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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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Recently I have endeavored to sketch the being of man and the three
nation, the race or the century we live in, are subdued and
Their content must be true not only for today, yesterday, a century or
century, but they extend over the whole of evolution. They were true

Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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increasingly removed from past centuries. In the past, plays like the one
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, which present with the
body by the recently deceased. "Remember, you living ones, the secrets of
the same way we must see in the form of the innocent child the Being that

Title: William Shakespeare
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which has never been surpassed throughout the centuries.

Title: William Shakespeare
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century, especially through Lessing, we must agree with that
alive and unequaled through the centuries.

Title: The Manicheans
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founded by Manes about the third century after Christ and its great
of St. Augustine until the 15th century.) The Life therein is
that was the contrast in the third and fourth centuries after Christ.

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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to an age when, as I indicated recently, men will understand what the atom

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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CHRIST AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Thus in the first centuries after the advent of
during the first Christian centuries. This is not because the
was contained in the ancient Gnosis of the first Christian centuries.
conception of this descent of a purely spiritual Being into human
significance — for it is indeed the ‘centre of gravity’
first Christian centuries onwards, of the qualities of the soul of
there has lived, through all the centuries, an echo of the ‘Christ’
century onwards, this kind of ‘double entry’ process grew
of the 19th century the whole course of evolution had led to the
Impulse. But in the 19th century, wide circles (among which we must
century, research into the life of Jesus was substituted for an
similar works. We need only indicate briefly the most recent results
Since we are speaking of such recent occurrences, it is only
century) for the purpose of proving historically the events which are
only so, but research into these things has recently taken quite
those things to which for so long in the 19th century they were
taken place through the course of centuries, and which was brought to
in the spiritual evolution of the 20th century will be the
recognition that the 19th century was on false paths when the life of
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Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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spirit. In more recent times, the spirit has become very mechanical,
the middle of the fifteenth century, it was not necessary to attach
middle of the fifteenth century, but it is not necessary that he
concentrate our efforts upon the task of being ready to cope with

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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central figure in Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Plays — the
Akasha Chronicle. Something reminiscent of their forms did indeed
traveled in Egypt and the region of Asia Minor only a few centuries
the centre to the periphery and the interior space itself will then

Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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Central Asia somewhere in the neighborhood of the Gobi and Shamo
Christianity: the hallowing of the personality, the full descent to
main value to physical continuity, was more accentuated. The
a kind of Nature worship, reminiscent in many respects of Egyptian
in Europe, in Central Italy, the mixing had been less complicated. We
represented symbolically by the descent of the Dove. Only the most
We have come to the culminating point — or the center. The
and 14th centuries, and was prepared in the 11th and 12th centuries.

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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strange illusions seen today in a recent trend of natural science.
remains behind, but in a concentrated form. The astral body is the

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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centred in Salerno, Montpellier, Paris and also certain parts of

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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astral body. Only present-day man does not notice this descent into
ought to continue. But a rapid ascent causes a rapid fall. This is
and sixteenth centuries an age of abstraction, of external science,

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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synchronises with the central clock which, in its turn, synchronises
in the second third of the nineteenth century. Consequently the

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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concentrate solely on what concerns the question of the karmic cause
the centaur Chiron. It is Chiron the centaur who teaches Aesculapius,
elsewhere on the earth. What kind of being is Chiron the centaur? He
ascent of mankind, for mankind's real welfare and real progress.

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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him not from below, from the centre of the planet, but from the side.
from the earth's centre to its surface, and the influence of the sun
effect of the centre of the earth on its surface and everything

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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constantly new sides. Since the last third of the nineteenth century
what it was through almost the whole of the nineteenth century. Until
the last third of that century men had little access to the spiritual
you a concrete example. In the early twelfth century, a man named
and concentration of soul, we should await a revelation of the
presented to it. Whereas we must be absolutely quiescent if
the world of colours, sounds, scents, tastes, mental pictures which
recently this fact presented itself to my spiritual sight with
astral and etheric bodies were as quiescent as possible and the Ego

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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carried out during recent months. It is only as our studies progress
whereas nowadays men on Earth are divided by race, descent and so
magnificently in the Old Testament in the passage describing the
stemming from a Mystery Centre had been established among a
Mystery Centre. People were always given a leader from their own
descent, race, and whatever separates human beings from one another.

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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Earth. Only during the last four centuries has consciousness of this
with the Macrocosm. A twelfth century allegory. Reference to
during the last four centuries that man has lost this consciousness
the twelfth century a story, a splendid allegory, became current in
brother promised to give the girl the most fragrant scent in the
eighteenth century. Herder translated many of Balde's lyrics and
the seventeenth century. There is also an exposition dating from the
thirteenth century by the poet himself, so it cannot be called a mere

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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and hearing expand into space; from the centre where he is standing
were outspread and what he perceives is really the centre. He looks
incarnation. He looks from the circumference towards a centre. It is
yourself at the centre, and could drink in the forces of the
the centre. Translated into terms of spiritual reality, this is
adjacent part of the astral aura is, on the other hand, particularly
clearly of all in Aristotle who lived in the fourth century
magnificently by Kepler. But the nearer we come to modern

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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thirteenth century we associate everything that has to do with the
Rosenkreutz in the thirteenth century. Today I shall speak of a deed
he performed towards the end of the sixteenth century. This deed is
what that ascent means and also of the world-wide significance of the
few centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha, in a Mystery school
Mystery Centre in spiritual bodies. One such Teacher was the Being
spoken of as Gautama Buddha. And in the seventh/eighth century after
Mystery Centre referred to above; but everything was clothed in a
the Mystery Centre of which I have spoken.
impulse of the Mystery of Golgotha then made an ascent possible in
the evolutionary process. The ascent is at present only beginning,
the Mystery of Golgotha and thereafter a phase of ascent — now
Impulse is necessary. Similarly, there were phases of descent and
ascent in the evolution of Mars, into whose sphere we pass between
death and rebirth. Until the fifteenth/sixteenth century the
from the spiritual worlds was undergoing a phase of descent, just as
Christian era. By the time of the fifteenth/sixteenth century it was
ascent, for the consequences of the phase of descent had become all
Cusa in the fifteenth century was dedicated in mind and heart to the
into the spiritual world. That the ascent into spiritual worlds
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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matters such as the one spoken of recently, namely, the mission for
esoteric expositions of past centuries. And many people who hear

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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centuries ago. It is what we today mean by the expression ‘public
opinion’. Even as recently as the thirteenth century it would
in these earlier, often despised centuries. In earlier centuries
centuries, however, people attached more weight to authorities whom
centuries. People belonging to our civilisation usually concern
primitive human being in earlier centuries endeavoured to have some
individual living in the thirteenth century. In those days there were
study the history of Florence during those centuries and in later
centuries and one can speak of its actual beginning. Such things must

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Eight
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or conception. The conditions of central importance here are quite
book about Goethe has recently been published, in which his
born, perhaps centuries later, from a line of ancestors, regulates
the world of the senses and will concentrate attention on what is

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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last decades of the nineteenth century, when the writings of Buchner
beneficent Powers of health and salutary forces sent down from the
have died. I recently had an experience that others too may have had.
Someone asked me about a friend who had died very recently and it

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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beginning of the seventeenth century Brahmanism was absorbed into
which has its centre of gravity in the Mystery of Golgotha comes from
century, should be said to be the first region of Devachan, of the
proclaimed since times primeval. And centuries after the Mystery of
region of the Cosmos. At the beginning of the seventeenth century
‘centre of gravity’ in the Mystery of Golgotha. When we
Earth has its centre of gravity in the Mystery of Golgotha, while on
ancient times, has its centre of gravity in the Mystery of Golgotha

Title: Michelangelo
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notable book recently published disputes the claim of history to be
artist like Michelangelo in the Sixteenth Century and study him in
In the Sixth Century B.C.
sixteenth century the “Laocoon”, the “Hercules

Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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Single Copies: 35 cents.
life, with the sun's ascent to the zenith, and sunset with the
explanations repeatedly given in recent lectures.
was greatly alarmed and said that quite recently a man had been

Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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In the recent lectures it was described how the human being,
about by a rightly applied concentration, contemplation, and
concentrating his whole life of soul on individual mental
compared in this realm to certain other people. Until recently, there
worked on the solution of squaring the circle, until recent
“In all centuries poor truth had to blush over being

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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and hearts in the course of the centuries. But in the modern
eighteenth century, dying at the age of 29, describe the
was unknown. It is a young and quite recent institution. In
festival itself is so ancient and our present symbol of it so recent,

Title: Lecture: Buddha
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felt comparatively recently in the spiritual life of the West. Think
at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When we
culture we find that Lessing had a magnificent conception of the idea
centuries before the Christ Impulse was destined to dominate Western
world in the throes of decline, of a descent from Spirit into maya
closely interwoven, he should have evolved the idea that this descent
but in such a way that each descent was deeper than the last.
appeared during the time of man's gradual descent from the spiritual
the following centuries man again sinks so low that the last remnant
not a process of descent from a higher to a lower level; rather is it
which cannot merely be called, in the Buddhistic sense, a descent
concerned not merely with the direct descent of which the Buddhist
But since another factor has entered into the process of descent I
that higher nature which man's process of descent has veiled. He
a central point. Just as there must be one equilibrating point on a
liberation from the world, man, gazing at the central spiritual Sun,
nineteenth century the different branches of culture yielded such
at the same time that thought in the nineteenth century was not equal
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When such people — and they

Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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the last centuries, and especially during the nineteenth century,
century — but also already prior to that — has made such
latest, superimposed by the most recent occurrences on the earth. As
to determine how one layer has been deposited over the subjacent
here we see a very interesting dispute being carried on as recently
as the first half of the nineteenth century about the conception
formed — in any case, in most recent times — as a result
and it is to this that they owe the ascent from primitive forms of life
beginning their ascent on the foundation of the solid earth. In the
“the geological epic of the nineteenth century,” namely
geologists of the nineteenth century; do not let us speculate, but let us

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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wise without significance to the life limited to Central Europe. You
now constructed the first Central European Lodge and house. And those
the occult research of the last century in the European esoteric
has recently been said in Carlsruhe about the Mystery of the
from the middle of the twelfth century down to the present day. And
thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. These were
— were now to say that in the twentieth century the being she
twentieth century. We admit that. Is there actually any point at all
since the thirteenth century. Such results as have been produced
Christ will incarnate again in the twentieth century — and
place in the market of a town in Central Germany. One man said that

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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psychology of the 19th century the following expression has come into
19th century and well on into the 20th it was possible that such a
official psychology respecting what we designate as the central point
century but we must say that it was very little understood. We might
century understood just as little of the ‘pure being’ of

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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forth from its centre that which is given. It radiates out to the
periphery — whence it is radiated back to the centre. Thus we
from the centre; this radiates forth in all directions, is collected
a picture of ancient Sun: We think of a centre in which is focussed
centre of the Sun absorbed in contemplation of the vision of
We must think of it as a globe of inner space, in the centre of which
absorbed in the contemplation of what they perceive in the centre of
described of the Sun as absolutely concentrated in the soul of one
of the universe of radiant light. Imagine all this concentrated in
for the remainder of the earth-existence. In the centre is the One
picture really take place? When I concentrated on the central Figure

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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centre we have the sacrificing Thrones, then in the heights above the
the centre of this globular formation the meeting of the accepted and
which is a globe encircled by rings; for that which is in the centre
centre. In order that that which makes mankind of such immeasurable

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 2)
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Central Committee of Wine and Spirit merchants!
feeling is represented in an accentuated form. Hence we do not find
never be satisfied, but yearns for the central basis of life. This
that lonely grave which for a century has closed over his remains.
the centenary of the tragic death of one who was consumed by that
also theosophical, on the centenary of the death of one of the

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 6: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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beginnings in the 20th century. From now on these capacities will
Christ for the next three thousand years from our present century.
death at all without descent into the physical world in order to

Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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century have been absorbed. Yes, a person feels himself in a rather
made in the nineteenth century, thoroughly illuminating the nature of
should be reminded that in the second third of the nineteenth century
the middle of the nineteenth century, he actually tried to take into
advances of the nineteenth century. He was unable, however, to think
century. It must simply be understood that even the greatest
the one between Fechner and Schleiden in the nineteenth century,
concepts of the nineteenth century may find trivial, possibly even
time armed with the botanical concepts of the nineteenth century, can
example, what the botany of the nineteenth century has brought. There
is much in this botany that is actually magnificent and truly
the center of the earth. All stems of plants would cross at the
earth's center if we extended them to that point. This means
that the earth is able to draw out of its center all those force
able to encompass nature magnificently with his spirit: Novalis. He
during summertime is directed toward the earth's center, which
That is why all plants strive toward the earth's center. That
the plant organs, and these entities direct toward the center of the
earth all organs they need in order to unite them with the center of
throughout the nineteenth century to recognize what has just been
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Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works.
Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works.
centuries before the Christian era. It is however significant that
religion, must be placed a great many centuries before Buddha. Greek
enlightened spirit shine forth clearly across the centuries. Those
ascent into higher worlds, it is right to state that the man who
would make the ascent must to a certain extent develop both kinds of
— there is the centre of spiritual
Brahma, the Eternal, shining like a luminous centre in man,
necessarily be more than one central spiritual power. But just as
centre, Ormuzd and Ahriman, Light and Shadow, are intermingled, and
centre of the Earth, from the darkness where his servants, the
have accentuated the contrasts presented by the division of the
our thoughts and feelings and so unpleasantly accentuate the chief
of a mystic descent into the inner being. Before man can penetrate to

Title: Lecture: Hermes
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Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works.
Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works.
recently been compelled to go back to ages more and more remote in
only understand ancient centres of culture if we begin by
external documents have told us in recent Egyptian research (if we
to follow this path of descent into his own inner being, to learn
sixty-five days in the year. They had reckoned thus for centuries,
recent work by Alfred Jeremias,

Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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century the Italian Scientist, Francesco Redi, was looked upon
sin of acknowledging a truth two centuries before science had
it has followed since the 17th century the time will come when
customs are different from those of the 17th century. But the
In the 17th century heresy was prosecuted by methods which no
must be accentuated is that Anthroposophy has the same
13th century, who said that there existed as many species of
19th century. (Note. The writer of this lecture cannot be
master who has again announced recently that we must not speak

Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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three centuries ago. I have often, pointed out that it is
of the 17th century, it. was considered quite possible, not
living is not yet old, for only a few centuries ago Francesco
was done all through the centuries, up to the time of
centuries as the authoritative writings of the most modern
say that the inmost kernel of man, from whose centre has
what lies behind the individual Ego centre, which we

Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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centuries was affected when such a soul, having first felt
spiritual side of it, it works out magnificently in the old
felt in the early Christian centuries.
not feel how those, which throughout the centuries were
concentrated world-wisdom.
‘concentrated wisdom’ of the child with the greatest human

Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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standpoint of time, we pass to the 16th and 17th centuries of
16th and 17th centuries in individuals such as Galileo and
the 17th centuries — the time of Galileo and of
retrospective glance over the centuries immediately preceding
theirs, viz: — from the 11th to the 15th centuries, we
realise that during these centuries, Scientific Knowledge was
scientific teacher in the centuries preceding Galileo and
Giordano Bruno laid stress upon the fact that a few centuries
literally after the lapse of so many centuries, still, on the
are so prodigious and so magnificent that even if they learnt
centuries preceding Galileo and Giordano Bruno. Hence people
fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Minds like
which had recently been promulgated in the
result! The Sun was placed in the centre while the planets
concentrated in the personality of Giordano Bruno. This flood
centuries which have to be bridged when we pass from the days
and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, but in such a
the eighteenth century maintained that man did not possess
the last decade of the eighteenth century, Goethe had written

Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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was born from the soul of Raphael in the 16th century. Again, we turn
centuries but his creations form one organic whole with all preceding
to human evolution as a whole during the last few centuries, is not intended
was going on in world history and concentrate wholly on the inner
of Greek culture which had for long centuries been buried under ruins
ascent to the point where the most inward elements, the very loftiest
mighty impulse which then worked on through the centuries.
that had arisen in the spiritual evolution of Italy in the 16th century.
infinite spheres of the Spiritual, but was concentrated into forms that
The first Christian centuries

Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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mean to say. Recently a clear example in the political field
percent of the total population have less than 3,000 marks
former centuries. That is not the case. We would decisively be
centuries—have come to these demands. At this point the
centuries. All human beings have taken up this press for
descent into the physical world. More and more the human being
bring about in this soul a change in direction, an ascent,
thing in the here-and-now. If it is to find an ascent again, it
century.] that
thought thus. In the first half of the 19th century there have
century spoke of “sacred industry.” Saint Simon was one of
half of the nineteenth century. You read his work like a
the 20th century, the strike of the textile workers of
the center of which stood the demands for am eight-hour day,

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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scene at the end of the eighteenth century. An address based on the
the nineteenth century and is to-day forgotten, uttered a very
delle Grazie cloister at Milan and in spite of recent restoration looks
‘considering your age, no doubt they were decently

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture II
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He shows there how the ascent on the road of knowledge follows in

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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the centre as the worthiest object for which the good and evil
pour into the earth's centre.’
character who had lived in the first half of the sixteenth century.
sixteenth century, at a time when for history much had been
centuries, when studious lives were led, we find a great
difference. In the twelfth century it was possible for those minds
the sixteenth century, a time when many saw the setting of an old
sixteenth century. So he meets us as a legendary figure or
the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is expressed in the
way, in the centre of his soul, seeking to drag him down through
the sixteenth century there was no longer a clear idea of these
‘Faust’ in such a magnificent way. In the scene

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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One scents the Mysteries, perhaps withal
perform, in meditation, concentration, and so on, which are

Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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has been said in recent lectures.
is the center that in the ancient Hebrew narrative a great part
descent to earth of an Avatar-being has the significance,
especially significant: namely, that through the descent of an
in the early centuries of the Christian era the manner in which
later centuries. In the first Christian centuries the spread of
who in the first century contributed much
was especially emphasized in the early Christian centuries.
spread of Christianity during the early centuries it was the
Augustine up to, let us say, the 10th, 11th, or 12th century.
century up to the 10th or 12th there were a large number of
happen that in those centuries a number of people were able to
those centuries the multiplied copies of the etheric body
these centuries there were those who could possess such an
century, known as the Heliand poem, which
or 12th century and the 15th. Here there was an entirely
of Christianity in Middle-Europe. In the later centuries, from
previous centuries because of the interwoven etheric body of
wishes, but through several centuries, simply by means of this
centuries that humanity had implanted into it through scholasticism
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Title: An Impulse for the Future
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century.
specific recognition for what this personality has done in recent
representative of psychoanalysis, stepped front and center. He

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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Founding new religions came to an end with the central
recent times. Modern human beings feel that to hate and
century the transition took place to a more tolerant
justified in the nineteenth century, which kindled noble
in the twentieth century when other soul forces are called
centuries religion has had a strange history. In Spain,
from the ways and customs that over the centuries have become
obtained from religion. Recently a conference of scientists
science, advancing as it does at great speed, a center of
color, light and sound to affect her soul. Recently a new

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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recent commentator, Professor Jacob Minor.
reading was published recently about the mimicry of thought.
has discovered recently that if blood from one animal is
different lines of descent are mingled. Our modern
“I” forms the center; and physical body, living

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture III: The Origin of Suffering
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appears as a testing, as an incentive to greater striving. In
central figure is often the tragic hero. The hero is faced
natural science has recently arrived at a conclusion that

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IV: The Origin of Evil
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through exercises in meditation and concentration, a person

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture V: Illness and Death
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death,” were for centuries regarded as an answer, a
In the course of centuries their meaning has changed,
astral body; and fourth, the “I,” or the center
greatest concentration of urges and cravings, that is,
physical nature. As the physical principle is concentrated in
growth concentrated in bringing about sexual maturity. This

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VII: Education and Spiritual Science
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young through education. At the center of education is the
center of the being, the “I.” When an individual
Homer (8th centure B.C.) was a Greek epic
include the whole of a human being's evolutionary descent. A
Moses (c. 13th century B.C.) was a Hebrew
Zarathustra (c. 6th century B.C.) was a Persian.
child to the time up to the twelfth century, the time when

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Nothing is more remote from concentrated spirit than shadowy
abstract logic — and our bodily organs are concentrated

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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used as an incentive for egoistical striving. It is often
person experiences the hope, strength and incentive to action

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture X: Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
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seen with physical sight; it is like a center of energy that
shows that of those who die in infancy, 16 to 20 percent have
been breast-fed by their own mother, while 26 to 30 percent
line of descent develop and become established during the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XI: Who are the Rosicrucians?
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centuries of German culture. Some say that it is impossible
existed in the Occident since the fourteenth century, and
Christian Rosenkreuz (15th century) was the founder of Rosicrucianism,
beginning of the sixteenth centuries. On journeys through the
appeared at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the
still exists, and has done so since the fourteenth century.
Oriental. A few centuries before the Christian era began,
centuries later. And today it is different again.
different method. That is why in the course of centuries and
humanity's whole outlook. It will for long centuries to come
a Rosicrucian is the first rule that only recently has been
is why until recently no Rosicrucian divulged what enabled
loftier aims that link him with the central Rosicrucian
existed for centuries. What it is possible to say about it
lectures, material that had for centuries been guarded in
closed circles. However, what has been released in recent
roots are sunk into the ground, pointing towards the centre
beings turn their reproductive organs towards the centre of
root points towards the centre of the earth; human beings
the eighteenth century there appeared in an earnest
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XII: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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centuries, the Gnostics, have thought otherwise, as does
viewpoint. No seeker after Truth of the nineteenth century
upon as a mystery. Mystery centers existed for the
itself in its own creation. This descent and resurrection of
pure. Only an innocent maiden's love can redeem the Flying
continent. A scientific journal, Kosmos, recently
person's higher development. It made him place at the centre
as regards descent, and it would be regarded as irreverent to
descent, but because of what he was. He was a free individual
became the basis from which he created his magnificent Good
"innocent fool" filled with questions of its secret, can

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the Word of God. We must realize that for centuries the
for centuries has been considered a source of Truth, can
centuries, for millennia, noticed these contradictions that
that took place in the early Christian centuries, the
century showed that already then they contained what we know
the early centuries the attitude of learned people towards

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human life is in a kind of central position, a point of balance
was actually in the course of the nineteenth century that
this until the middle of the nineteenth century, for a very
here in Berlin in the middle of the nineteenth century in an
disappeared in the middle of the nineteenth century. Right up
centuries, until it had to recede into the background for a
was made in the fifteenth century. This clock is really a
century in an extraordinarily impressive way. And the
with “guilty” or “innocent.” Obviously,
lectures given here recently I drew attention to the fact that
through recent world events. Just think, there are many people
his recently published book that people believe in

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fifteenth century people had a feeling that just as positive
necessity. Ever since the fifteenth century people have
personality of the nineteenth century will no longer be
considered great in centuries to come, whereas people who have

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looked with complacent satisfaction at everything he had done
(Of Central European Cultural and Spiritual Life),
down in us centuries before, and unites them on a spiritual

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of the Middle Ages the Roman world and what is now Central
Central Europe. And we can look for the consequences in
Teutonic tribes, the whole subsequent development of Central
the course of the centuries up to our time would have been
up to Goethe's Faust and all that nineteenth century
the physical plane through the centuries from then until
of the third or fourth century speculating on the
development in the eighteenth century. We can pick out some
lived in the fourteenth century, he would certainly not have
freedom. As I have already said, in the fourteenth century
the fourteenth century there was no space for anything
preceding centuries in which the stream of events had taken
to spiritual currents that even go beyond the centuries,
that something will arise that will live for centuries.

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the greater part of humanity only for the past few centuries,
we go back beyond the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries, we
remnants of an ancient perception. Even in the tenth century,
but in earlier centuries it was still quite an ordinary,
essential difference is that in fairly recent times human
awareness. We know that at present we are only a few centuries
fourteenth century, for we count the fourth
till the fifteenth century, and the fifth post-Atlantean epoch
from the fifteenth century till as long again; so we are now
the nineteenth century.
public very recently. On the one hand, there were the dreamers
proceeding from the center of one's being are lacking, people
in Central Europe in particular this I is uniting itself

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Cosmogonies of the Nineteenth Century,
century a totally different spiritual attitude prevailed from
nineteenth century, set themselves to confront the great riddle
view was, during the first half of the nineteenth century, to
century — for instance, to those of Burdach — you
end of the third decade of the nineteenth century, and, seeing
development of the nineteenth century, and anyone
centuries, a time when a greater spiritual sensitiveness
genealogical tree — in fact, the lineal descent of all
their adherence to the theory of man's descent from the higher
the conclusion that a line of descent existed leading from the
higher animals to man. In more recent times scientists have
centuries past have educated the human heart and soul were
his theory of the descent of man. In another lecture Du
this quiescent matter?
as “I see red,” “I smell the scent of the
descent of man. It is obvious that in a single lecture like the
Natural science traces the descent of the physical living being
apes. But there can be no question of the descent of our
may therefore ascribe a twofold descent to man in primeval

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of Fichte as regards his intense concentration on the spiritual message
when the Napoleonic chaos was enveloping north and central
century, that — we may say it without the slightest fear of

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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accustomed in the course of centuries.
Christmas festival meant to people for many centuries in the past.
centuries the celebration of this festival awakened in the souls of
our souls: What has the Christmas festival been for many centuries,
recently as a few decades ago. The souls had then a natural way of
only a minor aspect of what was extensively present in past centuries,
villages in recent decades. When the celebration of Christmas
thing, which had spread through centuries like a magic breath of air
If we would go back several centuries we would find vast regions where
the fifties and sixties of the nineteenth century, when the Hungarian
migrated into Slavic regions during the previous centuries, had
lead a decent life,
16th, 15th, 14th century and even further, when the relations between
descent of man from spiritual heights to the physical world — and
centuries. These words were often spoken, even in the eighth, ninth,
and tenth centuries, in those regions of Europe where Christianity had
earth through the Fall — and the ascent of man through Christ
the 15th or 16th century, and how an awareness of spirituality was
We intend to present such a Christmas play in our art center. It is
taken hold of human minds. When we go back to the 14th or 13th century
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Initiation. During the ascent into the higher worlds a moment comes
Mystery centres as “Experiencing the Elementary World”. The

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FROM what has been said we can well see that the ascent into the
illuminated through the exercises of meditation, concentration and
really a vice — of indolence. In recent times we have gained some
you are beginning your ascent into the higher worlds, and then you
acquires for the ascent into the higher worlds. Quite definite

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Ascent into the spiritual worlds is accompanied by certain unavoidable
an ascent, but he also feels himself forsaken and alone. He feels that
question all the beings whom he meets after such an ascent concerning
if the ascent has been undertaken according to the true rules of
those who in ancient times undertook the ascent. But they did not feel

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new Initiation, must have centres where there can be recalled to human
Golgotha took place was concentrated in the influences that streamed
that had to be changed in the human soul in more recent times is
as false as the assertion that the “speech-centre” has
learnt to speak, and so the speech-centre is the result of speech.

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of free-thinkers, especially in recent times.
and truly comprehending. We have recently mentioned here that
exercises of meditation and concentration, was achieved in a
exercises of meditation and concentration. I particularly
real ego of man, the bearer of the higher centre of his
child. One could be tempted to say that these innocent

Title: Second Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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night. Only beneficent beings must be allowed access to the

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followed the seven stages of spiritual ascent in the life of
hidden mystery temples, or centres, and according to the
centres and temples in Egypt which were often built into the

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translated in the 4th century by the Gothic Bishop Wulfila.
central idea of Christianity comes to birth, how it bursts the bonds
gave such magnificent expression in the “Ring of the
Nibelungs,” this central Idea of Christianity found still wider
can hear tones, be aware of scents, see colours on surfaces —
them cropping up again, and during the last four centuries their
As I have already said, the purpose of man's descent into a
same stages as on the descent, but now in a higher form. To-day man
the point where man's descent into the physical body was countered by
which enables them to find their own firm centre among the gods. Men
its importance for him, that physical things are becoming evanescent.

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fruit for ourselves. Man sees himself everywhere as the centre. And

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Central European peoples and those of South Europe and above all the
the battles of the Central European peoples with, let us say, the
the following centuries, the facts lie thus: the events of these
centuries are karmically connected with their causes, the battles of
the souls lived and developed in the following centuries, in
political opposition between the nations of South and Central
following centuries will result from what is happening’ — he
you picture two centuries later, how different everything appears!
forming, in a sense, a kind of central point of our cosmic horizon,
the centre. We regard our own life in its chronological course.

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number not of centuries but of decades, have come and gone in the
attained in the Nineteenth Century, and man would be swamped by it

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We have devoted the recent lectures to considering from a certain
referred in a recent lecture. This memory forms part of our experience
novels to be found in the more recent literature of Germany and in it,
President! You know as well as I do myself that I am innocent;”
innocent Markus Freund. The officers immediately did their duty and
blameworthy criminals, than with innocent defendants, who really are
innocent man to be convicted?’ As I have told you: man then has
since my birth or conception, which then concentrates itself and

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our souls, this Saga which belongs to bygone centuries; which has been
Century has been directed to developing human thought and
by Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century in order to prove that man
centuries passed; that which was formerly carried on below in the
‘Christmas reminds us of the descent of Christ Jesus on to the
children sat thus a pale light blossomed in the sky, in the centre

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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appears at first in symbols. If man concentrates for instance on his
feeling they are prepared for understanding. In the first centuries

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we have the following ascent: firstly karma, activity, what needs to
century is the precursor. It is a kind of losing oneself in the
central point was created whereby the tumultuous emotions of the world
through the Ich. This centre point is literally the Christ.
spirituality of the East should bring a central point into the chaos

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are gathered together in the centre of the soul. Without this
In a condition of deep trance the central consciousness is silenced.
somewhat more centralised consciousness, one more like the
comes the moment when we have the feeling that the centre of
rationalisation is brought about during the ascent from animal to man.

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alchemy. As late as the 18th century one could read in the German
century. At that time a number of articles dealt with the so-called
malachite and so on developed. The central zone of the Alps arose out
Stone. The man of the 18th century who pointed this out was indicating

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture V
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life, its own central point. What lives on a particular plane has on
this same plane its central point.

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again and again and in this way there was an ascent from stage to
19th century was a professor in Jena, was acquainted with all these

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12th century onwards and reached its climax about the year 1800. This

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture IX
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are the seven stages of matter. In his descent man experienced these
The 14th century was the time of the creation of towns. Within a few

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture X
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heredity dies out. One reckons three generations to a century. The man
from what was good or bad in his ancestors of the 17th century. Thus

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development of self-consciousness during the descent to the physical
plane. The re-ascent to the higher planes through schooling towards
concentration and meditation on the thoughts of the Masters —
meditation and concentration he takes with him up to the Arupa Plane

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reincarnation, forms a central point, around which what is to be added

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from the turning point of the 15th and 16th centuries on into our own
written down until the 6th century. This is why scholars deny the
the Pseudo-Dionysius, as though it was in the 6th century that old
magnificent Organisation would have come into being. At that time the
as the 6th century a Dionysius committed the teachings to writing.
to differentiate three zones: a western, a central and an eastern
central with the Germanic and the western with the Latin peoples. The
peoples, the Central European by the Germanic, the Eastern European by

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is why the Egyptian occult teaching in esoteric centres called the
Christianity. Christ had to raise and purify the self-centred ego, so

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XV
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the 14th century to the time of the French Revolution. In the
schools of the Rosicrucians in the 14th century. But the inner
the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries there lived certain unassuming men
Now there is a further descent into the earthly. The mental picture

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14th centuries. It is important that the materialistic images of the

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One must conceive the descent of the ‘Sons of Manas’ in this pictorial
formation is reminiscent of those which appeared in the Lemurian Age,

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XX
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draw closer, so that a common spirit inspires us, so that a centre is

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When we concentrate on a plant in the same way as on a crystal we must
receive a shock which brings about idiocy. With a further descent the

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Devachan into the astral region and in the course of this descent has
met by the Monad on its descent into the astral world. This was in the
This is how the descent of the soul takes place. But in order that it
later develop, forms at the same time a kind of central point in the
The intervening spaces between the centres are filled with the main

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them from the centre of their own planet. They were totally different
as Moon and Earth. All life and all warmth streamed up from the centre

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Europe, which lasted until the ascent of the Germanic peoples in
Northern, Central and Western Europe. Two further civilisations are
himself. All experiences are then within him, as though concentrated
further ascent. The first three Rounds were repetitions of earlier

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be concentrated in the Lodge of the Masters.

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Second Logos the One who in the quiescent substance in things creates
were to follow the line of growth, we would come to the centre of the

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heart came into existence. If one concentrates on the activity of the
Whoever concentrates on the heart sees the genesis of the human
Through concentration on the interior of the brain, which developed
appear. If one concentrates on the solar plexus one is led to the
heart. Through concentration on a particular organ, corresponding
appeared within man. Since that time there was the beneficent fire

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seventies of the nineteenth century. The War of All against All and
into the 19th century.

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be concentrated in special organs of living beings.
towards the centre of the Earth when it was united with the Sun. They
chemical process? There is an ascent in evolution, chemistry is
to be. The whole course of human evolution is a descent and a
re-ascent. Man had to descend to the lowest point. And it was in order
in the future is a further ascent from plant to mineral nourishment.

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materialism. Preparation for a new civilisation the task of Central
The Europeans also came over from Atlantis to Western and Central
came to expression in so magnificent a way, but which here remained at
and the future of Christianity came to magnificent expression through
So think of Europe, Central Asia and Egypt as sown with the seed of
Old Testament this is magnificently expressed as a kind of dawning of
descent to the deepest point and then the ascent.
Jewish Prophets, in the centuries before Christ, we find here
ourselves in Central Europe are the advance post. Eastern Europe must
The Rosicrucian Schools always taught that Central and Western Europe

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of the center of his being something that must be the fruit of
taking place. We begin to appreciate why the nineteenth century held
overcome, just as was the scholarly opinion of an earlier century,
substances. As recently as three hundred years ago, scholars believed

Title: Lecture: The Human Spirit and the Animal Spirit
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course of nature this is transmitted through lineal descent, he
rush of blood takes place from the centre to the periphery, we have

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represent a custom that did not exist a hundred years ago. A century
any mention of them. The custom is a quite recent phenomenon that has
nineteenth century. Trees first appeared as symbols of the Christmas
the birth of the Christian Redeemer only since the fourth century A.D.
In the first Christian centuries, December 25th was by no means
has been so only since the fourth century. Nevertheless, in Roman
developed, began in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The
centuries B.C. to the time when Homer sang his poems to the Greeks.
century B.C. the sun had entered the sign of Aries, the Lamb. In our
he first had to experience the descent of the Trinity to the earth
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries A.D. You will find full
people have ceased to grasp the fact that the center of their

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descent of the Divine Sons of the Spirit.” Ever since Lemurian times
arose that made the descent of the souls possible. It was in that
fourth century to establish the festival of the birth of the World
century, the time of the Christian festival, the festival of the birth
of Christ, varied. It was not until the fourth century that it was

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recent and does not date back more than a few centuries. The custom of
decorating a Christmas tree is a recent phenomenon, but the
first centuries of Christianity. His birth festival was, therefore,

Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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depended upon the initiates in these cult centers to provide the
center for ego strength is created. Whoever destroys marriage thus

Title: The Mission of Savonarola
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the end of the fifteenth century. Perhaps regarding connections
the sixteenth century. It is exactly clear what kind of

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture I - The Prometheus Saga
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the centaur was sacrificed for Prometheus Chiron was already suffering
If there is an ascent on the one hand, there must be a descent on the
— the centaur Chiron — must make a sacrifice. The man of
earlier times must be sacrificed. The sacrifice of the centaur is as

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About the eighth century B.C., a very important epoch sets in as
eighth century B.C. With it there dawned an objective knowledge,
all-embracing primeval wisdom. In the eighth century B.C., the passage
In the eighth and ninth centuries B.C., the pupils of the Greek

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Christian era. But before this, for some centuries before Christianity

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part, its ascent to exalted spiritual peaks of human cognition.
the firm center of gravity provided by anthroposophy.
reach that peak diminished more and more through the centuries —
rejecting each other, but in recent times the contrast is sharp.
philosophers of the nineteenth century had to work with when they
in the nineteenth century, everything pertaining even to philosophy

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kind in question results from the animal's premature descent into
we must not think. Quite recently, special events have brought
calls aroma, pleasant or unpleasant scent, etc., as the case may be.
however, does not center in feeling as such, but in the clash of

Title: Wisdom of Man: III. Higher Senses, Inner Force Currents and Creative Laws in the Human Organism.
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and in the center, where they act upon each other, they form the

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turn to the various doctrines of the descent of man. Here we
materialistic doctrine of descent, the crux of which is the so-called
in view of the materialistic doctrine of the descent, the foresight
his whole line of descent was he like a fish or any other animal
human descent.
through the center of the larynx would indicate the direction of the

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of the soul life calls for consideration of the adjacent realms.
from within, disregarding what is adjacent, and clearly expressing in
of this ego conception, this soul center, with the other conceptions

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typically magnificent soul life as Goethe's that we look upon it as
own, so that through our own incentive we can infuse something into

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itself, as it were. Desires seem to arise in the center of the soul
surging from the center in all directions and expressing itself in
sources toward the center of the soul life and spreading in all
constant relationship to our central visualization, the ego

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Jesus Christ's Descent into Hell. Like The Wandering Jew
similar feelings you have had recently. Try it, and you will see how
incarnation, with the visualizations of the recently acquired etheric
research at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, this
necessarily remained the center of interest; now the time is ripe for

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Viennese philosopher, Günther, in the nineteenth century, raised
is a strange coincidence that just recently a book by Brentano on
was achieved in its field by Western culture in the last centuries
that in the fourth century B.C.
descent, but with hereditary traits. The soul element appears as
mother. Thus Brentano's most recent book contains the clear

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meditation, concentration, and so forth. Thus the facts of the
More recent attempts such as that of Rudolf Eucken,
concentration, and so forth. If you penetrate into the whole spirit
meditation and concentration. Certain moral attributes of the soul
concentrating without first having sought the frame of mind that has
applied here, “These fellows would not scent the devil out,
as more recent world conceptions interpret the concept “God.”
physical plane with the descent of man from a super-sensible origin.
evolution of humanity. It lived on even into the nineteenth century,
that appears to have been resurrected in recent times and is
doctrine had always had adherents, even in the nineteenth century.

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meditation, concentration, and so forth, to conceptions that also

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careful concentration and meditation or through special aptitude,
concentration, namely, by endeavoring to let our memories unfold with
Just think how all that, concentrated, makes you feel in the evening
have had nothing but gratifying experiences, again concentrated; you
theosophy that the theosophists of the eighteenth century so often
pneumatosophy. How did eighteenth century theosophists like Ottinger,
this utterance of the eighteenth century theosophists into more
re-ascent to the spirit has commenced may this ardor abate.”
That wonderful utterance of the eighteenth century
century, and theosophical activity and endeavor fell off completely
in the first two thirds of the nineteenth century. In the eighteenth
century genuine theosophy of the older kind was to be found in
divinity, those eighteenth century theosophists knew that

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was born in the sixth century before our era, and Euripides, who was
born in the fifth century. You will find no mention of conscience
Teachers of humanity also go through a period of descent and one of
ascent, and differ absolutely at the different periods.
It could only be made possible by the descent of a Being who had
higher, for he learnt through his descent.
extent, of the nature of a necessity. In the 5th to the 6th century
from the 5th century onward. His own particular mission only comprised
descent of a Bodhisattva — if we may use this Eastern term —
very special experience at the time of their deepest descent. The

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healing and beneficent influence on their environment. To what do
will remain alive in the centre of his being.
world he will be able to make his own vital centre stronger and

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descent from one generation to the next — were based entirely on
descent to earth; but that influence caused him to descend earlier. It
this descent into matter had not taken place till then; his soul would
have been more mature for the descent. He would have descended into
“from below.” The re-ascent will be a quicker progress than
the descent; but it cannot be expected that in one or two incarnations
That was the descent of man to Kali-Yuga. It was the time of deepest
descent. Into that had to come the impulse for re-ascent. That is why
— was completed at the end of the nineteenth century, and because
with the twentieth century began a new age, in which men must prepare
half of this century. For it is only by means of that which Spiritual
new relation to Christ in the course of the first half of our century,
can be attained during the first half of our century by purely human

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more and more ennobled in the course of the descent from generation to
propagated by descent through the generations, and appeared in its
progress in the mission of humanity brought about by the descent of
ascent into the Spiritual had to begin from that time. For this
that deepest centre in man's being which can be designated as the ego.
centre in the ego, will, as a result of their work on themselves,
directing attention to the force within, the centre point of which
Century. The Kali-Yuga was concluded in 1899! We are now approaching a
will be distinctly apparent in the last half of our present century.
prophets those were who spoke at the beginning of the 20th century!
prepared centuries ago, but which must now, in our own age, evolve to
The centuries that lie behind us were fitted for cultivating to an
humanity; before the first half of our century has elapsed, those
century men must work their way up out of the Kali-Yuga into a century
In bygone centuries it was, comparatively speaking, not harmful for
times, and they continued into the 17th century, when the approaching
Epistles of St. Paul. In the 17th century there went forth from Smyrna
Christ’ in our century, that greatest of Events, signifies that
up towards Christ! Therefore in our century, the Sermon on the Mount
and rebirth. For that which takes place in the 20th century is not of
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the divine Spiritual life of the world. A descent beneath those
ascent into the higher worlds, and to translate the truths into
does not mean a descent into matter, but rather the driving of that
century, which are called shallow and superficial and which Goethe so
the second third of the 19th century was preceded by the appearance of
unfold all the more forces for its re-ascent — we shall be
during the first half of the 20th century an etheric clairvoyance will
etheric clairvoyance may be acquired. For the spiritual ascent there
man in this century through his newly-awakened faculties, will bring

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depths of our souls. For centuries philosophers and thinkers the whole
the human soul. If we go back a few centuries into ancient Greece,
Northern and Central Europe had a different one again. They all had to
wonderful teachings which then flowed from the sacred centres of
similar centre in Chaldea. That which flows from the various centres
believe otherwise than that in a few centuries of time our
of Europe, that they might develop as early as possible a firm centre

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considered as a descent, a new descent of Spiritual life, of Spiritual
super-sensible ones. Such a descent had to take place for the further
As our own age, our nineteenth century drew near, the time came when
from the method in which for centuries men have contemplated the
mind go by what has come to us from Paul the Apostle. (In recent times
considered as an earnest and scientific work, which is centred upon a
arose in the course of the nineteenth century, that there should flow
the external documents? What was being done in the nineteenth century
the twentieth century are, can be seen by the concept they have of the
preparing for centuries: although it asserts that it wishes to rise
among us. We will not merely study books written centuries ago, but
number of people in the course of the twentieth century will
what I have just done!’ This will begin in the twentieth century.
is outside. Why is this? Because, in his descent into matter he

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(Views of the World and of Life in the Nineteenth Century).
account of the evolution of Western thought from the sixth century
B.C. up to the nineteenth century A.D., and then by adding to the
say that it first appeared in the sixth or eighth century B.C. Before
thirteenth centuries will say somewhat as follows: “Draw me a
when in recent times a Western thinker did consent to think correctly
into movement. That was his great central act; his most significant
Thus, for more than a century now, people have worried themselves
That appears very reasonable. And yet for a century people have been
twentieth century, and during it certain events have taken place.
nineteenth century; these again were caused by events in the second
third of the nineteenth century, and these again by those in the
condition of the nineteenth century as a result of the French
century it was looked upon as immensely clever. But what should we be

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puzzle for centuries over questions such as that of the hundred
Realism arose (from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries) there
centuries gets a deep insight into what human acumen can produce. For
nineteenth century the belief existed that ideas rule history. But

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remain occult until, through meditation, concentration and so on, the

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the central nervous system forms the thought. For anyone who sees
the central nervous system. It sets in motion — let us say if

Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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(Views of the World and of Life in the Nineteenth Century).
account of the evolution of Western thought from the sixth century
B.C. up to the nineteenth century A.D., and then by adding to the
say that it first appeared in the sixth or eighth century B.C. Before
thirteenth centuries will say somewhat as follows: “Draw me a
when in recent times a Western thinker did consent to think correctly
into movement. That was his great central act; his most significant
Thus, for more than a century now, people have worried themselves
That appears very reasonable. And yet for a century people have been
twentieth century, and during it certain events have taken place.
nineteenth century; these again were caused by events in the second
third of the nineteenth century, and these again by those in the
condition of the nineteenth century as a result of the French
century it was looked upon as immensely clever. But what should we be

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puzzle for centuries over questions such as that of the hundred
Realism arose (from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries) there
centuries gets a deep insight into what human acumen can produce. For
nineteenth century the belief existed that ideas rule history. But

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remain occult until, through meditation, concentration and so on, the

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the central nervous system forms the thought. For anyone who sees
the central nervous system. It sets in motion — let us say if

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to explain the cause of suffering. We see in the centre of this view
thing, however, the more recent natural science has accepted for some
in its own centre and overcomes it. Thus death — as a gifted
lecture, a knowledge based on the most recent research of natural

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way. They are exercises of meditation and concentration which are to

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held good for centuries but today has little importance attached to
in previous lectures, for many centuries these words were in a way a
biblical sayings because in the course of centuries they have become
the human ego, the central point of man's being. We must then be
it sets up the greatest concentration of impulses, desires, for the
nature. As we have the physical principle concentrated in the teeth,
the principle of growth is thus concentrated in puberty. Then the

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Anyone who has rightly understood what was brought forward in recent
point of view. A central Europe is meant to which France and Italy do

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life. Then came a time about the sixth, fifth and fourth centuries
period of time. During the last third of the nineteenth century, the
century the time has once more come on earth in which the Michael
force which did not descend in former centuries. Thus we can face the

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altogether. In the recent public lecture

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Hence in those great centers of the Oracles in ancient Atlantis the
world. In the ancient Oracle centers the Atlantean Initiate beheld in
“The little folk ne'er scent the Devil
fallen into perverse and evil paths. Centers of black magic and its
There he has the center of his activity; and whereas his spiritual
established the beneficent phenomena around the earth-globe, are
events it is actually only twice or three times in any one century —
announced from the centers of Initiation. For you must remember that

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Christianity, too, in the early centuries, had Mystery Centers, places
of the first Christian centuries found popular, simple words through
A Christian of the first centuries would have refrained from speaking
centuries called the “Word” and even then, it can be done
cosmic truths within the hidden crypts of the Mystery-Centers, could
that the Lamb Who became flesh denoted a deeper descent into humanity,
other religions. This was what brought him to the core and center of
central figure in the Apocalypse, and that only through the Lamb can

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successful in our century in uncovering the secret of language. That is why

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ego, this deepest centre of man's spiritual life, encounters some
ego, the central point in man, which expresses itself in laughing and

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to present-day concepts if we start with the still fairly recent forms of
onwards, during the 13th and 14th centuries, up to their culmination in that
and other mystics of that century, leading to
mystical descent into the soul occurs, even if only in the mediaeval sense,
the centre-point of our life, is always working to create unity in our entire
great thinker of the 17th and 18th century, said to himself: When we look at
a single centre of the soul. The path through the external world leads by
it said in these lectures that there is a path of ascent to the higher
Now we have to concentrate our attention on this activity, on what the soul
objective being that it is akin to the centre of the human being, the ego.
They involve a descent into the depths of the human soul before the mystic
knowledge too early in his development is that he may become an eccentric or

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During recent
centuries, the nature of prayer has been misunderstood in all sorts of ways
will not be easy. If, however, we remember that these centuries have been
restrict our ascent to the spiritual?
concentration, and from that point we are directed to the real work of
of meditation and concentration. This could be said of many other
devotion, meditation and concentration at various levels. With the aid of

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in the 17th century on a lower level.
century it was believed that the lower animals, insects, etc., could
book from the 7th century AD
bullocks created hornets, donkeys, wasps. It was in the 17th century that the
believed, Redi was considered a dreadful heretic still in the 17th century
regarding living things which Francesco Redi put forward in the 17th century
in Central America took place, very noteworthy

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ego works from a strong central point.
ego-centre remains in relative obscurity and he may be hardly aware of it. At
accomplish this stage-by-stage ascent. In the first place it has to suppress
to a higher life but can give us some support in our ascent — if for
about our ascent into higher worlds by vegetarianism or by not eating this or
content to develop inner vision and inward concentration, for a life which is

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amount by the association of ideas. He concentrated on his walk to the tax
certain effort was necessary to keep up the concentration on the
Francesco Redi voiced in the 17th century in a different field: living matter
descent. But here, too, the principle is the same. The work of the
is central to the evil of our time: the disbelief in the spirit, But it will

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during the later eighteenth century and part of the nineteenth. His opening
explanations of conscience that have been given over the centuries by the
of the 19th century, there lived a philosopher who for nobility of soul,
philosophers of the 19th century have gone further still. Paul Ree,
yet able to say “I” regarding himself, to find the central point
himself to that centre of his being which today is still imperfect but will
increasingly to the fore. In so far as man found this central point of his
for man to find in himself his ego-centre, the external vision was
look back to the fifth and sixth centuries BC, we
present-day sense; but he never quite gets that far. In that century, the

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of the human soul, and their central purpose has been to seek for truth and
up with the existence of a firm centre in the life of the soul, whereby a man
past. But for this very reason, because man lacked this inner centre, his
central point in his soul which now enables him to live within himself and in
in the 8th or 9th century BC, to the works of
centre of things. The epic had to emerge under the influence of the pictorial
is the central character.
immense step forward in time — on to the 13th and 14th centuries of the
further giant stride over several centuries, from Dante to another great
this descent of poetry into the everyday world — still often looked

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present century has contributed towards an understanding of the
Christian circles and has been accepted for centuries, but which
the spiritual world in past centuries. How our horizon can be
nineteenth century through the liberation of certain spiritual
over recent centuries and note the difference between a man at the
turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and one of a century
recent years, within what Western cultural development had to offer,
perhaps a quite decently behaved person, who does not make any very

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in recent lectures.

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this knowledge innocently, and applied it to his physical
Christian centuries it was quite impossible for men to grasp the
necessary after so deep a descent that he should begin to rise once
only beginning, hence the need of a constant incentive to this upward
of centuries after his day, men were no longer capable of realising
century produced a smart idea — “Psychology without
nineteenth century was strangely satisfied with the psychology put
four centuries, this part man must win for himself. The teaching of

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through initiation in different centres of the Mysteries; that this
pre-Christian centuries. If wishing to enter the spiritual world he
split up here in the centre where I have drawn a small circle.

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grown so enormously during recent weeks that it would not have been
descent of the ego into the abyss of its own human nature.
there beholds what beneficent Divine Beings spread over the surface
threshold acts beneficently towards us, making us unaware of our own
is nothing else than the descent of a man into his own being through
this descent is set before us in Buddhistic writings. Such things are
Northern Central Asia. Here these two streams eventually met. All
the form temptation assumes at the descent of a man into his own

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recent years concerning the super-sensible worlds. We have learnt
the Event of Christ and in the Event of Golgotha the central point of
something was given which is comparable with the descent of man into
a slow and gradual descent of man into matter (whether he be called
have been spared this descent? Why had he to enter a fleshly body and
Christ the true central point of the whole earthly evolution of man;
confronted Orpheus they hardly considered his descent from father and
to the life he led on the physical plane, and because of his descent
“Eurydice” his own innocent soul, which must be lost to
of Nazareth. The three innocent stages of childhood's
consequence would be as this innocent life of childhood sought to
connection with the descent of the

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not inform themselves intimately with what concerns the central nerve

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beginning of mankind upon the earth. The descent of Jesus of Nazareth
ourselves passed through in recent years we sketched out a certain
when much that has been touched on recently as general spiritual
recently of many things in human life, and in the composition of the

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in recent years, but it is possible to show in a parable how this
appeared again in the religion of the half-moon, the Crescent, that
continuing to about the 12th-13th century. This means that after
we must reckon a period of from six to six-and-ahalf centuries for
of Christ, and until the thirteenth century it enriched that
Europe, and up to the middle of the thirteenth century (which again
and sixth centuries until between the twelfth and thirteenth, this
been in gradual preparation since the twelfth and thirteenth century.
already existed through the centuries that followed. This was because
religion of the Crescent during the Renaissance, the time is now come
concerning the repeated cycle of six, and again six centuries, we
will never be able to throw light on the central facts of our
other elements, not by solving in any way the central mystery of
Rosicrucians, with Christ as its central idea, will be established in
How the central-idea
stage at which he stood five to six centuries before our era I Can
past; of a teaching given by Buddha five to six centuries before our

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southern city I passed northwards to Copenhagen, where, in a recent
centuries, because they desired to experience in their own souls all
twentieth centuries to what they were even fifty or sixty years
into our own souls. For the past half century souls longing for the
and power in life. At the beginning of the nineteenth century people
the nineteenth century when some remnants of the old life still
as if the expected advance in culture of the nineteenth century had
the first half of the nineteenth century. To show what I mean I will
completely disappear in the course of the nineteenth century, yet he
the year 1847, when the first half of the nineteenth century was
thirteenth centuries the Masters of Rosicrucian wisdom had been
century and will go on further into the twentieth. What was indicated
twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and what the spirit has
since the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries it
existed in Atlantis. The activity it has recently developed, becoming
here to-day) were born in past centuries into other surroundings and
into another world than that of the nineteenth century. Let us look
centuries, when many who are here now were incarnated, and let us see
strange theosophists of recent times; for these things have no value
half of the nineteenth century materialistic culture arose, and all
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recently Ernst Haeckel in his World Riddles
in the 19th century; while during all centuries before unreason and
theories. But it also does not spare the science of the 19th century.
science of the last fourteen centuries. However, he is wrong concerning
different. Only during the later centuries of Christianity the faith
18th century who said: there are as many types of living beings as God
19th century freed us in their area of the concept of the miracle. The

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by the events of the past. When in the 17th century the Italian researcher
of the 17th century with regard to life. According to the present-day
of antiquity, could not do some scientific observations in the 4th century
centuries. However, we do not want to assume the perpetual miracle of

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wants to build up a spiritual current and to bring up a centre of humankind
you of a spirit of the 15th century who set the tone and was actually

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it, the 19th and the beginning 20th centuries do not want to know. Our time
The 19th century has tried to put
during the thirties of the 19th century to historically investigate the actual
human type, thought in the abstract. This is characteristic that the 19th century
in a personality, in similar way as in the first Christian century when all
the 19th century people have born witness to that which we got from Kant’s
what leads to any statement I make today. But I can at least point to the central
issue which is indecent to the materialistically minded theologian. Already
during the first Christian centuries with the Word that became flesh that the
in the course of the centuries the factual sense has developed that the human
centuries. These habits of thinking have arrived at their top height. As everything
a way that wisdom had flowed into the mystery temples for centuries. Outdoors,
That was the custom for centuries.
The Lamb of God was the most innocent; it is able to do the sacrificial death.
the culprit only needed to make sacrifices, the innocent lamb on the cross would
teachers taught in the first centuries. It wants to serve the Christian message;
extinct during the past centuries, that sense which does not look for the criterion

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mysticism could root only in the heads of eccentric people. This is
of the 19th century, the calling resounds from Zeller in the middle
of the 19th century and of the present. However, he caused something
the centre and made another body, the sun, to the centre which was once
cognitive faculties the centre of the physical world view. He really
philosophers of the 19th century that one has to turn around. You can
can also understand the development of the philosophy of the 19th century,
of the 19th century not proved to you that our experience is nothing
in the 19th century agreed apparently completely with Kant. Take the
the 19th century confirmed this law of the specific nerve energy apparently.

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to you everything that developed in the course of the 19th century, and what
is inconceivably fast. Physics of the 19th century transformed any light sensation
19th century can present to us is the reasons which physiology delivers. The
of the 19th century: the transformation of truth to a world of dreams. The idealism

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same time how the whole scientific development of the 19th century, whether
which had the mastery over the minds for centuries, before there was Kant’s

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was in the centre of the whole human thinking and striving, one divided the
Buddhism and of the Greek philosophy and in the first centuries of Christianity.
third centuries you find the trichotomy of the human being acknowledged by the
the 15th and 16th centuries one no longer had a consciousness of the old division.
physical research which pressed its stamp onto the 19th century and its mental
organs of our brain and our nervous system. Natural sciences of the 19th century
centre of speech, another part of this soul activity, another part of another
view? No, because in the 18th century everything that one gives as something
19th century.
At that time, in the 18th century,
to say that on the contrary the materialism of the 18th century hovered over
the minds of the 19th century and that the materialistic creed was setting the
sciences and form psychology differently. During former centuries one realised
not even have a consciousness of that which soul researchers have for centuries
a scholar centuries before Christ what has been found on quite different ways.
a few words about the psychology of the 13th century, about the psychology of
creed of the 19th century. This science which strives only for the external

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century that fish, frogs and the like could develop from mud.
the recently deceased great English philosopher, has shown. He realised —
in miracles, is superstition. Still in the 18th century, one said that there
he discovered the most important physical law of the 19th century. Those who

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is concentrated in particular, or also by simply speaking to the person concerned
system. In every adolescent human being, from the birth of the child, through
a secret within the movements of the soul of the adolescent human being. If
we face this spirit, we make the adolescent human being dependent of our interests
our wishes and desires be active with the education of an adolescent human being,
adolescent human being with a true, holy shyness and understands the words of

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Since the 16th century this has
knowledge appeared the sharpest in the 19th century. At that time the spiritual
of the scientific age to the thirties years of the 19th century. One has pointed
century. And one has said rightly that all the preceding millennia together
have not performed so much in this field as the 19th century.
peculiar that just the science of the 19th century became absolutely powerless
characterises the standpoint of psychology in the second half of the 19th century
of the thinking and the attitude of the 19th century which observes the soul
Indeed, the 19th century has the
advantage over all former centuries that these exceptionally important questions
scholars in the course of the 19th century is written against spiritism. Some
century the materialistic turning point took place when the higher beings saw
tidal wave about humankind. They are working for centuries. Unknown, misjudged,
century. Just because the scientific leaders failed, it was necessary that obvious
it concentrates substances and forces in the brain and makes the brain the suitable
The medium is a reminiscent sign

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when in the outset of the 19th century, in the last third of the 18th century
of the 19th century: “if the sun of the bright daytime consciousness sets,

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absolutely novel, or has humankind gone on them since centuries or even since
Middle Ages through, till the 17th century. Only in the 17th century spiritism
13th centuries — they existed at all times, but they did not appear publicly
these prejudices came from. When in the first centuries of our calendar the
till the 18th century. I cannot explain in detail how this happened; I can only
and 17th centuries, Robert Fludd. He shows for those who have
17th and 18th centuries. Nobody claimed till those times that a dancing table,
since the 16th century sense-perception became decisive for truth; what one
Swedenborg. He influenced the whole 18th century. Even Kant
in the second half of the 19th century, one also made experiments in Bavaria.
with Ennemoser, also with others. Already in the 19th century you find with
in more inspired heads — in the second half of the 19th century.
of the last century and proved to be a clear and keen thinker at every step.
and materialistic ways of thinking since the 18th century — we can call
what one has searched for in recent time on other ways. It is based on the old
for in the same way as the sensuous. In the 13th, 14th centuries, he expressed

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at most since somewhat more than half a century. You allow me to give you evidence
from the 17th century. The evidence which I would like to give you is from a
of the 19th century know that Hansen laid the people, after he had transported
states of consciousness are also found indicated in the books of the 17th century
Keep in mind this story of the 17th century that this wisdom was transmitted
The following centuries, since the
17th century, were not especially convenient for such matters in the external
Kircher explained to us in the 17th century, this procedure had to be carried
form the basis of the question for centuries, and it does not depend on something
centuries, did not know what to do with these phenomena.
in a strangely surprising way at the end of the 18th century. Mesmer was a much
18th century in bigger number than this could be the case today; a person who,
how little the changed science of the 19th century can do justice to that which
was written from quite different preconditions in the 18th century. Preyer dealt
18th and still the 19th centuries.
magnetic cures in Vienna in the last third of the 18th century. He made use
century in the age of Enlightenment that in France the emotions were running
— and it is the strange fact that the scholars of the 19th century were
the second half of the 19th century. Only with few exceptions this question
of the 19th century that is ignored, however, by the official science as a rule.
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setting the tone for centuries which have done big, tremendous actions disappeared
remains for centuries or millennia; and may the human eyes feel contented at
soul endure that on one side innocent human beings live in bitterness and misery,

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happened in a coffee party recently which is, however, not at all so untypical
the sneering and the reproach of rapture, as just in the example the recently
last centuries to give this spiritual science as it was given once. What one
which the old Central European peoples have in their myths: Niflheim, nebulous
— The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism (1873)

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it an important central need has been met. A supplement of the book The
Who only has an overview of the last centuries cannot at all get it clear in
already because the researchers of the former centuries knew nothing about the
big discoveries of the 19th century.
But the questions, these important central questions which Bois-Reymond put
They had many followers in the first third of the 19th century, as well as even
of duty flow like from a single centre of the human being, from common intuition.
around the turn of the 15th century to the 16th century splitting again what
the natural sciences. In the 15th, 16th centuries this separation takes place:

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centuries, because everything that it comprises belongs to a range of thoughts
which originated many centuries before our calendar? — Today we want to
what was called Gnosticism during the first Christian centuries. Knowledge by
between esoteric and exoteric content, in particular in the first centuries.
first centuries tell that in the words of Origen, of Clement of Alexandria if
In the last third of the 19th century
onto humankind in the last third of the 19th century. Mrs. Blavatsky was nobody
16th centuries, has not only materialised science, but also the confessions
century only very little understanding was there of a more profound wisdom.
19th century that they were dissatisfied with that which they could hear from
needs found the least satisfaction in the confessions of the 19th century. These
confessions of the 19th century were revived in the core by the esoteric core
century could only accept little from this Rosicrucian brotherhood. Thus it
at the beginning of the 19th century who then gave the stimulus. The European
investigation of Buddhism in the course of the 19th century argued from their
of Cusa renewed this view in the 15th century, also the Christian mystics,
century and examines the words of that time finds that it is more difficult

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find personalities in olden and recent times who can in actual
century.
decades of the eighteenth century — in an all encompassing
century. Whoever views this extraordinary bust will, if he or

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to the underworld was an initiate, for the descent into the
when the physiological nature of man is able to attempt the ascent by
descend into the innermost depths, regarded this descent as something

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occult mystery for the outside world for many centuries and will seem
might be at the end of the nineteenth century, at the transition from
the nineteenth to the twentieth century. Nostradamus,
which have already been fulfilled. In these ‘Centuries’ by
Nostradamus (Century 10, 75) the following prophecy can be found: At
the close of the nineteenth century a Hermes Brother will come from
from the third century

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We are led to a particular centre whence this

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Centaur Chiron did this for Prometheus. He was suffering from an
still has an affinity with his animal nature, the Centaur Chiron, has
The sacrifice of the Centaur Chiron is just as important for the

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centuries and is still extant today in many versions. It is the
beginning of the fifteenth century
fifteenth century, it has often been repeated and explained in the
and iron. In this line of descent, stemming from the Elohim, were all
the centre of the earth. He was led by Tubal-Cain to Cain, who there
eighteenth century, as guardian of the innermost secrets of the

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manifested in about the third century
the time of the third century
recounted to you recently. All such spiritual currents connected with
century was the Christian life. The life therein is Christianity.
the twelfth century. They called themselves Cathars because
the contrast which developed in the third and fourth centuries
in later centuries. They are the offspring of ancient spiritual currents.

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until he reached the centre of the earth where fire has its origin.
cathedrals and churches. After the thirteenth century they also began

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odd, but it is so. Since the eighteenth century Freemasonry has been
in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. As this is not the case,
because, since the sixteenth century, man has had little
during the first half of the eighteenth century, no one had any
importance. The next point is one which exists in all centres of
contained in the religions and centres of hidden wisdom have occupied
the sixteenth century, must be carried right into the atom. Thus,

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nineteenth century historians, who have no idea of the difficult
stage. For during the last third of the eighteenth century,
truth to appear in print recently. Therefore where this should have
less the right idea. It is only very recently that science has been

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forward to an age when, as I recently indicated, understanding will

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with that, however, goes the fact which I mentioned recently — that
a voice from the centre of the earth. This came from Cain himself,

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was to be the centre and from there the secret concerning the

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is engaged in an ascent. But this is not brought about by any outer

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ascent is gradually prepared for the whole of humanity. The initiates
ascent must be re-enacted of the stages through which the whole of
the descent of the Holy Spirit which will lead mankind through to the
Evil. This weft of the Spirit's descent is consummated at
body.. The symbol for that is the descent of the Holy Spirit into

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of the 18th to the 19th century, the sun left the constellation of the
especially from the fourteenth century onward.
central focus for the Theosophical Society, since we know what the

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great centres of spiritual activity will spring up. You see,
We must subject everything to rigorous concentration, we must work
upon our inner being by strongly concentrating our soul in the purely
concept which brings about a strong concentration of our inner being,
more recent times, therefore, much more was learnt in concepts; more
only describe broadly how the descent into the etheric body takes
then reach that point once again in his descent. He descends from the
fettered ego. Only then can he accomplish his ascent into the
through this descent into the universe, through this pilgrimage. And

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at least until the late seventeenth century, any kind of female member was,
his greatest success. Then he was led by a figure to the centre of
occultist. Up to the eighteenth century it was known that things were
century paved the way for the sexes to come together.
opposite sex in man. Man developed in himself, by concentrating, at
during the Middle Ages. This is nothing else than concentrating to

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with the female element. Until just recently, this rule has been
fertilising principle in the perception of the Divine centre in man's
led to the centre of the earth by a figure whom he recognises as
[power] which presses the foot [of man] from the centre of the
as the eighteenth century. And in 1775 the first of the so-called
which would complete him, as a means of concentration. He was already
to human development, in the fifteenth century. This was a matter of

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been coming before your souls recently. Today, may I amplify
reverence, then the dark centre appears to be blueish; just as a
who have recently died, can now be seen fighting on the side of the

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aristocratic, with its ascent from degree to degree, and its pride in
those who could attain entry to these Mystery centres; for certain
before the eyes of the pupil in living pictures, in magnificent
lost their meaning in Freemasonry in recent centuries. What has taken
place in culture during recent centuries has been largely
in a masonic context, that is, the twelfth century of our European
thought by several centuries the events that are to occur in the
relates to the course of events in the coming centuries, in the same
time [in the twelfth century] it was dangerous to know [in advance]
for the very heart of what was attempted in the twelfth century. That
you who heard my recent lecture
separately on these matters until [just] recently. On the other hand
medieval people of the twelfth century reflected, in looking back to
medieval thinker of the twelfth century looked back at the occult
founded the movement of the Holy Grail in the twelfth century said
century; who had to hide themselves from the world under pseudonyms,

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simple picture can show us what the centuries-long research

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of the eighteenth century in Jena.
of the nineteenth century and is forgotten today, Heinroth

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centuries and millennia, to those who could not search the
in three successive steps the ascent on the path of knowledge

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centuries, but of millennia if one wanted to describe the
that took place in the course of the last centuries with
Still a few centuries ago, the Bible was believed to be
speak about the Old Testament first. For centuries, it was
that it is no uniform document. In the eighteenth century, the
was for centuries. If this research comes to fruition, the
centuries ago. We come to an understanding of the
was not communicated in the old schools and training centres
repeated as tradition for centuries. If we read Giordano
of the external nature since the sixteenth century takes place
during the last centuries. However, if one thing extends in the
see how during the last centuries the scientific methods
get to know the human being by the methods of concentration and
life is involved in the descent of the human being in the
centuries, one did not criticise the Bible in reality. The

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fact that in the seventeenth, eighteenth centuries a criticism
beings for centuries, and attacked its bases. One would have to
centre of the whole world history is different. This sight has
particular, in the nineteenth century, this view settled in the
only in the second century. Not from the original story, but
like a Christian up to the second century, however, it was no
century.
figure of Christ Jesus survived which prevailed for centuries,
the descent of a spiritual being from spiritual spheres that
centuries, memory survived in the old far-off past, and another
holding on the same recollection, for centuries from generation
generations at that time, for centuries. As we speak today
meditation, concentration and the other exercises. The soul of

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may regard this as the biggest superstition some centuries
spirits. A Leipzig scholar took great pains till recently to
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, about Ramon Llull
been known for centuries and is right even today. This shows

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philosopher of the nineteenth century had a saying that has

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percent in the last decades. Those, however, who say that these

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attention to that in the soul, which emerges from the centre as
way beside the real centre, the centre of his soul, always he
Thus, he lived until the seventies of the last century. Then
could satisfy his searching. Recently it was in such a way that
is even magnificent how he contrasts these simple human beings
dollar and 20 cents. Never again — so says Carnegie
this dollar and twenty cents. Nothing made more joy to him
we find the centre in it, which we may imagine possibly in the
way of life is different, a centre is there that is different

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maybe since centuries and which are strictly compulsory. He
weight. Only during the forties of the nineteenth century, the
adjacent fields regardless of his own activity. Otherwise, it
have recently stated in other connections that one wants to

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body to the centre.

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just the nineteenth century saw its biggest results,
centuries was overcome, that life could originate from

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time in 1831, after he had recently worked since 1824
of the seventies of the eighteenth century, and how he began then
spiritual powers pour forth in the centre of earth.”
century. Faust was the object of manifold folk plays and puppet
century, a time in which many things were decided in history.
If you compare this time to the eleventh and twelfth centuries
different. In the twelfth century, it was possible for those
Faust lived in this period, in the sixteenth century, in a time
figure of the sixteenth century. Thus, he approaches us in
of the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries expresses itself
the eighteenth century to concretise himself in the Faust
being more internally, in the centre of his soul, and draws
century. One did no longer know how Lucifer and Ahriman differ,
in such a magnificent way in the second part of
Mephistopheles speaks there, in classically magnificent way,

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now clearly drawn, now evanescent,
of meditation, concentration and so on, which are given to him
magnificently everything faced Goethe's soul that is there of
see, after he is recently removed from the physical body, his
beholds in the supersensible world. It is magnificently shown
cross symbolises the descent to the sensuous world and the red

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century.
nineteenth century sees that an immense jerk forward is done in
second half of the nineteenth century: think of Haeckel (Ernst
performed in the nineteenth century. It appears to us compared
century, Richard Wagner (1813–1883, composer), attempting to
his soul that happened in the nineteenth century.
were developed to ritual acts. The descent of the primeval
nineteenth century in which is searched and worked according to
the nineteenth century. Darwinism shows how the evolution of
century had to lead the deeper feeling personalities.
the nineteenth century. This tragedy appears in particular, if

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express itself in art for centuries, which has also found its
reminiscent with Goethe, the expression “the
Christian centuries in the catacombs where we find the Madonna,
fifteenth century, when after multiple changes the child and

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represented the centre of attraction in the circle of the
meant an ascent to a divine-spiritual world, but the breath of
of Golgotha. Also during the following centuries after the
the thirteenth centuries that way. The knights of the Holy
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This school has to foster
since the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries who were the

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centuries, which may also apply to spiritual science that has a
last centuries. However, one has to develop the
concentration of the spiritual life in spiritual science. We
call it concentration of the spiritual life because the human
picture, any soul impulse, and to put it in the centre of his
through the world. A symbol. Now I concentrate my complete
true is in it, but that all soul forces are concentrated in
concentrate your whole soul life onto this one point. That
to, and concentrate the whole soul only upon one point that he
concentration, the increased attention wakes the forces
central nervous system; it is an outflow of the central nervous
bound to the brain that one cannot think without the central
life, is bound to the central nervous system and to the
central nervous system that is necessary for thinking in the
separates from the bodily by concentration as I have indicated.
that he is beyond his central nervous system and that he faces
methods of concentration. You know only then how the cerebral
exercises and has the devotion to concentrate his whole soul
attention, the increased concentration. You already notice this
in particular concerning the central nervous system. If you
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offers little incentive to agree anyhow with it. However, not
beings, our developed inner life with its distinct centre of
century AD, Lives and Opinions of
fright. The forces of the organism are concentrated
concentrated researcher who really lives in his scientific
just now. He must concentrate upon the one-sided thinking; he
what can be given in the beginning of the twentieth century as

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they have developed for three to four centuries in our
cultural life, of the last times of the nineteenth century can
as it has developed during the last three to four centuries
century pass by, as they have developed until our
researches of the nineteenth century, and until our time. There
already say since centuries about the inner experiences. As
Since centuries, since millennia one no
races and epochs, and that with the ascent to the real
impulse, as there can only be one centre of mass of a balance.

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spirits of the nineteenth century finally denied the life after
nineteenth century refused the life after death.
thinkers of the last century said that it belongs to the human
have been educated during the last centuries scientifically.
concentration for many years. I have said there that if the
forward in his recently appeared booklet

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something and that thereby imaginary or real descents are
realise how a highly educated man of the more recent past who

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thinkers of the nineteenth century and our time, and you
only to point to thinkers of the last centuries before the
and Approaches to Life in the Nineteenth Century
old stoic wisdom; and one cannot say that the later centuries
that has already advanced for some centuries. However, we can
nineteenth century gave, that the evil is nothing positive. It
century, Hermann Lotze (181
approaches a spirit of the sixteenth, seventeenth centuries
his soul for the ascent to the spiritual world; this is also
the nineteenth century could teach this, for the time up to our
philosophers in the nineteenth century, of that worldview which
spirit of the nineteenth century. From a certain viewpoint I
century, namely from the viewpoint that the human being, while
thirds of the nineteenth century, this echo could not exist.
very much because the spirit of the nineteenth century, in
centuries, it experienced a time where one always spoke of the
some centuries. However, more and more one will feel it not

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moral human life in a magnificently
psychological thinkers of the most recent past do no longer
soul contents that one puts in the centre of the soul life. If
to concentrate them upon clear soul contents of which he knows
crowded together gradually by this stronger concentration of
so-called concentration. This is something that the human being
experience in the Imaginative world, however, its centre is in
experience that you lose the centre of gravity as it were; you
gives us a firm centre of gravity feel their consciousness
do not lose the centre of gravity and that it is something that
death we recently celebrated. He says, what is the sensory

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from the consciousness of the eighteenth century.
dates back behind the eighth to tenth centuries before our
until the eighth to tenth centuries before our
Century (final title:
the fourteenth, fifteenth centuries preferably demanded the
century? At this time, a net of lawfulness spreads out as it
fourteenth century. From the eighth, tenth pre-Christian
centuries until the time of the fourteenth, fifteenth
post-Christian centuries the development of the intellectual or
centuries on. We live for about four centuries in this
century that got its shine only in the modern natural sciences,
century what Kant tried to derive from a principle, the
adjacent to a divine-spiritual world, we see the divine world
Stopp'd by these accents in her mid
to the magnificent, clever worldview that he could create
century that had to put everything in the right light on one

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century the great discoveries that Darwin made. It has

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nineteenth century, to Goethe and to the less known Robert
twenties of the nineteenth century, he remembered former
with Frankfurt accent, the writer understood Orden
In the sixties of the nineteenth century, a

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Basel. One does not intend to concentrate spiritual science

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bigger. Indeed, one has to admit that recently within our
also in the recent heyday of natural
Let me point to an older and to a recent
of the last century in the Vienna Academy of Sciences by the
that would be again a complacent contemplation, as the
complacent life in thoughts and ideas.

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already since more than one century from the Western cultural
descent relations were known to what extent the qualities of
persons of the nineteenth century rest, and even before the
recent Darwinist natural sciences approached, the idea of the
from the body. Meditation, concentration, and contemplation are
thought of benevolence or of something else in the centre of
exercise concentration of thinking repeatedly, to practice
inner life in meditation and concentration. For example, he can

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adjacent site. A car was taken to drive to the so-called
fifteenth century at this place, and his little son was the
undertook to the adjacent places. One can consider as sure that
licentiate, the old Bombastus von Hohenheim taking the
fifteenth, sixteenth centuries, a deep knowledge of nature
its variety. It is nice as he sees the innocent coltsfoot
not only as the Faust of the sixteenth century before us who
figure as from the Paracelsus figure of the sixteenth century.
reason immediately. The times since the sixteenth century have
Paracelsus figure of the sixteenth century to a Faust figure of
sixteenth century. That is why for Paracelsus that became more

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whole meditation was that he brought this thought in the centre
his inside as the central issue.

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in the second half of the nineteenth century by the big,
nineteenth century. Which view has formed when Darwin
The Descent of Man
second half of the nineteenth century worldviews mushroomed
nineteenth century. To a worldview which had at that time by no
meditation, concentration and the
impulses consciously in the centre of his soul life, he can
extended by meditation and concentration backward beyond birth
certain time of life, later in life this concentrates upon a

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Christ and the Twentieth Century
Christ and the Twentieth Century
During the first post-Christian centuries,
gnosis magnificent ideas of the Christ Being develop. These
how did gnosis imagine this descent of a wholly spiritual being
century to his mind admits just like that that such an image
the sixteenth century on this kind of “double-entry
century the whole course of development has led to lose any
nineteenth century a mere quest for the historical Jesus
needs only to point to that which one attained recently from a
which were applied in the nineteenth century to prove, so to
the nineteenth century to have to talk. One wanted to
the course of centuries, but around the turn of the era that
them to the central issue in the single Gospels, one realises
twentieth century that it will recognise that the nineteenth
century was on the wrong tracks. Since it wanted to reduce the
century something else has to be added to the habitual ways of
big task of the twentieth century will be that the concept of
If the twentieth century can take the great
twentieth century and as he will completely take it
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century which was only directed to the outer appearance also
with the outer physical form. One can trace back the descent of
founded this logic as science only few centuries before our
that by meditation and concentration someone who wants to
with Thales five to six centuries before the Christian calendar
strange experience quite recently. In my book
a point where he completely realises his ego, his central
magnificently. At that time, one pointed to it when one knew

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the world of the sixteenth century, the earth on which one believed to stand firmly resting
that time in the sixteenth century when already after the death
one takes the fact into account that in the centuries up to the
what Aristoteles had produced as a scientific spirit centuries
comprehensive, magnificent work of Aristotle, one realises that
it does not get, a level that resulted since centuries before
fifteenth, sixteenth centuries when the greatness of the old
sixteenth century; he was a man in whose inside largely and
in the centre, and that the planets circle round it. What would
the outer sensory facts, he put the sun in the centre of the
legend in the sixteenth century that also has a historical
education of the sixteenth century as the consciousness, while
that what was connected with it in the course of the centuries.
the universe concentrated in a human body as it were to extend
again at his death and to concentrate later again. He imagines
appearance in meditation and concentration, so that the thought
as effect with the adolescent human being. But monism says it
centuries can be offered for reincarnation any time. But as

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work only inside with concentration of thought and other
concentration for the intellectual culture, the possibility to
disharmony. Because in our time the belief in the concentration
his nervous system by mental concentration. Briefly, everything
How complacent is the human being. The human being is
especially complacent if he stresses repeatedly that nothing
spiritual-scientific truth: “During all centuries, the

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ninth century, to a Viking, Ottar Jarl, and led his pedigree
nineteenth century.
of the nineteenth century.
intellectual life of the nineteenth century which is given only
knowledgeable investigations only in the nineteenth century
matured humanity only in the nineteenth century?
century for the Goethe edition of the
nineteenth century that one has to consider the cranial bones
that in the second half of the nineteenth century on basis of
second half of the nineteenth century that intervenes deeply in
nineteenth century searches that what he believes to need for
century. One may say, if it had been possible that Darwin would
nineteenth century was destined to divert the attention for a
not —, one may abandon them, the idea of descent may be quite
nineteenth century. If we realise that a common plan of the
nineteenth century done without knowing it? While it has
of the nineteenth century.
such a person in the nineteenth century to whom that was a
natural sciences of the nineteenth century explained so
magnificently if he looks at the spiritual world and notices
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course of the nineteenth century and up to now looked for a
knowledge questions of the nineteenth century in the most
nineteenth century. I have drawn your attention to the fact
just the excellent thinkers of the nineteenth century to say to
education of the nineteenth century in special way stood in his
concentration of thinking, by additional methods described in
century who because he was not only a speculating, but also a
the last century.

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certain thoughts in vigorous meditation and concentration. It
are at the end of a descent line. I have also here pointed out
down maybe from a human being in the fourteenth century through
a descendant in the fifteenth, sixteenth centuries up to the
twentieth century: the physical processes live on there; in
centuries, there also something spiritual happens. There is the
speaking: if a human being is born in the twentieth century
parents who were born in the nineteenth century and so on, we
come through centuries; in the end, there the current of
is active already since centuries in that which brings together
human couple to descendants since centuries. The soul itself

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century and up to our time that are on the way to this
made the unconscious mostly popular in the last half a century
the centre of the planetary system and let the sun circle
completely upside down: we have to put the sun in the centre of
which one had for centuries.
course of centuries. The human being must not search a union
usual consciousness only, but an ascent to that what does not
century must be waited until they happen that there the outer

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stand within the subjacent nervous system, then a
any central organ, from the brain, they excite the respiratory
in the sense as I have recently characterised it. One has to
central sentence from this book:

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in the first third of the nineteenth century by which ether
inner higher human being to them... In recent time even Kant
“Even if it is extremely pleasant that the recent
recent times the analytic psychology appeared. It is, I would

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recent past have of which some people believe that they
cooled, we say, to 200 degrees centigrade below freezing point.
who died before some days whom I have recently mentioned here
such a way as I have recently described it: by handing over the
dealt for some centuries up to now repeatedly with thinking
literature of the first half of the nineteenth century which of
recently said that it repelled Herman Grimm, for example, as

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recently has not shown everything that exists there? Only
century, even of the twentieth century, want it with
Since the whole thinking of the last century has brought the

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the last centuries lies in the field that grows out of the
reached another viewpoint in the nineteenth and our centuries
present, it is important to realise that a century ago even
by no means a century ago as this happens today on the ground
are so advanced in the course of a century concerning the whole
reminiscent of reincarnation and is compatible with his
and a half centuries ago. At that time, the tendency prevailed
cannot say in the same way as a century ago that that does not
a century ago or still later, without contradicting the
that there were spirits in the course of the nineteenth century
fifteenth centuries, before the art of printing spread the
question in another sense than a century ago when the scope of

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is very interesting that recently a popular book appeared where
rider to the horse that is after the picture of the centaur
Indeed, certain modern ideas about the centaur seem to comply
themselves maybe even in the centre of the soul life. We must

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only the present, even the last centuries give.
of the education of our time at least of Central Europe or of
world nebula, the central gas drop forms from which the earth
have already indicated in the first talk that the ascent to the
our time — even where one longs for the ascent to the
or at least imagining the ascent to the spiritual world
it. Since it would be absurd to believe that the centre of soul
is, the ascent to the spiritual worlds requires a stimulation
attention to the spiritual centre of the human being, to the
centre of any experience, and if we go on with that respect,
means very much to feel the devotion of this concentration of
as the centre of thinking, feeling, and willing without

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we face, for example, as educators an adolescent human being
face the adolescent human being only with the right attitude if

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destiny of the biblical studies in the nineteenth century. One
nineteenth century. Nothing can exceed that diligence, that
of the nineteenth century. Since the more they advanced, the
trip to a temple site, a priestly training centre, but the
willing at first, which work from the centre of the ego and
power, with the centre of the human soul forces which is the
holiest centre of the soul life that lives in the ego where the
human soul realises its centre. If the human soul feels
centre of his soul life today, it is still something that must
felt directed to this centre of their soul life in particular
this centre, he feels that in the wonderful words “I
am” this centre of his soul life sounds intense and
centuries which should create the basis of the intellectual
the innermost centre of the human soul that, however, only this
time, but the concentric Christ source behind any unity.

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nineteenth century something was added that introduces us in a
century our science was seized by the knowledge: we rest here
nineteenth century that the excellent spirits of the nineteenth
century used approaches that were predetermined by the just
Excellent spirits of the nineteenth century thought possibly in
the nineteenth century more and more: the world of atoms and
attractive for some thinkers of the nineteenth century if they
the nineteenth century, penetrating any physical knowledge with
a great ideal before the thinkers of the nineteenth century.
nineteenth century ingeniously: the fact that heat can be
of the nineteenth century astronomy was limited. However, one
space and time in the nineteenth century: the astronomic
century. Since thermodynamics is based merely on this
pointed more than one century ago at the mere utilisation of
nineteenth century in its application to astronomy — like
sciences as our century, or he was inspired.
leading physicist of the nineteenth century said this. Now
from the spirit in the course of the nineteenth century where
scientific development of the nineteenth century, which has

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Century (The Riddles of Philosophy) to have
century, the spiritual orientation was different from in the
middle of the 19th century, you find two attitudes.
19th century only with the German philosophers, for example,
naturalist of the first half of the 19th century, for example,
cellular life at the end of the thirties of the 19th century.
the development of the 19th century. Somebody who wants to
study the development of humanity in the 19th century as a
the 19th century, when one still had a more spiritual
soul for centuries of education. Thus, it happened in the
descent of the modern human being from a being that equals the

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help should be an auspicious sign of the next century.
centuries, and there we find a prince, Henry IV of France, in
the 16th, 17th centuries, who stimulated the idea of such a
Central Europe.
Rousseau was still spread at the end of the 18th century that
us in the last third of the 19th century: yes, it would be nice
future. We have a particular task here in Central Europe.

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of the 20th century, but at the end of the 18th century.
What the animal feels and experiences today is the central
grasped it now, as an ascent of the soul to the spirit. Then

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form and is as a reminiscent sign of it, becomes degenerate
side, around this centre is a belt of human population that had
would like to say that a magnificent monument of the middle of

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inkling how much more elated and more magnificent the concept
from which central site the great sages came who went to the
the different religions point back to the central site where
point to such a central site. Our materialistic cultural
such a thing like a spiritual central site of humanity, and
central site. It speaks again from experience about the matters
central point, the core of truth in the different religions.

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we go on some centuries, we find that this principle faces us
artistic achievements of the 12th and 13th centuries. They
From the 16th century on, we see the spiritual life developing
more developing in the last century, while in the Middle Ages

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reminiscent of estrangement, of distance from the outer
freedom which enables him to look for the centre of his being
concentrate. You must observe this hour. There you have to
into the inner soul life. A big percentage of modern humanity

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celebrated in the areas of Northern and Central Europe in old
higher being, but still more like a reminiscent sign of
moment of human development the descent of the divine sons of
moon, and sun gradually appeared, which made the descent of the
fourth century to reschedule the birthday celebration of the
celebrated. Until the fourth century Christmas, Christ's
fourth century, one decided to let the Saviour be born on that
spiritual science for the adolescent child, if in all streets

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for something different for centuries, even for millennia. With

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century, it was not only a superstition of the big mass, but
centuries exactly just as the scientific truth, the
centuries? Imagine this element in the human nature, and then
centuries of the new development, this was not possible because

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beneficent, preserving, life-sustaining, and life-giving powers
between pain, evil, grief, and the beneficent powers of
just in the last century.
centuries. You all know that Goethe transformed the medieval
Even in the 16th century, the folk spirit represented this
beneficent to the human being, Lucifer, prevailed in him who

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the last third of the 19th century it was granted to some
the last third of the 19th century, it was granted, as I said,
in the last third of the 19th century. That is why they could
third of the 19th century a breath was to be felt that
appears as an after-image of the descent, the suffering and
the second current. It was in the fourth century of the
— in the fourth century. These two currents of the human
However, it degenerated in that time, in the fourth century, to
The whole drama ends magnificently, in the sure certainty that

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and 19th centuries. Today, however, I would like to show
Central Europe and in Western Europe, at a past, in which
— In all initiations, one calls this the descent into

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German Theosophists at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
18th to the 19th centuries the most important German thinkers
around the turn of the 18th to the 19th centuries, there would
of the 18th to the 19th centuries is the very best for the
life of the turn from the 18th to the 19th centuries originated
the 18th century had taken up the cause of it. Kant says,
centuries, what everybody has taken up from the common
time, around the turn from the 18th to the 19th centuries. It
spiritual life of the 18th century. However, Kant's philosophy
that thinking to which the 18th century came and beyond which
than one century after Fichte a German university professor
of the 18th century. He did not represent it in the same way as
century whose end forms in conceptual respect Johann Gottlieb
appreciated the individuality during the former centuries less
of the 18th century, who were sitting at his feet and listening
century, not yet thirty years old. Who becomes engrossed in his
the 18th century (presumably Claude de Saint Martin,
such a fine way in the 19th century again. He stimulated
century later are led automatically to reincarnation and karma.
in the 19th century the book about this strange woman appeared,
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was something like a surprise when in the 18th century the
was almost forgotten for centuries. One hardly knew what the
the 18th centuries, and spirits, who were able to recognise the
centuries were only later creations of a much older folk
Wagner (1813-1883) in the second half of the 19th century.
recollection, it was for our ancestors in Central Europe that
Therefore, it seemed to the human beings in Central Europe in

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which Central European thinking and feeling express themselves
Central European population. This consciousness is sunken in
a worldview completely new to Central Europe, had spread out
Christianity maybe was nowhere expressed as magnificently and
bit and in which the task of Christianity within Central Europe
lord of these sages who formed a spiritual centre, a kind of
spiritual monarchy. One felt that this spiritual centre, I
secret of the Holy Grail is the descent of the god who
with magnificent correctness, maybe not quite philosophically
felt Christianity that way in Central Europe. No name and no
the folk in magnificent legends, which Wagner tries to renew.

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When in the sixth and seventh centuries Christianity wanted to
expressed in external customs. In the first century of
whole nature concentrated in him, we see him as a microcosm in
concentrated in the Easter festival. Richard Wagner felt this
strength. We are in the centre of spring, at the Easter point

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centuries. It is left to the free will of every human being

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the medical centres was another. It was the intuitive view,
adolescent. Such a human being is almost rude compared to the

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personalities of the last centuries. In the aurora of a quite
new time, in the turn of the 16th to the 17th centuries, he
which appears like a completion of many centuries. He stands
one knows the spiritual life of the 19th century exactly, in
education of the 19th century produced is far away from the
words from the beginning, which were taken only from the centre
the centre in yourselves only.
other great spirits of the 19th century. Only when materialism

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last centuries and in particular in the last century? Who does
far as they are accessible. During former centuries, it was not
hardly see ten centimetres away. He does not see a lot,
age of nervousness and lacking concentration. These states
the ancient imperial Rome in the first Christian centuries. He
in these once magnificent, now decayed buildings? They wanted
picture change in the course of the centuries? — Those, who

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they never were once. Slowly and gradually, for four centuries
it has prepared itself. However, in the 19th century, it has
centuries which humiliated the feeling and thinking of
prepared itself slowly. In the 19th century, one came with it
and understood with the intellect. In the 19th century, it has
immense progress when during the thirties of the 19th century
19th century so much: one saw obviously how the organism
the feeling and thinking of the 19th century. They got their
almost forgotten when in the 19th century the so-called theory
premise in the middle of the 19th century. You find the merits
World Views and Approaches to Life in the 19th Century
materialists of the 19th century primarily relied on this fact
scent. Here is an uncrossable limit of knowledge. One cannot
under full canvas into the materialism of the 19th century,

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astral bodies and consisting of nascent spirit: manas, buddhi,

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up then to the Middle Ages, to the 16th, 17th centuries and
beings are the same today as they were centuries ago. Those who
tacitly. The human beings of different centuries differ really
a few centuries. We need only to mention one thing that deeply
depth of the world to the highest degree, to a centre from
were usual in the course of the last centuries in the secret
that the circle line is always equidistant to the centre. What
plant sticks toward the centre of the earth, just as the human
sticks his organs of conceptions toward the centre of the

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say. To a minor degree that applies to a big percentage of the
fiftieth birthday recently in another country, who had
they have no connection to theosophy, are reasonably decent

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centuries ago, one still believed in procreation, for example,
this nascent freedom than respecting that freedom of that which

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could the order be maintained as it were by the “central
intelligence is with the central authority, with the group-soul
central organ. However, the hand must be practised, and when it
way. However, it reacts on the central authority. It seems to
the descent theory is rather near to bankruptcy. Serious
only imagines this descent, but it knows how to investigate it

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compare it to the environment centuries ago or also before
this life as it has gradually developed for centuries with
development of humanity during the last centuries.
centuries crystallised in our industry, in the threads of all
them in admirable way for centuries up to our time concerning
that have taken place since centuries and still project with
the emergence of the machines during the last centuries
during the last centuries concerning occupation and

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centre of creation.
initiated for a long time, but just in the 19th century, it
that in the 19th century the admirable advances of the natural
which assigns itself to the centre of the earth whereas the
now clearly drawn, now evanescent,

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we already used recently when I talked about sun, moon, and

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evil is concentrated who want to explain our existence from the
depths of the world existence. How magnificently and greatly
by side and in a certain way reminiscent to the Nordic legend.
through another life centuries ago developing and using those
extension, of increasing accompanies this reminiscent picture.
Thus, this reminiscent
reminiscent picture sticks to him and presses like a weight of
themselves to be thrown back to a level which was beneficent in
poem. The beneficent element becomes a consuming, hampering
fire is beneficent if the human being controls it, while it can
infernal ones, and where they turn out to be beneficent, while

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This is the ascent of the
and at this place of Central Europe but hundred years ago and

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speaking about an interesting personality of the 19th Century, someone
the 19th Century cultural life around him On the contrary there comes
world views held by those 19th-century thinkers who lived in the same
Spir presented his view of the world one realizes that his 19th-century
course of the 19th Century, had a premonition that something like spiritual
in that century. African Spir was such a thinker. If we read his writings,
into Central Europe, a Russian who, being influenced by Central and
'I' in people of Central Europe; while the Russian people of Eastern
only when spiritual science, developed in Central Europe, becomes absorbed
consciousness soul placed next to one another. In the Central Europeans
of Eastern Europe merging with that of Central Europe.
degree robbed the first half of the 19th Century of its spiritual achievements;
to the 19th Century; even more than I have done in my book Vom Menschenrätsel.
Some day the history of the 19th Century will have to be rewritten.
history of the 19th Century is when one attempts to study its history
I said that our time has robbed the 19th Century of its spiritual achievements
is because that century produced many thinkers who, for lack of recognition,
last third of the 19th Century produced a great number of highly significant
who in recent times have been victims of spiritual isolation and robbed
19th century comes to be rewritten, could well be inserted as characteristic
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material to our recent considerations. The primary aim has been to show
insight. Many examples related to our recent studies could be chosen,
at a further stage through centralization. At this stage the function
to momentary needs, from a center which is able to assess the need on
of greatness in the 19th Century, but it is necessary to have a proper
in the 19th Century. Souls without a rudder, souls without a firm grip
another. At this point investigations come to an end. The 19th Century
it. In the 19th Century someone wrote a book with the title “Force
and matter. In the 20th Century we must substitute that title with “Lucifer

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quite impossible for a theologian in the 14th century. This fact may
It is because man, during recent centuries, has endeavoured to avoid

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century; particularly in the sphere of aesthetic interpretation of music.
for in recent cultural achievements. However, if Herman Joachim —
— this distinguished and unique representative of Central European
to cultural life in recent times. When a dear friend of his, the unique
knowledge accumulated over centuries. Just because of his high position
from the physical plane in recent months, Olga von Sivers,
which are now, in Central Europe, considered to be enemy country. She
others was Frau Maud Künstler who also died recently.
age they are often shattered. In recent lectures I have described deeper
In the 18th Century, striving to develop reason was synonymous with
Century. He begins by saying that: “Before the war the West imagined

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of the 19th Century practiced in Jena and other cities. We still find
In the mystery centers it would be possible to receive inspiration but
without having as its center a living concept of the Resurrection is
what I recently termed “iron necessity.” During his earthly
law should be particularly in evidence and concentrated, so to speak,
Recently I was sent another
first experience of Christ was on the physical plane. Through the centuries
19th and 20th Centuries. That the present situation should arise was

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several decades ago in a Central European city. There was an important
I recently described the
Century there was a great upsurge of natural-scientific thinking and
of the 19th Century positively revelled in atheism. But such tendencies

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a residue of this clairvoyance persisted right into later centuries
into the 17th century a vestige of the ancient clairvoyance was still
world in the 16th and 17th centuries and what is possible since then.
And even in the 17th century most people would not have been able to
arisen in the 14th, 15th, 16th or even 17th centuries. Much of the literature
in the 13th Century, attained the concepts and ideas he elaborated in
since the 16th, 17th but especially since the 18th century, we have
17th century.
17th century a little-known philosopher, Henry
of the 17th century yet he knew that only through a more receptive consciousness
even 17th centuries people appear who know of the spiritual world through
direct communion. The reason is the following: Those who in these centuries
present on earth in the centuries prior to the Mystery of Golgotha.
They then had an intermediate incarnation in the 7th, 8th or 9th century
was said concerning Christianity during those later centuries. Through
insight into the world's coming-into-being which, since the 17th century
tragic centuries leading up to the Mystery of Golgotha, made an enormous
between the 14th and 17th centuries, takes on a deeper significance
interest for man today. The period between the 14th and 17th centuries
Recently a very interesting book: Luther's Creed by Ricarda
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i.e., the 16th century; which according to the spiritual-scientific
This epoch, as we know, began in the 15th century and the preceding
Graeco-Latin epoch began some eight centuries before the Mystery of
16th centuries than modern historians are inclined to admit. Great transformation
far too little into account. The people of the 13th and 14th centuries
the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries vividly before my soul. When one looks
at those who during those centuries were engaged in science, one comes
exists in religious conceptions of the universe. In the earlier centuries,
was different from what could be taught in the following centuries,
does springs from the very center of his being. What he knows or believes
theologian in the 13th or 14th Centuries and those of his counterparts
legend of “Dr. Faustus” emerged already in the 16th Century
to the devil was at first rejected in the 16th century. At that time
Goethe and Schiller belong in recent cultural development because it
century be presented just once as they truly were—merely those
of the 19th century! — it would be an immense blessing for mankind.
those, now regarded as great figures of the 19th century, would no longer
great ones from the grey mist of that century.
began in the 8th century B.C. and ended in the 15th century A.D. united

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with unprecedented speed especially in the last centuries. Occasionally
during the war entitled The Bell an article recently appeared discussing
fact they are also taken seriously within Europe; though we, with centuries
established it would only be a matter of a few centuries and they would
evolution move in lines of ascent and descent. If one epoch has developed
on today. I have recently spoken with various people about what is necessary
while up above the old social order continued as before. But a few centuries
we learn from Roman history? Within a few centuries it had dissolved,
talking about spirit, spirit, spirit. I recently read on the cover of

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recently reappeared as if of itself among the Norwegian

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this may represent the number of centuries that have elapsed since
preceding incarnation took place four centuries ago.”—

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Individuality who lived in a special incarnation in the 13th century.

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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
fixed at some six to six and a half centuries before the birth of
great many centuries before the time of Buddha. Greek historians
concealed within is the centre of spiritual existence in so far
there be more than one central unity of spirit-power. But even as
we recognize not merely one centralized power (whose existence is
ascends from Aries to Taurus, and again during its descent toward
centre where our personality receives its crowning touch.

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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
centres of culture, when we accept that knowledge which Spiritual
is adjacent is closed (Ed.)]. Hence, he who desires to penetrate
centuries, was most convenient in operation and lent itself
from a recent work by Alfred Jeremias [Licentiate Doctor and
the new information obtained ... few surprises in recent years
fifth millennium B.C., up to the sixth century B.C. This fact has

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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
its comprehension has only recently entered into the spiritual
and nineteenth centuries, which influence continued so potently
the materialistic Anthropology of the nineteenth century, that in
evening sky of Indian soul-life, but a few centuries before the
to alternate in this fashion throughout the ages, every descent
centuries to come. But according to these same concepts, when man
descriptions as are concerned merely with man’s descent
man’s] descent from Divine spiritual heights into a world
descent, as is the case when ‘The Fall’ is viewed
intimately connected. The Christ-impulse, the centre of all,
During the progress of the nineteenth century the
Science, but it is worthy of note that during the last century,
of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth
century, man realized that he could not hope to understand and to
twentieth centuries. When an ‘Unconscious Buddhist’

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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
researches of the nineteenth century.
parallel during the nineteenth century.
recently some of our mythologists during their researches into
centralized system in this connection and did not look upon his
primeval man regarded his soul, not as a centralized unit in
previously regarded as separate and detached, in one centralized
The spectacle of the ‘burning bush’, so magnificently
its very centre.
In these days, if we consider the centre of our
actually confronted with their true centre of being. Jean Paul,
plentitude. When man withdraws himself to this central point,
centuries to come those external methods and means which would in
interwoven throughout the whole earth, is centred in the ‘I
was essential that the centre of our being should first unfold in
simple unit proceeding from some great universal Ego centre. If
Christ-Source — which underlies and is concentric with all

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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
constituted a united and centralized monarchy was already divided
in the manner described, and his thoughts were ever concentrated
centre of his soul. That he acted rightly in so doing was made

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Christ and the Twentieth Century
evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
CENTURY
During the first centuries which followed the
the first centuries of the Christian era — not, be it
few centuries of the Christian era, this ancient gnosis put
wisdom actually look upon this descent of a purely spiritual
centre of human evolution. When we compare this gnostical concept
early centuries of the Christian era and onwards, the existing
centuries side by side with that simple idea of Jesus, which
from the sixteenth century onward, this twofold method of thought
attention to the fact that in the nineteenth century the course
made to centre all in the personality of Jesus of Nazareth, and
methods employed during the nineteenth century in order to
which, during the greater part of the nineteenth century, it was
human frame remains quiescent and sleeping, the actual centre of
deepest life-centre has always been, so to speak, near at hand,
nevertheless this very life-centre was something the awareness of
that in the life-centre, the Ego, there manifests an element
this ultimate centre of life broke in upon man’s
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— Parsifal was one who some centuries after the
here lies the secret of ascent. Since the Mystery of
and the physical world as it existed before the descent

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men can ever have looked towards the centre of the Earth
concerning which so many who lived in the early centuries
105-111.) Thus in the 17th century we again find evidence

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descent of man to earthly incarnations and the onset of
play a part from about the eighth century B.C. and

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centuries uplifted even the simplest human hearts, guiding them to the
worlds. What all humanity received in the descent of the divine human
In our recent talks here we have spoken about
in such studies for several years—might well think our recent
Recently everything has been conducive
eyes, and with bowed head imagined a flower in the center of my
from the center to the periphery, exactly like the recently discovered
naturally, because this novel was written only just recently.
about in school, a central nucleus of gas forms, which later becomes
who created philosophies. He rails at all philosophy. Now this man recently
and he just recently wrote

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Thus, be cause our nervous system lost its life in its descent into the
about the descent of Christ from the cosmos into our earthly sphere.
of several great minds of the nineteenth century, who were striving
represents a demand of the best minds of our recent past. It did not
nineteenth century; they are magnificent and important works. However,
and more lively and urgent in recent times. Yet, most people only reach
example, I used to know a very dear man — he died recently here
who died recently — at least it was something like memoirs, not
music merely a means to improve his concentration and was not really
nothing of it and merely enjoyed his enhanced concentration. Only on

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suffered in recent days. You will undoubtedly know what I mean: the
and symbolic brotherhoods and societies. In my recent talks I have characterized
at the stage of mere groping toward this reality. In one of our recent
sciences. I have explained that Franz, the protagonist of Bahr's recently
copy, made by inadequate means. He thought he had found its center
why? Well, he remembers once again the eccentric whims of the Englishman:
really was only pretending when he wrote the magnificent, grandiose
and complacent run-of-the-mill monist the neo-German senior professors
In my recently published booklet, I have
our members, Fraulein Hübbe-Schleiden, I have recently received

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When we think of a centaur, a very well-known

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often recently. As we have seen, we need to look at the activities,
events of recent decades, and from these they will understand why the
fruits of the art of versifying at the end of the nineteenth century.
could not be used at the end of the nineteenth century since it brought
the century, between 1898 and 1901 or so. Back then he was striving
A pathetic example of this has recently caught
trade. [You see, this must have been published very recently for it
things were better in the nineteenth century, in the days of Büchner,

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later, in fact only just recently.
an event we have recently learned about. It is already a bit dishonest
events that have recently taken place on a small scale, in one person's
beginning of the nineteenth century and grew up in poverty. One day,
lives the whole culture of Central and Western Europe — in his
connects us with nothing except the eccentricities of the gentlemen, or,
the whole of European culture up to the end of the nineteenth century
blame exclusively on the Central European powers, while exonerating
century and so far also in the twentieth century we have been wedged
in Central Europe, and that the way out through spiritual science must
development: in earlier centuries, people were also reading the four
Then came the people of the nineteenth century who were naturally more
and even in the twentieth century. Well, are people of earlier centuries
to nineteenth century people that their ancestors had a different sort

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just recently I told you that the shape of our head can be traced to
Just recently we went to see a friend on leave
than the popularizing stuff produced by our common writers. Recently
things as well. For instance, somebody just recently told me about a
Views of Life and World in the Nineteenth Century
Well, just recently someone wrote that he
In this man's circle a letter was written recently — not by him
as say anything about such things, then we get threats! Recently a letter

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found in his own solitary mind, even in his century, received
his first work, The Dawn in Its Ascent, came into being,
spirit of recent times. This same sixteenth century, in which
century.
Ascent and we shall see at once how that which is elsewhere
other thinkers of the nineteenth century also admired the
simplest spiritual culture on Central European soil. We find
that something lives in all the souls of Central Europe
a Leipzig scholar of the past century, Dr. Harles. It seems

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begins to increase toward the end of the thirteenth century. This is
myth of the 12th and 13th century the emperor is under a spell and dwells

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Christ-problem stands in the centre of the drama. Out of Parsifal
century. This new culture penetrated into these regions like a
the crusaders fought. The idea that Jerusalem must be the centre was
spiritual centre, and at the same time as an outpost of the future.
we ascend is connected with a descent. For every man who grows more
twilight of the gods of the ancient northern saga shows us this ascent,

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The lecture cycle on the basic elements of Theosophy that I recently
century, which had a great influence on culture, this knowledge was in
18th century and especially at the beginning of the
19th century, these esoteric schools disappeared from the
celebrated its greatest triumphs in the 19th century.

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times saw the Earth as the center of the universe and believed that
will have reached his highest point of evolution, when in the center

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which are reminiscent of later crystals and plants — even
cell organisms, which are reminiscent of this process. These animal

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psychology of the nineteenth century the following expression has
nineteenth century and well on into the twentieth it was possible
central point of the human being.
century — but we must say that it was very little understood.
nineteenth century understood just as little of the “pure being

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globe complete in itself and radiating forth from its centre that
radiated back to the centre. Thus we have to think of what comes from
the Spirits of Wisdom as proceeding from the centre; this radiates
we obtain a picture of ancient Sun: We think of a centre in which is focused
centre of the Sun absorbed in contemplation of the vision of the
globe of inner space, in the centre of which the picture of Saturn is
contemplation of what they perceive in the centre of the Sun as the
has been described of the Sun as absolutely concentrated in the soul
of the universe of radiant light. Imagine all this concentrated in
for the remainder of the earth-existence. In the centre is the One
When I concentrate on the central Figure with those other around Him,

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centre we have the sacrificing Thrones, then in the heights above the
the centre of this globular formation the meeting of the accepted and
which is a globe encircled by rings; for that which is in the centre
centre. In order that that which makes mankind of such immeasurable

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to the Central Committee of Wine and Spirit merchants!
this feeling is represented in an accentuated form. Hence we do not
the central basis of life. This basis can only be provided by a
Lake Vann in that lonely grave which for a century has closed over
cannot but feel a veneration for them. So, on the centenary of the
centenary of the death of one of the greatest German poets.

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has its beginnings in our twentieth century. From now on these
century. They will have to wait until they are again incarnated and
taste death at all without descent into the physical world in order

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the centre of everything we aim for in spiritual science.
soul. In Central Europe the national element comes to
feeling that an element was being striven for in Central
been to understand what is going on in Central Europe.
the way will be found to the teachers of Central Europe.
like boasting in someone who comes from Central Europe.
that had their last incarnation in Central Europe. This
to Central Europe we find ‘...what is forever
Central Europe always longed for Italy, to achieve
has really always been there through the centuries. Note
a Central European living in the ego culture. In my
public lecture I said that the Central European aspires
it, but it is right only to say: ‘the Central
what matters in Central Europe and in the Nordic
during the 19th century had specifically to do with home
situation as regards the Central Europeans, including the
soul in the British Isles. In Central Europe and up north
definitely acquire on the physical plane. In Central
The Central
soul. If we are really seeking the I, the ego, in Central
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present century the revelation of Christ will be made to

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for a long time to come, into the 8th and 9th centuries
epoch, began mainly around the 15th-16th centuries. That
imagine, for instance, that during the 15th century
following centuries — the essential element of the
the centuries theologians were in dispute, defending or
Central Europe. These Central European people include
appearances within the Central European community. The
way it happened in the case of the Central European
10th, 11th and 12th centuries to that later height that
beginning of the 19th centuries and which we may hope
Central European fighters of the present continue the
in the 6th, 7th 8th and 9th centuries, and accepted
in Central Europe that the soul life of the German
advance over centuries. We see it all taking shape. It is
Central European culture, how preparations have been made
century event when Joan of Arc had to save France because
centuries, as we have consistently shown. In the future
will be people — and in Central Europe there will
between Central Europe and Eastern Europe.
across Central Europe, by brute force. It is possible to
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impulse resolved a major issue in the 15th century
entirely different. Since the 15th and 16th century
changed specifically over the last centuries —
since the 15th and 16 centuries — at least for the
or five centuries at that time. Now in our time he is
century he was not the actual leader and therefore had to
century could still be appropriate now that we are in the
16th century to this day. And if we say we do not
but by trying to concentrate our powers of understanding
beginning of the 19th centuries. This mission was in
preparation during the preceding centuries. This is what
of the ascent to the spiritual worlds.
who only recently again managed to point out

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quite recently. It is number twelve in a series now being
great deal in more recent times. If things continue the
The reason is that he belonged to that Central European
of more recent times. Of course we are not anywhere near
three or four centuries people gradually had to accept
particular nature of the Central European spirit,

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recent weeks, dear friends, karma brought it about that I
what happened in recent weeks when an older member
who died recently. Fritz Mitscher went through the gate
this life now that it had concentrated in the soul. The

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personality. We make them the absolute centre of our
significance, it can learn magnificent things as it were.
elevated or far less a moment of utter concentration than
is the most marvellous, the most glorious, magnificent

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mantric meditation or other and make it the centre of our
free will we have to make a thought the centre of our
that we are capable of such powerful inner concentration
are merely the centre.’
life of the early 19th century you will of course look up
the beginning or in the middle of the 19th century and
19th century and yet are totally unknown to most if not
literary life in the 19th century, will be different,
19th century when some individuals still has a certain
progressed the 19th century really could do no other, in
first half of the 19th century it was still possible for
Physical body during meditation, through concentration.
half of the 19th century, evidence was again given, one
thought here in this place in recent times, and this is

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meditation and concentration the process I have already
As we meditate, as we concentrate, we leave an imprint in
same thought process. If we concentrate just once on some
beginning of the 17th century and in England in the
middle of the 17th century. Shakespeare wrote his works
the 18th century, but we then find it ascending again
around the middle of the 19th century. The situation is
magnificent and worthy of the deity appeared merely as
revolution in recent times, the Reformation; what is
more, over the last century one of the most marvellous
literature for recent decades will have to be rewritten.
its ascent. In other words, Germans must come to

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with the ascent of the sun, and dusk with the need for
what has been the basis of my recent lectures.
quite recently in the neighbourhood. She strongly advised

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found expression in its most concentrated form in the
head of this figure really has a form reminiscent of man,
head is shaped so that it is merely reminiscent of the
centre, but it cannot stop at the centre, it has to swing
the 18th century he called it a barbaric composition.
the turn of the 18th century as to what he intended his
of the 18th to the 19th century that his Faust would have
Egocentric motives — 6% (categories 2 and 3)
the percentages of the converted in such a way,

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someone working out of the centre of the world, as nature
natural course of events, however, is that in Central
Russian folk soul, it must learn its lessons from Central
worked through in advance in Central Europe, it will be
the 15th and 16th centuries. Previously, the whole of the
from this central place of activity we call Golgotha.

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century orator could not, of course, arrive in Roman
reminiscent of him. After his oration, which to the
Central European mind consists of nothing but empty

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to-day what has particularly struck me during my recent journey
centuries, and how slow men are to arrive at decisions of any weight.
satisfactory sign that during my recent stay in Switzerland a number
science. Endeavours were being made in the nineteenth century to
gradual ascent of Christianity, its growth and
with the history of the last four centuries, especially that of the
especially in regard to the last two centuries form a picture of
simply set up as theories what humanity dreamt in those centuries,
most recent events if Spiritual Science is left out of account. I
West, and only in the century following the “discovery of
Jung, who has quite recently written another pamphlet on
past centuries. I should like to speak of Spiritual Science as
denied, as is done in our time. We shall speak of this descent of the

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— to its centre of support, the skeleton. We have all seen a
heart-man; because in the heart everything else is concentrated. We
evolution. To observe this we need only go back four centuries,
tremendously the life and thought of the 18th century differed from
whole of human life has changed in four centuries. Human thinking has
wholly changed, ideas formed before the 20th century have gradually
When we compare the rich ideas of the 13th and 14th centuries with
the natural science of this 19th century, we find an impressive
intellectualised for four centuries, and in this spiritual, which we
all other Mysteries, as the central point of Evolution. Of this

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the spiritual life of the West in the twilight of the ninth century.

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In a recent lecture held here I spoke

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central line of gravity of the head falls, so to speak, into the
stands to the earth. If we take the central line of gravity of the
the central line of gravity of his head falls within himself, and he
perfect brain because the central line of gravity of his head passes

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descent of man, we must think of the head alone, disregarding
If we concentrate through the presence of the dead upon a directly

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thing as a Central-European, Herman Grimm, also says; and yet it is
raised: How do the Central European nations stand? We are speaking
more of geographical relationships, not considering Central Europe in
relationships. We cannot speak of a ‘Central Europe,’ to
Folk-Soul Working in Central Europe is that — in a sense in
through warmth. The Folk-Spirit in central Europe chooses the by-path, the
it can be individualized. There may be people in Central Europe in
is again warmth; so that in Central Europe, warmth, in so far as it
of the methods of working of the Folk-Spirit in Central Europe, and

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however, which was fully justified up to the approach of the recent
something we all know. In the 15th century of our era, mankind
the fifth cultural epoch began with the 15th century A.D. Till then
world-philosophy, as has been done in more recent times.
former centuries, but that it erected a spiritual wall
will only mention that in the center between the East and the West,
epoch, which began in the 15th century of our era, a remarkable
Darwinian theory of the descent of man from the animal. This was not
only expressed in the Darwinian doctrine of descent. The animal has a
what has appeared — only in a coarser way —in the declaration of the descent of man
descent, as I have often explained.

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the object. This can be found in Plato. The more recent ideas
proceeds from the magnificent intuitive life in the
ninth century by the Church Council at Constantinople, by
considered possible. For what I recently remarked is

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substance; this process is of course spread over centuries,
from the center of the Earth into the Universe. In olden
from the center of the Earth into the Universe, which line
the center of the Earth to the Universe discloses itself as
centuries to achieve.
in articulate speech. A certain centrifugal force lies in
develops a certain centrifugal force in an outward direction,
within you, an average Central European, would not have a
chauvinistic Central-European feeling, but is the result of
again the Central-European is placed between the two
recently a mere detail showed me this, in a very ridiculous
the more absurd. I have been recently busy with bringing out

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have recently sung the praises everywhere of Oskar Hertwig's
the “best book of recent times” as regards his
wrote long columns in an uncommonly complacent manner, and
this work, but that for centuries the great Ahrimanic forces
century we have to record another spiritual undertaking which
question. In the 19th century a concept was first
19th century a remarkable Ahrimanic practice of coarsening
century could be relied upon to push such a thing through.
culture of the 19th century had to be disclosed some time.
19th century, or whether he had to deal with an enterprise of
by Christianity during the past centuries and thousands of

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centuries, in those countries which come into our
development of natural science in the 19th century and into
impulse of dexterity from the center of there being. For that
organism at its center serves not nearly what is poured out
organism functions into that of the child through the center
put them in a false light. For centuries our social structure
that I do not do so from any personal foolishness. Recently I

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— had been born in the eighth or ninth century or at
century, but because he had passed through a crisis which
it; more recent cases of the present day would not be so
century; that is too recent. Then you have written one on
of books of a former century and look up and aesthetician as

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physical form: the man of head, chiefly concentrated
The period which began about 700 to 600 B.C. marks a deeper descent
eighth century before Christ. In earlier times, human nature
back, beyond the seventh or eighth century before the Mystery
If that had been written ten or twelve centuries before the
that what became evident in the seventeenth century had been
century.

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proceeding to draw conclusions from our recent
developed only during the last century. The most paradoxical
,work is done by machines. Indeed, during the last century,
headlong owing to his injury. The right hand of the central
— ,that this central figure is in no way aggressive, but
in the central figure, which is of course a physical form
framework, the curious fact was noticed that the centre of
genuine ascent to the spiritual must be undertaken in purity
head of the central figure in profile, as of necessity it
head of the central figure is complete.

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numerous realms, farces, and centres in the universe. We will
eighth centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha. Just then, a
century after Christ, not so very far behind us, there was
third fourth century B.C., a man of normal
present-day man, but in the early centuries of the fourth
certain spiritual centres in the West to cause the gradual
real estimate of recent events. Something escapes the notice
are tending, the Central European peoples are there. That is
magnificent understanding of all aspects of human culture was
centuries, 540 million extra hands, machine-hands, have been
said before. Within the last four centuries this exploration
twelfth century till now, or in a wider sense between the
seventh or eighth century B.C. and the

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seventh or eighth century before the Mstery of Golotha. In
the earlier centuries of this epoch many souls were able, in
found in recent history. A certain fraternity, known to you
seventeenth century. Yet what is contained in their symbols
has been entirely concealed since the seventeenth century,
centuries, and fewer still reflect on the real character of
tremendous! Yet that will not mean much, for the centuries in
find that the third ends about the seventh or eighth century
century A.D. At this point there lies, not far behind us, an
personality of the twelfth century, and indeed of the age
the fifteenth century was no longer possible in Europe.
began in Europe about the third or fourth century A.D., and
century. The third to the fifteenth centuries was the time of
an even more concentrated power of Faith, the age in which
fifteenth century as the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, in which
fourth century up to the fifteenth, took the place of the
early part of the third and fourth centuries onward, was its
centuries of the Middle Ages, was the shortage of coinage due
different guise from what it was in the early centuries of
the first Christian centuries out of true knowledce, will see
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centuries, and those of the of the human soul of to-day. As
of Clairvaux in the twelfth century. Such examples might be
centre.” We speak of our Ego and we have the idea:
a kind of spiritual centre. If only we could rise to the
physical earth nothing is altered. This “descent of the
Mystery of Golgotha, was in its early centuries implanted in
task was from the third, fourth, fifth century onwards. The
fourth century, and later on, is substantially the story of
Christ, and fundamentally through all these centuries man;s
and his associates in the twelfth century, none of whom at
Cartesianism in the seventeenth century, and by the
century, when through the Arabs the complete philosophy of
importent to note that it is of recent date) an article on
Catholic-Scientists of the nineteenth century are convinced
meet and are accentuated side by side in this man: this

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to understand in the course of our recent studies.
century, about 1413 A.D. (The figures are of course to be
27 B.C. until about the end of the 7th century; (693 A.D.);
8th century before Christ, and in respect of this feeling of
centuries before Christ. Humanity had withdrawn into the
century after the Mystery of Golgotha!
early centuries were far removed from an inner
organisations fostered during the early centuries of
direct perception. The entire history of those centuries can
ninth centuries, a sort of obscurity descended on European
these particular centuries. Many other men resembled him; he
centuries between the eighth and 15th one finds always the
which was not in existence in the early centuries (although
living since the 15th century, approximately since 1413 A.D.,
— since the 15th century — arrived at rejecting
Catholicism of earlier centuries — says: “All
ninth century onwards, in the central and western countries
only through revelation. The races and peoples of Central
centuries from spiritually grasping the super-sensible, the
with 15th century. And as the Luciferic severance from the
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comprehension evolved during the recent centuries leads men
Church doctrines for centuries and who do nothing but trace
the events of the last centuries according to the Church,
center of the family, and the family is the foundation of the
the 18th century, born in 1749 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, who
as an ordinary 18th-century citizen, is no real book. A
Science, and if on the other hand we accept what has recently
of the 18th and early 19th centuries, and that we, bringing

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centuries? Towards outer possessions, towards the ordering of the
During the last centuries man has exerted his intellect only for the
operation at the centre of the life of the peoples. There were
conditions should be able to do so. Even a century ago, a person who

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has of late arrived at exactly the same conclusion. Quite recently a
A recent school of naturalists is of opinion that feeling, in its
external events. Ancestry, or descent, places us where we stand in

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until he attains that central goal of existence known to spiritual science
universe, with itself as the center. If, for example, you imagine yourself
as the central point in this room, surrounded not by these six surfaces of
you will see yourself, as the central point, reflected on all sides,
everywhere. In like manner you can picture a Divinity as a central will,
kingdom,” distinguished from the will itself. The will is the central
central being is reflected in a hollow globe.
Think, now, of a meditant who concentrates wholly upon this meaning of
that is central to Christian life, the Lord's Prayer, expresses this primeval

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the world before the end of this century, such a movement would
of the 17th Century, not only comprised all the knowledge
In the 14th and 15th centuries there were quite

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know that through the recent discovery of many a document we
experience of the nations which lived in the centuries
centuries into the 8th, 7th and 6th centuries after the
into the centuries before Christ? The people who enter
and is then reborn in the 7th or 8th century of the
experiences of a soul appearing in the first centuries of
the first Christian centuries, and again died and passed into
one another, beginning from the 4th century before Christ and
shows a decline. This descent is in connection with the
ascent of civilisation; we observe man in early primitive
side, a history of descent, just as we have a history of
ascent on this side.
were centered in the physical world — the more these
more into the spiritual world, and a period of ascent, of

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stream here in our central European regions, things are discussed
ego, however, has another characteristic. It is not so centralized.
towards its centre. Thus we have here an etheric circular body which

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of much that has been said in recent lectures, various phenomena of
Thus, the descent to earth of an avatar being is significant, among
Through the descent of an avatar being the essential soul-spiritual
perceive that, in the early centuries of the Christian era, the
from that of later centuries. In the first Christian centuries
Christian teaching in various lands in the first century, gave to the
the early Christian centuries.
centuries it was the documents and the impressions of the physical
tenth, eleventh or twelfth centuries it was no longer possible to
present. From the fourth or fifth centuries up to the tenth or
What made it possible for a number of people in those centuries to be
copies of the original. In these centuries there were those who could
presented in that wonderful work of the ninth century, the Heliand,
between the eleventh or twelfth centuries and the fifteenth. Here
Europe. In later centuries, from the twelfth to the fifteenth, it was
that existed in previous centuries through the interwoven etheric
thirteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Nazareth. In the early centuries there were people who were entirely
centuries came those to whom the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth
between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, people tended more
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which for centuries has endeavored to find expression in art; it is
erroneous what today is called evolution, the ascent from the lowest
recognized. The scientific theory of evolution and descent is fully
centuries, where we find Madonnas with the Child groping for the
with art, it is a long way to the fifteenth century, to Michaelangelo
crescent, but actually represents the fruitful working of the forces
the Egyptian evolution as the Isis symbol was received in more recent

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is an Initiate. Through all the ages there have been centres for
It was not ripe in the centuries immediately following the Coming of
with the Holy Grail. Thus in the eleventh to the thirteenth century,
centuries as the founder of Rosicrucianism, a Mystery-School having as
Rosicrucianism. Since the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the

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made their presence known were not reminiscent of any
centuries, and which is concentrated into one short moment,
all the opposing currents flowing through centuries and
centuries in the history of nations, and its inspiring effect

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Benares, about the fifth or sixth century before Christ.
in the ascent to Nirvana, Christianity sees, as the goal of its
lived in the first centuries after Christ) that will become more and

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bodies from its inner centre. And the last activity which

Title: Lecture: Prayer
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recent lecture on mysticism I spoke of the particular form of
development of the last centuries, even from a spiritual
remember, however, that the last centuries have been
restricts our ascent to the spiritual?
soul to concentration on an ever-increasing inner perfection.
meditation and concentration, and from that point on we are
concentration. This is also true of other prayers.
that by meditation and concentration. We must approach the

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Century made such a mighty impression upon Europe. There is nothing
first impulses of Christianity and the few centuries which followed.
song are so important, which, after being handed down for centuries
alive even into the 16th and 17th Centuries.
mightily even into the 18th Century. And we shall win a
Century, when these ancient songs were revived. And it is this which

Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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is the central point. Understanding human nature means, really, to
can look on this being exactly like a center, a middle point, from which
in this way a confluence of these currents, concentrate them in themselves
round their ego-centers. For that is the most important thing for our
soul-life; we must collect all these currents round a center that lies
through the center of self-consciousness rises to the surface. It will

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all these forces stream to the central point of the planet. A force
the center of the earth. That is what regulates the direction of the
center, which is the direction given to the plants by the soul-nature
by forces, which all strive towards the center of the earth.
for all astrality, showing only forces that strive towards the center
to the earth's center with others interpenetrating them that are only

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of feeling as such, and of willing as such — depends our ascent on
through occult exercises in the right proportion. The ascent into the
The ascent to the higher

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centuries ago, for instance in the 16th century, very distinguished
vogue in the days of Kepler — and only a couple of centuries
15th and 16th centuries. Either as the result of inborn gifts,
minds of the 16th century and of outstanding
centre-point; what lies before — youth and childhood —
then what took place a number of years before this centre-point of
the causes of happenings in the recent past again in the immediately
remembrances from an earlier life, rather reminiscent of Greek

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such an experience? If we call to mind what was said in recent
entity which is man's basis, we must say: This central core works all
faculties connected with his outer accomplishments. This central core
as a draughtsman and to express what he saw in forms. The central core
newly-won faculties, the moment this central core rises to
transition. While the man remains unaware that the central core is
is ripe for this central core to rise into consciousness, this is
central core of man's being works in both physical and super-sensible
to observation and how the central core of man's being works upon his
those 19th-century philosophers inclined towards pessimism. The
investigator they appear implanted and functioning in the centre of
descent in full consciousness. We obtained the same result when we
start our descent through Imagination, that is, not fantasy but true
although it enables man to make his descent he does not go so far as to
and concentration one can acquire what is needed to carry the conscious
focused, and concentrating his normally disbursed soul-forces. He must
in true meditation, true concentration. By means of such exercises the
depths rises into consciousness. In this conscious descent into the
concentration, after which the will forces he has applied to this
work out of the centre of his soul. Through this natural tendency man
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century, has included in his Essays a short article on “Fortune”,
habitually in Central Germany pictures to himself how fortunate it would be
existence — what then can such a man, grasping his central being in this
would prompt the individual to say: In me there dwells a central core of
permanently rejected. Yet we see that firm faith in the central core of man's
longer has power over us. And to him for whose central being good fortune
is only an incentive to higher development, ill-fortune is also a challenge to
success but to take it as an incentive to further development, we also arrive
man has this central core of being within him that he can free himself from
on the strong central core that transcends birth and death, the central
yet is linked with the whole beneficent foundation of our world-order. If we

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recent times, are not in a position to share the opinion of those
A great part of the thinkers of the present and the recent past did
But in contradiction to this idea many philosophers of recent time have
developments in recent mental life can show us — so to speak —
research in natural science recently, cannot teach us that
Century, was convinced he was authorized in his explanation of the
centuries ago, when Francesco Redi spoke the sentence: “Living
throughout all the earlier centuries before Francesco Redi's
Century how mice, eels, and frogs originate out of that which is
the expedients of the most recent mental attitude, if we would

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Recently, indeed, some
retrospect leads us, as it were, to the center of our being, which
as has already been indicated — that recent natural science,

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converges ultimately towards one central point which he calls
holds together, as at a central point, everything experienced
ego that proves itself to be the enduring central point. We
quite recent times, their speculations about its nature are
know how this centre of our soul-life remains the same in all
sleep obliterates, but also this central point, the ego.
attention on this central point to which he is at the moment
them we have the active ego as powerful centre, the ego is
concentration, we can so school ourselves that experience and
concentration: thought alone is not enough. In
concentrate with his mind, but his thoughts must be fired by
their strongest. They are now inwardly concentrated at one
united. In like manner the highly concentrated forces in
gate of death in a concentrated form, in readiness for
pattern as though round a central point, seem to be an ego,
Science says the opposite: that the ego is the concentrating
as an ego I have done something, it remains with this central
accord with Spiritual Science. Only recently I was reading a
century after Christ by the great mystic and philosopher,

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figure of the Christ in the center, and on either side of Him the
satisfactory with the means available to man. If in the centuries to
course of time; but until the Fifteenth Century, there still remained
still they felt that in the center of their being they were connected
man the treasures of natural science. In the course of the centuries
that has been gained through natural science in the centuries since
become ripe for that, and for that centuries had to elapse since
Century. For in earlier incarnations insofar as these earlier earth
physical body. A fifteenth-century body could not bring to expression
course of the three following centuries, some of them indeed have not

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Recently Fräulein Motzkus herself suffered the loss of a dear friend,
century must bring to humanity the Vision of the etheric Christ. Just
among men in the twentieth century, the whole earth over. This event
the twentieth century, that the great moment is being now prepared.
of men in bygone centuries; they no longer have any conception of the
the centuries rolled by the impression made by the inner content of
time indicated, in the twentieth century, in various forms near to the
standing in the centre of these things, one who is an occultist,
than in centuries gone by. Till now the Gospels have spoken an inner

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‘We owe what lives in the very centre of our being to the Higher
We know that now the sun rises in Pisces. Up to the fifteenth century
call a cosmic step when at the vernal ascent it returns to the same
example) to speak of my family descent and the way in which I did this

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 3. The Human Soul and the Universe (part 1)
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provides him with a religious centre and appeals to him as such. If

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the Spiritual development of the last century, we observe how strongly
centres, whose mind and disposition have been formed in accordance
forgotten, in the course of the last century, how to think truly of
the Christ Mystery which must take its place in the very centre of the
connected with our physical descent, and with everything which
have now become displaced; but the central event which is adapted to
and fifteenth, and indeed in the sixteenth century, there were some
developed in the cinema, with this descent below sense-perception, man
must at the same time develop an ascent above it, an ascent into

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to the whole universe, just as Christmas should point to the descent

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nineteenth century. This book is of the very greatest interest, more
the eighteenth century. In his fine preface, he says: ‘Most
One could not have spoken in that way in the eighteenth century, for
somewhere about the end of the first third of the nineteenth century,
century. Perhaps no man in the eighteenth century spoke with such
the eighteenth century. By the way he writes it can be seen that he is
the eighteenth century. In speaking of these, a three-fold nature was
real. A man of the eighteenth century knew that the whole complexity
The men of the eighteenth century did not think in this way. Indeed it
Saint-Martin could well be understood in the eighteenth century; it
the first third of the nineteenth century) lies between us.
Saint-Martin gave out at the end of the eighteenth century, being then
century; he was born in l702, and died in l782, as Prelate in
Murrhard. A very remarkable personality, in whom was concentrated in a
Theosophy of the eighteenth century which influenced Richard Rothe,
a century. I cannot exactly say that it does not fit, still less can I
the first half of the eighteenth century, so that he was a century
Spiritual creative-forces work and concentrate to bring about a
an enormous concentration of forces. If you read what takes place at
eighteenth centuries, and much later still, had a much more
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Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Universe
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printing by Steiner Book Centre, North Vancouver, Canada, 1982.
provides him with a religious centre and appeals to him as such. If

Title: The Story of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily: Lecture I
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the progress made in the 19th century, is felt to be
3rd century A.D. — the truth about the human soul
Even before the close of the 18th century, when Goethe

Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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century by the catchword Naturalism! I do not mean this in any
magnificent. Yet for all that his gaze is not focused upon human life
nature is ensouled. In the 16th century Giordano Bruno still
well as in its religious aspect — lay at the very centre of his
by culture and civilisation in the different centuries. And he awaits
endeavour to be our material welfare. For centuries past mankind has
former case we have the line of descent, here we have the line of
ascent. As little as an aged man who has already attained his settled

Title: Lecture: On The Three Magi
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the Festival of the Three Magi from the East. Until the 15th century,
available. But since that century some light has been thrown on the
What is the new revelation, the new manifestation of Love? The descent

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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recent acquisition in his aura brought about by his own activity.
living in Berlin at the beginning of the twentieth century. At the
end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, men
the world has changed in the course of the last century, and what
before him and he experiences this descent of the spirit, this

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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development of man” here refers to the ascent of the human
prescribes for himself. He must be able to concentrate to such
a degree — and he must acquire practice in this concentration
himself the center of his own being, to stand on his own two feet, so
yourself in the morning when you concentrate. You must adhere to this
large percentage of today's human beings was previously much further

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun
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the year? Wonderful Fire Festivals in the northern and central regions
descended. This descent of the divine ‘Sons of the Spirit,’ this great
only work unconsciously on its dwelling-place. The descent is

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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century.
nineteenth century. What was true Rosicrucianism could not be found
century.
peak of the mountain can be reached. During the ascent, one has at
quality. In the violet, one can behold a symbol for a calm, innocent
must carry out his meditations and concentration exercises daily, at
way is a prerequisite for ascent into the higher worlds. But no one
to concentrate his thoughts on certain parts of the body. Those of
his pupil thus: direct your thoughts and concentrate them on this
microcosm and macrocosm is evoked. Through a similar concentration on
concentrated. Or he finds the sun in concentrating on the eye. This

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The mystery-center is the
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The cultural history of the

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magnificent, marvelous fruits in man.
work of an architect, built in stone to withstand centuries, is

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the central position between the two.
next stage will bring about the soul's descent into the fluid

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not the case. The Christmas Tree is a very recent European custom,
however, the Christmas Tree is a recent custom, the Christmas Festival
a Sun Hero and was conceived as such in the first centuries of

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centuries and recall Odysseus and the giant Polyphemus in the

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true that we have a long way to go in our ascent before we
generations. Thus, the descent of an avatar being is, among
descent of an avatar being affects the soul-spiritual
disseminated was different in the first few centuries from
that of later centuries in the Christian era. In the first
few Christian centuries the dissemination of Christianity
a man who contributed so much in the first century to the dissemination
especially emphasized in the first few centuries of
dissemination of Christianity during the early centuries, it
eleventh, and twelfth centuries. It was then no longer
tenth and twelfth centuries, a large number of people would
possible for a number of people in those centuries to be able
had been preserved and were in these centuries woven into the
original. There were indeed human beings in those centuries
the ninth century, the Heliand.
like a leader of a Central European or Germanic tribe, and he
century, and it is here that we discover an entirely
in Central Europe. But later, from the twelfth to the
fifteenth century, it was numerous copies of the astral body
fervor was magnificent and exalted.
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beneficent effect of sleep, an effect resulting from the fact
made manifest in the magnificent art of the Greeks—the
of seeing the beneficent spiritual beings beyond the world

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 1: The Mission of Spiritual Science
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so to speak. From the 16th century onwards, the relationship between the soul
choose anyone familiar, but a sixteenth century thinker who was unknown
in the way that had been followed for centuries, and yet were moving on
seventeenth century thinker who is of great significance for anyone who can
solitary thinker during the second half of the seventeenth century in
those days. This lonely thinker discusses the great central problem of the
Aristotle in the fourth century
seventeenth century tell us what man ought to do in accordance with his
exceptional progress made in recent times by the sciences concerned with the
centuries ago. For example, thousands of years ago the sun rose in the
have been acquired centuries ago. How is it that we know so much more and
to be with us since the 16th century.
always been just as it is in our century. The soul has changed; its
the 19th century, are doing something out of line with the facts. That is why

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 3: The Mission of Truth
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man is intended to become increasingly a being who has a firm centre in
centre. The more he has a firm and well-endowed centre in himself, the more
this central point in himself, he will be in danger of losing himself through
and an ascent to higher stages of the Ego comes within reach. The outstanding
who died recently, was
the 19th century German thinker, Solger.
goddess; she demands to be at the centre of a unique love in our souls. If
turns into a recluse or a one-sided eccentric makes no difference; in both
fruitful is true” — a magnificent, luminous saying of far —
magnificently shown what mere reflective thinking involves. This is connected

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central point of the soul which can lead to the real Self and makes it
through the endeavours that man must make to strengthen this inner centre
of ascent; then comes a pause, and finally, in the later years, a decline.

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gave it in the 19th century.
concentrates all his powers on contemplating the pictures. They are not meant
justified, but during the last century it has been the source of much error.
centuries. We shall understand the true meaning of asceticism as described
soul-forces which provide the inner life with a sure centre and endow us with
strengthen the weakened body from the centre of its own forces. Anyone who

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central aim: “The abolition of egoism”. All its members had to
as spirit, concentrates itself in man, rises to a summit, and becomes in
hidden and which can come to expression only through being concentrated in
for centuries that men ought to love one another. But bring the human Ego
concern outstanding men during the 18th century, a time when man as an
18th century can help us to understand why Wilhelm Meister is led away from
18th century and can have no interest for people today. For Goethe, however,

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Benares in the fifth or sixth century,
those who lived in the early centuries of Christianity, and it will be
Then people will understand how it was that six centuries before Christ one
the dominion of death. Six centuries go by until the Christ comes, and after
six more centuries have passed a symbol is raised which will be understood
decisively from one of the most significant personalities of recent times.

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century advanced, the statements of science with regard to the moon became
past centuries. And since everything that happens on earth, year in and year
comparatively recent past, people were inclined to speak of the moon as
earth. Moreover, as late as the first half of the 19th century, serious
and sunrise in the middle of the 19th century, the inclination to allow the
centuries-old tradition of attributing to the moon all sorts of influences on
view of the moon fought its last fight in the middle of the 19th century
physical and etheric bodies have been left behind; Meditation, concentration

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture One: On the Investigation and Communication of Spiritual Truths
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ourselves to the contributions made in previous centuries
handed down and believed in for centuries. All this makes it
which, in recent centuries, man has had to seek an
take as an example this master-spirit of recent European
to us in the nineteenth century through interpretations of
centuries been no knowledge of concepts such as that of the
important, when reviewing past centuries, to emphasise
nineteenth and twentieth centuries and men living in the
eighteenth or nineteenth centuries, as well as the fact that
until about a century ago very little was known in Europe
Why are we not shown how to make the ascent quickly

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spiritual world since his descent into the physical world.
simply not possible in the first centuries of Christendom to
lowest point of his descent from the spiritual worlds.
lowest point the re-ascent must begin. Although in a certain
descent, it also gave him the strongest spiritual impulse
the grasp of human concepts. But a few centuries after him
this time, therefore, it is imperative that the ascent of
century produced a really bright idea: Psychology without
plates, but nineteenth century science was wonderfully
ascent until the thirty-fifth year. After that there is
for four centuries — must now be mastered by men through

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recent Members to master the elementary principles of
different centres of the Mysteries. Generally speaking the
never as an historic event, concentrated into a few years. It
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of Christ. When a man of very early pre-Christian centuries

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so astonishingly in recent weeks that it would now not be
the Buddha, is a descent of the ‘I’ into the
world; and there he sees what beneficent Divine Beings spread
than this descent into the inner core of being through the
Buddha had to experience in order to complete this descent.
attempts the mystical descent; they urge him to some
called to experiences connected with the descent. In the
near or more distant past. And when the descent is as intense
finds the way to the spirit of the universe. This descent
one way, the mystical way; it is the descent through a
Buddha's descent into his own being, will take place at
through Europe, to Northern and thence to Central Asia. There

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Golgotha as the central point of the whole evolution of
comparable with the descent of man into the flesh. For
gradual descent of man into matter — whether we call him
ask: Could man not have been spared this descent into matter?
incarnations. Their course, to begin with, is one of descent:
world. Then he begins an ascent and can rise to the extent to
sees in the Christ the central point of the whole process of
to the period several centuries before the rise of
own innocent soul — which it is the fate of modern man also
Nazareth: the three innocent years of early childhood merged
And the consequence was that this innocent childhood-life, as
spoken in connection with the event portrayed as the descent

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one path was a descent into the inmost being of man, into the
descent into his inner being finds expression in sorrow,

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humanity on Earth; the descent is traced to Adam who, it is
reveals itself when man's descent is traced back to the
recently touched upon must be connected both with facts
paid to racial descent but rather to the living impulse

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lectures and lecture-courses in recent years, but I can
humanity. First it is a descent, beginning when man was
descent was transformed gradually into an ascent. The Christ
the Christ Event, in the religion of the Crescent, carrying
take things superficially, the use of the Moon and Crescent
lasting up to the twelfth and into the thirteenth century.
beginning in the sixth century A.D. and exercising a very
to six-and-a-half centuries for such impulses as I have been
describing. Thus actually six centuries after the Christ
century enriching the Christian culture which had received
also be aware that until the middle of the thirteenth century
streamed in like tributaries to unite with it. Six centuries
sixth/seventh century up to the twelfth/thirteenth century —
preparation since about the twelfth or thirteenth century. It
culture which during the next centuries enriched everything
which was a kind of centre among the seven post-Atlantean
by the Crescent and had reached its conclusion during the
central fact of our world-conception, of our Spiritual
different elements; it could shed no light on the central
Rosicrucianism, with Christ as its central idea, will
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recently. Then, when I gave a course of lectures in
of the nineteenth to the twentieth century because of a
of the century conditions were very different from what they
of the nineteenth century people had forebodings that in the
During the first half of the century, when vestiges of an old
nineteenth century that will completely wipe out the
first half of the nineteenth century, many voices are to be
the course of events in that century it was bound to
towards the end of the first half of the nineteenth century,
the second half of the eighteenth century.
centuries the Masters of Rosicrucian wisdom have been
century and will continue in the twentieth. The future longed
centuries is present in our Theosophical Movement in a more
twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; it was always
present here to-day — were born during past centuries into a
nineteenth century. Let us cast our minds back to the sixth,
seventh or even the twelfth and thirteenth centuries of our
the first half of the nineteenth century; and then, in the
second half of the century, came the materialistic culture
significant. In the first half of the century there were only
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the springs that have given rise through centuries of human history
magnificent world of art there is no greater art than this one, which

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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place so entirely in the center of our consciousness that we identify
made the center of the consciousness are taking on a kind of
center of my consciousness; but now it is beginning to unfold a

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certain matters bearing on the needs of the age, for our recent
us and which for centuries have brought uplift to the simplest human
mankind in general through the descent to the earth of the Being who

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of the Central European governments to those of the other
brought about the events of the most recent years. Such
members of the Central European countries had adopted during
what should have been made to prevail directly in Central
had been manifest around the turn of the eighteenth century.
Central European life from the West has also swept away what
Central Europe, and wrenched itself from my soul in the form
that the distress which had come over Central Europe would
do something like this from one center, for it could have had
Central Europe into the wide world, in particular towards the
activity during recent times to southern Germany and

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and the immortality of the soul based on their century-old
identified it in the eighties of the last century in my
center of human feeling; when human beings will go about in

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View seems to go against what people have found recently. In certain
thirteenth centuries. They could not have come about without such a
from life. Only in the sixteenth century we see spiritual life
law. This condition progressed even more in the last century. In the
stuck in self-centered isolation, our talents are uprooted like a

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the 6th and 7th centuries, wished to connect itself with
During the first Christian century the symbol of Christianity
the period in which the Sun in winter resumes its ascent, and
then look back upon man, we see concentrated in him the whole
reasonable creation possible; it is a concentration of the

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prejudices, which during recent decades have led to a
speak of one recent example. It is of great interest because
The Occult Movement in the 19th Century

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meditation, concentration and contemplation, and leave everything

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centuries, and this will be the case even more if they don't

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concentration, one gets to know one's doppelganger to whom one

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make these forces turn around and direct them to certain centers

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mixture to the pupil to drink. A few centuries ago any esoteric would

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The sacred center of

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to how he considered it five to six centuries ago. In
since the middle of the nineteenth century already the academic
already said during the seventies of the last century looking
or four centuries.
centuries and millennia haughtily, will easier cope with these
since centuries in vain. However, a more precise consideration
humanity” for centuries and millenniums. Humanity
particular since the thirteenth century, unfolded a thinking
recently. You can learn from this article what spiritual

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nineteenth century biology, for example, has advanced so far
supersensible in the soul life and the like for centuries. If
until the end of the second third of the nineteenth century is
the middle of the nineteenth century with a certain right that
since centuries already any human worldview has intended to
its life. I want to refer to that what I have recently
are clear in your mind that the ego stands in the centre of the
not feel the inner activity of a central being in his soul
already mentioned two weeks ago that recently Pastor

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century, as far as they point to outer scientific facts.
world and allows it to concentrate in the human being. Not

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central station of the nervous system, to the brain, via the
investigations have appeared, for example, recently in

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hear from a very significant physicist recently: if one wants
course of the last centuries so suggestively on humanity,
beginning of this century. He calculates that after millions of
a temperature of below 200 degrees centigrade would be;
light for a while, it will become luminescent. Hence, if one
at temperatures below 200 degrees centigrade, with these
luminescent walls lacquered with lacto protein, which cows will
youth. From the rotating primeval nebula, the central gas drop
to deal with the things seriously. At Darwin's centenary a

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people from the first Christian centuries up to now to the
history of Central Europe. One detects that he finds out the
imagine this within Central Europe. Another relation between
development of Central Europe. These are original ideas. He
tries to realise how this being of the Central European people
has developed in the course of centuries, since the third
century up to now. One notices that he has internally worked
to the third century, the German people developed according to
comes the period from the third century to the eleventh,
twelfth centuries. Lamprecht calls it the categorising one.
centuries in which knighthood develops particularly; Lamprecht
individualistic age with the turn of the fifteenth century
This lasts about up to the middle of the eighteenth century.
nineteenth century to which the great classical period of
(Edward G., 1737-1794) portraying the first centuries of
the third, up to the eleventh centuries and so on even if he
significant soul phenomena of the beginning twentieth century.
twentieth century are just these both movements: the movements
fifteenth centuries. It is also very typical that he calls this
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. However, while one
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century. However, it is always interesting to point to this
half of the nineteenth century brought this to our attention;
medical centres and laboratories can also investigate the
him the “greatest genius of the century,” and his
about the eccentricity of the present, which believed that from
down below 200 degrees centigrade. There is no mistake: then
nineteenth century, Wilhelm Heinrich Preuss (1853-1909) had an

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which shook me again recently. I finished a book in 1894 in
years. Now recently the necessity has arisen to work through
human knowledge where in similar way as centuries ago the
get to the spirit. Go back to the older centuries, and you
concerning the concept of nature. However, the former centuries
centuries. Because one saw everything approaching the human

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century, one regarded these two questions almost as arisen from
the central issue has not changed. One can say, the
you succeed in strengthening the soul life by concentration of
because it concentrates its attention on this maintaining. With
that during the seventies of the last century the famous
humanity of former centuries and millennia that had another
against it the usual research is difficult in medical centres

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
in the Eighteenth Century. But what has remained, is the
Century. In the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries the deepest
sense as had been done for centuries. In France, stimulated by
Eighteenth Century had their origin here; connected with the
Century could not have spoken thus of Liberty, Equality and
centre of study was philosophy. Deepest questions of
central problem for all Schiller's life: How is man born from
its centre now that the old traditions have gone?

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
Eighteenth Century and how the ideals of the Age of

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
central place, and it is from his character that the inevitable
in humanity. (More recent research has revealed the truth of

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
was, for him, the central point.
Nineteenth Century and what he will still be to us. It is not
all the writings in the Nineteenth Century of men like Vischer,
— is centred entirely in the ego; that is the significant
is an infinitely tragic conflict. All is centred on a
hopes that were centred on him found expression in the letters
Nineteenth Century. Men began to realise that Schiller's spirit

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
Century
active during the Nineteenth Century and then to pass over to
want to describe Schiller's place in the Nineteenth Century, we
century and Schiller's place within it. In general, it is very
beginning of the century when Goethe said in a conversation to
this will show how in the first decades of last century
German culture of the first half of the Nineteenth Century. It
steadily, and on the centenary of his birth, it is the best men
influence on his relation to the Nineteenth Century.

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
different in the second half of the Nineteenth Century from
of the century, in the honour done to Schiller; the growing
something to the second half of the century because in him the
(Weltanschauung): even Herman Grimm concentrates his eulogy on
lived and that of our own age: — indeed a recent
Century. Men like Jacob Minor may write large tomes about his
first half of the century had become so foreign to the leading
Century.
descent and of Darwinism. This book was anonymously
Ninety-eight per cent, of our life goes on without laws; and

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
centuries these views remained stationary. We know that even
until the Eighteenth Century when Baumgarten grew up in the
Century a vast literature grew up around the problem, and whole

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century.
back many centuries, and in the l6th/17th century we come
and seventies of the 19th-century. generally accepted was- the
disharmony into its harmony. At the end of me loth century the
the 19th century the scientists assured us: it would be fine if
for an ascent to a spiritual outlook.
Here in Central Europe we have a special task: It would be of

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spiritual directions of thought and investigation of recent
and researchers who have sought in recent times to penetrate
It deserves admiration, it is magnificent. Also, on the other
say to two literary publications of recent times which contain
as the standpoint which developed in the 19th century and has,
that is attributes, accentuating the life of representation;
breathing organism with the central nervous system. These
breathing process run from a central organ, from the brain, but
sense, but in the sense as I recently characterized it. Feeling
certain scientific-philosophical direction of recent times,
your attention to the fact that recent developments in
conclusion a sentence, I would say, a key, central sentence

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said: as things have developed in recent spiritual education
assumed by more recent physiological psychology. In contrast,
therefore, developed in recent times a strange ether-concept,
nineteenth century by German Idealism — not in this
1860, quoted in my most recent book,
the sixties of the nineteenth century. At first, he concerned
to that degree of concentration that reaches through to the
recently gave here. When one's thinking has been so
speculation of the last centuries has ship-wrecked countless
inner human being. ... In recent times, even Kant in his
“If it is indeed highly welcome that the most recent
way through to the experience of the negative. In recent times
right relationship with the outer world. More recent natural
children already become familiar in school — the central
can have peculiar experiences in this regard. I recently

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centuries — to regard medicine as one of these sciences which
or four centuries. For the further back we go in human evolution the
illness is indeed, strictly speaking, a product of man's recent
ages up to the last two or three centuries B.C. Such matters as these
science today, any branch of science, in one of the usual centres of
of centuries this spirit-filled organic life has been suppressed by

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comparatively recent production. This indifferent knowledge, shown for
been developed only in course of the last three or four centuries;
nineteenth century an event of spiritual importance took place; that
during the seventies of that century, behind the scenes of
about. Thus we may say: In the second half of the nineteenth century
two events and that of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most of
the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, and will know
century. — But no, it was quite different then. Cculd people only
The men of the third, fourth century before Christ's birth were clearly
centuries before the birth of Christ creative art was already in
became habitual in the course of the nineteenth century is certainly
it the middle of the fifteenth century and is called by us the fifth
since the fifteenth century people have attained to great heights as
particularly developed since the middle of the fifteenth century, to be
reflected images, the man of the nineteenth century was debarred from
the spiritual world during the second half of the nineteenth century.
matter. You will certainly realise that during the nineteenth century,
the nineteenth century — materialists have right on their side;
The thinking that has come to the fore in the nineteenth century must
nineteenth century, materialism is actually justified. That life of
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from the lectures given here recently that when we ascend with clairvoyance
beneficent beings who, compared even with the mildest human nature,
expression as the ego itself finds its centre, finds its inner centre
spirits which particularly work upon man through scents and slip into
an attractive book[2] that has been written recently
catastrophe took place in recent years, and where the Minister and dignitary
science. In the Prometheus myth we have a magnificent expression of

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we imply, in a certain respect, that the sun which is today the centre
beings established itself at the centre of our system. Therefore two
of matter gradually gathering together at the centre, this first, dawn-condition

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equator through this ball and put a needle through the centre. Now one
blood. Thus what has recently been found in a Zurich laboratory is in
two planets which have split off as the centres for those Fire-Spirits
there were also Mystery centres where the most advanced human beings

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mankind, who guided man's further development from the Mystery centres,
body, he perceived if this were sympathetic or unsympathetic, beneficent

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but in streams of force going down and forming a kind of centre where
marvellous, it is no longer anything extraordinary. A few centuries

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Ascent of the Spirits of Wisdom to Spirits of the Revolution of
are living, yes, even if we go back to the first Christian centuries,
centuries, and one compressed the contents of this memory into a unity
The Christ became the centre, the focus, in so far as the single personalities
of departure for the creation of the present moon, a central situation
ascent would result. But the matter is again not so simple. We know
consequence that in early Christian centuries the Luciferic principle

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stand today looked quite different a few centuries ago; the earth is
Now the people in the Mystery centres knew well that here too guiding,
born in the 8th century, he would not have become what he became in
if Giordano Bruno had been born in the 8th century. By such things we

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prejudice the statements contained in recent lectures and in a certain
centre of our world conception, as the microcosm. To understand man
well as beneficent; we have a moral element woven into the world process.
in wisdom! The recent inventions for instance are a witness to it.”

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soul. Man advances through the gradual descent of his ego-endowed soul
group themselves round centres. The feelings streaming in this way to
a centre once more give beings the opportunity of working as a kind

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central point for the etheric and physical parts approximately between
prophetically through the descent of the “fiery tongues.”

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less so in more recent ones. However greatly one may esteem Bocklin,
with its rounded arches, which has formed churches with central and
science. It will be as it was centuries ago, where in every lock, in

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recently, although nothing but an entire absence of understanding for
investigations pursued during recent centuries in the European
esoteric schools, the European centres of occultism. All that has been
Nazareth,” concerning the two Jesus boys, the descent of Christ
in Jordan, concerning the Mystery of Golgotha and now recently, in
the twelfth century down to the present time. Christianity cannot be
centuries. It was only later on that they could be recognised in the
century the Being described in Esoteric Christianity is to appear in
in the twentieth century. We admit it. Is there therefore any real
century. This has been done, for instance, in my book, The Spiritual
assimilating the most recent results of occult research.
told that Christ will incarnate again in the twentieth century, but
market of a town in Central Germany. — One man said: “So-and-so

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existence by way of union between man and woman and then the descent
human being as a direct embodiment of the Spiritual, a descent of the
Post-Atlantean epoch a constitution of soul reminiscent of the
descent of the Christ-Impulse into humanity. But side by side with
scholarship in the first half of the nineteenth century disclosed
olden times but will illumine it, vivify it with what the more recent,

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described above, even if the central figure had not been a clergyman;
eccentrics. But it never once enters his head that he is merely

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the centuries? How are we to apply to these recorded traditions the
descent of man as a being of soul — a threefold soul — into
nineteenth century! For it had been entirely forgotten and was
compiled during the course of that century from folk-songs extant
In the early years of the nineteenth century, nothing had been written
nineteenth century a certain doctor, realised that the people sang of
into the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries, the Folk-Soul became
this day retain many customs and arts reminiscent of an ancient form
who, so far as the last centuries are concerned, have remained remote
age represents the lowest point of man's descent to the physical
magnificently irregular — about the appearance or awakening of

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recent times, but also to play a real part in the whole evolutionary
due course, by an ascent. Graeco-Latin culture, for instance, was a
Earth-lives, and of Karma. Whereas Christianity through the centuries
only in the innermost centre of man's being, in the “ I ”.
the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It was a time when
central figures are Aristotle, Plato, and so forth — fades into
sects. Recent times, however, have had little understanding of the
Germany and in the west of Europe during the eighteenth century there
century, leaving aside what occurred in Catholic countries and turning
centuries? No means of preservation devised by the mind of man will be
centuries everything will have vanished. The subjects themselves, of
Raphael. He observed Raphael's fame through the centuries, its decline
during recent years. When we think of these things, it seems as though
especially as it has unfolded since the thirteenth century, opens up

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sixth century B.C. — a certain thought found frequent utterance,
Remembrance arises of experiences undergone before the descent into
passion. Everything in the Greek legend centres around this; the Iliad
seven centuries before the inpouring of the Christ-Impulse into
significance that, six centuries before our era, Lao-tse and Confucius
six centuries before our era, consciousness begins to stir that love
is true and in accordance with reality? It was recently stated in
being conducted from a certain centre in Leipzig of which you have
centuries, another is to succeed to some slight extent in expressing
See also: Christ and the Twentieth Century (25.1.12).

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the descent to the physical plane and now there must be a gradual
re-ascent. We are living in the age when the re-ascent must be
were paramountly conscious of the descent of humanity, the descent to
the Fourth epoch — the Impulse for the re-ascent. This Impulse had its
Now that the ascent to the spiritual world must begin, a spiritual
such importance. The re-ascent to the spiritual worlds — this must
to concentrate primary attention on the single personality living on
different epochs, but concentrates upon the existence of the one

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a planetary age it is always the case that the being of central
olden times been an affair of one or another particular centre of
example occurs in a book recently published:
“England together with India, at the centre; America and Germany,

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exposition. From the sixteenth century until 1839 all the
standpoint which in the course of centuries has been more or
influence during the first century, or at least during the
first two-thirds of this century. There are indeed Christian
adduced that in the first century of the Christian era people
relation to the recent investigations into the life of Jesus.
Christianity in the first century of our era is virtually
century. One thing appears to be demonstrable historically,
namely, that in the second third of the first century a
first century. The latter admitted to being a disciple of
century. From that time even enlightened Jews became
century and testify to a growing discord between Christian
realize that in the first century the learned Jewish Rabbis
from that which is given today. Since the nineteenth century
eighteenth century as a sacred tradition in the form of
had any meaning to nineteenth-century man. Those who speak of
recently quoted to you several extracts from this book which
the eighteenth century in which a book such as
century especially the possibility of understanding the Old
early centuries sought to preserve the threefold division of
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already prepared the ground in recent lectures will be the
the central theme of my book
time to understand the central event of our Earth evolution
central theme of our study. I have shown how the idea of the
deep impression upon the thinking of recent times. In
And when, in recent times, a tendency developed to draw upon
already anticipated in Aristotle a few centuries before the
fourth century B.C.
nineteenth century especially, scholars were at pains to
Ages down to recent times and which is still taught in
few centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha man had entered
had undergone an evolutionary process. Over the centuries
enlightened Greeks had already begun in the fifth century
the central idea of these Mysteries which is of particular
central idea of the Mysteries as they were practised up to
of the Emperor Julian the Apostate. In recent times attention
recent times people have gone even further. Strangely enough,
collected over the years and had been centralized, so to
tragic years of recent times past events have become unreal
centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha, show great
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philosophies of the late nineteenth century down to our own
the Baptist which was a comparatively recent development
of nineteenth-century Protestantism. Ernst Haeckel even
arrive at millions of years. As I mentioned recently in a
will be possible to read the newspaper in its phosphorescent
relatively recent times.
second century, that touches upon this problem. He writes
Thus, at the beginning of the third century, people were
— (the Freemasons of the nineteenth century of course
corporeal is expressed in the line of descent from father to
there is the line of descent on the physical plane, in which
the spirit participates; but the line of descent is permeated
this in connection with what I said recently — and on
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to accentuate this cleavage between the physical and the
in considerable embarrassment. Moreover whenever innocent
mind also what I mentioned recently: that spiritual
Force” — which, as I said recently, had to be
the present century the Impulse that streams from Him will be
explain away many of Christ's statements. And recently
nineteenth century has tried to reduce the Gospels to the

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spiritual history of recent times I have often mentioned the
Herman Grimm made about the pressing needs of recent history,
souls of men there is almost total ignorance of the centuries
occurred in those early centuries with their own
centuries in such a way that people fail to perceive that the
evolution of mankind during those centuries. And when a
knowledge which the nineteenth century has attempted to
destroy. The scientist of the nineteenth century was only too
nineteenth century, namely, that our perception is limited to
Science. I recently came across a pamphlet which has had
that this author recently gave a course of lectures which
the first century, if we examine this period with the
innocent man had been condemned to death because he had been
experience of centuries, it prescribes the code of
happenings in the centuries when Christianity was first

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were manifested especially in the early centuries of the
centuries in Europe from a certain standpoint will be able to
first centuries A.D.,
add further information based upon our recent investigations
taken over by the Roman Mystery-centres and merged with the
practical experience of centuries she prescribes the code
Rome as the centre of the world power was to be destroyed, at
of the first three centuries of our era. And during this
policy up to the fourth century.
fourth century a remarkable personality appeared on the scene
actually came to pass. I pointed out recently that the deeper
sheds its beneficent influence here shall, like the Sun,
a particular centre of primordial wisdom had been deposited
originally in the secret Mystery Centres of the
in the early Christian centuries and in the age of
present century? What steps must we take, especially in our
split the Church for a century and a half.

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in the West, up to the end of the ninth century we find
works were centred round the figures of Zeus, Apollo, Pallas
form, in its ramifications in the sixteenth century when the
a third possibility; we can concentrate on the external, the
especially in the nineteenth century.
recently in a public lecture that natural science thinks
phosphorescent light. And I spoke of the scientist who
scale. And the Christ Being must occupy a central place in
similarity to certain writings of the nineteenth century.
by the liberal theology of the nineteenth century
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which reveals most
were already anticipated by Julian. The nineteenth-century
the nineteenth-century criticism displayed enormous industry,
policy was to establish a highly centralized political
the position of Julian the Apostate? If many recent writers
become the central problems of our time.
to Athens in 354, the intellectual centre of Greece, he
theology in the nineteenth century were Bauer, founder of
century was: is the Gospel true and how can we know that it

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nineteenth century. This Gospel criticism has yielded only
the development of Christianity during the early centuries of
development during the early centuries we realize in effect
centuries of the Christian era. Today, for example, there is
Christian centuries pagan temples, with their statues of a
sixth century. Countless edicts were promulgated ordering the
these centuries a wave of iconoclasm swept over the world
to recent history. Here we find other distortions but we fail
fourth century B.C.
Mystery practices which over the centuries had sought to
happened in those years seems centuries ago. Things have
fourth century B.C.
usually described. People often speak of them complacently
century was Friedrich Nietzsche in his book
historians of the nineteenth century. I am aware that anyone
evident that in the first centuries after the Mystery of
which lasted for centuries destroyed not only priceless
course of those centuries is comparable to the loss that we
man has for centuries been destined to live a life that was
the school therefore flourished several centuries before the
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I recently came across a publication which I felt would give
can well imagine from the statements I recently made about
which Christianity in the first centuries destroyed the
post-Christian centuries, we must be aware that they were
based upon a central core of belief (which was right for the
The eighth, ninth and tenth centuries before the Mystery of
the Sun Mystery (of which he had recently received
centuries, but the crisis, the critical moment in this
evidence of the early centuries the people were kept in
example the bishop's mitre of the eighth century. This
half of the nineteenth century. We shall not come to terms
centuries. I shall describe what is foreshadowed and from
the nineteenth century and compare these words with another
present predicament. I have only time to refer to the central
who recently gave a lecture here in Berlin entitled
our individualism, our ego centricity for the benefit of the
recently appeared with the title
unexpected propositions which the listener innocently

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centuries immediately following the Mystery of Golgotha
example from recent times which is accessible to all and
over the recent past it is possible that many may have
been prepared in the centuries before the Mystery of
giant among philosophers, made every effort a few centuries
best Aristotelians of recent time, says in his study of
century? Faith, he says, is our starting-point — the orthodox
arise once again. The central figure of Plato's

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We still stand in the currents which the 19th century has produced,
the second half of the 19th century. It means not only for some people,
had come, up to the last third of the 19th century, to a height which
is admirable, indeed, for someone who has an overview of the centuries.
This science is something that fulfils the 19th century with just pride.
It is the big heritage which the 19th century is able to hand over to
The 19th century has even
produced the fruits of that which was sowed in the preceding century.
Everything has prepared during the previous centuries. This is to be
human ken from the middle of the 15th to the 16th century, and also
the religious element formed quite differently during the past centuries.
different from that which one thought centuries ago.
got lost to those who were the bearers of education in the last centuries
and the most significant people in the 19th century. People had designed
for so many centuries. And from whom the human being could have expected
Go back to the first centuries
accordance with the science of their time. Only the last century knows
to produce harmony with the views of the previous centuries.
the end of the 19th century; this was the only thing that the 19th century
could have given as a legacy to the 20th century unless another impact
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century. He spoke so that one recognises: He does not only want to teach
from the 18th to the 19th century, because then the quarrel began because
that natural sciences have spoken of up to the 19th century. Modern
Within the outer oval you find a strange, blue shimmering or blue fluorescent
new flame which begins to gleam in the centre of the blue flame. This
highest member of the soul in the centre of the blue shimmering place

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research of the 19th century. He has to ask himself: what happens before
development correctly. In the 18th century the great naturalist Linnaeus
the 19th century tried to explain this instinct, this soul element in
in the spiritual fields, for example, a philosopher of recent time,
only in the last century before Christ. Some think that the daimonion

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only few centuries have elapsed. The 17th century belongs to this epoch.
them in their physical-technical interrelation. While in the 18th century
plants mechanically, the 19th century was able to do this. Development
the beginning of the 19th century a theory of evolution, the Lamarckism.
was not understood. Only the middle of 19th century was mature to understand
The whole situation in the middle of the 19th century enabled humanity
this principle in the first half of the 19th century which meant the
of the way of life in the 19th century faces us in Darwin's theory

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Bruno in the 16th century. He still finds life in the whole nature,
of life had also to be in the centre of his soul, of his thinking and
from the culture of the different centuries. He expects a time again,
For centuries humanity intended

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directly as a cultural-historical action which shines for centuries,
develop the intellectual life. Since some centuries in particular, the
of the 19th century. The thought, the idea itself became appearance.
in a magnificent way. This was the primal drama of the ancient Greece.
that Nietzsche suspected that problem of our time which we recently
tragically, perished tragically in the materialism of the 19th century

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produced in the soul if that which surrounds us as age, century, people
today, yesterday and tomorrow, not only a century ago but are always
being, any family, any century, any generation; they extend to the whole
them. This had to be said because I have been asked how it is that recently

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the help of some phenomena of our Central European cultural life. It
The 16th century did not
on a new basis in the nineties of the 18th century. In his Faust Goethe
The descent to the mothers:
the gradual development of the bodily in a magnificent picture at the
him. A magnificent picture of this process: “And as long you do

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days, about the theosophical idea of the origin, of the descent of the
the second half of the 19th century. You may assume that the results
serious, also Christian, researchers in the former centuries.
of the supernatural creation history have recently still formed.
and up to the 14th century. You can explain the real course of the Western
centuries, this old evolution doctrine disappears. More and more it
centuries the human being is no longer familiar with them. All memories
century people believed to give something quite new with a natural creation
confessions in such a way, as the researchers till 13th, 14th centuries
nature. That is why since centuries the modern thinking is not accustomed
were beings which lived in a translucent corporeality, partly in very
This is the descent theory which is destined to substitute that which
longer fantastic but spiritual, we can get again to a descent theory
descent theory is the task of theosophy. The “natural” creation

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century) they met forever and complemented each other. At that
who in good faith, but in his own eccentric way,

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complacent, selfish attitude. They cannot recognise the high value of

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him closer to the centre of the garden. There he finds a golden lattice.
find out the state of the centre of the garden. The old man accepts
on which the young man comes now into the centre. Music sounds from
he wants to go further into the centre of existence. Something in his
garden, he sees the innermost centre, a temple surrounded by porticoes

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recently: one made butterflies hatch at temperatures at which they do
immediately from the living nature, what separated the centre of the
took place. One centre became two centres in a more mental way. We see
this separation of the centres achieved in the later development in

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in Berlin and in the beginning of the 20-th century. At the end of the
18-th and at the beginning of the 19-th century, the human beings have
how the world has been changed in the course of the last century and
livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
being last time. He experiences this descent of the spirit, this separation

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completely different the time was around the turn of the 18-th century,
a century, what existed in revolutionary and other ideas penetrated
own life. For half a century he looked for human happiness and truth,
for the centre in the personality that destiny relocated in the personality.
ideals. Thus it was in the 18th century.
century with its demand for freedom, for personality. What is freedom?
to that, the 19-th century had become the most rationalistic one. The
the individuality which shines from the personality. The 19th century
19-th century cannot understand mysticism, one talks of it as something
If, hence, the 19th century talks of mysticism, it speaks of something
and he found nothing there, everything that the 19th century offered
century drawing to an end he wrote his When We Dead Awaken.

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the 19th century. Wherever we go we can find nothing that does not remind
a certain accentuation of the exclusive skill and sense of authority
the 16-th century till this day. It encloses the time of the emerging

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the last fifty years. In the first half of the 19th century, Schiller's
from the spiritual currents of the 18th century if we want to completely
and thinking of centuries. Approximately around the turn of the 15-th
to the 16-th century the time begins when the human beings looked up
difference of the old world view of the12th, 13th centuries with that
which arose around the turn of the 16th century with Copernicus and
Comedy with the world view of the 17th, 18th centuries. One may
longer be ours. But it had what the 18th century did no longer have:
in this divine world order as its centre, he himself belonged to this
world of the 18-th century faces us there. Nice sentences are in this
which faces Schiller in the beginning of the nineties of the 18th century.
path of the divine in the world was shaped most beautifully in the descent,
not in usual language, but in sublime language about the descent, the
what the 19th century aimed at. In this drama, the spiritual is represented
that the 19th century wanted to enter the land of knowing through beauty's
Schiller in such an idealistic way. Recently, in the last decade of
the 19-th century, a man wrote a biography on Schiller who had grown
through the minds and souls before half a century when we revered Schiller.

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which one needed as worldly knowledge; however, the central issue was
fulfilled its task in the widest sense of the word? In the centre of
is the central sun of any wisdom and knowledge, and that from it the
centuries of modern times, it was not in such a way. Only today, a kind
theology and sermon for centuries. A good sermon would be that if a
past centuries. One wanted to see independently. One also told in anecdotes
The past four centuries
last centuries, concerning this science and wisdom of the mind that
If you look at the great sages of former centuries, you can see everywhere
centre in itself, rotates, pushes off rings which form to planets, and
thinking of the modern human being since four centuries that the sensuous
of thinking has on the human beings for centuries. It worked on all
that he exercises something that was stimulated for centuries. One thinks

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17th centuries, even in the 18th century until the 19th century. We
it has no longer any direct connection with the central issues of life.
is why it has happened that one could study philosophy for centuries
18-th century there still was something that made philosophy the world
was there in the first time of the 19-th century. Then, however, one
development of law that the Roman people, magnificent just in this field,
of the Roman thinking. Hence, the prejudice crept in the course of centuries
Therefore, the Gnostics, the great mystics of the first Christian centuries,
developed during the last centuries when one did no longer know that
a magnificent lawyer, a great practitioner and a great mathematician;
views of law which one had in the course of the 19th century, and you
not know that the centre must be controlled, before one goes to the

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progress which the natural sciences have done during the last centuries
of Galen, two to three centuries AD, for example, and the medical scholasticism
comes from this materialistic way of thinking. In the 16-th century,
according to this system the 17th and 18th centuries taught. The human
being had to think materialistically for some centuries to do all big
the 19-th, 20-th centuries: that of coincidence. You can often notice

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originated in the 12th and 13th centuries, and we can still observe
up to the 18th century how somebody who wanted to climb up to the heights
as a core in the centre instead of taking the second place behind the
With the help of this central
should receive the doctorate who has absorbed this central attitude

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widened. In our recent considerations we have in fact worked
disposition of man's soul has changed. Just a few centuries
such as those made recently to a member of our movement, to
century. In that epoch mankind's general age corresponded to
recently in Austria. A certain Robert Scheu, a man of great
translucent; we are still dominated by the Middle Ages. The
decently (geziemend). Who feels anymore the

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during sleep, and he experienced the descent into the body as
a descent into darkness. There was no longer the close
the West or in Central Europe, is very far from the truth. A
Central Europe intellectuality has become widespread. The
events that took place in the 18th century, particularly in
the '60s of that century. At that time remarkable impulses
innocent blood, his Imperial Majesty on his part wishes to
much quoted by 19th-century philosophers: “Vera

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be treated in the peculiar ways I have indicated in recent
after all have investigated the subject since no decent
fourth, fifth and sixth centuries of the fourth epoch were
In the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries
actual beginning of it was in the fifteenth century, and we
sixth centuries” the fifth epoch was being prepared; as
our blood has run through our veins for many centuries. Its
understandable picture: from the centre of the circle

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which we have been engaged in recent weeks is the effort to
recently. Today I would like once more to speak about the
world views. He was reticent about his work and very little
This book by Brentano, which is long out of print, is a magnificent
saying, centaurs do not exist, I also pass judgment by
their lives for centuries suffering shipwreck in the last
to the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
times because for centuries the concepts of spiritual life

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people who are philosophically inclined have in recent years
less awake than Western or even Central Europeans. That is
the average Central European will side with the Poles. A
example Theodor Ziehen, to whom I referred recently, simply
through concentration and meditation.

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in our recent studies. Today, in the lecture to follow, I
recently. But let us first look at something that belongs to
for our next life on earth every web of thought at the center
recently, concerned with the course of man's lives on earth.
century we have been living in the fifth post-Atlantean
we must have an inner incentive to do so, and today that can
remained a severe critic well into the 20th century;
to power early in the 20th century, everyone said how good it
the Central Europeans the I, while the Russian people are
reminiscent of the other ideas as they had been in different
knowledge is exact and far-reaching, and has for centuries
century, evolution could go on without the individual
insight is essential especially in Central Europe. If one is

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19th century there were trends struggling towards it. But
misunderstood in the second half of the 19th century. It was
dissatisfied, we would lack the incentive to cooperate in the
Eastern Europe. We in Central Europe are placed in the middle
Eastern Europe is very little understood in Central Europe
what is happening in Eastern Europe! Recently I read about an
through a stage resembling the one Central and Western Europe
said, in Central and Western Europe more faith, more of a
Western and Eastern Europe is in particular for Central
We have in Western and also in Central Europe what might be
Western and Central Europe is, to put it bluntly, concerned
These things become more numerous the further West we go. Central
none. Some may have appeared in Central Europe because these things
adopted to some extent in Central Europe — is that what
establish a central office which collected all the best
central office. Of course, due to different languages,
could be centralized.
from the same central office. Those newspapers which are
lies behind this East-West union into which we in Central
the fact that at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
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the Gospel of St. John during the last three years centred around the
from day to day, from year to year, from century to century, from
a long time ago. In the first half of the nineteenth century there was
forces of Nature, both manifest and hidden, concentrated in the single
St. Mark. Then we shall begin to discern all that is concentrated in the

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and descent, through their generations, of the Hebrew people.
extending over long, long centuries, are now recapitulated in the destiny
with a special mission the whole process of development through centuries

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centuries there was a veritable mania for prophecy. Here, there and
Therefore two lines of descent go out from Abraham, the one through Isaac,
from Abraham onwards were specially gifted and chosen, was concentrated

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century before Christ, there existed in India a reciprocal respect
groups in Central Europe. Three races come under
the Celtic race we owe magnificent poems, songs and scientific
place in the 11th century throughout the whole of Western Europe,
Middle Ages, in his work on the Czech race in the 15th century. Long
freedom, a consciousness for which the 18th century fought

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The picture of Central
6th century A.D. This change involves a complete replacement of the
with in Greece in the 8th and 9th centuries B.C. Thus in Greece we
Asen. Its descent was traced to the first race of giants.
between. In the first centuries A.D., Tacitus describes the Germani
4th, and during the 5th century, we see all these races compelled to
calm and fixity set in with the end of the fifth century. Through

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order to see what far-reaching changes preceded the fifth century.
At the end of the fourth century we find the Visigoths east of the
Danube; a century later the map shows them in Spain. And just as
revolution which a hundred years produced in Central Europe, we must
begin with, in the third century the Burgundians advanced against
they conquered Rome, and, in the fifth century, founded the
— which, for a whole century, imprinted its stamp on Central
material considerations. The conditions of Central Europe were
In these centuries,
power throughout the centuries. Whether or not for the good of all,

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quickly forward at the change from the 11th to the 12th century. New
4th century. These two things indicate the alteration in the life of
century, a rivalry developed between the sovereign and the new
centure. This alliance between the papacy and the Frankish
as early as the turn of the 7th to the 8th century, Moorish rulers
its kingdom there The Moorish cities became centers of serious

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going to speak — the 8th or 9th century — you will find
16th century; but private government gradually became legal
king's central fund. Those who looked after communal concerns
developed from the 10th century onwards, and therewith a historical
century. In the older times nothing of this kind existed. The Church
the 14th century, endeavoured — at least at one juncture
centuries. Now some may feel it to be unjust that the masses at that
ago, up to the 12th century, nothing was held more solemn, more
In the 9th century
century understands as Science. Erigena had to fight against hostile
official in the 13th century.

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of the Middle Ages up to the 19th century; whereas now they are
century, Meister Eckhardt calls Plato the great Greek

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9th and 10th centuries.
dependence. Thus the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries were filled with
States with central administration and uniform armies. Hence arose
relationship with the Church. Powerful enemies threatened Central
century a certain unity had been established. This increased the
century, celibacy of the clergy became involved with the world
how monasteries and bishoprics had become the central point of the
cities, and you will feel that a century was dawning which would

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centuries before us. This period is important, full of significance,
late as the 13th and 14th centuries, these regions were still

Title: The Human Soul in Life and Death
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here during recent years I have often drawn attention to the
consummation in the last two to four centuries: the sphere of
able to prove in the course of centuries — what it was
concentration, the more the content of the thought vanishes.
the force of our concentration on it, it awakes to a life of
concentration. We have to ‘stop thinking,’ in order
it through intense concentration. You lived in the thought, and
died in the process of thought-concentration in you; but it has
that of thought-concentration, and form as it were the second
the thought becoming concentrated, dying, and evolving as
Whereas first the will is concentrated in the single point of
through thought-concentration, we take possession of our own
preparation of thought-concentration and meditation, how
meditation, through thought-concentration, and the effluence of
Cosmic and Life Conception in the Nineteenth Century,
Precisely in the spiritual culture of Central Europe the stages
saying that the human soul, by thought-concentration, can make
Central Europe enabled him, by discovering the nature of his
spiritual life of Central Europe, the spiritual life of
experience of Central Europe even this spiritual life is

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concerning the evolution of mankind through many centuries. The
descent to Earth, who has not been given a handbook of Greek
figures in the centre, and on their right and left other
right and left to the central group he could see that through
with rapture the symbol in the centre. We are looking into
“Disputa.” In the centre we see “God the
mystery of Christ, His whole descent from the higher worlds was
the spatial sense. Hence the descent out of a birdlike

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the heavens. In the first century A.D. the symbol of Christianity was the Cross,
Christmas Festival. When the Easter Festival is celebrated the Sun is continuing its ascent which
human being, we see all Nature concentrated in him. That is why sages have spoken of Man as the
can possibly be imagined. The sum-total of divine wisdom is concentrated in a single human body.
before the cosmic wisdom was concentrated in this human being? The cosmic wisdom is concentrated
When the Sun again begins its ascent,
When all the waking, nascent forces of
rightly celebrated at the middle point of the Sun's ascent; for this corresponds with the time

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germinal only and are centred in the ‘I.’
scientific investigation. A book on the effects of thinking has recently been published.
and 15th centuries. More serious crimes were tried in secret night sessions.]

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significant and prominent thinkers of the nineteenth century
refer to thinkers in the last centuries before the foundation
Nineteenth Century,” since it is still only little worked
real progress in later centuries. At the same time this can
progressed for a few centuries. But how things truly stand with
major philosophers of the nineteenth century have given: that
East, who lived in the first half of the seventeenth century,
us, as was said, in the first half of the seventeenth century,
of the nineteenth century, who truly was one of its most
nineteenth century, whose very significant
meaningful philosophical works for the nineteenth century. Let
centuries, into which not many nowadays even wish to penetrate,
nineteenth century, as a confession by Lotze, we can say
adjacent world, next to that towards which the soul strives
nineteenth century and on up to our present time could teach us
this. Against this in the nineteenth century amongst the
but to another spirit of the nineteenth century. From a certain
nineteenth century: from the viewpoint that a human being must
second and third thirds of the nineteenth century that echo was
nineteenth century a spirit before us, who only did not make a
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before. However, that embodiment in the 6th century before Christ was a
century before Christ â€” sitting of the Bodhisattva under

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in the 6th century B.C., was a Bodhisattva.

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to think of yourself as the centre of this eternally existing
in the sixteenth century.
only lives on in the centuries that follow him; what preceded
humanity over the last centuries is not meant as a
be one of the noblest, most magnificent works of art in the
buried for centuries under rubble and debris on Roman soil were
What precedes this time? We see, first of all, the centuries in
of Italy's development over the following centuries? Why did
line of ascent to the point where the most inward, the most
of the centuries that followed.
and others. Similarly, more recently, such an inwardly advanced
that revealed the Greek spirit. The centuries of the first
Raphael fully. We indicated recently how close he stood, in

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making use of powers that were only to emerge in later centuries. --
centuries.
given the means available. Though in later centuries no human
even in the fifteenth century a remnant of this clairvoyance
they nonetheless felt united in the centre of their being with
the course of the centuries since the appearance of Copernicus,
natural science in the centuries since Leonardo's time. The
Humanity had first to become mature for this. The centuries
secrets of the universe. Born into the fifteenth century, he
fifteenth century could not bring to expression what Leonardo

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others, often simple people, we come upon accounts reminiscent
done its part over a period of centuries to estrange the human

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Human evolution will evolve as a gradual ascent into the

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mid-nineteenth century. In doing so, he established, so to say,
phenomena and facts of past centuries. This adaptability, this
the nineteenth century, he was able to hold his famous Goethe
possible in the last third of the nineteenth century, has now
this reason, he was unable to arrive at what recent spiritual
did, however, frequently touch upon results of recent spiritual
centuries both in the visual arts and in literature. He sought
he saw an instance of someone in the nineteenth century who
apparent at the source, in the ninth or the tenth century
eye as something so beautiful, so colossal, so magnificent that
backwards, drawing her after him, the whole magnificent figure
evidence that, in approaching the -twentieth century, the

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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exponentially in the last century, particularly the
19th Century. It seems to me that among all the
phenomenology of recent times was established again by
fertile time for science in the 19th Century, much
know very well how in the 19th Century several
(19th) Century in relation to Goethe's concept of
nature on which so much of the 19th Century had been
science during the 19th century nearly always refers
the 19th Century how certain parties of science in a certain
it had developed in the course of the 19th Century,
previous (19th) century, I tried to copy the image
of the 19th Century. This happened in the following
particularly in the 19th Century and how people were
the 19th Century it occurred that everything the
19th Century appearing in this un-Goethean atomic

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Century, it could not be stated in this way — also for
if you admit to everything which has been presented by recent

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we look back a few decades at people in central Europe, the
different experience, in central Europe, as it is today in the
second decade of the twentieth century, where we basically have
than what had been experienced for centuries. When one looks
fifties, sixties and seventies of the nineteenth century,
perhaps even later, which the central Europeans could have, it
nineteenth Century, which didn't lead to any kind of solution.
situation in the last third of the nineteenth century, in its
the second half of the twentieth century comes clearly before
viewpoints of the West, of central Europe and Eastern Europe.
no kind of centralised nervous system. For this reason, he
of the 19th Century, was outwitted during the second
third for central European philosophy because what was
we have the central European aspect.
central Europe, like Soloviev, then he will primarily have an
and wrestle in the centre with the problem of how to create a
Christian Centuries of the West.
humanity in the West, the centre and the East, we can see that
ways in the West, central Europe and the East, how they love
still be an inner condition of the soul. Now however, in recent
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educators to the emerging, growing adolescent, to the child.
19th century in the pedagogical sphere, presented by
and 12th Century for instance, are of a completely
middle of the 15th Century to the soul constitutions
of civilised humanity. Yes, up to the 20th century

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treaty, a time in which value relationships in central and
search further, then one could — namely from central Europe —
lead to a significant, acceptable ascent which from then on and
quite honest about healing central European economic life, and said:
century, through which the soul constitution of civilised
these two streams became more and more common in recent times,
finds this connection at least in one of them. Recently a kind
central European population, they unfortunately also fell for
During 1917, by contrast, I tried to show individual central
concentration of what this school master Woodrow Wilson had
associations are different from those which in recent times

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Towards the end of the previous century one had a certain
entire development of recent times and particularly apply to
in the course of the last centuries adapted to the outer
acknowledged in the first Christian centuries. We then see how
supersensible worlds. This is why I have always been reticent

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of central Europeans, I actually had to do these lectures which
You are going to see that in the soul of central Europeans, in
differently in speech by central Europeans compared with the
place somewhere in the 15th Century. There are
is completely drawn to a single point, a central point to which
central point it is a spring of warmth, which streams with
experience the inward streaming towards a central point of
it is no longer valid for a decent scientist to believe in

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certain connection between the recent great events throbbing
transferred from that egoistic realm and centred more and
be the case. The three or four centuries ending with the
seen some of our contemporaries, in the centre of the
climax within the last four or five years. In these recent
fifteenth century A.D. According to Anthroposophical Spiritual
the earlier Graeco-Latin one, which began in the eighth century
instance, the tenth century, and the centuries following the
century. Some time has passed since then, and we are now
of the fifteenth century, we must say, if we still keep in view
course, lasts through centuries. Outer observations will not
Central Europe men have accepted the falsehoods told them from
fallen to 2.15 centimes, but I have not yet met anyone who sees
should feel themselves as a centre from which may radiate the

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I said, the middle of the fifteenth century brought with it a
before the middle of the fifteenth century, it was not
the last half-century. They assert that the genuine reality of
and early twentieth centuries.
concentrated in private capital will pass over into other
men (and in recent times young women also) have had to go
and 'eighties of last century, the regulations were very small:
directly traceable from Central Europe to Ancient Rome. This is

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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occurs in the middle of the fifteenth century, we must admit
have only recently been able to plunge entirely into the
achieved in earlier centuries, therefore there was no
in, the eighth century B.C. and lasted until the fifteenth
century A.D. When about a third of this period had elapsed,
development was superseded in the fifteenth century by that of
first Christian centuries could not last: it was bound to
perceived instinctively through the first centuries, was
the Event of Golgotha as a real fact in the centre of it
this tormented Central Europe, who have never deigned to see
the word, who is gripped by the central purpose of his time and

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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least in Central and Eastern Europe, by the old ruling powers.
Minister of one of the Central European States, announced
Marxian thought for half a century. It is not enough to-day
nineteenth century — the masses have been more and more
nineteenth century this was literally so (things have improved
so bad in the recent past as they must become, if such State
the State lies the first, central problem of the social
not one from which men shall be ruled from a centre, but where
fools or madmen who maintained in the nineteenth century that
centuries when Lessing, Herder, Schiller, Goethe and others
being, to the great glories of Central Europe, then, in spite
of the stress of our times, will peal forth from Central Europe

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