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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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those who resolve to call forth the will-power, endurance and patience
think logically but indulges in fantasies, correction is not so
point and there are means and directions that will call forth this
confronts man. Precisely because so many so-called occult methods
are called chakrams in esoteric language. These are the sense organs
schooling are called preparation or catharsis, enlightenment and
called, “Music of the spheres.” This is by no means meant
symbolically, it is a reality.

Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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were others who grew old not only physically but also in their souls. This
is brought before the world so magically, uniting himself in his thirtieth
then be seen only physically in the sun and planets, and also for the birth
the plants grow out of the soil in springtime, and we see how the sun calls
wildly and chaotically the winter storms may rage in us, there is one hope

Title: The Manicheans
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called ‘the Son of the Widow.’ His followers called
teaching, making a personality whom he calls ‘Faustus’ the
esoterically through legends. The Legend of Manes is a legend dealing
soul was called the Mother or Isis. The Father was the Instructor or
become independent. Everything that comes from him is a call to the
freedom.” That is presented exoterically in the Faust Saga.
spiritual stream. It appears in forms which many can call to mind, and

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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the epoch of evolution that may be called the mineral epoch; and our task
spirit are called upon to climb one day to the highest stages of
before, why the “good and proper form” as it has been called,
substance called Kundalini which holds together, within the human being,

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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short time against the so-called ‘popular’ conceptions of
event — whether or not we call it to-day a ‘symbolical’
subsequent culture — the Gnosis called the ‘Christ.’
called upon to enter into those factors which have laid hold of human
century) for the purpose of proving historically the events which are
Foreword to the Second Edition, to call attention to the point at
From subordinate animal organs the light calls forth for itself an

Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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the night in common with that Being whom we call our “angel”,

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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the so-called “Fensterworte” — that is to say, the
was to call the first Goetheanum, the “Johannesbau.” This
aspirant for spiritual knowledge — is called Johannes
work fruitful — for what we have to create must be basically,
complete, intrinsically perfect — an Infinitude in itself. The
different. The call of a Christian church goes out to the hearts and
call.
heard this morning when the lecturer so graphically said that the
different versions exist. Fragments of it are to be found practically
all over Europe. It is a remarkable story, beautiful and artistically
graphically narrated in connection with one main theme, have the
climax are graphically told. And now, think of it: We take the book
people call out for an ‘explanation.’ Would it always
that in a sense it takes away from us practically all the living

Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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practically nothing left of the Hyperborean strain. On the soil of
establishing what is called Etruscan-Roman Civilization, with the
represented symbolically by the descent of the Dove. Only the most
this Being is called the “Leader of the Christ Initiates” or

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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You all know it as the word indicating the opposite of what we call
with what we call man's etheric body. So we can also assume that the
has such a thing as so-called propagation, the bringing forth of its
memory. We could almost call this bringing nonsense into natural
have basically retained the same form. If, however, you compare the
What does this so-called forgotten image do? It has a very important
said that this enduring characteristic that we call temperament also
immediately call it egoistic; it would be better to express it this
psychologically and physically, I am of no use to the world. We can

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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physically we have to look for something quite different in the
materialistically-minded scholar of today takes it as a matter of
physically in its totality at all, because when you are able to see
cannot be looked at physically, for the moment it is exposed to view
out of occultism who have said this, but they have been called things
the astral body, the first thing we notice physically is a certain
an irregularity of that part of the human being that we call the
of view. Here and there are people who are chronically ill, who are,
connected physically with the blood and spiritually with the ego.
indeed always effective. What is called the psychological method
while. The joy that lends wings to his soul can be called a

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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moment in human evolution we want to recall lies a long way back. If
bisexuality occur earlier. But what we call the human kingdom did not
if we consider it let us say philosophically, it is somewhat childish
meaning will become clear to you when you see what we call
those ancient times what we call illness did not exist. There was no
times that what we call the attraction of the sexes began, what we
might call passionate love; that is, sensual love that mingled with
to someone who wants to treat him psychologically and work especially

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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changes too in such a way that we can imagine it symbolically as
etheric body, symbolically speaking, revolves on its own axis, and
processes are rhythmically repeated in the physical body too, however
is not an illness; it is the human being calling together all the
psychologically or mentally ill.

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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On the contrary, the temperature is something that the organism calls
scientific point of view is called ‘the study of the human
higher Organisation of the higher members. What we call the lungs
fact that what we call the four members of man, physical body,
if we call the outer expression of spirit ‘nature’ —
rhythm that was once there macrocosmically in the universe and

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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period we call Kamaloca in anthroposophical literature, and often
Until man has learnt to do this, he continues living in what we call
dormant. This also calls forth karmic causes in Kamaloca, and we
there occurs what we call mental defectiveness, mental illness. A
forces, then comes the inevitable reaction, which we call the process
of healing, and the forces of the organism have to be called up to

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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basically done from without. All the work that is done before birth
it is just the activity of the ego in the organism that calls forth
from out of his ego this also appears physically in the expression of
and actually regulates it was called in the occult teaching of the
Old Testament ‘Nephesh’. This is really what we call the
weeping are something which can in the highest sense be called the

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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also the so-called Lemurian evolution, in which man had only just
all the various stages of evolution leave so-called stragglers behind
call the Lemurian population of the earth, that remarkable people of
already basically there from ancient Lemurian times on, went through
of great spiritual significance, were physically small in those days,
Atlantean times a gigantically developed physical body. And if you
appeal to what we call the development of a higher ego from out of
were the ones who cultivated what we might call inner brooding upon

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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karmically connected. Our concern is the joy the man feels because he
thrones poured forth what we call the substance of mankind, and that
call the forces of personality. But the spirits of personality, who
of three kinds. First, what we call thinking in accordance with law,
karmically destined to pay off something together, but at the same
view of our human world conception we call an abstraction: the spirit
differences among men, what we call the spirit of the age is always
out of relationships is called in Christian esotericism ‘creating
virtuous relationships is called in Christian esotericism ‘The
of a lower order show no more than a trace of what we called creation
they may not extend to what may be called cosmic dimensions, are
we have placed before us as our ideal those whom we call the masters

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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5,000 years in human history, the so-called Lesser Kali Yuga. Since
‘chance’ events, as they are called nowadays, have been
— that when he wishes to call a human soul to himself, it is
a more inward call. Before 1899 such calls were made by means of
I want now to speak of so-called spiritual healing. Here
may be called the ‘Imaginative’ life, or life filled with
can also be called ‘visions’. But we must realise that
passage. Homer, by the way, was called by the Greeks the ‘blind’
realm through which men journey after death, Homer calls it the
Michelangelo added four so-called ‘allegorical’ figures,
directly and realistically from life. The artist has succeeded in
relaxes — as also happens drastically at death — but if
which in occultism is called the Mercury-sphere.
automatically corrected but in the life between death and the new

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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for those who call themselves Christians. "Ye shall be as Gods"
being is unable to recall what his soul has experienced. There is
and when memory recalls them we may feel that we have as little
him the fruits of a moral life, is what may be called a spiritually
In the next sphere, which we will call the Venus sphere
who call themselves Christians. The Mystery of Golgotha was fulfilled
of a different religion — no matter whether he calls himself
the new birth, we have to discover what can be called the Akashic

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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birth you will recall that during that period a human being
these happenings, calls the one ‘cause’ and the other
story is graphically told and it has been narrated in greater detail
thirteenth century by the poet himself, so it cannot be called a mere
external world and lead to knowledge. Admittedly this often calls for
you now recall how the whole course of the evolution of humanity has
lives a life that is radically different from and fundamentally has

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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be indicated if I make sketches to show how the so-called aura of the
The important point is that what may be called the auric
but men do not always call it so. Progress in evolution consisted in

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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spoke of what may be called the last Initiation of Christian
metaphorically. Among the Teachers present in the School in physical
be prophetically foreseen, it became the task of the individual whom
Mystery of Golgotha. What may be called the advent of the Buddha on
This is the momentous outcome of what might be called
called a kind of ‘Mystery of Golgotha’ for Mars took
part of the general stream of evolution. The event that may be called

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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Ego which, basically speaking, passes through all the periods of
Impulse is comprised for the West in what may be called the Mystery
‘I’ or Ego which, basically speaking, passes through all

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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emphatically inner event. For the sake of clarity, here let us
act of what may be called the formative principle. The last
that the principle of form unfolds its activity specifically in the
it was right to call
they encountered physically. Reference to an intangible ‘something’
who remained backward and have become Luciferic spirits. What we call

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Eight
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found in the outside world but within man himself. Let us recall what
is, of course, to be taken metaphorically, but the memories embedded
the great intensity at what may now be called the human body; we
is nothing that can truly be called bliss or blessedness except
outer world is our inner world; what is otherwise called Universe is
and through what in physical life is called Universe we feel that we
working of forces. Historically, one example suffices in order to

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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and Vogt (‘bulky Vogt’ as he used to be called) had
logically have to say that human beings should not have to learn to
developed what it is certainly true to call a religious, pious
Powers whom we may call the Lords of all healthy, budding and
be maintained. This is the basis of what I have called ‘reading

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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may be called the region of the Moon, then that of Mercury, of Venus,
been called to this. In
experienced on Earth. The period of Kamaloka, or call it what you
these impressions after death. Recall any sense-impressions
left to the soul as remembrance. This shows you that basically all
the soul's life in the world of the senses is specifically earthly
exactly with the passage of the expanding soul into the region called
is generally called the unpleasant element of Kamaloka already comes
Five.) In ancient times Brahmanism belonged intrinsically to the Mars

Title: Michelangelo
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called a science on the grounds that it is only the concatenation of
them but we cannot base on them anything that could be truly called a
realistically through the natural means which Michelangelo had
still have some immediate feeling of what Goethe called the spirit of
nature. Each type of stone calls for its own specific form, and each
comprehended artistically what came to him from an earlier period, he
phase and puts himself quite realistically in the same space in which
has represented so majestically the creation of the world, the
contemplate it aroused the awe of his contemporaries and was called
human soul. If we can feel what Goethe called the “spirits of
Libyan, we see in them, though transformed, what we must call the
called the destiny of the Blessed and the Damned, can be seen in
Michelangelo was rooted in what I have called the principle of his
then if we remember that what anthroposophy calls the ego and the
should select to represent plastically the truth which Spiritual
how closely they run parallel with what I once called spiritual
physically exhausted, yet with the strength that enabled him to carry

Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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or what we are accustomed to see physically — mountains,
unity. — A second element is what we call thinking, our
that when the clairvoyant consciousness tried to recall this
shows us that what we call the great illusion chiefly consists

Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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that was nothing other than something called forth by his abnormal
judge the situation correctly, to recognize that what his eye called
certain fogginess, a “stupor”, we could call it. One thus
here, that which is called losing consciousness, a stupor, cannot be
images called into consciousness by his free will, tries to draw
others that one is trying directly to intensify one can call human
soul life we can distinguish very clearly between so-called fantasy
are followed systematically. When we awaken the slumbering
life is called anxiety, fear, will be intensified through such a
soul-shaking event called the Meeting with the Guardian of the Threshold.
experience is called the Meeting with the Guardian of the Threshold
materialistically tinged monists have a definite reason for denying
soul, so that these depths look quite different from what we call our
We can note that a materialistically or monistically minded
present when a person is a materialist or a materialistically tinged
materialistically minded person in the ordinary
something arises that was called in the beginning of our study a
more into himself, when he strives through this for what is called
dramatically; it is especially telling that this individual, in the
humanity). He calls it a belief, because he cannot perceive that what
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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Event of Golgotha the Being we call Christ has been the
called a dim remembrance of what the soul had once
future. — Thus He who was called Christ was also
Earth. After death you can be part of Osiris and call him

Title: Lecture: Buddha
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called “Eternity.”
from these flowing pictures, our present so-called intellectual
admit, hypothetically at all events, some of the truths investigated
symbolically described as “sitting under the Bodhi tree.”
which cannot merely be called, in the Buddhistic sense, a descent

Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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so-called “Cambrian” layer of our earth's development and
their rock-material which consists mainly of what is called granite
he calls the granite:
Neptunists, as it was called. One of the principal supporters of the
from our human point of view we call perfect today, we come to ever
call “fatigue.” It is, in essence, a kind of destructive
point of view of spiritual science one must practically reverse the
should logically lead to the following reflection – When the
conscientiously and, methodically as any other science, is considered
our time, and which a well-known contemporary geologist has called

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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that it can, so to say, act practically. It is particularly
that current of theosophical life we call our own, we do not make
call itself by the name of a great spiritual individuality, after the
said in the course of years concerning the Individuality we call
we all Christ: you call another by His Name, and we must reserve the
of detraction — although an unconscious one, when we are called

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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so-called register of the Akashic Record. We know that what has once
innermost core of our being meets us in what we call our Ego. This
regarding the soul, so-called official psychologies which no longer
necessary to call up an impression of the feeling aroused by
world directly through his own impressions. This is what we call the
Beings — indeed those Beings, called in our terminology,
all the possibilities and diversities of what we call a feeling of
Whom we call the Spirits of Will, come the Beings of other
in the least similar to our environment. What we call the element of
a good one, — the so-called ‘Old Schwegler,’
have expressly called this a good book) it is only an example by

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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conditions of the evolution of our world. I have already called
When, therefore, something is said to call up a picture before our
substance dense enough to be called gas, nothing but heat and
For this ‘heat’ or ‘fire’ as it is called in
brought to birth that which we call time: though I have already
called attention to the fact that ‘brought to birth’ is a
beautiful experience that can be called forth in our souls, the
contemplation of active practical devotion may call forth the
insight. But we must imagine what is here called self-surrender as
the feeling of one enraptured by what we call
the Universe. Just as we have called the Thrones ‘The great
Spirits of Wisdom on the Sun, the Spirits we call Archangels or
beginning — this feeling is something that can call up inns a

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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lectures an endeavour was made to call attention to the fact that
that behind all that we may call flowing air or flowing gas, there is
something very far away, which we have called ‘the virtue of
flowing air. Thus what is perceived externally, physically, is in
with what in ordinary life is called ‘asceticism,’
development. At this juncture let us once again call to mind the
possess what we call freewill, freedom of choice. We must therefore
Now what we call the
must therefore complete the picture we called up before our minds in
these intrinsically Spiritual cloud-formations is seen to take place
between what in the last lecture we called the ‘outer’
we may call a division of the whole Sun-substance, a divergence. If
continues the renunciation of the sacrifice; all that we have called
evolution it is the case that the gods themselves called their
not look for the origin of evil in the so-called ‘evil’
‘Am I not able to call forth a whole multitude of angels if I
called forth their opponents by the renunciation they made. And we
such a great cosmic moment; and when we recall the words: ‘He

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 2)
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have learnt to perceive in water what might be called resignation. It
must understand by this is symbolically expressed in the world's
recall the words of the poet: ‘He alone who longing knows,
trickling in, and which has its origin in what may be called:
was what is called ego-nature which comes out in every form? It is
have called ‘Bestowing Virtue,’ which is radiated forth
of what we call the ‘arising’ of pictures of the other
empty-Souled, empty of everything not to be called longing. But the
Movement call up new pictures. When these have been there for
presently that the earth is to be called the ‘Planet of
Moon-existence may be called the ‘Planet of
consciousness. Hence a situation must arise which artistically
perceived. Hence Achilles is called ‘her’ Achilles. What
outside in the world which has been dryly called the forces of our
day may serve to remind us how tragically and stormily that which

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 6: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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that we call Maya or the great illusion, there is the Spiritual. Let
senses and our physically limited view.
this assertion; but what is the manner of these proofs? Logically
impossible logically to prove by the existence of one class of
communicated to a person, which although it may be true, he must call
rejection of the sacrifice offered by Cain, which symbolically
clear idea of what this implies, if we think symbolically of the more
arise in the lower Beings. This again can be symbolically expressed.
estrangement of what we must call the contents of the sacrifice takes
feelings of such Beings, you will have an idea of what may be called:
have within them something, which, speaking symbolically, could only
symbolically — of the rejected incense, of the rejected
spiritual characteristic of what we call the fourth element in the
be in the spiritual world may be called death. Thus something is cut
But on the other hand as regards the Being whom we call the
speak of the incision into life that we call ‘death.’ Man
which we call death, nothing but transformation, metamorphosis.
contradicted historically! This cannot be dealt with like other
such and such a position, then He whom they call the Christ must have
scientifically, what is correctly calculated, and what is actual

Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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its spiritual essence; also of what may be called anthroposophical
built up out of small — they are called ‘elementary
materialistically crude way, with everything that Fechner wanted to
something basically took place that must be experienced by every soul
astronomy, geology, or mineralogy — basically speaks about the
of the earth's crust and were then transformed chemically in
were acquainted with this realm knew well why they called what
condition of body and soul. In sleep, body and soul are chemically
is the earth ego. This should not be said merely symbolically! As the
physically, is only a part of the soul-spiritual entities who
1804 Sydenham Edward discovered the unusual plant called the Venus
in something that calls forth an effect after a certain time.
specific times of the day; for example, Hemerocallis fulva,
the expression of the features of our earth. Thus what we call our
recall how I have indicated that there are plants in the earthly

Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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must always draw from the source which we may call Illumination,
grow stronger and stronger, we can descend mystically into the
called the “Great Aura,” for it is all-embracing.
Zarathustra called that which lies behind the physical
While the Indians searched mystically in the inner self to find
in the feeling it called forth in
re-create this idea nowadays. Zarathustra calls this
is symbolically represented as the serpent biting its own tail; into
was later called the Zodiac. This is the expression of the spiritual
and thirty-one. These subordinate powers are called Izerads or
are not really active in the physical world as such. They are called
as so far densified in man that they are physically manifest.

Title: Lecture: Hermes
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only retained atavistically as a waning heritage, in the picture
was called by the name of HERMES. And when in later times a man came
(according to the custom of Egyptian sages) called himself
revived the primeval wisdom of the old Hermes, called this first
(It was of course, only the Greeks who called him Hermes; among the
dead man feels that in the spiritual world he may himself be called
his own nature, were practically the same as occur at death but they
exoterically to the people in the form of legends. Those who were
the so-called barbaric civilisations must be regarded as the outcome

Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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soul life, which are more difficult to understand. When he calls
we not find that which we call higher human spiritual activity,
what we call morality in an imperfect condition already in
earth-period, which the geologists have called the Laurentine,
practically during the whole of the Miocene period; in the
in external nature, into the region which Topinard calls the
would have to be called the Creator of the Soul.” Thus
the scientific tendency begins to develop logically arrive of

Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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For no one would be able to call the life of an organism
Redi called forth such a storm of passion that he only just
called forth at that time a storm of anger. Those who feel
from its birth onwards. The cause of death is the calling to
necessarily called forth. Remembrance rests, namely, on a
confusion of perception with idea. Both must be emphatically
before the time of the Ego-perception can not be called forth
developed which calls forth, in pictures and symbols which
which is really called forth. For that, however, one thing is

Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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souls — we really have before us that which may be called
which in the full sense of the word we may call Anthroposophy,
— scenes which were especially called forth by St. Luke's
new principle, wherein men do not call forth joking and

Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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imagination, we are called upon to span is wide indeed. It is
in the intellectual life of their time. I would call to mind
been called forth by the sight of the dome of St. Peter's in
mankind to conceive mathematically and mechanically such an
For he always emphatically affirmed that “the human
the theories of that Physical Science which is to-day called
called attention to this and had to submit to being called a
Giordano Bruno says philosophically: — It is worthy
I would call
humbly and mathematically.

Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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in a whole organism. We may here recall an utterance once made by Goethe
of Raphael. Grimm speaks of the picture called “The Marriage of
but we can at least call up before the mind's eye one of the more widely
not theoretically, or in an abstract sense, but with the whole soul
poured into it a power able to reemerge in what we call the “life
express the inner experiences called forth in the soul by Christianity.
that it was swayed by the so-called “fire of Christendom.”
connection to quote one of the so-called “Golden sayings”
things, — this is what is expressed in the picture so often called
permeated by what had been brought about by the so-called “education

Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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called upon to be active in human evolution. Taken in a higher
years previously had been called upon to deal with the human
is called upon to participate says that the theory which he had
heroes in Western Europe called for Liberty. Those now battling
in Eastern Europe call for bread. It is simply two sides of the
human beings took up impulses for which they should be calling
today. The ones who today call for liberty and equality—I
namely if we get the soul who is calling for equality back into
all of Russia. In the fall of 1905 the socialistically organized
workers called for a general strike and, with the participation

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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Society at Jena by a very important Botanist of the day called
idea had no significance for external, so-called objective nature.
in order finally to erect genetically from the materials of all
spiritual phenomena, which he calls the proto-phenomena, as he
calls the proto-plant the proto-phenomenon of the vegetable world.
more materialistically coloured philosophy emphasizing the
towards what is called knowledge as it is with different painters,
understanding which we must call a modern understanding. He
after to-morrow we shall consider it esoterically.
story, for I cannot talk about it unless we recall the important
between them is significant. The Snake calls herself a relative of
call themselves relations of the Snake in a vertical line. They ask
proceed historically, if we consider that it arose in the middle of
cleanse and purify them and make them correspond with what we call
which in ancient times was called the ‘initiation into higher
exoterically, and purely historically.

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idea-conception and as if he who, as it were, feels himself called
aspiration. The principle contained in this was always called the
in human soul-life, in his last book called
categorically that knowledge is produced only through the
ideas has always been called the ‘purification’ of the
speak of purification or catharsis, as it was called in the old
feelings is called in all esoteric doctrine
has been called
chaotically mixed, that stage of knowledge is represented which does
they flow chaotically and intermingled in him, as long as they are
that the Old Man at the critical moment calls upon the
self-surrender. That really is a secret, even if it is called an
healthily and practically, as, for instance, in religion,
united he calls the Beautiful Lily. You notice this Lily is to be
through thought, feeling and will, he is united with what is called

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from his earliest youth, having worked energetically from the
from the beginning of 1770 that he had what may be called the Faust
came into touch with what one can call alchemistic, mystical and
growth of the earth: ‘From chaos to that which is called the
the lowest step they studied what they called physical knowledge,
called theosophy, magic and the occult, came very near to being
Bruno, Galileo, Copernicus and others. Such times are called
dramatically as a man fallen away from the old traditions of
a man of the world and calls himself a
We see how he seizes on the old book — Goethe called it the
Their golden urns reciprocally lending,
pain, ‘However artistically these characters are drawn,
One power we call Lucifer. He lays hold of man in a more inward
true form, was called Mephistopheles. This figure was called in
this Power, also called the ‘old
felt in himself the discord caused by what we may call the
It was in what we may call the tragedy of Gretchen that Goethe
call forth a further rise. He strives for this through the
acquisition of all accomplishments and virtues which call for
recalled to memory the spirit of the earth. When he had previously

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which is aware of the spiritual experience which we may call
would that they would cease to call these things realistic. The
called it ‘Ahura Mazdao,’ ‘The great
and real beings corresponding to what one ordinarily calls
physical world. What men call their understanding, by which they
why this is if we look at what are sometimes called the
resound with what we have called in the spiritual sense, the music
of the supernatural world, which you find called the
quite realistically what he himself had experienced; and this he did.
poetically masterly way. It is not a case of marvelling at the
embodied in a physical form — this we call
‘soul’ around the spirit, and often called by us the
represents the idea of re-incarnation cryptically — as
mixes into these spiritual experiences. Faust is what one calls a
there sounds from the depths a remarkable call. He is now like a
spiritual world, and it is as if it were to call out to the
‘Hill-folk,’ he calls them. The powers behind the
‘Still call from beyond
experiences. Goethe depicts realistically what he knows to be
spiritual world, he can express it in diametrically opposite views.

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such a being is called in oriental wisdom an
itself and one called an Avatar: namely, that an Avatar-being
was more what we call the sentient soul, or more the
intellectual soul, or more what we call the consciousness soul.
whom you will follow biographically with the soul when you know
Christianity is so radically combated today has been learned

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spirit, must pass a trial. Such a self-desired trial always calls
spiritual world. It was a call delivered to humanity – followed
Such a call
happens as a rule three times. If the call also remains unheard the
This call was already sent to humanity once, unfortunately it found
the individual, whom we have called Christian Rosenkreuz since
called by the provisional name: “Gesellschaft
ideal spiritual movement with any other, which also calls itself
in the completion of Society's house in Stuttgart, the so-called
an address during the so-called crisis in 1915:
circumstances. Due to the recall to the fronts of so many artists and
organically moving forms, warmed and waved by the human hands
And all these, artistically created from the most varied elements,

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who, because of their calling, feel they must protect
in the twentieth century when other soul forces are called
any so-called modern ideas. Just consider how rigid was the
life. Many more things were mentioned, all of which called

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called, according to the Hermetic axiom, the “world
intellect, is called the “world below,” and is an
beings have the physical body in common with the so-called
is the principle that calls inorganic matter into life and,
something called the “principle of life” into
am a being who inwardly calls himself ‘I.’
to the objects in this room. Each one of us will call the
can call someone else “I.” The word
the word “I” was called: “The unutterable
sense, it is not what can be seen physically that is meant,
is permeated by the astral body, which calls up in the
beings contain fluids that call mineral substances to life,
nerves to appear are those of the so-called sympathetic
free from the ether body — after it had called into
transformed these lower fluids into what we call

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can be perceived physically, spiritual science maintains is
inorganic nature, but we also know that it is called into
life by the so-called ether or life body. This ether body is
call himself “I.” This is the crown of his
substance which could well be called “living
call “consciousness.” Thus, consciousness within
acquainted with my lectures will recall references to
organization. Certain thoughts and feelings will call up
Basically that is the cause of insanity.
Consequently, even if it cannot be proved anatomically, the

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individuals called the “initiates.” In every age
poetically, saying that from the mortals the gods receive

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arrive at any other conclusion than: “Basically death
contains the forces that call the physical substances to
physically at birth. The human being is truly born a second
physically on the embryo before birth; up to the change of
Paracelsus calls a patient suffering from cholera an
being from the materials of nature. Basically, everything
of how the external forces and substances are called to life,
Spiritual science is like the so-called poison which, when

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the third year, he calls the "golden, gentle, harmonious age"
is basically of a religious disposition, who has deep

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something about so-called spiritual or mental illness. The
first of all pass over into the condition called
human being can become what is called “demented”
to a variety of questions. This is called
so-called spiritual or mental illnesses, natural and

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knowledge within his own being. Rightly understood, the call
an etheric body; only the astral body and what we call
and enjoyment because it calls up in the child inner feelings
the ether bodies. The affinity expresses itself physically in
seventh year physical forces elaborated and plastically
a sensation of growing, not just physically, but morally.
These feelings work plastically on the ether body, as the
therefore also call this “a period when the systems of
end physically when the ether body begins to withdraw its
described cannot unfold. We find instead what is called the

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transformations represented symbolically how inner human
so-called Fama Fraternitatis in 1614, and a year
is one of the methods whereby what is called "initiation" can
initiation, a method as exact and as scientifically worked
method was the so-called Christian-Gnostic path. The human
its adherents — rules that are basically still valid, and
was revealed; no hint was given theoretically or otherwise,
are not dependent on what is seen or heard physically. A
organically from the preceding one, like growth occurs in an
everything transitory was mere symbol was systematically
calmly accept being called a fool by materialists who only
The sunbeam was called the “holy lance of love”
the so-called vortex, which can be thought of as two
both physically and spiritually. For example, a developing
down the ages the call has resounded: “Know

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called it “mathesis,” mathematics, not because
substance, Wagner saw from the start an artistic calling as a
The artist, he felt, has a kind of priestly calling, and that
forms was caused by what he called “their selfishness
the world. Deep feelings of religious piety were called up in
He who thinks materialistically only knows that one can
physically reach and assist another person. He has no notion
did not sense the spirit's call, became stuck in sameness, in
what can be physically seen and heard. Whatever deeper
affinity with what could be called "man's mythical past." His
drama called The Victor; this was in 1856.
attain a higher fructifying power, called forth by the
“I am with you to the end of the world,” called

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Council of Nicaea was called by Emperor Constantine. It
so-called harmonizing of the Gospels took place. This meant
words of the Bible, of being an agnostic and unfit to call
called Christianity.”
practically everything he wrote. However, those who recognize
kingdom we see the physically imperfect side by side with the
physically more perfect; in the human kingdom we see all
the initiate was a prophet or a messiah. He was also called a
ancient Pythagorean schools was called “the harmony of
If we call this Being God, of whom a particle lives within

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the moment in conjunction with what we call divine cosmic
There have always been philosophers called determinists
look outside of what we call spiritual science. Only the
intellects, something occurs that can be called confusion in
they can be logically proved. But their opposite can also be
logically proved. So let us tackle the question today,
if they called them by other names. The feeling for these
things has now been lost, but basically it was there in a
what human beings call knowledge, in what people call their
called an elemental body. Outside in nature, in external
of this kind symbolically in a dream. Someone dreams he
left the physical plane they may well have been called to
the world, I would not do it in such a way that I call souls to
scientist Ernst Haeckel called

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we call the ahrimanic and luciferic forces in world events and
introduced. Basically the world always confronts us as a
mathematically on the basis of past ones. Ideally, scientists
If the duke had not called Goethe to
abstractly call “time” and “the marching on
if I succeed in converting even one reader and recalling him
or galimatias might be called a popular galimatias, a genre
important than what happened physically. The occurrence has

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studied the sort of thing people call spiritual science. And I
example, aren't there? I could call him hypothetical to
not look upon it egotistically as though they were
looking at things, even of looking at what we call freedom,
we call the search for causes is perhaps for the time being
to call. So we certainly see a great deal of necessity in what
utterly futile occupation. By specifically not thinking

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had not fused with the world of historically young peoples who
historically young people, such as the Teutonic people
can also put it another way. You know there are so-called
what is called “good” or “bad” in a
philosophically, in my
necessity, although the two are basically pretty much the
what one might call a Parsifal of a later age. Goethe can
actions, what we can call necessity can join directly with
write it. Why not? Because there is something we have to call
Because the companion — as I called him last time —
interacting organically. Freedom and necessity always

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we usually call the etheric body. It escapes ordinary physical
it from outside. If someone were to call out the word
he looks at himself. He does not call himself “I”
physical body that we nowadays call the etheric body, people
physically objective.
psychologically as action. We were able to derive the latter
might call depravity of will, that there too, it is not a
“So there cannot be a will.” The so-called monists
ugly according to natural law, one person may be what is called
metaphorically speaking, he falls down with a loud thud as a
basically a kind of hangover, caused by the fact that they
kind of inwardly inorganic, disordered state we call a
through understanding. We might call it a free necessity,
consult so-called scientific books today — not the
so-called monism of our time is obviously always going to

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am about to make may possibly give offence to so-called
the new growth of so-called Darwinism to be subjected to
of which we are speaking. We call this epoch of materialistic
materialistically inclined that these discoveries became
ancestry comes in?’ Huxley did not rise till the meeting called
there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would
have every reason to call attention to the great things which
solved. Du Bois-Reymond calls this the “astronomic”
physically descended from the “archetype,” while
physically still more imperfect ancestor. Yet, at the time of
something we may call spiritual, but he has as yet not come to
whole host of them, which he calls atoms!

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present the book of folk tales called
on trying, at Leipzig, to train himself for his calling as a
his hearers, as they hung upon his words, he sought to call forth a
also shared — at having been able to call Fichte to his University
August in calling to his University the man who had most freely
needed, in calling Fichte into his service. This invitation was described
be bought cheaply in Reklam's Universal Library) was called
then Fichte's was a nature which stood by itself. He may be called
metaphorically of course, to strike out fiercely with his
He filled the position so energetically that he was only able to
follows: at that time there was appearing at Berlin a periodical called
such a way that we desire to have his image as if plastically
His own people can visualize him, by bringing his image plastically
only thus plastically that he can be understood; but if we open the

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basically no more is left today, especially for the city dweller, than
tales of what they wanted to feel and should feel, when the so-called
As Herod from his window calls:
colloquial speech, up to the time of the so-called magyarization in
preceded by the so-called Paradise play, the play of Adam and
of Christmas trees. An aesthetically sensitive eye must find it
a matter of course. But for an aesthetically sensitive eye it remains
15th, 16th and 17th centuries. In fact it can be historically
night because they expected to see physically, materially, that a
Now I ask you, please notice what this means: to call upon Nature in
attempt to deepen artistically what we can gain from Spiritual

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everything that we call the nature of the Mysteries. It is not for
regions of the soul is not called forth only when one approaches it
this connection I call courage and fearlessness moral qualities.
first can be called “Coming into contact with the Experience of
World”; the third was called in the Egyptian and other Mysteries
we call sense-perception. This follows from what has already been

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might say, according to the sympathies of Darwinistically-inclined
so-called natural death is brought about through an inner conformity
recall those devastating visitations among earlier European peoples
so-called untimely death.
theoretically, at least — the ground was taken from under their
of the spiritual worlds into the physical world the forces which call
most tragic guise. He called them the “malice of things”.
— not in a bad sense but emphatically in a good one — that
Thus — ironically, one might say — a decision was reached,
This experience was always called “Seeing the Sun at

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But pictures call up for you long-past happenings, showing you that in
as they are called — currents proceed which build up the spinal
feelings were the experiences of the so-called Egyptian Isis
into what one may call the super-sensible equivalent of that which one

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The God who was called Osiris has forsaken these realms. He is
sinking tragically out of sight. It reappeared, and could be looked
new Initiation, must have centres where there can be recalled to human
of the cosmic forces through the signs of the Zodiac were those called
have the humanised Cosmos. What we may call the pedagogical high
of the goddess called Iblis, the daughter of Eblis; and among all evil
call Lucifer. Iblis is a kind of feminine aspect of Eblis, the
way, and yet it stands so dramatically before us in the antithesis
something that can be called, in a crude sense, a double nature. To a
Hence there will be an ever more insistent call to test the fruits of
cleverer, in the sense in which it is fashionable to call people
plastically modeled through thinking. If only such thoughts are
called Saelde by Wolfram von Eschenbach, the very life that
call forth pictures of deep soul-processes, I have sought above all to

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called synoptic because they can be taken together to form a
documents. They begin to explain them symbolically. They
explaining symbolically the Christ myth and the Bible in
called wheels, chakrams or lotus flowers. The two-petalled
what is called meditation. This means that the soul sinks
occurrence is described pictorially and symbolically in the
occult language this union with the higher world is called

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call to mind the Lazarus miracle in connection with the
Physically the stigmata appear. In the case of certain saints

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called that of the “Lion”. Such an initiate had
him. In Persia such an initiate was called a
“Persian”. In Greece one would have called him a
as a symbol of the fifth grade of initiation, is called the
‘Before that, Philip called thee, when thou wast under
basically, equally valid expressions of the highest
Therefore one called what lived in man, the God in man. Thus
theosophically, this image carries a truly beautiful and
had a significance. Suppose someone was called James
scientific term for the soul element. If I call somebody
called by their initiate names: James means water, Peter
higher self. If I call somebody John (Johannes), then he is
express it by calling the skeleton the exterior; water, the

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what they are now wont to call religion, the substance and content of
Bible; the so-called ‘Silver Codex,’ consisting of the four Gospels
bodies by day, increased in clarity and definition. Paradoxically
what is called the “Holy Night,” he was able to see through

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ourselves to all the different organs which form our body physically.
learns to grasp. Thus certain things are acquired systematically. The
physically.” Thus lie the facts for our Ego. The Ego is
— the preceding life; this we call the passage of the human soul
what we call the astral body; then the sentient soul to the age of
which would theoretically have been able to care for the full life of
relatively short time, between death and rebirth, in what I might call
Cosmic Wisdom which now calls away a number of souls, that they may be

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influential. She forsook the artistic calling which was previously so
centuries are karmically connected with their causes, the battles of
deeply in their hearts that its force became truly cosmically
not to be taken literally — they feel themselves above, and call
Now, many who to-day oppose what we call Spiritual Science, cannot
upheld among the so-called ‘normal’ people of to-day. And
sleep life in a special form during the time we call Kamaloka, and
called the Kamaloka life. This life follows. It is of such a nature
earth-life just elapsed, and which we are accustomed to call the life
aright — not only theoretically but so to grasp them that they
perhaps feel sorry for the dead man, but that is quite uncalled for;
the possibility of ethically preparing our next incarnation in the

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able to work as if prophetically through the entire life, which would
really evolves more and more in a definite direction. One might call
it that of the so-called ‘concept of being.’ And to-day
first arouse them into that which one here calls
themselves to-day: Why must so many men be called into the spiritual
life. Many who are now called away will help to prevent the earth from

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solved if we have the courage to approach what may be called the
physical bodies can be perceived by the so-called dead, and
theoretically, as can any statement concerning physical reality;
that men would then be without. But theoretically, it might be
there lives what may be called a dim knowledge of what takes place in
that something actually takes place through the help of the so-called
show an enormous subtlety — we cannot call this wisdom; we should
feel an inner objection to calling it wisdom. But these people display
through life with much more, of what we might call calculation, than
course. We call this growing old for the quite trivial reason that

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reality, in that one beholds it. But physically, even for those who do
human life, one discovers wisdom in the so-called accident, but a
continually active in order to call forth the concepts anew. When we
modern German literature. I might call it a pearl among German novels.
It is called Hofrat Eysenhardt. It is really one of the best
as we may call it. Now, this made such an impression on him that he
an extraordinary sagacious, philosophically inclined man, said:
Freund are practically identical.’ This unity, this uniting of
could be recalled so easily. Just consider how interesting it is that
realistically does he write. And we see in such a novel that Berger
in what we have always called Kamaloka, after having caused an
could see the spiritual events in which man is entangled. Exoterically
accustomed to think scientifically, and who merely have to raise their
Within the sphere of consciousness so-called logical reasons are

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investigating it by means of critical knowledge. And many to-day call
perception, and of what the so-called critical progressive thought has
this critical thinker feels a little mystically inclined, and says:
through our senses.” And he calls these senses ‘Accidental
followers of Fritz Mauthner has written a brochure called
remind ourselves of what he calls memory. We fasten that on to the
I have experienced a kind of Christmas sadness — one cannot call
naturally sees this outer world materialistically in our epoch, quite
with this world. Therefore such radically vain thinking never reaches
of them rightly for a moment and call them substantives. Certainly
Festival of the Birth of our Lord is called the Christmas Eve, with us
it is called the Holy Evening; the following day is the Holy Day and
solemnity, to which the bells call one through the quiet solemn air of
custom of the country, calling at the different villages, and were
epoch, historically inserted into the beginning of our era, where

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into the cavity of the body. This is called the sympathetic nervous
became visible to themselves. By means of the so-called Kundalini Fire

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Wisdom, which is also called Word, and thirdly Will. When we speak of
the sphere of activity, every single activity calls forth a counter
the counter effect of our activity. Thus each activity calls forth
this. In a narrower sense this activity is called human karma. What I
blow, that is activity and calls forth a counter blow. This is balance
restoring justice — karma. Every action calls forth its counter
something of rest, of equilibrium. It is therefore also called rhythm.
This green was once called forth as complementary colour.
What man physically is and does is brought about from outside by
why we also call his astral body his body of desires.
called Kamaloka. It is a condition in which there is still desire to
A stroke calls forth a counterstroke; but only through many
has no need to pass through Devachan. This is called the renunciation
certain stage of development is called a Sun Hero, because his inner

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called Kama-manas.
ourselves standing before the flower called Venus Fly Trap. If we gaze
plane, in higher regions than that of the plant. Blavatsky calls it

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century. At that time a number of articles dealt with the so-called

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matter, the formative ether, which is also called the Chemical Ether.
at a place, in a condition which is called the Maha-para-nirvana
also called the atomic ether, because on this plane it has its own
arithmetically organised produces sound. Here we have an example of
present in the Akashic Record. Sound corresponds to something we call
then to create beings. Freemasonry calls these three forces wisdom,

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called the “pure” man. Man becomes impure through the fact
other into his nature. This pure man was called Adam Cadmon. When at
negative aspect was called by the Pythagoreans catharsis. At first man
and has thus become a creator, is called a Bodhisattva, which means a
stage higher than the Nirmana-kayas, stand those beings who are called

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in the Secret Doctrine, called Jehovah a
occultism therefore the Old Moon is also called the Cosmos of Wisdom.

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destruction; a new impulse broke in. In occultism this is called a
sign of the Ram, or Lamb; hence he calls himself the Lamb of God.
consciousness on the mental plane. Those who were no longer physically
man and as woman are so radically different that two such
the physical incarnation is present only exoterically. The human being

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present as form and being. The physical body is called a temple in all
educated idealistically; for instance, Haeckel, Büchner, Moleschott.
that the leading personalities acted when they called the Theosophical

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the brain. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky calls this egg-shaped sheath the
Theosophical literature a condition of form is called a Globe and one
astral condition. After this it appears physically once more.
Akasha. This condition is in fact called ‘Akasha’. In the beginning of
more material form is called in occultism, for example in certain
This is called a spiral (Wirbel). Until the Earth stage, the fourth

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ourselves how it is connected with the so-called three worlds. All
without separateness. Consciousness of self we call the ego. Man can
and time. Let us try to call up before the soul everything connected
Arupa Plane. This is why in the Greek Mysteries the soul was called a
what the Buddhists call Avidja, not-knowing, drives him back into
drive man down. These together are called Nidanas. As man gradually
himself with something, a reaction is called forth. Action always
calls forth reaction. Everything that man does in the physical world

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one have what in occultism is called the physical body. In itself it
the so-called Asuras (the Archai) were sufficiently advanced to make
solar plexus developed. It is so called because still today only
In occultism what we have now described is again called a spiral
form. So thought-forms, as they are called, are made out of a kernel
of the nerves stream the so-called abstract thoughts, which however

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pupils in direct succession were intentionally called Dionysius, so
the Greek priests called the soul a bee, the Arupa Plane a beehive and
brings this about is called by natural scientists ‘adaptability’.
Everything however that is called adaptability conceals human activity
The beings whom we call Devas can do much more than human beings of
incarnate physically at a definite time.

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is why the devachanic world is called, the world of effects and the
is why the Egyptian occult teaching in esoteric centres called the
the Earth is metamorphosed into a so-called astral condition of form
karma which in Indian esotericism are called Nidanas:

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in anticipation of the future calls forth its opposite on the physical
three different bodies of man. These three aspects were called:
mentioned. He calls himself ‘the Frankfurter’. No amount of learned
done, taken together, is called Sanskara or the organising tendency
that draws him into a new earth-life. This third force is called
leads us to what we call contact with existence: Sparsha. Whoever
called contact with existence: Sparsha.
new element. Man becomes more involved. It is called Vedana: Feeling.
ever been incarnated. This is called Jata: what before birth gave the

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what is called Nirvana. Very much is involved in a complete
of anything that might be called freedom, for man is actually the
paint the tree, but an impression which is called up by all he
called in occultism: Creation out of Nothing.
also called Nirvana.
beings who descended from the Nirvana plane. They are called Monads.

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corresponds in our analogy to the sealing wax. Now we call thought, in
impression we call abstract thought. We can say when we think: ‘I feel
the mystics the counter-image is called Imagination. Thus we have
calls him the Father. Because he is so little known he is also called
Christian religion calls Him the Word. Here something quite exact and
therefore rightly called ‘the Word’, another designation is: The Son
thinking. Within himself man calls it ‘Spirit’; in so far as it works
outside in the creative forces of Nature he calls it ‘Holy Spirit’.
intuitive Spirit. Everything physically present has been made by this
unless it be eradicated by the same force which called it forth. And
the alteration which is called forth through our deeds is what takes
called: Rupa. This is because it was accomplished in Rupa, through the
Through all actions we call forth counter-actions as Karma, because we
inborn tendencies we call towards us opportunities offered by the
disposition lead karmically to the opportunities. Actions bring about
actual destiny, that comes back to us karmically.

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degree of development. We call these human beings Atlanteans. They
conglomerate substance, the astral sphere of the moon, the so-called
is karmically connected with it, this human bell must immediately be
the pole of the spiritual. The pole of animality is called ‘etheric
love, the giving virtue. This part of the astral body is called

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the astral plane have as their substance what we call feeling. They
in the astral forms which we ourselves create. They are the so-called
Kama-Manas was Jehovah. This is why Helena Petrovna Blavatsky called
him the Moon God; he is rightly called the God of Fertility. He caused
called artificial elemental beings because they are brought forth

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higher individualities, such as those we call Masters. They can send
called the relationship of man to his higher self. Such is the true
of the earth to differentiate itself physically to an ever greater
Man is called upon to enter into the atmosphere of the good Masters to
automatic intellect. These shells are called shades. These shades

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the law of effect and counter-effect. Each single effect calls forth
friendship we can be separated physically, so that we cannot make our
artistically either in a visual or plastic way, this has an effect on
the etheric body. An artistically formed piece of sculpture or a
is on the Devachanic plane. The European is practically never on the
Devachanic plane except when he is thinking mathematically. Certain
karmically the most intimate. They are creative through their own

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mankind. But it is not quite easy to answer, for what we today call
inner kernel of being which we call the Monad. We retain this kernel
This atmosphere — astral air one might call it — which at
existence the effects of our actions. We call this the creation of our

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Let us call to mind the point of time when, in the middle of the
inhabitants of the Moon. This is why we call the inhabitants of the
the Hebraic tradition is called Jahve; Jehovah. He was a Moon-God. He
promise of what human beings possess today. Esoteric religions call

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Root-Race is usually called the Aryan Race and includes as the First
call these conditions Races; thus there were seven astral Races. The
it is called mental substance and the Globe a Mental-Globe. There on
everything was only indicated. These one calls four Globes; in reality
called the ‘plastic’ Globe and in this respect the following Globes, a
together called the twelve stages of the Cosmic Year. Then the whole
are called Globes, and again seven on every Globe, which are called
dissolution belongs to a Round. Seven such Rounds are called a

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a condition of Consciousness is called Power
a Round is called Kingdom, Wisdom
a Globe is called Splendour, Glory
Going through the seven conditions of Form or Globes is called Glory.
become further developed in the so-called Races. Thus gradually
utterly destroyed. This was called the measure of things. Everything

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also be called a Kingdom, and the Fourth Round on the Earth we call
evolution. Humanity entered into a dark age. This dark age is called
Root-Race the Moon did so also. Everything evolved physically which
appeared physically, but organised in such a way that he could take
human being not only works plastically on his form, but will be able
conditions of the Rounds are also called conditions of life, because

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a planetary chain. They are called the three Logoi. The Third Logos
Logos is also often called the One who is immanent in things, the
Forms of beings are fashioned. This is called the work of the Third
the head what may be called a focal point is formed through which the
what the natural scientist today calls laws of nature are the thoughts
hand, and a sylph is called into existence. Sign, grip and word of the
Among the Indians the king of the gnomes is called Kshiti, the highest
everything takes place physically. But from what has been said, one
What one gives physically to the infant goes over into his astral
later in life the opposite qualities are not called up consciously,

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we can call taste a chemical sense, because it penetrates into the
with what we call matter. We will first follow the development of our
Man himself had called forth the element of fire in that he had become
be called evil. Then comes the Sixth Root-Race. The Fifth Root-Race is

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materialistically, but who seek for explanations out of the spirit
...]. These events are called the battle between the hosts of the
so-called upper classes as opposed to the poverty-striken lower
emotions, he knows that by calling up these feelings he can also call
a breathing process. He regulates rhythmically what man has today as a
spirit was called: Air, Wind = Pneuma. Pneuma means a current of air
represented symbolically. You can represent it to yourselves in no

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The so-called laws of nutrition in the various civilisations appear at
so-called mental illnesses. They have their special methods. They know
The occultist calls milk: the Moon-food. Sons of the Moon are those
the transformed Moon food, was called by the Jewish people ‘Jehovah’.
stage of development. This means that we stand before a new so-called

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were called Druids: Drys means Oak. The strong oak was the symbol of
Mysteries. This is the personality who in the Bible is called Abraham.
this new culture is symbolically presented in the Lohengrin Saga.

Title: Lecture: The Four Temperaments
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not a scientifically knowledgeable one, was simply indulging in a bit
itself physically in the nervous system; thus in the sanguine, the
glandular system; hence the phlegmatic is dominated physically by his
temperament develops when the etheric or life-body, as we call it,
place, not only ethically, but also in a higher sense. The
suffering to outside objects is what is called for.

Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Animal Soul
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also of a higher body, the so-called “etheric body” or
organically formative. In an animal the sense organs, the functions
ascribe intelligence, all that we call “spirit,” to
they were doing called this spirit working actively in the animal,
call soul experience. Now when we study this soul experience
If the expression is not misunderstood, one could call the soul life

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recall some of the things dealt with in the last lecture.
inherited characteristics which we may call an outpouring of the
way — is for us the direct imprint of what we call the spirit
nature is expressed in what we call the self-conscious ego. I do not
namely, the gaining control over what we may call our bodily
what is wrongly developed in the sciences called phrenology,
realm of speech-sound, of concept and of what we call ego being, the
way it confronts us plastically in the various animal species. —
has something within him which carries out these laws plastically,
is a very special fluid” [A lecture called in
expresses itself physically; for fear and shame are actual processes
of the secrets of the blood circulation. And not dogmatically to make
call forth the feeling: If the spirit would continue in material
to a premonition of what in reality may be called the spirit. But

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It is interesting to investigate in the spiritual accounts called the
good and evil, and mankind came to comprehend what is called in
spirituality we call manas had awakened was considered to be a full
initiate was called a “Sun Runner” or a “Sun Hero,” and all Sun Heroes
Fathers. The initiates of the seventh degree are called the Fathers,

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We call these human ancestors the Lemurians. They were followed by the
moment in the evolution of man that spiritual science calls “the
universal spirit is called the Logos. It embraces the sun, moon and
the sun spirit had called forth as our spirit. For us, the victory of
sun. Picture to yourself how the sun calls forth the beings of nature
Those initiated into the second degree were called the “Occult Ones,”
“Lions.” The initiates of the fifth degree were called by the name of
the sixth degree was called a “Sun Hero,” that of the seventh, bore
Why was the initiate of the sixth degree called a Sun Hero? Such a
was called a Sun Hero, and they were to be found among all peoples.
the whole cosmos. This universal soul was called “Chrestos” in ancient
live in us? Truth lives in us when we endeavor to think logically. It
become what is called Buddhi or Chrestos, when they will have reached
right any more than one needs to decide by vote what is logically
correct or logically false. Everyone can place this ideal before his

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The pupils were now told that what they had experienced was called,
arouse in themselves what may be called faith in man's greatest ideal.
Christos in Christianity. The bearer of this ideal was called the Sun
encompassed an entire tribe. Thus the Christ was called "the Lion of
that Nathanael, for instance, was called a "true Israelite." It was
trees, which, standing there as a single tree, pointed prophetically

Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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be superficial to treat these things in such a way. Recall that we
in this translation — if we want to call it such — will have to be
Let us recall what we have been able to say about the history of man's
translations of them except what the spirit calls for. One can, of

Title: The Mission of Savonarola
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thanks. When it was explained to him that Lorenzo had called
was the one who called Savonarola to Florence? No, it was God
who called Savonarola to this monastery in Florence!
spiritual-scientifically striving person should learn from this

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the peoples and are understood exoterically in their literal meaning.
call incarnation, incarnation in the sense in which we have human
we call ‘the sons of the fire mist’. To-day the fifth root-race is
those whom we call the Manus, he was the Manu3 of the fifth
we call the development of the arts, the development of skill and
with our fifth root-race that what we call engineering and
First we have what we call the physical. This has an occult connection
we now know them, but one man, who is called in the secret doctrine
The Manu of the fifth root-race. In the English version of An Outline of Occult Science, this Being is called ‘the leader of the Christ-initiates’ or ‘the leader of the Christ-oracle’. (p. 177 in the 1949 edition).
Manas. Here is meant the higher Manas. In the book Theosophy Rudolf Steiner calls it ‘the spirit-filled Consciousness-soul’ or ‘Spirit-Self’. (p. 57, revised English edition, 1954).

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mature enough to work in what we call our intellect. Before that time
belonged in their whole nature to what we call the Moon evolution.
call the phase of cold, objective science. Prior to this time there
Let us first call to mind the whole of the myth. We are told that
expressed symbolically as the changing of the comrades of Odysseus
symbol for the striving of the individual soul. Goethe calls it the
something that one can call a content, then the intelligence can be

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folk; we call this the Spirit-race, because the import of the fifth
sub-race. The second sub-race we call the Flame-race, the race to
its downfall. He is called upon to guide the northern peoples until
into tragedy. Hence he is also called Sieg-urt, which means, “he
upon which the fifth sub-race could arise. We also call the race the
culture. In. fact the historic Attila, who was called ‘the scourge of
mystery event is called a ‘Mahr’, from which we get the word ‘Marchen’

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that is the Persian cultural community. Then we have what we call
call attention to the familiar Nicene Creed, which says “suffered
called upon to make the decision from the stand-point of the physical
might call all that accompanies us to-day in the moon the ‘leitmotif’
corresponds not only with what the Trojan War stands for symbolically
come to recognise as important, something which has been called the
Mysteries are called upon to take a part in the fashioning of

Title: Wisdom of Man: I. The Position of Anthroposophy in Relation to Theosophy and Anthropology.
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called the cyclical course of world events. At the time of our first
in ordinary life is called human cognition or human science, and what
All that has been said so far can be historically
calling itself anthropology. As it is practised, anthropology
are called imagination, inspiration, and intuition. Man's ability to
illustration. In former times there were the so-called Mysteries,
took up what may be called anthroposophy. The term actually occurred.
Robert Zimmermann wrote a so-called Anthroposophy, but he
individual cells in their juxtaposition. Everything is mechanically
science can be called the sense of life. That is a real sense
from blinking to walking or running — we call the sense of
question, and this calls for the concept sense, which is exactly as
any significance. True, the skin can be called the organ of the

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We began with the sense we called the sense of life —
disturbed it can re-establish itself automatically. If we stretch out
little stone formations in them, the so-called otoliths, that lie in
judgment is called for, infers from the appearance of these similar
sense organs can be applied quite as logically to the mousetrap as to
anthroposophically. By means of spiritual-scientific observation, man
occupying ourselves particularly with what science calls the sense of
pressure is exerted, a little lump, as we may call it, always
calls aroma, pleasant or unpleasant scent, etc., as the case may be.
nature. Let us first recall and examine the sense of smell. What is
in order to understand the microcosm anthroposophically.

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and I visualize its meaning. This sense could also be called the
objects — anything we “call to mind.” The terms
occurring simultaneously, melody calls for the mental co-ordination
laws, which is another process we can call to consciousness after it
there appears what is called spiritual activity; the so-called
something like two tentacles, man develops what is called the
or has the ordinary human being anything that can be called an
ordinary life is called outer sensation, [TRANSLATOR'S
flowers — they can hardly be called senses any more — the
subtle one of all which we call pure, logical thought. All this is
directing, as so-called lotus flowers, their activity outward, then
Higher up lies what in the narrower meaning we can call our senses.
plastically, as the artist chisels a figure out of stone. The
line. When the ego, for instance, is called upon to perform a
the main blood-stream runs horizontally instead of vertically. The

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there are those that are arranged symmetrically. You might say that
were laid out asymmetrically, but not in connection with the
is, in the plane in which the human being is formed symmetrically.
materialistic doctrine of descent, the crux of which is the so-called
through all forms recalling animal stages, thereby repeating, in a
perceiving not only tones but also what we call sounds.
substance that in no way resembled a larynx. This called for special
called for a current passing outward from within; this current had to
Recall here what was said in the last lecture concerning the origin

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soul life that we call attention, memory, passions, emotions.
of the soul life calls for consideration of the adjacent realms.
accustomed to call the outer world, all that we see before and about
interests play a part. When we call an act good, we know that it
we may call the inner experiences of love and hate.
we call desire. Entering from another direction and underlying love
supposed to be contrasted with another set, called motor nerves, as
science, however, that is not the case. What is called the motor
objects we will call perception, and what you continue to
our soul life, psychically substantial, is what can be designated
place. What we call soul experience is in a sense at the same time

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that is radically different from all other everyday experiences of
done that so-called science would term barbarism; the poem was
typically magnificent soul life as Goethe's that we look upon it as
Let us recall the contrasts in Goethe's soul, as they were disclosed
recall them at will. Occasionally they refuse to be recalled, and we
to recall their store of conceptions and knowledge, and others so
recalls conceptions, is of great importance because it is a measure
that they are like beings within us. Recall, now, those moments of
in your soul. It is something that in everyday life we call boredom.
so-called educated ones. In general, people are far less bored in the
NOTE: A bit far-fetched in English, or at best specifically poetic,

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call a non-poet because, as compared with his other spiritual
Gone is what I called mine:
we should have to represent it graphically by showing the flood
for the moment disregard the content of the outer world. Call to mind
What we are wont to call reasoning capacity in
relationship is maintained between the soul and what we may call a
strong according to our ability to recall visualizations at will.
act upon conceptions. A conception is more readily recalled by our

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thought. We saw that thought itself become poetically creative, as it
lives on in our soul life. We can recall it, but if we do so only
them we must first call them up out of the unconscious life of the
exists. What we call desire simply does not flow in the same
call one current A and the other B; then you could get right to work
matters, yet I should here like to select names that will recall to
bodies. You can test this. Try to recall all that you have learned
in common parlance called “surprise,” “amazement.”
seen it before. What was it that called up this memory? Well, it was
the impression of the new picture that magically and visibly conjured
us recall the highly significant fact that man's retrogressive memory
must join the continuous current we have called the etheric body. At
knows that mere desire cannot possibly call forth the ego. However
state of affairs graphically by drawing the ego current at right
Now let us recall the fact, already mentioned, that
repetition of a perception, the other called up out of the soul by
provided for the memories, which are called forth by the new
we call in the force of desire and develop out of the ego a force
capable of recalling to our memory those visualizations that
us. If we cannot recall the visualization, it is because our desire
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Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: I. Franz Brentano and Aristotles Doctrine of the Spirit.
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is called a concatenation of concepts, for example, the rose is red.
show. Whether I call to mind “rose” and “red,”
it was possible for Aristotle to think scientifically about the
unequivocally of the spirit in its relation to the soul and the body
specifically spiritual tie comes into consideration, other than the
incarnation. Aristotle's doctrine calls for reincarnation but does
why, basically, we are at the turning point regarding the doctrine of

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: II. Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
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have the spiritual world proved to them in a so-called scientific
the calling in of such erudition might seem superfluous.
force of facts that exist for us automatically. Outer physical facts
were to call all that nothing, or at most a sort of surface foam from
concepts and ideas, in the nous, as he calls it, man lives in
as it is now the fashion to call them, expressed itself in the
in the affirmative, it would automatically show that materialism
explain thoroughly would call for many lectures, that what springs
spiritual science as the calling into being of forces hidden in the
Further, it shows what pathological phenomena, as they may be called,
the right effect. Paradoxically it could be said that in the sense
occidental, to feel Buddhistically, as indeed no one rooted in the
theoretically, but really only by repudiating the content of his
plausibility of what we call reincarnation. In a certain respect
of their being into a Beyond; are, as it is called, transcendental —

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practically never used in German to mean ‘imagination’ in
supersensibility, as we call it, for we based our statement on the
man we call right or wrong — the category “subject to
to our anthroposophical doctrine of the spirit, let us call to mind
visualizations, reasoning and what we can call emotions — the
— we would be forced to admit axiomatically that no tree is
When a combination of conceptions is joined by what we can call
to call up, quite experimentally, forces in our soul that at the
be called unreal, yet did not come into being like an external error
we have performed something that manifests itself as intrinsically
true sense of the term we call imagination. Summing up: When
have described it points to what we call inner imagination in the
itself to what we may call the imaginative world. Just as there is a
itself quite realistically the moment it appears. When our soul
separated from the body, is filled with what we may call imaginative
but lacked the power to call them to consciousness. Such a condition
expresses itself in what is called ‘imagination,’
streaming in of what we can call the spiritual world into our
within the region of the soul that must be called emotion. Of course,
takes place in the realm of reality that we can call a passing over
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Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: IV. Laws of Nature, Evolution of Consciousness and Repeated Earth Lives.
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of which, in fact, really calls for elaboration to confirm it. In
impulses that appear to him symbolically either as huge, frightful
call a feeling of moral responsibility, particularly toward the great
an automaton. He notices a desire to express something automatically,
observing, which one might call a sort of fundamental tone that you
way gradually arrive at what may be called inspirational cognition of
and confidence that they are bound to crave. Recall this beautiful
was called a Sun hero. His inner law and sureness were such that he
Divine Spirit, as they called it? They said, “The bodily world,
we to proceed systematically and in the manner commonly aimed at in
mankind through the spiritual current we have come to call

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 1: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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calling to mind some of the things we have heard in the last few
we call ‘pure thought.’ For the way in which Dr. Unger spoke
of the Ego we call the form of pure thought. 2,500 years ago there
call this inner voice conscience. If a man is of the opinion that the
to speak, prove historically that there was a beginning to the time
what could be called the inner voice; what he writes of, still took
(Since 1923 called by Dr. Steiner “The Spiritual Soul.”). In
word was, so to speak, only the call to attention, the signal, that a
when there was what we might call an ancient “musical
kind of incarnation was called a “Son of Apollo”, because
through the astral world then through what we call the lower part of
world. Or, using the European terms, we call the physical world the
astral world is called the elemental world; the lower Devachan the
given a religious colouring and is called the ‘World of
Theosophy calls Nirvana and which lies above the ‘World of
extend to the Buddhi-plane, or what we in Europe call the World of

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 2: The Law of Karma with Respect to the Details of Life
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place in the past. It is not really a good thing to call karma the law
trade, and was thus pitchforked from one calling to another. Of course
the point here is not that the one calling was in any way better than
change, will like his calling, — that his interest in it grows
calling, now come forth anew, — that is, those he felt at eleven
work out karmically by making the grown man or woman a hard, dry
out karmically in the second half of his life, in his joy in life, in
can only call forth a moral pain, may become a physical pain in the
bodies must now call forth greater activity in order to repair the
injury. It is the extra activity thus called forth which is the actual
healing force. Whatever calls forth great activity in the spiritual
the calling forth of a stronger resistance to the disorder. — An
we may call up from the spiritual members of our life.
say: When the effort to heal was made, we called upon the strongest
forces within us — but they did not suffice. Yet whenever we call
did not succeed, the forces we called up in making the effort, are not
we must look upon the illness, karmically, as something which will in
were not able to heal it. The forces for so doing were called up and
then, that so-called inherited tendencies have such dreadful results;
which is in effect not only theoretically incorrect but immoral.

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 3: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity
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called the ‘luciferic influence’. During that epoch man was
the Golden Age came the so-called ‘Silver Age.’ Man was
instincts. Man could no longer be called a companion of the Gods in
Eastern philosophy calls this age, Treta-Yuga. Then came an Age which
should again see Christ in the flesh, as a physically incarnated man;
the flesh. Why? Because what we call the dark age — the Kali-Yuga

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activity which may be called an activity of the Life Spirit. This
They called the ego of this ancestor, ‘Itiel,’ to indicate
was to reappear in Jesus of Nazareth. In the same way they called the
bears the law within it. They called the etheric body of this ancestor
this ancestor they called ‘Agur’, because the physical
ancestor, was called, (because the Divine-Spiritual Beings gave loving
Life-Spirit, was called ‘Kohelet’; for it was said: ‘In
called to the deepest part of man's nature. What was to be made
his ego — ‘mediumistically’ as we should say to-day
spirit, with what the Greeks called ‘Pneuma’, he was
earth, he only had to call forth within him the state in which he
ecstatically raising themselves to the Divinity, but who endure it,
called ‘Pneuma’ or Spirit, they were then guided
of God!’ Thus must they be called, who are really filled inwardly
‘Blessed are ye, who are especially called to carry the Name of
called ‘Christians’ in the true sense who realise that this
now again reached an important time. What is called the ‘Dark
so-called return of Christ. Particularly at the small times of
wide. This again found acceptance by the materialistically religious

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stream, in what we call the Christian Initiation, and how this
sides — polarities, as we might call them — that confront us
development, we may call the two opposites: man and woman; whereas in
earth between man and woman cannot be called male and female. That
artistically represented the defects must be corrected. In better and
In the year 1906, during the Congress in Paris, I called attention to
the conditions prevailing in our age, are called upon to deal with
century, which are called shallow and superficial and which Goethe so
that comet in 1835. Things that take place microcosmically on the
earth are macrocosmically connected with events of the great world. A
we call ‘Signs from the Heavens.’ This is really a fact;
‘Shamballa’ — for so this Land is called — has
Thus humanity is now called upon to make a decision, whether it shall

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incarnations and did not possess what we call conscience, so in later
what is to-day called conscience, or at any rate not designated by
dramatist then existing had no words to express what we now call the
soul which corresponds to what we now call conscience, he had to do so
appears atavistically, and only in abnormal cases. No blame should
corresponding to what we to-day call conscience: you will not find
we must call to mind much that we have learned in the course of past
If we wish in a deeper sense to grasp what conscience is, we must call
stage of development, what we call the forces of the Spiritual-
or Consciousness-soul. (Dr. Steiner has, since 1923, called this the
aware that what we call the ‘ I,’ the ego, works in the
quite exoterically, but even in these lectures many a thing can now be
— or quite exoterically as we shall do on Thursday, — or it

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an ever-increasing knowledge, that what the outer world calls death is
is connected with what we might call an egotistical bent of the human
Jesus whose existence cannot be historically proved. One can therefore
and historically? It is necessary that people should learn that Christ
you will find the Christ, even though you know nothing historically of
The purpose of what we call the Theosophical movement is to make such
same truth, and emphatically asserts it. At the same time St. Paul
illusion.’ Whether you call this the Fall, as the Bible does, or

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Man experiences within himself what we may call thought, and in
can get along quite well with words. Most of what we call “thinking”
who call themselves “thinkers”. For the new edition of my
then the human soul did not at all experience what can be called
of what are called “universals”, general concepts, and
thus to so-called Nominalism, the view that universals can be no more
“Metamorphosis of Plants” and see what he called the
he called the “primal animal” (Urtier) and you
Kant wanted to drive out of the field the so-called “ontological
first third.” That is what is called “pragmatic history”,
world: what we would call the results of the Saturn, Moon and Sun

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physical human body, and what they themselves call the soul. What do
names. These Nominalists had opponents who were called Realists (the
certain times they go through movements that recall human “washing”,
they eat mice, etc. One can call such creatures “cats”.
something to do with what we call “cats”. But now let us
that a great many of these people call their pets “Pussy”.
these persons. Let us call their conception of the universe:
are materialists, call atoms, I know not. But I recognize the
explanations already given we can call such Realists, and their
ideas that permeate the world-process, may be called Idealists and
valid only whatever can be treated mathematically. From this results
mathematical formulae. This may be called Mathematism.
world is ordered mathematically. If mathematical ideas are found to
element in the world, allowing it to remain indefinite. He calls it
forces behind phenomena — can be called Dynamism.
is a world of phenomena.” This is the outlook called
kind of message from reality.” This outlook may be called

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illuminated by e.g. the mental-zodiacal-sign that we have here called
basically a Gnostic, but is specially illuminated by the
find that people who call themselves good Theosophists may go through
it is outside its home. Logically speaking, one is not justified in
say, for example: “I will call nothing ‘Gnosis’
therefore I call violets only flowers that grow in Austria and have a
violet colour — nothing else.” Logically it is just as
zodiacal signs. I will call this world-outlook, Voluntarism.
them. This mood we can call Empiricism. Empiricism signifies a
the divine Light, this soul-mood can be called Mysticism.
remains in the occult. It is only that they do not like to be called
easily with the different standpoints, as they are called. But it can
“gnostically”. They were in a position to pass behind the
which a person carries with him through a given incarnation is called
be called Theism. Or, in contrast to Theism, there may be a
soul-tone that we must call Intuitionism. Theism arises when a
physically, so truly does this other universe exist spiritually.

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called the Venus mood, flows towards Idealism and is nourished by its
spiritual astrology this so-called sextile aspect is unfavourable. We
should call a “thought”, whereas for them it is the
them. And thus they create conditions which call for adjustment.
bring into a right relationship other so-called spiritual streams,

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Man experiences within himself what we may call thought, and in
can get along quite well with words. Most of what we call “thinking”
who call themselves “thinkers”. For the new edition of my
then the human soul did not at all experience what can be called
of what are called “universals”, general concepts, and
thus to so-called Nominalism, the view that universals can be no more
“Metamorphosis of Plants” and see what he called the
he called the “primal animal” (Urtier) and you
Kant wanted to drive out of the field the so-called “ontological
first third.” That is what is called “pragmatic history”,
world: what we would call the results of the Saturn, Moon and Sun

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physical human body, and what they themselves call the soul. What do
names. These Nominalists had opponents who were called Realists (the
certain times they go through movements that recall human “washing”,
they eat mice, etc. One can call such creatures “cats”.
something to do with what we call “cats”. But now let us
that a great many of these people call their pets “Pussy”.
these persons. Let us call their conception of the universe:
are materialists, call atoms, I know not. But I recognize the
explanations already given we can call such Realists, and their
ideas that permeate the world-process, may be called Idealists and
valid only whatever can be treated mathematically. From this results
mathematical formulae. This may be called Mathematism.
world is ordered mathematically. If mathematical ideas are found to
element in the world, allowing it to remain indefinite. He calls it
forces behind phenomena — can be called Dynamism.
is a world of phenomena.” This is the outlook called
kind of message from reality.” This outlook may be called

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illuminated by e.g. the mental-zodiacal-sign that we have here called
basically a Gnostic, but is specially illuminated by the
find that people who call themselves good Theosophists may go through
it is outside its home. Logically speaking, one is not justified in
say, for example: “I will call nothing ‘Gnosis’
therefore I call violets only flowers that grow in Austria and have a
violet colour — nothing else.” Logically it is just as
zodiacal signs. I will call this world-outlook, Voluntarism.
them. This mood we can call Empiricism. Empiricism signifies a
the divine Light, this soul-mood can be called Mysticism.
remains in the occult. It is only that they do not like to be called
easily with the different standpoints, as they are called. But it can
“gnostically”. They were in a position to pass behind the
which a person carries with him through a given incarnation is called
be called Theism. Or, in contrast to Theism, there may be a
soul-tone that we must call Intuitionism. Theism arises when a
physically, so truly does this other universe exist spiritually.

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called the Venus mood, flows towards Idealism and is nourished by its
spiritual astrology this so-called sextile aspect is unfavourable. We
should call a “thought”, whereas for them it is the
them. And thus they create conditions which call for adjustment.
bring into a right relationship other so-called spiritual streams,

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symptomatically to a phenomenon which perhaps seems hardly connected;
of whom the one conceives an event or a human being tragically, while
lifeless world. But we know too that this physical body is called to
life through what we call the etheric or life-body. We know this
what we call Spirit-Self or Manas, Life-Spirit or Budhi, and the
so-called lifeless only through the manifoldness and complexity of
which we call consciousness. Consciousness within matter is thus born

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speaks of cruelty, destructiveness, but one cannot call the animal
body. One calls them Luciferic beings, or groups them together under

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quite definite method of thinking — one might call it that of
say: If a personality who is able to act egoistically lives in a
the personality towards impulses to action. This the Bible calls
science — or anthroposophy, as we call it today — has to
there lies what calls these substances to life, and this etheric body
are called the milk teeth. Only the teeth that come with the change
physically has the task of forming firm supports. What is expressed
memory and of all that we call hope and courage in life. When these
sick organism, corresponds to this plant. Hence Paracelsus calls a
whole of nature works upon man, and how he is called upon to piece

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entirely on that surface of things which is scientifically
Such things in a broad way call our attention to
beings of the higher Hierarchies. We know that what is called the
observer of the world what is called in a materialistic sense
It is much the same with what is called ‘matter’; it is
calls forth the special form and character of the nation in question

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are called alive and all who are called dead. It reaches from over

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repeat themselves periodically. In ancient times, something was known
time mathematically, by our earthly means alone, whereas for the real

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another philosophy of life — whether calling itself materialism,
Spirits” as it is equally correct to call them — mingled in what
first time, can correctly be called “conscious sin”. The host of
ether or life-body and his astral body — or as I have called it in
Spirits we call the Asuras.
Recall to your minds that because the Luciferic Spirits slipped into

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call him — answers the Lord that Job is known to him and that he
can fail to hear an echo of this in Faust when the Lord calls to
purposes, these nature-forces are called into action against him.
certain occult teachings the hosts of Ahriman are also called the
combination of different layers or strata. The outermost stratum is called

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whatever they may be called) do not differ from each other. Strange as
In the so-called Polarian Race (the first Root Race) the etheric body
the earth to be teachers of men, are called “Sons of the
stage of man. Physical man in that epoch is called the Eagle. In the
we call, speaking in the widest sense, the Germanic sub-race. It
separated out from the so-called Latin Race. This term was taken to

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called Patmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus
to the theosophist as Atma, Buddhi and Manas. The Christian calls the
centuries called the “Word” and even then, it can be done
also called the Lamb.

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called: the Promise. Those who understand these things know that
announced prophetically to the mystics. And in the language of the
called the opening of a seal. In the language of occultism, the
Leaders are called Manus. A Manu, therefore, is the Being who at the
developed individualities, the Manus, are called in the language of
still superhuman. They are called, “Sons of God.” And the
we call “Fathers” or “Elders,” will then be able
“Fathers” are also called “Elders.”
Spirit, or since Christian esotericism calls the Spirit
Seventy-two Elders were called upon to enter into evolution and to
Today I only wanted to call forth a feeling that by steeping oneself
what the Indian esotericist calls Faith (Glauben). There is an

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the whole of the human being are connected with that which we call language.
community, then one comes to see what might be called the “secret of
today we will try to illuminate aphoristically so to speak, in broad outline,
“bow-wow” it calls the dog a “bow-wow”. Such word
formation is called onomatopoeic, an imitation of the sound. This was held by
theory, ridiculed it by calling it the “bow-wow” theory. He set
up another theory which his opponents in turn called “mystical”
nature of the object, calls forth the ability in the soul to express this
Müller's opponents returned his ridicule and called his theory the
the fourth member of the human being we called the bearer of the ego. We
only a start has been made in human evolution, we call this part of the
different and more intensive way on the ether body, we call this part of the
body, we call this part of the physical body “spirit-man”, or
consciousness soul and which can be called the physical form of the
which might be called the form of the intellectual or mind soul. And the
we call them
what we call human
the circulatory system and specifically what might be called the blood under
we consider the amount which the human being can transform, artistically
with what we call our inner
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well call to mind the figure of
instance — precisely in those gestures of the soul that we call
what we may call, in a certain sense, the normal. Then it may find itself in
science, the enduring element that informs the species is called the
recorded symbolically in the ancient religious records of mankind. You will
into relation with the soul-quality of man. If we then recall how laughing
laughter and tears how true to human nature is this symbolically recorded
could be logically grasped, it would not be comic. A joke sets up
call for understanding but only for playing a sort of game. Directly we feel

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What indeed is not called mysticism or mystical nowadays? When a person is
and a dim inkling, he will call it mystical or mysterious. When people are
mysticism in the earliest periods of human evolution, but what was called
manifold aspects. We saw that if we look into what is rightly called
hope, and to the whole gamut of pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow. We called
dark foundations of soul experience what we call the intellectual soul, which
equilibrium. We said also that inner truth, as we may call it, arises in the
spark, as Eckhart calls it, shines forth. He then experiences in the soul
mystical path, we find that it must lead to what may be called a unity of all
accordingly, we find an outlook which could be called spiritual monism. When
has qualities radically different from those found in the external world, he
facts which are called in evidence against mysticism by its opponents. The
have defined the limits of the latter. Now we will turn to what can be called
proceeds from ordinary knowledge and goes beyond it is called Imagination;
the second stage is called Inspiration, and the third is called Intuition, in
picture, or similar ones, call forth something in his soul — not merely
had to do in order to call up the image of the black cross as a symbol of
what has to be overcome in man. When we thus deepen ourselves mystically in

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notice it. Hence the mystic often calls it the little spark. But he is sure
his own soul to a knowledge of his origin, which can indeed be called
emphasised that modern spiritual research calls for a development of these
forms of cognition, which we called Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition.
the activity of soul which can be called, in the true sense, prayer. Just as
security in this situation? Yes, there is. It is what we may call a feeling
something that might be called humbleness in one sense or another; we are
however, cannot be called forth in the soul by some edict, or by an arbitrary
To give ourselves over to this divine wisdom means that we call up again and
good effects. To call forth this frame of mind and to give it expression in
and can truly be called divine. Through their experience a soul that is
with what has been called the dark womb of the future. Close observation
in our souls. And here we must again call attention to the prayers that have
can be called the deepest secrets of man and the world. Since this is the
of the prayer on his soul, and it is the prayer which can call forth the
level. And the Lord's Prayer is not for speaking only. It can call
if nothing is done to call them forth. How can anyone have the right to deny
examples of what could be called “prayers in paint.” And who

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within them. The second member of the human being we have always called the
these experiences of the astral body. He observes what we call the instincts,
outside world. What we call pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, sympathy or
the so-called normal human life and its development in essence. Let us ask
see them enter the state which we call “tiredness”. We see them
normal human life. In ordinary life we have so-called experiences. These
thank God that one does not have to recall all those things. Because it would
recall all the unsuccessful attempts at tracing the lines, perhaps also the
punishments connected therewith, and so on in order to develop what we call
of time. Then they were refined, as it were, into an essence which we call
be recalled frequently because it is so alien to our present time, a law
so-called animal instinct is therefore sufficient to develop a far greater
broad outline. It has to be clearly understood that so-called contradictions,

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to our definition we should have to call him
landscape to landscape. We would have to call him a very positive
that he gives himself up to every picture, loses himself enthusiastically in
tyrannically positive towards grown-ups if it asserts its own inherent nature
completeness as a living entity, subject to what we call evolution — so
these we called the sentient soul. Its primal form is best seen in men at a
gains a certain predominance over the sentient soul. We have called this
everything in mystical life and knowledge of higher worlds that we call inner
What we have to call
that Nature in its grandeur has to offer, positive qualities are called forth
calls forth its hidden forces, so that they may permeate all the saps and
who, because he could see so deeply into human life, was called the Obscure:

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rope which became shorter and shorter. Logically, in principle, there would
called forth in the subconscious of the philosopher the image of Napoleon
being a philosopher, went to work systematically. He tried to recall the
office and he recalled the picture of the four gold twenty mark pieces which
been given to him as change. He recalled these two images and was now able to
acts quite systematically, choosing every step it takes. There really is a
we call the ether body, which fashions and builds up the physical body.
We called the lowest
the human being systematically in this way, an order of correspondence can be
clever people, so-called. Let us take a grotesque example.
different from all experiences which we can have. Everyone can call a table
to reflect logically on matters concerning the soul. But the philosophers who
physiologically. In gymnastics such exercises should not be undertaken at all
teeth and puberty, its development is characterised by what might be called
call mental disorder, at least to a certain degree, when we have belief in

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they are taken literally or metaphorically: “When conscience speaks in
serious nature of the divine inner voice that we call conscience. There are
are confined to a very narrow range. Some even more materialistically-minded
respect of conscience. Originally he had no trace of what we call conscience.
we can call an instinct for revenge. This was the most primitive of all
previously been called vengeance. Certain deeds which had bad results had to
Orestes of this deed? Aeschylus shows how the burden of matricide calls forth
avenging goddesses, the Erinyes — or Furies, as they were later called
moment, for he had not yet gone far enough to dramatise what today we call an
call the Christ-Impulse.
so the historical Christ-Jesus makes possible what we call the entry of the

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so-called spiritual revelations that people accept so light-heartedly
Now let us recall
the figure of Prometheus, the divine hero who titanically opposes the might
we may add: Art is called upon to transfuse the transient and the perishable

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Gospels. We spoke most fully, most radically, of what Spiritual
of the example that we cannot depict a tree graphically by making a
path that we call the path of spiritual science is easier than the
call “the methods of soul-training” which can lead the
what we call spiritual science or anthroposophy. I lay stress on it
what is the result? They become what is called
to recall the tone which as feeling-content filled and resounded in
of him who in the play is called “Johannes Thomasius,”

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different individuals concerning truth. You will recall how at our
general meeting last year I supplemented what is generally called
revealed to the senses, this when it deals with mankind is called
called Anthroposophy, and in doing so have shown that there are three
must be realised that the task of recalling and translating what has
it is far more important that we should experience it sympathetically
the ego-conception. These arise in what we call the “Astral
pictures it calls forth in us does not follow our wishes, but

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one we call the Old-Indian; for in this the character of the
constructed systematically in accordance with the rational
applied to things seen physically. People began to use what had been
overwhelmingly, it is most interesting (even scientifically), to
men's thoughts. The greater part of what is called philosophy
happens the other must die, truly die. We gaze prophetically into the

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should work so very energetically at going over the beginnings of
Jesus of Nazareth had been led to them through what is called the
Nazareth; it was enacted historically in the Mystery of Golgotha. And
we have to accept this Mystery, set forth as it was historically
endeavour to enter into the soul of one of those, generally called
the Mystery of Golgotha had been seen and spoken of prophetically by
in our own language; not only in presenting them theoretically to our
without going into the matter philologically or proving how the
philologically, but with the help of what can be learnt through
spiritual illumination was called “the path of
these are indicated symbolically by the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
full greatness and importance of the document we call the Gospel of

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exact idea of what is meant by this if you recall that we have
that what is usually called man's body, is a Maya, an illusion,
and what spiritual science calls the “physical body” is
What is usually called the “physical body” of man is only
Buddhism is called “sitting under the Bodhi tree.” This
language of Buddhism are called “The Temptation of Buddha.”
moment when he entered mystically into his own inner being. He tells
If you recall what I said about Buddha you will realise that in his
poetically. The personality of the original Zarathustra was no such
technically in spiritual science as “non-human visions.”
If you recall what

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further towards what may be called the secrets of the mission of
those who are hero called “scribes.”
to be understood we must recall the knowledge we have acquired in
we find Beings called in Christian esotericism, Angeloi or Angels;
as he is on earth; they constantly influence what may be called the
activities cover a wider span. We can also call them
leader is called an Archangel. In speaking of these exalted Beings we
activity. The Archai (called also Spirits of Personality or first
contradistinction to the separate “Folk-Spirits,” we call
different one for our own day. The Beings we call
historically, can only be the result of historical teaching and
spiritual leaders of men appear whom we call Initiates, who speak not
through “Adam.” Hence Paul calls the humanity that began
a slow and gradual descent of man into matter (whether he be called
hypothetically that the consciousness which gives man this direct
Muse.” He was the son of the Muse Calliope; he was not the son
Calliope alone, he could only have given information concerning
his age physically. He was not only an instrument for the voice of
the Muse Calliope, as the Rischis at an earlier day had been the
Christianity of St. Paul, is called the “Son of Man.” You

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only people who act instinctively, and others who act idealistically,
what we call spiritual science in so many different ways, not because
would see the various ways in which what we call the man of soul and
spirit. If you like you may call it consolidated spirit. Therefore if
like, it can be proved ethnographically. Pass through and observe the
he feels at first constrained to extinguish this ego physically, he

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so-called ideals for mankind are certainly not wanting at the present
similar kind might be added to this, for what is called the
to-day that they are called “of the senses,” things which
for what it is. What calls forth movement in the muscles is connected
“motor-nerves” as they are wrongly called, so that we may

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periods of transition, it is helpful to recall the great
so we may call it — the Christ-idea, developed out of the
connection has to be thought of. We have but to recall the symbol of
such things from the occult point of view say: — If we call the
Zarathustra) then the religion of Jahve can be called a
Call to mind how I
symbolically what I cannot deal with adequately to-day owing to the
call the teaching concerning the indivisible divinity of Jehova.
Speaking scientifically what meets us in Arabism is a synthesis of
Europe at that time. External science calls it
called the culture of the Renaissance, it enriched everything that
theoretically when this symfiol appeared that we were confronted with
just as the wave of Arabism was called a Moon-influence.
You will recall how
what conduced to human happiness. He was called Josaphat; the name
told that he met a Christian hermit called Balaam. By him he was
everywhere sporadically at the present day, and that old ideas become
found in human nature has nothing to do with what is called the

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longing for what we call “spiritual science” does exist
sense we have called the “Rosicrucian path” has been
people about them. Let me try to call up before you what these souls
concerning the spirit. What did these people say? Let us recall a
called by the spirit to declare somewhat as follows:— (I am now
but did not interpret them allegorically after the manner of the
repeat the macrocosm microscopically in ourselves.
remarkable book called “Ritter Wahn.” He knew of a
the tales which have endured for so many centuries and called forth

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that the pupils called themselves listeners. For years they are only
However, it does not lead us to that which we call human immortality.
the brains of the different animals only chemically?
of telling stories, basically external qualities. However, he could

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completely from that which one calls, actually, the soul. That is why
as seriously as one investigates nature scientifically. These are the
to investigate what presents itself us physically, soul and mind are
They called it the vegetative soul and regarded the human being as related
what we share with the whole animal realm and call it, therefore, animal
goes back to the so-called third human race with whose appearance the
One calls this human race the Lemurian one. Prior to this, the soul

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different from that which one calls western science, which our western
way how the western knowledge is gained differs basically from the theosophical
world which we call the astral one and the mental one, the world of
the origin of the world something rests that he calls Brahma or Brahman.
that which theosophy calls wisdom-filled modesty in the higher sense
Just those who want to have a new Bible, a so-called story of natural
the philosopher, that he represented a so-called “fantastic”
say that the human being, in so far as he forms himself physically,
And now what do we call
is” means basically as much as: I have seen it. — “Being”

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up with Christianity in serious work. One went to work critically above all
the eyes of the human beings once. It is the object of the so-called historical-critical
during the thirties of the 19th century to historically investigate the actual
symbolically understood, is the living God, but not a single individual. All
bit by bit to verify the content of the Gospels critically. I cannot give you
basically nothing else than what also those can accept who want to know nothing
general moral philosophy working out that Jesus basically had and taught the
issue which is indecent to the materialistically minded theologian. Already
those who called themselves Christians did not come into being from the blood,
is called “from God.” This refutes best of all what David Friedrich
the first teaching of Christianity is that who could then be called the simple
is null and void.” Paul calls the risen Christ the basis of Christianity,
Perhaps, nobody is more to be called a theosophist in the true sense of the
life. What we call karma is suggested here, not expressed. We hear immediately
Therefore, he called his disciples

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in the present look at theosophy as something that one must call a dilettantish
they presuppose easily that the theosophist is basically without any
with our contemporary science and which one could call philosophical.
of the 19th century, the calling resounds from Zeller in the middle
is also. If you believe that you can call experience “real,”
Wolff had the mastery over all schools. It distinguished the so-called
The so-called empiric sciences
have free will that it must have reason et cetera. Hence, Wolff calls
is a question which one should decide only from pure reason. He calls
which is also drawn from reason. This is the so-called rational theology,
a proof which he calls the only possible proof of the existence of God.
How is mathematical knowledge possible? — Kant now calls those
One can call this world
motivated by physiology. Kant calls it critical idealism. This is also
says. It has never pondered how experience basically comes about.
basically: I must refer my image world to something unknown. —

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exists except for my perception of the table and the chairs. This is basically
that we have knowledge not only of that which surrounds us physically, but that
book of the world view which is called “theosophy” today represents
be proved scientifically one day that the human being belongs also to a spiritual
world, and that also the way of being together with it could be scientifically
we can call the modified epistemology of Kant. I would like to demonstrate how
brain. There we perceive what we call tone and sound. The whole world would
ether oscillates vertically to the direction of the propagation of the waves.
be perceived by the senses because the oscillations are too small. Basically
knowledge to make room for faith.” He wanted this basically. He wanted
which appears with an unconditional obligation in us. — Kant calls it
has broken with the ancient traditions of those world views which we call theosophy.
Anybody who calls himself theosophist could have never accepted this dualism,

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von Hartmann created. I have shown with it that basically that kind of epistemology
which we can call illusionism which turns us completely to our own consciousness
seems to be so natural that one is regarded as philosophically under-age today,
always be mistaken, but one may not position himself sophistically on the point
and it was immediately interpreted materialistically. The materialistic interpretation
we call him one of ours.” Then the second edition appeared, and the author
was called: Eduard von Hartmann himself. He showed that he could completely
be thought logically through to the end to find out that it is a reductio ad
absurdum as the mathematician calls it.
So we have mattered what the mathematician calls a reductio ad absurdum, like
the appearance points to its being. Herbart tries to solve the problem monadologically,
who calls me now is only my idea; I perceive him only as my idea.
we feel called to say that the world is our idea or imagination or anything
Kantianism who impartially thinks monadologically. All philosophers who thought
that they have thought monadologically that they have considered the thinking
I published text-critically. So I have concerned myself with Schopenhauer for

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being consists of body and soul. This sentence on which basically our whole
Even Descartes made a distinction only between soul, which he calls mind, and
One says to us: what you called soul disappeared under our hands. We naturalists
One has expressed this drastically saying: a certain point of the brain is the
Drastically expressed, this view is considered as the only one which is worthy
would have to call the view a childish one which the modern natural sciences
who are you? — The sage Nagasena answers: one calls me Nagasena. But this
wants to understand the being of the soul academically, there is no other access
to the soul academically has to do it on the way of Aristotle. Aristotle is
into being from the lifeless by itself. He gradually distinguishes a so-called
far that it can take up the so-called nous (Greek), the universal spirit.

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who thinks the view of the soul which has developed within the so-called materialistic
and its processes must be treated as academically and impartially as the questions
What one calls destiny in the proper
son or the grandson of a human being, we call a related group of animals a species
because they have the same characteristics and we have understood them scientifically
while most people would be similar and would basically have the same characteristics
proceed scientifically, we have to apply the same rules, the same principles
In the last lecture I have called
scientifically. If you describe, however, a human being, you must describe his
have accepted as theirs and which look at the being of the soul scientifically,
here how the incarnations take place. Here should be shown simply in scientifically
being even today. This is thought not scientifically but honestly. Those who
want to think scientifically and are able to look at the soul-life scientifically
from the soul of the savage in the psychic realm. This explains to us that basically
the ingenious talent is nothing radically different from the usual human talent,
basically from the developmental level of the imperfect soul, but only by degrees.
saddest phenomena of human life which we call madness. One has to ignore the
states that the teachings we have reported here appear fantastically, then we
call up his principle against that which he himself recognised.
operate scientifically if we assume miraculous disasters in nature if we assume
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with the question of the eternity of the spirit. One called mystery schools
with his whole soul. One called the change of the passions and desires metamorphosis.
so far that the world of ideas, usually called abstract, moves, enchants, soaks
We can observe this in the so-called
the phenomena which are called abnormal conditions of the soul, like hypnotism,
to sleep which we call hypnosis. Either this happens — I want to mention
eliminate? It basically eliminates the soul of the three parts, body, soul and
with his body automatically. Why does he follow these orders? Because his soul
our surroundings if we want to call these surroundings “real.” A
still to let speak the spirit to ourselves. Clairvoyance is called that level
the preconditions of such a spiritual healing. A precondition of the so-called
mind flow into the human being and we basically develop what is in us in the

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One has called our age in which the things are in such a way the materialistic
urgent questions of our existence. It is typical that the so-called soul researchers
to satisfy their need of spiritual knowledge non-scientifically just since the
epoch, which was enthusiastically welcomed by the ones which was combated by
the others on the liveliest, a counter-current exists which one calls the spiritualistic
it depends only on the question: can one disprove this kind of psychology scientifically?
movement, and one even called the theosophical association, which they established
and calls it the great brotherhood of the so-called adepts. Who believes honestly
Then they sent their scouts into the world on ways which only the so-called
you study a clock, you can explain it quite mechanically, and, in the end, you
do not need to combat each other even if the research method is radically different
continue the earthly one. What they call heaven does not lie beyond the grave;

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those persons whom we call somnambulists who can be transported into a kind
history tells to us. There we meet the priestesses, the so-called oracle priestesses
somnambulists show the same phenomena as the natural ones. One calls —
the somnambulistic condition is light, and one calls the person magnetised;
something that flits only fantastically through the dream consciousness, as
it has transformed the cockcrow symbolically into this whole story which I have
told to you. The dream consciousness spins out such stories quite dramatically.
happens if we experience conditions of our own physical inner life symbolically
awakes with headache. Headache has expressed itself symbolically in this cellar.
outside world, but also our own physical body express itself allegorically in
phenomenon where dreamers have illnesses before themselves symbolically by which
what we have spoken to them, or that that is more or less allegorically, symbolically
answers that way. One will observe this behaviour if one knows to observe systematically.
everyday life. If any special light impression works on our eye, we automatically
so-called vegetative physical life, our digestion, our breathing, and our heartbeats
not be appropriate if the naturalist called the human being, therefore, a strolling
the human body. We call this next member of the human being the etheric
being, the so-called astral body. This astral body is a kind of image of our
light of a flame meets my eye? The so-called etheric waves move from the source
processes in the background of my eyeball, they transform the so-called visual
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field of the so-called spiritism the sharpest, but also those who ridicule it
who lump together it with the darkest superstition or what they call dark superstition;
to the questions which we call spiritistic today.
basically starts taking on a certain form that one can rightly call spiritism
wants to answer today were the object of the so-called mysteries the whole antiquity
Rosenkreutz. This way can be investigated strictly historically
into certain states, today we call these states trance states, in which they
of the West, in which one started looking for truth scientifically. There came
wanted to seek for truth only in the sensory effects? There were rare, so-called
that was later done by the so-called scientific side to the investigation of
to that which one calls visionariness. What Swedenborg experienced — you
may call him a seer or visionary — was a particular class of phenomena.
séance followers of the so-called creation theory were, and at the other
is Johann Heinrich Jung called Stilling who published a detailed
the so-called reincarnation theory. You find a theory there to which theosophy
the broadest sense to those which one has to call abnormal but sensual. The
who concerned himself with these phenomena, was called upon for explaining these
materialistically minded humankind of the existence of a super-sensible world
among the most reasonable, among those who could think thoroughly and logically
fields. We only have to call some of the works to indicate the significance
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calls actinobolism. This would mean approximately: the radiating imagination.
we call hypnotism of animals. I have already spoken in a former talk about the
has transported a person into such a sleep-like state can give him so-called
empty words in them. Who does not assess such matters fantastically but with
Mesmer appeared with the so-called
which is in the ill body of the other. He calls this force animal magnetism.
This is understood by many as a swindle. But short time after so-called hermetic
the so-called verbal suggestion. They stated, for example, a lot more than what
One called them soul tamers. In particular Justinus Kerner calls these people
looking. However, calling attention to the phenomena has dangerous aspects because
of the scholars was called to it once again by wandering soul tamers. In particular,
person must have the particular qualities. Thus the tone was given basically
person to person, to his healings. This man, called Faria,
He is the same researcher who established the idea of the so-called moral insanity
and Bernheim, who interpreted these phenomena scientifically. A quality had
worthless attempts of registration or explanation which basically mean nothing.
these phenomena scientifically. However, as soon as we exercise an influence
again. If this happens, one sees that these phenomena are basically more common

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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
goes beyond the sensory one, which rests on the so-called self-knowledge of
from there to the phenomena which one calls human creations, to that which is
one calls force which exceeds the mere form and the mere figure.
perpetual renewal are the qualities of life. The form which we call alive has
which one can call antipathy.
call reincarnation, reincarnation or re-embodiment.
which any being has used to achieve a work or something that can be called a
us energetically and strongly time and again that it can never be content with
figure is for the occultist the emptiness, the darkness, what is basically nothing,
increasing activity, and we have called this activity karma.
no confession basically, however, encloses everything. Because this theosophical
calls brotherliness the ideal which the spiritual development of humankind wants

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even not enjoy the knowledge of the so-called authoritative circles, of the
against the so-called authoritative circles. We are allowed to suppose that
you find that the way how the ruling circles, the so-called authoritative circles
to the theosophical or spiritual-scientific world view as I call it since some
small encyclopaedia, a so-called pocket encyclopaedia, which says on its title-page
so scientifically.
author did not call himself, because he himself could have presented nothing
In other words: everywhere something that I have called factual fanaticism in
purely historically; they only register the written documents and are contented
Because one calls such an inner human being the divine one, I make the difference.
lives in the soul is of the same kind and being as God. Therefore, we call heavenly
what is inside of the human being, and we call the wisdom divine wisdom or theosophy
everybody would have to admit if he wanted to think only logically. Often someone
development. But something else is in the so-called proofs of theosophical truths.
human soul are woken. These forces and abilities, which we call the forces and
the objectivity of science to mischief. It is this the so-called atomistic theory
where one calls that subjective which the human being perceives as sensory sensation
time — as an example — one called it always only red. Red, one said,
about which I have to speak. Which physicist would not disparage what one calls
which are dreadful heresies to scientifically thinking people. One talks a lot
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that which we call human knowledge today.
so-called astral world has awoken. The human being stands then as a being of
being lives in three worlds. We call these three worlds: the physical world,
we call them: the physical world, the astral world and the spiritual world.
he can only find something of the physical world scientifically. He can find
the physical intellectual science. What one calls science today has not always
what we call artistic imagination today; it was that which contained truth in
and ethics have gone there was always what one calls the big unity. Beside science,
to the initiate of the mysteries. One did not explain to him scientifically
in the theosophical movement, even if resolutely and energetically, does not
is the result. Theosophy differs quite basically from that. Truth has to develop
the theosophical movement basically from all others. Others combat each other

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although it is called Esoteric Buddhism. This judgement is exceptionally
what was called Gnosticism during the first Christian centuries. Knowledge by
which one calls the profound Buddhism of the East. This brotherhood has its
roots not in the so-called southern Buddhism which you can find in particular
never taught anything that one could call esotericism. He taught a popular religion
images, to the scientists scientifically. The human being can err in detail,

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a world view we could call theosophical and from which they
Hardenberg, called Novalis, was born on 2 May 1772. Whoever has
`standing on the ground' physical reality. Basically Novalis
soul and flowed in gentle, rhythmically woven poems from his
could never, without abandoning the gentleness of a soul, call
this a love relationship. Basically there was in Sophie von
presenting documents, Novalis basically had fallen prey to an
in him rose what he called his “magical

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one current is most clearly and best represented by what we call the
higher order, the so-called Devas.
They, too, possessed what we call soul, but the soul organ was
so-called Adepts. They were the original Adepts, not those whom we
call initiated today. Those whom we call initiates today did not go
time. We call this group the ‘Sons of Wisdom’, and it
called in the Book of Genesis ‘the Fall of Man’. The
a festival which intimated to man that he should call to mind again
spiritual life, to experience what is called the ‘coming of the
highest goal of humanity is symbolically expressed by means of the

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him; and blessed him, and called his name Adam, in the day when he was
in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:’
take the literal rendering. Adam himself was simply called a man.
though acoustically [?] to the spiritual. Now the principle of
is a race that is not perceptible to physical eyes. It is called
what is called the Akashic Record. But so it is.
so that practically all his spiritual life was taken up into incarnation.

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Mysteries. Initiation: the first deed was called the search for the
into what today we call matter, is Baldur. He lives in each one of
trial is called the ‘Handing over of the Serpent’ by the
what is called ‘The Handing over of the Serpent by the

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exoterically in an outer literal meaning. Next, disbelief sets in
brother, Epimetheus, are the sons of one of the Titans, called
leadership of great teachers and guides, whom we call the ‘Sons
so-called Manus — the Manu
Just call to
telephone. Basically it is human greed and the substance of our
we have the so-called physical principle. This stands in occult relationship
one called Adam Cadmon

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time. This small brotherhood called itself ‘Fraternitae Rosae
a time when one of the Elohim created a human being whom he called
now decides to build a temple and calls upon Hiram, the descendant of
Post-Atlantean epochs when seen esoterically. The temple of mankind's

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which was founded by a person who called himself Mani
Mani is called the
‘Son of the Widow’, and his followers are called the
represented in a personality whom he called Faustus.
come to know Manicheism in this form it will seem radically
initiation are expressed exoterically in legends, but the legend of
why it was that Mani called himself the ‘Son of the Widow’
and why his followers were called the ‘Sons of the Widow’.
confronted by the divine fructifier, is called by Mani the
‘Widow’. And therefore he calls himself ‘Son of the
the twelfth century. They called themselves Cathars because
many forms. It appears in forms which many can call to mind but which

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Everything to do with what is called the secret of Freemasonry and its
Let us therefore recall to mind the essentials of this Temple Legend.
Solomon called to his court Balkis, the Queen of
preserved alive artistically in a rigid form. That is the point. The
was powerless to do anything. But suddenly a voice called out to him:
Freemasonry Masters call themselves ‘Children of the
therefore, which take place symbolically among Freemasons, are
However, in Freemasonry, it only takes place symbolically.
Achilles. All subsequent parts of the ceremony have basically a
degrees. There is a kind of residue still remaining in what is called

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call from beyond
the circle of twelve, is called Zerubbabel.
After that come the so-called lesser companions. Not more than twelve
occult training: no calling-up of spirits or spiritualistic
graphically. These symbols have been taken from the objects

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We are dealing, in the main, with a special rite, that is called the
ill-famed and little understood Cagliostro. The so-called Count
masons, which was called the Lodge of Triumphing Wisdom. The purpose
so-called Philosopher's Stone; secondly, with creating an
scorn, but they are not to be taken merely symbolically, they are
basically undergone a training with the same orientation. They were
called ‘Knowing the Pentagram’ and ‘Moral
of Freemasonry, as I have described it, is called the Egyptian rite,
At the head is the so-called Sovereign Sanctuary,
of which one advances, are the following: First, the so-called
second kind of instruction or discipline is the so-called philosophic
so-called mystical discipline, which is based more upon inner
That will call for a new kind of masonry. Then industry will not be
on chaotically, as industry and technology have done until now, in
chaotically, as industry and technology have done until now, or

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maybe called the mineral epoch; and our task is to permeate this
called upon to reach one day the highest stages of perfection. But
were first physically incarnated in the preceding races after the
colour gives rise to a certain substance ... [Gap] ... [called

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of life. For, basically, when we take up the theme of the lost temple
technically. Without practical engineering knowledge, without the art
also in countless books. Even one today supposes himself called upon
society should best be shaped, and feel themselves called to found
practical life can feel himself called as able to be active in social
of thinking, which works according to a plan, is called Freemasonry.
of its culture, which was written down in books, called the Sibylline
descendants of the Elohim, the sons of Cain, who are called the Sons
is also called the God of created form,
life would expire in form. In occult science, that is called the
who called out to him: ‘Take here the hammer of the world's

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recall the Biblical explanation for what the temple was to be. Yahveh
calls itself by an objective name. Only later does it learn to use
world. What was represented symbolically by the temple should become
great mystery. Mass fell into two parts; the so-called Minor Mass, in
kind of dwelling place for man. Man was quite different physically,
later on in early Christian times, represented by the Lamb. He called
were called upon to create an outer sheath, to contain what the sons

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historically as factually.
there exists a so-called holy legend about the whole development of
descendants of the line of Abel/Seth are the so-called Sons of
of God from the Tree of Life. That is symbolically expressed in that
another kingdom above that which man has immediately and physically
as it is a dead, mineral thing. It treats the human body basically as
formerly used to be, we call, in theosophical terminology, the three
should unite together. And it is basically a Christian attitude today
as Giordano Bruno, for example, called it.
physically — finding its closest kinship with what lives in the
force of life. That is symbolically expressed in the legend, where
The legend is historically medieval, but was previously recorded in all

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is also the symbol of the so-called Lost Word, which is to be found
liberation, every year — of what we call the freedom of the human
man really come to what we call his freedom — that is to say, to his
of evolution, do we speak about what we call freedom of choice. Only
our earth evolution was cosmologically preceded by the Moon evolution.
cannot properly be called Races. It stretches the analogy too far, to
called the Kingdom of Wisdom, and their forms are called the seven
united with the sun and with that which we now call the moon.
we esoterically distinguish four forms of ether: firstly fire [or
ether is accessible to what is called in esoteric language the
etheric relates to what we call the ‘Word,’ in a preparation for
Forces, that is called Atma; this is how Atma can be assigned to the
longer call it astral body, it has become Manas. When the whole
Christian esotericism calls this the ‘Son’ or ‘Logos,’ and calls the
one calls the Holy Spirit. Such an initiate was called a man endowed
religion. It is good if a man or indeed any being works Manasically
intellect. Kama-Manas, which we call lower spirit, developed itself
so-called Evil Principle. Man had to receive free will so that his
understanding could be called into play in deciding between Good and

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situations, not only morally, but physically as well. For anyone who
different geographical and climatic conditions, a basically different
originated. Christ is called the ’Lamb of God.’ Still earlier one
down and worked upon specifically in the occult schools of Germany
thing. Everyone knows that this small thing called the atom has never
know that the earth is guided in a particular way by the so-called
— are drawn up in the so-called White Lodge of the Earth. The plan is

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the relationship of the so-called astral plane to the physical plane,
perceptions, then he was on the way to completing what one calls the
work on his etheric body. He was then what is called a Chela. Such a
Through this means the Mystery of Golgotha became historically
picture as artistically full of life, as divine universal thinking,
therefore, that what I have called occultism really has very much to
different from ours, and were also basically organised differently.
when basically the whole of mankind longingly gazes towards the
called yoga, or inner training. From the words I have spoken, you
are parts which were developed etherically in primeval times. That is
he was with us. It is the teacher, the so-called guru. Long ago we
which are ethical. But the movement called theosophy distinguishes
Society, the great individualities whom we call the Masters are

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call it that — which immediately preceded our
own, outwardly and physically resembled not the male but the female
symbolically expressed for the Freemasons. That is the Temple Legend.
called to him, however, not to be afraid, for out of this would come
quite lost. Because of that, the so-called Higher Degrees of
vanish. All that is still left is what is called Craft Masonry, which
start has been made. Something such as this is called a

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physically to man of Lemurian times.
being. Physically, there is first of all a woman, who is fertilised
female being becomes physically infertile, in the sense that she
but the man is the one who can fertilise physically. Spiritually, he
physically. The whole world penetrates him first; he becomes
fertilised spiritually, the woman physically. Woman, by contrast, is
as the eighteenth century. And in 1775 the first of the so-called
currents had basically the same aim — to make mankind independent of

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thought as well, all find expression. Basically it was from the still
is called ‘intermediary’ astral substance, to distinguish it from
difficult to convey theosophical life to academically trained people.
Atlantean culture. They have astral bodies which intrinsically tend
the extreme, and has been pursued radically in all national

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recall an incident in my life. Perhaps you will scarcely credit it, and
but he called upon the whole power of the relics and there was a rumbling
like thunder through all the rows [of seats], the call resounding: We
book was a ploy by a French journalist called Leo Taxil. He stirred
by far the larger number of those calling themselves masons today.
what it terms the so-called Symbolic or Craft Masonry. Its principal
so-called Higher Degrees, which are best preserved in the so-called
conserves [a relic of] what is called the Egyptian, the Misraim or
connected with Freemasonry being called ‘the Royal Art.’
from each other. Wisdom is essentially contained in what we call
science; beauty is essentially embodied in what we call art; and
which sounded harmless. Among other names they called each other
what it is all about if we call to mind a symbol of certain
another to Lourdes, but both for the same reason. Whether you call it
transform the planet artistically. You find this expressed in the
Hence, at this time [in the Middle Ages], a radically
we now find ourselves, and which we call earth, it is material
by the movement called the Lodge of the Holy Grail. The time will
all-embracing unity about which there can be no conflict, is called
today called socialism exists only as an abortive and impossible
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just to somebody who approaches unprejudiced what one calls the
now the materialist comes and says, what you call spirit does
that person faces the event with fear and fright. We call that
exists between that which we call mental and which we call
world. One can recognize the etheric body purely logically at
body at first, as far as one can see it physically. However, we
pain live in him. We call the bearer of that “astral

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Jena by a botanist, called Bartsch, who stood absolutely at the
for the life outdoors in the so-called objective nature. The
the most developed one, the human being, genetically from the
need only to call one thing and we see how Hegel relates to
which Goethe calls the archetypal phenomena as he calls the
again. Thus, we see a more materialistically coloured worldview
researchers can oppose each other inimically, both believe,
community.” He was called by the Dominicans in their
call a modern understanding? He had it in that comprising way
being, that which he has hidden. In old way one calls the
deepest secrets of knowledge — one is allowed to call it
snake is called a relative of the will-o'-the-wisps from the
horizontal line and the will-o'-the-wisps call themselves
chaotically mingled in him.
Thereafter, our attention is still called to the fact that
proceed historically if we consider how it originates in the
human soul that one called initiation in the higher mysteries

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ideation, and as if anybody who feels called, so to speak, is
a certain perfection of cognition. One called the principle
and let only speak the thing for itself. One has always called
purification or catharsis as this was called in the old
provide it. One calls this purification or development of the
One called this development of the will esoterically the
same time, Goethe has drawn our attention emphatically to the
longer mixed chaotically — that level of knowledge is
calls attention to the fact that the young man searches that
forces do no longer work chaotically in him, but are purified,
practically, as for example in the religion which is shown in
if one still explains it esoterically, one is only able to give
calls that with which he should be united the beautiful lily.
the winter talks — he just calls the
which is called in the chorus mysticus the “eternally

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powers the chapters of the Bible that we call the history of
so-called Six-Day Work is told. One tells further on how within
author have called the divine with two different names? Where
so-called Rainbow Bible!
hypothetically, by speculative philosophy that the sensuous,
historically. However, who learns geometry at school today, is

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Gospels, on one side, and the writer of the fourth so-called
souls of numerous people more and more due to the so-called
historical sense, it was not only the so-called objective
unconsciously and combining with that which the so-called
this Christianity, purely materialistically? Is it possible to
so-called new research about the event of Damascus? Saul became
itself in particular who faced Moses, and who calls himself
does he call himself the Lord the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
but as drastically, as intensely as spiritual science takes the
makes no sense to call myself an ego. I recall my father,
we call it today. Not after a commandment the ancient human
calls himself the God “I am the I-am” is the same
being. While he calls himself the primary source of this I-am,
recalled the soul of his pupil to the body who was for three

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to be scientifically advanced, that that could be erroneous
that anybody can call it other than superstition, because,
Sometimes trends are not far from that which one may call
find one method that one calls “the preparation of the
respiratory rhythm in the human being that was called the
with the writer so much who calls alchemy nonsense, because
are greater than those who stand on the ground of the so-called
Whether one can call it great, this depends on what arises if
calls that his god. He attributes to the dancing and whirling
booklet, which contained these things, is called
fields what an old story tells us. Call it an anecdote, but it

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often been repeated and that causes many who are idealistically
organism with the so-called mixed diet. He takes the main parts
rather materially according to the so-called scientific results
work — to get an idea how they could continue chemically
all that we call our inner soul life. All that has its seat in

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called already, unfortunately, in the contemptuous sense
you can infer the following from it: what one calls life
speak more drastically, a lighthouse for knowledge can be to us
dogmatically on the viewpoint — even if the academic
positions himself dogmatically on the one or the other
one thinks again materialistically. The naturopath knows
depends basically a little whether one sends a person who
one calls light therapy. If the human being is irradiated with
long as the human beings do not hear this call of spiritual
that it is wrong to understand this proverb materialistically.
materialistically should only also say, here I see a house.
body” quite materialistically. However, spiritual science

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typically, as they prevail in our time. Just the opposite of
everything existed that one can call comfort, wealth, and
letters and leading a life, which he calls a worthless, even
know up to now basically. All the principles of his peers
Turgenev: you all do not have, actually, what one calls
divine will as I call it. What lives in me devotes itself to
delve completely into that which he could call true, real
contemporaries call the summits of life. We have seen this soul
affirms what he calls the spirit of Christ, which he could not
outdoors in the material, in the so-called objective existence.
Tolstoy dogmatically, the more we are inclined to take up the
from Tolstoy. We see truth working in him, paradigmatically,
quizzically. He is volcanic inside but not able to cause the
wonderful if he is able to point to that which one calls
the soul structure. We cannot call it permanent, but everywhere

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on the ground of a healthy, a practically qualified thinking.
today the so-called practical human beings talk? There is
calls this often impractical what differs only in the least
from those who call themselves practitioners or from other
the railway. Because this practice of the so-called
thinking can be called with a technical term: one is a
clear in a school experiment, the so-called Plateau (Joseph P.,
developed in nature outdoors. One calls this concrete thinking.
we could state many things to show how one can systematically
everything possible and renouncing the so-called success. I
being if he wants to think practically where the mere activity
thinking who does the following systematically: he thinks about
mind to behave in such a way as often so-called practical

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idealistically, but one interpreted it wrong.
the physical. We call that a physical body in the human being,
deduce by thinking of someone who thinks philosophically only.
allowed to call that a mere mechanism which has developed,
other. There is one thing that can be never called from the

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being, which one calls temperament, the peculiar riddle of
one calls his temperament. Here the mental of the human being
etheric body expresses itself physically in the glandular
person. If we control life practically, it matters that we can
open ourselves to that which expresses itself typically. How

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energetically on this second part of
Goethe felt what one could call the Faustian mood since the beginning
characterised infinitely naturalistically. Everything that
anything with bitter criticism. Nevertheless, Herder called
Copernicus, and others. One calls various times “times of
called a theologian, but became a man of the world and was
called a doctor medicinae.”
Goethe calls it the book of Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame,
that which we call the luciferic power which seizes the human
calls this adversary of the god of light Ahriman, and then to
to express it especially brusquely, one called this figure,
of the material. This figure was called Mephistopheles in
calls it also the “old serpent.”
Mephistopheles speaks there, in classically magnificent way,
of existence spiritual-scientifically. There one says to him,
energetically in
schooling realistically in the second part of
themselves to the soul. This is a way, which we have to call an

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and likes to move it etymologically
experience of the spiritual, which we can call the experience
which he creates in poetic licence, may they refuse to call
spiritual sun and called it the great sun aura, Ahura Mazdao.
calls, otherwise, folk spirit, spirit of the times in the
beings. What the human beings call their mind and believe that
mothers, the mothers pursue me!” This was a call, which
realistically; and he did this.
poetically masterly way. It is not becoming to admire reality,
the secret of Helen's incarnation, also poetically.
that which takes place physically below in the line of
spiritual world to a physical embodiment — we call it
called astral body, one knows the intermediate member, which
Then a strange call sounds from the deepness. Faust's condition
world, and it is there, as if it calls to the soul, which bears
the battle field. He calls them “mountaineers.” The
Then it can only assume the figure, which he calls a
experiences in the spiritual world. Goethe showed realistically
realistically shown but supersensible events; of those

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Nietzsche called the ancient Greek the Dionysian human being.
the coherence, which he searched. Only tragically, the
writes empathically about Schopenhauer like someone who writes
The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined
One was afraid of what one called a leap in history. Nietzsche
tries to show how basically all ideals do not lead beyond the
subconsciousness, the idea of the so-called everlasting return
Nietzsche in the feeling, and sounds lyrically from
grasp it. In the last book, which he wanted to call

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recognised by the peculiar call which he exclaimed: “The
concern a usual insanity, because in that region a so-called
calls the entry into this realm the way to the mothers. I
recognised that if anybody calls “the mothers, the
— that one has always called preliminary purification,
spiritual world. One calls the purified soul the higher inside
as wrong what one calls evolution today, the advance from a
the so-called Pietà by Michelangelo in the St. Peter's
reproduces that most characteristically which is given to us in
called Typhon causes to form a box, and by stealth, Osiris is
humanity, ascending from grey antiquity, artistically
truth as Goethe says. There we realise that basically, if we
from that Isis, whose force is shown symbolically with the
Plato once announced this philosophically. The pictures of the
artistically stiff and lifeless if it can no longer adhere to
Goethe called it. “Who owns science and art, has religion

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consciousness that opens up before us gradually. If we call the
excellence, we can call the former consciousness
which we can also call object consciousness, in such a way that
nature. We can call it a lower clairvoyant consciousness in
wake that one has to call an imperfect state compared with the
calls foreboding or prescience. However, here it is even more
call it morbid or the like, it does not depend on it; it
modern point of view, one has to call this state morbid. Since
not see it, nevertheless. It calls it “spannen”
called the midday sun the midday demon. Assume that the bright
us in ancient Greece — and plastically in ancient Egypt

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called what is hidden behind the sensory world like the sun
experiences and makes observations. One called that which does
observations there in us the soul, Ceridwen. One called Hu what
Because everything was related to the holy triad, one called
prevails that one could call a tragic one. One may express it
outside world. — One called the questions of the soul for
and class is called a “homeless” human being. The

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chemists that they are a sect of chemistry, one can call
grasped vividly, not abstractly, not theoretically or
dogmatically, something can result from natural sciences and
quite fantastic and dreamy as basically also the Copernican
as one calls it nobler today, of monism.
spiritual world if he wants to grasp it scientifically if he
knows what one calls directing the attention of the soul to
strength, and we call this increased life in attention
call it concentration of the spiritual life because the human
in hydrogen and oxygen. One is not more right to call the
experience takes place that I have called a stupefying event in
do not permit it, and then one is urged to this what one calls
spiritual world before your embodiment is drastically
Since if we experience it ever so much, and if it is called
itself that one calls “immortality,” and will cope

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as spiritual science as identical with that what one calls
represented here can be called theosophical. With it, the topic
nature against this theosophy. One can call it a mood in the
also because of a certain faith that I call antisophy
human being is not theosophically minded from the start; he is
antisophically minded from the start. One must go into some
world and have seized the organism to form it plastically in
plastically, it offers resistance. That means that only a part
theosophically, and it would be naive to believe that the usual
life could not be tuned antisophically. It can only be tuned
theosophically if like a memory of a lost native country the
that the human soul is tuned antisophically. However, one must
those like me who call myself a philosopher as a researcher of
Europe that one calls pragmatism. This worldview appears rather
Bois-Reymond finished his explanations quite typically, while
quite dogmatically: save that science ends where
We know an emotion very well which we call
symptomatically. Bodily changed conditions and the need in
human being spiritual-scientifically, it is just the same as
easily to the mood that one can call with the words: I must
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from that what one has called religious confession for long
development that is called to remove the old religious
religious thinker who felt called to protect the religion
that what is achieved scientifically and unfolds this
need originated from that what one may call soul cult. The
has to call religion according to this
spiritual-scientifically, but to show what spiritual science
physical-bodily, it experiences first that one can call the
rises to the second stage of higher knowledge that one can call
something appears to us that one could call the climax of soul
— what one called
naivety in our youth. One called it “naive realism”
One can call the second stage of this world
sensorily given things; if I look aesthetically, my whole
his being. He experiences with that what we call the aesthetic
who can experience aesthetically it has a deep meaning once to
from the field of that view which is called
matter! Today, hence, there are already the so-called immanence
sleep and is inside during the waking state: We called this
I state this now hypothetically. We assume for a moment
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the human being from death, and what I would like to call the
sense logically distinguished from adjoining fields.
This fact shows symptomatically which
things play a role, just the ethically not worst persons of the
humanity. Some moral and academically educated people regarded
outer experience? Just if one thinks scientifically, one must
the experience of the so-called initiation and the experience
already in the oldest times of humanity in the so-called
have been educated during the last centuries scientifically.
which one else calls attention, devotion, the body-free soul
flowing into the general life. Typically, I want to describe
One would like to call it the “change of the
That applies to the human being. Put yourself hypothetically in
death spiritual-scientifically and its connection with the ego
something in natural sciences, while one extracts it surgically
will impulses. You experience what one often calls the inner
consciousness that one can call an enlightening purification of
You can call investigation of death what I
spiritual-scientifically today as the mystery of death which is
called the square of the circle. There were certain times when
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processes them so plastically that they get those movements
materialistically resembles a person who says; I see a mirror
death because now the physical body does no longer call back
call forth sleep as compensation, the memory tableau of the
want to compensate everything wrong karmically. You look at
is thought symbolically, of course
human being spiritual-scientifically, which develops on and on,

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should make clear how drastically this question occupied the
call this the basic question of the stoics. As an ideal for the
later called divine providence. How does the stoic reconcile
1956, preacher), who has written the so-called
in which the human being participates; he calls this being Ri.
calls this being Ki. All beings originate from the special
spiritual-scientifically. I have only stated it to show to
so-called crime in the world?
1876, German poet and philosopher). One can call him a
to day egoistically in a religious confession that has become
— which one calls
summarised paradigmatically in a nice saying how the human

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differs, nevertheless, radically from the other physical
nevertheless. Worldviews coloured more materialistically do not
in particular who adhere to a naturalistic-materialistically
and who prefer today to be called
comprehensible, but also many people who one calls
calls this moral what is in the sense of this totality, in
so-called concentration. This is something that the human being
today the so-called “freethinkers” who oppose the
have called the first level that of the Imaginative world. This
knowledge that I call that of Inspiration. Inspiration differs
perception radically from the outer perception: the fact that
are otherwise used to call outer world. You live in it as far
called in the usual sense. One works the way up through
1917) called the only impulse of the moral world order,
One called this degree the degree of the sun hero or the sun
cognition, one called such recognizers sun men in the ancient
spiritual-scientifically recognises at the same time how this

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spiritual-scientifically even more exactly into that what
Spiritual-scientifically, we distinguish
world for us. We call this part the sentient soul. Then as
his more unaware desires, emotions, and passions. We call this
more inward. We call the highest member of the human soul the
philosophically. Then one can realise that a pictorial
materialistically coloured monism only an episode that will
and us. You understand this spirit if you put him historically
monk, enters his cell, and calls “Fanaticism” as
called again to a new fight. One reads this portrayal of the
actually, of that what Voltaire would have called the most
feigned a severe illness and called for the priest one

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world which is basically the inside world of many years has
experience what one can call the “soulhood”
cyclically. Thus, it develops that you feel: in me the force of
death and rebirth where one experiences what I have called the
his thoughts which have run ahead if one calls back them again
postmortal existence life runs cyclically. We have to
spiritual-scientifically which is directed in the most
these matters until the so-called thieves' slang that even in

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not want to realise how spiritual science can basically
I want to characterise this worldview somewhat radically. It
scientifically possible, how the human thinking, feeling, and
scientifically.
philosophically thinking contemporaries nothing else exists
spiritual-scientific feeling, but poetically, while I want to
wants then to embody himself physically within the line of
not physically visible but to a higher beholding.
are not completely wrong who believe to think materialistically
. The materialistic worldview develops fantastically
how can one continue the life of Faust poetically? Goethe was
imagine fantastically could get to natural existence?! Proteus
Homunculus poetically. Thus, Homunculus is also in Goethe's
many materialistically minded people. From this materialistic
the prehistoric humans living there; they called them Eldo and

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spiritual-scientifically, as one can understand a picture, even
Many years ago, I called this attitude
be that could persuade anybody that the so-called
indeed, in any soul, but slumbers in the souls, it calls forces
What I have called “Homunculism” in the last talk,
capable. Since also the usual medical art is able only to call
undergrounds of the soul what one can call retrospect of
destroyed physically in the body. Spiritual science never turns
has to cure physically one has to cure physically. What the
only somewhat radically; but he who pursues the things realises
spiritual-scientifically. The human being thereby grows up in
if people come with their materialistically coloured knowledge
we compare that with what a materialistically coloured
materialistically coloured or any dogmatic worldview is
this understanding one calls the life goods in the soul

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summarises the scientific or other as scientifically approved
discuss programmatically whether the human being can get a
this is basically an unauthorised fantasy on the supersensible
philosophically, or which would have been done possibly in a
be explained only by the fact that one assumed the so-called
ether as the subtlest material hypothetically behind that what
says academically —
somebody who is used dealing philosophically with the questions
What I have told I have not fantastically
develop it systematically, it gives us an idea that we can
what we call meditation spiritual-scientifically, delving into
if you descend in your inside and must call the strong forces
philosophically what the human being is capable of with his

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psychology is no longer enough which one calls
with such men whose names are called less within the cultural
called to condemn the great spirits with their “terrible
Darwin. At first, it considered the human being materialistically, and it
Since nobody should think so illogically that the human soul
science which we can call experimental ones
spiritual-scientifically consist in nothing but that the human
thoughts which express something allegorically, then such a
human being spiritual-scientifically, we realise how an inner

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adjacent site. A car was taken to drive to the so-called
called Paracelsus, 1493–1541.”
other call it drill.” He is of such a type, he thinks, as
us this man mental-plastically. Hence, we can understand that
learnt directly on the high school of nature. He called nature
in the human being that he calls the “archaeus”
called the “inner alchemist.”
way which he demanded not theoretically, but which he realised
intellectual and spiritual. Call him a vagrant if you want, as
one did; maybe call charlatanism what he did. Nevertheless,
calls love and hope his best healing powers, and he never set
accomplished some famous cures. Once he was called to a Canon
Faust poetically, which he made the son of his time in a
senses, as Goethe poetically

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called Elijah just in the Bible. Least people knew actually
it. Only single persons whom one can call the initiated
individuality who is called Elijah was chosen by the national
religious or prophet schools within Palestine that one can call
something goes forward that we would maybe call a kind of
physical bearer of Elijah is also called in the Bible with a
name. He is called Naboth, so that we have to recognise the
one called the God of King Ahab, offered their sacrifices. Now
he was called murderer. In the Bible, we find the dreadful
life to the other. One called this process Gilgal.

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conditions with the higher animals, but he energetically
The Convergence of the Organisms. An Empirically Founded Theory
development. These last-called researchers thought that one
Of course such an idea called childish by this researcher will
the so-called disembodied state, so that the whole human life
explanations are not only thought strictly scientifically, but

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we find that in a certain school of thought which one calls
developed human being who is called Jesus of Nazareth by
Gnosis calls that Christ what there rises
which we rise, compared to that what most people call real. If
this human being. One called this superhuman Christ. Besides,
science did not feel called to penetrate into those impulses
speak, historically what should have taken place at the
factors intervene everywhere that we have almost to call
development historically in such a way that it proves to
spiritual-scientifically, we have to imagine that the outer
process, called “baptism,” and another, called
consider the big reversal spiritual-scientifically which
world or does something that one calls evil that does not
will recognise when he has depicted the world photographically

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the human being hypothetically even further and believes to
just strike those who academically consider the development of
being has to think logically that he has to connect his
concepts, his mental pictures logically with each other, nay
talk spiritual-scientifically but an Imagination that was still
of the soul still mythically while a quite new consciousness
god Cephissus and a nymph had a son, called Narcissus. This
reality. They call everything impossible that does not comply
maturing which we admire just because we can call it a culture
everywhere in the things that one later called Brahman, the
connected with the Persian which we can call the culture of
He does not yet recognise spiritual-scientifically but with elementary
prophetically: a time comes, when that lives consciously in the
understand human history spiritual-scientifically. How are we

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Aristotle by the Christian researchers. These called Aristotle
With Aristotle, you find that logically and
spiritual-mental from that what he called the world of God from
sophistically, so that those who came then, Kepler, Galilei,
scientifically active in a comprehensive sense. His scientific
what one can call culture of thought, internalisation of the
one had supposed the so-called “eighth sphere”
both called a monad. What is a monad? Something of which one
the human progress, but they cannot prevent it. Those who call

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certainly called.
understand that under these conditions more and more one calls
called in every situation of life in which he faces another
if one wants to speak spiritual-scientifically about
spiritual-scientifically recognising into foreign beings
conditions of the earth and only theoretically convince himself
time? He says, it can change radically, for example, by mighty
we do not live chaotically and dedicate ourselves comfortably
pummeled his people, and one called this a special case of
automatically, into the character, while we rather weaken it

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death, one would like to say is symbolically typical for the
try to consider it spiritual-scientifically the work is
embryonically in itself and has no other life impulses in the
being because they have the so-called intermaxillary in the
included as it were embryonically which the spirit transforms,
Darwinism that we can downright call a kind of Goetheanism in
(1835–1920, Austrian neurologist) whom I have also called here
research can proceed as logically and conscientiously as the

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spiritual-scientifically with spirit and matter, life and death
Fechner called this view of the material world the “night
world that he contrived hypothetically. If now you ask yourself
knowledge not for his life in the night which Fechner called
cast out; the thinking itself is empty. Speaking theoretically
my book The Riddle of Man, I have called this view the
from without. I have called this life in the beholding
they called the gate of spiritual knowledge “the gate of

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consciousness of the everyday life to that what I have called
the so-called exam dream where the human being experiences any
being as I have called it in an essay in a magazine. This body
forces in the life between birth and death. I call it in such a
that which we call, otherwise, reflex has to seize our soul
other logically, but destroys the other. This inner life arises
actually, a theoretical question if it were not practically
therein, and that must alternate rhythmically between the
realise that we have worked out that specifically to which
have called the first viewpoint of spiritual knowledge
called that thinking, which faces the soul in such a way that
the dull forces, or whether we offer the forces energetically
other. But logically complying thoughts may be only apparently
Gregor Mendel that is based on scientifically correct facts
externally-physically viewed; but to the beholding
destiny which is philosophically elaborated so little.
life, tragically or joyfully, in an elevating or burdensome

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spiritual science radically, they still demand knowledge of
pictures of it only hypothetically how it looks in the world of
that consciousness is developed which I have called the
develops organically from the child to the adult, and that with
you occupy yourself just spiritual-scientifically more
thoroughly with that what has been called mysticism in
get to deeper experience by that which they call the
experience. Hence, someone who thinks scientifically calls the
because they deviate from the usual experience. He calls them
usual consciousness so mystically if one may
have indicated that one calls this “meditative
Even if these mental pictures are deepened so mystically, one
They show that they are still materialistically minded

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different from hypothetically except ourselves, except our
drastically at the end of his Outline of Psychology
assumes hypothetically, and oscillations come into being in his
automatically. However, thereby one gradually gets around to
outdoors automatically with that what we experience, actually.
get around to what I have got around that I call this viewpoint
can symbolically consider the example of the eye. The eye is
directly. One will get closer once also scientifically to the
certain birds still have the so-called pecten (oculi) in the
have the so-called xiphoid process, again an organ of blood
normally calls motor nerves are nothing but sensitive nerves.
however, there are except the sensitive nerves so-called motor
something quite different with that what we call an exercise,
with piano playing and the like, from that which one calls
The sensitive nerves that are, however, the usually so-called
so-called unconscious because it could not manage with the
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metabolism, may be called 'body' from now on which is not
which is composed of the outer material. We may call this
be found only spiritual-scientifically. Sensory perception can
body in itself which they called pattern, and which was the
super-etherically in the etheric, so that the etheric develops
spiritual-scientifically which is excited by the sensory
looks through sympathy and antipathy spiritual-scientifically
have already called attention in these talks to the fact that
chemically and hereditarily in us like the form of our
able now to interpret everything scientifically, and he points

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internal exercises to that which I have called with a Goethean
fact that certain things can be called morally good or bad but
does not get automatically to the spiritual-scientific results.
is now forced down to the so-called subconscious, or whether it
that work which one has called into consciousness in such a way
proceed if one researches externally scientifically, or if one
spiritual-scientifically, one understands that this life and
would like to call the “button counters” of
call them button counters for the following reason: if one has
spiritual world. Therefore, I called in the last talk that
does not present itself automatically, as the outer nature
have often called the first level of beholding Imagination to

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call soul in that what the moment offers. The soul can only
automatically happen while reciting the memorised, as it were,
that automatically proceed which we have imprinted in the
methodically observing the soul. However, certain flashes of
more and more brilliantly but increasingly pathologically and
have called the “beholding consciousness,” to a
Goethe calls such a faculty of judgement that puts itself in
should absolutely leave that one should disregard. He called
knowledge at first that is not called “Imaginative”
of your consciousness, you attain what one should really call
Imaginative knowledge to that which I have called there
called ether. Today just the ether research is going through a
He gave a criticism of the materialistically interpreted
Unconscious in 1868. The “ materialistically
something spiritual in the evolution; he assumed hypothetically
many scientifically thinking persons opposed this
Darwinism appeared. Now the author was called he was Eduard
from this inability to think generally realistically and to
consciousness. This personality calls them
Heraclitus up to the present ones, he calls these philosophies
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that one calls humanities, and probably also by other fields of
still the least if one calls those who devote themselves to
just a methodically achieved, pure self-knowledge, uninfluenced
knowledge if one wants to be entitled to call the statements of
shall be again a proof that we are permitted to call the
science feels strictly obliged to inform logically and
fact of the spirit. However, I want to call attention to the
in nature which I would like to call souls, because the
spiritually in them also appears bodily. I would like to call
blossoms. You may call this an idea or a monad as you want, I
discovery of the so-called inter-maxillary in the upper jaw of
to gain knowledge for life scientifically were in the same
world fantastically that should form the basis of all! -- One
mathematically, by strict mathematical investigations that do
That means there were mathematically thinking people who felt
also several such geometries. Mathematically trained people
to it not only theoretically, but in such a way that it is also
uniform principle to explain the world monistically. Spiritual
this epistemologically beneficial monism!

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academically, as well as unprofessionally, we must say, they
consciousness in the present, automatically with the concept of
pictures that we would call our mental pictures, and another
physical. This is an immense concession from a scientifically
that the part — what one can also prove physiologically
called a kind of waking up for the conscious finer observing.
the spiritual what we can call a jolt, an inner movement.

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cannot feel called to recognise something of it!
scientifically necessary today. A bone of a carrion around
scientifically must be verifiable any time and for any person
materialistically, even if one longs for the spiritual world,
scientifically valid must be verifiable for everybody any time,
Goethe calls “spirit eyes,” “spirit
Inspiration appears which one can call fulfilment with

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bodily organisation changes, is formed plastically under the
plastically malleable matter when the human being is born and
brain scientifically in the first times, even for years. If
then it is proved anatomically or physiologically that the
plastically, and makes it a tool only for future spiritual
death, there we build plastically with that what we have
intervene plastically in his physical or bodily-mental
an activity which is constricted theoretically in particular
grammatically and stylistically. This was necessary for the
whole personality is formed plastically.
proved logically. This is possible in the fewest cases. Since
corporeality and his brain plastically. Then later he can
no longer intervene in his brain plastically. Logical thoughts
plastically and when abstractions and ideas are effective at
this language grammatically, because there one learns with that
who called attention to the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
shapes the abilities and talents plastically. If we become

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sense, one can call the result of this research a tragic one
the ancient Hebrew people allegorically. He wants to give a
called the most important mythographer of the newer time: I
experienced typically. Laistner did not advance to spiritual
it embryonically became fruit, enjoyed life. Then, however, it
that it had to give from everlasting origins is symbolically
drew the boy out of the water and called him
especially called on its mission. Thus, we see what the ancient
this mission passed as it were, and humanity should be called
with the word which calls the self being! Thus, Moses beheld
radically from it, we are allowed to clarify a feature of the
the old clairvoyance. Hence, we see Moses felt called to lead
called to the new culture. This is clearly said in the Bible.
characteristically. One understands the world if one

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show in the so-called spectroscope, and because the same
connection of spectral analysis with the so-called Doppler
which stands vertically to our line of sight. Such a principle,
has to assume, however, hypothetically. Thus, one assumed that
— indeed, only hypothetically — that what can wake
mathematically what arises from the atoms and their movements,
and more the ideal to recognise our nature astronomically.
explained the human soul life scientifically if he had
causality scientifically. However, no one, Du Bois-Reymond
emitted. This has been shown apodictically by such
1831-1879, Scottish physicist) and his so-called pressure of
to be recognised astronomically. They should confess that
back it, up to a stage, which is called “Old

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so-called Darwinism. It suggested itself immediately at that
discoveries materialistically. Then you understand the
I may express myself radically. There also secret education
only at the time of which we speak. We call this epoch of the
materialistically minded at this time, these discoveries were
interpreted materialistically.
problems. In a rhetorically brilliant speech, Du Bois-Reymond
Haeckel just called his book The World Riddles
scientifically, he appears to us as a cooperation of unaware
atoms. Explaining the human being scientifically means to
scientifically, if one is able to indicate any movement of the
me an apple. Du Bois-Reymond calls this the
and then he does not only see echoes of reality chaotically in
physically; his soul, however, is descended from his
There one comes to a physically even more imperfect ancestor.
facts worked on by him theosophically or
spiritual-scientifically and to raise his own naive philosophy
one small idol only, but many small idols, which he calls
speak to Faust characteristically:

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forces in nature. Maybe he has not pronounced it so radically,
order to be able to comment this spiritual-scientifically, we
cause the war. One is that which we call power of judgement and
reason that we call idealism, the other is the human desire,
scientific theory, the so-called Darwinism. Within this
scientific view, a concept plays a big role. One calls this
increase of food rises arithmetically, the increase of
population geometrically. This causes a struggle for existence,
who believed to think scientifically and economically, the
up them esoterically if we penetrate these facts with the bases
individual soul of the animal that is on the so-called astral
more or less inimically — in a struggle for existence
takes action in the souls of those whom we call dreaming or

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same difference exists for that which I have called the second
special contents, but so-called eternal contents of thought at
you call your own is fed from the outside by foodstuffs and is
have just done. This theosophist — we are allowed to call
calls that which one has round himself as one has the external
call that the physical plane, which spreads out round us to the
senses. What lives in our soul is different. One calls it life,
and one calls this life existence on the so-called astral
this sensuous object is before you. We call this the idea of

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being scientifically, presumably because the areas of the earth
developed there. He calls this continent Lemuria.
taught in the so-called secret schools out of inner mystic
in this so-called akasha matter always persist. Somebody who is
only place if certain so-called higher levels of the human
generally based on his memory. He did not know what we call law
typically. Hence, the Mongolian race always refuses to accept a
the dead. The population, which one calls the Caucasian race,
past spiritual-scientifically, you get quite different views.
culture supported on memory. The fifth sub-race which we call
— as spiritual science also calls it — Aryan human
Jewish population but was still called Semitic rightly because
each other organically and mentally. Everything gets a sense,

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so-called religious scriptures.
representations, also it would not make much sense basically if
example, the so-called savages of Africa or the barbarians who
spiritual research sites. We call this spiritual research site
observation by the means of spiritual research. You may call
elated human future. He called this Tao.
technically active. The external nature is different in the
serves everything as a base. One called it Brahman,
called Father, Word and Holy Spirit — Isis, Osiris, Horus
the inexpressible primal ground. In such respect, we may call
Hence, one called this striving the Word, Veda, Edda. The third
Goethe, called into the world more than hundred years ago like

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much as possible economically from life, because he becomes
economically strong, he can also be more useful to the public:
living together, expressed itself typically in the fact that
culture blossomed. We are in the so-called urban civilisation
associations which one called confraternities and which grew up
Comedy, we understand cultural-historically only if we
fraternity. What we are used to call bourgeoisie arises from
so-called construction guild formed. A determined cooperation
necessary for the human being, can be radically elaborated.
deny this question categorically.
nature? None of our cells asserts its selfhood egotistically.
which we call the soul. The soul sees with the cells of the
operated above all theosophically with every handle, at every
still calls the theosophists impractical idealists. It will not
principle of fraternity practically.
materialistically there is almost no escape from this struggle

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calls the higher human loneliness. The second one is the
which one calls inner life in the higher sense. In the Eastern
cultures, there is something that one calls yoga and those who
same thing rhythmically, even if only for a short time, with
calls it with the known sentence that one must understand as an
does not know what is called occult or esoteric development.
from the secret sites of life. Therefore, the so-called white
should dare to pass that narrow gate — one calls the
in particular. One calls that the control of thoughts. Consider
calls this “confidence,” and this is the strength
rhythmically arranged. At certain time of the year, the animal
animal life proceed in their external form rhythmically, the
rhythmically, the lung breathes rhythmically and so on.
Everything proceeds so rhythmically because it is ordered by
scriptures call the Holy Spirit. The higher bodies, and in
which we can call imagination which is somewhat related to the
no longer dreaming chaotically, but that he dreams in extremely
where truth becomes transparent to us. One calls the first
by meditating, organising life rhythmically.
body of the human being, as it stands physically before us, is
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a look at the so-called Christmas considerations of our
circles of the old Celts by their priests, the so-called
materialistically, even more than we believe it, as an event
call these human ancestors the Lemurian race. The Atlantean
race and then ours, which we call the Aryan race, followed it.
the higher human soul. Spiritual science calls this great
this relationship. Spiritual science calls the universal spirit
and you see how rhythmically, how regularly its phenomena
regularly and rhythmically everything is connected in nature
feeling and to the knowledge of the spirit. One called such a
of the fifth degree are called with the name of their own
One called the sixth degree “sun hero” or
did one call the initiate of the sixth degree a sun hero? Who
of the soul rhythm. — One called somebody a sun hero who
called this universal soul, which flows through the whole
ourselves to think logically. On the other hand, would it not
become what one calls buddhi or the Chrestós, if they are
one needs to vote about what one has recognised as logically
the doctor feels spiritual-scientifically and heals
spiritual-scientifically, if at school the teacher develops
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is included in it what we call human development in history.
1770-1831) called history an education of the human being to
biggest misunderstandings, and among those who are called to
kabbalah. This coming in is called “fall.” However,
epoch of his existence, which I would like to call the
Bible calls the law.
to lead the other human beings. Spiritual science calls such
which whirls chaotically in the outside world and to give it
qualities, to be a citizen of the spiritual world. One called
those who were already initiates recalled him to his earthly
existence. Then he was a new human being whom one called a
called such a human being a blessed (German: selig) one if one
symbolically in the depths of the temples had become historical
which we can call the triumphal procession of humanity about
epoch of antiquity points prophetically to Christ Jesus. Not
experienced it spiritually first, then symbolically, then it
by that who recognizes the so-called key words. The saying
spiritual-scientifically striving human beings feel this as
the anthroposophically understood Christianity is no doctrine,

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efforts of life at that which we want to call the imperishable
The materialistically minded says to us that mind and soul are
exists only embryonic. We call this innermost essence of the
the buddhi. In English, we would call it life spirit. This
we have what we call Christ in the Christian mysticism,
The so-called occultist says, with the man the spirit
and what God was, the Word was.” John directly calls the
These are the so-called occult differences between the male and
different languages. Now we want to realise what one calls
karma. Karma is called, in English expressed, activity,
what one calls karma. Imagine, you work on anything from
calls the spiritual body and that the spiritual scientist calls
sense-perceptible. One calls this the astral body and in it
call our ego, the bearer of our self-consciousness. While we
the spiritual world. The spiritual-scientific worldview calls
says: the human beings are called human beings, and a
figuratively, symbolically, they understood them full of life.

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Deeper natures have always seen the unity, basically, the
that power which one always called Lucifer. — Not only
the internal, the so-called esoteric point of view we want to
vernacular one calls devil or Satan, whom one regards as the
fateful. In the old Indian religions. One called the sages, the
so-called four lower principles. At the same time, I assume
and leads the human being to knowledge, calls on him for a
blood, based on family, clan, and people, Christ was called to
symbolically on Sinai, changed because of the appearance of

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inspire his mind to express artistically what we have in The
Children of Lucifer is theosophically extremely
life. Schuré calls this personality — Marguerita
during her life, he calls her the spirit of his soul after her
that personality which he calls his leader, we are immediately
recalled of that which was understood within the Greek mystery
that is similar to the human being. He calls the human being a
calls his gods older brothers in the entire cosmic evolution,
one as the world of the gods. He did not call that which the
cult sites at the same time, which one called mysteries —
symbolically but as something real that the human being
called natural knowledge that knowledge that the human being
However, one called that knowledge, which one received from the
Nietzsche anticipated such a thing that the Pythagoreans called
the Greek calls Dionysus lives in him.
allows to flow out what one calls the immediate Dionysian art
d'Orient (1898), he was able to rebuild the so-called Greek
beings whom the Greeks called gods. As well as the human being
matter. The human being is called to redeem the gods again from
Theosophy calls Dionysus the last-born of the gods. You know
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of the so-called theosophical worldview with a few words at
transient so-called cover part, an external member of his
first member is the so-called physical body, the body that one
second member is the so-called etheric body. Life lives in this
call it the astral body, because the forces, which are
heaven, in the astral, and are essential. We call the fourth
member the real human ego. We call it in such a way because the
bearer of a higher tripartite nature we call spirit self, life
Eastern mysticism calls the spirit self “manas,”
body. We call this ego soul. We call the real immortal inside
connection with the earthly-physical world. We call this state
call devachan or the world of spirit.
incarnations are held together according to the so-called
Someone, who searches spiritual-scientifically in the other
the body. If you like, we call this unknown third world the
All deeper teachings of the world culture call these persons
calls it. Understanding this sentence in its entirety means
simple example of the so-called interrogative torment, of the
god, and the gods are those whom one can call perfect human
individuality expressed itself in Wotan whom we had to call a
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without any expertise. If we then still ask the so-called
from the so-called Enlightenment. We may characterise this
to remind of the name Lessing to call one of the best.
philosophy. The official philosophy calls Kant the destroyer
should be shown that the human being cannot automatically
figure of the things. As from uncertain worlds the so-called
clearest, and logically sharpest thoughts, a quite warm and
on whether anybody can think logically well or badly, because
one can reason a hollow philosophy very logically, it does not
hand, someone can be a spiritualist and be logically weak. One
Fichte calls self-knowledge not brooding in oneself, not
human covers basically that are not to be imagined, however,
the so-called spiritual triad exists: manas, buddhi, and atman
call names of many people who attempted to penetrate in their
nothing up to his call to Berlin by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV,
century later are led automatically to reincarnation and karma.
Vedanta philosophy calls the “fine body”
described what he calls a soul body appropriately. Another

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so-called night consciousness and day consciousness so that
imperishable. The Greeks called the soul a bee that flies,
symbolically, which was substituted by the statutes that were
in time when the old gods perished is shown cosmically with the
the myth shows this allegorically, and in this fact, it appears
calls this living in imagination and creating

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is represented allegorically: in the Lohengrin and Parzival
being had to be important who felt intrinsically in his core.
something in Europe that we call a Grand Lodge in spiritual
figure of a dove allegorically.
with magnificent correctness, maybe not quite philosophically
or psychologically correctly but analogously, while he calls
being is on the first level of chelahood. We call him the
homeless human being because he has lost what one calls home in
However, who has advanced so far that the so-called kundalini
knowledge. We call him a swan in the secret doctrine, and this
so-called urban civilisation started. The old feudal time
called a swan. The master who is deeply initiated rises higher,
did. Lohengrin is called a son of Parzival. That means that the
clairvoyant. Already in 1856, he started a drama, called The
strength of the spirit, the Parzival spirit that he calls the
deaden the sensuous living ascetically; they take the organs
studies, not academically, but fulfilled with artistic and
Christianity, the spirit of love for humanity artistically. He
order and with which he went along intensively and radically,

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rightly calls Brahman the great master builder of the world,
who causes the order and harmony in the world. One calls Vishnu
festival. Who call themselves his servants celebrate this whole
Colchis. Christ Jesus calls himself God's lamb, and he is shown
in the first time of Christianity symbolically as the lamb at
wisdom is contained in his construction; he is physically a
genetically from the materials of the whole building of
are called if we look at the past and at the future in such a
condition about already before death which one calls the
mental and spiritual perceptible. The initiates always called

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often called theosophical is nothing else than a quite usual
calls theosophy externally. It concerns methods proved for
feels, thinks, and wills erratically today, where he works
logically, but he must also have lived with it. He must put
organically integrated in the rhythmic respiratory process. At
occultism calls dhyana, after he has thought through the
a form of thought that one should better call a form of
have today given the first steps of that which one calls

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physical elementary human being. Paracelsus calls it the
expression of the whole apple. Therefore, he calls the second
astrological astronomy as Paracelsus calls it. This is a
call rudeness. We have now understood the second part of human
third part is that which he calls spirit. This spirit relates
idea automatically, one thinks of what today the human being
calls in such a way. Everything that one reads with Paracelsus
specifically related to the physical world and the astral world
animal-bodily. He calls everything Mercurial, changeable that
origin. However, they are not connected allegorically. No
interruption, a disturbance of a certain balance. He calls it
respect, he calls the material the mummy. One has only to
on the single one. He calls the one the first reason. He calls
the things He calls the other reason a public folly compared
later ones. He calls Moses, Daniel, and Enoch not magicians,

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time up to this day, even if he was called Philosophus
minutes, Jacob heard calling his name. The stranger said to
Jacob Boehme called “tinctura.” This is an often
womb, that then the forms come out. He calls a type of the
from the original tinctura. Jacob Boehme calls this the salty
other. Jacob Boehme calls this the mercurial.
He calls it water. It is water in the sense as we find the
can be perceived. Jacob Boehme calls it sound. This is any soul
expresses itself everywhere. Jacob Boehme also calls tinctura
artist who organised the world sensuous-physically. He calls
allowed to call him the greatest magician of the new time.
Jacob Boehme calls imagination the great virgin of nature, the
in the matter according to its likeness. He calls this spirit
human being whom he calls the tinctura man with eyes, but

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occult scientist who is aware of the progress of the so-called
followers, even among the apostles of the so-called occult
significance and mission of the so-called occult science in our
have said on what any so-called occult science is
to say one thing that should show typically how ambiguous the
characteristic of our contemporaries standing on the so-called
followers of occult science, the Gnostics, called this occult
mathematically that the three angles of the triangle amount to
sensuous world, but knows practically nothing about that what
systematically what these had perceived. Today, a kind of
calls it occult science, not because it hides anything, but
and burnt them! Let us recall that
just with those whom the so-called enlightened ones maybe

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sometimes. However, we come to so specifically
natural sciences have become something that one could call a
could explain the world only materialistically according to the
already experience that one calls the police and the prosecutor
almost forgotten when in the 19th century the so-called theory
went philosophically out from that which the scientific facts
themselves remember the time lively when the so-called theory
what you call red or blue is only an effect on your nerves, is
himself radically could have said the following: imagine all
phenomenon, then the world would be explained scientifically.
the air electrically conducting or causing a certain change of

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that we have a so-called psychology or soul science that is
not materialistically believes to stand on the ground of
one thinks materialistically, one has come more and more to the
Howsoever the titles are called in detail, the spirit has to be
calls nature, indeed, is spirit, but spirit, which turns its
outside to the senses, and what one calls spirit or mind in the
so-called lifeless nature. In the physical body of the human
call etheric body or life body. If we speak of ether, it has
forces. At every moment of life, its so-called etheric body or
physical body is physically and chemically an impossible
human being is that which we have often called the bearer of
this shows a certain response to this stimulus. Calling this
you may call that a manifestation of life. However, talking of
the earth creation, that what we call “I” or ego.
can call any other object with its name, the clock, the table,
the notebook. You cannot call that in such a way that is the
expression for the ego was something holy for them. They called
doctrine called with the expression Yahveh is nothing else than
for the ego which calls itself. This is the fourth member of
the transformed one. One calls the transformed part life spirit
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and that logically nobody has a right to say: my cognitive
the so-called secret schools to the general welfare and
start one has to call attention to the fact that nobody should
develop the thinking free from sensuousness. What does one call
one called the “holy lance of love” in the medieval
human being by the world. The plant stands vertically, the
initiatory training, one calls this organ the Holy Grail, which
externally-physically. The heart is a crux to the usual anatomy
organs, which one calls spiritual eyes. From them the spiritual

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The So-Called Dangers of Initiation
So-Called Dangers of Initiation
views exist in certain circles about these so-called dangers of
someone must be called unworldly who does not mind the true and
calls “life” in many circles. If one calls this
calls this “life,” indeed, it is
so-called practical people, maybe better, that ideals are not
so-called impractical. There one can cite an example of a
only radically, absurdly pronounced — to something
used to logic in the entire materialistic or — as one calls it
for it? Indeed, he who thinks here logically does not put the
so-called ditched souls approach theosophy; it is virtually
into the so-called and into the real dangers of the
to call these hostile powers against him by hopelessness and
interest in many respects from the small point, which one calls
basically, then egoism is not at all anything that is not
at the inside. It does often not at all teach what one calls
theosophy superficially today. One calls danger only that which
should be a strong light. Where one speaks of the so-called
so-called danger shall deter nobody from penetrating into the

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present human being automatically what observation and

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less materialistically, could not make the distance great
the superficial look those expressions that we call reasonable,
scientifically investigated in all directions in order to get
is. I called your attention to the fact that just as round a
the human being. We call that world which presents itself
hypothetically, the world here becomes somewhat explicable,

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earnings spiritual-scientifically. Then it becomes apparent
technology and industry? Imagine once hypothetically what would
rhythmically, the hammer blow was rhythmic, and the song

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determined scientifically.
materialistically coloured worldview, but only someone who
that causes and carries the physically discernible appearance
that way calling to the astronomers who investigate the

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research scientifically in this way. Geology has some
teeth, animals that one calls ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs etc.
Let us recall some of the
experience now what one calls enlightenment. The human being is
because he will be a hopeful, spiritually and physically

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The one quotation is that where Mephistopheles is called
attain with him. Very typically, Goethe lets Faust say the
something in their misery that one calls heaven and hell,
rudiments in a lovely way. A materialistically minded science
the human ego. We call the bearer of joy and sorrow, of
its desires automatically only because the physical tools are
egoistically, then it is the germ of the hell. Thus, that from

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expresses itself. We only need to call our attention, just in
beginning of Forel's talk, our attention is called to the fact
certain degree; but this degree is rightly called
that one calls “paradise,” a spiritual world.
unworthy of a scientifically thinking human being to adhere to
logically, his conclusions stand on no other feet, as if
world relates to that what one usually calls world. And as well
can be raised to a higher level. It occurs to nobody, to call
a world in which the spiritual colour lives. We call it the
dreamer, or a swindler. — This sentence is the logically
rightly calls bliss what the human being feels unfolding the
one has shown that if substances combine chemically with each

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by a certain stage of Christian Initiation which is called “the

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spiritual world. Basically he asserts that man belongs to two worlds,
letters. This is radically expressed but it does illustrate the situation.
of our studies I like to call your attention to such forgotten thinkers.
realm which African Spir called a world of semblance and illusion. Yet
years ago I called this condition “fact-fanaticism”; earlier
still I called it “the dogma of practical experience.” You
time it is not enough merely to hint at them or avoid calling them by
it radically, the remark is also derogatory, but one sees what is meant.
concepts such as ahrimanic or luciferic scientifically, like a physicist

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every aspect of modern science even if theoretically some scientific
we try to think of the political State (as he calls it) as a great organism.”
at this idea of interacting systems of cells: He coined a word; calling
aware of the danger threatening mankind if what today calls itself science
evolution. Nothing physically was then present, except conditions of
produce an effect? Take the case of the space, practically empty of
is related to a great Solar Year, the so-called Platonic Year, just
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such as the Book of Job, and realize how graphically it depicts the
Hierarchy of the Angeloi approach him and retreat from him rhythmically;
by historic means. To seek for Christ historically like any other event
be able to see it rightly; if we saw it historically it would be like
not known historically.
what we call the impulse of Christ. It will enable him to find within
call Christ. Ahriman clouds and confuses the human intellect in many
this attitude is bound to call up opposing forces just as they appear
descriptions of the so-called contradictions supposed to exist in my
one is subject to what in the Mysteries was called “iron necessity.”

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our circle practically every week during the war years. When we contemplate
his calling. For myself I often remember the conversations we had during
the beginning, went straight to the root of our anthroposophically oriented
it was a beautiful thought that she should be physically with us once
be clear that what we call human courage, which we see today in such
into spiritual science; that they do not is basically due to indolence.
so-called enlightenment which also played a decisive role in the 19th
emphasis on reason. He recalls an interesting episode in Goethe's life.
implies could not be further from the attitude of anthroposophically

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in relation to the Event of Christ. Historically, the present is a significant
Christianity is the Resurrection. Anything calling itself by that name
Nothing else provides a true understanding of Christianity. Modern so-called
with something called “the Christ,” whereas our inner life
task to call up the inner forces of his soul which enables him to grasp
spiritual-scientific thoughts. A certain power of soul must be called
that he should call upon this soul-force. A force which ought to be
article in which the writer describes just such an example of so-called
subject; basically, Johannes Müller expressed what good German
It is basically an expression

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really physically drunk — or through faintness. It gives the lower
Orientals call Maya. In the activity of forming mental pictures of the
it to full reality. These thoughts I venture to call Pauline thoughts

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Henry More rejected it emphatically although no one in his environment
what, out of the spirit and consciousness of his time, was called “the
will but purely theoretically, against the superior attitude of the
sees what she calls the devil as a combination of certain evil traits
gives Luther's doctrine — as it is usually called — the
of his time. Those who call Luther's expressions cynical or frivolous

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call up in the man of his time an awareness of the devil which differed

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could also be called, with more or less justification, scientific development.
physical and etheric bodies do in fact act automatically in certain
for intellectuals who are scientifically inclined, while socialism will
gas masks and what not. Everything is called spirit. The question is:

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occult connection. It is called “The period of the
example, in the sphere of the moon. It is poetically
we have to recognize what may be called a sort of

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everything that we can call our thought-world is dependent. The more
constitutes his inner being he discards practically to the same
has practically all been said either in the pamphlet,
incarnation. If you call up the counterpart of yourself, the
thought. Karmically it will outlive materialism. The next incarnation
but the enthusiasm, the perception and the feeling called to life by

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experiences, and call them back into his memory. Memory and
who needs to recall something he learnt at an early period of his
we extricate ourselves, by means of what we generally call our Ego,
his parents or near relations to a certain calling or position in
that we ourselves brought about the events called
called up from memory. The difference is only this, that when we call
and clearer, just as a memory-image does when one starts to recall it
emphatically, as love and hate. We can say that these feelings
again must not be classed with what may be called experiences of
call forth an impression which, if rightly understood, says to us:
merely recalling concepts; it is an experience of living oneself into
Theoretically such an objection may be raised, but life brings the
and this cannot be done theoretically but only by direct experience.
of will we have called forth with regard to the accidents and
disprove theoretically what numerous people imagine they have
we recall them in memory, we must say: “In the form in which
voice, calling as it does to many people, is not to be regarded as a
hallucination; for through such a voice the leader whom we call by
among the multitude to be his followers. The call proceeds from that
as yet able to recognise this call, but Anthroposophy will work in
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a man has himself karmically chosen his parents is not of any special
friendship, of ‘conscious love,’ if it may be called so?
less logically I should presumably have gone up in the estimation of

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which is properly called ‘The Method of "Spiritual
physical, The Aura, to use an ancient expression, so do we call
component, which is sometimes called the Little Aura.
While the Indians mystically searched their inner
self-contained and infinite time circle is symbolically
distinguished. These are the so-called ‘Izarads’ or
such manner can no nation make headway. The call is not alone to

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apparent, and retained, as one might say, atavistically in the
they had power to recall those by-gone times in the Golden Age of
called THE GREAT WISE ONE — THE OLD HERMES. When, at a later
wisdom, he also called himself Hermes, according to an old custom
and goddess, Osiris and Isis. It was Hermes himself who called
called Typhon. This enemy, Typhon, waylaid Osiris and slew him,
enter the material form; these elements can be physically
things. Symbolically, in the sense of the Isis-Initiation, we
at midnight, for, metaphorically speaking, he may at all times
call to seek the Isis-Forces, that mankind might, through their
from those spiritual powers which called to him out of the
‘actually connect it with the flood which we call

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expectation of recurrent earth lives, calls to us, saying, —
doctrine. Those who experienced this call to action did not look
uniform and continuous, but as having taken place periodically
of King Suddhodana, and called Gautama Buddha.
renewed there arises periodically a new Buddha, and as we have
inner illumination, symbolically portrayed in the words,
teachings, is not treated historically, and this unhistoric
he is historically united with the whole human race, and while he
unjust that I should now be called upon to make atonement for
say, unhistorically, each Buddha proclaiming a like doctrine.
upon Him that cosmic essence, that Spirit, symbolically
that decadence, symbolically represented as: — ‘The Fall
voice called into the past and brought back into this earthly
existence. A cosmic conception of this nature may call for much
will truly be in a position to call forth his Christ-nature from
time to come recall my earthly life. I strive ever upward, in

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call to mind the vicissitudes which accompanied the Biblical
world, and also from that ever wakeful call emanating from the
have symbolically portrayed all such knowledge and power as the
the cosmic clock had run down, and the call must go forth to
differs radically, nevertheless, we can clearly trace a definite
graphically portrayed in order that we may realize that Moses was
felt that his call was merely to lead his people to a certain
so-called liberal arts, which latter were concerned with progress

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to our spiritual vision, we need only recall the fact that
enduring many and varied forms of privation. We must recall the
called up from the hidden depths of his soul – deep-seated
would call forth and make possible the coming
Religious Schools, or Schools of the Prophets as they were called
of Divine spiritual vision must next be called into being, in
brook which is called Cherith, where he concealed himself and
conditions which now called for such deep and earnest
distress that the personality [whom we have called Elijah-Naboth]
hundred and fifty prophets of Baal to be called to a final
deeper meaning, become as a call to humanity urging mankind to
and the matter had gone to such a length as to call for Divine

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and not merely to that which is external and physically
tendency which has been called Gnosis [a term denoting a higher
denser form which we now call man; and that owing to the
That particular period which we call The Birth of
spirit, and calls for inner upliftment of the soul for its
what we might call the external history of Jesus, there is found
governed by natural laws. It did not feel itself called upon to
old Christology, there grew up what might be called a mere
these investigations Jesus was to be regarded as One specifically
authenticate historically those events which occurred at the
was called into being by a folk fantasy born of mental impulse.
merely historically, and if it were not that those ideas which
entered historically into the evolution of humanity in such
might call Self-Initiation. This ultimate consummation had been

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called the “Fifth Gospel” will certainly have
the external world calls religion. From his mother he

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call the “Fifth Gospel” will have helped us
significant words: “You call yourselves children of
longer call upon the forces of the Earth but upon the
Jehovah; you call yourselves unlawfully the children of
(chronologically this would be about 6 years before the
called the physical sheath of Christ, the “Ahura
they are called, were dependent in a certain way upon
be called to the words just quoted for so much of what is

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the “Resurrection” we call the Mystery of
we not call ‘sympathy’) and utter disgust for
whom we in later time call Christ sent His influence into
they received to work chaotically in their thinking,
taking place can be called a ‘happening of

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Alexander von Gleichen-Russwurm, has written a nice little book called
greatest poets called for you in the name of humanity. You languished,
Now his latest book is called
But in modern times what is called impressionism
and they in turn call impressionists like Hermann Bahr dull blockheads
when he was young. He had called all the others blockheads and now they
said he was one himself. And why should those who called him a blockhead
only to be called a blockhead by the next generation — especially
clergyman who was able to call forth an image in his imagination that
Bahr came to Vienna, he edited a very influential weekly called
us that the trend-setting, so-called cultural world nowadays lives in
of this. It is called
youth, the famous Kant-Laplace fantasy [you see, Grimm calls it
for the future than this, urged upon us as scientifically logical
me!” I have often called your attention to many such logical
at the university in Czernowitz! Many years ago he wrote a book called
and another one called

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of processes belonging specifically to the earth. Blood is essentially
but it cannot be influenced directly and mechanically because it was
that can really be called a sense is taken into account. Ultimately,
quintessence of his philosophy — well, one cannot really call
in it as cynically as Richard Wahle does, this philosopher appointed
develop arbitrarily, but is truly what the best minds have called for.
deeply into the difference between a merely logically correct concept
and one that is true to reality. A logically correct concept is not
our cultural life comes from the belief that anything thought out logically
logically developed concepts. Instead, I said, for example, thinking
Strictly speaking, one cannot call this memoirs. It is indeed interesting

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even if I have to express it at first symbolically; what I mean will be
As you know, I like to call our spiritual
I called them lectures on anthroposophy. Last time, I referred to these
here we have a case where absurdity and utter nonsense must be called
to indicate this by calling the pillar of birth, which we pass on the
the pillars are referred to symbolically. In our fifth post-Atlantean
Remember that Tolstoy basically wanted to
in symbols that have been preserved. Our age is called upon to understand
day become reality in various stages has been expressed symbolically
that so-called history was made by these men who were as unknown
practically everybody is indebted but who is really most unselfish in
canon calls everything he can understand, everything he likes, Catholic.
even the dash of superstition, magic, or whatever you want to call
prefers to call him ‘Genius’), his deep feeling for
to know what the canon calls “exaggerations.” Well, in any
case, he calls them Catholic and goes on to say:
what we may call the core of spiritual life common to all people. This
the publications then (and even still today) called “theosophical,”

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have called Saturn, Sun, Moon, and Earth phases of evolution are composed
matter, so-called actuality. Every time artists had the task to create
in other parts of the body that her astral body basically has a depleting
for its deviation from the so-called normal human form; they admire
from the head basically developed on earth. The condition of the human
are trying to apply the so-called theory of genetics. There is now an
— who wanted to prove philosophically that ideals are nothing
really existing in the way physically perceptible things do. By the
as in modern life in general. They are particularly numerous in the so-called

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of deviating radically from what is right and good either toward Lucifer
and the result is then called history.
right events, the right facts. I have often called this way of looking
This approach to history is basically a Goethean
As you may know, one of the most biting critics in Berlin had to call
in two volumes, which lists alphabetically all philosophical terms but
we call in Austria a “Bohemian Privy Counselor” (“böhmischer
office messenger. In Austria, we call all people “Bohemian Privy
visible in our so-called cultural life. Much, very much appears in our
place, hypocritically denying it is materialism, is nothing else but

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What is nowadays called poetry will gradually
“sacred things” satirically. But truly, my dear friends,
kinds of things, and Oskar Simony examined these matters scientifically.
our spiritual movement in the world. Basically, there was nothing to
such clothes absolutely called for short hair. Yes, indeed, one could
goes on working in what we can call the general spirit of the times,
Herman Grimm, on the other hand, was not to be called a real worker
was customary in those days to call him a stroller through the field
of sentence structure, a piece of trashy literature, really artistically

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it, we have something we may call, metaphorically speaking, a great
and so on. Finally, scientists arrive at what they call the smallest
theory can enable us to distinguish between dreams and so-called everyday
from everyday life experiences, which we may call by analogy “a
of the zodiac. We said that microcosmically we bear within us the macrocosm
Suppose we had some kind of structure artistically built up out of layers
all of these arranged artistically into some kind of a structure. Now
science is doing cannot be called “reading the world.” If
read. It is the same with everything we call the higher and lower degrees
that what is spiritual in the world was called “The Word,”
two in the morning is called the hour of the rat — there was the
we cannot call anything others do not see subjective but not objective.
would not say such things. What Europeans call novellas, or art, is
Asians do not understand this. In what they call works of art, they
by Asian standards but by our own and call them fanciful and beautiful
for that is how we learn to understand life. So-called logical proofs
because they can feel very quickly what the others feel by way of so-called
the next, while other people call them stupid because, to their minds,
interrelationships in the world. We are therefore right in calling the
our own inner being. You see, there is what I would like to call a symbolical
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essential point is not whether one calls such an
his name called: “Jacob, Jacob!” and when he went
have to do here — if one wants to call it that —
exaltation, since he felt called upon to do this. Thus, in 1612
succeeded in having him called before the council of the city
stressed the fact — I beg you to call to mind precisely
to call to mind the earlier discussions.) Now, it is most
about other such things. But I beg you to call to mind what we
base, sensual — into that which Jacob Boehme's age called
Devilish.” Poetically, Goethe still struggled with the
antagonistically in the harmonious universe, in the wise
you? How could you call yourself a child of God if you were not
be called God, but a being in which God reveals Himself.
cannot call him a pantheist. Just as the question
that which he calls, significantly, not the primal cause, or
into a simple formula — not what he gave theoretically,
runically out of his relationship with the feeling for speech,

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with him and then he went away. After a while, however, he called the
Lohengrin poem. This reveals Richard Wagner's high inner calling.
musically throughout Wagner's Rhinegold. Wagner's themes were

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called upon to check yet another onset of the Atlanteans. The peoples led
element. Thus Baldur had to be called into life again in the

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resonant call,

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form of Christianity: a Christianity was to be called into life which
out. This gave rise to his call for emancipation from these impulses.
to hear the higher call, the call meant for humanity in general. The
overcomes Heinrich von Ofterdingen, who has called in the aid
Christianity is again called upon to unite everything. And he poured this

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we call the poet's biography — the soul-spiritual aspect. So we
that comes from the so-called Dzyan verses
whom I greatly respect, who energetically stood up for oriental
so-called initiates. An initiate is one who has developed to a high

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anatomically, you find that he is composed of various systems: the
sense we call that which thinks in man the true Self. This inner
The beings who entered into earthly evolution at that time we call
human brain scientifically from all sides with the senses only, you
you examine them chemically, you find that all physical nature,
Theosophy we call such a time segment a “Round”. The Round I
call the “Mineral Round”.
between the thought and my physical body. And we call this energy an
the clairvoyant sees in its astral cloud, which we call the aura, and
has. Before the evolutionary period, which I called the “Mineral
also had a beginning and an end-point, we call the “Astral
prepared. Allow me to call this period the “Formation
Period”; in Theosophy it is called the “Rupa-Round”. It
was a formless seed. We call this point in time the
segments before the one we are in now. We call these segments
the future, of which we have still to speak. We call the humans of the
by mineral energy; and we call a human of the previous round, the
brain, but also with what we call astral energy. He will not only be
to be physically perceptible. From our mineral round we look back on

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basically very simple, but which must be clear to whoever wishes to
through seven stages, which we call Rounds, in rhythmical sequence.
slumber stage is called a “Pralaya”. On the other hand, the
from a beginning to a high point of perfection, we call
so-called Dangma, the highest developed seer. This state is
spiritual beings were active: those we call “Dhyani Chohans”
previous stage. In this very fine matter what we call chemical
be extremely grotesque today. Gigantically large, colossal shapes
human being was possible in that flowing, gushing state. We call these
highly developed individuals. In Theosophy they are called solar
which evolution is materialistically explained. If instead of matter

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from the so-called entries in the Akashic Record. We know that what
innermost core of our being meets us in what we call our Ego. This
regarding the soul, so-called official psychologies which no longer
necessary to call up an impression of the feeling aroused by the
call the ruling of the Holy Spirit in the world, the ruling of cosmic
with Beings — indeed those Beings called in our
the possibilities and diversities of what we call a feeling of
whom we call the Spirits of Will, come the Beings of other
anything in the least similar to our environment. What we call the
— the so-called “Old Schwegler,” formerly much used
by Schwegler (for I have expressly called this a good book), it is still

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called attention to the fact that the description in my
eternity. When, therefore, something is said to call up a picture
no substance dense enough to be called gas, nothing but heat and cold.
“heat” or “fire” as it is called in
Cherubim is brought to birth that which we call time: though I have
already called attention to the fact that “time” is a
beautiful experience that can be called forth in our souls, the
contemplation of active practical devotion may call forth the
called self-surrender as intensified; for this can only be conceived
of one enraptured by what we call “beautiful.” Suppose
the great Givers of the Universe. Just as we have called the
world by the Spirits of Wisdom on the Sun, the Spirits we call
call up in us a true understanding of everything connected with

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lectures an endeavour was made to call attention to the fact
that behind all that we may call flowing air or flowing gas, there is
something very far away, which we have called “the virtue of
flowing air. Thus what is perceived externally, physically, is in
with what in ordinary life is called “asceticism,”
once again call to mind the ancient Sun evolution. But let us first
astral body he could not act freely, or possess what we call
Now what we call
the picture we called up before our minds in the last lecture.
intrinsically Spiritual cloud-formations is seen to take place
between what in the last lecture we called the “outer”
we may call a division of the whole Sun-substance, a divergence. If
continues, the renunciation of the sacrifice; all that we have called
evolution it is the case that the gods themselves have called their
we must not look for the origin of evil in the so-called
I not able to call forth a whole multitude of angels if I wish to
as once upon a time, during the Sun-age, the gods themselves called
such a great cosmic moment; and when we recall the words: “He

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perceive in water what might be called resignation. It may just be
by this is symbolically expressed in the world's history by the
recall the words of the poet: “He alone who longing knows,
which has its origin in what may be called: “readiness to
now flashed up — that this was what is called egoity which
Wisdom, and of Will — there is also what we have called
a dream-picture. This is the origin of what we call the
empty-souled, empty of everything not to be called longing. But the
faintly up from the depths and the Spirits of Movement call up new
planetary phase of the earth's embodiment which we call the
called the “Planet of Redemption,” just as her last
embodiment — that of the Moon-existence — may be called
consciousness. Hence a situation must arise which artistically
perceived. Hence Achilles is called “her” Achilles. What
related to what is outside in the world which has been drily called
us how tragically and stormily that which Anthroposophy is able to

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call Maya or the great illusion, there is the Spiritual. Let us once again
be discerned behind everything perceptible to our senses and our physically
what we call the “astral body.” There we felt longing
assertion; but what is the manner of these proofs? Logically they are
impossible logically to prove by the existence of one class of
true, he must call a miracle and he says that he cannot understand
sacrifice offered by Cain, which symbolically represents one of the
what this implies, if we think symbolically of the more exalted
in the lower Beings. This again can be symbolically expressed. If the
what we must call the “contents of the sacrifice” takes
be called: “The exclusion of a certain number of Cosmic Beings
Beings have within them something, which, speaking symbolically,
symbolically — of the rejected incense, of the rejected
come to a spiritual characteristic of what we call the fourth element
spiritual world, may be called death. Thus something is cut off in
call the “Christ-Being it must clearly be impossible to
regard to man can we speak of the incision into life that we call
such thing as that which we call death, nothing but transformation,
historically! This cannot be dealt with like other historical facts.
whom they call the Christ must have lived on earth at that time. In
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been here with us and have now been called to the front
Let us call
stops in mid-sentence, symbolically splitting apart, as
soul, they have come to call one another brothers and
spirit, I was on that occasion able to call up in the
case one of us was called upon one day by his karma to

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call man's higher self, the concept of nationality loses
during the 19th century had specifically to do with home
Greeks — they will call him a barbarian. Greek
called the ego soul. As I have said, it lives as
grafted onto a national character when basically it is
feelings but was expecting, and he called it the
want to say. The one side calls me a liberal Western
our friends will also be able to recall how often I have

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evolve which we may call the inner eye, the inner ear. It
folk soul, lives specifically in the etheric body of man,
join in experience what is normally called the folk
wood in it and put a match to it. Basically that is how
Basically,
time: to call forth ideas that are a little more the
the peculiar situation of Russia, we are basically able
intended — what we call ‘intend’ on the
forces in elemental opposition. Basically, it has never
usual conclusion. They will call upon the energies that
the present time calls for in order that man may truly
spiritually active or physically active, but in any case

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that is by what is generally called ‘dreams’,
need to recall how horizons expanded in Europe as the
This inner development proceeded specifically from that
the Maid of Orleans, as it were, did call themselves
specifically when we look at our own age with all its
German spirit is called upon to take in the Christ
this emphatically, something would have come about that
lecture I was able only to put exoterically. in an

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everything that specifically makes up our
changed specifically over the last centuries —
the age out of which Joan of Arc was called to do her
we call the spirit Gabriel, if a name is to be used. From
1879 onwards it was the spirit we call Michael. It is
to grasp what we call the German folk spirit. Two powers:
Christ impulse to expression specifically in our time, in
taking exactly the path that has been so emphatically
Michaelic age. Sun-like qualities are called for in the
mission of the German people, and specifically with this
and that which is striven for quite exoterically in the
are called to unite inwardly with the element that comes
union is not achieved by passively, fatalistically,
to act on the weakest, physically the weakest, powers of
Michaelic age. For we are not called to discuss the
mechanical element in our age; we are not called to point
of mankind; we are called to do something else.
pernicious of all things, ascribing it specifically to
would have continued to act physically if the people

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that the causes even of physical disorders, so-called
anything material. What we call the moral power of a soul
body of man the element we call his moral power is
nothing to do physically with anything within me. The
years as to why our age is the one called to spiritual
has grown very old, i.e. has reached what we may call a
the dead are calling out to us today: ‘Do not allow
fanatically adhered to as they previously adhered to
the most important after death. To form such images calls
for the easy way, not wanting to call forth power from
the soul. But if we do this, if we call forth such powers
these powers we have called forth, but it is something we
condition we may call a nervous disorder has spread a
writing, his style was not what we would call 'nervous'.

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the cremation. I did not specifically intend to
call it speaking in such a case. And those then were the
will recall something I said when another death had
acquired here, using them specifically to further our
soul contemplating these things, a soul specifically
really knew practically nothing of what had happened to
and then. Yet it was specifically in this case that I
indeed, in the language — if you can call language

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spoke of last week, where what are called
and I shall do so from a point of view that may be called
called sound, but a genuinely sound common sense. Today,
doors, as it were. The first may be called the Door of
automatically come up with all kinds of excuses, for the
stands the potentate we have always been calling Ahriman,
This entry into the spiritual world has been called the
world. This door therefore has to be called the Door of
even spoken of it exoterically in my public lectures.
arises and call up another — when we come to a
fundamentally relating to what in ordinary life we call
will expand into a world. But it calls for long term
example we want to use what may be called ‘head
metaphorically speaking. and it is to come out in colour,
out that are within us, specifically in the organs which
in ordinary life are called lower organs. That Is much
faculties will recall his physical birth. But death is
may call it this, when one of those who died on the field
world through what is called imaginative perception. And

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basically is always asleep. These are things one need not
Oddly enough this is the part of the human body we call
scientist only considers valid, considers scientifically
allowed to go far or else the hypothesis will be called
are not merely speaking metaphorically but in completely
This knight called Ritter Wahn — taken from an earlier
Mosen called him. This is something people did not
basically consists in a description of how man is

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to begin with; it is very similar to what we call
us assume you are today recalling an event you
not the one we have to call memory. We develop inner
the objective cosmic process. Basically the same thing
enormous emphasis on what we must call repetition of the
recall things that had an external effect on us through
sporadically to intervene in their evolution. This is one
something coming in which might indeed be called
recall my saying a week ago that the whole history of

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to begin with: the world that is our earth. Basically
human being, that basically it is growing richer and
I have called the earth's spirit is indeed an individual
nature and the spiritual part is what may be called the
is the one we call thinking, the forming of ideas. I
take a separate look at the process we call remembering.
physical body. When you recall the event now, the act of
experiences that come from outside, to recall them again
and specifically the element within the physical body
recall it to clairvoyant consciousness we will indeed see
was indeed the one called out to Erasmus Francisci in his
spiritual research are able to show us that what we call
world. He grows together with what we may call his

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elucidating the design specifically with regard to the
buildings specifically for their acoustics. Most
Mephistopheles is basically a mixture of Lucifer and
Then he understands himself. The earth's spirit has called
Goethe called it an old tragelaph, and at the end of
the 18th century he called it a barbaric composition.
Indian, he would call it ‘mad’, to work out
therefore also relates geographically to our mission. It

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future on the other. An interlude is what I have called
able to say: ‘He is what we call the dreamer in
come to be practically a sort of rule in literature,
them. On the one hand he calls the English the greatest
principle we call the dreamer does not endure; the Sun
is why spiritual science calls for greater activity. Its
from this central place of activity we call Golgotha.
is not only what, in abstract terms, is called

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recall in this extra session today, themes spoken of in
hour, any moment, basically is within his ordinary
entity on earth, is one thing, and what may be called
sensory perceptions as we call them, the ability of our
what is actually there, what we call their luminosity,
is called Inspiration. This is a higher form of
man representing this whole stream called himself an
elaborated his message, he also called himself a man
Immediately before that a man who did not call himself an
man who calls himself d'Annuncio — in reality he is
called something else

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only be understood and applied by what Spiritual Science calls the
science, it is obvious that we should call to mind that spiritual
universal disease of the age was then unequivocally described, as you
intelligence in motion, to set the ordinary so-called fully
practically died out — or become mere pedantry, which is almost
are without any understanding whatever for what I call dream
should try to answer practically the question: How quickly can a
commonwealth be systematically ruined? Contrive to set up therein a
between Ireland and England, and the territory now called America. A
by a Papal document (of course it was not called
with its so-called ‘discovery’ by a Spaniard, but outer
Spiritual Science is called Imaginations; we find myths and legends,
horses, so that the sight of the cab horses called up an earlier
think what is really under consideration. It is scientifically proved

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In our studies we have often called
the present time. What science brings forward, what calls for
spherically constructed. Now the investigator into Spiritual Science
schoolmastering, which in other words may be called Wilsonism. This
is a question of what sort of thinking is called up in us, what
To-day I only wished to strike the keynote which is to call forth in
contain much that is called forth either by carelessness or what
might be called objective untruth. They are full of it. These things
undertaken to criticise it! I have often called attention to the fact

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have often agreed from various points of view that the so-called
awake during the so-called ‘waking’
prove, but sufficiently so to call it being awake. We must
the matter will, indeed, not be very far from recognising a so-called
living together with the so-called dead. The dead are always present.
in the so-called waking condition among the dead, just as we do not
including the so-called ‘dead,’ will have to give human
life of the living and the so-called dead. If by his thoughts a man
reply of the so-called dead does not come to us from outside, but
is, to hear from him the question we wish to ask. We specifically
prefer to call a sympathetic sorrow, for the sorrow that we feel for
cannot be called a sympathetic grief, it is ‘egoistic;’
of the connection of the so-called living with the so-called dead can

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souls — the so-called dead; — relations not only possible
popularly called ‘inspiration.’
on the one hand, and on the other hand the so-called dead. This is
psychological literature. Schubert calls attention to it; it is an
Try to observe systematically in your
‘undertone’ which arises from the change called forth by
cultivation of relations with the so-called dead is specially needed
called upon to reawaken the old spirituality, to rescue the old
The Oriental is called upon — so Rabindranath Tagore

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this will call our attention to the fact that there is a great deal
physically perceptible, remains in a spiritual
happenings which we call ‘Fate.’ To those who think in a
either necessary or important. To-day the so-called analytical
What we call our destiny is really a
studied logically, people will ask themselves: What is the
human life. We perform actions. These actions in our life call forth
it as what we call fatigue, but it is something quite different. We
man's spiritual organism — also called lotus-flowers (see
called ‘another man;’ and this comes to expression in
life. One type is frequently called a ‘busy-body.’ People

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so-called living — that is, those inhabiting physical bodies
psychically indicate in the proper way how man should and can think
the dead who are united with him by karma. It is most emphatically
regard to the relations of the so-called living to the so-called dead
conditions of existence can certainly arise which call up something
of a union of the so-called living with the so-called dead. For the
might be called a feeling of unity in common with all things in
it, perceive it. For this, however, we must call to mind certain
continued exercises of this kind we call forth from the depths of our
karmically united, is he ready to reach the discarnate man;
unity’ (speaking metaphorically), can the dead bring himself to
calls forth a concept within me; this concept goes somehow into my
called forth the concept, so to-morrow, what has been occasioned
below, calls forth a new concept. A concept I have to-day passes away
is that within me which calls forth this same concept; only it was
only signs which call forth again in a weaker degree what had been
incorporate something in the memory; the other, to call it forth. If
the knock; he can recall this, and when he wakes he knows that
other connections, it is dependent on our being karmically united
speaking to us. Other dead, who are not karmically united to us,
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which, as it were, forms a bridge to the knowledge of the so-called
called the feeling of universal gratitude to all life's experiences.
and of union with the environment with which one is karmically united
referred to can be called universal confidence in the life
confidence we had in him in life, but we need to call forth freshly
physiologically, anatomically, it presents itself as that to which
he is to-day. What is attached to the head, although physically
rapid, and that of the rest of the organism — we will call it
and the so-called dead. Otherwise the facts which should establish
during life. If, however, when the dead is physically absent we
soul life — also called the astral body — by means of
physically incorporated.
its physical projection first, is periphically globular, but we can
may be formed between the so-called dead and the living. What has

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Hierarchies. We know that what we call a “Folk-Soul” is
not that unreal abstraction of which materialistically-minded men
of the world, what is in the materialistic sense called matter or
called matter; it is spirit in another form, spirit passed over into
numerically.) Thus through the rhythmical processes which we undergo
means of that, calls forth the special configuration and

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Let us call to mind
which we call that of the “development of the human
‘egotistically’ as possible to what is earthly, the
philosophical science which is based on Kant is called “Theory
become what we call ‘sound.’ All is silent without, there
Theory of Knowledge calls what uneducated people believe
in which the so-called childish ‘duffers’ lived, men try
for it is spoken by all the so-called living and all of the so-called
fiction, but to make something out of them. Let us once again recall
if it were philosophically inclined it would not speak of
supersensibly, etherically; he thought man was related to the
animals physically. He then wanted to have a knowledge

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have been lost chiefly because what one may call the Latin or
which we call the “Ancient Roman.” The
be redeemed from their grave. We need only call to mind the
Vercingetorix!) Perhaps today Alesia would be called a
called the sphere of learning and scholarship — of
coverings which, I will call: “Soul-Man,”
psychically it is not confined in rigid boundaries.
“unrolling of the pictures,” as one might call
might call the “unrolling of life's pictures.”
hold onto that they may wish to unroll. If we live call up
mean by this, if you call to mind the picture of him while he
felt less actively. This calls our attention to the fact that
call the Soul-Self. That too was there from the beginning,
pictures which I called forth yesterday appeared before the
materialistically, was actuated by direct perception; men
recall the celebrated philosophical theologian or theological
philosopher — whichever you like to call him —
what is called Spiritual Science absolutely in earnest
called “Introduction to Philosophy.” In it are

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a man living physically here on the Earth and a human corpse,
form. In particular what we call the Etheric or
called your attention, keep guard over certain occult truths,

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call your attention to the fact that what forms the beginning
which there is conception, and at the end, death. I called
the single moment of death. I called your attention yesterday
wish to establish it anatomically and physiologically —
find what I have just said borne out scientifically. If
thoughts, which could be scientifically established today,
harm if these things are sometimes really called by their
thought of the so-called science of to-day, or a living
necessary that nothing of what we might call sluggishness or
book “The Growth of Organisms.” I have called it
pattern! Logically this is of no more value than if one were
question, and that must really be carried out practically,
might be established physiologically today, it is only the
synthesis of conception and dying, it happens physically that
externally and physically. For it will be proved that the
the Apostate called the ‘visible sun.’ We also
already called your attention to this in these lectures, but
be found among what mankind calls today the scientific or

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‘sensing’ as it is called. All sorts of theories
stand. If only we have all thoughts which are called up
the extremities in connection physically with that whereby
man even physically looks out beyond himself. The extremities
birth and death. Thus, just as man physically out of his own
distinctly — and even anatomically — his future
man before him in the clinic and examines him anatomically.
felt, so-called “Intelligence tests.”
find ways and means of methodically “putting the right
practically with exact psychology; now three new questions
real.” Spiritual Science must work practically in this
the “Philosophy of Spiritual Activity” is called
called there. Now I ask: What then is the public, the public

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worked inwardly almost from the beginning of what we call our
forming for decades in the sphere of so-called socialism, and
something which we cannot only see theoretically today, but
really known historically as Britain itself and which was
specifically British, is now merging into

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ordinary consciousness, but that is because we recall only a
you recall them you are unable to fit then into the sequence
with which ordinary so-called reality is only a set of
through the formation of the head, into what we call the
complicated psychically — that is, in terms of the
breast-man, what we call the life of feeling; and through the
night — what we call our will.
the etheric body call rather for the approach that we have
body,” that is no more than a phrase, calling up a

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so-called “manganistic” civilisation has fully
physically, of course, but artistically. The conception of
physically the enclosing is there; but the forms of the
evolves from the one before it, just as the organically
technically, to make the two domes intersect and cut into one
knowing what to make of it, have called it a “futurist
artistically intended, but complete only with the sunlight.
symbolically, but artistically. A group carved in wood! The
artistically conceived form), in gesture and in mien. Human
actually like the model, faithful in spirit, artistically
the colours artistically expressive in themselves. The
and the like. We see spiritual movements, so-called,

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physiologically and zoologically. What is present there can
what might be called the elements of a real understanding of
their task, but they will accomplish it only if they recall
surroundings. Eastern writers — I call to mind Ku Hun
structure cannot be founded on what nowadays is called the

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incarnation. Now we need only call up before our minds what
moment your description is no longer historically accurate. I
the sc-called “Gnosis”. Many a time on asking why
monk suffered from what we call epilepsy. He was constantly
God?” What they call “God,” when they speak
they do not know what it means even philologically —

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Call to mind numerous descriptions in which three consecutive
these were expressed artistically.
be traced historically, but you must bear in mind what its
or less sympathetically towards this or that creed; its aim
founder of the so-called sect of the “Waldenses,”
that not all that called itself Christian was intended to
question regards what he calls Church doctrine as having come
Finally, urged by an inner call, he returned to his spiritual
calls for a purely spiritual activity, bound to no material
drawing attention emphatically to these addresses.”

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so-called fourth post-Atlantean period.
what profane science ignorantly calls “Animism”
called Apostles, had accomplished this or that for humanity,
radically, in the following way. Men tried to accommodate
supersensible realm the “beyond” as it is called,
mystically or theosophically — about the connection of
the human with the Divine, or whatever it may be called. We
several assumptions, spread out locally, and so everything is
confused in the hodgepodge called “modern
spiritual”. Nothing in science is called
there arose what might be called a tension in human souls,
facilitated by presenting the super-sensible dogmatically as a
economically, politically, or sensuously; he can achieve it
characteristically in what may be discerned as the essence of
so-called “sacred egoism”of the Italian people
ways. First among them is what I call Americanism, which
blessings to be dispensed by those who are called into the
dogmas, we call it “Bolshevism”, and it will not

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prophecy. Suppose that anyone wished to call attention to
real view of the universe, what we call matter and force are
concerned with that, and that only, it is dogmatically
not concerned to analyze it scientifically; such a part that
Earth-developments. Nothing of what is now called matter and
naïvely in the so-called socialist view of life, for
from the welter. This is unequivocally stated. But although
supposed to call “war” (a work which has ceased
savage kills; but anyone who is masochistically savage, like
otherwise be immortal. Parents are called to give death of a
connection with what I have just called “Cosmic
future remained “chthonic”, as it was called in
anything dogmatically fixed, for we have to use names for
Italy, live to be old, was incorrectly called it on both came
from Maria Leach”, now called “Voices of the
whole series about what I've called Anthroposophy. I must

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first three Gospels are called the Synoptic Gospels and the view is
the modern mind would call ‘Miracles.’ It is incorrect to
henceforth man is called upon to experience the Christ within
birth. Not only are we led physically and spiritually towards this
a disease which is the disease of diseases. — We call it
could work his muscles well was called “nervous.” But
themselves are called upon to assist in bringing a different age to
The true form of Christianity to-day is called Theosophy and it is a
from out of the future which lights up apocalyptically before him; he

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a curious trait in the so-called Goethe commentators. You are of
Now, this so-called “poetic soul” of a nation is nothing
spiritual world is called — according to the Hermetic Axiom
may be called crystallized pain — pain that has been conquered
to man and the higher animals, this blood is practically fluid life.
the “very special fluid” which we call Blood.
so-called “lifeless” mineral objects that surround him.
is sometimes called, far from being any figment of the imagination, is
principle which calls the inorganic materials into life, which,
which they call the life-principle.
The third part is the so-called astral body — a significant and
All the so-called external science of the soul overlooks the most
you; each one can call a table a table, and a chair a chair. But there
called “lifeless” nature. When we talk theosophically of
so-called lifeless forces into the living sap? We call it the etheric
astral body calls forth sensation only in one particular way. The
laws which prevail in the external world in the so-called lifeless
microcosmically the entire macrocosm. The sentient life of an
organized. This first nervous system is the so-called sympathetic
Man, having progressed thus far, is no longer called upon to act
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the so-called unio mystica, or mystical union, with the Godhead.
call Atlantis, between present-day Europe and America. Still further
back, we come to a primeval land-mass, which we call Lemuria, lying
spiritual science it has always been called the higher triad, and the
course, is called spirit man in terms of spiritual or occult science. The
into that image. Spiritual science in all ages has called this phenomenon
kingdom, of will. Thus what is called the higher triad in man is
Applying these facts practically to the human being in his environment,
is called “homeless” in the terminology of spiritual science,
calls the “Father.” What lies hidden in the human soul and hovers
before humanity as its great goal is called the Father in Heaven.
around you. All things in their diversity express the Godhead. In calling
from the wisdom teaching that is now called spiritual science. Every true

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will be what is called by a name borrowed from ancient times; namely,
vapourous state in a higher form of development, is what we call the
We can learn a great deal from this sentence. Helmont calls what he
spiritual being, and he calls this Spirit by a new name: Gas. He was

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through what is usually called “Kamaloca”, and
were called the messengers of the Gods or spiritual

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such things quite plainly. Just call to mind that if we go back in
united, but passed into each other. One calls these four group souls
Why could one call them thus? I should like to make that clear today
compared with what we should call today the most grotesque creatures.
already existing physically, in quite definite shapes, another
have called the Bull soul enters quite definite forms which are there
that which in the true sense we can call the bull nature. That is
gathering what one might call inner tolerance. May we succeed in our

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in the world of special significance for himself, is called an
body of Jesus of Nazareth was more from what we call the sentient
today to combat Christianity so radically has been learned from the

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there existed a so-called “Temple of the Mothers,” set up in
has invariably been called preparatory purification, catharsis of the
so-called purified soul, the soul that has passed through catharsis
wherever knowledge of this mystery has existed has always been called
erroneous what today is called evolution, the ascent from the lowest
out that the whole being we call man is not included in this evolution,
call man had as yet no kind of physical existence and was securely
spiritual universe, we need only call to mind the picture of the
beautiful experiences arise in us when we stand before the so-called
later times called Typhon, caused a chest to be made, and craftily
something of the ancient so-called theory of numbers have always said
streaming forth from hoary antiquity, artistically transfigured and
can be represented symbolically only by the lion's head, we descend to
birth to what Goethe called the true, genuine piety. “A man who has

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observe. The principle which observes was called “Ceridwen”
sound come to our outer eyes and ears, was called “Hu”
— This quest of the soul for the highest was called by the outer
of sense. He who has neither name nor rank, is called a
spirit; man is born and called to rise to the spirit. Spiritual

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figure, for it was poor in those characteristics which recall
called to mind the world of the physical senses was by its
recall something purely psychic, something which can only be
sense — which they call equilibrium, which has become
the spirit, and which here is called the Region of the
their own physical form, where they call him one of their
“Men call the last of my offspring their vitality,
distantly recall this figure — but nothing so complete
which thou hast been called as a whole; thou hast become the
correctly, for I am called intuition, and I come hither from
which thou art, can still be called “Art.”
call me Inspiration. I come hither from a wide-flung realm,
soul of the woman understood how one brings down what we call
called the imaginative world. And another figure approached
may call reflected images of things not to be found upon the

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call an ‘event’ and carry it onward into a later
called ‘the thirst for existence.’ Since we look out upon
can learn to unfold within themselves the so-called ‘Eight-fold
when one brings the whole of the historically conceived teaching
humanity what might be called a dark, dim clairvoyance. Men did not
stands before us in one whom we call a “saint” ... one

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blÃ¼hen zum Beispiel Hemerocallis fulva, die

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life on the other, are expressed in speech, the so-called ‘Mystery
sound and calls the dog ‘bow-wow.’ Word-formation of this
kind may be called ‘onomatopoeia,’ an imitation of the
Philologist, ridiculed this, calling it the ‘bow-wow’
opponents in turn called ‘mystical,’ though they used the
sound-essence of the object calls forth in the soul the power to
him in return by calling his the ‘ding-dong’ theory.
to-day, — we call the part of the astral body which has been
astral body, but also upon the etheric body, we call the part of the
sentient body conveys what we call ‘enjoyment’ (Genuss)
is called the consciousness soul, through which man acquires
be called the physical vehicle of the consciousness soul. Again,
transformed into the vehicle of so-called ‘human
man is to-day able to mould his external being artistically from out
the other instruments of speech has been elaborated artistically out
past, had not plastically elaborated the eye from undifferentiated
formed and plastically moulded that at the present stage man is, so
raises man above the animal. The Spiritual Being whom we call the
presented with an organ responding to the so-called “Spirit of
etheric body in response to outer stimuli, and the so-called
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it. The mystic usually calls it “the spark.” Yet,
origin. This may, indeed, be called “knowledge of
research calls for a conscious and controlled development of
sense be called prayer is a preparation for this medieval
the message, then, of what we may call the stream of the
This speaks even more emphatically and definitely to us. In
within itself what we may call a devotion toward the divine.
our souls? It is what we may call the feeling of devoted
somewhere, to call forth this feeling in the soul and to live
is called prayer. The soul possesses the urge, and
what we may call a force of warmth and light — light
inner blessedness, that we really may call divine. It is the
confused with what has been called “the dark lap of the
to feel this, it must be called up by the greatest thoughts,
than the mere prayer, can still feel its effect, which calls
be simply repeated, yet it can also call forth a mystical
prayer. In painting we have what might be called a

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the higher worlds, as we call them, lie all around us, that we live
embedded in a body of an astral being, whom we can actually call the
we can call the constitution, the social life in the astral world. People,

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fullest harmony with certain results of the specifically scientific method.
nature. The plant-nature as such would not be able to call forth animal
being that has not embodied itself physically anywhere at all, and you
and find something going on in it, which you can call intake of food,
certain long threads called “tentacles”, which again are
still another kind of organ is there, which one calls
incorporate physically, they had to string themselves on a common
what is interconnected in the human astral body embodied physically in
be—not physically but spiritually — beings put together

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after death, which in anthroposophical literature we call the period
period, something lives in the astral body that can be called “privation”
we call the Thrones, had the feeling of self-sacrifice when they began

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emphatically than other branches of Spiritual Science. If in these
the prophetic art as it is called, was never so directly connected
the Old Testament, the authenticity of which will certainly be called
marriage with the daughter of the Czar he was recalled to Denmark.
harmonies perceptible there can call forth in us similar harmonies
subject to moods of depression which may even affect him physically.
soul of Tycho de Brahe, he seems to be one who is calling up
if astronomical calculation were merely a prop helping him to call up
intellect — calls up before the soul pictures of the Future,

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so-called scientific findings, repeatedly raised objections to the
we may call the next member of man's being — the etheric or
For it would be logically absurd to claim that all our daytime
what we will now call the astral body — the actual vehicle of our
called, it being no longer possible to deny its existence) soul-life,
man, this dream, evoked by an event in his youth, was periodically
such an experience? If we call to mind what was said in recent
symbolically expressed in the dream.
what we call the intelligence of things, which seems to reflect human
subject already mentioned which I should like to call “The
his soul man carries out what in arithmetic we may call a division
to what we call clairvoyant forces. There are not limited to man's
Because of this a philosopher, Frohschammer, in a one-sided way calls
logically. When we clearly grasp what lies in our subconscious we can
written by Ludwig Deinhard and called “Das Mysterium des Menschen
in earthquakes. On the other hand spiritual science is called upon to

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back to a previous life of his on earth. This is what we call the law of
to the call to observe the boundaries set between his knowledge and the
desire for Knowledge. To realize this, we need only call to mind how
theory, more than what may be called abstract science, is needed to answer
called to his father's death-bed. Now, to add to the troubles of this
misfortune. But unless we are speaking merely symbolically, we cannot,
calls good fortune could also be good fortune for the ascetic, for one who
situations, called up simply by the memory of certain natural scenes
man generally calls good or bad fortune, we see that in countless cases he
easily superstitious, so grotesquely superstitious, as about what is called
luck, what he calls his expectation from certain forces or elements outside
called good fortune must not be assessed one-sidedly. — Again, many a
We can find a solution if we turn our minds to what may be called the
look at the matter thus, karma and what we call the law of repeated earth-
from the point of view of spiritual science. Let us recall Hamerling's
means of the transformation described, that man is actually called upon to
two worlds, an outer and an inner. You may call it dualism, but the very way
experience in imagination when we call an actual fact false becomes reality
Thus we see that what may be called good and bad fortune is closely
in what, according to legend, Solon said to Croesus: Call no man happy till
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at present to explain the origin of man spiritual-scientifically
development of the lifeless, so-called inorganic nature, and we know
in this sphere of the so-called pure natural development of living
can be called in the real sense an original procreation or an issuing
also systematically assumed that animals up to the insects or still
quoted quite systematically that out of an ox corpse — that
making it logically plausible, if only to some extent, that the
that which we call the formative principle, the transcendental
spiritual-scientific way we no longer call a material bodily form:
call the connection between the ego and the astral body of man. So we
thinks logically cannot as a result come to any other conclusion —
inner life cannot supply sleeping man with that which we can call the
its beginning, hovering over what we can call the spirit of the
man into a kind of world memory, which is also called reading in the
formative principle on substance, all that which is today called
formation. We find (which is geologically demonstrable and shown by
organization, form what we can call outer architecture, grown from

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science has called attention to something very interesting, precisely
question, we must not take into account what are called violent
case of so-called natural death, which is brought about at the end of
actualities of life he calls attention to the fact that in the
investigator calls attention to numerous facts which prove that
world cannot for a human being really be called a continuance of
in progressing in the same way as, in his opinion, what he calls “an
the naturalist calls attention to the way the molecules and atoms
examine separately the phenomena of what may be called death in
plants, of what is called death in animals, and also, apart from
Thus, for the spiritual investigator, there exists what may be called
may be called the earth soul has to do with everything living and
something different is at work from what may be called the beginning
call the ordinary phenomena of our consciousness. We know very well,
that which is evoked by the processes of the body which may be called
what can be called birth in man or in any living animal being; we
periodically repeated, which does not actually represent death and
waking is repeated rhythmically in the course of twenty-four hours,
investigate what we can call death in the animal kingdom, not indeed
place perhaps thirty years ago, you will say: I can quite well recall
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involved?’ This is what could be called a man's sense
now we will once again call to mind something said by the
between what we may call the outgoing activity of the soul
converges ultimately towards one central point which he calls
that external vesture of the soul, called in Spiritual
recall our past experiences as memory-images, but we remember
him in memory, he recalls the pain in his thought but without
recall and those that remain below, working on us and
which call the whole plant back to a new cycle of life are at
recall nothing, relying on what is told us by parents and
people cannot recall their previous lives the answer is: Just
recall our past experiences from the time before that faculty
for the power to recall past earthly lives. But I repeat that

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introduced into his “Last Supper”, what we might call the
on to this wall (as through magically) the finest emotions of the
were “artistic charlatans” — as we must call them —
work on people today, stands practically in the same relation to what
eyes of the spirit” (to use Goethe's words) to call up
offered and what could be scientifically proved by the intellect
soul: “Symmetrically and beautifully formed, there he stood, as

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now standing are such as to call forth in many people today, though
obliged to call up in our souls thoughts of an illuminating nature,
America, which, to people possessing what I might call
which must be reckoned with both scientifically and historically, for
not only does their so-called second sight extend beyond space it also

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which in a sense calls out to his capacities of perception. The spirit
that must be experienced within does not call out, we have to wait for
kingdoms, continually called to life by them. We owe gratitude to
personal experience of the so-called Dead. This communion with the
possible in a much more restricted measure for the so-called Dead to
take part in the evolution of the earth through the so-called living;
with repetition, with what I might call the return of the same action
moment of waking to see those Dead that are karmically connected with
favourable moment for the approach of the Dead karmically connected
ourselves, and may be able to call up, though perhaps but very
point in the heavens. This we call the Vernal Point. We know too that
call a cosmic step when at the vernal ascent it returns to the same
the great Greek philosopher, called these 25,920
called, is seventy human years. Of course seventy years is not a
merely a figure of speech, it is not merely mystically felt; but the
indicated the very year in which He began to move etherically over the
character to the opinions and attitude to life of materialistically

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what I might call two sub-beings. The more external man the physical
is rightly called a man's daimon, who guides him, and whom the wise
can experience in the middle of a long sleep, what may be called an
the year. I must here call attention to various things I have already
we may call the meeting with the Life-Spirit: the meeting with Christ
call the holiness of sleep. (The materialistic life is being somewhat
generally call the real one, is, as I expounded in the last open
when — symbolically speaking — it constantly permeates and

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possibly feel the true connection between what we call the world of
so-called
some day come about in which the whole world will mechanically come to
logically? Why do they accept such a position? The reason is, strange
accustomed to call it, Beings of the same substance and kind. This
be called the Father-Principle, while he meets the Spirit-Principle
progresses in so-called civilisation, he tears himself free from the
the so-called Peace-Programme of President Wilson — which is
what are then specified as functions include practically all the
calls ‘the higher nature in
but from the shreds of what are called actual (that is, actual in the
with his eyes and grasp with mechanically acquired ideas, between
etherically goggle-eyed at the cinema; he develops eyes like those of
a seal, only much larger, I mean larger etherically. This works in a

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lectures, called attention to the fact that this concept does not
circumstance than from what may be called freewill; but the
return once more to the so-called enigma of fatigue; for the
Plato calls ‘clothed with the sun.’ Thus we see how the soul
his ‘I,’ his ego. All that a man can call his own in the
body is each physically connected A real and sufficiently penetrating
spiritual observation shows us that what we call the ego of man —
seem, the ego of man is between birth and death, physically connected
with what we call the lower part of the body. For the ego, as I have
call the astral body, we find that as regards the instrument through
to what we have called the baby — our ego. Innumerable secrets of
shall then have a definite and positive idea of what is called the
of their day, that they drank themselves into the state called in
understanding of what I have called the first meeting, the meeting
ideas, but rather what we might call intoxicated ideas. People of the
allows himself to be apparently cut off. I have already called your
common life of the so-called dead with the so-called living must take

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referred to as the so-called Three Meetings. We have said that the two
religion we are accustomed to call the Holy Spirit. We have gone
certain places an instrument called a coherer is installed, which, by
clairvoyance.) We have, therefore, called this meeting, which in the
the whole universe. I have often emphatically stated that Spiritual
only call to your remembrance the significant and incisive words:
said that Christ may be called the Sun-Spirit. From what I have said
some justification for calling Him the Sun-Spirit. But we can form no
high enough to be able to connect what took place historically on the
continuation of what is today so foolishly called (in reference to
This ‘above and below’ characterises what we may call
to do with what I might call a representative delineation of the whole
Well, you see, if we recall what is stated in the little book:
who was called ‘The unknown philosopher’ says in many

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frivolous way in which our own time is often called ‘period of
intensity as de Saint-Martin, calling the attention of the Natural
rather consider the question more historically. De Saint-Martin
lightning to salt, or what he called salt. In short, he fights in his
brought into relation with the way men ‘think’ as they call
True, de Saint-Martin is generally called a theosophist; but in
theosophy then prevalent which was called by that name. Theosophy in
with their pallid notions, have described as the so-called ideas of
element of the Bible thoughts, which should organically bind them
true language of the Bible. His assumption was practically this —
things historically. But if one goes more deeply, into things and is
You will have observed that I wanted first of all to call your
disappeared. Besides that, I wanted to call to your notice the fact
‘I call the white powdered particles in the salt-cellar,
salt.’ Now this man is wen aware that salt is called by a
broad mind on the subject, but that is not enough. To call forth in a
old conceptions, as is done in certain so-called occult societies

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what I might call two sub-beings. The more external man the physical
is rightly called a man's daimon, who guides him, and whom the wise
can experience in the middle of a long sleep, what may be called an
the year. I must here call attention to various things I have already
we may call the meeting with the Life-Spirit: the meeting with Christ
call the holiness of sleep. (The materialistic life is being somewhat
generally call the real one, is, as I expounded in the last open
when — symbolically speaking — it constantly permeates and

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completely new, must call forth a certain distrust against the
call a psychic atmosphere. The language of reason seemed to them to
question was always called “Spiritual Alchemy.” The
secret which may be called the Secret of Alchemy. Between the studies
what we call the Highest freedom. When a man follows the primal and
strongly developed, and that is why the Mystics have always called
side, and had really become Man, hence the Persians called one
called a Sun-runner. But he who accomplished all his actions out of
connection the Persians called him a “Lion.” He then
that too is why the Will-o'-the-wisps call the Serpent their
gifted with the highest forces of human nature, which theosophy calls
Atma, Buddhi, Manas. They are called by Goethe the King of Beauty,
Anthroposophy call “occult knowledge” is expressed by the
highest wisdom is called occult, because it only appears when a man
Fairy Tale pedantically, by interpreting every word, but we must feel
symbolically represented as the beautiful Lily, and the male

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it may be called the epoch of forms, the epoch when on every hand man
standard of living will automatically improve. — in terns of
conceptions of life and of the world in the form of what he calls
the spirit, is called by Theosophy, Manas; Buddhi is the
fifth of the so-called “Thirty-one” Lectures, Dr. Steiner

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Exoterically, the date itself throws some light; esoterically, the
In the Egyptian Mystery-language, the bodies of men were called the
indicates the connection with the so-called Root Races. The remaining
is frankincense, connected with what was intrinsically characteristic
expressed symbolically by the frankincense, which is the universal
so-called lower, or astral mysteries. To be led by a Star means

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Steiner depicts here the experience of his non-mystical, scientifically
it.” What is called a school of initiation has as its essential
his nature. To begin with, he further possesses a member that we call
by a kind of archetype. This archetype has practically the same
happens through so-called meditation. This meditation, this
in his organization. We call these sense organs the so-called
are given an account of the so-called eightfold path. Now ask
impartiality, and equilibrium, or what Angelus Silesius calls
Ego-consciousness, called at the present stage of development
brought under the influence of the astral body, the so-called aura.
called a homeless man, because fundamentally he has found the
reflection could teach him that even physically he himself is
something which we have called Buddhi. Buddhi is now practically
superstition, no more doubt. This is called the surrendering of the
motion. What man does is incorporated into what we call his
itself. He may call everything by its most profound name, whereas the
to himself. When the Chela has arrived at this stage, he is called a
naming all things is called Swan because he is the messenger of all
Hermes. This guidance was in the end an ordinary, so-called
who by grace have received initiation. The first who was called to
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Steiner depicts here the experience of his non-mystical, scientifically
science calls “higher human solitude.” The other is
thrive. In the Oriental culture there exists what is called Yoga.
Those who live according to the rules of this teaching are called
to call forth the forces of the soul, methods of spiritual science
rhythmically with immense regularity, if only for a brief time
of the character is an indispensable foundation for the so-called
is called, without practicing these properties again and again. They
particularly our train of thought. This is called control of
occultism, this is called faith. It is the power not to weaken
rhythmically. At a certain time of the year, animals acquire certain
and animal life, in its external form, takes its course rhythmically,
so does the life of the physical body. The heart beats rhythmically,
the lungs breathe rhythmically, and so forth. All this proceeds so
rhythmically because it is set in order by higher powers, by the
wisdom of the world, by that which the scriptures call the Holy
external world. The second is what we may call imagination or the
becomes transparent for us. The first stage is called
rhythmically. Achieving this is laborious. But once it is achieved,
in the periodical, Lucifer Gnosis. They are also called Lotus
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they are called, in the newspapers, is quite sufficient proof of this.
itself was still organically united by living ties to Nature. And it
We call these remote ancestors of humanity the Lemurian race. Then
rhythmically and with what regularity the Sun appears and disappears.
‘Lions.’ At the fifth stage of Initiation a man was called by the name
the Sun in the heavens was called a ‘Sun Hero,’ and there were Sun
being where we think logically. It would be nonsense to decide by a
logically right or logically wrong.

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Steiner depicts here the experience of his non-mystical, scientifically
in what is called theosophy today — but only the most
few Europeans who radically and fundamentally detach themselves from
scientifically trained men or for scholars. The simplest person can
physically near him. Certainly it is sometimes an urgent necessity
for the teacher to approach the pupil physically, but this is
Rosicrucian training. It is called the Study. The teacher will
in that its words work symbolically. If you speak of the wings of the
actually calls the interior of the feather “the soul.”
so-called “Rhythm of Life.” People know such a
and egotistically. At most, for the children in school, the lesson
rhythmically. Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order
higher worlds will recall that the whole cosmos took part in the
physical brain which enable him to call himself “I.” This
organ, which enables man to call himself “I,” is
sixth step, this immersion in the macrocosm, is called Contemplation.
ordinary egotism into a more refined egotism. They call it
he experiences what is called the seventh step of the Rosicrucian

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Steiner depicts here the experience of his non-mystical, scientifically
While in the human being the eye was called for, in the mineral
immersed himself artistically in the secrets of nature, particularly
Secondly, one can observe the circle that may be called the Mercury

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because outer things call forth mental images in the human senses,
Schopenhauer speaks physiologically of specific sense impressions.
like a Fata Morgana within him; it is a kind of reflection called
force active within us, as will. These forces Schopenhauer calls “the
if he undergoes the discipline of so-called “great stillness.”
opens to man is Devachan, the so-called mental world, and he enters
with some of the effects that these experiences called forth in him.
When he awakens in the morning, not only is he physically rejuvenated
astral and Devachanic worlds. In these worlds, specifically in the

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physical heredity is to what we call an ongoing karma.
calls inanimate and the etheric body in common with all plants. Then
we examine the astral body closely, we have first the so-called
blood, for instance, is called “water.” Third, we have
increasingly delicate and reaches a new state. The esotericist calls
is called “light ether” by the esotericist. Continuing to
a still higher state, we come to what esotericists call “chemical

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shining with least strength. On that day the pupils were called
they saw ears of corn as tokens of life, indicating symbolically that
life, in what may be called man's highest Ideal. Thus did they learn
Christ was called "the Lion of the stem of David." To the fifth degree
name of his own but was called by the name of his people. Thus men
Nathaniel was called a ‘true Israelite’; it was because he had reached

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through them all. I must call your attention to the fact that the
centuries and recall Odysseus and the giant Polyphemus in the
fleeting forms of our astral organization. When we recall the
states of consciousness are present, calling forth genuine vision.
asked for her husband, who was called in, and lo! he was a
were called in, but none of them knew the way to the White Country.
his second sister. He asked for her husband, and he was called in. He
The animals were called in, but none of them knew the way to the
twelve-headed dragon was called in, and asked about the White
his animals did. The animals were therefore called in, but none of
called healthy clairvoyance, and true clairvoyance tends more and

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order to intervene in evolution as a human being is called an
human evolution and beings whom we call avatars. The latter
call the sentient soul, more of the intellectual soul, or
radically has been taken over from the Christian world of

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human being. However, let me stress emphatically that it can
issued a call for Spiritual Science in our time precisely so
call to human beings to do external, physical labor. Human
called into existence by the force that streams from the sun
as a human being who was practically nonsusceptible to outer

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fascinating chapter called "Something About the Moon."
whose external life almost nothing is historically known. From the point of
called upon to develop more than outer powers; he has in his inner life
that his spiritual eye and spiritual ear — as Goethe calls them
man in external terms and call to mind his gestures, instincts and so forth,
call super-sensible: the super-sensible element contained in his senses in
historically important feature of Kant's philosophy. But in Kant's argument
compared with any message from the outer world. Kant called it the
they are diametrically opposed in their attitudes towards the most important
recognition of what Goethe calls “contemplative judgement” lies
the physical world — these men are and always have been called by
undergo in order to achieve this faculty is called Initiation. But in the
course what the myth had set before him. In this way something we could call
so-called Key of Solomon
the very early days of Christianity there was a sect in North Africa called
signs could be used to call forth faculties of cognition in the human soul.
spiritual development. The Key of Solomon, for instance, which once called
acted directly on the human soul, because what today we call the faculties of
so-called. Because men are too comfort-loving to apply their reason,

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fascinating chapter called "Something About the Moon."
the human soul, we called three of its members the Sentient Soul, the
called upon to assert himself in action, he would be the weaker for
called the truth derived from “reflective” thinking — we
way as truths of the first kind, gained by what we have called reflective
have been formed by the living wisdom which calls forth their inherent
are falsities that can be logically disproved, but that is not what Goethe
the facial expressions they call forth. Let us picture a man under the
symbolically the relationships between the characteristics and capacities of
he reveals the dissatisfaction that this kind of attitude can at times call
abstract, mechanically conceived truth. This kind of truth is unfruitful and
light of day. His people, he says, are called upon not merely to observe the
Aurora, comes forward. She calls upon men to be active everywhere in doing
the poem. The deep wisdom that called forth this fragment from Goethe will
Goethe called the Word. That, which lives in the soul and must unite itself
seeker after truth who is called upon to bring forcibly before the world some

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fascinating chapter called "Something About the Moon."
aspiring soul, is called by Goethe, in accord with the mystics of diverse
call these three members of the soul the Sentient Soul, the Intellectual Soul
proceed logically. We use logic as an instrument for testing the knowledge we
When the human soul seeks to encompass with feeling some other thing, we call
the soul falls into what may be called an enduring state of dreaming or
gradually build up from them what we call moral ideals. Reverence is
he develops for whatever he calls his God out there in the universe. Since
the reaction to reverence cannot itself be called reverence, we may not speak

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fascinating chapter called "Something About the Moon."
observe how what is called asceticism — in the highest sense excluding
religion, particularly through what the West usually calls Buddhism. Our task
Spiritual Science, as characterised in previous lectures, is called upon to
is called forth by the forces within the seed and those which work on it from
human being of today, we have an alternation of the two conditions called
during sleep from what we usually call the human body. We know that for
so-called etheric or life-body. When we are asleep, the physical and etheric
bodies remain in bed, and we separate from them what we call the
astral body withdraw from what we call the physical and the etheric
ego, within which we live through what we call soul-experience, sink
world. The external world gives us mental images, and we call them true if we
flow from these pictures he creates. The pictures call forth a number of
that it is possible to call forth a different form of consciousness. I have
we bring to it — this training can be called
combination is not significant in itself, but only in so far as it calls our
asceticism, in our sense of the word, enter practically into human life? Let
may feel too weak to call forth in himself the forces necessary for
penetrate further into what may be called the ascetic training of the soul in
to those who fail to pursue energetically the methods we have described,
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fascinating chapter called "Something About the Moon."
emphatically laid down over and over again and in the most diverse ways that
are called to look at the plant world. The plant draws in whatever it needs
the word, egoism, and say: When the rose strives quite egoistically to be as
supreme achievement of Nature. Anyone who wishes to call that
call human freedom. Man could never enjoy a free existence if he were not
to expression in the plants could be called egoism. Normally, we do not speak
to yield up its beauty to the process of fructification, for it is now called
the plant, its individuality — as we may call it — which achieves
kind and to carry on the human species; he is called upon to transcend the
so far as he transforms his astral body, he creates what we call Spirit-self,
create what we call Life-spirit, or Buddhi. And when finally he masters the
call Atman, or Spirit-man. So we look towards a future condition in which man
also called the sentient body, into the Sentient Soul; a part of the etheric
environment. We can understand this if we recall Goethe's saying: “The
we may call a higher man. In this way he brings forth something in himself,
into action and will. And what we call human love is born from it. Just as
calling, in spite of the claims of duty. What, then, does he really want? We
definite goal. Hence at one point he calls him a “poor wretch”.
to express himself somewhat radically in conversation and to say things that
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fascinating chapter called "Something About the Moon."
attracting no attention, while false Buddhism, or what he calls “Madame
call a “result”, and this is carried over into the next
before his soul the phenomenon he called “thirst for existence”.
suffering that pervades it. Thus the four noble truths, as the Buddha called
above all else. And that is why it can be called a religion of redemption, in
obviously not be right to call Christianity a “religion of
could call it a “religion of rebirth”. For Christianity starts
of suffering; it matters not whether the world called forth this same thirst
call the outer world an illusion. No, it is man who has not yet found the way
tells us that what we call our intellect, our scientific way of thinking, did
call a dim, hazy clairvoyance. The way in which we now achieve knowledge of
inspirations. The Baptist's call means that knowledge of the world in terms
highest type of man is he whom we may call a “saint”; a man who

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fascinating chapter called "Something About the Moon."
make some remarks which fall outside the way of thinking now called
attribute to the moon's attraction the so-called ebb and flow of the
remember that an imitator or a copyist does not by any means call forth in us
proceeded quite scientifically, taking account only of observations carefully
sense-perceptible was the spirit. Hence you can prove historically that no
call it — and so have gone a step beyond Schleiden in the sense that
regarded as scientifically irrefutable, and yet, although no objections to
from this point of view. Materialistically minded people will of course find
modern psychology. Among its members we distinguished, first, what we called
sun recalls into the physical body the astral body and ego, together with the
body owes its characteristics to the region which a man calls his home.
passes through conditions which recall an earlier state of the earth. The
rhythm, as we may call it.
photographs of the moon, for so-called research — these people will

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one single survey of the events which comprise what we call
protects us through what we call in anthroposophical
repeatedly how necessary it is to study what we call

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little more specifically.
called `Theosophy' by another view which I called that of
sense-observation. When this science deals with Man, we call
picture of the ‘I’ differs radically from all
truth on the basis of this maturity calls for very special

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post-Atlantean epoch. We call it the Old Indian epoch because
worlds. Basically, all the wisdom that penetrated into human
purely supersensible was now applied to things physically
beginning and periodically needs a new impetus.
in a great deal of what is called Philosophy to-day.
prophetically into the future and see the birth of many

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of one of those generally called the Evangelists who
of the spirit, was called ‘the way into the solitude of
Both of them wished to call attention to the crucial event in
indicated symbolically by the twelve constellations of the
from Aquarius and he called himself an Aquarian, a Water-man.
a victim to what we have called maya. The real fact is that

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and Buddhism call contemplation or meditation ‘under
that what is usually called man's physical body is the
conclude that what is usually called the physical body of man
the great Buddha, what is described symbolically as
called to experiences connected with the descent. In the
came to be leaders of mankind. If you will recall what I have
passes into such a soul, very special forces are called into
recall what you already know about the Christ-event, you will
of culture, for a figure such as Siegfried differs radically

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Christ's mission. I have already called your attention
Revelation, and not as those who are here called:
Beings called in Christian esotericism, Angeloi,
wider sphere. They are the Beings whom we may call
effect: The being we must call the spiritual man, the real
Adam. Hence Paul calls the Being who appeared in the Christ,
gradual descent of man into matter — whether we call him
hypothetically, of a man descending and passing through his
incarnation. In various ways I have already called attention
he was the offspring of a Muse, the son of Calliope, not of a
of Calliope and nothing more than that, Orpheus could have
was not only a mouthpiece for the Muse, for Calliope, as in
a man was to be made aware of something he was called upon to
the spirit which in Pauline Christianity is called the

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Let us take them together and simply call them the
water; matter is formed out of spirit — call it
those who think materialistically and allow their thoughts to
a very special way when the magical relationship we call
in the life of soul as sorrow, and physically as tears.

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of all call attention to the fact that in St. Matthew's
Practically every single individual comes forward as a
nerves is nonsense. Motor nerves, as they are called, simply
do not exist; there are only sensory nerves. The so-called
‘motor’ nerves, as they are wrongly called, in

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occultism will say: If we call the religion of Christ a
expression if we recall what was said about Zarathustra — we
may call the Jahve-religion a Moon-religion — the transitory
Speaking scientifically, what we have in Arabism is a kind of
wave. We call this period the Renaissance — it was the
called the wave of Arabism a Moon-culture, so we might say
theoretically that we now face the prospect of an influx of a

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is a need and also a longing for what we call Spiritual
that it is a phenomenon scientifically unjustifiable and also
have called the Rosicrucian stream; and it has often been
long, long time. In a definite sense what we have called the
completely engrossed in what we to-day call the
scientifically acceptable and lay hold of the hearts of men.

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can call the true fairy tale mood lies deep down within the human
days that we can call — in the best sense of the word —
senses that all the words one could theoretically use would only
sorrows. And then you see someone coming along, a so-called
Before we hear it, let us recall that according to spiritual research
intrinsically to human nature itself. When you know this, you will

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Steiner depicts here the experience of his non-mystical, scientifically
so-called dead. It must be emphasized over and over that the way into
may be called “Imaginative Cognition.”
that is called sound, but with reason that is genuinely sound. But
entered, as it were, through three portals. The first may be called
whom we have always called Ahriman. One does not see him. And it is
the philosopher Leibnitz, an emphatically monadological thinker who
world has been called fundamentally the Gate of Death, because it
call this portal the Portal of Death. And then we look through this
significance. For this reason I have even referred to it exoterically
but one is able to eliminate a thought and call up another — to
may be called the “passing through the portal.” And then
of the spheres, which is no longer physically perceptible;
life we call our “lowest nature.” This dragon comprises
the dragon at the Portal of the Sun — and it is called the
water spirit through what we may now call “head
are in the organs usually called the “lower” organs. This
can become universally familiar through the form of knowledge called

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through fateful ordeals and at such times it is not really fitting to call
we recall many things made real to us by Spiritual Science. Think only
Whitsun has a meaning and content of special profundity, calling ever

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called war years. Something that was of eminent importance to
Spiritual science is basically the revitalization of this
that called itself, by a strange interpretation of the words,
anthroposophically for almost two decades over a large

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concepts of anthroposophically oriented spiritual science
different kind! Logically, you will no longer be able to do
practical use of anthroposophically oriented spiritual
these feelings that is especially effective pedagogically
because he has been led into his calling from this aspect
knowledge concerning the soul — one calls this
insight is called upon to throw light even into the essence
appears physically an another celestial body. What exists
teaching of true and false; it is the so-called pragmatism,
is true, not because one has perceived it logically, but
we today abstractly call “false,” people sensed
now abstractly call “right” comes about because

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wonderful and inner ideal called Brotherhood [Although
they become economically powerful they benefit everyone. This is the
teaching of the evolution of mankind. In a book called “From
progress. I mentioned the book by Kropotkin called “Mutual Help
blossomed, the so-called culture of the cities, the middle of the
which were later called Guilds, Brother/Sisterhoods which one joined
day two members were called to be at the bedside of the sick one. He
principle of mutual help. What we are used to call the burger or
we call the soul. The soul sees with the cells of the eye, thinks
spoken allegorically but must be taken as a full reality.
magicians because they pull in higher beings. One does not call upon
Today, some people call Anthroposophists,
of mutual help practically. To be tolerant means in the sense of
ruthlessly as the others. For the one who thinks materialistically

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Vishnu and Shiva. Brahman is rightly called the Great
Those calling themselves his servants celebrate the entire
wisdom lies in his organisation; physically he is a temple of
him genetically from the materials of the all-embracing
called “passing through the portals of death”.
always called by the initiate the “awakening”,

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The one is that what is usually called logic plays
images which you have already connected together logically at
is experienced in that world. That is why I have called the
of training in what is called Analytical Psychology or
from any medieval or so-called oriental occult science, as
cautiously and critically, are very great. What can be learnt

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which we have this unspeakable word. We can call this a post-mortem

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hierarchy and who's called a man's guardian angel in religious
the wall with a loud and physically unexplainable crash. This

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can't be together much physically we can always feel united in the
spirit is felt to be like that of air bubbles or spherically

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that can help you to get into the spiritual world. Let's recall what

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symbolically, in the three years that Christ lived on earth.
besides this sacred word, if it's not physically caused, to be

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It's world karma that lets us act egoistically World karma is

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the subsensible region was always called the elemental world, the world

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woven in there, so that we can call it the “cognition

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theosophical teachings and calls them dreams, but just read John's Gospel
theoretically, but should sense that karma is active in everything
karmically. That's true equanimity.

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One is often called back

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shatter and destroy us. Ancients called the feeling of standing
world — not corporeally, but psychically all the more. This is
what they called going into the nether world. In one's
person's soul more than a physically shot arrow could hurt his
netherworld's flames. This is the so-called going through the

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he is; he's become a little bigger since then, but basically
day — but maybe every 3 or 4 weeks. It's basically just

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Grasped esoterically, they're of help to occult pupils. The
being” who's called Adam in Genesis. Everything that

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when we recall it, we incorporate it into the ego.
thinks, and namely: It thinks me. Esoterically this is the same thing
that was expressed exoterically in the words: In your thinking, world

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just gained with spiritual-scientifically untrained, but with
scientifically well-trained thinking, this just gained is
automatically, they do not come only for the cited reasons.
of measures to quite different performances than the so-called
spiritual researcher gets around to calling a spiritual
to approach the spiritual world scientifically. However, if the
penetrate scientifically as seriously into the spiritual realm
as one penetrates scientifically into nature?

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of freedom spiritual-scientifically is the task of the whole
believes today that in the so-called soul riddles the riddle of
borders of that what should be regarded here methodically, as
One may say that the anthroposophically oriented spiritual
question of the so-called old vitality absolutely on the ground
everything that one could not explain chemically or physically.
appears today again as so-called neovitalism only as a reaction
which is caused by the fact that one realises sporadically: we
striving methodically gets to cognitive forces and abilities
hard and methodically, as natural sciences have to do it. But
these would be mystically increased soul experiences —
spiritual, even if you immerse yourself ever so mystically. As
cognitive abilities from his inside that I have called
consider the active soul life scientifically that is active in
considered only cursorily nowadays, and that the so-called
so-called limits of knowledge. These limits of knowledge can
in hundreds of such so-called limits of the human soul
with them not only logically, but internally,
soul not only to get to know what they say logically, but
phylogenetically. That which the being experiences in living
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first the philosophers feel called because of their ability of
Goethe seems to be condemned to many philosophically thinking
philosophically disposed people who have struggled with that
methodically in this or that scientific approach, Goethe
viewpoint is diametrically opposed not only to the natural
called it in my book
so-called “things in themselves” or generally the
secret of existence, and that Kant called it an
virtue and immortality — the so-called postulates of
called it in my book
if the human being creates or feels artistically if he puts
Man Schiller tried to solve this problem philosophically.
problem that Schiller grasped in thoughts philosophically; but
do not need to grasp the soul life pedantically only in
— logically how does one come close to such a kind to
artistically only combining can work on. Someone who lets the
single statements, one can call him a father of spiritual

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real spiritual research methodically strict, patient, vigorous
quite methodically to lead the will into the mental pictures.
so-called limiting points of cognition.
further and wants to become what one can call spiritual eyes,
what I have called beholding consciousness in my book
originates what I reluctantly call clairvoyant beholding of the
scientifically, it is another matter. Now it concerns that one
spiritual-scientifically. Hence, he takes something as basis
be confirmed scientifically, although natural sciences
Hence, Fortlage can hypothetically conclude because he does not
the will life that is so vague that one can call it a sleeping
Whether one goes to scientifically minded human beings, whether
scientifically, they state that one has anyhow to explain that

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envisage the cultural-historically interesting of this fact
hypothetically gain a real significance. Certain riddles of
have also called the body of formative forces in the magazine
the basic facts that one can find only spiritual-scientifically
facts that are already recognised scientifically that are not
theoretically, then that is highly confirmed scientifically
magnetic needle physically in such a way that the directional
really combine with the outer existence, not hypothetically.
realistically knows where he has to stop with his thinking.
to seven years and then you infer quite scientifically how the
scientifically necessary today. A bone of a carrion around

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture VI: The Historical Life of Humanity and Its Riddles
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Revolution which contributed so much to that what one can call
so-called historical knowledge and to appreciate that only
enthusiastically, for example, because of his books The New
America when the people develop that disposition which he calls
twelfth centuries. Lamprecht calls it the categorising one.
calls it the conventional time in which one judges and feels
so that on can call it history. So the most important question
social-psychologically. This arises to him from a necessary way
history social-psychologically according to the model of
life and its riddles spiritual-scientifically. You have to put
archives as documents which one normally already calls
historical dreams of humanity were truer than the so-called
called history up to now so that it points you to the deeper
which I call symptomatic conception of history if one is aware
the subconscious emerges symptomatically, while we do not dream
fifteenth centuries. It is also very typical that he calls this
spiritual-scientifically beholds in the current of the
human beings since the fifteenth century historically, they are
really symptomatically at the historical development.
soul spiritual-scientifically, you do not have the same comfort
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already in the science of Greek antiquity, and basically also
materialistically. One calls them “materialists.”
theoretically, but grasps it in its reality in such a way that
been called; we consider him as one of ours; since nobody can
more with other problems; it is called: On the Defence of
radically on the other side. Now I do not want to speak about
soul that is brought up what I have called the beholding
deal with that which one can call “spiritual eyes”
that that which one calls “genus” or
impartially what there is, actually. There I have to recall a
Indeed, one cannot deny that, scientifically considered, it is
conditions of balance are radically different with the human
human being, it runs vertically to the earth. I do not mean the
there descending developments are admitted, are basically in
this spiritual-mental. What I have called up to now is nothing
like to call attention to the following from the start: how
spiritual-scientifically what conception and death are real for
similar, but much more brilliant than the so-called
people anticipated what was in him, Kant, for example, called
from what one calls Kant-Laplace theory. Externally a primeval

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musically. Still the fact that I must smile standing before the
the human being that comes up only quite fantastically in the
does not approach the supersensible research uncritically will
consider rather carefully and rather critically just by
“activity” — I want to call it provisionally
power is disturbed pathologically for a time. You get to know a
not misunderstand me, I have called this corporeality the body
of formative forces in the magazine Das Reich. I called
called that which is closest to the physical body and
of formative forces.” One can call that which does not
also call it the “soul,” which works a level deeper
spiritual-scientifically knows that the ego-experience that is
which I pointed out wholly philosophically that the human
regard as “abstractions.” I call them the most
what you can pictorially call the transition to the inner
respect. I can call a book in which, actually, from start to

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the soul — one calls them “exercises” or as
called the “beholding consciousness.”
consciousness at first. I call it Imaginative consciousness,
speak wholly philosophically, so that all those can read this
the free will is considered philosophically: I dedicated the
The psychologists call it association of mental pictures. One
something different to control them logically, so that they
That which is connected physiologically with the evolution of
being calls his “ego” in the usual life. This ego
called it in my book. If you beheld the spiritual counter-image
moral impulses. Spiritual-scientifically, one says, the moral
have this faintheartedness and this fear call spiritual
the real practical life. That is why one is allowed to call

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that period the decisive problem of life was what we might call
personality. What we call “Illumination”
what we may call the “aesthetic conscience.”

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was thus no gulf between what we may call the moral claim and
called upon to produce some harmony between nature and himself.

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calls the “causal body”; on the other side we have
someone, called Manso, described them as the “sluts of

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by the man called Julius, while in Raphael we have to imagine a
within us.” This view he calls the “Theosophy of
mood, as he called it, not from ideas. The stream of complex
calls on artists to take their place in the world-scheme and to

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grasp of what he called the purely artistic. We have seen how
views and to Kantianism, which practically only admits the
practically does not enter but learns what has happened from
Practically everything has already happened at the beginning,
demon-spirit appears, calls her to her mission and opposes her
more radically in the Nietzsche-Wagner circle — except

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may call the demonic and is carried forward by it. She is to
not what we should nowadays call poetry. It was the world-drama
Goethe. He himself called Goethe's mind intuitive, his
indicates prophetically the character of Demetrius. Here also

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v. Schlegel, wife of W. v. Schlegel, called it the poem of a
in general in the so-called romantic circles, we shall find
essays on Goethe and Schiller. He called Schiller's Imagination
when Schiller called art play, he meant the word
thanks to Schiller that there was formed what we may call the

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what we nowadays call knowledge can be brought into harmony
to emphasise the rights of the ideal. Even art called itself
for we understand by the true what Schiller called the
looked for the ideal of Freedom. What we call
“artistic” nowadays can never be called so in the
allows them to call so. Let me tell you a little story to
more diametrically opposed than Stirner's The Individual and
personality is put forward still more radically. Schiller's

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Wolffian philosophy and wrote a book on the beautiful called
god. This purification by the divine pattern was called
Katharsis. Pity and fear were to be called forth; ordinary
we nowadays call spiritualism engaged men's attention. In

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few facts for the sole purpose of calling up in your mind the
radically, nevertheless many people harbour these thoughts.
calls for a closer investigation and claims our attention.
theory, the so-called Darwinism. There is one idea which plays
sound thinkers, scientifically and economically, in the sixties
considered in the light of a so-called esoteric
so-called astral plane, in the astral world that lies concealed
development of the world five great races, the so-called
complete independence. But he is called upon to reach this
whom we call dreamers or sleepers, when they rise up to
is more than symbolically significant that in England

Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Human Body
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human soul and the human body; one finds that they basically
of research are completed hypothetically — how, according
order that they can later be called up out of memory, all of
will. Willing is, basically, for him a subordinate aspect of
is basically nothing but feeling. For, indeed, it is only
sugar.” Then these movements, which are called forth as
one again assumes hypothetically, and produce vibrations,
consciousness of the two persons, it occurs automatically. But
occurs automatically outside us and what we actually
called “illusionism.” Now, one will ask oneself the
still have the so-called Pectin in their eye, a special organ
made up of blood vessels; why do others have the so-called
for instance, in calling up memories, or thinking about
raises his consciousness to what he calls imaginative thinking,
from the outer world, or as he may later recall them out of his
way, with everything which belongs organically with human
a quiet, harmonious feeling, is connected organically with
contemporary physiology recognizes so-called motor nerves,
experience knows, for instance, that what we call
means of the so-called motor nerve, which is, in reality, a
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Title: Lecture: Riddles of the Soul and Riddles of the Universe
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however one wishes to call it — as accompanying
soul which can both be unequivocally refuted and can just as
called a proof, or a refutation. For, in this sphere, as has
then the concepts are much too thin to call forth a genuine
reaches out to that which one usually calls ether. The idea of
in union with material processes, it calls forth material
which, basically, is extraordinarily interesting. The concept
invisible body we might also call the etheric body; an etheric
perceptions which correspond with the so- called lower senses,
achieved what I called imaginative thinking in lectures which I
representations filled with life, then one can call them
which they called Schema, and which was for them the higher,
the outer body in his spirit body; Lavater composes poetically
— indeed, actually herself to call forth — what one
can call: the pulling back, the withdrawing, of the etheric
physical body. This is what one calls a hallucination. When the
what one calls a hallucination. Very many people who want to
calling forth hallucinations, that is calling forth purely
the etheric. And if a compulsive action is called forth as a
excludes that which, in spiritual science, one calls intuition.
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Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture I
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called upon to make a stir about what is necessary in social, or other
Judaism was called the “fearful, the inexpressible, name of

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do just as well — we have called it the victory of the
and Romans were fully aware that something calling for notice was
called the birth of human phantasy — man's faculty or
existence; it did not arise, however, out of what today is called
it the middle of the fifteenth century and is called by us the fifth
be explained materialistically. Though composed of images it is
volumes symptomatically — are forgotten.
have come to our Movement out of what I might call subtle egoistic

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just as we call men here on the physical plane ‘persons.’
on the earth with the aid of astral forces. One might call them the
elemental beings, as they may be called. Man is really never alone;
of the human body. Let us call to mind, for example, the three bodily
into the body through minute vascular organs called the ‘villi’
which we have in the body and which we call the ‘chyle.’
take the same course as the blood vessels we call veins, because they
into two parts; not, indeed, symmetrically, but so that one part comprises
clairvoyantly what one calls chyle, that is, the external expression of
is aroused. Now when a concept is called forth in the soul through outer
They do not enclose everything egotistically in themselves as the liver
may be called a combustion process, and with this breathing and combustion

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we call lymph, to the digestive fluids, also to our sense-perceptions.
which we call the Old Moon (not to be confused with our present moon);
of “Saturn.” And looking forward we see prophetically that
occult science we call a “Sun” is — like our present
The sense-consciousness which we call the clear consciousness of day
today call a “Zodiac” — it is the stage higher than
nearly as physically dense as our earth. It was a condition of utmost
that within what we call a planetary system the forces which evolved
passed through three “life-conditions” (also called “rounds”).
why the occultists have called the constellation which was entered at
very Self over our sphere in sacrifice. This Being is called the “Mystical

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are taken into account. This is called the “Kant-Laplace theory,”
one could perhaps call “antisophy.” But we are living in
of our present solar system theosophically we need in no wise —
calls this state of a cosmic body, Pralaya. Thus Saturn went through
We call the beings who
beings have only advanced to the point of being physically incorporated
we call “Uranus,” and which therefore has but slight connection
pap-like mass. Greek mythology calls this condition “Chaos.”
we have called the Fire-Spirits took their scene of action away from
You will remember that I once showed you how one passes symbolically
the beings of an essentially higher order than man, whom we have called

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there were no solid rocky masses, what we call the mineral world in
conception you must call to mind what pulses up and down in your own
was called Gaea and the atmosphere Chronos. Now consider the myth: the
and spirit-self, and so forth, up to the tenth member. All that we call
only schematically. Man receives his ego. It comes in contact first
takes place in what we call the Lemurian Age, in the middle of earthly
that which lived in him inwardly; he was as if hermetically sealed towards
expanded in this way in the astral body there arose what has been called
of man practically into the first and second third of the Atlantean
whole schematically now; in the course of succeeding lectures we shall
We call the etheric body
or mind soul and the transformed physical body we call the consciousness
we must think of it schematically like this: the astral body, etheric
what we call Theosophy we learn to know of these deeds, we live and
has taken place, after today having dealt with it more schematically.

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in what we call the Akashic Record when we look back in spiritual vision
being which in all fineness was still etherically a being of warmth
being as he appears to us today. The departure of the moon was practically
of the moon that what today we call the mineral kingdom arose, that

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respect was already organically substantial, and last of all the mineral
find it was radically different from that of a human being of today.
call “personality.” With this word much is said in the characterization
and called it — let us say — “Adam” or “Noah,”
planet. Hence in occultism we call the Moon the “Cosmos of Wisdom”
of the Spirits of Wisdom. But you must not treat this mechanically and
call the Christ, and since He has an interest not only in the individuality,
but directly in each single personality of the earth, we call Him the
come. It is called the “last crisis” and must be described
as “Spiritualization” or, as it is popularly called, the
be called in the best sense of the word the “madness of materiality”
that is, that someday something will come about which one calls spiritualization,
love, so have these Spirits, whom we call Luciferic Spirits, brought
feel one with the eternal Ground of the World Whom we call the “Father”

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look up to hierarchies — as they are called in occultism —
above man are called in esoteric Christian terminology “Angels,”
the beings whom we call Angels, Angeloi. This then is the first stage
“Original Forces” whom we also call Archai; and then the
“Revelations” or Powers, Exusiai; the so-called Mights or
in the Christian sense, one calls the actual “Godhead.”
the whole ladder of Beings whom we call Angels, Archangels, and so on,
and how he has round him at first what we have called the memory panorama
what one calls the folk spirit, the common spirit of the people or folk,
before God.” In ancient Hebrew he was also called the “Countenance
He was therefore called literally the Countenance of God.
the protector who was called upon by the candidate for initiation.
certain beings. Thus there is an Archangel, earlier called “Surakiel,”
this connection it is plain that what is called in general by the abstract
right to be there is that being whom one is right in calling “Satan”
Epochal Spirit. That is the true nature of the Spirit who is also called
what is revealed in the world as spirit. Satan was called a Spirit of
to very lofty Spirits, and we come next to the hierarchy who are called
up to those we have called Epochal Spirits. The whole structure in which

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who in this case may be called “advanced theosophists.”
accustomed to call the old Moon, and we know that certain spiritual
the coarse body. Those beings, for instance, whom we call Lunar Pitris,
for what we are accustomed to call spirit in man cannot be discovered
with their so-called group ego, and that this is itself of a spiritual
body and soul. In various occult teachings they are often called elemental
spirits. To call them elemental spirits shows the greatest possible
to call them elemental beings, and we shall see shortly why their bodies
attribute to them any kind of moral responsibility. What one calls moral
do automatically, and at the same time it is not at all unlike what
the human intellect, intelligence, does. They possess what one calls
working purely mechanically. We must picture to ourselves that all the
which is therefore as it was macrocosmically, and one part upon which
What we call elemental
astral body, and ego. It is true that the beings which we call gnomes
we call the ego. The gnomes have the physical body as their highest
have a sort of automatic intelligence because it really acts automatically.
before us the beings that we call gnomes. We shall then be able to throw
corporeal nature; they are called dreamers and visionaries by ordinary
of becoming merged with the race. They are called the “sixteen
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around us in what we call the super-sensible world.
enlightened person says that people talk of elemental beings and call
beings which one calls Sylphs or Lemures. In border-regions where different
out and what one calls the modern consciousness sinks into an indefinite
then you would see that what are called Nymphs and Undines are very
of the earthy realm there lie whole bundles of the beings we call Gnomes.
beings whom they called the Gods. These men were descending deeper into

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forces are developed which draw various beings, whom we have called
seen that the elemental beings called by spiritual science “Salamanders”
— if one may so call it, have indeed such ego souls as man, differing
waking life. We know further that the beings which we call animals are
animals have a group soul or group ego which is in the so-called astral
world. Further, the beings which we call plants have a dreamless sleeping
the transitional state of dream, they have what we may call a sleep
embodiment of our Earth lying in a primeval past which we call the Saturn
we call the ego. Thus the human being has evolved quite slowly and gradually.
body went through a change, and the organs arose which we call today
body callously leaves what belongs to it, what it is actually due to
maintain, and in the same way the ego deserts that which it has called
has been called forth by a spiritual principle when this spiritual principle
body. We might call them intruders, but that is in no sense correct.
We ought in many ways to call them guardian spirits, for they are the
sustainers of what man callously deserts in the night.
sense we call fatigue. Man is refreshed and renewed in the morning because
call them intruders — who care for man's blood and nerve systems
circles and not only theoretically but as giving the foundation for
connections I have also called your attention to the fact that it is
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what we call roughly the astral body, the soul body, which belongs to
know that the consciousness soul is again connected with what we call
What we call the sentient
impressions of the day. What in a comprehensive sense we call man's
might call the “forces of space.” Since in our present civilization
takes place with what we call the soul body. When the inner soul nature
the soul has lived in what has always been called the “Harmony
unconsciously in the sphere harmonies, and to be musically gifted means
at such a stage what we call the art of music arises.
one today speaking broadly calls naturalism, where man merely imitates
him — Shakespeare and Beethoven. In his artistically brilliant
the tones of song became his expression of what surpasses the physically
can flash up, artistically conceived. Today we have not got it. But

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know, Spiritual Science calls for a certain intimacy. It would be
to speak so passionately and illogically) — although it might be
lived 105 years before our era; but the mistake is that he is called
“You do not know the Being Whom we call Christ: you call another
progress — for so it may truly be called — that has taken
unintentional one — when outsiders call us

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people called him the “Star Child.” He lived on, and
of which the West hitherto has known practically nothing. Very little
much more ancient Theosophy which did not feel called upon to derive

Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 3: 'Chance' and Present-day Consciousness. An Easter Meditation
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those abstract laws which it calls the “laws of Nature,”
what his reason and intellect call “pure chance.” We will
can go to bed at once. Now if the father is what is called an
call in unexpectedly just to save my boy an hour's study which might
I had left behind.” The father calls it “chance.” But
reason — in other words, what is called the “normal”
are now called “chance” happenings appeared to be subject to
recognise conformity to law in so-called matters of chance, or to
interplay of something more than belongs specifically to the
and elaborate what is now called the “normal” consciousness.
where he must call upon all his inner forces and let them speak with
is involved in this “chance” and much of what he calls his
constitute a new impulse which calls for the steeling of courage in
habit of persisting in sincere and scientifically-minded people ...
time and the work did not appear. In those days it was practically a

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it is called. For the passage points to the time when the animals,
instrument called the “Sampo.” The most curious explanations
specifically with the development of the Mind Soul. Since the end of
Post-Atlantean epoch of culture called the “Christ,” and Who
of which we may speak prophetically — and a clear realisation

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In typically Oriental conceptions of the world there is a firmly
is then no longer called by a proper name. In speaking of the
form of what humanity may call the “Divine” can be glimpsed
Athens” as it is generally called. We see all those remarkable
we stand before the picture called “The School of Athens,”
is vividly and graphically described by Grün. Then there opens out the
It stands and ceaseless calls, while all around

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recall certain matters which will help us to associate concrete and
definite ideas with what may be called the “meaning and purpose
things and their effects which can only call forth wonder in me,
call “conscience” played no part; there were only
intrinsically human qualities. Many studies have given us a picture of

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and recall one of its characteristic features; this again can be
with what the Greeks called the World of Shades, because by that time
traditions of practically all the peoples — an idea which may, it
from the ether-body, when he recalls the character of his dreams. But
those times the other human being physically before him was enveloped
epoch — called this Being “Pramathesis.” These men
us physically, through his body; after his death he works spiritually,
... Finally he realises that this person whom he cannot recall, who died

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The powers or principles derived specifically from the Earth can be
In reality, a great and mighty process underlies what is called the
we call memory is distinct from these other processes. The thoughts
karmically to put them right during life, all such actions are written

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being of man belonging specifically to Earth-existence. Certain forces
consciousness. The ether-body has received, specifically from the
expression of the human personality, something specifically connected
too radically, the very fact that it is expressed is indication of a
sound development in our time calls forth its opposite, belief in

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regard it no doubt as historically unsound. Now it is fairly
century. One thing appears to be demonstrable historically,
understanding. One need only recall the case of the
certain Jacob (as he calls him) towards the middle of the
willing to tolerate theoretically the idea that the present
amalgam called philosophy — what can such a man think
symbolically; he was speaking of realities which he believed
not be interpreted symbolically. Their imaginative content
science”, as it is called, which maintains that man
are also the direct descendants, historically speaking, of
perverse tendencies of the present materialistically
proceeds from the Father and the Son (called the double

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Let us recall
— Prâna as it was then called — Kâma,
standpoint of the tripartite division of man if we recall how
Aristotle calls it which participates through intellection in
“Divine” as Aristotle calls it — in the
Reason” as Aristotle calls it. This “Active
has been called to the anti-Christian nature of many aspects
only recall certain (Protestant) sects in Bremen —
legend had been developed out of them. I recall a discussion
symbolically today, referred to a reality. The men of ancient
called original sin. I will recur to this later. Man became
we call culture today, yet they could not escape these
mechanically would have been the victim of necessity in which

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understood, be called the Christ, but might be called a
differentiate today, even theoretically, many mystics believe
that they can find the Christ through what is usually called
— and can only portray — what may be called a
dream of calling this Divine Being the Christ. Neither the
this Mystery I propose to call attention to certain
paradoxically yet radically expressed in the words of Christ,
which deals with the healing, or, one might call it, the
whereas they are interdependent. You will recall that as
we must recall what was said in the last lecture about the
question calls for an answer: What was Christ's real
millions of years hence may be mathematically correct, but
physically the inhabitants of the Earth will have perished
metaphorically speaking, to hear their voices. And Clement I
which Christ spoke. Would those who call themselves
commonly called science — is concerned.
what is called, more or less symbolically, “original
sin” — or whatever we prefer to call it, the
with physically inherited characteristics. What
call the Christ who is not to be found in nature, although He
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We recall having seen arabesques which
depicted most realistically, in the style of antique art,
animal kingdom, to the so-called cold-blooded animals, but
investigated scientifically, is not such as it was intended
called in the opening chapter of Genesis, the
that this new conception can be scientifically demonstrated,
they will be treated medically! By that time medicaments will
Let us recall
the life of man — I do not mean theoretically, but in
and the Word was God” recall living “at-one-ment”
treated medically, in order that good and evil, all personal
only brief indications can be given here. You will recall
than those decreed by the State will be treated medically.
thinking is called for. And great strength of mind will be
steal”. You will recall that He said: “a jot
speak of courage; they insistently call for courage to follow

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might be called Goethe's “Weltanschauung”,
Golgotha. When we recall how our age that claims to be free
logically: “It is true that light cannot be perceived
has called forth an organ akin to itself — the
best of intentions. We need only recall the words of Antony in
must call attention in particular to the fragmentary
to call attention to what is necessary, and to remind you
observed historically if we endeavour to make the Goethean
as he really is. It is equally necessary today to call
spiritual insight that Herman Grimm called for, but did not
“fable convenue” called history today, and
them an attitude to knowledge that is diametrically opposed

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radically different in thought and feeling from the Romans
outstanding personality both politically and spiritually. I
so-called image of Pallas Athene which fell from Heaven in
when an initiated Emperor called Julian the Apostate came

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historically — in so far as historical facts can be
Ages called “mystical marriage” and what
Christian Rosenkreutz called “chymical marriage”.
proved historically that this was the work of an adherent of
And it is of paramount importance today to recall these great
Nietzsche calls them, problems which are fraught with fateful
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we accept, purely hypothetically for the moment, the facts of
radical difference which is equally radically concealed
experience can be felt by everyone, it can be systematically
destroy our understanding of Christ than what is called
abandon so-called “objective” history which in
fashion of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Whether we call them
called a Gnostic — they had a totally different

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a few words on these matters I should like to call your
borrowed from the bird-species; they were called
to recall memories of the dead and the ability to develop it
eradicated root and branch, but if historically a certain
thinks realistically, one demurs, because the idea has no
apply laws of the mineral kingdom to the State and call it
if you think realistically, you will arrive at the idea of an
related to man and how they can he realized practically in
achieve the goal it has set itself. He called a halt to
since it has been scientifically refuted. He does not
itself long been refuted scientifically. He knows nothing
the greatest clarity of thought is called for if we wish to
contemporary writers. Spiritual courage is called for if we
confused with that one root which its name recalls: the other
called Christian!”
somewhat radically. It is true to the extent that one could
people call “Christian” today, and much else
developed. He is the “superior” man physically,

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typically modern man who, in the course of this
I write down what I can recall, but, once the mood forsakes
these ceremonies was primarily to call attention to the eye
light upon what we called the Sun mystery (when speaking of
Swedenborg speaks of what he calls a “vision”.
different when seen symbolically from the spiritual angle. It
when they are presented symbolically, even though intelligent
courses are radically different from each other. I have
recall once again the following: in ancient times it was
impulses of human evolution and what happened historically. I
have often called attention to the need to bear in mind the
scientifically acceptable and irrefutable. In these words
does not make for popularity to call a spade a spade, but
called “The Mechanism of the Spiritual Life”. It
dead with whom we are in some way karmically connected. You
in the individual case to state categorically: this is the
acquainted with this fact maintain that what we call memory

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formed wrong concepts about anything because the thinking is basically
the smallest structures which one calls cells. Again one had advanced
called Darwinism which says that everything that lives on earth is related
being is not there and, above all, that is missing which one called
nevertheless, significant men. We cannot call these men unscientific
It was clear that modern science was something radically different from
may be ever so far from the so-called cultures of our time, in front
academically think but had just lost their belief in the scientific
has given. Because humanity could scientifically investigate the world
idea of revelation was academically destroyed and was given back to

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life which one normally calls theosophy. However, I have to say something
with the propaganda of Buddhism or Neo-Buddhism as some like to call
It was basically only like
is no strange idea if we say that the so-called masters are for us nothing
observations of the theosophical researchers, of course. But it is basically
from the spiritual world, which basically the soul-being has to go through.
and development of the world and of the human being, what one can call
that which we call body. The materialist considers this human body as
adds two other components: what one has called soul at all times, and
We call this world the astral
the so-called physical body. This physical body has the same forces
body. The theosophist calls everything physical body that is room-fulfilling,
with life. Theosophy calls etheric body what must be added, so that
the plant is not a stone. This etheric body is probably better called
the theosophists call the etheric body. They are called neovitalists.
trick; indeed, only the esoterically qualified theosophist can do it.
anticipates today again, of that which one calls vital force. Thus we
still has a third component. I have called it the soul-body. You can
calls feeling. We want to keep in mind how the plant differs from the
mere plant body. We call soul-body or astral body what goes in the animal
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has its cause and must have its cause, and this spiritual law is called
theosophy calls reincarnation.
in the so-called heredity. As everybody knows, the descendant of an
Ignoring finer differences again, we call the sum of the animal habits
and theosophy. In the last talk, we wanted to learn to microscope theosophically,
facts are close to us! The one is a person whom we call a happy one,
another is condemned to misfortune for his whole life. What we call
Then he shows that there are human beings who do not have what we call
needs the physical world to be able to work. Being physically active
physically. The remembrance of the human being extends farther who works
in theosophy prophetically. This must be just the typical of a theosophist
anticipate but cannot call human-like because they are not similar
being gradually passed to the higher knowledge. It existed as a so-called
one calls firm self-confidence, the capability to rely always on themselves.
With it the baptism became a so-called sacrament of the church. This

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We are used to call an instinctive
activity what the animal accomplishes. We would also call the artistic
We just call that an instinctive activity which is performed by a being
to the so-called Atlanteans whose culture declined long ago and whose
people perform more mechanically, more in a feeling way, more intuitively
Thus we can say that we can pursue the human mental activity historically
which the researchers have called animism. In the whole nature the human
which one calls spiritual science or humanities which will only be a
who call themselves philosophers apply the concept of the soul to the
life. He calls the human being, who stands physically before us, spirit
activities of the body take place. What we call physiology today started
animal and human being mechanically, because the physical human body
plants mechanically, the 19th century was able to do this. Development
the theory of evolution mechanically. The experience of the external
put up and grasp in thoughts mechanically what surrounds us.
for existence originates. This is the hopeless so-called Malthusian
mechanically. In the beings something else than the mere mechanism exists.
not only with the eyes of the mechanically thinking physiologist, but
a researcher who understands the external world mechanically, but cannot
also wanted to explain the language mechanically.

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forth into forms, and our age may be almost called the age of forms,
our time. This naturalism appeared most radically with the French Zola
of life, and all naturalists describe the same basically. They do not
of Ivan Ilyich (1886) you can see how artistically the most material
death is thereby artistically solved in marvellous way. Death has become
as he is healthy. Tolstoy expresses himself again characteristically
he calls early Christianity. Christianity has externalised itself according
aware of his divinity. Theosophy calls the culture of intellectuality
manas; it calls buddhi what is filled with the inner being, with love,
of their needs. They call personal needs all those living conditions
we really recognise these forces of which is normally spoken poetically

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for that whose spiritual eyes are opened. Theosophy also calls this
reason this world has been called astral by those who are able to behold
the astral, they were called astral.
and ideas shining, other only gleaming. One calls this light cloud that
aura. It contains everything that I have called soul qualities. We can
these, for the soul would not have what we call the desire for the sensuous
the real world of desires which the occultist calls the region of desires.
burning desires which one has called the burning fire of desires in
colours and forms round us, of smells approaching us. We call this susceptibility
with egoism. The theosophists call that soul love which is still fulfilled
and as reluctances. We call these internal waves of the feelings in
with love of nature and then with the love for our fellow men. We call
facts is that which the occultist calls the real soul-force, what fulfils
gets to know this higher region which we have called soul-light, soul-force
used to calling these highest regions of the astral world the summer
from the marvellous, artistically perfect literature of the East. We

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and a new birth where he moves from the so-called soul-world on the
goes through the spirit-land for long time which is normally called
you see nothing else of the human being. However, for the seer the so-called
called the higher light of aeons. This organises the human being and
of that which we can call the sensations here on earth. One perceives,
from it that I would like to call the heavenly spark which the human
a wealth within the physical world which has basically different shading,
is irradiated by the light of aeons as the Christian mystics called
only that which is enclosed in his skin physically. The human being
this reality. There the human being experiences that he is basically
work even more vigorously and energetically on earth. This appears to
appears with different religions as the so-called kingdom of heaven.
is basically supposed to elaborate what the human being has learnt in
calls masters, those beings whose development is far beyond what still
and has also to feel a lot of that which one calls the beatific sensations
of the human being, which Giordano Bruno calls the monad, the highest

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that time he calls the decadent one. In Richard Wagner he saw a resurrection
into the physical ear. We call the principle manas that outlasts time
regarded as an image of the primal art only that he calls the Dionysian
called the Tolstoy problem also just like the great problem of the Greek
work has not come to an end. He wanted to call it Dionysus or the
seizing these contents. He called it his will to power, his striving
Something lyrically brilliant can arise from this urge. But something
tragically, perished tragically in the materialism of the 19th century

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of the nature of the human being and the so-called three worlds: the
not think logically, but fantasises, then the correction is not so easy.
they show certain organs which appear in this aura, and which one calls
on the three levels which one calls preparation, enlightenment and initiation.

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spiritual world in spiritual hearing. The Pythagoreans called it the
first work was called: Aurora or the Rising of Dawn.
is a lie. Mephistopheles is called the spoiler, mephiz, the liar tophel

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opponents of our so-called supernatural creation have formed to themselves
the Six-day Work, are also for the so-called orthodox Christian doctrine
process is really that we were physically imperfect beings first, that
then a spiritual influence took place and we became physically advanced
evolution has experienced. He called these impacts dominants. This is
being consists. What one calls psycho-spiritual has been subsumed by
we notice the so-called eternal in the human being, the imperishable.
about soul and spirit. Hence, the mystic also calls mysticism “mathematics”
belongs to the eternal. Theosophy calls this first element of the spirit
a rudiment, and theosophy calls it buddhi. I have given it the name
already think manasically sometimes if the thinking is regulated, is
desire instead of love, we call it kama. Kama is the same as buddhi,
which wants the satisfaction of our personal needs. We call this reason,
development of the soul from kama to manas. I have called ahamkara the
was about the middle of the age which we call the Lemurian one. This
and the human being formed in that which one calls fire mist. One speaks
calls apes. They all are separations of lower parts of his nature. The
lower parts. What I called ahamkara came to the fore. In the first Atlantean
being is able today to think logically. He ascends once to a higher
perpetually takes place there. That is why we also speak of the so-called

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talks we want to occupy ourselves with what Goethe called his apocalypse,
symbolically.
pictorially. Thereby comes about what Schopenhauer so pleasantly called
serenity in all that Pythagoras called catharsis, purification. Goethe
show in the flames, the will-o'-the-wisps symbolically? The flames
from lower to higher stages. This moment is called in the myths, in
beings to new actions. In theosophy this flame is called the emergence
love. Its kingdom is called the kingdom of appearance; Christianity
calls it glory (gloria in excelsis). It is pointed to a time which becomes
in who thinking, feeling and willing are chaotically disorganised and

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problem for Goethe. He seizes this problem emphatically and tries to
with the lamp mechanically as it were from the world into the temple
walls since ancient times. They have called her their queen wantonly,
All that still lives chaotically
Then that happens which the hawk prophetically announces, while it collects
mechanically by other forces, so to speak, not by his own forces. Now

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is called in the original version had to originate. With it dragons
to that which the mystics call the “sparklet” in the human
of these stages is called that of the dragons. Also in the Secret
products should represent the world allegorically, about these a flame
he hopes that once all marks will coincide. He closes typically: “Whether
the round of an external circle. Birds call to the young man, the chatty
starlings in particular; “ Paris! Paris!” the ones call
of the everyday life; there he finds the animals who call to him. But
his inside he has to do it. This is why he/she is called a “homeless
human being;” he has put away what the usual human being calls
which the chatty starlings called to the boy. About Narcissus it is
While the birds call the
must also get to know the so-called threats of initiation if he chooses
the way of initiation. They are shown symbolically with three ropes.
is the cause of the Trojan War, in which symbolically the decline of
that he can call the words to the old man which should live from now
on in his inside. “I am a darling of the gods!” he calls.
vertically about each another.”

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has resulted historically. Hartmann bore down on the ideological ideas
But you find them shown more schematically than I will do it today.
And another age preceded this Atlantean age called the Lemurian age.
then which we call our immortal spirit. This higher element, this higher
figuratively, we may call it a spiritual spark in the human nature,
If we want to call the human being who was not yet mind-endowed a human
be able to think logically and clearly. Somebody who would attain the
hand with this development, the development of the so-called uni-sexuality.
with pictorial ideas, with a pictorial kind of soul formation, and basically
us that a real demarcation of the sun is basically not possible.
chair and could have looked at the whole world edifice basically the
calls it involution. If the human being again works out from within
what he has acquired, we call it evolution. Between involution and evolution
world view calls “Moon.” However, this was not our physical
us as light effects today. One calls our earth the universe of love
the sons of will if we call these human beings of the universe of wisdom
earth. One calls these luminous human beings within the luminous environment
basically found its expression in the whole surroundings. As today the
is basically only the historians' own spirit, in which the times

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to increase them. What one calls initiatory schools is intended basically
of his nature. At first, he has a member which we call the etheric body.
soul and mind. Today these three members of the human being are basically
way on his aura. This happens by means of the so-called meditation.
rudiments. We call these senses lotus-flowers, because the astral structure
the so-called eightfold path is given. Now ask yourselves once: why
and balance or what Angelus Silesius calls calmness. These six virtues,
if one wants to practically use for the practical mysticism what is
self-consciousness which we call kama-manas in the present development,
of the astral body, the so-called aura. The self-consciousness of the
calls such a human being who has ascended this level a homeless human
generally, in which basically all human beings are prejudiced before
now appears that we have called buddhi. Buddhi is virtually now achieved
what it is. Neither superstition nor doubt is there. One calls this
does is integrated into what we call his karma. But the human being
can call I. Therefore, the Jewish secret doctrine also speaks of the
has attained this level, one calls him a swan. The chela who can rise
to the names of all things is called swan because he is the herald of
initiatory schools were instructed. These instructions were usual, so-called
who was called to bring out Christianity all over the world under the
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(Faust II, 11583-11584). A human being who is basically the
the poet who is the representative of our time, the poetically greatest
reason; it only feels something dark that urges and drives. Kant calls
nebulous which was as clear as ether once. Mysticism was called mathesis
symbolically in a marvellous way.

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that the great initiates are basically the supporters of the future
personality what we call individuality in theosophy.
distant future are not the so-called practical spirits, but the world
the Theosophical Society in 1875 in the so-called secret schools. I
we come to a continent which we call Lemuria. The natural sciences admit
by. If such a human being who was basically a soul human approached
his surroundings was basically nothing else than a spread of the soul
so-called inner word where the things themselves say what they are.
We call the present cycle the mineral one because the human being deals
that what is technically useful. If you heat a vapour machine, you cannot
against the objects. This is the time when the earth enters the so-called
cycle. Hence, we call the next cycle which the human being will finish,
to go through this point and that theosophy calls this personality lower
what do we do basically in our time? We telegraph to America and let
The madman is physically ill at first. The opposite
of being mad is called being prudent that is to be able to harmonise

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movement, if we theosophists feel called in certain way to care for
work emphatically and nicely how the spirit is connected with the physical
of the French materialism calls one current. If we want to understand
the principle that basically the culture diverts the human beings from
the question arose philosophically before Schiller's mind anew:
mystics of the Middle Ages. He calls what he pronounced that way the
Theosophy is basically nothing else than self-education of the soul,
letters, has to say: we have to call these aesthetic letters a book
intellectual education is logically necessary. The moral necessity demands
calls the aesthetic one, passion is overcome.
biography you can find basically only little of these intimacies of
in all plants that he calls the archetypal plant (Urpflanze),
in the animals what he calls the archetypal animal. He saw what we call
the most intricate one of all, the human being, genetically from the
Schiller tries to poetically master the personal, the sensuous nature
which he called out to the astronomers: “do not chat to me so
basically nothing else than what wants to penetrate artistically into
sends up as his eternal. Schiller calls this the forming figure. As
acts. Schiller calls it the everlasting in the soul-life, and we are

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who work at least if you look at the matter idealistically as bearers
was called the “queen of sciences.” Is it now not quite
natural, if you consider the matter in the abstract, ideally to call
the world that stands certainly which we call the primal ground of the
had to say about the world basically got its light, its most significant
strength from the so-called holy science, from theology.
basic education, that which one calls a general education today, although
were called the higher ones with some right. Then he could advance to
the first times of the Christianity, somebody was basically a theologian
disputed, is found in the so-called Kant-Laplace world view. In order
from 1 to 33 A.D. Today one sees in Jesus – he is also called
materialistically what happened historically. Nobody can understand
But one wants to understand the matters historically today.
was handed down comes basically from a much later time than it is normally
form which should express truth of the higher plane, not only symbolically,
why Goethe calls only someone “poet” who is anxious to recognise
of truth. One says: one cannot explain it metaphysically. No contradiction
materialistically. All idealistic theories are of no avail, as long
could be between the theologically and theosophically striving human

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service of a reform movement. Who has a mathematically trained thinking
who is able to build up his chain of thoughts strictly logically sees
questions of life, nay, one calls just those impractical people who
have basically also no own pre-studies which provide a general, real
no philosophy which was separated, I mean, which was separated practically
practically in the social and ethical questions of existence. Against
practically in the external field of the big tunnel construction if
technically learning, teaching and working in life. Then he says that
only to show how one can also proceed in this fields as practically
called their teachings mathesis because they formed a self-knowledge
the economics the most unbelievable bustles about, also with so-called
is only possible because there people take part who are not practically
is impossible to found the law historically. It is not possible to prove
this important sentence now. To investigate something a little bit “positivistically”
realises that theosophy is life, whereas in the so-called practical
things. Those who want to intervene with the theosophical movement practically

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being had to think materialistically for some centuries to do all big
only one. It is difficult to reconcile what we call life with the concept
A materialistically trained
ourselves in this world. The theosophically thinking person understands
that the materialistically minded person does not understand him because

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was called arts faculty in the Middle Ages. It was an artistic mastery
task to guide the souls. The human being was called a microcosm by the
of his time also speak to us from his paintings. He called the external
the world” means theosophically: the less someone acts for himself,
us that basically all our sense impressions depend on our senses; it
sensory is illusion and that the theory of sense energy, theosophically
together to a common soul. Then it is taught theosophically without

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physically fully developed. At that moment his spirit and
today calls forth so much antipathy towards spiritual science
as long as people refuse to base what is called

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becoming physically stronger during childhood, aware also
called forth the feeling “ex deo nascimur,”
are self-supporting physically, so it should be recognized
mental pictures. So, expressing it somewhat drastically, he
decide where what he calls the “furnace” is, or
of thought — one could also call it dullness,
does not really believe in his so-called inductive approach

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but we experience this only physically, through our senses.
there arose in Greece a culture specifically related to the
what he saw physically. His interpretation was based on his
attempt was made, from the so-called monistic viewpoint to
what was called the “Christ Myth” to show that it
cannot be proved historically that a Jesus of Nazareth ever
but only through what he calls German metaphysics. And says
the Father God. What is usually called the inner mystical
through metaphysics cannot honestly be called Christ; we must
means traditions depicting Christ historically —
spiritual knowledge modern education leads logically to such
realistically.
calling itself
today is prepared in a case like this to call something by
worse still, what is-truth is called lies, whereas lies are
answer is that all that has remained is what we call genius.
spiritual ones. The treatise is basically an attack on the
unconscious strata of the soul could arise what is called

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is also someone who would emphatically reject anything to do
experiments with certain types of people whom he calls
did it with the help of certain individuals whom he calls
“darkness-adapted.” He calls them this because
physical sight, are what Benedikt calls emanations. We would
call them deep physical aura. In this way it was possible for
persons who are typically “darkness-adapted,”
investigate scientifically a subconscious aura. It is also
dowsing as a fact; the academically educated person
the pendulum the theory of emanation dramatically confirms
academically trained person recognizes only the general
historical designations are to be understood symbolically.
to be understood symbolically.” (p. 258)
that ancient India is to be understood symbolically even
calls the Lemurian epoch and places it in a country that was
allegorically and blames me as he finds it particularly
eleven years before this so-called first production. That is
superficiality of a so-called learned publication by
book which I have always emphatically rejected,
a ‘Student’ representing the ballad called
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psychology, the so-called “nus poetikos.”
historically they have become part of the language, and this
soul, by which he means approximately what we call ether
body, then the aesthetikon or sensitive soul, which we call
for a plausible solution, or else suffering psychologically
What justifies man to judge things except what he calls the
too but none more emphatically than he himself, was the view
principle of ethics is Kant's so-called categorical
understood only if viewed historically. In other words, if we
over the beautiful and the ugly, over what is artistically
basically represents active forces in the astral body.
that Aristotle had basically said that one can lecture on
is called a good person. At the moment I do not want to go
Christian? Most emphatically it is not. A view based on
who call themselves Christian have been able to agree with
science of the spirit, anthroposophy, theosophy — call

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people who are philosophically inclined have in recent years
the next life. No matter how forcefully, how mystically one
World War gypsies have practically disappeared but those who
all other so-called advantages of culture. This incident was
embrace so-called pantheism, which as you know I have always
that they are satisfied. Nowadays this is often called
last evening, practically at the last hour, the meeting I
understood materialistically. What I have said must not be
science are basically of this delicate nature. That is why
interpreted materialistically. Many important passages in
themselves are basically bad guides to self-knowledge. The

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towards the good — the ethically and morally good. In
can develop simply through the fact of having physically
democratic country, under so-called normal conditions, such a
be called from parliament to become a minister of state, then
Boer war, this wholly disgraceful affair, as he called it,
parliament in even more vivid terms about what he called this
cure for financial problems; it was called tariffs. Inland
call it a coincidence, but the death duty he had already

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the image rightly and not interpreting it materialistically.
inner contentment which they call happiness. But that can
expressing himself philosophically, states that he stands for
It could not really be called nourishment. It is actually so
Russian is by nature mystically inclined, but this mystical
that is, an intellect that expresses itself mystically. And
between Eastern and Western Europe, basically because what
called a specific kind of superstition which does not exist
such thoughts we call liberalism; when a group of people
profess them it is called a liberal party. A liberal party is
newspaper called
thoroughly and systematically than people are aware of.
theoretically. We must enter into it with all our heart, with
laying the foundation for what I now call the science of the
“bourgeois philistine” which is what he called
is the so-called “truth,” that
philosophical approaches; but one calls the other an idiot.
who had these convictions also called Germany “the
social problems. If one wishes, it could be called the next
of these things can as yet not be called by their true name,
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express, a second aspect of the Being whom we call Christ-Jesus is
what we call human love. We can perceive love surging and weaving in the
may call the universal Light of Wisdom and the universal Warmth of Love,

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that the things of which we shall now be speaking call for accurate
vessels of the brain, was so organised that what we call knowledge
in man's inmost being. This is the spiritual aspect of what is called in
had also to pass on to his descendants. This, however, called for the
is called upon to sacrifice his son Isaac to Jahve. Therewith he would
Abraham had been called. It is there that the “Golden Star”
had come to pass physically through Abraham is now re-enacted spiritually.
Thus, in the appearance of the Bethlehem Jesus — only later called
for the first time properly be called freedom, and to unfold from within
And now let us recall
This kingdom is called in the Bible “the kingdom — or the

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healthily and selflessly, can never achieve more than what is called
from without. This is a factor of immense importance, radically
were called Nazarenes.
Nazarenes fed only on the carob bean, the so-called ‘St. John’s
regarded as a mistranslation. — I have elsewhere called your
the Serpent. Those who had had this experience were called
man who storms at the Pharisees, calling them “a generation of
radically thrust away into another line of descendants, into the
direct line of heredity the qualities that were intrinsically their
and soul. John baptized with water in order that there might be called

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before the so-called Reformation, this movement was tentatively
Hussite movement most sympathetically, Polacky, who had himself
taken an active part in the Revolution of 1848, called particular

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tribes, and the struggles with the Romans, they were called may
mean Reason, Will and Kindness. This second race of Gods was called
translation of the Bible, the so-called Silver Codex, which is
property, the so-called “hide” of land. The use of this
the so-called free inhabitants of the hide, the community; and in

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Europe. Within it, above all grew up what is commonly called Roman
dependents were called vassals. Others held land under feudal tenure
call the evolution of civilisation was not essentially affected by

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these developed in the empire of the Franks, that which we call the
exercised. If another man committed an offence, he was called to
the mightier. Thus arose the fief and vassal system, which called
That which we call
thought of developing it economically, similarly the Church only

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meet with no united monarchy; what was called the Empire of the
land; that was called being “under exemption"; this judicial
directions. Even this empire, however, cannot be called a State. He
people who may be called the successors of the Huns. Charles was
court — fortified places called Palatinates — were the
today of what is called “the dark Middle Ages” —
those who could really think logically, were able to take part in

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up to the rise of what we call “States.” And, moreover, we
membership, appeared what we call the village community. The whole
expeditions. They had no notion of what we call culture today, no
springs what we may call the scientific and scholarly conscience;
century, Meister Eckhardt calls Plato the great Greek
today. Music was not the same as that which we call music today.
upper hand in the western realm which we now call France. It was

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continual efforts of the so-called kings — who were indeed
transferred to the so-called high court of justice, which had been
Church; Christianity was politically exploited. The Magyars were
:"And what the spirit of the times men call,

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difficult. In the Middle Ages, however, we see what is called
time, they formed what is called the lower nobility, out of which
uneducated as the knights or peasants: nothing of what we may call
seemed, either physically of mentally, to be unfit for anything
Crusades, which we can understand psychologically from the mood that
had become what is called Mediaeval Science. I should like to give
was later called culture, was growing up in the cities. What was

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soul-spiritual to all that has been won scientifically for
called upon to contribute to human progress. It is true that
call knowledge and science. Just so that the spiritual approach
may be called scientific in the best and highest sense, it must
might call reality, actuality. We have before us the abundance
present in the thoughts, as in what is called inner
the expectations of many, what we call the world of
scientifically, an ‘object of the spiritual world.’
start from is what we call human fate. This human fate comes
appearances theoretically — is only the description
consider scientifically if the progress of spiritual culture is
first comprehend its processes scientifically. Obviously
it in this way spiritually-scientifically; but we become aware
can call these up again in the soul. The spiritual scientist
finds what would otherwise be called 'rebellion' transformed
reality there. That is why I called a ‘higher’
knowledge of the so-called ‘approach to the riddle of
death.’ That is why people call, with some reason, the goal
activity which I call my body are already now active. This body
These convictions are not accepted merely theoretically;
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the so-called spiritual illnesses (diseases of the mind),
answer our question now we must call to mind re-incarnation. On
grief in this case we will call “the above.”
calls dementia appears. If the physical organs are too moveable
will now call to mind that man is born more than once. At first
physically but then at the change of teeth, the etheric body is
fixed (compelling) ideas. One calls this disease
this sphere of the so-called mental diseases (spiritual
It will co-operate practically. Because spiritual forces lie at

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picture called “The School of Athens” (so-called in
disappear), and the picture called the “Disputa”
as to recall something quite real and true. And higher up
would then see the wonderful group which we call “God the
so-called “School of Athens”), we see in the whole
called the “Disputa.” Here again we see the figure
Theosophist these pictures can he an earnest call and summons
below, the Dove or the Holy Spirit. And now let us recall many

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fleece from Colchis. Christ Jesus Himself is called the Lamb of God and in the earliest period of
has the body been called the temple of the soul. All the laws that can be observed in the dead
you proceed, step by step, to the more complex, in order finally to build up genetically from the
called the leaders of men are individuals who through lives of renunciation have developed in
occultists call the astral light is born within him. Therefore, Easter is also the festival of

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which has no connection whatever with what is called ether in Physics, has a certain
begin with is in the astral body into the etheric body manifests karmically from one
consciously recall experiences into the memory and practise this consistently, and it will
specifically quoted. Thus, there are two characteristics which have a clearly recognisable
deal with their environment lovingly and sympathetically. In many cases this love extends
longer he remains physically youthful in a following incarnation. An individual prone to
signs of age at a physically early age, stems from the life of a perverse critic, from a
general. It is far rather the individual trait of Schopenhauer's soul, karmically forecast
Theosophists do not basically understand Karma and Theologians have not bothered about it.

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‘astronomically’), it would no longer contain
scientifically examined, the whole human machine with its
part of Hering's or Haeckel's views is scientifically
takes place is called: the sojourn in the realm of desire.
directly inherited. What is bound up with the so-called
injured by a tile he must karmically have deserved it. But
karmically. But whether an experience which happens to a
genius is already in the part of his inner being called the
idiocy, how is this to be regarded karmically?

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Basically, what we have to deal with today is an ancient issue
prominent thinkers a halt was called to all philosophy, to all
called divine providence. How did a Stoic find himself then,
so-called “New Theology” and whose works in certain
to take part in the spiritual: this entity he called Ri.
it constructed from matter: and that entity he called
us try to call up others before our souls, from amongst our
arbitrariness that freedom was called into being by the divine
hit up against something. Basically, each morning in waking up
how what we usually call evil in everyday life positions itself
what people call evil in everyday life. There it emerges, when
follows logically: that anyone who achieves vision in the
spiritual world as a spiritual researcher must be called a
Basis of Human Life.” Basically, all human evil comes
forth from what we call selfishness. We shall go and follow
what we call selfishness. A great deal of careful thinking has
Through what does evil enter life? Through what is so-called
world of animals is basically an outer formation of an
philosophers there also came into play what has been called
1841. One could call him a follower of Schopenhauer, if one
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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called the prehistory of Christ. Here one has to do with very complicated
is called a Buddha. Before that, he was merely a bodhisattva, that is, a
called Nirmanakaya. In it, the entity passes on the mission that was given

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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actual Jesus of Nazareth, above it we see shining what we called the
became Buddha. We could emphasize that what we call our occidental esoteric
lowest physical-bodily entity, what we call the etheric or life body.
us remember the so-called splitting of the personality, which occurs when
What is connected as a whole in the ordinary man, the powers which we call
This ethereal body, called the Nirmanakaya of the Buddha, hovered over the
boy Jesus, whom we can call the Bethlehemite boy Jesus, and have said how
of transmitting from epoch to epoch what can be called the teaching of
just not so. What we today call human thinking, feeling and willing was not
called the Bodhisattva, when that individuality called the Bodhisattva was
the so-called eight-limbed path. This teaching, which previously had to be
individuality of Moses? What the Buddha brought is rightly called the great
hypothetically state something similar for the individual human life.

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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calling to mind a saying of Goethe's, one would like to transpose it,
philosophically. What is said has arisen for me after
periods. What we may call the “internalizing” of
that what may be called, in the best sense of the word,
to Perugia, to Florence and then to Rome. Basically, Raphael's
Savonarola or his like-minded comrades would have called
She calls forth a quite particular feeling in us. In permeating
approach of the human being. To speak metaphorically, we must
heights, if — not theoretically and not abstractly but with our
in what we call the life of Raphael. How, we may ask, does this
Rome, though it had overwhelmed Greece politically, now
then, since all development runs its course cyclically, we
with Savonarola's spiritual orientation; or that so-called
symbolically, in the symbolism of the Trinity in the upper part
have given us. Such works call forth feelings in us such as the
we can then say: Through what he created artistically, Raphael

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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Supper, Leonardo introduced what can be called the dramatic
graphically conjures before us for the first time an expression
they have to be called such — who painted over the
scientifically. Only by virtue of the loss of the old spiritual

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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generally supposed, speaking to us magically out of every epoch
the human soul may be called a feeling of its own
calling to mind this discourse of the human soul with
intention to talk specifically about this now —
stated rather too graphically, it is still nonetheless true in
has been presented artistically in pictures is interpreted

Title: A Mongolian Legend
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called an eye, since this organ was not an eye. It was an organ
freely and unhindered into what we call the astral world. With
This organ has shrunk to become the so-called pineal gland, now
wither away. Human beings are called upon, however, to permeate

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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viewing life called spiritual science can be applied to other,
collection of folk poems called
life. He can be called a spirit who, in an individual manner,
recall being together with Herman Grimm in Weimar, which he
called it. Thus, he becomes a unique kind of historian. For
transformed it artistically, who have utilized it for cultural
his world-picture was a continuous stream of what he called the
is interpreted materialistically nowadays. Rather, we attempt
his students, this rhythmically subdivided, ongoing stream of
of the entire progress of humanity — now called forth by
called forth that otherwise slumber. Inner strength, inner
historical research does not lie in what is nowadays called
“If, by some miracle, Michelangelo were called from the
being — also in sleep — the so-called etheric body,
of life. Particularly remarkable is what might be called the
hierarchical prejudices, whom Herman Grimm calls Arthur,
rationalistically might consider it as concerned with the
describe this in speaking theoretically of “forces”
lie beyond death — what one would like to call his chaste
alive again. She wanted to call out, but could not; she wanted
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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scientifically orientated process. It will be conducted with
usually calls further evolution from a theoretical point of
instance when you engage scientifically with lifeless,
phenomena, and — I could call it “logically apply” —
be called “scientific certainty” which forms the
empirically explored facts of nature.
Goethe arrived at this point by establishing what he called the
while X is the cause under the influence of the working called
as a non-mathematician; he even called himself as such.
to be added to it in order to arrive at what is called a
Goethe basically had a mathematical brain, much more
which Goethe calls “Ur-phenomena” — then one doesn't
atomic weight ratios numerically in order to clarify how
rationalistically? One could pose this question as well.
science which has nothing rationalistically construed within it
to call a natural science inherent in the phenomena. Along the
understanding” in which he, I could call it, celebrated
the Laplace world view and called it the “astronomical
side of Anthroposophy is always able, what Goethe calls being
this it wants to supplement what has only mathematically been

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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anthroposophical ideas relate historically to the Goethean
theme in question today, specifically the very first of
consider the words more anatomically-physiologically,
call it movement or rest. Likewise, we must speak about a sense
however, we proceed biologically, we discover real
is outward; inwardly the human is so dynamically organized that
life, forming his spinal axis vertically, he has brought
himself into another relationship of equilibrium cosmically
physical; one could call it an analogy of the optical nerve of
of sight, one could call it, in a dualistic way. First being
If you want to recall mechanistic laws you have to access them
within itself than a person does mathematically. We find the
on the one hand humans stand upright and walk vertically. This
as specifically human. Whoever examines such things from an
metamorphosed forms. This can also simply be anatomically
can be empirically found externally, the differences need to be
shows the difference between man and animal biologically.
actually researched scientifically. What I wanted to bring I

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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“Logos” is basically in everything which is
“Sophia”; one could call it a particular, if not
included with, I'd rather not call it science, but scientific
second decade of the twentieth century, where we basically have
along with the purely scientifically based world view but could
nuances who agreed with the call “Back to Kant”,
basically remained within the epistemological and didn't get to
questions and overall, basically failed to acquire the courage
what I could call, a kind of fear of rising up to one
from science, which would proceed scientifically, and on the
his, I could call it, emotional predisposition, lies a certain
scientifically formulated thought, while with Kepler it had
scientifically, and what simply has to be believed according to
in the West by Herbert Spencer, which Soloviev basically looked
more atavistically, subconsciously, yet it is an experience in
comes the striving to formulate a world view scientifically;
aspects which basically still provide elements where philosophy
I would like to express it as follows. Regarded philosophically
higher worlds: priestly speech translated philosophically is
is what the science in the Middle must basically come to after
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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be practically proven, is in the pedagogical area.
human being, on his empowerment, on his — if I might call it so
work on the bodily-physical. Another, more materialistically
as so-called latent warmth and how it had developed out of
practically it can only be accomplished when true intimate
pedagogically-didactically, then those who have observed it
should show that Anthroposophy doesn't want to be radically

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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sociologically, socially, and to this I would like to say a few
Basically, something quite different has happened. On the one
“Call to the German Nation and the Cultural World”
‘Yes, such proposals’ — they called them proposals
realistically, regarding the indications in my
the “Key notes” at that time, had the call: people
held in the Philharmonic — can't be called purely
instinctively — not meaning automatically — as exchange in
broad for what lies in social life. To think scientifically —
one now wants to find, I might call it, a connection, a kind of
the so-called social-political in economic law-making. This
are actually still basically in this situation today. Just when
could call it social Ur-phenomena being judged in the right
basically nothing other than abstract principles of an
theoretically thoughts — come to an actual solution for the
so-called social question. It is not important to say that this
the old class system will not be recalled. It won't be people
called the social question.
can be taken up every day. It was a call to the understanding
these are not all things which can be dealt with theoretically
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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People were not always, one could call it, theoretically and
epistemologically clear in what sense the scientific methods or
uncertainty is basically there as well. By contrast
working scientifically. This then holds true for all
that from the scientifically orientated people on which
which is considered popular, which we call understandable. You
impediment, taking part practically in the most important
speak about radically, should not be misunderstood.
basically in the limitation of modern humanity leaning towards
then less and less — what I would call instinctive
spiritual foundation, or I might call it, the spiritual
foundations basically only to religion (and not theology) and

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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speech scientifically, then one must be clear that it is not as
can be called human duty. It would be necessary for this
“Pflicht”-impulse, which they call
“body”, the outer garments one could call it, the
anger, zeal and so on. Basically, with such a translation one
existed which I would like to call the experience of the
for example through the experience of tones, which we call ‘m’
critically.
Basically, for example, yesterday very little was said about
phonetically relating what he perceived out in nature, into the

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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what men call the “objective events.” That will not
Looking at our own time critically, yet not captiously, we
B.C. The “fable convenue” usually called
call to mind what appears when we look back into the Atlantean
whom this happened we call “geniuses.” To-day at
a pupil for this or that calling, so that he may be suited to
calling forth in him the common being of man and
instance, that men who follow certain callings in public life
— did they educate “technically” not
is that we should educate prophetically, foreseeing the task of
some way pass through the experience, we call “the
in physical life work chaotically into each other, become
built up healthily. What has hitherto interacted chaotically in

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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emphatically. Man simply cannot bear — apart from
call him “a young man” though he might equally well
be called an “old boy”!) who told us we needed
whom we call the Angel is a pre-vision of the coming day. This
humanity's unrest with the whole period we call
everything “physically,” whereas our task to-day is
filter into speech, not merely to hear physically, but to hear
humanity. What will the so-called clever people call anyone who
Greeks. Hellenism intrudes into our times luciferically.
calling and take their place in that. The State takes young

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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calling to mind some of the facts of supersensible life which
which we may call “the present,” much must be made
less and less understood, more and more materialistically
Nowadays men talk of the so-called “League of
if man had taken no part in it. Thinking logically on the basis
emphatically not without significance, that from birth to death
we called the World War, that whirlpool into which were poured
two forms in which this temptation can arise; one I would call
force while those who faced reality were called Utopian
incompetence were called to positions of authority —

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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It was itself called upon, to a considerable extent, to set its
so called World War, in the presence of a small audience
later, the so-called practical men were giving out —
refute logically what the masses and their leaders think about
consumption” from a practical point of view. It calls up
nothing of what we call cultural life, the life dealing
surplus-value, not theoretically, but as it really and vitally
they will rule themselves democratically.
economic life, in which the economically stronger can impose
the type of work upon the economically weaker. The regulation
organically and rationally what is nowadays attained through
capacities to call it into being; but to whom will it belong
time when men were obsessed by the idea of the so-called

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