work in spiritual things ourselves.
that awakens spiritual life if we devote ourselves to it consciously.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-8-12
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gotten further in his experience of the spiritual world. But this may
“It's raining,” where one feels the spiritual
other meditations and will by themselves lead one into the spiritual

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture I: Aim and Being of Spiritual Research
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Aim and Being of Spiritual Research
and Being of Spiritual Research
talks about objects of spiritual science here in Berlin in this
deal with the aim and being of spiritual research as I mean
one speaks of the aims of spiritual research, one refers,
particular, spiritual science wants to consider this fact. It
Spiritual science is misjudged very easily and is still
wrong. Spiritual science wants to be an immediate continuation
human thinking and imagination. At first spiritual science has
I have to emphasise repeatedly that spiritual science
penetrate into the spiritual life of humanity. I need only to
point to the real aim of the human spiritual striving, and you
the course of the human spiritual development finds that
mental and spiritual. Somebody who stands on the viewpoint that
learnt to expel anything spiritual from nature to consider
even so far that spiritual science presents
There we can say that spiritual science just turns to cognitive
misunderstandings or even as dishonesty to spiritual science. I
have to say, while this spiritual science tries to find the
from the everyday consciousness is necessary, so that spiritual
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture II: The Human Being as Being of Soul and Spirit
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of freedom spiritual-scientifically is the task of the whole
Spiritual science generally is in a peculiar relation to the
know that I have stressed repeatedly that spiritual science
consideration of the real spiritual life. Only the scientific
in such a way that spiritual science has a rough ride to find
One may say that the anthroposophically oriented spiritual
spiritual science the sometimes indeed well intentioned, but
spiritual science a hard fight to find understanding with our
rug out under the feet of any spiritual science. On one side
spiritual, and it solely claims the character of scientificity
like to stress that spiritual science stands even in the
Spiritual science can agree even with such a hard condemnation
Spiritual science represented here can also not agree with this
viewpoint of spiritual science, natural sciences behave,
actually, to spiritual science in such a way as somebody who
behaves to that who can read them. Spiritual science tries to
Spiritual science is rather something for which one has to work
spiritual science has a rough ride today to penetrate because
blank out the spiritual from the soul more or less, to consider
being as a spiritual being resembles someone who wants to
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture III: Goethe as Father of Spiritual Research
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Goethe as Father of Spiritual Research
Goethe as Father of Spiritual Research
name while making a relationship to spiritual science, because
of spiritual life.
fact, that such a person inclined to the spiritual like Johann
spiritual science to the Goethean natural sciences. Above all,
spiritual world? — You still face doubt, indecision.
that is like a spiritually instinctive experience in Goethe's
appears with him who argued from immediate spiritual
spiritual life really in nature. You know that Goethe did not
Then the thinking about the thinking changes into a spiritual
spiritual views, to the beholding consciousness as I have
become concrete. Goethe knew from a spiritual instinct that the
and get to the beholding consciousness, so that the spiritual
look at the thinking spiritually. He could never understood if
the ability of the spiritual beholding consciously, is impaired
existed with Goethe as an inner spiritual desire, he did not
development of the beholding consciousness, of those spiritual
forces, which really lead into the spiritual world, into the
outward at first, to nature which he considered spiritually in
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture IV: Mind, Soul and Body of the Human Being
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life with the effectiveness of the real spiritual life in the
spiritual science has to build a bridge from the soul to the
the human being as a spiritual being if one only wants to stop
build the bridge from the mere soul experience to the spiritual
the like. However, you cannot consider the spiritual life of
usual soul life to the spiritual nature of the human being.
spiritual science must absolutely intend. How often
spiritual-scientific method. What the biologist what the
physiologist does for the body, the spiritual researcher does
spiritual researcher it is also necessary.
However, it is inevitable that the spiritual researcher and
believe, while natural sciences use strict methods, spiritual
real spiritual research methodically strict, patient, vigorous
which is necessary to get to serious spiritual-scientific
to spiritual research settles in such a pursuit of mental
actually, for the mental and spiritual life. Since, indeed,
coming from the spiritual outer world.
from the spiritual area, and causes a soul life, controlled by
spiritual reality. As the outer observation regulates the
gradually becomes a mediator of a spiritual reality. You have
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture V: Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
spiritual world with such experimental art is a fallacy,
spiritual insight of a physical process, and knows which
happen which remind you of spiritual manifestations —
it to such a conviction must be spiritual and has nothing to do
spiritual in the imagining. You have to say, the right method
This is only one of the ways at first, which the spiritual
the spiritually active, actually, in the human soul. You do the
The spiritual researcher can meet something quite similar,
transferred into the spiritual-mental, if he has brought the
spiritual that is independent of the body. Indeed, you get
gradually to the immediate view of a spiritual world because
the way to the spirit the spiritual researcher can absolutely
consciousness being, then just the way to the spiritual puts
the spiritual world. Since you have to know on one side that
spiritual research. Then there you discover that in this human
spiritual-mental human being lives who goes through births and
deaths. You get to know this spiritual-mental human being how
close to spiritual science from the other side. For you could
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture VI: The Historical Life of Humanity and Its Riddles
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Today we want to examine which position spiritual science has
evolution beyond spiritual science. Since the historical life
things, in particular as a spiritual scientist; we will
life and its riddles spiritual-scientifically. You have to put
questions, however, I have to adduce something from spiritual
with something objective spiritual-mental as with our own
spiritual-mental, with our mental pictures and percepts.
impulses with the objective spiritual are in the subconscious.
We oversleep this connection with the spiritual-mental, and
If you learn to behold in the spiritual world, you know:
develop pictures from the contact with this spiritual world by
supersensible beholding by which you get to the real spiritual
beholding in a spiritual reality, so that the Imaginations are
no imaginations, but reproductions of spiritual reality,
spiritual reality beyond us. You learn to recognise that with
to know the spiritual world as far as the will impulses that
spiritual reality.
spiritual science. Hence, it appeared to him to be the only
the spiritual-scientific consideration. Below the
consciousness that can imagine the spiritual. Imaginative
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture VIII: The Animal and Human Realms. Their Origin and Development
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results of the spiritual-scientific research concerning the
discussions: the fact that the results of spiritual-scientific
but that which shall be said from the viewpoint of spiritual
the direction which spiritual-scientific thinking has to take
spiritual-scientific history of evolution consists of the fact
originate only on the ground of spiritual science are necessary
spiritual science settles more in the human souls.
The “spiritualists” are on the other side —
“spiritualists” in the sense of German philosophy.
basis of all being and becoming, and that the spiritual
spiritualists emphasise, above all, that the
spiritual science whether somebody takes materialism or
spiritualism as starting point. The only which spiritual
spiritualist and does not deal with the spirit purely
material, then the spiritualist also understands the bases and
the true spiritual-scientific researcher is quite different. It
that this research can be lifted into the spiritual.
real being. This is also the sense of spiritual-scientific
deal with that which one can call “spiritual eyes”
and “spiritual ears” to have a spiritual world
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture IX: The Supersensible Human Being
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sense. Hence, one misunderstands spiritual-scientific research
an experienced spiritual researcher, and he is able to know
spiritual researcher that he eliminates everything from that
soul activity which should lead him to spiritual research
spiritual-scientific research. Furthermore, everything has to
prepare yourself for spiritual research. You can learn from
“followers” of spiritual science and say that you
“spiritual science” which may cause a lot of ease
people who want to be serious critics of spiritual research
a great stir confuses this spiritual research with its
to the spiritual world according to the methods of spiritual
understood any trace of that which I mean here with spiritual
forms the usual consciousness, and which is spiritual. The fact
through it who trains himself as spiritual researcher in the
spiritual-scientifically knows that the ego-experience that is
thinking is already something spiritual: my
which spiritualises the body of formative forces like a
particularly: someone who wants to become a spiritual
coming objectively into this spiritual world. He can be very
With it, I do not want to say that spiritual-scientific
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture X: The Questions of Free Will and Immortality
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belong intimately together from the spiritual-scientific
spiritual-scientific discussion must take ways that are
spiritual-scientific consideration needs to show more exactly
spiritual-scientific consideration, just about these questions
to put yourself in a position by the spiritual-scientific
spiritual experience exactly, because an error can arise in two
seen how already the spiritual researcher takes every
precaution on his way to the spiritual that strictly reject the
mental-spiritual, maybe it is a cover of anything
spiritual-mental. You have exactly to distinguish the whole
spiritual researcher considers as Imaginative consciousness.
spiritual world if the activity with which you enter it is as
forms the basis of the work of a spiritual researcher appears
Now, however, you are in the spiritual-mental world. But you
spiritual world. That which the soul experiences in the
level that the spiritual researcher reaches if he wants to
penetrate into the spiritual world.
further in your spiritual development, while you divert the
spiritual-mentally at first something appears that manifests
only had pictures first, a spiritual-mental reality appears
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Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture I: Schiller's Life and Characteristic Quality
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are the relations of the animal and spiritual natures in
Schiller, even the material body has something spiritual. There
Nature is to him a beauty-filled picture of the spiritual. The

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture II: Schiller's Work and its Changing Phases
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spiritual struggles found expression in the temperament
spiritual life is divided into two halves. That which is to be
Schiller. Anyone who follows the course of the spiritual life,

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spiritual in abstractions and striving to create it immediately
a word which we can only apply to the higher spiritual realm.
“cause” in man, what a newer spiritual science
and bearing of a friendship which rests on the spiritual. And

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture IV: Schiller's Weltanschauung and his Wallenstein
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“Everything in the world derives from a spiritual basis.

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spiritual order, but simultaneously, because he is a material
higher spiritual world — that is for Schiller the meaning
mankind back to the source from which the spiritual sprang, of

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working from the spiritual world. It is this something
his spiritual powers; there is infinitely much more he might
continued activity of Schiller's idealism in the spiritual

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man who can rise to subtle spiritual heights. To understand
never did. His ideal was always truth, but truth on a spiritual
greatness and breadth of his spiritual horizons: the world of
the spiritual content of his time. He felt himself especially a
of the spiritual hidden in the actual, not of the everyday
spiritual and the poverty of the sense-world that Schiller
world, but to be the heralds of a higher spiritual reality.
which shall in time raise that knowledge to spiritual reality.

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part of what is perceptible and lacks the spiritual; nor can we
in the human soul. Later on, men demanded to see the spiritual
materialisation of the spiritual. At that time, there was a
we nowadays call spiritualism engaged men's attention. In
spiritual in the external world instead of in himself, is
strong enough to waken the spiritual in his own soul, is
longing for the spiritual leads men downwards when he looks for
he only seeks to find the spiritual appearing in sensible form,
can penetrate to the spiritual. The spiritual has to unveil
is the true secret of the spiritual; that is why the artist
worthy material of the spiritual. At first the beautiful was
existed another means for the awakening of the spiritual: when
vision of the spiritual.
rises to greater and greater heights of spiritual insight, and
seeks to grasp the spiritual, so that he may impress it upon

Title: The Situation of the World
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Spiritual investigation cannot meddle with the immediate
believe that spiritual science floats in the clouds above
human heart. The spiritual-scientific investigator must
to tell you that spiritual science should make us practical;
Even within our spiritual-scientific Movement some people
viewed from the aspect of a spiritual conception of the world
for an ascent to a spiritual outlook.
foundation of spiritual science. I might adduce many facts
can develop a spiritual vision. The eye acquires sun-like
Spiritual science distinguishes in the present
penetrate into spiritual science this will be quite clear to
see, the great acquisition which spiritual development
spiritual- scientific world-conception to develop really and
the development of spiritual life can permeate us with the
Human Race in spiritual life. A real Society of Peace is one
spiritual-scientific current is the true Peace Movement, if is
Spiritual life always developed as a stream that came from the
East. The East is the region where spiritual life was fostered.
physical world. We must ascend to the spiritual with
spiritual life will find light upon the path, for the second
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Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Human Body
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spiritual-scientific research from a wide spectrum of different
spiritual directions of thought and investigation of recent
physical or spiritual. And perhaps there is no realm in which
everything of a spiritual nature. I want to link what I have to
spiritual scientific research — when one investigates the
spiritual science. As we perceive with our senses we constantly
admiration. Spiritual science must only be clear about the
to in this world. However, spiritual science must then be
consciousness. But when the spiritual scientific researcher
Spiritual science will one day throw light on this question
vanished and one has accepted the help which spiritual science
spiritual science shows that forming mental images is connected
spiritual science — so feeling is connected, in a similar
it comes out of the spiritual world and unites itself with the
descends out of the spiritual world, just this will one day be
prepares before birth or conception out of spiritual
spiritual world for a long time before any of the physical
in the physical world. For the spiritual researcher it is just
spiritual realm, as well as of the fact that in the spiritual
physiology. For the spiritual researcher, however, it is just
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Title: Lecture: Riddles of the Soul and Riddles of the Universe
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the last lecture I sought to show how in the spiritual culture
itself to the spiritual investigator. This aspect reveals
course of further, extensive spiritual-scientific research.
that is in the sphere of insight into spiritual reality, when,
Therefore, the spiritual-scientific researcher more and more
holds true for the one whose point of view is a spiritual view
research in spiritual fields must, in regard to any world
spiritual can only manifest itself within the soul when one is
that element reveal itself which is rooted in the spiritual
reality. It is for this reason that spiritual science is not
refuted. The spiritual scientist realizes that that which is
attitude of heart and mind of the spiritual researcher is, and
said: as things have developed in recent spiritual education
of looking at the relationships of the soul-spiritual to the
fact that one actually only seeks for the soul- spiritual
assigns the soul- spiritual exclusively to the brain and
one speaks of the soul-spiritual, more or less as a kind of
tried to make clear the results of spiritual research in this
the assertions which I have made from the spiritual scientific
Spiritual science yields the following. Natural scientific
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Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture I
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healing. In any healing, spiritual science was always involved. Thus,
this to be avoided it is necessary for spiritual life to run
spiritual life has the effect of paralysing the germs of sickness
surrounding nature not what we see today but the spiritual. Present-day
surrounding nature differently from how we do. To spiritual science
with its spiritual vision this is perfectly clear, but the knowledge,
thus brought to the surface so vividly through spiritual vision, can be
said this is capable of external proof. To spiritual vision it is
been said before. During the time when spiritual forces still arose
in its hunger, thirst, its satiation, these spiritual forces poured
into the sense-organs. And these spiritual forces, streaming up from
spirit — as spiritual science enables us to do. But acquiring
this faculty through spiritual science we shall take the opposite
must be poured what should stream from above as spiritual life into the
conditions, a man has still to seek his connection with the spiritual
spiritual life in men with power to form healing forces out of
the faculty for bringing down spiritual forces of the soul from the
spiritual heights; they must reveal nature to us, show us what nature

Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture II
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nineteenth century an event of spiritual importance took place; that
archangelic Being, Michael, over opposing spiritual forces. We will
look upon this as an event taking place in the spiritual World and
connected with mankind's history. It is in the spiritual world that
spiritual world about 1879, and from 1914 on the necessity arose for
men on earth to establish a harmonious relation with this spiritual
spiritual powers concerned with the guidance of mankind, should come
to submit themselves to the will of those spiritual beings. This would
all spiritual life on earth. In the course of human evolution there
in the spiritual life.
taking place in the spiritual world. Indeed precisely in the case of
artists could perceive how the spiritual revealed itself, and they
— this phantasy did not create as if the spiritual appeared in
being was involved in the events which, out of the spiritual world t,
speak of man's earthly pilgrimage without referring to the spiritual
spiritual.
secular events on earth but not the underlying, significantv spiritual
endowed, too, with a spiritual content. We, on the other hand, have an
intelligence devoid of spiritual content, a formal intelligence; for in
knowledge; and thirdly, spiritual knowledge, coming from the spiritual
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture I
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The Influence of Spiritual Beings on Man
higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
speak from the aspect of Spiritual Science about various facts and beings
of spiritual matters who have reached a more advanced stage. This must
pertaining to the higher spheres of spiritual science. It is possible
that someone who has only lately met the truths of Spiritual Science
is spiritualized in comparison with the uniform food juice, the chyle.
important it is to know about human nutrition from the aspect of spiritual
the spiritual beings which are absorbed into man with his food. It is one
of the means by which the great spiritual guidance of the earth distributes
not lead in a round-about way to materialism: spiritual science shows how
a way unknown to man spiritual influences are themselves diffused within
spiritual standpoint if one wants to be clear about life. Much could
the spiritual influences everywhere — and if the influences are
understand Spiritual Science one discovers it to be a very complicated
is intended to evolve to higher and higher spirituality he has acquired
can afterwards be checked. When, equipped with the knowledge of spiritual
They have been revealed by the higher Spiritual Beings to man so that
merely physical commonplaceness to a completely spiritual stream. If
understand in ever deeper sense the task of Spiritual Science.
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture II
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spiritual beings have seven members of their being. Christ, the
of man in terms of Spiritual Science we say that the whole man —

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture III
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of natural science and spiritual science. The Kant-Laplace theory.
The earlier embodiments of the Earth as deeds of spiritual beings,
standing at different levels of evolution. Additional spiritual
beings and laggard spiritual beings. Separation of the sun, and
spiritual beings. The Mars transit and iron. Separation of moon,
no opportunity of throwing light upon the higher realms of spiritual
existence from a spiritual aspect.
important advance in science to speak of spiritual forces and spiritual
views that are drawn out of a spiritual conception of the world.
the method employed by modern science; it does not contradict the spiritual
is vastly superior to everything put forward by spiritual research.
of the separate cosmic globes, spiritual forces and spiritual beings
them really need not see them. So, spiritual forces and spiritual beings
to what we know as atmosphere today it was spiritual. It was entirely
of a spiritual nature and within the Saturn evolution man began his
from the purely spiritual devachanic state and received for the first
to our solar system — far beyond Uranus. To spiritual science
what is seen coming forth from a spiritual condition is not merely a
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture IV
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the spiritual evolution that lies within spatial and material evolution
than we did before. In the last lecture we saw how spiritual beings
describes to us inaccurately, but Theosophy or spiritual science exactly
original substance, and have recognized that spiritual beings of various
lectures how spiritual science does not see merely physical material
and material, spiritual beings of various grades. These may be beings
system, or they may be spiritual beings of a lower kind who hinder and
bring about a living feeling of the existence of such spiritual beings
mantle spiritual substance, spiritual beings, and these were at a much
From the whole ranks of spiritual beings who were present in the atmosphere
in a spiritual sense, then the myths disclose their truth in a surprising
light he would have perceived the passions of spiritual beings —
which worked from out-side, from the spiritual airy circles of the Sun
in the universe, but in such a way that they were embedded in the spiritual
Thus we see that we grasp the evolution of the world from its spiritual
we look into cosmic space, spiritual beings and their deeds. Through
weave and have our being within the spiritual beings and their deeds.

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture V
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varied points of view. For when we let our spiritual gaze sweep back
arise from the fact that even to spiritual vision a matter can be seen
in what we call the Akashic Record when we look back in spiritual vision
interesting to look back with spiritual vision to this ancient time
has been produced from coarse matter and that his spiritual faculties
itself in the human being later than the spiritual forces, and this

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VI
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Lord of Form. Impulse of the laggard spirits. The future spiritualizing
of human love, of the love that is continually being spiritualized.
slow development of his spiritual nature during his bodily existence,
in the perfected development of spirituality. If they had remained in
to be imprinted into man as pure, spiritual love. All lower love is
developed to spirituality, burning himself up bodily through-out evolution.
the bodies, spiritualizing them, after many incarnations have been passed
of Wisdom had not renounced the immediate spiritualizing of man at the
torn man away out of the body, led him to a rapid spiritual evolution
to the earth, it would never have been spiritualized.
reaches the point where man will have spiritualized himself fully, then
ennobled human form to complete spiritualization. And we see how human
beings are spiritualized. If we were to see the original human bodies
as “Spiritualization” or, as it is popularly called, the
will never be able to imagine that matter could one day be spiritualized
that is, that someday something will come about which one calls spiritualization,
and remoulded to the spiritual. And after the Egyptian-Chaldean-Assyrian-Babylonian
man will know and thence ascend to the recognition of the highest spiritual
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VII
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higher spiritual hierarchies in cosmic evolution.
The spiritual hierarchies above man. The different
Genuine occultism, true spiritual science, cannot share the usual trivial
relationship to the Godhead.” The student of spiritual science
evolution of the earth as it corresponds to them, these spiritual Beings
that those peoples who were still conscious of such a spiritual connection,
of the characteristics of a folk. In reality there is a spiritual representative,
worship. Moreover, where there was a consciousness of this spiritual
Other spiritual beings
the study of the spiritual worlds one should not be satisfied with general
at various times to the fact that certain beings from each spiritual
of spiritual science. The Lawful Prince is one of the “Powers,”
even people who are ready to acknowledge the other spiritual beings
but darkness is not real — and they made that apply spiritually.
of the spiritual structure into which man is interwoven, in so far as

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VIII
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The understanding through feeling of spiritual-scientific knowledge.
ourselves as spiritual beings, but to whom we have so far paid little
beings, to higher spiritual beings who formerly played that part in
accustomed to call the old Moon, and we know that certain spiritual
and a spiritual part, which broadly speaking make up the threefold being
There are beings which clairvoyant sight cannot recognize as spiritual,
with their so-called group ego, and that this is itself of a spiritual
as it were, towards the higher worlds and linked to spirituality. I
of these elemental beings which take various forms and occupy the spiritual
indeed a specific result of spiritual evolution.
astral body because they lack a spiritual nature. No ego works upon
transformed to ever higher stages up to the highest spiritual form.
man back in his evolution we come to more and more spiritual forms.
our existence. Much of what interpenetrates our spiritual space and
right way the deep spirituality and healing nature of the Anthroposophical
will bring from the anthroposophical spiritual stream a certain saying

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture IX
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future, spiritual truth will create the union between individualities.
beings who definitely exist amongst us. They are spiritual beings who
rôle in a not very far distant time of our spiritual evolution,
creatures before our spiritual eyes. We were considering one of the
observations of the spiritual-super-sensible worlds — if one may
this etheric aura and also entirely interpenetrated by the spiritual
the spiritual-science world-conception speaks today. Such a phenomenon
time man was still aware of the spiritual processes and spiritual beings
of hazy, nebulous outlines, in the night he lived among spiritual beings
then state of consciousness. Wotan or Zeus or other super-sensible spiritual
that something else was united with this living into the spiritual super-sensible
but as a sort of limb of spiritual beings. He belonged to higher spiritual
of the divine spiritual beings. That was the beginning of his feeling
its consciousness is connected directly with the spiritual world, and
Gospel can grasp with spiritual hands, so to speak, that that is true.
reports are made. For matters of spiritual reality one needs no documents;
of spiritual “scripts.” But we can see how the advance from
from a spiritual aspect will have to recognize a most important period
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture X
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bodies, man's nerve and blood systems are cared for by spiritual
loosening of the etheric body takes place again. Inner spiritual
were particularly occupied with the presence of all sorts of spiritual
seen that the elemental beings called by spiritual science “Salamanders”
has been called forth by a spiritual principle when this spiritual principle
arise the co-operation of spiritual beings with man is justified. But
of spiritual science which is extraordinarily important for the practical
only when viewed in the light of spiritual science that events in the
significance of the statement: “Regarded from the spiritual-scientific
takes place in the spiritual world when man lies, which has a far more
world. But things which one relates at a certain stage of spiritual-scientific
of spiritual science.
of spiritual science. In many respects man's whole life is saturated,
man is a spiritual unity, that what happens in his higher members, the
effect on the human physical body. Spiritual vision can experience the
been detached from the spiritual world. Such beings, detached in this
at such phenomena of the soul: in spiritual life one must be able to
beings working in from the spiritual worlds and these likewise are now
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture XI
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Man's union with spiritual beings through
music as union with the astral bodies of spiritual beings. In
soul nature and these spiritual beings man can grasp the space
The words of the spiritual world which the consciousness soul
will again be image of the spiritual reality. The mission of Spiritual
co-operation between man and the spiritual worlds. Spiritual beings
between man and the spiritual beings of his environment, merely in the
is also formed between man and the spiritual world through his many
had to indicate spiritual beings of a somewhat subordinate character.
But from earlier lectures we know that we also have to do with spiritual
exist between man and more sublime spiritual beings. We have said that
there are lofty spiritual beings living around us who do not consist
spiritual beings whose lowest member is the astral body, presenting
beings live, so to speak, out of the spiritual worlds and extend their
spiritual beings to dwell among men are given, for instance, by the
Art is a true and actual uniting link between man and the spiritual
here on earth as the bond between the spiritual world and our earth,
forces of attraction for the spiritual beings whose mission it is to
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture. Winter Session, 1911-1912
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Art. Our aim, of course, is that the spiritual life shall be carried
important to bring this spiritual life into Art is that Spiritual
of Spiritual Science to achieve this by external subtlety or
know, Spiritual Science calls for a certain intimacy. It would be
inappropriate for Spiritual Science. Ancient Greek theatre might be
Spiritual Science that they may not be understood today, but it will
be different when Spiritual Science finds its way into the many
the space, and so on, for the cultivation of spiritual knowledge.
— how eager people are to acquire knowledge of the spiritual
have discovered that in our stream of spiritual life, things are not
make it easy for anybody to reach the spiritual world. And yet as the
spiritual Individuality, Christian Rosenkreutz, of whom the members
Spiritual Science has been deepened, although it has not been made
Spiritual or to Natural Science, is incapable of approaching subjects
century. This has been done, for instance, in my book, The Spiritual
over there it is said that He will appear as a Spiritual Being only.

Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 2: Evidences of Bygone Ages In Modern Civilisation
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was, she could not marry, for she belonged to the spiritual worlds, but
first came to know her in the spiritual world; she then descends into
spiritual world — not in the form in which it is expressed in European
spiritual being, a great organism permeated by spirit-and-soul. We do
the more material element — whereas the spiritual principle came
formerly been received directly from the spiritual world but were now
spirituality of the Heavens. The Atlantean peoples saw the birth of a
human being as a direct embodiment of the Spiritual, a descent of the
Spiritual into the Material. As we today see the rain falling from
begin with, in the spiritual world and then seeks bodily substance in
was seen as a heavenly being, a being from the spiritual world. For it
that he was clothed in matter. The transition from the spiritual world
spiritual world ... on the contrary, he saw clearly that there was
connection with the spiritual world survived the Atlantean
so the perfectly natural communion with the spiritual world very soon
turned its gaze into the spiritual world around, was born again later
the spiritual world.
evolution, accepts them as self-evident. Understanding of Spiritual
then they are spared from believing anything! Spiritual Science will
path, can be applied even in the most hidden recesses of spiritual and
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 3: 'Chance' and Present-day Consciousness. An Easter Meditation
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If in the light of Spiritual Science, we consider “chance”
there is no Divine-Spiritual conformity to law, nor anything like it.
clearly that Spiritual Science is right when it asserts that what lies
rigid conformity to law, appears, finally, as evidence of spiritual
as the “Foolish Virgins.” On the other hand, Spiritual
world with what we learn from Spiritual Science, a very remarkable
deal may be learnt if it is viewed in the light of Spiritual Science.
spiritual life in religion. That the rites in this case had not
their spiritual pastor ... The two friends finally decided to do the
spiritual element is mingled with egoistic, human interests, bringing
connected with the spiritual life. What is to be expected, in the
light of the principles of Spiritual Science known to us? Because
Spiritual Science. But it will not be possible to speak of
the standpoint of Spiritual Science will say: Here is a direct
to perceive the meaning, and spiritual observation is required to
of the Spiritual, the Spiritual of which man, too, is part. The
Spiritual would have been operating in an occurrence of the kind
emancipated themselves altogether from the Spiritual, or that they
Spiritual. What is all important is to see through the illusion, the
about by the spiritual worlds! He will look down upon them as
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spiritual worlds and have, in their own way, expressed in words, we
to spiritual knowledge and to Initiation, great revelations have been
observation of the spiritual world had led me to “member” the
Consciousness or Spiritual Soul. Knowledge of the threefold soul was
directed to the spiritual world quite independently of any tradition.
of spiritual investigation.
which are also to be found in lower forms of life. Spiritual Science,
“members” of the soul having flowed down from a spiritual
world. Therefore when we look into the spiritual world we can speak of
three down-flowing streams, with which three Beings in the spiritual
We know that the moment our consciousness rises into the spiritual
the outpouring of the threefold human soul from the spiritual world.
spiritual research. The human being of today has the outer form we see
Origin of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science,” and “The
Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science.”)
remained in the spiritual world above; his development began only when
acquired today of the spiritual worlds. The Kalewala is an example of
Approaching the matter with the spiritual knowledge in our possession
allusion to a connection between the spiritual life of ancient Finland
April, 1914.) One then realised that the essence of Spiritual Science
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 5: The Idea of Reincarnation and Its Introduction Into Western Culture
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WHEN we think of all the achievements of the spiritual life, all the
insight into the spiritual world and conceptions of the universe which
investigated by Spiritual Science, it becomes clear that the human
vision into the spiritual worlds have never since been equalled, nor
certain forms of spiritual life there is a decline, followed again, in
significance of the spiritual world lying behind and beyond the
spiritual worlds. This will serve as an illustration of the
that its impulse is only beginning and that the spiritual heights
Christianity has been deepened by Spiritual Science.
has knowledge of the great cosmic Laws revealed today by Spiritual
we are on the threshold of a great change in the spiritual life, are
on the forces which flow onwards through the stream of spiritual
In the lecture on “The Prophet Elijah in the Light of Spiritual
Baptist. But through Spiritual Science and a deepened understanding,
Spiritual Science teaches concerning the Christ-Impulse. What a light
(not events in the spiritual world) which took place after he was
through Spiritual Science, we understand what it is that Raphael has
the following may be said. If we steep ourselves in Spiritual Science
Inspirations of the greatest grandeur concerning matters of Spiritual
of Spiritual Science, to render the theosophical conception of human
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arises in life and in the sphere of philosophy. Study of Spiritual
question, for although we know that investigation of the spiritual
An analogy that is entirely in line with the attitude of Spiritual
As students of Spiritual Science, we do not ask about the
“next” goal, and so on. Thus if it were ever suggested that Spiritual
beyond the ordinary world into a spiritual world, in reality his
spiritual world and present the outer world to him as a sense-world,
undivided existence in which a single flow of spiritual life pervaded
And conscience could not be experienced as a spiritual force sending
physical body. In the Gods they are spiritual impulses. But among the
remarkable fact in the spiritual evolution of Earth-existence throws
you that certain spiritual, superhuman forces were held back in the
spiritual worlds at the beginning of the evolutionary process on the
explanation of how the spiritual world plays into the physical world,
Spiritual conscience must be sharpened in this respect; otherwise all
spiritual Movement within the framework of the “Theosophical
sharpness of conscience that is the pre-requisite of a spiritual
spiritual power which was kept back in the ancient Lemurian time in
been united with the spiritual atmosphere of the Earth and can there
present in the spiritual atmosphere of the Earth. The great turn given
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could only arise in an epoch when the Divine Spiritual was known to
plane and with the Spiritual pervading the physical plane.
expresses the striving of man towards the Divine-Spiritual. But these
could help them to find the way to the Divine-Spiritual. They needed
he ascend into the region of Divine Spiritual life. The Initiate of
find the path to the Divine-Spiritual. It is extremely important to
in ancient times men were much nearer to the Spiritual in their
the physical plane from the heights of Divine-Spiritual existence. But
Divine-Spiritual existence and in the future must re-ascend into the
our present epoch by the consciousness soul (or “spiritual
spiritual import, were blurred and hazy. The forces streaming down
Now that the ascent to the spiritual world must begin, a spiritual
such importance. The re-ascent to the spiritual worlds — this must
at only a few scattered places did men awaken from the great spiritual
knowledge derived from the spiritual worlds, we can perceive the
inspired by the astral body to a spiritual life of soul, primarily in
able to experience the Christ Impulse in the spiritual worlds. But
actual realisation of the influences streaming in from the spiritual
us physically, through his body; after his death he works spiritually,
out of the spiritual world, upon our physical world. He is present in
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 8: Consciousness, Memory, Karma
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writings and lectures you know that through spiritual-scientific
Or rather, in the sense of Spiritual Science it would be better,
Spiritual Science does not provide the deepest moral basis for life
planetary bodies, and Spiritual Science is able to study the
spiritual potency, a spiritual being. What the “ I ”
on as spiritual forms in the universe. What, then, is it in the human

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are sent outwards, towards the outer spiritual world, and that
spiritual world actually as destructive forces. On the other hand, all
forces of selfless thoughts enter into the spiritual life of
age.” But of this we must be clear — The Spiritual Beings, moving
individuality. Anyone with a knowledge of Spiritual Science, if he
It is contrary to every principle of true Spiritual Science to say
Spiritual Science that culture — a spiritual culture — must
principle of Spiritual Science to speak today of continental limits,
vantage-point is not that of Spiritual Science, who has some queer bee
in his bonnet that a kind of wheel revolving in spiritual evolution
Spiritual Science, and would cut across all knowledge of the actual
fact that the spiritual guidance of human beings will become more and
The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind
Individuality, so does the path to the spiritual worlds taken by human
mature, able to discern and perceive those things of which Spiritual
Wherever you look in Spiritual Science as it is presented here, you
becoming more accessible to influences from the spiritual world, the
souls are open to the spiritual worlds and if they strive to grasp
time, the more does such a process become a spiritual process and the
Progress in the spiritual life is still more clearly perceptible. It
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture One
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pervade every aspect of Spiritual Science today. We must
view of Spiritual Science. I will endeavour to relate the
interpret Christianity from a spiritual standpoint, a
Spiritual Science the origins of the Gospel teaching are to
teachings. Now such a spiritual conception will run counter
sufficient spirituality. There was no real understanding of
the Pauline distinction between the psychic and the spiritual
spiritual man.
vindicate completely the evidence from purely spiritual
will be resolved with the progressive advance of Spiritual
from spiritual heights to the world of terrestrial existence.
he could overcome elementary beings in the spiritual battle
spiritual than in later times, he had to appeal to
background of spiritual facts.
about the “spiritual man” and provided ample
spiritual world. Ramifications of this Mystery teaching were
was only possible if the spiritual man was ignored. The key
psychic man and the spiritual man. But this was bound to
historical fact that Gnosticism held promise of a spiritual
understood its relationship to the “spiritual
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Two
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spirit was lost in the course of the spiritual evolution of
He who is familiar with the spiritual life of the West, not
in the spiritual evolution of the West. We shall perhaps be
man's parental inheritance. The spiritual part of the
the spiritual life of the Universe, in the
God man receives his spiritual soul or “Active
associated with the physical organism. The spiritual part of
conception of the relationship between the spiritual part of
spiritual part of the soul was in any way material or could
accept the idea that the spiritual part of the soul was a
parental inheritance, so that the spiritual part of the soul
this spiritual part did not perish at death, but entered upon
world. It was simply a question of the degree of spiritual
of this spiritual endowment the human soul could participate
spiritual evolution of mankind.
light of Spiritual Science we find that it bears within it
the seeds of death. In other words, spiritual investigation,
organism in the light of Spiritual Science we find nothing in
place in the spiritual world before man first incarnated on
attain to a concrete knowledge of spiritual realities.
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Three
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the Gospels from the standpoint of Spiritual Science. Now
of Spiritual Science. Christ went into the ruler's
our aid the teachings of Spiritual Science. For many years I
of spiritual investigation.
Jesus is concerned with the spiritual world itself. It is
the devils to speak because they knew Him.” Spiritual
spiritual world. Out of their super-sensible knowledge the
lives on Earth and, when united with the spiritual element in
conception of the Gospels from the standpoint of Spiritual
of Spiritual Science that he bore witness to the truth. If

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in the light of Spiritual Science, the more we realize that
in a few simple words what Spiritual Science, by exploring
nature of spiritual development is such that the
order to show how the spiritual link common to the individual
the spiritual behind phenomena, to find the spiritual element
“Fall”, or original sin. To Spiritual Science
spiritual impulse that was brought by the Mystery of Golgotha
of spiritual investigation, just as the findings of natural
if the Mystery of Golgotha had not brought a new spiritual
of Spiritual Science can be met with the weapons of scorn and
mind also what I mentioned recently: that spiritual
with the help of Spiritual Science. It is written in the
Mosaic law, something that must be grasped spiritually. You,
beginning”. Those who, in the light of Spiritual
spiritual courage, a courage which mankind sorely needs
Spiritual Science will contribute to a better understanding

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spiritual history of recent times I have often mentioned the
but because he was denied insight into the spiritual world,
personality, would lead to a spiritual-scientific view of the
behind his vast spiritual background he had an instinctive
— these forces have now become spiritual and are
operative spiritually in our environment. These forces are
hand, a loss of spiritual vision. Men could direct their
conception of the world must lead directly to Spiritual
standpoint of Spiritual Science, but also to what can be
Christianity and leads directly to Spiritual Science.
the pre-Christian era, so Spiritual Science plays its part in
spiritual insight that Herman Grimm called for, but did not
violation of the spiritual life by the Roman emperors is
lost his spiritual vision. Why had this vision been lost?
spiritual principles embodied in those Mysteries. He knew
and waking so that he could communicate with those spiritual
that his individuality inhabits the spiritual world between
the spiritual world, to the spiritual Hierarchies. When a man
individuality inhabits the spiritual world, and he is also
be a citizen of the spiritual world where Jupiter dwelt. He
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future if, from a spiritual angle, we see them as the
a purely superficial standpoint. These deeper spiritual
study of the historical facts, but was a genuinely spiritual
plane but something that was related to the spiritual world,
something which evoked a radical change in the spiritual
their forced initiation which gave insight into the spiritual
the spiritual forces of the conquered peoples. The initiated
spiritual powers pertaining to the different Hierarchies.
possible to govern without the support of the spiritual
of a spiritual aura which required people to say, “we
realize that the new impulse had come from the spiritual
the spiritual world.” They were aware that a decisive
with the spiritual world-impulses and to stem the tide of
the spiritual powers. The ceremony was intended to
spiritual world. Baptism was no longer an object of ridicule;
outstanding personality both politically and spiritually. I
have indicated on other occasions how spiritual forces were
His spiritual
turning-point of world history an event of a spiritual,
spiritual impulse. And this is clearly reflected in the
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of this initiation. What spiritual benefit had Julian derived
direct spiritual perception he learned the secrets of cosmic
and world evolution, the spiritual origin of the world and
how spiritual forces operate in the planetary and solar
world to the spiritual Being of the Sun and above all that
man must recover his relation to the spiritual Sun if he is
that the physical sun is but the external form of a spiritual
penetrate to the spiritual Sun. The soul of St. Chrysostom
spiritual forces operating in the sensible world, and that if
from which men derived spiritual forces which they were able
which derived their power from the spiritual world. These
spiritual world. He could only hope to succeed in the task he
experiment that had a spiritual significance. He reasoned as
affair must be regarded from a spiritual standpoint; it was
spiritual current which owed its origin to the fact that one
that time he lacked the necessary spiritual development. You
describe man we are referring to the spiritual aspect of man,
we are appraising man primarily as a spiritual being. If we
as that which descends from the spiritual world. Those who
trichotomy felt the need to look for a spiritual
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historical enquiry with the findings of Spiritual Science. If
spiritual-scientific investigation into this period, then a
practised in the Mithras Mysteries and in the most spiritual
experience other aspects of the psychic and spiritual life,
with those spiritual forces which help him to develop his ego
to come in touch with divine-spiritual forces.
deeper insight into the spiritual world I cannot rely on my
may be, it is a spiritual desert. It has no understanding of
spiritual atmosphere that surrounds us today did not as yet
you are linked through ties of blood, but with your spiritual
cling to ties of consanguinity, but seek rather a spiritual
the Logos operate purely in the spiritual world? What is the
world of spiritual ideas. When we study the Eleusinian
of the spiritual world, the most important experience he
in the Mysteries of Eleusis, where the spiritual Sun and the
spiritual Moon had been revealed to him, this wisdom was lost
in chaos. Spiritually, however, the Heavens had fallen and
empty and purposeless, to live in a spiritual vacuum, so that
passively waiting on events, but by quickening the spiritual

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spring from the depths of the spiritual life and which must
become the subject of spiritual-scientific study.
are receptive to the ideas of Spiritual Science and the more
of Spiritual Science, but whose thoughts were still far
necessary therefore for our present age that Spiritual
spiritual development of Antiquity, of the spiritual
derived their spiritual content, can no longer be
understanding of these things through Spiritual Science.
the spiritual life which originates in the super-sensible and
must first have reinforced his spiritual life through
the initiate who owed to his contact with the spiritual world
symbols is only dry bones. Only through Spiritual Science can
we rediscover the living spiritual element in these
and when the light of spiritual life must dawn again. It is
their hearts that this spiritual light is a necessity for our
and see the necessity for Spiritual Science today. People are
unwilling to listen to the teachings of Spiritual Science;
Spiritual Science. I simply wish to point out how difficult
it is for the individual to be receptive to Spiritual Science
if he is impervious to spiritual appeal, if he succumbs
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mankind had not been touched by the light of spiritual
existence of a spiritual world, but that the doors to this
possibility of gaining insight into the spiritual world they
times when the spiritual world was revealed to the whole of
decision of choosing paths leading to the spiritual world.
a clairvoyant perception, but it is a step towards spiritual
from the standpoint of Spiritual Science we must realize that
Otto Ludwig was no stranger to spiritual vision. For if he
visible to the physical eye, spiritual beings would be
visible to his spiritual eye and he would know them as an
spiritual insight; but we perceive that he is mature enough
spiritually to embark on the path leading to the spiritual
that “spiritual vision” is a reality, the vision
threshold of the spiritual world. If one practises the
courage to embark upon a spiritual training; and that for the
concealed the spiritual world. Swedenborg had developed a
all who would penetrate to the spiritual world. It was
observations about the relations between the spiritual world
to the spiritual world. He was not motivated by egoism in his
when the doors of the spiritual world were opened to him
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only that spiritual powers had gradually brought about what we know
world view did not need the hypothesis of a spiritually working being,
spiritually working forces contained in their view of life? Such a thing
same time to ascend to the spiritual. They answered the spiritual in
subjected the spiritual development to a study. So not only the evolution
of life was subjected to a study, but also the spiritual development
developed, one also investigated the spiritual forces, the spiritual
Indian, Babylonian and Assyrian or even Chinese spiritual world, the
sciences explain to us today, but into the internal spiritual.
to understand the spiritual world, which must be behind our sensory
peoples taught about the spiritual forces, about what is not to be seen
instruction how the human being can develop spiritual eyes and ears
to behold and to hear spiritually. Thus the theosophical movement claimed
by such spiritual eyes is kept to us in the religious documents. What
The external sensory world! He had no longer understood the spiritual
One had taught once to use the spiritual senses in order to observe
the spiritual world. What you read in the scientific documents was not
from those who beheld with spiritual eyes. One needs spiritual eyes
to behold into the spiritual world as well as one needs the senses to
spiritual connections which are clear before the soul of the human being
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lead to the higher spheres of spiritual life; so that nobody should
else than great initiators in the spiritual fields. Indeed, their development
physical and spiritual entity, at first in a more describing way. Then
from the spiritual world, which basically the soul-being has to go through.
psychic and spiritual realms to a large extent since the spreading of
those who are spiritually blind cannot perceive soul and spirit. This
the astral one is the spiritual world. However, someone who is able
or a person away. If his spiritual eye is woken, then he does not see
using the spiritual-scientific methods. What we feel of the things from
him to perceive all that. However, a certain spiritual development is
but also a psychic and a spiritual being. And Goethe expresses the fact
that the world is a spiritual being where he allows the earth spirit
to say the words which reveal the weaving of the spiritual life all

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say about the principles of the soul-life and the spiritual life on
and these laws of the soul-life and the spiritual life are undoubtedly
solely in the higher fields of the spiritual life.
reincarnation. And a consideration of the spiritual life shows us the
world that any effect has its cause. Any action of the spiritual life
has its cause and must have its cause, and this spiritual law is called
spiritual causing. The law of reincarnation or re-embodiment deals with
to observe spiritually no hypothesis but a conclusion exists here. What
If we ascend to the spiritual
And you do not rest, until you have found the cause. If you have spiritual
phenomena, you have to ask also for the spiritual causes. The spiritual
not know how to apply its law of cause and effect to the spiritual phenomena.
your mind concerning cause and effect. You also have to ask in the spiritual
which I do contributes also to my spiritual human being, changes my
spiritual human being as the heating-up has changed the physical metal
changes the spiritual human being. If today anybody steals anything,
this is an action which stamps the spiritual human being with a lower
future. Also in the spiritual realm there are no causes without corresponding
produce an effect for the spiritual being in question. The moral stamp
must express itself in the spiritual being, in the destiny of the spiritual
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not less to the spiritual life than to the natural life, and that human
phenomena of life, of the spiritual life above all. That is why we do
reality gradually, the spiritual, the psychic and the physical. It is
a concept of the spiritual in the most comprehensive sense. The concept
which one calls spiritual science or humanities which will only be a
real spiritual science once. They thought the spirit, but did not understand
that a level of development of the spiritual human being must be the
conquest of the spiritual thought. Darwinism has occupied this field
science of life, a soul science and spiritual science in future. This

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that way, and just it is in the spiritual life of the human being. Also
in the spiritual life of the human being and humanity the forms change,
we have to hold still and ask ourselves: what must happen in our spiritual-scientific
representatives of spiritual science if we could not understand such
a phenomenon correctly; we would be bad spiritual scientists if we wanted
of spiritual science would be that who would become a dogmatist, who
for life in all these forms. Our spiritual ideal is an ideal of love
the social life. If we understand the spiritual ideal this way, we are
thoughts and to deepen him spiritually that he wants to show him that
which come from the spiritual in order to completely understand the
sensuous which is the effect of the spiritual. We do not understand
sensuous life come from the spiritual one.
are in the spiritual. The theosophist has to stand in life, has to understand
spiritual causes of the different epochs of evolution.

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psychic and spiritual. The causes of the physical are in the super-sensible,
dead at the moment when the psycho-spiritual has separated from the
for that whose spiritual eyes are opened. Theosophy also calls this
spiritual eye sees what we subsume as soul qualities. Just as the physical
which can only be obtained by such whose spiritual and psychic senses
to the sensuous or from the devotion to the spiritual.
looked out into the world because it has been carried by the spiritual
psycho-spiritual, which has controlled the body, has disappeared, because
now the psycho-spiritual is merely accessible to the open eye of a clairvoyant
a vocation to recognise anything of the spiritual. The human being was
soul-world or in the spiritual world. These are the places of residence
has spiritual eyes and ears than the table and the walls round us, much
colours. This forms the spiritual light which gets the driving forces
and highest group are the forces of the most real spiritual life. It
sensory world where its love goes out to that spiritual love, which
the aspects of the human soul from the selfish desire up to the spiritual
all-love. These seven levels of spiritual facts meet someone everywhere
The spiritual eye sees beyond
and a spiritual world is around us, which like colour and light light
up if the soul becomes able to use the spiritual eyes, the spiritual

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point of the development of the spiritual human being between death
him in his further development, and then this spiritual human being
physical sense is closed and the spiritual eye is opened, the world
for the spiritual eye.
being. The thought life corresponds to this higher spiritual reality.
Someone who is capable to behold into this spiritual reality learns
the solid crust, the dry land in the devachan. There you see spiritual
connects him with the spiritual world. Thus the human being does not
If the seer enters the spiritual
in a softly gleaming light, this higher spiritual aura, which remains
astral aura. This is the fact that one can see through the spiritual
aura, while one cannot see through the astral one. Any spiritual region
and pain flow through this spiritual world like lightning and thunder.
divine, as the higher spiritual, as the actually idealistic, which comes
as higher moral, as higher religiousness and subtler spiritual science
blind and deaf-mute American Helen Keller. We look there into a spiritual
of the environment. What the human being has of the spiritual world
he has opened his spiritual eye. This light penetrates the whole spiritual
only, he comes into contact with the spiritual world. The more he rises
to descend with particular wisdom, with particular spiritual forces
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Friedrich Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
the first epoch of Friedrich Nietzsche's spiritual life developed.
of the rarest kind, a human being who owned such a pure spiritual content
about Friedrich Nietzsche. Thirdly one can show him from the spiritual
from the theosophical point of view, from a spiritual world consideration.
talks; it is a shade, an image of the spiritual world. The thought is
a spiritual being. Modern times developed thinking powerfully; however,
of the spiritual life. This life transmits, so to speak, the spiritual
one had forgotten that something spiritual is in the personality; but
philosophy, the spiritual human personality was at least accepted as
If we ascend through the soul-world to the higher spiritual worlds,
world was shown to the mystes not only sensually, but also spiritually
one-sidedly, but all spiritual forces. Later art was only an image.
what Nietzsche only suspected from imagination but from spirituality.
human being became the psycho-spiritual human being who is not on the
from the spiritual powers slumbering in the human being even today.
in which still spiritual life was inside of Nietzsche's soul which
nature which expresses itself also in us is the urge for spiritualisation,
who appears from the future world as Nietzsche's big spiritual ideal
the psycho-spiritual, then something particular happens to this ego.
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physical world, the soul-world and the spiritual world. It will be my
soul forces, spiritual view with himself and it may seem deplorable
his pupil exactly not in the usual sense of the word, but in the spiritual
for somebody who wants to experience a spiritual education. These are
school of spiritual science. One may easily reply: I am free from speculative
but on the love of the spiritual truth. The more the love of such internal
of mysticism, to speak about the truth of theosophy and spiritual science.
The spiritual researcher does it that way, and everybody has to do it
with steadfastness. These are the big levers developing the spiritual

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the sounding of the spiritual world.
or spiritual world. The emergence of the spiritual eye produces immense
the spiritual world in the dreamless sleep.
spiritual world in spiritual hearing. The Pythagoreans called it the
of the astral body of the earth, of the imperishable soul cover spiritually
finished the errors, he gets to the spiritual world by purification.
there. A moral qualification is necessary to enter the spiritual world
The development of the spiritual eye supports that.
the spiritual connection is expressed with the mystics as a wedding

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a way as I have just demonstrated. He imagines the influence of a spiritual
then a spiritual influence took place and we became physically advanced
beings, that then a spiritual influence came again and that we became
then again higher beings until the highest spiritual influence took
one faced it with spiritual concepts once. The creation history by Darwin
creation history once; it was interpreted in the spiritual sense only,
spiritual impact.
He speaks of perpetual “impacts” of spiritual kind which
of spiritual kind which causes the progress, in contrast to the materialistic
being consists. What one calls psycho-spiritual has been subsumed by
Plato said of it that it feeds itself with spiritual food. Only the
to the spiritual. What the human being does with his reason in the everyday
“life-spirit”, as the second spiritual being of the human
describes this as a spiritual human being who experiences the spirit
spiritual: manas, buddhi, and atma. As a substance is dissolved in water,
as the highest spiritual in the soul intermingles with the lower qualities
or the real spiritual of thinking, we speak of the reason which enjoys
the psychic to the spiritual, in a book that I wrote some years ago,
it we have recognised the psycho-spiritual nature of the human being.
This psycho-spiritual nature is embodied in that which the external
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was hard to make because both personalities stood spiritually on quite
to the spiritual.
world, the yonder one, the country of the beautiful lily, is the spiritual
separating the human beings from the spiritual world must be overcome.
the union with these truths of the spiritual worlds. This is a way which
higher spiritual beholding in this fairy tale. Let us now try to penetrate
sleeps on the other bank in the spiritual world, and want to be ferried
spiritual world. The ferryman ferries the human being from this spiritual
of the spiritual world. – Somebody can walk the path to the higher
Let us seek for this spiritual band in Goethe's creations.

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get to the gate which leads into the spiritual land? This was a basic
of the kings, the representatives of the highest spiritual powers. We
from the east the spiritual light of the sun always shines bringing
takes the principles of the spiritual world upon itself by the sacrifice.
Goethe means the spiritual sun, for the physical sun
everything changes. Everything is beheld in its spiritual condition,
sensuous realm to the spiritual land is created.
spiritualised that way. The human being becomes the creator of a higher
his spiritual alchemy. He takes up the same wisdom which once created
He is paralysed when he wants to get to the spiritual world with such
the lily. In Faust we find how Faust can probably get to the spiritual
penetrates to the spiritual.
soul gets to the spiritual world which developing its own forces is
human being can also experience something of the spiritual world that
However, the spiritual and sensuous realms belong together; harmony
sensory being and spiritual being was given by nature. The three companions
the spiritual has no longer to be sought looking back at old achievements
only the spiritual comes to the sensuous, but also the sensuous to the
spiritual. When this time has come, not only single esoteric students,
of spiritual reality. Only somebody who knows the mysteries and the

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the sum of the thoughts? It is the spiritual spark. If we saw into the
human soul, we would discover the spiritual spark with the seeds of
being who was only gifted with a vague dream consciousness. This spiritual
spiritual spark, with the consciousness occurred. The self is in the
We know that this spiritual
of the time in which the human being descended from his higher spirituality
These spiritual knights have always tried to form an alliance with the
becomes a human being and combines with the spiritual knight.
outside world to make them our spiritual property. Then the mind processes
if we withdrew from the outside world. It is a spiritual respiratory
a spirituality that is still used, indeed, to satisfy the impulses and
in the human soul to ascend to a higher spirituality. This soul state
kindles an internal, spiritual life in his soul, this life of the human
come from a world, in which he was a psychic-spiritual being, into the
darkening of his psycho-spiritual being caused by the physical world.
ascends to a chela, to a spiritual student has always to do that; in
real spiritual world. The river of passions, the astral world, does
the river separating the astral world from the internal, the spiritual
the bridge to the spiritual realm. He has to experience the “dying
must join with each other to make the transition into the spiritual
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deeper than the opponents. Thus spiritual science or theosophy may also
taken from purely spiritual worlds into clear language. Nevertheless,
figuratively, we may call it a spiritual spark in the human nature,
spirit he could not speak, without spirit no higher spiritual activity,
of fancies rather than to a higher spiritual world. There he would miss
you walk through the spiritual things as the reasonable human being
with the development of our spiritual abilities.
have this astral existence. We could go back to purely spiritual states.

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of every science, of every spiritual procedure with which one penetrates
here that the actually spiritual in the things is something sounding.
he speaks of a sounding in the spiritual world that he speaks of a luminescence
the spiritual world: “In these sounds we spirits hear the new
the spiritual world sounds to him and because he has no longer his home,
The spiritual world sounds in the human being, and while the spiritual
psychic and in the spiritual worlds. We see that the human being, understood
spirituality. Here the human being overcomes the personal self. It appears
this stage, a word of the spiritual world sounds into this. Then his
this was taught in details and with immense spiritual wealth as esoteric
and arbitrary one but echoes the great laws of the spiritual world.
in single letters and members, but it is born out of the spiritual law
a ray of the spiritual world radiated on Isis, fertilising her to the
deeper into the evolution of humanity who beholds the spiritual forces
worlds in their souls looked always up not only to the spiritual worlds
which spiritual science should give us again. You will find it with

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in one of the most significant and most typical spiritual heroes of
in such spiritual contents, he took stock of himself and found something
this Oswald stands not in a spiritual, ethical connection with the past,
out only from the physical laws like a moral, spiritual-divine fate
detached from its divine-spiritual connections. Thus Ibsen himself faces
It is the spiritual, theosophical life and world view to contribute
time point to this theosophical, spiritual-scientific world view being

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of the masters' profound knowledge of the big spiritual world
and yield water, it is also with the spiritual laws, so that we can
by those who are imbued with a higher spiritual reality. However, this
in the laws of the past that way and sharpens his look with the spiritual
the spiritual look, world laws according to which the development takes
which the human being starts spiritually beholding or rather hearing
only with the mind. We must combine with the things spiritually. The
regions, to the spiritual world or devachan; to that world in which
it is also the expression of the astral and spiritual worlds. We do
present cycle signifies the spiritualisation of the whole mineral nature.
and does not lead out of the sensory world. Where, however, the spiritual
Every single human being is a channel through which a spiritual world
is the mediator between the spiritual and sensory worlds, the human
this channel something pours into this world from the spiritual world.
the original spiritual force flows towards us.
Question: Which task has art concerning the spiritual development
where he has spiritualised the mineral-physical. What he has gained
in the spiritual life appears as his tendency appears in the spirit.

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the great spiritual heroes who are, in the end, the creators of our
spiritual heroes, on our Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805).
these days to honour of our great spiritual hero. However, as intimate
objects and to that which is beyond the sensuous, as the spiritual,
with the psycho-spiritual, the super-sensible connected? Schiller wanted
spiritual nature?
there no conflict may be permitted between the sensuous and the spiritual.
nature with the spiritual nature of the human being. At the very beginning,
from the spiritual currents of the 18th century if we want to completely
Two spiritual currents existed
which influenced the spiritual horizon of Europe at that time. A term
the spirit. One felt the spiritual in oneself. However, one did not
between the spiritual and the sensuous.
abyss between the spiritual and the sensuous, it pressed like a nightmare
of the spiritual, of the ideal had faced up the greatest of the contemporaries
psycho-spiritual sees soul and spirit around himself. We have to become
the lofty spiritual, educational ideal, which lives in his aesthetic
if the teachers of our secondary schools are permeated with this spiritual
knowing.” If we have a piece of art, the spiritual shines through
as a semblance that expresses the ideal, the spiritual to us. Spirit
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we deal with the leadership in the spiritual life, if it should be capable
of surviving. Where else should we look for the leadership of the spiritual
of our culture, of our whole spiritual life, who work in the service
of truth and progress and in the service of the spiritual movement generally.
of the spiritual movement , can possibly have a fruitful effect on our
his heart. He must have the possibility to look up at the spiritual
without any religious desire, but in purely spiritual devotion that
who is not informed about the deepest questions of the spiritual existence
much more influenced by the spiritual world than he is, and what is
in this principle of own knowledge was the view of the spiritually effective
from the spirit of God which we find as higher spiritual beings in the
the divine in the world. The spiritual was its expression. Those who
the sensory world, of the spiritual world order. They could ascend from
the simple sensory knowledge to the comprehensive knowledge of the spiritual
that something spiritual exists besides the physical body. The modern
science lacks in the view of the spiritual. The progress is based on
the immediate spiritual life does no longer flow; it depends there on
whether there are persons from who the spiritual life can still flow.
If it was practised, it was science for the Greeks, but also spiritual
thinking, in the way as they want to investigate the spiritual. This
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It is not so simple, however, with the facts that face us in the spiritual
a fertilisation that the future lawyer learns how spiritual facts are
would mean that one does not construct purely spiritual networks with

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of theosophy to illumine all fields of the present spiritual life comprehensively
of this modern spiritual life if they are accepted. Then they can prepare
of our spiritual life. The modern human beings live in images and suggestions
human intellect, is incapable to understand the spiritual; as soon as
quite different values. The knowledge of the spiritual that connects
is spiritual can never take part in those attempts symptomatic for our

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education, but at a formal education which should form the spiritual
should develop from the mathematical attitude into a spiritual direction;
do not remain unthinking, but keep on investigating spiritually, we
remains an aggregate without spiritual bond. Knowledge should become

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would be best for us to investigate aspects of spiritual
this, I propose to speak about certain results of spiritual
familiar to us from spiritual science, the epoch we usually
age in general in that ancient epoch? Spiritual investigation
spirituality becoming free within them.
at that time echoes of inner spiritual vision was because
spiritual echoes remaining from that ancient time. After all
lead man into the spiritual world, illumining it for him.
to him unless he received spiritual instruction in the
mysteries. Direct vision of the spiritual world was lost
see into the spiritual world, though in decreasing measure.
because of this vision that the spiritual world as such
kind of spiritual world. That is why it is of such immense
with loss of all connection with the spiritual world.
quite different assumptions, one discovers during spiritual
spiritual knowledge gradually explains and illumines the
spiritual science continues to widen and develop
earth, even with the penetrating research of spiritual
spiritual knowledge. I venture to say that during my
spiritual research, few moments have been more moving than
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to be found only in spiritual science. Spiritual science
muscles, nerves and blood that he notices the soul-spiritual
in as nourishment; it is the spiritual forces underlying the
spiritual in all natural existence; in states of dream, of
The connection man formerly had with the spiritual world came
spiritual impulses, engendered independently, must be
also for the divine spiritual element that withdraws from the
spiritual counterbalance is created by impulses that
developing bodily nature. Spiritual science recognizes
concepts welling up within him; he must turn to spiritual
knowledge if he wants to acquire them. Spiritual science
he refuses the path of spiritual knowledge, from delving into
man becoming ever more obtuse without spiritual knowledge.
spiritual insight one is helpless in face of these riddles.
greater spiritual influence in people's lives.
intellectuals together, spiritual influences in people's
vaguely feel something is missing, he looks upon spiritual
other, the spiritual side, would be the search for the
spiritual aspect by means of spiritual knowledge.
practical life demands spiritual science. This is not
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heed to the many spiritual influences that affect and
further the particular spiritual and cultural impulses at
spiritual aspect of the starry sky. I have often drawn
spiritual content. They perceived spirituality in the water
cultures developed which reflected the earth's spiritual
Man no longer knows what kind of spiritual entities, what
kind of spiritual beings live in the elements of the earth.
were in the spiritual world. They became aware of this once
spiritual world became dark. The teaching about Ormuzd and
experience. Man was aware that he was in the spiritual world
spiritual world which he could experience through
old spiritual perception became weaker. As a consequence the
spiritual world had been experienced directly through
fourth epoch when the surrounding spiritual world had faded
perceive the spiritual aspect of the stars; instead he
changed; mankind had been truly driven from the spiritual
divine-spiritual element. The possibility of receiving higher
and so he is inasmuch as our time rejects spiritual science.
mentioned that spiritual science seeks to establish a faith
towards the spiritual aspect of evolution which leads as
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man can regain the connection with the spiritual world which
typical of the ways in which the spiritual stream that is
taking in a serious book on a spiritual subject in which
The Spiritual Guidance of Man.
with forces that entered me from the spiritual world, and
Spiritual Guidance of Man. There we read:
that spiritual powers in higher worlds wish to communicate
forces proceeding from the spiritual world, and what I am
using the word in the sense of a good spiritual power
— is working out of a spiritual world through me on
through tubes or wires to a spiritual world, thought of in
The Spiritual Guidance of Man
Spiritual forces appear in various
could write a book about spiritualism and, based on Dessoir's
spiritualistic meetings, devote a chapter to Max Dessoir,
linking him with spiritualism. That would be as justifiable
spiritualist sessions. These experiences have enabled Dessoir
committed to establishing a spiritual movement in the modern

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spiritual science so completely. When we speak today about
whole disposition, he could not — turn to spiritual
he needed spiritual knowledge. But
spiritual science he could not accept and, as he was above
insight into them is possible unless through spiritual
knowledge a path is found to the spiritual reality with which
aversions. Without spiritual insight man does not experience
example of spiritual striving. One could mention many people,
who have for years been occupied with spiritual science.
spiritual science. What makes him exceptional is that without
spiritual science no one has come as far as he did. Nowhere
fact discovered through spiritual investigation. Whenever you
Through his astral body man is connected with the spiritual
spiritual world also holds sway what for man is good and
the light of spiritual science.
Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science.
as spiritual sense. You will realize that these are matters
spiritual science can enlighten us about them.
regard to spiritual issues, in regard to man's own evolution,
Consequently one cannot, without spiritual knowledge, come to
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that will truly express and illumine the facts of spiritual
death into the spiritual world. But one's life of feeling
with the I that can be discovered through spiritual science.
question we must ask is: In the light of spiritual science
Spiritual
through spiritual science. This discovery is of the greatest
spiritual existence just as one speaks of individual beings
events of the spiritual world must be sought in subtler ways
completely different from life in the spiritual world. It is
spiritual world, which requires a much more delicate
which point to the hidden spiritual realm I have indicated.
life of soul. All relationships dealt with in spiritual
the study of spiritual science enriches life.
“Our path through the spiritual world can be traversed
their spiritual connection from a former life on earth across
now directly in its spiritual reality, which is why feeling
formula as answer. The whole of spiritual science deals with
spiritual.
could not accept spiritual science. This was due to many
necessary mobility of thinking to penetrate to the spiritual
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only come from spiritual knowledge, as I have often
is spiritual in the world, from our knowledge of the
spiritual aspect of things. In the last resort that can only
earlier ones, unless this fact, verified by spiritual
spiritual facts of which we reminded ourselves today. As you
and the spiritual connections in the environment. Those who
spiritual aspects of life that cannot be discovered merely
The spiritual
spiritual scientist arrives at his discoveries through the
the spiritual world which reaches beyond what is perceived
spiritual background from which everything sense perceptible
from the spiritual realm accessible to the human faculty of
through spiritual science. They cannot be found through
spiritual world. You will understand that the spiritual
investigator with his spiritual knowledge will have a
the spiritual world itself the spiritual researcher sets
physical aspect that differences arise. The spiritual facts
sought out afterwards. The spiritual aspect is given first;
in life must be spiritually explained. Many find it extremely
difficult to understand that in spiritual research the law
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in the spiritual sense, is a living reality. It is especially
spiritual-scientific sense, have been wrong. He could have
knowledge that can fill the soul with spiritual content.
secret spiritual reality; it is a question of understanding
“eat” so that spiritually he never needs to eat
Spiritual
is not possible with spiritual-scientific truths, the reason
formulated into concepts, whereas spiritual-scientific truths
that spiritual science must follow.
This spiritual
regard as contradictions in spiritual science; namely, the
another; rather, they prove that spiritual truths have a
thoughts of some aspect of spiritual science and lets them
Spiritual-scientific concepts do not just provide an image of
human soul and the whole endless spiritual aspect of the
world. Because the spiritual aspect is endless it can never
bring about a connection between the soul and the spiritual
“existence,” and spiritual science confirms that
are not interested when told about the spiritual worlds
spirituality that has become detached from them. The
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imparted by a spiritual science able to penetrate into the very highest
Thrones: these are the three highest Spiritual Hierarchies. The Seraphim
the Earth-Sun in the spiritual sense; in connection with the Gospel of
Power of the Earth-Sun in the spiritual sense. Study of the Gospel
speak of Sentient Soul, Mind-Soul and Spiritual Soul, and study the
characteristics and functions of each. Of the ‘Spiritual Soul’
organisation of the hidden forces, both natural and spiritual, operating
acquainting ourselves with the principles and guiding-lines of spiritual

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treatment, and that great harm can easily be done to the cause of Spiritual
we are shown how the two great pre-Christian streams of spiritual life
into the great Christian stream of spiritual life on the earth. The
have entailed great divine-spiritual labour, in order to produce a human
in man's inmost being. This is the spiritual aspect of what is called in
Abraham, the mission of a whole people. Abraham's spiritual constitution
had to be transmitted to others. But this spiritual constitution is
and Egypt, should be renounced. Every gift from the spiritual world
must be renounced. The last gift from the spiritual world, the one gift
spiritual world, the immediate reaction is that he is cast out from his
spiritual world come to Joseph in his dreams. Quite naturally he is
unadulterated. At the same time, the fruits of the spiritual experience
in a spiritual way. Zarathustra goes forthin a spiritual sense from
had come to pass physically through Abraham is now re-enacted spiritually.
The star which the Magi follow moves in spiritual fashion along the
we see that spiritually the sacrificial offering of Isaac is repeated
Divine-Spiritual principle which strives to unite humanity, to unify all
Spiritual powers on the one hand, and on the other, the Luciferic powers,
on earth, namely, the spiritual world, the kingdom of heaven. —
to mankind the offering of the streams of spiritual life inaugurated

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is to understand little by little how the different streams of spiritual
in the following way. — In old Atlantis, vision of the spiritual
least, a definite conception of the spiritual world, because in certain
able to see into the spiritual realm. But this faculty had to be replaced
from the spiritual world, the logical reason he is able to acquire here
the spiritual world demand that logical thinking shall be brought to
the right conditions for inspirations from the spiritual world in the
modern age. That is why in a spiritual movement such as ours the greatest
be developed, nor the revelations from the spiritual world proclaimed, in
had undergone spiritual training the principles of thinking were given
rise from knowledge of the physical world to knowledge of the spiritual
to their descendants. Spiritual promptings must be received, not merely
the Egyptians, who were the latest to remain in the spiritual stream
all the other forms of pre-Christian spiritual life, and why had they
of the spiritual life. They are very ready to speak of prophets who
of spiritual knowledge to-day, although in some respects there is a
try to see it against its spiritual background. Strange as it may sound,
however, did in fact depend to some measure upon his allowing the spiritual
hair — a sign that spiritual light was still shining down upon them
in man a new consciousness of the spiritual life, and it had to arise,
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from external coercion, the spiritual deepening — was claimed

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The spiritual strivings of the free ranks were encouraged by the
spiritually less active Franks. From Scotland and Ireland came
the spiritual kernel, which Christianity sought to grasp. At that
found entrance too into this spiritual life. This was brought about
work which is well-known as indicating a high level of spiritual
life. Thus we see how spiritual life was being formed, unhindered by
external conditions. Spiritual currents received their
which spiritual life could develop, and in this way the spiritual,
process of time, however, spiritual and industrial culture were
the evolution of spiritual and material evolution. You see that it
was only when the spiritual currents no longer coincided with the

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see so little depth, and why the spiritual element which we find in
the spiritual side of Christianity they were not inclined to conform
force of the Germani and the spiritual strength of Christianity.
Charlemagne. Thus we see the accomplishment of important spiritual
than Christianity. The spiritual content of Mohammedanism is,
the Moors. But the spiritual strength of the Arabs remained

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understand why the spiritual culture also was bound to assume a
certain definite form. Nothing of what we picture as spiritual
spiritual influence came from the Arabs, all spiritual concerns were
the monasteries was the preaching, and a kind of spiritual
the spiritual life. Today that is not considered. But actually it
understanding for such exalted spiritual facts, especially as
interpenetration of secular influence. You see that spiritual life
an ever-increasing pressure, both from the secular and the spiritual
Spiritual culture remained undisturbed for the time being; many

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was vacant. Now the decision was to depend on spiritual interests
in the contest between secular and spiritual power. We saw, in the
new settlements, and that it was not in spiritual matters alone that

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there was no difference between secular and spiritual princes; but
against the club law, of the German tribes. Zeal for spiritual
wherever it is possible to construct in freedom. Real spiritual
that spiritual progress springs from material progress, but true
spiritual progress is found where industrial life is not oppressed
these developments, one realises that the new spiritual current,
every way. A spiritual trait runs through their writings. They had

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the nature of German spiritual culture as represented by its
to show that it is in the nature of this spiritual culture to
existence of the spiritual and eternal. To-day I will attempt
spiritual-scientific thought has brought us so far, in order to
The Soul of the People Considered in the Light of Spiritual
in several directions suggested by spiritual-science, what this
natural science. The work of spiritual-science has often been
soul-spiritual to all that has been won scientifically for
that this spiritual-scientific approach is still rejected
spiritual-scientific point of view shares this fate with all
the spiritual approach must stand in a different
call knowledge and science. Just so that the spiritual approach
spiritual research is to be science it must proceed in exactly
of the spiritual, of the psychic; and one would be
utterly mistaken in thinking that spiritual science can proceed
its supreme attainment is for spiritual science preparation
contemplation and the perception of the spiritual world.
science; but that spiritual science is a preparation by means
that knowledge and science can give us is only in spiritual
spiritual reality. To-day I will do so again from a certain
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Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
Steiner demonstrates in the GA 55 lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
Steiner demonstrates in the GA 55 lectures that spiritual science is not
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science.
Spiritual Science especially must have something to say about
the so-called spiritual illnesses (diseases of the mind),
speak of spiritual diseases Further, the greatest errors have
confused. The bases for spiritual diseases lie deep in human
adapts itself to the spiritual (transforms itself). How, if
also with spiritual diseases. The forms of mania are
this sphere of the so-called mental diseases (spiritual
Spiritual Science. An exhaustive study is necessary to have
always ready the necessary counter-ideas. Spiritual Science is
It will co-operate practically. Because spiritual forces lie at
spiritual. We must get to know this, in order to understand the
the SPIRITUAL WORLD, we will find the bridge between the

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spiritual development of the Middle Ages, in order that we
from Mars say, — who knows nothing of the spiritual life
Christ Jesus into human evolution the spiritual was revealed to
born again at a higher stage — spiritually, in a new
life-blood the spiritual conception of the world which meets us
— how through the events of the spiritual world as they

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spiritual significance of the World's Saviour was thus connected with the physical Sun and with
cosmic thought. Man himself is more ancient than his senses. Through spiritual investigation we
spiritually not only with the awakening of the Sun but with the unfolding of the plant world in
thirty-five the human being has reached the degree of maturity when spiritual experience can be
added to physical experience. He is ready for perception of the spiritual world.
physical existence are amalgamated, the time begins for the spiritual awakening. Hence Dante
life, Dante became aware of the dawn of spiritual life within himself. The Easter Festival is
Redemption can in reality be fully grasped only through a knowledge of Spiritual Science. In the
Redemption. Because cause and effect belong together in the spiritual life, this great deed of
Spiritual Science adds depth to the

Title: Karma and Details of the Law of Karma
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The Original Impulse of Spiritual Science, published in German as,
The Original Impulse of Spiritual Science,
effect in the spiritual life and that this law of Karma comes into consideration in
Spiritual Science since it applies to repeated lives on Earth. We speak of the
the opponents of Spiritual Science, attacks often beginning with the hackneyed phrase: One
comes into consideration during the process of spiritual development. The capacity to
connection between health and the spiritual life. Everybody will agree that this connection
connection with certain revelations of the history of spiritual life. Faced with the
of cases, you will feel that you have here perceived a deep necessity of spiritual life.
special consideration will be given here and elsewhere to the place of the spiritual
impulse and the insight ensuring that Spiritual Science is not presented as something

Title: The Secrets of Sleep or Karma
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Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the Present Time,
Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the Present Time,
6. Spiritual Soul
sentient soul intermingle, so does the spiritual soul and
“The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,”
spiritual being of man, for instance, the keenness and
measure by one before whose spiritual sense-organs the
worlds. Spiritual investigators know, for example, that
spiritual observation and experience.
human being. Take, for example, a musician. The spiritual
spiritual world.

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Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge
series entitled, Spiritual Science as Lebensgut, published in German
Spiritual Science as “Lebensgut,”
IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE
the lecture cycle this winter about Spiritual Science, as the
particular way: Spiritual Science does not only open that
of spiritual impotence. For this reason, for the Stoics,
spiritual impotence of the soul.
path to knowledge of the spiritual world, which also consists
that at the same time create a spiritual impotence, are held
steps on the path that leads into spiritual vision, all that
wickedness, (if we do not want to penetrate into spiritual
door to the answers laid out by Spiritual Science about the
came close to what Spiritual Science now has to state. For an
from a spiritual and a material-bodily nature. By plunging down
looks up to as to the spiritual, and it permits the human soul
to take part in the spiritual: this entity he called Ri.
a position so to speak, to unfold our soul-spiritual being to
an unlimited extent from our soul-spiritual activity. There we
hit up against our environment with our soul- spiritual
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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has happened in the course of time. The course of spiritual communications
time the spiritual currents flowed together, which had gone separately
spiritual currents that met in the Christ event. One is linked to Buddha,
precisely in that Christ event. One usually speaks of such spiritual
higher, spiritual regions was that Bodhisattva who then incarnated in India
however, the bodhisattvas rose to the spiritual regions where they could
new mission down from the spiritual to the physical world.
from the spiritual worlds and announced to the shepherds what had happened.

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other three gospels would not be in the sense of spiritual research. For
what we are looking for within the spiritual-scientific research should not
down, but as something that can be researched with the means of spiritual
The spiritual researcher sets himself the task
Gospel of John. By applying the research of the spiritual researchers to
and Buddhism, and we have seen how these two mighty spiritual currents meet
it, what the old Hebrew spiritual current was? We want to see how we have
to understand the most original of the ancient Hebrew spiritual current.
flow in, a speck of dust from another plant. Especially in spiritual life
known today within spiritual science. Because man is connected with his

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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Results of Spiritual Investigation,
(Some Results of Spiritual Research). GA 62. Lecture IX,
belongs to those figures in mankind's spiritual history
indeterminate substrata of humanity's spiritual development —
this spiritual history. Closer observation reveals that such
unified stream of spiritual development that continues beyond
other than by gathering together all his spiritual forces,
special light. We see how a uniform spiritual element flows
often been able to emphasize from a spiritual scientific
to another what is to be implanted in mankind's spiritual
development. Spiritual science seeks meaning and significance
What is put forward here from a spiritual scientific standpoint
of an urge to elaborate on humanity's spiritual life
spiritual in the world — this did not exist in the same measure
use of their bodily organs, the spiritual secrets of existence
soul-spiritual nature. The spiritual resulted for human beings
over to inner experience, so as to arrive at the spiritual in
spiritual life begins here, what the spirit experiences
psycho-spiritual hold each other in balance. The spiritual was
sense perception as in the time preceding Greece. The spiritual
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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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Leonardo's Spiritual Stature at the Turning Point of Modern Times
LEONARDO'S SPIRITUAL STATURE
Here I am obliged to put forward a kind of spiritual-scientific
not proceed on the basis of spiritual science, only something
accordance with spiritual science, however, the thought arises
already stated, this is a spiritual-scientific hypothesis, but
Thus, in conformity with the entire spiritual stature of
a spiritual-scientific view, such a unique individual can be
the soul interacts with what the spiritual environment has to
enters into existence with an inner spiritual estate deriving
and again from spiritual regions. But what can be studied in
How is this age to be viewed from a spiritual-scientific
sleeping and waking, human beings looked into the spiritual
spiritual background of the world. What souls had once seen,
the spiritual element with which the world was permeated and
connection of the human soul with the spiritual world had to be
scientifically. Only by virtue of the loss of the old spiritual
modern natural science, for human beings to come to a spiritual
become ready of themselves to feel drawn to spiritual science.
Francis I had assigned him, spends these years in spiritual
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Fairy Tales in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
ancient spiritual secrets of the world, arose such that
spiritual secrets to them, so that how they are put
spiritual secrets themselves.”
Fairy Tales in the Light ofSpiritual Investigation
tales in the light of spiritual investigation. One of them is
spiritual research often described by me must follow
Even so, with the methods of spiritual science it proves
that what may be offered as a kind of spiritual scientific
spiritual investigation, discovers a peculiar fact.
sources from the standpoint of spiritual research finds that
substance of the fairy tale run through its spiritual
Applying the methods of spiritual research that have been
described for penetrating the spiritual worlds, at a
certain stage one acquires knowledge of spiritual processes
such spiritual processes unfolding in the soul's depths surface
You are emerging out of a spiritual world in which
the spiritual researcher who has made some progress and is
capable of initial experiences in the world of spiritual beings
and spiritual facts, things often proceed in much the same way.
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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Fairy Tales in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
closer to the spiritual worlds and were themselves still able
experience the spiritual worlds around them, as an heirloom
spiritual regions surrounding them, with their eyes they now
spiritual science do we come to understand their deep
The power of spiritual seeing will come alive again in human
beings. That power of spiritual seeing which is an attribute of
spiritual nature in external objects. What has become merely
material will then be spiritual for them. Their now hardened
physical bodies will be spiritualized once again. That woman of
will find in other entities the spirituality of the world,

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The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
Geistesforschung (Results of Spiritual Research) GA 62. The series in which
“Spiritual science aims to show what can be
gained in widening one's spiritual horizons. It can be
outlook inherent in spiritual research, anyone immersing
in Relation to Spiritual Science
spiritual science stood in isolation to what is otherwise
conceives of this spiritual science in a somewhat
recognizes it as a spiritual stream open to new sources will
viewing life called spiritual science can be applied to other,
relates to Goethe, and to our own spiritual life.
elemental spiritual breath of Goethe. Thus, he felt himself as
he understood himself to be, lo to say, the spiritual
star would shine out once more in the European spiritual
“governor” of Goethe's spiritual domain, Herman
connect with the various spiritual phenomena in which he
spiritual contemplation. We see Goethe ascend to spiritual
everywhere into unmitigated spiritual life. Goethe becomes a
sum of spiritual impulses. This breath of the spiritual
deep in Herman Grimm's spiritual configuration. Long before
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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refer to what is living in a soul-spiritual way in the organism
outer world to the soul-spiritual, we come to nothing but
phenomenological sense — and within, the soul-spiritual
anthroposophical view that the spiritual lies at the basis of
animals, then one enters in the spiritual creation of the outer
material world outside mirrors in my soul-spiritual; the soul
spiritual world outside reflects itself in the form of lungs,
them, in the same relationship with the spiritual outer world
result, the consequences of the cosmic soul-spiritual. Through

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the spiritual; it is believed that Anthroposophy must from this

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also spiritually — one can quietly declare this —
appeared the belief that the entire spiritual world should be
other hand with a spiritual content for people who wanted
resulted more out of a spiritual experience, which he saw as
spirituality, which gradually casts its shadow images on a
spiritual worlds throw their shadow images on the plane of the
the idea of higher spirituality came about for Hegel, that on
inclined to experience these thoughts as fully spiritual, and
For Hegel his life task was the unification of the spiritual
what he actually presents is a full experience of spirituality
spirituality itself. It was more or less a dreamlike attempt to
existence to the spiritual world.
a person delves into the spiritual development of someone from
science is on the one side and the spiritual on the other side
we have in the East an experience of the spiritual world, which
through spiritually. So, however, as it happened with Soloviev,
skeletal system, but live spiritually and prepare oneself
through strong spiritual work, then one develops for oneself an
inner skeleton within spiritual experiences; one develops the
bridge between nature and the spiritual. For us it has at the
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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education of the child from the point of view of spiritual
spiritual basis for the pedagogical and didactic aspects
relationship between the soul-spiritual and the physical-bodily
theories. The one tries to come from the soul-spiritual and
concept and then to try in how far the soul-spiritual can
soul-spiritual as one of its functions. A third theory is
soul-spiritual and bodily-physical matter equally, and only
can simply say our sphere of observation of the soul-spiritual
the soul-spiritual is included.
certain circumstances, so the soul-spiritual, which works
body is left to itself more; the soul-spiritual does not
of the first developmental phase, where the soul-spiritual was
between the soul-spiritual and the bodily-physical. People
upon the other, and so on. People simply see the soul-spiritual
the reality is followed in the process of the soul-spiritual in
spiritual sphere.
the spiritual scientific anthroposophical viewpoint actually
certain way the corpse of the spiritual and is experienced as
with spirituality, living spirituality, which merges with the
principles can't give: spiritual foundations for the practical
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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from the spiritual life, so that the economic life becomes, for
grasp spiritually permeated social relations. I would like to
which makes it possible for a spiritual life to develop out of
its own conditions in which the spiritual life itself works;
for the spiritual life, the legal or state life and economic
spiritual life, legal life and economic questions and so on,
observations of viewpoints stay within the spiritual

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say, it wants to work out of present day spiritual science.
the spiritual world and its knowledge. The human being is
categories through an inner soul-spiritual process, through
observation of the spiritual world. This observation of the
spiritual world Anthroposophy tries to clothe, as well as
However, because his mind, intellect and ancient spirituality
concept which only has spiritual content and that this
spiritual content — if I may express it this way —
which he must give a spiritual content; yet he remains with
inner development of spiritual organs which direct him to
spiritual foundation, or I might call it, the spiritual
spiritual observation.
has come to Christ, one becomes a member of the spiritual world
being in the spiritual world, because the person who fails to

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intensive and vital experience. The actual spiritual experience
fluency, which are connected with the soul-spiritual of the

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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beauty as the arrangement of a place devoted to ideal spiritual
the furtherance of an ideal, spiritual task, even if it be on a
must learn to turn their eyes, their spiritual gaze, to the
fifteenth century A.D. According to Anthroposophical Spiritual
evolution if we turn our spiritual vision to the forces active
times people understood them as being spiritually controlled.
look up to the realm of these three spiritual kingdoms. Our
soul-spiritual to what lives in the three Hierarchies; and
spiritual observation that, with the actual working out of this
we survey this fact in spiritual vision, we shall feel with
for ourselves on the soul- spiritual that is in us. The result
of that work, what we unveil out of the spiritual world through
spiritual investigation, will become something in our human
feelings belonging to us, which we acquire out of the spiritual
connection with the spiritual world. Our real task, thus made
of ourselves, through devotion to spiritual
Hierarchies. Spiritual Science is the beginning of such work,
forth from the new spiritual evolution! We are at the beginning
which had lived in the spiritual world before birth, and before
attitude must be created, built up upon a spiritual relation to
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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towards spiritual science, to those spheres of existence, of
human beings begin to develop an interest in the spiritual
not lose all connection with the spiritual worlds, we
spiritual beings who have been connected with us so far
again concern ourselves with the spiritual world, fostering
spiritual forces can flow. The question may and must be asked,
with the spiritual worlds as to maintain their connection with
connection with the spiritual world.
spiritual realms, but in future they will help to detach man
from the spiritual world, unless they admit something entirely
anthroposophical spiritual science speaks of the continued
the spiritual life before birth. In the growth of a child from
notice forces from the spiritual world arising from its inner
because each year charms forth the divine-spiritual content of
the soul-spiritual within themselves, of experiencing something
which are more concrete with regard to the spiritual world than
themselves on our behalf. Men's attitude to the spiritual_
relation to the spiritual world than an egoistic one. The
greatest spiritual conflicts of the civilized world, and
it is “vertical.” To-day a wave of spiritual life
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spiritual-scientific attitude in order to regain the interest
the Consciousness or Spiritual Soul, the period in which we
provided by Spiritual Science, so sought that
out of the depths of Spiritual Science, must lead to a new
which has been produced in the way of spiritual impulses
be united by the Christ-Impulse, as presented by Spiritual
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science has the duty of pointing out
birth (or conception) lived in the spiritual world. The Earth
way on the spiritual, super-earthly world. This is a
from 28 to 35 on Earth, he gives the spiritual world something
take us too far.) What we give to the spiritual world is the
spiritual world we live our life backwards. We really do give
anthroposophical spiritual science. Otherwise we do not
the right; comprehension from the standpoint of spiritual
view of spiritual science. What matters is that we should act
from spiritual knowledge.
man develops as spiritual life in this, world. There
men — in fact, no possibility of developing any spiritual
to our spiritual life is of pre-natal origin. On the other
impulses, for what we carry over into the spiritual world. Just
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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before his spiritual eye to-day's necessity of looking more
series of lectures I gave in Vienna on spiritual-scientific
feelings, speaking as man to man, will know what a spiritual
from a spiritual point of view, the outcome of the dominant
the spiritual culture and education of the ruling classes and
the spiritual needs and longings of the proletariat. Art,
felt: here is a spiritual life created by what we produce, by
the social question taken as a whole — its spiritual
distinct aspect of the social question, the spiritual problem.
We stand before the whole sweep of the spiritual life
the time has come when intellectual and spiritual life must
of education, who were creative spiritually. But to-day we have
a spiritual, intellectual life which is free and independent of
have no authority within the spiritual part of the social
here is a man who wants to make the spiritual and
Further, just as on the one hand the spiritual life, in
point to the fact that by the side of the independent spiritual
intellectual or spiritual work is concerned. In the material
years or less after his death the spiritual product should no
us, because we do not value spiritual product as anything
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