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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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and spirit that enables a person to attain to such cognition and
follow with complete calm the inner rules that are applicable here,
individual, it is as a rule not advisable to seek mystic development
be so incorporated into one's being that a person becomes enabled to
Such is the intimate path the soul must tread. It must be able to
If, for example, a person is able to objectively observe a gesture, a
view of karma would be able to actually perceive the cause of a joyful
must have come about due to some inevitable set of laws of the
completely in hand and be able to exercise strict control over one's
thinking and are unable to control their thought-life through their own
person must be able to tear himself away from all sense impressions,
point, which sooner or later becomes available to everybody who has
disappear in continuous spirals into indefinable realms. When a person
undertakes occult training, his aura becomes increasingly definable.
The indefinable ends of the spirals disappear and the two entwined
this flame with the right sustenance. If a person is able to keep
are: "Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears.

Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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complicated age needs another kind of soul impulse that will enable us to
modern physics would be unthinkable. Annexed to this cathedral is the
certainty that this principle, which is able to rescue the eternal in the
changeable influences of the weather on the earth. In spring and summer the
willing are related only with the changeable influences of weather
just as he was able to experience outwardly the sun's victory over the
should be able to experience something that was active within him, deep
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Title: William Shakespeare
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that the plays, in the form in which they now exist, are able to
because he did not burden his characters with theories, he was able to
and this practical knowledge enabled him to develop his action in such
good circumstances, so that his son was able to attend the grammar
already able to buy a house at Stratford. As part-owner of the Globe
able to solve this problem.
We should not forget that the modern stage is not favourable to the
when a table and a chair sufficed for the equipment of a royal palace,
informed on currently applicable copyright laws.

Title: William Shakespeare
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that Shakespeare's plays, as they were then available, were not
he did not burden his characters with theories was he able to
stage, and this practical knowledge enabled him to develop his
circumstances, so that his son was able to attend the Latin
— and his conditions improved, so that in 1597 he was able
Shakespeare was able to answer this question.
not forget that the modern stage is not favourable to the effect
indicated by a notice-board, when a table and a chair sufficed

Title: The Manicheans
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borders for the attack. They were, however, able to achieve nothing.
of the Widow there will live the inviolable principle that Evil must

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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available to everyone.
are actually available. You have heard of Hatha-Yoga, Rajah-Yoga, and other
it bluntly, it is quite unjustifiable to speak in public in the style of
survived of the good old Freemasonry takes the form nowadays of charitable
possession, these charitable institutions are evidences of a
or charitable institutions. For selfless deeds are the real foundations of
charitable institution or have contributed something to its foundation,
the child has been instilled into him and he is able to read. And so too is
of culture, science will have reached the stage where man will be able to
let us say, will be able by pressing a button concealed in his pocket, to
enable humanity to be kept from the brink of destruction. The downfall of
will develop every imaginable skill and subtlety in the manipulation and
able to picture, more clearly than was possible when I spoke of the things

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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culture of the present time will be able to deny that the theme of
Christ. The Gnostic ideas were only able to prevail for a relatively
them wholly incapable of real judgment in matters of the spiritual
yet man had been unable to receive. The Gnosis, then, speaks of this
point of time when the soul of a chosen human being was able to feel
innumerable human beings there is such a thing as a turning-point, a
approached men felt themselves more and more incapable of
superficiality imaginable. Ideas are not the source of development of
attainable only by means of spiritual-scientific, super-sensible
I was able to show the place of the Christian Impulse in the historical
Spiritual Science, is able to look into that evolutionary process
rendered capable of existing for a certain length of time in a
soul was able for a certain period to gaze into the spiritual world
where he was not only able to tell of a spiritual world in
events underlying history. Innumerable candidates had received
were able to bear witness to the fact that there is indeed a
Whom the previous Initiates were able to retain a remembrance.
generations, I am able to say: the Divine Principle which has
people are enabled to make something of these words. This conception,
were able to show that Spiritual Science is in full agreement with
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Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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you know that when the human being will be able to look into the
heart of one who is able to look into these mysteries, is the fact
— vegetalization of the soul! Vegetables sleep — and the human
this feeling, will he be able to make the right decisions and
throughout his life the human being should be able to feel the
What we develop ONLY between birth and death, appears to one who is able to

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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help which are no longer available in our epoch. The Gods let their
surmised by those unable to read the Akasha Chronicle — if we
capable of supporting what lies upon them, the God is enshrined in
permeable. One of the reasons why a Gothic building makes its
just this way? Can any explanation be given of those remarkable
remarkable ... exactly the same, in reality, as the experience which
is indispensable. What is a Temple of Asia Minor, in reality? Does
the pillars, capitals and remarkable forms of such temples are a
Spirit we are able to look behind this countenance into the inner
counterpart in those remarkable temples of which only fragments and
deeply concealed in man as to be unable to find expression in his
mysterious world within himself but able to let the forces of this
into the soul must be able to pour into form. Just as the human being
Art of Building which shall be able to speak with all clarity to the
not have existed hitherto, for Spiritual Science alone is capable of
very understandable — that an artist recoils from such
all over Europe. It is a remarkable story, beautiful and artistically
has outgrown the wisdom that the Seven Wise Masters had been able to
day has come and Diocletian is able to speak. This is the story of
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Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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they should be able to understand the physical heart, the physical
still able to absorb the sublime spirituality that surpassed the
States suitable for the different peoples.
Spiritual Will manifested in the personality, they were also able to
in their art of sculpture had bodied forth a god, were also able to
medieval Mysticism. This stream was still able to have an effect upon
enables us to understand the creed of the Knights Templar and their
sublime schooling which enabled them to become the Leaders of mankind,
Root Race onward, they will be capable of becoming the Leaders of
has always been a man among men, only he was able to advance more
has always had Initiates, men who were so initiated as to enable them
is therefore probable that his real connection with Irish Christianity

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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soul not to be able to remember everything all the time? We shall
attributable to the etheric principle.
we are concerned. To be able to grasp the difference between the
he has been exposed to an unsuitable climate. Now let us imagine that
mobility contributes to the healing process. In innumerable cases
All of you have not only forgotten innumerable things that happened
about, and make it serviceable for man. It is as though it were not
impressions either, of course. It would not be able to forget,
be able to get certain impressions out of his mind because he is
forgetting that man is capable of developing. Besides, no mental
the mighty memory tableau I have often described stands before his
and pleasures. Now the astral body would not be able to be conscious
be taken quite objectively — to be able to forget insults and

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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such a way that they are equally suitable for newcomers. We could
apply and make valuable use in life of those facts that are not
impossible. And you would never be able to say anything of any value
physically in its totality at all, because when you are able to see
is incapable of functioning. Thus the heart can be affected simply
because the nervous system has become incapable of functioning in the
incapable of carrying out their job. If in a case like this the
mistake comparable to tinkering with an engine that is always running
person to another place, you will not be able to help him as a rule
you will be able to see the subtle connection between what a man

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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place, comparable to today's seasonal changes, changes of climate,
difference between the various times that were comparable to our
away, unless they are very impressionable. This was different in
Schopenhauer to think that men were absolutely incapable of bringing
impressionable. Then he would really be able to take into his
of the environment. It is not noticeable to outer perception, but
became less and less capable of transforming himself through the
did in those times we would not be able to say: ‘This or that
takes one or another mineral medicament. Something very remarkable is
remarkable presents itself to clairvoyant consciousness. This mineral

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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would have seemed absurd appear possible and probable, and we can see
fact that pneumonia shows something quite remarkable that is
innumerable times we have referred to it that man can only be
important — but which is also variable. What we know as the
improbable this sounds to people today. Nowadays they have almost
certain processes, but they are still noticeable to occult
outer circumstances. This is the same thing as setting a reliable
will be able to show that it is not so very long since people were at

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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world. And in a public lecture I also indicated a remarkable fact
because it is an indisputable fact. It is something that really ought
body’ is the most complicated matter imaginable, for the human
unreliable if the two hands do not coincide the following day as soon
reliable thread on which to string our thoughts: these four members
draw attention to the kind of wisdom that enables man to create his
very existence. Then we can reach the point of being able to say that

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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the physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego, enables us to
connected with the span of one human lifetime. Now anyone who is able
past life standing before him as a great tableau. Then, after a
have already described the remarkable way in which this period of
It requires considerable effort to get used to this, but it will
again with all the forces we have mustered. This is inevitable. Now
heredity, and is capable of re-forming the organism during the course
nature has to incarnate in the most suitable body possible, though it
will not be absolutely suitable. Yet this soul might be strong enough
encountered the person concerned, yet our soul is not capable of
favourable, but his inner strength cannot take hold of his organs and
whole process in such a way that the person thereby becomes capable
capable of doing a particular deed. The urge is there, nevertheless,
struggles, as it were, with its unusable organ, attacks it and
forces, then comes the inevitable reaction, which we call the process
capable of performing it, although by the time the illness is over it
organ in the way it needs, the unsuitable organ has to be destroyed
capable of making use of the mid-brain. How can it acquire the
become capable of everything that we ourselves have taken through the
a person capable. We shall then come to think of illness in quite a
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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from within. It is this fact of being able to work creatively on
processes really are. And that is why only a being that is capable of
the point where the person is capable of tensing or relaxing the
observe the breathing process when people laugh or cry. This enables
entered his first earthly incarnation. Man was capable of it. If we
uncomfortable in there, because it would not be able to do a thing;
inner strength through being able to do something, namely shedding

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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able to distinguish this human being from his environment, just as a
able to waft through the environment he is familiar with today. Thus
a man of the present, with his powers of perception, had been able to
the greatest imaginable degree. A great number of people looked up to
would not have been able to descend at all into physical bodies. And
call the Lemurian population of the earth, that remarkable people of
have been able to find suitable bodies. The underdeveloped bodies of
those days the body was still to a certain extent perfectly capable
on the form which enabled it to mould all the organs, heart, brain,
and characteristics, however, developed on innumerable different
Manu, gathered around him as being most capable of evolving. Those
extreme cases there were obviously innumerable intermediary stages of
extent these intermediary levels were extraordinarily suitable for
peoples of Europe of whom we were able to say in the last public
its surface are exposed to the sunlight, gave rise to innumerable
to acknowledge this as an acceptable idea? He united himself with the
remarkable description emerged there long before Christian times,
evolution and that of the East. A remarkable idea emerged there which
if they had been able to put the facts of their development into
the earth made them so. Only those peoples that were capable of

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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instrument capable of connecting external impressions in a definite
comparable to that of the animal. This must not lead to the
able to take anything with him at his physical death, from his last
life between birth and death. And if he were not able to take
that education is practicable, and something further can be done with
this group, we ought to be able to understand them. Let us start by
we find that on Saturn there could be no question of man being able
Therefore in the truest sense of the word man alone is capable of
point where he would have been capable of adding anything new to his
he would see what he is capable of creating through the fact that he
reaching Venus, man will not be able to say: Everything from Saturn,
further development. On Saturn, in order to be able to live at all,
not have been able to perform any action that can be created out of
has become capable of extending his thoughts beyond the things he
man being able to work beyond the dictates of karma, and live in duty
becoming capable of logical thinking, of developing thought in
capable of both setting himself the concept of duty and of fulfilling
of being able to create solely out of relationships that has placed
Holy Spirit’. When a man is able to create out of nothingness
him with bliss. But for a man to be able to create in the sense of
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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am very glad to be able to speak here again after a comparatively
programmes. Man is able to sense truth where it genuinely exists.
inevitable on the physical plane, namely, the time factor. Hence I
prepared and revelations from the spiritual worlds will be able to
physical body in a way that enables him to participate in the
restlessness can be avoided, the more we shall be able to achieve. It
knowledge of this change, or at least that such souls should be able
can become, the more will the facts of the spiritual world be able to
to participate effectively in a spiritual Movement, to be able to
Movement it would be especially desirable for its adherents to
gifts are capable if he is perpetually active and is impatient to
attained only by one who is able to wait quietly, with complete
In the physical world, if we want to have, say, a table, we must
significance of his relation to the physical plane than he was able
by the recognition that this ancient seer was able to write as he did
will easily be able to verify what I have to say about them.
conceivable that someone might visualise a particular posture which
own soul something that is able to throw spiritual light upon the
capable of sustaining life — that is what matters. Our attitude
prove worthy of Grace. You will now be able to understand that during
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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remain in his astral, etheric and physical bodies; the forces able to
being is unable to recall what his soul has experienced. There is
now with the physical and etheric bodies. A person who is able —
circumstance that we are able to destroy our organism perpetually.
life to annul the destruction we have caused. We are capable of this
bodies there is no possibility of being able to do this at the
present stage of man's evolution. He is unable to work consciously on
still available at the end of one incarnation we could do nothing in
able to restore freshness and health within certain limits to the
forces able to restore our worn-out sheaths. Between death and the
man must himself possess some quality that will enable him to
an earthly life that was unsociable and lacking in morality.
epochs — as was both inevitable and right — were
essential to be able to understand not merely one particular group of
prejudices of one particular faith render us incapable of
regarded one particular religion only as valuable is incapable in the
becoming solitary individuals in the Sun sphere, unable to make
able to realise but does not always do so. One of the most beautiful
Earth and because we have been able to open our eyes of spirit here
body of man. A considerable spiritual heirloom is available for all
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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in later karma. Those living on Earth are able to have a great
has elapsed shall we be able to experience once again, during our
technique of karma enables these conditions to be changed during
he must leave it as it is; he is unable to bring about any change in
through human will is able to bring about certain changes in the
circumstances in such a case, the one who is on Earth may be able to
able to help them. To this end Anthroposophy must make us conscious
the physical plane. If for some justifiable reason or, let us say,
that he does not want it? This question is not entirely justifiable
happenings are able as it were to open the soul to the spiritual
certain dreams which are often quite inexplicable, in which certain
would find that these inexplicable pictures indicate something that
that would enable the soul to express itself.
comes from the sun that enables the leaves to open again and the
and for this reason he is able to sleep by day, even when the sun is
wheels. It is quite conceivable that if, instead of living on the
our eyes and ears is not attributable to the soul but to the
would get a brain equal to that of Zeus and would be able to enjoy
desirable suitors for her if she would let him share her wealth. She
able to find his way to the girl's soul, and with him she shared her
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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earlier lectures we have heard that the imperishable part of the
considerable extent, the etheric body too, passes through a life
the human being is able to draw these forces from the world of stars
science as Mercury, a man will be able to draw the requisite forces
will not be able to make much of it. Put simply, the condition of
information available to one who studies ancient records or records
which most people would be capable today if they were to make efforts
Astronomy of the kind that is available for men of the present age.
consciousness which ours today is quite unable to experience.
for instance, with Saturn. They were able to perceive — this is
longer capable of perceiving such things conditions which made
was no longer able to perceive anything of the spiritual realities in
they were still able to be aware of the spiritual life pervading
the Great Bear and enable them to experience as realities the
torch is available in that other world and consciousness is dimmed.

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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of the innumerable factors which enable us to grasp the supreme
Initiation are able to establish relationship not only with physical
could therefore be contacted only by pupils and neophytes able to
the Mystery of Golgotha this Being had a notable pupil. At that time
been quite unable to cope with the demands that would be made of
investigation if that investigation is able to penetrate deeply
have rendered them incapable of anything except a purely
have been able to produce on the Earth a counterweight to the purely
of individuals capable only of leading a monastic life patterned on
been able to scale the heights of spiritual life.
the latter class would, like Francis of Assisi, have been incapable
activity on the Earth through which he would have been able, from the
mythological fable that Mars received its name because it is the

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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been possible, we shall be unable to make further progress in our
body accompanies him for a considerable time but again a kind of
the human being is not yet able to speak and has to learn how to do
utter the first word of which you were capable and to formulate the
you will be as little able to remember it as you can remember how you
indeed go back to the time when you were first able to think, but not
upright, to speak and to think. But he is not at once capable of
enable him to participate in the evolving culture of mankind; he has
vertical spine, and who can speak and think. Even a parrot is able to
talk only because its form is upright. The fact that it is able to
at once able to adopt the posture ultimately ordained for him. The
or Ego which have enabled him to think, to speak and adopt the
The Spirits of Form are the Beings who enable man to
him down, causing him to move about on all fours and to be incapable
noticeable because there is inconsistency between the human being
clairvoyance a remarkable difference is revealed between the head
have been at work to enable a human being to come into existence
the forces which, working from within, enable the human being to

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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further. If nothing else intervened, growth would be able to continue
have now been able to consider many different aspects of the work of
way of education. And to be able to distinguish between where
knew in the way of which he would have been capable. Nevertheless his
under the water, they became clairvoyant. John was able to reveal to
the spiritual treasure that he had once been able to take with him
came it that understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha enabled the
regular and direct contact with men; the other spirits are incapable
which are inevitable in the course of evolution. Men can, however,
inapplicable to the Earth, where life must progress from incarnation
they were able to understand matters altogether different from those
established the causes which enabled them to experience the spiritual
qualities which enabled them to bring a new impulse into the

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Eight
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fundamentally speaking, entities attributable to the fact that
not destroy his body in some measure would be capable of thinking or
Man is unable to preserve any remembrance of what he has seen between
experience comparable with it is the coming of death in physical
inevitable that in the course of evolution the possibility of
that will enable them to live in the true world in their following
And now something shall be said that enables a seer to
applicable to some other kind of knowledge. Spiritual Science imparts

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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sense of duty enables contact to be made after death with spiritual
almost seem acceptable. And yet it is utterly at variance with what
upon our physical body possessing organs which enable us to come in
unable to cope with life in this physical world. In the real sense we
from the spiritual world forces by means of which we have been able
to build a body able to cope with this world and all its demands. The
them, understand their nature and essential characteristics, be able
following life. We must be able to understand or at least to perceive
one of the other worlds. Between death and the new birth he is able,
admittedly, able to cope with the outer world and its demands, in a
bodies in such a way that they are able to make effective use of
who were able to approach them because in the preceding incarnation
unable to receive these forces; and that in turn was because they had
cleric, an honourable man in all his endeavours, wrote in the first
who are incapable of genuine thinking today owe this to the fact that
environment. Very often they were intolerable hypochondriacs in their
attitude to life, we shall be able, by means of spiritual
able to receive from the spiritual Beings the gifts which would have
enabled them to shape their next life rightly. In that life they
death and rebirth, innumerable experiences are undergone and in
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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content indeed! And yet on final consideration you will be able to
life spent in longing for sense-impressions and being unable to enjoy
region of Burning Desires the soul still longs to be able to see
yearns to be able to think by means of a brain such as was available
more and more closely into contact with those forces which now enable
is spiritual to the extent of being able to behold as something
permeate his being with theirs, in order that his being may be able
expression is the ‘I am Brahman’, you will be able, if
Jupiter region only if it is able to liberate itself from the
region the soul must be able to lay the foundation for a new
only for souls already able to exercise a certain degree of genuine
able to put self-knowledge into practice can the soul find entrance
qualities that ensure progress on the Earth. If souls were never able
Indian culture was able to progress to that of ancient Persia only
lectures and lecture-courses, we should be able to form our own
The conclusion which I should like to be able to draw

Title: Michelangelo
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notable book recently published disputes the claim of history to be
significance lies in the new experiences which souls were unable to
perpetually drawing and drawing in such a remarkable way that no one
a new epoch, and what the Greeks had been able to experience within
of preparation. And so we shall be able to realize that it is not
from Rome to Florence we can see a remarkable drama unfolding itself.
proceeded, we shall be able to see how Michelangelo set about his
after completing his task here he would be able to continue work on
to what is his greatest achievement, that remarkable work of artistic
maturity of soul which enabled him to imprint on the world of space
physically exhausted, yet with the strength that enabled him to carry

Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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is what we should be able to conceive. When we transcend our own
vegetable activity in the organism abandoned by the astral body
enables us to perceive this. This vegetation, however, does not
observe the “vegetable growth” in man. There the
differentiate them. Truth can only be reached if we are able to
etheric body so as to enable it to exercise this peculiar
answer to the question: Why is man able to remember things, and
why is he able to think? — We must go back to the
the Earth. This will enable you to understand many things. In the
thinking power they will not be able to unfold much in a
might be able to see through our Karma. We could see through it
field will be able to foretell what it will look like tomorrow
... yet he will not be able to foresee whether rain will fall
inner being lives something which he is unable to survey through
ordinary consciousness only enables him to see the shell,
capable of driving you out of bed!
imperishable element which we gain from birth to death for our
hope that we shall be able to continue these lectures in a not

Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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life. He must be able to notice, to have the knowledge to recognize,
does he recognize them as such, but he is able to eliminate them, to
Just as the spiritual investigator is able through his
conjured before him, so he must be able to extinguish this whole
reflection of his own being but be able to extinguish it again. If he
could not extinguish it, he would be in a situation comparable to
unbearable, impossible in an actual development of the human soul.
his gaze. The person would not be able to look around freely but
would be tied to the object. This would be an unbearable situation in
“You are able to extinguish your image,” overcoming
investigator therefore must be able not only to create his own
power whose soul has been capable of eliminating certain mental
one come to be able at last to erase a spiritual world when it
not only have the described faculties but must be able, after the
that when he is able to confront a spiritual outer world in the same
from being able to look further into the spiritual world, from being
able to have the experience of meeting the Guardian of the Threshold
who would gladly recognize the spiritual world but is unable to do
spiritual world, to exist in the spiritual world, to be able to
yet a spiritual investigator is unable to know and understand and
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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to time who are able to see in direct vision what has been
too, that since then the human heart has been able to
was able to say of himself that he was one who with the eyes
awakened eyes of spirit, he was able to affirm that nothing
in his life was comparable in importance with the experience
able to kindle the true mood of Christmas in our souls. And
always be able to find new symbols, symbols that are in
of the Earth, the less capable he became of beholding the
man once had lived. But the Gods he was still able to behold
come forth can be seen in its leaves. But we are able to
eyes will be able to turn to where the new star can appear to
with the fire of spiritual inspiration, been able to teach
the most advanced and able to feel its significance. To them
only. — And to his Initiates, Zarathustra was able to
the heart of the blossom enables you to feel that a new plant
vision, and intelligence was better able to fathom the
were able to make the ancient Gods come down among them. And even
lived in the times of Atlantis. Men were able to provide a
been able to say to those souls? They could have told them of
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would enable them to penetrate and understand the surrounding world
the dignity of Buddhahood and was then able, as Buddha, to bring
unfathomable even to the Bodhisattva. He had passed through many
innumerable lives will never solve the great riddles of old age, of
of my soul I should everywhere be able to look behind the illusion of
enable me to see the original reality. My actions are not fruitful. I
no longer be illusion but reality — a world in which I am able
that will enable me to cry with St. Paul, “Not I, but Christ in
great and mighty results that the human mind did not feel able to
knowledge; it is able to compass and elaborate all the facts brought
altogether unable to penetrate the depths of the universe. This is a
is able to look back upon his earthly existence and feel: This bodily

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which by virtue of its nature and its special tasks is able not only
evidence that sometimes older strata — recognisable by
unthinkable. Geology, therefore, would take us back in the process of
myself as I am looking down from this bare summit and hardly able to
though it is, what I have been able to illustrate so far shows
He held that, generally speaking, nothing that we are able to observe
chemical and physical processes were active will be able to explain
possibility arose for certain new forms to develop, capable of
cerebral instruments could develop in living beings which enabled
able to form thoughts and produce feelings which, as it were, repeat
earth-body in order to be able to rise step by step to other realms
with the greatest care imaginable — of the investigations which
monumental work in these memorable words:

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last few years we have been able to develop these dramatic
and this year we have been able to make the experiment of having
thanks to the self-sacrifice and willingness of those able to take
part in this artistic endeavour, we have been able to make a
life when none of us will any longer be able to be present in our
remarkable in the Munich representations that Theosophy does not try
and that this year, in spite of great difficulty we were able to
will be able to perceive from such a work as The Soul's
through the very uncomfortable heat in the room. Now of course it
a lack of all understanding for Art could make it acceptable in
work in Munich, it is inevitable — if by means of all that may
results if we are able to construct a Hall for ourselves, we have
books accumulated as time goes on, on our table here, —
evident that we are able to find our way to the ears, hearts and
souls of people — so far as we have been able to approach them.
and we were able during this time to work on a ground upon which it
able to approach subjects such as the Resurrection. The modern
adjudge that that school of thought is simply incapable of seeing
points which can be disputed while others are indisputable; regarding
different heights? If that be the case the opponent would be unable
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the present day an absolutely super-sensible and imponderable entity.
a cosmic tableau, which even to-day is, as it were, imprinted upon
you must form a conception of what is necessary, to be able to feel
such a cosmic tableau as reality. You must think away everything that
must be able to feel, as it were, his environment tinged and
and at the same time he must be able to overcome this fear by inner
consciousness of this dread of the immeasurable emptiness might be
upon a remarkable passage, which is simply expressed and noted in his
which enables a man to understand the impressions of the spiritual
discoverable. If we revert to the simile of swimming, we may say it
able to move, then you will no longer be able to say that what you
as far as this we become aware of a remarkable alteration in the
we have to attain; we must be able to transform the ideas we receive
intellectualist will never be able to understand such minds. I will
applicable since the ‘soul’ is dethroned; although this
concerning him he would have written completely unjustifiable things.

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of the soul. No man can know what heat is who is not able to form a
is hardly thinkable that anyone sacrificing himself with
impulse to sacrifice, it is then unthinkable that he should feel
really attain to what the higher knowledge gives. He who is unable to
way up to the higher worlds. There he must be able to experience this
be empty able to wait quietly for what may enter into it from the
of clairvoyant knowledge except by creating a suitable frame of mind
devotion we are able to permeate ourselves with a perception, with an
behind it are the Archangels; but they are only able to ray forth
the whole feeling that we are thus able to acquire — which gives
nature of the Christ-impulse. We are then able to understand the dim
be able to understand everything that he saw here, he would

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able to accept Karma and its workings in this way, keeping quietly
it will be noticeable that his words to his pupils will not
beings are able to enter our astral body during the development
his nature. But, on the other hand, if man were incapable of
wickedness, unable to err from good through the forces of the
Sun-existence, we are able to describe it quite distinctly if
Wisdom now flowing into the sacrificial heat we are able during the
an extremely difficult chapter indeed, and we shall only be able
arising and passing away. It is in the highest degree remarkable;
them to expression were enabled to take possession of the object of
beings would not have been able to oppose them. Put into simple words
be any free beings, capable of acting from their own initiative. In
able to resist us. We will therefore not accept the sacrifice; so
able to bring it into the world. But now the following objection may
have always believed them able to give freedom to man without
‘Am I not able to call forth a whole multitude of angels if I
to enter His sphere. If we are able to see in Christ Jesus all that
centre. In order that that which makes mankind of such immeasurable
I have often ventured to say that if an inhabitant of Mars were able
soul with intellect to feel the whole immeasurable greatness of the
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are not able to do this, are obliged to retain this substance within
them. The Beings whose sacrifice was rejected were unable to
described as longing is an unattainable wish.
A being able to
they had been able to do this what they offered would have passed
bringing about changes of place; they are Beings able to bring forth
unendurable, and which in a merely superficial person takes the
that; but it is able to take in the transitory idea of the other
replaced by something else, something that is able to redeem it by
Longing’; longing capable of satisfaction yet flowing on
the Universal Being, Who is able to satisfy the longing once and for
feels moods such as these, and they are the very best he is capable
this spiritual wisdom had not been given, had been unable to have it,
unable to grasp the meaning of life, just because he was an
able to satisfy it — such as a modern thinker may find if he
can span with her earthly consciousness! We should not be able to
Katchen Von Heilbronn, especially in the remarkable relation
striving mind was not able to find his way into that
Anthroposophy is able to give us, has been desired and longed for.

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been able to grasp as the inner movement of that life. We thus found
power of the process of acquiring knowledge. We should be able
they are not tenable! Even enlightened philosophers now admit that.
this, which aspired, but was unable to ascend to the Higher Entities,
now feel: ‘Had I been able to accomplish my sacrifice, the best
last lecture. We saw that as the Beings were unable to feel an inner
were still able to obtain a certain satisfaction.
undeniable fact that that which was to have been offered up would
If a planet were able to pour all its contents into the Sun and these
death to the earth; for it presents a truly remarkable aspect.
worlds play their part in Maya, in a remarkable way. Whereas
able to provide, is the following: That the event of Damascus will,
capacities will be developed in man which will enable him to
becoming able to perceive the Christ by means of the higher faculties
event, may be able to experience it in the intermediate life,
displays an undeniable reality, a direct truth. What then is real on
justifiable to say that ‘no history can assert that there ever
historical facts. It is very remarkable that this Event, which
Christianity as a Mystical Fact. They were able to convince

Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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that wherever we gaze and are able to discover the spirit, there this
previously plants were able to be considered only in relation to
every leaf of the higher plants consisted of innumerable, tiny
advances of the nineteenth century. He was unable, however, to think
doubts if he is able to work himself out of the frequently quite
be considered by itself or whether it remains inexplicable by itself,
to the earth by being able to fall onto the earth, where it finds a
that the earth is able to draw out of its center all those force
Now, if we are able to
able to encompass nature magnificently with his spirit: Novalis. He
must be able to think of the earth and the sun as spirit-filled
the earth rests within itself, we must be able to think of its
able to manifest through the eye as ‘light,’ so every
not be able to achieve consciousness if it did not have its sense
It is remarkable that
speaking of the soul of an eye. Although a remark able linking of
remarkable when man discovered that plants can eat, can even take in
grain-producing plants, we discover remarkable little organs present
discovered. These cells are constructed in quite a remarkable way, so
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essence — the imperishable essence that passes from incarnation
remarkable how these two paths converge in the Greek age, where the
Zarathustra was able to transmute his conception of the
was able to teach his disciples that within them was an active
Zarathustra's disciples were thus enabled to realise that the
relationship to the universe and made him able to say:
remarkable connection between the tendencies of our own time and the
had taught that man was not so organised as to enable him to seek
to the realm of the Asuras and you will be able to rise from there to

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physical evidence is still available. According to external research
those still able to gaze into the spiritual world contained less and
Individualities were able, with their wonderful powers of
Priest-Sages were able, in the golden prime of Egyptian civilisation,
something very remarkable in the Egyptian animal-worship, the worship
world of matter, yet it is the Isis-power which enables him, while he
nature in its physical aspect. This he can only do when he is able to
which enable the soul-powers to have real experiences without making
but able to gaze into the spiritual world. In the outer world we can
enabled them to cultivate their land aright and provide for the needs

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discovered “incontestable proofs” thereof. Since
knowledge; the things pertaining to external nature are palpable
who accept certain ideas of Darwinism as incontestable truths,
uncomfortable during the latter part of their life because of
is justifiable if you go back to the physical ancestors to
that man differed from the animals in being able to count.
reason why it is able to produce higher degrees of
had not existed, we should not have been able to benefit by the
valuable results of his. researches.” And the same as the
is governed by necessary immutable laws, and such events as the
explanation of nature showed a hiatus. We were able to
understand how inanimate phenomena can be explained by immutable
animals and man himself originated we were unable to form any
elsewhere only an immutable law came into consideration; but
hard we tried, we could not find any reasonable objection to the
miracle, — was unable to raise Lazarus from the dead, if
animal species originate according to immutable laws of nature
decree was without effect, as we were not able to dispense with
miracle, not able to indicate a power of nature which could
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taken away. That is to say, that when a man is no longer able
natural science is not at all applicable to man in this form.
For no one would be able to call the life of an organism
self-evident fact, a, triviality, for him who is capable of judging.
before Francesco Redi will be able to deny that there is a
this observation to the tree, we shall be able to say:
it, if it is able to disturb it. Now, the life-process can
death, we are able to build up our next life, for it contains
is not able to remember his former lives, if the memory of
children's lives, will be able to make one observation from
begins, remembrance also begins. Whence comes this remarkable
It is thus quite explicable that his memory only extends as
that certainly in acceptable to the inner nature of the soul,
world, therefore it is not serviceable to him who wishes to
able to look behind the Ego can gaze into the Spiritual
this means of intervening in life. If we are able to instil
able to shut out our Ego with regard to the experience of the
able to count; therefore, man can count.” The
times we were unable to remember back. This memory of the
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festival. For though the vast majority of our friends are able
year that we are able to be together on this Christmas Eve, and
fruits which were no longer suitable to that age is
absurd; for if we love rightly it is capable of no increase.
child can feel, from the moment when it begins to be able to
initiation,’ then we shall be able to attain that which is to
corner, born in a stable. Such is the picture of Him that is

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Giordano Bruno — so that we may be able to understand
of demonstrating more clearly the most acceptable meaning of
was able to see behind the material world into the Spiritual.
recorded it. But Aristotle was not himself capable of
book of Nature itself, which is available to each and all
arose, which was not available to the intellect of man until
perception and, above all, our reason, which is inseparable
he was able to do because, in a certain sense, his mind was
— “Here we stand on the firm earth, immovable in
round the Sun with incalculable rapidity. Such a conception
mind is capable of recognizing truth in its
things?” Galileo used a very remarkable illustration,
ever being able to penetrate behind the veil of the world
able to take on another form. For each Monad is obliged to
that that which existed in Nature as form was capable of
inevitable conclusion that Goethe must have conceived the
have been expressed differently. We ought to be able to see,
Spiritual Science is able to throw upon them, We cannot, as
inspiration of Giordano Bruno. “Spirit is inseparable

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the ages down to the present day. Grimm has been able to show that
That could only be if one were able by some means to place his pictures
human spirit undergoes an inward deepening and is no longer able to
historian describes a remarkable scene, and indeed all the descriptions
impression that the revenge was justifiable and there arises before
of an officialdom of Cardinals and Priests which had been intolerable
familiar to everybody in the innumerable copies existing all over the
same sunrise once seen by Raphael, who in these phenomenon was able
Another remarkable thing
poured into it a power able to reemerge in what we call the “life
It is a remarkable spectacle, the Rome where Raphael found himself at
the feelings of a soul able to create like this? We cannot compare them
have been able to speak with the same fire that is later found in Savonarola.
of the nature of a Savonarola. It was able to refresh and renew all
the remarkable phenomena of the resurrection of Greek culture within
in him in such a way that he was able to impress into forms the whole
evolution of humanity. How marvelously was he able to accomplish this
to his book on Raphael is remarkable, and moreover, deeply characteristic
to work upon us in the true sense and we are able to say: Raphael has
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individual man. This deed is to the highest degree honorable
and bold, and admirable. But what he has written is a symptom
one can take hold of the matter, just as logic enables people
are gray theory suitable for being dealt with at the desk, but
life, they would soon find that they are capable of nothing.
that is what Theosophical life enables you to do. Therefore
if in our emotions and perceptions we are able to feel a
who is able to look into the soul is one who, in the great
one who understands something of the laws of the soul is able
had to have had intuition in order to be able to find out about
of reincarnation. First, it renders understandable for us
pivots around the truths that are suitable for the human being,
and it is suitable for the human being to be raised in the idea
equal before God. This earthly life has been bearable only by
will satisfy people, about which people will be able to say:
This will be able to satisfy people again. Therefore the human
able to live again in these human souls. And the way the one

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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forces of evolution, will find renewed significance in a memorable
pocket and at once drew a remarkable shape, a shape that
The elder man was unable to understand this objection
incapable of realizing what lay behind, when he believed that
It is remarkable that Heinroth,
thinking is a quite peculiar thinking, really inseparable from the
Now whoever is able to look into Goethe's whole spiritual
remarkable in this effect of Goethe's spirit on the most diverse
quite remarkable about Goethe's influence on
concept as fact, where he is capable of experiencing it directly.
calls the proto-plant the proto-phenomenon of the vegetable world.
contradictions and struggles of world-conceptions, is able to show,
is represented near the table. One might say that the picture has
the hall stood the Prior's table, on each side the monks' tables,
and turned round, you saw the fourth table painted on the fourth
have been a significant sight at meal-times, when the tables of the
the painter in his wisdom had to take the monks' tables as his
model. And it is certain the table-cloth with its creases, its
we should be able to show the working of his whole method.
come remarkable forms — Will-o'-the-Wisps. They want to be
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men, capable of development; that we can work on ourselves, and raise
is able to increase the capabilities in him and to discover by means
not see before because he was not capable of seeing it. Spiritual
because it does not recognize an absolute, unchangeable truth,
that he who believes himself able to stand on the firm ground of
If you carry the thought a step further, you will be able to
experienced in yourself the reasons for it, you are able to assert
are not yet so far as to be able to give themselves up purely to what
thinking, which then enables him to comprehend things with objective
‘enlightenment.’ Every man capable of development,
separation, he is not capable of being effective through his three
stands, in his nature, free; he is capable, in a word, of
soul-capacity which is never able to grasp a single literary thought,
incapable of further development, because the productive element is
something valuable; in the Snake the Will-o'-the-Wisps' gold turns to
something valuable in so far as she illumines the objects round about her.
capable of leading to and interpreting the realities round him, so
conceptions but is incapable of applying them to life is like a man
capable of becoming the point of agreement between two hostile
man must set about being able to re-unite with the Beautiful Lily.
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despair that an upright honourable man can go through, and all this
universal quintessence’ — a remarkable sentence,
men's works and men's strivings on the earth. But he was unable to
was a man able to decide very quickly on any point laid before him;
was mixed up in Goethe's soul in the most remarkable way and out of
step by step. This was the figure of Faust, that remarkable
This Faust had been the object of innumerable folk-plays and
the heights, and out of it formed their ideas, they were able to
understanding and reason has not been purified, who are unable to
the mystics with great pains, to miss the way and being unable to
honourable striving after knowledge and those limits which passed
the remarkable sign of the two interlaced triangles and the two
many experiences, so that only thirty years later he is able to
having these remarkable pictures before him, he could say as if in
this evil power raging in his soul and the truly honourable
too small. But anyone able to see them, need wish for nothing
until after long years the seed grows, are unable to see the way
soul, what a remarkable light falls on the two dragons with which
Goethe was unable to show in a continuous way what he had
reached an advanced age, was he able to give a true form to what
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remarkable that Faust is now transplanted to the Imperial Court,
from old Indian or Egyptian descriptions; he was able to put down
world. With its help Faust is able to conjure up Paris and Helena
And now we are shown in that remarkable scene, how, starting from
provided by Wagner. Thus this remarkable figure, the Homunculus
But far too much of palpable and real.’
And now he is able to behold the spirit of
life, is able to experience harmony with what is ‘long ere
has not yet scaled the necessary step which makes him capable of
eludes him yet again. He has become capable of living in the
there sounds from the depths a remarkable call. He is now like a
down again into the material world. He gets to know in a remarkable
battle for Faust's soul — a significant and remarkable
supernatural, scarcely guessable things, unless I gave my poetic
able to measure the whole earnestness, out of which the Faust
‘indescribable’ from the most diverse sides,
‘unattainable’ for the material world is within the
he points out to us how that which is indescribable in material words
The Indescribable,

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will have been able to see from the one
shall be able to coordinate the spiritual lines and forces
more understandable. Today we shall proceed a little farther in this
it is only because the being in question is able to descend
who are able to carry on occult research into such things know
we are able to study what the exact significance is when an
constitution of this human being are capable of being
effort to use Shem's etheric body, in order to be able to give
physical world which alone make explicable to us what occurs
able to point to such facts: to facts of a spiritual nature
of Jesus of Nazareth to be multiplied innumerable times, as
was set upon being able to prove by means of such physical
for they knew better. They had always been able to experience
happen that in those centuries a number of people were able to
this writer of the Heliand poem we have been able to describe
of all, which are able to explain history to us in an intimate
then had an ego which as ego was capable of forming very
and are not able to understand his
explicable from such a point of view. He was one of those
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made available.
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stenographic notes by Bertha Reebstein-Lehmann were available. For
who were able to find new life because of them; but also there were
those who – like the hard ground in the Gospel parable –
concealed in the old names. Through him we are able to divine the
impulsing forces behind the names. Rescue planks for the unavoidable
engulf us when we see how little we were able to take advantage of
dedication the individuals are capable of. When we then ask: How much
that it is applicable to innumerable instances in the world and can
able to receive from the new occultism in the course of time, then we
of words that are not understandable. That must be so with things
applicable. You will see though, if something like this should come
tasks of the future is non-negotiable and will be accomplished
able to remain, Hermann Linde for one. From early morning on clanged
vegetable colors unfolded in glowing brilliance; plants were rubbed
Germany a most capable replacement was
death for the immeasurable richness of his gifts. We were enlivened

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irreconcilable with modern science. People who are engaged in
religion, Christianity. Christianity is capable of endless
also become understandable. The true value of the ancient
able to recognize that their faith has developed within a
patience and tolerance; it should enable a person to enter
Through spiritual science a person should be able to progress
existence. Religion should enable us to go through life
we know that no one can be strong and capable unless a
faced with greater issues and unable to cope even with
to offer will be unable to recognize what spiritual science
incapable of providing answers to spiritual questions. That
cultures; they have been suitable for their particular epoch.
When a culture is no longer acceptable, for the people can no
acceptable and understandable to modern humans.
able at such places to find answers to spiritual questions?
the effect that, unless natural science is able to arrive at
such specific knowledge has been available for thirty years,
the spiritual world is again attainable through spiritual
able to see into the spiritual world, so there are
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the very thing he abhors? The only reasonable interpretation
especially valuable, and that to him it is important that the
times. We cannot go on regarding legends, fables and myths as
people knows with certainty that the contents of fables and
fables and myths, cosmic riddles that are unveiled and
further research reveals how these ancient fables and myths
vanishes. One discovers that myths and fables, far from
thorough study of myths and fables yields infinitely more
but more valuable by far, once it is overcome, is the pain
question. These are all problems that become understandable
A knowledgeable
of development comparable to that of blood before they could
change, and when they do they will be able to know things
one has in common with the vegetable kingdom.
table, “table,” the chairs, “chairs,”
the word “I” was called: “The unutterable
only capable of sensing itself. It is only aware of its own
capable of sensation. In a crystal you see manifest certain
surface, we would die. Just as we are conceivable only within
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sin, we find the remarkable figure of Job. The story of Job
exist, that unspeakable pain can come about in a life without
and encompass the suffering of others. The poet must be able
also possessed by the vegetable kingdom. Our third member,
life. If it is able to let death arise, and continuously
of instinctive reflex movements, comparable to the human eye
attained that enables us to perceive the spiritual world.
awakened, the result is comparable to sight being restored to
the human being will be unable to translate his thoughts into
Although a person is well able to think, he cannot decide on
action. Another disturbance may be that someone is unable to
is to become capable of higher perception, then thinking,
became able to create a higher entity: the eye; so will we,
become able to attain a higher life. There will then, out of
explained, which is indicated in the parable of the grain of
lecture. It also explains why knowledgeable people have

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senses and the intellect. Inner meditative work enables the
individual that is comparable to what happens in someone born
mistakes of nature incapable of evolution. Just as love
self-consciousness. The latter enabled them to put wisdom
comparable to what the leaven of the old dough means for the

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Modern people are unable to see how sin, which belongs to the
Paul would say: “If a personality capable of egoistic
and consequently egoism would never be able to inhabit an
“Life is a disagreeable affair; I shall spend mine
death; for life is miserable; it can be endured only because
animal or vegetable kingdom. This is because the beings of
body, which we have in common with the vegetable kingdom,
be added the organs that are comparable to physical
situation in regard to the ether body is comparable to a
and forces available to a person in life. Thanks to what a
body, while another will soon exhaust what is available to
say for how long the “I” will be able to carry
out its work. After puberty, every human being has available
the ether body is capable of absorbing the substance or not.

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on the whole a valuable spiritual foundation, but it must be
Atlantean was able to control his pictures, which were not
human being will no longer be able to receive later in life
immediately grasp everything it is capable of absorbing; this
conviction, will also be able to convey religion. The spirit

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result in veritable epidemics of fanaticism.
sluggish so that the astral body is unable to make use of it,
that the astral body is unable to master it. If an the other
noticeable at the time when the astral body is born, because
spirit, and are capable of driving out the distorted images
detailed research so that the counter-images applicable in
specific cases are always available. These too are not normal

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are capable of developing spiritual forces of greater
live it every hour of the day, and calmly be able to wait. In
already made this highly unlikely. If a person was able to
become decision and action. Someone who is knowledgeable
world that is attainable.
soul forces that are objective, comparable to the forces
these spiritual images, human beings are able to absorb and

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tableau of his whole past life. This tableau is like a
pleasure or pain in what the tableau portrays. We stand
life. The tableau becomes indistinct and dissolves, but the
instrument that enables the astral body to obtain enjoyment.
astral body's existence after death, comparable to someone
astral corpse, comparable to what is left behind of the
person has purified, the more he is able to retain and add to
provide him with the most suitable tool.
the growing child enables the physical structure to unfold in
for a short while. A knot in a table napkin with indications
able at this age to look up to someone with feelings of
strong character, his ether body must be able to evolve
arbitrarily; I may do irrevocable harm unless I pay heed to
astral body is born. Before puberty the child should be able
brought over into life is now freed and able to develop. It
real forces. The more we are able to bring out a person's
that individual is truly able to learn from life. He
and expectations of youth; he is instead capable of judgment,
contain what it should be able to imprint on the denser ether
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subject, the Rosicrucians, is one which few people are able
may have found that Rosicrucianism is able to throw light on
faculties enable a person to look into the spiritual world
those maintain who are too comfortable to make the effort.
The human spirit is certainly capable of penetrating nature's
reach a point where knowledge attainable only through
people. However, to the extent that modern humanity is able,
say that the ultimate truth attainable takes different forms.
Truth, it is the same for all. It is comparable to the view
is available, one does not walk round the mountain for
rather than the path available where one stands. The nature
methods are developed whereby he becomes the instrument able
Christian path, but it enables the striving human being to
circles, its fruits should be available to all humanity. That
is why until recently no Rosicrucian divulged what enabled
wisdom in ways hardly noticeable to others.
knowledgeable guidance. What is to be said about this subject
person concerned is not capable of thinking in pure thoughts.
oneself. Human beings must be able to formulate thoughts that
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XII: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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phenomenon conveys. In that case the plant should be able to
what the external world is unable to say about itself is
able to speak. The artist lives and creates according to
to be a great, beautiful, worthy and estimable unity; when
clan-community to enable the personal element to assert
himself. It has enabled him to visualize music and drama in
on their own are incapable of expressing things of deeper
Wagner saw music as able to express the inner life, but
unable to convey what came to expression outwardly. Dramatic
able to be aware also of deeper impulses residing in the
can indeed be dramatized, but words are incapable of
the mystical aspect of evolution enabled him to portray a
a remarkable fact that at a certain moment there arose in

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historical record at all. It is understandable that the
who simply find it more comfortable to remain within views to
beings are able to recognize God because God lives within
being's soul is capable of improving from day to day. Today
did not know before; through our will we become capable of
at what we understand today, at what our will is capable of
comparable to the seeds of new plants that slumber within the
structure does indeed pass through innumerable evolutionary
it in a new way. He sees the way he must be able to see if he
progressed too far, he is no longer able to believe in the
able — as were initiates in ancient times — to
a soul was man able to develop higher stages of his being.
into man. The physical breath enabled man to receive his

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human and world existence, and we shall certainly not be able
wise cosmic guidance that we can say it was inevitable for it
everything was inevitable and could not have happened
background spiritual science can give will enable you to
be able to distinguish the small lines very clearly, especially
unable to get beyond this world of the senses?
the old town hall in Prague there is a remarkable clock that
showed the movable festivals, that is to say, it indicated on
December, including the fact that Easter is movable. A special
movable, and it also showed Whitsun.
absolute necessity. Was it absolutely inevitable that these
view, as it was entirely inevitable that these people met their
killed by a boulder. He wakes up and is able to say,
too late. All I will be able to find in this way is merely a
chain of causes. I will be able to show how one event fits in
want to understand something, one thought must be able to
follow from another, that is to say, you depend on being able
been proved is unacceptable. Therefore everything that happens
in the course of the history of the world must be capable of
able to prove, for instance, whether the Mystery of Golgotha
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whole problem. For we shall not be able to approach any
scientists' ideal to be able to calculate future occurrences
a favorable karma this man must have had, being able to have a
starting point for a favorable karma. One might indulge in such
de Stael expressed such an extraordinarily favorable opinion of it.
probable it seems to me that there must have been a wager to
short, a miserable wretch who might learn something from
all, if we were unable to develop antipathy we would not arrive
are at work in us. That is to say, we must be able to allow
would not be able to speak as I do if it were not for
if you think about these assumptions, you will be able to say
the world in this way will we be able to understand the real

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was able to show the headmaster a curriculum containing
and will have been able to draw up a schedule for the
will be able to size this up better than last year, as each
But you must be able to look ahead a little bit, if you want to
the inspector had nothing suitable to say.
respectable citizens, yet they had achieved nothing
teacher, however, were people of considerable importance, who
was able to prove these things in this particular case. But it
Thus it is inevitable that unless we include the sphere of the
considerable while.
been able to do what the man he accompanied did. He would even
have been able to do it better, because he would avoid certain
our starting point, we shall be able to get a little further
the sight of the object. Now, by a remarkable interworking of
this will be a very good thing. But if we are not capable of

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consciousness is cut out. You would not be capable of
being conscious, for you would not be able to hurtle
something does not work out and we feel uncomfortable later on
been a better person, a more capable person. That is egotism
he had been able to acquire it in some other way than by
the soul that will enable consciousness to extend to the kind
have come to the point of being able to let it enter the stream
forgotten, and how that remarkable idea took hold of
Goethe would not have been able to create Faust, for it
have come about at that time. He would not have been able to
unalterable, the etheric body as such becomes freer and

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longer be able to speak of an I. Philosophers are
All we can do is will. The fact that we are able to will makes
way I have described this here has actually been applicable to
today — for they were able to determine such things from
the sixth post-Atlantean epoch he will no longer be able to
longer be able to distinguish properly between a red face and a
not be able to rediscover the aura that used to be seen, but if
People will also become aware that they are able to grasp moral
able to act freely out of the I.
not feel able to search more deeply into the processes the
inevitable conclusion of the modern scientific view. If a
psychologically as action. We were able to derive the latter
to be able to pursue the psychic process to its final stage. At
comfortable if they are told nothing about why they should
science will enable his belief to deepen into concrete
not deny the existence of Christ, we will be able to gain
able to say — which of course you are not —
able to use their will, until they: reached actual paralysis of
able to prove that a concept links up with its counterpart in
one can say that in order to prove anything one has to be able
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Title: Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe," Theosophy
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Müller, of imperishable memory — was tinged with
education. The actual beginning of this stage is traceable far
development of humanity at that time will be enabled to
been able to “come into line;” he has not succeeded
region which we are unable to survey?”
believe ourselves enabled to look within at the development of
memorable for its brilliant rhetoric, alluded to the limits
Assuming we were able to examine our
little balls, or spheres, enable me, let us say, to
which will enable us to step across into the field of
— ‘Ignorabimus!’ We are able to comprehend the sleeping
is enabled to assert itself. Sense-consciousness is in abeyance
sense-consciousness, he is unable to say anything concerning
unable to investigate matters spiritual. Natural science
— are developed; eyes which are able to see beyond the
perceives, and a mind whereby he is enabled to connect the
those higher powers, one able to penetrate into worlds hidden
nature will appear. The ordinary human being is not capable of
you will ask, how should a man be able to receive any new
become audible, telling their spiritual names, and able to
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Title: Spirit of Fichte: Lecture I: The Spirit of Fichte Present in Our Midst
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house was not even as high as tolerable comfort, indeed it was very
pastor. And when Gottlieb reached the age of thirteen he was able,
first this school life seemed intolerable to him. He could not
environment, as happy indeed as he could wish. He was able
of the masters who obtained for him a remarkable book, Lessing's
that it was able to give him. It was not only the ideas which he
on leaving, he chose a literary subject. It was a remarkable piece
unable to find his spiritual food there. It struck him that he
predestined for the office of preacher. He had proved so capable of
good clergyman Leberecht Krebel. And whenever he was able to visit his
able to impart was the very word of God, in a version that was at
secure any teaching position which he thought himself able to fill.
the course of it unable to make any progress with his own
ensure that he should really be able to take up this post within three
Cathedral must have thought that a man had arisen who was capable
prospect of being able to do great things with him. But the process
about eighteen months, Fichte was able to pursue a fruitful activity in
Fichte was no egoist, capable
Zurich was no longer really tenable, and he needed to look further
was thirty years of age. Then a remarkable thing happened. Kant immediately
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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child I was able to behold the last remnants of such a magic wind as
more than a little display representing the stable in Bethlehem. The
village would participate, and which enabled people to take in with
rightly attuned, so that they were able to take in everything that was
after spiritual knowledge we are able to do so, because through our
years of contemplative work on this great event we were able to
those people who he felt were suitable to perform them. These plays
must find it quite understandable that in the place of this former
if you listen more carefully you will be able to observe this Nature
Christmas night, you will also be able to understand our intent, as we
eternal, imperishable “Christ festival of humanity”: How the
become something able to give us solace and comfort in the darkest
hours of our lives, able also to give us joy in the hope that when

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point of being able to see the blue of the heavens as completely
become transparent, and he must be able to see what he wants to see
able to account for this “why”. But first he will have to
Initiation, then comes to a very remarkable piece of knowledge: the
phrases mean and must be capable, so to speak, of living in two worlds
In face of this unavoidable halt, with no way of getting further, the
is able to carry with him the only thing which it is at all possible
stronger and stronger, more and more comprehensive. And the remarkable
that is available to him.
indirect way, in order that we may be able to confront them and
that a number of persons should be capable of judging what spiritual

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after death. Suitable and unsuitable characteristics for the
contemplation, so that they become capable of conscious experience
develops are what enable him to reach the stage we spoke of yesterday.
standards are inapplicable there. We do not enquire, for example, why
have to unlearn anything is uncomfortable. After having thought so
the movement of the Earth! It was an uncomfortable thing when —
be able to be a seer, while remaining as rational as anyone else in
Hence the least suitable persons for the development of seership are
physical and etheric bodies he is able to come into the situation

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Ascent into the spiritual worlds is accompanied by certain unavoidable
of the Akashic Record. In the higher worlds a seer is able to discern
that you are not able to experience.” And he would like to
able to send forth mould the human head and form the different parts
capable of wonderment; he, too, would be able to begin to experience
Zarathustra that men were able to absorb into their occult knowledge
They knew they had come to the farthest point attainable. In the
able to make use of his former ways of thinking and judging. If he
Cosmos, are unable to explain what kind of forces are working in that
impenetrable veil hides the form of Isis from mortal eyes.”
which is the veritable home of the human soul during the time between
And the point of time between the old Initiation, wherein one was able
We have tried now to show, using such words as are available for these
on the human soul which was well able to yearn and thirst for
which in earlier Initiations man had been able to enter. The
another world. This was the significant and remarkable part of the

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King Arthur's Round Table. Something in the human organism is now
In the preceding lectures I was able to describe the experiences of a
let us express in a readily understandable picture something that is
“The Knights of King Arthur's Round Table”. Twelve in
Arthur and his wife Guinevere. Thus in King Arthur's Round Table we
Round Table. Hence we are told — and the legend here refers in
King Arthur's Round Table journeyed far and wide and slew monsters and
pictorial concepts of King Arthur's Round Table.
the remarkable Queen Sibylla had fled with her son William, in 1194,
Goethe and pay homage only to the soul who was capable of such
biography comparable with Goethe's could not rise to such heights as
attacks of the outer world. And because the forces described are able
have not yet been able to find. If we keep this in mind, we can see
Thus in the “Knights of King Arthur's Round Table” we are
Table represent the repetition of the experiences of earlier ages in
cleverer, in the sense in which it is fashionable to call people
incarnation may make him very well able to dominate the conversation
of it, And to be unable while in the physical body to make use of the
are unable to use their brains properly; their brain-forces will be
of the brain — and so no longer capable of being taken hold of by
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Testament, one fact is indisputable: an immediate life flows
to all sense impressions. Nothing must be able to disturb
which are able — not only to awaken our understanding
this you will be able to understand certain hints and truths
in the John Gospel. You will be able to understand certain
consciousness on the astral plane comparable to that
mother would appear to a new-born child, were the child able
he able to say this? Because he had been initiated, first on
able in this way to find the deeper meaning of the John
Gospel, then will one be able to understand it in its true
only makes people into Christians but enables them to awaken

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questionable whether this path is still open. Let us again
experience of gratitude, one must be able to bow down before
who is able to live spiritually in the higher world, who has
that later also becomes noticable in the waking state.

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we are able to understand many things that otherwise would
pre-Christian times available. One had to be introduced into
and if one is able to abnegate one's lower self and make it a
of a human community was able to live in him. When the ego of
the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge the moment one is able to
able to penetrate into higher worlds, all that is, to begin
who through initiation is able to direct his gaze inward,
wheels, which enable him to enter the spiritual world and see
expounded the parable to them. The disciples were carried up
today. Because of this they are able again to accept the new
do so. Far less is he able to master what is higher than life
forces. What he is able to control is the lifeless outer
and then man will again be able to master life. As it is, he
soft and pliable has now become more and more solid. If you
overcome the intellect and is able to lead it to the heights

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remarkable document was taken as booty from Prague and brought to the
symptomatic, interweaving in a most remarkable way. Underlying the old
shoulder-blades, his only vulnerable part. This is a prophetic
Anyone in the slightest degree capable of interpreting the signs of
present point of time is itself not unsuitable, lying as it does just
the physical body, this projecting part of the etheric body was able
paralytic condition. The astral body was then able to imprint into the
in his normal state. Then the candidate for Initiation was able to see
consciousness. Man is no longer able to see into the innermost nature
what is called the “Holy Night,” he was able to see through
between the spiritual worlds and mankind when men are no longer able
body that he has been able to retain nothing save the belief that the
the physical body, while he is still incapable of realising the
gods he will again return. But he must be able to recognise them; he
body has loosened he will no longer be able to rely on remembrances of
which enables them to find their own firm centre among the gods. Men
is still incapable of believing in the spiritual realities before him,
or he will be able to believe and preserve for himself the
To confront a reality that is unrecognisable, means to be shattered

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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After a long absence I am able to be again in your midst, and I should
together, from a special point of view, many things which we are able
entire Cosmos, a veritable microcosm. And much that we have striven
quite clear to us, and then we shall be able to form an idea of what
reasonable way. But he does not remember anything that previously took
rebirth, in order there to be able firmly to retain the thought of the
Ego. For we owe the power of being able to retain the Ego between
eternal, ever-unconquerable life.
‘I.’ We might say: “If we were unable to die we could
may see that Spiritual Science is striven for here in an honourable
yet know these facts myself, but was only able to discover them later.
our day-life, after death — after the time of the life-tableau is
lasts only a few days, during which a man has his life tableau before
shall easily be able to see why the spiritual investigator must say
which would theoretically have been able to care for the full life of
been able to do. He does not fulfil everything he might have done.
but are merely intelligent, are normally able to give certain
even in the tableau, one who dies very young has different experiences
life-tableau, and then goes backwards through the night-life. But
tableau, but immediately behind that lies the spiritual world. He can
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the Grafin Kalckreuth) I was able as early as 1903 to give the first
but the whole power of her work, so valuable, so excellent and
itself, our aims would be able to develop in the best possible manner.
life-strength in later years. It must be admitted that the valuable
man is certainly able to acquire regarding the spiritual world. Times
able to say: This life in our groups is not useless. It is not without
tableau. You must quite clearly understand what a man there really
are endowed with a physical body, that we may be able to perceive
comparable to touching a thing so as to get an idea of it. This inner
the wish to become such that everything undesirable may be wiped out.
configuration of our life which we are able to regard as the right
for he desires nothing more than to be able to evolve the forces
and through which we can form for ourselves a body suitable for our
they might perhaps have been able to do something else quite as well.

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Those days in which we have been able to meet together we have devoted
consideration we have been able to gather that there is an inner
you will be able to acquire a still more accurate insight. For
will be able to notice that he mentions few colours. Everything is
able to dominate in our etheric body. We now thrust ourselves so
because it cannot be brought to consciousness in a suitable manner.
good, and that is as follows: If we were able to draw forth everything
inconceivable knowledge of the connections of life will stream out of
ordinary human life are only given what we are able to receive,
body. We have said that even in dreams if we were able in a sense to
able to work as if prophetically through the entire life, which would
have been able to lead him through many other relations in life —
life-tableau, looks back in the etheric body. I have already indicated
existing. When anyone comes who does not speak of something palpable,
nothing of the table until they had created it for themselves in
might almost say, disagreeable, is its permeation with existence. It
beautiful: if man were not capable of having ideals, if he could not
valuable. Everyone who is not utterly submerged in the swamp of
have been able for a long time to develop the faculty of maintaining
the physical body. That which would have been able to continue but for
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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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have always been able to convince ourselves through our Spiritual
Science, that in turning our thought to that other world, we are able
vision directed down to earth, enables them to perceive. I pointed out
Science offers to us, than if we are unable to do this. Each time that
body, were able to evolve thoughts full of feeling and sentiment for
But there the soul unable to be as egoistic as it was here, looks back on
We are really vexed that we are not able to carry it out. We think how
much finer and better it would have been if we had been able to
independently for us individually. Thus the boundary is movable; and
what it can strictly measure by intellect. The boundary is movable.
But at certain times the boundary is even more adjustable. And now
enables the man to embrace a wider sphere than he could consciously do

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have said, a certain adjustable threshold exists between the ordinary
into the region of his memory. He regards, as it were, the tableau of
able to retain them. If that were not so, the continuity of our Ego
enables him to form real conceptions of these things. The concept
indifference to human life he was able so to harass his victim (one
remarkable man. He had not much talent for entering into psychic
well able to explain away each of the suspicious circumstances with a
at that time was not favourable to men of his race — had not the
President been able, by his superior eloquence to crumple this
excusable was the fact that the above-mentioned soft-hearted
and its disagreeable sequel, took upon himself to say to the
must presuppose that some considerable time has elapsed, and the
arose immediately to light the candle on the table, but he could not.
close to him. Anyhow he had the indescribable feeling of a strange
Freund. But he was not able to do so; something else occurred —
remarkable and mysterious way with the fulfilment of what the dead man
studied Spiritual Science, so that he would have been able to say, for
two candles on the writing table, washed his hands, face, and hair;
paced up and down. Then he opened the top drawer of his writing table
A quite remarkable connection is described in this novel, and we must
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how this Olaf Åsteson actually experiences what we are able to bring
As we are able to meet here to-day, we may perhaps speak of a few
Cosmic elements, we are enabled to create the organ by means of which
are able to think about spiritual things. Our epoch has also
Spiritual Science, sins against the undeniable facts established by
Kant. We are well able to say: The images we have of the outer world
some one who had never seen men, but only images, would be able to
culture, and that a man making a noble effort (they are all honourable
“The immeasurable fullness of the world is conveyed to us only
world is immeasurable! — It sounds beautiful. One of the
‘The world pours down on us; through the few miserable openings
immeasurable, but we have merely a number of accidental senses into
immeasurable Cosmic Being through our accidental senses, we speak of
not only are they all honourable and praiseworthy; ‘they are also
remarkable thinkers.’ But they are entangled in the thought of
poured on to the paper. With the few miserable forms of its accidental
maintains that: ‘the immeasurable Cosmos pours down to us, and we
take it up with our few accidental senses, as well as we are able, and
never within them, for it is immeasurable. The accidental letters
lacking in the power of fluidic thought, unable really to follow what
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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us. The solar plexus is its mediator. If we were only able to perceive
possibility arose that one day something would be able to say ‘I’ to
esoteric teachers in such a way that they were able to say to
man is able to observe himself from within outwards. There are
between microcosm and macrocosm, so that he is able to divide himself
up within the kingdoms of Nature, so that he is able to say to which

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effect. If we rub our hand on a tabletop it becomes hot. The warmth is
would be unable to form concepts about the physical world if he did
certain extent be able to evaluate karma in order to achieve
his astral body in so purified a condition that he is able to work

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movable, and the important point is whether they are situated in one
crystals are ordered from above. When a man is able to raise his
sufficiently imbued with understanding to enable him to take the

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place on the Sun or Venus if one is unable to transfer one's
would also be able to find the plants out of which rock-crystals,
kingdom. He will be able consciously to carry out the process which is

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corresponding organ which we must have, in order to be able to produce

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able to bring new impulses into Earth evolution; 6. Pitris (Fathers):
beings able to sacrifice themselves; 7. The actual gods. Heart and gall.
Let us imagine for once that man were able to bring forth sounds,
he unloaded it into them, for he was unable to use this kind of Kama.
which he is still unable to orient himself. Only when one has
order to be able to create, only then is one a Bodhisattva;
higher than the Bodhisattvas. The latter are able to order evolution

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admirable people, suffered through having come into the Theosophical
Nevertheless on the Moon he was never able to work on the physical
jelly-like masses from outside until they are able to take possession

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expression, a suitable instrument. Approximately ever since human

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gains consciousness of self because his organs enable him to observe
able to open its organs to what is outside. If the etheric and astral
bodies were able with their organs to observe their surroundings, man
new inner impulse that will later be able to reveal itself outwardly.

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he is unable to forget himself. Here the physical world is not the
they must be incapable of tears.”] holds good for all times and
the physical plane, he would never have been able to relinquish his
become incapable of error.

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to it his wishes and desires. Without these he would have been unable
that which man is unable to develop inwardly for himself is built into

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the human power of understanding is not able to comprehend them. After
from human activity. Up to a certain point, man is free, able to do as
them as wisdom. This enables them to become the teachers of the next
formation of the earth were not yet able to recognise the underlying
in another sphere they may be able to evolve. An individuality is
divine in so far as he is able to breathe out again what he has taken
in. The Devas become Devas as soon as they are able to give back again

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perceive the physical world but not with organs that enable him to
prepared for Devachan. If he is unable to form such relationships he
he has gained here through his activity. Hence the immeasurable
Formerly I was not able to speak the word ‘I’, now I have become for
enabled man, animal and plant to propagate. The forces which at

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developed too few expressions able to introduce such teachings. Even
was quite natural. They were not able to speak about it. But for all
existence of ours falls again into decay and we are freed, able to

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we are now going to approach, we must be able to form a conception of
think. It is laughable to ask in our thoughts what Divinity is. On the

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the Imaginative understanding which first enables them to look into
because we are able to transpose it into thoughts. We receive

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and awkward, whereas before in developing the vegetable kingdom he had

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the physical plane, as for instance, a chair or a table. Things are
no favourable habitation. But the beings which are so far advanced
beings of this kind which are then able to draw such people downwards.

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Astral World. Technique of reincarnation. The memory tableau
Innumerable errors can assail anyone who enters astral space. Besides
parts, he will be able to see his earlier incarnations. The
In order to be able to find one's way on the astral plane a severe and
They are deeply embedded in it. Man would be able to remember much

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conditioning life. If we were able to creep into a plant, live within
it, growing with its growth, if we were able to become selfless enough
If we were able to put our
pleasure outside ourselves, we should be able, through the pleasure,
The Chela can remain on the astral plane; he is able to renounce

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senses and perception he would be unable to live consciously even in
development, both have gradually reached the point of being able to
If our will enables us to carry this through, then we have strength:

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order to be able to receive the higher principles. This purification
unable to use their front limbs for work. They were of animal-like
climate, a Race which was able to attain to special heights through
the fact that a remarkable and great help had been granted them. The
unable to do. In the Hyperborean Epoch the Solar Pitris became the
power of reproduction. It was able to bring forth again the beings who
able to form this specially favoured species, the Sons of the Sun,
longer able to reproduce themselves; thus in the Lemurian Age the two
the human being would eventually have ceased to be able to reproduce
bodies; had it been otherwise the Monads would not have been able to
only able to enter into human beings because the influence of the
grotesque forms were able to live on the quite differently constituted
Earth. They were also able to fly. They bore within them the future
human beings able to bring forth their own kind Bulls. (Certain animal
enough to have a body capable of receiving the Monads. The latter
have been subject to error, but they would not have been able to
Hero in the Sixth Race will make him able to develop further without
man is not only able to develop his higher nature upwards, but working
creatively is able to renounce completely his lower nature, then will
God, be able to incarnate.

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themselves. When man is again on an astral Earth he will be able to
consciousness. This enables him to follow what takes place between
third stage of consciousness he becomes able to observe what goes on
consciousness between two Rounds. To be able to observe what takes

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the etheric body remain lying in the bed. If in sleep he were able to
mediums this comes about in an abnormal manner and quite remarkable
remarkable cosmic pictures. For example, a girl was put into a trance
by a glassful of port wine and in this condition drew remarkable
Mediums have their visions because they are able to take the etheric
physical body to perceive consciously. They are then still able to
in a remarkable way. The Chela achieves this consciously, whereas the
conditions into which the Chelas and Adepts are able to transpose
only of physical globules, so small that one would not have been able
In the Seventh Round man will create himself. He will then be able to
Physical = impenetrable in space

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Fifth Round mankind will once again be able to see spiritually, having
Jehovah's aim was the perfection of form. Lucifer would have been able
way. One would have been able to build up the mineral kingdom through
human being not only works plastically on his form, but will be able
be able, for instance, to form a hand; on the Sixth Globe he will be
able to send his thoughts out into the surrounding world. On the
Devachanic condition that has been able to develop out of all the

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gifted like the First Logos he would be able to say: Yes, I have seen
experiences, the observer would be able to create a new world.
that time, on Saturn, the human being was a veritable automaton. If

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unable to smell. What takes place here is a connection with matter
If we were able completely to shut off all light from the eyes and
from within outwards, then we should be able to immerse ourselves
able to separate himself from his environment. Previously he was of

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such as bacilli. Later they incarnate in those material forms suitable
there is especially inflammable material.
to wish to arrest such things. The appropriate and serviceable means
regulated. In the case of animals with variable temperature the

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present-day humanity is not at all in a position to be able to follow
appearance, the purely mineral. Man himself will then be able to

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inhabitants of the Fifth Continent and we are therefore unable to
Atlanteans, in that they were able to develop a superlative, glorious
When later the Jew was able to apply thought to such things in the
Achilles is invulnerable in his whole body with the exception of the
To be invulnerable in such a way signifies to have been initiated. In
upper parts of Achilles are invulnerable; only the heel the lower
nature is vulnerable, just as Hephaistos is lame. The German Siegfried
was also an initiate of the Fourth Sub-Race, but vulnerable between
the shoulder blades. This is his vulnerable spot, first made
invulnerable by the One who bore the cross. With Siegfried the Gods

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able to give him. Something that proceeds from life to life, from
not a scientifically knowledgeable one, was simply indulging in a bit
stake is no longer fashionable. When someone attempts to teach a new
curious and yet undeniable fashion with the power of self-awareness.
A touch of this is present in sanguines. Sanguines are incapable of
is especially noticeable in sanguine children, where it can be a
Gottlieb Fichte, that famous German choleric, was recognizable as such
expressive, changeable. We see the astral body's inner liveliness
temperaments, for it is especially important to be able to guide and
space and time and filled with innumerable suns.

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organism is inconceivable without the existence of an etheric or life
question: How comes it that I am able to apply intelligence to
trustworthy guide and it will enable many a man, before he himself is
capable of this investigation, to perceive the truth of what the
far surpasses what man is able to produce in the way of intelligence!
his own intelligence rendered him capable of producing paper! Think
master in his own soul life before he was able to produce paper. You
when men succeeded in making paper. But the wasps have been able to
enables it to live as it has to live. We do not, of course, ignore
The chick is able to peck as soon as it is born but cannot at once
existence for a considerable time. Just as a human being gets his
with it into the world what it is able to bring and what existence
that: men, too, but they have the advantage of being able to instruct
These are words of great profundity. Of what is an animal capable in
faculties which remain capable of development after the time
birth to death a man is capable of learning new languages, and what
does not belong to heredity, in faculties that remain capable of
spirit, lying beyond the horizon of what he is able to experience.
into his soul what the spirit conveys to him. He is able to receive
experiences inwardly will be incapable of any real observation of the
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Particularly important for us were the views we were able to form,
other words, that the human soul is able to surrender itself directly
however, this helplessness is the one thing that enables man to
he is able to become through speech, through his way of thinking and
to man to be able to imprint life itself into his organization. It is
that at the beginning of human life we are able to watch this working
life, and at this later time we should be able to show that these
animal shows itself quite incapable of taking things in, in the way
have no nourishment pouring from within, and would be unable to find
sound. We should be able indeed to picture quite vividly this
every man, artist or not, is able to cherish, which works into this
able to mention significant differences.
man in that queer indefinable way the inner quality of the way in
soon see it is so. Anyone able to understand such things, if wanting
in it he drew attention to a remarkable fact which indeed is very
interesting. He pointed out that in Galileo we have a spirit able to
which he is able to imprint upon things the laws discovered
so constituted that he himself is able to incorporate into his
worked upon him before he has been able to grasp it with his
fact is of interest because it enables us to see that man in physical
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would you have been able to find in the poetry and songs of that time
is able to decipher the script that is written in the great festivals,
or is able to read the hieroglyphics that time itself presents to us,
own period, which will still last for a considerable time, to the
one who is able to look at history with different means can gain
Even the spiritual scientist, who is able to decipher these wondrous
divine and dwelled in unattainable heights above men. The ancient
Rishis revered it as the indefinable, unutterable Brahman; the ancient
bliss attainable through spiritual science. If we live in the way put

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Just think how few people today are able to awaken in their souls a
the Infinite and Imperishable in the world. The preparations being
“Nature! By her we are encompassed and enfolded, unable to withdraw
her laws immutable ...”
human body was able to receive the imperishable soul. This human
imperishable soul, the situation was quite different from the way
unable to see the sun and moon as bodies of spirits, will be unable to
fraction of a second and the unbelievable, indescribable disorder that
remarkable when materialistic research rediscovers these customs of
Then the eternal, imperishable Spirit Sun will shine into his soul at

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warmth upon the earth. It was also celebrated by those who were unable
stream through cosmic space that are favorable to such an awakening.
upon beings and things from without. It had the quality of being able
Those who were still unable to participate in this celebration were
able to experience at least an outer likeness of it from which they
degree of the "Ravens," who were able to approach only as far as the
is unthinkable, even so is it unthinkable that the rhythm of such a
able to read it. This wisdom of numbers and pictures has been taught

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Thanks to an anonymous donation, this lecture has been made available.
examine more closely the fundamental nature of this remarkable
borne out by the fact that all translations presently available have
evolution of our earth were not able to recognize the “I am,” the
Let us recall what we have been able to say about the history of man's
The highest divinity took part in this. As long as man was unable to
impulse, the force that enabled you to flee from the land of Egypt
Above all, the first Commandment says that man must henceforth be able
concretely what the people of that nation were able to experience.
Commandments were given them so that they should become capable with
the greatest that it is capable of attaining — that that makes it

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this Lecture has been made available.
unsuitable. It didn't take long — with some single
and announced that the Dominicans were capable of regarding
After the unbelievable agony of torture and falsified evidence

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be able to show you that the esotericist can pass through three stages
and what she writes will enable you to see what a profound meaning is
Now in the course of the story we are told of a remarkable release.
from an incurable malady. He was half animal and half man. That is how
fifth root-race. You will only be able to understand this if you bear
still able to make motor-power from the force in seeds. Just as to-day
stores of plant-seed containing power, which they were still able to
Atlantean man was still able to subjugate living nature; the spirit of
inventions, you will see what mighty forces have been made serviceable
During the fifth root-race only human initiates are able to bring
those schools as the great destiny of man. Just as I was able to show

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with the Ur-Semites. And it was this that made the Ur-Semites capable
had not hitherto been noticeable. You must think of these Beings as
so far advanced as the Beings who were able to intervene in the middle
activity, everything which we are capable of knowing, is again
youngest daughter, Medea, he was enabled to bring it back to Greece.
fight. With Medea's help he was able to bring this conflict to a
successful conclusion. It was she too who enabled him to capture the
limbs she was able to continue her flight with Jason into Greece.
enabled to leave by the intervention of Zeus, who orders Calypso to
astral and the mental planes3 in such a way as to enable
Theseus, Hercules and others, man was again able to find the primeval
state of transition from the condition of being able to see without an
the astral body, will be so advanced that it will be able to think.
able to find his way rightly in the fifth root-race, he must again on

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an initiate Master. Sieg is a quite special case. He is not able to
are invulnerable and they are unrecognisable. They are made
invulnerable by something that has preceded Christianity, has preceded
made the heroes invulnerable in the times preceding Christianity. But
these invulnerable initiates are always vulnerable in one spot.
plunged into the Styx and was vulnerable in his heel. Siegfried is
bathed in the blood of the dragon and is vulnerable in the shoulder.
The initiate can make himself unrecognisable to his own people. He can
him to possess, because he can guard it in a suitable way.
vulnerable in one place. Here the significance of this place is
revealed. Kriemhild betrays that he is vulnerable between the
vacant. Hence Siegfried is still vulnerable in this spot. Siegfried,
who brings the Sieg-initiate to ‘Fried’, to rest, is vulnerable in the
spot which Christianity will later render invulnerable. There
benefactress in her use of it. But the inevitable enemies, who
expectation, with the vulnerable spot which Christianity will have to

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remarkable in that, while on the one hand they are sagas, yet at the
individualities, who underwent the sublime schooling which enabled
be capable of becoming the leaders of mankind. The leader of the sixth
that he was able to advance more rapidly, and one who has gone through
initiates, men who were so initiated as to enable them to walk their
and that to be invulnerable is one of these symbolic distinctions.
the rulership is able to pass over to worldly kings, who however still
kind. Hence he is invulnerable except in the heel. All those who were
initiated in the fourth sub-race were vulnerable in some spot. It is
not to be vulnerable anywhere. Achilles is plunged into the Styx. That
have to do with physical struggle. Thereby something remarkable comes
enable them to do this. That is the significance of the Mysteries.
a secret that is only suitable for a being with the quality of

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It does not seem unjustifiable, given a gradually
theosophy, nothing could be more profitable than seriously to seek
to the burning questions of life. But all those who are unable to
air-castle, lacking foundation. They are not able to understand how
revealed, was then handed down, and is now rigid; something incapable
really penetrate into the wisdom of the universe; one must be able to
sense that enables him to feel himself an inner entity.
inner significance of the speech sound. It is indispensable to
realm of ordinary life. It is the concept sense, which enables
become active, it must first be able to perceive the concept in
attitude. It is inevitable that science should spread errors, because

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world, without his being able to participate in it. Later on, in the
unburdening of the physical matter in question. This in turn enables
the human organism with the light of theosophy, it will not be able
to master the nature of these three senses. Theosophy enables us to
table, stroke a velvet surface, pull a cord, everything that there
unfortunately untranslatable, a sort of higher play on words. Cf.
agreeable or disagreeable, repulsive, and the like. The point,
warmth or cold occurs only when the human being is really able to ray
unendurable and we are burned. When we lack sufficient astral
constituted today, is in reality unable to serve us, as the sentient
than the Angels. They enable man to hear a sound. They are in man.
They enable him not only to hear a tone — say a G or a C-sharp
consecutive syllables. A certain basic organization results. A member
can apply the reflected image, Ave. This sequence of syllables by

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able to substantiate later.
with the formation of a concept. If we were able, in hearing a
consciously converted the melody into a harmony. We are not able to
artificial means. Under favorable conditions some three to five of
that conceptions reach us by way of sounds. To enable a conception to
able, through the force of the astral body, to push from
astral body; it is capable of still higher achievements. In the cases
still more power when we learn that its astral substance enables it
through its own inner strength. If one is able thus to stretch forth
example, in “a sensation of warmth” is here applicable,
By means of this imaginative sense we are able to “sense”
able to perceive it. It is the sentient soul that really comprehends.
anybody as remarkable, for we see the underlying will embodied in the
I do not see the spirit in the hammer, but it is reasonable to
enable the ego to lay hold on the blood. No ego can intervene where
becomes that this middle path to conviction is universally applicable

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The intellectual soul would not be capable of this. It
wholly incapable of thinking the facts of reality through to the end.
science, finds no shelter in theosophy, which is therefore able to
man was able to sense the conception contained in the words
capable of developing it. The human ego did not yet possess the
suitable for speech, and thus it was in old Atlantis that he learned
eastward; by doing this they were able effectively to develop the
must be able to produce within itself a counter-current.
That the ego was originally not capable of this we
soul, which is still able to function subconsciously. Under certain

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American or English readers, and it is unthinkable that Dr. Steiner's
us of a good deed, morally laudable. A psychic experience of that
This may sound dry, but it is indispensable for an
to instigate the motion. It serves only to enable us to perceive the
day-dreaming, the visualization of a disagreeable past experience
people are quite incapable of accomplishing this. Symbols alone
be present either. Thus there is no testimony available for the

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way as to enable us to live on with them. But in the midst of this
indispensable to the progress of humanity, for were the soul a
Unless we do so we shall not be able to understand what must be said
Goethe at that early age been able to grasp all that was active in
speak, and engenders an uncomfortable feeling in us. One's own soul
coincide. It is man's prerogative, on the other hand, to be able,
consequence, man is able to close his mind to stimuli that have
a veritable poison, though one does not exactly die of it. Things of
moment, but they will enable us later on to shed a wondrous light on
that will enable us to define the soul life as something enclosing

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I yield myself to the immeasurable;
The depths of that unutterable feeling,
able to grasp it by representing in a sort of diagram what we
recognize as fact. We will be able to characterize the intimacies of
desire for satisfaction and the prospect of a favorable decision are
for satisfaction, to combine with a reasoning activity incapable of
also arise when desire for an unattainable object continues. The soul
approaches an object that induces desire; the object is not able to
the soul. It is quite conceivable that certain souls might not
indispensable, because the soul substance of desire must certainly
the inevitable consequence is an impairment of the soul life's
of life, life wisdom, hence a broad foundation is indispensable.
available? Yes, we can contribute something. Many would find it
profitable and could lighten the burden of their lives enormously if
definitions are wholly unjustifiable, and people who propound them

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certain aspects, but we shall be able to understand each other.
embraces! Reasoning is not able instantaneously to grasp the
able to cope with these if you assume a current running at right
picture, you will really be able to understand only the phenomenon of
indispensable if reasoning activity is to enter with the ego current?
reflecting apparatus impressionable to everything it receives from
capable of recalling to our memory those visualizations that
expresses itself in the physical world, are we able actually to use
able to reflect it.
Innumerable riddles will be solved for you if you will
I have been able to evoke for you but little out of the
precisely those visualizations that our consciousness is unable to
is incapable of raising into consciousness because the ego lacks

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what has just been said, we will be able to understand that there
something unable to enter reality; emotions are pictured as something
made. That was inevitable.
theoretical situation because all activity that Aristotle is able to
enable it to continue its development. But within Aristotle's meaning
that would not demand incarnation in a human body is unthinkable.
carries with it the longing for a physical body without being able to
capable of exerting a deep influence. We also see the need to

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: II. Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
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habits of thought, and if a person is unable to penetrate — his
indicate the manner of approach, when the time is available, rather
To many people the spirit is a highly debatable fact
affect the human soul with such force that it is incapable of denying
only if he is able to rise to a cognition differing from that of
parable, something that really should be thoroughly presented in a
energies — built him in such a way as to enable him to produce
images of the thought world, but there are innumerable
is merely an image reflected outward, and is incapable of forming the
Anthroposophists must really be able to face such
sight this might not seem a desirable thing to do, but in a higher
us. The effect is all the more remarkable in that we are not
soul forces. As I have presented it now, you will not be able to use
will see that a certain frame of mind is indispensable for proper
are certain moral qualities indispensable? To enable us to yield
As a rule, nothing desirable is attained by meditating and
unthinkable that after death he should pass to an imperfect state.
Aristotle's position is therefore untenable.
considered capable of solving all sorts of psychological problems, it
Purgatory as they are usually represented on votive tablets by
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Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: III. Imagination--Imagination; Inspiration--Self-fulfillment; Intuition--Conscience.
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no synonym for ‘imagination’. The best solution available
context? It is that we should be able, so to speak, to form a valid
be termed external; we must work within ourselves in order to be able
one not applicable to the outer world of perception.
not reached before. Thus, experience shows the soul to be capable of
direction but amenable to guidance as set forth, leads out beyond the
This is one of the points at which we are able to perceive the direct
hand, walk about, strike the table with some instrument or do
would have to be able to think out all that and realize it by means
have to be able to enter our consciousness instead of halting before
little less readily noticeable than the one leading from imagination
such power of self-observation as to enable us not merely to will
sleeping life, but our visualization is unable to characterize what
unreality and consists only of images. This contact finally enables
We perceive in the event a content comparable to that of
we might be able to understand each other more readily in the

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Is that really the only point of view available? It must
capable of bringing to light out of the spiritual worlds, but merely
agreeable experiences, he encounters his various passions and
spiritual world, attainable by man, can of course be described only
cases quite agreeable. As a rule, people disregard the nature of what
they experience and are gratified to be able to see at all in the
That is readily understandable because the spiritual
physical world seriously, and that in a way is deplorable. One is
To stand firmly in this imaginative world, to be able to
dreadful and possibly objectionable to other people. We must take
saying agreeable things but with speaking the truth objectively. We
is far too little concerned with himself to enable him to clear away
occasional acceptance of something disagreeable or baneful. Certainly
beautiful, you are not so constituted as to be able to take advantage
in this earth body, but of being not at all adapted to it, not able
through many incarnations, what he will be able to be in some one
This is the ego to which consciousness can attain. It is attainable,
but it is something highly variable, fluctuating.
you had experienced nothing but disagreeable things, horrible things.
yourself as a sweet being. You will be able to find a bitter
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 1: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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would not, however, be able to progress and develop, were it not that
at work who, on account of their higher development, were able to
would have been no human brain capable of being an instrument for
indescribable, spiritual currents which passed from the teacher to his
had to anticipate, as it were, what the others would only be able to
individuality used the brain, for instance. For even if he was able to
reason they were able to work upon the rest of the people in those
descended and found a state of things which enabled them to say:
Gautama Buddha was a Being who had always been able to incarnate in
was therefore able to re-ascend into the spiritual world directly
during future cycles, Buddha was able to give in this one incarnation,
would have been too hard for him to use. It would only have enabled
A Teacher had to be found, able to carry down what makes it possible
great Teacher-Individuality was able so to stimulate the sentient-soul
the people were not able to think much, for their development had been
Teachers of humanity and we are then able to form a picture in our
Teachers to find a suitable soil on which to work in the future. He
enough advanced to be able to describe it. For to that which Eastern
before they are able to understand Him. With the existing faculties of
faculties will arise in man, and each new faculty will enable him to

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Group-Meetings for a considerable time. It is well, now and then, to
able to convince himself? Why does the Anthroposophical Society adopt
able to put our whole soul into such a position, that we obtain an
present and future in this way, we shall be able to find it confirmed
something remarkable will become evident, The soul-experiences, the
Just think how one would be able to help a person as regards his
soul-moods and the difficulties of life, if we were able to ask
of karma is experienced between birth and death. There is a remarkable
have explained that a young person is not able fully to judge of an
glass of wine and others who did not, and was able to make my own
against it. I was thus able to await results. The children who were
— could not have their glass of red wine, have now become stable
then be able to trace the law of karma even between birth and death,
reason that we have not yet grown up to the level of being able
so much we can look up to and venerate, without being able to
way is qualified to educate children, for he will be able to provide
able to use in the latter part of their life. The responsibility that
they are well able to form an opinion on the whole subject. Such
so as to be able to write objectively about it. Those who wish to
which all such reforms and programmes must make on one who is able
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 3: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity
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the principle of physical inheritance. We were thus able to describe
enabled him to become a free being, able to act in accordance with his
would he have been able before then to distinguish between good and
degree of maturity able to make distinctions. But now there came the
Serpent.’ Through these, man himself became able to distinguish
being able to decide for himself. The Bible clearly shows that
As a result of the luciferic influence man now became a being capable
good and evil. Because man was already a being able to distinguish
that influence had rendered him able to distinguish between good and
noble, wise and great. As human beings, we are not only able coldly to
which is capable of judgment. All the feeling, the idealism and
desires knowledge of the world around him, be able to fall into error,
man will be enabled, through what he can take in of the
still less can he be expected to be able to work healingly on his
the same time he became liable to err in judging between them, and
consciousness. They were then able, not merely to make use of the
then bestowed on men; they were able to look up into a spiritual
Christ was able to say: ‘Lay hold of the ego, where it must now
impulse having been given through which Christ is able, from the
possibility which we have described as a good quality: of being able
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able to have a bodily perception and observation of Christ Jesus, as
one able to apply the words to the events of higher planes. The life
before we shall be able to understand the full mission of the old
human principles in a quite remarkable degree!
perfection, is able to take habits into itself. The physical body of
this ancestor there must have worked a Life-Spirit which was able to
humanity ought to have been sufficiently advanced to be able, through
other words it ought to have been able to take up the Christ-Impulse.
capable of enclosing the Christ-Being.
permeate itself with what was the pattern of Christ. That enabled man
a state of ecstasy, for they would be able to find their relation to
— was instinctively guided, when man was able to raise himself to
the goal of the earth-mission. Those who are able to control and
themselves a force which will enable them to find help for the
will find in his inner being the strength which will enable him to
sentient soul, that is: it spiritualised it. This enables man to feel
and thirst after righteousness. Those who are able to find their human
minds of men. Based on these prophecies, a false Messiah was thus able
now advanced so far as to be able to ascend to that part of the
incarnation to experience on earth what makes them capable of

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man and the higher mammals. It is an indisputable truth that man has
capable of that! For we must say that even though the apes look as
woman in human life? That can be found too. But before we are able to
they consider that what is found in one domain is applicable to every
stage when the form was more pliable. In a male incarnation the whole
it is more easily grasped by the more manageable female brain; for it
is more difficult for the male brain, being less pliable and obedient,
of Comets, was able to say: As the combinations of carbon and hydrogen
One who can investigate these things spiritually is able to indicate
able to lead him up again.
for that which will enable man to enter that realm, which is really

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contained in the different Gospels. We were only able up to a certain
that world and are therefore able, by means of those thoughts and
through the different incarnations, I was able to embody into my soul
conscience! If we had not then been able to develop a human conscience
This is one of the remarkable proofs to be found in the historical
might be able to reach and absorb the significant impulse we know as
in that Epoch, so as to be able now, gradually to bring to a higher
humanity, and they were able to do so because both their gifts and
degree of culture, were able to emphasise their individual ego; they
Intellectual-Soul, — while at the same time they were also able
person having the sole prerogative of being able to provide the
Sicily to-day. The body of Empedokles forms a considerable part of the
few days ago I was able to tell our Palermo friends in their actual
In what way was the ego-consciousness able so to work in the West that
conscience. We mentioned that indefinable attribute of conscience, its
Christ-Event, in that the soul will become capable of perceiving the

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information — had not been able to make a Saul into St. Paul.
by means of which men will be able to obtain spiritual truth in a new
preparations made for its reception were the smallest conceivable. For
yet egoism and envy has considerable power over them. In the
but how immeasurable is all that she could not accomplish in that
not refer to all she was not able to do, all that was concealed from
work, and who feel very happy to be able to say: ‘We are now
some day be known, she was not able herself to recognise Him. In this,
Theosophical movement is able to cultivate and preserve the life of
some day take place. Man will then be able to say: ‘I have now
In this spirit let us endeavour to make ourselves capable of preparing

Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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thought he can feel himself directly active, able to exercise his
within every fibre of his thought, and therefore must be able to know
easily observable — the concept “triangle”. Now
In short, we arrive at the uncomfortable notion of saying: I will not
That appears very reasonable. And yet for a century people have been
able to say about it from the standpoint we have gained? If anyone
There are many more remarkable things in this strange book — a

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matter and its laws they may be able to discover some exceptionally
useful and valuable facts; but in speaking of the Spirit they may
We now have side by side four justifiable world-outlooks, each with
mathematical terms, we shall not be able to explain the simplest
capable of having ideas, will no longer be a mere Idealist; he
When someone is a Psychist, and able as a thinking person to
also be active, they must be able also to do things.” But this
is inconceivable unless these beings are individual beings. That is,
And he gradually becomes able to form for himself an idea of the
terms of thought, all twelve standpoints are fully justifiable. For a

Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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We could not say that there is an easily understandable relation
enables them to say much, very much, to others about the world. They
are not Theosophists at all, but are Gnostics of Realism, are able to
unable to grasp with their whole souls anything of the greatness and
concept-organism. Hegel was simply able to seek out everything in the
constellations. It would certainly not be specially favourable if one
about truth would have to be able to represent the twelve shades of
which can be unveiled for him in a remarkable way as the content of
forces work into the brain in the way we have been able to describe.

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each other. In physical astrology this a favourable constellation; in
spiritual astrology this so-called sextile aspect is unfavourable. We
The soul is not able to develop, because it cannot find anything to
This is how the unfavourable character of the sextile aspect
brought about by the soul being unable to proceed further along an
unfavourable path; it veers round into the opposing configuration.
through with the upper configurations if one is able, owing to
the first place capable of becoming a mystical Idealist. Then his
“table”, “rose”, “book”, “on”,
perceive, lion, dog, table, rose, book, on, off, right, write, read —
serve them so that they may be able to think through us, yet at the

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thought he can feel himself directly active, able to exercise his
within every fibre of his thought, and therefore must be able to know
easily observable — the concept “triangle”. Now
In short, we arrive at the uncomfortable notion of saying: I will not
That appears very reasonable. And yet for a century people have been
able to say about it from the standpoint we have gained? If anyone
There are many more remarkable things in this strange book — a

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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matter and its laws they may be able to discover some exceptionally
useful and valuable facts; but in speaking of the Spirit they may
We now have side by side four justifiable world-outlooks, each with
mathematical terms, we shall not be able to explain the simplest
capable of having ideas, will no longer be a mere Idealist; he
When someone is a Psychist, and able as a thinking person to
also be active, they must be able also to do things.” But this
is inconceivable unless these beings are individual beings. That is,
And he gradually becomes able to form for himself an idea of the
terms of thought, all twelve standpoints are fully justifiable. For a

Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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We could not say that there is an easily understandable relation
enables them to say much, very much, to others about the world. They
are not Theosophists at all, but are Gnostics of Realism, are able to
unable to grasp with their whole souls anything of the greatness and
concept-organism. Hegel was simply able to seek out everything in the
constellations. It would certainly not be specially favourable if one
about truth would have to be able to represent the twelve shades of
which can be unveiled for him in a remarkable way as the content of
forces work into the brain in the way we have been able to describe.

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each other. In physical astrology this a favourable constellation; in
spiritual astrology this so-called sextile aspect is unfavourable. We
The soul is not able to develop, because it cannot find anything to
This is how the unfavourable character of the sextile aspect
brought about by the soul being unable to proceed further along an
unfavourable path; it veers round into the opposing configuration.
through with the upper configurations if one is able, owing to
the first place capable of becoming a mystical Idealist. Then his
“table”, “rose”, “book”, “on”,
perceive, lion, dog, table, rose, book, on, off, right, write, read —
serve them so that they may be able to think through us, yet at the

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Suffering
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remarkable figure — in part a warning figure, in part a
peace-destroyer, suffering. How else would it be explicable that in a
that brings suffering and sin into connection the remarkable figure
suffering and unspeakable pain can be connected with a completely
been able to give few clues to the meaning and nature of life. One
able to let death arise within it and to transform this death
Without partial death a ray of light is not able to penetrate a
sensation, eye and ear. You know perhaps from many a disagreeable
willing. If the organs of will are crippled a man is unable to
The initiate would be able to see someone suffering deeply without
we are able, just as the skin receives the ray of light and is able
out of the pain to form a higher being, an eye; when we are able
the Crucifixion of Christ Jesus as a process indicated in the parable
comparable to a process in nature, to the birth of the valuable and

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Evil
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Remarkable fabulous beings wandered about — errors of nature
which were not capable of evolution. Love grows out of the loveless
higher occult development. In order to be able to feel the good, man
had also to be able to feel the evil. The gods gave him enthusiasm
without Lucifer, but not freedom. In order to be able to choose good

Title: Lecture: What Do We Understand by Illness and Death
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terms will not be able to make anything of such an answer; they would
which would then be able to act out of its own impulses. With the
say: If a personality who is able to act egoistically lives in a
once again able to grasp. This is mentioned in order to make our
would be unbearable were we not aware that death ends it. If we are
is not so fortunate as the other sciences as to be able to speak in a
nature and individuality, much that is said today will be applicable
weak. When we are able to investigate clairvoyantly how the ego
desires, impulses and passions, then — if we are able to
as it is you would be unable to do so. Flames leap out of the wood,
substance to life, we shall be able to form a concept of the nature
being able to have diseases, to become ill. Illness is the condition
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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peculiar metabolism. You will be able to study all the special traits

Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 2
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conceptions of the universe are acquired, which enable the human soul
conceptions. All this is capable of preparing our souls to reach a

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
wisdom in the whole world process, manifested in our being able to
able to free ourselves from the materialistic conception which takes
spiritual. He will then be able to experience other spiritual things,
still alive; and if he is able to understand the Resurrection
in his feelings while he is alive, this will also enable him to pass
Resurrection. But as human beings we must be able to submerge in what
death, so we are able to acquire another feeling when we have lived

Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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sense also brought it about that his eyes were opened and he was able
man was able to see and apprehend; thus he fell into error, into what, for the
material world as such; this enabled him to shoulder and work out his
Christ is the Power who has enabled man to turn earth-existence
which enables man to find the way upwards. And now let us ask
Ahriman too was able to invade the astral body — in the intellectual
as a blessing. That man is capable of this, that he is capable of
in such a way will enter a world of darkness and gloom, unable to make
very truth — the faculty of being able to see in that world must be
which enables him to return to the spiritual world now lying in
you will be able to hear of the connection

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would assuredly be able to divert him from the Good and bring him to
enable them to perceive that part of the spiritual world of light
opponent of these worlds of Light, it was inevitable that he too
unmistakable presence of Divine-Spiritual Beings. Because Lucifer's
body — at that time still transmutable — had been so prepared ever
influence was able to assert itself in the middle of the Atlantean
who were able, through the preparation they had undergone, to pierce
nevertheless they can draw from that Event a power which enables them
pupils of the Initiates but unable to remain at their level or men to
capable of investigating the karma of an individual will in certain
circumstances be unable to find anything at all that could have led to
forces, comparable only with the passions, the inner urges and
favorable direction. Understanding that is based upon the recognition
humanity be answerable for them; we must regard such a destiny as our
able to make use of his knowledge to help himself or those near him.
inducing a particular condition, and then being able to say what is
If a man is able to walk about on his two legs, you can deprive him of
souls and is able from there to overcome the opposing powers and

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - I
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which he becomes capable of speaking of an “apocalypse” and
At that time he was still able to control the living seed-forces of
Therefore the Apocalyptist must be able not only to transfer himself
these future stages a man must be able, as a seer, to use the forces
to enable Thought to become inward in the real sense. And so in Indian

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little service to truth. Anyone who holds this view will be incapable
all of them capable of speaking of these revelations of the highest
now be attained by those who had not actual vision but who were able
then he is able to unveil the innermost secret which must be revealed

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who have been in the Theosophical Movement for a considerable time and
are able to believe not merely in the Word revealed to the Mystics,
themselves progress so far that a few of them will be able to take
we call “Fathers” or “Elders,” will then be able
been able to indicate it in an entirely external way. But today it is
are of the most elementary kind. We must first be able to employ the
unshakable confidence but can never come to an end of their meaning.

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 1: Spiritual Science and Language
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personalities will be able to feel particularly how language can also become
the human being is able to transform the content of his soul into sounds in
language” as something of special significance. A considerable amount
members of our being which derive from the past, we are able to speak of
previous lectures as inner members of the human being were only able to come
to enable the existence of the human being in his present form. The result of
achieve more, for they were able to make use of a more effective means; thus
hidden being which is capable of creating the eye for itself.
in another respect that the air is full of beings which were able at certain
had become capable of having within him an organ which corresponded to what
Desire was able to become a soul quality, an inner faculty, because it
experience. The process which happens in innumerable cases, and which is
two atoms of language formation; the one syllable “shi” means
That is possible because we are able to separate ourselves from outward
which are able to recreate in a fruitful way as ideas the things which the
mouth feels that he is able to express all things. But it must be understood
that any word is suitable to express a given thought; that already is an
through the thinking, will become capable of decanting the thought in such a

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Tears are used here by Goethe to symbolise the state of soul which enables
itself — though we may not be able to see it in that light until
emerge later on. But presently we are able to observe how the ego, with the
mind may make us unwilling or unable to understand what is going on. Laughter
not be able to expand or develop; it would succumb to inward death. It is
right for human development that the ego should be able to free itself

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 3: What is Mysticism?
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for he had admitted the existence of a dark, inscrutable element, beyond the
that nothing reliable is known about something, and then go on to deny that
that which is obscure and inscrutable as the content of mysticism, have
spoken of its goal as attainable only through a higher clarity, a brighter
incomparable mystic, Angelus Silesius.
means he can find the divine ground of the world, which he would not be able
comparable with what he encounters in the outer world. No: there is a radical
all ideas of growth and decline, of birth and death, are not applicable to
through this inward knowledge that we gain assurance of the imperishable
to a realisation that unity and multiplicity are concepts inapplicable to the
lives. It is only if we are able through our own personal experience to allow
soul. If the pupil is not a dry stick, if he is able to enter with his
the little spark but a new power of cognition which enables him to look at
sufficiently free and independent of ourselves, so that we are unable to form
mysticism, accordingly, spiritual science can recognise a stage which enables
revelation; we let God hold sway only if we are able to sacrifice our inner
enough; we must take it up at the right stage, when we are first able to

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 4: The Nature of Prayer
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first step towards true spiritual investigation. If we are able to immerse
immeasurable force of spiritual knowledge that this mystical devotion gave to
we understand how Angelus Silesius was enabled through this same devotion not
the mystic is able to attain to his inward devotion because he has —
produce a kind of whirlpool, comparable to the confluence of two rivers.
ourselves. We have become capable from our present standpoint of disagreeing
being able to look back with shame, perhaps, at some of our past
extending beyond our conscious selves, we should be unable to reproach
If we transform this realisation into a feeling, we shall be able to look
clearly before us, and we shall be able to compare these memories with
actions and experiences, but without my being aware of it, for I was not able
active strength and energy, will be able to develop the powers of his soul
were able to kindle to brightness the little spark within them. It is
losing itself in externals can be enabled to collect itself. During prayer we
impenetrable veil. If we develop the feeling of devoted humbleness towards
whatever may come to us from the future, we find that we are able to meet
finest thoughts and feelings of which we are capable are present in the soul,
have not yet been able to rise. Certainly, if we are to accomplish all this,
man, when he repeats the prayer, will not be able to fathom these depths. But
— you will come upon remarkable descriptions of all sorts of passions
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 5: Sickness and Healing
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being is not observable from the outside; the eye can only see the outer
observable purely from the outside, the astral body purely from the inside.
which will enable us to deal with the present subject in the appropriate
exhausted at night. And we would be unable to continue our life if we were
is why we sleep. We would be unable to live without entering the world of
again, sleeping on it again. If one is not able to immerse the experiences in
by human being. If we were able to take the physical or, at least, the ether
body into the state of sleep then we would be able to change them. But in the
unmusical ear might have to go through experiences which would enable him to
if the organ is not formed in a suitable way then this is prevented. Those
sculpting within the organs, are precisely the things which are incapable of
new birth, weaving into them all the experiences which the soul was unable to
finished and when the human being is able to sculpt into the physical and
were able to bring with him in a similar manner his physical body and ether
body each morning on waking up, then he would be able to form them from out
they were able to raise to a higher stage of development but which they were
unable to put into practice in the previous life because the complete ether
Were we not able to
destroy our physical and ether bodies, were the physical body unable to pass
opportunity to destroy this body in order to enable us to construct a new one
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outer world, is able to maintain the firmness and security of his inner
knowledge of world secrets if we were not able to attach external experiences
certain stage and will then be able to carry through the gate of death what
soul, so that new impressions can flow in; if he is unable to raise himself
indefinable impressions which are hardly evident in external life. For
that his soul is quite empty. Then he must be able to open his soul to
we are liable to encounter the bad side of spiritual experiences. If our
that will enable him to see into the spiritual world, we should be exposing
qualities, so that he passes them all by and may be unable to form a
further step, we shall come to a remarkable fact. Consider a man who not
we were unable to fear for someone who is approaching a perilous future. So
everything we comprehend today we shall be able to surpass tomorrow and thus
because the extent of our soul-life is unbounded and unknowable that we can
never be discovered, the soul is able to go beyond them and rise to higher

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specialist one, will be able to note from the point of view of spiritual
only be able to deal with the subject in outline, but perhaps it will provide
practical life, so that we are increasingly capable of orientating ourselves
regarded as normal. But such observations are liable to misinterpretation in
someone is incapable of linking one comprehended concept with a second one at
that there are people who are unable to advance in their work because of
to be the same reality as a table standing before one. Only when the
Rome; he would be subject to a haphazard life of ideas; he would be unable to
been given to him as change. He recalled these two images and was now able to
considerable difference between the two soul processes. But the philosopher
the case but also the man) will be able to set up the following hypothesis.
in sleep. As long as this distinction is not made we will not be able to
things hinder themselves from being able to observe the manifold nature of
and the irregularities which can arise will be able to recognise the disorder
the most unbelievable errors can be committed in the most important questions
different from all experiences which we can have. Everyone can call a table
“table”, a glass “glass” and a watch
be caused by the ether body not being able to serve as a healthy tool for the
done by those who, because of certain fixed patterns of thinking, are unable
are able to reflect on the soul say: the error, the chaotic confusion which
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human soul recognises that the word refers to a most valuable element in its
which was capable of immediately declaring what a man should do and what he
element in the soul which, if it is heeded, declares with unmistakable power
our times. His ideas — allowing for some inevitable distortion of
soul in its ordinary condition enables us to grasp the external world
occur — something comparable to the outcome of a successful operation
chairs and tables in the physical world: and he now takes up into a higher
consciousness soul, comparable to yet higher soul-principles, we can well
understandable that as spiritual science indicates — the ego, before
yet able to say “I” regarding himself, to find the central point
capable, through schooling, of endless progress in the future. We see in it
impartially at the observable facts.
raise him up and, by showing him the effect of his deed, to enable him to
can see them will experience them as incontestable truths, but a certain
and in his work we find a theme which is especially remarkable for the
Shakespeare. Here we have palpable evidence of the stages whereby the idea of
conscience a dramatic embodiment, but is not yet quite able to do so.
were men enabled to understand that the voice of God could be heard within
the soul. In order that men should be able to find something of the divine
been able to comprehend the indwelling of Divinity in the human
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— of these two poems, the remarkable thing is that both poems begin on
central point in his soul which now enables him to live within himself and in
One remarkable
able, as he says, in “the middle of life” — which means his
personal development he enters the spiritual world, and is thus able to
of wisdom, able to gaze into the spiritual world, but eyes focused only on
poet, Shakespeare. Here again we see a remarkable step forward in the sense
went to this theatre? The lower orders. It was more fashionable in those days
but for respectable people it would have been highly improper. Hence we can
enabled each one of them to speak with a distinctive voice. Goethe creates in
soul-life of every-man, typified by Faust. And because the ego is able to go
final tableau in
ever-advancing forms. From the imperishable spiritual world resounds the
form in the perishable creations of human genius. Out of the imperishable
were born the perishable poetic figures created by Homer and Aeschylus. Once
more poetry ascends from the perishable to the imperishable, and in the
transient is but a parable ...
must learn to develop the powers which will enable him to re-enter the
transient is but a parable ...
we may add: Art is called upon to transfuse the transient and the perishable
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demands for knowledge there would not be so many who are, incapable
being able to extend our vision, and also our world of feeling and
find in Goethe any indication that the things we are able to know
beings are that we are able to rise to a true understanding of what
ourselves feelings and perceptions from any side that enables us to
studying the different Gospels is that it enables us to consider the
of truth which thou hast been able to grasp is the whole truth.
various causes holds aloof from such questions, even if he is able to
“Science is unable to investigate such matters, the faculties
something in a child and in a growing youth, that is capable of
them in a somewhat trivial and comfortable manner. In spite of the
accept seriously what spiritual investigation has so far been able to
of a science that is unascertainable, of spiritual facts that one or
another investigator, one or another initiate, has been able to
clairvoyant may be able to investigate and see in the spiritual
is unable to bring it down into the ordinary sphere of men, and to
just been said in a double way. Among the many valuable things
received here, and been able to make his own? What remains of all he
been able to understand, as he has been able to translate into the
the greatest importance that there should be clairvoyants capable of
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that we have been able to grasp one subject from so many different
their not being able to prove what is told them from the spiritual
in spiritual experience, and those unable to do so would know nothing
of a soul that receives these truths compared with one able to
We are summoned to make use of them, even though we are not able to
lecture, these truths are really only valuable when so translated, it
expressions of a spiritual world. If a man has not yet been able to
We are able in this
slight awareness of self, how little he is able to accomplish in
infinity, that spread out on all sides. If the ego were unable to
former one. There it was built up, and we are able to confront the
have been able to unite with our ego, so long as we are in the world
sought for or considered valuable. The personality must be absolutely

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already capable of bringing certain things in us into disorder.
capable of shielding himself from them.
been unthinkable at that time. This would have been an impossibility,
be discovered capable of dealing with these facts. At that time
to this was added what was capable of being clothed in human
consciousness of immortality, they are incapable of full conviction.
facts of human and world-events in a way conformable to Aristotelean
first quite incapable of comprehending Christ except through faith;
of centuries after his day, men were no longer capable of realising
and was to have been published that year, but he was unable to
first they were incapable of producing anything. Brentano's
will certainly be able to appreciate natural laws, but in a way
first able to form a conception of the life of the soul, when we
future. Otherwise this is quite impossible. We must be able to form
be able best to evolve towards the real, historic Christ, when all
unable to develop further in the second half of life within the body,
what science discovers to-day is profitable. Therein lies its

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open for all the world to see, which formerly had been attainable
enabled them to look into the spiritual world. In certain abnormal
down into men, and they were able to look up to the Hierarchies. They
in me, I shall be able through the power it brings, to penetrate to
able to attain what once was mine through the old form of
was wont to do, and as yet it is unable to rise to anything of
is chaotic, I feel unable to rise to the spiritual world.”
world — when any soul had evolved so far as to be able to receive
was able to put himself in touch with the faculties of the Angel, so
replaced by another, one by which men would be able to understand the
world having experienced the initiation of the Fishes and able
the initiation of the Waterman, who was able therefore to lead men on

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He would not be able to endure the sight. When he does dip down into
body very much, but has not been able to injure his etheric and
to injure it he is unable to do so, for the etheric body resists
become capable of affecting his astral body and a part of his etheric
instance, attained what enabled them to become leaders of humanity.
only one person, who is able to divine what is developing within this
of the child Zarathustra, unable himself to slay him, had him carried
“the child Zarathustra was nourished for a considerable time by
being at a moment of awaking. When the soul is able to experience the
the human soul is liable.
mysteries as enabled him to describe the temptation as we find it in
not been able to discuss, how human evolution has to be understood;
evolution. For this a suitable personality had to be found. Everyone

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a remarkable passage similar in every way to what we are told in the
concerning the spiritual world that we have been able, to acquire in
records or traditions. Yet those who are able to penetrate to
are able to see what Raphael, for instance, put into his pictures, or
if we are able to pour fresh life into the works of Zarathustra, we
so thin and meaningless; only then are we able to learn how very much
something was given which is comparable with the descent of man into
Adam or not). Then came the power and impulse that enabled him to
was able to return to his original spiritual state, that state in
Then he begins to rise again, and is able to rise so far that he can
a certain point. Under favourable circumstances this lies round about
impressionable. How much he has learnt during this period, during his
later. The difference is a most radical one. Were we able to observe
childhood, were able to continue. In that case his life would be
man was still able to a certain extent to carry this consciousness of
super-sensible element was able to work within his personality and be
vocal instruments of certain super-sensible forces, but he was able to
body and the ego. A man like Orpheus was still able to look on one
Thracian river god, to the risk of not being able to retain the
attain powers by which he was able to penetrate to the underworld,
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only after a considerable time that the reason will appear why one or
thoughts and ideals rise far above what they are able to attain in
are always greater than what he is able to accomplish on the physical
passion, or desire, has not thoughts capable of grasping the result
assuredly are not; for we are able to influence the state of our
various countries of the world. You are then able to say: —
the astral body, what is in some ways suitable for them, may soon
remarkable way. I need only mention the thyroid gland. This you know
satisfaction in this fact. Spiritual science is able, however, to
different organs. This difference is only so considerable because one
the astral body. From this another very remarkable fact is disclosed
it has never been developed. If you are unable to think about a
way we are able to throw light on the different ways in which our
overcome by something able to conquer misery. Therefore we demand
When our ego is able
right way, that we are best able to laugh at those things that are
way in which he is able to expand into the life of the outer world is

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his soul and he believes he is capable of making his ideal actual. He
someone before us who has been able to grasp some idea in his soul
man would not be able to-day to wait, he would set about at once
baptised by the Gods, we are now able to hand over to the world as
remarkable just because it is not found in the other Gospels. This
passage is especially remarkable because commentators have said some
Mark we should be able to evolve the necessary strength to stand firm
origin of mankind. Through this man will be able to realise more and
influence of Spiritual Science will be able to accept the warning

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thoughts this evening as will enable you to carry somewhat further
in recent years, but it is possible to show in a parable how this
that it will be recognisable.
some-thing inexplicable passed through the souls of the people of
“inexplicable,” but occultism says that, following the
will never be able to throw light on the central facts of our
understanding of reincarnation and karma, but being incapable of
kind of weakness in western souls if they were unable to grasp the
What such people say is comparable with what spiritual science says
discover, and are really able to follow the spiritually scientific
historians of Europe are able to give you! Test it, but not as they
they are incapable as yet of accepting and making use of other lines
life and nowhere are ideas capable of grasping them. There is one
and even in popular literatures to-day is simply untenable.
out what a remarkable difference there is between two natural
perception, whereby a man's soul is made capable of employing
for a long time. Why can you not give us a more comfort-able diet,
that we might absorb more easily what is able to convince us of the
capable of experiencing a renewal of the event of Damascus. If only
be comfortable in the spiritual world must seek spirituality along
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bequeath these truths to others who are unable to travel the path
we are able to give. Many of you would not have shared in what has
found the horse, and he was able to lead it back to the mother
was able to restore it to the dragon's mother. She then said to
the flower-queen's dwelling. Besides this he was able to bring
them with it, and enables them to develop forces that can put them in
touch with it. In earlier times men were told in parables of the old
mature, is able to lay hold of the outer astral substance, and to
grasped these things, yet was unable spiritually to enter further
spiritually to considerable heights. In the year 1831 he wrote a
remarkable book called “Ritter Wahn.” He knew of a
truths to others who are unable to travel the path on which alone
merely in images and parables, but in truths, which, though still

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Will he be able to speak then impartially about this question which
violates the modern natural sciences, I would not be able to speak about
and keep the best” — where everybody believes to be able
that time. Every judgment should be quiet; one had to make oneself able
in the seed. This force was able to wake the plants to new life.
the constitution of the human brain. Are they able to explain the human
the human being is able to understand the eternal laws of nature. He
which we incorporate into our imperishable being. The plants are transformed
some natural phenomena were inexplicable. Hence, this memory is only
but we want to make the human beings able to search for the proofs independently
are often made against this view is that it makes the human being unable
does not make unable to cope with life, but more capable, just because
takes off again as it is sometimes said becomes unable to cope with
and he becomes more and more capable. This picture lets the thought
life because of knowledge. We are able to work even in a more competent

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— The soul is said to be something questionable, something uncertain
who represent an uncomfortable opinion. Somebody who speaks of the soul
we are able to look for it at every moment. It is peculiar that on this
make themselves comfortable with researching. Goethe is quoted with
for the most suitable concerning the soul. Because everybody is so near
to the soul, he believes to be able to understand everything out of
from the imperishable.
Thus the imperishable part
in the eternal and imperishable in us, in the divine core of our being.

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be the way to be able to seize, finally, this concept with our mental
he developed upward step by step. His soul became able to behold farther
development are able to see once that they have an inkling of the size
being is able to say in this direction is hints, hints in that perspective
We will never be able to encompass it. If, however, we admit that we
this living sensation for the unfathomable wisdom and divinity which
are also justified to form a suitable concept of the divine. Only one
are not yet able to rise to a higher idea of God. Their culture does
like the human brain. Then, however, I would be able to prove nerve
Nothing is as perishable
life deeper than we are able today standing within the western life
in them, but not claim to be able to grasp the original truth immediately.
imperishable Goethe’s word is correct:

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do with few lines which I am able to give. But it is time to give this just
now what I am able to give.
Strauss wants. Not the whole human genus was able to accept Christ in itself;
frankly what he meant. You know the word: he spoke to the people in parables;
however, if he was together with his disciples, he explained these parables
us. If you need any object, a table, you do not go to anybody but to somebody
who knows how to make a table. If he has made it, you did not claim to have
made the table yourself. You admit calmly to be a layman of making tables. However,
as we know as laymen of making tables if a table is good how we have to use
our heart can use it. But we must not claim to be able to produce the knowledge
that is the victory of the Word. He spoke to the people in parables; but when
he was alone with the disciples, he explained the parables to them.
competently, exactly as one has to know the language, before one is able to
been kindled in them. This was one of the initiations, this was one of the parables
The Lamb of God was the most innocent; it is able to do the sacrificial death.
the culprit only made himself liable to prosecution in the physical life if
This parable may be paradoxical;

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dialectic concepts, but it should happen, as far as I am able to do
provides us; it should happen with everything available to give something
imagined to be movable. However, Kant makes the human being with his
is the most certain truth which there can be. No power would be able
Somebody is only able to
really steadfast? Is the “thing-in-itself” unrecognisable?

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appearance. If this is the case, everything that surrounds me — the table,
exists except for my perception of the table and the chairs. This is basically
Theosophy is inseparable from the view that we can penetrate not only into the
particle is not able to creep into me. What is it if you put the hand on the
the existence of God according to Kant. Our reason, our mind is only applicable
not able to overcome it.
in other way to support what should be valuable for the human being.
to complete knowledge and world view while he split the world in a recognisable

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them. We could not recognise the true value of anything. We would never be able
we are able to consider the entire philosophy of Schopenhauer, everything that
us. If we were able to enter the thing itself, we could recognise the being
gate of knowledge. If we want to find the object of knowledge, it enables us
From any philosophy you are able to find the way to theosophy.

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Self-knowledge is necessary to be able to tell the human beings
— is not compatible with its views and is not tenable, therefore. You
can take offence of the truths of modern natural sciences. Every reasonable
simplicity, usefulness and descriptiveness. But this is not applicable to the
soul that the best in the fields of psychology were able to give. Because Aristotle
come. There Aristotle shows that he is able to observe real inner life. If anybody
rather than on understanding: the human being is able to do mathematics.
human being is able to discover strictly self-contained laws which no external
only a development, but history, is able to become clear to himself about the
they have to look for them again. They are not able to transfer the experience
room are applicable to the external natural phenomena can be explained through
of Aristotle that he is not able to make his right view that the human soul
believe that we can find access to the soul one day on the apparently irrefutable
Thomas Aquinas considered the methods as totally unacceptable with which it
views believes to be able to disprove the old views. But this science knows
science which is based on introspection can give us a reasonable answer. Then

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with the remaining organic world. In a word, we are not able if we keep to mere
are able to recognise the facts of the soul-life if we observe the external
remarkable facts of the sensory world? Have we not rather to assume that the
now. The soul is inexplicable from mere physical processes. One can never understand
never be harmonised with the facts. What should be explicable from another area
inevitably from the preconditions of nature. As inevitable as the thought of
as a reincarnating individuality. What prevails apparently as an inexplicable
life are lined up. What is inexplicable in a human life becomes explicable if
want to think scientifically and are able to look at the soul-life scientifically
However, then this single life seems to be absolutely inexplicable.
favourable in the next life. Why? Simply because the sensation of listlessness,
This listlessness can be most valuable
one is not able to state: there is a soul-force. However, then this force would
that revolutions have taken place in former periods which should not be explicable
able to produce substances in the laboratory from which one believed that they
naturalists, not of philosophical dilettantes who believe to be able to deny

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hours whom they will no longer have is not that who is so valuable for them;
world view. That is only valuable to the sage which the senses can never give.
that something lives in him about which he knows that it is imperishable because
he has recognised it. It depends on that. Every reasonable human being in this
But not before the human being was able to see the highest truth of soul and
to them only if they were able according to their state of soul, of mind, and
now like table and chairs.
They must be incapable of tears.
in suitable way, while we say: you fall asleep now. — Thereby we can produce
when it is able to feel pain, to perceive again, at this moment only the soul
mind is no longer able to express itself in the hypnotised person.
necessary to have gone through a development, so that we are able with correctly
the pupil has attained on which he is able to perceive the world round himself
consider a thought, a will as desirable. My personal wish binds itself to the
otherwise, only serves the self, such strength enables the human being to heal
child before ourselves. However, we can develop this mind only if we are able
to extinguish ourselves, just as with other higher performances, if we are able
a most valuable service. Somebody who is devoted to the theosophical life who
They must be incapable of tears.

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result of physical processes, comparable to the forward movement of the hands
brought forward was quite untenable in the light of strict research. We see
to hear something about the soul. Because the question of the soul was so unstoppable,
that it does not concern an accidental, but a necessary phenomenon; recognisable
certainly possess a notable judgment in spiritistic questions; they have exerted
is it not of quite particular significance if a researcher of indubitable reputation,
the origin is the same. Those people know this who are able to look a little
them are able to give evidence of them. These great beings are the leaders of
steps that they would never have been able to create this intricate human organism
so that it is able to breathe, to send blood through the veins, to digest that
it concentrates substances and forces in the brain and makes the brain the suitable
state of the lowered consciousness may be quite untouchable, no one may doubt
Trust is necessary here and there. However, it is more comfortable to investigate
which do not contain the material to be collected or to an unsuitable degree.
tools, also not of the spiritual powers, because these could do everything imaginable
was profitable to the human being when he still lived in his subconsciousness;
is why we should never let cloud our consciousness. This has enabled us with

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of trance or dream state are able to show such phenomena. These persons are
is able to find out something about spiritual processes and beings which one
carrying out actions which they would not be able at all to carry out if they
Yes, one can say: for the one and same person — who is able to observe
way we carry out reasonable actions during the somnambulistic state, and such
you are a clairvoyant, you are able to put the usual physical body out of your
you and to which you do not direct your attention, you are able as a clairvoyant
picture which I only must create to myself to be able to perceive the flame
is a process within my astral body. Somebody who has a visual organ to be able
development and able to look really with full waking consciousness into this
go through between tables and chairs, where they perceive the spiritual world
what she/he sees; the somnambulist never is able to control what she/he tells
If the somnambulist informs us not only about such easily controllable matters,
and normally also those who experiment with the medium are not able to have

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in any detail. As a rule the researchers are not able to report in popular talks
of the world somebody who is reasonable and allowed to express the words with
of this matter from an occultist — unless you are able and want to go
to one of higher level, to an initiate. Only the initiate should be able to
he could construct a vehicle with which he would be able to move through the
must be able to answer them with understanding. These questions and also their
power as the average human being does not suspect at all. Only somebody is able
beings who are able to see events which are far away from them and also to report
is an ancient tradition. Those who believe to be able to accept it as truth
17th and 18th centuries. Nobody claimed till those times that a dancing table,
could seriously give information about the super-sensible world. Reasonable people
to it. In mediaeval times no reasonable human being thought to advocate that
behind the development is able to make a picture of it. The human being gets
abnormal phenomena which were not explicable by means of natural forces known
which one simply denied because one wanted to accept the sensually explicable
even more noticeable to him when he heard the discussion taking place in wonderful
not have the raw qualities of the physical matter, not the impenetrable resistance
for instance. We see even carefully registered how a person can enable himself
What came up in this time could not be favourable to the pneumatologists. Hence,
well-known knocking sounds, the phenomena of moving tables and the knocking
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like spellbound; you do not go on; you are not able to stir! — He carries
out everything and then he stops like spellbound. Yes, you are able to do even
only an occultist is able to have an overview of the preconditions which are
used to only look for the real knowable, the truth in the sense-perceptible
comparable to that of a magnet and iron filings. The iron filings remain at
at all. However, methods are given to us which enable another person, the hypnotist,
was able to make this question flow freely because of his fearlessness —
believes to be able to protect Mesmer against Preyer. If one wants to judge
it had been able to forecast that they would come with a probability of 95 to
no other explanations. But, nevertheless, the commission was able to come to
certain swindlers fooled the audience in the most unbelievable way.
the table, very far from the impresario, says the word which is whispered or
However, the study was carried out in a rather unfavourable age. To characterise
to you how unfavourable the age of the fifties, sixties was, I want to state
mental condition in the person to be hypnotised that he was able to transport
understood. He is simply overlooked. This is also explicable. — I have
are more reasonable expressly warn generally about dealing with these phenomena,
facts. To any really reasonable person it is clear that modern medicine knows
usually done which has achieved nothing for the really reasonable person but
able to do this only if you have developed your force to a higher level. It
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of today what such a human being is able to experience of the higher world is
layer. If anybody transports himself into that soul region, he is able to obtain
enclosed in itself the force, the same force which is able to let come into
your spiritual eye, then you are able to perceive the force in yourselves with
imperishable in the soul. If we look at Michelangelo some time later, has his
the soul, this is the imperishable, and this is really formative force, this
does not stop, however, is the activity which always increases which is imperishable.
is a sensuous being, it is a being born repeatedly as a soul, and it is an imperishable
world of the figures and forms, on the other side, the world of the imperishable
it. If you throw the ball into a second vessel, it will not be able to warm
the conscience. This phenomenon is inexplicable at first. It becomes immediately
consider the eternally imperishable, the innermost core of the human being.

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wrote a brochure and said that no naturalist would have been able to say anything
is able to understand the true, real science any time as Eduard von Hartmann
and what the human being is solely able to provide of the riddles and secrets
be trained, so that the inner human being is able to look into a spiritual world.
However, not everybody is able to verify everything the theosophy maintains.
by Ernst Haeckel, for example, becomes only understandable if one has theosophy
already the atom and its oscillatory movement is regarded by reasonable naturalists
the matters in the world evolution. The theosophist is able to give the right
One is able to do this only if one explains them from the theosophical standpoint.
of the soul, theosophy is a progress which one is able to pursue. If one compares

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itself to be absolutely incapable to answer the big questions of existence.
declare to be unable to answer particular questions. Indeed as I have indicated
we not be able to think that that which we see round ourselves could not develop
we do not have senses for them. The reasonable naturalists made such thoughts
view from the pictures of the objects. Hence, we are able to make a world view
able to recognise by the development why the sole authority is attributed to

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who are able to independently speak in its sense. You cannot deny this. And
in such a way, we are soon able to admit that the teaching of Buddha is nothing
necessary, but not yet easily understandable concatenation of world-historical
those to Christianity who had no longer been able to satisfy their souls and
to adhere to the reminiscences of Buddhism. Today we are able to show the matter
are reluctant to receive any favourable influence, whether from Buddhism, from
most unbelievable kind, one could also prove with regard to countless other
needs to report a passage of the Buddhist writings to show how little reasonable
is more valuable than life: this is one of the biggest sins in the true Buddhism.
as of a Neo-Buddhist movement is not able to say anything correct about the
experience, who are able to impart the spiritual knowledge. What are to us Zarathustra,
somebody can receive which he can also attain from Blavatsky if he is able to
than what was suitable for the Egyptian heart. Buddha would never have taught

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this Lecture has been made available.
awareness will be able to develop, which speaks out of these
When mathematics showed him how it is suitable for the
He was able to experience deeply and to know, that in these
valuable.
What enabled his memories of an earlier incarnation to appear?
comprehend that these unique words of Goethe are more valuable
and animal realms. Those who were able to return to the
again be able to rise up to spiritual worlds. It descended with
origins, to the unsolvable riddle of death. The Greek spirit of

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esoteric lectures form a unique and indispensable part of Steiner's
been able to read it in the Astral Light.
spirit. It may possess other members, but we are unable to find them,
who would have been able to find human-animal bodies, only some of
would never have been able to acquire the clarity of consciousness
further Stage in its development. Through this they were able to
It is a remarkable passage. For the Feast of the Tabernacles, the
which man is able to kindle the spark of spiritual life within him,
when the physiological nature of man is able to attempt the ascent by
consciousness of today, will itself be able to enkindle the spark of
sacrifice is an example which shows that man will be able to unfold a
anyone. They are available to a few people who are able to see them
which is holy is able to heal, it sets men free from sufferings and
people only who are able to say: ‘I know they are there, the

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esoteric lectures form a unique and indispensable part of Steiner's
which we will only be able to reveal in part on the basis of the
they became unable to move. They could only be tamed in this manner
during the Great Plague, was able to foretell the future. He wrote a

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esoteric lectures form a unique and indispensable part of Steiner's
medieval stories — Parsifal, the Round Table, Hartmann von Aue —
unable to experience what is undergone by the elementary substances
enabled, not only to see the world in vision, but to work in it
stage the occultist acquires a certain power, whereby he is enabled
are able to grasp higher truths today it is because we have been
These teachings have been preserved and whoever searches will be able
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esoteric lectures form a unique and indispensable part of Steiner's
in something which is to be published. Today we are able to take the
he could give man something which would enable him to save himself
initiation in the Eleusinian mysteries. He was able to rescue
incurable illness. He was half beast and half man. He suffered death
in this destiny he was enabled to visualise the whole of the past and
because man is able to create something which
of Atlantean times were still able to transform the power inherent in
fifth epoch. What is it there for? If you are able to form a
etheric parallel body — then you will be able to understand that, in
their interpretation is able to take their meaning literally once
human destiny. As I was able to show you in connection with the

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esoteric lectures form a unique and indispensable part of Steiner's
straight to the human heart and can uplift a person, but it is unable
found so lacking in skill that he had been unable to promote them to
invulnerable to the flames. Hiram did as he was advised and came to
able to carry with him as a pendant round his neck. Then he returned
and was able to complete the casting of the Molten Sea and to put
last Hiram was found and was able to utter a few last words. He said:
longer filled with desires and so they were able to endow their
possess an impulsive nature, who are capable of flaring up and
Christ, and who gave utterance to a remarkable saying at that
to Hiram by Tubal-Cain, he is thereby enabled to unite water and fire
durable. It must endure into the next epoch, when the secret of the

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and also — by a remarkable chain of circumstances —
you will be able to conclude that Manicheism will endeavour, first
strife, but only through charitableness. It is the task of the

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was able to appreciate his true worth. Solomon was immediately seized
Hiram-Abiff. The Master Word is that which would have enabled them to
but Hiram was unable to avert the jealousy of Solomon and the revenge
he was able to save was the Triangle with the Master Word engraved
things which he is obliged to forego. If he is unable to forswear
are unable to rise in spirit above all things which differentiate one
concerned — he nevertheless is made vulnerable through his heel of
able to imitate. At that time men were able to build by means of

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esoteric lectures form a unique and indispensable part of Steiner's
regard everything I told you about it last time as being applicable
revealed; that he was able, in a certain sense, to speak in
only very rarely arises when suitable people happen to be present.
they are not yet able to endure warmth. In the East stands
ear. That has all been lost and it was inevitable that this should be
These symbols are no longer decipherable for the
noone who is able to give guidance which would
enable a person to arrive at the object itself.
very remarkable, something unprecedented, for it has something
it in Europe are able to form an adequate conception of it. But

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Organisation will be available; the vessel will be there which is
To a freethinker that appears laughable. In fact, however,
unable to discuss whether the sum of the angles of a triangle have
this or that many degrees, so one is also unable to have a discussion
applicable to matters of knowledge, for there is no basis of argument
have to reckon with what is available in this direction. If genuine
in one or other direction. They will not always be able to take part
means of Freemasonry everyone is able to convince himself of the fact
it, you are unable to do anything but let it run out in one lump. So
From that, then, it is already noticeable that certain things are physical
able to form a conception of what the atom is. It stands [in the same
able to carry on any more as it does today. It will become so chaotic
and will only be able to work purely out of the struggle for existence
future. There are only two possibilities available: Either things go
being able to cause havoc, or else it will be cast in the moral mould

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exercises are necessary towards this end and that they are available.
put it bluntly, it is quite unjustifiable to speak in public in the
certain charitable institutions. And although the lodges have lost
their possession, these charitable institutions are evidence of a
social institutions and organisations, in charitable foundations. For
you found a charitable institution or have contributed something to
that an understanding of these things be available. We are going
far that people will be able to penetrate into the atom itself. When
one is able to grasp the materiality between the thought and the
atom, then one will soon be able to understand the penetration of the
working. A man standing here, let us say, will be able, by pressing a
The others will make use of every [imaginable] skill and subtlety in
will be able to picture more clearly than was possible when I spoke

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of ascertaining the right level, one would not be able to keep on
would be foolish to think that someone would be able to build a
practical life can feel himself called as able to be active in social
number seven, which lies at the base of all nature, was it able to
so unreasonable. Today people are inclined to treat the physical body
physical body is really the most perfect thing imaginable. An
four lower principles of man are not able to give birth to the three
of the human cyclic law, Buddhi. He is able to rule over Kama [the
person able to work towards the building up of society is he who has
members. No, we are only able to fulfil our task if we carry the
contrast, take the fashionable abstraction that no longer has
only those who are able to build should do so. No, it depends upon
the Round Table generally numbered twelve.

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the sun, and then man will be able to pass through his further
form of a venerable man with a long beard (symbolising the Father).
able to lead humanity, then, as the Word of the guiding Father, there
two Round Tables as well, that of King Arthur, and that of the Holy
Grail. In King Arthur's Round Table can be found the ancient
Grail. It is remarkable how calmly and tranquilly medieval people

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until, in the shape of Christ Jesus, He should arrive Who was able to
intellect is only able to grasp facts relating to the mineral
elements, because we grasp life in thought. If we are able to lead
threefold materiality — vegetable, animal and human. This human
each thing must be seen only as a parable.
dies; how it is only able to form an external union between the three
into the Temple, and becomes able to carry the Cross, will the
initiation and we shall only understand it and be able to believe

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warmth] ether which makes all bodies capable of being permeated by
today can in no way act upon his physical body; he is unable to move
— later on man will have this ability. When he is able to control the
is able to control the substance of fire ether, he will be able to
control all that is physical. When he is able to control the physical
in man, then he will also be able to control the rest of what is
world. Take this as deeply as you are able. Take the human etheric
Sub-Race is that of ancient India. This venerable ancient race was
and reprehensible; it is only justifiable if done for the development
enabled him to desire the Good out of his own impulse. This Spirit
follow the Son and still later the Father. Man was certainly able to
live in him that will enable the Word to strike a chord in him. This
Race. Now, however, man is still vulnerable to death, in that his

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are able to work on higher levels of existence. Thus we find Devas
from the Arupa Plane, so that he would meet with suitable physical
be able to observe every single process in it. Only the occultist is
multiplies itself outwardly into innumerable similar things. And when
will consist of innumerable tiny parts,
endlessly multiplied in number; so that in numerable copies of the
been able to attain to that consciousness of self, of ego, which he

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step, as he is able to approach the great world thoughts, as he
into the etheric body, which is still pliable. One does not have to
[thereby] be able to arrive at very high stages of
much more strongly. For the astral body to be able to work upon the
But something else still crops up. For such a step forward to be able
fully one must be able to see into the higher worlds. But the point
is not that the theosophist is already able to see into higher
physical plane, but we also see what it has been unable to achieve.
will be able to gather that the forces which have created the world,
the time comes when he is able to undertake his occult pilgrimage. He
brings it about that two people, both able to speak on the same

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Therefore he is unable to take hold of anything from the outside
wisdom was not able to attain to intuition. It confined itself to
feminine wisdom. This feminine wisdom is able to make great
which Tubal-Cain gave him, he was able to complete the projected
upon by the apprentices and killed. He was only just able to write
himself be able to see him — would bring forth a new race. This son
be able to bring about propagation through the one human individual.

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esoteric lectures form a unique and indispensable part of Steiner's
successor to priestly rule, which was [now] unable to do — from its
about the re-establishment of the Lost Word. It works to enable the

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dissolvable. The academic usually comes to a theosophical lecture
full of such structures and is then unable to comprehend theosophical
to do that then his soul would still be capable of
we learn to perceive that the things which are not palpable, which
able so to serve, because an astrality lives in me which belongs to
quite remarkable and special shows itself to us here. It is much
understandable, when we contemplate it from an occult basis. Again,

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remarkable figure appeared. By ancient custom — how he knew this
This remarkable figure opened the session. The bishop would on no
the statement of a man who was able to consider the matter with the
most Freemasons as something quite irrefutable — is, when properly
to its culmination. This led to purification so as to be able to
name, I am able to speak about them.
questionable. Most think it is some sort of verbal formality, or they
at the bottom of the whole saga? We shall best be able to understand
coarsest way imaginable. It is a symbol taken from sexual life. It is
accept as a matter of course that it is wholly reasonable for certain
see that what man has mastered, what he is able to master, is, up to
not every power is still available there. Some things which were once
realms will be enabled to accomplish an acoustic building. Those who
our age is not yet so advanced as to be able to control outwardly
able to control the living as well. Unanimity — objective unanimity
that this control over living [nature] was at one time available,
available to the gods who created the Cosmos and descended [to earth]
that time, through innumerable channels, the hearts of men have
were propagated through innumerable channels, and constituted the
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture I: Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?
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A third person who sees this feeling of fear in us is able to
is able to say something about a thing of the outside world
know that a table exists, just the table in itself that has the
is there already before and is capable to wake up the

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find an unforgettable scene in the newer spiritual history
of your spirit long-since, although from considerable distance,
where he becomes able to experience it. Schopenhauer also finds
however, to be able to look up at Goethe in the same way. Thus,
a force that is able to harmonise the contrasts, the struggle
immediate present as He positions Himself at the table. One
but for all times, that it has an everlasting, imperishable
narrow side was the dining table of the prior, at both sides
were the tables of the monks, all were a step raised from the
ground. If one turned round, one saw the fourth table painted
on the wall above the not too high doors. At the table, Christ
significant sight must have been at mealtime when the tables of
their tables. That is why the wisdom of the painter had to take
the available tables of the monks as a model. The tablecloth
When the snake comes to the cave and is able to illuminate the
spirit-endowed and is able to unite with the beautiful lily.
with this unchangeable unity in its transformations.”
pleasure already from the usual desire what is reasonable. Then
the senses, so that they prove themselves in the reasonable
too rich and too immense to be able to grasp them in physical
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we ourselves are able of development as human beings that we
are able to work on ourselves that we can develop those
we ask ourselves, what they are able to recognise and know of
human development, and that the human being is able to increase
his fairy tale shows us this in the most remarkable sense.
Someone who is able to think farther says to himself, we see
from that how impracticable the demand is that only the power
are able to do.
that. Who has experienced the reasons for it in himself is able
human being who is able of development and does not strive for
human being has not separated them, he is also not able to work
that the images and feelings do not control him and he is able
perishable.” The human being must become free and master
whole group is able to proceed to the temple.
able to make exact differentiations, to connect this or that
which is never able to grasp one single literary thought or
emotional content which is able, however, to grasp that very
well which is there as history of literature, which is able to
what extent also something valuable is in the
something valuable: in the snake, the gold of the
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IV: Bible and Wisdom I
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one would still find something immeasurable in the Bible
someone who is still able to take the happiness, the certainty
noticeable. Starting from this one notes, going on, that
ancient, venerable document is there, one would like to say,
believes, however, to be able to prove that it is due not to
consciousness that is able to behold into the spiritual
industrious research one cannot find anything comparable. If we
hardly able to conceive anything reading the Bible. One has to
days nor for anything else. Which use are we able to make of
worldview. We are not able to deny all that.
he was able to say. If we understand Aristotle correctly, if we
enough said that the human being is able to develop the forces
is able to behold into in the spiritual world. Hence, it is not
the ice is solid, and somebody who is not able to see the
the spiritual researcher is able to show.
may it hope it ever so much, will never be able to pursue the
able to say to himself — if he finds his own imaginations
becomes explicable that those who used the names
is able to approach the Bible without spiritual research, that
one is able to approach it with external documents has
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Testament. In addition, here we are able again to point to the
longer able to inform about the events in the beginning of our
history, but is able to immerse with his thinking and feeling,
pupil of spiritual science and enables him to behold into the
world and is able to behold into the spiritual undergrounds of
Nobody can understand the word who is not able to go into the
mind, when he was not yet able to count in the today's sense,
personalities which were regarded as suitable to apply the
“I-am.” If they applied this method, they were able
words become readable first if we fathom the sense of these
can make the three understandable at the same time. That is why
understood as a usual historical event, but is only explicable
emphasise that this new spiritual science is able to form the
only the simple mind is able to grasp the Bible. This wisdom

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are able to form an opinion about what he said when he came
one himself believes as the only reasonable and to deny
something reasonable and something absurd can be found. Then,
every day if these are also less palpable things and one would
without being able or wanting to understand it. One applies it
that the external science is no longer able to investigate
that really appears in his body and enables him to another
When I spoke once in a little circle how one is able to do it
people an uncomfortable matter — and that he thereby
became able to make gold, while he transformed a certain amount
today. Many human beings do not search the explicable but the
inexplicable. They are happy if they can find anything that
remains inexplicable to them. Tell to anybody that here or
to the inexplicable. They do not want to penetrate what
which is available to him in his reason and logical thinking,
bring this wisdom are honourable, but we want to check this
that it is verifiable, then what? This wisdom was not checked
that one has found as reasonable must originate from somewhere.
Such a check would have been reasonable. However, this is the
search the inexplicable instead of the explicable and were
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this is able to admit the materialistic sentence in certain
concrete questions only if it itself is able to illuminate the
details, and it is able to do so concerning the issues of
advantages of the vegetable foodstuffs. If the human being gets
his protein from vegetable foodstuffs, he has to work harder,
vegetable foodstuffs would be preferred. We can see in the
take on the darkest colouring. Just thereby is he able to
details it would be still even more provable, but through two
prepared, he is able to develop particular forces of his
science also shows us how he is able to become free from the
Is not anybody able to make the usual chemical observations if

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that makes the human being able to cope with life, with
suitable to make the human being receptive just to those
in his reasonable or unreasonable life, stress again that in
remarkable.
strength by unreasonable life-style.
many a respect those things are admirable which have been
had an uncontrollable aversion of meat. He could not bear meat,
in the most remarkable sense if he is relieved of that part of
needs of his organism. This is more uncomfortable than to get
the basic idea of such a thing, we can hope to be able to
spiritual enable the human beings to feel healthy hunger. Even
soul to look for what is suitable to him and to abhor what is
not suitable to him. Thoughts that are likenesses of the
form of illness finds its recovery if one has found suitable

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and should play a suitable role in the society.
perishable one at moments of reflection. However, we also see
rather stiffly. If he did this, he would be able to fly, he
incapable to give life a goal. I see life decreasing, I see it
forms ever so long rows, nothing valuable results. — At
death, who is generally able to speak about the meaning of
valuable persons. He gets to know Schopenhauer (Arthur Sch.,
life to an Eastern fable, which he tells possibly in such a
valuable if it only is able to reflect that in which one looks
impeded him everywhere in certain way. He was able to pray
able to go further when they prayed: we confess ourselves to
made no sense to him. It is generally typical that he was able
they are not able to know all addresses of the companies by
an action, even if it succeeds, not as favourable. However,
available. He can win a lot if he pursues these matters.
suitable way in the enterprise of the first sleeping car
takes Christ in such a way as it is not suitable at all to our
The king was not able in that old time to satisfy his needs in
around me, and I am able to describe them. — People
This way of thinking is so monumental that it is more valuable
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judgement are able to understand what the spiritual researcher
within.” What does that mean? That one is only able to
and forgets what is outdoors, even if it is palpable.
things can tell us much more than we are able to say about the
develop the qualities, the talents that enable us to become
not able to say to ourselves, the failures in our activities
not able to intervene creatively. If anyone develops a level
actively and not in the abstract, it makes pliable and
matter is that one is able to penetrate into the very own
If you are able to sit or to lie quietly and to think nothing
examples have shown that one is able to point to real remedies
itself noticeable all around us. In addition, someone who wants
fields. In addition, the usual science would be able to attain
lack it. They are not able to lead back something to a simple,
comprising thought. Spiritual science gives us this: it enables
survey because he is able to think from great viewpoints into
suitable, and we can put it before our eyes:

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researcher would hardly be able to state anything that the
that the clock has originated by itself. Who is able to do
something, can develop only what he is able to do. Someone who
only, which is able later to solve the world riddles. Who does
however, says to himself, you are able to keep on working where
certain ways from him if he is not able to set his hand aglow,
really seizes the human being and makes him suitable or
unsuitable for life, practical or impractical. Let us take a
The human being, who is not able to let harmonising experiences
such a way — that a considerable part of claustrophobia
the visible. Even certain reasonable doctors already realise
want to look at the reverse now. There are reasonable doctors
unsuitable in certain respects. These doctors know that joy and
infinitely recovering for the soul if it is able to draw the
things. It is not so comfortable to approach them. Spiritual
uncomfortable, but it is infinitely healthy. The innermost
Spiritual science makes the brain a flexible, pliable tool, so
higher members. One should be able to project oneself
sort of gymnastics is imaginable that works so harmoniously on

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there the big question emerges: how is that able, which comes
person, is recognizable quite externally as such. His growth
person, the sanguine person has movable, expressive, changing
educate himself it is favourable to pay attention to his
without being able to control himself. This is the little
right person, or if we are able to associate the right person
able to do the matter, otherwise, he has lost immediately. If
in this field. However, it is capable of many things
very little capable directly, can work only indirectly. The
we fulfil ourselves with life wisdom, we become able to solve
immediate understanding. However, we are only able to do this

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIII: The Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Exoteric
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which are desirable in life.
There he could hope to be able to feel more if he examined the
world. However, Mephistopheles is not able to enter it, and he
Goethe was able now to shape what his real inner lifework

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he has put in something that enabled him not to refer to old
passage of the sounding sun, someone who is able to pursue the
clairvoyant experiences if he has brought the suitable
world, is able to enter this world. Mephistopheles not; he is
capable only of what the world of reason can accomplish. He
it, Faust is able to conjure up Paris and Helen before the
really scoops from spiritual science, one is able to interpret
is an astral formation, which is not able to stand still which
the physical world. If one were able to pursue all that, any
physical world. It is shown to him how he is able to attach the
Accede to this commendable request
spiritual worlds. Thus, Faust is able to experience the harmony
makes him able to be accepted completely by the spiritual
by his experience of the spiritual world. He has become able to
They are even valuable to someone who already has feeling and
making themselves noticeable in whose actions the human beings
noticeable in his soul. What could he have from this raised
them, Want, Debt and Distress are not able to harm him. Now
remarkable battle. If one wanted to analyse this battle in
believe to be able to exhaust the whole deepness of
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Nietzsche's etheric body was very movable from the start. Such
easily movable mental force and imagination, the ability to
information was gathered. This answered: Nietzsche is able to
palpable. He lives, so to speak, separated like by a wall from
rejuvenate in this work, he is able to do all that also
Nietzsche was not able to look into these mysteries, but he had
Socrates put up the sentence that virtue is teachable. He
human life only from that which is palpable. Now I feel all
we look behind the sensuous, palpable. He could only
could have brought him what he strove for without being able to
material, the palpable and could not find it because they
become able to recognise illness, age, evil as tests, as a

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way from his head is able to assert such a thing. In reality,
epoch of physical development of humanity. Osiris was not able

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVII: Old European Clairvoyance
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movable.
within the sea. He is able to see what is in the sea. He sees
have provided to him. However, the human being is now able to
subconsciousness. He is able to resort to it in such a way that
overcome it, while he is able to strain his intelligence, so
being faces what he is inside, in the Sphinx, and who was able
the self-consciousness. Whereas he was once not able to look

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able to start the “way to the mothers.” The
a higher body, and thereby they enable a higher spiritual being
shows the human sensuousness that is incapable to behold into
physical, this ego became understandable to the human being by
able to give no answers are to be found but only questions, it
and more able to think in such a way that the thoughts are not
within the holy triad. However, someone who is not able and
unbearable! In truth, this element is nourished from the

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as little in the fields of the spirit as one was able to do so
this is a viewpoint which is rather comfortable, but is
faculties are not able to penetrate into it. Others are more
fact that we are able to turn our attention to the things of
means, however, that you are able to cause artificially what
usual life. However, this objection is as valuable as for
reasonable. Since one can oppose or stand up for it even if the
it is evident that it is more comfortable to leave the spirit
soul what leads to the spirit. It is more comfortable, however,
realise what spiritual science says. One lives more comfortable
comfortable to understand the world and to live in it without

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explicable. Now I would not like to define what I communicate
of the soul forces is able to work in the human organisation;
that the most valuable that the human being can obtain for the
would never be able to stand firmly in the world. The whole
impulse to immerse oneself in the forever imperishable in that
has already done it: valuable is
that it leaves the reliable ground of science, or whether one
is scientifically reliable in these fields. One has to develop

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human being is able to come in a certain connection with the
the human soul is able to transform itself and outgrow the
becomes able to experience independently from the
spiritual researcher is able to transport itself. Indeed, a
far as he is able of it. With it, I have characterised the
between idea and perception, if the whole tableau of the
unacceptable in our present cultural life, the assumption
conceivable that the human being refrains of the outer
subjective world. It would be conceivable, but this still lies

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which research does in the most remarkable sense in the modern
acquires in life internally as valuable what revives there in
himself: what is the most valuable?
— the most valuable is
death. For the most valuable would be lost without doubt for
enable us to investigate the problem of death.
spoken of the fact that the human being is able to develop his
into that what enables the soul to penetrate into the regions
perceive something very strange after a suitable preparation.
body-free experience, you realise that you are not able to take
the most valuable about which you can even say to yourself, in
about what I have indicated just now. Then you are able more
experienced to be unable to find an expression in thought of
in an impenetrable eggshell, as if you are hindered from
there already during life, and which enables our usual
read because he has written it so excellently. He who is able
He considers it as valuable that a mystery remains a mystery,
mysteries of existence of their admirable character, but so
“unfathomable.” One could ask him, would you want

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able to penetrate into the area of human knowledge where this
research on the fact that single persons are able by means of
this idea less valuable because it is the oldest, because it
which his soul looks that it is comparable with the sight of my
without body, you would not be able to do this in the life
able by the mentioned exercises to lift his spiritual-mental
call forth sleep as compensation, the memory tableau of the
a tableau, this life appears and something gradually emerges
comes out of the tableau of the past-life in such a way that
breathe: if they come into breathable air. You can also realise
always able to survey after death which forces we have to
would not be able to progress in our considerations if I had
human being is not able to carry the picture of a single lion
however, that inner spiritual-mental activity which enables us
but only the single mountain. However, what enables us to
enables us to live with a human soul like with our own soul, to
valuable for the complete human life concerning the

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the human being is capable to position himself in the world in
offends against His infinite goodness; or He was not able to
spiritual-mental, then, however, he is able to look into the
being could live only in the spiritual world, he would be able
valuable preparation. Therefore, we have to be strong in the
The most valuable is contained at this
can make him bad; otherwise he would never be able to enter the
who refrains from the spiritual world is able to find the
if he is not able to recognise to what extent this evil must be
forces that are given to him in a world that is not suitable
place which they enable to carry out what they have to carry

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so far to get to the undeniable fact of any ethical obligation
able —
do, he would never be able to declare his being as concluded
worldview is unable to state the place of origin of morality.
Water extinguishes fire, it is not ignitable; hydrogen, a gas,
is ignitable and can be liquefied. Just as little you can
the table is outside of me. These exercises last shorter or
the human being is able to tense all his soul forces and then
the soul forces that enables him to lift out the
as you are able to penetrate into it.
Are we able to point to a source of the moral life if we can
intention which hatred dictates. There the very remarkable fact
allowed to be likeable to yourself because of your loving
the impulses come by which we do the likeable and learn to
effect on the capability of love, by which we may be likeable
are no longer able to orientate yourself in the spiritual
unconscionable spiritual researchers absolutely. They feel the
One of these highest degrees enabled the
world? It has no independent, inherent reasonable existence; it
presents itself as a world tableau; however, moral is that what
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world. Leibniz asks, how must the human soul be to be able to
it. He was able to do this only if he imagined it as a monad
nature in such a way that the human soul feels, I must be able
that the human soul conjures up from itself will be able to
questionable qualities.
human soul can get a practical but not deniable confidence that
the modern view of nature, how can we receive a reasonable
faith? He asserted a reasonable faith for the human being by
understandable. Since as he stood there with his soul, he had a
that they do no longer face. Voltaire was too great to be able
give an allegory credit for that it is able to sway the pope
an “unreadable” poem today because everything that
which he hates because he feels unable to portray the secret
and says: “for it seems to me so unbelievable that a
Voltaire with those to whom he is likeable as well as with

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death and rebirth, I say in such a way that I tell the suitable
must cause with those who believe to be able to stand only on
is as sustainable as the results of the mentioned scientific
very much how impossible the everyday mind-set is to be able to
brought back at the suitable moment. They break away from the
life tableau about which we say to ourselves, you have
independent existence. Indeed, this world is like a tableau of
long this tableau of memories lasts. Hence,
that person the tableau of memories goes away sooner than with
noticeable, knowingly experienceable to you, while you
becomes more and more visible and experienceable.
light has awoken; it enables me to experience certain other
cyclic self-experience, once in a lonesome, then in a sociable
produces a condition which is intolerable for the soul in the
long run. It is knowledge of a knowledge that is intolerable
with us as under suitable conditions the electric or magnetic
force that is able to conjure up an outside world before the
explicable to us considering the human life in the light of
again, which becomes explicable and to which I have now drawn
1786) based on him were not able to confirm the
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they are capable of and what they can show. Concerning this
spoke in a clear, understandable way where they expressed this
table. You face your destiny too, as far as it takes place in
being. Faust has to demand from Mephistopheles that he enables
able to face Helen as a human being, as she lived as a human
has to embody herself, and Faust must be able to face Helen as
people regarded this second part as a miserable product of the
physical laws says that one is not yet able to create a human
What you created, a respectable,
Estimable hints.
Felt much more comfortable in their
miserable.
put Homunculism into reality; nevertheless, they are not able
noticeable in a time that knows the attempts of Zionism.
that what he is able to do: he can travel around with his
High above in immeasurable
High above in immeasurable
Homunculism is able to argue against

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spiritual science hopes to be able to be a real new element of
What I have suggested in this respect already at the suitable
almost say, the modern soul is not able to bring itself to
However, this is uncomfortable for some people who often look
capable. Since also the usual medical art is able only to call
— unmanageable in
will be able to believe in the inner heart of spiritual
without inner cooperation. This is more comfortable than to
especially valuable who thinks that life consists of outer
able to build a college of spiritual science in Dornach near
science is able to deal with life directly. The fact that
newest fairy tale that was put to me on the table you can read
Basel seems to emerge as the most favourable city from this

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what in particular the so admirable natural sciences can
not suitable to answer the big questions of existence anyhow.
supersensible worlds, and that he is just unable maybe to
following unforgettable words: the view is admirable which
least as uncomfortable.
abstract and uncomfortable what is brought forward about the
as unenjoyable such ways are for practical persons standing in
who is able to admire what these thinkers have done knows how
world and strives for true self-knowledge who is able to turn
cognitive faculties are limited that he is unable to penetrate
worlds are recognisable in the same sense as the sensory world
philosophically what the human being is capable of with his
are suitable to reach the supersensible world.
get cognitive forces with which he is able to penetrate into

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However, another question arises there, is anybody able to
world. There we find two things: an element that enables us to
necessary that we look at the methods that enable the soul to
human being enables the soul to perceive that in the
at which life seems meaningful and reasonable.

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become rather talkative. This site is also suitable to grow
deeper soul forces and enabled Paracelsus to look within nature
carter. This was not acceptable; this violated the reputation
unable to escape her, and unable to penetrate deeper into her.
There it is remarkable at
was able to do this is past since Copernicus, Galilei, Giordano

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they were unable to look deeply into
pressed people works, the conditions are especially favourable
levels. If then a suitable level is reached, certain signs
an is still much less valuable, because the inner soul
By his influence, he was able to out-compete everything that
However, she was able to precipitate him into ruin. She incited
easier than the first teacher has. The force was available to
available to him. As the individualities if they have gone
matter, and worked on them in the way of parables and miracle
Bible. One told it in parables to those who could not understand
Elijah's spirit indeed, what no Bible reader will be able to

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admirable progress of natural sciences. One can understand that
as irrefutable truth had proved to be true if the scientific
such an admirable way by developmental history, by comparative
apes at the same time would be capable of surviving today that
yourself, otherwise, as a reasonable person if you can form
yourself as a reasonable person but as an idiot. You experience
you would not be able to inform of spiritual science. You can
consciousness and can conceptualise them. However, you are able

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assert this who are incapable because of their lacking
time, to be more and more incapable to grasp the daring thought
enabled to remain during a certain time in a state which was
death, but it was able to behold into the spiritual world for a
is able to admit the reality of such a spiritual event by all
mental picture that is able to make use of the results of the
through a development of his inner life first to be able to
able to understand the Christ event and does no longer take

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animal realm logic, inner reasonableness did not exist.
us aware of this reasonableness. We see that insects live under
reason that everywhere objective reasonableness and objective
reasonableness develops in the human being. Spiritual science
now points to the fact that our kind of reasonableness has
consciousness that sets itself only reasonable
times explorable in historical way as it were. We do no longer
reasonable, logical reflection of the world. Only our present
logical epoch were to be able to express what they investigated
to do this, because he would never have been able to attain the
— Hamerling and everybody who is able to assess the
of human history, did not enable the human being to be active
already penetrates him. The divine is still unpronounceable.
can be characterised only with an unpronounceable name.
their view of the unpronounceable name of Jahveh. Jahveh or
Jehovah is even a substitute with the unpronounceable name of
thing. While dreaming we can do the most unbelievable things,

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ancient culture of humanity, which was able to behold in the
that that which is delivered is grasped in logical, reasonable
da Vinci (1452–1519) who was able to grasp the immediate
necessary to be able to understand the outer reality also
Kepler, Galilei, also of Newton, to count as a reasonable
incapable, even if they were alive ever so much. As to the
shrunk to the miserable monad in the age of Copernicus. The
explicable if one accepts the principle of the repeated lives

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able to work on his thinking. The other prefers physical
more comfortable to dedicate yourself to one-sided directions
spiritual science is more difficult and more uncomfortable, but
other soul, then we would be unable to go from the one to the
a picture book with movable animals or human beings, or in
alive-movable that is not grasped intellectually but is
mostly to the instrument of the brain. Even if much favourable
The essentials for the body are versatility which enables the
unshaded place. Hence, one could say that a reasonable
self-education, we have to be able to live internally in such a
forget this silly stuff or something reasonable. — Thus, it
able to submit to his destiny in wise self-education. Those
activity properly. But we are able to do this only if we are
philosopher) is applicable to the destiny of the

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him, because he believed to be able to speak of the
science was able to construct a worldview strictly by real,
knowledgeable investigations only in the nineteenth century
have done research in another age, it would be also conceivable
Thus, the human being is able to recognise
forces to be able to meet them in a new incarnation
new spiritual element at a suitable time which is not in the
able to point to the many examples that that which was regarded
but it will be just more comfortable for a certain public to

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life is not valuable for the human being.
that the admirable natural sciences brought to light leads
then he is able to develop further that what lives, otherwise,
unprovable proposition, namely from the necessity of thinking.
not able to enter. One cannot decide what, actually,
human being if he wakes once under favourable conditions can
gain at especially favourable moments of life supports you to
intensely than natural sciences are able to do by that which
admirable, sometimes so chaotic before the soul. Someone who

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cognition if this cognition itself is able to rise from the
the knowing one is the same; so he was able to answer. If the
able to penetrate into the real spiritual world. The human
you have the necessary patience and perseverance, you are able
now. The concept of Inspiration is applicable to that inner
physical world by birth or conception. Now the soul is able to
he attracts the suitable conditions of the outside world to
spiritual science benevolently. One easily believes to be able

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spiritual science. Even if the suitable attempts deviate from
soul at any price, that it never is able to appear in the usual
able to feel in quite different directions as it is the case
lives that can be brought up by suitable methods, and that
Spiritual science stands on the viewpoint that by suitable
reality to the the word is contestable higher, spiritual
able to imagine that resting in time is possible. One can say,
this destiny now with the internally experienceable soul
to the post, an accident happens by which he becomes incapable
varied and variable, a whole still appears at the end that

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spiritual-scientific area, and it could be desirable to some
phenomena do not know what to make of the great admirable
applicable to the world. The just characterised
Thus, one can also find strictly provable right concepts in the
However, one has always to put the question: is one also able
can always say, it is admirable and great. Important works
narrow concepts that are not applicable to life. Theodor Ziehen
sitting at a table and drink well, it was a better time coffee
that which happens there is only applicable to the contact of
is often not yet approachable to the outer science. In the
admirable natural sciences of the present. The bodily
has found a considerable difference of the reaction or the

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suggests itself. If one were able to come to an understanding
the assumption of the ether, but are unable to fill this mental
the suitable soul riddle. Now you recognise the ether in its
desirable, but because we are prompted like machines. We are
be able to detect a defect in the thinking.
able now to interpret everything scientifically, and he points
able to do this, and refers to Goethe saying, one cannot
compared with such natural sciences that claim to be able to

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research and to be able to get a worldview which does not
nurtures certain mental pictures because they are able to
seems reasonable because we ourselves are the soul life that we
psychology if one were able to observe it, as he means, namely
natural sciences. If one were able to observe in such a way,
thoughts it is not so noticeable. One dabbles in such concepts
that are not suitable to intervene in reality, like these
then this may be acceptable; but if one works from an important
just seen nothing where no communications are available of the
a person reports who knows the scientific methods and is able
lacks the concepts which are saturated with reality to be able
things seriously? Because it is more comfortable than really
not applicable in the characterised way to the final state of
active penetrating into it. This is not so comfortable. This
concepts are also unable in the physical field to reach the
everything reasonable, with everything healthy if you do not

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psychology is almost unable to observe the soul phenomena. Let
make us incapable to observe own soul phenomena. Observation
inability. What would one gain then, actually, if we were able
then if he is reasonable: the brown mould that I have seen
Eduard von Hartmann regrets not being able to observe what
thoughts that are more or less probable but that are only
because they had an indescribable fear of the way which leads
being is able to advance to such a beholding consciousness.
be able to remember. He would be able to form mental pictures
we get to the real perception of a spiritual world, we are able
vacuum tubes where one believed to have the ether palpable.
in yourself with Imaginative knowledge, you are also able to
unconscious. About that, he puts up rather questionable
should not be discussed here believes without being able to
consciousness is able to originate from this usual
anybody says: the table does not have edges and a surface, but
edges and a surface are the table.
With it, the human being will also be again able to connect

Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture I: The Nature of Spiritual Science and Its Significance for the Present
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general demand: physical-scientific knowledge must be able to
seen them yourself, you would be able to do it if you went to
impartial truth, a healthy logic, a healthy reasonableness
reasonable!” Imagine which inner laughter such a sentence
“Everything real is reasonable!” One needs only to
cast a single glance at the world and sees how unreasonable
that it is certainly not reasonable.
spiritual life is disabled. There you see how a
attempted with all available means to show that the human
with the strict scientific results of science. We must be able
achievements, which are also valuable for the inner development

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this issue spiritual science or anthroposophy is not able to
human beings are able to speak of soul phenomena within
being can walk around in a room and he is nowhere able to look
At one single place where he is able to look in a mirror, he
example, it is conceivable that the human soul life continues,
Someone who is able to observe life really can feel very clear,
noticeable like an enclosed being in an uncertain fog which
works cooling now and again, or becomes noticeable with other
are able to say, the human being intercepts with falling asleep
However, one is also able to perceive the phenomena of the day
However, we would be able to convince ourselves quite easily
suitable forces are just worn out. We have to imagine if we
ears by which he is able to behold in the spiritual world that
if he is not able to do anything. Then he feels other than it
He feels that he was able to set something in motion, to make
and make it a more movable, more useful instrument. Therefore,
one can accomplish something that one was not able to do before
explicable at all. Hence, the author of that book feels just
no fable, but reality. Of course, he understood nothing of it
every reasonable human being. Since every reasonable human
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unforgettable things for me — what may appear as a trifle
just belongs to the most unforgettable things of my life. To a
unforgettable experiences of my life. It should concern of
for unfathomable periods, included the episode of the
scientifically must be verifiable any time and for any person
the worldviews put up today so easily: to be verifiable for
internally developable that something else is in him that he
that, but here in the soul is a developable being. This soul
world, the soul must become able — not for the physical
reality whether he is able to be certain here. Since for all
verifiable any time and for any human being, one thinks that
but then he becomes unaware of it and is not able to live
the human being is not able to inspire and to rouse what the
forces that make the soul able to live in itself consciously if
easily be able to say from a seemingly very serene point of
the human being is able to open himself to these symbols, he
level where the soul experiences become objectively verifiable
scientifically valid must be verifiable for everybody any time,
eight-year-old child? I doubt it. You will not even be able to
recognised is learnable and observable by everybody who
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VIII: Predisposition, Talent and Education of the Human Being
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plastically malleable matter when the human being is born and
his surroundings and works like an artist on the malleable mass
impressions than the human being is capable in the later life
brain, enters existence as something malleable, and is provided
best way. An education is uncomfortable which can generally put
the essentiality of the human being. It is more uncomfortable,
being becomes able in the first years to work on the variable,
modifiable, versatile of the spiritual-mental, so that a free
free, determinable way on the spiritual-mental organisation of
themselves noticeable.
father. The soul takes the suitable elements from the father,
he had a notion of it, however, was not able to point to the
Goethe could gain no favourable relationship to his father
comfortable — and more trivial, too. However, this is
the child. — This is uncomfortable, but it is right!
organisation, shows rigid qualities, which are unalterable.
They believe that it is a very creditable endeavour if they
be able to convince everybody. However, this is naive. Our
he will not be able to go into your thoughts. You must make him
able to survey a lot of his science that this one-sidedness is
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in ancient times the human soul was able to behold in a
not able to comprehend their particular, individual
such kept its temperament, its characteristic, was not able to
— Then it seems understandable that Pharaoh's daughter
development. He was able to do this because it was given to the
has, so to speak, no suitable organ to realise that those
the Egyptians. This fact becomes only explicable if we
which enables him to comprise the things with concepts that
knowledge by own efforts and are able to behold into the
and they were able less and less to familiarise themselves with
favourable hour. This fact is described and is shown: Moses
his people up to a certain point, however, being unable to lead
is only able to perceive the magniloquence of this world spirit
with mere tradition and intellectuality with the suitable
characteristic of the ancient Hebrew people understandable
are of incomparable meaning: “Curse God — and

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enabled us to investigate the material nature of the stars
effect enabled us to observe not only those movements which
to be able to think such a clear thought in the space, we
able to look into the smallest things of the human brain, in
then one would be able to recognise that a certain kind of
Briefly, one imagined to be able to reduce all phenomena of
astronomical knowledge is able to shine everywhere, why should
also be able to assume instead of this mystic gravitational
between the atoms and molecules? Why should one not be able to
everything was suitable — at first during the seventies
transformable. If one connected this thought with the laws of
believed to be able to figure everything out this way. So big
experience: I see red. He would not be able to figure this out,
but he would be able to find out only laws of movement and can
that happens in space. However, he would not be able to find
never be able to conclude them from the movements of the atoms.
conceivable connection exists between certain movements of
hand, with the original, not further definable, undeniable
speech of Du Bois-Reymond. Nevertheless, this is the valuable
are able to make evident so clearly, we find the possibility to
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imperishable what is fertile.
much reasonable to give a materialistic consequence to the new
highest questions of existence, a concession to be unable to
great teacher, the unforgettable naturalist Johannes
was able to observe that one dealt with a fine tissue of the
inexplicable how the complex human consciousness develops from
lame, which can be suitable, however, in spite of all that.
This comparison is suitable, although it may seem stupid. In
one considered the deeper riddles of humanity as unsolvable
(5) If we were able to investigate our brain, we would find
scientifically, if one is able to indicate any movement of the
Nevertheless, he must become a seer to be able to behold the
person cannot come into this field. We are only able to get
ape walked around. The best of these ancestors were able to
incapable of development on the concerning level. Beings
only up to the multiplication table and says, what I know, is

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moment is extremely favourable to search for the most effective
ensure the benefits of a true and durable peace and to set an
Suttner, who was able to portray the frightfulness of fight and
order to be able to comment this spiritual-scientifically, we
possible that one is not yet able to make use of the nicest
able to eavesdrop on the human cultural development and
the most unbelievable point of view, Prince Kropotkin (Pyotr
who loves a dog or a monkey believes to be able to write a
lives. Thus, the single human being is able to fight against
human soul is only able to get a self-consciousness going
attained the peaceableness, as it is to be found in the animal

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I am only able to show some outlines. Within the
because his eye is unable to see. One just needs senses to be
able to perceive this external bodily existence.
also able to improve himself further? May it become discernible
make himself able to experience other things except the
that the mental eye is unlocked by a suitable training, so that
itself to the imperishable, it becomes everlasting and
imperishable and absorbs what is immortal. Hence, the master
the external physical forces. The human being is able to wake
which you yourselves emit. Thus, the human being is able to
of his thought, but the thought itself, when he is able to open
is imperishable, remains as the everlasting in the soul. Thus,
the spirit of our environment if we were not able to know
the human being that he is able to live beyond the present.
a tableau before yourselves, with the consciousness that that
essence of the human being that is imperishable and
transient food; however, the spirit is imperishable because it
becomes more and more everlasting and imperishable. With it, we
the imperishable. In selfishness, the human love is grasped in
the sensation. In the spiritual, he starts being able to

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worldview seems to be more suitable than any other is. For this
reasonable.
sensuous observation in this question, were only able to bring
types. They are able to lead us back to the imperfect levels of
able to develop so far to read in this akasha matter can read
multiplication table; indeed, he did not know this. His memory
Atlantean was able to quite different sense to work on the
willpower. Without sensuous mediation, the Atlantean was able
unlike those of the modern civilised human being. This enabled
like with magic, briefly, what the Lemurian was able to do
spiritual researcher is not able to do this. He supposes that
much softer, more pliable, and flexible, and complied with the
being would never have been able to develop to the stage on
able to develop suitably. However, what maintains the former
matter becomes much more understandable, if we look into it
of Christianity. The southern peoples are not able to
were able to look back, you would see that during the Lemurian
is not yet able to move the limbs. The ancestors of the
becomes transparent, and becomes explicable. We approach the

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able not only to read this truth but also to ascertain it. He
knowing people who are able to ascertain the facts in the
be of little use if anybody were not able to assume that
are imperishable. The human being bears an imperishable core in
human being bears an imperishable core that we find in
this imperishable core to other worlds, and carries that which
slumbering in the human being and are thereby able to
investigate the supersensible, the imperishable. The usual
everlasting and imperishable qualities of the things. This is
are able to ascertain the supersensible facts independently
differently to become understandable in this or that form to
who it was, and it said, I am not that who I am if I am able to
necessary stage on which we stand today. As true and inevitable
the word that there are human beings who are able to look
deeper into nature and the being of the world, who are able to
In these many lives, he obtained everything that enabled him to
with it the theosophists say nothing more unbelievable, than if

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all beings, which populate the world today, have been able to
that the incapable perishes, however, that one must care for
animal species capable of development are not those which
regarded it as something particularly honourable to bury a
prices by supply and demand. At that time, one was able to
is inevitable and important to any prosperous progress:
make ourselves able to help our fellow men, we are only able to
and capable human being who is more capable to serve others
whether we are generally able to become strong without
allowed to believe that the one or the other is able to carry
best of all within this circle who is able not to spare his own
is much more strengthened if one is able to listen, as long as
similar as someone who gives him a kick. If one is able to
meaningless. But if you are once able to see that the thought

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as something completely unacceptable.
— and there are some — the human being is able to
astray, and otherwise, perhaps, you are not able to distinguish
once that you would have heard of an adorable person in your
If you look to such an adorable personality this way, you have
able to hold down everything that approaches him. Not only that
imperishable on all his ways through life. One can demand this
interested in its principles. He must be able to disassemble it
this ability of listening to anybody, because it enables us to
freedom which enables him to look for the centre of his being
arbitrarily, but must be suitable to the continuing development
enough in this way. This is the case, as soon as we are able to
conscious. If we are able to pour something of it in our
is able to perceive the spiritual world. This is the same
only makes the life in our area explicable and clear. As well
in himself and believes to be able to reach anything by mere
from the beings, which are already able to what he has to
that to himself, perhaps, not everybody is able to do this,
maybe only a few are able. However, this should not discourage

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able to evoke a clear, somewhat more in-depth idea in their
festivals as symbols of the infinite and imperishable in the
Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her — unable to
come out of her, and unable to go deeper into her. Uninvited
principles are unalterable...
moment of human development, when the immortal imperishable
become able to take up the imperishable soul in itself. Indeed,
work, the place of residence of that which is now undetachable
imperishable soul at this time. At that time contrary to the
second only, and imagine the unbelievable, indescribable mess,
spring, imagine how little you are able to think that the
able to put the future of the human race and the whole
birthday celebration was completely variable. Only in the
understandable this festival again. We want to announce not a
other hand, he lets the everlasting and imperishable, the

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for sense or coherence, believe to be unable to understand all
Great, astute spirits never doubted that the human mind is able
questionable to many people, so that few of those who count
there for those springs which are able to flow in the future
which are able to wake cultural hopes for the future.
another developed in a cold, inhospitable area where it had to
beings, who developed the stages of existence faster to be able
comes from the fact that the guardians of humanity are able to
which slumber in the human breast, which enable us not only to
science would not be able to achieve this, as overwhelming the
something higher speaking. We are able to become citizens of a
wanted to explain what he had said to the crowd in parables, he

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efforts of life at that which we want to call the imperishable
is condemned to a wretched, miserable existence that he has to
spiritual-scientific worldview is understandable for every
naive mind which is only able to follow the questions and
someone who is not able to observe the fine, intimate
physiognomy are indeed explicable by bodily inheritance,
to the ancestors, we must be able to lead it back to something
the disagreeable to the palate and the like. It developed
that stage is attained on which we are able to ascend to a
and explicable with the help of the big principle of karma, and
burning privation. This is the state after death. The suitable
karma and to transform his life account to a favourable one.
to an irrevocable principle. Nothing is to be argued against
also these great spirits were only able to announce them
Where life could become explicable to them in its deepest

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is enabled to take charge of that which lives unconsciously as
are able to take possession of truth really. Who has never
who can also prevail in the human being and enables him to
reasonable perfection if he were only consciousness.

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able to inspire art in the most eminent sense and give it
has arisen, we are able to look deeper at the theosophical life
as a concept of the divine life, and you are able to grasp the
enabled to associate with the gods, with the spirits, as well
well as in the Dionysus drama the Greek artist was able to do
else, he was capable to illumine what took place within the
d'Orient (1898), he was able to rebuild the so-called Greek
Thereby the human being became capable of self-consciousness
that lived in a vague consciousness, when he was not able to
thoughts, which the human being once is able to think as the
the historical tableau of humanity from Rama (seventh
initiates up to Christ Jesus. He has shown this human tableau,

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nature, and an imperishable everlasting essence. The external
member to live within this world that enables him to say to
and miserable because he himself has prepared this. What we
that they are able to rush ahead of their fellow men, so to
the human being is capable to behold into the worlds, which are
must be able to pray the Lord's Prayer inversely. If he is able
faces him like something else, as well as the table stands
attained the initiation that enabled him to be the teacher of
certain that it is so to someone who is able to go back in such

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may be deplorable, but understandable in any case, if one hears
those who should turn to theosophy that they are not able to do
is true, as deplorable as it may appear, the German spiritual
able to come to real self-knowledge, they would find the most
self-development. The human being is not able to look simply
only the imperishable everlasting essence of the human being,
of the human being is able to work on his appearance, the
imperishable in the personality. Fichte accomplished that.
their big virtues, and because Fichte was able to measure out
strange human beings are able to feel something sacred and
able to recognise the person. At first, you have to become
sense. Therefore, Schelling would be able to become a
was in such a way, she was able to behold the still existing

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the 18th centuries, and spirits, who were able to recognise the
able to make himself invisible. He was in the possession of the
of the dragon's blood, which he brings on his lips, he is able
to understand the language of the birds; he is able to do a
By this perfection, he is able to approach the Valkyrie
illuminate the night that causes that one is able to behold
source of life at this time when one was still able to behold
able to direct all his thoughts and energy only to the
imperishable. The Greeks called the soul a bee that flies,
the human being is able to behold in the higher world, the
The lower nature is not able to mislead him, because he has
becomes the perishable power if she appears for herself. Thus,
a perishable effect. With it, we have also explained what
soul of any initiate is invulnerable by the earthly sensuous,
one thing. Siegfried has remained vulnerable where the moral
invulnerable where Siegfried was still vulnerable. The great
able to grasp it. A shadowy reflection of it has remained in

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first place to which the Parzival comes is the Round Table of
What are these? In the Middle Ages one imagined the Round Table
Table to Wales and lived there was nothing else than the learnt
understands such a thing as the Round Table of King Arthur, the
being should really be able to attain that which Angelus
Grail Table. He is the son of Parzival. Whereas the passageway

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is able to direct its look at the environment. The mental human
point of view, his body is the most reasonable which anybody is
able to invent; there the divine reason has flowed together in
leaders of humanity are those spirits who were able — due

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see the one who is very little able to use the organs of his
any reasonable performance, must have come about by a
reasonable work of thought at first. Everybody believes that
reasonable thinker can suppose that a thinking being was not
performances with the hammer; however, nobody is able to do the
being is not understandable without assuming that he exceeds
spiritual and mental eye is opened. The methods are available
no sun is there, which does not make the table discernible,
and then he is able to proportion his own organism. Walking
able to master his attention in such a way, he must be able to
the object, again excluding all others. Thus, he must be able
I am able to feel how the stone left its desire, how it has
instructions, tasks suitable for him. Any human being has his

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suitable to unearth the treasure, the spirit of knowledge, the
delivers the basic tableau, so to speak, from which this
time. Such a great insight, as he had it, his reasonable nature
soul forces and is able to choose what is good and what is not
get a synopsis of the things in nature. This has always enabled
animal-bodily. He calls everything Mercurial, changeable that
stars to help, to cure the sick person. He is able to lead back
his whole life this way. One can state the parable of Christ

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being is able to rise above space and time. Thus, the unity was
evolution. As extensive, splendid, and applicable to everything
at all minerals, plants, and animals. He is able to behold the
but that you are able to dissolve the concept immediately
again. If you have a concept, you must be able to transform it
who is able to understand his concepts pictorially and to
That viewable concept is impregnated as it were with real life
from within. Someone who is able to do this has imagination. It
Here begins for Jacob Boehme that alchemy which is able to
sensuous things. Thus, the imaginative human being is able to
the world, the limbs must be able to turn against each other.

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opposition is justified to a considerable degree. Since, as
is that the human being is able to grasp and behold this
see it by the senses, is explicable of its own terms. If we can
arbitrary faith whether there are senses to be able to perceive
fateful one: we are only able to know this and that. One cannot
Is he able to decide where the limits of the
comparison completely suitable. The mathematical truth is
One says, how is one able to count with something that lives
180 degrees must believe it. Who is not able to prove the life
today who are able to behold in the spiritual world this
in the secret schools. One was able as an initiate to ascend to
I ask you, are you able to construct a railway after you have
only what eyes see and hands seize and to be able to take truth
that someone is unable to work who is perpetually tormented by
incapable to keep the body healthy. Occult science transforms
despicable that if it tells great things about God it robs His

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become able to intervene in this spiritual world recognising
today's intermezzo may probably be bearable, in particular with
persons have believed to be able to form a kind of creed, a
exerts an ineffable magic power on our
world with all imaginable instruments and skilfully developed
appeared that this kind of research not only is able to see
He who is able to pursue
has to work for the human being usefully and in suitable way.
available as the whirling atoms, and what one meant with the
suitable movement and position of the atoms for every
movements only. Natural sciences will never be able to explain
scent. Here is an uncrossable limit of knowledge. One cannot
says, one is never able to cross these limits; the human being
when one will not be able to understand that one could ever
separate if they are something invariable. However, there we
Reasonable hope exists that that applies to all atoms. What is
can never adopt a fictional and dreamt up world of invariable

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answer a soul manifestation is the most unbelievable
distinguish these matters strictly is incapable to rise to the
can call any other object with its name, the clock, the table,
it the ineffable name of God. What the Hebrew religious
to which the mind is able to say “yes.” In which
itself is thereby able to let the spirit flow into the matter.
savage, the soul is only able to take up a droplet of the

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clairvoyant who is able to behold into the extrasensory worlds
admitted to initiation. There were such persons who were able
enabled them to distinguish appearance and truth, vision and
eyes and ears to be able to behold into this spiritual world as
Such a thing does exist. This secret would be pronounceable
pronounceable if one is allowed to pronounce it. The initiate
three abilities are developable. At first the thinking: it
he had a suitable sense for it. If we reproduced the external
circle in concepts only, we would never be able to form a true
able to put up a building of ideas that harmonises with the
are not able to understand how a spiritually constructed circle
are able to find the concept of the archetypical plant out of
able to conjure up all possibilities out of it. His
created a spiritual biology there. It enables us to create in
the human being must have it, before he is able to behold into
viewpoint of science is the most intolerable one. He regards
healthy thinking who is a reasonable person firmly standing on
able to ascend to the higher worlds? — Then I can only answer:
we are generally able not only to think the spirit but also to
this in such a way, it seems almost unbelievable. If the pupil
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interested. — Some circles regard it as tremendously deplorable
remarkable how many ditched souls approach it. Someone who is
some matters, so that we are able to look deeper and deeper
rather modern cultural feelings, and materialism is suitable
able to overcome the fear of death and to face death
important and valuable as he can only do it.
fact that one sacrifices, but what one sacrifices. To be able
also as phrases because many people are unable to realise the
because our time is so little able to think properly about
pupil. What should come out in some days becomes noticeable.
protested against it with the words, which just are suitable to

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What spiritual science offers shall enable us to act and manage
sexual maturity as something imperishable. In reality, there
enables us to find adequate solutions also for the present. Our
present, the past becomes explicable to us, and we can learn
from it what helps and is advisable for the future

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reasonable soul. He regards the animal as a kind of an
the superficial look those expressions that we call reasonable,
a certain way, whereas the human soul is changeable insofar as
are confronted with all things that may be undeniable, which
able to communicate to each other. Now the smaller one was even
and now they were no longer able to meet each other. We see the
geometry is even today not so far to be able to copy these
reasonable process. — However, the matter can also go on in the
performed an action that was suitable for its life. Because the
animal performed this suitable action, it could get living
conditions, which were favourable to him. The others that
which performed favourable actions, such impulses of action
animals appropriated suitable instincts, to the animal realm
descendants. Those, which did something suitable, survived the
remained which were equipped with suitable
into it and perish. On the other hand, which favourable
workers. They all have certain qualities that enable them to
is the big question — inevitable to come to the materialistic
question and is able to solve it.
operated is able to see, so that light, colour and shine appear
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suitable to intervene deeply in our entire cultural movement
considerable just about that which must stir our time
considerable about this question. This class has come into
was the human thinking, the human interest also capable to
have happened if the human beings had been able to use their
who are placed in this development also into a suitable social
able to do something here not with a few abstract dogmas, with
uncomfortable. Indeed, it is uncomfortable not for those who
already from the start. The world is simple, is comfortable! —
are not suitable to penetrate in the real life. Many people
them in admirable way for centuries up to our time concerning
tables” of socialism. What is announced there is as
haughty as what is spread by the other green tables. Everywhere
and viable thinking in this field? A precise and viable
practical handling, that what enables us to intervene in the
was able to do this. He knew the work from its beginning to the
what the human being is able to do if he does anything because
spiritual world movement can give, not before he is able to do

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as also their confirmations are found. One will still be able
that in the 19th century the admirable advances of the natural
uncomfortable experimentalist. He is the spirit who stands
forces and thereby its own animal realm, as far as it is able
ourselves, we are able to see a drop of the spiritual life in

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if he is able to look not only at the present, but to determine
being attains that only if he is able to survey life in its
applicable in the real life. However, if they want to state
capable of an infinite perfection, an infinitely subtle
able to work on his astral body — working here in the awake
such a way that it is able to react on us. Thereby one shows
human vocal organ. What is it capable of today? If I speak to

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are condemned who did not die an honourable death in the
honourable death. It is strange that the realm and the forces
believe today to be able to build up a whole worldview from
arises from any reasonable consideration.
itself is inheritable? If it stood at the beginning and not at
completely with the sensuous world because he is able to avoid

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the concept due to an absolutely right and suitable spiritual
that are next to us in space. The natural sciences are able to
unbelievable things like wireless telegraphy and telephony over
admirable.
spite of their admirable results, nowhere discovered anything
discovered nothing of them, in spite of their admirable
exists as our organs are able to perceive these surroundings.
human being of the prehistoric time was able. In all details
and willing, are capable of a higher development. If we briefly
must make himself able for the feelings that are not stimulated
within the sensuous world by any outer sensation. Who is able
sun to us, which enables our eye to see the objects in their
the gate of death a memory tableau of the entire last life
appears before him. We saw that this tableau is taken up like
change into each other. Hit with the hand on the table and
measure the effect on the table with a sensitive thermometer.
spiritual field will find also capable successors like Thomson,

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etheric hand is then unable to work; the astral body feels this tremendous
body and is able to say to himself: I dispose of surplus forces; formerly,
he was able to hold those powerful speeches by which he enthralled
his audiences. His visions also enabled hem to set before his hearers,
We are thus able to understand
To-day we are thus able
able to understand why that which was to lead man up into the higher
of path of knowledge. For everything is a parable, and by explaining
what was explained yesterday, we shall be able to grasp that the bearing
the etheric body is unable to work in it, we experience pain. But when

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particularly the loftiest thoughts of which I am capable, then I feel
is to be found today in Eastern Europe, but is as yet not able to come
African Spir was unable
facts is comparable to undertaking a study of “Faust” by
One comes to realize what a “fable convenue” the official
and passes into the spiritual world. In such cases something very remarkable
incapable of understanding the realities of life. Yet the truth is that
would make upon them there are few people today who are able to accept
these facts. When one speaks about the spirit it is noticeable that
experience only subconsciously. Because they are unable to admit to
One impulse is noticeable
develops between his soul and the environment. When one is able to observe
Lucifer and Ahriman exist, is not enough. One should be able to apply

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to be influenced by his way of thinking. This is understandable, indeed
in the animal kingdom. He considers himself to have made a remarkable
the start for otherwise it would not be capable of life and would be
of great and reliable science. When such ideas are applied in physiology
to momentary needs, from a center which is able to assess the need on
enables him to be fully conscious of his environment and adapt to whatever
most elementary aspects of spiritual science. While that is unthinkable
it is commendable of Virchow to admit knowing nothing of chemistry.
so admirable in regard to external issues must be extended to the inner
a view that has been given classical expression in innumerable works.
is a considerable metamorphosis of the ideas entertained by those who
comes about in a remarkable way. You may remember my speaking about
through breathing exercises which are not suitable for Western man.
normal external life, we are not able to enter, by means of thinking,
As for the will, because it swings out too far the amount we are able
will enable him to recognize where he belongs, now and in the future,
death and a new birth. They enable us to perceive the reality around

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by natural science. For although the difference is considerable it can
The remarkable fact is that
through the development of a higher consciousness. If we were able to
exceptional individuals have been able — through spiritual knowledge
eyes to be able to see they must be unable to see themselves. They see
be able to see it rightly; if we saw it historically it would be like
enables man to perceive spiritually. This is a secret connected with
the Mystery of Golgotha. The remarkable thing is that this strange situation
that He would come. Hence there is remarkable prophetic evidence which
Thus it was inevitable that
what we call the impulse of Christ. It will enable him to find within
of Christ is inspired by Ahriman. Those who are able to review modern
Thus Harnack's Christ has no other attributes than those applicable
today. This consequence is as inevitable as the expulsion from Paradise
writings you will now be able to view these with deeper insight and

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who has gone into the spiritual world with all his incomparable and
their endeavours, would have counted him among the most valuable personalities
the cosmos. — Perhaps I can put it in these words: I was able
he revealed himself as a man who was able to follow with far-reaching
His high position within Freemasonry enabled him to make his own, to
aim was to enable it to enter rightly into the stream of human culture.
No man is irreplaceable; if one goes, another steps forward to take
karma, the comprehension of the great karmic questions of destiny, enables
soul is able to work more actively and with stronger forces; forces
to be better able to fulfill his task.
I have not yet been able to speak about. The great personal loss and
Steiner and I suffer over this irreplaceable loss I venture to say something
complete understanding and was able to pass it on to others. Whenever
the most valuable people are among those who recognize and cultivate
others, a most valuable work throughout the Rhine region. One of the
she was also able to see them in their wider context, bringing them
and pliable enough to grasp ideas that quite concretely explain the
was unable to convince these people that his assumption was the right
special individuals. If applicable only to a few then it cannot be considered
of man do demonstrate is how a man like Hermann Bahr is able to reach
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way we use the word ‘I.’ All other words are applicable
in his writings a remarkable description of human consciousness to which,
by it enables us to develop our present day-consciousness which is an
Whereas formerly everyone was able to experience the spiritual world
when gradually only those who were initiated in the Mysteries were able
with the spiritual world. Eventually humanity would no longer be able
have been incapable of living in the bodies available; they would have
an earlier epoch had reached higher development, would be able to inspire
forces. It was inevitable for instance that the code of law should eventually
become as it is now. It was also inevitable that an ahrimanic code of
is incapable of coming to any insight or to make any decision about
able to understand. In ancient times it would have been understood,
task to call up the inner forces of his soul which enables him to grasp
but subconsciously. However, they are incapable of bringing their subconscious
often expresses itself in remarkable ways.
knowledge which should be impartial at present; they must also be able
a sense for reality it is very recognizable that what people like to
predictable. The reason is simple; Johannes Müller speaks of things
therefore inevitable when there are people — as I described in

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outlook, are incapable of seeing what is manifestly there. All they
one looks at these things and is able to assess the situation, more
able to observe such happenings that countless things, obtained through
When one reads the full report carefully one comes across remarkable
of them. Ahriman and Lucifer do not act in inexplicable terrifying ways
place in July and August of 1914 when an enormous flood, a veritable
are. One must be able to arrive at judgements based on the symptoms
for sleep is in our time considerable and naturally ahrimanic and luciferic
a special subject will certainly become ever more knowledgeable and
for a modern professor of theology, is a rather uncomfortable task.
is indispensable if one wants to observe the conditions in the world
ourselves from reality. We are born into a physical body to enable us
the whole direction of the ideas employed. One must be able to evaluate
will also find entry into those spheres which alone enables one to stay
related to true reality it enables one to form appropriate judgements.
ideas from which all content has been extracted. To read it is comparable

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And even in the 17th century most people would not have been able to
being able to say that they had seen such and such a being. Their consciousness
is really extraordinarily difficult for someone who is able to look
of things can be grasped only if one is able to listen to higher beings
are very interesting, one discovers the remarkable fact that he spoke
who made it available to wider circles in Germany. Henry More became
was an impulse of feeling, an inner mood of soul which they were able
explained that Lessing had not really been able to think through what
enhanced. Even when we find certain aspects of what he said unpalatable
when someone is able to look into the spiritual world he sees things
what is preparing itself in Russia. It is indeed a remarkable experience
at something very remarkable in the contrast between Luther's experience
unable to understand each other. It is obvious from the way Soloviev
a point of view obtainable only through Anthroposophy.

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very soul constitution of man enables him to have ready understanding
Bible, the most reliable record in existence, a record that still contains
exactly the way I describe them. However as things stood it is understandable
The alchemists were able to bring about alchemical processes which,
be able to acknowledge anything spiritual in matter, Luther sought to
be able to experience something of the spiritual world only in exceptional
and materialism, man is not able to perform actions that spring directly
That he was able to speak in this way was due to the higher unity of
and others. A remarkable phenomenon is the fact that we have in the
power, rise above them. Only faith can enable him to do so. He will
enables us to understand better their predecessor Luther. To understand
perhaps particularly in the latter, is a mere fable, and is all the
more pernicious for being unaware that it is but a fable that aims to
were able to rouse people to recognize the deeper impulses beneath the

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the laws of nature to enable us, through understanding them, to form
makes them pre-eminently suitable tools for the intellect. Their degree
are capable of further development on earth. But the ‘I’
comparable consciousness as far as the ‘I’ and astral body
life will reach a comparable development only when all people are merged
within a socialist order. Thus capitalism is supposed to be favourable
be favourable for moral development. The reality however, is very different,
become able actually to behold the spiritual forces and impulses that
is highly uncomfortable for modern man. For example, when someone embarks
becomes capable of functioning in the spiritual world. This means that
and guided by them. The concepts they acquire enable them, up to a point,
which is applicable only to human beings as individuals; quite different
of experience should at least be able to produce a few enlightened ideas,
beyond materialism. Such an advance only comes about when one is able
are at times found to be unpalatable especially when they relate to
comparable to knowing that when a pendulum is at its highest point the
vice. These truths are not comfortable but truths they are. In the individual
they are less noticeable, but in public life they result in the kind
know about them he places himself in a situation comparable to denying
needed and attainable through spiritual science. That is what makes
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Thirteen Days.” The remarkable thing is that the
To look at them I was not able,
Ages, about the middle of that period, were able to
conditions are then the most favorable for those who wish
a great deal of what we are able to relate regarding the

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penetrating these thoughts are, the better able they are to enter
than a mere theoretical conviction, able to bring about a kind of
And we must now try to live into a very remarkable conception: we
or concerning which we have not been able to carry out our wishes, so
soul-kernel of our being; for in the picture we have thus been able
which enables them to form more unbiassed judgments than those who
able to estimate how faded the picture is. The following feeling will
believe in reincarnation and karma is connected in a remarkable way

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to an earlier earth-life, nor as though it were able immediately to
comprehensible to us. If something disagreeable happens and we do not
innumerable experiences which we shall find if we look for them. If
remarkable impression on us, as though it really had something to do
quite right, and then, without our being able to say why, the right
Greece, none of them find it easier to learn Greek by being able to
when we have insight do we realise what concepts are able to tell
reasonable view of these things, we must consider the soul-life of
if the action is unjustifiable. This leads to no good. It takes the
enables us to develop another kind of memory — one that
shall be able to speak more fully of what can only be indicated
as yet able to recognise this call, but Anthroposophy will work in
world.” More and more we shall be able to ascend to those

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture V
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urge and through their whole attitude, are able to take seriously
what the general public would not yet be able to accept. Quite
most needed in their epoch? An anthroposophist should be able to
more than a rampart against this understandable attitude of the
fact that certain antecedents have enabled reincarnation and karma to
is able to acquire the right insight into the truths of reincarnation
and karma. To be able to characterise the difference, one really
unpalatable to some people to-day but it is true nevertheless. If a
assure you! Perhaps others might have been capable of it.
a way that we are able to say: “If we accept the ideas of
anthroposophist is able to accept the ideas of reincarnation and
Anthroposophy. It is therefore understandable that when we speak
quite conceivable that a man might accept from Anthroposophy those
become unbearable, quarrelsome people in the next incarnation. Here

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 1: Zarathustra
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set the measure of progress. We are then able to realize the
Christianity. It is, however, a remarkable and interesting fact
primitive man was capable of intermediate conscious states,
and is not perishable but everlasting. When we have overcome our
which will enable us not merely to be sensible of the outer world
It is remarkable that the two paths should have
questionable sub-human element, as yet unknown, and from which he
It is very remarkable, and one of the many
above outlined, Zarathustra’s disciples were enabled to
therefore we must be able to travel to it, from the lowest point
Zarathustra was able to point out that the constellations of the
viewed from the standpoint of modern cosmic ideas, is liable to
Our present period is connected in a remarkable
and by means of his spiritual archetypes, Zarathustra was enabled
teachings. It is remarkable that the profound attention which
many historical events become clear and understandable when we
should enable mankind to achieve a sweeping victory. This

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acceptable or not, that this ancient culture is in some singular
truth veritable pictures of the Spirit-World, flashed before the
which would enable them to look back into the misty past; when
through this gift man was enabled to behold the spiritual realms.
The later Egyptians, however, were unable to penetrate beyond the
Egyptians were only able to apprehend weak echoes, as it were, of
combinations of manlike and animal shapes. Remarkable religious
case he would be liable to severe punishment. Even during the
above external laws. As an example we have the fable of the god
Osiris‘. In all these fables, Osiris is a being who in the
constructive thought and cognition — the veritable Osiris-Force.
do we find ourselves at last in the Ego’s veritable
towards the development of such powers as enabled the Soul-Forces
remarkable are these teachings the echoes of which are still
beneath the enfolding envelope, he entered into his veritable
and that he was able to realize that he was indeed a spiritual
is reflected by the Moon, and the remarkable conditions governing
timely warnings of their ‘Watcher‘ enabled them to
a certain religious quality and mood, particularly noticeable in
whose deeds is cast a veil impenetrable to external
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 3: Buddha
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It is a remarkable fact that most people still
and unquestionable fact; in this concept is expressed the true
formed regarding the probable future of man’s evolution,
nature is especially noticeable throughout the Zarathustran
Deception‘, which is indeed Maya. It is also understandable
veritable wisdom, indeed, so little of this quality is manifested
enlightenment is both remarkable and significant, but unless we
there should come to him an understanding which would enable him
future. We would then have veritable history. But the Buddhist
far-reaching results, that the mind of man seems incapable of
Spiritual Science inconvenient and unsuitable. They turn away
that mankind is altogether incapable of penetrating the deep
but thou art capable of developing thyself.’ Resignation of

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capable of exerting, and which has lived in the hearts and souls
without any noticeable change directly into pictorial
mere assertion’ to those who are unable to utilize the
— ‘How does it come about that we are able to perceive
insight, born of Spiritual Science, which would have enabled him
It is impossible to comprehend the old fables and
noticeable with the Egyptians, and we have already become
capable of formulating and undertaking a new mission. Hence it
manner that the imperishable message which Moses was destined to
acquired, slowly and gradually, through veritable experience of
remarkable fact, namely, that later generations of mankind were
conceivable in this case, since no outside incidents on topics
quality, through which he is able to form reasoned concepts and
enabled to say: — ‘Such and such events are about to
feels uncomfortable when people come to him and say: —
people of old were enabled to be closely associated with creation
less capable of understanding and dealing with the facts and
of the Jewish people made them by nature especially suitable to

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of the means at its disposal, is enabled to shed fresh light upon
if they will but do this, and make a reasonable and understanding
throughout the land that a remarkable spirit was abroad. In
unable to penetrate deeply into the soul of their great master.
seers. Viewed in the light of our modern times it is probable
unable to tell, at times, just where the external form of some
It is remarkable that at the time about which I
favourable for the entry of the latent soul-forces into one
it shall be enabled to look upon the world of spirit. The power
must go forward — step by step. When a suitable predetermined
are noticeable and manifest within the soul. These are also of
[Elijah-Naboth] stood helpless and perplexed; but he was able to
it is there related that for a considerable period during
his life he was known as a remarkable and trenchant preacher, and
devotion, was enabled to be in the actual presence of Elijah in a
time thou wilt not be able to follow Elijah’ —
into the higher realms; if thou art able to perceive my spirit as
people (who were quite incapable of comprehending them in their
of parables or miracle stories. But what seems to us so truly
parable form, when speaking to all who could not understand or
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 6: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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incapable of truly differentiating between the nature of the
ever less and less capable of understanding that bold concept,
these venerable documents cannot be referring to those matters to
refer to Him as a God ‘; and again to this remarkable
of Spiritual Science, where the methods are applicable to things
transformed into an instrument capable of apprehending that
consciousness. While this sleep-life continued, the soul was able
it was in the manner above indicated that the soul was enabled to
of the past; for in these very fables we find depicted many of
in the dim obscurity enshrouding the inscrutable observances of
noticeable in the Gospel of St. John. While in previous times
future generations — just so long will he remain unable to
underlying all is the veritable Ego
as an instrument, able and fitted, to apprehend that which is of
generation to generation, there comes over me a vague undefinable
has attained to a concept and an understanding that enables it to
with which external science is unable to cope. Spiritual Science,
him in the physical world, as if they were irreconcilable with a
apprehended in all phenomena capable of sense-perception. One
recognize reality in natural phenomena, in order to be able to
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Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture IX
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able to descend from the spiritual world (for since the
the effects of all that the Zarathustra-Ego had been able
Temptation, Ahriman was able to work through Judas, and
at once been capable of understanding, But because the
respectable age of twenty-five and feel absolutely mature
way will be able to perceive and feel the new

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spiritual-scientific investigation, we may be able to
Whole of Earth-evolution is to enable the “I”
think of such words in the Bible as:“God is able of
Mystery of Golgotha) he was already able to look
worshipped Jehovah had prepared the way, Christ was able
endowed with faculties which enabled them to worship the
from another source, what would have been the inevitable
formerly available to man, came to him through heredity,
is valuable in me.’ ...but to-day, with the same

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except his mother, who in her heart and feeling was able
Mysteries who were able to see into the spiritual worlds
enabled them to function with a certain restraint. Just
as our senses would never have been able to face the
when we are able after death to look back at the
Earth capable of germination in the Cosmos, of passing
is these Christ Forces in the ether-body which enable the
connection with the Christ Impulse therefore, enables us
and the etherised blood now reveals itself in the tableau
of the human ether-body, filling the tableau with life.

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often pointed out. Our life is the way it is only because we are able
on this planet. Innumerable treaties, attempts of every kind, bear
be able to determine their own fate.
sit at abandoned sumptuous tables in old castles. Suspicious characters
been able to find, either in this pamphlet or in his other writings,
it was hoary with age and who was completely unable to keep pace with
clergyman who was able to call forth an image in his imagination that
has performed the most remarkable manifestations of all sorts for years.
the earth. During unfathomable periods of time, this congealing
to know who is able to come up with such an incredible view of philosophy.
so we may be able to meet again next week for another lecture.

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that in terms of substance, nerve substance is the most durable in our
to become living to enable us as beings of earthly substance to turn
In other words, the life of our nerves, which we have not been able
abstractly and study it as we study the multiplication tables, an arithmetic
but was not able to make even the most elementary approach to the spiritual
most of them this is not so noticeable except when they rub our noses
what it means to think true to reality. So much that is deplorable in
she was able to bring together quite a large audience. So I spoke to
remember that these are the authorities behind laboratory tables, behind
dissecting tables. This is the spirit permeating what can indeed be
but out of insight into its inevitable significance for the present

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our spiritual science as we have been able to give him. Now souls are
concern us further. The sense of life enables us to feel our life in
sense. We have to delve deeply into the life of our body to be able
Now you will not think it so improbable when
considerable number of Russia's intellectuals, and what is coming from
been everywhere — with no other ambition than to be able to
for him, had seen the sights, and associated with notable people
of rank and fame. To be able to travel more comfortably and to have
very well-guarded and impenetrable association, which he was willing
“I have never been able to believe
secretly and darkly long for, something that is indeed inevitable —
can the deed come about. I have never been able to think of him
Circumstances sometimes bring about favorable
also hope to be able to present a lecture to the Bruno Society on Bruno's
in this way. It is favorable karma that we are able to show who is right

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really clearly noticeable that we are dealing here with an astral body
venerable part. The earth added all the rest to the head — that
that in none of them had he been able to find any indication of special
Strictly speaking, people nowadays are unable

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a table with the word “Table,” and we won't expect to learn
about tables from the word “table.” But in philosophy and
to the table rather than describing the table, so it is wrong, in the
for a world view but unable to construct one. He was searching for it
why we thought such a booklet unsuitable. I told the author that the

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publish them with a few words of explanation, and they will be available
stanza, this Mars line, you would be able, after having developed a
be the greater because he was such a good painter and had been able
to do so well that his paintings were indistinguishable from those painted
were unable to sell their own work. When they wrote the name Leonardo
the karma of our age and develop the side of our being that is able
after all, we must be able to understand every point of view and get
with all this. A few months ago, a book was published that is not available
of the very worst kind imaginable, quite apart from its point of view.
abominable literature. It is the artistic side I want to look at here,
readers who do not go in for respectable literature but only for stuff
when he believed the man great who recommended such an abominable book
that takes up a quarter of a page in order to be able to justify every
not the case, definitely not. Up to now people have indeed been able,
science will become more and more an indispensable path to the understanding

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theory can enable us to distinguish between dreams and so-called everyday
is completely unable to arrive at the idea that the spiritual underlies
everybody must be able to see it. Europeans generally allow only for
so we can't do that. But we can gradually allow ordinary thinking, applicable
treatise about the same matters would cite innumerable logical arguments,
imponderables. On the other hand, there are individuals who come into
clearly noticeable.
how well we would be able to understand others if we approached them
should seem to us something desirable.
the Christ Mystery makes their world view an atavistic one. To be able
telling you what the more reasonable Asians really say. They agree we
People will only gradually be able to come together again by understanding
am a very respectable man, an exemplary man, and I have children who
are all good for nothing. But am I any less respectable and exemplary
remarkable. In any case, he could have achieved something more fruitful
this, did not have this ideal, then spiritual science would not be able
available nowadays; most of them are written by Jesuits. You can read
something in himself that enabled him to develop special mental and
felt very comfortable being completely secluded in their small circles.
are now sold in second-hand bookshops. Granted, we may not be able to
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Title: Jacob Boehme
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Thanks to an anonymous donation, this Lecture Series has been made available.
tableau. And in a certain sense one might say that the
the greatest imaginable dissemination — the
greatest imaginable dissemination we may say, considering the
capable of entering into such things, throw light on how Jacob
Boehme was able to soar up to his high spiritual standpoint. In
it understandable that even as a boy of twelve or
principle by explaining the syllables of a word
spirit of Jacob Boehme in what he found available, only then
comes is, therefore, most nearly comparable to that which meets
of the syllables “sul” and “phur,” or
syllables into words, then we can understand that what nature
come about that the irregular, the unsuitable, places itself
we were not capable of drawing up out of our memory what we
almost untranslatable. It is apparently intended to
accord, as a counterpart of good. And now evil, the unsuitable,
suitable, the advantageous and useful becomes aware of itself,
itself in the presence of the harmful and unsuitable. It
almost untranslatable. It is apparently intended to
a very special human being. For we have been able to emphasize
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Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture I
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knighthood culminating in King Arthur and his Round Table. They are
influenced men if clothed in something which was really able to stir
also be free from every superstition since he himself is able to
something which, filled with force and life, is able to permeate the

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relate first of all of Siegfried, an initiate, who was able, after a
invulnerable. There is only one point between the shoulders where he
can be wounded. This vulnerable point symbolizes that the fourth
give. The coming of One was necessary, who was invulnerable where
Siegfried was still vulnerable — the coming of the
inevitable force of Nature. Guilt contains a certain progressive
able to work within a united sphere encompassing everything.

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passions, and is thus able to understand the speech of the birds (of
the earthly world of the senses). He is able to tread the path of the
complete initiation. Siegfried still possesses one vulnerable spot,
phase, knowledge must be reached because man is not as yet able to unite
able to give a clearer insight into the problem connected with the dual
because they realise that what they were once able to understand

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture IV
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he had developed to the extent of being able to create a drama of such
been fortunate in life is suddenly struck by an incurable
shall be able to understand what induced Wagner to set forth this
of the coming spiritual movement. If we grasp this, we shall be able to
ascetic and is unable to reach a higher spiritual knowledge; and on the other
are able to understand Tristan more deeply, because we know
be able to see again”. Bayreuth thus shows us two
inevitable, for perfection could be reached only if man unfolded every

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believe that the indications I am able to give may be useful to many
Society] were not really knowledgeable concerning these questions. You
reliable source of knowledge about the evolution of the world system.
said because no one was able to prove what Mrs. Blavatsky and Sinnet
wisdom. Everything he was able to learn about oriental wisdom he made
available to Europe. But neither Max Müller nor any other scientist
that enable him to observe and investigate the truths himself, when he
stand by the sentence: what is true must be provable and everyone must
be able to understand it. The occultist, however, asserts nothing else

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hours available, I can only give a sketch in which much can only be
would be impossible for someone to simply create a viable brain
not a viable brain that could serve as an instrument for a spirit. In
able to turn the images that flew by us into concepts, but could only
evolution is comparable to that of the animal's, but the consciousness
being in order for his Self to be able to think within the physical
active in the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms. Therefore, in
would never have been able to think by means of a physical brain.
would not be able to move my arm if there wasn't an astral energy in
it becomes an energy, a radiation, which is recognizable to the
that essence in common which is capable of bringing forth its own kind
world begin? Mostly such questions are not answerable, for we cannot
able to command physical matter, he will also be able to dominate
astral organ of will. He will be able to do so during the fifth round.
In the fifth round the human being will be able to command the astral
more advanced during the sixth round. He will then be able to command
will not only be able to realize a wish in the place where it is
wished, but will also be able to send a wish to distant places. In the
sixth round he will be able to form himself. After the sixth round our
human being will have taken unto himself all that he is able to learn
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comparable to normal human sleep. In normal sleep only the activities
indescribable in words, for our words are inadequate for this kind of
second Round the foundation for the vegetable kingdom was formed,
consciousness was extremely dim, comparable to that of a dreaming
spiritual and a more physical materiality, comparable to the North and
the indicated stage of the earth, as well as the vegetable kingdom.
capability, without warm blood and not yet capable of bringing forth
matter that would not enable him to become the bearer of a higher
fables and myths as flying dragons and so on. Until then, no being
previous misty earth cycle were able to incarnate during the third
special achievement. This enabled the human race to bring art and
2. the vegetable kingdom
would be able to indicate to you how certain natural scientific facts
mineral matter will be transformed to vegetable matter. Then the
vegetable kingdom will reach its culmination and in the next Round the
documents, fairy tales and fables. Thus we have the seven Rounds as
considers it to be necessary. But it strives to enable people to again

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the present day an absolutely super-sensible and imponderable
cosmos, to a cosmic tableau in which, as it were, our environment is
imprinted invisibly and which is similar to the cosmic tableau of
must form a conception of what is necessary, to be able to feel such
a cosmic tableau as reality. You must think away everything that can
must be able to feel, as it were, his environment tinged and
and at the same time he must be able to overcome this fear by inner
the consciousness of this dread of the immeasurable emptiness might
upon a remarkable passage, which is simply expressed and noted
of Golgotha which enables a man to understand the impressions of the
discoverable. If we revert to the simile of swimming, we may say it
you feel yourself held in your conceptions and are no longer able to
move, then you will no longer be able to say that what you formerly
have got as far as this we become aware of a remarkable alteration in the
what we have to attain; we must be able to transform the ideas we
intellectualist will never be able to understand such minds. I will
by students for examinations, but now no longer applicable since the
written completely unjustifiable things. But just read what he says
what the ordinary intellect is unable to grasp. Even though the ordinary

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No man can know what warmth is who is not able to form a conception
impulse to sacrifice, it is then unthinkable that he should feel
who is unable to feel this spirit of self-surrender can never
when a man works his way up to higher worlds. There he must be able
be empty and able to wait quietly for what may enter into it from the
of clairvoyant knowledge except by creating a suitable frame of mind
mode of devotion we are able to permeate ourselves with a perception,
Archangels; but they are only able to ray forth light to us because
conception, the whole feeling that we are thus able to acquire —
nature of the Christ-impulse. We are then able to understand
down to the Earth from Mars, while he would not be able to understand

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more we are able to accept Karma and its workings in this way,
masterful passions, it will be noticeable that his words to his
necessary to draw attention to the fact that these beings are able to
But, on the other hand, if man were incapable of wickedness, unable
Sun-existence, we are able to describe it quite distinctly if we bear
flowing into the sacrificial heat we are able during the ancient
to an extremely difficult chapter indeed, and we shall only be able
arising and passing away. This is in the highest degree remarkable:
bring them to expression, were enabled to take possession of the
beings would not have been able to oppose them. Put into simple words
any free beings, capable of acting from their own initiative. In
able to resist us. We will therefore not accept the sacrifice; so
beings who were able to bring it into the world. But now the
more highly of the gods! I have always believed them able to give
I not able to call forth a whole multitude of angels if I wish to
to enter His sphere. If we are able to see in Christ Jesus all that
centre. In order that that which makes mankind of such immeasurable
I have often ventured to say that if an inhabitant of Mars were able
intellect to feel the whole immeasurable greatness of the subject,
enable him to express this, the highest and most significant. That is
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Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth - 2
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fervour what dwells within them — but who are not able to do
whose sacrifice was rejected were unable to establish a particular
longing would cease. What we described as longing is an unattainable
A being able to
they had been able to do this what they offered would have passed
bringing about changes of place; they are Beings able to bring forth
mind which becomes unendurable, and which in a merely
— the egotism within it prevents that; but it is able to take
able to redeem it otherwise than by mere pictures — namely, by
the “Planet of Longing”; longing capable of satisfaction
the sacrifice, the Universal Being, Who is able to satisfy the
unable to have it, and had come to long for it, to have a persistent
longing for it, unable to grasp the meaning of life, just because he
able to satisfy it — such as a modern thinker may find if he
span with her earthly consciousness! We should not be able to
especially in the remarkable
ago a truly penetrating and striving mind was not able to find his
us how tragically and stormily that which Anthroposophy is able to

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in meeting that picture-world which we have been able to grasp as the
We really ought to be able to feel the dryness and withering of any
not tenable! Even enlightened philosophers now admit that. For all
this, which aspired, but was unable to ascend to the higher Beings,
“Had I been able to accomplish my sacrifice, the best part of
last lecture. We saw that as the Beings were unable to feel an inner
were still able to obtain a certain satisfaction.
undeniable fact that that which was to have been offered up would
the earthly; for it presents a truly remarkable aspect. Whereas
worlds plays its part in Maya, in a remarkable way. Whereas
able to provide, is the following: That the event of Damascus will,
means, that capacities will be developed in man which will enable him
gradually becoming able to perceive the Christ by means of the higher
for this event, maybe able to experience it in the intermediate life,
displays an undeniable reality, a direct truth. What then is real on
justifiable to say that “no history can assert that there ever
It is very remarkable that this Event, which occurred on the external
They were able to convince themselves of the actual existence of

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 1: The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations
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now that I am able to be with you for a while in these
certain stage had been reached where I was able to feel
unconquerable nature of spiritual life and a firm faith
spirit must be able to reflect that such language is
be the task of later times. Then men will be able to look
business of our building project, I was able to speak to
spirit, I was on that occasion able to call up in the
spiritual outlook enable every single one of us, in what
been evidence that our spiritual movement is able to give
unable to remain strong in heart and soul at a time when
karma, will also be able to fill their place in
our strength. Let us help wherever we are able to help.
can say that a soul filled with such intent will be able
many occasions in days to come when we shall be able to
spiritual worlds they also grow able to join their own
We shall then be able to see if we are strong enough to
ourselves. You may ask how we are able to know that we
are addressing the right spirit. We shall be able to be
and let the things that have been able to take root in
to be able to face our trials. Let us try and affirm the
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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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weeks — a seriousness which enables us to be aware
today we are able to take these truths objectively.
would bear no fruit. The only life impulses we are able
enables us to overcome Maya in this field and look to
we are able really to understand the peculiar qualities
envelope, and the more a person is able to gain insight
shall only be able to relate to this in full
the means spiritual science is able to provide. We are
and therefore be able to listen to everything that has to
— In due course we shall be able to enter the
soul — that the great cosmic tableau seen by the
where its incomparables are brought to the fore. And the
French poet who is unsurpassable is Molière
characteristic height — there it is unsurpassable.
Shakespeare. There the British soul is incomparable, in
up from the depths of the ego, from unfathomable depths
today where we are able to give recognition to Goethe's
whilst we are able to discuss this here there rages
oneself. It needs to be able to spread in order to
be able to spread. It is perfectly understandable that
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be able to complete your task according to your karma.
able to sense that it is much harder than usual to speak
last time I was able to speak to you here, enter more and
looking at. We are able to experience sympathy with it
are merely able to characterize. For a person who is
could never be reliable.
able to understand this very well in this individual
often say that spiritual science is able to provide for
senseless not to love. Yet in order to be able to say
world, they are not the least bit comfortable; they are
uncomfortable. They shake us up and shake us through and
however, be able to enter immediately into other folk
able to see from the characterization of individual folk
this supersensible sphere to enable the spiritual stream
hierarchies are able to use these souls in different
this point of view it is inevitable that our feelings
possible to find the reason for these disagreeable events
difference is considerable. I am now always speaking only
earlier: 'I assume Imaginations unable to come through
unable to choose that road. There is also freedom in this
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friends, as on other occasions when I have been able to
great and serious events in life really enable us to see
men have been able to comprehend. But, as I stressed on
basis of what men have been able to grasp of him, he
would have been able to achieve little. But what matters
and understanding, what concept men have been able to
our spiritual science enables us to grasp only a little
the past. In past times people were able only to reflect
on the Christ by using the means available through
supersensible worlds we are able to provide many answers
human hearts had been able to absorb in the state of
and his army were able to rely on the skills of their
able to say: What would have become of the Western world
enlightened souls were unable to become bearers of the
when awake but were unable to take their Christianity
that we can say: they were able to look down from the
what souls were able to take with them through the
these souls were only able to enter into a new earth life
the West of Europe were unable to carry their
particularly favourable for the evolution of the
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the evolution of man even though men were unable to grasp
are able to say that the year this Maid of Orleans was
for it are able to enter into the most intimate aspect of
the soul sphere. The most favourable timing for this
Joan's adversaries were able to bring about her death, to
were. They were not able to prevent her mission.
the forces of Joan of Arc were only able to work in the
able to hold the war back, to prevent it; fear was able
Michael who directs events in our time. Anyone able to
Michael who at the same time is able to act on the
understandable, as something that can be understood just
same time makes the world around us understandable,
able to achieve anything in our day and age. She would be
an interesting personality and would be able to reveal
ways. Such a person capable of making intimate
revelations is capable of effectively countering
is so remarkable — what has been going on in the
mind and intellect, the German spirit is able to take its
surrounding ourselves with a world of demons, a veritable
stream in suitable surroundings. It is not a question of
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movement over the Years so that he was able to influence
as it were; as though everything we are able to gain from
of the nervous system, able to trace this nervous system
it, I would be unable to stand here, being a physical
materialistic terms will be able to say: ‘What you
you are not able to see it with your eyes nor hear it
perceptible to the outer senses, for anything we are able
light, being able to illumine what he finds there out of
the soul so that we are now able to see what it there in
the souls what those souls are capable of receiving,
people of Past ages were able to take in.
grow in inward Power so that these very ideas enable the
therefore able to say that the sphere of this spiritual
earth's aura — contains a very considerable number
we are able to be in touch with the feelings of the dead
when the energies of our unspent ether bodies are able to
dead are able to benefit if we make accessible to them,
In the time that lies ahead mankind will be able to
with true reverence we are then able to read out into the
will be able to receive this. They will be able to gain
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was able to speak at the cremations of dear friends
concerned to obtain certain remarkable impressions
circumstances whether one is able to gain impressions of
form, being unable to do anything ourselves to make the
words form in that particular way. We need to able to
heart over a considerable number of years, bringing to
concepts spiritual science is able to give. With
tableau in the ether body. This goes away after a few
the time had already been reached when the life tableau
degree of consciousness after the life tableau therefore
has passed has passed and we are only able to look back
moment. This fully agrees with what we are able to know
through our movement, we certainly would not be able in
maintain so strongly to enable us to progress.
And if we a clear picture of what man is capable of
family then told me the0y really were able to recognize
definitely was through no merit of my own that I was able
way one is able to speak of such intercourse it really
had to be said: when at a later point I was able to
been able to find those particular words. For it became
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world the human soul is really and truly able to learn
body as an instrument. Everything We are able to gain by
body. Another point is that anyone not able to make such
observations himself will be able to evaluate
found ourselves in a position where we are truly able to
are then able to say to ourselves that our efforts have
made us the arena where something has been able to
finally reach the point where we are able to bear the
Death, such being its nature. Then we shall be able to
Elements. Then We gain control of it all and are able to
destiny. This will enable us to bring the will into the
but able to erase one thought or another as occasion
point where we begin to be able to use our will in
in the spiritual world, so that he is not the least able
unable to tell if the things they experience there,
is that we are no longer able to tell what relates to us
physical organs are unable to hear. They are spiritual
such base functions. The principle within us that enables
life in our thought may be able to expand. In the end it
error. A reasonable man will therefore not be against a
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only able to base himself on what is familiar to him in
subtle processes. We should all be able to achieve the
united. We are least able to think when we have a
the head. Similarly we are only able to see ourselves in
reflected back by the hard skull, we are able to feel the
sleep and waking up man is able to relate to a far
is able to reflect. Because of this, there can be no
hands, in so far as we are able to move them, have of
immovable. This would have a highly significant result.
his physical hands which are tied and immovable. We'll
in fact become immovable. On Jupiter human beings will no
ether hands will in part be able to move outside those
or ether hands on the other hand will be able to move
enable him to reflect into the elements now united with
liberated and able to develop spiritual and soul
now folded up to form the brain were then able to move
were not yet able to think the way men do on earth. A
senses. This makes thinking a comfortable process —
physical science will never be able to demonstrate. This
the basis of processes everyone will be able to observe,
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considerable, and although it is certain that the path we
up with oxygen in water. The soul is therefore unable to
strength that would enable it to achieve perception
it is again able to be active it desires to return to the
body as long as the body is still capable of life. In the
into the ether body. If we were able to take this imprint
to read will be unable to tell from the symbols what they
that can make the spiritual world explicable to him. The
actually able to pinpoint a particular time when this
spirit grew so powerful that it was then able to begin to
and the soul was less able to put up resistance against
able to observe a process in which the folk spirits of
can only be understood if we are able to admit that it is
directed towards their less desirable qualities.
able to have these relations because he bears this other
anything we are able to comprehend by taking an external
individual nations are undergoing. To anyone able to see

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able to develop that core which we take through the gate
the earth's spirit we are able to perceive everything I
become aware of this when we are able to enter fully into
organism. It is inevitable therefore that when modern man
outside and its valuable part inside. But many things are
valuable Part of man is outside and the shell or peel
causes enxiety. Our comfortable feeling of being of one
are able to read and to think—not always perhaps,
processes in the organism which enable the ether body to
ether body is able to enter the signs which record the
which is to receive those imprints, is still pliable
years the still pliable organism should be left to its
able to perform this specific function of thinking, of
Why is man able to remember, and why is he able to think?
are not pliable but clear cut. Much will imprint itself
activity above all to the ego. Man is only able to refer
were only able to think, life would proceed as in a
hierarchies. Only at times when our will is for once able
be doing tomorrow. We would be able to see through our
will. We would be able to see through it to the effect
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these are scarcely noticeable. In the case of the
able to give such tremendous depth to the human
however, is as yet unable to understand it. He cannot yet
through everything the human being is capable of
always felt uncomfortable in presenting this figure which
suggests that all we are able to have by way of a
are able to grasp, forgetting that Faust is giving
she is able to understand. What he says about
heart. And then — well, one then makes a table,
of all that is external is here compiled in tables,
are asked of us, but that we are also capable of doing

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body is able to receive impressions of what goes on in
before the physical body was able to become conscious of
body has a very complex structure. If we were able to
able to take this in with his ether body, for this only
contains, is only able to hold, the images of his present
able to say: ‘He is what we call the dreamer in
are however given more in this dreamer than we are able
original. Nor does valuable originality consist in
that a man, having once shown himself capable of
some old wife's fable, that has had possession of men's
feel about this we are then able to discover what the
Clairvoyant awareness is able to perceive him directly;
this dreamer is capable of evoking many things that at
able to make its own Contribution to European culture.
something very strange so that we are able to see that
ideas, for it seems most desirable that as many people as
lamentable situation.’
asked. They had not been able to emulate the Western
Asked why those peoples were unable to carry on with the
man, however, is no longer able to dream. His conscious
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world. Just consider how little we would be able to
man has to accomplish to enable him to live on this earth
accomplish. But consider how little man is able to follow
open, not closed. Hares are capable of this. Unless it
something applicable on earth — the conclusion that
might get quite a surprise if they were able to travel to
most regrettable if we were no more sensible at the
be the fruit. If we were always able to catch hold of
understanding and should, with some good will, be able to
that enabled people to see into the spiritual world. In
those days they really were able to see the way man does
of his physical body that he is unable to gain awareness
taken hold of. Man therefore must be able to use his
of his physical body more and more. His justifiable
by modern man — do not exist. Man is able to deny
all we have been able to absorb out of the work we have
able, through spiritual science, to look up into the

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much at heart at the present time when innumerable souls have left
desires, and how it is able to show that when allowed to intervene in
practical life and not crudely rejected, it is capable both of
described by a person able to have Imaginations. If a man does not
we find something different, something comparable with what in
most remarkable discussions have taken place on psycho-analysis in
relation. Jung, however, has some inkling of this. From innumerable
proposition, which is quite justifiable according to the modern

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that will enable it to reflect cosmic wisdom. Valentine of Bâle.
see by the magnetic needle itself why it is capable of pointing North
immovable and unserviceable for outer life, especially if he proceeds
One able to understand with the heart what the head knows, would be
whole universe. To be able to decide what belongs to the earth, we
now reached its zenith) has not yet been able to ruin so much of what
All the patients walked past us. Some of these were remarkable
needs it most. In other respects he was an extremely loveable man;
customary to-day) but is able to look beyond to the super-sensible
will come to pass that men can, in an upright, honourable way, work
spiritual life. We are subject to a remarkable cleavage, one not like
that can be, yet they are incapable of grasping the Spirit. It is
saying that he was not able to understand my writings. Of that I am
is remarkable that this book was published in 1902; so that in 1906

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we were always able to illumine with ideas what we dream (the greater
is only dreamt or slept away, — we shall be able to form an
he is able to have intercourse with the super-sensible without being
experiences, we shall be able to observe that a good proportion of
favourable for putting the question to the dead; that is, for the
not immediately pass over into sense-perception, but were able to
remarkable intuition by Richard Wagner: ‘Time becomes
messages. It is very remarkable, yet true, that human people who died
falling asleep. These connections are particularly available in
adapted if we were capable and inclined to enter consciously into the
waking. That is why we are even sooner able to receive answers from a
as an uncomfortable companion. When we have thoughts which he cannot
are able to have in view the whole relationship of the living to the

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In general, man is not able to think, perceive and feel all that
had been able to bring them to fruition during our physical life, but
formation of such a mood is able to appear on swift wings — it
probable chain of events, so that, I might say, an atmosphere of
dead. When we in our consciousness are able to look up to the two
humanity, we live in an epoch of materialism. Because we are not able
under favourable circumstances. A Princess, the Grand Duchess
memorable; memorable on account of the prodigious tediousness of
wholly unjustifiable estimate of the great Athenian. The

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 5: Man's Connection with the Spiritual World
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be able, through feeling, to compare the concept of what might have
just left and was thus able to continue a flirtation with the host,
soul life of man however, will not be able to accept all this
able to plan with great subtlety.
man does not notice what remarkable discoveries he would make if he
suitable words, we can, of course only speak by comparisons, but the
remarkable consequently presents itself: — Why does the
something to which a moral judgment is applicable. Moral
is well to be able to speak of these things with humour, for if
organs of thought in this remarkable way, that they give peculiar
through a sieve. In this respect man is a remarkable vessel; as

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 6: Feelings of Unity and Sentiments of Gratitude: A Bridge to the Dead
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Hierarchies also carry the future within them and are able to form
indefinable feeling drives them back. Such things only express in
this intimate feeling, he gradually becomes able to receive a
to hint at this. When a man forms this feeling of unity he is able to
only when able to experience what he experienced in common with him
between ourselves and one who is dead; how we sat at table with him,
with the dead, how we sat at table with him, walked with him, and
airless space between us, we should not be able to hear what is said;
consciousness. The subconsciousness develops a remarkable
figurative, here it is quite suitable to say that the
none of this feeling within us, if we are not able to thank the world
we love, we must be able to raise ourselves to a feeling of
thankfulness that we have had him; we must be able to think
his can fall. If I am able to grasp what the dead says, I am in
nothing more favourable for penetration to the spiritual world than
can develop; it is favourable when they do. Much else is connected
we shall be able to experience a feeling for that weak, dream-like
ordinary consciousness it works in such a way that one is able to
and arms. The more we are conscious of this, the more we are able to

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 7: Confidence in Life and Rejuvenation of the Soul: A Bridge to the Dead
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exists, when its presence shows the suitable feeling of the living,
Their thoughts can only find the way to us when they are able to
we are able to feel gratitude towards the universe enables such a
because we are able to feel it, the way for the dead to reach us is
it, we are able to bring the soul into a condition in which the
because we have lost the living share in life and are not able to
this. There is a difference in whether a man is able to make his soul
be able to make very significant discoveries in natural
therefore were no longer able either to serve for nourishment or to
they have very remarkable views. There is an abundance of literature
are published, men will be able to
said, are able to remember more than: ‘You must do this,’
are able to plunge again into what was experienced in youth,
at all suited for that particular subject — he has been able to
able to say, full of hope: ‘Each new day will be to us like the
and enables us to experience the right relation between the living
able to wait for another. The right confidence in life is built on

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture I: Folk Souls and the Mystery of Golgotha
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You will be able to study all the separate features of national
misunderstood. At a later date, perhaps we may be able to speak about
being more or less able to ‘enter into’ everything. (We
plastic, capable of making himself at home everywhere even among foreign
are indeed able gradually to overcome this dependence, at any rate in
conceivable as having to take place, in order that this dependence
able to find all sorts of domains of which we might say that on the

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture II: The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology
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once between birth and death, will not come to any very reasonable
particular part of the Earth, and would in a sense not be able to be
reasonable penetration of the matter will lead to the acknowledgment
being able to express the reality by means of thought. I mean the
his flesh and blood, if he reaches the point of being able to
the spiritual. Remarkable things, very remarkable things run
It is very remarkable
first be able to shatter in our own selves that on which the
believe themselves to stand so firmly. As long as we are not able to
shatter this in ourselves, as long as we are not able to see that
the other point of view, which is equally justifiable, that there is
epoch, which began in the 15th century of our era, a remarkable
man is not developing under the same conditions as were suitable for
language of the animals. You all know the fable connected with
necessary, and tomorrow we shall be able to speak principally on the

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hole the astral body slips, so as to be able to see the
object. Plato was still able to see this. It could still be
this is of course unavoidable today) how man is born as an
you will not be able to gather much if the piano is out of
great illusion, we shall also be able to accept the fact that
are not able to form correct ideas as to what is happening on
remarkable thing is that at first he has a certain
ordinary physical intellect is quite unable to grasp what we
innumerable pictures are connected with human life. They are
receives the soul. That to him is an uncomfortable concept. (I
whether this life lasts after death; they will be able to
suitable manner to the child-mind. The transition to this is
themselves, they can always read up in a suitable compendium
compiler is especially remarkable when he speaks about
danger would be in the fact that everybody would not be able

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture IV: The Eternal and the Imperishable
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The Eternal and the Imperishable
that he should be able to know that it proceeds from
appropriate tool, for he has to work with “unsuitable
have a suitable material in the English language.
only get reliable ideas concerning the incisive events of the
You see, a really amiable motive which aroused my gratitude
speech.” You see this was a very amiable objection, but

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture V: Thoughts on Life and Death
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to the fact that one who is able to observe the death of
this gives rise to the justifiable thought of human
that, it is of immeasurable importance that the living ideas,
incapable of perceiving that everything material is rooted in
stretch out my hand over the table I use pressure, but force
19th century a remarkable Ahrimanic practice of coarsening
enough today to enable us to see such things externally, we
shall be able to corroborate what I have just said,
mineral, vegetable or animal dust. A continuous interaction
This enables us
perceive the external, mineral, vegetable and animal worlds,
a remarkable world might be seen. But we only experience the
to any considerable extent. With the dead man it is
they are nicely seated in their laboratory, and are able to
knife; they can study the incision and are able to work out
remarkable books such as Oskar Hertwig's “Birth of
necessary really to love such thoughts and to be able to live
really quite a considerable addition to the life of our dead
alone will be able to produce these materials. For it is

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VI: Spiritual Science, the Practice of Life and the Destinies of Souls
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present one works in us, in that which is able to work where
to the life of feeling. What is the most noticeable
way? And what is the most noticeable thing about most people
remarkable example, which in respect to the things of the
remarkable height; basic soul forces which will work
established itself as public life in a remarkable manner
development of something remarkable in collective human life.
they would become adroit, that they would be able to do things
professions; they are no longer able to do anything else
structure. Something quite remarkable is now making itself
doubtless to a certain extent justifiable, can discover many
experimental psychology is undeniable, but it wants to have a
remarkable. Memory, for instance, is tested in the following
are not able to observe things through Spiritual Science,
reporter would be able to understand the subject of Spiritual
remarkable way, that really whenever there is a musical
ideas which were untenable: the idea of
have often mentioned that the remarkable scholar Max Dessoir

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able to illuminate it as regards the cosmic aims for which we
hope that every man will become ripe and capable of leading
able to lead a similar life. Then an inner tolerance will
spiritual world. Such a thought should really be able to
all, be able to bring it into connection with what is known
we should be able to apply it to the present day from this
point of view. We ought to be able to ask ourselves seriously
seek — even in a sphere where it is least suitable
to be spiritual life; for the greatest imaginable
mobility of soul-life, if we are not able to distinguish the
form new ideas is uncomfortable to man, and what I have just
capable of deciding on all subjects. Men believe they have
historical life of man unless we are able to bring
dismisses him. Faust believed he would be able to grasp
remarkable explanation for the fact that Goethe could not get
be able to go on with it. If the Faust of the pedantic but
that appear which can be seen in such a remarkable manner in
able to lead a life full of expectation. Imagine if one were
remarkable. Thus a young University teacher, who certainly
him well and considered him a very able man; and he thought

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fragments of dreaming experience as we are able to remember
you recall them you are unable to fit then into the sequence
and is principally noticeable in its most conspicuous
the remarkable fact, that behind our waking: consciousness
will really acts as though asleep. All that we are able to
into consciousness. This procedure is no longer suitable for
Something indefinable will arise in every soul —
inexplicable save through occult science. It is not merely a
and prepare for its inevitable advent. Learn to study life,
the remarkable book,
remarkable in Weiniger's Italian diary. As you know, I
remarkable. He was only 23 when a thought struck him which
remarkable and peculiar way a knowledge which humanity will
noticeable since the fifteenth, Growing steadily stronger. In
afterwards in a very remarkable fashion, Not only was he
unable to explain certain words he had spoken in connection

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture II: The Building at Dornach
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remarkable that Reuleaux, the engineer, waxing enthusiastic
remarkable belief lies at the back of his mind — the
by friends able to, settle there. These houses would have so
and to make use of a building-site in Solothurn, available
fifth, I was surprised to see that a remarkable
vegetable substances which have their own light-force, to
beings are really able to make use of gesture and mien only
a noticeable thing about this being, although expressed only
capable of giving birth to art, it is something different,
longing for a spiritual life suitable to the present day, but

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture III: East and West
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consciousness which enables him to look back into his earlier
veritable self appeared, as it had been in many different
post-Atlantean epoch. -Man became incapable of producing a
opposition to it as regards the future is noticeable in
striving after a remarkable and strange ideal: no longer to
movable hillock, on which we supported ourselves, just as we
tenable. Once and for all it should by recognised that in the
fiction”, and anyone who clings to them is incapable of
enable these circumstances to be seen objectively, so that
Tagore's remarkable lecture on the
remarkable way — as never before. The opportunity was
know.” A man is supposed to be admirable if he can
and valuable are no longer taken seriously. Everywhere there

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the earlier centuries of this epoch many souls were able, in
official records of Freemasonry, it is remarkable to find the
in a very remarkable way, not only in the limited realm of
compare the best available accounts of widely separated
The Romans had found things very uncomfortable after the
incurable fear to-day, especially in theological circles, of
that Christianity might spread, it was made suitable for
everyone to grasp in a comfortable way without much
physical world. It is certainly easier and more comfortable
at a remarkable result, of which outer history as yet knows
articles, which are as far as possible from profitable
Mind-Soul to the Consciousness-Soul It is most desirable that
it must be done, or incalculable effects will follow. On this

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture V: The Being and Evolution of Man
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grasp it, but modern man is not capable of that. This is to
able to discover the relative truth of the different
Gospels and Epistles are for us incomparable written records
interpretation is entirely favourable to the Christ. But that
remarkable how it is with this principle of over coming an
The remarkable thing to-day is that people can look at the
this can be none other than the one which enables the soul to
demands of man that he should be able, in noticing a thing,
addresses were given in 1917. They are remarkable as
This belief in the imperishable power of the spirit is set

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noticeable moments, if we consider its progress through these
man's nature was then able to perceive that man is a member
A crisis, a veritable catastrophe, overtook mankind in the
outer civilisation with a Mystery-Event is unthinkable in any
Divine-Spiritual. It is very distinctive, very rremarkable,
mid-European civilisation was not of a kind to enable secular
should be able to adopt this belief: “We grasp the fact
incomprehensible. So the Church was able to include more and
palpable “this life”; the impalpable,
what is capable of a more or less distorted activity is
equally capable of a beautiful, great and glorious one.
searching review shows the facts to be unquestionable,
thing arises from another enables one to understand the
be unpalatable today, but they are truths nevertheless, and
noticeable. With the discovery of America, and the
spiritual world; and accounts on being able to impose this
we shall find it remarkable cooperation between Americanism
men with admirable ideas through which they wanted to reform
further, rooted in the uncomfortable feeling that the special
comfort, in which man can lead an agreeable and wealthy

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anything that is foreseen. It is considered inevitable that
remarkable events should take people by surprise. Speak of
conceptions capable of being “proved”, which are
suitable for what is passing away. So people protect
perishable and transitory; and all science, all knowledge
attainable on the subject, our investigations into the
imperishable which shall outlast this existence, apparently
imperishable to be found?
view is able to speak correctly of the future; otherwise he
to be applicable for a long time now), we see an array of
nature are consequently unattainable to-day. The concepts of
being understandable. When Man the Suns in this way from the
conception — capable of life. We must learn to
another — Schiller, representative of the mind unable
what is imperishable, vital for the future, the imperishable
super-sensible, the imperishable, as though it were
world. I have often said that we must above all be able to
conditions, we shall not be able to fit it up as we did this
stable: we had booked another, but that was all they gave us.
this he clings. We may not as yet be able to say how we shall

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comfortable and pleasant as possible, shall be able to satisfy the
the material life comfortable. Similarly, all our inventions, all our
and are able to hold counsel with Beings of higher worlds. But it has
was bearable for such human beings. They understood Karma. They knew
If nothing else is able to make the immature consciousness of our era
conditions should be able to do so. Even a century ago, a person who
is able to do in the physical body. Diabolus — the Demons —
the etheric body must be able to come right down into the material
world, must be able to experience everything, but still remain pure.
can again speak as the prophets were once able to speak, and he will
for this; every single one of us is able to work in the sense of this

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hear what strange conclusions commentators on Goethe are capable of
reasonable explanation that can be given — not only as to
Now, there is a remarkable perception underlying this passage, namely,
unsophisticated man was able to present the riddles of the universe to
know through the medium of our senses, and which we are able to study
vegetable covering, and the animal world — should be regarded as
background” of blood, you will be able to realize how the
capable of becoming civilized? How can an utterly barbaric savage
present point of view. What I am unable to perceive has no
common with the vegetable kingdom.
he was an ego, a being, capable of inwardly saying “I” to
you; each one can call a table a table, and a chair a chair. But there
divine nature, is enabled to speak. Here, then, begins that which can
for instance, this name was known as “the unutterable name of
Periodic Table of the chemical elements], and seven grades in the
We have now arrived at the point where we are able to comprehend man
is capable of feeling? It feels only itself, its own life-processes;
permeated by nerves capable of sensation. If you look at a crystal you
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embodies a great thought — not every thought is suitable, as you know,
though all the people living on earth had been building bodies capable of
original essence of this human principle is faintly comparable to the will
of which man is capable today with his puny present feelings and will
When the will has become capable of making the “great sacrifice,” it
point; its reflection, the kingdom. The will is in this sense comparable with
expresses in the terms “mineral kingdom,” “vegetable
the Divine is able to give these entities their names, to give each
each from all the others. The will, as we have noted is comparable with
“outpoured,” is comparable with life spirit. The third of the
from one another and separately named, is comparable with spirit self. The
recognizable as part of the Divine.
To complete this picture, think of the four lower principles of perishable
considered as of the perishable world, as human principles.
difference is observable between what you knew and experienced as an
These relatively fixed and abiding qualities tend to be observable, not
are recognizable through their common habits and temperament. An
incapable of egotism. A member of an organism never imagines itself
One wishing to attain that degree of development must be capable of
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just been able to catch at the favourable conditions. Why so? In a
physics of which the man of today will not be able to make very much
remarkable and very strange personality.
either quite unreliable, or if correct, came out of betrayal. Only
parable in the sense of Goethe's saying: “Everything
transient is but a parable.” Hence we can understand how much
parables and comparisons for that which we have just described.
regarded as a parable of the origin of the world out of the Spirit.
all-spreading spirit whose parable they saw in the unclouded gas. In
have before us on its lowest level will enable us to rise to an

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justifiable to enquire into the life conditions of a man
how after the man has developed the great memory tableau
able to understand we must begin far back, right back in the
this period they were able to have experiences in the
many lectures at many places I have been able to point out
sympathy with it. Such people alone were capable of building
Graeco-Latin age? He who is able to look into the spiritual
in the spiritual world were able to tell the people of the
they were able to bring to the men on earth the information
highest degree fruitful, but that which they were able to
it in a few words: it signifies the final and incontestable

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ego was enabled to become an individual I, whereas before it was
will never be able to say that theosophical matters contradict each

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a long way to go before we shall be able to coordinate the spiritual
understandable.
able to descend repeatedly to incarnate vicariously in a human body.
are able to carry on occult research into such things know the
this very example we are able to study the exact significance of the
being are capable of being multiplied and split into many parts.
etheric body to be able to give a definite impulse to the ancient
physical world that alone make explicable to us what occurs in it. We
come to understand history only when we are able to point to such
multiplied innumerable times. This was true as well of the astral
to the pupils of the Apostles. Great value was set upon being able to
could be doubted because they knew better. They had always been able
able to receive revelations, which were in a certain sense
people. They were able to wear them as garments that were woven into
events when he was speaking of the Christ. Thus, he was able to
In the case of the writer of the Heliand we have been able to
which we are able to explain history in an intimate way, take place
supporters of Christianity. The egos of such people were capable of
becomes explicable when we, as people of the present, study his life
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himself was able in his soul to approach this truth from very many
Goethe on reading the Roman writer Plutarch came across the remarkable
by the expression “the Mothers.” When Goethe was able to let
the spirit is able to answer: “In thy nothingness I hope to find the
All.” Then follows the highly remarkable and significant description
sphere into which man is able to penetrate when he awakens slumbering
been spiritual science through the ages has never been able to speak
the freshness of youth? It is a remarkable conception here expressed
of the wisdom that led to this remarkable figure of the Egyptian
itself unable to continue using outer, crude physical models.

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these ancient clairvoyant faculties, man was able to perceive certain
character. They were based on what man was able to see with his
schools for the training of those faculties which enable the soul of
be initiated was to live through all those processes which enable the
cease to function, and yet the neophyte is able to experience and
a power which enabled a higher being to dwell among them, they were
man's being that is incapable of beholding the spiritual world. This
able or ripe enough to bear this separation of his being, will not
appearance in a remarkable body of legends. Comparatively little
is all the charlatanism, quackery and caricature that is unavoidable
instance when he speaks of the twelve gathered around the table
they are capable of understanding. But although he was only able to
able to apply the words spoken by Faust of Wagner, the representative
human soul that rises above itself. — To enable the soul to find

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of a reality which this woman's soul had barely been able to
surroundings, she became aware of a remarkable figure —
thyself with physical matter, thou hast been enabled to set
aid of that Spirit of Personality she was able to pour this
physical plane; the physical plane contains nothing capable
able to give an exact representation of me, or bring anything
my having been shattered by them I am able to lend thee
human sense, and therefore mankind has been unable to bind
me. They have only been able to tear me to pieces. From me
attained. But thou wilt be only able to bestow upon them an
follow up these ideas by which they will be able to build
stranger and still more remarkable than the preceding.
unite thyself with me! Then wilt thou be able to kindle in
spirit figure named Intuition, “thou art now capable of
of painting. Thou wilt therefore be able to kindle faculty in
ideas in color. And through this sense men will be able to
Men will be able through this faculty of yours, to animate
wilt be able to give men a faculty by means of which they
be able to give them the means of transforming that motion
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what is capable of investigation as a Truth, unconnected in our day
just as little as it is justifiable to accuse every teacher of
equally unjustifiable to accuse Spiritual Science, when it makes the
be able to compare it with the spirit of Christianity, we shall do
Christian conception of things, remarkable consequences arise
be able to draw out of the world of the senses something that we may
and that he is unable to unfold any active forces to meet it. ‘Life
existence is only attained when man is able to overcome and transcend
itself is the external world. He says: ‘It is inevitable that
existence as a whole is such that suffering is inevitable, but it
that made the human heart become incapable of creating the true
world by his reason. In the future, man will be able to see
unconquerable Life. It is not merely an event which releases
In Schopenhauer we see unmistakable interpolations of
believed, also, that this world-conception would enable him to

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antwortete Herman Grimm mit einer ablehnenden Bewegung der
die Ablehnung desjenigen, der nicht gern einen soldien Weg
gehen möchte. Nicht die Ablehnung eines solchen Weges war
nämlich wenn sie es ablehnen, eine durchzumachen oder

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naturwissenschaftliche Forschung zu einer brutalen Ableugnung
Bekenntnis ablegt und daß Faust zu diesem Bekenntnis sagt,

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Ablehnungen, welche ihr heute noch von allen Seiten
Und Sir Oliver Lodge — der es ganz ablehnen würde,
ableiten wird von den Verirrungen, denen selbst große

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fellow-men through speech which enables us to expand and radiate into
for the concept. This is why so many people are incapable of building
knows to what an extent the way a man is able to express the content
life. Those who have knowledge will be able to learn a great deal
word in an unjustifiable sense. Max Müller really means that
movement, shape and so on before the Ego was able to take root
intellectual soul and consciousness soul, all that it is able to
man is to-day able to mould his external being artistically from out
seek in the light the hidden essence that is able to create an eye.
certain epoch was able to mould in man the highly artistic organ of
which the Ego is able to develop by using the organs which have been
feels satisfaction when the mother comes, occurs in innumerable
this, the Ego afterwards poured what it is able to elaborate. We must
to-day. The development of speech, is indeed, only comparable to
of speech formation, the one syllable ‘Shi,’ or song, and
This is a remarkable permeation, for ‘qatal,’
It may seem to many of you that I have only been able to
before the Ego was able to work within him. Only the artistic sense
intelligible. Only those ideas which are able fruitfully to recreate
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what an immeasurable force of spiritual knowledge it brought
Silesius became through its means, how he was enabled not
then be able to realize the depth and force of this medieval
absorption. Just as the mystic is enabled to attain a state
whirlpool comparable to the confluence of two streams.
made of ourselves, we should be unable to reproach ourselves
transformed into a feeling, we shall be able to observe what
Then we shall be able to compare this clear vision with our
will. So we are enabled to see something leading beyond our
from suffering in any way, is able to develop his soul forces
they were able to ignite the spark previously mentioned. It
filled with that wonderful and ineffable warmth, as with an
yet capable of acquiring by ourselves. It can give us the
will that we have previously been unable to muster. In order
Molinos — remarkable descriptions of all sorts of
visible externally to the eye or outwardly available to
articles. This attitude is equally applicable to many other

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heard about this place, we shall be able to understand how it was
Again we shall be able to imagine all this if we realize that here
Druid priests, who remained behind here in the West, were able to
a harmonizing influence. And what they were able to give still lived
able to make a great impression upon spiritual Europe. The whole
order that what the bards were able to sing about the deeds of their

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physical world. We have been able to learn about the various spiritual
Group-work, but we could also hold two Courses last winter and enable
at what belongs to other worlds in order to be able to form a judgment
this view is justifiable. Observe how your life flows along with the
nature of a table. Inasmuch as the thought shimmers through our soul,
way a sort of astral net is spread out over a considerable number of
be able to show more particularly how human beings, who are individually
flowed into them. You will be able to understand an especially tragic
of the soul. For we would be infinitely poor beings if we were not able
be very limited beings if we were not able gradually to become master
be able to carry out their intention. Before anything at all is begun,

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that is definitely required in order to be able to grasp the results
nature. The plant-nature as such would not be able to call forth animal
this astral peculiarity. You will have heard of the remarkable parallelism
— how the wine in vessels shows a quite remarkable activity when
very remarkable. He finds a certain astral substantiality, of which he
creatures that have a remarkable life as marine creatures. We see in them
about and not be able to keep in balance if they had not grown on a
enabled to reach other creatures for food. The “medusae” move
us in an extremely remarkable way!
physical. If human beings had not been able to delay their incorporation
until they could achieve the suitable physical density, then they would
has, in the first place, remarkable stripes running along the sides,
denser; the fish would no longer be able to move according to the pressure
that enables it in the first place to make use of the pressure of the
head ends towards the back, there are the gills, and these enable the
inside. And what is quite outside in the fish — the remarkable

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of knowledge. This may sound unbelievable for modern science! One can
its contents would never be able to experience the other parts of the
of the astral world. Even if such a one had been able through occult

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inevitable that widespread circles, especially in the world of
closely connected with a widespread, and understandable, trait in the
of the favourable or unfavourable influences of heavenly bodies upon
occasions was able to adjust his life according to the
in the alleged hour of birth and that the astrologer might be able to
the year 1634 would be extremely unfavourable for Wallenstein. Kepler
away by the time of these unfavourable conditions. He did not
de Brahe made a remarkable prediction, derived from the movements of
then would be extremely unfavourable. I will leave it an open
would be there, that an extremely unfavourable constellation
years, there would be the very unfavourable constellation due to the
due to the unfavourable influences of Mars had been stemmed by the
the year that had been indicated as the period of the unfavourable
without criticism. In those times too they were quite capable of
childhood. If we study the longer sweep of human life, remarkable
and what he experienced in early youth. We shall be able to say: If,
may have been able to devote himself to study but was suddenly
Egypto-Chaldean epoch. In a remarkable way, those who observe deeply
of soul will enable men actually to perceive the threads of these
instincts, nevertheless the following is true: When a man is able to
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inexplicable, but also to those when terror arises because as long as
instincts and desires along with unaccountable moods and inhibitions
said in forthcoming lectures. From direct observation, unobtainable in
answer our question. We shall then discover a remarkable fact, that
this one demanded he was unable to complete it during the year. So it
unable to finish his drawing, and re-experienced the same anxiety. This
which announced improvement in his drawing. He was able to achieve
into the body it will be unable to rise into consciousness. The forces
consciousness, he is able to know what is happening and functioning in
not applicable. For who performs the operation, even when it is carried
that this example is inapplicable, because in the depths of his soul
concerns in time and space, but enable us to attain the wide spaces of
although it enables man to make his descent he does not go so far as to
experiments, those “tools”, will never enable one to reach
but must always be able to extinguish it at the will. He must train his
but he is unable to think of it in the way he ordinarily thinks. He
manifold and allow of numerous interpretations, but he is unable to
the same remarkable turbulence of underlying force that we experience

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acceptable to many of our contemporaries we may count that of repeated
which we meet daily, and which are only explicable on a basis of these
in the soul, and leads to a fervent desire to know more of those inexplicable
to become a maid-servant. Then a nice, suitable young man whom the girl
under most difficult conditions, was able to think that at last some good
be inborn. We cannot fail to see, however, that very many plants are unable
go still further, we need only keep undeniable facts before our eyes —
so fortunate as to be able to say with the crystal: Nothing hinders me;
of a case that is indeed no legend, but the life of an exceedingly remarkable
unaccountable suffering. Good fortune need not be regarded merely as
my wisdom planned, all that I determined or was able to see beforehand. —
something useful now, perhaps when he is fifty he will be able to say: Yes,
is conceivable that this knowledge might become strength of soul in the
explicable to my spiritual understanding through my relation to the
world of man and fortune. For as long as our wisdom is applicable to
core that is explicable only in the light of repeated earth-lives. Thus
world-conception of spiritual science that we have been able to touch upon
rather must we be able to give him the real inner forces that lead beyond the

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how notable thinkers standing firmly upon the grounds of natural
origin as a huge living being, in order to be able to explain that
times, pointed out a notable passage in Darwin's publications,
able to transform itself to complicated and manifold forms. —
every specie is unchangeable and as old as nature, and that they are
immeasurable magnitude of His Might is surely always the same, and
our earth, in the conditions which are available for today's
able to be mediators of soul activity. But just as the mere inner
vegetable, plant forms. And so, if we have to imagine in connection
Such a thing is not able to
of which enables the spiritual investigator to look immediately into
formation. We find (which is geologically demonstrable and shown by
formative principle, but which were able to transform themselves
had to die out, those organizations which had remained more movable
was liable to quick changes, man had not entered into a form, but
more closely with their bodily nature, whereas man is able to develop
bodily life could become active only because man is able, within his
spiritual-soul being have that independence which enables him to go
from life to life, which enables him to pass his being in repeated
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although it is unable to penetrate to the most weighty problems lying
to speak, to the phenomena of life, must be able to bring the
death makes its appearance without our being able to give the ready
extremely remarkable position in which fundamentally every death,
every ending of life in the animal, vegetable or human kingdom is to
It is not unthinkable — although at first sight this must
path towards death. It would not be unthinkable that the powerful
often do which expect to be able to determine something about the
remarkable way, which shows us immediately how inadequate on the
kingdom, in favor of the vegetable, animal and human kingdoms. But
sense the single plant and everything vegetable upon the earth
that it becomes unserviceable, if he wants to keep his memory in good
has something very long to learn by heart it is clearly noticeable
means irreparable; on the contrary, the organism has been attacked in
he also reaches the point of being able to follow the process of
satisfy the imagination of many to be able to compare the sprouting
the soul content, with which the springtime is comparable; it is with
the merely vegetable in man. If, through the clairvoyant faculty, man
comparable for the whole earth with the withering of the plants
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theory of repeated earthly lives is the only reasonable one
capable of being experienced during life on Earth. Hegel puts
something able to wipe out this experiencing of the ego in
Among the innumerable concepts a man is able to form, not one
see? Tables, chairs, objects of that kind; but not everything
enables us to assume the reality of our ego. But how do we
frequently pointed out that a man is able, especially by
experiences in a way that not only enables me to relate them
to my ego, for it is undeniable that I have worked inwardly
enabled to work in freedom — by knowing the lack of
remarkable thing comes to light: that all that is best in
this maturity — everything that enables us to make the
which shows us how imperfect, how incapable we are, our very
up this all-important force, for we shall never by able to
our souls by being able to look back on the past: it is
across the surface of a table, even this slight pressure is
researches, is able to say about life after death. They are
loss of consciousness. The fact that he is able to have this
since in the morning we are able to go on consciously with
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innumerable people through the wide circulation of perhaps the best
significant moment — one that by innumerable souls is
the picture, an indescribable enchantment proceeds from it. All the
to experience. In a remarkable way this personality appears at the
being that enabled him to remain so fresh! For above all he did
and their original form is no longer recognizable) we have the “St.
which innumerable such studies exist as have just been described.
Leonardo, which was too great in itself ever to be able to reveal its
help. Besides this, we know that he trained innumerable pupils who
what he was able to represent on the canvas. Here it is necessary to
means were much too feeble to express this. Was he able, as without
with the suitable foreshortening because it brought out the
justifiable, just as little does the “sunniness” of the
satisfactory with the means available to man. If in the centuries to
background of the world. What souls had once been able to see, they
was all he had been able to give to the world.
through a life in which it was only able to bring to expression the
from previous lives. When we consider the unfavorable conditions of
applicable — we must apply them to the youthful Leonardo, who

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able to be once more in your midst. I would have come earlier, but for
mankind, will she now be able to follow these happenings to which she
when-so-ever we are able, with this faithful spirit, this faithful and
with her here on the physical plane in such a remarkable way, be able
catastrophe on the physical plane will awake only later to be able to
thoughts able to throw light on the objects and aims of the Spiritual
noticeable that in all parts of the world there are some members of
that this should have taken such a remarkable form. Sir Oliver Lodge
him to be at the front, they received some remarkable news from
and table-turning, communications so surprising that not only Sir
these, — only one who has real knowledge is able to distinguish
such seances, the communications do not appear very remarkable. It is
probable that the whole story would not have made so much impression
very remarkable, indeed exceptionally so. For here it was impossible
descriptions he gives. It is remarkable that such a learned man as Sir
forces was able to see an event still in the future. At the time she
The occultist is able to point out that since the year 1909 or
through which humanity in its evolution is now passing, if he is able

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additional forces will be super-added, forces which are not able to
able, although his consciousness was damped down, to see pictures and
back again to the Spiritual world, and must now be able to grasp it in
becomes so acute that we are able to grasp inwardly in our soul those
favourable moment for the approach of the Dead karmically connected
to one who is able to see into these things, it is extremely clear
ourselves, and may be able to call up, though perhaps but very
by some outer occurrence,’ we shall be able once more to find the
only remarkable; — it is indeed remarkable; but at the same time
which are able to seek a connection with the Spiritual world. He may
statesmen have prophesied even a few weeks ago as to the probable
in the same way, and it is quite remarkable to note that everywhere we

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practical and noble sense able to lead us to feel that there is within
will enable us some day to take in a Spirit-Self. We must also meet
were able to describe it quite concretely and objectively; describing
without special training, or without special gifts, was able to give
If a man is only capable of observing the meeting of two persons with
greet one another, and so on. But when he becomes able to observe such
where such things are understood, persons who are capable of selfless
visible. If there are persons then present who are able to see this in
able to observe these. This meeting with the genius is brought to the
has become movable; the hour when the ego meets the genius is now not
fixed. The second meeting is however not so movable; for that which is
up to Easter the conditions are particularly favourable for bringing
to the way in which Christ is now able to penetrate and permeate our
in reference to the always deplorable phenomenon of a man bringing his
People should at least become gradually able to develop a feeling
hand be gradually able to strengthen our waking life too. We shall
able to grasp the earnest signs of the times and undergo the severe
testing and probation, whether we are able with sufficient strength of

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to this subject; but it is preferable to do so after having discussed
how future generations will be able to account for the arising of this
true reality, he is unable to develop ideas and conceptions by which
reality, and really capable of penetrating the truth.
but to the whole intensive reality. We shall be able to grasp what is
result of that meeting, man is enabled to impress the experiences of
the present life so deeply into himself that they are able to work
has been able to give him, not in any one incarnation alone, but in
nature.’ We might say: A man who is able to think in the right
way of the Mystery of Golgotha, as a reality, is also able to think
intoxication. Concepts based on moral grounds are able to intoxicate,

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them; they are able to prove them, for, being partly true they can be
‘enjoyment’ because it is here directly applicable, but the
work and while we sleep we are able to get over our fatigue. This part
of the question is true: we are able to drive away fatigue by going to
the forces through which he is able to drive away fatigue, but it does
We shall be able fully to understand this matter if we enter somewhat
we, who have Spiritual Science, which to Plato was not attainable in
of the head, the etheric body is able to be constantly awake when in
We now see a remarkable connection: the ego is connected with the
to what we have called the baby — our ego. Innumerable secrets of
will only then be able to develop and unfold. This at the present day
conscious of this, it will be able to say to itself: ‘During
the human soul is now as a rule too weak to be able to realise in
The point is that if, on the other hand, we were now able to develop
think of doubting the existence of the spirit. We should then be able
waking man to deny the fact that there were tables and chairs. The
crucial point now is that mankind should once more become capable of
different! In a scientific refutation it is perhaps allowable not to
gradually able to develop the consciousness of what goes on between
capable of developing such ideas. What I am about to relate is of less
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 6. Man and the Super-Terrestrial
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the fables of external science with respect to worship of the stars.
part of the earth on which he lived, a man was then able in his ego
but man must develop so far as really to be able to experience the
become powerful enough to enable him, at a definite time in the
future, to learn so to strengthen it that he may be able to find the
for suitable persons to be subjected to a definite Psychical process
is able to communicate to the earth at such times, if the times could
and were able to communicate its secrets. These secrets were then
later on taught by those who perhaps, had long been unable themselves
social knowledge, they must be capable, having thereby become much
ordinances, without first seeking guidance from those who were able to
atavistic clairvoyance, through which he was able to experience in the
then are those who accepted the Mystery of Golgotha? They are able to
shall then be able to speak of Christ to the Jews, to the Chinese, to
able to understand equally.
high enough to be able to connect what took place historically on the
of three hundred and sixty-five days, so we ought to be able to find
astronomy it was quite justifiable to add Uranus and Neptune to our
be able to generate living beings in their laboratories from inorganic

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 7. Errors and Truths.
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In 1775 a very remarkable book appeared in Lyons, which even as early
those be able to make anything of this book whose knowledge is based
his dinner table, or if he be a chemist, to the salts with which he
by this he does not understand the white table salt, nor what the
still able to grasp an enormous number of gigantic truths which could
understand!’ He would hardly be able to give any other answer
notable remark. One sees that he speaks from a rich fullness of
lofty-mindedness through Spiritual Science, which will enable them to
an age in which such remarkable scientific figures as those of Freud
attitude throughout the last third of his book is very remarkable. If
Johann Jacob Moser. A goodly number of remarkable minds in
Murrhard. A very remarkable personality, in whom was concentrated in a
With respect to this Richard Rothe says something very remarkable:
peculiar doctrine. It is capable of bearing a completely different,
and complete understanding. It is certainly able to draw forth the
before being able to penetrate the power of the thoughts contained
imperishable spring-like brilliance which has shone in eternal youth
their art, they are not able to decipher; yet that is above all what
we ought to be able to read, if we wish to understand the altogether
Ötinger hoped to be able to reach an understanding of the Bible on
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Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Universe
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practical and noble sense able to lead us to feel that there is within
will enable us some day to take in a Spirit-Self. We must also meet
were able to describe it quite concretely and objectively; describing
without special training, or without special gifts, was able to give
If a man is only capable of observing the meeting of two persons with
greet one another, and so on. But when he becomes able to observe such
where such things are understood, persons who are capable of selfless
visible. If there are persons then present who are able to see this in
able to observe these. This meeting with the genius is brought to the
has become movable; the hour when the ego meets the genius is now not
fixed. The second meeting is however not so movable; for that which is
up to Easter the conditions are particularly favourable for bringing
to the way in which Christ is now able to penetrate and permeate our
in reference to the always deplorable phenomenon of a man bringing his
People should at least become gradually able to develop a feeling
hand be gradually able to strengthen our waking life too. We shall
able to grasp the earnest signs of the times and undergo the severe
testing and probation, whether we are able with sufficient strength of

Title: The Story of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily: Lecture I
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remarkable pictures, and to explain why Goethe made use of these
is capable of understanding the Fairy Tale knows that Goethe was a
this Earth, such as tables and chairs and so on, are to the ordinary
they were only able to describe the transmutation of the human forces
student was already able to look back at his life from the other
the animal world, we find that there are objectionable animals and
become capable of good and evil. This world which is inserted between
the service of egoism is objectionable and worthless, will be
have ascended from the depths, and all men will be able to serve in
forces of nature. Its shadow is sometimes able, when the light is no
But the shadow of the giant can alone reach across. Man is only able
that not only a few may be able to wander across, but that all men
should be able to cross backwards and forwards at any time. The
It is a remarkable feature that Goethe transformed the hut of the
as a shadow, — has been given a remarkable mission. Now this
It is of profound significance if we are able to understand the words
second part was found in his writing table, closed and sealed. He put
The indescribable, here it is done.

Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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he is able to understand life even when it seems to annihilate itself
And here we find a remarkable understanding of death, not as theory or
forms of life. But Darwin himself declared that he was not able
life and are unable to fathom it. Ever and again, when information
Science is able to say something about how life is expressed in forms,
being able to solve this riddle and merely says: Ignorabimus we
time, and that he does not know what his reasonable consciousness
particular, are the most unknowable of all things for him; his
reasonable consciousness seems to him almost equally unknowable, he
himself as an animal seems rather more knowable, animals and plants
more knowable still, and inanimate and infinitely diffused matter
seems to him the most knowable of all.
What is indubitably known to him, his reasonable consciousness,
appears to him unknowable because it is not simple, while what la
certainly incomprehensible to him — illimitable and eternal
matter — seems to him to be the most knowable of all things
being is able to apprehend as his life, although the overcomplicated
we know that this should not be censured but regarded as inevitable -
you transform the human being from within will you be able to surmount
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Title: Lecture: On The Three Magi
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available. But since that century some light has been thrown on the
need years of preparation but will be able from the beginning, to
is true, a flowing, up-surging light, but is not yet able to guide.

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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fasting, suitable content and practical requirements for meditative
looking upon it as capable of being both widened and uplifted. Is it
from which I am able to know certain things and not others. But it is
absorbed since he was able to speak and think self-consciously, is a
man then was not yet a being capable of clear thinking. All this
appropriate way, is capable of so seizing upon man's aura that this
sense-organs to be able to see into the material world. As the outer
forming, developing, and interweaving the available capacities of the
when he has progressed so far that he is capable of perceiving not
etheric body — to be able to work out of itself upon the
nature, is an experience that man has when he becomes able to
able to survive as we now survive. As soon as the outer situation
separate beings absolutely inconceivable. This is still more the case
has come far enough to be able to utter the name of all things. Man
able to utter one single name. That is the name he gives himself:
Swan. The Chela who has been able to raise himself to the point of
great signs of this script. He is capable of this when he has
I have merely been able to
this standpoint that they have been able to speak in as inspired a

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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fasting, suitable content and practical requirements for meditative
unattainable. Isolation, or spiritual solitude, is very
No one is able to proceed without the guidance of a master, or guru.
When the yogi has found such a guru, he must spend a considerable
indispensable that all life usually surrounding the yogi cease
impressions of the world around him. He must be able to make
prescribes for himself. He must be able to concentrate to such
at the same time be able to establish harmony with the external world
knowledgeable concerning our conditions on earth and that you
unbelievable is the fundamental condition for all occult
earliest youth you had heard about a venerable person, an individual
look up in this way to such a venerable personality, then you have
it was still mingled with the higher nature, nothing was noticeable.
of the character is an indispensable foundation for the so-called
unimportant from what is important, that is, what is perishable from
the imperishable. This requirement is easy to indicate but
He must be able to take it apart into its smallest detail and to
arrive at considerable knowledge about a quartz-crystal simply
by looking at it. The occultist, however, must be able to take
enable us to meet matters with the greatest possible openness. In
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun
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imperishable in the world! A glance at the ‘Christmas Reflections’ as
came that great moment in evolution when the immortal, imperishable
was able to receive into itself the imperishable soul. These ancestors
able to form a clear idea of the process of the development of the
diverted from its course. It is only because of this inviolable
regulated and how wonderfully it is able to stand the strain put upon
able to some extent to visualise the future of the human race and the
unshakable conviction which makes our own evolving soul akin to the

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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fasting, suitable content and practical requirements for meditative
for most Europeans, this is impracticable. It brings with it
schools is that this relationship is the strictest imaginable.
quite manageable — but it is something quite different
physical brain which enable him to call himself “I.” This
organ, which enables man to call himself “I,” is

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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fasting, suitable content and practical requirements for meditative
comprehension of the group-soul if he is able to fashion a form that
higher temperatures, in which metals were able to flow all around as
changeable, but man has always participated in these various
noticeable to a man how easily he discovered analogies in every
onyx stands in a remarkable relation to the oscillations of man's
Theodor Amadeus Hoffman, that remarkable spirit who from time to time
hold in a remarkable way of artistic imagination.

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture II
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begin with we must ask how a remarkable hereditary line such as we
of that which is unable to make an impression on the senses.
experience only one thing within ourselves in an immutable manner:
it is understandable that the effects of music on the human soul are
attains the third state of consciousness when he is capable of
however, he is unable to reproduce anything close to the ideal that
faithful copies of the Devachanic world. If we are at all capable of

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture III
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enable them to realize their potential. The family below on the
years in Devachan, if a suitable physical body is available on the
exerted from below. When Germany needed a Bismarck, a suitable
body existed a million years earlier, they would have been able to
spiritual that they are unable to unite themselves with our coarse
ether,” which is the force that enables oxygen, for example, to
were as yet incapable of developing warm blood. Only a physical body
capable of developing warm blood links a soul to itself. As soon as
amphibians, have blood with variable temperatures.
been mute and incapable of uttering sound. They had to master the
element. The soul will then be capable of guiding consciously the
the point in time just described, man became capable of pouring forth
spatial orientation that enables one to experience the three
we find three remarkable loops, three semi-circular canals that stand
In order to be able to live fully in their predispositions,

Title: Lecture: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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this time of the year, forces that are favourable for such an
thousands of years but must also be able to survey the whole course of
able in the Holy Night to participate in the festival of the birth of
will he must so order his life that it flows in rhythm, immutable and
Just as a change of the sun's orbit is inconceivable, it is equally
inconceivable that the rhythm of such a life can be broken. The Sun
Hero was regarded as the embodiment of this inalterable rhythm;
through the power of the higher Man within him, he was able to direct
right numbers with the right pictures, were able to read the Book.

Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: Lecture 2: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
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myths is that we should certainly know more than we are able to say,
unriddle it all, we should gradually be able to find the right
course be able to kill them, if you live up to the statement on your
little table and left the door wide open; on the table he placed all
wrestle with me, you must be able to do something better than that,”
suitable for him and for his people. Now he had an old friend, a poor
table in pearls; then he made it known that the maiden before whom
horse being freed and able to free the others.
suitable wife. The latter showed him the way to the neighboring fairy
remarkable clairvoyance, the remains of the primeval clairvoyance.
astral body and sentient soul alone. We ourselves were able then
consciousness soul is able to do is far removed from those strong
them living at that point, not able to do much with their minute
but able to conceive the relationship of life to spiritual reality,
shrewdness are able in all sorts of clever ways to overcome the crude
we are able to do this by putting ourselves in that intermediate
guiding human beings to the spiritual world. He is able to give the
them, the powers are aroused that enable the king to understand and
outer appearance, he is able to find what is right for him. With
revealed in such pictures. We must be able to imagine the situation:
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture II: Christianity in Human Evolution: Leading Individualities and Avatar Beings
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been able to see from the one lecture given here on the more
shall be able to somehow draw the connecting links in the
capable of accomplishing their development in higher, more
the being is able to descend repeatedly in certain intervals
grounded in deeper truths. Those who are able to conduct
super-sensible constitution of this human being are capable of
body and the etheric body are capable of doing the same.
were, was compelled to condescend in order to be able to
one with Shem's etheric body to be able to give a
physical world. Only by being able to point to such facts of
innumerable times; by ego, I mean the “I” as an
of nationality, was mature and suitable enough to have his
had always been able to experience inwardly in miniature a
possible for a number of people in those centuries to be able
who were able to have such an etheric body and who could
as we have been able to describe this writer of the
those days the human beings had egos capable of forming
bodies, and this enabled him to accomplish what he did. Many
the case of that remarkable personality Elisabeth of
life will enable you to follow the course of her life 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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other theory would be able to advance those comprehensive
sleep. If human beings are able to sleep and their thinking
ourselves: “However insurmountable some of the problems
this light, Spiritual Science is capable of working in life
only then were they able to cultivate it. At this time, human
ancient Persian culture, human beings were still capable of
unable to take this consciousness into the time period
preserve the physical body so that the soul might be able to
ages, the soul was able to gaze into the beyond. It has now
Osiris was unable to give to the human soul is told in an
soul would be able to overcome its loneliness in the beyond,
sight to the souls below. And the soul was able to realize
evil Asuras lay hidden, but human beings were not yet capable
ancient Persia, life in the human body was not yet capable of
development also differed. What enabled the ancient Indian to
would have been unsuitable for the Western world. It needed a
able to enjoy the treasures and riches of this world, but
Persia, Zarathustra had been able to behold the Sun God in
Sun God was able to kindle in him something that went ever
steadily progressed — was able to form a new astral
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 1: The Mission of Spiritual Science
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experiences. But the experiences available to him at that time gave no answer
from the way he worked that he was only able to use his intellect to give a
who from their own observation and experience are able to answer questions
available, and that answers can thus be given from direct experience as to
inner being man is capable of development, and that his powers have been
something which enables him to recreate the world in the light of his inward
inevitable that these inner faculties should remain as they are now, equipped
only to reflect the outer world? Is it not perfectly reasonable to ask
— will be opened and will enable him to perceive a spiritual world
indomitable voice within his soul. And so for Kant it was certain that in
conclusions, but through a contemplative power of judgement we are able
human soul, for they enable man to gaze into a spiritual world, just as
through the external instruments of the senses he is able to gaze into the
unexplored. Spiritual Science is therefore able to show, as we shall see,
sorrows of the soul; with knowledge that enables the human being to endure
for knowledge, one comes across an old book containing remarkable pictures
man, so that a man could say to himself: You are able to think, but your
contraries. This new faculty, which is able to discern outward nature in a
today penetrate as researchers into the spiritual world and are then able to
look to the realm which the spiritual researcher is able to investigate. Then
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 3: The Mission of Truth
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were able to close our lecture on the Mission of Anger
becomes man in the true sense and is able to progress from stage to stage. It
activities and everything that goes out from him. If he is unable to find
teacher, though unable to break out into anger, is also incapable of acting
time it gradually transforms the powers of the soul and makes it capable of
but strengthened, by the experience. If a man were incapable of anger when
human interest. His aphorisms, found after his death, include a remarkable
statement. He wrote: No man in this world is indispensable. When one goes,
truth — no man is indispensable!
a photograph of a remarkable tree. Does the photograph give a true picture of
a justified existence on its own account. Unable to escape from his
the primary, inexorable demand is, that if we are to advance towards truth we
in strength and will enable us to cast off self-interest. Anger
through personal effort only by beings capable of thought. Inasmuch as truth
attainable by creative thought are limited, for man is weak in the face of
stage in life. It fills him with joy when he is able to grasp truths of this
Goethe was so wonderfully united with truth that he was able to sketch the
grandest art. We see in it how Goethe was able to make a start towards the
you come upon something remarkable and highly significant at the very start.
remarkable statement that will not be misunderstood if we are alive to
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 4: The Mission of Reverence
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Are but a parable;
The indescribable
is it that I am able to think not only about my development in the past but
they are able to conceive it in terms of thought. This love is indeed
indispensable before the super-sensible can be penetrated by the light of
super-sensible unknown. This quality of the will, which enables a man to wish
Are but a parable;
The indescribable
mortification of the will. A man who pursues this course becomes incapable of
soul is unable to relate itself properly to the world and to other people, if
Now the remarkable thing is, that the qualities acquired in childhood and
able to reach a right understanding of the experience of the human soul when
Are but a parable;
The indescribable
Are but a parable;
The indescribable

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 6: Asceticism and Illness
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the postulate that at no stage in the evolution of mankind is it justifiable
means of the forces latent in the soul, man is able to penetrate into the
ego as a mere picture; in any case it is undeniable that the ego and the
existence, a human being were able so to stimulate the inner parts of his
world, he would then be able to perceive other things than those which come
which is no longer capable of life, the dry wood, and set it up in the form
be well able to distinguish reality from fantasy, just as in ordinary life we
in Greek the word means working on oneself, making oneself capable of
and available in the right numbers — that is asceticism exercise.
hours of work. In relation to our energies it is malleable, amenable to our
know that they are incapable of doing the necessary exercises — that
verifiable ground the student can hold a well-founded belief that the
a deeper sense. So far we have considered only people who are not capable of
in so far as he is capable of using them in a right and orderly way. Here,
and gives way to an almost uncontrollable urge to develop his soul-powers
indolent to absorb slowly and in the right way the available facts of
different aim: they may be more comfortable but they can easily cause harm.
is and enables the soul to master it; the other asceticism leaves the soul as
that these faculties will be strengthened and able to prevail over the body.
ourselves incapable of maintaining a normal relationship with the outer
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 7: Human Egoism
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capable of misusing in a one-sided way certain forces within him —
of vegetable growth reaches its highest manifestation in the blossom and of
for then the vegetable law retreats and becomes again merely a
sense-organ which is now able to look on the light. We can discern in the
enable us to become conscious of it. Thus the entire sentient body, the whole
only within himself, capable only of fashioning a Sentient Soul in his
sentient body; he can go out beyond himself. Nor is he capable only of seeing
world, and so is unable to give them back enriched with his own interest and
enables the world to attain a summit in himself, he then has to do
observation of life. One needs only to look at people who are unable to take
enable a man to become greater in himself and therefore greater in the
man, as a self-conscious being, is able through a right comprehension of his
is enriched and enabled to develop, if, as far as possible, we realise our
had been written on account of this remarkable figure.
develop in her. The whole psychology of Mignon is most remarkable. In her own
it is quite conceivable that he should
She is not able
Finally, she is led to a remarkable stage in her life. One day she says to
comes to her which enables her to see in every natural object, in every
that it was for him a kind of confession to be able to communicate the
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 8: Buddha and Christ
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not concerned with names but with ascertainable truth, independently of any
never been defeated by a sage, being always able to repulse any objections
the point of this parable quite clear, Nagasena says: “Thus it is also
the argument even more clearly by turning to another parable that Nagasena
Nagasena's parables to work upon us, we can see clearly enough how the
then return to his parable of the chariot and might say, speaking now in a
oneself correctly to life, will gradually enable a man to kill off the desire
its state of bliss, as attainable only by withdrawing from the ever-repeated
enable man to look at the outer world — from which Buddhism wishes to
life-forces that will enable him to make use of every incarnation in such a
of primitive wisdom which went far beyond anything we have been able to
faculties: he will be able to look clairvoyantly into the spiritual world
developed in the course of time. How has man reached the point of being able,
the inner force of his Ego, will be able to find a substitute for the old
That is why it can happen today that men of fine and noble nature, unable to
which Spiritual Science does full justice, will be able to lead men to an
enables them to think in this way. It would be unpromising, to say the least,
very difficult to manage. With such super-sensible, hardly imaginable things I
Schopenhauer the unmistakeable projection of

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 9: Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
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notable especially for directing attention to certain subtle or frontier
outrage that speculations, with this brilliant model available as a
against him, and from this material he drew some notable conclusions. Anyone
variable, so that here it could be attributed to chance.
done. When it has been done, the only tenable outlook — so we are told
science. It depends on whether or not we are able to discern the spirit, and
springs which show an indubitable ebb and flow; in some cases the well ebbs
regarded as scientifically irrefutable, and yet, although no objections to
it are heard, it is in fact highly vulnerable.
ways that are comparable to the breathing process in human beings. Moreover,
all this laughable; but among men who have a feeling for life, be it on such
given as a stimulus; then they would be able to find proofs through a more
we are enabled to see something of the connection between the two.
instruments aside, he is unable to perceive the spiritual world, since in
he was unable to control effectively his thoughts about the world around him.
the daytime waking hours? Yes, it is, and what we find is in remarkable
these effects is comparable with the course of the phases of the moon. I will
of tune, unable to write anything. People who observe this in themselves know
and a warmth of feeling are necessary, alternate in a remarkable way with
during which he is particularly well able, thanks to the forces just
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture One: On the Investigation and Communication of Spiritual Truths
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still have been able to describe the events in Palestine even
spiritual record known as the Akasha Chronicle, decipherable
modern age we should not find so many people unable to
easy, comfortable way of finding them. Although many people
should never be frightened by or blind to the inevitable
been able to present about the mysteries and realities of the
that even without clairvoyance, everyone will be able to test
test what he says will be able to do so without clairvoyance.
able to see and investigate in the spiritual world, it
Among many other valuable spiritual truths and communications
grasped and understood and has been able to translate into
be able to bring tidings from the spiritual world and make
such communications should be made available to contemporary
between the clairvoyant who has been able to investigate the
who has merely heard the communications without being able in
spiritual development a man may have been a reasonable,
man's physical body there is something which enables him to
he must be able to do. Spiritual unsteadiness comes about
harm. If a man spiritually undeveloped were capable of acting
these individuals may still be able to acquire faculties
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Two: Higher Knowledge and Man's Life of Soul
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incapable of testing what they have been told from spiritual
unable to do so could have no sense of the value these truths
able actually to discover them? A trivial analogy can be
being able to make them but upon being able to put them to
spiritual poverty we should experience if we were capable of
healthy sense of truth and acceptable to sound reasoning.
long as we live in the world of the senses, we have been able
comparable with the ‘I’-experience. If they are

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Three: The Tasks of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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on and men were not then able to the same extent to injure
than has been the case since we have been able ourselves to
Anyone capable of proclaiming it felt it working and seething
invisible script. It would have been unthinkable in those
the Old Indian culture-epoch is comparable with the first
comparable with those current during the post-Atlantean epoch
exist to-day. Something capable of being clothed in human
forms of thought applicable to the physical plane. In the
concepts were now available and were applied by the Egyptians
what has been spiritually acquired in fact applicable to
began to ask whether it is justifiable to apply supersensible
man was least able to recognise the supersensible, because
with the web of concepts available in Aristotelianism it was
been and was therefore at first quite incapable of accepting
men were no longer able to understand how the activity of the
could not finish it. He was able to give an outline of what
the soul — this is much less practicable, for the whole
gradually dawn on men that while they are certainly able to
fundamental understanding of electricity and yet be able to
Spiritual Science you are able to apply to astrological
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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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Spiritual Science, erroneous ideas would be inevitable.]
where they were able to gaze into the spiritual world and the
able to speak to others about the secrets of the spiritual
of Nazareth was able to speak of these secrets through what
able to look into the spiritual worlds and go forth to teach
lend themselves to theoretical interpretation but be able to
enabled them to see into the spiritual world. In certain
world streamed into them and they were able to gaze into the
aware that they themselves possessed a faculty capable of
Man will be able to say: I penetrate into the secrets of the
spiritual world, henceforward they would be able to remain
that he was able to suppress the ‘I’ and kindle
and more incapable of receiving the secrets of the spiritual
body was becoming more and more incapable of attaining what
human beings had once been able to attain with the old
place, look for their instruments in suitable beings of flesh
are able to feel what this means can you have an idea of what
enable the Kyrios to take hold of the soul. The way must be
Zodiac. If a candidate was unable at once to attain the
was able to place all his faculties and all he knew and felt
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suitable subjects for so large a Group.
course of his incarnations on the Earth, man has been able to
to injure it, he would be unable to do so; it would always
deeply enough into his own nature to be able to injure the
capable of working upon the astral body and part of the
unleashed around him. This is inevitable, for it is just
given an upward impetus. Disharmonies are always inevitable
enabled him to describe the temptation presented in his
of choosing the most suitable personality. The same standard

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elucidate in the last lecture are followed by remarkable
Nevertheless, men whose powers of knowledge enable them to
of Zarathustra, we shall be able to hear something of what
through knowledge of Spiritual Science that we shall be able
comparable with the descent of man into the flesh. For
then take with him whatever he was able to acquire on the
remembrance breaks off at this point, the most favourable age
that point of time a child is highly impressionable. Just
consciousness makes this inevitable. Human beings nowadays
enabled Orpheus to be the leader and organiser of
has here been able to unite with the supersensible reality in
— you now know what that means — was still able to see into
mouthpieces for utterances of the spiritual worlds were able
he would be unable to retain what was revealed to him through
able to remember back only to a certain point of time; beyond
‘I’, we should witness a happening comparable

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after a considerable time that we shall see where a
transcend anything they are able to achieve in everyday life.
lacks the quality of thought that would be capable of
Akasha Chronicle, so that a clairvoyant is able to see the
unable to come to terms with their own soul-life which in
sullen, unable to adjust themselves inwardly and are in many
say, such spiritual knowledge as we possess enables us to
The most valuable
thereby prolong our life, we can enable the freshness of
palm. For anyone able to observe clairvoyantly, a hand, with
contact with the spirit in the water and has a considerable
find considerable support for their views in this fact. But
observe attentively we shall also be able to differentiate
unable to master the circumstances of external life. In
to absurdity. When our ‘I’ is able in mirth or
portrayed before us, that we should be able to feel the

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widely than it is to-day, that men will be able to form an
capable of making it everywhere a reality. He does not pause
have an impulse in his soul but to be able to bear this
words in St. Mark's Gospel are directly applicable to
in the other Gospels. But there is one very remarkable
the immediate future it will be more and more noticeable that
valuable source of inspiration for the epoch in which the
able to hear a sound. — This is not meant to be taken as
shall be able to relate it to our own times and to the

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suggestions which will enable you to elaborate the
prepared for by a Moon-religion. You will only be able to
nevertheless recognisable form.
that something inexplicable passed through the souls of
Europeans at that time. Science considers it inexplicable but
place. If we are able to see these things in the right light
these side-streams will ever be able to throw light on the
able to bring to Europeans many ideas through false Messiahs
only of humanity but of the whole world, and you will be able
and unalterable system into Europe and to produce out of it
remarkable connection of a Christian legend with the figure
great majority of them are incapable of assimilating ideas
is for scholars that current concepts are quite unable to
elucidate the innumerable facts that are constantly coming to
concepts are available. When speaking to-day of heredity in
remarkable contrast between two naturalists of the modern age
thinkers to a very considerable extent. The characters of the
spiritual perception will have made his soul capable of using
way into the new element of air. But men must be able, in
capable of experiencing a renewal of what happened to St.
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considerable time.—
that it is a phenomenon scientifically unjustifiable and also
the kind we have been able to give. Many of you would not
perhaps be able to tell you.’ So the King's son
years and you will find my father who will certainly be able
son was able to take it back to the Dragon-mother. She said
King's son was again able to take it back to the
it you will be able to rescue me and we shall be
had cared for. With it he was able to lead the Flower-Queen
was able to survive only because for most of his life he was
these ideas without being able to penetrate them spiritually,
risen to spiritual heights. In 1831 he wrote a remarkable
way as to kindle human powers and forces; and it will enable
thought-forms that would enable souls in our own day to have
who composed them gave ear to others who were able to impart
scientifically acceptable and lay hold of the hearts of men.

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remarkable. If I were to talk about fairy tales as much as I'd like
rather bold comparison — to the relationship of an enjoyable
one is able to say, from savoring a food, what its particular use
unapproachable grounds of your existence that was somehow akin to
unfathomable spiritual relationships belonging to the human soul. It
clairvoyant; people were able in certain intermediate conditions
happenings of a fairy tale and the unfathomable, profound experiences
present, something she can trust, something she might be able to
future. Someday you will be able to do what is still impossible, for
can enter into an alliance with it. But you must truly be able to
unconscious conversation with the more capable part of the soul, you
what the miller's daughter had to experience in not being able to
and there you will be able to understand it. The actual details, however,
terms, it is preferable to describe the effect of the sun from one of
consciousness. Because of this, they were able to come close to the
dead flies on the table, he boasted, “A hundred with one blow!”
for research that is able to arrive at the wellsprings of the tales
they are able to combine the richest spiritual wisdom with the
traces the path from the unknown, unknowable depths of the soul to
what is most difficult to understand is able to be put in the most
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unserer Zeit gerade dann am leidenschaftlichsten ablehnend

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schon durchaus respektable Alter von

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Sinneswahrnehmungen ablenkende Lehre.

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die äußerste Hülle ablegt. Dieser physische Leib
und in dem ausgespannten Tableau des Ätherleibes wie diesen belebend

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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fasting, suitable content and practical requirements for meditative
the spiritual worlds that is suitable for souls of the present day
made, for another who is not himself capable of this to judge them
were in the position of being able to produce a real being within
“My efforts have enabled me to provide a stage on which
this feeling of isolation to be able to bear the inner animation to
inwardly visible, but there are all conceivable hindrances
have upon entering the spiritual world. For one to be able to
but one is able to eliminate a thought and call up another — to
comfortable way than through true meditation. Thus it is possible,
predisposition is favorable, to approach the second portal. One can
renders him incapable of distinguishing between egotism and altruism.
consciousness of them, and then they are not able to distinguish
devours us. The difficulty is that we are no longer able to
which the dragon is woven, and it is the sun-forces that enable us to
standpoint of science this is also indispensable. But when it is
acquiring concepts capable of helping us onward in the
I am able to communicate to

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sublime. If human souls are able to celebrate the Easter festival
because we are able to die in the way we do. But this is bound up with
upon how deeply men are able to experience these thoughts. That souls

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relatively long period of time, I am able to speak to you
were becoming more and more favorable, and that good
available — was a question addressed to the German
bring about a second revolution in Germany will be able to
know, if we were in a Position to let more people capable of

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that makes you capable of thinking something through to its
conclusion, ask yourself if you are then still capable of not
different kind! Logically, you will no longer be able to do
imponderables from teacher to child.
very knowledgeable through these theories, for they are
you are able to see what was mainly at work in the human body
able to give, one comes to know the human being in the
but it was still noticeable in more ancient Greek times by
were applicable also to the soul; actually, above all, one
malleable substance to the soul forces that make it healthy.
from a soul that is unable to use its body as an apparatus, a
attainable from spiritual science. People today indulge only
after death as two things that are inseparable. Knowledge

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early as it does, is a remarkable foretaste of all that came so much
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“brotherhood” is a reasonable translation of the German,
it is not totally satisfactory. There is no suitable gender-neutral
I showed you in the lecture, which I was able
world are best adapted who are able to fight their enemies, to subdue
all beings that are now living in the world would be able to overcome
that those tribes became powerful which were able to bring the
and demand; rather one was able to regulate both. The trade groups in
was available. If we look at the wages of that time, in consideration
their environment, who are able to go down into their inner selves
develop to powerful and able people, and they will have the
shall not believe that the one or the other is able to accomplish
best in such a circle if we are able in practical life to disregard
life in a Anthroposophical manner. Only then we will be able to
the most practical ones, because they are able to deal with the
able to listen as long as the other one talks than to jump into their
becomes available, it becomes practical.
In this way we are able with fearful soul, with
able to do it from today to tomorrow, that's beyond all doubt. But if
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Title: Lecture: Easter
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available to everyone.
consequential facts of all powerful nature. It is admirable,
reasonable creation possible; it is a concentration of the
incapable of developing even an initial thought for the
investigation enables us to arrive at the point of time when
the turning-point where man became able to use his sense
during earth-life enabled them to experience —

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gets to grips with life — is capable of grasping what
anything of a bodily nature, the human soul is able to evoke
essential preliminaries which enable the soul to make itself
practises in order to be able to achieve something, the
exercises enable him to do this more easily and with greater
capable of genuine spiritual investigation. The first
spiritual activity. This quality is indispensable for genuine
own independent judgment and decisions, is not very suitable
suitable for the cultivation of spiritual knowledge. The
must be from that adopted to physical things, enables us for
able to look into the spiritual world knows, firstly, that
it as a reliable basis.
professorial status. Even today this really valuable book is
elements in the human soul capable of showing what is
not the faculty which in ordinary waking life enables man to
In the dream the woman is very miserable about all this and
from one object to the other. Naturally you will be able to
they spurt fluids which will be able to kill these beasts. He
the wild beasts into lovable puppies. Obviously,
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Weile den Blick ganz von dem ablenken, was in der
die «Grablegung», weitere vier Jahre später die

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all of this, and so we can say that in favourable cases he lives in
which we have this unspeakable word. We can call this a post-mortem
which the fifth is the unspeakable name.

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disturbing thoughts, and it's this sphere that's the most suitable
the wall with a loud and physically unexplainable crash. This

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awaking himself thereby. He would be able to know: In the realm from

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fault. A farmer would easily be able to understand Saturn, Sun and

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they work on the composition of letters and syllables. One who is

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saying the soul syllable (AUM) in the right way.

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in the sacred syllable signifies our lower individuality;

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-4-10
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sacred word and unspeakable name resounds, the pupil should make a

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away. He must be able to wait with his interpretation until later. If such
we'll know what it means. We must be able to wait and be
feeling must go to what's unutterable. And only when

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and etheric bodies enables a man to heal wounds faster. Diseases of the
very uncomfortable when this loosening begins. Theosophical study
One can intensify this through a suitable diet. Diets give the physical
someone who would utter the sacred, unspeakable name in an unsuitable

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effect They enable a man to fit himself into the hierarchies. New
time for these opportunities is particularly favorable now, and later
some thing that's real. Our time is particularly favorable for

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really studied hard in between, we'll be able to experience
over there will never be able to press into the spiritual world. That's

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they'll want to think, but won't be able to. This

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able to mix a virginal element into earth evolution that's not
beyond everything that is outwardly findable and knowable, and even

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after continued practice one will be able to have it much longer.

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explained in words, because very few esoterics would be able to
have been able to understand this image. Now it must be explained as
might not be able to put this into practice right away. It
able to get rid of all antipathies.
would never have been able to come to earth among the Hebrew people

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comes to meet us in the way of a human being is unthinkable if
Golgotha that enabled a man to also feel the activity of mother

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happened in him in the meantime he'll often be able to find
should cultivate there. We're not always able to have these

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture I: Aim and Being of Spiritual Research
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if the search is directed to the everlasting, imperishable aim
ideas, and mental pictures that are suitable for the physical
writings enable the soul to get such stronger forces from
feeling, a clearer willing which are able then to look at the
greatly applicable to the outer nature banishes what the human
more powerful; only then you are able to adapt the observation
many people who were able to approach the supersensible doing
develop the suitable spiritual-scientific methods if he wants
and mental pictures which just are suitable to look at the
outer nature in the sense of natural sciences are not suitable
and concepts to be able to regulate the conditions of the soul
science will be able to show that with its research. It can

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture II: The Human Being as Being of Soul and Spirit
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were not explicable with physical and chemical laws, one
but we must think as the just available associations determine
which changes then into an image of will. Thus, you become able
a higher, malleable organ with the much faster proceeding life

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture III: Goethe as Father of Spiritual Research
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in the soul that appears like an insurmountable obstacle. While
seriously: is this human thinking able to penetrate into the
takes an unproven and unprovable sentence as starting point,
spirit. Goethe was clear in his mind that someone who is able
forces are able to transform what is only a part of the spinal
However, thereby you become able to settle down in Goethe's
disposition by which he differs from someone who only is able
appears which enables the human being to create or feel the
consciousness which Schiller did not have; this enabled him to
that he experiences in the body to the imperishable that he
you are able to wait. The soul can exert itself ever so much to
certain beings or certain facts, it will not yet be able to
then he was not able to work on. Someone who creates

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture IV: Mind, Soul and Body of the Human Being
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people such a simile seems to be very likeable, one can say
of mystic contemplation. However, as far as one is able to go
However, it is inevitable that the spiritual researcher and
Someone who deals with human or other living conditions is able
You have to separate both strictly. Someone who is not able to
results, to be able to observe spiritually. Thereby that
phenomena of life to be able to illuminate the spiritual realm
both alternating conditions are suitable to move some way into
awake life. Thereby you become able to differentiate what you
degrees of intensity. You must be able to observe the complete
what you see, but you just behold it. There you become able to
are not applicable to our western cultural development in the
experience the imperishable that goes through births and deaths

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture V: Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
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appropriate exercises, you become gradually able to say what is
know that there is something immediately experienceable
with the usual consciousness on the body. If he is not able
but does not have something complete. You have to be able to
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consciousness in which he is not yet able to perceive between
interesting scientific investigations are available. If you are
able to go, for example, into some interesting explanations of
occupied me for thirty to thirty-five years for which I am able
imperishable everlasting universe at the same time? However, it
slow changes of our earth during a reasonable time to millions
phases, as a solidifying ball, for unfathomable periods,

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture VI: The Historical Life of Humanity and Its Riddles
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Really, a significant personality believed to be able to judge
(1891-1909), in a comfortable way summarised in his lectures
the present. It is even more comfortable to get an idea of that
suitable judgements as in this interpretation of history and at
quickly movable eye
movable eye is a sign of the fact that something oppresses the
aware that one properly describes history if one is able to
is remarkable that the most significant Germanist of the
science is able to go further back. Now there something very
able of development. Spiritual science shows that one gets,
remained capable of development until the forties. So that one
in which they are capable of development until the twenties. If
disagreeable to face the truth. However, just the catastrophic
teach this or that. If it were able to teach as one normally
imagines, then one would be able to find a connection between

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture VIII: The Animal and Human Realms. Their Origin and Development
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valuable one, namely The Origin of Organisms - a Refutation
such an unbelievable contradiction. It appears just in such a
able at all to approach the real facts, in particular not the
enables the human being for the “beholding
objection: are you able to behold into the animals? May the
human being is. The human being has an unstable figure. The
Because certain forces have been disabled, the human being
Spiritual science actually is able to discover only what you
of course. Certain objects will fluoresce; one will be able to

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examples are very suitable to be rather careful about
also be able to know easily how frivolously one proceeds in
into the mental picture anew. Somebody who is able to observe
it is necessary that you are able to refrain from that activity
must be able to withdraw as it were from this imagining.
However, you are not able to do this if you cannot replace it
understandable.
say "easily understandable" mental pictures; this is
understandable mental pictures must be because just any
an experienced spiritual researcher, and he is able to know
that in this living in easily understandable mental pictures,
fact depends on that the human being is able to form memories.
consciousness almost only spatial images are available, then
is not able to build up something on the usual ego-experience
because there everything imaginable appears from the
Nature entered in science and her facts became irrefutable. I

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While one is able to behold the thinking as that which
the spiritual researcher is able to penetrate into the

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture I: Schiller's Life and Characteristic Quality
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impenetrable, decided by quite other forces than our fantasy
discussed. He saw how little had been achievable on the

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture II: Schiller's Work and its Changing Phases
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ideals and general ideas applicable to the world had been
ideas of God, Freedom and Immortality by their reasonableness.
which man is unable to discover, must be accomplished by God.
gives an unbridgeable dualism; there is no balance between man
in splendid words in the memorable letter of 23rd August 1794,

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were quite incapable of understanding each other. In fact, when
1788 Schiller could still write an unfavourable criticism of
death. Their friendship was impregnable, though envy and
pursued with envy and hatred, for the small has never been able

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lesser personalities are incapable of seeing into the great
but fettered by a petty ambition, unstable in his aims and in
Satisfaction is only attainable if we rise to the ideal planted
perfection, will man's eyes be able thus to survey their
stars, something imponderable in his heart.

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which is inevitable. That was Schiller's feeling, and that was
central place, and it is from his character that the inevitable

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success was considerable (he was recognised by the best men of
Schiller was capable. Thus Sapieha, Demetrius' opponent,

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Schiller's great gift, to be able to raise the moral and the
importance for the understanding of German art is immeasurable.
Aesthetic. Fechner has acquired considerable influence on

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VIII: What can the present learn from Schiller
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like Ludwig Büchner has been able to build up a purely
face to face with the life of his time, unable to take any part
derived his diction wholly from Schiller, was able to say in a
made some valuable discoveries and led a useful existence. The
ready to admit the materialistic view to a considerable extent.
beyond the purely material. Then we again shall be able to
Herman Grimm about Goethe, will be able to speak about

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humanity that Socrates' view grew up that virtue is teachable.
regard it as truth unless we bring the whole tableau of nature
inexplicable incidents make him strive for an explanation of

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with the great laws of the universe. We are able to achieve
He was able to prove in the case of animals and certain tribes,
by bringing forward innumerable sound facts, the great
was able to explain to you here that a hidden world is
wonderfully the vegetable kingdom and the animal kingdom
of the animals, then the human soul will only be able to attain
harmony. Then we shall be able to grasp how the idea of the

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fields and it might seem desirable for some people to hear
conceivable degree. And if one engages oneself with these
to begin when they approach the admirable achievements of
knowledge of the human physical organism. They are unable to
observation of psychic experience, that they, too, are unable
always be asked: Are these concepts also applicable in life?
above all, unable to extend and broaden their concepts in such
able to show that for everything which occurs in the process of
characterization, he was unable to get beyond the beginning.
are sitting at a table and drinking — well, let's say,
able to gain insight into the connection between that which
not yet able to allow their concepts to press forward to a
become able to know that one in no way stands differently in
well-founded objections. However, as desirable as it might be
to enter into all details, I am today only able to present
the admirable natural science of the present day. The bodily
yet available to us in our language and one can, therefore,
nervous system. It is just this which enables us to understand
channels into the human being, so is that which we are able to
— what we are able to place within the world as spiritual
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the remarkable fact arises that the actual truth only becomes
in questions concerning world conceptions. We are able to put
and we are able to put forward a concept which refutes it; one
able to enter in an equally positive manner into the pro
comes to concepts which truly are able to take in the spirit;
life of forming mental images, to be able to penetrate into
acceptance of an ether, but with its methods is unable to come
standing at the point where he is able to experience inwardly
not form the concept of the ether. They were unable to so
into the existence of such an etheric body suffices to enable
enables one to attain to the life of the etheric, in the way I
— because the body is unable to resist it in the right
necessarily with breathing out — be able to think one's
unimaginable epochs of time, all those phases — including
the insight that this is desirable, but rather because we are
which prides itself on being able to impart information about

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probable they will support anyone making the promise. Compared with
includes this possible paradise on earth, and is supposed capable of
thus — that here in the physical world a man is able to deal with
more unhealthy. Ordinary measures are then quite unable to promote a
capable of seeing rightly what once was bound up with the whole social
arose in these men of olden times made them capable of seeing in
as a people, the Greeks were simply incapable of distinguishing yellow
said this is capable of external proof. To spiritual vision it is
spirit — as spiritual science enables us to do. But acquiring

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Waldorf School and the timetable we have put in place of the usual
soul-destroying one had been mentioned, he said: “Your timetable
present age. What these foolish psycho-analysts are unable to find,
Anyone incapable of getting angry over what is bad is incapable of
just being alive; but just being alive does not enable us to think.
That, we cannot do. We are able to think only by bearing permanently
intelligence he will be able to perceive how part of his being is
complete decadence. To avert this, science will have to become able to
but they are astute — capable of a certain quickness of spirit. What
entirely dependent on the instrument of the brain, and the remarkable
notice. At the suitable motrent such matters — which speak
Iphigenie ranks very high. He was, however, quite unable to

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even a certain physical existence on the moon. One who is able to approach
who in their own way are also of a mild, peaceable nature and who in
species of beings who — in contrast to the gentle, amiable kind
you would then have an idea of what men are able to do — consciously
It is a very interesting book about this little Court where a notable
of them, he is able to view them from an independent standpoint. To
liver from which man must free himself, yet they were necessary to enable
of Spiritual Science. It is to enable man to learn to know life, and
of reality and enable him to bring knowledge and wisdom into life.

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the Earth. Everything in the universe is interconnected. To be able
away, as it were, what was the best and most capable of the highest
a separate existence has enabled them to complete and perfect their
Something rather remarkable
Zodiac. Each single planet may have undergone considerable change through
man is able to conceive. How is it possible to form any kind of idea
from within him? What has happened to man that enables something to
able to work from within has also brought about a surplus, a surplus
ego was able to work within man, the ascending forces gradually evolved
he develops, stage by stage, the forces which enable him to work upwards

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for the later-comers to follow; perhaps they are well able to follow
for them to regard as sound and reasonable what is brought forward from
an age which in a remarkable way is full of hope for the theosophist.
creatures which run puffing and blowing at a considerable distance behind
those beings which I have described as remaining at a time of life comparable
would not have been able to evolve further, they could not support the
that is, in the blood. Now someone could say: That is not so very remarkable,
high enough to be able really to endure the sun existence. You must
so far advanced as to be able, like the Fire-Spirits, to live on the
as arena for those beings who had not been able to live with the Fire-Spirits
nucleus to a form which would enable him to become an ego-bearer.
Now man was not yet capable
a stimulus on earth to enable him to advance, and there were two “stimulators.”

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surroundings. Man has his own internal, equable warmth, as indeed he
capable of the greatest deed, namely, to lay aside their etheric body
their ego to the outer world. It is very remarkable, but so it is: they
importance through which man will become capable with his whole being

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is a considerable difference, for the human bodies which then came forth,
as yet he was unable to see his surroundings. When he was still a sea-being
that time still in the earth. And something very remarkable came about.

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and the later glandular system which was organized was really only able
gone before and enabled the human being to reach his present height
he has evolved to Jupiter he will be capable of receiving a still higher
the periphery of the Moon became capable of a higher evolution when
time were able to let wisdom trickle into the Moon-beings were in fact
so that at the end of his evolution he may be able to give it back to
are another rank and as Spirits of Love they too had been able to go
Rotation of Times. They would have been able to lift man away from the
has been able to draw out of evolution man will lead his increasingly
attacked. Enlightened circles will not be able in any case to understand
will never be able to imagine that matter could one day be spiritualized
other hand the soul that dwells in every personality must be able to
science will help to prepare men for this. Men will be able to live
without the old forms of religion and faith, but they will not be able

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for four to five days. The memory-tableau lasts as long as the person
body in the next incarnation. He is enabled to build up his next body
have been able to find such an expression as it found in Giordano Bruno,
have stood still, so to speak, in world-evolution. You will be able
this remarkable passage in the Gospel.

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first in remarkable fashion — it is as if something were to scatter
us. They seem able to crouch close together in vast numbers, and when
those I have just described to you which are unable to transform their
be able to set before us the membering of these other beings.
before us the beings that we call gnomes. We shall then be able to throw
cases, that even during Earth evolution souls will be unable to incarnate
is the fruit of the earlier, these would then find no bodies suitable
to develop the fifth principle there will be no avail-able form. They
The following table shows
beings. They have not been able to attain to a spirit; they consist
principle. They are not advanced enough, however, to be able to assume
this in conclusion. When you understand this you will be able to understand
were not able to wait, because they pressed into the earthly organs
to incarnation and is capable through development of reaching our different

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a hand and was capable of replacing it. His ego would not say: ‘I
troubled to develop the organs of cognition which would enable him to
in a special way — moreover a quite remarkable force is unfolded
will be very short-lived, and to the one who is able to look into the
It will become increasingly indispensable to grasp the nature of the
from what it is today will not be able to understand the nature of these
entirely external matter, very much a “fable convenue,”
whatever documents are accidentally available are thrown together and

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and have not been able to find their way back and unite again with the
evolution man is not yet advanced enough to be able to carry out such
in the physical body are not at all agreeable to the beings who from
at such phenomena of the soul: in spiritual life one must be able to
can go about amongst us and for one who is able to see these things
unjustifiable advice to all those methods which men employ in order
Atlantean age and today they coincide. Thereby man is able to say “I”
world of the earth, fruits suitable for incorporation into the increasingly
and which man absorbs in our present earthly existence, are unsuitable
architect. He spoke about style in architecture and uttered the remarkable
is incapable of finding a new style because it has as yet no inner spiritual

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all the time relationship with the higher worlds, however improbable
is able — if man is sensitive in the night for the reception of
to them and be able to dwell within them.
secular as long as man is incapable of imprinting the spirit into them.
it in the spirit, somewhat as the thoughts of the Christians were able
will be able to maintain the mood and carry into the outer world what

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able to develop this dramatic work. We began, first of all, by having
we were able to give two performances, and this year we have been able
when we ourselves shall no longer be able to be present in the
year — in spite of great difficulties — we were able to prepare three
circus-stadium. (According to reliable reports, this has been done
suitable, but not a vast stadium. I must confess that the size of the
erecting a building in Munich which would enable us to have a hall of
tables — literature with which every sincere member desires to
souls of human beings are open, whenever we have been able to approach
and Berne. We were able, therefore, to work during this time in places
Spiritual or to Natural Science, is incapable of approaching subjects
considered advisable to get some system and logical sequence into Isis
with this. The Theosophical Movement proved incapable of any real
of vision, she was incapable of seeing that 105 years afterwards, the
European name was thought to be desirable.
stage of being able to understand. It is unpleasant to have to say
be able to substantiate their opinion. And then it is a matter of
that ultimately we may find ourselves in the very disagreeable
being capable of receiving intellectual, aesthetic and moral impulses.

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every way, but he was incapable of learning very much. This, however,
heaven; he was even able to pluck one of these flowers, hiding it in
man realised that he was able to act as do the Spirits of the Air,
he placed upon the table and it filled the whole room with miraculous
of development Now I shall be able to come to the earth for a time as
good-heartedness enabled him to set up a kind of friendship with two
be able to do so. And so it came about that he established a kind of
of man. Human beings came into existence and were able to inherit or
astray by choosing a body which was suitable, not for the
Thinking of all these matters, we shall be able to say: Post-Atlantean
understandable. There we have the first expressions of the wonder and
in a different form will be capable of throwing the West into
will be sufficient to enable what will happen over there, to overwhelm
teachings would in any case be available to those willing to penetrate
spiritual insight we have been able to gain, goes under, its influence
times, all that people will be able to say of our particular work is that many

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will certainly be prone, where these laws prove inapplicable, to speak
such, are apparently quite inexplicable. Where feeling is concerned,
this law will present itself with the same inexorable
would not be able to bring himself to say of some event: “I can
We are able, here, to glimpse a very wise provision in
Science and what develops from it will be able to act in accordance
— the “Foolish Virgins” — are incapable of doing
so. This will enable certain branches of science to be the “Wise
Virgins” at the end of Earth-evolution. And the beautiful parable
world with what we learn from Spiritual Science, a very remarkable
It is an unpleasant, disagreeable case, but one from which we can
the clergyman, being what he was, was able to work with means
collapse is inevitable, and out of this collapse a new order of
language (as in the instance given and in innumerable other cases).
coerced into accepting natural laws, it will be incapable of unfolding
there you will find that commendable “tolerance” is extended
time remarkably favourable opinions were expressed. I can give another
Movement. The treatise was returned to me as “unusable”! You
extremely favourable one.
new message.” And then, a few verses further on, a remarkable
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expressed the wish that I should speak to them about the venerable
some time ago, I was able to occupy myself from the vantage-point of
occultism, with this remarkable poem of the Finns — who are
We may well feel that the venerable Finnish epic,
they are in the animal would never have been able to give rise to the
Beings seem strange and remarkable in the highest degree; they have
remarkable people we find, in a form of Imagination springing from the
was able to become the recipient of his present form. In other words:
Earth-substance into himself when he was able to recast, to remould it
into his present form — a form able to receive the imprint of the
considerable attention and were translated into all the European
inconceivable without these closing runes. This means that in its
Christianity that it is possible to imagine, hardly recognisable by
had been able still to look back to those primeval ages when the
remarkable and unique — perhaps nowhere else to be found on the
the public lecture which I was able to give on the subject of the
us? How does Spiritual Science enable us to speak with this people
plane; the most characteristic and remarkable feature of the Fourth
human being contain the proper and suitable instrument for the
an overpowering experience to be able to understand the Folk-Spirit in
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time-periods in reincarnations; in this way he is able not only to
outer world can teach is, at most, semblance and parable, that
Going further, we can speak of that most remarkable personality who
presents a remarkable spectacle to those who aspire for a more
What is there to be said about this remarkable life? Think of the
Athens” as it is generally called. We see all those remarkable
and look at the remarkable figures of the philosophers listening
closely, we shall be able to identify the figure of the man with the
events and facts, but out of his feelings he is able to portray them
able to prevent the materials from deteriorating. In another few
was a beginning. We are drawn irresistibly to the remarkable figure of
and it may indeed be said: Raphael himself is able to ensure that his
the walls, just as he was able to prevent other achievements from
remarkable thought which he expressed in his work on Raphael (he had
to us of what Spiritual Science will be able to do for the evolution
Relic of bygone ages, strange, and venerable,

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available. Although he makes inquiries here and there as he goes
is always able to find his way from place to place.
when they were capable of wonder, they must have been persons who
them, it cannot be supposed that philosophers are capable of accepting
incapable of compassion, there is a moral defect, a moral lack in him.
must be able to pass out beyond his own earthly life, he must be able
he would be incapable of wonder. It is the material body which enables
other souls by the impenetrable sheath provided by the physical body.
incarnated in a physical body in order that he may be able to
remarkable fact in the spiritual evolution of Earth-existence throws
concept of love, of compassion. It is very remarkable that six or
religion! Only a mind abstracted from reality and incapable of
experienced. — If people are incapable of giving any concrete
to print only those things which are founded upon genuine, reliable
“narrow” Theosophy, suitable for Germany, but not for any
Impulse might live within him. We are therefore able to understand

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as that revealed in Architecture. The Initiate who alone was capable
reliable historical records or legends refer to the Flood as having
shall no longer be able to experience with such intensity the Divine
men will no longer be able to gaze into the world of the Gods, but
clairvoyance, knowledge of these truths came to men and they were able
heritage of ancient times by means of the new knowledge now available.
able to experience the Christ Impulse in the spiritual worlds. But
develops we can discern the source of the powers which enabled him to

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Earth's evolution has been to enable the human being, here on the
different character from those available to him during life in the
they would not be able to survive for very long — at most for as
able, at most, to remember back for six or seven years. The physical
be able to carry the remembrances of our life across the period
past life spreads out like a great panorama, a great tableau. This
“life-tableau” can only appear to us because after death we
lose it altogether at death or immediately afterwards, no such tableau
could rise-up before us. We must be able to use the ether-body as an
instrument, and something takes place while this life-tableau is
before us after death. This whole life tableau is gathered into,
life-tableau that has been inscribed into the universal life-ether.
That we are able to preserve what is contained in our life of
are we able to remember it, but the very step registers our
personality to enable these actions and the effects of them to be
after death, the “tableau of memory” unfolds — the
committed wrongs and has not, to the best of his ability, been able
have been metamorphosed in such a way as to enable it to become the
planetary bodies, and Spiritual Science is able to study the
kind would be able to unfold waking consciousness as it exists in man,

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mature, able to discern and perceive those things of which Spiritual
reasonable and sound grounds for such a statement. And no other kind
that what will be said about it is applicable everywhere.
it is a matter, then, for deciding: which of the two is acceptable to
understandable, but it would certainly not be understandable if it
era, he was able to attain to the rank of Buddhahood before the coming
indications given by occultism and then you will be able to form some
able to examine and study them with the help of all the material at
seek for the evolving individuality, or to submit to the uncomfortable
other side as though it were suitable only for the German mind. It is
not — all of which are perfectly justifiable goals. But when the

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remarkable prince of the Church sought to prevent the
theme because they will provide an invaluable background to
possible to adduce considerable evidence to show that there
is no reliable historical evidence for not assigning an early
century. One thing appears to be demonstrable historically,
implacable enemies of everything Christian. The Jewish texts
was able to prove himself in the hard struggle which was his
dethrone the spirit, innumerable questions of conscience and
important because it sheds considerable light upon the
Considerable
is unmistakable evidence that they purchased preferment for
we are no longer satisfied with that “fable
ancient Chenoboskion. Valuable for further study are:

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consequence there are few modern philosophers who are able to
empty words. People are unable to distinguish nowadays
able to approach the Mystery of Golgotha most easily from the
whilst in the body is able to look back upon the fruits of
eminently reasonable on the part of Aristotle to reject the
reincarnation is inseparable from the idea of the spirit. In
in the cult of the Mysteries. It is a remarkable fact that
mysterious and inexplicable. When we study its organism we
inevitable. We must accept death in man as something he
have to face the inexplicable problem of his death. What did
not as the inevitable consequence of natural law, but through
or group-soul which lies at the root of this organism is able
men. Men were now able to unite spiritually with the Christ,
unique to Christianity and is inseparable from Christianity.
morality has no place. Mankind would have been unable to have
human soul. In the present lecture I have only been able to

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able to move mountains. If you refer to the Gospels you will
opinion that every sentence in the Gospels is immutable,
can speak openly here, I am able to refer to the deeper
retarded and was unable to develop the maturity of the woman
to her and so enabled her to reach sexual maturity. Without
His whole environment, that Christ was able to transfer
regard for others. He was able to surrender the self in
things are done in parables.”
(Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parableMark IV, 11.)
and Pharisees. What would have happened if they had been able
as I was able to show in the example I quoted. Now when John
because He was able to cast them out.
hundred years’ time, then this would be comparable to
comparable to deducing from the condition of a child's
fact is undeniable. In our present materialistic age people
were able to picture the actual features of the Apostles.
still able to evoke a living image of the Apostles and,
was split into separate languages. Unless we are able to form
was inevitable, for it was in accordance with human evolution
limitation would be totally unacceptable to our epoch. If

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theory of metamorphosis. They wrote the most remarkable
in considerable embarrassment. Moreover whenever innocent
and undefined lasciviousness are wholly intolerable to the
surveying the plant kingdom, finds it intolerable that there
therefore thought it highly desirable that the study of
will also realize that what I have said is applicable to the
today. These three kingdoms are unable to develop their
unable to fulfil their potentialities; they are in need of an
plants. Consequently they were unable to complete their
there are also warm-blooded animals, that is, animals capable
this is patent to all. Thinking that is capable of
theories are valuable contributions to knowledge at a
clairvoyance is enabled to perceive the etheric colours in
real relationship of man to the animal kingdom. The vegetable
times there were still prophets, or seers who were able to
are no longer capable of adding to the law or of changing the
brought.) You, the Scribes, are incapable of understanding
become sensitively aware so that he will be able to think,
able to awaken such a response in the souls of men that
order to achieve this goal a considerable reorientation of
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although he was unable to translate into concrete fact the
that he was unable to formulate clearly.
experience something very remarkable. I have already spoken
investigations he was able to discover the spirit as it is
would operate in plants if they had been able to fulfil their
metamorphosis, that is, if the new individual had been able
able to open men's eyes to the physical world. But this
honourable men”. I admit this of course, without
evolution. Sometimes in their laudable intention to dismiss
become if they had been able to develop their potentialities
knowledge of man and would have been able to say: Had the
mineral kingdom and animal kingdoms been able to develop
Spirits. He was able during sleep to commune with the Moon
“fable convenue” called history today, and
are we unable to arrive at a right understanding of a
have the remarkable phenomenon of a freethinker who publicly
satisfied his ideal and he was able to accept conversion
world in a form that is acceptable to modern man. And
that Jesus’ death was inevitable because Christianity
must develop a sense which will enable us to evaluate the

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centuries in Europe from a certain standpoint will be able to
spoken to you of the remarkable fact that the early Roman
remarkable phenomenon that the Roman emperors, because of
that they were able to divine something of the power and
here a remarkable coincidence. On countless occasions Roman
the following remarkable statement: “According to
one notable passage Philo gave expression to something that
that he frequently uttered remarkable prophecies which could
destruction. Seneca once warned him in a remarkable statement
was indispensable for her salvation. As a devoted pupil of
fourth century a remarkable personality appeared on the scene
make-up was such that he was unable to find a right
faced with an insurmountable difficulty because the
were able to trace back their civilization to the ancient
able to form an idea of the attitude towards the Roman empire
find criteria which will enable you to see many of the later

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able to be in touch with the Sun Logos are in any way fitted
from which men derived spiritual forces which they were able
dogma were unable to believe in the old gods, to expound the
idea of humanity. When we use this vocable to
importance. We shall then be able to characterize man from
Manushya or some similar vocable see him primarily as spirit,
Manichaeans. By this means perhaps I may be able to achieve
were alike incapable of abstract thinking. In earlier
capable of being transmuted from its present earthly
powerful ideas in order to be able to conceive of the
emit a blue light and so on. These ideas are the inevitable
consequence of nebulous thinking that is unable to come to
after two hundred and fifty years. I am able to arrive at
It is a remarkable
certain occasions punishable by death. Intercourse with the
Old Testament is a fable and the account of Creation is
chosen people is unacceptable. The Mosaic law is barbarous;
and exercised considerable influence on Pascal, Fenelon and

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very remarkable picture unfolds before us. As we review this
history. When we study this period truly remarkable things
no clear and reliable evidence, even from leading scholars,
information, it is impossible to arrive at a reliable picture
splendour and magnificence which are inconceivable today,
able to perceive clairvoyantly certain forces which are
the neophyte by which he was enabled to
special path was opened up which enabled him to attain to a
himself in a new light. But this knowledge made considerable
were intended to facilitate such knowledge and enabled him to
have been unthinkable. We become increasingly aware that the
outside the body, but he was unable to grasp concretely the
instructed. It can be effective only if suitable instruction
Plato with his master, but was unable to cope with Plato
readable.
ways, but the organs of the body are indispensable in order
than he. That they were unable to rise to greater heights was
course of those centuries is comparable to the loss that we
this self-complacency assumes most remarkable forms. In the
about Immanuel Kant; but it is none the less remarkable that
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is the pity that he was unable to introduce into his writings
because Julian had been unable to carry out his intentions;
And in order to be able to commune with the spirit of the
of the dead. He acquired a certain capacity which enabled him
considered to be unsuitable material for reception into the
was an unsuitable candidate for initiation. For the first
might ask: Would not a high Initiate have been more suitable
today. He was then able not only to incorporate into the
ancient times when man was able to observe the activity of
only from a superficial standpoint we shall be unable to
ills. It is indeed remarkable how mankind today — but
part, man is as yet unable to perceive what is really
able to know the footsteps of man again.”
kind of organism? Where can one find something comparable in
be able to satisfy ourselves that the whole being of man by
remarkable manner. We are now living in an age when everybody
isolated instance is so instructive that we are able to gain
which is most remarkable. It is curious how people who are
Berlin lecture Hermann Bahr expressed many fine and admirable
describe the inestimable benefits this war has brought us. I
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have the remarkable case of a man who experiences crimson-red
far greater poet than Otto Ludwig and that which one is able
indispensable to him; it was simply a kind of transition to
was stirring and pulsating in him he was able to make
who are able to see into the spiritual world, that it is
arrived at was a most remarkable conception. Man, in
miserable worm.”
filled him with alarm. He was unable to grasp the fact that
And this appalled him; he was unable to bring himself to
scientifically acceptable and irrefutable. In these words
Verworn is capable of accurate observation because he
puts forward a remarkable idea, but neither he, nor others
writings, that remarkable echo of the Mystery teachings must
recording of external events. We must be able to commune with
again. It is in this sense that we must be able to take
unable to relate the two statements and simply says: the
respects our present epoch harbours a veritable antipathy

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is admirable, indeed, for someone who has an overview of the centuries.
It is the big heritage which the 19th century is able to hand over to
science deeper who did no longer believe to be able to harmonise the
more explicable. But again something was eliminated a little bit that
variable. They can develop in this or that way whether the beings are
has nothing of those ideas which were so valuable for the human beings
of their time, who answered the worldly worldly, but were able at the
(1904). There you have a view developed by science which is not able
was able to penetrate into these ancient human ideas. As well as science
interest immediately after their publication. People who were able to
is also able to take a photo of heavenly bodies which we cannot see.
this knowledge can lead us. We are thereby also enabled to closer study
careful and more reasonable naturalists have spoken of the impossibility
(1872) in which he expressed that the natural sciences are not able
and of the origin of consciousness begin. We will not be able to know
able to develop higher organs, you would experience that even higher
understandable why the human being must stand admiring also as a scholar
movement one thing had been pushed which is suitable to bear the new
is also able to see the creative love in the outside world. As the human
in the social life. Thereby he would become able to progress in wisdom

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world view is able to represent his personal view of it.
as the highest component the imperishable being of the human being,
for somebody who digs them out again. The following passage is unforgettable:
the mistake and stop speaking, unless you are able to open their eyes.”
the blue colour nuances were there, before he was able to see the blue
to perceive the world of desires and passions in order to be able to
the astral one is the spiritual world. However, someone who is able
is able to suggest things away from a person, so that he does not see
this process with himself. The human being is able to suggest away what
able to carry out the following trick, and then he gets to the view
get an idea of it if you imagine that not any living body is also able
This is an overcast sanctuary, also for the clairvoyant. Nobody is able

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light and movement. If people were able to see the external effects
to get used to the idea gradually to be able to correctly see that which
itself in a fact which is unquestionable, but is not enough taken into
Why should we not be able to describe the qualities of an ink-pot? But
peculiar way how we are able to live out emotionally. As well as performances
overview of the interrelationship is hardly able to say that so and
and reason in the world; he must be able to refer any effect to its
cause. He must be able to refer to causes what appears in the individual
and philosopher)? Someone who closes his mind is able to do this. But
If we look around in the physical life, it appears to us only understandable
if we are able to go beyond mere heredity and to think a law of reincarnation
For someone who is able
was a more imperfect one. Somebody who is able to observe in this realm
remarkable to hear what Plato tells about Socrates. In all Socratic
Having a knowledge of one's own action, being able to observe
the purposes of a reasonable world order. If this were the cause, this
needs the physical world to be able to work. Being physically active
the human being is able to think not only in the physical and astral
bodies, but in the purely spiritual life. Then he is also able to say
and oxygen combine to sulphuric acid is subjected to an unalterable
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changeable. They have no idea of the fact that the most important concept
which we find just in Darwinism, the concept of evolution, is applicable
them in connection with other, similar phenomena. Theosophy enables
present human being. However, to be able to do this, we have to extend
be able as astronomer to force this construction of the universe in
mathematical and other laws, how should he be able to find the laws
he had the task to build the most suitable under the given circumstances,
he could carry out nothing more suitable, nothing more perfect according
animal. Between these both activities there are innumerable many degrees.
ancestors were absolutely able to erect big buildings, absolutely able
accomplish what in those days the human being was able to accomplish
human being is not something that is everlasting or even is invariable,
not able to understand the things outside in the world, before he has
would never be able to understand an ellipse as an orbit of a planet
but that of the soul. It hits the table against which it has stumbled
ancient peoples were not able to understand the individual spirit, the
able to look into the individual human soul, to grasp the spirit of
of the sky. However, also Giordano Bruno was not yet able to understand
nothing; he was not able to consider the plant, the animal and the human
plants mechanically, the 19th century was able to do this. Development
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however, Darwin said to not be able to understand anything of life which
the West admit that they face the riddle of life and are not able to
him by his reasonable consciousness.
that the general welfare and his welfare is the most unexplorable object.
His reason, his reasonable consciousness appears to him almost as unexplorable;
he appears to himself somewhat more explorable as animal; the animals
and plants appear as still more explorable beings, and the most explorable
to him certainly his reasonable consciousness appears to him unexplorable
everlasting matter seems to him easily explorable because it appears
the lifeless matter as his reliable starting point. Then he observes
we have life. People who believe to be unable to understand it do not
point, your dismal circumstances of life came into being. You are able
is able to be renewed completely, as rather from the growing up child
personality does not comprise the reasonable consciousness. Personality
is a quality of the animal and the human being as an animal. The reasonable
imperishable.
This eternal and imperishable,
make themselves noticeable in life which we have to understand really
to a higher one, who are able to behold super-sensible worlds, they should
teach us also to be able to observe the super-sensible on the physical
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something completely fantastic. Nevertheless, someone who is able to
As well as nobody is able to construct a vapour machine unless he knows
the being of vapour, nobody is able to understand and to explain what
only to be able to work here in this world. We have to know the nature
reason this world has been called astral by those who are able to behold
which occurs in the own body as weal and woe, as pleasurable sensations
has spiritual eyes and ears than the table and the walls round us, much
without being able to satisfy them. There the soul learns to live without
death, it gets to know the feeling of the body without being able to
is enabled to leave behind everything astral that is filled with wishes,
up if the soul becomes able to use the spiritual eyes, the spiritual
and are of equal nature, the manifold beings issue form the imperishable

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people who are only able to make use of their physical senses. If the
Someone who is capable to behold into this spiritual reality learns
of the spirit-land; there one is able to perceive the universal feeling
he is able to pass the gate of death by means of his mystic contemplation
humanity. But he is not able to do this! The physical human being does
to an idealistic attitude, the more he is able to have an idea of something
higher, the more he is able to act out in this world of the spirit.
the physical, to unfold it freely, to make it suitable to a new life.
the devachan. Only later, when he is able to look into these states,
decided only according to the experience, of course. Only that is able
field, who is able to remember his own former incarnations or who can
in its true significance if one is able to see it in the light of these
rhythm if we are able to use the “devachanic ear”, and that
inexpressible bliss occurs which the mystic is able to perceive. If
the heart giving off the spiritual light is able to radiate:

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him: we are not able to examine you! Nietzsche, the associate professor,
in Basel, he went, so often he was able at times any Sunday , to Triebschen
like from without, so that he was able to arrange them in the right
in the unreasonable blind will; however, the thought is nothing but
one was not able to deny the personality as such.
anything of that which flows in the unreasonable will. Schopenhauer
is why Schopenhauer was not able to penetrate this simulacrum to the
words is not able to do this in the same way as the master of the sounds
the time, but only suffer from it. Nietzsche was able to suffer; but
detestable to him. Therefore, he also combated what David Friedrich
not able to bear him from himself this man stood there like before shades

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that development of the human soul and the human mind which enables
that which enables someone to get to such insights and experiences.
level of the development which leads so far that one becomes able to
limits and a higher level with which one is enabled to make experiences
in the course of a short lecture. What I am able to say to you is related
soul forces, spiritual view with himself and it may seem deplorable
be able to put the questions to yourselves which are normally put as
is one able to do this? If reincarnation is a truth, it may not be vain
himself, so that he is thereby able to transform his soul by his own
the soul has to go. It must be able to incorporate qualities, thoughts,
and inclinations. The human being must be able to appear in the course
surely he gets to true knowledge in this field. As soon as he is able
but is able to stop the annoyance and imagines that just as a stone
the esoteric pupil has to be a reasonable person who devotes himself
to be absolutely certain in your thought-life and to be able to practise
wandering thoughts and are not able to strictly control their thoughts
must be able to tear out himself from all that the sensory impressions
is not advisable to the single person to let these things approach him
have organs in your soul and spirit to be able to perceive the soul-lights
and the spirit-sounds. Who is experienced in this field and is able
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of the astral body of the earth, of the imperishable soul cover spiritually
becomes wonderfully understandable if he is understood as a soul that
what seems unachievable
what's indescribable,

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of these matters scholarly did not really take the Bible as it is available
to show you how little applicable the ideas were which the opponents
we notice the so-called eternal in the human being, the imperishable.
thinking of the present is hardly able to imagine this psycho-spiritual
experience a purification of their astrality to be able to take up the
speak. These were animal-like figures which lived in a more malleable
of the physical life on earth. He was able to do this only because he
when he had advanced to this fire matter, he was able to take up a new
developed buddhi, kama and ahamkara, he was able to receive the first
being is able today to think logically. He ascends once to a higher
able to do this, because the origin of the human being was not in the
for spiritual knowledge makes itself noticeable, and, on the other side,
are never able to say anything about the origin of the human being.
today. Hence, one has to express the ideas in a language understandable

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Waldeck (1824–1899, German writer). They are partly valuable as
because our colloquial language is not really suitable to show these
but is capable to do everything with his shade. At sunrise and at sunset
not be able to ascend to the knowledge of the divine. There is a lower
the self that does not keep to itself, but is able to take up the divine
light of wisdom is able to shine toward the bringer of wisdom, the “old
little valuable is of huge seize. He looks rather like a rock than a
which give “the picture a disagreeable appearance.” The
He is able to do this, because the spirit, the self lives in him. The

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inner light to itself by its striving one is able to do this also with
are admirable buildings; people come in flocks, the bridge seethes with
but also masters them. Then the whole humanity is able to receive the
The human being is able
also over life. The human being becomes able, taking up the ancient
the world, the ancient wisdom of the world, and that is why he is able
Hence, the human being is able to attain the ability
himself. The human being is only able to approach the godhead if he
all probations, he is able to receive the initiation. The young man,
The snake makes the gold valuable; it becomes luminous from within.
chained to the soil in incomprehensible way, it was the most disagreeable
the healthy prudent human soul-force is able to give the toll to the
can get to the kingdom of the beautiful lily: “The giant is capable
carry no faggot; but his shade is capable of a lot, of everything. That
able to devotedly cross the threshold with bright daytime consciousness.
single inspired mystics are able to get to the temple, but all human

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that also here only an esoteric, mystic interpretation enables us to
the igneous state. It had not been able to hold their ground because
chains, and impenetrable shields. Now, however, they occupy themselves
human being the seed of the eternal which is able to rise by development
to the country to get married with an honourable knight, so that the
here in suitable garments and play certain instruments.
This is an image how the human being can find valuable knowledge instead
his ahamkara, if he is not able to get out of his own little human being,
he has attained the stage of initiation. The human being is able there
and to turn her play to me; however, I was not able to figure her out
again, and it depends on the permission, whether one is able to tell

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fact that the naturalist is only able to verify and to explain what
of which I have spoken now the human being is able to receive external
not yet able to associate a colour with an external object, he could
absolutely reasonable person, before you become a clairvoyant. You must
be able to think logically and clearly. Somebody who would attain the
gift of clairvoyance without having developed the gift of the reasonable,
you get into the habit of logical, clear, reasonable thinking, so that
you walk through the spiritual things as the reasonable human being
walks through tables and chairs, so that it is no longer anything special,
the human being is a quite reasonable, maybe a somewhat sober human
being any likeable feeling, anything emotional lived which you allow
is able to state that this point of view, in proportion to the more
the Akasha Chronicle as truth, like the average person sees table and
himself in a particular way. If one were able to investigate the etheric
on our earth; this is the moment when the human being was able to become

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is confidence only. Who does not have this confidence is not able to
you are able to thoroughly suggest the room away although you look into
middle of this Lemurian age, the human being was not yet a being capable
you live. Attempt once whether you are able to prevent your thoughts
are also very important. Already the first four sentences are suitable
must have physical senses to be able to look into the physical world.
be able to really perceive.
so far that he is thereby able to see not only the sensuous impressions
experience which the human being has if he is able to influence his
not be able to exist here as we exist now. As soon as the circumstances
inconceivable as a special being. This is even more the case in the
of the environment, but there he is so far that he is able to pronounce
he is able only to pronounce one single name. And this is the name he
human being is only able to say “I” to himself. If the chela
by which they were enabled to found the great religions of the world.
am able to draw what such lessons contained. It was shown there how
in the sense of these big characters. He is able to do that if he gives
were able to speak so enthusiastically like Goethe. But you also find

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one must be able to work on all human beings. The theosophical ideal
level; not until they find the same in the personality, they are able

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the everyday life is able to intervene, and it is to him to intervene
makes available finds that these are no fantastic ideas, but concrete
realities like the tables and chairs in this room. Who becomes engrossed
that which enables us to get to know the laws of the external physical
that. They knew no multiplication tables. Another force which was developed
the soul things as he moves between tables and chairs today. Again and
be a person who is able to differentiate between speculative fiction
into the things, become one with the things. We are able to do this
Already the sensible naturalist says to us that it is not inconceivable
beings are able to go even deeper into the nature of the material. This
themselves with physics a principle is memorable: future prospects are
This force could be able to work deeper on the material nature than
and those who want to do it with practical reason are not able to get
and then everybody must be able to develop in his freedom. If we establish
able to study the oscillations of the air, would be able to construct
party is the desirable for the next time,
of being mad is called being prudent that is to be able to harmonise
his inner life with the surroundings. Who is not able to produce this

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observed the course of your mind although from considerable distance
together the whole wealth of its ideas in an admirable unity. You can
activity he was able to acknowledge Schiller's greatness.
else than to develop something everlasting and imperishable in the human
he termed what lives in the soul as the imperishable what the human
the imperishable realms.

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It shows not only noticeable gaps; the author of the transcript
we deal with the leadership in the spiritual life, if it should be capable
is really capable of surviving, if it can really intervene in the impulses
be able to say anything about the divine world order who knows nothing
who are able to find the world of religious world view from their immediate
teachings that are understandable only for someone who has dealt with
require that everybody is immediately able to acquire this view fairly
quickly, but it only requires that people are there who are able to
is devoid of spirit, then it must remain inconceivable how spirit and
structure of the human body is able to say how a thought can arise from
capable to behold the spirit. This is not to be attained with books
did not live than in other human beings. Or is anybody able to argue
likeable and shows how the materialistic theologian wants to find the
able to understand the divine wisdom. Science itself is not able to
divine. Not before we have found the whole world wisdom, we are able
the sensuous and the spiritual unite in a chain, and one will be able
that wants to be capable of surviving, that can make life and lifeblood

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not only noticeable gaps; the author of the transcript is also not
who is able to build up his chain of thoughts strictly logically sees
only once that this is a practical question in the most remarkable sense.
of mathematics and mechanics and of that what enables us from the start
a skilled engineer is able to initiate such a work really, and only
thinking as clear and transparent in the field of life as we were able
we are able to lead back all matters of life also to sharp concepts
as we are able to lead back the rough matters to mathematical concepts.
Do you believe that this is applicable in this simplicity? Realise once
one will also be able to have a healthy view of this legal life again.
matters like a dilettante. The deep look into the soul life only enables
him to draft a bill. But only he is able to judge somebody who has deviated
the economics the most unbelievable bustles about, also with so-called
is the case, the most favourable must be expected from a fertilisation
must know and observe such imponderables. If one knows to observe this
are schools of natural law which believe to be able to derive the law

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not only noticeable gaps; the author of the transcript is also not
If the modern doctors wanted to get to know them, they would be able
to get to know something valuable. The Hippocratic doctrine, which teaches
have a principle that is accepted only by few reasonable persons. It
in himself which enable him to understand life from quite another side.
science is infiltrated with materialistic imponderables; thus it is
hardly conceivable that anybody frees himself from them and learns to
human intellect, is incapable to understand the spiritual; as soon as
being in the human being, so that he becomes unable to have an curative
and beneficial effect on his fellow men. This is an unbreakable principle.
influence that must be exercised to be able to heal, to be a healer
and could he not educate his organism to be able to endure illnesses?
in a unenviable state. The medical study has thrown him into a confusion
only capable of something if he studies the subtle processes that happen
a quite different thinking is capable of it.
he is not able of it. Goethe expresses what is meant here saying: “a

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not only noticeable gaps; the author of the transcript is also not
classics who are then shredded and analysed and become thereby unenjoyable
that the professional study is not more valuable than any other study
Are Founded on Fables or The Christian Religion Prevents from
the more he is capable to put something of himself into the culture
what we give to the world is the pledge and the pound which is imperishable.
capable of development that like the child must develop also mind and
soul are capable to develop to higher stages. The human being is not
any idealistic world view into the world. The arts faculty is not able

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discovers something quite remarkable. I have often mentioned
materialistic-scientific outlook, is simply incapable of
when they grew old, when they reached a venerable age, divine
The remarkable
evolution he would no longer have been able to look up to any
insight out of his own individual being, he must be able
better say fabled about subject, tends not to provide the
questionable phenomena that one meets with today. It has come
not comfortable to hear. This no doubt accounts for them
that such truths can be disagreeable, but subconsciously they
need courage of soul, the courage which will enable him to
face truths which at first appear disagreeable if one's first
about things that are uncomfortable, albeit necessary; one

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shall find that the most valuable of those ideas originated
fundamentally new. Certainly it has produced, in admirable
pictures is something new. It enables one to transform
with a much extended concept of history. This enabled us more
nature which enables him to grasp reality in general.
clearly perceptible to those able to observe such things,
capable of delving into reality can no longer be formulated.
goes on there is much that seems inexplicable, for without
the project would have been commendable if by bringing
times.” In other words, people are very capable of
thoughts that are quite incapable of penetrating reality.
inwardly strengthened, that they become able to unite with
knowledgeable about an issue should be the ones to judge what
are knowledgeable to speak on the issues. One such issue he
in applying such advice. It is understandable that a
mastered Babylonian and Egyptian archeology to a remarkable
longer be living within living images to be able to produce
the astronomer, so the true historian is able to forecast
historian, he should be well able to forecast such a
that to be an accurate prophecy! It is comparable to my
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fifties were able to recognize what ought to be done. They
had this ability because people remained capable of
the wisdom they were able to impart to others. When people
elements. At night the normal senses enabled man to perceive
ancients, the wise ones, were able to give counsel and
remained from the time of Atlantis and enabled man to know
the Atlantean catastrophe man remained capable of natural
their natural inner development enabled them to embody the
deep insight into the indispensable connection between
have seen, enable us to understand the significance even of
abstract metaphysics, which is the only standpoint acceptable
not to be able to find the spirit a soul blindness. Drews
is nevertheless onesided, but also unacceptable Protestant
makes religion inseparable from history. It introduces
incapable of intervening in events, then one blames all kinds
must be able to distinguish the concept of a living entity
relate to reality; only then will he be able to recognize the
kind of concepts and ideas capable of bringing order into
From this material he produced a book in Russian, a remarkable
remarkable about the Russian character is that as it evolves
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scientist finds it acceptable not only to speak about but to
it is simply traditional knowledge and becomes irrefutable
one is able to evaluate the extent to which there is a
which makes his books rather disagreeable to read, though it
They enable one to see things as they truly are, rather than
movement. It shows an unbelievable superficiality which
realize that this man is incapable of giving a proper
such people are able to read at all. Are they capable of
significance that people of this kind, capable of treating a
clairvoyant is supposed to be able to experience by means of
teachers.” I have not been able to find to what that
what I am now able to give of the best within me must also
now able to give, of my best, must also proceed from higher
questionable theories of faith healers and
incapable of observing even rudimentary standards of
combined with the equally unprovable and incomprehensible
inexcusable to hoax the reader by abbreviating what has been
finds particularly objectionable; yet I would like to draw
useful, then it is acceptable! This is typical of Max
I knew Guido von List when he was still a reasonable person and
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considerable and will in due course reveal the results of his
capable of real thinking; that is, he has the ability to
It is fully understandable to someone who knew him well why
blind, but able to bring my experiences before my inner eye
which Brentano considered to be applicable only to what is
will not be able to answer the questions What is true? What
able to vibrate in unison, must be in agreement. An inner
tableau of the ether body. One can arrive at an answer to the
he should have been able to say more; namely, that to
Not till the onset of puberty does he become capable of
we begin to understand moral principles, and become able to
understanding of moral issues on this basis is comparable to
to historical evidence but is able to relate the Christ
discussing in our circles. This enables it to be connected
But spiritual knowledge enables man to discover the Christ
people, in fact by the largest and most valuable part of
is unrealizable — of individual nations. Christianity
who call themselves Christian have been able to agree with
significant or valuable will be achieved. Unless the approach
your thoughts, as strongly as you are able, to the question:

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with what speech is able to convey, particularly when seeking
able to think the I, this thought is in itself a
ordinary thought life when one becomes able to compare it
in our next incarnation. It is comparable to a plant which,
observations of a different kind, must become able to enter
that he could grow up into a respectable person. The
I and become better able to cope with life. That is
knowledgeable through them. That is not the purpose; what
for the attainment of the inner sensitivity that enables us
hospitable one, where many people often met, where in fact an
course, not find it so remarkable that two people who used to
remarkable degree. All dreams are in fact prophetic; when you
the opportunity that enables him to meet the other person
issues one must not expect to be able to pin them down as if
strange fact that many a person who is well able to seek out
enables one to raise oneself into that region of
able to be aware of and perceive things which are not of the
that the words could be found which would enable people to
becomes able to comprehend the true essence of things. The
Brentano should be unable to find the way, had I not
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time the individual human being continued to be capable of
the Greeks and Romans remained capable of natural development
soul able fully to experience this fact so steeped in
does not develop impulses of the kind that enable, not only
bring them to bear on his environment. He is incapable of
would enable him to carry out precisely the ideas and
would not be too noticeable. In other words, he must have the
achieved is really most interesting and quite remarkable. His
trade and industry will be so profitable that the extra
In a remarkable
When one is able to look behind the scenes of world history
it is an indisputable fact, though one that is little
the Russian empire will be destroyed to enable the Russian
retained of his own was his efficiency. He became a very able
scenes, powers capable of overturning even the deepest

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is able to experience even to some degree truth as a living
what Parmenides said about immutable existence nor what
his control. This enables him to throw a net across to the
much that explains what seems inexplicable, especially to
while Hegel said that we would be able to hear nature express
spirit. All this Haldane had been able to express because of
develop to a remarkable degree. That is something that has to
heart of Europe.” In other words, he was capable of
having both views. We must be able ever more to recognize
longer capable of understanding what is beginning to evolve
not be able to have two completely opposite views of
the soft soil. That is comparable to seeking in the
thinking frees itself, when thinking, as it were, is able to
course that enables it to take hold of the more hidden
connections between events in life. It is able to seek out
concrete concepts. Such concepts are able to take hold of and
mentioned before the remarkable fact that, for egoistical

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as far as human understanding in our present time is capable of conceiving
imparted by a spiritual science able to penetrate into the very highest
realms; one should not imagine that human words can ever be capable
enabled him to understand Christ-Jesus fully and completely, he would
he dimly divines enables him to understand the whole radiant Being.
identity; Who in that He is capable of the uttermost sacrifice, of the
greatest imaginable self-surrender, is the very fount of Compassion and
of St. John and St. Luke will be able to gather some idea of what in
is capable of deeds of untold greatness. The significance of the Love
he may be able to advance along his path of life, provides the right
of individual beings in the world. We shall then be able to understand,
for no human faculty is capable of unifying what it has made separate and

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worlds, and were to incarnate in an unsuitable physical organism, such
actually capable of being an instrument. It is for this reason that
unfold that man can be enabled gradually to rise again to the heights
of the highest quality should be extracted, which would enable mankind
Individuality was chosen, that out of his bodily constitution, a suitable
capable of withstanding the inrush and coercion of clairvoyant Imaginations
personality so constituted was able, by his very nature, to enter
generations is self-evident. A brain capable of understanding Jahve had
a certain aim in view, it is desirable that the hands, for example, shall
have reached in Abraham the highest conceivable degree of intensity.
of cosmic significance, whereby immeasurable light is shed upon the
experience. The whole picture which a man to-day is able to form out of
enabled him to understand and interpret what the ancient Egyptians obtained
not able to apply their powers of Imagination to physical life. Hence
Pharaoh was incapable of effective action when unprecedented events
he was able to give the right counsels at the Egyptian court and so
of a suitable bodily organism. So down the generations from Abraham
gift and was able to form the link between the Hebrew and the Egyptian
to bring to mankind the forces through which the Ego would be able to
I have only been able
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able to see into the spiritual realm. But this faculty had to be replaced
considerable residue of the old clairvoyance still survived in the people
from the spiritual world, the logical reason he is able to acquire here
brain so constituted as to enable him to become the progenitor of a whole
centuries there was a veritable mania for prophecy. Here, there and
to prepare men's hearts and minds that they are capable of recognising
necessary in order that there might at least be a few human beings capable
to be able to understand the Christ Event. In the earliest times there
they had inherited from Abraham, were rendered capable of a prophetic
Saviour. Those men who were prepared so as to be able to recognise and
These men were able to perceive
the complete experience of the Nazarene training but he enabled all
a man is on the point of drowning, the whole tableau of his life flashes
what happened in the Baptism given by John. A man beheld his life-tableau,
who were able to understand what at that time Baptism signified. Moreover
the Baptism of John were able to say: A great and momentous event has come
He gathered around him a community to whom he was able to reveal that
its fulfilment. He gathered around him a community able to understand
God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.”
(our father: for I say unto you, that God is able).
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chronological difference. Greek culture with its incomparable Art,
the far past we see a great and remarkable culture of the ancient
Tristan, Parsifal, etc. This remarkable race has almost disappeared,
A noticeable change took place during the Middle Ages. Greece had

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for he cannot imagine that any other races would be able to get on
in that inhospitable regiion. He mentions the tribes which dwell on
nothing of the manners and customs of that remarkable race. By the

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provided a base upon which evolving Christianity was able to expand.
already settled, and were not able to maintain their own character.
from external Christianity. And because they were able to maintain
free expansion, this tribe had evolved its character and was able to
other freer, more favourable circumstances, it meant increase of

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture IV: Arabic Influence in Europe
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power, was legal among the powerful. They were able to change might
this we tough upon one of the most remarkable currents in the human
And it is a remarkable

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture V: Charlemagne and the Church
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only a trade in valuables from the East, carried on by Israelite
those who could really think logically, were able to take part in

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VI: Culture of the Middle Ages
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with an epoch which we are able to investigate from its simple origin
strong. Among these tribes, which had been led by favourable
great importance of this training, to be able to make conscientious
Charles III was reigning; he himself proved utterly incapable of

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VII: France and Germany
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Magyars caused indescribable terror. Old accounts tell of the
suitable markets, fortified settlements were established all over
unable to give such untrammeled service.

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VIII: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
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the knights were playing a considerable part.
uneducated, unable to read and write, and of boorish manners. They
developed two ways of thinking, ways which became noticeable in the
uneducated; the woman had to be able to read and write. The women
the first notable poets, such as Wolfram von Eshenbach, Gottfried
considerable part of the mediaeval freedom of the cities was

Title: The Human Soul in Life and Death
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great contemporary events are capable of exciting in us, and
able to prove in the course of centuries — what it was
immediately aware of a state of being in us which enables us
in the human soul, able to tear and wound it fatally, unless it
we are capable of for inner protest against the deed rises in
our fate as far as we are able, and we can ask the question:
table depends on the separate equations and addenda. As the sum
spiritual science enables us to see this: in sleep the soul
in his body he will never be able to experience directly
but as something indispensable to its whole-experience. For the
to be able to comprehend the experience of death, of dying, of
spiritual science as applicable to every human soul.
after considerable revision; and I have also attempted a
Central Europe enabled him, by discovering the nature of his
“Thou art mutable, not I. All thy transmutations are only
is indispensable for the formation of the bond between the

Title: Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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Steiner's remarkable public lecture series given each year at the
Steiner's remarkable public lecture series given each year at the
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natures, so that fashionable (?) diseases and thought-epidemics
Initiates can do that consciously. In order to be able to
calls dementia appears. If the physical organs are too moveable
noticeable between the ABOVE and the BELOW. Previously the

Title: Two Pictures by Raphael
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By means of these two pictures Raphael was able, in an age of
immensely pleased when Baedeker enables them to discover
might be able to converse with him in our own way. For it
and say “Here I see very remarkable forms, — two
men are able to raise themselves; they must have inner forces,
on the right hand and one on the left. And remarkable figures

Title: Easter and the Awakening to Cosmic Thought
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a way that enables all the thoughts and sentient experiences filling the soul of man to come to
wonderful organisation of the body enables the human soul to have sight of the surrounding world.
Yet in this body there dwells a childlike soul hardly capable of producing the most elementary
thoughts that would enable it to understand the mysterious forces operating in its own heart,
the senses the soul is able to gaze into the external world because the Sun illumines the
Such an individual is now able to survey
are able eventually to reach the point in the far past when man's senses were in process of
to enable a new plant to come into existence. This is the sacrifice of a phase in the life of

Title: Karma and Details of the Law of Karma
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resignation in face of destiny. We shall go closely into this opposition and be able in the
even for clairvoyants. It is also penetrable; if it were alone one could therefore pass
think of your childhood, you will be able to say that you have learnt a very great deal.
everything that becomes habit so that it is noticeable in an individual for a long time
to him for giving effect to what his soul inwardly desires. A body that is incapable of
individual had developed an entirely egoistic urge for acquisition, a veritable greed for
specifically quoted. Thus, there are two characteristics which have a clearly recognisable
intervention in Karma. A person capable of love in the present life can rest assured that
gentle character, a highly emotional human being an equable, harmonious person. An
some individual finds himself in fortunate circumstances of life, if he enjoys a favourable
man's circumstances in life are unfavourable, if he has many failures and is surrounded by
deeds, he can bring about a favourable or unfavourable destiny in the next incarnation.
self-redemption. This is irreconceivable.
[This last sentence could have used a different word, like inconceivable, or
irreconcilable. In German, it is, “Das vereinigt sich nicht recht,” translated it
suitable for study at the general Meeting. Naturally, those who have been present at this

Title: The Secrets of Sleep or Karma
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have lost the power to see, are able to live anywhere else
have lost the power to see. These creatures are only able
of reasonable action flashes like a spark into the purely
be able to find the soul in it. The soul continues the
comprehend the other must learn the laws of reasonable
memory that enables me to connect myself with my
yesterday, it possesses today the gift of reasonable action
vital functions are quite inexplicable.” The capacity
tenable: what is important for us in our present study is,
signifies to our future on the way in which we are able to
becomes less and less, the spirit is able to determine
in unalterable law, then it is useless to help anyone, for
actions he gives a favorable turn to his karma; if I
which a man is able with full consciousness to look back at
suitable body. This depends upon the fact that before
his individual nature sought out the family which enables
physical body, is able to provide the means whereby these
able to see clearly in the higher worlds can say what the
the stage of childhood is unbearable and illogical.
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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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may perhaps be able to feel about such a question, that it is
remarkable thinkers which, following the views of Socrates and
being, to their previously prescribed and recognisable purpose?
humanity is enabled to insert itself in full clarity in the
Stoicism, that the development of the world was able to take it
weakness is not always able to perform it, so that goodness is
preparing to be able to build goodness thereupon. So Lotze
all-goodness; or he must not have been able to do so —
command, so as to be able to astound us, and where in details
says, they are completely unsuitable.
are unable to find the answers to significant questions such as
and is able to perceive in a spiritual world, then it can see
live in the spirit world, then he/she would only be able to
physical world that enables us to overcome selfishness.
valuable for a person who wants to penetrate into the spiritual
are able to live not only with ourselves alone, but with the
beings who perhaps higher than mankind are able to realize
unsuitable world.
science, what our time was able to tell him from its
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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certain people have been able to recognize this and, following the example
Bodhisattva individuality, because it has become Buddha, is no longer able
deep inwardness and soulfulness soon became noticeable, a lively mental
hundred years, the sage saw what he had not been able to see
prominent. For example, this child was also able to talk right from birth,
some time in the environment suitable for him and to revive the impressions
the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple. It was inexplicable to his parents

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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reality, you have to be able to point to the concrete event where the
understandable for the writer of the gospel of Matthew, who added the
able to deepen his beingness so much. Therefore, in the twelfth year he
incapable of certain powers coming out later. I therefore want to wait

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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whom I was able to speak here last time, attempted to trace
Raphael's own age, up to our own day. He was able to show that
his death, reaching to the present. If Herman Grimm was able to
looking back into pre-historic times, if we were not able to
often been able to emphasize from a spiritual scientific
to be able to experience something new each time. Thus, we can
veritable “spring-time birth,” undergoing an inner
is remarkable how Raphael advances in cycles of four years. And
to realize itself in figures such as Raphael alone was able to
tongue, lashing out against the deplorable state of affairs, the
from what Savonarola had been capable of. Taking account of the
us inwardly, this enables us to forget all legendary ideas from
large-heartedly as possible what we are able to feel in regard
were only human pictures; in memory, their beautiful forms palpable
it is remarkable, what is to be found in following up the
literature of those able to express something of a profound
remarkable impression.
in which Christianity is able to speak
lived in him. Is it not then reasonable to suppose: In the
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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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Yet, for a considerable time this has no longer been evident on
painting, an indescribable magic emanates from it. In spite of
These studies proceeded from going into every conceivable
their original state no longer fully recognizable — we
richly endowed to be able to fully conclude what it undertook
Leonardo soul, too great in itself ever to be able to manifest
was able to promise the duke entirely new war-machines,
see Leonardo supporting the court in Milan in every conceivable
could not see why a painter should not be able to paint such a
the greatest imaginable contrasts. These could not be painted
already, whether he would be able to finish it at all. And then
lived in his soul and what he was able to bring onto the
was unable to reveal outwardly to humanity — for which
have been able, without further ado, to paint to his
satisfaction the greatest conceivable work he undoubtedly
the external light, but that we are able to believe: the soul
given the means available. Though in later centuries no human
explicable only if we assume wise guidance in the historical
able to blossom, had the old clairvoyance remained. This older
reason is able to comprehend by means of sense perception.
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Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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From the contents of this lecture: 'Fairy tales and sagas are comparable
and listened to those who were able to relate the
in fairy tales, one has to a considerable extent the feeling
up from seemingly unfathomable sources of the folk-spirit or of
productive mood. For, whoever is able to arrive at the
from how a particular food tastes, no one is capable of
favorable circumstances, one may have the feeling:
in which something has happened in the deep, unfathomable
capable of initial experiences in the world of spiritual beings
into the unfathomable spiritual connections within which the
states between waking and sleeping, human beings were able to
constitution people were able — in sensing the hunger
palpable connection between what expresses itself in
fairy tales and these unfathomable experiences of the
human soul does indeed feel how little it is capable of
limitless future. You will be capable of accomplishing
only gain a relation to it. You have really only to be able to
a planet in the cosmos, comparable to human lives that
factor I should like to add here. I am able to establish
able to investigate in this way in the spiritual
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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From the contents of this lecture: 'Fairy tales and sagas are comparable
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closer to the spiritual worlds and were themselves still able
primeval times. At that time, had one been able to see in the
primeval times, with which human beings were able to look out
bear this ancient organ, with which they were able to
because she no longer sees what she was once able to see when

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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had brought out Goethe's remarkable exchange of letters with a
Goethe she was able (like few others) to enter into Goethe's
to be said: Everything in this remarkable book,
passed after the meal, he said, in his inimitable, humorous and
able to contribute to it. At the beginning of the seventies of
the nineteenth century, he was able to hold his famous Goethe
getting hold of it as a young person, and able to find the
external documents, one is least of all capable of providing a
enable one to understand the Greek world. Yet what the Greeks
comparable to what is contained in the existing documents.
humanity, so as to be able to say: The epochs of western
this reason, he was unable to arrive at what recent spiritual
of speaking the spiritual constituents that become explicable
the work of art, there emerges for us something like a tableau
the kind of person he was. Herman Grimm was never able to reach
becomes understandable that such a spirit had to struggle in
a tableau before us in contrasting two spiritual entities,
of Raphael. It is as though Herman Grimm were never able to
Herman Grimm's Homer book may seem intolerable. All the many
expect remarkable things of him in considering the way viewed
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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metamorphosis, and how they often become unrecognisable from
simplest, which possibly have the most manageable facts —
something inexplicable. If he was literate he would
mathematical thinking. It is quite understandable that Du
admits to all which is within justifiable boundaries. It
whether it is justifiable, out of the totality of phenomena, to
only workable way with regard the organic sphere.’ — In this way
qualitative. Then one is able to reach higher areas of nature's
existence through inner examination just as one is able to
side of Anthroposophy is always able, what Goethe calls being
accountable, to all, even the most diligent mathematician. This
able to give as a sketch, it will point out how Anthroposophy,

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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senses. The one which is the most dependable is of course the
speech and the organism becomes capable of creating speech.

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personality who is capable of penetrating thoughts with the
spirit and building a bridge between what is acceptable
the West, and which is also capable of lifting science into the
is able like no other philosopher, to become gradually more the
extraordinary uncomfortable feeling. He is reminded of an
is not able to soar up into self-owned terminological
concepts in the West simply were not available and simply got
sustain a skeleton. Soloviev was able to develop it in flesh,
Anthroposophy. If Anthroposophy becomes capable of inward

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view understandable, it is always accused of having its ideas
able to accomplish more.
understanding which enables him to grasp the most varied of
gradually to not only being able to observe the transformation
position where you are able to recognise a real relationship
faithful continuator of the justifiable scientific thinking of
remain abstract, they can't obtain any kind of favourable
never really capable of differentiating between “nearly
way into education, even working through unfavourable
actually even later, becomes suitable to progress towards
tone is set towards grown adults, we are actually unable to
attributes to the pedagogical-didactic imponderables, when he
capable of doing the same. The child is an imitator. Each
only become applicable when the change of teeth has taken
them, can imitate them right into the imponderable thoughts
Therefore, we need to look into even the imponderables in
body is connected to the physical world. We become able to see
Here are a few indications which I was able to give; they could

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course of modern time mixed up, chaotic; only viable if it
lead to a significant, acceptable ascent which from then on and
the course of human development gradually enabled us to arrive
been dealt with — has shown itself as completely incapable of
negotiated in comfortable Vienna with a stroke or two of the
pencil and fantastic words across a white tablecloth. That is

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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a factual sphere made scientific methods inapplicable in
example by one of those present here today, a very honourable
personality: ‘It is actually remarkable that you even get a
which is considered popular, which we call understandable. You
right, say: Anthroposophy is suitable for directing people in a
he becomes incapable of accessing the supersensible worlds. It
recognisable by the intellect, and what people could not attain
than simply to express what exists and is available through
and who are unable to fulfil them through current declarations,
bring to the children what is suitable to the stage of their
understandable why Catholicism has become Catholic, Protestants

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experienced consciously, will actually be unable to obtain a
thus able to research it. To consider speech it is necessary to
nuances became gradually less recognisable — and in
meaning of sound. In an unbelievable intense way one
inner inclusion of oneself in outer things is available when
indicate symbols, you would be totally unable to be impressed
This is still noticeable today. When for instance you compare
in reality not translatable into a western language, because
as you are unable to rise up to such inner observations of
will be unable to penetrate the actual living object of
longer acceptable. Further down his list is the “theory

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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first of all-gratitude to those friends who, in my unavoidable
nineteenth have made it seem justifiable, in the general
turned our thoughts to this — how valuable it is,
that we may hold any view if it is agreeable to us, a belief
judge of it as is agreeable to them, not according to its
B.C. The “fable convenue” usually called
what has been handed down to us so that we are able to judge of
construct abstract thoughts, unable to govern social life, and
in the future will take on a separable character, and will
events. Three syllables — I can only hint at them —

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People in those days were as capable of development right into
outwardly less noticeable. In olden times this was not so; what
the organism and new knowledge, unattainable before, is
within reach. At the inconsiderable age of thirty men are
ashamed to make themselves capable of development, or to learn
to experience our life as capable of development not only in
should be able to experience throughout his whole life the
Hierarchy of the Angels, who will once more be able to interest
There was a remarkable example of this once, when my hearers
decadent. The proletariat are not so yet; they are still able
directly traceable from Central Europe to Ancient Rome. This is
to the present; that means to make ourselves capable of

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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have only recently been able to plunge entirely into the
It signifies that by means of it we are able to develop
body, educate them to be able to take the complete plunge.
know that at the present time there are a remarkable number of
Nations” and hope for something from it. It is remarkable
same way the Earth would not be able to develop unless it
ago have turned to dust, is enabled to bring to completion what
remarkable polarity in man's evolution. If he passes through
however, a remarkable arrangement in the human
gradually so deepening our knowledge as to become able to
what is given from the spiritual world to enable man to unfold
they usually are; so that we may be able thereby to struggle
remarkable positions, remarkable because so very
comfortable ideas. In this sphere, also, reality must be seen
make. All the miserable endeavours to justify themselves before

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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It was itself called upon, to a considerable extent, to set its
remarkable thing was that those who had power to act in the
market.” He who will is able to see that since the social
impetus of these ungovernable facts had spread over the
should consider such things to-day, should be able to keep
intellectual life only capable of living within the souls of
But to be able to teach and educate him means learning first to
destiny and able to direct his forces with determination to the
is becoming capable of deciding, in the sphere of the free
capable of judgment. There has been a good deal of talk on this
be able, through the mutually-fixed values, to get as much
and Fraternity,” three ideals which were capable of being
able to give an outline sketch of what I meant: I know I have

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