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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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to be said because in this present age so much of this sort of thing
those guide lines are disclosed that cannot do damage to a person,
in a person engaged in inner training. They are perceived in his aura
are called chakrams in esoteric language. These are the sense organs
who combats rage, anger, curiosity and other negative qualities, is
three levels toward spiritual awakening. The three stages of occult
initiation. During the first stage or level, man's being is prepared
The greatest sages of mankind did not discover the great truths by any
teaching; today we have reached a stage in evolution of humanity in

Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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hearts throughout the ages whenever one of the old plays, such as the one
complicated age needs another kind of soul impulse that will enable us to
spiritual world, remaining, as it were, in the childhood stage of mankind
earthly body, and soon after birth addressed his mother in a language that
images of such a play proceed from a knowledge based on feeling.
Throughout the Middle Ages city people and simple folk of mountain and
evolution and the primal element in man's soul. Today much of it is damaged
found in the work of the Middle Ages. We ask why the people come out of the
in the painting. Thus we find in a painting of the Middle Ages the mystery
conception that was prevalent in the Middle Ages. Men used to think that
In the Middle Ages
So this Campo Santo painting of the Middle Ages expresses all that is
age. Even in the past the attitude toward the Jesus child was not a simple
sublime imagery of the human soul such as that, for instance, that came to
earth. Then he was filled with strength and courage and could feel that
earth's evolution occurred in the ages before the Mystery of Golgotha. Then
wildly and chaotically the winter storms may rage in us, there is one hope
strength and courage in all our joys. It is just as necessary for us to
increasingly sure that no matter how wildly the winter storms may rage

Title: William Shakespeare
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they do not claim to be complete. Their 7 pages of typescript may
correspond to about 25 typescript pages of the original text of the
upon a notebook discovered in a London library with single passages in
it which are supposed to correspond with certain passages in
the early Middle Ages we find, even in Dante and in spite of
create such great ones. He was thoroughly acquainted with the stage,
last admitted to the stage. In 1592, he recited his first more
We should not forget that the modern stage is not favourable to the
(a modern writer generally gives a detailed description of the stage
“Anthroposophic News Sheet,” Volume 14 (1945), page 71, No.

Title: William Shakespeare
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be complete. The 7 pages of typescript may correspond to about 25
pages of the original text of the lecture. But important points
passages in it which are supposed to correspond with certain
passages in Shakespeare's plays. But Shakespeare's own works bear
Renaissance. During the early middle ages we find, even in Dante
stage, and this practical knowledge enabled him to develop his
horses' reins, and was at last admitted to the stage. In 1592 he
stage so as to produce a strong effect upon the audience? The
not forget that the modern stage is not favourable to the effect

Title: The Manicheans
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Several passages in the German are very obscure.
Several passages in the German are very obscure.
have men matured to the stage where they have, as brothers, human
beings who have passed through all stages since the middle of the
of that which at higher stages appears as fetters. The Life that
time. The Good of an earlier age unites with the Good of a newer age.

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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stages of development. Their correspondence with the Higher
stages of life. It is this: Nothing that a human being does not himself
personages known in history; they sometimes are embodied in historical
dinner — that, after all, is egoism. In the Middle Ages it would have
spirit are called upon to climb one day to the highest stages of
of every age.
to an age when, as I indicated recently, men will understand what the atom
of culture, science will have reached the stage where man will be able to
stages in the development of human nature and of the human soul. Just think
periods of the seventh great epoch. This makes sixteen stages of evolution
in the future. Humanity has still to climb these sixteen stages. A man who
definite stages for the investigation of the secrets of future phases of
purpose than to be an expression, each one of them, of a future stage of
culture is a purely intellectual age, an age of egoism. The intellect is

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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Auf Den Grossen Fragen des Daseins. It is from GA# 60.
this lecture is a problem that has engaged the attention of a great
have pointed out in other lectures that every age, including our own,
between the general habits of thought of the present age and the
man’s being back through the ages, leads to external, animal
in the world of Matter. Hence even in historical ages the Christ
tragedy or deep trial in life. Nobody can deny that in the lives of
age. If this were not the case man would cease to aspire, in the
was spoken, of as the ‘Christ.’ As the modern age
Gnostic Christ, if you will; so that by the Middle Ages we find
achievements of the modern age will realise that it has been attempted
and you will see that our age, after much painstaking research into
extraordinary anomaly in our age for we are told by
Surely this is most extraordinary? Our age has
this is the same age and the same kind of research that can see no
research? He has become a poetical image, a figure that has only
Ages. In those ancient times the human soul was not yet ripe enough
great stage of world history through the founding of Christianity.
shroud of the Mysteries and enters upon the great stage of world
as the Mystery of Golgotha. Then began the age when men could know:
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Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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finally come to expression in accordance with the stage of culture
initiated such a courageous plan, had chosen the name because the
creations of art and of culture through the ages have many things to
Post-Atlantean epoch already lies in the far past and our age is the
free activity of our own human souls. The hallmark of our age is
frontage of the temple upon those who approached its portals. A man
mysterious language. In the interior of the temple I find everything
itself indicates a further stage. In its wonderful expression of
frontages and facades covered with strange figures of winged animals
stage of temple-architecture? These frontages tell us something very
image will give you an inkling of the inspiration from which the
man, into the microcosm that is an image of the macrocosm, we
way as the facade or frontage of a temple of Asia Minor was related
Temple Is — Man! rings to us across the ages like a clarion
in the following way: — We envisage a human being lying on the
Spirit has been received. The mission of our age is to initiate an
interior, with its language of colours and forms, in its whole living
re-echo the proclamation and message of the Spirit. This interior
and higher stages of perfection in the same domain.
modern age become mature enough to understand the nature of such a
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Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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whereas this teaching had reached a very high stage of development
subrace, the Turanian (?Iranian?) population — which had engaged
intent upon employing the outer accomplishments of the age of magic in
(Wahrheitsagen). This, as well as gymnastics, was a compulsory subject
stage of perfection. The Greek had foreshadowed how the perfected
The Patriarchal Age (the Age of Heroes).
sublime imagery could be used to express the truths which apply here.
We have now reached the stage of preparation for the Fifth subrace,
rapidly, and one who has gone through every stage of human evolution.

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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the retaining of a mental image or a thought or impression. Certainly
perception, but to have an idea, a mental image, you need the etheric
remember one single mental image. For all retaining of mental images
mental image that has gone from your memory, that you have
there is a tremendous difference between a mental image whilst it is
What does this so-called forgotten image do? It has a very important
As long as a mental image remains in your memory you connect it with
an object. If you observe a rose and carry the mental image of it in
your memory, you connect the image of the rose with the outer object.
The image is thus chained to the external object and has to send it
its inner force. The moment you forget the image, however, you set it
this image to him and let it stream outwards. But if we could manage
image is completely lost to man. This is seen best in that mighty
images remain stuck in our memory, we introduce something hard and
images that he is always thinking about. This is something quite
images just disappear. A melancholic temperament works detrimentally

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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personally affected and cannot manage with ordinary materialistic
our age of materialism it appears to anyone who can see to the bottom
longer examining blood but something that is the external image of
that comes to expression in the nervous system, the external image of
images of the planets to the constellation of man's organs. Thus the
you study the mutual relationships of the planets you have an image
always couched in the best language. Whilst discoursing on the nature

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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disadvantage in those times that it would have at the present time.
beings hovering round them in their environment; images of the gods
are full of health, and in those days they made men in their image.

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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the great ego at night. For sixteen hours on average it is outside
long ages before the physical constellation existed. Thus the spatial
lungs in particular that have suffered some damage, the astral body
time transfer his rhythms to the world, when he has reached the stage
today, has these rhythms within him as a heritage of this spiritual
to manage all their agriculture by observing the rules in such
and sixteenth centuries an age of abstraction, of external science,

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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some damage in the organism, in the lungs, say. When the human being
these organs were developed further at a later stage of evolution.
an ancient heritage of rhythmic knowledge. As the rhythm of the body
true image of the great world relationships, for he is created out of
angels, and we know that they went through their human stage on
went through their human stage on the old Sun condition of the earth,
stage on ancient Saturn. These beings are in advance of man in their
not imagine though, that all this is being said to encourage a world
characteristic of our age that it has lost the old, external rhythm
spiritualised form at the fifth stage as Jupiter, the Sun at the
sixth stage as Venus, and ancient Saturn at the seventh stage as
understand why just in an age when men have reached the greatest

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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life runs its course, and we know that at this stage of his existence
in his development. This is what the pilgrimage of life means for me,
happen: There is a person who, at the age of twenty, feels the urge
could be that a person would have been able to reach a certain stage
overcome the blockage, and the awaited enlightenment ensues. The
feeling of release that the blockage has really gone and the organ
blockages, of course, and they cannot all be overcome at once. We
second stage, which arises in order to produce creative strength and
it does at the start of man's earthly pilgrimage. The myths, in

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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is actively engaged in choosing his parents. But this, too, is

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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course of ages. All this gives you an idea of how external conditions
all the various stages of evolution leave so-called stragglers behind
rage. They are absolutely connected, these two phenomena: the red
extreme cases there were obviously innumerable intermediary stages of
countries have kept a certain similarity right down the ages. Let us
God was that of a unity, but at a previous stage, it could assert
we see it meeting with understanding, when envisaged as the idea of a
image of God throughout Europe and also as far as Asia, which
the lower. When we look back over the ages we can learn from the fact
attain our higher ego by evolving upwards from stage to stage. Our

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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is stripped off, and not until now, at the age of seven, is the
Therefore when the animal has just reached the stage when man attains
for animals do not all live to be twenty-one. But up to the age of
conclusion that human development up to the age of twenty-one is
something within man from the beginning that becomes free at the age
anything with him, he would be at exactly the same stage in the
evolving appears at a higher stage. Where does this new element
innate capacities. Although not an animal, he was then at the stage
will develop in his own way through the subsequent ages. We know that
ancient causes, from the Saturn, Sun and Moon stages, will have less
analogy. Imagine you are sitting in a carriage that has been given or
bequeathed to you. You are taking a ride in this carriage when a
the old carriage but a new wheel. Suppose that after a while a second
carriage and two new wheels. Similarly you replace the third and
you will actually have nothing left of the old carriage, but will
analogy the single parts of the carriage were discarded. And he will
as vehicles, and how they built up these vehicles stage by stage, and
then endowed us with the capacity to surmount them again stage by
stage. We can understand how we may throw away the parts, piece by
image, so that we may say: The rudiments of what I am to become were
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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process of humanity and in the spiritual content of our present age.
before a human being can reach the highest stage of development he
In our present age there are many influences which
age is a cause of offence to numbers of individuals. But we must not
are living in an age when the soul need only be receptive and duly
and, being aware of their task in the present age, they will find
to envisage it. For just as man on the physical plane needs a brain
Among the various activities in which man is engaged on
character of that life. The first stage of higher knowledge is what
sense, are not the imagery of dream but realities. Let us take a
passage. Homer, by the way, was called by the Greeks the ‘blind’
The spiritual investigation on which I was engaged at
the life after death in a kind of formula, although as our language

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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repair the damage to these sheaths cannot be drawn from the Earth but
the language he uses he speaks of himself as if he were another
children in whom this happens at an earlier age, the child begins to
about the reason why the child gradually passes from the stage when
he has no experience of his ‘I’ to the stage when this
function once the child has reached the stage where he says ‘I’
consequence which always results from collisions, namely that damage
even though we do not always manage to do it. Before we pass through
present stage of man's evolution. He is unable to work consciously on
external observation — it is possible for man to damage these
magnificently in the Old Testament in the passage describing the
Those who understand this passage know that Abraham, who was destined
The passage which tells of the meeting of Abraham with Melchizedek
folk-religions. Do not take this as disparagement but simply as
same stage and the element of religious egoism would be in evidence
on Earth are inadequate and that one is obliged to resort to imagery
back to those primeval ages when the Holy Rishis were the first

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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happen that because of this, his friend rages against Anthroposophy.
rages against Anthroposophy because his friend has become an adherent
as he is in the stage of Kamaloka, language is no hindrance; it
question as to whether the dead understands language need not be
raised. During the period of Kamaloka a feeling for language is
constitute its infinite value in life. Only a very elementary stage
because human beings of the present age are by no means particularly
Suppose, for instance, you had bought a ticket for a voyage in the
for him in the present age to picture the right relationship between
use of a differently formed body, just as the message from Berlin to
sending messages, given the conditions of our present existence, and
Wherever and whenever in the course of the ages a
customary in the Middle Ages, dealt chiefly in perfumes and other

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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radiating from the worlds of the stars. In man of the present age,
passages in the Bible which, as is the case with all occult
withheld from him. That is the passage in the Bible where it is
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very great. Our present age, however, has a definite advantage over
Astronomy of the kind that is available for men of the present age.
they observed. For example, the passage of the Great Bear or of the
spiritual reality connected with the passage of a constellation such
cognisant of the reality. A man of the modern age does not know that
the passage of the Great Bear across the heavens at night they saw
a physical animal on the Earth. This experience of the passage of the
Evolution leading into our modern scientific age with
contemplation of the heavens. As the age of Copernicanism approached
The nearer we come to the modern age the more is
Hence for souls of the present age the right procedure is to raise
great. Conditions today have reached the stage when between death and

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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shepherds was the message from ancient, pre-Christian times, of peace
passage of the human soul through the various regions of the Cosmos
Mystery and so, later on, rise again to the stage they had reached
inaugurator of the dawn of the modern age, had been previously
Christian Rosenkreutz at the time when the approaching modern age was
Christmas tree and as an encouragement can remain a living force

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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rest of the physical body. At a certain stage of development,
present age, though not, of course, for the age when the
of the Holy Grail can impart to men of the modern age knowledge that
the planetary stages of Old Saturn, Old Sun and Old Moon.
Spirits of Movement but have remained at an earlier stage. We see the
suppress this consciousness, the human being at this stage of his
and the etheric hand move together. But when a certain stage in the
stages, whereas to indulge in any way in unconscious, convulsive
brain of an average human being is permanently in the condition of a
Moon the brain was still at the stage of the hands at the present
ancient Lemurian epoch, when man had reached the stage of evolution

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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character when they have reached a certain age. This is the result of
consciousness of ‘I’ at the same age. Nor does the change
of teeth occur at precisely the same age in different individuals.
grow larger, provision must be made for the stoppage of growth by the
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have had a normal development; having evolved through the stages of
the human being reached the stage where through the Spirits of Form
checked at a later age, as a final act. Thus we perceive two
without inwards and, when the human being has reached a certain age,
Paul spoke in simple language but the actual way in which he spoke
spiritual heritage, a spiritual endowment. But in the course of time
of Golgotha. The spiritual heritage which once came to the Earth with
spiritual heritage. If we go back to the epoch long before the
advanced peoples then on the Earth, and their sages had every reason
to say, in view of the stage reached in evolution: ‘Better it
the spiritual life had reached the stage of its greatest darkness.
the Mystery of Golgotha as an ancient heritage? The difference is
rebirth during his passage through the Mars sphere. Among other
and independence needed in the present age. Whereas nowadays men have
stages.
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Eight
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who have reached the stage of human existence during the Earth
fugitive stage of created existence. But when we waken spiritually
of a grown-up person, however, or of a child from a certain age
accumulates and the natural death of old age ensues when the
being has been prepared in past ages without any physical connection
such as these, that have been revealed through the ages and grasped
the stage of coming into being this body is actually part of the
existence. At that stage between death and rebirth what is otherwise
human evolution on the Earth. Let us look back to an age, for example

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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Between death and the next birth we must approach, stage by stage,
raise their status in the world, although to their own advantage
Anthroposophy on the Earth for them to acquire it. In the present age
connection with the Earth and our passage through the life on Earth

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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earthly life. Passage through the planetary spheres. Quotation from
images of happenings in the Heavens. The fruits of the soul's
there is a description of the passage of
earthly images: the ‘continental’ region of Spiritland,
during which the soul feels bound to disengage itself gradually from
this stage, when the human being has weaned himself from fostering
differ in youth, in middle life and in old age, a particular form of
exactly with the passage of the expanding soul into the region called
the passage of the soul through this region and you will see from
the passage through the Venus sphere. It has been said that if the
on Earth the forces are engaged in perpetual conflict among
Spiritland you will find the following passage. [See
thoughts of ancient Indian Vedanta wisdom. The sage acquires, even
this passage it is clear that when, during the life between death and
age the Buddha was transferred to this same region, the Mars region.
ample sense an image of happenings in the Heavens.
understand the others is not enough. For during the passage through
These are three stages experienced by the soul between
death and rebirth, culture on Earth would still be at the stage
germinal state from which, at a later stage, everything in existence
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Title: Michelangelo
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have at the age in which they lived but which they can now experience
relation to artists of earlier ages who worked within the same field.
development of art through the ages.
message from another world. This creation of form was possible to the
Michelangelo sets before us his Moses as representative of his age so
image of what is spiritual.” I don't know how many people
have given much thought to the fact that between the age of the
Greeks and the age of Michelangelo there came one in which it really
was a fact that no image was to be made. The earliest Christians did
Commandments, “Thou shalt not make any image of the Lord Thy
shalt not make any graven image.” Then, however, there follows
shall see that it could have been created only in an age when the
the modern age, the age that is of materialism. Man's senses
the block and at first made it a sort of image of his thoughts. This
stands at the opening of the modern age in the same relation to art
incorporation of his age; he was, and seemed to himself to be, the
direct the times. The very stone was to carry to later ages the
living message so that generations to come might look at this
for Michelangelo's Adam, Eve is brought forth from past ages by
leave the page — in all this we can see how they seize upon the
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Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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of the true aspect of things when one enters the image world of
during the Saturn stage of evolution; the first basis of man's
etheric body arose during the Sun stage of evolution; during the
Moon stage of development arose the first foundation of the
astral body, and the Ego began to unfold during the earthly stage
existed upon a higher stage, it lived in man instinctively, in
that the difficulties of our age are a warning, induce us to
(From the courage of the fighters,

Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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qualities of the soul life in a higher stage come to be of even
be noted, however, that in the stage of soul development referred to
damage in this striving is everything that overcomes man in ordinary
courage, a standing up for what one recognizes as true, are proper
images called into consciousness by his free will, tries to draw
pointed out already, he who engages in the exercises described in
appears is nothing other than a projection, a shadow image, of his
life appear to him first in a mirror image. This is the reason that
its own essence as in a mirror image, takes its own reflections for a
observation and extinguish what presents itself as image to his
“You are able to extinguish your image,” overcoming
himself in this extinguishing; if the image returns, so that he can
certain power over our mental images. Any person is aware of this
images when it recognizes their error. We are in a different
an image of its own being, perceived as a real outer world. From this
stage of spiritual development through a strict self-observation will
The spiritual investigator at an appropriate stage of his development
ordinary life if we have not struggled through to a certain courage,
courage, however, we can endure it. In the region of the soul life we
Here it only need be mentioned that at a certain stage of
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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Die Beantwortung von Welt- und Lebensfragen Durch
age only those who are familiar with the findings of
opened and as well as a great vista of past ages of the Earth
And because he looked back through the ages with his own
eighteenth century, dying at the age of 29, describe the
way. However far we look back into past ages, as long as one
Science we can send our thoughts back to ages in the far, far past, to
perception had not yet developed to the stage where external
whence man had come forth in the age of Lemuria. Our souls
In later ages he lived more and more on the physical plane,
waited through the ages in order to appear in humanity at the
experienced among Gods in the age of old Atlantis. This
pilgrimage he had forgotten it!
human soul has not reached the stage where it can unfold the
fashioned, and forward into the future. And to men engaged in
There was no age when
pupils had reached a very advanced stage, they were permitted, at
Then came the age
achieved that marriage between spirit and matter which bore such
Goddess, still wholly spiritual, belonging to the age when
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Title: Lecture: Buddha
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Fragen des Daseins.
age many people feel an inherent desire to understand what really
beginning of the Middle Ages! Grotesque as this may sound, it is
In the course of the ages
stages and conditions. The events of which outer history and
go back to prehistoric ages, we find that the nature of the soul and
we have a last remnant — an atavistic heritage — of
ages the general condition of humanity was such as we find still
from Spirit into the world of maya had proceeded stage by stage, as
age when man was united with the spiritual world; he then descended
He saw an old man tottering wearily along his way — age creeps
image of destruction, of corruption, and within his soul the feeling
world, what do we behold? Forces of destruction, sickness, old age,
death. Knowledge and wisdom cannot surely have brought old age,
innumerable lives will never solve the great riddles of old age, of
element void of wisdom as the cause of old age, sickness and
my reasoning faculties.” But in an older age the constitution
an event which happened untold ages ago, the subconscious workings of
into his inner being — the Spirit in the image of the Dove.
for his followers the message: “Quench the thirst for
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Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Grossen Fragen
remain open. Our main purpose today will be to envisage the
— a conception which takes us back, so to speak, to an age of
life possible. One has to envisage all this as being accompanied by
we envisage our globe in a form which, according to modern geology,
the present and earlier evolutionary stages of the earth, more detailed
suppositions in regard to what precedes the granite-age; likewise geology
the earth, and if we then go on to our present age, this segregation
animal organism. There we see, how a man lives to a certain age, how he
said that this work, on which Suess has been engaged not merely for
through processes of destruction. I need quote only a short passage
Suess, “Das Antlitz der Erde,” Vol. 1, page 778.)

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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know how little artistic our age is, though we must be astounded that

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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all, why do we set value on following up an age so far behind our own
super-sensible world. At the present stage of his evolution man could
upon a remarkable passage, which is simply expressed and noted in his
given point and fills emptiness with something similar to courage. It
is a feeling of courage, of protection through being united with that
sea of courage becomes a true objective reality for us.
description for it) of flowing courage, flowing energy. This is not
courage. We become acquainted with beings who consist of courage, but
it is not as though they consisted of courage alone, they are really
of flesh but consist of courage. Yet such is the case. Of such a
courage, represent, — and nothing else. Saturn is this to
and in all directions are to be found Spirits of Courage or
these first ages of the Saturn existence even time ceases, there is
extend so far. By way of a comparison and expressing it in image, we
timeless character of the infinite sea of courage with its Beings
We can say that it is within the whole infinite sea of courage. We
Worlds and elsewhere it is frequently said that the second stage
of sacrifice underlying their strength and courage, kneeling before

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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reflect it, just as a mirror reflects an image. Thus the task of the
at an earlier age could be reflected again at the present time. We
living in the fifth post-Atlantean age of civilisation, when the
events of the third, the ancient Egyptian-Chaldean age are being
by the Archangels who preserve for later ages what took place at the
to preserve into later ages what belongs to the earlier, and so

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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necessary to turn back to the very early ages of our evolution, we
the same relation to the real world as does the reflected image of a
reach the stage they ought to have attained. A commonplace comparison
who, remaining behind in the stages of their own evolution,
subsequently interfere with the evolutionary stages of other beings,
language to describe it. But when we advance to the ancient
back into the Akashic Record of the Sun-age we can quite distinctly
we wish to compare the Sun in that bygone age with any external
image, we can only compare it with the form of our present Saturn
that this was prepared even during the Saturn-age; so that Eternity
does not actually begin during the Sun age. This can however, only be
expressed in concepts, in the Sun-age: on Saturn the division between
that of ancient Sun, that at the close of the Sun-age all the
is to he seen, we must see in Him an image of those Beings with whom,
at a certain stage of evolution, we have just become acquainted,
just as once upon a time, during the Sun-age, the gods themselves
represents in painting an image of the cosmic purpose. The artist [is
the cosmic order. In earlier ages artists in dim consciousness were

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some other age may have experienced some injustice, to which children
Soul-life is a heritage coming to us from those primeval times of
from that ancient stage of evolution, so do we inherit all kinds of
words, we observe that at this stage something new enters the
thus that we must look upon what lives on in the Beings as a heritage
what was attained in the Cosmos at this stage if we once more reflect
consciousness, for that has stretched over to the earth-stage of our
should continually arise to assuage the feeling of desolation, we
— which belongs to this particular age of ours — are
longing. Suppose that he, through living in an earlier age, in which
continuity! Myriads of ages, each having its own life, and to each a
consciousness; otherwise the whole tragedy could not be
subconsciousness. But it must be done to-day. And the tragedy of a
a man as heritage of the old Moon consciousness cannot be brought to
satisfy what was yearned for in the age preceding our own, when men
longed for what cannot be given until our age. We feel a kind of

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from Renunciation — which we encounter at the third stage of
them, is just as wise as it would be to say cabbages could grow in a
made use of the example of the little boy in a village whose duty it
was to fetch rolls for the family breakfast. Now in that village each

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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf die Grossen Fragen
ideas, concepts, and mental images of things and beings if these
certain mental image, for otherwise he will always succumb to error,
not think of how all feelings, sensations, and mental images are

Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Grossen Fragen des Daseins.
Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Grossen Fragen des
through earthly life. Every epoch and every age has its special
in dim prehistoric ages, of whom no documentary records exist. I refer to
age, makes us realise what great differences arise in the sum total
future, other stages of consciousness will be reached, again very
images appear and disappear, how they emerge and fade away. To our
people of our time. Images, ever-changing pictures, symbols — of
consciousness of man. Man then lived in a world of images —
images not vague or empty but proceeding from a real external world.
before him in dreamlike images. In these dreamlike images he
consciousness described above dates back to a prehistoric age of
to this age of which, as yet, no historical traditions have reached
far transcending the normal consciousness of the age. In that part of
Zarathustra's message to the world was fundamentally
remarkable how these two paths converge in the Greek age, where the
time. This understanding was expressed in symbolical imagery, in
of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music,” he shows that the
to condense into simple language the doctrines which Zarathustra
battle against his lower passions, desires, and the delusive images
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Title: Lecture: Hermes
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Grossen Fragen des Daseins.
Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Grossen Fragen des
The echoes sounding to us across the ages seem
recently been compelled to go back to ages more and more remote in
modern age. I have felt then that the significance of my message to
Egyptian sage once said to Solon: “You Greeks are still
vision; you have no ancient traditions, no wisdom hoary with age, and
Wisdom hoary with age —
only retained atavistically as a waning heritage, in the picture
discipline in this age, works in pictures and not in the concepts and
stages between the old clairvoyant consciousness and the objective
doors until only the lowest stages of spiritual activity were
only knew the lowest images of the realm of which this vision made
Priest-Sages were able, in the golden prime of Egyptian civilisation,
that there had once been an age when their predecessors had gazed
old Wisdom-teaching — of which the Egyptian Sage spoke to Solon
forth with a message which was to renew the ancient wisdom, he also
(according to the custom of Egyptian sages) called himself
have been severely punished. It is said too, that in the age when
leads men to believe that the legend only contains symbolical images
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Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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the “Spirit” in the age of the great
In this age it
with the same attitude of mind as the other. Our age is under
particular stage of reasoning power to which they have attained
“New Believers.” On page 489, Vol II of the 4th
these “new believers” have not the courage to
“new believers.” But they have at least the courage
Rehmke has the courage to believe in miracle; he cannot have the
courage to admit the Anthroposophical view of the reappearance
and in this way can go through all the stages of human
the courage to believe the full scientific creed of the present
courage. Courage, extraordinary courage, is necessary to
Jahrhundert.”) But this courage is somewhat different from

Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Grossen Fragen des Daseins.
Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Grossen Fragen
man goes a stage further than the mere species, in the
to a certain age, but only showed itself later as a feeling

Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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pay homage to the kingly Being who is entering man's evolution.
pay homage to the great spiritual King Who appears in the high
once was, passed through his stages of development in
And before our soul there arises the marvellous image of the
To idol images, pay heed, ye too, to that
fruits which were no longer suitable to that age is
summit of human evolution and paying homage to him there come
and pay homage to heavenly wisdom; but it knows that it cannot
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Grossen Fragen des Daseins.
Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Grossen Fragen
Divinity. He had collected various passages from Aristotle in
which he preached with such noble courage, thus proving
himself a child of his age. The feelings which possessed
passages in his works, as may be verified, ”through
which give rise to similar language to-day. Galileo would not
stars, all this appeared to him as a marvelous image of what
of delight in the spirit of the new age which had just begun.
This new age had been preceded by a time during which man had
had existed for Aristotle or the men of the Middle Ages. He
are the images we construct in our imagination when the
Giordano Bruno, the fourth stage is Reason. Reason to him is
system of Giordano Bruno comprises four stages of knowledge.
Spirit of the age, all its delight in the discovery of the
they sound as if Nature herself had a direct message for men
language which rang out at that time, such the convictions
reproduce this language to-day, so that it will speak
at the age of seven, he took the music desk belonging to his
from the clairvoyant stages of perception to a material form
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Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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the ages down to the present day. Grimm has been able to show that
preceding ages too give the impression as if they were themselves pointing
Applying these words to the evolution of the ages, we may say that in
figures of his pictures. What Homer created long ages before the appearance
ages. Most ages indeed already pointed to one in whom they should find
again and again over the course of the ages, must have ever new experiences.
ages. Studying humanity in the Pre-Grecian age of civilization we find
In Post-Grecian ages the
and weaving in all things. These are the ages when the human soul was
the evolution of humanity. And in the spirits of the Post-Grecian ages
Science we must realize that we are living in an age which represents
Spiritual. More and more we are dancing into an age of inner deepening.
from the most marvelous creations. Raphael dies at an early age, at 37.
stages, let us turn our attention for the moment away from all that
of Raphael. Grimm speaks of the picture called “The Marriage of
agree with the following passage of Hermann Grimm: “We now see
a higher stage of his soul's development. Four years after the picture
The Marriage of the Virgin comes The Entombment; four
in the Vatican, — and so on, by four year stages up to The
the inner nature of the soul of Raphael, let us allow the age in which
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Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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world will know what a distinct language these facts speak. It
language of the facts will find out in the not too distant
the work stoppage at Crimmitschau, to the miners' strike on the
in his technical studies, but not in order to engage in
Look at statistics. They speak a distinct language. But what
starvation wages wears clothes that have been produced in turn
for a starvation wage. Compare the paragraphs written in the
been produced for a starvation wage, then we are looking deep
stages of its existence, even in its germinal state,
stages occurs also in that being which includes them all,
see, for example, his essays from 1905, The Stages of Higher
age. One who steeps himself in this knows the last time in
another stage of their existence, in an earlier incarnation.
spiritual life. Christianity brought the message of equality
third stage, [The German “drei Stadien” translates to “three
stages.” We suggest this represents a stenographic error and
Heritage Dictionary, 1992. Social Democrat (with capitals)
own hearts into the world. Then the world will be an image of
the soul, and in this soul there will be an image of the world.
All that happens is that the worker gets higher wages [...].
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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you the purest representative at the present stage of humanity of
homage he spoke of Goethe. Schopenhauer
and demands that man should lift himself to a stage where he grasps
expression of the contemporary age. I refer to the picture:
not only value for this age, but for all ages, that it is there
eternally and cannot pass away and that every age has the right to
And he demands three Onions, three Artichokes and three Cabbages.
‘considering your age, no doubt they were decently
pay their debt to the Ferryman, namely, three Cabbages, three
Cabbages, Onions and Artichokes alone weigh down the basket. On the
seizes one Cabbage, one Artichoke and one Onion out of the basket
image of most perfect Beauty, but her touch possesses the power of
the higher stages of human existence.
Temples of Initiation. He shows also that humanity in the newer age
initiation up to the highest stages, to the point where the soul is
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture II
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average European with some ideas of science can know of the world, we
absorbed a number of the scientific ideas of the present age:
world-picture corresponds to a stage in human evolution, and that man
but only a wisdom and truth belonging to a given stage of evolution.
other than increasing the powers of man to ever higher stages of
given the average feeling and will in man to-day, they cannot be
human soul, and considered the first stage on the way to initiation,
for us the representative of that stage of human development in
chaotically mixed, that stage of knowledge is represented which does
a certain stage of perfection. So that we shall also now find it easy
wanted to climb to higher stages of knowledge and had not this
him. Goethe shows the advantages equally with the drawbacks of this
represents a higher stage of man's evolution. Goethe nowadays
must be developed, if a higher stage is to be reached; she says that
which for hundreds and thousands of years have brought the message of
him: man's soul-powers here still want to examine what sort of stages
bring the Ferryman his pay: three heads of cabbage, three onions and
three artichokes. Such a stage of development has not passed beyond
spiritual knowledge he stands in agreement in extreme old age with
But such a saying can become a ladder leading to high stages of
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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us the different stages of Goethe's growth. It is endlessly
interesting to observe how these four stages of Goethe's
essentially higher stage and a higher
passage through the great world, but in such a way that the second
of a spiritual kind by means of which man climbs the stages of
age of seven he took a writing desk, placed on it some minerals and
This was a representation of nature the Mystics in the Middle Ages
he saw on the first page a symbol which had a deep
stiffening itself, and when he read the words on the first page,
remnants of magic and similar things from the Middle Ages; and
rapture that passed through him at the sight of this page.
which it develops through age, knows that in spite of such battles,
gazing at certain symbols and images these forces could be
stage of existence. But all know what comes to pass: Faust does not
the exact image of the Divinity, and now he had to say to himself,
over into the West in the Middle Ages in the form of
forms of Lucifer and of Mephistopheles. In the age following
It was in what we may call the tragedy of Gretchen that Goethe
a higher stage of perfection. Art is man's continuation and
reached an advanced age, was he able to give a true form to what
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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The idea, as the now meaningless stage instruction tells us, was that
Than on the British stage, where a small child
symbolic explanation is discouraged. The demand is that the
‘What says the Sage, now first I recognize:
the ‘music of the spheres’ is not a poetic image, nor a
poet's images, created by right of poetic licence’ —
passage, again, we hear the sounds of thousands of years
passage of some great words spoken thousands of years ago; words
appears at the turn of the modern age as that being which prompts
stage of clairvoyance — the stage completed by the
The first stage of clairvoyance is something which can
gives rise to the sense-world. He arrives at the stage where the
death. The images, indeed, will take on other, fixed shapes, when
Now if the images of Helena and Paris are to be brought up,
He read a passage in Plutarch, where is described how the
city of Engyium seeks an alliance with Carthage. Nicias, the friend
image of bathing the earthly breast in the morning-red: the sun
this scene is meant to be: Faust's penetration to the first stages
the scenes of the stage of the physical world, so that he really
body. When he brings back the merely imaginative image from the
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Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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the most varied stages of development. All the souls embodied
to better advantage, and are therefore at a stage of
humanity, only at a higher stage, there are also in the course
of course be compelled to learn the language of this tribe; but
no one should maintain on this account that the language is
language. In the same way a lofty individuality had to make the
of the Middle Ages from the astral body of Jesus of Nazareth
Nazareth; and they worked on in the following age and brought
without the Christian natural science of the Middle Ages. It is
of the Middle Ages. Those people do not live in reality, but in
abstractions, who look up passages in the books of the
Christian scholastic science of the Middle ages had not
Christianized science of the scholastics of the Middle Ages.
scholasticism of the Middle Ages. Everything by means of which
from the Christian scholastic science of the Middle Ages.
Middle Ages. This, indeed, would mean to observe world history
science. Carefully prepared through the three stages of
and throughout the Middle Ages with his astral capacity for
Being into itself, and can gradually rise to ever higher stages
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Title: An Impulse for the Future
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have climbed to ever higher stages of knowledge, worldwide and
philosophical abstraction entered, and the old images and signs were
engulf us when we see how little we were able to take advantage of
objective of which is to raise human development to a higher stage.
had previously given. It was, so to speak, a direct message from the
stage, for the preparations must still be made in order to understand
marriage, for the fulfillment of which she had waited “seven
matter, was shattered; outside the war raged; in Dornach the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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great variety of age groups are represented in the audience,
been badly presented, usually through overeagerness and lack
irreconcilable with modern science. People who are engaged in
a bygone age; they must have their roots where the human soul
right and good in one age is not necessarily so in another.
on education and marriage.
can come about only through cooperation. The age one lives in
hampers progress. The impulses of one's age must not be
age of seven, she was like a little wild animal. Then there
above average. She had never heard sound or seen color and
language of the Greeks and Romans. Although she had never
individual with inner strength, courage, and joy in life.

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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today's lecture no doubt reminds you of a passage in Goethe's
commentators usually provide curious interpretations of this passage.
passage, but it all amounts more or less to what is said by a
of the passage is that Goethe, as well as earlier writers of
power over him. The reason behind this passage is a strange
people to assimilate a strange culture? Can a savage become
When tracing the stages of development in a human embryo, one
that forces already in existence had first to reach a stage
embryos human beings repeat once more the earlier stages of
and animal, although transitional stages between them do
is the case, an image arises within the creature in response
evolutionary stages that will arise out of the blood. They
seed to reach perfection in a far-off future; a stage to
are to attain the capacity to create inner mirror images of
stage becomes a developed nervous system.
macrocosm. As the crystal is an image of cosmic form, so is
sentient life an image of cosmic life. The dullness of
when evolution had reached the stage of the cosmos being
reached this stage, humans were no longer obliged to be
image itself now entered into relationship with the
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture III: The Origin of Suffering
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satyrs. He was a personage in Greek mythology.
understand the birth of tragedy out of the Spirit of ancient
ages, one recognizes that this view is not without
the sense of Job's tragedy, suffering need not originate from
portrays more sublimely than the tragedy the greatest human
forces. On the stage we can often witness the conquest of
of a tragedy. The poet can only create such a work of art if
the living form. Thus, we speak of the three stages: physical
corresponding stages: form, life and consciousness. Not until
the stage of consciousness is reached can self-consciousness
gain insight into this next higher stage of evolution, we
must be repeated at a higher stage. The soul forces that
willing are in harmony. This is right at certain stages of

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IV: The Origin of Evil
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individuals called the “initiates.” In every age
could reach higher stages of development. Such exercises lead
The whole of humanity will reach this stage, but only after
higher stage of evolution, they become the leaders and guides
stage we have reached on the earth. On the future planet
develop from the most elementary stage to the loftiest.
higher stage; it is the bon viveur that continually
long ages to become as perfect and as wise as the physical
interdependence applies to all stages and kingdoms. Just as

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture V: Illness and Death
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words of Saint Paul: “The wages of sin are
person's “I” has reached a stage of independence
and what Paul defines as: “The wages of sin are
ages, thinkers searching for a world conception have
maternal organism work on the embryo. From the age of seven
begins to influence the human organism. Then at the age of
age of seven the physical principle is at work unfettered,
Up to the age
astral body is freed. At this stage the forces of the ether
ideals. When we compare a person with a savage, we realize
or indeed the average civilized person has purified and transformed,
manages to purify and transform in his inner nature sustains
sting. The savages living by the Sambesi River have found a

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VII: Education and Spiritual Science
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nurse before the age of seven. Why then must we have schools
protection of the maternal body. Not until a certain stage of
earlier epochs. Even the embryo repeats all primordial stages
describes the stages through which a human being evolves from
the third year, he calls the "golden, gentle, harmonious age"
the Greek heroic age, as well as the time of the North
American savage. The third epoch, up to the ninth year,
to the Middle Ages. The sixth epoch, up to the eighteenth
As every age
child when the capacity for imagery is fostered. Plants
materialistic age too little is expected of memory. The child

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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of German lyric poets. His images were usually derived from
about suddenly, but is gradually prepared from the age of
imaginative, pictorial ideas and images are more akin to
spirit, and are capable of driving out the distorted images
that cause the condition. Such counter-images must be
counter-images will be effective. For example, the power of
detailed research so that the counter-images applicable in

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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plant-image that can come to life within us; from it
but could exist. In someone who has become a sage laws are
not abstract but creative images. Abstract concepts and ideas
at the conceptual stage, he would never have discovered the
without it resembling any particular plant. Such an image is
them into colored images and mental pictures. Anyone who
pictures, and images within itself, the spiritual world
are corrected by that which guides us. Paracelsus was a sage
possibility to evolve, to reach higher stages; the knowledge
imaginative wisdom. The plant then discerns its own image in
images. Hypnotism relies on this fact. The hypnotist excludes
is built up from such spiritual images. These eternal ideas,
these spiritual images, human beings are able to absorb and

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture X: Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
Stages in Man's Development in the Light of
has resounded to mankind down the ages like a summons to
former lives. He has as it were added many pages to the
yet not purified that was left behind at different stages
example. At this age the child Imitates everything that goes
the doll lacks. This encourages the development of the inner
at every age. Thus, we must be clear that as the physical
able at this age to look up to someone with feelings of
earlier age. Now a person matures; the time has come when
Those with spiritual insight have always regarded this age as
offers him — now at the age of thirty-five he begins to
until about the age of thirty-five. From now on the astral
to expression as cultural interest and courage. One could
“childishness of old age.” People who in their
begin in old age to dry up. It is especially important to
why the age of about thirty-five is the most favorable time
What they inwardly develop at an older age becomes in the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XI: Who are the Rosicrucians?
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to justify it, do so with an air of patronage, though they
Middle Ages.
been explained that the early stages of initiation can be
prerequisite for the higher stages is the very highest
deals only with the elementary stages of the whole system of
Rosicrucian training consists of seven stages that need not
which the student passes through these preliminary stages of
The first stage
stages if the student has no aptitude for what this first
stage demands. It requires the student to develop a thinking
higher stages. From the start it must be made clear that,
make accessible the elementary stages of Rosicrucianism, it
Without this kind of thinking the higher stages of
necessary in order to absolve the first stage of Rosicrucian
stage is the acquisition of imaginative thinking.
This should only be attempted when the stage of study has
fertilizing sacred lance of love. This stage will be reached
the second stage of training.
The third stage
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XII: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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many deluding images that come to block his path and slow his
and one of the founders of Greek tragedy.
physical agent. Hidden influences stream from soul to soul,
the Middle Ages that to modern humans is just a legend.
onwards to ever greater heights and more perfect stages of
where he is; human beings must ascend stage by stage if they
physical, would have the courage to take on a cultural
playwright and actor-manager of the Globe Theatre.
on the stage cannot be conveyed by the dramatist.
wanted to present on the stage both aspects of dramatic art:
the stage.
some action taking place on the stage, we should become aware
this constitutes a necessary stage in man's evolution.
witness, dramatized on the stage and echoing through his
feminine. What is depicted as a marriage is a person's union
courageously and died on the battlefield is regarded by
Middle Ages the old social structure was being replaced with
great individuality, in the anonymous sage who continued to
city-dweller of the Middle Ages. He who mediates between the
stage of higher spiritual development. The Swan mediates
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XIII: The Bible and Wisdom
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more religious age. Nor can a person have any idea of the
with any understanding of a certain passage from the Sermon
attitude. The passage, when rightly translated reads:
and disposition of the spiritual scientist than this passage
only have human beings developed to their present stage from
from stage to stage. In striving for perfection, a human
achieving something we could not manage before. If we remain
higher stages of development and we become aware that our
true that a human being who has reached a certain stage in spiritual
is followed through, the higher stages are seen to continue
stages from the most imperfect to the most perfect.
lower stages of soul development and those attained by an
passage from the Sermon an the Mount is a truly wonderful
acquainted with old linguistic usage will not imagine that
stages of spiritual development: One person has forged ahead,
another remained at a lower stage. This indicates how in the
from the savage to the highly advanced individual who has
initiates always had insight into all the stages of human
stage something that belonged to the future. Already they saw
pass through many stages. Before the stage of initiation was
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture I: The Past Shows Us a Picture of Necessity
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This time we will deal with our subject in very slow stages. I
and get it going. As a rule they only found people who damaged
plane. He may have progressed a stage higher in knowledge,
Out of the courage of the fighters,
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Past ages show nothing that can compare with this Prologue for
glad if he had enriched our German language with a masterpiece.
atrocious language.
probable it seems to me that there must have been a wager to
von Goethe's intention, he has won the wager....
regarding all the karmic damage this person might have
at the age of thirteen, enters into your present judgments. It
free, so earth's present state was once free in earlier stages
evolution beyond their nature stage and became the higher
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impossible to manage if you cannot anticipate a single
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of the Middle Ages the Roman world and what is now Central
take place. If we could manage to remove from the human soul
intended, and language has a subtle feeling for this. When an
were to remain at their stage of development in the sixth or
impulses from the spiritual world. In one passage it is
life of Siegfried, his marriage to Kriemhild, his wooing
what one might call a Parsifal of a later age. Goethe can
language, for they came about through primeval necessity. That
I will make up my own language!” And he sets about
nonexistent language, that with his freedom he would be
anything we please into an already “full” age.
human beings, the mental image of what is on the physical
educate. Now an average person has his educational principles.
normal old age, and die, our etheric body has become so
bondage, and the spiritual-soul part, bound in freedom,
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possession of our I, for what we have is a mental image
reflection, a mirror image of the I. Do we have nothing
gives us our mental image of the I. Therefore, on the
in the course of our passage through the Saturn, sun, moon, and
body. By the Middle Ages of course these were only the last
fact that painters believe they can no longer manage
After a much longer time has elapsed, a new age will arrive for
post-Atlantean epoch, i.e., in an age in which —
although the physicists already have the ideal of the sixth age
outer world except for his mental images of it. He will
beyond his own mental images of the outer world. What is
just discuss a few passages in the fifteenth lecture about the
memory pictures of previous sensations, mental images
to be able to pursue the psychic process to its final stage. At
say, what has to be aimed for in an age like this is that a
this is a fitting image — like wine does when a person is
live in an age when one has to renounce a really close
message of the testaments by showing that the Mystery of
statement Professor Ziehen makes on page 208 of these lectures,
images, and the psychic part” — that is, the soul
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into many languages. Seldom, indeed, has a book of serious
courage, has fought for the acceptance and the recognition of
development, been passing through a materialistic stage of
education. The actual beginning of this stage is traceable far
education the age of enlightenment.
a specially important passage in the lecture Du Bois-Reymond
courage in matters concerning natural science, further progress
ordinary man, held in bondage by his senses, cannot possibly
stage will at length be reached where not only the curious
convey to the seer a new meaning. In the language of the
able to understand those passages, for instance, occurring in
primeval ages of which materialistic science speaks do not
behind on a lower stage of creation. To such as these belong
types, leaving behind at different stages those incapable of
the outgrown stages through which he has developed his bodily
that of their ancestors at those particular stages where they
deteriorated and degenerate forms occupying those lower stages
that each one sees God's image after his own likeness. The
Greek philosopher long ages ago.
passage: “We see God in the stone, in the plant, in the
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Title: Spirit of Fichte: Lecture I: The Spirit of Fichte Present in Our Midst
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house, as records show, had been engaged in the ribbon-weaving
sturdily built for his age, with red cheeks and expressive eyes,
Gottlieb at this stage of his life into other situations. For
made the suggestion: “Oh there is a boy in the village who
do so.” And so Gottlieb, now nine years of age, was fetched,
which he had been accustomed in the poor ribbon-weaver's cottage.
pastor. And when Gottlieb reached the age of thirteen he was able,
needs. Already aspiring, even at that age, towards the highest, he
lofty and valiant outlook, expressed in free and outspoken language.
passage in the Bible, and similarly while he was living with the
unpretentious cottage, he was allowed to preach there, for the
as a personification of the world's purpose in the age in which one
found himself altogether in harmony with the image reflected in his
was thirty years of age. Then a remarkable thing happened. Kant immediately
engaged in working out his ideas within himself, he received a
message from Jena. The impression made there by Fichte's
audience. But then he was not concerned to convey his message, but
as an image. And now think of a person thinking of the wall. Detach
to deliver his own message.” Fichte's aim was to produce, not
ourselves in reciting and listening inwardly to those passages
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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German villages. When the Christmas season approached I could behold
could still be sensed quite distinctly in certain farming villages as
villages in recent decades. When the celebration of Christmas
done in a very primitive way. In some villages you would find such a
see a few decades ago small groups of actors wandering from village to
village — the last actors to present plays of “the Holy
villages. There were the “Three Holy Kings”, wearing strange
their heads. Thus would they move through the villages, seldom lacking
village would participate, and which enabled people to take in with
villages, stopping at various homes, to present their simple tales.
their simple poems as they wandered through the villages, and this is
The whole village would take part in such things. As certain lines
presentation of which entire villages took part. As regards our
regions. In certain “language islands” in Hungary the German
language had been kept alive both as a mother tongue and for
language was imposed. There one could still find many of the Christmas
preserved their ancient heritage of Christmas plays, and they renewed
always recruiting the players from among the villagers themselves. I
actually visiting these village people and witnessing how they have
Such art was actually performed by village lads who engaged in
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the successive epochs. Attainment of Initiation in the present age is
courage and fearlessness. Certain experiences are common to all
Mysteries, whether Eastern or Western: contact with death, passage
completely changed when, after our passage through the spiritual
certain stage without any personal guidance; for it has been possible
stage, he must not simply experience blue or red or any other colours
but it is none the less true to say that from a certain stage of
certain stage of Initiation these opinions no longer have any meaning
it is very easy for misunderstandings to arise. When this stage of
he experiences in the higher worlds. This stage can be reached only
cannot enter the stage of Initiation referred to here, but only he who
certain stage on it, will take an attitude towards many things in
a folly which assuredly would assail anyone at a certain stage of
The person who is meditating, who has worked up to certain stages of
this connection I call courage and fearlessness moral qualities.
Without them, certain stages of Initiation cannot be reached.
have certain stages in common, Hence for all Mysteries certain
follows. Every soul that wishes to attain to a certain stage of
must be gone through by everyone who attains to a certain stage of
has been designated in the Mysteries of all ages as “The Approach
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Experience at a definite stage of the Mysteries is that in respect of
develops are what enable him to reach the stage we spoke of yesterday.
way, and gone through the stage of having stood over the abyss —
to law, when a man has in old age expended his life-forces. We will
having fulfilled our measure of life. Men die at all ages, and we must
deaths at different ages? We understand that a man must die when his
present age we are comparatively fortunate in regard to such things.
will mount upwards stage by stage. For him who wants to become an
indeed come stage by stage into the higher worlds, but from this
but also the village folk go to sleep at a certain time and wake at a
experienced. at a quite definite stage of the Mysteries. From this
stage we will go on to-morrow.

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since past. Then in those remote ages this soul would have been an
the human brain, poised above the human face. Engaged in this task are
birth continues from primordial ages up to the present. Only this
of our language, is that to which the Hermes Initiator led. his
that later age no Osiris could be born, no Cosmic Harmony resounded,
as feminine, lunar. And at a higher stage in the Zarathustrian
Egyptian Age he did not only feel forsaken and desolate, but, if he
world. And now, when the Initiate of the later Egyptian Age rose up

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 4
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of the modern age still under the influence of the Intellectual Soul.
step in the stages of Initiation, for in the first lecture we
physical world the Voice that in earlier ages had been heard only in
As in earlier ages, so also in this later age, that which was enacted
and Moon during their passage through the signs of the Zodiac. The
secrets of the Grail, the Middle Ages saw something related to a
When the Initiate of the Middle Ages wanted to present in picture form
transition stage leading towards the Sixth Epoch and these things are
no longer tied to particular localities, but in the Middle Ages it had
the Middle Ages as a legendary being, but is well known to anyone
quite real in the middle of the Middle Ages, Klingsor, the Duke of
In the middle of the Middle Ages, Calot bobot in Sicily was the seat
own evil arts, through which in the Middle Ages he worked against the
Goethe and pay homage only to the soul who was capable of such
are revealed in certain passages of the second part of Faust or
Table represent the repetition of the experiences of earlier ages in
Mysteries of the modern age.
through the same stages as did a person belonging either to the
with calculating debit and credit, let us say, or with the usages of

Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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stage of the “clever” ones, the second stage.
beautiful language. This was what Angelus Silesius meant when
occult language one describes what this ego inhabits —
occult language this union with the higher world is called
the marriage of the soul with the powers of the higher world.
marriage one can say this. One can look back on the former
stated: “And the third day there was a marriage in Cana

Title: Second Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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What does it do? It makes good the damage suffered by the
disadvantages for people who sleep badly. Beings belonging to
possible outside of the body. At the first stage the pupil
feet, the first stage of a Christian initiation. Christ
sign that he has reached the first stage on the way to
signifies the first stage of initiation.
second stage of the Christian initiation is the
stage.
third stage is the crowning with thorns. At this stage
courage and strength except oneself — when one is
fourth stage is the crucifixion. Through this a person
on his back. With this the fourth stage is reached.
fourth stage. Such saints are bearers of the cross.
person has got as far as this he comes to the fifth stage.
the sixth stage, the burial and resurrection.
seventh stage is known as the ascension into heaven.

Title: Third Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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followed the seven stages of spiritual ascent in the life of
the seven stages of initiation which existed at the time of
ascend to higher stages of human existence. Through
various peoples, the lower stages of initiation differed. In
the higher stages national peculiarities were of no account,
like to describe the seven stages of initiation as they were
possible to go through these stages even in the hidden cultic
particular stage of initiation that one really knows what
through these four stages of initiation extended further and
stage of initiation that he bore within himself the ego of
groups we meet with quite different stages of initiation. But
with, a stage of inner development even on higher planes, is
but the astral mirror image of the human nervous system. He
from an embryo to a stage at which one perceives the outer
embryonic stage one can never be ready to be born. Those who
know this stage also know that ordinary life is an embryonic
stage for the higher life. This leads us deep into the
must remember that he spoke in the language current at that
theosophically, this image carries a truly beautiful and
is the passage in the twelfth chapter, verse 28:
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Nordic sagas there is a note of deep tragedy, indicating that the
Cross. This is no mere poetic image, but something that has been drawn
than a poetic image — that in the very hearts of these people
higher vantage-point we think of the Christmas Festival on the one
envisage what the mid-Atlantean man saw and perceived, but you must
and images are preserved in the myths and sagas. Myths and sagas are
bodies became dimmer, less and less distinct; whereas the images of
sages of the Mysteries. Their eyes of spirit had penetrated into the
had been natural in remote ages had in the later times of the
form of atavistic remains of an earlier age. Later, during Greco-Roman
Zarathustra in Persia, and the sages of Chaldea, the successors of the
by the Chaldean sages in Western Asia, by Zarathustra in Persia, or by
stages of evolution. But at the present time, having plunged deeply
same stages as on the descent, but now in a higher form. To-day man
then for all ages of time he must dangle, as it were, in mid-air. He
age of 30, the Christ came down into his body. For the first and last
manner of his own life must be if, for all ages of time, he is to be
that which he himself will experience through the ages of time to

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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world — and this stage may soon be reached — even if such an
— the preceding life; this we call the passage of the human soul
people who naturally sleep much more. But on an average we sleep away
death; one who dies at a later age has different experiences. This
early age. You see it is really the case that the separate sections
preparatory stage and built up our life on the basis of what has been
the building up of the physical body to the age of seven, and the
building up of the etheric body to the age of fourteen. From the
what we call the astral body; then the sentient soul to the age of
twenty-eight, the rational or intellectual soul to the age of
thirty-five, and the self-conscious or spiritual soul to the age of
death at that early age. In accordance with what I have already
of death at the age of eleven, twelve, or thirteen. They are placed
that age, for we all die at the age permitted by our Karma. Thus the
If a child dies at the age of thirteen, he has a retrospective
who dies before the age of thirty-five, experiences even in the first
young men who die in such numbers in our present age, will from this
From the fighters' courage,

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existence, and who, in spite of their passage through the gate of
every stage the great riddle of Life confronting him? And who does not
wars which were waged in the beginning of the Middle Ages between the
before the age of thirty-five — in order to have these very
are in a quite different position from those who die after the age of
thirty-five. One who dies before the age of thirty-five still stands
before the age of thirty-five. On reincarnating, those forces develop
if they had lived till fifty, sixty or seventy years of age. The
things are complex, and death before the age of thirty-five may also
at the age of fifty, sixty or seventy, he himself must do much more to
if an especially active man is summoned from life at an early age, it
one life and lives to a good old age, these forces are then
From the fighters' courage,

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 3: The Subconscious Strata of the Soul-Life and the Life of the Spirit After Premature Death
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Greco-Latin age, and it is again different in our time. We carried our
principles of the human nature. In a narrower sense, in our age we
All this is now forgotten, but man, while he lived in the Greek age,
relatively early age that which lies within the etheric body. But man
all its details, that would be of no advantage for our present life.
to reach old age and to use up his life slowly. To this end his
stage through an external happening, are to the spiritual world, when
through death so pass through the intervening stage, between death and
world in the flower of their age? Why cannot they complete their life
spirit. If all men reached old age normally, if there were no martyrs,
at the age of twenty-six sacrifices his whole future life, which he
is otherwise merely an abstract idea in our materialistic age, becomes
From the fighters' courage,

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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solved if we have the courage to approach what may be called the
intermediate stage, between death and rebirth. I explained that souls
be some physical thing, an image of this physical thing, and there
nevertheless for the dead it is important to find their image in those
arises as an image in the souls left behind — the other
great cunning in doing something at an earlier stage of their life
at this present stage of his evolution. Thus we see that what must of
all that is enclosed in the human skin. When at a certain age we pass
it place in the Cosmos in proportion as the physical body ages.
wrinkled, the etheric body becomes chubby and again becomes an image
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and especially after his conviction. Let me read the passage:
passing a group of legal officials who were engaged in heated
One day when he went to the Court-house, he really lacked the courage
of an especially important trial of a case of espionage he was
he takes advantage of his position to write in the third person. He
years the Manager of the Hamburg Theatre, and who later became Manager
time which immediately follows the passage through the gates of death,
of espionage. But in the course of this very trial he is driven to
meditation we reach this stage we notice that we cannot penetrate the
which is connected with death. The Mystics of all ages have expressed
morally lack the courage to grasp them in reality.
really the courage to draw too near to the spiritual world lest it
beneath the threshold of consciousness. But in his courage, in the
From the fighters' courage,

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different images to those of the Saga, is of no consequence. The chief
gives us a mere papier-maché image of the earth. And he who
when the storm raged but of this in its deepest sense the present-day
gives himself up to what in our materialistic age is designated
his inner nature. In our present age those concepts and ideas are
important scientific training. Our age is very proud of itself. Of
supposed to be very highly evolved and is exalted above the dark age
One thing results: our age actually refuses to know anything of the
back pictures, the image of one man, the image of a second man, etc.,
and we behold them, we have then a world of images. Then come the
a mirror, in a reflected image, has a picture world of his own, and as
merely his image, so we really have only images of the whole external
of air strike our ear, we have only images. All are images! Our
critical epoch has resulted in this: that man forms nothing but images
in his soul, and can never through these images reach to the
merely has images and can never reach the ‘Thing in Itself.’
when we thus discover the image nature of our perception? Whence does
our epoch, of our enlightened age, is devoid of truth, and short
reflected image, the whole story of this image nature of our
man and throws up images in his soul. And it is well that humanity
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study of man with the help of the Kundalini fire. Twelve stages of
The Twelve apostles as the twelve Christ-permeated stages of
different stages of this observation. The exact, correct observation
this stage. The snake is the spinal column outwardly projected into
twelve stages of consciousness;
stages. They are those of the Creators, of the creative Gods. These
twelve stages are related to the twelve signs of the zodiac. The human
being must pass through the experiences of these twelve stages. He
the present clear day consciousness. In the succeeding stages of
planetary evolution he will reach still higher stages. All those which
and animals into the world, but also stages of consciousness. In a
become a higher being. This will also be so with his stages of
himself all twelve stages of consciousness. He himself is then present
separated off from myself these twelve stages of consciousness. The
twelve apostles represent the stages of consciousness through which
of the higher stages of consciousness: ‘Verily, Verily, I say unto

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of Ulfilas on the German language. The chaos of the activity of the
a product of activity. What is seemingly completed is really a stage
into it out of his ego. Since the middle of the Lemurian Age until the
activity, wisdom, will, are the three stages in which all being flows.
Lemurian Age, that is his karma. Only when man through his work has
transformed the whole of his astral body, has he reached the stage of
If we select some particular stage of development we always find a
three sheaths are engaged. To begin with he perceives red. In this the
physical body is engaged. In a camera obscura the rose makes the same
this the astral body is engaged. These are the three stages of human
the karma which he has still to pay back. When one reaches this stage
Many of the popes of the notorious papal age, as for example Alexander
also been embodied in language. The first Christian initiate in
Europe, Ulfilas, himself embodied it in the German language, in that
man found the ‘Ich’ within it. Other languages expressed this
the word ‘amo’, but the German language adds to it the Ich. ‘Ich’ is
into the German language. It is the initiates who have created
language. Just as in Sanskrit the AUM expresses the Trinity, so we
certain stage of development is called a Sun Hero, because his inner
being has become rhythmical. His life is an image of the sun which in

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Stages of Consciousness in the three kingdoms of Nature and of Man.
Physical Plane and its development to higher stages. The riddle of the
passage, then the tympanum, and in the inner ear the little auditory
carriage, which without the sense of direction or balance would not be
crust of the earth, so at that stage man also will build a planet. For

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completely illuminated. When a person has advanced to the stage of
normally have at the present stage of earthly evolution.

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sight, follow in sequence; the organ of sight is only at the stage of
The eye has only an image, the ear has the perception of innermost
the Epiphysis, the organ which will give reality to the images which
preliminary stage leading to a later power of creation. Now man has at
in the service of the human spirit. Our age has placed its highest

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with the Blavatskian sequence of seven stages of being, to which man
pre-Lemurian Age: Adam Cadmon and the development of the warm and
was not always as he is now. There are not only stages of development
stage of development. Today we will deal with seven ranks of beings,
different stages of beings. If we put together everything which
elements into himself. Thus there arose the second stage of humanity,
be seen as at a lower stage of this development. Without warm blood no
Thus to begin with we have the pure man who up to the Lemurian Age
again and again and in this way there was an ascent from stage to
stage. We see unsuccessful attempts for instance in the sloths, the
has two opposite aspects. For instance man has cast rage out of
higher stage. This purifying of passion, this leading upwards of its
had within him the rage of the lion and the cunning of the fox. Thus
stage of human development, before man separated off from himself the
Lemurian Age. The human being had developed his physical, etheric and
Kama, from Mercury Manas. The Nirmana-kayas are yet another stage
stage higher than the Nirmana-kayas, stand those beings who are called
position to become a Pitri. The next and even higher stage, the last

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as they are today, but they then descend a further stage lower. This
fact brings with it a certain tragedy. Certain men of academic
were the hosts of the Elohim in different stages. The lowest rank of
these Elohim is the Jehovah stage. Jehovah therefore is an actual Moon
What took place in the pre-Lemurian Age is a preparation. The human
the thought passes outwards through the larynx. The next stage will be
the pituitary gland (hypophysis) develops in the brain. The stage

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‘vortex’ (wirbel). This is also why, in the age in which the sun stood
At that time in Babylon and Assyria the Sumerian language was the
language of wisdom. Then the Bull fell into decadence and the Ram came
highest point. It was prepared for in the Middle Ages and has now
Because in the age of materialism reincarnation was
dawning of the materialistic age. In order to bring about the
actual founder of the age of materialism. Already at the time of
In Judas was incarnated the entire materialistic age. This
materialistic age has obscured and darkened the spiritual. Through his

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the physical body evolved a stage further. The astral body was added
on the Old Moon and the physical body underwent a still further stage
body went through a fourth stage. So we may say that the physical body
Let us consider the senses in their successive stages. There are in
senses. To understand the successive stages of the senses we must make
assembled itself bit by bit, and then in the Lemurian Age entered into
stage, Atma, Buddhi, Manas, Kama-Manas. This descending curve is
are the seven stages of matter. In his descent man experienced these
stages from above downwards. At the beginning of evolution the first
corresponds to this stage as sense, is the sense of smell. Then man
As second stage we have the Chemical Ether. Here the sense of taste
The third stage is to be found in the Light Ether. There sight
itself as the spiritual in matter. At this stage the life of the
As the sixth stage we have the fluid element. The sense organ
As seventh stage we have the solid. The appropriate sense organ is the
example as crystals. At the next stage feeling will also be involved
together with thought. And the last stage will be achieved by man when
formed. When therefore today man uses evil, blasphemous language, then
materialistic age and this is the result of a preceding age. This
materialistic age has accomplished much, not only outwardly but also
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passages from H.P. Blavatsky, the ether. In this Ether-Earth
entered into the Lemurian Age. The ever densifying human being
Hyperboreans. This was followed by the Lemurian Age; it was then that
the development of the vertebrate animals entered its first stage, and
This is called a spiral (Wirbel). Until the Earth stage, the fourth

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has gained on the Physical Plane. In the case of the savage this is
Whoever carries his development to a still higher stage is surrounded

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stage. At that time the eyes were present only as little cameras. What
use of the apparatus. At that time they were at the human stage. They
from outside. This is the first stage of human existence.
The second stage of development was the permeation of this physical
present. That is the second stage.
But these stages are not final; evolution gradually progresses. Even
today the solar plexus is an active agent in certain animals which
forms from left behind stages of what was laid down earlier. It was
earlier stage whereas the crab has remained stationary. It is an
The third stage is that in which the whole is transformed by the
stage.
until he attained illumination in order to rise to higher stages, to
The second stage of development, which follows that of the cultural,
transformation of his etheric body. The stage of chelahood is
stage the Chela can renounce Devachan because the etheric body has
Until this stage is reached a duality is necessary for evolution, i.e.
them lies Kamaloka, a place of transition, a transitional stage, an
does not actually belong to normal development; it is only a stage
a terrible rage against those who have caused his death. Then in the

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structure of the Church, an outer image of the inner hierarchical
far above human beings, has disappeared in the course of the age of
materialism. Especially during the materialistic age, which developed
that we ourselves have ascended from lower stages of existence and
have yet to ascend to higher stages. We must realise that we have a
stands at this stage, created heaven and earth. It was one of the
certain stages of consciousness of the great universe, and the Beings
move from one stage to another. Eliphas Levi perceived this clearly
stages of development, with Hierarchies.
Hierarchy was to be an outer image of the inner Hierarchy of the
person in the average cultural environment of our time — meets
stages that the sojourn in Kamaloka is often frightening and terrible.
In Kamaloka man is actually engaged in collaborating with work on the
beings, by the Devas. We distinguish different stages of Devas:
clearly before him. On the next stage he consciously brings forth the
Thus there existed for instance in the Middle Ages the sect of the
Dhyan-Chohanic beings who earlier reached the stage which human beings
will only attain much later. They stand at the stage that will only be
engaged with others in creative work on certain aspects of planetary
Planetary Spirits during previous stages of evolution, during previous
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causes, Devachan as world of effects. Three stages of pupil-ship. The
responsible. Then at the next stage man said to himself: Now I have
Age as the sexual forces, is due to Isis, the soul of the Moon, which
being. Our present experiences in Devachan are the preparatory stages
The first stage of initiation consists in the pupil learning to
— a home. This is the first stage of initiation.
At the second stage of initiation something similar occurs, but on a
higher level. At this stage the initiate has a state of consciousness
The third stage of initiate-consciousness is that which corresponds to
into the third stage. He is then an initiate of the Third Degree. So
we can now understand why Jesus had to reach the third stage before he
had his own knowledge; he describes three such stages of

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language, to the way in which things were expressed. In the world of
on language in order to teach the outside world. The occult pupil
their disposal the language used by the world at large. At the time
language of symbols. No value was laid on the spoken word as a means
influenced by the materialistic age. The words which the Indians
created are still full of the magic of the sacred primaeval language.
also possessed by the Rosicrucians in the Middle Ages and the
When in the Middle Ages a Freemason master builder built a cathedral
Ages and all esotericists built and worked.
soul. As the fourth stage appears what comes towards the consciousness
Next comes what we form as mental image in connection with an external
object: for example, picturing a dog is merely making a mental image,
depends on the object stands at the stage of Nama-rupa; whoever forms
pictures stands at the stage of Shadayadana. The one however who
With this we have retraced the stages of the Nidanas up to individual
birth. The esotericist differentiates two further stages which go

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individual Karma. It was a very important stage of human development
At the next stage man learned to make use of speech. To begin with he
learned the use of his hands, later on, the use of language. Through
language can never be entirely selfish, whereas the deeds performed by
the Lemurian Age and for the first time created his own Karma, before
We thus differentiate three stages. The first consists in external
the spoken word. Thought is no longer, as with language, different
stages: deeds, words, thoughts.
effects of what is brought about through these three stages. An
still think? Just as little as a new race will speak the same language

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The three stages of thought-life: Abstract Thoughts, Imagination, and
also a group of human beings having the same language, and this
stages. Firstly: Human action is individual, with the exception of
negative, a counter-image of our foot. So is it too with our thoughts.
In the higher spiritual world there is a counter-image for every
thought. Image and counter-image are as interconnected as seal and
the mystics the counter-image is called Imagination. Thus we have
the stage on which the beings are incarnated who work with us when we
reached a higher stage. This is the pre-requisite for a quite new kind
must think in pictures, in images; that means ‘to imagine’. In this
have before him the counter-image, the Imago. This is the source of
far that he can create such pictures has attained the stage of the
Just as man develops himself to the stage when he can create pictures
Intuitions. Behind all language Beings of Imagination are working and
advanced beyond the stage of comprehending life with feeling. It is
consciously by reaching the stage of Imagination. Herein we find the
14th centuries. It is important that the materialistic images of the

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The human beings of the Atlantean and Lemurian Ages. The two-fold
origin of human nature and their union in the Lemurian Age. The Eighth
stone. The natural scientist likes to compare this stage of humanity
with that of savages or of a clumsy child. Remains of such human
being has developed from this childish stage of existence up to the
present stage of human culture and that this primitive man has evolved
child has the predisposition to a later stage of perfection, whereas
the animal remains at the lower stage.
When the natural scientist has gone back to the stage at which man had
stage of intelligence and then to regain what he could do earlier. At
a stage in human development at which the union of the maternal and
In the Lemurian Epoch, however, man was still at a stage at which he
Lemurian Age, of the nature of reptiles; animals of grotesque shapes
formation is reminiscent of those which appeared in the Lemurian Age,
that serpent-like body which we meet with in the Lemurian Age. This

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way. When a person in the present stage of civilisation has come so
form, its own image in astral space.
this point of neutrality is finally past, he progresses to the stage
Old Moon, out of which the Moon has developed to a higher stage. Thus
that they reached their proper stage on the Old Moon will cause no
therefore they stand at a higher stage and on the other hand they
sexuality which made its appearance in the Lemurian Age, when we trace

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to them. Everything that exists as thoughts and mental images has an
etheric body, is engaged with the outer world. When man is in a
suited to becoming the pupil of those who are engaged in conflict with
the materialistic age this is extremely frequent. With such people
We take with us the cause of every counter-image that we have brought
evolve beyond a certain clearly defined stage of development. At the
earlier stage he held opinions which those he held later contradicted.

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artistic activity in theosophical life. The passage through the Astral
dwell much longer with our mental imagery on the plant, for we must
Feeling has its counter-image on the Lower Devachanic plane. Man has
worked upon and ennobled by the ego. With savages the greater part is

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forms of development until their unification in the Lemurian Age. The
definite stage of our development. We know that we live in three
stage of having his present day physical consciousness and of how he
did the Monad live? Both have gone through different stages of
Thus at a certain stage we find the human being in a form which is
comprehensive organism, which is an image of the entire environment.
mirrored images of the outer-world, microcosm in the macrocosm.
Lemurian Age. Thus they could mutually fructify each other. The Monad
assuaged.
were then reflected back, causing images to arise within it.
These reflected images became forces within the astral body and these
images the etheric body developed separate members. This etheric body
through their relationship; they are images of the whole of the rest
is an image of the beings which have been thrown off. In so far as
up the reflected images of its own actions.
formed in the Monad, arising out of the reflected image of deeds, the
We take up image forms and
up as image out of his environment. Man is immortal; he only needs to
has quickened the mirrored images in us. Now these images can work
outwards, and the effects of these images reflect themselves anew. A
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Fructification with the Spirit (Monad) in the Lemurian Age. The
previous stages of Earth evolution: Old Saturn, Sun and Moon. The Sun
The development of the Earth had three preliminary stages: (Old
Saturn, Sun and Moon). In the first three Earth Rounds these stages
somewhat higher stage than on the Old Moon. There he had not yet
was completed in the middle of the Lemurian Age.
Earth-men of the pre-Lemurian Age are the actual descendants of the
earlier stage of evolution, they were still more beautiful and nobler
During the Age which preceded the Lemurian Age, we have the
Hyperborean Age on the Earth, that of the Sun Men, of the Apollo-Men.
a higher stage.
later became a fixed star. The sequence of stages that the Earth has
remained at this stage, its roots are in the earth and it stretches
This Sun-man developed in seven different stages. His direction on the
longer able to reproduce themselves; thus in the Lemurian Age the two
increasing density and hence life in the Lemurian Age had to receive a
previously came the Lion, the symbol of courage, and before this the
In the middle of the Lemurian Age we find the first Sons of the Fire
Age did the Monads regret their previous refusal; they came down and
more highly developed. Jehovah and Lucifer are engaged in an unceasing

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Between the single material stages of these Globes there is no gradual
short sleeping condition. When man arrives at the last, seventh stage
again proceed on his way at a higher stage. For this reason he must
third stage of consciousness he becomes able to observe what goes on
together called the twelve stages of the Cosmic Year. Then the whole
thing is gone through again, but at a higher stage.
every Round. In each Round we have seven stage of development which
then have been raised half a stage higher and everything else with
There we have to do with a repetition at a higher stage where all our
graded in accordance with the stages of Karma, seven degrees of

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one is a stage of a particular condition of evolution, which has 7
all its stages. In the different esoteric religions these stages are
First Elementary Kingdom at the stage of physical form. In the
have reached the stage at which our Masters stand today. Then our ego

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Jehovah and Lucifer. Elemental beings in the Atlantean Age. The origin
evolution. Humanity entered into a dark age. This dark age is called
It was only in the middle of the Lemurian Age that warm blood made its
The days of the week are an image of planetary evolution. The sequence
preceded the Mars-Age. The Moon contains silver. Still earlier took
Golden Age; Moonlight and silver: the Silver Age; Mars and iron: the
Bronze Age.
of mental images and concepts. When we observe the civilised world
middle of the Lemurian Age the Ego was still empty; man could as yet
will be present as reflected image in our Ego. When at last we have
In the middle of the Lemurian Age the Ego was like a hole bored into
its Sixth Stage of development, corresponding to the Sixth Race, an
raised to the stage of Devachan, he will remain in the animal state.
consists in achieving a new stage of life. The purpose of the Seventh
Round is to lead over into a new stage of consciousness. Thus the

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Nothing) as three stages of evolution. Elemental Beings and the
In the Middle Ages the alchemist tried to make use of these spirits.
today in which ceremonial magic is still exercised. Such usages cause
worked in, is however gradually worked out again. In advanced age the
In childhood the foundation of what man will have in old age is
eliminate the damage in the astral body, otherwise he will break down
in old age under the weaknesses of his childhood. Only what man works

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microcosm and macrocosm. The development of different stages of
consciousness during the epochs of the Post-Atlantean Age.
We have therefore in our senses a sequence of stages in connection
surrounding world reflect itself in him. The next stage is that he
those stages of evolution through which he has been created.
oneself the surroundings as they were when in the Lemurian Age the
heart, one can conjure up the entire environment of the Lemurian Age
gradually during the Atlantean Age, one sees the Atlantean landscape
Lemurian Age. There was a uniform temperature over the whole Earth.
Lemurian Age; because of this Lemuria could meet its destruction
The next stage — during the Atlantean Age — was the creative
Age he worked upon solid earth, this brought forth fire; in the
Atlantean Age he worked upon the water; this brought about light. (it
Now in the Fifth Sub-Race man does not perceive the changing stages of
Manas, but this Race sees as the highest stage the psychic experience
preceding stages of evolution. Then for the first time Christianity
residue of the Atlantean Age, the Fourth Root-Race.

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Ages, when the Mongols came into conflict with the Europeans,
onslaught were to be met with courage and love, then the putrefying
Lemurian Age the breathing process began to take on the form it has
certain beings had evolved beyond the stage of the human evolution of
breathing. They pushed the plant kingdom a stage lower, in order that
Monad. Oxygen therefore in the Lemurian Age formed the body for the

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Age the original human element divided into an ascending humanity and
Moon. Man then stood at quite a different stage of development. He
Let us transfer ourselves into the pre-Lemurian Age. Then the
Age in which the Earth was still united with the Sun. There then
Thus when the Lemurian Age was approaching its end two human types
Now we come from the Lemurian to the Atlantean Age, to the peoples who
water into wine at the marriage in Cana, we are shown how Christ took
With Saturn we come into the Mineral Age. In the Atlantean Epoch,
stage of development. This means that we stand before a new so-called

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the Post-Atlantean Age. Development of the Post-Atlantean Age through
a much earlier stage. What had its start in Europe moved ever further
Edda, which was only written down at the end of the Middle Ages. We
tribes had also made the transition into the Fourth Stage so that in
North. So the older stages of civilisations progressed towards what
and can therefore also absorb them. In accordance with his parentage
which leads up to a new cultural stage is symbolised by Elsa of
throwback into the Atlantean Age. And this happens everywhere, over in
Buddhism appears as a throwback into the Atlantean Age. This is why we

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constant and varied flow of images, sensations, and ideas since in
blood's restraining influence is absent. Mental images fluctuate
particular image nor sustain their interest in an impression. Instead,
that he learns there are things other than himself that can engage his
situations where rage is of no use, but rather only makes them look

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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft Auf Den Grossen Fragen des Daseins.
engaged in the process of digestion. While an animal is digesting its
that: men, too, but they have the advantage of being able to instruct
courageous or cowardly, rapacious or gentle, according to how the
birth to death a man is capable of learning new languages, and what
instructed by its organs, but man has the advantage of being able to

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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft Auf Den Grossen Fragen des Daseins.
by man struggling to a definite stage of intelligence, are brought
relation to his language, his way of thinking and also to the extent
advantage over the animal, that he has to make the effort to acquire
at a certain age, however, the possibility ceases for the further
character of sound, or the soul in language. Language does not only
have the spirit expressed in the content of words; language also
possesses a soul. And much more than we think, a language works upon
us in the character of its sound. A language with many “ah”
sounds works upon us in one way; a language that in the character of
In all the most important passages in it, it is clear that what
language, in the vowel sounds. You will find that where you get the
I am coming now, it is true, to a language that obviously for many of
certain stage, but can be carried further by developing slumbering
too, is taught by his organs; however, he has the advantage of in

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ages.
This age has left a record of the feelings and deeds that occurred
more ancient time, the gray antiquity of the age of the Judaic people,
date than the actual age in which the great thoughts of the Rishis of
to the age of the Egyptian priests. Then the paths disappear and only
Rishis there appears, like a mirrored image, the divine primeval unity
occurred in the middle of the Lemurian age. Good and evil have existed
Lemurian age and the first part of the Atlantean.
age it has entered the sign of Pisces.
rightly understood points to the dawn of a new age. Whenever an
important event occurs in the world, whenever one stage of evolution
man comes to experience in himself when he has achieved that stage.
expression in the fact that in man himself people saw an image of the
the primeval ages of our solar system, you would find that it arose
beginning, although it was hidden from mankind throughout the ages we
found the importance of the disciples' message, “We have laid our hand
into His wounds, we have heard His message.” The emphasis is placed on
archetypal image of what also lives in Christianity. In ancient India
event for the men of this age is the fact that the Christmas festival,
But another mood also arises. The belief in this archetypal image of
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spiritual-scientific lectures to understand what the ancient sages
the counter forces of nature was expressed in most languages. Today we
In those ages in which genuine esotericism was alive and active like
immortal human soul. Then, in this primeval age, the great moment in
ancestor was at a higher stage than that imagined by materialistic
In looking up to the sun, the sages and their followers said, “You are
the image of what the soul born in me will become.” The divine world
one, who had climbed the ladder of spiritual knowledge to that stage,
Greece, and the sublime sages of the Orient knew it by the name,
himself, then he has created an image in himself of what as Sun Soul
what others feel, when for our feelings and sensations the same stage
This was felt by the German mystics of the Middle Ages when they spoke
passed through the stage of chaos upon which mankind stands today. The
leading spirits of the universe have struggled up to the divine stage
growth of plants, the life of animals was, in past ages, chaotic and a
stands today at a stage of development at which these spirits once
prevail when the higher stage of harmony, which today has been

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Mysteries of all ages before they entered the Mysteries themselves:
Mysteries. This imagery has been preserved throughout the ages and has
were told, "you behold only an image; later you will experience what
experience this Mystery. In our language the Word would be Christos.
Mysteries. This image represented the fact that alongside the physical
transmit messages. They are to be found in the Germanic sagas and
The legend of the three priest-sages, the three kings, was linked with
echoing to us from the most ancient ages of mankind, and it has come
find images for the most ancient symbols of mankind. The Christmas
since primeval ages. In the Middle Ages it still played an important
and sacred Iris. At that time man still understood the language of
men follow as did the priest-sages in ancient ages.

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render the Ten Commandments into our language, and then try to
vital nerve, the real sense, of them in the idiom of our language. If
You shall not recognize as higher gods those who show you an image of
order that your existence may become an image of My existence. For
Eighth Commandment. Do not disparage the worth of your fellowman by
turn a few more pages to find, in a further discussion of the Ten
your midst; there will be no miscarriage nor barrenness in your land,
allows you to live in good health until old age. This is clearly
included with the first half, which concerns God. How he manages to
are peoples who worship gods who, in their present stage of
worked upon the lower members of man's being. When they made an image
If he makes images out of the mineral kingdom, they can only represent
for him the gods who worked on the physical body. If he makes images
the plant world. Images from the animal world can symbolize for him
external image can express it. So it had to be clearly and strongly
image from the mineral, plant or animal kingdom, were it ever so
no image. Thus there were in these lands the few ego conscious
be so instructed. They had to be made aware that the false images, the
lowlier images of the highest god are also destructive to health.
take various images into himself.
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Die Beantwortung von Welt- und Lebensfragen Durch Anthroposophie.
Die Beantwortung von Welt- und Lebensfragen Durch Anthroposophie.
During this dawn of a new age it indicated how
what Savonarola had, the deepest moral courage of conviction,
the cause: In this dawning of a new age and in this dusk of the
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be able to show you that the esotericist can pass through three stages
interpretations. The third stage is the one in which they can, in a
understand the language in which they are expressed. To-day I want to
from their lowest stages entirely on the earth.
the Atlantean stood at a still lower stage. His etheric body still had
one stage higher, his work has become one stage lower. That is a law.
the initiates will wrest men from their bondage.
By the marriage of Uranus with Gaia there arose the man who descended

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very highly evolved, far more highly evolved than man at the stage he
all-embracing primeval wisdom. In the eighth century B.C., the passage
experienced as the repetition of an earlier passage through the same
This is the saga of the voyage of the Argonauts.
second stage of interpretation; to-day we will look at the third.
cleverness, helped the Greeks to conquer Troy. He made lone voyages,
voyages in which he went astray — voyages on the water, be it
Mysteries in these shifting scenes. This was the age when. human
by the passage between Scylla and Charybdis. What is it which now
Charybdis-Kama. The passage of Odysseus is a picture of this. There is
the dangers of the passage, and has nevertheless kept his footing,

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into tragedy. Hence he is also called Sieg-urt, which means, “he
Gunther, Magen and Giselher. We are further told that the hero
side Hagen of Trony, who dwells at the court. We can recognise the
figure of Hagen as deriving from the ancient Druid Mysteries. Hagen is
is the immediate predecessor of Christianity. Hagen belongs to an
earlier Druid stream. Hagen therefore is sent for to bring about
earlier stages of northern culture. Hagen kills him and thus
remnants of Atlantean culture. An earlier stage of culture has been
older version she wages war against the great initiates who
belonged to an earlier culture, and who were represented by Hagen, had
who succeeded them at later stages also had their tragic figures. We
steeped in tragedy. Because this northern culture is coming to an end

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language to find on occasions deep esoteric truths in them. To-day I
every stage of human evolution. This will be the fundamental
the culture of the present stage of evolution, which will be replaced
worldly king, a king who was not a priest, would, in the early stages
worldly occupations. We come down in stages to those who are concerned
replacement of the priestly rulership, now in its last stage, by the
represented by his marriage with the goddess Thetis — the
marriage of the leader of mankind with the matter of the physical
their previous initiation stages up to their spiritual initiation. So
present at the marriage of Peleus with the sea-goddess Thetis —
because the stage had not yet been reached when the union of manas
signify different stages of soul-life on the higher, spiritual plane.
satellite which is our moon. Hence in the language of esotericism we
marriage between kama and manas. The man endowed with manas, finding

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there in the way of fields, meadows, woods, villages, roads, we can
do so by going about from village to village, through streets and
high vantage point. This extends the visible horizon, but without the
Ages. Today it is felt too, but not acknowledged. In olden times that
the Middle Ages, anthropology and theology frequently opposed without
way of philosophy today is but a heritage of ancient doctrines
reveal their relative age. Yet, far from being immaterial, it is
sense, we ask what it is that must first engage our interest. It is
whole people has a language in common, but reasoning is a matter for
that bring us messages out of our own human inner being. The sense of

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at the present stage of human evolution it is in a sense a superhuman
through the agency of the astral body.
is also mere maya, an external image that is experienced as feeling.
outward image, and we shall see that the tongue is formed
enter the eye and the latter then projects the image outward, can
refers to the kind of sounds of which spoken language consists,
can apply the reflected image, Ave. This sequence of syllables by

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each note as well. Now, the final step. Through the agency of that
that in different languages the same thing is designated by different
sounds. While the sound we hear is a different one in every language
universally human, pervades all sounds and languages — comes to
languages, which vibrates into the human organism, are the Folk
language. Language is the mysterious whispering of the Folk Spirits,
instance — and let us delimit it. Through what agency is he to
sentient soul confronts, is nothing but the image of the sentient
touch though not see, but there, too, we have the image of the
This image of the sentient body comes about as follows.
image of the physical body.
soul, or its image, is active. The face is formed by the sentient
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faith in theosophy's message is fully justified by our sense of
between the other two, we find that from this vantage point we can

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what they are. We have traced the sense image of ourselves back to
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Man must have passed through earlier stages in which he possessed a
through all forms recalling animal stages, thereby repeating, in a
forms, eject them. They are images he never resembled. All these
built up from within, through the agency of spiritual currents.
countenance by means of the senses, the sense image is true. That is
from within, through the agency of the sentient soul. What you see is
not really outer body; it is the outer image of the sentient soul.
might be outer body, and you will see that in truth, it is the image
being the outer image of the sentient soul acting outward. Every
follows that he could not have acquired speech through the agency of
down to the letter formations of the various languages. The reason

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Theosophy, of course, has provided you with ready mental images for
spinal cord and that transmit messages to the brain, so to speak, are
when an object is seen, the message of the sense organ is first
activity in which you engaged for the purpose of carrying away with
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language is aided by symbolization. Observe how we are forced at

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surge stimulated by the messages of our senses, one perception makes
age could have endorsed. He would have been ashamed, however, of the
point out worthless passages. There is a strong proclivity nowadays
Goethe at that early age been able to grasp all that was active in
twenty-one, thirty-five, or a still greater age.
any given age, in their totality, are something we do not wholly
bored. There is a sort of cure for boredom; and in a higher stage of
difference between man and animal is that man has the advantage of
Beginning, then, at a certain stage of development, the
language. [TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: Not the English
language, of course, but in German that particular use of the present
therefore, and halting at the portal, we do homage to the inner soul

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Thy image, now, beloved, rises up
I paint the scene already — the eager step,
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provokes your desire? Yes, it does, but not through its own agency.
would often do better to devote themselves to the genius of language.
Language, for example, offers an inspired word for that inner
This sort of will certainly does not lead to action, and language
language, unfortunately, lacks this particular “inspired
fact a desire that leads back to itself, and language actually has a

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images, would have been worthy of the mature Goethe as well. In this
one activating Hegel. Unfailingly, a wealth of compelling imagery
abundance of teeming images streamed into his soul life. We become
powerful soul life that seeks to express itself in telling images.
In Hegel, the thought is the motive force. It achieves images only
discernible even in the pale images. In Goethe, on the other hand, a
images. We perceive how this soul force can be impaired in another
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entranced him at the age of fifteen. If he keeps on trying
as a reflected image is not identical with the object reflected), and
the agency of the physical world. “I is” comes from the
usage of speech expresses this coming from the other side by
soul. Our soul is the stage, so to speak, where these forces
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the age of ten or twelve, and totally forgotten — something he
the stage of human development at which we are aware that we can no
of languages. All sciences would come to a similar impasse unless
crossroads, a vantage point from which vigorous co-operation in this

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been raised again and again throughout the ages by an idealistic or
before a mirror, the mirror reflects the object's image, image and
object are identical. The image is not the object, but purely
material objects bring about the image by means of the mirror. You
need admit nothing more than that you are dealing with a mere image
image. In the same way, you can take a materialistic standpoint and
images of the thought world, but there are innumerable
of images, then no one need accept its reality. So we must keep in
objection would always stand that truth might be but an image of the
mind projected outward, a reflected image. Thus the divine nous
is merely an image reflected outward, and is incapable of forming the
sum of the images, it could naturally still be possible that, instead
to use a mirror of that sort, you would simply get a false image, and
caricatures to convert these into true images; it abides by its
is reflected in truth as a super-sensible image, and if it is
far along the path under discussion, but the voluntary encouragement
system of bondage; wedlock, an institution for fulfilling the task it

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phases or stages, so that one can describe the process as spinning in
the first stage, second stage, and so forth, up to seven. Now, Huber
took a caterpillar working on the third stage and set it on another
web of which six stages were finished, and a strange thing happened.
behavior, but then it continued to spin, not the seventh stage, but
third stage, it continued the work in the regular way. It was not
“Now I must spin the fourth stage.” It was following an
from another stage.
fulfilled image of the spiritual world, in intuition, an event that
wallow in emotions but to arrive at concrete images. If we do that, a
unreality and consists only of images. This contact finally enables

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: IV. Laws of Nature, Evolution of Consciousness and Repeated Earth Lives.
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appears in his physical form, is an image of God in the true Biblical
to be sure, a world of images. All sorts of people have at all times
pictures; scenes and beings are there in a living world of images. On
the images, that in determining this or that, one is subject to inner
developing certain levels of his soul, that in certain stages certain
fundamentally a world of images, and only when a man lacks the
imaginative cognition? It means that through the agency of the images
objective image. Just as in the physical world he has this bell
split in his personality. Often during the transition stages he will
last extremity should we engage, as is rather commonly done by
beautiful, you are not so constituted as to be able to take advantage
passage in Goethe's writings. He is seated on a mountain-top that
ancient Persian initiation one who had attained to the sixth stage
of it through our own agency. Our awareness of it depends upon the

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 1: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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Post-Atlantean age. The purpose of these periods is the progressive
for the soul to do more than merely ascend stage by stage as though up
Even in the Graeco-Latin age it would not yet have been possible to
human language. That precisely is the task of our fifth Post-Atlantean
an instrument through which those truths, which in other ages were
successive age and that the attitude of the great Teachers towards the
to another, from one age to another. In the ages through which
passes through certain stages and then reaches a certain
There are certain stages of development which betoken a sort of
age is this: he went through a certain number of incarnations in the
and average quality that is being developed is the consciousness soul
Teachers said very little; for at the stage which the etheric body had
etheric bodies had to be at a more advanced stage of development than
stage of development as they, he could not have had much effect upon
them; he could not have communicated messages from a higher world, nor
been brought about at that time by any advanced stage of development.
already reached a further stage than the others, and who incarnated in
stage and took his place among the Old Indian people, to teach them.
Now in the Graeco-Latin age the intellectual soul or mind (Mind in the
stage of man, therein to learn what it was that was coming up to meet
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 2: The Law of Karma with Respect to the Details of Life
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comfortably contained in a small pamphlet of sixty pages or so;
sixty-page pamphlet? What can these Anthroposophists possibly have to
take the following example. A young lad, fifteen years of age, has
permitted him to study; now at the age of fifteen, in consequence,
the age of eighteen or nineteen, assume a different form. He may cease
things that upset it. After the age of fifteen other circumstances may
came to visit them, of studying other children of all ages, even from
twenty-eight years of age. I particularly noticed that only then the
desire in our youth is fulfilled in old age!’ If one only

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 3: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity
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we look back beyond the Atlantean into the Lemurian age, we come to
period, the age, in which humanity became conscious of this ego.
Saturn, Sun and Moon ages, and then only did it become the structure
him to begin at an earlier stage to decide between good and evil; not
things are it came in the age in which Christ Jesus Himself worked.
was once upon a time an age in which man was driven some way into
upon him. In the early ages of man's development this was known as the
‘Golden Age.’ This is no fanciful conception: ‘Golden
Age’ is simply the expression used by those men of olden times
age of humanity, such as has just been described. This Golden Age,
speaking, much longer than the Ages we still have to describe. After
the Golden Age came the so-called ‘Silver Age.’ Man was
this Silver Age, but he could still perceive them standing behind him.
Eastern philosophy calls this age, Treta-Yuga. Then came an Age which
present age. In childhood we had direct experience of our childish
direct way, the impulse of a divine-spiritual world. In the Age
following on that, known as the ‘Bronze Age,’ what man had
in the Third Age. Men then knew: ‘In earlier ages we had
divine teachings. This Bronze Age is known in Eastern philosophy as
Dvapara-Yuga. That is followed by an Age in which all memory of the
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 4: The Sermon on the Mount
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‘Ben Jage’; that would signify an etheric body as far as
Jage, Lemuel and Itiel, for these names signify the four coverings,
being, at a definite stage of his evolution, does not always display
later, yet he was then in the age when the spirit worked within him
task of our age; we must learn, through what is given to us in
through himself alone; at this stage of his evolution be must appeal
earth, some part survives into later ages. This, in a certain respect,
is hostile to what implants itself as a germ in later ages. What the
way that something still remains from the earlier stages of evolution.
Age,’ which began in the year 3101 B.C. and reached its height at
age will continue, in which case when these forces are manifested men
prepared centuries ago, but which must now, in our own age, evolve to
That is the manner of Christ's return in our own age, for in this 20th
on Earth! Whole hosts of people undertook pilgrimages there — not
Christ-Event, do not take advantage of it.

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 5: Correspondences Between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm
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celebrate a Spiritual marriage — is an example of how opposites,
the ages preceding that of Lemuria we should only find unity of sex.
have already indicated, moreover, that in a future age the two sexes
expression, the image, of a still greater cosmic polarity rooted in a
Father-Mother, of whom he himself is an image. Yes, man is an image of
Spiritual Science, with the human forms of early ages, we find among
the course of the ages have brought about the whole form and movement
doing we must not fall into the error of our materialistic age, which
materialistic age does. A man and woman each possesses an astral body
In primeval ages the external human form was totally different. The
of a finer, more spiritual kind. Only in the course of ages did man
material form. The body of woman remained at a more spiritual stage,
more spiritual form. Thus a spiritual stage has become material. The
the spirit in matter but crystallised at an earlier stage, so the male
between the two; it would consist of a happy average of both. Of
stage when the form was more pliable. In a male incarnation the whole
difficult to manage than the more flexible forms of the female brain.
it is more easily grasped by the more manageable female brain; for it
at an earlier stage, and one which has jumped on beyond the present
stage and which draws into the present a form intended for the future,
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 6: The Birth of Conscience
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that it should continue to live in the human soul in all the ages yet
acquire, and which will bear fruit. And in later ages, when these
saying: There once was a time when, in the course of my passage
of our age, and of its psychic life. Man's conscience came into being;
great poet, Æschylos. When we let the personages depicted by the
Euripides, who in his tragedies shows us that he already had the idea
the Christ Impulse. And in our own age we see the epoch in which this
stage of development, what we call the forces of the Spiritual-
throughout these three epochs; and when our own age comes to its
development; — during the Graeco-Latin age we developed the
Graeco-Romans before that age began. And in our own countries, on the
different qualities in successive ages, but during the same age they
souls who reached their zenith in that particular age, we must say:
eternity. What the civilisations give us, is given for the advantage
the Graeco-Latin Age helped the human souls a little further still. If
Age, they could not now be living into the spiritual soul. That
Egyptian-Chaldean Age, had been developed by the influence so long
Graeco-Latin Age, that in which the Intellectual-Soul was developed.
That age was particularly adapted to come forward to meet Christ, as
This deed was accomplished by one of the great Sages of ancient
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 7: The Further Development of Conscience
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As our own age, our nineteenth century drew near, the time came when
We have our old traditions which have been preserved through the ages
coming age feel a strong impulse to shut out from their hearts
that we are already living in an age when the thought of its most
result of the materialism of the age the historic records are losing
activity of her spirit in our age! Everything is in course of
new stage. Development runs its course in cycles, following a circular
it as a seed in the age through which we are now passing? What will be
from age to age. We learn that, when we learn to understand true
we can link on to that which goes on from stage to stage, from life to

Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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his thought more intimately than he can know any perceptual image,
Ages, it leads to something of which I will now speak.
The development of thought leads to a stage of doubting the existence
to ourselves: “On this ground, we cannot manage to lead
We will now translate what I have just been saying into a language
metamorphoses of its mobility during its passage through the
to men straight out of language itself, and they know very little
about such ideas except in so far as language preserves them.
stages in the evolution of the Earth. You do not see all that goes on
bumbling over the problem of “thought and language”. He
is the celebrated language-critic Fritz Mauthner, who has also
of Language is already in its third edition, so for our
book that, in regard to the relation between thought and language,

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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realities. In the Middle Ages the question of Realism versus
required of people who engage in controversies nowadays. An immense
But now Idealism can be enhanced. In our age there are some men who
Critique of Language, where you find a detailed argument to
kind of message from reality.” This outlook may be called

Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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Tragedy”; “David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer”;
than the image of a face is created by the mirror. The brain, in
And the agent who thus makes the brain into a mirror is you yourself.
ready to reflect the thought as an image.

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his thought more intimately than he can know any perceptual image,
Ages, it leads to something of which I will now speak.
The development of thought leads to a stage of doubting the existence
to ourselves: “On this ground, we cannot manage to lead
We will now translate what I have just been saying into a language
metamorphoses of its mobility during its passage through the
to men straight out of language itself, and they know very little
about such ideas except in so far as language preserves them.
stages in the evolution of the Earth. You do not see all that goes on
bumbling over the problem of “thought and language”. He
is the celebrated language-critic Fritz Mauthner, who has also
of Language is already in its third edition, so for our
book that, in regard to the relation between thought and language,

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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realities. In the Middle Ages the question of Realism versus
required of people who engage in controversies nowadays. An immense
But now Idealism can be enhanced. In our age there are some men who
Critique of Language, where you find a detailed argument to
kind of message from reality.” This outlook may be called

Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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Tragedy”; “David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer”;
than the image of a face is created by the mirror. The brain, in
And the agent who thus makes the brain into a mirror is you yourself.
ready to reflect the thought as an image.

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the birth of tragedy out of the spirit of ancient Greece linked on to
which we find in one of the earliest Greek tragedians, Aeschylos,
research and the power to look back into earlier ages, it will be
sense of this Job-tragedy need in no way have its origin in evil, it
how in some tragedy the tragic hero has stood before your eyes. The
a tragedy. When the experience of pain and suffering has preceded the
once more of a work of art, a tragedy. It can only arise if the
three stages: physical body, etheric body, astral body, and also of
three stages: Form, Life, Consciousness. Only from Consciousness does
world we raise ourselves to the next higher stage and try to
higher stage, if it is to renew itself from itself. Only a life that
stage. As in the case of one born blind, so do things appear in a new
level, when what is united in the average man becomes separate and a
right for certain stages of evolution, but it must be noted that this

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Evil
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behind the purely external appearance. In earlier ages this wisdom
how man can bring himself to such a stage of evolution. Definite
principle. Each being when it has developed to a higher stage becomes
processes which lie in the past and in the future. The present stage
of man was once the stage of the Beings who are the creators and
of Wisdom. We are to evolve love from its most elementary stage to

Title: Lecture: What Do We Understand by Illness and Death
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words: “For the wages of sin is death”. As we have said
text “the wages of sin is death”. For Paul and those who
“sin” and thus Paul defines death as the “wages of
searchers after a world-conception, have in all ages been occupied
ideals. Compare a savage to an average European, or perhaps to a
exhausted he can summon-up no more courage to transform fresh
memory and of all that we call hope and courage in life. When these
sting. Now these savages of the Zambesi river have found a way of

Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 1
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Passages from two lectures given in Berlin, 30th

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Passages from two lectures given in Berlin, 30th
understand the people, we must acquire their language. When we want
acquire the language of the dead. This is at the same time the
language of spiritual science, for this language is spoken by all who
contemplates certain points in our present age, then he perceives at

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas VII: The Creation of A Michael Festival Out Of The Spirit (Extract)
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the first page of account books one generally finds the words
stars. A deep wisdom lies in this, coming out of an age in which men
it means for us and for our age that the soul of the earth is exhaled
courage would have to be found amongst them not merely to discuss

Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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existence in an effort to satisfy, as it is said, their eagerness and
at the present time were at a much lower stage of existence. We shall
the following: Man has attained the present stage of his life of
the human race onward step by step to its present stage. But we must
which give man his human countenance, making him into an image of the
consciousness soul. And in the age now, approaching, those spiritual
the burden of heredity is the direct offspring of our materialistic age. But
age to age — the Spirit who has brought man freedom will appear again
The reference is to a passage in The Secret Doctrine, by H. P.

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revealed in the scene of the “Passage to the Mothers”, where
language, where “Mephiz” is the word used for one who obstructs, who
sounds striking together in unison across the ages.
earlier to the stage where he said: This delights and attracts me,
that is repellent to me! He reached the stage of following his own
Ahriman himself is no mirage — far from it! But what is conjured
before men's eyes of spirit under his influence — that is mirage,
images which may themselves often be majestic, awe-inspiring. Such is
being, there is at every stage of existence a universal karmic law.
something that will be to his personal advantage! If you sum up all

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In the last lecture, I spoke of the stages of man's development at
When the geologist takes us back to a certain age in the earth's
In order to have an expression in our language for the transition from
stage of man. Physical man in that epoch is called the Eagle. In the
language of esotericism, the Eagle is the man of the Lemurian Race who
The second stage, where man still had mastery over his etheric body is
designated by the esoteric expression: the stage of the Lion Man. The
successive stages of the evolution of Humanity. One who is initiated
in certain Mystery Schools learns to understand a certain language and
express their experiences. It is a language which all Initiates on the
earth write and speak, a symbolic language, a symbolic form of speech.
used to designate these stages of human evolution is that of two
through the incarnations remains through all the stages. That is what
Apocalyptist is speaking about these stages of evolution. They also
in which he can behold those earlier stages of evolution. Other organs
happened on the earth. The stages of evolution through which man has
back into the stages of Eagle, of Lion, of Bull, but he must do so as
a Seer. And at the third stage of Initiation the Chela actually
stages of human evolution but the future stages as well. To understand
these future stages a man must be able, as a seer, to use the forces
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Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - II
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significant passages in the Apocalypse and you will find that what is
Being, not as an abstract image of the World-soul conceived in a
enacted on the great stage of outer world-existence. What came to pass
beyond the stage to which the old religions could have led him.
stage of evolution is at hand.
ready to pass over into that world and to attain the stage of

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to the Christian Mystery. Light will then be thrown on many a passage.
the opening of seals mean, in the language in which the Apocalypse is
announced prophetically to the mystics. And in the language of the
called the opening of a seal. In the language of occultism, the
who guide its onward progress. In the language of esotericism these
reached a lofty stage of development. It was in the Third Root Race,
stage of development in an evolution that is not that of man, were so
already advanced so far that they had reached a stage which will be
developed individualities, the Manus, are called in the language of
passed through the stages of evolution which man will attain only in
the successive stages. The Christian Initiates have always understood
from the super-sensible, when Commandments are proclaimed. The age of
the “Law” is the age of the “Promise.” The time of
Other passages, too, indicate that the Word was an Angel, but
the Word into themselves. They must wait for a future time. In the age
the necessary stage of development.
develop to further stages. The admonitions to the Communities which it
This is the future stage of evolution when those who have overcome

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 1: Spiritual Science and Language
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Spiritual Science and Language
These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
Spiritual Science and Language
manifest in language; and next time, under the heading “Laughing and
expression which is connected with language but is fundamentally different
human language, we feel sufficiently how all the significance, dignity and
the whole of the human being are connected with that which we call language.
language. Thus we feel the possibility of expanding our being infinitely, the
ability to make our being extend into our environment through language. On
personalities will be able to feel particularly how language can also become
the word, in language. And we can also feel how even the language within
be aware how the human being is dependent on language as far as his thinking
in an imperfect stage of development the human being will readily confuse the
whole people who speak a common language is in a certain way dependent on
that language. The person who observes national character more closely, the
character of languages in their context, must realise that the way in which
The configuration of a language can tell much about the character of a
people. And since a language is common to a people, the individual is
dependent on a common element, an average quantity, as it were, which
rule of commonality. But if one realises that language contains on the one
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 2: Laughing and Weeping
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
remember the passage in the Old Testament which tells how man was raised to
unmistakably rendered in the symbolic-pictorial language of the old records,
connected with human development are tragedy and comedy, when through

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 3: What is Mysticism?
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
their source. His soul retains conceptual images of the outer world, and
him as a repetition, a reflected image, of outer life.
from the outer world, to obliterate all impressions and conceptual images
once we have obliterated the impressions and conceptual images of the outer
endlessly attractive to study him in so far as the universal human image is
man has evolved to his present stage, so, by using the appropriate method, he
science leads man through three stages of knowledge. The first stage, which
the second stage is called Inspiration, and the third is called Intuition, in
the true sense of the word. How is the first stage attained and what is
of man's rise to a higher stage of consciousness as it is of the
shows us the plant sap in all its purity, and yet at a higher stage than it
feelings and images that the teacher can evoke in the pupil's mind and
opened his soul to all the feelings and images which can make the Rose Cross
raised his soul to a further stage of development. And if he does this again
the stage of Inspiration, we have to strip away the content of our symbolic
had to do in order to call up the image of the black cross as a symbol of
world. This is difficult, but essential for rising to the stage of Intuition,
stage of Inspiration, we have poured out our inner being into something drawn
mysticism should therefore be undertaken at the proper stage of human
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 4: The Nature of Prayer
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
of inward deepening which appears in the mysticism of the Middle Ages from
preparatory stage in true prayer.
Greek sage, Heraclitus, quoted in an earlier lecture: “Never will you
engaged in a process of living evolution. It not only comes from the past and
with some deeds that happened in our past; we have reached the stage of even
speaks to us in even clearer and more emphatic language, since we are here
prayer are expressed better in images than in ideas. We can think, for
ordinary Christians during the Middle Ages. It occurred because the practice
stage, we know that in the same way as the wonders of nature meet us when we
if we rise to the higher stages for which prayer and mysticism are a
that a true prayer has something to give to all of us, whatever stage of
power to raise him higher. But, however high a stage we may have reached, we
Ages, however, something has come to the fore, a kind of egotism, which can
ourselves more perfect — as many Christians did during the Middle Ages
and at all stages of existence. Thus we seek in ourselves for the instrument,

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 5: Sickness and Healing
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, of all the emotions, images, thoughts and
pleasure and pain, feelings, images, etc. We see how at night these
like an echo or a mirror-image. The physical body and the ether body reflect
from the astral body and the ego in the same way as the image which we see in
because our soul has developed to a higher stage from these experiences: our
of an image we see indications of these significant foundations of human
again at night the fabric of daytime experience. If he can manage this his
to these depths of human soul-life in his image of Penelope and her suitors.
She promises marriage to each one after she has completed a certain
fabric. She manages to avoid having to keep her promise only by unravelling
Then the moment arrives when this purely spiritual archetypal image has been
ether bodies what he has woven into the archetypal image; the archetype is
they were able to raise to a higher stage of development but which they were
equilibrium and harmony only by passing through stages of disharmony. This is
towards a stage of balance through disharmony. It is the fate of human
reached if it is merely imagined into a given stage of human
not manage to correlate with the outside world, that he fails to relate fully
precisely in the present that our intellect has developed to a certain stage.
and the stage which they had reached inwardly in the development of their
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 6: Positive and Negative Man
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
soul passing from one stage of evolution to the next, and, if we are speaking
relatively low stage of development who are wholly given up to their
world. Its conceptual images and ideas are no longer there only to control
the passions, for at this stage the entire inner life of the soul is guided
leads him through the three stages of Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition,
of the soul through the most varied stages.
certain stage and will then be able to carry through the gate of death what
he has gained. If we study how people go from stage to stage, we come to the
at different stages of his progress.
always subject to the prevailing average mood. Thus a man may go to a meeting
accomplish this stage-by-stage ascent. In the first place it has to suppress
positive content at a higher stage. That is why we so often emphasise that
lives and is at a definite stage when it enters earth-existence. Just as in
our present life we have to proceed from stage to stage, and must acquire
negative characteristics on our way to a positive stage, so the same thing
of marriage or deep friendship even his handwriting may be influenced.
Observation will indeed show how in marriage the handwriting of a negative
regardless of his stage of development, it is sound judgment, rational
He cannot rise to higher stages unless he leaves a lower positive stage and
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 7: Error and Mental Disorder
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
mental disorder are spoken of, images of deepest human suffering arise in
every person's soul, and images, too, of deepest human sympathy. And
experiences. But it can also be seen how at each stage it finds a
was possible that during the conversation the image of first the illustrated
indeed, he managed to establish the correct connections. For the scholar
called forth in the subconscious of the philosopher the image of Napoleon
Paris. And now the image of another man appeared before him who also had a
Van Dyke beard, the image of Victor Emanuel of Italy; and this image led via
he had in his purse and, further, the image of the five marks which had then
been given to him as change. He recalled these two images and was now able to
ideas; it produces the image of the illustrated work about Paris and the
image of the photograph album of Rome. In the second case we see how the soul
that the haphazard images surface as if on a different level of
explains why the images occur haphazardly in the first case, whilst in the
images in the first place? The philosopher fails to answer that. Those who
which was not engaged in the conversation and which turned inwards. But he
did not have the strength to control the resultant sequence of images so that
uninteresting conversation. This gives an indication how such images occur in
other. But in the sentient soul the hardly noticed images follow one another:
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 8: Human Conscience
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
more of art than a mere appendage to life or a mere pleasure among others.
third of the Middle Ages and on through mediaeval philosophy, whenever
activity of the ego developed by gradual stages, and we shall understand how
stage of working in the consciousness soul, after progressing from the
inner voice. If we study his work, we feel that he was at the stage when
images of the inward promptings of conscience — somewhat as in
Shakespeare. Here we have palpable evidence of the stages whereby the idea of
to the stage of the intellectual soul. But if we look further back to Egypt
it speaks to us in the form of a clear message. Popular consciousness says:

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 9: The Mission of Art
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These lectures deal with spiritual science and language, laughing and
art a revelation of Nature's laws, which in its own language confirms
himself inwardly related to this message. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to
its gradual development through long ages, was not present in the far-distant
sorts of intermediate stages, right up to the time of Homer. It is not
outrage, the Greeks armed themselves for war against the Trojans, whose
The divine powers, as they were seen at the time in the images which we have
an initial stage. As a dramatist, Aeschylus puts this kind of man at the
world once again? How does Dante lead us through its three stages, Inferno,
on the inner development that was possible in the Middle Ages, with the
consciousness soul which tend to hold the ego back from higher stages of
wisdom for the consciousness soul, self-reliant courage for the intellectual
corresponding virtue, self-reliant courage. Finally we come to wisdom, the
world that he presents on the stage, and they are all depicted as independent
art reached the stage of embracing individual man, so that the ego itself
philosophy of the Middle Ages speak from his soul. And for the development of
disapproval and overflowed on to the stage itself, so that the players acted
his rich life, while he climbed from stage to stage of knowledge in his
believe that their work carries a message to mankind from the spiritual

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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
present day language for the sake of all humanity. In order to do
directions. The age in which we live makes this necessary, and in our
ordinary language of human consciousness.
neglected to clothe these observations in language suited to the
ordinary sense of truth of any age. Do you know what would happen to
formulate into any language that corresponded to a sound sense for
them on to others. This brings blessing to our day, for our age has
Individuals gain no advantage through their Karma having made it
he gains an advantage over his fellow men through the development of
clairvoyance. This is not at all the case. He gains no advantage in
spiritual strength and courage. The courage necessary to spiritual
our day, and there make its influence felt. Our age has need of great

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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
further those stages of development found in savage or uncivilised
peoples; and from the conclusions arrived at traces the stages
civilised peoples have passed through in former ages. In this way
the present stage of development. Much more could be said regarding
with in daily life fade away, just as villages and towns vanish when
possession of eyes began at a certain stage of development. This
confront itself, to see itself as an image is seen in a mirror
— though this image is only experienced for a moment —
in this checking the ego is confronted by the reflected image of
direct contact with it we bear an image of it within us. In the same
way we bear within us the image of colours we have seen, and retain
to describe the characteristic feature of these images we must say

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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
present day really belongs to all seven ages of the post-Atlantean
epoch. We have passed through all the earlier ages in former
incarnations, and will pass through all the later ages in later ones.
In each incarnation we receive what the age in question has to give.
are really those we have acquired during the ages mentioned. What
each of us has acquired in the course of these ages is more or less
world than is that which had its origin in an age when we were
The different ages in
first age. In it man's physical body receives its form, is
ages in the life of a man. In this life, as you know well, only that
present in the post-Atlantean age, we have already within us the
in the fifth post-Atlantean age, and are living on towards the
various post-Atlantean periods and that of the ages in the life of
ages the art of printing was added to that of writing many people
black printer's ink traced spoken words on a white page, thus
the case when in the middle ages a minstrel recited the
feature of the ages that followed is that Atlantean knowledge had
age of development in the life of a man began, and it is best
distant age, into whom all the knowledge of ancient Atlantis had
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
awakened. We read how higher stages gradually evolved out of lower
ones, up to that stage when the spiritual world dawned within the
In studying pre-Christian ages we find that many persons passed
that the stages were introduced one by one up to the point where the
the same stages of development differed in certain particulars in
the different stages formerly passed through during
been taken to translate important passages in a comprehensible way.
in our own language; not only in presenting them theoretically to our
peculiar quality of the language of that day is also passed on to us.
great deal behind the words, because the images employed were taken
this language compared with others was that behind the expressions
this was that in the ancient Hebrew language, in the personal use of
the language, which cannot be shown in the script, it was possible
In Greek, the language of the Gospel text, this is not nearly so much
the language used by the Evangelists.
I will start with this important passage from the prophecies of
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mission. This Angel was to carry revelation a stage further, and make
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
preparation should he made for any special stage, and this is
age there have always been certain guides or leaders of men who,
followed man through four stages of development, three of which are
stages correspond with the upbuilding of the physical, the etheric,
are at the stage corresponding to the development of the human ego,
language of Buddhism are called “The Temptation of Buddha.”
so high Buddha still sees them, and now at the final stage of his
we learn of the different stages he attained in the passage through
risen through many stages. Through illumination — that which is
intended as a mere poetic image, but is an occult truth presented
see reality but imaginary forms, fantastic images which are described
a higher stage where “human” things are seen. It is

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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
a remarkable passage similar in every way to what we are told in the
the Gospel of Mark. This passage tells how Jesus Christ, after He had
passage is generally translated as follows: — “And they
into the meaning of this important passage, it leads us a step
the “Spirit of the Age or Time-Spirit” (Zeitgeist), there
in order to progress. Every man receives in his own age what this age
ages have produced. This can, however, only be preserved
soul than all the sciences, learning, and art of the ages. What
depths of which our present age is only beginning to have some
a child before the period to which at a later age its memory
belongs to an age immediately preceding that of Christianity. It was
Orpheus who inaugurated the Grecian Mysteries. The Greek age falls
various stages provided by a physical personality. The Greeks saw in
super-sensible worlds. But because of the age in which he lived he was
his age physically. He was not only an instrument for the voice of
post-Atlantean culture? He experienced in the first place that stage
of Nazareth. The three innocent stages of childhood's

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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
another. Naturally there are all kinds of intermediate stages between
reflected or imaged in our astral body. This image is imparted later
images remain behind in the astral body and are later projected into
difference between the reflected images of actions that have sprung
from instincts, desires, passions, etc., and the reflected images of
life. They are those images, those con-tents of the astral body which
destroyed. Such images are closely connected with the way human life
with them, leave impressions which appear in later life as courage,
a long road, and very few men in our age can arrive at thinking
sound to laugh at one when represented on the stage. Burlesques and
In the dying heroes of tragedy, where death is actually enacted

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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
is deeply characteristic of our age.
harmful when people do not allow the idea at this stage to rest
three stages before it becomes ripe within us. This holds as regards
found in the other Gospels. But one passage found in this Gospel is
passage is especially remarkable because commentators have said some
This passage is not
passage refers in a most outstanding way to our own day. The fate
in prophetic images as the Events of Christ in the Gospel according
following passage: —
this way we have to understand this passage that meets us in all the
this is the age in which the consciousness-soul is to be especially
to assume its special aspect (Lage). All this is imprinted in the
the following passage is understood we shall connect it with our age

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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
thoughts and feelings of the age immediately preceding it, it is well
perfect stage. There are many such impulses, and also others,
fifth post-Atlantean age, in which we are now living, certain things
are repeated which occurred in the third age — the
and the fifth ages we have the Christ-Impulse. This relation-ship is
maintained in the same way between the sixth age and the second, and
age will reappear in the seventh age in another form — yet so
into post-Christian times. The repetition of an earlier age in a
our fifth age. Thus we have to see the evolution of man progressing
to give. The age of Greece threw up a following wave of culture
the age of Greece, which occurred in the middle of the seven periods
pressing; an age which must again be enriched with something new from
receive into it a neighbouring stream. Our age is powerfully
age of Goethe we have a revival of the Buddha-Impulse (in which
stage at which he stood five to six centuries before our era I Can
once I spoke of a legend told all over Europe in the Middle Ages, the
Judasaph, Budasaph. Josaphat lived up to a certain age in the palace
first saw a leper, then a blind man, then an aged man. We are then
legend of the Middle Ages with which Buddha cannot be charged;
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Part IV: The Path of Theosophy from Former Ages until Now.
the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
Ages until Now.
southern city I passed northwards to Copenhagen, where, in a recent
our own age as it appears spiritually to souls, which, like our own,
would surely return. The passage I am about to read was written in
spirit goes back to very early ages of humanity. Its mysteries
explained the different stages of development the soul passes
from village to village, from place to place, declaring things
distance from here. She is, however, watched over by a savage dragon.
thy goal.” Courageously he went on. He reached the first
of love and sacrifice. At that time men spoke in images. To-day we
At that time the image of the bell was used; it was rung to summon
rage in the human soul must be recognised, and when we recognise them
image was used, the dragon-mother gave the man a mantle of copper.
at an earlier day through the image of the copper, silver, and golden
four times seven days does it reach the stage where he can give it to
They are very old. The physical body has existed since the age of
Saturn, the etheric body since the Sun-age, the Astral body since the
Moon-age, and that which dwells in man as the “I” has
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between Goethe’s soul and that of a savage? Every human soul leads
over the continued existence of the soul. The old sages, who did not

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because the human beings would not understand their language. The great

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race, and an age. It was always this way. But because we belong to a
people, a race, and an age and have characters, we have a sum of different
languages in which the human beings put questions to themselves and
beings. These were higher levels than that which the completely savages
image they make for themselves. Of this opinion are today not only the
savages but also the materialists. Somebody, who is today a scientific
fetish adorer, who makes the image of matter and energy to himself and
image — and say: the human beings created God according to their
image. — We have to realise the fact that the wishes and needs
above himself. Then his imagination creates an image of him. The gods
become images of the human being. — With it Feuerbach, one says,
were themselves. Thus they could also form bull and lion images of gods.
similar to lions, the lions and lion-like images became their gods.
and courage what he has recognised as true: I arouse the same sensation
had significant, deep spirits also in the Middle Ages, spirits of a
itself. Concerning the transient concept of God and the image of the

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theology to investigate this. We see how under these tasks the image of the
has come to an image of Jesus from an idea which Jesus did never suggest nor
the image of Christ to the field of the purely actual.
demonstrated, on the one side, the concept of God evaporating the image of God,
The first sentences of this Gospel, the real message of the Word that became
word of Paul enough: “If Christ was not raised, our faith and message
from to speak two languages, so to speak? The simple comparison can say it to
deal with priest sages in ancient times and with the loftiest truth which was
the immediate image of that which the highest wisdom contained. It was in such
sages. However, in the founder of Christianity the higher compassion lived to
speak in other words than the old priest sages had spoken; a message which is
competently, exactly as one has to know the language, before one is able to
teachers taught in the first centuries. It wants to serve the Christian message;
of the highest from the average mind, from a subordinated point of view but

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dreamer who bears witness to his peculiar image worlds because he has
not have been possible in another age to explain in the same way. But
I myself build it in my mind. Thus a passage begins with Kant with the
a “thing-in-itself,” but only of an image world. He says
basically: I must refer my image world to something unknown. —

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the chairs et cetera, is an image of my mind; because they all are there for
that which became Kantianism later. I read up a passage of the book that was
however, as long as everything is good.” Then another passage: “Indeed,
The human being with his average
to use an image of that which takes place without us. — What we know as
is not an image but a mere sign.
image if I have the sensation red and the sensation violet. Both are subjective
includes the images of space and time already. The physicist assumes space and
stands before me, I have only oscillations as stimuli and then an image of my
being. Nothing of the world of images of another human being and nothing of
I am not. Images are there: they are the only things that exist, and they know
about themselves in the way of images — images which pass without anything
existing that they pass; which are connected with images to images. Images which
of these images; yes, I myself am not this, but only a confused image of the
images.”
world. If you go over to the image of the own ego, then you do not have more
are nothing else than dream images or illusions if you interpret the view correctly.
an image in my consciousness.
The idea of the ego is also an image;
of Critique of Pure Reason he says at a passage: “I had to cancel
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seems to be so natural that one is regarded as philosophically under-age today,
of this philosophy in images. You find a philosophical treatise on that in my

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for psychology above all in the Middle Ages. At the appearance of science in
the age force us to these confessions.
which approach from some sides — according to the Christian Middle Ages
with the Buddhist sage Nagasena. This king steps to the Indian sage and asks:
who are you? — The sage Nagasena answers: one calls me Nagasena. But this
sage states that nothing is behind the name Nagasena. What is then that which
on foot or carriage? — The king answered: on carriage. — Now, explain
the carriage to me. Is the shaft your carriage? Are the wheels your carriage?
Is the carriage box your carriage? — No, answers the king. — What
is then your carriage? It is a name which refers only to the connection of the
What did the sage Nagasena want
to anything else than to a name if you consider the parts of the carriage in
the ideas are a milliard. In terms of this correct saying of the sage Nagasena
ways on which still the sages of the Christian Middle Ages looked for the soul
the sage Nagasena. Because the natural sciences have taken this way, it is only
Christian researchers, about that of the Middle Ages. Nevertheless if anybody
Riddles of the World by Haeckel, the first pages where he stands on the
The Greek sage Plato did not admit
mathematical truth is. There are still savage people. Indeed, they become extinct,
is to be understood. Already Greek and Indian sages did this. They understood
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the absurd assertion that the marvellous tragedy Hamlet is nothing
human being, the savage from the animal realising that he has a life-history
to the undeveloped level of the savage on account of the law of soul development.
lives in the savage on a lower level. As well as the higher animal species differ
from the soul of the savage in the psychic realm. This explains to us that basically
In 1842, in the age of natural science,
single wave is an image of the human being. Everybody who became engrossed in

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Let me begin this third lecture with an image Plato used to
clear to his disciples that the true sage has made himself independent of the
world view. That is only valuable to the sage which the senses can never give.
of the sage at the moment when the external sensuous situation seems to be completely
in this situation how powerful this view has become in the sage, so that he
souls, we think of two things. Plato, the great sage of Greece, tries to support
What lived only as an image of thought
like a living language, then he perceives the Word that has become flesh and
metamorphosis of the human being has taken place, he thinks not only of shadow-images
like of the physical laws, then these shadow-images start speaking the living
language of the spirit to him. The spirit speaks to him from the surroundings.
is true and eternal in certain way. What appears to us in the language of mathematics,
usual sense must do damage if the spirit wants to speak directly to us.
the external impression the reagent of the soul inserts itself, and that is
state. We can get an image of this process, if we imagine that we bring a sleeping
world which are round us speak a loud, clear language to us, then this can only
to perceive the spiritual environment, the language of the spirit in this environment
engaged to the impressions of his senses, as little as the hypnotised is tied
natural force with really unselfish human beings. About the great, true sages

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were sages at that time who knew not only the facts and laws of the external
of the scientific age to the thirties years of the 19th century. One has pointed
rightly to this age as one of the most epoch-making of humankind. One has pointed
One has called our age in which the things are in such a way the materialistic
age. Our otherwise so perfect science limits itself to natural science, as far
the disadvantage of materialism. Everything that the materialistic researcher
advantage over all former centuries that these exceptionally important questions
life all gradations between the undeveloped soul of a savage and the genius
average consciousness of the present human beings.
it is a big danger in the present stage of our cosmic development to eliminate

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Greece towards the end of the Middle Ages, we find another view and interpretation
end of the Middle Ages are to be attributed to this interpretation of the somnambulistic
being, the so-called astral body. This astral body is a kind of image of our
nice words from which he said that a sage spoke them:

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Middle Ages through, till the 17th century. Only in the 17th century spiritism
slumber which are not developed with the average human being, that spiritual
average human being in such a way as a sighted is to a blind-born. This was
the Germanic mythology and the mythologies of the savage peoples are nothing
by authority in the Middle Ages.
almost incomprehensible language hard to be understood by modern materialists
avoid the senses. In an even more incomprehensible language those people spoke
through the whole Middle Ages. Those who wanted to come on their own ways, independently
originating in Europe from the middle of the Middle Ages on which led their
power as the average human being does not suspect at all. Only somebody is able
were regarded as true through the whole Middle Ages. Indeed, they were considered
by the church of the Middle Ages in such a way, as if they were caused by means
into nature with the senses. Somebody who does not approach the Middle Ages
with prejudices but wants to get to know the world view of the Middle Ages in
Ages was not wrong as one often shows it today, but it was only a view which
of a truth which shows an exact image of the sensuous world. It may be characterised
of the Middle Ages, and again in another way to the modern human beings. The
having the authorisation of it — just within a materialistic age. It is
that viewpoint which a believer of the Middle Ages, a deep mystic, Master Eckhart,
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of the words of this Jesuit father in fairly modern language. They are in a
animals. Nevertheless, the reader eager to learn may inform himself about it.”
the ancient Indian priest sages knew only what I have reported to you as the
sages knew even more. Because they knew even more, they were prevented to inform
is the age of Enlightenment to which we approach, that age in which the human
average mind set the tone in which one wanted to recognise everything in the
is like the other. The average scale is put onto the human being, and one does
with these matters, were aware of that up to the age of Enlightenment. Somebody
age of Enlightenment. Only in the daybreak of Enlightenment from such a side
century in the age of Enlightenment that in France the emotions were running
of the fact that one tried to interpret them in the materialistic age that these
read the words in such a state merely touching a book page. One asserted that
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
managed that a person to be operated did not perceive pains by means of mental
has managed to exclude all methods and admitted the verbal suggestion only:
sleep! — Or: lower the eyelids! — Et cetera, the corresponding image
this personal influence had an effect. The point of view of the average mind

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so-called original peoples to recognise how the religious images have developed
in the course of time. In these religious images that is included basically
are our images of a life after death, of a yonder realm which is not enclosed
within the sensory world, how are our images of an eternal life solidly founded?
How does the human being get to such images? — This is one kind how the
eager to offer this foundation to the present humankind. Whereas the cultural
forces, certain abilities which are not yet accessible to the average person
but that, above all, an image is created by this teaching which makes the world
of his mind. If the modern human being is eager to attain this self-knowledge,
that which gives satisfaction, consolation, courage and life.
Then we safely look at the past and full of courage at the future if this view
and courage what the poet expressed by full conviction:

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small encyclopaedia, a so-called pocket encyclopaedia, which says on its title-page
not needs to take sides exactly, a book which was, however, a courageous action
adversaries. This Philosophy of the Unconscious was a courageous action
a philosophy which has one advantage in spite of its big shortcomings that it
actually, all kinds of intermediate stages that, however, these intermediate
stages are to be found between two extremes. The one extreme is the sober scholars.
about which I have to speak. Which physicist would not disparage what one calls
spirit of the present age knows that inner truth and wisdom of the religious

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any important language. However, this seems to me less significant than that
discernible realities as the physical perception is, as language is the physical
as he is an average modern human being, has not awoken for this higher world.
Modern science itself has not always been in the same stage. It is a product
its images at the same time. The feeling and the ethical will were connected
We can also study the images which have remained from the oldest druidic times
age, that the science of astronomy separates from the purely practical science;
age, we see that everything is spirit with him.
researchers before. Look back at the first time of the Middle Ages, look at
what was once and how the world laws are: an image of life was created there.
an external image, a separation of that which was found in the mysteries. If

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stands on the title-page of Sinnett’s book, but this Buddhism would not
brotherhoods of sages who have the real guidance of the human development. They
Blavatsky wrote her Secret Doctrine, not only oriental sages as great
Not only the average human being is depending on his surroundings, on his age
in certain way. The great sages of the movement emphasised that immediately
in the outset of this movement. The great sages had come from oriental knowledge,
From the Middle Ages up to the modern
times there were great sages also in Europe; and there were also such brotherhoods.
already from passages of the little book which appeared with Reclam. There you
Such a passage shows us immediately
needs to report a passage of the Buddhist writings to show how little reasonable
and being that there is no passage — also not in the exoteric writings
sages on account of their authority. There is good reason, if we still are in
images, to the scientists scientifically. The human being can err in detail,

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Die Beantwortung von Welt- und Lebensfragen Durch Anthroposophie.
Die Beantwortung von Welt- und Lebensfragen Durch Anthroposophie.
even reaching thirty years of age was Novalis, and we hope that
particular stage. Novalis, by contrast, lived a life which one
physical plane at the age of twenty nine and who gave the
world, all this contributed to the impressive images unfolding
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
your attention to the origin of such an age-old festival: the source
Ages. Lucifer was definitely shunned.
have no ending. Reincarnation started in the Lemurian Age and will
cease again at the beginning of the sixth Root Race or Age. It is
with its first incarnation in the Lemurian Age the
Age. The Bible hints at that in a concealed and profound way:
further Stage in its development. Through this they were able to
It is a remarkable passage. For the Feast of the Tabernacles, the
Soul and Body. The Devas are at a higher stage than man, but they do
the bondage of his physiological state. For only the free spirit is

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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:’
created after the image of God. They were propagated by asexual means.
were engaged in propagation. The son or daughter looked like the
and Abel. They came between and represent a transitional stage. They
plane’ in all ancient languages and the three aggregate
‘Rakshasas’ in occult language
occult striving of the Middle Ages was directed towards nullifying

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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
of mankind must undergo in long stages of development. To become
stages. The first step was that one was led before the ‘Throne
stage the occultist acquires a certain power, whereby he is enabled
that the rudimentary stages in the formation of the spinal cord
goes through this process at this stage of his development. He is

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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
see how a pupil of spiritual science passes through three stages in
understand the language of sagas first. Today I wish to speak about a
stage, into the primal arts of which it had need. This time of
a certain way, Atlantean man was at a stage lower than we are. His
that man has progressed one stage higher, the field of his activities
lies one stage lower. That is an occult law: that when, on the one
his bondage by him who is becoming mature enough to set free the
whole of humanity in gradual stages and to raise it up out of the
said to you at the beginning: whoever reaches the third stage in

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 5: The Mystery Known to Rosicrucians
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
parentage and was brought into existence at the command of
died, Hiram managed to throw the Golden Triangle into a well. As no
the fourth and fifth epochs, because he is still engaged in building

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 6: Manicheism
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
actively engaged in this field constantly comes across something — if
of the Middle Ages are the continuation of this current,
one of his brother men as his Manu, who has passed through all stages
Mani is the one who prepares that stage in
this confrontation also in later sagas in the Middle Ages: on the one
from a higher stage, appears like a fetter; it is just out of this
stage of life.

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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
the workers engaged in the building of the Temple should be presented
answer: ‘Light’. Then the bandage is removed from the
Rome, the builders of cities, and during the Middle Ages they built
a copy or image, has no meaning; there is only significance in what

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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
in a very peculiar stage of its development, and I would ask you to
signs of the zodiac. The whole is a portrayal of the sun's passage
so in the new age. That is what I meant when I told you that what is
revive. In the first stage, the outer form will be grasped. The next

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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
stage. For during the last third of the eighteenth century,
by having it as an object. That is what distinguishes an average
you will find there a passage relating to electricity, which expresses

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 10: Evolution and Involution as they are Interpreted by Occult Societies [The Atom as Congealed Electricity]
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
in all future stages of life. Namely, it is what man works at to
rule, are not personages known to history;
Middle Ages no one could say who had built many of the cathedrals or
called upon to reach one day the highest stages of perfection. But
age.
forward to an age when, as I recently indicated, understanding will
evolution. After all, they are connected with necessary stages in
makes sixteen stages of evolution in the future. Humanity has still
to pass through these sixteen stages. A man who can experience
conditions. Thus there are definite stages for the investigation of
expression of each one of the future stages of the evolution of

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 11: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 1
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
to occult science as the image or teaching of the lost temple which
why in occult science one starts from such images; today we shall see what
an enormous number of ideas are contained in essence in this image.
— it could become an image of the great spiritual structure of the
transformed into the Temple of the Earth, into an image of the whole
one, the age of the ancient priestly states. I have often spoken
that the lineage of Numitor should die out. And when Rhea gave birth
stages. And only if it was developed according to the law of the
precisely worked out plan, these seven kings are seven stages, seven
it can withstand all this into ripe old age.
that the great sages must be these pillars — it is this intention
the spirit. In that case we shall be engaged in building the lost
stamped in wax by the spiritual world. Then we shall be engaged in
to laws. Therefore the priestly sages of ancient times devised means
spiritual world. It was, so to speak, a stratagem of the great sages,
Eve, and out of this marriage Abel was born.
Solomon was a descendant of the lineage of Abel. He could not build
architect Hiram-Abiff, the descendant of the lineage of Cain. Solomon
she saw an image of gold and ivory. She came to unite herself with
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
Atlantean epoch did man develop to the stage where he could say
that could transform man himself into a god. Two images in the Bible relate
present stage of human existence. Before Noah, man lived in the
the stage of four-foldness to that of five-foldness, as five-membered
two higher beings — Buddhi and Manas. Thus man enters the stage of
symbol of wisdom. Now wisdom enters the Manas stage. We find palm
the Middle Ages, the idea of Solomon's Temple was revived again in
preparing the various sects of the Middle Ages, and humanity
following stages. Everything has been repeated, including the
evolution of the global stages in the first, second and third Great
which man will have attained a much higher stage and will no longer
all that was important for its time. The previous Persian age was
transition of the sun into the sign of the Twins. A further stage of
what he should become. The ego will have attained a certain stage
that, however, man still has to undergo three stages of purification.
first passing through the stage of Peter none of the Templars found
survey all this, we find images having great significance. And he in
whose soul these images come alive, will become more and more fit to
Ages, This wisdom is exactly what Dante sought to personify in his

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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
to a higher stage.
a higher stage. Thus, he must raise his physical body to a higher
belong? At the present stage of his evolution, he belongs with his
stage of development in which it can only grasp the dead, the
Hence we are dealing with man's body at the stage
kingdom. This is a necessary transitional stage
astral included — one stage higher.
stages [of evolution]. The three Higher Kingdoms — the Plant Kingdom,
rudimentary stage.
our physical nature we are in a transitional stage between the
is engaged in an ascent. But this is not brought about by any outer
entrusted to those not engaged in the work of outward building, to
stage was Solomon's Temple, as we have seen. The pentagon was to be
become wholly an image of the Godhead. Until then man has to take the
of God. These are the stages in the story of creation.
mirror image of man. This ties up with human life — what lives in man
etheric body will provide the basis, at a higher stage, for the
the Cross, inasmuch as it is the image of the three external bodies,
outer image of initiation. The mourning of the women at the Cross
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
sequence of evolution before arriving at the stage where he stands
evolutionary stages: Saturn, Sun and Moon. Our earth has passed
themselves. In esoteric language these previous astral periods are
ether is accessible to what is called in esoteric language the
you could have observed a man at the stage he had attained when the
could be completely managed by the ego. Now such a person would stand
times the Astral Globe [stage] of earth [see the chart at the end of
religion, making a stage by stage recapitulation.
is the great tragedy; the corollary of every saint is that a great
encounter the third stage with the Chaldeans, the Babylonians, the
of the third stage of the Godhead takes place. Thus, from that time
ascent must be re-enacted of the stages through which the whole of

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 15: Atoms and the Logos in the Light of Occultism
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
Devas are beings who are at a higher stage than man and
stage of earthly evolution are so different in man and woman that it
altered as well, in the last three thousand years. On average, we
vantage point.
plants have their consciousness. At the present stage of evolution,
influence on the vegetation. But the Devas are still there to manage
higher stages, to beings who have continually higher plans for world
becomes an image of this plan. The occultist simply notes the plan
this if we consider that there are still higher stages of evolution
out. These higher stages are indicated to us by the Ancients, for
behold the world we find the atom at the one extreme. It is an image
spirits of the Moon, if, as I have often already said, they managed

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 16: The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
first stage was for the candidates to purify their astral bodies.
halfway through the Middle Ages, we see that the fifth Sub-Race
Indian person with very straightforward pictorial images; and he will
[thereby] be able to arrive at very high stages of
age and our own. In ancient India you have high intuition and very
was formerly reserved for the later stages of instruction must now be
the starting point of the yoga training. Whoever engages in yoga
the time comes when he is able to undertake his occult pilgrimage. He
a great and significant mystery, when particular stages of our
through this descent into the universe, through this pilgrimage. And
are engaged, in a practical way, in extending the Theosophical

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 17: Freemasonry and Human Evolution I
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
recapitulates, in the maternal womb, the stages through which the
stages, the previously completed steps of its evolution. What has
fertilising agent, or male seed, was also present. Woman contained
be born from the same lineage.
be vanquished in theosophical circles. Throughout the Middle Ages
during the Middle Ages. This is nothing else than concentrating to

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 18: Freemasonry and Human Evolution II
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
recapitulate earlier stages in a particular way. On earth there is
before birth man has to go through the stages which he once
So, for instance, the Renaissance period of the Middle Ages was a
on earth, the earlier stages must always be recapitulated in a new
connection in images; ancient priestly traditions became the content
in these images, and ancient priestly wisdom was intuitively
being. The religions work through words and images to further this
wisdom that had been taken over by the priesthood. The great images
the ancient Hebrew language there is a Word, a Mantram, which, it is
hand, the female image-wisdom of the priests, and on the other, the
imageless wisdom of Cain. Now it is interesting that when an
image-content was sought for the wisdom of Cain, the male wisdom then
will also grasp why, in the Middle Ages, the Church had to evolve a
for Freemasonry, the battle on the outer physical plane is waged so

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 19: The Relationship Between Occult Knowledge and Everyday Life
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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
attention rather less to higher vantage points, but rather speak
image of the physical body. The astral body, the auric sheath that
position to create within himself an image of the beauty of the
disposition of the child's soul. He will thus encourage tender and
undecided, whether the message of occultism is true or false; but I
will test it without prejudice. I can live as if this message were
nation from a higher vantage point can reflect that every nation has
[inspiring] this Race was to spread Christianity in its first stage

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picture language with a conceptual content as a preliminary step to
tragedian-poets, such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, etc., we are dealing
with individual human beings, who are images of the great Godhead.
the human audience through their human imagery.
tragedy [by way of explaining it] are a dim reflection of what the
aroused through tragedy. That has furnished the material for many a
was portrayed to him in his passage through the world. The passions
proceed to rebirth. All this appeared in shadow images in the ancient
Greek tragedies. Just as with science, so has art, too, developed out
in order to understand this, we must look a little deeper into an age
stone through human agency. Nature's creation was given a new shape
Ages; with its chaos
who, in the Middle Ages, took the Holy Grail as their symbol, set
forces to a higher stage [of development]. The Holy Grail was to have
Hence, at this time [in the Middle Ages], a radically
our age is not yet so advanced as to be able to control outwardly
will attain the stage of Atma.
pilgrimage of the soul is expressed in the person of Parsifal, who
is at present still in an elementary, germinal, stage. In the Freemasonry
Sheba wanted him to call together once more the workers engaged in
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture I: Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?
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We read there on one of the first pages: if hypoxaemia occurs
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture II: Goethe's Secret Revelation - Exoteric
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the prior and Christ, as two counter-images, looked at each
payment for the trouble of the passage. The ferryman takes a
artichokes, three cabbages. They should pay with fruits. We see
of your age one has probably kept to the general politeness.
debt with the ferryman: three cabbages, three onions and three
were empty; only by the living, due to the cabbages, onions and
about the river, picks a cabbage, an artichoke and an onion out
image grasps the young man. At this moment, he is
temple. Then we see not only pedestrians, but also carriages,
develop to the higher stages of human existence.
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture III: Goethe's Secret Revelation - Esoteric
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average European can know with some scientific concepts about
from the average European quite substantially.
initiation and development: that the average human feeling and
the present average human being the imaginative faculty, the
human soul who is controlled by will, image, and emotion
that the images and feelings do not control him and he is able
quite strange qualities. They absorb the gold eagerly, lick it
real cognitive faculty. With the image of the
Goethe arranges the advantages and disadvantages of this soul
brought the message of spiritual worlds to the human beings for
payment to the ferryman: three cabbages, three onions, and
harmony up to his latest age with that which he had created
with the help of images, but is led to the thing itself, where
passage of the Chorus mysticus that expresses the:
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IV: Bible and Wisdom I
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sum of images about the world and life giving the soul a
taught about the external nature in the whole Middle Ages
Middle Ages was only an ambiguous interpretation of his
his mental images correspond to reality or are only fantasy.
mental image” and “the external things only
stimulate the mental image,” to that I might propose that
the passages which lead the way of the fourth verse of the
this passage in the Bible: “The serpent which was the
passage “Is it true that God has forbidden you to eat
it! Read the Six-Day Work. You find the passage, if you keep on
still other contestable passages, and one comes to the
viewpoint to say, in the Bible are passages that contain deep
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Gospels could give the image of the superior Jesus, the founder
message from eyewitnesses wrote it. Gförer goes so far
being contradicts the materialistic mental images, which
egos, whether they waged war whether they lived in peace. They
the sages of initiation prepared the neophyte prepared so far,
message of it. However, one could only behold the “I am
the language in which generally initiation stories are told.
Someone who looks down from the higher vantage point surveys
more and portrays more from this higher vantage point. We come
it is not difficult to say, who stood on the higher vantage
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VI: Superstition from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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theatre management rejects the drama.” — I asked,
got their glass of red wine at this age every time during
age, which can be pursued only by the means of spiritual
regard him as a swindler, a charlatan or as the greatest sage
of the wisest of his age lived. However, who sticks only to the
African savages. Whether the African savage adores his wooden
ancient sages could show great natural phenomena.
superstition can cause as damage in the human life. One can
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VII: Issues of Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science
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away by rage, antipathy, by prejudices, he owes this to his
animal food. The fact that there were human beings who waged
courage, boldness that are also necessary to life. These
advantages of the vegetable foodstuffs. If the human being gets
etheric body of the animals is advantageously involved. The
at later age, if possible only milk, one achieves a particular
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VIII: Issues of Health in the Light of Spiritual Science
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investigated the external pathogenic agents that destroy the
direction of medicine looks preferably at the pathogenic agents
bacteria are not pathogenic agents of the most dreadful kind.
protected against the influence of such pathogenic agents or he
illness often appearing in the last time, the pathogenic agent
that way and has damaged more with it than it was useful. It
would damage him a little, because he would be torn out a
with the contents of a particular colour image. One has to know
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IX: Tolstoy and Carnegie
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knowing. Only oriental languages can occupy him. In all other
Then he tries repeatedly to manage his estate, and we see him
certain event makes on Tolstoy at the age of eleven years. A
begins with the marriage in the sixties. It was the time from
happy day for the 12-year-old boy. He gets his first wage: 1
wage. Here he has to work even more, he must stand in the
small wage of the telegraph messenger. He has to work at a
heart, which receive telegrams. He really manages to know the
telegraph operator was not there, a death message comes in. He
to manage it in the service of humanity.
also its management, as a manager of the goods in the service
boy. Compare the usual consciousness to the image life of the
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture X: The Practical Development of Thinking
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postage has then to be determined according to distance and
uniform letter postage was introduced in England. However, not
parliament, firstly he did not believe that such an advantage
let two stagecoaches go to Potsdam for many years: if people
carriage and you try to push against the walls of the carriage
in order to move it. If you succeed in moving the carriage
“carriage pusher from within!” This fits the
thinking of many people; they are “carriage pushers from
“carriage.”
nature of thinking, and that one becomes no “carriage
carriage pushers of thinking who fancy themselves often as
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XI: The Invisible Human Members and Practical Life
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to defend itself if one is not a “carriage pusher of
sensations, images, sufferings, joys, complexes of thought et
becomes a habitual image, it imprints itself in the etheric
best basis is laid of a good memory in old age. In addition,
means against the dwindling memory in old age in gymnastics if
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XII: The Secret of the Human Temperaments
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images, and mental pictures and so on, because the astral body
pictures, sensations and images surging up and down, because
consideration that one must always be envisaged with that which
human being must envisage his sanguine temperament;
good to choose such objects where it is senseless to rage,
us. We cannot solve it positioning abstract images and concepts
abstract images and concepts here and there, but we have to
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIII: The Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Exoteric
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again in tears of emotion in his old age.
testament, shows us the different stages of Goethe's development.
For it is infinitely interesting to observe how these four stages
passageway through the big world, but in such a way that the
which the human being ascends the stages of existence,
everybody if it is presented on stage. I have not wanted more.
and looking at the symbol on the first page deeply touching his
on this page that the volatile dragon symbolises the current
(a little village in Alsace/France) in whom he had aroused
the highest stages, one got to know the stages of the divine
of this page, we recognise in it what worked on Goethe at that
time. Such moods and images could flow into Goethe's soul. He
ages knows that — considering such deep mental strives
page. The sign of the macrocosm replaced by that of the
forces in himself by watching certain symbols and images, so
developing his soul up to the corresponding stages of
believed from the old traditions, he were “the image of
side of his life in this Gretchen tragedy, which expresses
these passages. Now we see how Goethe finds the way bit by bit,
was not sufficient to incorporate it. Only in his old age,
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIV: Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Esoteric
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Mephistopheles should walk before the forestage at the end of
kind of epilogue. It was intended as the stage direction says
than on the British stage, where a little child
creatively uses the language in this poem, and that we are not
part: I see from my notion that it is true what the sage
does the second part begin? Is the instruction of the sage
passage of the sounding sun, someone who is able to pursue the
have a bath in roseate dawn. Hence, the sage speaks, “Go,
age and so on — penetrate the actions and thoughts of the
the first stage of clairvoyance, the stage which the
first stage of clairvoyance is something that can confuse the
he comes to that stage where the spiritual world faces him
yesterday, came out by a particular event. He read a passage in
Carthage. Nicias, the friend of the Romans, should be arrested.
in the first stages of the supersensible world that is the
human beings, images of the spiritual world. It would lead too
we see him overcoming the second stage. In this condition, we
Middle Ages it was nothing else than a certain form of the
after he has overcome a new stage of life.
act, we understand what arises from the marriage of the high
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XV: Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
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disposition: he is condemned to a certain life tragedy. He hard
being to the ideal image. The Greek was not that way in
The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music,
be outraged against the philistine attitude of David Friedrich
wrote a book in which he said, pluck up courage, be a human
being, do not only look for history, have the courage to be
This becomes his tragedy or also his bliss. These are the
passage. There Dühring tries to put the question whether
I myself have seen that he had marked this passage in this book
it became his tragedy. It expresses that everything that was
a feeling, which belonged to the tragedy of his soul, the
human being ascends from stage to stage, all that lived with
notions. Again, you can observe the tragedy, how this striving
Nietzsche's tragedy also shows a big piece of the tragedy of
the nineteenth century. This tragedy appears in particular, if
man, a sick person, a dead person. He sees: age is suffering,
our pilgrimage on earth up to the spirit, and connect them
become able to recognise illness, age, evil as tests, as a
there like a picture of the tragedy of modern materialistic
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVI: Isis and Madonna
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“languages” represent themselves in the different
on her knees, the Madonna of that age, because Christ has
at this age so juvenile. Michelangelo himself was asked, and he
their youthfulness until old age. Why should he not be entitled
to show the Mother of God also at this age still in all
times as in a golden age among the human beings. He was married
husband Osiris in the golden age. The most beautiful humaneness
carries the lion head showing the third stage of the human
globe and the cow horns, which are a kind of image of the
have to speak a lot about it if we wanted to represent an image
last when he let him pass the different stages which lead up to
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVII: Old European Clairvoyance
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thoughts, images, and ideas in our inside is only one
developmental stage. Another consciousness preceded in the
our present stage of development, and we can look at a future
modern stage of consciousness “consciousness” par
successive stages: subconsciousness, consciousness, and
stage of consciousness generally like the higher animal forms
modern consciousness developed from subordinated stages of
images, and ideas of what was only a perception. In our
object, and the image caused by the sight causes that in us the
up certain advantages of former stages. Now something remains,
so to speak, of every stage in later times, and we can see such
They are the remainders of a former developmental stage. The
even deeper into the physical body. We have three stages of
subconsciousness and thereby one gets no pure image, a clouded
themselves to him, but are after-images of that which is seen
religious scriptures. Remember once that meaningful passage in
of the human being. This passage wants to show us that the
we want to understand this passage of the Bible correctly, we
a former stage. Therefore, the old-European human being felt in
he was still closer to the plant stage, he had another form of
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVIII: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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marriage of Ceridwen and Hu.
culture has originated in the pre-Christian age.
than somewhere else, the message that the highest spiritual,
and Minnesinger) interweaves three stages of the human soul in
life in the spiritual worlds. These are the three stages of the
place at a certain stage of initiation. He realises that he
in our language: the flower with red petals or the rose, and
He wants to point to higher stages, which revive the vague,
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture I: The Spiritual World and Spiritual Science
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development in the age of Copernicus.
outside world at first is the best: an image, a
on relatively elementary stages, this standing beyond the body,
However, if one wants to draw the conclusions in the age when
beings of an imagery before his soul is taken from the
intermediate stages do almost not exist. With the consciousness
it brings damage if one wants to live without it as it brings
counter-image inside the soul
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture II: Theosophy and Antisophy
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applies to the child in its first age: it can develop no
rather contrary to many souls. In our age where the outer
origin of intelligent thought and language, and the question of
something that must exist understandably in an age where one
rages in such a way normally does not know, why he does it
experience can be expressed in the same language in which the
take care just in these talks that I use the same language for
not the outer language, but the language of
recognise the language with the adversaries of theosophy, which
scruples on existence, any incapability to manage his duties,
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture III: Spiritual Science and Denomination
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now entered into the mature age of human intellectual
different stages, as I have described them in my book
these stages somewhat just for this consideration.
first a completely saturated spiritual imagery. It would be
wrong if anybody regarded this imagery as a manifestation of
the spiritual world; for this imagery, this Imaginative world
that an imagery comes forth from its own laps. This imagery
real spiritual world. Since as this imagery appears one can
One learns to experience this imagery with
rises to the second stage of higher knowledge that one can call
things of the spiritual world. This happens in the stage of
Intuition, the third stage of spiritual knowledge.
life inside; one would like to say, in four stages. So that no
stage is nobler or higher, I want only to say that one can
distinguish four different stages of the soul about the value
of which I state nothing. There we have the stage of the
first stage of the human world experience in the stream of the
One can call the second stage of this world
experience the stage of aesthetic experience, no matter whether
real in the usual sense to the field of fantasy, to an imagery.
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture IV: On Death
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great Max Müller managed to say that all human thoughts
in any human language. Some aversion exists even with the most
cannot think with the reason engaged in the senses. Spiritual
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture V: The Meaning of Immortality of the Human Soul
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thought of Lessing. Lessing could not be discouraged from this
passageway only as the modern spiritual research can show which
find no other expression in the usual language than that one
mirage-like retrospect of the past life lasting some days, and
It may seem now, as if the passage through
misfortunes before reaching the normal age. It is a long shot
misfortunes in a certain age which can provide services to
certain human age is necessary. Great inventors get around to
age by straining their abilities in the extreme. It needs not
struggling in the middle of the age of the arising materialism
earth-life with the passage through the spiritual world. That
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VI: The Evil
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completely become clear how little one manages with that not
beings and to encourage them to use their souls independently.
age and that in this age the biggest desolation must come into
would like to say, the tragedy of materialism, even though he
get the answer if one points to the tragedy of countless human
being which appears like in a physical image with animals on
ages, of materialism and of spiritual science. Perhaps nothing
approach the spiritual age of the future as this consideration
only as a theoretical lack but also as a tragedy of the soul
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VII: The Moral Basis of Human Life
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manage asking: where from do the moral bases of human life
a spiritual imagery around us. I simply tell the facts as they
image life causes us to hate him. What could induce us to hate
mentioned a wide field of many intermediate stages
intermediate stages —
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VIII: Voltaire
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Hence, we can say: since the age of modern
whole nature, as true as the Greek-Latin age, which experienced
in this age of the self-experiencing consciousness soul. Since
Two matters must face him in this age. One
life at the beginning of Voltaire's age to understand the
courage to use its reason. It is contained in the nice
epochs. Voltaire could not get to a pure, noble image of the
figments about nature; whereas the age of the great scientific
age in which the human soul had to strive to maintain itself
compared with former ages in which the human soul could still
age of Enlightenment, to the age of the conception of itself.
above all in the images of the old times a lively consciousness
way as human beings could come to life in the tragedy, in the
age, when the human soul struggled out of the other
around. There she behaves like a flirtatious person of the age
from city to city, from village to village, and when she wants
that Henry III does not win, she manages to seduce the
The fiend, with rage, Christ's meck
the Saint, the ancestor of the kings, to encourage Henry IV,
the tragedy of Voltaire that he must search the connection of
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture IX: Between Death and Rebirth of the Human Being
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of language are coined for the sensory life; and only because I
approximately I will manage with this field. You have to
most images of an outer reality between birth and death. When
can manage easier and orientate ourselves easier in life if we
damage by spiritual science as Copernicus and Galilei damaged
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture X: Homunculus
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This passage is so little understood in
to that is great where it concerns the passage through the
what one can recognise with the usual forces engaged in the
imprisoned them in cages. Homunculus does not do this; he lets
that Homunculus also does not manage here with the
As stage artists,
with scientific problems. Indeed, there he manages to win a big
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture XI: Spiritual Science as a Treasure for Life
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immediate, secret language by which it can understand, what the
immediately what is good for him, what is advantageous to him,
more than the human language
— unmanageable in
has to finally manage to regard something that seems to be
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Title: Human History: Lecture I: The Relation of the Human Being to the Supersensible Worlds
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Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks,
compare with the feeling of courage, of energy, of willpower.
change over to a certain stage of bliss, even of desire. This
are such stages in which one feels something in pain that
that is hostile to him. You get an image of it if you read the
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Title: Human History: Lecture II: Death and Immortality
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physical research of the Middle Ages and earlier times. That
spiritual origin to a spiritual lineage, that means, to
bliss, but also to the highest pains and the deepest tragedy.
the human being becomes weak in old age, so you say that just
sense, we can say if we see the age approaching: thank God,
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Title: Human History: Lecture IV: From Paracelsus to Goethe
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Middle Ages and acquired a certain notoriety through diverse
circumstances. At that day, just a pilgrimage day took place.
I myself also wanted to do a kind of pilgrimage, but not
This was the goal of my pilgrimage at
language, as if they wanted to say anything, as if they could
Paracelsus von Hohenheim died at the age of 48 years. Between
he knew about medical science naturally, only encouraged by the
nature is a uniform, but she speaks in many languages, and just
“single pages” of this book which one reads walking
spreads out with its various pages as the “book of
language than Latin that had become foreign, actually, to the
they regarded only as possible to express in Latin language. He
world, a microcosm, an image of the big world exists. Notabene:
and desires, which exceed a certain measure, for example, rage
experiences it in an age which Paracelsus did not reach in the
as it were from the age on in which Paracelsus died, but a
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Title: Human History: Lecture VII: The Prophet Elijah
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this alliance should be reinforced with the marriage of Ahab
becomes aware, if he envisages his own ego. That supersensible
rage. However, someone has the right concept of Jahveh who also
rumour in our language. The rumour spread that the prophet is
brings the dead son to life again. This gives him courage to
Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age.
But in reality another heritage is meant which he does
Syrians, he was wounded, the blood trickled on his carriage.
When the carriage was washed, the dogs came along and licked
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Title: Human History: Lecture VIII: The Origin of the Human Being
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like a courageous program of research that the proper use of the scientific
existence from higher mammalian forms during the ice age, this
a meditative life if he puts certain images, feelings, and will
at the age of twenty, thirty years et cetera, and his
courage to such a self-experiment. If the human being
existence as a point of passage again to a spirit-filled life
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Title: Human History: Lecture X: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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every age moves such basic questions as on the origin of the
ways of thinking and feeling which prevail in an age in other
which was commensurate to the age or, one can even say, to the
the image of a new life. — It was maybe
one gets an image of the irruption of something quite new, but
given. From this gnostic image, even if we compare it to
image could not become popular. Since someone who brings the
century to his mind admits just like that that such an image
life. If talk is of such an image, most people say, this is an
always also an echo of the image of the Christ Being lived, of
Middle Ages that science only dares to give information about
national gods, engaged to the characteristics of the people
a certain respect our age has come to a point which must change
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Title: Human History: Lecture XI: Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science
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courageous enough to investigating the real effective forces
a certain age? —
Greek-Roman age.
since the Greek-Roman age. The human being had to be educated
age. Not without good reason the Western historical
has managed to break this. Today where one measures everything
begins from the Greek-Roman age on for the inner life of human
up in his soul to get any explanation of the world. Images are
contained in the myths. The strange appears that we find images
again in a kind of images in his soul, says to himself, if I
could not give some indication in what way the images are
by such tremendous images. Since compared with some myths of
the images, for example, of the nymphs et cetera. What worked
age. In the Greek-Roman epoch one felt the impulse that
Greek-Roman age with the possibility of processing the
Even in the language development, we can
the big tragedy at first that his view darkens and he had to
Greek-Roman age. Because still in this strange age the old
Medusa. What did he behold? Chrysaor is the image that the
language that had arisen from the spiritual, but from the not
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Title: Human History: Lecture XII: Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
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researchers of the Middle Ages were Christian, they connected
culture of the Middle Ages that way, and if one sees him then
teaching which the Christian scholars of the Middle Ages
age.
a soul being, and the passage of a star through the universe is
whole Middle Ages through beyond Copernicus; one swore on the
Ages had, so to speak, only for that more talent which one can
We can characterise the age of Copernicus even better with
be true Aristotelians in the Middle Ages, which brought
becomes clear to us everywhere that the age of
important for the characteristic of the age of Copernicus that
one moment on its own terms whose image the world is which then
at least through many ages.
For the age of Copernicus, the
principal documents of this age were still filled with that
Copernican age, with Giordano Bruno, we see this impoverishment
shrunk to the miserable monad in the age of Copernicus. The
There we realise how the ages work how the
The thought had to offer an objective, clear image of the
longer use the thought only as an image of the outer reality,
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Title: Human History: Lecture XIV: The Self-Education of the Human Being
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this age. This is just the being of the ideal for which we
according to his age. Then he has to begin becoming his own
a tip thereby how self-education is to be managed favourably if
the savage does not ask why the sun rises and sets, but accepts
appears as an exemplary image of a being enclosing a higher
personal advantages, but always because the person concerned
engaged with our moods, but can think about our life and our
way that, indeed, truth had to serve to any age for which it
this age has always rejected truth. Hence, spiritual science
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Title: Human History: Lecture XVI: Darwin and the Supersensible Research
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particular within the German research. There the courageous
have done research in another age, it would be also conceivable
This is the peculiar fact that the age,
perfect stages of life, then such a result gets its real
If we see the human being in a later age
which thinks, feels and wants at the age of thirty years and
is why he stands there as just a courageous man who does not
arrived at that stage where it found looking back the sensory
courageous, energetic, and ingenious thinker projects from a
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture I: Spirit and Matter, Life and Death
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felt just from the scientific age what goes forward in the soul
manage that he can really emerge from his body with his
differ in their contents, in their nature from the images that
does not change the nature of the images, but the human being
his imagination. Being awake means arranging the image life by
only an imagery. We accept it in its rough-material way as the
the dream world becomes an imagery to us. From the viewpoint of
consciousness, one manages the pictures of the sensory world
sensory world, the preliminary stage of the spiritual world; he
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture II: Destiny and Soul
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that even Schopenhauer who was rather courageous, otherwise, in
that is apparently chaotic, images follow images which can show
can you do this? You can manage this by thinking through
the human being is dreaming. The dream images do not present
joy, and experiences of deepest tragedy.
experiments by which he manages certain results, you believe
spiritual compared to the image of perfection in the
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture III: Immortality, the Forces of Destiny, and the Course of Life
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senses showed, but that it overcame it courageously. If one
K., 1744-1834) got to mental pictures of destiny in old age,
understand the true language of the eyes and ears.”
Spiritual science wants to speak the true language of the eyes
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture IV: Human Soul and Human Body Considered Scientifically and Spiritual-Scientifically
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different languages and cannot understand each other. Today
imagining counter-images can be found as it were within the
rule, actually? Nothing but the image of movement. I imagine as
language indicates if it speaks of soul phenomena that the
way that the language expresses quite instinctively that the
another mental picture associates with this image “I want
sugar;” but this is only an emotional image that
there in its structures and processes is a wonderful image of
engaged in the outer processes. That is why this coherence
lowest will impulses that still seem to be engaged completely
subordinate will impulses engaged in the nutritional
so-called unconscious because it could not manage with the
no new ice age destroys our culture.”
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture V: The Riddles of Soul and World in the German Cultural Life
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cannot manage with the question of matter if one tries to form
only as an appendage of the brain and nervous system. I have
approach the ether concept from two sides. One will not manage
after-image of that inner corporeality which throws it into the
However, one does not manage it that is the lack of this
has turned out up to now that the spiritual-scientific images
act originates as the morbid counter-image of hallucination
material world and imagination, they do not manage at the other
to put oneself into the spirit of past ages,
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VI: Life, Death, and Immortality in the Universe
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envisages the ways of scientific research in more concrete,
scientific age. Thus, it happened that Brentano, after he had
to be described in our language. I can only say thst everybody
predominant thinking of their age gives. He explains very
wittily how in the age of Newton where everything was full of
purely mechanical laws in the age in which, so to speak,
out, after he has proved this of the Newtonian age.”
while he looks at the preceding age: there one has taken up
contemporary of the Darwinian age as the human beings were
to know our age, one has to get to know with which unrealistic
(Remark: Steiner reads out the same passage that he had
sense of these mental pictures and had the courage to pronounce
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VII: The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul
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“Strong feelings or even affects, like fear and rage,
human being wakes from the dream consciousness, he can manage
one not pass the adventure of reason courageously if one has
from the mere imagery of dreams. Out from the usual awake
images that are not taken from the sensory world, but from a
scientific age.
interesting sentence on page 132: “We do not have more
in his rage that the others are frantic.
old age that he preferred to know that there is a hell than to
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture I: The Nature of Spiritual Science and Its Significance for the Present
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Großen Fragen des Daseins.
being through the different ages, through childhood, youth, and
however, through the stages of existence that one cannot regard
this soul life can still ascend to a stage, where his
development of humanity not only that Goethe lived in an age
a subordinated stage for the animal realm,
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture V: The Nature of Sleep
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Großen Fragen des Daseins.
that he creates order in his whole image life from his
could have such a splitting of their image life in different
consciousness, and the ego loses itself to the images. Then the
things by heart, manages this much easier if he sleeps on them,
Latin suddenly at his hour of death, a language that he had
certain times images appear with him, which were not so
waking we have round ourselves our world of images surging up
manage with the whole life of sleep if we do not get clear
asleep to waking up. If we think different, we cannot manage it
If one sees images appearing with a human being that he has not
something else in the human being than the images of the
that she is engaged for the second time and experiences all
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VII: How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Spiritual World?
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Großen Fragen des Daseins.
of our age concerning the spiritual world. For I had a long
remember a passage in Grimm's Lectures on Goethe which
would like to quote a passage at the starting point of our
passage from Herman Grimm's lectures on Goethe that shows what
was necessary to me to point to such a passage because it
sparked as images in us. Consider what has come in with the
preliminary stage: doing everything that strengthens our
one does not let this representation be an abstract image, it
picture is only valid if it is an effigy of an outer image,
and, nevertheless, an image of the rose cross has no outer
counter-image! — However, it does not matter that the
image by which we train our soul is an effigy of an outer
reality, but that the image wakes forces for our soul and
the spiritual world in his soul with particular images, with a
arrives at that stage where it must say to itself, now in me
images rise which face me as really as trees and rocks, rivers
world to regard a certain stage of the soul life solely as
certain passage very clearly speaking about the sense
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VIII: Predisposition, Talent and Education of the Human Being
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Großen Fragen des Daseins.
faculty of speech, the memory of certain linguistic images is
particular tasks, particular qualities at a certain age, He may
courage, as bravery or cowardice, or also as fear and fear of
courageous et cetera. If we consider the human being not in the
more suited to a coward than to a courageous human being, we
imagination, ingenuity are also connected as heritage from the
encourage the child to imitate what one sets an example of that
the end of this age to write newspaper articles, which are
to keep away abstractions up to the characterised age and to
abstractions, even with the teaching of languages. Against it,
big disadvantage. The important is that we can intervene in the
This also applies to the language. One learns a language best
this language grammatically, because there one learns with that
and no passage of time nor any power can break into bits
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XIV: Moses
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Großen Fragen des Daseins.
representation what is meant at the single passages with the
Bible now and again. If one envisages, for example, the view of
already envisage considering Hermes, Buddha, and Zarathustra.
priestly sage is shown in such a way that he meets the seven
clairvoyant forces, which the Egyptian priest sages and the
clairvoyant documents talk. For Moses speaks a new language,
for example, with the passage through the Red Sea. A wonderful
passage of the Israelites through the sea and the drowning of
tragedy in the Book of Job.
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XV: What Has Astronomy to Say about the Origin of the World?
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Großen Fragen des Daseins.
observations or by courageous speculations in the course of the
could perceive nothing of mental counter-images in these
stages how, so to speak, a planet goes through developmental
stages. There our earth is led back to a former planetary
stage, this stage to an earlier one, so far, as one can trace
back it, up to a stage, which is called “Old
of the earth embodiment — the Vulcan stage — is in
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture I: Haeckel, the Riddles of the World and Theosophy
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short time, and it was translated into many languages. Seldom
Haeckel's working. With tremendous courage, this man has fought
courageous advance with the investigation of these questions,
materialistic education the age of Enlightenment. The human
materialistic courageous way of thinking, Darwinism received
explanations of Du Bois-Reymond. A particular passage is in
knowledge of nature. We are led to this important passage and
meaning. The language of the mysteries expresses this with the
else than the backward stages through which he developed his
certain stage when they separated from the human pedigree. They
atrophied, degenerated forms which have maintained those stages
Atoms are even in the wooden block. Haeckel says in a passage,
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture II: Our International Situation. War, Peace and Spiritual Science
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to study the life of barbaric savage tribes. One believed to be
situation in such a way that we envisage its previous
waged war with his hosts, from waging war today with human
on the physical plane. Hence, it will lead him on the stages of
saying that envisages such a care. However, Christianity also
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture III: Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Soul and Spirit of the Human Being
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allowed to engage your attention to finer distinctions in the
question arises: could not be joy and pain, rage and passion
world. One normally speaks from the immediate view. Envisage,
human being. Then this marriage of the human soul with the
spirit. Consider the human being on certain former stages of
stage is if he comes out of joy and sorrow and develops
images which disappear again. Something revives that is hidden
stage. He has to climb up this ladder with his own strength of
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VI: The Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Human Races
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races, and this passage just signifies a further development of
experienced stages in the former times in which he satisfied
longer prove the earliest developmental stages of the human
languages, all these matters point the naturalist to the fact
thinking. These human beings had memory and language at that
language was also different from ours. I will come back to this
the air, if the trees rustled. This was the language of nature.
was a human being with whom language and memory were not yet
developed. The language began only in the later Lemuria.
are the remains of that old Lemurian age. In addition, those
If we summarise these three stages, we have them in the
human being who develops memory and language and then we have
former stages of existence. The primitive stage does not
manifold stages side by side. Every progressive part leaves
behind as it were the stages of development like memories. That
certain animal forms behind on even former stages which are
Looking at the animals, we can say that they show the stages of
had to develop to lower stages, they became decadent, and they
conditions of rain and sunshine to our advantage, the human
being would never have been able to develop to the stage on
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VII: The Core of Wisdom in the Religions
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example, the so-called savages of Africa or the barbarians who
Middle Ages.
the big brotherhood of the most advanced sages who have
their language and according to their characters.
from which central site the great sages came who went to the
south and the west, and brought the great messages to humanity.
the great founders of a religion who brought the first messages
Buddhas who brought their messages to the single members of the
says, what is around me today is a stage, which will be
the divine original source, in particular in the Atlantean age.
The human being today strives for forming thoughts and images
prehistoric human being formed symbolic images, which appeared
developmental stage of the intellectual and rational ideation,
else than the means, than the ways taught by the great sages to
being. If the human being lives quietly, other images appear in
necessary stage on which we stand today. As true and inevitable
would also attain this stage once.
the message of these supersensible worlds to humanity. This
soul life. From every next stage, which extends northbound then
Whereas the Taoist human being of the Atlantean age felt his
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VIII: Fraternity and the Struggle for Existence
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There are many among our fellow men who are virtually eager for
the strong ones and encourage them in the struggle for
village in which the human beings lived together had a common
as it is distinct in the old villages, in the old conditions
middle of the Middle Ages a big liberation movement going
in the middle of the Middle Ages. Those human beings who could
Everywhere in the free cities of the Middle Ages, the trade in
needed. If we look at the wages of the past taking into account
as his ideal. In those days, in the middle of the Middle Ages,
been good so in the Middle Ages. In addition, the relation of
more developing in the last century, while in the Middle Ages
the Middle Ages to show how the practice became so strong just
our materialistic age, one hardly believes that, but in the
because they envisage the forces of life. Nobody doubts that
Thus, we may wage the struggle for existence with hesitating
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture IX: Inner Development
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that this cannot be different, that just the great advantages
tutelage of a master, a guru. If he has found him, he must use
heart, then you recognise how disadvantageously the passion
next stage of the spiritual life is that where we grasp truth
stage the material knowledge where the object must be there.
The other stage is the imaginative knowledge. One develops this
into the inner soul life. A big percentage of modern humanity
maybe only a few are able. However, this should not discourage
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture X: Christmas as Symbol of the Sun's Victory
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the old sages expressed in the Christmas.
languages — the symbol of a festival of confidence, of
all bodily life on our earth had almost only reached the stage
While the sages and their followers looked at the sun, they
these sages in its whole glory. The Christian worldview also
universe, Chrestós, and the most elated sages of the East
anything of the universal, then he has created an image of that
relationship of this human future with the idea, the image of
Even our German mystics of the Middle Ages felt this, while
chaotic stage which humanity experiences today. These leading
stage where their manifestations of life sound harmoniously
higher stage of the unity of feeling is attained which is
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elementary book, the following age as a kind of youth from
beings, who developed the stages of existence faster to be able
great persons, these personalities who have arrived at a stage
language, and in his words, the spiritual world sounded which
in the spiritual world, and he spoke another language. He was
one of those who talk the language of the gods, as one said, he
truth, historical reality on the big stage of life. One must
news, the Gospels, is not the wise language of Jesus. They are
In the middle of the Middle Ages, the material victory of
world. Then we can also hear that language again, which spoke
shelters” where a pupil attains the second stage of
Middle Ages already indicated this. You find it expressed by
exist, it manages this. Hence, it has to understand
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to assess the question of the origin of language, how the
whether we have strength, courage and assurance in life,
sage who approaches these matters with the biggest doubt at
which became more perfect bit by bit. The imperfect savage with
of our soul. On the other hand, compare the soul of an average
Darwin wanted once to make clear to a savage who was still a
is bad. — The savage looked at him peculiarly and said,
through such stages and advanced to our level through many
that stage is attained on which we are able to ascend to a
thoughts and language are only higher forms of that which we
development in the spiritual realm as the higher counter-image
the savage where this triad also exists on a low level, up to
can completely get to know the passage through the repeated
different languages. Now we want to realise what one calls
sum of his desires and passions. With the savage, on the first
stage of incarnation, atman, buddhi, manas have worked a little
savage because his astral body is no longer animal. Then the
undeveloped soul appears in the savage; you can perceive this
strength, courage, and certainty. Not only one tells something
And no passage of time nor any can break into bits
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIII: Lucifer
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fateful. In the old Indian religions. One called the sages, the
the Christian mysteries of the Middle Ages we speak that the
stages which he has to finish today. They were that — if
a certain completion. However, as well as on the stages of our
superstition, to speak of developmental stages of such
speaking of developmental stages of the human being. The gods
its self, but it strives for the high stages of perfection,
is that way in the present stage of development. As well as the
mental that appeared as a higher stage of the physical power in
higher stage something clearer appears, namely knowledge.
stage was remelted to the mental stage, the principle of mere
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senses, because they have accomplished the stages of
in the former stages of existence, is already over some
recollections of former stages of existence. However, the
the ear is on the lower developmental stages! All higher organs
of language in this drama, whose translation you can receive
philosopher), wrote his first work about the Greek tragedy and
that he wanted to show how this Greek tragedy came into being
of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1869).
that an image was created, a quiet, dreamlike image of the
created afterward as an image of the Dionysian art. It is the
image, the notion of something that lived in old Greece.
a shadowy image of the forces represented once by the human
not bring human figures on the stage, but that he needed
it, Richard Wagner's figures, put down on the stage, had also
appears as an after-image of the descent, the suffering and
being. Hence, on every stage the emancipation of the human
meets an old priest there, one of the sages of the unknown god.
passage through knowledge and suffering, with the passage
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XV: Germanic and Indian Secret Doctrines
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divine natures have gone through the stages in bygone times,
Allow me now to look at the different images of the Germanic
I do not experience it as a clear image, but as an obscurely
images of the gods are taken from them. Now you remember that I
through the stages which humanity has to go through only
courage and presence of mind do not overcome that. Those are
human being goes through development. He overcomes a stage at
before me now. In all initiations, one calls this stage
which he is nailed. If he has overcome this stage, he ascends
through a third stage.
has to go through this stage in the different religions most
three stages of initiation are shown to us. One tells us first
third stage is that where one tells us — and this is
the images that appear like obscure recollections, but not in
sages, who knew what I have told at the beginning of the talk.
warlike people, the passage through the gate of death and the
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVI: German Theosophists at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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phenomena. With it, blind speculation is encouraged — and
definitely out of a courageous attitude was Johann Gottlieb
itself in the language. If one is also a flat materialist,
perpetual development, and every age has other tasks. That
another age. One faces such a spirit in this way. This was
they are is the language. However, more than the expression
wants to go through the German preliminary stage of theosophy.
Schelling was also an eager teacher at the Jena University
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVII: Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods
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highest of all with the usual language — but not yet
to understand the language of the birds; he is able to do a
with her, he who has managed to seize the treasure of the
still belonged to the whole village community. Those who sat on
days; they were priest sages who combined bravery and wisdom in
attainment of this higher consciousness of the priest sages is
shown in the fact that Siegfried, who was already engaged with
who is no longer a priest sage who has cast off the one side,
killing the dragon, as a being who understands the language of
shadowy images, the artist works in the creating. It is more a
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVIII: Parzival and Lohengrin
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in the first third of the Middle Ages with the renewal of which
how it lived in the Middle Ages, lived in Wolfram von
the spiritual perception in the middle of the Middle Ages.
What are these? In the Middle Ages one imagined the Round Table
goes out for that which existed in the Middle Ages before the
Persia the priest sages were as rulers. They were the rulers.
the priest sages. Everything public, everything common was
lord of these sages who formed a spiritual centre, a kind of
being can ascend the path of knowledge up to those stages where
Middle Ages. From this, the strands went out which controlled
be recognised. It is hard to recognise a sage within his time.
Middle Ages had their great ideas in the same time in which
particular in the Middle Ages — is only in the earliest
stages. To develop this disposition of the divine spark more
soul once if it should really become ripe for the last stages
go through who still has to struggle through to the stages of
and that one distinguishes there three stages. If anybody has
ripe to get the guru, the spiritual leader. The first stage of
brother or my brother-in-law any advantage? No! With it, I say
light shines to him is on the second stage of the path of
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beverages, and meat. Thus, they prepare themselves to get an
perceive, but from the inside images rose in him: the old
in vague, twilit astral vision and took his images of the gods
to a higher stage: what was extinguished because of the
passage through the gate of death. He encloses those
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XX: Inner Development
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such an age like ours, nervousness also prevails. Nervousness
him. Then he goes through different stages of learning and must
the second stage. He has to go through the illusion of the
an inner life. There are three stages of meditation. It can be
stages concerning higher development. Hence, only a teacher can
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of the end of the Middle Ages. However, the approach of our
us in this time of the ending Middle Ages, the emerging
they travel around the world in carriages and apart from the
were quite different. Even modern physics looks back at an age
expresses it in his superb language. If the human being sleeps,
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XXII: Jacob Boehme
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about Jacob Boehme that he showed his view in images which are
into Dutch and other languages. Jacob Boehme's destiny and
language, compared with it, our modern language appears grey
caused. If the age comes to an end, which has the task of the
Bruno also belonged to the same age to which Jacob Boehme
Jacob Boehme appeared just in that age, and his works are like
arranges all that for the world in the dawn of an age that
introduces the materialistic epoch. When the materialistic age
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture I: The Mission of Occult Science in Our Time
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things belongs to a childish, naive age of the human
cognitive faculties are at the age of 25, 36, sixty or even
numerous works, which deal on thousands of pages with it. They
disadvantage. This also does not speak against the validity of
However, just that discouraged many people from theosophy and
hollowed out internally, and that the age of materialism is the
age of nervousness and lacking concentration. These states
At a passage, he
age.
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture II: Natural Science Facing a Crucial Decision
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and on a higher stage even acting. Briefly, spiritual science
these phenomena are nothing but the assemblage of molecules.
courageous ones said: Indeed, if the real is the atoms in
courageous venture when on the Lübeck meeting of
tragedy, the impossible. The spiritual researcher recognises
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture III: The Knowledge of Soul and Spirit
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fields had the courage to pronounce what is, so to speak, only
your attention to the fact that there is in our entire language
us, the uneducated savage and the high developed human being.
compare the savage who follows any desire, any passion with a
on his astral body from his ego. The uneducated savage has
differ from the savage? In the savage, everything happens
hot-tempered contrary child at the age of eight years, you are
his skin before. Thus, the human being changes into that stage
savage, the soul is only able to take up a droplet of the
pilgrimage.
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture IV: Initiation
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that the human being can ascend to higher and higher stages.
on a higher stage — can be compared to the organ of the
in our age. If we go back to the ancient Indian, Chaldean,
up then to the Middle Ages, to the 16th, 17th centuries and
of the soul, courage, perseverance and energy at the border. If
developmental stages than the nonprofessional believes it.
and higher stages begin up to that of an initiate in the true
finishes certain stages of initiation cannot be wrested from
and stages of development. One can compare that feeling on a
and will. This is the level of the average human being. All
thinking is still the first stage of development if it is a
body on higher developmental stages while retaining his current
higher stages. What the teacher put before the pupil was a
humanity comes again to this stage once when the human beings
other future stages of humanity. If we visualise that, we
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VI: The So-Called Dangers of Initiation
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would suffer serious damage of their nervous systems. However,
expensive postage. The impractical person was Rowland Hill
that one has an advantage introducing this way of paying postage
say. To a minor degree that applies to a big percentage of the
courageously if he knows that an immortal everlasting core is
all that with free, courageous eye. It teaches him to become
and occult science give simply into the usual trivial language.
a developmental stage to seize his self, so that he makes it as
difficult in our time to make a good poem; culture and language
circles and do not appear before an age of 35 years to the
advanced age. However, you do not need any maturity to talk in
that who represents the immature damages himself more than the
science. He knows that it does not cause damage that it does
not bring dangers, but that it uncovers damages and points to
age:
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What spiritual science offers shall enable us to act and manage
counter-image of egoism. In it, the individual goes beyond
acquired on former stages he shows as effect of his ego now. As
allowed to form it in our own image under constraint, but we
spiritual beings create constructing the universe for ages and
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VIII: The Soul of the Animal in the Light of Spiritual Science
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stage behind us: the knowledge of the real nature, the inner
Other ages, which thought
engages our interest in the same way as the entire animal
in the human development, or look at the today's savages who
have stopped on a low stage of development: do we not see
stopped on the old stage. If we go back to the monkey, we must
stages only. Later on, the human group-soul was individualised,
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XI: Occupation and Earnings
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appropriate special concepts for the most different stages of
feel to be destined to manage life.
only interest in the product is the acquisition, the wage. The
tragedy of the industrial era concerning occupation and
This encouraged him to
eager to work, we can produce by our occupation in the world.
wage and work have become one, have coincided. Our
that our work is not subject to wage and earnings but is made
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ice ages — it assumes four of these immense changes of the face
forces of attraction and repulsion as the earthly images of
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XIII: Outset and End of the Earth
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developmental stage where no higher senses, no “spirit
higher stage, they develop more ice from the water. Always ice
stages form back on earth, while other lumps transform more and
the ice granules on an early stage, while they separate from
developed to higher stages. Higher animals precipitated again
his external physical expression an image of the spiritual
the stages of the becoming of the big ice lump, all beings that
entire animal realm and plant realm, the backward stages of the
material gradually from himself. On every stage subordinated
backward beings on the preliminary stages, which continued
imperfect stage of the human being as it were, which represent
attains a much higher stage in the future. This organ is the
in this hall that penetrate you. What is language? It is an
words, but also denser matter as image of that what lives in
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envisage the origin of both ideas that soon force themselves on
each other. If we see how in a strange mental image the hating,
on earth, partly to encourage them by the fear of the hell to
manage with the healthy logic.
talks; because of the present developmental stage of the human
on one page, but in such a way that a human being could rebuild
life. Each life constitutes something like a page in the big
page. They are attached to our being. We take such a fruit from
when they have developed beyond this stage.
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abstruse to disparage the great service even in the slightest
message has not yet come to a big part of humanity, above all
stages of existence, and what he has gone through in the former
Would the organs of the human being be on a less perfect stage
— imagine the human auditory organ on an imperfect stage — what
remove everything that is given by the age, by the place, and
preliminary stage of it is that which the artist feels in his
get involved in these higher worlds. Our age is tired of the
consideration of the supersensible world, and, hence, this age
believers of such an opinion in this age. Even if we also
realise which big and immense progress our age has performed
A passage follows that
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pain and privation by rising from the lowest stage up to that of
by a certain stage of Christian Initiation which is called “the
pain is only the transition to the stage in which the forces of knowledge

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 1
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while he is engaged in thinking, on the one hand to external reality
external phenomena. When we are engaged in real thinking then we have
language.
means that instead of clothing it in images obtained through living
no more than mental images reflecting the physical world. What in African
describing the letters page by page. An understanding of “Faust”
The present age is as yet
what is really happening in the world. The present age has to an unprecedented
A link of real significance is forged thereby. If I manage to some extent
of the fruits of their work. Our age will thereby receive, at least
has remained for so long in a stage of infancy. It must be said though
Healing will come to our age when the thoughts and ideas that are applied
war against the spirit is waged in our time. It is a war which, under
age as such, only of drawing attention to facts.
especially in our age, of the two tendencies in man. We see that the
that our age cannot be understood without spiritual knowledge. Human

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 2
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the different stages of organization, in various organisms, shows that
they lead to great tragedies in life.
at a further stage through centralization. At this stage the function
of cells and sends messages accordingly to the stomach, and so on.
The courage shown today
life. In this respect modern man is far from courageous. He draws back
the moment the very first stage of spiritual perception has been attained.
At the stage of imaginative perception atoms reveal what they truly
attempt to build up a world picture. Here again the very first stage
corresponds to the days of a person's life, if he lives to the age of

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 3
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mirror images but not themselves. That which does the seeing cannot
concept it is transposed into an earthly reality. Certain passages in
from Ahriman. They must be met with courage. The reason people do not
enter courageously into the conflict between Christ and Ahriman. A comprehensive
ages and the healing resulted in the formation of the eyes; they came
only be reached by courageously facing the conflict that plays itself

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 4
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age, leaving behind an important and necessary life task.
demand the necessity of karma; demand it with all their inner courage
character. At the age of seven she, with great courage, saved her older
age they are often shattered. In recent lectures I have described deeper
be clear that what we call human courage, which we see today in such
not explain everything; faith must come to its aid. But the courage
courage is greatly lacking.
impulses. Earlier, in the Middle Ages, people were exhorted to have
points to the much quoted expression that in the Middle Ages science
truth. He rejects what in the age of enlightenment had been seen as
the reader come upon any passage which deviates from the fundamental

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 5
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Fortlage who, up to the sixties
Fortlage said, in (1869),
us all of a sudden. In other words Fortlage sees the moment of death
town. I could not avoid the idea that this man would be perfect as manager
compare with the writer's image of someone who spoke about self-sacrifice
and living solely for others? He says: “The image I had formed
writer manages to appear high-minded and worldly while remaining a thoroughly
of the present age. The individual who sets out on this path will develop
in the age that a way out can be found only through a real understanding
appropriate to our age in no other way than through an ever-deeper understanding
from real knowledge of the present age. And it is not biased propaganda

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 6
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the way people interpret this reality. We live in an age when human
However, it would be wrong to think that because our age is materialistic,
see is what is so to speak "on the agenda." When one looks
morality is not on the agenda.” — It could be said that
is also one that says: But gentlemen, the spirit is not on the agenda.
It is manifestly not on the agenda when things of importance are debated.
the spirit is present, only it is not put on the agenda when human affairs
world than they do in a materialistic age like ours. Let us look at
the agenda.”
writings of his had been translated into other languages and much was

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 7
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investigation. Looking back into earlier ages we recognize that man
the Scholastics of the Middle Ages. They go out of their way to demonstrate
is that at the time of Thomism, when a philosopher was engaged in the
essential characteristic of our materialistic age is that only what
“Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age.”
I have derived the various stages of mankind's evolution, not from reality,
the essentially ahrimanic age begins only after Luther. Though people
over from an earlier evolutionary stage could not be effective in later
made for our own epoch at the time of the Great Luther. Our age looks

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 8
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world. All the deprivation a materialistic age would inflict upon the
picture let us for a moment compare a modern man of average education
at those who during those centuries were engaged in science, one comes
In that earlier age it was part of man's knowledge that spiritual forces
We must envisage Luther
only a negative submission to the devil could be envisaged. Goethe,
organic causes, agitation, rage or other uncontrolled behaviour. Goethe's
they are based on such superficial views. This war is in reality waged

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stage. There are also others who have remarked on this discord which
all over the globe to face openly and courageously the things that are
what exactly takes place in the human being when he is engaged in intellectual
appropriate mental pictures. This activity engages parts of man's being
penetrate to spiritual reality. Our age that prides itself in its thinking
during our materialistic age, namely, an inner feeling of responsibility.
fit the changed conditions. Our age demands new concepts, new mental
courage to recognize that there is a direct connection between the terrible
of thing I have indicated. If people in one age one-sidedly cultivate
in the following age, although the connection is not recognized, will
who managed the society saying: I would like such and such but not for
For every stage climbed a certain number of days in purgatory were remitted,

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the snowstorms rage outside, when the darkness descends
is a beautiful folk-poem in the old Norwegian language, a
Down from the North in savage troops,
Ages, about the middle of that period, were able to
first stages of initiation, where we are told that so and
possesses in its national language many things which

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture I
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physical body, with the etheric body which is only one stage higher,
back on one's life in a certain way, and above all to envisage
kernel of being, something is required for which people in our age
has lived to a great age, so that his talent has spent itself —
subjects he did well, he generally managed to get through his classes
is no easier for a man to learn a language even if in his preceding
language; otherwise our school-boys would not find it so difficult to
have lived in the regions where these were the languages of ordinary
who have a special faculty for learning languages in one incarnation
had less talent for languages; these latter will tend to form
accounted external. For instance, language to-day is no longer part
of man's inner being. We may love a language for the sake of
incarnation. Quite irrespective of their pursuits in this age, they

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture II
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such a picture, built up by ourselves, resemble an image we have
up such an image from memory in the ordinary way, it generally
remains simply an image, but when we practise the exercises of which
of the soul, and less with images. We feel a particular relationship
memory-images. If we repeat this process over and over again, we
and clearer, just as a memory-image does when one starts to recall it
as “image-memory,” but the faculty of remembrance now in
image-memory. Think how a specially painful event that perhaps
blotted out of the memory-image. There are, of course different
faculty of remembrance is an image-memory, whereas the feelings that
between the image that arises in the memory, and what has remained of
between the memory-image and the original feelings and will-impulses
to speak some particular language in a given incarnation; for while
many people in the present age. It is not that they do not happen,

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture V
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age. Such preparation can be acquired only through the life and
necessary for our age, and because what is the most essential at any
their greatest advantage to launch their fiercest attacks at times
essential into our age, something that is longed for by the present
in our age — be pledged to any particular tenets. It would be
of a man of the modern age to Anthroposophy is characterised by the
age is in reality the outcome of the view that life on the earth is
blood-relations. It is frequently the case that a marriage partner
chosen by us in a former life at an age when we were more conscious
the right vantage-point. He will always arrive at a point of view
of the different ages
spiritual development of the present age . . .
reincarnation and karma. It means that just as an age was once ready
to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 1: Zarathustra
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design of such nature that each age and each epoch presents in
they are preserved for us, seem so strange to our present age, we
future yet other stages will be reached in which the conscious
present age.
a conscious condition belonging to a by-gone age in the grey and
in reality they lived in a life of imagery. The visions which
conditions; such as intellectuality and logic. When this stage in
historical record. Zarathustra lived in that same remote age, and
consciousness in that dim and distant age.
all things found expression in imagery, and the images gave rise
The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music,
desires, against the delusive images suggested by possible
image of the outer universe.
In this present age it is most difficult to make
conveying a message from the Spirit-World. Hence, arose an art of
reveal his message to the world, should (in the language of
the passage of the sun across the constellations of the Zodiac is
considered in this connection. First, when the passage of the sun
through which we might picture the passage of Angra Mainyus —
in our present age, but transformed into material terms, that
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 2: Hermes
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feelings which came over him, while engaged in astronomical
intent of my message be disclosed.’
the ancients as a whole. We are told that an Egyptian sage once
traditions nor doctrines grey with age.’ We first learn
age‘, when the methods of Spiritual Science are employed in
form of an attenuated heritage in the picture world of our
found expression in imagery although often of a somewhat subdued
many transitionary stages between that of the consciousness of
only the lowest stages of supersensible activity could be
they had power to recall those by-gone times in the Golden Age of
perceptions. There is a doctrine grey with age, still preserved
this doctrine to which the sage referred when he spoke to Solon.)
prevalent among exalted Egyptian sages, and because his followers
place did all these strange ideas occupy in the image world of
ages. Man’s human state was preceded by another and more
has been thus engaged in primary contemplation, we then turn our
something in the nature of a written language, which could
golden age — to the holy past; now they are overcome by those
necessary preparatory stages have been completed, he comes to
Nature, and the blood is the physical agent of the Ego, just as
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 3: Buddha
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of universal development and progress in the Middle Ages. This
directed towards the disparagement of our apparently inevitably
a species of atavistic heritage – of an old clairvoyance,
beings in by-gone ages; and this spiritual component we must now
unexpectedly from time to time, during the passing of the ages.
to alternate in this fashion throughout the ages, every descent
Again, he saw an aged person, tottering and weary; and he
understood that old age creeps in upon the freshness of
expressed in sickness, old age, and death. Verily, it cannot be
vantage-point. But when he came forth from the King’s
expression in old age, disease and death. It was at this time of
sought was an element through the agency of which the destructive
forces of old age, sickness and death become commingled with
language can portray. It is not a ‘Nihility‘, it is
subsequently the case; as is seen in the grand and lofty imagery
page after page, and review each life in turn that is passed, I
this kind leads on to that stage of growth and progress when man
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certain passage occurring in one part of the Bible owed its
origin to a different current of tradition to that of a passage
development, greater enlightenment, a more advanced stage of
of certain passages which occur in the graphic delineation of
expression in mythical imagery.
active in some later civilization because, like a fresh page, or
spheres he must pass through certain stages of soul development,
manner that the imperishable message which Moses was destined to
made of his grief and distress over the bondage of his people in
which are conceived as ever active upon the stage of
persist, and are ever active in the scenes staged in the theatre
the greatest reserve, for in our present age mankind has no
the records are expressed — for Moses spoke a new language. He
continue on throughout all coming ages.
is closely related to all external physical agents. It is clear
of an East Wind and ebbtide together with a channel-like passage,
cannot now make the passage.’ But that innate gift of
unsuited to the new age it was the forerunner of
stage of the journey must be left to those who were destined to
intellection was destined to live on throughout the ages yet to
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 5: Elijah
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strengthened by the marriage of Ahab with Jezebel, a daughter of
be more easily understood. We are looking back into an age when
stage of childhood or early youth.
by-gone age will find it in no way fanciful or
affected. In the initial stage there is an inner progressive
development of the soul is accomplished through different stages.
stage has been reached, then follow certain definite signs which
the soul’s actual growth and unfoldment. Pictorial images
These images, taken alone, have not necessarily much connection
soul there arose an image of God Himself, in that form and manner
character; for an image of that God who dwelt within his soul
a more advanced stage of development in relation to the
wholly new concept of God’s image, then must thou change
level and achieved a more advanced stage of
to life. Then did he gain more courage to stimulate and quicken
threatening message to Elijah-Naboth, because in virtue
passage in the Bible (I Kings, xxi, 4), where it is written:
step by step, to a stage where he would first feel himself
ground before him.’ This passage points to the fact that
this passage), namely: — ‘I will do unto
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 6: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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every age, including the present period, the general conceptions
in, and dependent upon the accepted concepts of some prior age.
Already in the Middle Ages we note, that Science
that in the Middle Ages, questions concerning the origin and
fact, does all that is written in these aged chronicles become of
agency of spiritual beings. If with this concept we compare the
intensified. When a certain stage was reached the soul left the
olden times and the religious teachings of an earlier age, we
that by-gone age, that man’s soul unfolded and was
man’s uttermost understanding. Hence, that great message
significance of the above passage as in any way conflicting with
necessary. Both natural science and history have come to a stage
as in a photographic image and conjures forth a vision of the
action, and apprehension of the latter comes through the agency
agency of the mysteries, and not as is now the case, through a
significance of Goethe’s fuller message
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Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture IX
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on, and may kind of interpretation at this stage might
Temptation took its course in three stages. First there
important stage of the further development of the Christ
Parsifal's mother. Then came a page carrying a lance from
stage was to be reached; therefore he had learned nothing
the Mystery of Golgotha! But in that age the disciple was
decline and leads to the materialism of the present age.
In our age, by far the greater part of external culture
respectable age of twenty-five and feel absolutely mature
disciple at Sais to gaze upon the image of the soul of
Fourth post-Atlantean age, when the mystery of Golgotha
gazing at the image of Isis and striving to fathom the
recognised the mystery. In the age after the Mystery of
before the Mystery of Golgotha from the age that
wanted merely to indicate how important it is in this age

Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture X
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stages. The “I”, however, cannot unfold as an
Ancient Hebrew culture represented a definite stage, in
Being who had remained at a backward stage during the Old
the language of those days many words had more than one
this passage? Nothing else than that 14 years before
paramount importance for our age. At the time when the
this later age it came to them in the form in which it
age after the Mystery of Golgotha when to the
living relationship with Christ, just as in the age of

Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture XI
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Ego of Zarathustra. The age of the two boys was
— albeit in a language unintelligible to everyone
familiar with imagery often used for the portrayal of
Spirit-Beings, Greek culture preserved the shadow-images
reached the stage of Egohood, of
continued right on into the Middle Ages. — But the
Mystery of Golgotha comes down as it were by stages, from
have before us an image of what we ourselves were in
earthly life. And this image tells us: ‘If your

Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 1: The Immortality of the I
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in our age these things have been forgotten. They will come to the fore
I think in our age we have to take these
the renewal of spirituality under the conditions of the present age.
tasks of our age. In this connection, let me read you a few sentences
for this terrible tragedy, it is because throughout all of Europe,
and suffrage they would gain real participation in government and
poets, artists groom horses, professors tend sheep. Theater managers
was born in the age of impressionism.
socialist standpoint. I think it is out of print now. It has many pages
of social democratic speeches that cannot be produced on stage. Then
and a nationalist, Bahr had reached the age when men in Austria are
interesting phenomenon! But just imagine: Bahr has now reached the age
it was hoary with age and who was completely unable to keep pace with
mind will surely not be satisfied to have reached the ripe age of fifty
Here afterimage, memory, creative
clergyman who was able to call forth an image in his imagination that
the very first stage of being moved in the etheric body. Hermann Bahr
in our age to come to anything spiritual. Just think of it: a man who
he himself admits at the age of fifty how happy he is finally to understand
our age. That somebody like Hermann Bahr needs expressionism to realize
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of the passage of the sun through the twelve constellations of the zodiac,
really exists out there in the cosmos in the sun's passage through the
around the earth. Thus, the passage of each nerve fiber through the
an image of the whole starry firmament. And the forces that flow outside
In our age people have difficulties finding
is why I have shown you in several lectures how far our age is from
Immanuel Hermann Fichte and a few others for our age.
spiritual truths stream into our present age.
worked with images like this. It remains to be seen whether this unique
monstrosity. This is an outrageous utterance of a serious man of mature
age. I believe it will be good if you will take into your souls what

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historians. In our age it is impossible to give an entirely comprehensive
age.
I am not telling you this to assuage in a
an age when the occult knowledge from the spiritual world must be given
passage through these lower signs is hidden from outer light. It is
dimensions of space. If these canals are damaged, we get dizzy; we lose
that we have the image of the two pillars I mentioned handed down to
historical expression in our age. It too represents one-sidedness. We
in symbols that have been preserved. Our age is called upon to understand
day become reality in various stages has been expressed symbolically
at the stage of mere groping toward this reality. In one of our recent
is seeking now — at the age of fifty-three and after having written
Remember, I read you the passage in question, “And so he scoured
is really one of the urgently seeking people of the present age? Interestingly
old age before they understand anything spiritual, and then they have
of a gentleman such as the canon once a year. The eager conversation
on every page how much of a Catholic Goethe was.” Yes, well, the
was, perhaps unknowingly and in any case without the courage of
often written in the margin the passages from the Council of Trent
is a necessity of our age and a very clear and urgent one at that. And
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phase of evolution, and by now it has undergone long ages of earth evolution,
age. When an artist achieves such a creation, spiritual scientists will
a consumptive model, namely, Simonetta, who died at the age of twenty-three.
which some people have half a mind to reinstate in this day and age.
age, and spiritual scientists have to take it into account because it
this image. First, we have a little child playing with a doll, but this
age of fifty Hermann Bahr had the good will to finally begin —
elementary stages of it.
people seek in the current stage of our cultural development. It will
of our cause with one or another striving that does it the most damage,

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have enough courage to face both ahrimanic fear as well as luciferic
that someone walked through a village at the time when there were still
have passed through a village, seen a sundial, and found words written
Alas, people in our age have become inured
few people nowadays speak as though they did not take language to be
age. All these things are likely to divert our attention more and more
merely perceive them. I would like to read you a passage typical of
appropriately into our language, and we read: “And Adam knew his
of the spiritual if they are not to lead us astray. In the present age
It is absolutely necessary to look with open eyes at our age, and that

Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 6: The Feeling For Truth
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must flow into poetic form. If we create certain mental images that
and their passage through the signs of the zodiac. What matters is not
have had modern dress on stage there. Then several women made such dresses
the Trojan war. It was better, indeed far better, than the average pictures
in other areas of everyday life and show how much our age needs honesty
of spiritual science. If you look at the development of our age, you
article took up three columns, nearly the whole of the front page. But
there was still a bit of space left on that page, and there this very
article that is disclaimed on the very same page. Particularly the big
the karma of our age and develop the side of our being that is able
the difference between a page written by Herman Grimm and one written
Who can see that in one page of Herman Grimm
You need only look at our modern age to see
written by a German and has been translated into all languages except
though they have not even managed to be good Turks! Remember, I once
read you a short passage from the Koran to show that Turks who know
that takes up a quarter of a page in order to be able to justify every

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cosmic edifice. We form concepts, ideas, and images of what it is like
can be described with the following image — of course, one could
reality and ordinary reality, but I want to use a special image for
I could explain this with yet another image.
matter and have come up with this image of the paper rolls with their
you look at what is written on a page of some book or other publication
taking a page from a book, without having any idea what it means to
through our lectures, you will see I have always tried to use images.
Today I am also using them, for it is only through images that one can
lead the way into the spiritual. As soon as images are crammed into
is given in images in such a way that it is a true reality for them.
Right away, they think of the images themselves in completely materialistic
did not have our modern concepts but thought in images and expressed
meaningfully express something profound, people always speak in images,
images that definitely have the significance of a reality.
Let us take an example where the image really
we have to speak more and more in images. Of course, if we were to speak
such treasons, stratagems and spoils ... Let no such man be trusted.”
often this happens in life, especially at a certain age; young people
in staying appropriately with the image, with the metaphor; only when
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Title: Jacob Boehme
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speak, of the age and the surroundings. We see, for instance,
one were to examine the “language” in connection
express himself in a language. For when Jacob Boehme makes use
village boys. As is apparent from this, he grew up in
first stage of a higher spiritual life, as the stage of
the sounds; that nature wishes to create her own language
base, sensual — into that which Jacob Boehme's age called
it were, the reflected image of Itself — It created this
reflected image in a variety, in the multiplicity of single
suitable, the advantageous and useful becomes aware of itself,
like our present nature at a later stage, a counterpart of the
whose books reveal how he struggled with language because his
be grasped directly through the forces of our age should
Boehme, but from that of our age, and the next time we
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Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture I
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Die Okkulten Wahrheiten Alter Mythen und Sagen.
The Trojan War, for instance, is the narrative of the battle waged
legend during the Middle Ages?
fact that during the Middle Ages this legend could only have
still higher stage the key of knowledge will be delivered to him.
world are then revealed to him. This is the second stage.
stage is reached when he says “I” to every being in the
world, just as he says “I” to himself. At this stage he
a disciple who has reached the third stage is designated as a
upon as a new and higher stage of consciousness. Elsa of Brabant
great initiates always brings about the promotion to new stages of
distinguish three stages in Wagner's treatment of the Siegfried legend.
The first stage
the Middle Ages. Modern achievements are in part produced by
machines, whereas during the civilisation of the Middle Ages
village, the city, and everything it contained, was full of
of the Middle Ages an ancient legend found its way into German poetry
an ancient symbol of the Mysteries; in the Persian Mystery-language
they symbolize the lowest stage of initiation. Hence they are the
profound views of the Middle Ages, setting forth the dawn of a new

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture II
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Die Okkulten Wahrheiten Alter Mythen und Sagen.
initiated stage by stage, in order to bring about the higher development
North. Here, too, we find four stages of evolution; the last one is
described the course of evolution in symbolical images.
Some of the Moon-beings remained behind upon the Moon-stage of
this in the passage where Wotan wishes to take away the Ring from the
to unite it again upon a higher stage, when the sexes shall have

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture III
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Die Okkulten Wahrheiten Alter Mythen und Sagen.
of the senses: to Hagen, the son of Alberich. The lower earthly forces
upon a higher stage. She urges Wotan to sever the connection between
knowledge takes on the farm of desire. This is the last stage which
the nets of which he has become entangled. (Hagen.)
tragedy of this thought is deeply felt by the peoples of the north,

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Die Okkulten Wahrheiten Alter Mythen und Sagen.
significant that after having described the whole primordial age of the
substance of the Middle Ages. In the highest minds of the Middle Ages
lies, concealed in this. From the standpoint of the Middle Ages,
to be peeled out of its skins. At the turn of the Middle Ages it was
through the four stages of evolution within the race itself. These
Holy Grail because he redeems what has once been held in the bondage of
turning-point of the Middle Ages tells us that the Holy Grail is the
The second stage
its own characteristic language, when “those who believed will
listen to the tones of the future age.
to proclaim to his period, as a true prophet who knew that a new age

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existence? How did our Earth develop? What stages did it go through
all know that exalted masters who are far beyond our average
We are not obliged, however, to take the esoteric messages about the
written in a foreign language. At first it is imperfect. It's the same
what he says to the satisfaction of every average intelligence. They
developed into human beings. We will be led to the stage where this
Semitic languages, found a certain relationship between the Old Testament

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In order for the human being to live and think in the present stage of
evolutionary stages we see how slow and gradual this process was. That
spiritual Self had reached a certain stage in its evolution. Every one
of us was at a certain stage of evolution when the Earth was in its
germinal stage. You can think back to the time when the earth's
completely different stage of evolution. During the Earth's evolution
able to turn the images that flew by us into concepts, but could only
preliminary stages, and we worked ourselves up to the dream-like Pitri
stage. That is where we stood when earthly evolution began. The Pitris
order for the human being to reach his present stage of evolution, he
germinal stage, and then go forward to a time when the human being
spiritual Self, this purely spiritual entity, could not have managed
managed the physical body. It had to create an intermediary in order
world that was not present in the previous planetary stages. In order
during which man will reach a still higher stage of evolution, will
but had to evolve to that stage. They had to reach this stage in order
previous evolutionary stages. We can thereby conclude that there is a
seven-stage evolution of our Earth and that the spiritual Self has
seven stages or rounds to go through. During each of these seven
has reached the mineral stage. Everything that is already mineral,
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there are seven consecutive stages, and I also briefly described these
through seven stages, which we call Rounds, in rhythmical sequence.
slumber stage is called a “Pralaya”. On the other hand, the
existence. I find no words in any language for this state. Therefore
the fourth stage. Then a short Pralaya comes again. This stage
the fiery stage. Common fire is not meant, however, but fire of a
previous stage. In this very fine matter what we call chemical
elements formed. You can find this second stage wonderfully described
natures went through a Pralaya stage again and re-appeared in the
dream-men. It is difficult to describe them. Another stage followed
the indicated stage of the earth, as well as the vegetable kingdom.
The human being developed further and at the third stage discarded the
During the middle of the Lemurian age the great event occurred which
higher stage; they could not incorporate during the third race at all.
During every Round there are humans who develop to a normal stage and
the middle of the Lemurian age, birth and death arose and therefore
matter, so that humanity could ascend to higher and higher stages of
We have seen how the cosmos evolved in rhythmic stages to the point
are conducive to testifying to the accuracy of this image of the
you consider the spiritual stages, as Theosophy describes them, then
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Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 1: The Inner Aspect of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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do this at all, why do we set value on following up an age so far behind
world. At the present stage of his evolution man could not possibly
upon a remarkable passage, which is simply expressed and noted
fills emptiness with something similar to courage. It is a feeling of
courage, of protection through being united with that Being Who
surging sea of courage.
description for it) of flowing courage, flowing energy. This is not
courage. We become acquainted with beings who, to be sure, consist of
courage, but although they consist of courage alone, we meet them as
are not of flesh but consist of courage. Yet such is the case. Of
courage, represent — and nothing else. This, in the first place
and in all directions are to be found Spirits of Courage or Will.
first ages of the Saturn-existence time, too, ceases; there is no
comparison and expressing it in image, we must say that our brain is
timeless character of the infinite sea of courage with its Beings
We can only say that it is within the whole infinite sea of courage.
and elsewhere it is frequently said that the second stage of
of sacrifice founded upon their strength and courage as kneeling

Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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Wisdom, but reflect it, just as a mirror reflects an image Thus the
not as it is now, but that what occurred at an earlier age could be
post-Atlantean age of civilisation, when the events of the third, the
ancient Egyptian-Chaldean age are being reflected. What formerly was
back by the Archangels who preserve for later ages what took
radiated back by those selected to preserve into later ages what

Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth - 1
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necessary to turn back to the very early ages of our evolution, we
the same relation to the real world as does the reflected image of a
stage they ought to have attained. A commonplace comparison has often
behind in the stages of their own evolution, subsequently interfere
with the evolutionary stages of other beings, with a result similar
language to describe it. But when we advance to the ancient
Akashic Record of the Sun-age we can quite distinctly remark the
we wish to compare the Sun in that bygone age with any external
image, we can only compare it with the form of our present Saturn
that this was prepared even during the Saturn-age; so that Eternity
does not actually begin during the Sun-age. This can however, only be
expressed in concepts, in the Sun-age: on Saturn the division between
ancient Sun, that at the close of the Sun-age all the existing
is to be seen, we must see in Him an image of those Beings with whom,
at a certain stage of evolution, we have just become acquainted,
as once upon a time, during the Sun-age, the gods themselves called
image of the cosmic purpose. The artist did not require to be an
In earlier ages artists in dim consciousness were in touch with this

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some other age may have experienced some injustice, to which children
our soul-life is a heritage coming to us from those primeval times of
from that ancient stage of evolution, so do we inherit all kinds of
that at this stage something new enters the universe. It must be
on in the Beings as a heritage — which later on was poured into
an idea of what was attained in the Cosmos at this stage if we once more
all manner of in-between stages up to that which is an attribute of
consciousness, for it has been covered over by the earth-stage of our
should continually arise to assuage the feeling of desolation, you
which belongs to this particular age of ours — are those who
age, in which this spiritual wisdom had not been given, had been
think of the endless continuity! Myriads of ages, each having its own
higher consciousness; otherwise the whole tragedy could not be
the tragedy of a
belongs to a man as heritage of the old Moon consciousness must not be
yearned for in the age preceding our own, when men longed for what
cannot be given until our age. We feel a kind of veneration for such

Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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the higher Beings — which we encounter at the third stage of
it would be to say cabbages could grow in a field without having been
I made use of the example of the little boy in a village whose duty it
was to fetch rolls for the family breakfast. Now in that village each

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 1: The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
of the spirit in our present age — that is how we
envisaged it — to be completed by the month of
certain stage had been reached where I was able to feel
in print as far as sheet 13. On the last pages printed on
days of August I often had to look at the blank pages of
to use this language, yet souls taken hold of by the
spirit must be able to reflect that such language is
true meaning of this language in the individual case will
pass from the hand applying the bandage, from the body of
our age. And we shall know in our hearts what is right,
of a spirit is, in the language of spiritual science,
referred to as the ‘age’ of this spirit. The
hearing next. The term ‘age’ is more or less
their age. We speak of Luciferic and Ahrimanic spirits in
exactly this way, knowing that they are now at an age
evolving world. This is why we speak of the age of a
Reveal the light of thine age
now fills with noble enthusiasm and the courage to fight
the courage to fight so that the spirits who know what is

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 2: Nationalities and Nationalism in the Light of Spiritual Science
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
Golgotha, the Christ spirit, the spirit of courage, the
many members of the nation that rages most, is most cruel
whilst we are able to discuss this here there rages
Inspiration of his own image of himself.
means have to be used to assert the image one has of
unnatural thing in the world to wage war. If he were to
him to wage war. We of the West cannot become Tolstoyans,
the Russian it is unnatural to wage war. War has to be
courage; that the blood of battle has not flowed in vain.
Out of courage shown in

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 3: The Nature of European Folk Souls
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
image he has created of himself. The consequence of the
in an age that truly cannot progress unless a certain sum
gone through death; a war waged by spiritual Russia
mirror-image of the struggle in the spiritual world. Now
counter-image appears. And the counter-image of
hatred, this untruthfulness? They are the mirror-images
have to be now, in our present age, that men receive a
opportunity to take in the particular mission of an age.
deeper spiritual truths are presented. Yet our age is
a certain way only the agent. This will focus attention
courageous view of life, a view of life that encompasses
thoughts that relate to the mission of age. We shall then
leads to strength, courage to be active —
Out of courage shown in

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 4: The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It - 1
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
specifically when we look at our own age with all its
Eckermann: he had to make use of the vivid images of
see it as the opposite image to that which led Raphael
into a true Sun-age for the future. To make this
Out of courage shown in

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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
relation to what fate has decreed for the present age.
the hustle and bustle of the present age, and we can
always within the mechanized life of the present age.
intended to be a criticism of our Ahrimanic age. It has
understand, that conditions are such in our age that we
age such as this cans for something quite different than
the age out of which Joan of Arc was called to do her
having to operate in a Christian age, acting from within,
through death at the age of 19 was taken hold of at the
forces that have come up with the materialistic age.
of the whole of our age if we turn our attention to the
mechanisms, the mechanical element of the age; if we are
that Ahrimanic powers are at work everywhere in our age.
in the present age. A time came, however, when there was
should be our attitude now, in the present age, if we
the most Powerful of the leading spirits of the age that
physical intellect, on physical reason. Now that his age
our present age. We therefore have to say that anything
forces that Michael, the leading spirit of the age,
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 6: Spiritual Perception Essential at the Present Time
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
the present age, or perhaps exactly because of the
materialism of our age, the souls of people doing
out that the present age is not inclined, where the
on page 10 makes the significant statement: 'It may seem
physical sphere. Yet people still lack the courage and
this particular scientist. A few pages further on —
on page 23 — he says something very peculiar
present age, as we have seen with regard to a number of
age.)
purpose to consider just the German language. The verb
Our own age
people of Past ages were able to take in.
science need to be strengthened inwardly in our age, to
years as to why our age is the one called to spiritual
into the life of the present age, one form of leaven, is
perfectly true that we have been living in an age of the
who suffer great losses: Our age desperately needs to
the images for life after death presented in spiritual
science. The images which are most important after death
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 7: Personal and Supersensible Aspects
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
our materialistic age to maintain the hope which we must
With persistence and great courage;
spiritual movement in the present materialistic age; how
died — and she .had reached a great age — to
indeed, in the language — if you can call language
When I reached the third page something presented itself
word what it says on page 3 in the book written by Ernst
mirror image to him. And when he saw himself he said:
physical world it is perfectly possible to manage without
however, we can manage without self-knowledge. Yet as
awakening will come at a later stage, not because it is
the early stages. You will find more about this in the
through the world and our age is demanding countless
death in the present age.
when death has occurred at an early age. In the autumn we
years of age.
have grown up and reached the age of seventy. The
people who have made their sacrifice to the age are up
intended to give rise to an age that is more open to the
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 8: Three Decisions on the Path to Imaginative Perception
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
with many preparatory stages, some of them difficult
indeed, stages that have to be won through. Today I
presented in the form of images and it will be up to you
baggage, unencumbered with all we have learned in the
envisaged we must truly stand fast, we must not turn back
we are not willing to leave behind bag and baggage. We
body at a specific stage in the digestive process; he may
now at a stage where such concepts have to be acquired.
presently going through the gate of death at a young age,
as the great destiny of the age demands. They may be said
or old age.
Out of courage shown in

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 9: The Sleeping-and-Waking Rhythm in the Context of Cosmic Evolution
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
effect that provides the images for everyday
consciousness. Those are mirror images we experience and
leaves, a shadow image of him remains and this is also
completely different. Then a poet given many pages today
will be given just half a page whilst another, who is not
even mentioned today, will be given ten or twenty pages.
real terms if we say we are now living in an age when men
really asleep. We are in an age when this genuine reality
going-to-sleep stage before we sleep so we are able to
deliberately. Yet in an age that may be said to have been
nowadays. They show us that in this age everything to do
the mission of our age to bring an insight into the
present materialistic age — and for the rest of
clear in our minds that the present age has produced its
being the age when nonphysical science is asleep, and
Out of courage shown in

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 10: Problems on Spiritual Path - National Characteristics in Europe Moulded by Folk Spirits
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
present an image of the soul element separating from the
entrust to our power of memory has the nature of an image
an image of it. This image first of all imprints itself
is a kind of image taking the form of the human head and
the form of a shadow image of a head and its
continuation. These images are certainly quite different
decipher the peculiar symbols on a page when we are
the mass of images you encountered there was also that
being, the head and a few appendages. When we meditate or
folk spirit passed a major stage in evolution. We know
before the folk spirit had passed this stage. This is
contradictions. We are, however, living in an age when we
disadvantage. To demonstrate this let me read to you a
and disappeared altogether in the present age. It is in
envisage the way the German folk spirit is again and
through death in vain at such a young physical age if a
Out of courage shown in

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 11:Etheric Man within Physical Man
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
and other lectures, we arrive at a different image of the
stages of sleep as the onset of a vegetative process, and
enter into the world of images of spiritual reality. What
What is this? The soul retains something of the image of
Sun stages of evolution.
independently, because you engaged it in something
Out of courage shown in

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 12: The Group Sculptured for the Building in Dornach
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
the karma of the age, the karma of our movement, will one
movement is intended to signify for the present age and
present age to present Christ in his true light.
Faust as he appears on the stage. What exactly does
were to stage Faust properly today — more
was a passage where Mephistopheles was referred to as Lucifer.
passage where it is expressly said that Homunculus
realize the mission of our age where spiritual science is
seeking to prepare his age for this mission.
Faust, Goethe said he had dug the old tragelaph
up again — a tragelaph being a creature half-animal
Goethe called it an old tragelaph, and at the end of
People have reached a certain age (1, 2, 3 letters), And
the percentages of the converted in such a way,
friends, if our age can come to understand these things,
pride — it will become clear to our age that even
age demands of us is to be found in what is currently
realize that we are living in an age when great things

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 13: The Prophetic Nature of Dreams: Moon, Sun and Saturn Man
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
its own images for what in the astral body is something
all that is inherent within it, with its world of images,
contains, is only able to hold, the images of his present
expresses what really is part of a future life in images
learn to separate our dreams from the images deriving
strip our dreams of the images in which they are clothed.
gained by the astral body with images relating to the
dream, separating it from the image belonging to the
something of life on Moon and also of earlier life stages
He perceived reality through dream images. Today we still
herself. Here are some passages from Emerson's
wanted him, Goethe as a man who had been envisaged from
living in an age when it is important to consider these
Asia. The way Yushakov envisaged this redemption of Asia
the benefit of the present age. A time will come,
future at the Jupiter stage of the world.
Physicists would be most surprised if they managed to get
fill our souls with this image of the spiritual streaming
Out of courage shown in

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 14: The Cosmic Significance of Our Sensory Perceptions - Our Thinking, Feeling and Will Activity
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included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the
present age. People have so little idea of how small a
may always be engaged in the whole process of earth life;
village school: ‘What are they teaching you about
as citizens of the earth but to conceive images in it.
For everything is created from images. Images are the
true or origins of things; images are behind everything
around us; and it is into these images we enter when we
are the images Plato spoke of; they are the images all
the images Goethe had in mind with his archetypal plant.
These images are to be found in imaginative thinking.
Inspirations. Just as the image reflected in the mirror
is merely an image of the object which exists in the
us from the universe. They are a mirror image which
dead mirror image relates to the living creature it is
reflecting. Each of those images reflects the attributes
that the times have passed when it was possible to manage
in the present age, dear friends, can have been more
soul. It is true that the present age is the most
elaborated his message, he also called himself a man
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Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 1: The Present Position of Spiritual Science
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and true feeling. One feels that the Spirit of the Age must speak
movement to the tasks of the age. Anyone who has carefully studied
universal disease of the age was then unequivocally described, as you
age must acquire for these tendencies to be guided in the right
One great advantage to us in that
our age that while life is lived at so rapid a pace, people are so
the age and the fact that a schoolmaster, at present at the head of
incident of European life in the Middle Ages is the fact that at that
things. If men were courageous enough, this truth would gradually
come to be perceived to-day, but they are not so courageous. I do not
courageous in his thinking than all the others. He says what he has
it; they have less courage.
passage, ‘I must intervene in the interests of South
very significant at this period. All that can awaken power, courage,
needs this. There was a time, in the Middle Ages, when many had a

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 2: A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Human Being
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of man's head work from cosmos, and man's head is its image; the rest
‘Know thyself,’ which comes down to us along the ages. A
presents an image of the whole universe which surrounds us externally
formation work from the whole cosmos, and man's head is an image of
encountered as an image of the whole cosmos — is really the
the fact that man's soul ages comparatively early in our time. One of
fourth of this age. It maintains a rate three or four times as slow
intended by saying that up to 15 years of age a man might absorb
age to be chosen for state service of parliament, for he ought
that if at 15 years of age he can produce ideas of sufficient force
set the age limit as low as possible, for everyone is regarded as
head we have always something which is a heritage from the former
a younger stage of metamorphosis, has in an earlier metamorphosis all
man is an image of the whole universe, an image of the divinely wise
spiritual life. We are subject to a remarkable cleavage, one not like
the others already mentioned, but an injurious cleavage which must be
astonishingly easy to perceive the cleavage in which man is involved

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understand such a language as when the dead speak in us and we from
old, on awaking we hear the messages of the young. The dead children
lecture — that, in this material age, man has really quite a
to receive their messages. These messages would appear as though
messages from the dead that come to us in our dreams, but the
messages from the dead. This moment is obliterated by the subsequent
message from the dead.
that the messages we receive on awakening are forceful and vivid when
messages. It is very remarkable, yet true, that human people who died
amount in respect of devoutness is effected by the messages of those
gate of death, such eagerness to know what answer he will give, or if
of answers, messages, at the moment of waking, we are specially
are striking examples of marriages lasting for ten years, without
Trivial as it may sound, for every age is a ‘time of
transition,’ yet our own age really is a period of transition.
It must pass into a more spiritual age. It must know what comes from
Middle Ages, must again be recognised as the true and exact view of

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 4: The Cosmic Thoughts and our Dead
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answers from the dead. It is useful to develop an image of the dead
the spiritual realms? To what stage of evolution has mankind in
further from its own freedom, its own freewill, to which in our age
materialistic age — to discipline the world of our
only consider the inner driving forces that lead us from stage to
stage. Let us take some simple ordinary instance from which we may
it will be specially useful to develop in our deepest soul an image
great demand on our age. Nevertheless, it is said, because we are
mature age. To-day it is regarded as right for quite a young man to
mature enough for everything — in his own opinion. In ages when
certain age before being in any council. Now people must wait until
our age, our epoch, ought to be willing to listen to the counsel of
of life to regard Socrates as an idiot. People of this age, however,

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 5: Man's Connection with the Spiritual World
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stage and do not come to full maturity, so also are the
can manage to meet the husband. I must think of something, and take
definite moment became engaged, for instance. If he were to
a sieve. When we discuss things for which ordinary language has no
he experiences, stage by stage, what during his earthly life

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 6: Feelings of Unity and Sentiments of Gratitude: A Bridge to the Dead
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the present time. They will, in coming ages, reveal the future.

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 7: Confidence in Life and Rejuvenation of the Soul: A Bridge to the Dead
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only an appendage. The head develops three or four times quicker than
age. A great deal depends upon this. If man is to take his right
a certain age we begin to feel more or less ‘tired,’
later age. Just consider how many disappointments are connected with
appendage. We must learn to understand that what seems the simplest
stage, has come into being later.
as in our age, only takes into consideration the development of
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture II: The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology
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historical age — but which has also been propagated in our own
successive stages of the evolution of mankind there can never be a
end there; the waves strike upon the eye and the image is produced on the
retina. Man knows nothing of this image, however, until it is
this world for example before one's eyes. One has the image on the
retina; within one has only the continuation of the image in the
understand the people, we must learn their language. If we wish to
understand the dead you must gradually acquire the language of the
dead. But this is at the same time the language of Spiritual Science,
language of the animals. You all know the fable connected with
Earth shall have completed the Jupiter-stage man will have reached
the stage of the Angel. He is now on the way to freedom. Freedom is
mankind turns away from his evolution to the stage of the Angels?

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man gradually becomes a complete image of soul and
conscious of the fact that that is only the image of man,
grows in unity with the body and creates a full image of
that which is body is an external image of the spirit. Then
in old age; on the contrary, they become ever freer and
age; so that they are at any rate the soul and spirit could
external physical man when 70 years of age and apparently
because it belongs to another stage of being, it must in
of all develops in the imaginative images.
we speak of becoming gray with age, there we speak of one
marriage and have children and so on. Immediately after
to know this; it is interwoven into the imaginative images.
which count in life, and popular language is a great
language first of all, because otherwise we should not be
transition with regard to the things here meant. Our age must

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Ego-consciousness and its external image, the particles of
refer to something which in our dry, barren, soulless Age is
within you, an average Central European, would not have a
characterized, and the dead man looks upon this image, he
position, the power of speech; articulated language; the
mankind. We live today in an age when it will be necessary
images as “poetic license.” They tolerate it in
extend as far as language, especially among the
his “Criticism and Language” to impute to
language all the superstitions which exists among mankind.
material”: the German language. There he
have a suitable material in the English language.
there is in the English language today and how much is merely
the language no longer yields a richness of words, full of
Spencer and others; their language gives forth nothing by
big a part language plays when the problem of language is
world-dominion without the help of language. That is the
uncommonly living intensity of language — the West with
its throwing aside of the inner meaning of language. Here
which is to gain the mastery over a realm in which language is
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture V: Thoughts on Life and Death
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reaches the age of 35 must have attained some other age
there appeared in the “Berliner Tageblatt” an
Goethe's horoscope. The critical language, Fritz Mauthner,
present age by writing about Goethe's horoscope and things
is really a fairly average scholar of the present-day, and it
“Berliner Tageblatt” that it had not in the least
“Berliner Tageblatt” the remark that he could
courageous thinking. The field for this has been in many ways
— the great Sun-mystery, which throughout the ages
not be aware of it, is still active. With the courage of the
An age in which

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VI: Spiritual Science, the Practice of Life and the Destinies of Souls
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Science and its significance for our age. Spiritual Science
say, still in a “fragmentary” stage at the
external bodily form has an image of the divine reality of
the progressive development at a certain stage and turns it
certain stage of evolution. We cannot say that the human eye
comes about a certain period of the embryonic stage that the
lying nearest. Our age has the tendency to narrow the sphere
tendency of our age? Allow me to use the following
the retrogressive stage in its whole organization. Only we do
murderer may be so terrified at his own image, indistinctly
reflected image for that of another.”
them to the best advantage. Up till now pedagogy alone dealt
damaged nerves? (Practice of psychical therapy).”

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them, and each one learnt in that language, which is like
individualizing of the Easter message in the soul through the
message of Whitsuntide passing into the individual human
Whitsuntide message. For that reason it may be said that in a
age. But if we wish to grasp this thought we must connect
which just in our present age — one might say —
the modern age, the art of printing for instance would not
and by having the courage to do so.
you have reached the age of 50 and you developed some kind of
that age. The past works on. It is not the case that the
age of puberty is reached the soul-powers of the child are
consider how few people today at the age of 22 admit that
when they reach the age of 45, something can come about
for the simple reason that at an advanced age one has
in the productivity, the fruitfulness of old age? But
believed that they must wait for old age, when they will
simple reason that a man has reached the age of forty he may
age of 27, and often just the most representative men are no
formative-forces body which grows younger in old age. Men go
Faust has risen against the Spirit of the Earth, the manager
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture I: States of Consciousness
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therefore we must say: We know three stages or kinds of
only an endeavour to attain the stage in which consciousness
present stage cannot penetrate behind the scenes with his
is necessary for everybody to envisage truly all that I have
It was far easier in bygone ages. Even in
epoch of civilisation, the inception of the Graeco-Latin age.
teaching into itself. We understand our age only if we keep
Our age can be understood in both its inner and its outer
dream through the most important things of our age in a dull,
I could show you passages from which it is evident that at
many such instances. What do they mean? They are presages of
the writing of the “Chemical Marriage” of
wrote down the “Chemical Marriage”, in which
“Chemical Marriage”, but in spite of having
understand anything of the “Chemical Marriage”,
“Chemical Marriage” was written down about 1603,

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture II: The Building at Dornach
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been maturing through long ages, and in another form will
remember. The Bau really started from the shortage
into the small circular space, containing the stage, at its
childhood are more Luciferic, old age is more Ahrimanic; the
provided for the stage. Above it is spread the vault of the
of the present spiritual age, and what arises from confusion

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture III: East and West
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powerful; for looking back, a man saw a vivid image of his
life will in essence descend to future ages through woman;
notorious personages of the Renaissance. The Borgias, for
has entered my body which was on earth long age, went through
soul, tragedies of the soul, necessarily accompany the
will endure deep inner tragedy and suffering, because he
Sophie did to encourage the Goethe-cult was immeasurably

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next age; souls will advance from their present ignorance to
including its preparatory stages and its after-effects
personality of the twelfth century, and indeed of the age
It is the signature of the whole age — in no
course within this age something further was being prepared,
an even more concentrated power of Faith, the age in which
passages such as these. I choose my words in such a way that
said, “It was the age when the power of Faith-was
age when Piety was established”, that would represent
of Faith is indeed to be found in every age, but it is not always
decisive in the making of history. Our present age will be
men's wages had to be paid in money — not in kind, as
shortage of money — of coinage, that is. Many
centuries of the Middle Ages, was the shortage of coinage due
in our age it would have to make its appearance in a
reality. One of the deepest demands of our age is
the age, not of man's own self, because the answer one can
our age is not a simple matter. Only after deep counsel with
understand the powers ruling the age that begins with the
fifteenth century, the age of the
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture V: The Being and Evolution of Man
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back from whatever age — 20, 30, or 50 — towards
Man of this age
the species and indeed remains the same though all ages.
images of ourselves, yet between that, imperceptible to us,
ages, and on the other, the real soul-spiritual psychic
would like to know how certain passages in the Gospels can
For instance, the passage at the very beginning of the Gospel
from that of the Church, and thus to grasp how, in our age,
Gospels. I want to read you a passage from a modern writer,
the changing of the text in translation into all languages of
language was creeted by this revelation, but what was already
Church as long ago as the Middle Ages, its value for the
needs, the most indispensible impulses, our age. Our time
courage to face truth and to maintain it; otherwise such
doctrines of the soul's pilgrimage, its reincarnation in an
the way of thought in our age: inner force and courage are

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stages, unless we take into account the fact that man at that
theyeselves with the Mystery; their effect was to encourage
heritage of all that has happened under such influence as I
— having entered on an age in which self-consciousness
course of events. In the fourth post-Atlantean age, the
is the reason for the cleavage between the Eastern and
forces. The new influence, developing in our age, is
more ‘natural,’ arising in the age which began
purpose. For an age as unspiritual as ours, this is playing
a tragedy, we see that the Ego dwells within it. The whole of

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desired in the present age is concerned with what is dying
the courage to think in terms of growing, becoming, for what
Venus-stage. In the whole purview the present-day science
first stage of higher knowledge; as described, for instance,
He is possessed by masochistic savagery as regards all knowledge
“masochistic savagery” because in this article he
savage kills; but anyone who is masochistically savage, like
mother, and goes through all the stages of his embryonic
image. He wanted to unite the transient with its archetype,
present age; because to gain true insight into this is
tragedy; it is a vital conflict as regards all
not in institutions which are mismanaged and sucking the life
holds only to the products of ages of instinct, he will never

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the Earth must one day pass into a Golden Age, must become a
necessary, then, for an age to come when he realised the importance
you always, until the end of the age.” This always means the
end of a current age and the beginning of a new. The time will come
the Initiates will pour over the souls of men and bring a new age to
age, but we cannot remain in lethargy: the last moment has come.
would light up in our age if the Christian Churches had a better
understanding of what Christianity is. Our age, too, is inscribed in
themselves are called upon to assist in bringing a different age to
Has any modern theologian ever pondered over the passage in the 13th
the passage stands: “The servant is not greater than his Lord,
this stage of perfection. As an instance, think of the upper part of
task, then they must take this principle as their model. In our age,
this profound passage becomes comprehensible to us in the light of
and slave-like. In this passage it is said that the servant should
like children, before the ancient sages, seeking there for the
what is rooted in these writings, in order that the task of the age

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interpreters of Goethe concerning this particular passage. None of the
Goethe's meaning in this passage, but also as to that attaching to the
Now, there is a remarkable perception underlying this passage, namely,
that about which, so to speak, the real fight must be waged, when it
and interpretation of human nature. The age is past in which legends,
capable of becoming civilized? How can an utterly barbaric savage
has repeated in itself all the earlier stages of human growth, thus
“feeling” may exist, an image must be formed within the
stages of humanity.
rudiments of three further stages of development which will originate
ages to reach perfection.
the astral body that gives rise to sensation. But at this stage the
there exist, at all events, the rudiments of what at a later stage
elementary creature is thus an image of the life of the universe, just
as the crystal is an image of its form. The consciousness of such
general at the present stage of evolution, takes from the more highly
of this inner life he forms, at a higher stage, a new world of images
higher stages of development. The transformation thus begun extends
man in his waking-life perceives external things through the agency of
foreign blood was introduced, and when marriage between relations was
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meditation may reach any of a number of stages, from the smallest gain in
manas, buddhi and atma, known in our western languages as spirit self,
souls in that remote age. Previously, they had been at rest, without
middle of the Lemurian epoch. The diagram on the next page thus
image is reflected. This image is, of course, an illusion, a semblance. Now
carry over this image to the point of imagining yourself dying, sacrificing
into that image. Spiritual science in all ages has called this phenomenon
because you would have given up your whole being to this reflected image
made with the mirror. This second principle is the reflected image itself.
reflected on all sides, and the mirror is both image of Divinity and the
being into a reflected image is an exact picture of this divine creative
spirit man; the kingdom, or will's reflected image, with life spirit.
in each separate being of all these, a fact that even our language
sees God reflected in every human being as an expression and image of
observer at a stage of existence sufficiently lofty to look upon all these
spirit man; the kingdom, or reflected image into which the will has been
his eternal image or archetype.
It is in this present age that those who have so long observed the plant

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words were said. The materialistic age scarcely has words any more to
express in the words of ordinary language the ideas of super-sensible
an actual renewal of language. The words must be given a new stamp;
worlds not only deeds, but words. In former ages this was done; and
for the New Age. Originally it consisted of seven members only. Down
like a Divine spark. Genius is the marriage of the past with the

Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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into past ages in the history of nations, of humanity. You
inventions we know that we must use a different language than
go back into ages, the more different does history become. It
post-Christian epoch. Let us compare the ages. In earthly
in the ages before the external appearance of Christ Jesus on
ourselves how in that age when birth and death could first be
the Atlantean age. When man fell asleep and when the
go back into the first Atlantean age we should find that
real home. In the Atlantean Age there was however one
further we go back into the ages. We have often heard wherein
followed the various epochs of the post-Atlantean age. We
age went still further, that in Greece that beautiful union
physical world. Stage by stage man's conquest of the physical
stages of civilisation, when he grew his corn between two
stones, and then see how he ascended stage by stage, how he
the Egypto-Babylonian-Chaldean-Assyrian age, through the
Graeco-Latin age into our own time, we must realize a parting
of the Graeco-Latin age — that point of union of spirit
Graeco-Latin age? He who is able to look into the spiritual
conformity with truth when the sages attributed the words to
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age, as far back as Atlantis, and then back to the older periods even
the Atlantean age, the etheric body was still outside, and gradually
the Atlantean age thus appeared quite different from what it did
such a circle of men in the Atlantean age; then the physical bodies
single ego is enclosed. Through this image we come to a pictorial
then we can keep this image, but we must not imagine such a regular
Man, however, was at another stage of evolution than the man of
as vividly as possible in the early ages of Lemurian life. The souls
early age of earth evolution. Now consider that the group soul we
especially aggressive, courageous, attacking element was in them.
They were courageous, self-assertive, sought to overcome the others —
these tendencies were equally shared — both the courageous,
her nature. One will certainly find this hidden courage. The woman
can develop inner courage; e.g. in war, in the care of the sick, in

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we find the most varied stages of development among the human
incarnations to better advantage and are therefore at a stage of
rest of humanity but are at a higher stage, there are also other
mission. He would, of course, be compelled to learn the language of
language was something that would be used to advance him personally;
he needed only take the trouble to learn the language. In this same
what was woven into these people of the Middle Ages from the astral
following age to bring about the real development of Christianity.
unthinkable without the Christian natural science of the Middle Ages.
Middle Ages. Those people do not live in reality but in abstractions
who look up passages in scholastic books, compare them with the
science of the Middle Ages had not preceded them. The very fact that
Christianized science of the scholastics of the Middle Ages.
from the Christian scholasticism of the Middle Ages. Everything used
Christian scholastic science of the Middle Ages. Actually, today
Ages. This, indeed, would be to observe world history in its reality.
prepared through the three stages of physical; etheric and astral
etheric capacity, and throughout the Middle Ages with his astral
Christ Being into itself, thereby rising to ever higher stages of

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basic theme, throughout all ages and epochs of human evolution.
different languages that give expression to certain truths living in
been spiritual science through the ages has never been able to speak
often gone back to an age of human evolution when the being we now
part that is changed into ice. Here we have an image of man's origin.
physical, until he comes to his present physical form. The age to
we gaze into man's being of soul, and speaking not merely in imagery
unfolded in his soul those spiritual images that give life within him
age when Christ had already passed through death but is portrayed with
discussed question why at her age he had given the Madonna this
be right in representing the Mother of God at this age still with all
ruled as if in a golden age among men, and married his sister, Isis,
What is this age when Osiris ruled over men? It was the time when men
Here, then, is represented in a wider sense the passage from the realm
in the golden age with her spouse Osiris.
through its evolution during the ages when it was not as yet in a
There are in fact images of Isis
representing the third stage of the human soul. This is how these three
two cowhorns which are, if you like, a kind of image of the Madonna's
through the different stages up to higher knowledge and the higher

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In ancient times a kind of natural clairvoyance was a common heritage
the language of current thought, we should say that the Mysteries are
is an Initiate. Through all the ages there have been centres for
are told to-day that the ancients paid homage to a God Hu and a
everything, refers to the period of their decline. In this age we need
tragedy. Let me put it thus: The Initiate in the ancient Druidic or
Wolfram von Eschenbach speaks in his poem of the three stages through
which the soul of man passes. The first of these is the stage of
answers but only questions, there comes the stage of “doubt”
spiritual worlds. — These are the three stages.
At a definite stage of Initiation he becomes, in this sense, three
in our age since the discovery in the art of printing. Since printing
speak a mysterious language, the time has now come to speak openly
as he fashions himself in its image.

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Kunst und Kunsterkenntnis. Grundlagen einer neuen Aesthetik.
Kunst und Kunsterkenntnis. Grundlagen einer neuen Aesthetik.
only become through thy agency if thou continuest to behave
The Stage
who bring messages to men from the spirit world; these people
feelings which cause human language to shrivel up, or which
messengers will be the skalds and the poets of all the ages.
stage to the forms assumed by the will when heated passions
may call reflected images of things not to be found upon the

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the sage Nagasena.
sage. The King, who has never been at a loss in the presence of any
sage because he always knew how to evade anything that was said in
come hither? on foot, or in a carriage?’ ‘In a carriage.’
carriage, is. Are the shafts the carriage? No. Is the seat you sat
upon the carriage? No. Are the wheels the carriage? No. Is the yoke
the carriage? No. And thus,’ said Nagasena, ‘one can
enumerate all the parts of the carriage, but all the parts are not
the carriage. And yet, all that is there enumerated is the carriage,
only the carriage consists of all the parts put together; it is no
another analogy which the sage Nagasena showed to King Milinda. The
the thief in spite of that! And so,’ said the sage, ‘it
Suppose we imagine that King Milinda and the Sage are
of the carriage, and could now say, speaking of course, out of the
not the carriage, for with the shafts alone thou coulds't not be
conveyed. True it is that the wheels are not the carriage, for the
carriage, for the yoke could not carry thee. True it is that the seat
is not the carriage, for that also could not carry thee! Though it is
true that the carriage is only a name for the assembled parts, yet
of a carriage, or of any other object, in such a way that the
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag I: Das Wesen der Geisteswissenschaft und Ihre Bedeutung Frü Die Gegenwart
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf die Grossen Fragen des Daseins
Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
den großen Fragen des Daseins gehört: das
soll versucht werden zu sagen, was aus den Quellen der
Lebens zu sagen ist. Diesen Betrachtungen ging ín jedem
— man könnte auch sagen — ihre Aufgabe
darf man wohl sagen, daß Geisteswissenschaft heute noch in
Gewöhnliches, zu sagen, daß alles, was als strenge
— wir können fast sagen in den letzten Jahrhunderten
Jahrhunderte bis in unsere Tage hinein auf dem Gebiet,
muß man sagen: der Segen, das Bedeutungsvolle dieses
auch nur ein Sterbenswörtchen dagegen sprechen? Aber
gar nicht vorgehen. Sie kann zunächst nicht sagen: Es ist
richtet und den Verstand auf das anwendet, was die Sinne sagen,
nur gleichsam eine Unterlage ist für weitere
sich sagen, daß ihre Ergebnisse für jeden Menschen
unbeeinflußtes Selbsterkennen sich sagen muß: das
Sinnesgegenstände sagen. Diese Erkenntnis muß
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag II: Leben und Tod
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
Auseinandersetzungen, die vor acht Tagen gemacht wurden, unter
fragen: Was tun Sauerstoff, Stickstoff, Kohlenstoff und so
das Gehirn weggenommen ist. Das will sagen: Wenn der Mensch
der Anlage einer neuen Pflanze aufgenommen hat. Von denjenigen
gewiß sagen: Die Ursache, die ihnen das Leben weggenommen
Früchte tragen, wo sozusagen immer neue
umgeben, das Leblose an sich tragen und weiterleben kann,
muß man ganz berechtigt sagen, daß sie einen
abstößt. So kann man aber auch sagen, daß
Hälfte des Vortrages tun — geisteswissenschaftlich
an die Frage nach Leben und Tod herangeht, muß man daran
einzulassen auf die Frage der Urzeugung, denn es kann von
so kann man sagen, an dem Schicksal dieser Wahrheit kann man
wie sich zum Beispiel aus einem mürbe geschlagenen
verschiedenen Fähigkeiten, die Anlagen entwickeln. Uber
handelt, erkennen will, hat man namentlich die Frage: Wie sind
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag III: Menschenseele und Tierseele
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
an den heutigen Vortrag hier in acht Tagen ein Vortrag
Vortrage vollständig deutlich zutage treten.
es sozusagen leicht wird, manches andere zu widerlegen
über das widerlegend herzumachen, was sozusagen
sie eigentlich wollen — sozusagen ein
Geistesforscher sind, so kann man doch sagen, daß sich dem
haben öfter gesagt, was dagegen eingewendet werden
geisteswissenschaftlichen Sinne auch den Pflanzen zu und sagen:
tierischen Seele aufbauen, so sagen wir: Während beim
äußere Wirklichkeit zu, was wir sozusagen in uns
zuzuschreiben, und sich gar nicht die Frage beantworten kann:
dann sagen wir: Was in uns als Intelligenz lebt, das ist
entgegentritt, dann sagen wir uns: Sehen wir ein einzelnes
im Tier, dann dürfen wir sagen: Wir sehen an dem Tier, wo
aufbauen sieht, kann er sich sagen: Da sehe ich gleichsam
kann er sich wahrhaft sagen: Zuweilen ist wirklich dieser in
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag IV: Menschengeist und Tiergeist
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
ausgeführt werden, so daß sozusagen in den
sagen: In dem, was das Tier vollbringt, fließt
sprechen, daß wir sagen, das Tier wäre so und so weit
mußten wir sagen: Dieses tierische Seelenleben ist durch
unmittelbar in der Lage ist, sich dem Geist hinzugeben.
gattungsmäßig vererbt. Wir können also sagen: In
tritt sozusagen das Tier mit der Geburt so in die
überall sehen wir sozusagen den in den tierischen Formen,
sozusagen nicht die Dinge weit herholt. Das Wichtigste
Leiblichkeit gestaltet, sondern ich will nur sagen: Wie uns der
was in ihm ist, während sie dem Tier sozusagen
sind; so daß sozusagen dasselbe, was sich beim Tier durch
eingeprägt ist, durch das es sich in die Lage zu bringen
Möglichkeit offen, sozusagen innerhalb eines
über Rätsel enthüllt, wie sozusagen das Leben in
Interessante ist, daß wir sozusagen diese Arbeit des
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag V: Das Wesen des Schlafes
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
könnten sozusagen manche Philosophen an sich selber irre
eines jeden Tageslaufes — auch wenn es sich noch so gut
wir im Grunde genommen sagen, sie sind während des
man könnte auch sagen, will man die Erscheinungen des
oder Anthroposophie nicht in der Lage ist, so allgemein zu
— das ist in dem letzten Vortrage in bezug auf andere
dazu sind wir Menschen in der Lage — das fühlt ein
wir wollen, was wir fühlen. Es muß nun die Frage
sein. Der Mensch könnte sozusagen sein Seelenleben leben,
könnten also zum Beispiel sagen: Es ist durchaus denkbar,
Mensch durch eine Spiegelung — sagen wir zunächst
fühlen, man möchte sagen schauen, wie der Moment des
sozusagen das Ich zunächst von den Vorstellungen
während er im Tagesleben die Dinge mit bestimmten Umrissen
kann. Das sind — man möchte sagen — solche
jetzt erzähle, kann ein jeder sagen, der sich einige
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag VI: Der Geist Im Pflanzenreich
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
man wohl sagen, daß — wenn auch nur in kleinen
Dingen sprechen, bleibt es in der Regel dabei, sozusagen von
vager, allgemeiner Art von dem Geist gesprochen werden,
zu sagen, soll die Aufgabe der heutigen Betrachtung sein. Man
dann greift man nicht nur — ich mÃ¶chte sagen
recht schwierigen Lage. Ja man fÃ¼hlt sich in einer
recht schwierigen Lage, wenn man sich zu dem durchgearbeitet
Â«PflanzenseeleÂ», obwohl man sagen
im Pflanzenreich zu sagen hat, nimmt sich allerdings das, was
Fechner Ã¼ber das Seelenwesen der Pflanzen sagen
Pflanzen sagen wollte. In einem solchen Kampf zwischen Fechner
wird sehr zweifeln, ob sie sich sozusagen auf einem solchen
gefunden wird, was sozusagen ein Wesen, das aus dem Weltenraum
Erde fallen kann, wo er eine Widerlage findet, so zeigt jede
Mineralischen entstanden sein mÃ¼sse. Diese Frage
des Unbelebten. Wir werden spÃ¤ter bei dem Vortrage
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag VII: Wie Erlangt Man Erkenntnis der Geistigen Welt?
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
für diesen Winter genau denselben Titel tragen
Betrachtung, sozusagen in die Region des
sagen: es gehört das Folgende — was Ihnen
oder — sagen wir noch enger — Deutschlands in der
näher, sich zu sagen: Ach, in diese geistige Welt
möchte sagen: in jener lieblichen Gegend zwischen Weimar
sagen sich heute viele Menschen: Tief unbefriedigt muß man
über die Quellen des Lebens zu sagen vermag, über das
verhalten, wovon jetzt unzählige Menschen sagen: Es ist
Verbindungsbrücke zu schlagen zwischen der Seele des
ist schon in dem ersten Vortrage angedeutet worden, daß
Seele schlummern. Es ist sozusagen ein Grundelement für
Erkenntnis festzustellen? Ein solcher wird sagen: Ich
hinzustellen, und er wird dann in der Regel sagen: Das andere
nicht immer ganz genau, sonst würde man sagen: Was wir
hat. Aber ist das irgendwie ein Kriterium? Man übertrage
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
ANLAGE, BEGABUNG UND ERZIEHUNG
Erdenleben daseiend voraussetzen, so wird uns die Frage nach
der Mensch der Gegenwart steht gewiß fragend und
Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen gegenüber. Da
Menschen diesen Blick hinzurichten, so werden schon die Fragen
Halbheit, der Unbestimmtheit in sich tragen. Setzt man
Rätselhafte, ganz Fragenswerte dieses Menschenwesens
entgegentreten. Und man wird die Fragen nach Anlagen,
abwenden wollte, was in solchen vererbten Anlagen sich
gerichtete Verstand sagen können, außer acht
Sprache nicht erringen kann, so müssen wir sagen: Der
Anlage haftet, was der Mensch sozusagen ohne die Einflüsse
dürfen wir auf der anderen Seite fragen: Was hat das
Willensimpulsen und Gefühlen, was sozusagen bloß
Jugend haben auswendig lernen und hersagen müssen, und
wieviel Sie jetzt davon nicht mehr auswendig hersagen
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag IX: Zarathustra
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
gesehen und werden noch sehen, wie sich mancherlei Fragen an
diese Idee knüpfen. Unter diesen Fragen wird aber eine
Erdenleben. Man könnte nämlich fragen: Was hat es
wir uns im Zusammenhange mit anderen Fragen in diesem
auch höhere Bewußtseinsarten hineinragen
sagen — verläuft bildhaft, in schnell
Welt hatte und sagen konnte: Ebenso wie ich die
in der Entwickelung, wenn wir sagen: Der Mensch lebte
Weltanschauung sozusagen in das Gesamtgebiet der
Menschheitskultur hineinzutragen hatten. Und Zarathustras
Vorträge über die Frage gesprochen worden, wie der
vertiefen — sozusagen in uns selber immer mehr und mehr
ins Unendliche, man möchte sagen, in unendliche Fernen
dieser Welt, sondern sie durchdringen, daß sie sich sagen:
sozusagen zwei Ströme nebeneinanderlaufen zu lassen,
Zarathustra von diesem allumfassenden Ormuzd sozusagen die
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
welcher den Gegenstand des letzten Vortrages dieses Zyklus
worden ist — sagen wir Naturwissenschaft dieses
welcher etwas aus der Wissenschaft der damaligen Zeit vortragen
Vorgetragenen, allem Betriebe des Wissenschaftlichen
geistiger Riese. Und wenn man auch sagen müßte,
Jahrhunderten nicht mehr unverändert vorgetragen
unglaublich mißverstandene Lehre war, die da vorgetragen
Unsterblichkeitsfrage schreiben. Wie schrieb man damals?
anführen zu können, um die betreffende Frage so oder
herangezogen, über die Unsterblichkeitsfrage das
Aristoteles, der selbst nicht mehr in der Lage war, ein
hatte man, weil die Menschen ja nicht in der Lage waren,
möchte sagen, jene Art von Verhältnis der
um die Sonne. Man muß sich nur einmal in die Lage der
den ersten Impuls für die Menschheit gab, zu sagen: Hinter
tatsächlich auch philosophisch — wenn wir so sagen
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XI: Was Hat die Geologie über Weltentstehung zu Sagen?
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
WAS HAT DIE GEOLOGIE ÜBER WELTENTSTEHUNG ZU SAGEN?
die Geisteswissenschaft zu ihrer Grundlage hat, wenn in Ernst
der großen Fragen, von denen wir zu sprechen haben werden,
zur Geologie stehen muß, und die Frage zu beantworten:
zugrunde gelegen hat — die Geologie über die Frage
Entwickelung der Erde und ihrer Lebewesen zu sagen?
derartigen Charakter zeigen, daß wir sagen können,
gewesen, sei sozusagen einmal in verflossenen Zeiten von dem
ihrem Wassergehalt ansammeln, weit forttragen und dann in
anderen Gebieten ablagern. Wir sehen, wie sich durch solche
Ablagerungen der Boden bedeckt. In derselben Weise haben wir
uns in alten Zeiten Anlagerungen über Anlagerungen
entstandene Anlagerung haben wir uns eine andere
darübergelagert zu denken, die sich, wenn wir sie
Charakter. Es ist natürlich unschwer sich zu sagen,
Vorgänge unserer Erde aufgelagert worden sind, und
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Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
sozusagen aus dunklen Tiefen sich an die OberflÃ¤che
sagen, noch in ganz hervorragenderem Maße eine solche
wir sagen: der andere Grund ist der, daß — man mag
hinÃ¼bergetragen hÃ¤tte in die neuere
heraus zu sagen hat: daß in alten Zeiten statt des
unserem Tagesbewußtsein gleich war, das vom Aufwachen bis
Zwischenzustand, der nur, man mÃ¶chte sagen,
eine geistige Welt liegt, hindeuteten. Man darf sagen,
zurÃ¼ck und sagen uns: Was uns da
verschiedenartigen Weise je nach Anlage und Temperament, Rasse
wie sozusagen in den Bildern, die vor die Seelen traten, welche
Hellsehen Ã¼berhaupt erlosch, und der Tagesblick auf
wir sagen: Die spÃ¤teren Ã„gypter —
gewÃ¶hnlichen Tageslebens gibt, wo man nur die Augen
die geistigen Welten, sich etwa folgendes sagen konnten: Wir
Ã„gypter der spÃ¤teren Zeit sagen. Er
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XIII: Buddha
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf die Grossen Fragen des Daseins
Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
dürfen wohl sagen, daß für die meisten Menschen,
so, wie wenn man etwa sagen wollte: Man könnte das beste
Schon eine, man möchte sagen oberflächliche
auf die wiederholten Erdenleben sich sagen darf: du wirkst
sagen: Man muß solch ein Wissen, solch eine Weisheit
dann sind wir in der Lage, ruhig einzugehen in etwas, was mit
wir in den Sagen und Legenden haben, das können wir, wenn
des Menschen begreifen kann. Dagegen können wir eine
vorwärtszublicken, Kämpfer zu sein und sich zu sagen:
indem wir sagen: Der Inder war immer bestrebt, den Zusammenhang
nach charakterisiert haben. Da müssen wir sagen:
der indischen Weltanschauung sozusagen nicht mit einem
werden deshalb etwa sagen können: Der Inder blickte in
Buddhas dagewesen; seit dem letzten Niedergange der Welt sind
betrachten wir, was sozusagen wie eine uralte Weisheit
mußte sich sagen: Ja, wenn wir nun erreichen Weisheit,
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XIV: MOSES
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf die Grossen Fragen des Daseins
Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
Bibel diese mÃ¤chtige, in die Zeiten hineinragende
Bibel entnehmen, so mÃ¼ssen wir doch sagen,
in uns tragen und aus der Bibel gewonnen haben, hat sich
aber dÃ¼rfen wir wieder sagen, daß gerade durch
uns eigentlich — wenn man so sagen darf — die Bibel
ganz negativ ist, weil es nichts beigetragen hat zum
Frage auf werfen: Ist es denn nicht nÃ¶tig, erst
man sie voll verstanden hat, nach ihrem Ursprung zu fragen? Das
demgegenÃ¼ber wir uns fragen: Warum ist das? Dieses
mehr in die Geisteswissenschaft einlebt. Das macht es sozusagen
diese Frage durch gewissenhafte Forschungen verschaffen, die
mythenÃ¤hnliche Bildungen, Sagen und so weiter,
Sagen nicht so begreifen als die Umgestaltung typischer
Bildern zum Ausdruck brachte. Niemand kann die alten Sagen,
Sagen und Mythen! — der nicht voraussetzt —
Menschheitsentwickelung auftreten, sozusagen eine gewisse
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XV: Was Hat die Astronomie über Weltentstehung Zu Sagen?
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf die Grossen Fragen des Daseins
Welt? / Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen / Zarathustra /
Weltentstehung zu sagen? / Hermes / Buddha / Moses / Was hat die
Astronomie über die Weltentstehung zu sagen?
ZU SAGEN?
spricht, so daß man sagen darf: Es liegt etwas
GeistesWissenschaft aus auf die Frage einlassen: Was hat
uns diese Astronomie Ã¼ber Weltentstehung zu sagen?
Ã¼ber die großen Fragen nach Entstehung und
sozusagen aus der KÃ¼hnheit des menschlichen Denkens
Behauptung wagen darf, daß wir in den verschiedenen
unserer Erde finden. So darf man sagen, daß seit der Mitte
mÃ¶glich gemacht, daß wir nicht nur sozusagen
kÃ¶nnen, sagen wir: Wir kÃ¶nnen es
in unserem Innern hat, daß wir uns sagen: Solche
lehrreich, zu sehen, wie die hervorragendsten Geister des
etwa dachten hervorragende Geister des neunzehnten
neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, wenn sie sich sagen konnten: Alle
molekularischen und atomischen Gebilde hineintragen
kÃ¶nnte, wÃ¼rde sich sozusagen immer mehr
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Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture I: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod
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Untertitel des heutigen Vortrages bezieht sich
beginnen, die Betrachtung hinzulenken auf große Fragen der
heutigen Vortrage zugrunde gelegt werden soll: eine Betrachtung
Leben Seiende zu dem Rätsel des Todes. Denn Fragen wie die
solchen Fragen nicht nahe, wenn man nur im allgemeinen
dieser Dinge für das unmittelbare Leben des Tages,
Seele in intensivster Weise zu den in Rede stehenden Fragen
über die stofflichen Vorgänge zu sagen hat, ein
Professor war; der mitgearbeitet hat an den Erkenntnisfragen
enthält-über die Tages- und Nachtansicht der
Augen bereits an Sehkraft abgenommen hatten, sich eines Tages,
mancherlei bunten Blumen sehen, hervorragend aus dem Grün,
Lebenslage mit dem Rätsel des Stoffes innerlich-seelisch
hervorragendsten Denker des 19. Jahrhunderts dazu gebracht
haben, sich zu sagen: Dasjenige, was der Mensch als die
kamen, zu sagen: Die farbenbunte Welt um uns herum, die
sagen, dazu gekommen, hereinzunehmen in das menschliche Ich, in
sondern er nimmt sie auf im Hinblicke auf die Frage: Wie
— Und deshalb sagte sich Fechner in der Lage, in der er
zutage gefördert hat, mit Notwendigkeit zu dieser
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Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture II: Schicksal und Seele
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Frage nach dem Wesen des menschlichen Schicksals, die
hervorragenden Lebensfrage nach dem menschlichen Schicksal.
heranzubringen versuchten an die Schicksalsfrage, ist
es so zu gestalten, daß die Fragen, die dem Menschen
Schicksalsfragen seiner selbst in seinem Denken ganz sicher
sei. Und man kann sagen, daß gerade an der Art und Weise,
Schicksalsfragen sich vorlegt und zu lösen versucht, sich
zeigt, daß diesen Fragen eigentlich nur ein solches
das schauende Bewußtsein. Ich erlaubte mir zu sagen,
versucht den tiefen Fragen nach der Wesenheit des menschlichen
seiner eigentümlichen Art, um der Schicksalsfrage
späteren Verlauf des Vortrages gerade auf dieses Beispiel
Schicksalsfrage nahekommt. Ich habe vorgestern bereits darauf
nun, was für unsere heutige Frage in Betracht kommt, ist
langer Zeit-es können Tage, Wochen, Monate, Jahre sein
kommt dadurch in die Lage, in einen neuen Lebensbereich
damit der Mensch hinübergetragen wird von Tag zu Tag, von
Lage kommen, den Augenblick zu erfassen — so möchte
aufrücken, müssen wir in die Lage kommen, dasjenige,
erfassen. Ich möchte sagen, jene Auffassungsweise, die wir
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Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture III: Seelenunsterblichkeit, Schicksalskrafte und menschlicher Lebenslauf
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blüht, entfaltet werden muß. Man kann aber sagen,
Unbewußten oder auch, wie man vielleicht besser sagen
eigentlich die Grundlage dieser Menschenseele ausmacht, was
aber nicht mit dem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein des Tages,
Wissenschaft erreicht werden kann. So daß man also sagen
hereinbringen kann. Man kann sagen, soweit, wie diese
andeuten, in einer anderen Weise einschlagen muß, als
Vertreter des Unbewußten einschlagen wollen, auf andere
Ergebnissen der neueren Zeit. Und auch da ist sie in der Lage,
nun die Frage des eigentlichen Seelenwesens betrifft, so geht
daß sie geradezu, ich möchte sagen, durch diese Dinge
oftmals, möchte man sagen, raffiniertes Vorstellen und
nicht so gebunden ist, wie der Mensch im Alltage an sie
von denen man doch sagen muß: ihre mystischen Erlebnisse
sind nichts anderes als verfeinerte, oder sagen wir,
asketische Mittel oder durch allerlei Anlagen dahin gebracht,
gewöhnlichen Sinnesleben des Tages, von dem Stehen in der
und man darf sagen: Eine wirkliche geisteswissenschaftliche
Geisteswissenschaft muß andere Methoden einschlagen als
Persönlichkeit, oder sagen wir mit seiner
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Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture IV: Menschenseele und Menschenleib in Natur- und Geist-Erkenntnis
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dem heutigen Vortrage bin ich in einer etwas schwierigen Lage,
Einzelheiten über das oder jenes heute vorzutragende
ist dies ein Gegenstand, von dem man sagen kann, daß zwei
Brücke nicht in der rechten Weise herüberschlagen von
wiederum nicht in der Lage sind, von den wirklich gewaltigen
herüberzuschlagen zu den Seelenerscheinungen. Und so
werden heute diejenigen, welche versuchen, auf Grundlage der
Weltenrätseln, beirrt, ja man kann schon sagen in
herausgeht, kann man ihm vielleicht sagen: Nun, sehen Sie mal
die Frage muß immer aufgeworfen werden: Sind nun dem Leben
in der Gegenwart ist, kann man nur immer wiederum sagen: es ist
Seelenfragen und können vor allen Dingen ihre Begriffe
wenn man das Gebiet der Forschung in dieser Frage durchgeht,
sind, die Vorstellungen, man möchte sagen, aufbewahren,
überblickt, was er zu sagen hat über das
So daß man sagen kann: Für das Fühlen ist nun
Man kann auch sagen: Indem er nun das Nervensystem verfolgt,
naturwissenschaftlichen Unterlagen ausgeht, kommt ein
möchte sagen, von oben bis unten durchgeht, kommt er nicht
sage: ich habe Widerwillen gegen irgend etwas. Und dennoch,
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Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture V: Seelenratsel und Weltratsel: Forschung und Anschauung im deutschen Geistesleben
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sagen, zu sehr verstrickt in gewisse Vorstellungen, in gewisse
dem, was sonst in Weltanschauungsfragen Gepflogenheit ist,
streng bewiesen werden, wenn er sich auf einzelne Fragen des
aus dem Feld schlagen können, wenn man von
Weltanschauungsfrage nicht nur dasjenige kennen, was für
Sache spricht. Und wer seinen Geist, ich möchte sagen, so
Und er wird daher in einer Lage sein, wie etwa jemand, der
Weltanschauungsfragen beziehen. Wir können für irgend
Geistige ist, in der Seele nur aufleben, wenn man in der Lage
Weltanschauungsfragen bezieht, ebenso aber auch die
Weltanschauungsfragen zu jenem unmittelbaren Leben, das in
Weltanschauungsfragen diejenige ist, welche auch behandelt
Winter hier gehalten habe, die Frage nach dem Stoff, nach der
aus diese Frage heute kurz einleitungsweise berühren.
der Frage nach dem Stoff oder der Materie kann man nicht
solchen für viele Menschen abgelegenen Rätselfragen
solchen Fragen auf sich hat. Denn wenn er eine Zeitlang
einer solchen Frage. Er kommt zu einem Gesichtspunkt, der ihm
über diese Rätselfragen, welche ich etwa in folgender
dann stellen sie sich, ich möchte sagen, als viel zu
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Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture VI: Leben, Tod und Seelenunsterblichkeit im Weltenall
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Ergebnisse zu sagen hat. Und so stellt sich denn die Tatsache
bekräftigen, was Geisteswissenschaft zu sagen hat; und
dem die Erde abgekühlt sein wird bis, sagen wir, minus 200
Menschen — das muß man aus Höflichkeit sagen,
heraus, berechnet die Entwickelung, sagen wir, gewisser
nun, sagen wir, zwischen dem 30. und 40. Jahr des Menschen. Man
etwas ganz Groteskes, etwas ganz Törichtes zu sagen.
diesen Tagen konnte man erinnert werden an eine solche
vor einigen Tagen gestorben ist, den ich vor kurzem hier
möchte sagen, einige Späne dessen, was er zu sagen
könnte vielleicht sagen, dieses wechselvolle
wir entwickeln, sind wir ja selber. So kann man sagen: Wenn
vor einigen Wochen hier sagen: Nicht darauf kommt es an bei der
ich vielleicht sagen: Ich habe in den letzten zwei
ich sagen, als nach der zur sinnlichen Außenwelt die
Gegenteil, es wird das eintreten, was ich im letzten Vortrage
in ihren Einzelheiten in diesem einen Vortrage nicht
sind den Wirkungen der Sonnenumgebung, sagen wir, auf die
auch sagen: unseres ganzen Weltensystems, so wie die Astronomie
Sprache schwer zu beschreiben ist. Ich kann nur sagen: Jeder
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Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture VII: Das Jenseits der Sinne und das Jenseits der Seele
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hinwegnimmt, sagen, daß gerade dieses
sagen, Unfähigkeit, auf das aufmerksam zu sein, was
wichtigsten Daseinsfragen. Ich will als Beispiel heute
«Das Hersagen des allergeläufigsten Memorierstoffs
aufsagen, was wir im Gedächtnis haben. Wenn wir aber jetzt
während wir aufsagen, da geht es nicht. Also können
wir diese seelische Erscheinung des Aufsagens nicht beobachten.
aus einem gewissen Unvermögen einschlagen kann. Denn was
würde man eigentlich gewinnen, wenn man, sagen wir, ein
also beobachtet, wenn er vernünftig ist, dann nicht sagen:
folgendes sagen. Er würde erkennen, daß das
Aufsagen des Memorierten, gewissermaßen ohne daß das
möchte sagen, um eine Schicht höher im Seelischen,
als wir uns betätigen, wenn wir das Memorierte hersagen,
Automatismus des Leibes, der sich abspielt beim Hersagen eines
betreffenden Manne immer wiederum zu sagen, nach dem, wie er
Man muß sagen: Wer so denkt, verbaut sich eben selbst den
möchte sagen, vor dem Wege, der ins Seelische eindringen
besagen: man kann nicht über gewisse Grenzen des Erkennens
der Lage ist, seinen Willen in eine Beziehung zu den Dingen in
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Science and Speech
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Also known as Spiritual Science and Language.
Also known as Spiritual Science and Language.
through the soul. We also realise that our own native language
character of a whole people speaking a common language is in a
certain sense dependent on that language. Anyone who studies the more
particular speech or language. Since, however, a language is common
and on its average level. The individual is subject, as it were, to
Science, but it cannot be said that specialists in our age have been
of the Ego, and man's evolution, at its present stage, consists in
past ages already worked at the transformation of the physical body
through four evolutionary stages. First of all the physical body
prepared. Here we look back to past ages when an activity proceeding
formed and plastically moulded that at the present stage man is, so
have remained at a stage where their form cannot, be an expression of
the stage of thinking, feeling and willing as he does to-day. These
appendage of man's instruments of speech. When man had been thus
present stage of human development, to present as Truth what is the
most faithful image of external objects. Anything that does not
transformed in the dream into a sense image, the shot. The spiritual
Initiation. At that stage, we try, but with full consciousness,
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Title: Lecture: Prayer
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mystic absorption that appeared in the Middle Ages between
the message, then, of what we may call the stream of the
the Middle Ages, because at that period the attitude to
rise to the higher stages to which prayer and mysticism are
quality within it, it makes no difference what one's stage of
the Middle Ages, however, a sort of egoism has occurred that
reveals himself in all worldly realms and at all stages of

Title: Lecture: Mendelssohn's 'Overture of the Hebrides'
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forces, sometimes with rage and passion, fought as representatives of

Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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In the same way there is an astral being for the concept of courage,
“Justice-being”. If we have a concept of courage, valor,
its self to be a unity, and that all the different concepts of courage,
of courage, valor, etc. In this way you have come into the currents
if you like, that has to do with the concept and feeling of courage.
souls; and inasmuch as men develop courage, the connection is established.
age, but which nevertheless is fact. I have often emphasized that our
present age grows more and more accustomed to the mere consciousness
usages prevail as have just been described, so that in a person who
right. Our physical world should become more and more an image of the
— to create on the physical plane an image of the astral world.
the general astral world, and today we are still at this stage. In the

Title: Astral World: Lecture II: Some Characteristics of the Astral World
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quite a different language from those who so far have either heard nothing
it speaks quite a foreign language. If we have the patience to accustom
you can listen calmly to one who speaks quite a different language and
fish — it presents us with quite potent riddles. The average fish

Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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when it was still personal. Yet, when a certain stage has been reached
stage that can be reached to a certain extent through occult training,
a new world will emerge at the stage of Imagination. In the same way,
as we lift ourselves to the next stage of existence, we are presented
This is nothing but the image of what appears in the soul's field of
vanish, and a noble image of the astral world will appear.
is bliss. At the present stage of evolution, all in Devachan is a bringing

Title: Prophecy -- Its Nature and Meaning
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ages! Everything covered by the term ‘prophecy’ is
and influential scholars engaged in prognostication and prophecy.
his connection with a personage whose tendency to be influenced by
Middle Ages, before the dawn of modern science, was only one specific
well-known personages, let us take the case of Wallenstein.
And when he came to Rostock at the age of 20, he caused a stir by
to a great age. As the hour of birth was not quite accurate, Tycho de
marriage with the daughter of the Czar he was recalled to Denmark.
Court were upon the young Duke: all the preparations for the marriage
But there came instead the announcement that the marriage was
external data are of value, the modern age accepts these data as an
earliest childhood and that of very old age; a connection is
life, but in old age things may appear of which we know that their
immediately preceding old age. Life runs a circular course.
as an example the case of someone who, say at the age of 18, was torn
We shall have to say to ourselves: At the age of 18 there was a
sudden change in his life and at the age of 24 — that is to
illness occurring, say, at the age of 54, the only really intelligent
thinking. A human being who at the age, say, of 15, lays into the
laid into the womb of the ages, which now in their effects come again
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Title: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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the language of spiritual science we first distinguish two parts of our
spite of a damaged organism. But we will go further. An experiment so
of the brain had remained undamaged and happened to be those that
then, he had his gift for drawing and it developed in stages. Careful
certain stage has been reached and the man is ripe to carry this
produce the faculties in a crystallised form. But this stage having
the soul. These hidden depths often speak quite a different language
Sage mir tausend tausendmale:
courage to comprehend himself as a riddle and if he bestirs himself to

Title: Good Fortune Its Reality and Its Semblance
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passages occur in the transcripts, which I myself did not revise.
relationships which, though rejected again and again at a certain stage of
persuasion and for this reason the marriage could not take place. She
baptized, when the marriage could be celebrated. He was in fact very soon
for him to be a parson in Sweden. It is a most delightful passage where he
imagines that he would sit in his parsonage and the day would come when by two
hardly anything about which the man of our enlightened age becomes so
successful unless it were sent in to the manager of the theatre concerned
effect, of something occasioned by ourselves at an earlier stage of our
to and fro by surging waves yet finds courage to rely on nothing in the outer
Man stands with courage at the helm

Title: Lecture: The Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science
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times, pointed out a notable passage in Darwin's publications,
it be possible that there is a passage in one of Lamarck's
senses, as it were, in an image, this being would present itself to
about such an earth's age in which such an air veil, as it is
now as earth has developed downward from earlier spiritual stages.
the earth is traced back to earlier planetary stages of being, just
And going back to earlier stages we find as the starting point of all
ape nature, in its embryo stage, is much nearer to man's
worthy of this earth by endeavoring to progress from one stage of

Title: Lecture: Death in Man, Animal, and Plant
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into German by Professor J. Rosenthal. In the first pages of this
amply shown by Huxley himself when, in those pages where he speaks of
further course of existence, after the passage through the gate of
problems of the world riddles. — And this is no disparagement
earth throughout the ages, we should find that in the far-distant
at any age of his life, we shall soon find out what has become of the
remembered later as mental images. We shall find that what became
ever advances beyond its present stage, it will see how, throughout
the animal kingdom, from the earliest ages, a thread of evolution
the next stage which gave him the aptitude for something further that

Title: Lecture: The Nature of Eternity
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— were it not for two things. We are certainly eager to
stages of existence, and with all it has still to experience
by assuming it to be an image, a picture, but one outside the
experiences as an image, never discovering its true nature. A
mirror he sees his face, but it is only the image of his
mirror. An image can disappear whereas reality endures and is
experiences is but an image. Were we merely to relate our
during the day that works upon us, but that behind this image
perceive it as an image but as an inner force, ceaselessly at
contrary, we are engaged in repairing the damage by
engaged in work on the physical body and for that reason
recall our past experiences as memory-images, but we remember
richer. The contention that a man weakens with age is not
coming consciousness. Hence we see how the ego is engaged in
of as an image. Hence it says that our ego passes away like
from its present stage on Earth, with the enhancement thereby
its present stage, bringing men new faculties for new tasks,

Title: Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci
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At the Turning Point of the New Age
this picture not had to suffer in the course of the ages!
beginning of the new age. Then, if we once more turn back to the
Leonardo was engaged in making endless studies for the statue of the
that a soul born into a certain age does not live that one life
Giordano Bruno, Kepler, and Galileo. How do we view this age in the
his connection with his surroundings. In the primeval ages of man's
which, in the transition stage between sleeping and waking, he looked
planets revolved around it. Then came Copernicus, who had the courage
not to rely on sense perception. He had the courage to say that when
Leonardo. He enters his age with a soul that, in an earlier
not be continued in the age into which he was born, the Fifteenth
Leonardo had taken up into himself in earlier stages of existence.
condemned to be confined in a body living in the age directly before
the universe. In the age of Greek art one felt in an arm, for
are all represented at the age in which expanding growth is present.
time; it had to be lost for otherwise the new age could not have
come. This is not a criticism of the age, but a statement of the
every page problems spring up which mankind could only solve in the
powerlessness, to which a soul must be subject in an age that sees
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 1. Materialism and Spirituality.
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very striking. This message was supposed to come from the English
near future. At first it was not very clear to what the message
but I am not quite sure as to this. Then came other messages given
to many of our sceptical age; this factor which converted many and
individual. It is certain that there is in our age a striving to find
materialistic age does not care to follow the inner path the soul must
recognise the whole materialistic character of our age, in the
Why is it necessary in the present age that an entirely new method
earthly language but Cosmic words, Heavenly words, possessing an
is also true that mankind in the present age has become estranged from
it is to understand the language of even four or five hundred years
language to man. They had to lay hold of the soul-men should,
age something great and significant is announced by a great contrast.
about? It can only become possible if we learn His language. Anyone
and karma, but that it contains a quite special language, that it has
to the end of the earth-epochs. And we must learn His language. By
means of the language — no matter how abstract it may seem —
periods and ages of the earth, and of many other secrets of evolution
— we teach ourselves a language in which we can frame out the
to speak the language of this spiritual life, the result will be that
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 2. The Metamorphoses of the Soul-Forces
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man, if he will endeavour to develop the inner courageous forces
age, to pay attention only to what presses on him from without, and
spirit, the spiritual world, draws near to us. The language of modern
grow therein in the present materialistic age. It is of course
the early primeval stages of man's development was there a connection
indicated. In the primal ages it was quite natural to live in constant
ages the Dead were active in the impulses of will of the people; in
understand the language of the Dead, and this language is none other
is abstract compared with what the living language can communicate,
slowly in old age — but of a normal man it is correct to say: he
passage of the Vernal Point through the great cosmic year.
vague, dimly-mystical way when we say that the Microcosm is an image
Now let us take something else. — The patriarchal age, as it is
between the ages of 70 and 71 comes the point of time when a man's
life includes exactly 25,920 days — that is, the patriarchal age.
the Mystery of the present age, so as to obtain some light on the

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 3. The Human Soul and the Universe (part 1)
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forms and images — manifestations — of the divine Spiritual beings by
— images, neither of ourselves, nor of our real being, but of the
bodies, are to ascend gradually through the stages of development with
this time will rise stage by stage; to his ego will, as we know, be
to the great cosmic future of man, to these three stages of evolution,
Angels. So therefore we may say in simple language, and speaking in
genius, as follows, — I should like to quote the passage
Christ Jesus at the present stage of development — which has
prepared; and most people experience unconsciously, between the ages
the above-mentioned ages, can be a strong force and support to a man,
can provide serious explanations of life, which man needs in an age
may be brought to his consciousness — may ascend in three stages:
out in words. By the help of the language (I mentioned this in the
last lecture but one) the language we learn through Spiritual Science
modern materialistic age find it very difficult to feel what I might
lecture, nothing but a reflection, an image of the actual real one.

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mad idea in our age; they will wonder that such a delusion could have
form. They lack the necessary courage for this. They still admit of
life of the age; they have forgotten how to think of it in its real,
newer age should be such that it rays into his whole thinking and
believe themselves to be very courageous, the Christ-Mystery forms
even those who die before the age of thirty have this experience,
to become related to the earth, yet messages were to come down to him
earth. This bringing down of the Heavenly Message came about through
Ages, towards our own fifth age which followed the Graeco-Latin epoch.
by them as a spiritual marriage, whether with Christ or another. Many
ascetic nuns celebrated mystical marriages. I will not enter into the
Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosenkreuz.
This chymical — or, as we should say today, chemical-marriage
The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosenkreuz,
permeated with reality than the merely mystical marriage of Mechthild
of Magdeburg, who was a mystic. The mystical marriage of the nuns only
chymical marriage a man gave himself to the world. Through this,
age of materialism has at present thrown a veil over such concepts;
For what can men accomplish today with their concepts? In our age in
perhaps he may say that a new age must come which is already
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attributes wisdom to the head, courage to the
wisdom is added to courage, becoming a wise courage, a wise activity;
being. It will only attain the stage at which our physical body now
reflex conception, the image of which is reflected into our head. We
at different stages. The head of man is formed out of spirit, but is
more fully moulded, it belongs to a later stage of formation than the
activities are those which are in a sense at the lowest stage of
hours the ego stands at the lowest stage of spirituality, during the
hours of sleep it stands with respect to man, at the highest stage.
reveals itself to our external eyes and ears. But the age of
suppose by the general materialism prevalent in this age of ours. Yet
does indeed prevail to a great extent, in this materialistic age. In
this materialistic age. For if a man builds a bridge, he is forced by
this materialistic age people have become accustomed to be guided by
merely laughs: of the ages of Saturn, Sun and Moon and of our
deal that lives in our age, should be purified. For man, after all,
age really leads one away from an connection with the spiritual world.
age of materialism has estranged man from the world of the dead;
the age of materialism. This estrangement must be got rid of. An inner
ideas, concepts, and images as deal with spiritual matters. When a man
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made all sorts of beautiful symbols and images. It is very easy to
destiny of the earth for the year, caused by her passage through the
the ancient mysteries took advantage of that time to make it possible
sign of which the present age, which has -no longer any feeling for
what is holy, has no conception. In our age the first thing would
receive the secrets of the Macrocosm. Later ages have retained dim and
ages, of course, but it was formerly perceived by means of atavistic
of very great importance to our age. I have often drawn your attention
image of the Mystery of Golgotha, parallel with the course of the
and a descending development. We know that up to a certain age a man
at its early stages his whole body is then more connected in a
the course of a human life, which is thus an image of the Saturnian
passages of his book on Truth and Error, that he thanks God that they

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language or in the careful German edition by Matthias Claudius, with
age, and not as we do, in the glimmering light of a new age. Unless we
parts must I divide man, if I take his body as image of his soul? And
consideration there? What is the really active agent in the head? (or
age in which he lived. We could not make use of them today, but they
passages in which he says somewhat as follows: ‘If I were to go
these passages; he knows why these remarks appear at certain parts of
an age in which such remarkable scientific figures as those of Freud
in travelling, when we pass from the domain of one language into that
of another, in that moment we can no longer speak the language of the
in the pages of Ötinger.
age before they interpret them, only tends to brush away the
together. No wonder then that there are hundreds of passages in our
their features. No wonder there are so many passages of which a host
ceaselessly in dispute for countless ages. No wonder at all; for they
true language of the Bible. His assumption was practically this —
times, the decline of a theosophical age; yet today, if an historian
He digs with eager hands for treasure
man of modern times, one who is really a practical example of his age,
being.’ In an age in which the culture of the nude is even
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Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Universe
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forms and images — manifestations — of the divine Spiritual beings by
— images, neither of ourselves, nor of our real being, but of the
bodies, are to ascend gradually through the stages of development with
this time will rise stage by stage; to his ego will, as we know, be
to the great cosmic future of man, to these three stages of evolution,
Angels. So therefore we may say in simple language, and speaking in
genius, as follows, — I should like to quote the passage
Christ Jesus at the present stage of development — which has
prepared; and most people experience unconsciously, between the ages
the above-mentioned ages, can be a strong force and support to a man,
can provide serious explanations of life, which man needs in an age
may be brought to his consciousness — may ascend in three stages:
out in words. By the help of the language (I mentioned this in the
last lecture but one) the language we learn through Spiritual Science
modern materialistic age find it very difficult to feel what I might
lecture, nothing but a reflection, an image of the actual real one.

Title: The Story of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily: Lecture I
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thought, might enrich the advancing ages, but not that which concerns
in many different forms in the various ages. It is the task of the
the ages, have striven to press through to the source of truth.
Theosophy has brought to light the fact that in the various ages,
to lead you back to those primeval ages.
German nation, but to many other civilized men of the present age and
hidden behind the imagery. But I am not speaking of the second part
symbolical images to express his most intimate thoughts. Anyone who
was an old custom, dating from the middle ages, when it was thought
call a psychic atmosphere. The language of reason seemed to them to
he was to attain through the stages of purification, on the way to
This it is that the Mystics of all ages have striven for, — to
Beautiful Lily!” The transition of man from one stage of
This was the question for the Mystics of all ages; and this great
developed within itself at a higher stage, when it became transmuted
himself at a certain stage of his development which is accomplished
will active at every stage, is that which in all ages was known as
who had overcome the Lion stage a Persian. That was the fifth
stage, and a man who had got so far that his actions flowed quickly
Love. When he reaches the eighth stage of Initiation, when he has
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Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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form-culture necessary for our age. In science we have the Darwinian
the soul — but at different stages and in different forms. What
contemplation of life. I will read an important passage from his essay
ascent. As little as an aged man who has already attained his settled
developed as this result of the passage through the different domains
race has produced a culture founded on intellect the next stage will
perfect accord with this. Let me read just one more passage that is
Notes and references: The following passage is from Lecture VI of
Life. There are pages in Tolstoy's writings where with an

Title: Lecture: On The Three Magi
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In the Egyptian Mystery-language, the bodies of men were called the
In the language of esotericism, myrrh is the symbol of dying, of

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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training, changes and stages of inner awareness, the role of love in
aim to raise to a higher stage this human capacity for knowledge. So
it is quite correct if one from a lower stage of knowledge says that
known. One can, however, raise oneself above this stage of knowledge
and press on to a higher stage, so that it becomes possible to know
what at a lower stage was impossible. This is the essence of
task of the initiation schools. This means raising man to a stage of
In all ages there have been
themselves, who have soared above the lower stages of the human
our being led through certain methods to the higher stages of
refer to the stages that here concern us. Certain stages of knowledge
have really pondered every single step, every single stage. And one
advice. Whoever has gone through a certain stage of learning, and has
stages.
attained to an image of God, that which has arrived at the highest
stage in man, is the human physical body, that which we can see with
with blurred outline. Thus, we have in this aura an image of what is
very low stage of development and has never worked on himself —
let us say a savage — has the aura which nature has
into the Lemurian age, in which man had already had warm blood
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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training, changes and stages of inner awareness, the role of love in
the general religion of the age. I must stress this because when
requires particular clarification in our age of standardization, when
forms the basis for the greatest advantages and greatest achievements
feeling that he has an advantage over me. Try to live your way into
you have an advantage over mankind. You are pure within
sequence decreasing. Yet even in the higher stages of animal
life of mental images which is related to, or even part of, dream
dreams in a regular manner, then we are at the stage where truth
becomes transparent for us. The first stage is called
before us. The next stage is “imaginative cognition.” It
stage is that in which a consciousness, which is as a rule completely
electricity, so the average person does not understand the
large percentage of today's human beings was previously much further
mirror-image of his surroundings in a most significant way.

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun
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on printed pages in this way.
common to Nature and to the human being. I refer to that passage in
life again a mood which filled men's hearts in an age when wisdom
— to use words which are connected in nearly every language with the
our age of materialistic thinking this is an event to which we no
physical, all bodily life on Earth had reached the stage of animality
only. The highest kingdom upon the Earth had only reached a stage at
moment in the evolution of mankind was celebrated by the sages of all
stages of development but not at all in the way that materialistic
In those remote ages — and this is contrary to what modern science
This truth is utterly lost to the materialism of the age. Those who do
followed a previous Sun Age. So it is with the human soul. The soul
house in which he then lives. But in those remote ages the soul could
human body are outraged by man's passions and cravings! Those who have
‘Thou art the image of what the soul born within thee has yet to
in all its glory to the sages of old. And again, in the Christian
in all ages and wherever there was consciousness of these things, men
The first stage is attained when a man's ordinary feeling and thinking
of the Middle Ages created the figure of Barbarossa, ravens were his
Those who had reached the second stage of Initiation were known as
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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training, changes and stages of inner awareness, the role of love in
and Its Stages:
movement, which must still develop upwards from its initial stage. It
individuality, the occupation, and the age of the pupil, the teacher
language is spoken in symbols. Language is nothing but a
claims to view every object objectively, must make use of language,
in which human language is founded. Such deep natures as Paracelsus
for studying the imaginative significance of language through
The pupil must find for himself such symbols in language. In this way
The images which are peeled off from the physical objects
hideous human faces. This first experience represents a mirror-image
objective reality that he has seen, but a mirror-image of his own
everything appears as a mirror-image. The pupil can, for this reason,
mirroring of his own being. The mirror-image of a passion does not
quite manageable — but it is something quite different
definite occult sign-language. Let us take the following as an
sign-language, which is learned as occult script, is nothing other
rose. When you connect the petals of the rose's image, you get a
the astral sign-language. Take an ancient astral symbol, Mercury's
Man reaches three stages
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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training, changes and stages of inner awareness, the role of love in
gives him precise instruction when he has begun to reach the stage of
individual images belonging to it.
veiled by a sum of images, the incarnations of the rays of light
stage where the human body can stand before us just as inwardly
evolutions. In the ages of which we have spoken, physical man as yet
In every age the formation of a human organ took place parallel with
for the reasoning faculties was formed in the Atlantean age,
We live in a barbaric age,
in a chaotic age, in an age devoid of style. All great epochs of art
images of the Greek gods one plainly sees three distinct types: first
Middle Ages it was still a time when this came to expression in
created. The modern age is entirely different; it has brought forward
instance, Cologne Cathedral — were for the Middle Ages of
Gothic buildings of the Middle Ages. New life comes to its expression

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture II
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of the human mental image or idea. This reflection arises only
because outer things call forth mental images in the human senses,
image. There is one thing perceptible to man for which no outer
sculpture and painting, the mental images must be combined before the
shadow-image, a precipitation of the astral world in the physical
at the end of the Atlantean age. [A note in the
understand why music has been elevated throughout the ages to the
experiences the image of a higher world.

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shadow-image of the Devachanic life is given to us on the physical
us imagine ourselves back in a distant age, the Lemurian age.
body. During that age, the “I” gradually united with
language, what lives in the physical body consists of earth, water
the Lemurian age, a time long before the seven members of man had
must keep in mind this point in time from the Lemurian age. It was a
continued from the Lemurian to the Atlantean age. In the Lemurian
age, body and soul came in contact with each other only in the
element of warmth. At the beginning of the Atlantean age, something
Lemurian age, it had progressed only as far as “fire”;
at the outset of the Lemurian age, so up to now all creatures had
next stage will bring about the soul's descent into the fluid
stage of evolution in the distant future.
develop in the future to the stage of the ear, for in the ear we have

Title: Lecture: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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Its rays an image of man's efforts render;
Christmas Mystery is mirrored. In all ages these words resounded in
outer, pictorial expression of the highest Mysteries. This imagery has
been preserved through the ages, varying in form according to the
things of the earth with his outer senses; he evolves to the stage
at the midnight hour of the Holy Night. The picture imaged forth the
nativity was the legend of the three Priest-Sages, the Three Kings.
something echoing from primeval ages. It has come over to us in the
imagery belonging to Christianity. The symbols of Christianity are
immemorial. In the Middle Ages it was still in the fore ground
At that time man understood the language of nature. To-day he no
star that all wise men follow, as did the Priest-Sages of old. It

Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: Lecture 2: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
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damage. They are so strong that no one can kill them. You will of
we see the images of the intellectual soul as constructive female
what is behind the object or the lily; it would be a “marriage,”
stage where the human being had only the sheath of the ego. We see
strength, and as we see their forms in images according to their
rough strength that we ourselves possessed when we were at the stage
incidents of our inner life appear to us as mirror-images of events
comes to him in the image of the “magic horse.” In the
There are indeed beings who have remained at the stage of the rough
my three daughters to those who first ask for them in marriage, that
demand as wages the youngest foal and a saddle. Say to the old woman:
herself from side to side with rage.
time the task is a little more difficult, but we shall manage it. I
dragons at the fire; the theme of cleverness; the marriage theme (the
place. They appeared in the most varied languages, and we can note

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture II: Christianity in Human Evolution: Leading Individualities and Avatar Beings
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present general cosmic truths in their initial stage in as
go back in time to the most ancient Lemurian Age, we find the
most varied stages of development among the human beings then
thirty years of age. This Being, who did not come into
missions, we want to avoid speculative language and take a
language, but this does not mean that the language in
himself with the language. In this same way, an exalted
however, had the effect that the Christ image was no longer
Ages is whether what was woven into their souls from the
to work in the following age and brought about the real
the Middle Ages from the eleventh through the sixteenth
centuries. There are people today who look up passages in
of the Middle Ages not preceded them. These modern scientists
Middle Ages. That is the reality, and it is from that science
Middle Ages. Everything used today to combat Christianity so
learning in the Middle Ages. Actually, today there cannot be
Middle Ages. If one considered that fact, one would indeed
three stages of physical, etheric, and astral development,
Ages with his astral capacity to cognize truth. Then
into itself, thereby rising to ever higher stages of

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investigation. But because thinking in the modern age lacks
all courage, this doctrine is proclaimed only by Spiritual
of knowledge, Spiritual Science has an advantage over other
And why not? It is because in the course of the ages
the damage that such worries and cares have inflicted upon
— give us courage and strength so that we say to
maya, illusion. Then came the ages that issued a
who also belong to the Sun. But an age is approaching when my
ages, the soul was able to gaze into the beyond. It has now
from ancient ages could be further developed, and all that
fruit of the heritage bequeathed to humanity beginning with
spiritual principle, within his own soul. In the age of
spirituality of preceding ages while at the same time
the Holy Rishis, having absorbed them stage by stage in seven
world. This is reflected in that passage of the New Testament
certain age for a purpose. Likewise, the great impulses in
new birth into the new incarnation. And now, in our own age,
present age to those who have already attained a high level

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 1: The Mission of Spiritual Science
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age.
being of man and other such questions that must closely engage human minds
towards the outlook of the coming age. I shall be naming an individual of
following words: Man in his essence is an image of the Divine.
men say in those earlier ages about the external world? Can we suppose that
remodeled from stage to stage until he has become what he is today. But he is
nature were at first asleep within him, and have awakened by stages in the
image of the spiritual world, what, then, is this spiritual world?
compared with any message from the outer world. Kant called it the
he adds that from his own experience he has courageously gone through this
These are stages of the soul's
with only in restricted circles; they concern us all, at whatever stage of
them as images expressing a real knowledge of the spiritual world. They are
talk and must talk in straightforward language, it would be impossible to
express in our terms what the souls of the old sages or initiates received,
the Middle Ages, we find certain outstanding persons saying: we have certain
this can lead a person on by stages into the spiritual world. Then, when he
essence is an image of the Godhead.

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becomes man in the true sense and is able to progress from stage to stage. It
body, and will lead the etheric and physical bodies on to ever-higher stages.
control of himself and engage in wild, immoral and loveless behaviour? If we
and an ascent to higher stages of the Ego comes within reach. The outstanding
stages, truth should be loved and valued from the start. An inward
devotion to truth leads man upwards from stage to stage? The opposites of
for it, the soul can be impelled to rise from stage to stage. Since there is
tree. No-one could form a true image of the tree from this one photograph.
about Nature is only a passive image; in our thinking it has lost its power.
stage in life. It fills him with joy when he is able to grasp truths of this
On the side of Prometheus, the stage is loaded with tools and implements
Epimetheus, the reflective thinker, we see the heritage of the past, brought
deep comprehension of the myth by endowing the marriage of Epimetheus and
them from supposing that by reaching a certain stage they have done enough

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form to its present stage. We cannot say this of the human soul, for the soul
active agent. The soul must feel that, having developed to a certain point,
from within the Sentient Soul. Man has progressed from this stage to higher
At this stage,
goes through ascending and declining stages. Childhood and youth are stages
acts as a seed which comes to fruition in old age as strength for active
fostered under the right guidance will lead to a weak and powerless old age.
feel in youth returns to us as strength for living in old age, and if we turn
mystics of all ages, together with Goethe, have spoken of the unknown,

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 6: Asceticism and Illness
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Middle Ages; and for many people the word has the flavour that Schopenhauer
the postulate that at no stage in the evolution of mankind is it justifiable
can know at a certain stage in his evolution; or what the boundaries of
knowledge are at that stage; or what remains hidden because at that time
soul. What we cannot know at one stage of development we may know later, when
world. The external world gives us mental images, and we call them true if we
senses and yet can give us truth. One of the first stages towards this form
men; but on a lower level a plant has certain advantages. It has certainty of
been added since the plant stage he must look on as something to be
a flower in which the sap, rising up continuously, stage by stage, through
Picture the red rose as an image of your blood when your blood has been
feelings gives us an image of human life raised to the level of a higher
on one's own soul, this development of the soul to the stage of perceiving a
is quite in keeping with the original Greek usage. The deployment and testing
intermediate stages: for example, play. Play, when it really is play, is the
ages.
That is the way of many ascetics in the Middle Ages: they kill the vigour of
“asceticism” in the Middle Ages. It leads to estrangement from
the world and is bound to do so. For at the present stage of human evolution
the outer world, and if we are to rise above this stage we can do so only by
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 7: Human Egoism
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his own advantage and the enhancement of his own personality, while its
This passage is
displays to the world its own image, mirrored from within himself; and Nature
would rejoice if she could perceive in the human soul this reflected image of
egoism progresses to a certain stage, and how it then destroys and surrenders
light, there would be no eyes. Through endless ages, as Goethe says, the
advantages of human progress, he fails to place at the service of mankind the
about by his own efforts this development in himself. At a certain stage he
itself. A man who exerts his will only for himself and his own advantage will
depicting, in the peculiar life of Wilhelm Meister, a kind of mirror-image
of his own life, and it was in his old age, when he was nearing his
Art itself is, in a certain sense, an image of life. It is not part of
by Goethe in his old age. He referred to Madame von Stael's comment that all
has reached a certain stage in its existence. She is not yet a fully human
stage to stage.
Finally, she is led to a remarkable stage in her life. One day she says to
physical senses as external image recedes and becomes purely spiritual
regards this as a kind of highest stage. And it is characteristic of Goethe
higher stage. He was to be shown that a man cannot do enough to develop in
the entire range of wisdom and can survey it from his vantage-point!
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circles: the questions put by King Milinda to the Buddhist sage, Nagasena.
never been defeated by a sage, being always able to repulse any objections
own, we find that we must look beyond them to some invisible agency which
death, as he had seen them in the sick man, the aged man and the corpse. For
he said to himself: “What is life worth if old age, sickness and death
he summarised in the words: Birth is suffering, old age is suffering, illness
forth in ever-higher stages of perfection, until, permeated by the spirit,
transition stage. The old clairvoyance has been lost, and what we now are has
be interpreted: Men are now at the stage where they are beggars for the
because evolution has brought them to that stage. They are indeed not
spirit of all this is presented by Goethe in his Faust just as in old age he
admit, that the closing passage, when the redeemed soul is borne aloft, was
very difficult to manage. With such super-sensible, hardly imaginable things I
outlined figures and images from the Christian Church to give the requisite

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 9: Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
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outrage that speculations, with this brilliant model available as a
condensed into a few pages as his meteorology.
itself. Then the ego develops further and the soul advances to the stage of
have a rhythm corresponding to the moon's. During earlier stages of the
stages of evolution. Man advanced from unconsciousness to his present state
lowered that they revert to an earlier stage of evolution, and the old

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture One: On the Investigation and Communication of Spiritual Truths
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
engaged since last year.
also to translate into the language of present-day culture
modern age we should not find so many people unable to
possible aspect of the great facts of existence. The age in
the language of ordinary human consciousness.
observation but has never clothed them in the language of
language which, in any given period, is the language of a
them fruitful for their fellow-men. Our age needs such wisdom
advantage is gained by individuals — except perhaps a merely
nobody imagine that he gains any advantage over his
or egoism would be of no advantage. It is also easy to
courage. Courage of the kind necessary for spiritual progress
amends for the damage we have done.
of the day, for the whole character of our age needs such an

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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
idea of how the human race has evolved through the ages. It
also studies the stages of development in evidence among
savages or uncivilised peoples, starting from the assumption
that these peoples are now at the stage of culture attained
Anthropology forms an idea of the various stages through
by man in daily life become unclear, just as villages and
more cautious in translating into the language of ordinary
stage at which spiritual vision is possible, he has only the
certain stage of evolution have no eyes. This is confirmed by
Unless the ‘I’ could confront itself as an image
in a mirror, even though the image is only a point, we could
return it confronts itself as a mirror-image. Such is the
carry an image within us of the smell. The same is true of a
colour we have seen; the pictures or images which come from
characteristic feature of all these pictures or images is
Images and pictures if this kind arise in the astral
distinguishes the images or pictures we derive from the
sense-world from the rest of our inner experiences? Images
derived from the sense-world can remain with us as images of
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
undergoes in the seven ‘ages’ or periods of his
man of the present age. The regularity apparent in the first
present in the Old Indian epoch as a heritage from still
and when, in the Middle Ages, the art of printing was added
the Middle Ages, when a minstrel was reciting the
expressed by a triangle — a triangle taken as an image of
had managed to get on without any system of Logic. Had they
brought down to the physical plane. Now, in this later age,
a comparatively early stage and spiritual life must flow as a

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Four: The Symbolic Language of the Macrocosm in the Gospel of St. Mark
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF THE MACROCOSM IN
awaken forces slumbering in his soul, how each higher stage
was related to the one below, until at the stage of
soul and revealed its mysteries. At this stage he gazed into
details. The candidates were led stage by stage to the point
with the same stages, differed in details among the peoples
openly on the stage of world-history and would enter more and
been described by specifying the stages passed through in
to make the most important passages to some extent
meaning of the original language. The words should not merely
understood the inherent character of the language in current
use. Language at that time was not as abstract, dry and
language was particularly rich in this respect, even when the
Hebrew — a language of outstanding grandeur among the others
partly because in the ancient Hebrew language the vowels were
the language of the Gospel texts — this was no longer the
the passages in the Greek texts. Later on I will give you
significant passage occurring at the beginning of the Gospel
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Five: The Two Main Streams of Post-Atlantean Civilisation
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
ages there have been certain leading figures among men who,
with the spiritual worlds can be envisaged if we think of the
followed the evolution of man through four stages. Three of
these stages have been concluded and we are living now in the
existence and in the present stage of Earth-evolution his
stage of development to-day man has no consciousness of his
precisely in the fact that at the first stage of his
body and at the final stage of attainment he had perforce to
do severe damage to his astral body, but less damage has been
stages reached by the Buddha as he penetrated through his own
being. Of these stages he himself says: When I had attained
the stage of Illumination — that is to say, when he could
risen through many stages. Through the illumination known as
higher spiritual Being. This is not poetic imagery but a
through its own merits had reached as lofty a stage of
an earlier age of life.
would see grotesque, fantastic images and forms, said by
world he would reach a higher stage and would see what is

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Six: The Son of God and the Son of Man. The Sacrifice of Orpheus
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
the scribes.’ — To a man of the present age, however
grasp the meaning of this significant passage we shall be led
a passage such as this we must remind ourselves of what we
Exousiai upwards. Language and current modes of thought
concerns the soul and spirit only — language, current modes
the art of the ages. Suppose we have been deeply moved by the
image, came down in ancient Lemurian times to this world of
remembrance breaks off at this point, the most favourable age
the opening stage, was a preparation for the Christ Event and
the modern age were to encounter a figure such as Orpheus, he
world. In keeping with the nature of the age in which he
messages to them from the spiritual worlds.
stage of consciousness which the child leaves behind — the
stage the developed human ‘I’ is not yet present.

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Seven: The Higher Members of Man's Constitution
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
Naturally there are any number of intermediate stages between
thoughts, this deed always casts a reflected image, a
single deed we perform an image, a picture, is left in the
astral body. This image subsequently imprints itself on the
images held in the astral body which react upon the whole
dies. On the other hand, reflected pictures or images
life as courage, confidence, balance. These qualities work
modern age are due not to the fact that these individuals
I am referring here to the passage where Faust's
tragedy, where death is enacted before our eyes, we feel that

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eight: Laws of Rhythm in the Domain of Soul-and-Spirit.
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
shortage of ideals and programmes for the good of humanity.
ideal human happiness. Above all there is no shortage of
concerned! All this is deeply characteristic of our age.
body. Now as a rule it will be harmful if at this stage a man
through these last three stages before it becomes fully
understand a passage such as this, which has special
passage which does not occur in the other Gospels and is
passage where we are told that after Christ Jesus had chosen
we are justified in regarding the passage as particularly
through by the whole of mankind in the course of the ages. In
understand this we need only look carefully at one passage in
in the other Gospels. Here is the passage in St. Mark's
any of the usual versions of this passage but giving an
or less how we must understand the above passage in the
present age we can be inspired in a special way by the
age of the development of the Consciousness or Spiritual Soul
We know too that in our age primary attention should not be
a higher stage when it becomes the Cosmic Word, the
physiological sense, is at a higher stage than the muscles.
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Nine: The Moon-Religion of Jahve and its Reflection in Arabism
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
passages quoted in the last lecture, to the effect that we
stage. Many such impulses work in the world in the same
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Arabism. At this point in evolution the age of Greece —
stream. With this tributary stream our own age has a
of Buddhism. So after the age of Goethe there was a revival
Buddhism that has progressed to further stages of
we contemplate the Buddha at the further stage of his
Middle Ages, namely, the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat. Its
Judasaph, Budasaph. Until a certain age Josaphat lived in his
that in the Middle Ages something was added that cannot be
common usage is simply useless. Facts themselves will force
remarkable contrast between two naturalists of the modern age
inherited from past ages no longer suffice.

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Ten: Rosicrucian WIsdom in Folk-Mythology
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the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main
Copenhagen
reveal. No matter whether you are an artist or are engaged in
but in a new form. I am going to read you a passage written
the theosophical spirit in 1847. The passage is from his
influence has been taking effect for long ages, becoming more
stages of the soul's development and how it can rise to
the Earth in order to rise to a higher stage. We have also
village to village, from city to city, proclaiming the
an aged man and asked him where the Flower-Queen lived.
‘I cannot tell you,’ the aged man replied,
aged man. He asked him: ‘Can you tell me where the
Flower-Queen lives?’ But the aged man replied: ‘I
Then he saw seven other dragons around her, all eager to
They gave their message in the form of a story about a
in order that he might rise to a higher stage. To what stage
horse. In other words: the tumults which rage in the human
age we say that man must learn how his passions, his anger
created its imagery were filled with the living spirituality
He uses the Platonic image of a rider on horseback — an
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Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: Lecture 1: The Poetry of Fairy Tales
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instance, the most awe-inspiring tragic drama. In a tragedy, the poet
ordeals and shocks of tragedy. We find that the tangled threads woven
soul. A tragedy, we feel, shows us how an individual is entangled in
than the complexities of tragedy. For one thing, we can feel that
tragedy concerns itself — as do other artistic creations —
with an individual who in a certain period of life, at a certain age,
children in their early years to persons of middle age and even to
engaged in a battle that the spiritual researcher can catch only to a
fairy tale images arise. The nourishment that satisfies the hunger we
understanding them. The soul formed these into pictures and images
her own anchorage in divine worlds.
Soul, are still at such an imperfect stage — but there is
evolution of the world our earth has passed through certain stages as
a planet in the universe, and these stages can be compared to the
stages of life in the individual human being. Just as individuals go
planetary stages or embodiments. In spiritual science, for certain
stage began — as having a “moon” stage and before
that, a “sun” stage. There was a sun evolutionary period
as a planetary pre-stage of our earth in the primordial past; an
later stage — it split away. The moon also split away from what
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Zweiter Vortrag, Berlin, 4. November 1913
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aufgefaßt wird. Wenn wir skizzenhaft sprechen, können wir also sagen: Ein
sich oft sagen — , das
sozusagen betrachtet hatten und dann den fliehenden
künftigen Vortrage mitteilen
Palästinas aufgeschlagen hatte.
erreichen, daß sie sich sozusagen
charakterisieren, daß wir sagen: Der Essäer versuchte
Eines Tages, als er die Versammlung der
sagen mußte: Ja, da ist eine
nicht eine solche war, die jeder Mensch in jeder Lage des
Das sage ich, damit Sie sich eine
heute zum Schlüsse sagen — die Mitteilungen über dieses Fünfte Evangelium
noch nicht vertragen, kann sie nicht vertragen. Und in der
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Dritter Vortrag, Berlin, 18. November 1913
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hörte also sozusagen aus den geistigen Welten jene Stimme,
waren. Denn von allen drei Erkenntnissen mußte er sich sagen: Sie könnten da sein,
Evangelium, daß der Jesus sich sagen konnte, bevor er
den Essäern sagen müssen, daß so, wie die Essäer zu einer
Art von Wahnsinnszustand entgegenging. Die Mutter dagegen fand
zwölften bis sechzehnten oder achtzehnten Jahre zugetragen
sagte darauf, daß zum Beispiel Hillel dagewesen sei,
heraus, ich habe eine wichtige Frage an dich! —
mich zu fragen? — Da sagte der Betreffende, der
Hillel, ich habe eine wichtige Frage an dich. Warum haben manche Leute unter den Babyloniern
Geh nun, deine Frage ist beantwortet. — Und Hillel
habe eine wichtige Frage, die sogleich beantwortet werden
zu dem Fragenden: Was ist es
für eine Frage? — Und der Betreffende
antwortete: Ach, Hillel, sage mir doch,
sie nur ertragen, wenn man mit
mein Sohn, denn deine wichtige Frage ist beantwortet.
heraus, ich habe eine wichtige Frage, die sogleich beantwortet
beantworte mir doch die Frage: Warum haben denn so manche Leute in der Nähe
mein Sohn, deine Frage ist beantwortet. — Und er
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Vierter Vortrag, Berlin, 6. Januar 1914
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Johannestaufe im Jordan zugetragen hat. Was ich zu erzählen habe, sind Tatsachen, die sich dem
Wesen, das jetzt als Jesus von Nazareth aus einem, man möchte sagen, unbestimmten
der man sagen kann: in ihrer Seele war tiefste Verzweiflung.
Frage an mich gestellt würde,
Frage. Denn die Frage, die da an mich gestellt
Frage des Jesus von Nazareth: Wozu hat der Weg deiner
abgeschlagen.
werden konnte, wurde abgeschlagen.
nicht völlig abgeschlagen. Und diese Tatsache, daß
zusammenzutragen, wie es sich aus der okkulten Forschung
Tages zu verlassen und hinauszuziehen, um das kennenzulernen, wonach es ihn treibt. Und dann wird
Männer fischten. Und auf die Frage, die er
ein Mahl aufgetragen. Bei jedem Gange wurde
diese Schale vorübergetragen und in das Nebenzimmer
fragen. Daher fragte er auch jetzt nicht nach dem, was
Morgen fragen. Aber als er aufwachte, da war das ganze
getreten ist, hat er zu fragen
hätte fragen müssen,
zusammengehangen hat mit dem Fragen
er vor uns, daß wir uns sagen:
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Fünfter Vortrag, 13. Januar 1914
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Mensch sozusagen im Gange der Ewigkeit seine Entwickelung finden kÃ¶nne.
herausentwickelt der eine der Elohim, Jahve oder Jehova. Man mÃ¶chte sagen, wie die
Regierung, kÃ¶nnte man sagen, und daß der Mensch, der sich seines rechten
fragen sich dann: Wie kÃ¼ndigen
doch sozusagen die
man sozusagen nicht nach oben, sondern nach dem
gegenÃ¼berzutreten. Ich sage das jetzt nicht aus dem
ich sage es aus dem, was sich sonst ergeben
schlecht geworden. Nur diejenigen Tiere sind gut geblieben, sind sozusagen im Stadium der
Fischen hinzuwerfen, die sie dann weiter zu tragen
zu eurem Vorfahren, Kinder des Abraham. Ich sage
sozusagen immer nÃ¤her und nÃ¤her zur
kein Mensch sagen kann.
althebrÃ¤ische Altertum sozusagen den Protest
wird uns das zeigen, in welchem Sinne der Christus Jesus sozusagen dem
das zu sagen, was ich nun werde zu
sagen haben; aber es kÃ¶nnte das auch
sozusagen nichts mehr ererben konnte
Jesus bei der Johannestaufe im Jordan sagen konnte: Da kam aus der Ã¼berirdischen
Grundlage dessen, was man vererben kann, das ist Johannes der
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Sechster Vortrag, Berlin, 10. Februar 1914
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fassen in der Lage sind, wahrhaftig
bekommen, die sie nur zu fassen in der Lage sind nach
wesentlichen die Anlage zu seinen Sinnen hatte.
könnte sagen,
damals noch in den geistigen Welten war. Wenn man von dem Palästina-Ereignis sagen
Christus-Ereignis sagen, es verseelte sich in
in Sagen und Mythen sich erhalten haben, in der rechten Weise zu verstehen, sie sozusagen
bedeutsamer Weise, man möchte sagen, in
Bedeutung des Ereignisses von Golgatha selber fragen:
steht andererseits da das Sibyllentum, jenes Sibyllentum, von dem wir sagen
also hat herbeigetragen werden
einige Tage verbunden bleibt mit seinem Ätherleibe und
unserer Seele in uns getragen haben bis zu unserem
man sagen, die ganze Stufenleiter von guten
anschauen, noch etwas ganz Besonderes sagen. Wir können uns sagen: Hast du
daß dieser Ätherleib, der sich da auflöst, eigentlich, man könnte sagen,
die Tücher ringsherum lagen. So
der Beschreibung des leeren Grabes in ihren Lagen
was auf der Erde erlangt worden ist, zum Jupiter hinübergetragen würde: wenn nicht
hinübergetragen würde, was
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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training, changes and stages of inner awareness, the role of love in
“My efforts have enabled me to provide a stage on which
threshold without “bag or baggage,” without being
not wish to lay bag and baggage aside. The whole soul, with
zealous meditation. But it is also possible for a man to encourage
in public lectures by saying that the second stage is reached by
reach this through giving oneself up to a particular image, an
especially fervent image which speaks about dissolving oneself
digestive processes, at a certain stage of digestion. Such a man may
reached a stage where he must acquire such concepts as these, so that
ancient heritage. They must now gradually acquire concepts in
for him if it occurred as the result of illness or old age.
the courage of the fighters,

Title: Lecture IV: WHITSUN: A Symbol of the Immortality of the Ego
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certain matters bearing on the needs of the age, for our recent
through death. If one were speaking in an age more alive to the
emerge from the grievous events of this age will depend very largely
intensity the need of the age for new strength to be infused into the

Title: Social Forms: Address: On the Occasion of the General Meeting of the Berlin Branch
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one, for example, of an official personage in the German
awaken the souls and make them receptive to the language
what must be appealed to in this age. Have we not been active
Sozialen Organismus und zur Zeitlage;

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XVII: Consciousness of Pre-Existence
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included in the Church's philosophy in the Middle Ages, the
our language to express what is the truth in this area. If we
has been lost even in regard to language. And even insofar as
language is concerned, we must bring about the awareness that
child quite differently. We find that there are two stages in
the developing human being. The first stage is indicated by
the change of teeth around age seven. What does this change
the soul gradually emerges after age seven — the
organism. The same element that emancipates itself at age
age seven. You are looking at the same thing. Through birth,
until age seven. You do not have the foolish abstract
the tragedy of materialism — it becomes more and more
A second stage
incomprehensible how a certain age could once have come to
said: “Future ages
concepts are incompatible; if people had courage, the
Middle Ages and right into our time, one spoke only of
“catharsis” in Greek tragedy, a word that comes
place in the human soul when it watches a tragedy. Fear and
soul when it looks upon a tragedy is described as a healing

Title: Brotherhood and the Fight for Survival
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of the land. The Communities of Villages where the people lived had
Mutual help, as it lived in the old communities of villages, in the
individuals managed to gain large tracts of land and the people
oppression and we see in the Middle Ages a powerful movement for
Middle Ages. Those human beings who could not stand the bonded
circumstances in the Middle Ages developed in their way. We must
In those free cities during the Middle Ages one
was available. If we look at the wages of that time, in consideration
worker was paid can in no way be compared to the earning of wages
principle help in the Middle Ages. Much, which came about because of
each of the cities of the Middle Age and you find it everywhere
At that time, in the middle of the Middle Ages,
and a pragmatist at the same time it was during the Middle Ages. Even
developing under the principle of the intellect. In the Middle Ages a
Middle Ages expert knowledge and trust developed under the principle
Ages as an example in order to show you that the practical life
In our materialistic age one does not easily believe this, but in the
Spiritual Scientific World View, it is not only an image but in the
Middle Ages relate to our time and ours to the future one. The work
of the Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods of Middle Ages laid the

Title: Lecture: Easter
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countless ages, — worked creatively in nature in order
ultimately to build the crown of its agelong activity —
— the ages preceding his groping search for the cosmic

Title: Lecture: Manifestations of the Unconscious
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Everyone who is to some extent eager for
horses, or perhaps something else. Certain sense-images,
as such which appear, but the sense-image which has been
it in the soul that causes such different imagery to be
grotesquely comic image as an adjunct to the other content of
images which you have already connected together logically at
some time or which have been so connected by some agency in
which there are savage beasts intent upon devouring him. Then
fluids at the savage animals. They suddenly change into
expression as the savage beasts — being relaxed as a
spiritual world must be capable of expressing in images what
first stage of knowledge of the spiritual world,
‘Imaginative Cognition’. At that stage it is
realised that the images themselves are not the reality but
that through the images the reality is brought to expression.
These images must, of course, be shaped in accordance with
another, how images are given shape. This first stage of
They become more and more rational, and crazy images such as
another says that he was walking through a dark passage and
fact that we are living in the scientific age, with full
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Title: Raffaels Mission Im Lichte der Wissenschaft vom Geiste
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Raffaels eigenes Zeitalter gefolgt sind, bis in unsere Tage
bis in unsere Tage hereinzieht. Hat Herman Grimm so gezeigt,
sagen: auch die vorhergehenden Zeiten können einem aus dem
einmal getan hat, und ihn sozusagen von der Raumeswelt auf die
möchte man sagen, daß in einer gewissen Beziehung die
und Legende entsprungen sind. Daher möchte man sagen:
solchen hervorragenden Gestalten, wie Raffael eine ist. Und
Raffaels Schaffen ergeben hat. Und nicht weil es sozusagen eine
einzugehen. Das kann man nur, wenn man in der Lage ist, durch
studiert hat, sozusagen etwas von einem Gesamteindruck in der
Seele. Und dann mag man wohl fragen: Wie nimmt sich dieser
eigentümlichen Welt, von der man sagen kann, daß zwar
Sinnliche und das Seelisch-Geistige die Waage. Nicht mehr so
Griechentum noch die Waage. Daher kam es, daß das,
sinnliche Anschauung der Dinge wurden sozusagen zwei Welten,
darf sagen, wie durch einen mächtigen Einschnitt getrennt
Waage hält in bezug auf das Geistig-Seelische und auf das
Schönheit getragenen Christus am Kreuz. Das ist schon das
ist wieder, man möchte sagen in einer ganz besonderen
Betrachtung zu sagen habe, wie eine Art symbolischer
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 2-8-'13
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because we confront an object, look at it and make mental images of

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 11-17-'13
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things would be like if one's memory only went back to age ten.
value their physical body. And whereas men's courage will be
courage is growing in sensory life, inner courage will necessarily
that men could develop outer courage. But just as a compressed rubber
men's courage will want to turn to the attainment of knowledge of

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 1-24-'14
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there weren't other stages of development behind him.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 3-27-'14
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arose because the beings who went through their human stage on

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 4-25-'14
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Spirits of Form are as it were still at the childhood stage, but

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-5-10
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If a figure from past ages
an image appears before our soul, it dissipates as soon as we approach
it with our thoughts. But if it's a genuine image, it'll
the images that we've let work quietly tell us their

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-17-11
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really no thought, but the mirror image, the illusion of a thought.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 3-15-11
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courage and fearlessness. Then we can calmly let ourselves be grasped

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 6-12-11
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tragedy.
have been given to our age, and so it's our holy duty to check

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 10-30-11
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that hits us. This is the scourging stage in Christian initiation,
world is only an inverted mirror image of the astral world. A very important

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-7-12
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average person, but it shouldn't happen to an esoteric; he must

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-26-12
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Esoteric development must be different in different ages, otherwise
remain the same throughout the ages. For instance, we find that

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 3-22-12
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have been able to understand this image. Now it must be explained as
pupil should now replace the image of the golden calf with the image

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 4-24-12
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active up to age 33.
the fourth cultural age of the post-Atlantean epoch. This was
preceded by the Egyptian age in which the perfected Isis culture was
upbuilding and strengthening way until age 33. Although the mother

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture I: Aim and Being of Spiritual Research
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knowledge at the same time. However, every age must try to
of human development pass, you realise that from age to age the
these performances. If you have managed by these performances
People pilgrimaged to the sanitariums, and these pilgrimages
were much bigger than the real pilgrimages of other times.
pilgrimages than to baths and health resorts, namely such
pilgrimages which can lead the soul into the spiritual world
Ages. Today it is also impossible to develop the social living
outer economic conditions today in the age of mechanisation. He
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture II: The Human Being as Being of Soul and Spirit
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can only describe the letters that are printed on any page
others. An entire change of an image impression proceeds in the
sleeps concerning his ego in his present stage of development
from it that is not only a cognitive or perceptual image, but
also an image motivating the will.
realises how the cognitive image changes into a will image
either as a perceptual image or also as an image of feeling
which changes then into an image of will. Thus, you become able
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture III: Goethe as Father of Spiritual Research
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had to manage the phenomena of nature with mental pictures that
courageously while beholding nature? Goethe demands from the
wanted, actually, if one envisages the other side now that
arises for the soul life. If one envisages the metamorphosis of
the inner soul forces as Goethe envisaged the metamorphosis of
same concerning the spiritual world whose image is the human
view envisaged what reveals itself within the world of the
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture IV: Mind, Soul and Body of the Human Being
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a way that one envisages thinking, feeling, and willing.
speak another language than the spiritual researcher does.
Hungarian physician, politician) who envisages the awake
otherwise, in the consciousness. Thereby one can also envisage
Fortlage
perpetually. It is a weird, courageous assertion, which is to
Fortlage realises that that by which consciousness originates
destructive processes. Fortlage says, if the partial death that
perpetually. As to Fortlage the physical death only expresses
Hence, Fortlage can hypothetically conclude because he does not
course of the Middle Ages. Before a prejudice was an obstacle
As in the Middle Ages one did not want to permit that bodies
spiritual-scientific methods. As the Middle Ages got around
Ages that the nerves arise from the heart. Galilei said to a
while it envisages that what one can perceive with the senses;
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture V: Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
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envisage the cultural-historically interesting of this fact
image here in the physical body that, however, this
Hence, if you want to find the spiritual-mental in an image in
image of that in nature which is discovered in the
undifferentiated substance as an image of that what lives
we have the bodily counter-image of perceiving and imagining.
If we want to have a bodily counter-image of the emotional
life, one has to envisage the rhythmical life as it happens in
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courageous, but also adventurous lines of thought
you envisage this characterisation of the Americans by Wilson,
individualistic age with the turn of the fifteenth century
There begins the age of subjectivism in which we still live
out of the depths of the subject. Lamprecht divides this age
how a cultural age changes into the
and old age of the human being. Indeed, some historians were
an age to another around the turn of the fourteenth and
time the individualistic age. To spiritual-scientific research,
peoples. One has to envisage the general historical development
centuries B.C. This age from the seventh century before the
preceding age, the historical life of humanity especially
later individual age.
the old age. One could have believed that in the time before
development, not in the single life, maturity and age do mean.
properly if you do not envisage this difference between the
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special disposition: if he really envisages the material and
concerns that one has the inner courage to think the things
Everything that is expressed in the human language, in the
we envisage this, we can understand something else that,
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up once in any blurred way at a younger age
memories, these subconscious images point to something else, it
advantageous if one takes versatile mental pictures and tries
consciousness almost only spatial images are available, then
substantially, but only if one grasps it as a passage through a
easily kept from it. It is advantageous not to use mental
experiences of life in the later age. And vice versa: what the
relatively idiotic early in later age because the atomised will
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beholder of his own being could really manage to get out of his
imagery, an Imaginative world, and you also know that this
you face an imagery, not reality. While you advance somewhat
completely consciously. You realise that the whole imagery was,
development. This appears as hunger, and the counter-image of
called it in my book. If you beheld the spiritual counter-image
not manage with the consideration of the human being if one
qualities. What was through the whole Middle Ages a true horror
in the new experience. People lack this inner courage, but
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Age-old traditions were tottering during the Eighteenth
his view men were happier at a stage of nature than at their
present stage when they allowed their personality to decay in
we find him, even at the Karlsschule, engaged in reading
age had reached a dead end. The upper classes had lost all
by means of art. When he wrote his pamphlet on “The Stage
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Eighteenth Century and how the ideals of the Age of
liberation from age-old tradition goes still further. When
medieval man before the age of “Illumination”
His tragedy arises because he believes that he can restore the
work through many earlier stages — as the analogy of the
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mature by the ways in which average people come to feel
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similarly how Schiller, in all periods of his life, is engaged
conditions of ownership and vassalage in the Middle Ages. From
the confusion of his ideas concerning himself with the message
the caterpillar stage, we have a picture of human immortality.
pre-supposition of tragedy, “That things had to happen
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with bandaged eyes. When everything sensible has been
Erinyes of Greek tragedy are not originally avenging Furies but
we are to feel tragedy in this sense, we must eliminate the
language marks the situation. He is set within an iron
of tragedy, which arose from religion. In the primitive drama
There was a passage from the representation of the typical to
developed these ideas further in his Birth of Tragedy from
employ the usual language but a language sublimated by
time, and developed Greek tragedy along those lines. He wanted
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sense that Hebbel meant, when he said that tragedy must have
which put the suffering, dying and resurgent god on the stage
Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, in which he
language. The direction which art followed in the Wagner circle
tragedy of destiny in a new form. There must be something in
into his tragedy; and the way in which he does it shows him as
What holds us all in bondage, the common trivial.
up our hearts; he gives us courage for action, a never-failing
Our memories of Schiller arouse in us courage and gladness.
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Nevertheless, the language held at the celebrations in 1859 was
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Schiller is not for a materialistic age, and if we appeal to
his views in such an age, we are only playing with words. Thus
has grown up between the spirit of the age in which Schiller
lived and that of our own age: — indeed a recent
biographers, but the feeling of the age has become a stranger
earlier age, a Raphael or Michelangelo, grew up out of the life
Schiller. Our age has lost the intense passion to penetrate
this age of ours is to understand Schiller properly, it must
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the age when men copied the divine in their art. Schiller felt
very hard to establish it. It was only at a later age of
and in the Middle Ages we can see how morality separated off
acts virtuously of himself. Earlier in his The Stage as a
objective, divine image of the world, and create for himself a
we nowadays call spiritualism engaged men's attention. In
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passed by since Bertha von Suttner envisaged this book about the
battle of life, that can gain the greatest advantage over their
which, we must clearly envisage in. order to grasp the
would be the same as if the human soul were to wage war upon
that the plants, as species, are also engaged in a
seemed to pervade the old village communities; which
the same stage on which I am standing now, or he will do so one
individuality is upon a higher stage the same as the group-soul
outside upon the. physical plane. Along the stages of
practical life, because it envisages what lives within the
only s p e a k of peace, not only envisage it abstractly
which envisages this. But Christianity contains even more
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conceivable degree. And if one engages oneself with these
speak two different languages when they come to speak about the
counter images can be found within the nerve mechanism. And if
feeling as such and considers it merely as an appendage to
Franz Brentano relies upon such things as this: that language
language the word “will” appears as an attribute of
of the will, the passage within the soul's life to outward
nervous system is unquestionably engaged. And that which occurs
wonderfully projected image of the soul's realm, of the life of
images, arise of themselves.
either gives his attention to the mental images which arise
world whether we form mental images about it or not; the world
images. Ziehen says in consequence: Feelings are merely tones,
immediately with the mental image of the movement and follows
mental images to the body is as I have described it for sense
spiritual science shows that forming mental images is connected
is a faithful after image of the human soul's life itself. If I
yet available to us in our language and one can, therefore,
head, is a faithful reflected image of the life of the soul as
the projected mirror image of the human life of soul, which is
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form mental images or concepts about what matter actually is;
forming mental images, ceases. It is just by letting the spirit
the spirit. Nature builds the reflected image of the spirit, in
life of forming mental images, to be able to penetrate into
of forming mental images belong with the human nervous system,
passage from his book
result or the after-image of that inner bodily presence, which
Deinhardt had written to quote a passage from a letter which
involved, so that she or he never is engaged in a mere
after-image of the spirit, a dead after-image of the spirit,
themselves, but also engages itself with what is left behind in
ages will need much cleverness to explain as an historical
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Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture I
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this age of materialism a man is said to be ill when anything abnormal
evolution, a product of the post-Grecian age. For in the. Greece of
ages up to the last two or three centuries B.C. Such matters as these
materialistic age, than the promise of a paradise on earthy And if
life of mankind. We have often spoken hero about what in past ages of
what a past age, out of the assumptions of the time, accepted for the

Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture II
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speak of man's earthly pilgrimage without referring to the spiritual
result of the special character of our present age, the age which began
something. Our whole understanding is just a mass of reflected images.
reflected images, can provide no substance for our spiritual life. And
Actually in the age we live in very little is known either of the
reflected images, the man of the nineteenth century was debarred from
present age. What these foolish psycho-analysts are unable to find,
face of the great demands of the age. That passivity must be overcome.
these arising images. This can be understood only if we remember
permanent dying, so mankind in a past age, even up to the time of the
man is so proud, intellect which lives merely in images, then by reason
replying: “But if we discourage this intellectual cleverness, if
“then there would be no need to repair the damage it does.”
in an age when thinking is made up merely of images, lives merely in
images. But images are not there without something to act as reflector
also nothing but images dependent on the body, for that is not so. What
be explained materialistically. Though composed of images it is
images. This can be done not only by becoming clairvoyant — as I
the light of present events. But in this intellectual age, when people
nineteenth oentury; people were living in images.; and images have no

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture I
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of spiritual matters who have reached a more advanced stage. This must
gentle. The speech of these beings has not that aridity of human language
of the thoughts in words, but thoughts themselves flow in a gentle language
others who seem to be their reverse side; savage, horrible beings who
as greedy for plunder and engaged in conflict with each other. According
path of occult development to ever higher stages of knowledge learns
ultimate stage in the liver. The forces which he receives like a fire

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture II
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stages of our Earth's evolution, you will realize that what in
stages earlier, what is contained in the sun today had a planetary existence
ask me: What, then, happens when a fixed star evolves to a further stage?
to further stages of life in the cosmos. We shall of course understand
to the stage where union is again possible with the sun — after
sun. During the stage of Earth-existence itself, the earth will reunite
from the sun. But during the Jupiter-stage there must again be a separation.
on Venus are sun-beings — actually at a higher stage than the
beings of the present sun. What, then, is the further stage of such
there arises, as a still higher stage of evolution, something that in
today call a “Zodiac” — it is the stage higher than
stars lie like bodies embedded in it — then a higher stage is
reached, the stage of Zodiac-existence. The forces which work from a
Zodiac upon a planetary system themselves evolved, in former ages,
in a planetary system and have advanced to the stage of a Zodiac.
evolutions in an age which, speaking in the sense of occult astronomy,
to a higher stage after having themselves passed through a planetary
the stage had arrived when they gradually began again to ascend. We
attain to the stage at which they too can become ascending forces.
stages of Saturn, Sun, Moon, had reached the fourth planetary condition,
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an age which in a remarkable way is full of hope for the theosophist.
language. When, for example, we can read in an American paper today
stage, as Sun. This Sun-condition brought the human being again further.
at very varied stages of evolution. They do not arise out of a nothingness,
have already passed through their human stage on Saturn and thus stand
are there who went through their human stage on the Sun, others who
did so on the Moon. The human being waited to go through his human stage
a series of different beings at different stages of evolution.
went through their human stage on the Sun, the “Fire-Spirits,”
They went through their human stage in a different external form. The
bodies. One can go through the human stage in cosmic evolution in the
at a higher stage than man went through it in a kind of watery condition.
had not yet reached the human stage.
certain stages of cosmic evolution. Let us take the Fire-Spirits. They
had already attained their human stage on the Sun, and now, on the Earth,
they are highly exalted beings, two stages above man. They are so advanced
standing two stages above man, were present in the primordial mist —
a furious tempo. Only such beings as stood two stages higher than man
go through an existence such as a human existence up to the age of seven,
standing at very varied stages of evolution, then you will understand
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of the ego in Lemurian Age. In the course of the Atlantean Age,
stages of evolution, and the human being. A lower creature has the warmth
have seen Saturn, for in the earliest stage it sent out no light at
stage higher than man can reach in the course of his evolution through
in hoary primitive ages of ancient Greece we find a myth that presents
spirit-man, to the eighth member. Now we must think of the next stage.
rudimentary stage, so that the ego, as it appears on Earth, is a
takes place in what we call the Lemurian Age, in the middle of earthly
evolution. In the Lemurian Age, in the course of long periods of time,
soft structure, even without cartilage, and was penetrated as if by
It means that they had not advanced to the stage where they could let
do. They still stood at the old Moon stage, when they worked with their
of Form, the ego-spirits, who were not at the stage of the Spirits of
permeated by the force of the incoming ego. The next stage is when the
Age. There still existed an old clairvoyance which no longer saw in
as it was transformed at the beginning of the Atlantean Age the intellectual
of the Lemurian Age a powerful impulse forwards was given through the
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Atlantean Age.
2. The etheric body opens: second third of the Atlantean Age.
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It is necessary to characterize these past ages too, and up to our present
a certain respect it is perfectly right for the ages of earthly evolution
Moon condition showed a watery stage of our substances in its earlier
today is to be clearly conscious that at every later stage of evolution
kind of Saturn stage, a repetition of the Saturn stage. Then we have
a kind of Sun evolution, a repetition of the Sun stage, then a kind
of Moon evolution, a repetition of the Moon stage, and only then really
stages of evolution. Their formation was essentially more diverse, more
this organ right into the third epoch, the Lemurian Age. I once told
one eye — went back to this stage. It was no real eye and to describe
in the second stage of its evolution. (All other aspects go parallel
That was the stage of our earthly evolution when the Sun was still in
a portion of the light-force. This was an interesting stage of humanity's
in the middle of the ancient Lemurian Age. We then have a human being
the rudimentary stage of breathing was produced by the air, light entered
the only articulated language, but man understood the speech of the
language and all that was expressed in it, formed the dance; tone, the
Atlantean Age man was penetrated by thoughts, by self-consciousness.

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how certain stages previously passed through are recapitulated at a
later stage, how, for instance, on our Earth a Saturn stage, a Sun,
a Moon stage gradually emerges and only then our earthly condition fully
rudiments of the blood. But as well during the second stage the blood-system
and, in the third stage, the glandular system was incorporated, the
And if we go still farther back, into the earliest ages of the Earth,
the great age attributed to the Patriarchs, to Adam and the succeeding
and so on. In primitive ages the separated personality had nothing of
in evolution the beings advance too; they who are united with the stages
of planetary evolution are ever advancing to higher stages. The human
the animals, a simple reflection would show that it is all pre-stages
ways. We have indicated that the sun at a certain stage of its evolution
during childhood, youth, maturity, old age. They have an interest only
had first to be developed at a primitive stage. Love had to be inaugurated
stages and finally, when the perfected Earth has reached its last epochs,
If I now try to put into human language what this contrast expresses,
of earthly evolution — in the Lemurian age — would have
of the Lemurian Age — which I should never describe in a public
and will bear the image of evil on their countenance. That is what will
man to a higher stage. But the advance of evolution to such a stage
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realms of consciousness of man and the hierarchies. Lowest stage
stages. We know too that he will lift himself to higher stages of evolution
stage of evolution which man will only attain in the future. So we can
and who stand today one stage higher than humanity. In the Jupiter-evolution
the beings whom we call Angels, Angeloi. This then is the first stage
know of the subsequent stages.
mission, and since they have a consciousness two stages higher than
to grasp. When in our materialistic age people speak of the folk spirit
animals, though with animal images, as for instance the Sphinx, winged
beasts, and so forth, which you find in the various images of the peoples.
that something exists as a kind of “Spirit of the Age,”
the first culture-epoch of the Post-Atlantean Age, that of the ancient
passage of the stars. What was read there as the secrets of the stars
case in detail. People rise to the conception of Ages, but they do not
know that behind this whole progress of the Ages, Spirits of the Epochs
to that stage in the normal course of evolution. Hence there are on
evolution, and that He must wage war against this Unlawful Prince of
this remarkable passage in the Gospel.
back to the Middle Ages when men had very curious views on Satan. They

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VIII
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beings of earlier stages of evolution; Salamanders are cut off
before our Earth entered on its present stage, it was what we have become
human stage, although under different conditions.
who are today two stages higher than man, the Fire Spirits, went through
their human stage on the old Sun, and we have further learnt that the
Asuras went through the human stage on Old Saturn. Their qualities,
and thirdly, a spirit which is only in the initial stages of evolution.
perceptible to the senses. They passed through the stage of humanity
denied in our enlightened age, for man in his present phase of development
image of the four-fold being of man.
up anew in each incarnation. Now man has an advantage over the whole
that the moment some member of our organism is brought to a higher stage
lies a stage higher than the physical body. Still less can one see the
at a more perfect stage of development — and every single person
is at a more perfect stage in this respect? What makes us advance to
a higher stage? It is all that we have taken in throughout our incarnations.
of developing to higher stages. Races would not stay behind and become
higher stages.
therefore at a higher stage when he reappears in a new incarnation.
the life-kernel and mold it to a higher stage. They do not advance with
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stages and at each stage such elemental beings have been separated off,
stands on quite a different page of cosmic evolution. Bees and blossoms
We can observe different stages in the evolution of mankind and see
and myths and sagas are memories of the ages of ancient clairvoyance.
stage of human evolution — we will omit intermediate stages —,
the stage referred to in the history of the Patriarchs of the Old Testament.
So we see a second stage
of the evolution of mankind: the group-soul age which finds its external
of time in the early Middle Ages. Previously man was still enclosed
is dreamt of by modern man, people at the beginning of the Middle Ages
Ages when cities of the same type were founded over the whole of Europe.
Ages there was again an advance from the group soul to the individual
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world. But things which one relates at a certain stage of spiritual-scientific
man of the last third of the Atlantean age, before the Atlantean flood,
Atlantean age and today they coincide. Thereby man is able to say “I”
nearer and nearer to a new condition. In this Post-Atlantean age we
and now we stand in the fifth culture-epoch of the Post-Atlantean age.
course of past ages and up to our own time the united structure of our
one day understood, then men will understand that everything our age
of the spiritual life!” At the same time he showed why our age,
look at, just as in the Middle Ages every lock on a door expressed what

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will again be image of the spiritual reality. The mission of Spiritual
that may seem to the man of the present enlightened age — as one
And he remains in imagery when in Part II, where Faust is again lifted
sphere harmonies appear like a shadow image. And in as much as the element
at such a stage what we call the art of music arises.
shadow image of what the consciousness soul experiences in the night
over the stage like commonplace men in the earthly sphere. — He
figures who move over the stage and perform deeds. Deeds — and
events of the physical plane. The language that alone can be given in
him from past ages. And a divining of that great human impulse of uniting
what has appeared for ages to be separated lies in Richard Wagner in
appear to us again as an image of the soul. Secular buildings are only
ages when as yet no Romanesque, no Gothic architecture existed, when

Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture. Winter Session, 1911-1912
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Art could win for it any general approval or encouragement. One cannot
greatly our age lacks true feeling for Art.) Inappropriate as it would
— how eager people are to acquire knowledge of the spiritual
were eager to hear more intimate details. (I will shortly give a
stage of being able to understand. It is unpleasant to have to say

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EVIDENCES OF BYGONE AGES IN MODERN CIVILISATION
the village, by night in the town” To begin with, the little man
”Owing to what has happened now, I can reach a particular stage
companionship of marriage.
evolution of humanity began at a comparatively late stage. We
stages of conditions as they are at present, had long since been in
some particular people belonging to the Post-Atlantean age, the
bygone ages it constituted the spiritual culture of our Earth. But
understand that their mission now belongs to a different age and that
will be just as eager for Chinese wisdom as for the spirituality which
through the ages. That heed shall be paid to the importance of

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the stage of perceiving law in those happenings and facts which today
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language (as in the instance given and in innumerable other cases).
With dauntless scientific daring, men of the present age place their
respect men are truly courageous And why? It may sound harsh but in a
certain sense it is true to say that they are courageous because after
that there is nothing more to do! No special courage is needed to
processes men are undoubtedly courageous — the courage is
readily lend themselves to being regarded as chance. Courage
apparent. Hence the science of today which really lacks courage and is
by the forcible and courageous science of the Spirit which makes the
external circumstances themselves compel him to be courageous, but
the courage that is necessary for the perception of spiritual law in
constitute a new impulse which calls for the steeling of courage in
but lacking the courage to adopt the attitude of which we have spoken,
professors themselves happened also to be engaged in experimental
written in a northern language with which very few people are
language. He gave his verdict quite objectively and it was an
new message.” And then, a few verses further on, a remarkable
Nature, the Deeds of the Exusiai. But his courage has failed. And
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some time ago, I was able to occupy myself from the vantage-point of
Although their language differs from that in which they have to be
translated into every European language but it differs fundamentally
stages. In very ancient times, normal human consciousness was imbued
those which have reached the animal stage. When all the animals were
it is called. For the passage points to the time when the animals,
bodily Man, was fashioned, at a later stage, according to the model of
languages. Scholars then proceeded to give senseless explanations of
had been able still to look back to those primeval ages when the
language differs from all other European languages; externally, one
age represents the lowest point of man's descent to the physical
the Middle Ages we have passed into the period of the unfolding of the
have quarrelled, have fought and shed blood through the ages over
place at that particular age, as a study of Spiritual Science will
the task of Theosophy in the present age.

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discarded and new elements added; ancient heritages must be rescued
The great prophetic message of Elijah proclaimed that everything the
near”.... This, was the substance of the message of the Baptist.
Orphaned at an early age, he was thrown out into the world, and
when mighty and also terrible conflicts were being waged in
images. You have spoken great words concerning the living Gods, but
Cross and has risen again!“ We feel the power of the message as
life was for long ages forgotten. It came to life again in what
nothing of the power and impulse he bears through the ages. But
repetitions of the spiritual message working in humanity. The poem
Relic of bygone ages, strange, and venerable,

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man. It must therefore never be forgotten that at the present stage of
phases of evolution and that a higher vantage-point must be
shall eventually attain it, thereby reaching a further stage in
development. At that stage it will be legitimate to ask about the
passing through their “human stage” under the conditions
their human stage, were not there for the purpose of implanting
true sense, love. In the age of materialism it is exceedingly
Graeco-Latin age, slavery was still an accepted custom, and that even
men through the ages; the very structure of the bones around the teeth

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preparation: they must have reached the first stage of Initiation. The
re-ascent. We are living in the age when the re-ascent must be
is being recapitulated, in a certain form, in our own age; the Second
physical world was already in its preparatory stage. The impulses
long, long ages. Thus the impulse to look out into the physical world
heritage that has come to us from the olden days of Atlantis, when
Gods had fashioned the world through the ages of Lemuria and Atlantis.
within-outwards, if he is to master the external world. This age was
the knowers and sages in ancient India. They felt it in the form, as
‘Black Age’ is approaching; the bright age of ancient Divinity is
giving place to the age when the Gods of old withdraw. It is the age
Kaliyuga broke in upon the world, reaching its close in our own age.
The age preceding the onset of Kaliyuga was, however, an age
only a few as a re-awakening. And then came the “Black Age,”
the age devoid of the Gods.
the Greeks felt it to be the age of Darkness, the “ d ” is
possessed the same knowledge as the Indian sages. This is quoted
As men lived on gradually into the age of Kaliyuga, into the Third
heritage of ancient times by means of the new knowledge now available.
beings at a later age of life. To begin with, a man may be quite
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been in operation on the Earth: the being of man contains heritages,
as it were, from the earlier planetary conditions. These heritages
principles of human nature, too, heritages of pre-earthly conditions,
it has passed through three stages of metamorphosis, together with the
man; but let us envisage that there might exist a being of his kind.

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operating in human nature are, in reality, “heritages” from
Old Sun period and the Old Moon period. These heritages from primeval
In our present age, the Spirits of Form are moving to the higher rank
since become a heritage, handed down from generation to generation. In
age.” But of this we must be clear — The Spiritual Beings, moving
a planetary age it is always the case that the being of central
vantage-point is not that of Spiritual Science, who has some queer bee
human beings have not remained stationary at an earlier stage of
the age that is coming, the souls of men will become more and more
the human being. The ideal vantage-point is that the occult teacher is
then separated off and, at a later stage, Mercury and Venus; still
pre-Christian ages, because they all incarnate again in the times
vantage-point of the true Buddhist who says that the Individuality in
the “Venus men” and had thus reached such an advanced stage
everywhere been the same, among all peoples and in all ages. If one
Yoga and those of a later age. There is a fundamental difference and a
beings could never come of age, if in the future they were obliged to
That is one of the reasons why it is so difficult in the present age
in line with the character of the present age and with what is felt by
men of the present age, even if in many respects they misinterpret
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most profound mysteries for the present age. These mysteries
geologist claims for his theories about primeval ages, I
wish to show the radical difference between the language of
was written and the language which alone passes current today.
yet ended. The Christian theologians of the Middle Ages who
carried a stage further by Marx and Engels in their
stage of world history. In that event, we may ask, why did
State; in effect they were the servile agents of Rome. There
for those fierce wars of extermination which Rome waged
spirit had no place, to encourage an evolutionary trend that
important to realize that we are now living in an age when we
sufficient courage to reject this parody of history, we shall
an age when it must prevail, not only against those who would
important passages of his book: “These things are not
consciousness filled with living images or pictures.

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passage:
abolition of the spirit is connected with a necessary stage
envisaged the soul. The Middle Ages were also dominated by
Middle Ages. Furthermore, the later evolution of thought was
that the leading minds of the Middle Ages sought to
Ages down to recent times and which is still taught in
which Aristotle could envisage the soul. On the one hand, to
begun to decline. In the key passages of Aristotle's
upon a stage of evolution when something akin to a mist
path to the spirit in past ages was never in doubt. Nor was
Mystery Cults!” Pagan usages, they claimed, had been
In an important passage, when speaking of the evolutionary
evolved through the ages. In the course of this evolution the
reclaim his spiritual heritage. And this generation will one
yet come when these souls had abandoned their divine heritage
time. We must take advantage of this Easter festival to
realize that we are living in an age when there are many

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preached. Let me refer you to this passage in the Gospels:
lectures on the Gospels I referred to that important passage
relate the passage in question to the earlier and later
passages. People are only too ready to detach certain
passages from their context and study them in isolation,
this passage in the Gospels has deep implications. The woman
who had suffered from hemorrhage for twelve years. When
passage in the Old Testament which says: “The Spirit of
at that time felt an urge to return to the age of innocence
but that they should experience the further stages of Earth
intention? His purpose breathes through every page of the
generalized human ideal. The age of
“enlightenment” envisaged Christ Jesus as an
image of Jesus which depicts Him as a typical representative
managed to depict Jesus as a thorough-going monist of his own
Its real meaning becomes apparent if we study the passage where
Gospels that we can only understand the message of these
of the world as envisaged by physicists. At the time I made
stomach at the age of seven what its condition had been
fact is undeniable. In our present materialistic age people
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to accentuate this cleavage between the physical and the
plant forms could be envisaged. Schiller shook his head and
fact that their moral feelings were outraged. These
interest in the slightly improper and frivolous passages of
in Goethe's time. And today in the age of
the courage to measure external nature also by the yardstick
intellectural cowardice, because it has not the courage to
deterioration of thought. If we have not the courage to admit
been differentiated into separate languages
that language should remain static. You must have a clear
as a static language; each object each impression was
flexible language which was once common to all. And the
understood today is a reminder of this original language. The
certain age, so too the present method of reproduction in the
human species will cease at a certain stage of Earth
certain passages in the Bible that can only be understood
that this was the real meaning of the passage. Now the
passage has no such meaning. A passage should not be torn
have not fully grasped the Christian message. For Christ
about the Christ. When Jesus had delivered His message to the
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is to expunge the record of the Christ Event from the pages
Golgotha. When we recall how our age that claims to be free
present stage of development. It was most inopportune,
a-sexual plant reproduction and had the courage to introduce
meaning. The words must be there but the average reader does
materialistic age contradicts the most obvious facts.
corruption of his thinking, even as the passage I have quoted
he invited homage as Bacchus crowned with oak leaves and with
courage which is necessary in order to penetrate to the inner

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our present age because people cannot endure their
Mysteries to their own advantage.
Christ presaged. But the devils — beings belonging to a
images; they had a deeper understanding than the people.
They knew that the visible image of the gods concealed real
countless passages which echo this statement of Philo. And so
passages from the Gospels which are interpreted expediently
whole spirit of the age. There are strange interpretations in
Gospels and I would like to quote a passage which shows that
one notable passage Philo gave expression to something that
therefore an opportunist like Barres can write the passage I
passage which I quoted from Philo we can see, since it is
suggested above. In the age of Constantine, Licinius ruled
was transmitted through an ordinary, uninitiated sage, so
knew no other way of bringing his message home to the tyrant,
of Church Father — had managed to set up a kind of
clairvoyance. This wisdom had been transmitted to later ages,
so-called image of Pallas Athene which fell from Heaven in
future ages. By these means Constantine hoped to stem the
in the early Christian centuries and in the age of
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Imperial family and their adherents. In the age with which we
their images.”
refuse to read the Gospels from the standpoint of the age to
to himself: “These teachers are the most outrageous
gods?” Julian's instinct for truth was outraged.
workmen engaged on the work of reconstruction had a vision;
to envisage an Earth which is not the graveyard of humanity,
envisage Earth evolution differently from the natural
matter can be so spiritualized that we can envisage it as
Ages called “mystical marriage” and what
Christian Rosenkreutz called “chymical marriage”.
Mystical marriage is simply an inner experience. As many
of the divine within. The chymical marriage of Christian
continuity” was fraught with tragedy and that in the
therefore was engaged in a titanic struggle. He finally
living in an age from which we shall not emerge with a
— herein lies his great tragedy — to reconcile
There is no lack of physical courage today — but we are
certainly lacking in intellectual courage! Mankind today is
our time. For if our age is not to end in futility it must
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It is most important for the present age
were scattered over wide areas. These images (of the gods),
streamed down from the universe through the agency of the
magic powers which resided in these images. The Roman
together with their images. We can follow this work of
permission I should like to read a passage from my school
so fiercely debated in the Middle Ages. And if the priest, as
preceding the War seem like a golden age. All that has
They speak a different language; the language in which they
this respect he belongs to his age. It is impossible to adopt
the thinking of the Middle Ages and how his philosophy was
our age that Brentano should have written at this precise
quite definitely — but the passage has been mutilated
own image. This solitude is not born with us, it is created
courage of our convictions. We realize the imperative need
passage from one of these lectures. The leading
pillage, but were themselves the first to burn and pillage
Hebbel (1813–63), poet and dramatist. Tragedy,
This was the tragedy of Christ. The first and last

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— but let us not be discouraged, let us rather brace
necessary therefore for our present age that Spiritual
were admitted to these Mysteries had to undergo a first stage
the time when the message of Christianity first made its
this need not depress us, rather should it encourage us to
our age, a man who suffered deeply from, and was driven to
darkness and chaos of the age.
difficulties of our own time. I propose to read two passages
was unhinged, passages which could have been written today
at work here. This future is already presaged by a hundred
passage which I will now read to you and which vividly
to the age in which we are born — an age of great
sense of insecurity, is peculiar to our age; nothing stands
the realities of the time. He who would understand the age in
will himself feel what is expressed in those passages and
age. Perhaps we shall one day draw a comparison between
Nietzsche's response to his age and the customary
present age should be permeated with the impulses of
Spiritual Science. It is the tragedy of our time that it is
remarkable manner. We are now living in an age when everybody
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courage to pass an objective judgement on this issue. It may
which will lend encouragement to those who are faced with the
beautiful description of this in a passage I will now read to
materialistic age regards as the wildest fantasy. But Otto
associate with the whole drama. Strangely enough the image
courage to embark upon a spiritual training; and that for the
because we live in the Michael Age since 1879, need not of
our courage to accept the validity of clairvoyance, and for
higher stages of knowledge. And it was especially his
importance to the fact that from the age of fifty-five
chance is only a shadow-image of higher necessities.
was the leading philosopher throughout the Middle Ages. All
Christianity that was practised by the Church during the age
imperfect state, inappropriate to its destiny. The image of
namely, the image of a butterfly which after shedding its
therefore both courage and determination in order to find our
golden age of the rise of Christianity before the era of
pre-Constantine age who are recognized by the Church are the
eyes of Clement, the human form is made in the image of the
spheres. Man, he says, is made in the image of the Logos. And
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It is the big heritage which the 19th century is able to hand over to
there were not a few who said that there childish images are given which
are only possible at the childhood age of humanity; now, however, we
Many also said that they wanted to adhere to the old religious images;
of the religious images dies down to many people, and one can suppose
depends on these religious images. They were the best.
ages; and thus one also understands how bit by bit the earth has formed.
of life on one side, because the old religious images were no longer
in our age and with our freethinking being.
images which one had formed about God and soul in imperfect, primitive
language scholar) says about the Tibetan moral philosophy: if this people
which the criticism, the investigation of these religious images made
images and at the same time the criticism which relentlessly tackled
in this uncertainty, to bring a new message to those who could not harmonise
was much misjudged, because it speaks a language that has developed
ago that science were contradictory to the old religious images. One
and impartially in the old images; you have to really believe that the
of the age. Let me touch the deepest reason of misunderstanding in modern
has made the world the image of the human being. If the human being
world and has imagined it in such a way that he sees an image of humanity

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that one must make a pilgrimage to India or become engrossed in Indian
pilgrimage from the physical world, which everybody knows, from the
for somebody who digs them out again. The following passage is unforgettable:
world or the soul-world in which the average human being lives today,
that is higher than the lifeless. Everybody knows the passage in his
to not manage with the lifeless who assume at least anticipating what

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have got the habit of flying away to avoid the damage. Who has a real
the aura of imperfect savages, it seems to be relatively simple; it
colours of a savage and the intricate aura of an European civilised
language, for conscience. One had no word for it. It may be especially
present developmental stage, indeed, in the astral and spiritual worlds
some human beings have already attained today. The average human being
becomes aware of soul and spirit only later. The average human being
compared with an account management. On the left and on the right we
Baptism originally signified one of the first stages, which the human

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degree, even did not exist in the beginning of the Atlantean age. We
what is its task. From stage to stage it must walk if it wants to know
them in the single being. In the whole Middle Ages we can pursue that
living human being he sees only a stage of the general psychic human
with the eyes of the scientist rising to higher stages of life. We must
also wanted to explain the language mechanically.

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As the ages change in the
forth into forms, and our age may be almost called the age of forms,
the age in which the human being is taught in every respect to enjoy
is necessary for our age. A form culture came into being in science,
would like to read out a crucial passage from which you see how he represents
hand, we have the incipient stages of a new life culture. As we have
of the human being in his directness. I would like to read out a passage

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— who became deaf-mute and blind at the age of one and a half
on its pilgrimage through the world from desire to love. This is the
This is the difference of the age of the souls. The young souls are
wishes, desires, passions, love, enthusiasm and piety was not engaged
sounds of the language, feels by touching et etcetera.
longer his pilgrimage has lasted, the stronger his sense of self is
The human being advances step by step on his pilgrimage of life.
we work in the world hard, full of courage and more confidently, as
being not more inefficient, but stronger, more courageous, more audacious.
find there a passage in the Upanishads with which I would like to close

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because our language is not made for these higher areas of existence.
one can only speak comparatively, in a more symbolic language of which
However, the thought is only a weak image, a shadow-image of this spirit-land.
inventiveness creates things which are not images of our earth; he creates
over and over again. This saying is practised in the corresponding languages
not of equal length for all human beings. The uneducated savage who
There are even higher stages
being has to go through on his pilgrimage between death and a new birth.
reminds of its shadow-image, the thought in the physical life; it must

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root in the whole structure of our age. He stands there like a phenomenon,
parsonage. In 1844 born, he already shows a great interest in all religious
The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872), we find
on Nietzsche at the University of Copenhagen. Nietzsche had become not
The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music was his first
Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music delivers important clues
Our age is the age of the fifth principal race of humankind of which
talks; it is a shade, an image of the spiritual world. The thought is
one has forgotten that this thought is nothing but the shadow-image
of humanity. Thus Schopenhauer became hard and showed the average human
regarded as an image of the primal art only that he calls the Dionysian
one-sidedly, but all spiritual forces. Later art was only an image.
of the origin of all artistic life and the language by which the old
Greeks expressed themselves. This was a language that was music at the
same time. In the middle, the drama was staged, around was the choir,
human being. One needed the human being who extended beyond the average
to Schopenhauer the human being was average manufactured goods. The
about the advantage and disadvantage of history, about the historical
of the origin of the Greek tragedy from the mystery time and of our
the form only; he did not understand the moving agent that comes to
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produced in the soul if that which surrounds us as age, century, people
There are means and instructions which engender this inner language
with steadfastness, they cannot do harm. Nobody can suffer damage from
like in a cloud of light who is engaged in internal development. With
Annoyance and rage do not let the soul organ come out; also hastiness
The loftiest sage can learn
does the sage talk to me, what is it of use to me? Not until he listens
that the soul-eyes are there already tomorrow. Who combats rage, annoyance,
of that. The greatest sages of humanity attained the great truths in

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a common core of truth in them. The sages of all times always showed
which the Middle Ages wanted to describe the fight between the old and
who has passed the stages of development, who has felt attracted to
karma. Who knows that Goethe knew the mystics of the Middle Ages thoroughly,
Faust dies at an old age,
devachan in the language of theosophy. The aim of theosophy is to lead
Classical Walpurgisnight. Proteus is the sage who knows how the physical
a certain stage. Eros combines with Homunculus: The human being comes
last passages of Faust in the conversations with Eckermann that he wanted

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point to the fact that we have in the outgoing age of the Greek philosophy
What lives in this body as human consciousness is an after-image of
all great church teachers of the Middle Ages, also with Thomas Aquinas
to an age where we cannot prove that there was any living animal. Physical
was about the middle of the age which we call the Lemurian one. This
age preceded the Atlantean one. This igneous-liquid mass is criss-crossed
being his courageous, his aggressive qualities remain. The cleverness
others originated in the middle of the Lemurian age. Also the two sexes
as mind-endowed for the first time. In the Lemurian age, the human being
fire matter still existed. In this Lemurian age, the whole race completely
and language in the human race. Self-consciousness became consciousness
Atlantean age and in our whole fifth age from this refined human nature.
surface of the earth in the Lemurian age and the existence of beings
advantageous for the actions. At the same time, it is also a question
today. Hence, one has to express the ideas in a language understandable

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and knew the alchemical efforts of the Middle Ages. After he had recognised
highest. The marriage of the male with the female in the human soul
because our colloquial language is not really suitable to show these
which lives in the soul of the mystic, we find the language to describe
does not let them loose until they promise three cabbages, three artichokes
of the Lemurian age, a moment happens at which the human being develops
from lower to higher stages. This moment is called in the myths, in
three cabbages, three artichokes and three big onions. What are these
if it has advanced to the stage of inspiration where the human being

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the message of her husband that the time has come.
the marriage with her.
is astonished, however, the shade does no longer cause damage. The giant
who walks through guilt to the image of the goddess must perish. Only
Now he can enter into the bond of marriage with the beautiful lily and
soul forces the giant have lost their destroying force; the giant damages

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tale The New Melusine at a typical passage of Meister Wilhelm's
a race of dragons waged war on them. To save the dwarfs a race of giants
the future stages. This spark was enkindled in distant past in the human
once; before our age the Atlanteans and the Lemurians lived et etcetera
of these stages is called that of the dragons. Also in the Secret
of the rising sun. But he damages some things, and concludes that “it
A kind of war game develops, an image not a real war. Let us now pursue
as a message of the divinity. Mercury says to the young man that he
to a savage tribe. The human soul lives now in kama-manas, that is in
moments of life. There also the memory of former stages of existence
appears and that from these a mission results for the present stage
he has brought this initiation from former stages of existence with
him from stage to stage. There he also had to perform the symbolic action:
by the master further on, he gets to the second stage; he has to completely
not rage and roar, it is the “gently running waters which let
This is an image how the human being can find valuable knowledge instead
is an image of the fact that a lower and a higher ego-consciousness
consciousness which should lead him to higher and higher stages in the
marriage of Paris with Helena.
saw his image in the mirror of a spring. This delighted him so much
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difficult to find the appropriate means of expression within our language
taken from purely spiritual worlds into clear language. Nevertheless,
age of our physical earth development. Another age preceded it that
And another age preceded this Atlantean age called the Lemurian age.
At that time, in the middle of the Lemurian age, we find that, actually,
and body. Up to the middle of the Lemurian age, our ancestors were bodily-psychic
dream pictures of the present-day average person are. Above all, these
point of view considering different “savage” tribes. The
the Akasha Chronicle as truth, like the average person sees table and
pure soul land. Now we have come back to the stage of our earth where
temporary. Who studies history of the Middle Ages, for example, not

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the point that we are led to higher stages of cognition using certain
stages. Certain levels of knowledge are to be attained only in the intimate
any single stage, any single step. One has to confide in such teachers
through certain stages of study and has thereby acquired the experiences
to much higher stages in future.
the image of God today, what of the human being has come to the highest
unclear contours. Thus we have an image of the human soul-life in this
age. I have described last time what one has to understand by the Atlantean
age. At the time when the fertilisation with the eternal spirit had
worked on himself, we say a savage, has an aura as nature has given
back to the Lemurian age when the human being was warm-blooded since
middle of this Lemurian age, the human being was not yet a being capable
This meditation or the inner contemplation is the first stage which
we can say that the average person thinks very little that is independent
the attainment of the higher stages of the human being? This eightfold
of a modern average person, we see, actually, very little. It is about
who wants to ascend to the stage of a chela or student should acquire
who really wants to develop to higher super-sensible stages has to develop
on the preliminary stage of knowledge so far that he has an insight
him. This leads through four stages of knowledge. What happens now at
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the Middle Ages, personality tries to understand itself.
The Middle Ages had no real
a mirror image of the outside world, also no longer a mirror of the
tip to three ages in the latter drama. The first is that which we have
which shows an internalisation of the soul. But a third age is said
The third world age in which the ideal comes into its own is not yet
connects, personality separates. Nevertheless, this passage through
The passage had just to be found by the personality to remove this.
in the human being finally managed to get to freedom by that which is
soul on it. The Middle Ages experienced the ideal in the innermost soul.

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Another example is the postage
stages of development now. Who has followed the lecture about the earth
the developmental stage of humanity on which it stands now: He must
of the mineral world. Then we get to that stage when the human being
which significance have these images of humanity? How does this great
We have to raise everything to a higher stage that the human being can
manages what fulfils his bodily needs. But civilisation advances, and
view. There are only stages of development, karmic effects. However,
Patriotism is justified on a certain stage of development.
these books. For the rest, these matters often are disadvantageous

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he forms his figures, which move there on the stage, we see this already
who bring up a new age, an age in which one looks at the world differently
human being, but finds expression in certain stages all over the world,
mystics of the Middle Ages. He calls what he pronounced that way the
A new stage of his self-development
being and want to raise this core a stage higher.
there. Not in the usual colloquial language, but in sublime language
original drama whose later development stages are those of Aeschylus,
Sophocles and Euripides. In his book The Birth of the Tragedy from the
not in usual language, but in sublime language about the descent, the
found the way to Wagner when he sought the birth of the tragedy in the
in sublime language, and the choir echoes the divine actions before
the Use of the Choir in the Tragedy from which depths he wanted

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Middle Ages acquired a leading position in the modern education. In
from that which the Church had developed in the Middle Ages: from the
clerical education were active until the end of the Middle Ages. Theology
Middle Ages, it still was in such a way. What the great medieval theologians
of this thinking and of this philosophy of life in the Middle Ages,
life of the Middle Ages was one single body, and something similar must
single faculties do not deal a lot with each other. In the Middle Ages,
and also in the Middle Ages, this was not the case. Also in the first
found the right stage of theology and sermon, of science and life.
which took place from the Middle Ages to the modern times. What happened
Ages, but went straight to the natural existence. It was different in
Middle Ages.
from the Middle Ages to the modern times. Copernicus himself wanted
If you look at the great sages of former centuries, you can see everywhere
have to be sense-perceptible in all stages. Now try once to really imagine
millenniums. It scoops from the Bible as the science of the Middle Ages
pilgrimaged like to the Eleusinian mysteries. This is the original drama.
message tells of the miraculous event in the garden of Joseph of Arimathea
messages about the events that the disciples deliver to us. We also
from the Middle Ages to the modern times in the fields of the external

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have seen last time which disadvantage it has brought to theology that
in which our modern thinking developed. In the Middle Ages, there was

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of our spiritual life. The modern human beings live in images and suggestions
of the public life which, of course, influence them strongly, images
despise medical science of the Middle Ages and antiquity; and, nevertheless,
of the Middle Ages. One looks wrongly down at this ancient medical science.
The shamans of savage tribes
by the doctor, then only a thorough healing of certain damages is possible.
to that stage where only certain sensations and feelings can appear

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XXIII: The Arts Faculty and Theosophy
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if anybody said the following: there are two methods to learn languages.
was called arts faculty in the Middle Ages. It was an artistic mastery
our materialistic age. When the external appearance to the senses became
of all knowledge; but if one does not brand the Middle Ages as heretical,
one still knew this. In the Middle Ages, this view was not dangerous,
because it is not true that the iron theology of the Middle Ages put
of arguing. In the Middle Ages, mathematics was regarded as the basis
soul are capable to develop to higher stages. The human being is not

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture I
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Human Development, the Individual and the General Age of Mankind
soul stops at about the age of 27. After that we no longer inwardly grow
between this and that given age. It would therefore seem that
relation to the present age, are connected with the fact that
designate as the ancient Indian, we may ask: Which age in the
age in general in that ancient epoch? Spiritual investigation
well as internally. We see that up to a certain age the
a certain age. Man is then considered fully developed. When
after a certain age is considered by
find that this moment occurs at a certain age — more
ancient epoch man naturally passed through the ages of 6, 12,
mature age, right up into the years from 48 to 56, the
right up to the age of 35. After that he began to experience
this age felt with the decline of the body a universal
lasted right up to the age of 56. Only then one might say was
when they grew old, when they reached a venerable age, divine
cultural epoch a veneration, a worship of old age of which
died before they had reached that patriarchal age knew of a
Thus everyone, also when they died before reaching old age,
developed, in the way I have described, up to the age of 56,
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soul stops at about the age of 27. After that we no longer inwardly grow
the materialistic concepts and ideas of our age. That we are
man continued his bodily development right up to the ages
through three stages of development whereas now he
three stages experienced? Let us look quite carefully at the
man. In that ancient time those who reached the age when
to the ages between 48 and 42. You will realize that this
beyond the ages between 48 and 42 could still be aware of the
Chaldean-Egyptian epoch. Mankind's general age dropped to
epoch mankind's age corresponded to that of individual man
it was still the case that when a person reached the same age as that
chronology began, mankind's age was about 33. Man's
what was lost from consciousness. Just as mankind's age
fifth post-Atlantean epoch. Mankind's age dropped to 28 and
live at the time when mankind's general age is about 27.
century. In that epoch mankind's general age corresponded to
the middle of life spanning the ages between 35 and 28.
Already mankind's age is one year less; because of this, the
stages, thus believing that there is a continuous trend
we are now at the stage when, in ordinary life, comprehension
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soul stops at about the age of 27. After that we no longer inwardly grow
Atlantean catastrophe, mankind's age was 56 and that by now
naturally up to that age. After the age of 27 he develops
the fact that people of that age were wise and knew how life
certain age, to listen to the revelations of these elemental
who had reached that age had gone through normal development,
soul development reveals itself gradually up to a certain age
something similar happened in old age when wisdom arose from
easy to understand. People who had reached the age when the
ones, the sages, had perceptions that were related to the
when he reaches the age when he could know, his natural
mankind's age dropped to between 48 and 42. During this
place mankind's age had dropped to 33; man's natural
development proceeded only up to that age, and Christ, in the
body of Jesus of Nazareth, experienced just that age. A truly
development right up to the age of 56, then 55, later 54 and
lasted only up to the age of 48, then 47 and so on. At the
only to the age of 42, receding to the age of 36. The
the age of 35, then 34 and when it receded to the age of 33 then
—because this age is below 35 when the body begins to
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Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture IV
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soul stops at about the age of 27. After that we no longer inwardly grow
interesting to look at some of the passages in Professor
Benedikt himself says on page twelve of his booklet:
opinion. It is significant because no age has been so
especially important in this preparation. The passage
This passage
passage without checking will accept it without question. It
reads this passage in Max Dessoir must ask if this
is nonsensical. But you see, the passage is supposed to be a
Dessoir audaciously alters this passage to “... symbol
Let us look at another passage where he speaks about how
tries, he manages to misunderstand. For example, you will not
as one might expect, the passages in
natural that he is especially offended by a passage which he
later stage, a dull dreamlike consciousness. The
where this passage comes from; there
Thus this passage speaks of effects which can be compared
passage quoted by Dessoir. My continuation reads as
passage refers to Socrates. Max Dessoir, in bad taste —
stage of super-sensible knowledge; just as one gains knowledge
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Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture V
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soul stops at about the age of 27. After that we no longer inwardly grow
which we have been engaged in recent weeks is the effort to
book about Aristotle's psychology, engaged in a process of
historically they have become part of the language, and this
provides images of the external, spatial, purely material
form mental pictures of something, the images remain within
somewhat meager conclusion to say, Truth is what follows from
loved. These are indeed meager results, but what is
The meager results gain their value when one follows the
Brentano's answers must naturally seem meager fare to those
could find was the meager answer he termed “the
stage of evolution the I only brings to expression
knowledge he sought. His answers appear so meager because
age of 14, tend to dominate us throughout life. We may modify
good tendencies, and up to the age of puberty he develops
shall leave aside for the moment. So up to the age of 14 he
it must reach the stages of flower and fruit. Similarly a
we may consider the following: On the average, people living
into future ages when the souls incarnate once more. We are
though the courage to admit this fact is lacking. For
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Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VI
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soul stops at about the age of 27. After that we no longer inwardly grow
life. The reason is simply that our speech, our language
free of the restrictions imposed by language. And quite apart
all other so-called advantages of culture. This incident was
experiences in life from many vantage points, seeking
the average Central European will side with the Poles. A
pictures from the past, i.e., in images with which we are
interpreted materialistically. Many important passages in
writing such passages was his way of describing events which,
with someone looking at his image in a mirror. If the mirror
is broken in two, he has two images; yet he himself remains
the person who sees two images of himself in the mirrors.

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VII
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soul stops at about the age of 27. After that we no longer inwardly grow
the secret of mankind's present age. I described how man,
Indian epoch, at the beginning of which mankind's age was 56.
natural development right up to the age of 56 in a way
possible now only in childhood. Up to that age man's soul and
we reach the age that was indicated. The soul and spirit then
middle of life, when the body begins to decline at the age of
know, during that epoch the age of mankind receded from 56 to
development continued only up to the age of 49. In the
following, the ancient Persian epoch, mankind's age receded
it receded from the age of 42 to that of 35, in the
Graeco-Latin epoch from the .age of 35 to 28. This means that
up to that period in life which is bounded by the ages 28 and
mankind's age had receded to 33, Christ Jesus, aged 33,
The age of
epoch. When it began, the age of mankind was 28 and by now
has dropped to 27. This means that up to that age our soul
bodily-physical nature. After that age our natural
ether body on the other comes to a halt at the age of 27. We
a halt when the person reached the age of 35, at the time of
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Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VIII
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soul stops at about the age of 27. After that we no longer inwardly grow
different from one time to another; at one stage it may be
would have spoken about the whole significance of that age in our
between the individual human being's age and the age of
force. To speak about Lloyd George in 1890 when he was aged
be drawn to it because we are at present at a stage of
does in many ways present an image of the loftiest and most
the image rightly and not interpreting it materialistically.
superseded. The future will prove that there never was an age
fully satisfying mental image would really be for our soul
fully satisfying mental image. A fully satisfying mental
image remains with us forever, if I may express it so, lying
receive at a given moment from such a mental image, the more
Spiritual-scientific concepts do not just provide an image of
coming into being; it has hardly reached the embryonic stage.
through a stage resembling the one Central and Western Europe
went through in the Middle Ages. At that time there was, he
its Middle Ages whereas in the rest of Europe reason and
reached the embryonic stage. Yet we must try to understand.
libraries are so appreciated: they keep in storage thoughts
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Title: Deeper Secrets: Lecture I
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and in all ages of time to come. In everything that these words can
living hearts and souls of men through the ages. On the one side we see how
has betokened for men through all the ages, understand something of
our own advantage, then, that we separate the functions, inasmuch as a
at the final stage is it possible to gather the separated attributes into

Title: Deeper Secrets: Lecture II
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four stages of planetary evolution behind it. The physical body has
to ever higher stages, we shall understand that for him a bodily instrument
far into the Middle Ages he was regarded in a certain sense as the founder
who would carry to further stages of development that unique physical
independently and that which for long ages had been the work of the gods
be led by man to further stages. That this process must extend over many
develop a particular organism to further stages only if it is used in
keeping with their mission, because a heritage of ancient clairvoyance
is, through the very personality in whom was preserved a heritage which
the Hebrew people could only regard as belonging to the age before
with the old clairvoyance belonging to the age before Abraham, and this
of the ancient world had also to be preserved; and so the ancient heritage
had already reached a certain stage of development, and influences from
world through his astral body, at which stage he must acquire the faculty
stage, when the influence of Chaldean wisdom is brought to bear upon
extract of what has been achieved in history through long ages. Far,
a primeval stage of evolution when everything that brought human beings
by this factor, and marriage took place only between human beings very
this ‘close marriage' humanity had its beginnings. But intermingling
transition to ‘distant marriage' begins. In all the myths and
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Title: Deeper Secrets: Lecture III
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world was still the common heritage of men. Although the higher experiences
thinking. In the modern age these inspirations and revelations from
modern age. That is why in a spiritual movement such as ours the greatest
another age, differ considerably from those essential for the attainment
leading a man of the modern age to the same momentous recognition.
are expressed in the ancient Hebrew language by the same word. The ancient
language. Such, then, was the purpose underlying the Nazarene custom
upon the human being can only come to him as a heritage from the ancient
in very ancient times was essentially a heritage. This heritage of the
stage, such a baptism would have revealed that all their knowledge was
longer in the image of the Serpent, but in the image of the Lamb.
man's nature; thereby he brought the ages of antiquity to their fulfilment.
him too an ancient heritage had remained. Only such qualities as were
own, and everything that was an ancient heritage, ancient wisdom, had
to them; had to be received back at a later stage as a gift. As
(4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage).
in an age when intelligence has reached such heights, men have yet given
‘Change the tenor of your minds!’ In many passages it is said

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture I: Celts, Teutons, and Slavs
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History of the Middle Ages
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to encouragement to like deeds. In a certain sense all knowledge and
lifetime has its origin in far back ages.
Middle Ages.” And yet in it we are facing an important section of
America, to that point of time at which the Middle Ages merge into
folk-migrations to the discoveries of the modern age.
Roman Empire, shed its influence over the whole of the Middle Ages;
can understand what influence the Middle Ages have upon us, we must
Middle Ages.
elaborated by German poets in the Middle Ages — Roland,
features of the Germanic character are courage, the roaming
character remained as it was in the age of barbarism. Within the
A noticeable change took place during the Middle Ages. Greece had
The fruit, however, of what was prepared in the Germanic age,
depended upon it. In the Middle Ages, the title of citizen was of no
ancient Rome. It was a significant transition stage.
the mighty poet-personality of the Middle Ages — Dante. In the
Middle Ages, in his work on the Czech race in the 15th century. Long
for tragedy. Among the Greeks and Romans, the hero of the
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Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture II: Persians, Franks, and Goths
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originally from one, Tuisco, to whom they pay divine homage,
sacred language of the Hindus, the same disignation Manu, for their
an important connection between the languages, for Asuras, the name
that transition-stage, through which, in the meanwhile, the southern
they waged were almost always against foreign blood.
places. The village community arose. It was no longer the
(forest, pasturage, water, etc.) remained so, for the time being.
Then an intermediate stage grew up between common and private
transition from the tribal, to the village community, which has
there. These fitted in to the higher stages of culture which had
Nature. It was only in the later stage of civilisation that man
confident courage, if we did not know that the present also changes,
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Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture III: The Impact of the Huns on the Germans
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where Carthage once stood, founded a Vandal Empire, and thence
impress to the character of the ensuing age, especially because they
The spiritual strivings of the free ranks were encouraged by the
make use of political relationships, to its own advantage. The
Aquitania. This heroic song narrates the feats of Walther, Hagen and
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Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture IV: Arabic Influence in Europe
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free cities at the beginning of the Middle Ages.
inventions and discoveries at the end of the Middle Ages.
organisations, laws and constitutions. At the end of the Middle Ages
we find the great discoveries, the voyages to India, America, etc.,
made by this; and if we are to study the Middle Ages thoughtfully,
the Germani. They condition the evolution of the Middle Ages. It
engaged in work. Real work was being done, as we may see, in
sought to build up its moral influence. Primitive tillage offered no
Middle Ages. The poet saw how the Germanic tribes were striving for
That which flowed through the Middle Ages was transmuted by Walther
how difficult it was for the man of the Middle Ages to combine these
great struggles which rent that age asunder
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Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture V: Charlemagne and the Church
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History of the Middle Ages
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of the Middle Ages, dealing with the period of which we are now
external expression of much deeper events in the Middle Ages, events
organisation: village communities, then, later, hundreds and
waged lengthy wars against the Saxons, who clung to the ancient
village organisation, the old manners and customs, the old Germanic
possessions and a strong military retinue, whose courage withstood
merchants. Trade usages hardly existed, although Charlemagne had
today of what is called “the dark Middle Ages” —
Middle Ages, and afterwards brought about quite different
history of the Middle Ages farther, we shall see that this founding
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Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VI: Culture of the Middle Ages
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History of the Middle Ages
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Middle Ages is specially important for human study, because it deals
The Middle Ages had come into a great heritage. Yet, of what we have
in world history, nor is to be found elsewhere in the Middle Ages.
It is only in the new age, otherwise so proud of its freedom, that
completely at the stage of childhood.
membership, appeared what we call the village community. The whole
his old age he took the trouble to learn to read and write. All the
everyone had to reckon on, in the Middle Ages.
landowner. It is thus we see the Middle Ages at about the time of
marriage, and was about to alter the division, his elder sons rose
on the land, a race entirely engaged in war and agriculture; whereas
of the Middle Ages up to the 19th century; whereas now they are
question of permanently defending a truth; it was not the age of
towards the end of the Middle Ages, it might happen that someone
universities. “Clerks” were all those who were engaged
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Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VII: France and Germany
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Ages a new character. A great accumulation of sagas, fairy tales,
Middle Ages. He shuts his eyes to such facts as that the great mass
exercises and pilgrimages, stirred the whole of Germany. The Emperor
Otto III himself undertook a pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Adelbert
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Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VIII: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
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through the Middle Ages, with the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th
difficult. In the Middle Ages, however, we see what is called
savagery of the German territories. Thus the wars of Henry IV
wars of Charlemagne against the same race, but they were waged with
emotionalism drove the populace to constant pilgrimages to the
prevailed in the Middle Ages. As a result of the existing religious
agents, such as Peter of Amiens and others — to spur men on to
of the Middle Ages. A sermon had a kindling influence on the people,
scientific life of the Middle Ages. The Scholastic mode of thought
abstract subject, but for the Middle Ages, and even for later times,
in the sense of the Middle Ages, were those who believed in the
passages of arms; their manners became more and more rough. As time
language unintelligible today, unless one reads the writings of a
Master Eckhardt or Tauler. The beauty of the language was implanted
the later ones in beauty of language. This development of the German
language was sharply interrupted by Luther, who produced the German
that other ages, too, produced men who set store by freedom.
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Title: The Human Soul in Life and Death
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Schicksaltragender Zeit. Given in Berlin in November of 1914, it is also
known as, The Soul's Passage through the Portal of Death.
Aus Schicksaltragender Zeit.
The Soul's Passage through the Portal of Death.
can only be a preparation for the final stage: the
what we consider an image of nature, a concept, into which
what one can learn at the first stage of spiritual investigation
tremendous intensity, with inner tragedy when he wants to
Precisely in the spiritual culture of Central Europe the stages
wegen der Anklage des Atheismus (pp. 193-238 in Vol. 5 of
Gerichtliche Verantwortungschrift gegen die Anklage des
Now for the age that followeth,
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Title: Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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laughter and tears, which represent the material image
a way that they appear to him externally in mirror-images. We
abnormalities. It is the bearer of image-like ideas. If the
etheric body is unconscious of itself, then the images of the
reflect. the images externally, then delusive ideas (paranoia)
suddenly, but slowly prepares itself from the age of 11 to 12.
physical; nearest of all, however, are the imagelike
from the field the disease-producing power of other images. One
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By means of these two pictures Raphael was able, in an age of
spiritual development of the Middle Ages, in order that we
language at all, he would probably reply, “I do not know
expression of what happened from the pre-Christian age down to
the later part of the Middle Ages, and they express it in
pre-Christian age when men were surrounded only by the world of
born again at a higher stage — spiritually, in a new
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Title: Easter and the Awakening to Cosmic Thought
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all salt, all intoxicating beverages and all meat. This is the way in which people prepare
human being, we see all Nature concentrated in him. That is why sages have spoken of Man as the
brain and blood. The soul develops slowly to a higher stage where it can understand the powers
though asleep. Cosmic thought has been active through ages without number, has been active in
coming into existence, when only their very earliest beginnings were present. At that stage the
In the primeval ages of evolution, outer objects did not give rise to ideas or mental conceptions
realises that his astral vision must return, but at a higher stage. What has now been
reckoned to be the period devoted to the development of physical experience. At the age of
that is slumbering in the earth. The seed-corn is an image of what arises in man when what
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Title: Karma and Details of the Law of Karma
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an altruistic aim to be of help and engage in selfless activity in the world — that
Therefore an individual who ages very late in life, who remains youthful and mobile, has
show antipathy towards his fellowmen, ages early in the next life. A body that shows the
signs of age at a physically early age, stems from the life of a perverse critic, from a
become harsh critics at an early age will in the next life be people who are almost born
To live in accordance with the law of Karma means to infuse courage and hope into the
series of lectures will be at an advantage. The title of the next lecture
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Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft Auf den Grossen Fragen des Daseins.
Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft Auf den Grossen Fragen des Daseins.
would had I been a bank manager. In the one case I shall
world as a rule be at a higher stage. By this means his
pilgrimage through the incarnations will be an upward
courage, musical talent, etc. are directly handed down from
in the example of moral courage, as if this itself were
him to manifest moral courage.
the stage of childhood is unbearable and illogical.
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souls of significant thinkers throughout long ages. We can go
something very positive! This image should make it fully clear,
flow out into the world at the same time, could never manage to
soul in the age of matter is imprisoned in materialism, and
tragedy of materialism, even though he was not a materialist
again, if one refers to the tragedy of numberless human beings:
physical image, for example in animal beings, become valid for
to force a way into another form. That is an image that is
one feels oneself in harmony with the best spirits of all ages,
theoretical deficiency, but as a tragedy of the soul.
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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this child. In the Indian legend we are told that an old sage came to the
experience the great Buddha himself. Asita, that was the name of the sage,
hundred years, the sage saw what he had not been able to see
children up to two years of age were killed. John the Baptist would also

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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about the Gospel of John and subsequently about the image of the Christ
specific embodiment. Thus, that individuality had reached such a stage of
In the lineage of Solomon the royal qualities are propagated, in the
lineage of Nathan the priestly qualities. The royal qualities emerge
the age of twelve. Such abilities could be given to him in particular by
endowments of the astral body. They could be given to him only by a lineage
stage.
especially creative abilities at a certain age. But one would not like to

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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Raphael's own age, up to our own day. He was able to show that
preceding age leaves us with the impression that it already
throughout the various epochs of humanity, bearing from one age
attention is necessarily drawn to an important age with which
Raphael is intimately connected, the age that coincides with
in one's mind that we are living in an age which implies a
age of further internalization. A significant turning point in
immerse ourselves in Raphael, in following the various stages
“Marriage of the Virgin,”
“Marriage of the Virgin,”
and so on, in stages of four years, until the work that stood
itself. One then gains the impression that in the age of
in sensory images. And does this not then in fact become part
that lived in strife and discord, waged war on each other. One
vengeance being taken by the nobleman. The image in the
we can sense this image the chronicler
which the image of the Madonna derives, as well as all
appear so — the image of the Madonna and Child as a symbol of
tradition in an age in which Greek treasures that had been
the whole Christ tragedy within itself, in speaking its words
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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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his age, and yet he was often misunderstood or out of sync with his time,
spirit of his age, and yet he was often misunderstood
a natural child, the son of an average individual, Ser Pietro,
gesture of the one hanged. In a lower corner of the page a head
course of many earth-lives. Born into a particular age, a soul
age into which he is placed, from the year 1452 to the year
What sort of age is this? It is the age that precedes the
How is this age to be viewed from a spiritual-scientific
circled around it. Then came Copernicus, who had the courage
not to rely on sense observation. He had the courage to say
let us consider Leonardo. He enters an age having, in an
strength. In the age preceding the flowering of the natural
become quite different in the age in which Leonardo lived from
Hence, they are shown at an age when growth is ascendant. Here
through things had been lost in the age of Leonardo. It had to
jump out on every page that are only discovered over the next
to appear in an age in which the old way of conceiving things
great capacities. In the new age he is able everywhere to touch
turning point of a new age.
to express than their age is capable of supporting. Bringing
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Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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works of art — the most moving tragedies for instance.
Tragedy depicts what the human soul can experience in
individual. The shock-waves of tragedy derive from this
threads spun in the course of the tragedy and unraveled again
lie deeper than these entanglements of tragedy. The
instance at a particular age, a particular period of life
affected by a tragedy, we necessarily assume that the
us in the tragedy with their particular sets of
is human comes to meet us in the tragedy, as in other works of
We cannot say, a particular human soul at a particular age of
certain stage one acquires knowledge of spiritual processes
works of art, in tragedies, are relatively easy to
age of life.
past ages of humanity's development every human being still
our earth is spoken of as having gone through certain stages as
earth has gone through various planetary life-stages,
those existed that had developed to the stage of the
ages when people still had a certain clairvoyant
all show human beings only at a particular age of life and in
every age, from their first to their last breath. It need not
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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Mythen und Sagen. Okkulte Zeichen und Symbole.
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Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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reason of his marriage to the daughter of a personality, who
life-experiences a stage higher, to a sphere of pure
exist concerning this Greek age, but these are insufficient to
Through characteristic human beings he looked back at the age
period, the age of Goethe. They therefore represent an ongoing
science. He did not look further back than the Greek age. For
going back to earlier stages in the development of humanity, we
regular periodic stages taking place ~~ brings him especially
“'Marriage of Mary and Joseph,” a painting, of the
one were reading a few pages in it. It is the same with an
courage and boldness are required to a greater extent than in
sense a wrestling with the material, with the spiritual image
page, that this book is not meant to be a contribution to Homer
title, status and rank. Deriving from an old lineage, an
the count's lineage, seeing the count as a bastard. Stung with
marriage, the count is shot down by this individual.
we seek so eagerly in spiritual research. Herman Grimm provides
Spiritual research has not been placed into the modern age
life. What courage he showed in battle. What a gift lie had for
language. How new his latest book. How little could those take
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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instance when you engage scientifically with lifeless,
of which has become obsolete, what Goethe envisaged for natural
previous (19th) century, I tried to copy the image
ideal image of the Ur-plant would be rediscovered in each plant
up for me specially, and it must surely find an image which all
actual plants possibly have within them, an image in which many
have sharp or blunt corners.’ Goethe searched for an image
— so Goethe was referring to an image, which, proven
simplest, which possibly have the most manageable facts —
organic realm, the agents of the lifeless processes still
inner image permeated by experiences and will impulses of the
imagery. Let's hold on to this firmly: outwardly there's the
and intuition, then this is also an inner mirror image of the
human being. But what is this inner mirror image of the human
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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the embryonic stage, human beings displayed the same
speech — or a sense of language, a sense of the word — just as
also the imminence of the image perceptibility; when we look at
something then we don't separate the imagery from the vision.
Let's take everything that lives in the inner image
image perceptibility which leads to lasting memory, it also
and image perceptibility? With a truly unbiased physiology and
observed element is clearly separated from the image
all the soul images which I've acquired through my life, which
through the image perceptibility of your sense of equilibrium.
the animal the bondage with the earth organisation and we have
themselves from the bondage of the sense world, they become
earth's bondage to which the animal is bound, but which is
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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language. We usually employ “Word” to translate
questions and overall, basically failed to acquire the courage
spirituality, which gradually casts its shadow images on a
spiritual worlds throw their shadow images on the plane of the
it was the tragedy of Hegel that the problem he posed in such a
One finds this tragic. This tragedy goes further, for the
tragedy that Hegel could only care for abstract ideas, which he
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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present it as is required at that particular age of the child.
child's age and regard them as something complete and force
frequently taught from a young age as having something like
So the child sees a kind of mirror image of himself, and this
at a particular human age out of its latent position and in the
intellectuality. Before this age intellectualism works in a
to this image rich writing and how strange these are in life:
haven't learnt to read or write at the age of nine or ten, one
must have the courage to say: ‘Thank goodness that these
learns in the right way at the right age.
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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[See Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage]
a direct encouragement for practical activities — practical
presented in a utopian manner, that an image can be presented
characteristic common to our age if one wants to discuss the
economic life, which was not merely instinctively mismanaged
present an image of the future but to say from which
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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admits that out of the seedling, if you have an inner image of
possible, in words of today's language use. Naturally one is
from the simple basis that speech, as in all modern languages,
actually wonder how you still manage to find such a large
religions, then we see how the images they made of their gods,
with those who have engaged positively in these fields of
When we, in the Waldorf School, manage to apply teaching in a
bring to the children what is suitable to the stage of their
managed to bring those children who have no religious
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Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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‘speech’ or ‘language,’ so when these
This is not the case in spoken language. A large part of speech
possibility of bringing language as an object into
German character and German language can be served.
language here. I arrived at the first two steps, Gratitude and
the German language; I had spoken in the first hour from 10 to
contemplate the inner unconscious content of that language, the
we arrive at something else, namely, during the various stages
with language was quite varied. It was quite different for
different again during the time the Greek language developed,
in the English language when used by an Englishman or American,
the language is experienced by the people who use it, and take
within thoughts, within mental images, flow together,
in the words. We may not at any stage confront Sanskrit with
its language, as we would do with a language today.
the language, just as we experience speech consciously now. We
flowed continuously in the language. So when they said the word
language. We sense our “I” today as something which
These are all symbols. Yet the words of a language are in this
ancient times, the language had a considerably different
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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space and time should tend to encourage appreciation of the
which has flourished so much in the present age, as
stage during the happenings of the last four or five years,
years people managed to grasp a good deal which I honestly
time to come our age will be envisaged in a quite peculiar way.
Therefore, we ought to get some idea how future ages will look
our age, however, this preoccupation with mankind has in a
existence, at birth and grow therein: the pattern or image of
Atlantean age. The Beings of these higher Hierarchies gradually
essentially finished their task in our age. This picture of
live in the age in which these Beings of the higher Hierarchies
Graeco-Latin age, we find that they had a lively interest in
Graeco-Latin age. The Consciousness Soul must develop more and
assert itself in various fields. Man is just at the stage of
development in this age.
the spirit, and souls as much awake as a cabbage
the spirit through the impulses corresponding to the age of
you an idea of the necessities of our present age. I speak in
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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how can human beings manage so to concern themselves
different language about immortality from that to which they
their old age as only the young are nowadays. A child goes
later stages of life. Nowadays old age sets in at seventeen or
proved that old age no longer understands its own youth,”
abstractions. Old age, nowadays, means the limit up to which a
man can develop. Up to a particular age a person can absorb all
about twenty years of age he feels shame at the idea of
within reach. At the inconsiderable age of thirty men are
We must manage to shape schooldays for the children of
secret, intimately connected with the present stage of
are not at the end of a stage of evolution — only
tragedy of the bourgeois system is that it would grasp
Observe the development of language, passing from East to West.
Take the German language, to-day dreadfully misused. If we look
back at the language of Goethe, of Lessing, we can see that not
them. To-day we have dreadfully neglected our language,
express spirituality is not due to the language alone. The
farther West we go as regards language, the more we find in
of the language, to hear more than the mere physical sound, to
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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tasks of our age to make these changes part of our
really important feature of our post-Atlantean age is
present stage of culture, without such a consciousness men live
into an age marked by this complete plunging into the physical
a new stage of development, preparation for the
Golgotha, entered human life. With the passage of time
his evolution, is that when he passes a certain age of
Caesar.” In many passages of the Gospels it is necessary
present position. We must have the courage to lay hold of
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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cleavage between the thinking, feeling, willing and actions of
of our age, of which we hear the first faint tone from the
sufficient wage to keep him alive, in order that he may
“thermometer” language about surplus value. They
they held aloof. The tragedy of it! The ruling classes discuss
thirteen years of age are sent down. In the middle of the
especially as it relates to men of the present age and the
“In the Middle Ages the intellectual and scientific
life was train-bearer to the Church in the Middle Ages.
do not mention these things in order to disparage people)
the present age are those to whom we owe the first really free
fifteenth years — all human beings are at the same stage.
that it includes management of branches of production and
undertaken economic management, at the same time it controls
State, and if the State is removed as controller and manager of
judgment when he is of age. What is the meaning of the demand
every question on which any man who is of age can pronounce,
we pay for labour-power by means of wages which are the price
maintaining the free initiative of those engaged in industry
sphere they do not manage to think in the same healthy way. In
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