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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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world outlook. It must be kept in mind that there is a great
the greatest teachers in this field never did more than advise and
human soul has in the past been incarnated repeatedly in a physical
One of the great laws of man that must be intimately tried out on his
accustomed to being neat and exacting and this he must accomplish not
the way to comprehending the great law of reincarnation on his own. A
Regarding karma, the great law of just compensation, perception and
He who permeates himself with this mood and looks at his life and all
with this contemplative inner life. The great spiritual truths that he
the great Spirits. He has learned to survey the whole panoramic
permeates him. Without treading this path of reverence one does not
begins to perceive the great, eternal truths. Then, suddenly the world
about through obedience to and observation of a great sum of rules and
from the great book of occult schooling. A person who makes use of
stammering of a babe as if it were a revelation, has he created within
again must this effort be repeated. A clairvoyant person can evaluate
coupled with perseverance. There are the great levers of spiritual
The greatest sages of mankind did not discover the great truths by any
opened. Then he will find what all the great religious and

Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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it from the spiritual death it otherwise, because of the eternal laws of
spontaneous warmth of this elementary feeling. Let me repeat that it is
look up again to the Heavenly Child who brought the greatest of all
first time in 1705 as "The Triumph of Death" (see reproduction:
"Behold in this reminder of death what you really are as human beings.
hunting party, which is standing before the reminder of death, the three
coffins. At a greater distance, some people are listening to music. Behind
skeleton; the etheric body by the corpse half eaten by worms; the astral
existence that must be contemplated after death." This is what is expressed
Triumph of Death." The people depicted in it are already dead, even those
was created somewhat later, and with what we are seeking again in another
find manifest the fact that man may, indeed, cherish a great hope for his
changeable influences of the weather on the earth. In spring and summer the
out of its egoism as the weather changes. But in winter, the earth and its
influences of weather triumph over what descends, full of blessings, from
willing resembles the changes of the weather, which become manifest in the
atmospheric changes of the weather. Indeed, our thinking, feeling and
willing are related only with the changeable influences of weather
close connection between weather changes and his inner life. "O winter, how
on earth, will assert itself, in contrast to the weather-like changes in
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Title: William Shakespeare
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Theatre, could have written the plays which bear his name, but some
knowledge of the theatre and the deepest understanding for theatrical
printing press, the people were to come to the theatre and see the
exercise an extraordinary influence. We see this great effect in plays
inauguration of the Lessing Theatre. It did not fail to produce a
Shakespeare's dramas are above all character-dramas. The great
found an audience keenly interested in the theatre, that is to say,
create such great ones. He was thoroughly acquainted with the stage,
experiences could only enrich his dramatic creation. Even the fact
to some extent some of the greatest qualities in his plays: the bold
flourishing state, he went to London. There he began his theatrical
Theatre, he became a wealthy man.
IT” and some of the Kings' plays do not differ so greatly from
great character-plays which were to establish his fame for all times
great play “OTHELLO”.
the effect produced by the characters must have been even greater than

Title: William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare, the actor of the Globe Theatre, could have written
written by a man who had a thorough knowledge of the theatre and
the deepest understanding for theatrical effects.
wraps; people were to come to the theatre and see the plays
influence. We see this great effect in plays that have
Neuman-Hofer at the inauguration of the Lessing Theatre. It did
plays are above all character dramas. The great interest which
audience keenly interested in the theatre, that is to say, with a
create such great ones. He was thoroughly acquainted with the
dramatic creation. Even the fact that in spite of his good
extent some of the greatest qualities in his plays: the bold
theatrical career in the most menial way, by holding the horses
Globe Theatre he was a wealthy man.
greatly from the plays of his contemporaries, of Marlowe
fashion in those days. The great character-plays, which were to
characters must have been much greater than today.
the modern theater so much depends on scenery, props, etc., when
greater: through the power of characterization which remains

Title: The Manicheans
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founded by Manes about the third century after Christ and its great
Tradition holds that his death he left the writings to his widow, who
the Kingdom of Darkness and a kind of vortex arose. Death came into
create an overlapping stream, a stream which goes further than the
Christian Life will find it. It creates Forms and shatters Forms. But,
Manicheanism laid such great stress on purity. The Cathari were a sect
and Evil will form a far greater contrast than they do today. What
created in man, so, in the Sixth Root Race, Evil will appear,
Non-resistance to Evil. It must create a Form for the Life that is to

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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development of consciousness. The task of our epoch to permeate
intellect, as epoch of egoism and its necessary defeat.
along many channels. A great deal of occult knowledge exists in the various
is to permeate this mineral world through and through with the spirit
and how greatly his consciousness will be enhanced by them. Certain men,
not necessarily be of great account. If someone gives a coin to a poor man,
poor man living among us has no meat at Christmas and we feel bound to give
him some in order that we may feel justified in eating our own Christmas
you. This is connected with great and mighty laws of world-existence. Each
nature will be within us as a power. That is the great thought at the basis
you breathe nature into yourselves. The act of sight does not pass away
explode some object at a great distance — say in Hamburg! Just as by
terrible form. Great and mighty forces will be let loose by the
of it. We are living in the fifth period of the fifth great epoch; we have
still to live through two more periods of this great epoch. Then will
follow the seven periods of the sixth great epoch and then the seven
periods of the seventh great epoch. This makes sixteen stages of evolution
life of our planet there are seven great epochs, and each of these seven
too that one who reaches a higher Degree can accomplish greater things.
the individual will acquire greater and greater power over certain masses
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Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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this lecture is a problem that has engaged the attention of a great
Baptism something of great significance happened to Jesus of
realising that there is a far greater satisfaction in experiencing
great and mighty Mystery — in effect to the Mystery of a
‘man,’ albeit by far the greatest. Thus in the 19th
existence of an Aristotle, a Socrates, or an Alexander the Great. Not
entered history as a mere ‘idea,’ as an impulse created
nations in the course of human evolution. This is the greatest
sleeping — indeed in a death-like condition — but the
was to show that something of great importance came to pass while the
of all the experiences won through repeated earthly lives and the
great stage of world history through the founding of Christianity.
rituals with the essential features in the various Gospels we find,
Initiation ceremonies — but with reference to the great
shroud of the Mysteries and enters upon the great stage of world
time on the Earth the Christ permeated the being of Jesus of
of physical body, life (or etheric) body, and of the soul-sheaths; in
the ‘soul-sheaths’ but in the true Ego — this was
Divinity is the creative formative impulse.’ Now however he
permeating all worlds, can be revealed to me, I must look into my own
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Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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the great change which takes place in man's inner life may be
thinking can become sounder; we must moreover create a foundation
fearful catastrophe of the great war, because of the difficulty which
great importance to this mystery, but to-day it is necessary to bear
past four or five years, can send a great truth trickling into
should, learn to consider his life between birth and death as a
to-day talk a great deal of “God” and of the “Divine”.
another; they have spoken a great deal of “guilt” and
One nation after the other began to participate in the great
A clear view of things is impossible unless we extend this fact, that a great
evolution — but we are facing the BEGINNING of the greatest
these, battles. In the near future, the East and the West threaten to
this can only be grasped with greatest difficulty. How do these
the portal of death.
What we develop ONLY between birth and death, appears to one who is able to
spiritual world between death and a new birth. Read my descriptions of the
the life between death and a new birth.

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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Art and Architecture that Reveal the Underlying Wholeness of Creation
or Art and Architecture that Reveal the Underlying Wholeness of Creation,
Architecture were created by the forces which ray down from the
great building of wood, with its hand-carved, weaving forms and
Thomasius. The bareness and inadequate accommodation of the theatre
Great and mighty
creations of art and of culture through the ages have many things to
heard how the creations of art and of culture help us to understand
creation of ancient works of art, was made easier than it is for us
Temples of Greece and other great monuments, human thoughts alone
What we ourselves have to create is essentially new — in
those in operation in bygone times. We have to create out of the
we must create out of full and clear consciousness, free from any
work fruitful — for what we have to create must be basically,
striking and significant feature of this early Art of Building?
arises within the temple itself. Can there be any greater enigma than
features, the look on his face, and so on. If with the eyes of the
as great in every respect as that presented by the Egyptian Temple.
whole bearing and appearance. When the soul truly permeates the body,
perfection, permeated by soul, an infinitude complete in itself. And
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Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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human being which extends beyond birth and death. Such teachings,
which had been of great importance in earlier times, now glimmered
teachings concerning what extends beyond birth and death, slowly faded
accordance with the great Laws of Nature. Two vistas lay before the
of the life between birth and death. (In the very oldest Vedas nothing
is, in fact, contained about what extends beyond birth and death.) The
definite. The Egyptians attached greater importance to preservation of
in this combination, to create new colonies: the Phoenicians and the
wherever in the traditions, [are] men of great strength and are in the
element, into the great idea of the organization of States. The
the first having been to create religious culture, the task of the
second to create the foundations of material culture, and the task of
Over in Asia, mixtures had repeatedly taken place, and the Jews, the
found where the greatest number of spiritual impulses had been given,
family out of which an Initiate was to issue was selected with great
A new impulse and a new possibility were created through the Initiate
mankind itself. None of the Great Leaders who brought men forward, who
other worlds the great impulses they had to give to the earth. The
those who were political leaders and leaders of great religious

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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own efforts, "co-creators" in evolution.
it also throws light on the great span of human existence that
includes the time between death and a new birth.
science can be of great help to us just where daily life is
the stone a plant has its whole material nature permeated by an
repeat indefinitely. It is due to the etheric body that the parts of
a living entity repeat again and again, for it is the etheric body
wheat a wheat stalk and ears will grow, and out of a bean will come a
presented great difficulties, because things go in through one ear
and who in his youth took in a great deal and worked well, and has
process of recovery meets with greater difficulties in the one than
course that it is only present after death for a certain time. And
It is the forgotten ideas! That is the great blessing of forgetting!
on man's etheric body. So our forgotten memories have great
is meant to develop and yet is not helped in its development creates
memory picture we have immediately after death. There it becomes
works in the large span of life between death and a new birth. What
Kamaloca exists because immediately after death the human being
At death man first of all leaves his physical body behind him. Then
the greater part of the etheric body withdraws and dissolves in the
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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own efforts, "co-creators" in evolution.
with great intensity and will do so to an even greater extent in the
suffer from an acute case that requires treatment. Thus a large
medicine assumes greater and greater dimensions and insinuates itself
materialistic world conception, that is, he treats people as though
fourfold nature and for everybody to go repeating that man consists
are still quoted today, they do in fact say a very great deal. Present-day
science has no inkling of the fact that scientists ought to treat
right treatment is to deal directly with the symptom. The essential
unnecessary to maltreat the heart or, as the case may be, the
stomach complaint is treated with hydrochloric acid, it would be a
we have to treat the nerves that provide for the stomach instead of
first thing to consider in the treatment of this sort of complaint is
treatment. We need quite a different basis, for spiritual knowledge
nothing to do with heredity, but a great deal to do with nationality
example a great mistake is being made in the field of medicine, for
treated externally today and lumped together with acute illnesses,
certainly lose their greatest value, therefore they are seldom used
recovery. If we see man as the complicated being he is, the treatment
will be considered in greater detail in one of the coming lectures,

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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own efforts, "co-creators" in evolution.
her wisdom had created cork so that man could make stoppers with it.
before the arising of the sexes. A great uniformity was there then.
present day seasons was very great, and it was of great importance to
traveled just a short distance over the earth, that had a great
olden times. Everything had the greatest influence on people, and so
the vocal cords and the other speech organs. It makes a great
doing, and as this is really happening all the time, it has a great
sunrise, for instance, had a powerfully creative effect upon man,
it light or sound, heat or cold, hardness or softness or this or that
Mazdao, the Great Aura’. The spiritual part, all the spiritual
were eating — an activity quite different from what it is today
between the great divine-spiritual harmony with its health and the
is more divine, for man does not have so great an influence on that,
consciousness can carry out the following feat — it always has
particular mineral substance that has permeated him. Something very
man takes. You create a new man within you consisting of this mineral
been dosing himself in this way for a long time applies for treatment
to someone who wants to treat him psychologically and work especially
need not be surprised if spiritual treatment is not very successful
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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own efforts, "co-creators" in evolution.
the day ego described a circle, passing through the greater part of
this circle outside the realm of the great ego and descending into
the great ego at night. For sixteen hours on average it is outside
have to speak in great detail if you are to understand it all. You
processes are rhythmically repeated in the physical body too, however
create the outer physical movement in accordance with their own inner
results when man is permeated with the great truths of spiritual
days. At one time everything outside him made a great impression on
signifies for man's being and also for the rest of natural creation

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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own efforts, "co-creators" in evolution.
seven days. Let us go into this in greater detail.
starting-point. You know of course that a great difference exists and
in greater detail today. With such things as these, which appear
penetrate a little way beneath the surface of the physical sense
have to look once again to the great cosmic relationships to find the
creatures. The orbiting of a planet around its sun or of a satellite
regulating of the great cosmic relationships. Man as microcosm is a
true image of the great world relationships, for he is created out of
the great cosmic cycle, when the hour and minute hands coincide at
greater the disorder that came into them. I would like to clarify
like an angel not to think in harmony with the great spiritual
no longer knows how to take guidance from the great script of the
into day. It is of far greater significance that in his inner life of
thought man has torn himself away from the great universal rhythm.
contradiction to the life of the great universe.
recommends people to eat certain foods only at certain times of the
inwards he must now create rhythm from inside outwards. That is the
created the cosmos, man has to permeate himself with a new rhythm if
he wants to share in the creating of a new cosmos. It is
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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own efforts, "co-creators" in evolution.
karma, on that great law of causes which show the spiritual
what actually happens to man spiritually in the period after death.
know that on passing through the portal of death man first of all has
astral body and etheric body exists only after death, and then for a
immediately after death have also been mentioned; man's feeling of
past life standing before him as a great tableau. Then, after a
know that when man has just passed through the portal of death he
moment of death. For he has laid aside only the physical body, the
body that man satisfied his desires. After death he no longer has
could say a great deal about it, of course. Today, however, we shall
another being or creature or the world in general, hinders the doer
therefore, whilst living his life backwards in Kamaloca after death,
getting rid of all the hindrances you created in life. You are full
that we form connections with a great number of people in one life,
vary a great deal in this respect. Some souls have acquired great
which we shall only understand if we look at it in greater detail.
in life in a more fragmentary manner. Not until after death does it
appear in the etheric body in the great memory tableau. Then we have
of initiation into the great mysteries of existence in one of his
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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own efforts, "co-creators" in evolution.
man's being. We have looked at the great riddle of man from as many
and altogether that which is greatest, is not to be sought in unknown
greatest wisdom, if we can only understand this. Therefore let us
greatest and most powerful share of divinity, he towers above his
fellow creatures. Therefore only a knowledge and understanding that
the inherited characteristics like a sheath, its own qualities and
incarnation, and the sheaths surrounding it, comprising the inherited
from within. It is this fact of being able to work creatively on
observe the breathing process when people laugh or cry. This enables
us to see deeply into what is happening. If you watch the breathing
essentially of a long out-breath and a short in-breath. It is the
opposite with laughing: a short out-breath and a long in-breath. Thus
the breathing process changes when the human being is under the
This is like a squeezing out of the breath: a long out-breath. In the
long in-breath when you laugh. Here, so to say, in the change in the
breathing process we see the ego at work within the astral body. That
even accompanied by a change of breathing. Therefore let us show the
have a breathing process that is so to speak strictly governed from
has been described today. That which sustains the breathing process
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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own efforts, "co-creators" in evolution.
one with the sun; and how greatly he had to change as first of all
present-day eye cannot distinguish certain sea creatures from their
get to the North Pole the greater are the differences between winter
Lemurian times, in the great increase of forces raying in from
living upon it is here at its greatest. On the other hand the
only used them as sheaths to the very smallest extent. If, therefore,
though they had great clairvoyant faculties, and who looked out to
the greatest imaginable degree. A great number of people looked up to
greatest chance of survival living in the countries between the
of great spiritual significance, were physically small in those days,
Atlantean population: Where the people are small we find great
was a great contrast between men who were good as to their qualities
and who were normal, for they had not developed egoism to too great
future, and they were also the ones that the great sun initiate,
permeated their whole being and made it a manifestation of egohood,
permeates his external being with the colour of his inner nature as
they deposited too many carbonic constituents beneath their skin and
beginning their essential feature.
that are sheaths for every possible level of soul, from the
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
own efforts, "co-creators" in evolution.
AND CREATION OUT OF NOTHINGNESS
aspects on the subject of the great evolutionary processes of the
like to draw your attention to a fact that can tell you a great deal
process. We have repeatedly emphasised that in the first seven years
the physical maternal sheath. But we know that when this has happened
he is still enclosed in a second maternal sheath, an etheric one.
physical maternal sheath. At the change of teeth this etheric sheath
astral maternal sheath that is stripped off at puberty. After this
were it not protected by the various sheaths. For when that which has
the protecting sheath first of the etheric body then of the astral
sheaths in the twentieth to the twenty-second year; then it becomes
and then dies. Why? Because it is a creature which, like a plant, has
able to take anything with him at his physical death, from his last
life between birth and death. And if he were not able to take
death and has to prepare for a new incarnation. The point is that man
light permeating it from top to bottom. In the lily of the valley,
that although the physical seed is small it is permeated by a
disappears further and further and the physical grows great, whilst
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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Between Death and Rebirth
will deal chiefly with the life after death when the Kamaloka period
is over. After death relationships between individuals continue as
the planetary spheres after death depend upon moral and religious
entitled Life between Death and a New Birth in Relation to Cosmic
great deal has been said previously about the Luciferic and Ahrimanic
be taken as a standard example of the way in which the great truths
In the course of years we have spoken a great deal of
the life between death and a new birth. The same subject will,
Between death and the new birth a human being
between death and the new birth — which is, in fact, existence
essential to become accustomed to a great deal that is the exact
had to be created. An outer event, an external influence, was
creation, or where there is a genuine striving for knowledge or for
good. An artist will assuredly not create the best work of which his
create the necessary Inspirations. If we are to ‘know’
Intuition to another. We must create the whole structure; nothing
death — known to us under the name of Kamaloka — the
periods in the life after death which follow the period of Kamaloka.
When a human being has passed through the Gate of Death
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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Between Death and Rebirth
the body when waking from sleep. Between birth and death a human
repair the damage to these sheaths cannot be drawn from the Earth but
only from the planetary spheres after death. Particular qualities
be experienced by the soul after death when passing through the
after death. Understanding of every human soul without distinction of
entitled Life between Death and a New Birth in Relation to Cosmic
during the winter are to be concerned with the life between death and
of lectures has been given. It must be taken for granted that a great
morning he will find that a great deal of what his memory has
destruction that ultimately brings about death in the physical world.
the gate of death we can make compensation in some form for
you will realise that between birth and death it is possible for man
continually damaging our bodily sheath. With the forces that are
reveals that in the life between death and the new birth we acquire
forces able to restore our worn-out sheaths. Between death and the
bodies are the reservoirs of forces needed for our bodily sheaths. On
Let us consider the astral body first. After death the
passed through the gate of death becomes in the real sense a Mercury
beings between death and the new birth are investigated, it will be
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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Between Death and Rebirth
with, be changed during the life after death. From the possible suffering
in later karma. Those living on Earth are able to have a great
creation of an actual link between the physical and spiritual worlds.
entitled Life between Death and a New Birth in Relation to Cosmic
has already been indicated about the life between death and the new
spiritual world after death, the relationship between us is, at
again the relationship that existed before death because of the lack
over and over again the circumstances created during the life before
our death. For instance, if at some particular time, say ten years
before the death of the person in question, or before our own death,
a corresponding length of time after death and only after that period
life after death, the happier relationship previously existing
between us. It is important to realise that after death we are not in
in many respects. It is true that in the life between death and the
period after death, during the time in Kamaloka, an individual sees
what has been determined by his life before death, but to begin with
greater influence on the dead than the dead has on himself or others
conditions of souls between death and rebirth.
upper consciousness. After death we do not experience only the
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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After death the human being draws forces from the
expulsion from Paradise. The purpose of life between death and
death and the condition of sleep is fundamentally one of
death. Forces once drawn from the stellar worlds must now be drawn
entitled Life between Death and a New Birth in Relation to Cosmic
human being which at death leaves the physical body and, to a
between death and the new birth, and that during this period its
if, during his life on Earth before death, he developed a genuinely
before his death. To sum up, we may say that as long as a human being
between death and a new birth he is connected with the forces
with the forces of the stars between death and the new birth. The
is different during the period of existence between death and the new
his being but is something quite different. In the life between death
you can gather how greatly perception between death and rebirth
during the life after death. There man feels as if his whole being
at a point. There comes a period between death and the new birth when
actually how things are during the life between death and the new
that is really very similar to life between death and rebirth,
condition between death and rebirth than is usually imagined.
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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entitled Life between Death and a New Birth in Relation to Cosmic
Sermon at Benares, the first great accomplishment of the Buddha who
were Teachers of great significance. What actually took place there
between death and the new birth. We have heard how during that period
spheres, to traverse the expanse of cosmic space. Between death and
planetary spheres. Since the last death, every soul incarnated on the
picture with the greatest possible clarity how the Earth evolves,
pass between death and a new birth. Like our Earth, these heavenly
evolution. Whenever we pass into a planetary sphere after death —
death and rebirth. Until the fifteenth/sixteenth century the
great transformation which could have been achieved only by
This possibility had to be created! And it was created
made this possible. We will speak on another occasion in greater
spiritual world, to influence human souls between birth and death, in
order henceforward to work in the Mars sphere for souls between death
only between death and a new birth.
We are now at the threshold of a great mystery, a
culminating in death. But you can have some idea of it if you reflect
that the Being who was the greatest Prince of Peace and Love, who was
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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existence between birth and death and death and rebirth. But this 'I'
corresponding etheric organs is maintained. Between death and rebirth
during earthly life between birth and death.
entitled Life between Death and a New Birth in Relation to Cosmic
have already considered certain aspects of man's life between death
death and rebirth, passes into the Mars sphere and there undergoes an
will help them to understand the life between death and rebirth in
we try to carry this question to greater depths than has hitherto
studies of man's life between death and the new birth. The question
too, that when an individual passes through the gate of death he
sheath of that body is cast off when the Kamaloka period is over.
death and rebirth. In the innermost sphere the human ‘I’
period between birth and death in the physical body, through the
greater part of the time between death and rebirth — it is the
whole period between death and rebirth conditions were the same as
with an intelligence much greater than that of a parrot will never
of existence between death and the new birth. All the forces that
life between birth and death man is quite unaware of the forces which
between birth and death vanishes and is of no significance when he
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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in life on Earth and after death. 'Public Opinion' and
Progressive dimness of man's life of soul after death
to a far greater extent than was the case after the Mystery of
significance in man's life after death. The effect of the Buddha's
death and rebirth. Rosicrucianism has always recognised this.
entitled Life between Death and a New Birth in Relation to Cosmic
understand with greater exactitude than has hitherto been possible
man's life between birth and death in the physical world on the one
side and on the other between death and rebirth in the spiritual
repeatedly considered a crucial occurrence in a man's life which
including the existence between death and the new birth, is possible
birth and death, man's life has undergone essential changes in the
the life between death and rebirth has also changed. Those who think
very great influence upon man's life of soul between birth and death
have been nonsense to speak of public opinion as we do today. A great
single personalities who admittedly exerted a great deal of authority
you will find a great deal on the subject of spiritual
between death and rebirth is of particular significance for this
Mystery of Golgotha, we find that after death men had an active,
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Eight
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Between Death and Rebirth
The greatest mysteries of existence are within man
memory we grasp a tiny corner of world-creation, namely what has
passed over from creation into existence. From the viewpoint of sleep
Experiences during the life between death and the new birth. At a
this is an experience of the moment of the last death in reverse.
entitled Life between Death and a New Birth in Relation to Cosmic
Now the greatest mysteries of existence are not to be
world-creation, we grasp what has passed over from creation into
fugitive stage of created existence. But when we waken spiritually
are there beholding are the creative, life-giving principles working
to work at the creation of man, at a level above that of mineral,
except man — as a creation, together with happenings in the
accumulates and the natural death of old age ensues when the
Study of the life between death and rebirth, however,
preceding life is experienced for a time after death. All of you are
life between death and rebirth, a reversal of all ordinary vision and
time to which I have just referred, between death and the new birth,
the great intensity at what may now be called the human body; we
discern all its secrets. Thus between death and rebirth there comes a
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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Between Death and Rebirth
contacts between death and rebirth. Rejection of spiritual ideas in
after death, also inability to mould the physical organs efficiently
for the next incarnation. Individuals after death are approached by
beings during a soul's life after death can be recognised in
sense of duty enables contact to be made after death with spiritual
established during the life between death and rebirth even if there
entitled Life between Death and a New Birth in Relation to Cosmic
When people do not flatly deny the possibility of a life after death,
may be a life after death but why should we trouble about it during
life on Earth? When death has taken place we shall discover whether
anything of importance. For if the life after death has anything to
the life between death and rebirth are considered in their spiritual
aspect. When a man has passed through the gate of death he comes into
the period of existence between death and the new birth.
Hierarchies with whom he has made contact between death and the new
during the time that has preceded our birth since the last death.
Between death and the next birth we must approach, stage by stage,
In the life between death and rebirth we can pass before
necessarily choose in our life between death and the new birth, is
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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Between Death and Rebirth
in the Soul World after Death, the Spiritland, the Spirit in the
Spiritland after Death. These descriptions are more closely related
lecture-course the descriptions are of great cosmic conditions and
death in Kamaloka and final discarding of longings connected with
experiences beyond the Saturn sphere between death and rebirth make
Old Sun. The death on Golgotha was only seemingly a death; in reality
entitled Life between Death and a New Birth in Relation to Cosmic
have undertaken to study the life between death and rebirth from
on the subject of the life between death and rebirth
the soul after death through the Soul-World. This Soul-World is
was how the Soul-World through which the soul has to pass after death
given of how the soul, having passed through the gate of death, lays
from the great macrocosmic spheres, there arises the human being who
through his existence between birth and death.
dealt with the great cosmic relationships connected with the
the first period after death the soul has to look back upon what was
say: When the soul passes through the gate of death, everything given
these impressions after death. Recall any sense-impressions
experience. When the sense-organs fall away at death, all
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Title: Michelangelo
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and this we can also do in the world which does in some way repeat
repeating themselves, and begin to believe that the souls of human
world and there made fruitful in the period between death and a new
study the great epochs of art and the great artists. We shall never
be convinced of the reality of man's repeated lives on earth by
repeated earth lives, the more we study reality as a whole. I hope to
light of this conception of repeated earth lives we shall soon come
look beneath the surface we shall see the immense difference there is
message from another world. This creation of form was possible to the
models in order to create his forms. An inner knowledge gave them the
inter-relationship. They could permeate their whole organism with
a statue of Zeus, for instance, his soul was permeated with a sort of
him with Goliath's head beneath his feet. Michelangelo chooses
created works of art which deny the outer world and produce their
the statues of the Greek gods breathe only the air of the gods,
Michelangelo's breathe the same air as ourselves. This is not
study with Ghirlandaio, but great artist as the latter was the boy
contemporary talents could create: humanity had now moved forward to
create a sculpture which was the equal of the Greek because he had
disregarded by Michelangelo when, at the height of his creative
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Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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earth — we feel as if we lived within a great organism. We
and the great consciousness of the Spirit of the Earth then
of sleep. The animals consume, eat up what summer produces upon
which we take with us through the portal of death. What the
through the portal of death, as harvest of our life.
explanations repeatedly given in recent lectures.
so that our existence from birth to death becomes a whole, a
“The Education of the Child” — maltreat a
organism to its own elemental forces, without maltreating it. We
which passes through the portal of death and enters the spiritual
was greatly alarmed and said that quite recently a man had been
shot in the neighbourhood, and she entreated her nephew to remain
shows us that what we call the great illusion chiefly consists
man is as great as the universe. Even in ordinary life we look
birth to death. When passing through the portal of death we grow
right way into the world we enter through the portal of death, we
of course, pass through the portal of death and he must pass
through the life between death and a new birth, but the whole of
imperishable element which we gain from birth to death for our
life between death and a new birth.

Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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great significance in every realm of human endeavor and investigation
greater significance in the realm of spiritual investigation. A
investigator therefore must be able not only to create his own
hallucinations, and crazy notions, see these creations as realities
have different reasons for denying this spiritual world, but a great
of death, which passes through the spiritual world and appears again
sheath that is cast off, the wooden part of the tree, or the shell of
way, such sheaths, such useless remnants, are continuously being cast
About Death.
that the human soul after death does not exhibit a very intense
just characterized. As great, as powerful in soul experiences, as
grows in the field, chops it up and eats it. This comparison is
world by eating them, so little does one learn to know the forces and
can be eaten spiritually, one deprives oneself of that which cannot
however, is by far the greatest part of the spiritual world, and the
exactly as if they were always indulging themselves through repeating
can, if only it is sufficiently unprejudiced and does not create
illuminating what is underneath, everything can appear in the light
must appear to provide verification. In this way the greatest
today about “repeated earthly lives” — when it
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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and the great truths connected with that Event; they realise,
connection between life and death, his eyes of spirit were
opened and as well as a great vista of past ages of the Earth
forever overcome death, becomes visible.
Body of Christ; he sees the waters of the Earth permeated
made one; he sees the Earth in future time as a great
primeval Gods, yearning to be united with them in death,
experiences associated with the greatest event in his life
epoch there were great Teachers who were also the Leaders of
the divine worlds were no longer the highest, creative worlds
great Gods.
back to the seed; the seed is the creator of the leaves and
Thus did the great Atlantean Initiates speak to their pupils
birth to a God, to the great God of the future — such was the
of Atlantis saw into the future, foresaw the great events of
the future. Their vision reached beyond the time of the great
ensnared in matter, you must clothe yourselves in sheaths
the great post-Atlantean civilisations arose, beginning with
The great Teachers in
the great Spirit of the future. To the Indian people it was
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Title: Lecture: Buddha
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of the great Buddha.
teachings of repeated earthly lives is almost tantamount to saying
Buddhist thought. To be freed from repeated earthly lives —
concludes with a confession of belief in repeated earthly
repeated. We are not on this earth for nothing. We are active in
greater future, the consciousness of continuous activity —
the idea of repeated earthly lives, for to understand the essence of
considered in connection with the great Zarathustra.
— the great “Illusion.” It is also natural that as
The wisdom arising from this could then be revealed in the great
sight of the corpse he realised that death consumes life, that the
element of death enters life with its fruitfulness and power of
increase. He saw a sick man — disease eats its way into health.
death. Knowledge and wisdom cannot surely have brought old age,
sickness and death into the world. Something else must have been
their cause! And so the great Gautama felt — because he was not
death and many other destructive elements. Here was a mystery
in the soul of the great Gautama, led him finally to full
innumerable lives will never solve the great riddles of old age, of
sickness, death.” He then realised that the doctrine of
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Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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have accomplished such great things and brought such blessings on
as well as into the origin and evolving forms of the creatures
though the great questions about which we shall have to speak still
and the alluvial layers, have met with their death, as it were, and
earth's evolution the living creatures have developed by slow degrees
still in a state of heat), we find our globe, evolving towards the
Goethe, who besides being a great poet was also a great student of Nature
evolution of the earth and its living creatures. It was not, however,
through radiating heat into cosmic apace, and that then the time came
when heat-conditions made the formation of granite and perhaps of
radiation of heat only the surface-crust of the earth was cooled
interior of the earth beneath the crust remains in a fiery-fluid
repeatedly indicated in these lectures — we look at the
then find creatures without any vertebrate skeleton, and so,
cloud-formations and so on. A great number of substances which are
belongs to our earth something like live members of a great living
the heat is so great that life cannot develop; but in the environment
under conditions of intense heat — it is there that what the
the great living being “Earth.” The 1atter needs for its
into the life of the great being “Earth” by forces which
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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and that this year, in spite of great difficulty we were able to
observation of life. I might say a great deal if I were to speak
gatherings, which made the lack of room greatly felt both for the
through the very uncomfortable heat in the room. Now of course it
in an ancient Greek theatre, but not in an enormous circus-like hall.
repeat my lecture, rather than give it once only in a still larger
creating an inner chamber for ourselves. This led to the thought of
— is more and more required, that a great number of those who
things too easy. When we consider the great store of lectures and
call itself by the name of a great spiritual individuality, after the
in the West. Hence we must say that what relates to the great Figure
without understanding the resurrection, however great theologians we
Blavatsky accomplished so great a work because through her a great
inspiration? There are great Rosicrucian truths in Isis
contains great truths concerning everything not Christian, —
but in respect to what is Christian, is the greatest nonsense. With
time — and will then be a great teacher on earth. That is the
great Bodhisattva-Individuality was incarnated; but because her
deny that in this being a great Individuality was concealed? We
arose to learn to know more intimately the great teacher of

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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mentioned with great respect. This school was well known for the
impossible to think of greater nonsense, yet the psychology of the
thought could have arisen as the greatest production of the
Hegel as the ox understands of Sunday, when he has eaten grass all
beneath him, but also what eyes can see, ears hear and hands grasp;
the person makes an impression upon you like a breath of enchantment.
Imagine this breath of enchantment enormously enhanced — and
heat in Saturn is as it were the sacrificial smoke of the Thrones
condition, that it was one of beat. Of all the elements we have
Saturn is heat. And this heat consists of the sacrificial heat
fire, wherever we are aware of heat, we should not think in so
But wherever heat is present we should feel that what is at the
development of heat, there is sacrifice.
Time-Spirits, and that external heat is nothing but maya as compared
Externally heat is really only maya. And if we wish to speak truly we
must say that wherever there is heat we have in reality sacrifice,
send up this sacrifice as foaming heat, so that the sacrificial smoke
sacrificing to the Cherubim and resulting in the creation of the
as living time, as a creation of sacrifice. Then we shall see how all

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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air, but of ‘heat.’ So, too, in first speaking of
substance dense enough to be called gas, nothing but heat and
flow of heat. That is only the outer veil of the Saturn condition.
For this ‘heat’ or ‘fire’ as it is called in
without, as it were, which appear as ‘heat.’ Conditions
of heat are the external expression — speaking in a general
throughout the world, wherever heat is perceptible it is the outer
expression of what lies behind it. Conditions of heat are the
sacrificial acts of beings. Thus in describing heat we must say
‘Cosmic beat is the manifestation of Cosmic sacrifice, or
Ancient Saturn consists of ‘heat,’ we do not merely
require external, physical concepts (for ‘heat’ is a
of the soul. No man can know what heat is who is not able to form a
wishing to keep back nothing of the beat for itself, but gladly to
living idea permeating our soul, it will gradually lead to the
understanding of what lies behind the phenomenon of beat. If it
sacrifice in the outer Cosmic heat. He alone understands what really
is who can grasp the thought: Whenever heat appears in the world
soil-spiritual nature which is behind the heat and brings about the
heat.
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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spiritual to be found behind the phenomenon of heat, and then that
conditions of heat and fire must be sought very far away from what we
know as external physical fire or heat. To a man of the present day
as the essence of all conditions of heat: a sacrifice made by very
conditions of heat or fire. In the last lecture we also recognised
their own being. This is to be found in every breath of wind, in all
conception of fire and heat; for in fact fire, heat and light bear
fire, heat and air are illusions; and the realities behind these bear
movement of a hand or the greatest of deeds, the impulse of the
strong, forceful act, one for instance that is to bring about great
general it is assumed that the greatness of the deed depends upon the
it correct that as we intensify our will we accomplish great things
physical world, in which we particularly live, the greatness of our
will, for the more we wish to accomplish, the greater are the
greatest deeds or better said, the greatest results do not
whereas in the physical world we grow stronger when we eat well, when
we are well nourished and acquire greater strength thereby, so, in
can precisely do so with the greatest ease, if, by fasting or other
statement, and not given by way of advice). The greatest spiritual,
things fond of eating and drinking and has other masterful passions,
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 2)
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properties of heat or fire, and we have learnt to see in these the
there was naturally a greater sense of the spiritual behind the outer
greatness and significance to be found in resignation. None the less
have no recollection of it, yet it works! It becomes active beneath
the surface of the Soul-life just as there may be movements beneath
lives in great cities is less affected by it, but he will have seen
universal Beings, by others who found their greatest bliss in gazing
never create the same inner disposition of Soul as would have been
the disturbance beneath the surface of the sea drives up the waves,
enters our consciousness. Beneath the surface of our ordinary
obtain a conception which is of very great importance and weight:
eminently great Soul. If only something could have flowed into his
an end to this search for ideas — the greater the yearning, the
death! We meet here, three Springs long we love, and then we shun
something good, and die in doing it! One of the million deaths we
which reminds us of how a great mind expressed this undefined longing
it was a great one) which she could span with her earthly
Prince of Homburg, who carried out all his great deeds in a kind of
a particularly great man, for he whines and whimpers over everything
contours: that is, Spiritual Science. The greatest unites
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 6: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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that we call Maya or the great illusion, there is the Spiritual. Let
phenomena of heat, presenting it in its true character of sacrificial
that we must reduce the elements of heat back to the spiritual, to
the way from the microcosmic soul to that cosmic creating which we
the fragrance of knowledge created by the atmosphere of vital
recognises a relationship. Let us try to create a connecting link
Entities resigned it. The peculiar feature of the spiritual
feature of the ancient Moon evolution taking place in the soul of
of the Spirits of Movement. They created a possible way by which the
Beings of the lesser planet wished to make sacrifice to the greater
a single great satisfaction, but experiences a number of partial
actual meaning, their great Cosmic purpose.’ Certain Beings
inherent from the beginning: — that is Death! Death is none
renunciation by the Higher Entities of Death.
significance death is neither more nor less than the attribute of the
in their proper place. Even when death comes to a man in a concrete
but matter which at the moment of death, was shut out from the Ego,
within the Beings to whom it was thrown back lapses into death, for
death signifies the exclusion of any Cosmic substance or Cosmic Being
where-ever we encounter fire or heat, behind it there is its
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Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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about the spirit in this area, for how could it be denied that great
the great botanist, Schleiden, discovered the plant cell. He was the
century. It must simply be understood that even the greatest
discoverer of the plant cell became the greatest and most vehement
earth's rock formations as the great skeleton of the earth
human being in sleep passes into the great world and in the morning
This breathing out and
breathing in of the soul is a wonderful alternation in human life. Of
limits of his skin, and then expands into the great world during the
sense. With the human being, stepping out into the great world is the
steps out into the great world when he falls asleep; in summer the
in the human organism light creates the eye for itself in order to be
spring the sun organism creates for itself the plant covering in
so these entities, which are real, create for themselves in the plant
remarkable when man discovered that plants can eat, can even take in
animals, are meat eaters! But it was not known quite what to do with
this, and this is interesting, because this discovery has repeatedly
really lives in the great macrocosm. We would have to perceive some
sleep — to the great world, living within it. Just as it allows
the expression of the features of our earth. Thus what we call our
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Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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with the Great Teachers will appear in the subsequent numbers of
of repeated earthly lives.
significance of those Great Ones who have been the leading and
guiding spirits of the different epochs. From each of these Great
age, makes us realise what great differences arise in the sum total
man's thought, feeling and will, have undergone great changes in the
personality hidden beneath the name of
religion, must be placed a great many centuries before Buddha. Greek
historians have repeatedly pointed out that Zarathustra must have
logical thinking which we regard as the most important feature of
great steps forward in the civilisation of mankind. Whatever the
arose the Vedic poets. The region permeated with the mighty impulse
of Zarathustra lies to the North of the land from which the great
different from the Brahministic teachings of the great leaders of
these two ways that the great teachers attained to the revelations of
that we so greatly admire in the old Indian culture — which
Cosmos, moving and creative. And so there arose the teaching of the
creative. This is the other path.
think he has discovered a great truth here, but it leads to nothing
called the “Great Aura,” for it is all-embracing.
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Title: Lecture: Hermes
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Great Teachers
greater significance to study the culture and civilisation of ancient
reason for the great interest evinced to-day in Egyptian culture, but
did one of the greatest minds of modern times feel himself related to
words. It must therefore be of great interest to us to understand how
spiritual reality permeates the old mythologies and religious systems.
preserved, more especially by the earlier Egyptians, with great piety
Being, “the Thrice-Greatest,”
cries of lamentations were uttered at the death of cats. Again, we
danger of death, because his act aroused such fury among the
after the death of Osiris, Isis gave birth to Horus. A spiritual ray
The active principle of thought has become the power of ideation in
spread over the spiritual universe as the Osiris-power that permeates
within their own souls. Thus the great cosmic clock, with the
stars and had created in a cosmic script, an expression of
remains, in order that in future ages, after it has been permeated by
leading through the Portal of Death; the
other is the path through the Portal leading not to physical death
Egyptian therefore said: When man passes through the Portal of Death
is freed from the sheaths of his earthly body in the spiritual world,
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Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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barely escaped the martyr's death of Giordano Bruno and Galileo.
threatened with being burnt alive. People are content to make
the “Spirit” in the age of the great
derived from an archetype, into which life was breathed by
the creator.”
Great men have the faults of their virtues. It is our task to
Origin of Man” differ greatly. But the Anthroposophist
great scientist Carl Gegenbauer, said of Darwinism.
opinion of Karl von Linne, the great Natural Scientist of the
created. Did we not have as many miraculous creative acts
greatest benefactors of mankind.”
the great English Scientist, has proved, there is much more
ever-growing circles, and is a great hindrance to any other
understanding. Those who only want to repeat what they have
heard from the great Eastern Teachers cannot become
English edition of Haeckel's “History of Creation,”
so very great. Therefore certain conditions of life, into which
transformed them into lower human souls. Any miraculous creation
how fish evolve from lower living creatures, and that is enough.
explain how mammals evolve, for there is a greater difference
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Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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Life and Death
Life and Death
man to Life and Death to-day, we may be reminded of a
up all the movements after death of the separate substances
the death of man?” Quite apart from the fact that there
from many an observation on the nature of death, or one which
establishes the idea of an antithesis between life and death,
of the fact that “death” and “life”
dare not speak in the same way of the death of a plant or an
in the physiology of the great naturalist, Huxley, for
that we must distinguish between the local death and the
death of the tissue in an organism, and it is expressly
maintain the breathing by artificial means, we might quite
breathing, the organism would still continue to live in the
really speak of death, although no brain were there at all.
traced back to the life of the smallest living creatures.
independence, at least of the smallest living creatures. It
states that the smallest living creatures propagate
four, and so on. There we could not admit of a death, for the
sought for a definition of death, and just this definition of
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Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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we have lived the great ideal which we want to express through
inclined to dedicate our forces to this great ideal of mankind,
spiritual light or means of light to the dawn of the great
force of love are the greatest, the most intense, the most
the feeling that wisdom is a great thing — that love is
still greater; that might is a great thing — that love is
yet greater. And this feeling of the power and force and
threefold figure of the Christ-Impulse can have great
pay homage to the great spiritual King Who appears in the high
related to the great cosmic forces. We have this connection
with the great cosmic forces when, through an understanding of
impulse. As something yet infinitely more great and mighty than
prevents men from feeling the full greatness and power of this
there was created a figure, a figure, however, which lived,
without prejudice, and felt a great change in itself. To-day we
sink into the poem of the Greek Empress Eudocia. She created a
lived wholly in the world of the old heathen gods and could
Golgotha was still completely given up to the old heathen
use of the old heathen magical methods. All this is played out
Do cherish true and warm our Saviour great in praise:
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Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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cry from the great Zarathustra or Zoroaster, who formed the
great personalities who provide the subject matter of our
Spiritual Science has reached to-day. The same great impulse
ago, the great authority, Aristotle, made such or such an
great deal. For the deeply illuminating teachings and
the greatest benefit to them.
ought to go to the great book of Nature, which speaks so
concerning the seat of the nerves. Their theory was that the
their seat in the brain and that the chief nerves originated
of Aristotle, was greatly astonished and said to Galileo:
treatise on immortality. Let us consider for a moment the
two incidents, we can see how greatly Aristotle was
allow this. Hence the great battle between Galileo and
Thus Galileo and Giordano Bruno were the two great
pedantry of the Scholastics and of book-learning to the great
greatest admiration, refers to this in a lecture which he
lecture, he drew attention to the fact that the great
great laws of mechanics, had discovered the laws which govern
distribution of space, created by the genius of Michelangelo,
Galileo, that great thinker, that it has become possible for
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Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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through their mighty creations, their being has been engraved into the
life of mankind, like a limb in a great organism. This is especially
Raphael's creations went on working after the painter's death as a living
evolution of humanity has proceeded since the creations of Raphael, and on
figures of his pictures. What Homer created long ages before the appearance
pictures we feel that something would be lacking if the creative, formative
centuries but his creations form one organic whole with all preceding
great significance when we thus see how a uniform spiritual essence
Raphael. The truth of repeated earthly lives that have so often been
again in repeated earthly lives through the epochs, bearing from one life
an education proceeding from all that is created and born from out of
study of Raphael's creative activity. There is no question of giving
of course, to enter into the details of the single creations of Raphael.
before the audience. The general impression of the creative power of Raphael
All that the Greeks not only created but experienced as the outcome of
and the bodily element was still held. This is why the creations of
the Greeks seem to be as fully permeated with the spirituality as that
a still greater inward deepening, the more we observe it in relation to
what has remained to us in the creations of Raphael. Raphael stands there
as an attempt to create as broad a conception and idea as possible,
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Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for
together, the well-being of the community will be the greater,
textual irregularities, represents a great enrichment —
only in those areas to which one retreats from the great common
egoistical way want to retreat into the self and cultivate it
Theosophy that it wants to stand apart from the great
which are active in the great world-all are also active in the
There is no greater mark of poverty than when someone who
out a great deal on what is right. What are people around us
portray it in its direst colors, is greater than it was in
greatly changed. And there, if we study the question thus, we
is necessary to get to know the great laws of life. What has
We must study and understand why the souls of the great masses
who is able to look into the soul is one who, in the great
German naturalist and philosopher.] have brought us great
The great laws that are to be realized in the future show us
of these great world laws that can be a guide for us is the law
The greatest needs of the human being of today were embodied in
everything which creates outward inequalities, the same soul
order to have this life between birth and death be of
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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seek to penetrate into his hidden technique, by re-creating him in
the manner of nature. A great and truly heroic idea which sufficiently
significant through their application, and throw great light
He repeatedly emphasizes how unreal and meaningless Fichte's
philosophy is. In fact there could not be a greater contrast than
and Fichte — two great contrasts unite in Goethe, and he seems
difficult to reach with the understanding. He tries to create a
with spirit-created thoughts. Thus Goethe's proto-phenomenon is
overboard old traditions, and create feelings, thoughts and ideas
its creator, but also in those who would enjoy it; they feel the
And now allow me to explain the chief features of this
“legend” in Goethe's works;’ and so I repeat that
great voice cries
There are a great number of attempts to solve the riddles
life. The Old Woman then says something significant: she repeats
Canary in her neighbourhood, and had taken great care not to
Like the pointer of a great Sun-dial, he is held fast in the middle
is the great task of his existence.’ And then Schiller tries
great means of education, a means of aesthetic education, a freeing
in a correct and pictorial way, by creating a parallel work to
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture II
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of something which a poet has created in the free play of his
shall see there is a great difference between the two. Take, for
ideating, but also a feeling and willing being. Now those who
will always repeat: in science, only the power of thought may enter,
creative fantasy, and if we look upon them as representing
soul-powers, we see that they permeate and work in his whole soul. If
Thus he created the sequence of the story's events, which is
omits the differentiating features and puts together the common ones.
what creative spirits have produced in literature. I do not mean to
ideal creations not as something abstract in themselves, but as
If we wanted to discuss every feature in this fairy tale and
principles contained in the story. But every feature shows us
of the world, with the Creative, Spiritual forces. The
longing for these creative forces is the longing for the Beautiful
initiated into Goethe's meaning, once, at the time of the great
‘And so long thou hast not this, Death and Birth!
Death and Birth! Learn to know what life can offer, go
world which otherwise he would tread only after death, in the world
it is also with the other sentence: ‘And so death is the root
Let us take yet another feature: namely, when the Giant comes
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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Faust; which was not to be published until after Goethe's death.
Scarce a breath,
went to Weimar and owing to his position there entered the great
Faust-creation appear to us in different ways, according to
personality, now we see before us a great conflict carried on
reminded of the great dramatic representation of man's life
passage through the great world, but in such a way that the second
material, thought out in terms of the theatre to please everyone and I wished for nothing
illness, bringing him very near death. Much that a man's soul can
which he had erected to the ‘great God’ of Nature, a
greatest nonsense, and at that time it was most difficult to
had developed an intuitive mind. He must have been greatly pleased
wound round in a circle, beneath which another dragon had fixed
These mysterious signs and words must have made a great
developing in ever greater refinement. But it was not easy to find
things and yet defeated by them.
centuries, when studious lives were led, we find a great
spiritual vision to the creative power of the world, enthroned in
— a mysticism, a magic, a theosophy, treating of things which
the mystics with great pains, to miss the way and being unable to
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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His path predestined through Creation
poet's images, created by right of poetic licence’ —
passage of some great words spoken thousands of years ago; words
called it ‘Ahura Mazdao,’ ‘The great
at the sun, and feeling the world full of spirit, spoke the great
what is the highest in the world, what He, the Great, Ahura Mazdao,
And now thou breathest new-refreshed before me,
Now Faust is to go into the great world with the gifts he
Such a man, steeping himself in the whole great course of human
as he enters the great world where decisions affecting the world
human thoughts are really pervaded and permeated by beings from the
bring people to a condition of great confusion. We shall see best
death. The images, indeed, will take on other, fixed shapes, when
man is dissolved at death into its elements.
‘Escape from the Created
little, but in truth it is saying a great deal. For usually between
hereditary line, taken from the physical-sense-world and bequeathed
spirited words that only the conditions of his creation are
be solved only by real creation out of Spiritual Science. To those
And now we see the creation of man, which Faust
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Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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repeatedly, at intervals, and incarnate vicariously in a
The greatest Avatar-Being Who has lived on earth, as you can
once. They incarnate repeatedly, but they obtain for themselves
is the center that in the ancient Hebrew narrative a great part
explain a great deal to us. We have to do with a very exalted
the Christ entered into the threefold sheath of Jesus of
little consideration is given to a fact of very great
physical relics are emphasized. Just consider what great
themselves listened to the pupils of the Apostles. Great value
What great prominence was given to
greatest importance was attached.
people who would have considered it the greatest folly had they
into a great number of people; because it was granted to
great historical law which should be of special importance for
Here we see a great historical fact
wisdom which is the primordial wisdom of the Great Avatar, of
greatest Avatar-Being, the Christ descended to earth. Let us
of existence. What the human being is in particular, the great
future; it will offer humanity far greater things, and the
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Title: An Impulse for the Future
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develop new forms of being. Passing through death and the submergence
impulse took place along with the great turning point [of history].
with the hardest opposition from the outer world. A great pain can
a human will which has become free of selfishness. He repeated these
very small circle has been created. It has
been created in the sense of our stream for this endowment; thus in a
with the positions which will be created only duties are associated,
endowment a number of associate branches will be created. And as the
a founding in the outer world must be created. Only in the context
of our endowment, the branch for Theosophical Art, should create a
that an excellent model will be created by the existence of this
had been for a long time himself in Freudian treatment for a nervous
reproductions (Rudolf Steiner's drafts of the great dome in the first
Death tore her from us at the very moment that a place for her work,
new architectural style created by Dr.
given by Dr. Steiner developed alongside the creative colors
And all these, artistically created from the most varied elements,
impulses. He was torn from us by death in 1925. He had to pay with
death for the immeasurable richness of his gifts. We were enlivened

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
evolution and destination, the riddle of birth and death, the
great variety of age groups are represented in the audience,
it will create conflict with their religious conscience. They
great philosophy or world outlook has arisen out of the
the great religions. Spiritual science, while resting on its
to show that all the great world religions are based on the
Greater
has a greater ennobling effect on the human soul because it
destination, birth and death, infinity and eternity; (b)
after death when a person has laid aside the body. Every
faced with greater issues and unable to cope even with
To questions concerning eternity or the meaning of death? At
another. Another point of great interest was the way the
after death, his experiences when attaining spiritual sight
science, advancing as it does at great speed, a center of
Jesus, the greatest founder of religion in modern times.
These cultures became great because their exponents
divine origin, and that death is vanquished. All the great
civilizations draw their spiritual creativity from the faith
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
one does not stop short at its shape and features, but
shall turn our attention to that which creates on earth its
problems are bound to increase as time goes on. The great
embryos human beings repeat once more the earlier stages of
is the case, an image arises within the creature in response
sensation. The inwardly felt has its seat in the astral body.
Thus, we see that creatures belonging to the animal kingdom
the above creates a physiognomic expression in the below as
is permeated by the astral body, which calls up in the
are to attain the capacity to create inner mirror images of
external events, then the ether body must be permeated by the
living creature is a small world that mirrors the great
consciousness in simple creatures is compensated by its
creatures. If you consider people while disregarding their
out of which the human being, as a living being, is created,
world of light the workings of the great cosmic laws.
through its reorganization became permeated with the astral
outer world and recreate it within the self.
we are able to build up anew what is repeated within
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture III: The Origin of Suffering
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
“Illness and Death.” Yet each lecture is complete
closely bound up with evil, illness and death, often cuts
greatest riddles. When attempts are made to find meaning in
times, it features as one of the foremost questions.
brought together, one of which the greater part of humanity
other one of life's greatest benefits.
human beings and the higher creatures are concerned — a
creation, where knowledge of good and evil is intimately
appears as a testing, as an incentive to greater striving. In
climax the suffering ends with the death of the physical
that from death certainty arises, certainty that pain and
suffering, and even death itself, are conquered.
portrays more sublimely than the tragedy the greatest human
large part of humanity as the greatest in history. The event
victory over death. From looking up to a universal suffering
of a tragedy. The poet can only create such a work of art if
the other. Nothing provides greater understanding than
physical material creation, as a kind of flower growing from
inorganic organizing itself within the living creatures.
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IV: The Origin of Evil
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
suffering, illness and death, but does not concern itself
primordial human wisdom that penetrates beneath the surface
creators and leaders of human evolution, were once at the
must not be thought that the same repeats itself; nothing
hidden, permeates the foundation of earth existence;
the earth began when wisdom became permeated by love. As
previous planet. Peculiar legendary creatures wandered about,
lower for the very breath of life.
love engendered by mortals is breathed in by the gods. This
well as the lowest, is the breath of gods. It might be said:
now. On the previous planet, a creative instinct of wisdom
ruled, as now a creative instinct of love. Thus, human beings
were removed. The world creator needed evil in order that
of the power that always intends evil, and always creates

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture V: Illness and Death
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Illness and Death
and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
Illness and Death
must obviously concern everyone, for illness and death enters
that is upsetting and even frightening. Death is indeed
life's greatest riddle, so much so that the individual who
could solve it would have solved also the other great riddle,
death is a riddle that no one ever has, or ever will solve.
to answer the specific question, How can illness and death be
death,” were for centuries regarded as an answer, a
solution to the question concerning death. Nowadays these
have anything to do with a physical fact such as death. Nor
by saying: All living creatures, in all realms of nature,
all living creatures: the attainment of individual
death.” You will realize that not only this, but also
concerned themselves with the riddle of death — a
arrive at any other conclusion than: “Basically death
death; for life is miserable; it can be endured only because
of the knowledge that death puts an end to it. On the other
hand, if one fears death, it is a consolation to know that
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VII: Education and Spiritual Science
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
of teeth, protected by an etheric sheath, just as the
earlier epochs. Even the embryo repeats all primordial stages
repeats earlier human evolutionary epochs.
to Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) was king
person repeats that event during physical birth. At that
Lemurian and Atlantean epochs are repeated in a child's
teeth and puberty that epoch of evolution is repeated in
which great spiritual teachers have appeared among men. Buddha,
greater, a fact we find preserved in heroic legends and
great teachers was self-evident to the human soul. It is bad;
it does great harm if the child doubts the teacher. The
create a life of its own, not draw it from outside. What the
permeate every subject that is taught. The child will not

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) was among the greatest
have great suggestive power over weaker personalities, can
question, we must also bear in mind the fact of repeated
similar to what occurs at death. When we go to sleep the
bed. At death the ether or life body too separates from the
sense, and the more numerous and greater the talents and

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
are capable of developing spiritual forces of greater
and exaltation, or when life threatens to fall apart, a
wise. Wisdom is science becoming creative. We must so
not abstract but creative images. Abstract concepts and ideas
eyes are active transforming light. Unless the soul creates
cannot stream in. The pictures thus created will maintain
create in the soul are not accurate, it will not matter; they
creative wisdom. We know that the human being consists of
discovered, and the doctors were greatly alarmed; she showed
thus become creative. Their health-giving effect acts
is transformed into wisdom, the spirit creates the
therefore also the greatest healer.
surrounded by wisdom because wise beings created the world.
Spiritual Being is the greatest healer. From Christ is born

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture X: Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
the greatest truths, but even more than other great truths it
not first created them. Out of an originally lower organism
are created by the light for the light.” However, the
recognize their creator — the light.
recognize what created them, that is what to the eyes is the
an organ, a tool; and self-knowledge becomes ever greater the
spirit-light, existing in the eternal world, that created our
death. In so doing, we must not forget that when a person
starts his life an earth he is not a newly created entity; he
brings certain qualities with him. Repeated earth lives are
a person's existence after death if we are to recognize what
what he has retained throughout the time between death and
ourselves that at death the human being leaves behind only
the physical corpse. The main difference between death and
needed to create a building, as the bricks do not come
together the physical matter and forces from birth to death.
falling apart. But at death it leaves the physical body,
sentiments, that leaves, whereas in death the ether body also
astral body's existence after death, comparable to someone
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XI: Who are the Rosicrucians?
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
alchemical feats, does not inspire much confidence.
feats were for the genuine Rosicrucian nothing but symbols
uphold that the great work of the Rosicrucians is to be
Rosicrucianism contains things of far greater import. Rather
that appears as a basic feature of various accounts can be
mysteriously told, Paracelsus, the great medieval physician
sworn to secrecy. That is also why nothing of great
The great secret is revealed of what “ultimately holds
impart the holy secrets of existence to great masses of
method developed by the Rishis, the great spiritual teachers
millennia the great masters of wisdom who guide mankind's
Becoming one with the macrocosm or great world
philosophers of great renown tell us that human beings cannot
Rosicrucianism, this is known as self-created thinking.
characteristic contortion of his features, you see beyond the
vertical beam. Plato, the great philosopher of antiquity,
the Rosicrucian school had repeatedly to bring the picture
has permeated his substance, his flesh, with physical
desires permeate the lower organs, a person will become as
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XII: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
able to speak. The artist lives and creates according to
these laws as the plant creates according to laws that are
always been so. The great mystics of the early Christian
Ruhe fand). These words already reveal a great deal
artists who attempt to create out of fantasy that lacks
Beauty created by art should also express truth and
of artistic creativity in religious feelings and perceptions.
creating a harmonious whole to which each contributed with
B.C.) was a great Athenian dramatist
and had selflessly created combined artistic works. Wagner
great dramas, seen by those who had been admitted to the
and they were permeated with deep religious devotion. A few
drama depicting the world's creation. Such dramas existed
formed into the various creature's of the kingdoms of nature:
itself in its own creation. This descent and resurrection of
knowledge combined to depict in dramatic form the creation of
to be a great, beautiful, worthy and estimable unity; when
creation of the world.
was a religious mood created, but the drama also conveyed the
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XIII: The Bible and Wisdom
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
A modern person, however great his faith, can have no notion
could come. People saw the Bible as dealing with great world
picture, a procedure that was later repeated. And indeed,
in great contrast to the usual experience of those who
often based on deep seated hostility, though sometimes it is
structure, there is greater similarity between the lowest
spoke about it as a great heresy in 1859. This view influenced
just as real. The difference he sees is just as great between
developing to ever greater perfection forces that are
initiate is actually greater than the difference between the
someone who possessed greater knowledge than anyone else.
In the course of time the initiate will lead a great number
greater insight, till finally the pupil became an initiate.
subject is dealt with in great detail. There are many reasons
various people are similar This fact contains a great secret,
a great mystery. The people always looked up to their
greater detail from the viewpoint of spiritual science, and
further back we go in human history, the greater the
infinite greatness. It is this aspect of a person's being
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture I: The Past Shows Us a Picture of Necessity
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— which is now happening in many places from a great many
slightest way deny the great value and significance of progress
long as he lived. After his death nobody could wind it, and
knew how to look after it. The legend attaches great
death he begged once more to be permitted a moment in which to
as well have taken this from great world events as from
death.
something took place in the soul that was of far greater
very great deal more, though not consciously. You will
of a great deal that happens to us in the supersensible realm
me is permeated by a subtle elementary process that runs
Not only beings are permeated by a supersensible element, but
Remember something I have repeatedly referred to and which even
This can also create great confusion if we do not watch out.
supersensible world to some great good fortune for those
that God created the world or that he did not. There, too, they
proceed from one thought to another. But “creating
Creation as following of necessity from our series of
supersensible world, permeates ours — is not organized in
Just imagine, a book has just been published by the great
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture II: The Legend of the Prague Clock
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Because of this, the party arrives at the spot beneath the rock
buried beneath the rock because of the chauffeur's
fact, it is a great work of art created by a very talented man.
received the power to create it entirely through a kind
he felt death approaching was the clockmaker allowed to touch
Death on one side and two figures on the other. One of these
is Death, the balancer (we shall say more about this
alternation of life between death and birth and between birth
and death human beings rise above the sphere in which Ahriman
his works have been created if he had been brought up
vain man and, opposite them, Death. Now it is possible to say
man looking at his reflection, and Death. And how many people
Namely, every time the clock was about to strike, Death began
ringing apparatus, then the other figure moved. Death nodded to
skeleton, Death, opened its mouth and people saw inside it a
of moral uncertainty might observe the clock and see Death
work of art through divine inspiration has done a great deal of
Death and Ahriman and Lucifer upon it was the most wonderful
he noticed that it was only the rich man to whom Death nodded
work of art, one that has great inner value, because it might
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture III: Three Teachers with Different Attitudes
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pupils, you acquire greater capacities to understand the
recorded what great progress had been achieved by the first two
accomplished things of far greater significance than the pupils
greater capacities I thus acquire will help me achieve what I
create and then they see that their creation was good. They do
superior beings for having made a good creation, but they admit
that it is good in order to continue creating. They incorporate
only create light if I knew beforehand what light was like, and
minutes behind time. Therefore they arrive beneath an
between his previous death and rebirth. This means that we must
between the last death and the birth into the present life.
to call. So we certainly see a great deal of necessity in what
which will pass through the gate of death — it could,
repeat what he did well and avoid what he did badly, but
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture IV: The Roman World and the Teutonic Tribes
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a stream permeated with a strict inner necessity moving
should play a great part in human life, the domain of
difficulty. You know, the great Spinoza said that when we look
eat, or would like something for some other reason than
punishment.” Now a great many theories have been
greatest freedom of all is to obey historical necessity! For if
ought also to say, “I want to create a poem, but I am a
Goethe would not have been able to create Faust, for it
the time between death and a new birth a human being plans his
and Faust, take their turns, and then comes Goethe who creates
of greater value than those things he did exactly as they
this is even the case with the Elohim. The Elohim created light
also eat every day. There is no question of freedom there. You
free by not eating, because you feel the taking in of food to
permeates it with necessity; it creates the necessity itself,
we remain bound to these after death, and have to carry them
with us through the life between death and a new birth, and
beyond death. On the other hand, with regard to everything we
that we permeate a thing with consciousness, that is to say,
consciousness we soar toward the beings who permeate and
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture V: The "I" is Found on the Physical Plane in Acts of Will
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quite enough that after death, probably for eternity, the
the greater part of humanity only for the past few centuries,
saw it to a far greater extent than now in animals and also in
created. They had no models. If a particular curve of the arm
I into the astral body, created the curve out of this
observes it in great detail, but he leaves it to the scientist
what is manifest in the human being as a creature of body and
create a world view, is to deny the will as such and say,
mythological creation. Ziehen expresses himself a little more
yet create a world view. For if one does form a view of life
again that we have to gather a great number of ideas to arrive
extremely obvious idea, that people think they are great
can easily point out that this is no great logic but proper
this dream view of life will appreciate the great and
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Title: Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe," Theosophy
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towards such great and simple paths of thought as those from
not be unmindful of the fact that Haeckel's great powers of
nineteenth century, set themselves to confront the great riddle
animated by a certain subtleness — a breath, as it were,
and again told us how distinctly the mind of his great teacher
this subtle breath. You can read in Haeckel's own writings how
animals under Johannes Müller) by the great resemblance
possible for man to observe, to a far greater extent than
distinguish living creatures, showing that we have to do with a
creatures to be lost sight of, because no physical sense,
impression made by this great advance in the domain of
world. Things that now seem puerile created then the most
discovery, feelings and sensations play a great part in the
spectrum analysis, to a greater theoretical knowledge of heat,
centuries, a time when a greater spiritual sensitiveness
an event of great moment when Haeckel, in the year 1864,
creature may be accredited with a sort of consciousness, but he
the smallest living creature.
animals to be even greater than that existing between the
in the 'nineties, not long before his death, gave utterance to
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Title: Spirit of Fichte: Lecture I: The Spirit of Fichte Present in Our Midst
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great size stands beside a brook. The generations inhabiting this
might perhaps repeat the sermon by heart; it is known that he can
society. Then it was suggested to him to repeat the sermon which he
word, he repeated from beginning to end the sermon which he had
And he repeated it in such a way that all felt as if everything
the mansion, which formed so great a contrast with everything to
his mind was the idea of a voluntary death. Then, just at the
prospect of being able to do great things with him. But the process
mother who behaved in such a way towards a pupil was the greatest
necessary to understand the deep-seated difference between Swiss
or those particular writings and treatises which radiate
writings of this man, Immanuel Kant, confronted him as a new creation.
and sat at the feet of the great teacher. And he
soul of this teaching, which he held to be the greatest ever
he had a singular experience. A great many critics at least found
which were now permeating the world. And he mingled the substance
be a creating reality. This is the Ego itself,
that Ego which recreates itself every moment,
that being consists in its creation; in its self-creation. And into
this self-creation flows everything that has real being. Away then
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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Christmas festival. Indeed, it is one of the greatest festivals of the
human heart as a commemorative thought of the greatest impulse which
permeate ourselves with the Christmas mood, and wish to receive this
former greatness. His habits prevent him from perceiving this
greatness any longer, a greatness to which humanity had become
full depth and greatness of the impulse which belongs to this
sense of the word, that depth and greatness which cannot be any more
on the one hand, the mood which social custom creates nowadays in
permeated the Christmas festival. On the other hand, let us compare
the full depth of what is connected with our great seasonal festivals.
breeze permeated the mood of soul of those who believed that they bore
the Christ in their hearts during the great festivities surrounding
which permeated humanity like a gentle spiritual breeze during those
little of this magic wind which permeated the soul mood in those times
it permeated the souls, the mood, of country folk in certain remote
retreated into the homes as a family festival you would see there no
retreated into the homes was more or less a last echo of something
in connection with what the Bible tells of the great Christ Impulse of
days. The memory and the thought of the great periods of humanity were
supposed to permeate their souls during this season. I myself have
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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 1
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Mysteries, whether Eastern or Western: contact with death, passage
worlds between death and a new birth, we enter again through birth
undergone a great change, in that Initiation can be attained up to a
objectively what is really there. In general, one of the greatest
Beneath the threshold of the consciousness there is indeed something
incredible shock. One must prepare oneself, then, by an ever-repeated
But through constantly repeated meditation on the thought that things
cannot be altered by knowing about them, one expels a great part of
Death”; the second is “Passing through the Elementary
what is meant by having “come into contact with Death”, by
“To come into the vicinity of Death.” The point here is that
in his waking condition between birth and death a man really lives
to the Gate of Death.” For the person knows now what is meant by
small at first, but it becomes ever greater and greater and spreads
permeate himself with the whole world; and the more he permeates the
with it, and finally he becomes as great as the world that is at his
aspirant has risen beyond the mere “Contact with Death”, but
activity of the eyes. It is not a matter of constructing or creating a
which a man passes between death and a new birth. That is what I
worlds are like between death and a new birth, and in how far it has

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 2
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fate of morally irresponsible souls after death is to become the
servants of terrible beings. Untimely deaths, also epidemics and
after death. Suitable and unsuitable characteristics for the
the realm that he inhabits between death and a new birth. When the
of Death, are going through their development between death and a new
In that realm we find souls which for a certain period between death
beings, and that it was through their own lives before death that they
his physical body from birth to death and how — as has often been
so-called natural death is brought about through an inner conformity
not speak of this death at present. But there are other deaths. There
are those deaths by which a man is snatched away, through accident or
deaths at different ages? We understand that a man must die when his
worlds. Those deaths which are to a certain extent untimely also
attention if we want to understand the life between death and the next
birth. We see the physical world permeated by illnesses and diseases,
death pass over the Earth; we see disease and pestilence. And. the
seer sees souls living between death and a new birth who are helping
so-called untimely death.
periods of their lives between death and a new birth human souls have
become servants of the evil spirits of illness and death, and have
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the Gate of Death, and, with them, too, he gazes downward, and sees
Then, however, arises a great longing, a longing that becomes terrible
spiritual sight; and that in which you sheathe yourself when you are
the great longing we have spoken of: they had no need to behold their
understand what these sheaths conceal? That is the difference between
stirred when they saw how the sheaths which man needs if he is to
incarnation build up sheaths out of the Cosmos, but they build only
sheaths.” That was precisely the essence of the Zarathustra
and parents in order to clothe himself with new sheaths. All the
how the etheric and physical sheaths arise and are formed out of the
outside its sheaths and has passed through the “cosmic
another, and also the forces which illuminate the soul between death
conveys the soul from death to a new birth; and when there presses
towards you the spiritual Light that illumines souls between death and
ocean of forces which illuminate the soul between death and a new
inward part of me as a human being from death to a new birth. Only
Sphere-music with the creative cosmic Word — the Word which
permeates space and pours into the beings everything that has to be so
etheric body after passing through the life between death and a new
death and a new birth. That which is hidden deep in the physical
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The Being formerly known spiritually as the Creative Word first became
Creative Word was disappearing. When it reappeared, belonging now to
steps: Approach to the Boundary of Death; Becoming acquainted with the
spiritual worlds, I found Osiris permeating cosmic space with the
Creative Word and its meaning, which represent the ground-forces of
as the Creative Word, had gradually become lost to the experience of
regions to which he could first attain he felt the Creative Word
shall see that for spiritual sight this Creative Word now goes forward
death, but during the Eastern period of human evolution it was still
toward death. We investigate how this has come about, and we find that
created their bodies in accordance with it. But our souls have lost
exercise on man a very great influence in a quite special way. While
Grail referred to the permeation of the Intellectual or Mind-soul with
what he had to learn in order to permeate with the new wisdom the part
spiritual forces there, a person can have just as great and powerful
after-effects of the great Empedocles still present in the atmosphere,
In the middle of the Middle Ages, Calot bobot in Sicily was the seat
the one hand there is the great, high-minded soul who could bring
greater demands on the innermost part of the human soul; but in a
overcome — the elements which can so greatly disturb the Initiate
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previously that the great philosopher Hegel would be present
sick, he has gone through everything from death to
wishes, passions, etc. It permeates the physical body in the
a spell in our souls. These great eternal verities will rise
spell in John's soul and brought forth the great visions.
says: Do what I have done. Let the great formula, “In
of which John speaks. He says it with great clarity:
appearance, to a greater or lesser extent, an expression of
features came from the father or mother, an uncle or an
itself in the features, in the gestures of the hands and in
of the complete extinction, the death of the lower nature. He
must go through the three days of death and then be awakened.
profundity, and then it becomes one of the greatest texts

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create the necessary conditions for the astral body to work
The animal is of higher rank than the plant. It breathes
person goes through when he follows this path. The great
This is the mystical death. The whole world appears as
creature can see the sunlight unless its eyes are opened so

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eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, should also eat of the Tree
beyond all death and all that is transitory. This is the
fig tree, thou believest; thou shalt see greater things than
birth and death ever and again, until he has gained his full
so in the body of the great world mother — where we are
through rebirth and repeated earth lives. It is said that
permeates man's innermost being and leads it forward. For the
Thus he said, signifying what death he should die. The people
obliged to take the life between birth and death as something
birth and death was only a passing episode. But then man had
death.
Certainly, the priestly sages of Chaldea taught great
Race, the Lemurian epoch. Mankind did not then breath air, he
breathed through gills. Lungs and breathing through lungs
does not appear, only the death on the Mount of Golgotha.
materials with which nature provides him. He creates works of
art, pictures of the Almighty, but he cannot breathe life
time the intellect has achieved great things, but the John

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greater distances than is the case in our Middle European countries.
In the very heart of these lands, enwreathed as they are by myth
before the great Festival symbolising the victory of the Spirit over
Death. The Festival of Easter is close upon us and we remember,
Europe and America, on the continent now lying beneath the waters of
a great deal more than the colours and tones familiar to us to-day.
which he was conscious, were the garments, the sheaths, of spiritual
about to receive Initiation. And then, when the great moment came, in
influence has so greatly increased that man has lost, not only the
greatly differ; they were in balance, and it would have been foolish
wisdom was the basis of them all, as the one great unity. This wisdom
in a great number of individuals the etheric body is beginning to
face the greatest danger of being without a single inkling that there
ground under his feet. He will be threatened, in this condition, with
what is known as the “spiritual death.” For around him there
is the death in the spiritual world. It is the doom which threatens
victory over that body, and there was placed before men the great
time Christ lived in a physical body. And His victory over death
Christ came to establish the great synthesis between the Easter
up to Christ not merely as the Saviour but as the great Prototype with
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The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death
Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND LIFE BETWEEN DEATH AND
directed to the fields where the great events of our time are taking
thro' the gate of death:
on to the Earth and passed thro' earthly Death for the salvation of
N.B. — These Meditations were repeated at the beginning of each
embraces, when compared with the greatness and might of the whole
“No matter how far the spiritual world may extend, however great
between birth and death. But even a very little penetration into
acquire between birth and death through the external means of the
repeated earth-lives. That which probably most astonishes those who
repeated earth-lives, and that the time which we pass here between
birth and death is relatively so short, compared with the time which
we pass in the spiritual world between death and rebirth. From many
man has to pass between death and rebirth is much, much longer than
the relatively short time between birth and death here in physical
death, in the way of knowledge and fruits of life, stands to the
the same ratio as the short time between birth and death stands to the
longer time between death and rebirth. For in reality, it will occur
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The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death
greater number of our friends. She belongs to those who have grasped
and above all, it may be said, with the understanding created by the
death, are still truly united with us in soul, and are most
times as our own, in which the enigma of death approaches the human
greater part of the civilised world — who does not see at almost
every stage the great riddle of Life confronting him? And who does not
feel that great connections lie concealed behind such events as those
thereby created, into which the souls descending later were born. Thus
were once seated together those who, when Christianity was first
announced represented its great Cosmic Truths. I have already often
in the atmosphere of the old heathen philosophy. We see this Empire
below, truly more underneath than our ‘under’ signifies
to-day — literally underneath, in the catacombs under the earth,
creative. Let us picture to ourselves these catacombs. There,
underneath in the catacombs, with their thoughts directed to the
permeates himself with them, may have the assurance that here too some
there hardly exists a greater similarity in historical evolution, than
between birth and death — in time — is again lived through
after death; while now on the other side a quite different point of
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 3: The Subconscious Strata of the Soul-Life and the Life of the Spirit After Premature Death
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The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death
After Premature Death
AFTER PREMATURE DEATH
leads between death and rebirth, as well as on the connection between
human nature, makes a greater or less individual progress in the
birth and death. The Greek in the fourth Post-Atlantean period was not
why the Greek as a sculptor was in a position to create quite
leave the world in which we dwell between death and rebirth, we leave
etheric body has acquired a certain perfection, greater than man is at
accomplishes must naturally be thought of as permeated by the astral
ways, of a man who in early youth is led through the gates of death
transforms the entire life following after death. It is just the same
in quite a different way through the gates of death, if he is
arises a great question: What is the actual significance of this? What
the Vienna cycle: ‘Inner Being of Man and Life Between Death
entering it through the gates of death. You see, here on earth, man
people are already greatly taken with this idea of ‘the concept
to create the ‘imagination’ of them, if they were to know
nothing of the table until they had created it for themselves in
might almost say, disagreeable, is its permeation with existence. It
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 4: The Connection Between the Spiritual and the Physical Worlds, and How They Are Experienced After Death
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The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death
They Are Experienced After Death
THEY ARE EXPERIENCED AFTER DEATH
the life led by man as a soul between death and rebirth, and the life
experience after death and before rebirth. We direct our thoughts to
riddle of death. Now to-day, in order to consider the connection
spoken, the fact that man goes through the gate of death. I repeat, we
world and passes through the gates of death, at first there remains to
of death these thoughts and feelings which united us with him, now
our experience. A great part of our physical life is lived in memory.
examine the contents of the greater part of these recollections, we
memory of our dead, or of one who has gone through the gates of death,
through the gates of death, and who are now living in the intermediate
world between death and rebirth, also extends to what transpires here
intermediate stage, between death and rebirth. I explained that souls
those souls living between death and rebirth. If you grasp this, you
will realise that after the soul has passed through the gates of death
souls to which it was related before going through the gates of death.
appear the memories of those who have gone through the gates of death.
has gone through the gates of death when he now sees embedded in the
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The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death
directed to that life, which transpires beneath the threshold of
different sides which harmonise, a certain wisdom is created, and this
may create a feeling of security.
world which he beholds with ordinary consciousness. Beneath the
something of the life which transpires beneath the threshold of
wisdom that lies beneath the threshold of consciousness. One cannot
the way, but with intentions lying beneath the threshold of
the gate of death. This region belongs to that ruling consciousness,
of him, A great deal goes on in the intervals between the events which
events of life, and in what transpires beneath the threshold of
of death. And now something on which we dwelt in our last
beneath the threshold of our ordinary physical consciousness. One
greatest lawyers of his country. He was feared by all those who had
life; he laid great stress on being correct and blameless in external
this verdict as one of the greatest triumphs of his many years of
rapidly hissed forth a stream of bitter curses and threats directed
against the President. To repeat them here in the offensive jargon in
grandfather again. The jury were greatly distressed at this incident,
threats and curses against him, with a face distorted with fury,
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 6: Lecture on the Poem of Olaf Åsteson
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The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death
connected with Christmas and the Christmas season. It treats of the
no difference between waking and sleeping. Those great beings of
does man himself, who is a microcosmic copy of the great macrocosm.
feeling for this experience of what is lived through in the great
usually designated as the “Approach to the Gate of Death”;
ends in death. We know from the considerations already put forward
birth and death that it can fall into decay and dissipate into the
Cosmic elements, we are enabled to create the organ by means of which
But in the depths of a man's life between birth and death there is a
progress through the gates of death; it is that which develops in the
life. We need not constantly repeat that in no wise do we undervalue
fact remains that those concepts and ideas which are created in our
course not so proud as to lead all men to want to think a great deal:
people say: ‘In our epoch we must think a great deal if we want
Philosophy’ really think? Thought is to a great extent lacking in
journalistic train of followers, who naturally regard it as a great
in our word-symbols. A sagacious thought. I repeat it in all
intended to solve the great riddles of the universe — or disguise
absolutely permeated through and through with this thinking. Nothing
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consciousness: seven appertaining to man, five to the creative gods.
The Twelve apostles as the twelve Christ-permeated stages of
A fundamental difference exists between all those animal creatures
such a creature feels a flower as being within itself. In the earth
spirit. Just as our soul creates eyes and ears in order to perceive
the world, so does this common Earth-Soul create the invertebrate
anatomical examination. They are indeed of far greater exactitude and
also dream of a snake, because this is the creature which was placed
the five others are creative
stages. They are those of the Creators, of the creative Gods. These
you, the servant is not greater than his lord’. The more highly
great initiates, with their outlook into the far future, taught people

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after death. The appearance of the Guardian of the Threshold as the
Double. The significance of Christ's death of atonement. The influence
absolute rest, is the creative element, that which is productive. Thus
creative forces. He cannot himself regulate the movement of the
his three sheaths are active. When for instance he sees a rose, all
three sheaths are engaged. To begin with he perceives red. In this the
Between birth and death man accustoms himself to perceive the world
through his organs. After death what he is thus accustomed to must
after death a person could say that he had no further desire to use
town, where the movement is greater and more frequent, the instrument
transformed his etheric body so that it remains intact after death and
death. Many of the practices of black magicians consisted in their
creating willing servants by this means. It is the rule of white
between birth and death, that because of the very slight degree of
insanity. It will become ever stronger and more threatening, because
this in mind the expression ‘vicarious atonement through death’
atoning death of Christ. Before this, death in the Mysteries had to be
substitute has been created for the old form of initiation. Through
into the German language. It is the initiates who have created
central point was created whereby the tumultuous emotions of the world
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a creator who brings things into being. As the Earth Spirit builds the
are pictures, drawn out of such depths. A great service was bestowed

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schooling. It does not start by cramming into the pupils a great deal
build with a substance which he creates out of his own being. The ants
— are inter-related. We breathe in oxygen and breathe out
plants assimilate carbonic acid and breathe out oxygen. Animals and
and oxygen. The plants retain the carbon and breathe out the oxygen.
first the Earth became covered with a layer of peat, the remains of
piece of coal. Nature has created the diamond from a coal still older
sea and are formed from the cast-off shells of sea-creatures. Thus the
kingdom will be transformed by man. To a great extent this will be
Round will himself create his body out of the materials of his
through the process of creating their body for themselves. Males,

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Man breathes in the air. When he experiences in himself the life of
reason for the breathing exercises of the Yogis. No one can attain to
the Nirvana plane if he does not actually practise breathing
preliminary stage leading to a later power of creation. Now man has at
warmth, and still later man himself will learn to create. First he
learns to create a picture; then to create and send forth radiations;
then to create beings. Freemasonry calls these three forces wisdom,

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The difference between receptive and creative beings in connection
creative intermediate being; 3. the ‘pure man’ of the
creative for the purpose of regulating the continuity of evolution;
5. Nirmanakayas: creative beings reaching out beyond the Earth who are
and creative beings.
Here, in this domain, we have the creative wisdom which manifests
Man is both receptive and creative. On the one hand, for instance with
thinking however he is creative. Nothing gives rise to thoughts unless
being and on the other hand a creative being. This is an important
difference. Let us imagine that man were to be in a position to create
creates thoughts. Today he is only creative in one sphere, in
thinking, and in order to have perceptions he needs creative beings
around him. In bringing forth his own being he was at first creative.
In the beginning he himself created his own organism. For this he now
what is outside and around him and is creatively active. He has
which create life. Once man was perfect and he will become so again.
But there is a great difference between what he was and what he will
later become the faculty of being creatively active. This will then
and has thus become a creator, is called a Bodhisattva, which means a
Buddhi of the earth. Then he is advanced enough to work creatively out
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in birth and death; the degree of balance in the gradual reciprocal
sheath of the lower forces and organs.
rank, or assume it for a purpose. Eliphas Levi repeatedly emphasised
from Jehovah in pictures. That is why Genesis is a sum of great
one looks at the external creatures on the Old Moon, these are the
sheaths which surrounded man, not man himself. The sheaths could be
formed they interpenetrate one another. Through this, birth and death
another we have birth and death, and every period of time between
birth and death is a continual attempt to make these two beings fit
warmth-permeated word), and lastly ‘form’, the word shaped through the

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existed as it is now. We must understand that man belongs to the great
cosmic organism. In the times in which great changes take place in the
time also people had not yet learnt to write. The great poems were
reincarnation. The great Masters
death Christ becomes the Redeemer of materialism.

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the physical body we must now enter into greater detail. Man was
he will create actual beings which remain; when through the word he
transition. When man becomes creative through the will, then the
of a previous planet create the basic conditions for its successor.
Beings will be there which we have created as the Pitris did. Just as
is actually created from within outwards.
become truly worthy, the bodies of the beings they create will be
The 14th century was the time of the creation of towns. Within a few
elementary teachings of spiritual life in order to create once again a

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of the woman. The forms and colours of the astral body and its sheath:
enclosed in an egg-shaped sheath. This has an underlying blue colour
the brain. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky calls this egg-shaped sheath the
The greatest impulses of world history can however no longer be read
in the Astral Light, for the impulses of the great initiates were
book ‘The Great Initiates’ by Edouard Schuré could not have
read the results of the lives of the great initiates in the impulses
strong and passionate emotions in regard to the actions of the great
difficult to study the deepest motives of the great initiates because
of mankind. For the human being is connected with the great happenings

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nature is of the very greatest importance; for only so can man have a
After death the soul goes to the Astral Plane and thence to the Rupa
astral world. The astral sheath has been half broken through and he
state of dream, on the Mental Plane he slept. He repeats these

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bodily sheaths and the gradual loosening of the Deva-forces through
the ego. The working of the Devas in the life after death. Sojourn in
Devachan and re-embodiment. Life after death in the case of suicide
and death by violence.
The second stage of development was the permeation of this physical
surrounded by the threefold protective sheath of the astral, etheric
says in the legend that Buddha remained seated under the Bodhi tree
co-operate, Deva beings, so that all creatures having a blood
astral body is permeated and worked upon by different Deva forces. The
has not permeated the entire astral body, so long must the Deva forces
body and the ego is broken off after death. Previously this connection
The etheric body is to a great extent in a similar situation to the
completed when after death the entire etheric body remains intact. The
complete etheric body, because the necessary conditions are created
When a man is put to death by violence he is in a similar situation.
In the case of someone who meets a violent death he continues seeking
a terrible rage against those who have caused his death. Then in the

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mineral kingdom through the work of man after death. The activity and
the Primal Beginnings or Archai. ‘In the Beginning God created the
stands at this stage, created heaven and earth. It was one of the
certain stages of consciousness of the great universe, and the Beings
form. Dionysius had bequeathed to his pupils such a teaching in regard
the Gods. After death the human being first goes through Kamaloka, the
themselves created their physical conditions. The Folk Spirit works
engaged with others in creative work on certain aspects of planetary
of his creative activity; the foundation for the following periods of
In our speech we create the foundation for later planetary conditions.
divine in so far as he is able to breathe out again what he has taken

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Man's sojourn in Devachan between death and a new birth. The formation
activity on the physical plane. All this is creative and comes back to
retain their existence after death. Such things belong just as much to

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created are still full of the magic of the sacred primaeval language.
that is concerned with earthly life between birth and death they also
John still speak of the great importance of Wisdom, Beauty and Power,
the building of a great cathedral. He knew that the forms of the
building would create in him an organ for the future. All such works
until he who created them finds them again and recognises them when he
createst for thyself, the three kingdoms of Wisdom, Beauty and Power.
reciprocal attraction between them. What has an organ-creating
beings to a greater or lesser degree; they are not individual.

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of Karma: creation out of nothing. The experience of Nirvana.
Nature had first to be created. The mineral, plant and animal
creates is not there in reality. The mere form worked upon by the
people create out of moral intuition, in that they bring new duties,
called in occultism: Creation out of Nothing.
Thus our life creates around us remains — personal,
the Lemurian Age and for the first time created his own Karma, before
this he had created no individual Karma; we must ask ourselves: Where
which is ‘created out of nothing’. The beings who at that time
fructified the four-footed creatures so that they became human, were
creates for further incarnations. A people as a speech-community
creates for new peoples. Humanity creates for a new humanity, for a
into being. Without these great perspectives we cannot understand

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affects the karma of the group or race. In words lies a greater
great religious teachers of earlier times spoke pictorially, for
power to make an imprint in something, (to imagine).’ In creative
far that he can create such pictures has attained the stage of the
spiritual beings who are involved in the creation of races. One who
only involved in the creation of races, but in the creation of the
intuition creates something which is not yet existent, which is
nowhere manifested, that is to say he creates out of Nirvana. This
the future can only be created out of intuition.
Just as man develops himself to the stage when he can create pictures
are working as creative forces. The crystal is external in so far as
it reveals itself to the senses; it is however created by means of
stands a great intuitive Spirit. It is the same Spirit that manifests
outside in the creative forces of Nature he calls it ‘Holy Spirit’.
first place that we perceive through the senses. Behind is the great
body, through man's external nature. Thus we create in the body, in
we are speaking remain behind, formative forces which create new
races. Our present race has been created out of what lay behind the
collective Karma of the whole race, for the word is not created
working? The Spirit of the Race is active in man's feeling, permeates
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before their death they were roasted, thus proving that cannibals
being back to childhood we do not come to greater imperfection for the
achieved great skill. It is necessary for man to pass through the
The lower astral body merged with the higher astral body. A great part
astral body which has its seat in the mental body — what
this way in the Cosmic Light. When man himself works into his sheathes

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Thus people who are still very undeveloped but very passionate create
with far greater intensity. The animal however presses its own
impulses into its own astral form, so that it usually creates its own
when he ennobles his passions and desires to an ever-greater degree.
which also has the power of creating life in the surrounding astral
of noble form also arise and the elemental beings created in this way
beings are created in such a way that we are obliged to incarnate in
feed on it; it has for them a great force of attraction. This shows
in the astral forms which we ourselves create. They are the so-called
passions, meditate, creating strong thought forms, they conjure up
clearly enough into thoughts, he creates this substance, and because
being creates in the way of elemental beings. This astral trail is
animals. This is not so however with the beings created through man,
suicide. It deceives the other person and creates in him a feeling

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immediately after death and the vision of the future preceding new birth.
sheath. Such a person wanders about in astral space. As a rule he does
creatures it has a definite result. The pain caused in this way, when
of the earth to differentiate itself physically to an ever greater
an ever greater degree. Near the adept with his pupils, there is also
of the physical body. After death the desire for enjoyment is still
often what is made known after the death of a person proceeds from
understand the technique of reincarnation. The moment of death
When at the moment of death the physical body is laid aside, he
astral and etheric bodies. Immediately after death therefore
death, he looked back on his past life. This however expresses itself

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and Devachanic World in the life after death and the preparation for
When in Nature an effect like heat arises this heat must be withdrawn
be there first. These forces which create the forms on the physical
into a crystal; because in the crystal lies a great purity. In it
instance, the creator of the Zeus head. It is artistic creation in
the etheric body. Great teachings are not only embodied in words, but
around us, built up in a style in keeping with the great Theosophical
greater degree than du Bois-Reymond, Herbert Spencer and Haeckel; they
tries to create a form as unemotional as that created by the
mathematician. Through this he wished to create emotionally free
kinds of artistic creation also rise up to the Devachanic plane. When
understood with great difficulty. In ‘Iphigenia’ and
found on the Arupa Plane. In a life between birth and death we leave
an imprint is present on the Astral Plane. After death we go at
worked upon and ennobled by the ego. With savages the greater part is
karmically the most intimate. They are creative through their own
works creatively upon one's character.

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The problem of death as a question of consciousness. The duality:
select for special consideration the problem of death in its
Now we will first look away from death and picture the human being in
worlds there would be no death, then there would only be
into the other. This passing over would be no death for him, and for
world. The beings who retain consciousness do not know death. Let us
the earth as a great astral ball made up of astral human beings. All
joined together like a great blackberry and enclosed by a spiritual
enthusiasm in the place of desires, he creates harmony between the
Here we have come to a point where we continually create a new kingdom
existence the effects of our actions. We call this the creation of our
that was in it. Now man created for himself a new kingdom of deeds, as
it were out of nothing, in regard to relationships, a ‘creation out of
created out of himself, something which he himself had first to take
the Gods and create for ourselves immortal bodies. The Chela, who

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sexes as also of birth and death. The changing direction of the Earth
existence was repeated, in the Second Epoch the Sun existence and in
form having a certain great beauty. Their substance was much softer
the fact that a remarkable and great help had been granted them. The
Epoch they created for themselves an upright form, completely
Thus on the one side there was an intense heat and on the other side
would then only have been concerned with the creation of beautiful
his manner of working. He created man and woman. What could no longer
ourselves, and brings death into the world and everything connected
to Jehovah's greatness. By the intervention of the Luciferic principle
will regain Kriya-shakti, the creative power of reproduction. He will
birth and death entered into the world. Previously this had not
he conquers death. The separate forces exhaust themselves when they
would have greatly improved. The first evil arose through the fact
ever-greater degree. This is very beautifully expressed in the saga of
creatively is able to renounce completely his lower nature, then will

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death and a new birth. This consciousness can be enhanced. Then he has
similar to a peat bog that is half mineral and half plant. The Old
Moon was actually a great plant. Its ground consisted of intertwined
the Earth. The entire Earth evolution has the purpose of creating in

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creation exteriorises from within outwards what was present as inner
Kingdom. These are the elements light and fire, permeating space. Man
In the Seventh Round man will create himself. He will then be able to
great circles, expanded from within, each having a special colour, all
constitutes the atom. This multiplies itself, creating itself out of

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looking into a great model filled [with] small crystals. Present within
kingdom, in a great astral sea. This then densified ever more and more
During the great Pralaya preceding the First Earth Round, they had
Mars was introduced. A great advance was brought about through the
would not be possible for wisdom alone to manifest in a form-creating
When they are heated they become first hot, then liquid, then gaseous.
man will create his form from within outwards. The Earth will then be
create the new plant kingdom out of the Ego.

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The Three Logoi, or Form, Life and Consciousness (Creation out of
construct a whole, a creation within a form. Now there are other ways
is created.
the chain of planets has gradually come to manifestation as creation,
consciousness creates the new. At the end therefore something is
is created which arises out of nothing. When one personality looks at
Thus the three ways of creating are as follows:
Creating out of nothing:
Second Logos the One who in the quiescent substance in things creates
the will. In the creative activity of the First Logos there is
and then creating once more in accordance with these thoughts out of
nothing. Creation out of nothing is however not meant in such a way as
is created, so that what is there melts away and out of experience
there is the creation of the new.
This creation may be compared with the following: Somebody sees
another person and observes his appearance. If he were creatively
negative, he has created a completely new form. This he could imbue
with life. It would be a completely new creation that was not
experiences, the observer would be able to create a new world.
new creation. This is above all a creative activity of the Third
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greater understanding of what they contain.
illuminated, as many sea creatures still do today, the objects around
sense of smell, the nose, life. Jehovah breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life.
creative wisdom. Now we have a wisdom based on observation. The
creative wisdom is that wisdom which once made man, building up one
describes. The creative wisdom is exactly the same as the wisdom which
those stages of evolution through which he has been created.
then to create light within us, until the world appeared illumined
inwardly in the creative wisdom and penetrate into everything with
outside. The moment one sinks oneself into the heart, one creates for
The god had lost his previous body and created for himself a new one
still today continually creates new conditions, new forces of Nature
through fire which man himself had created.
The next stage — during the Atlantean Age — was the creative
a social force. The Sixth Sub-Race has the task of permeating society

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oxygen, breathing. Connection of freedom with birth, death and illness.
engendered in the Europeans created spiritual forms. If such an
progress. On the other hand one sees in this god Mammon the creator of
the knowledge of such relationships. It was foreseen that the threat
greater degree into the understanding of the ways in which the
makes use of carbon for itself and breathes out oxygen, thereby
creating the source of life for all creatures in its surroundings who
need to breathe. This source arises from the plant world. All that
breathes today is there through the action of this mysterious workshop
Moon breathing did not exist as it does now in human beings and
animals. A quite different process took the place of the breathing
surroundings. On the Moon there was warmth or fire breathing. The
Lemurian Age the breathing process began to take on the form it has
finds its material reflection in breathing. Breathing signifies the
a breathing process. He regulates rhythmically what man has today as a
natural process in order to bring breathing under his control. Just as
before man advanced to this process of breathing, he inhaled and
blood, so the pupil of Hatha Yoga seeks to form the breathing process
Hatha Yoga rules signify the transformation of the breath into a
human beings as the breathing process of the Hatha Yoga pupil. Behind
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healing in which the doctors attach the greatest importance to the
healing forces within themselves, especially in the treatment of
made this possible; like an all-pervading bloodstream they permeated
something new appears. They began for the first time to eat food that
eating what is dead. He took the lifeless into himself in various
the forces of what is dying when he eats what is dead. Equally dead is
eating of fruit continued; other things were added as something new.
mineral treatment of the plant had to play its part. The first three
Last Supper. The Last Supper is the greatest symbol of the One who
indeed the true ‘Son of Man’, who descended to the greatest depths in
order to rise again with the greatest power, He had to hold to what
about when the plant has been killed, but then further treated with
‘This is my Body; this is my Blood.’ Here He wished to create a
create his nourishment. Now he takes what the Gods have created for
what should be eaten, these are not actually laws, but stories: You
create life for himself out of the mineral world.
This is the great progression of human evolution. What the natural
scientist knows today is only a fraction of the great cycle.

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great whole. All this was, as it were the finest flower, the extracted
must realise that this great primal spiritual teaching underwent a
original greatness consisted in grasping the mighty divine unity which
for instance, which eats into iron, is elsewhere very beneficial: you
someone could himself create good out of the world: this was the
Here they adapted the whole teaching to a working people. They created
of great initiates who taught geometry, the practice of surveying,
culminated with such magnificence in the three great civilisations.
outside world; to create initiates who laid great value on what was
The initiators do not always introduce something great into the world,
of Greece and Rome (Roman law) both become great just through this
beauty of the human culture of the Greeks and the greatness of the
range of nations. Everything at that time was permeated and inspired
indications of a great, primeval, Atlantean initiate. Wod-Wodha-Odin.
greatness make their appearance in Tibet, there we have a modern,
there he was confronted with something greater than anything the Huns
to be understood in the light of these great considerations.
new can only develop after great upheavals.

Title: Lecture: The Four Temperaments
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It has frequently been emphasized that man's greatest riddle is
greatest riddle is himself, it must also be emphasized that each
the discovery of evolution to be its greatest achievement. In animals,
the bodily features that link human beings to a hereditary chain? How
into the physical and separates from it only at death. There follows
thus the outwardly most important feature in the melancholic is his
sharply chiseled facial features, the sanguine's are mobile,
dangers of aberration, one great, one small. One danger for the young
develops into maturity. That is the small danger. The greater is that
danger is flightiness; the greater is mania, induced by a constant
the greater is stupidity, dullness. For the melancholic, insensitivity
greater is insanity.
order that we might beat it into him, we must focus on what he has,
your treatment of all of life's little details be an occasion for the
other thing is given. Through such true, living wisdom do we create
catechisms, but by creating a social groundwork, upon which human

Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Animal Soul
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experiences spirit, creates out of the spirit. Thus we speak of the
sense we find spirit inwardly creative in man and in animal.
life, of the living, in man. Death ensues when the physical body is
chemical forces active in the physical body. The moment death occurs
which take possession of it immediately [after] death occurs, is due to the
activities only at the moment of death.
man we say that in him the astral body is also permeated by an “I,”
ensemble. This creative intelligence of ours has a particular
is a creative force, we form a concept of intelligence, of reason, of
creative intelligence, and then we look at the universe around us. —
the spirit in the great universe, and then compare the way in which it
creative in the same way as the spirit outspread in space and time is
creative. And a feeling will dawn in us of why those who knew what
the “astral body.” They turned their eyes to the great
can read in any simple textbook of history what a great event it was
answer can be given that in the animal there is an inwardly creative
creative in the organism itself, and creates from out of the
differently in man and in the animal. A great deal has been and is
ready to ask in his infinite pride: “Am I not greatly superior
and if we keep this idea in mind it will be a great help in
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does, in what it produces, in what it creates, we have exactly the
essential feature of man's life of soul lies in the human soul
existence fully equipped, and bequeaths to its racial descendants its
this learning to stand, a great deal in human life lies concealed;
beneath the surface of consciousness, into everyday words such as “I
between birth and death when the ego inserts itself between spirit
Laurenz Müllner, a great admirer of Galileo, on being appointed
what is presented in St. Peter's as the artistic creation of
Galileo's birth and the day of Michelangelo's death fell
intelligence. This is so in the creation of any work of art. This
ennobled and purified instinct man creates what he discovers only
later. As animals create instinctively, in the way bees, for example,
organize their wonderful bee community, so man creates directly out
created by the spirit when it enters the organization.
experience of the spirit, as it is seen in the imaginative creations
may judge how great is the significance of the position and all the
corresponding beats in the right artery and the left are different —
article “Heartbeat and Pulsation,” in which quite
treated by external investigation is best shown in Goethe's
are the same but formed from different sides. Hence his great joy

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their descendants, how the relationship of world and man and the great
is able to decipher the script that is written in the great festivals,
date than the actual age in which the great thoughts of the Rishis of
that time a great flood deluged the continent of the ancient Atlantean
female sexes did not exist. Thus, in the spirit of the great Indian
human civilization after the great flood. At that time one did not yet
Divine and of what had occurred in the great celestial vault of the
the greater Mysteries, the same events also took place as an event in
development even now. As the Messiah, the Redeemer, created a unison
embodied as a human being, as his human brother. This was the great
re-created — a re-creation that can only be brought about by the
cosmic law that creates the everlasting harmonies of the world.
from out a battle of chaotic heat; you would find that harmony in our
initiation had to be so permeated by this lawfulness that it was
Thus, we are faced with an historical event, a great mystery that is
All the great teachers of wisdom — the Egyptian Hermes, the ancient
the Truth and the Life. The great difference between earlier religions
concerned with a great teacher of wisdom — teachers of wisdom were
birth of the greatest Sun Hero, of Christ Himself. Thus these two
the Masters, because it will be to the Masters, as the great leaders
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of those who in the past established the great festivals as symbols of
experience the great depths of the words spoken by Goethe at the
the only artist: from the simplest substance to the greatest
contrasts, without seeming exertion to the greatest perfection, the
accordance with the great law flowing through it and streaming into
with nature and there were created those signs of feeling united with
the great festivals. Now they have become abstractions, and the soul
the great creative Word that lives in nature and the whole universe
intention, when the great festivals were established on the occasions
memorial of a great event that once had taken place on earth. During
a great secret. What they said to them was somewhat as follows. I am
sense when the sun celebrated its great victory over darkness. Up to
immortal human soul. Then, in this primeval age, the great moment in
the Lemurians were fructified by the higher human soul — a great
prospering of man on earth, and also for his fellow creatures, the
what was of the greatest importance for their earth existence. It was
this great moment that was commemorated in the festival celebrating
universe and all that is related to it, we experience the great rhythm
would result. Our universe is only made possible through the great,
Observe the pulse or the processes of digestion and admire the great
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Refreshed anew life's pulses beat and waken
And breath'st before me in thy new adorning,
Too great a flame, we stand, with wonder burning.
And in the night of death
Creation's new beginning
O now create a Sun!
which, in the great Mysteries, was celebrated by those personalities
occurs. In the great Mysteries man was permitted to behold the active
which he underwent the greatest experience possible.
Mysteries, were first taught what the awakening signifies in the great
at the time when darkness on earth is greatest, when the outer sun has
entire course of human evolution, realizing that the great festivals
contemplation of the great eternal truths. The pupils directed their
learned that for them, too, the great moment would come. "Today," they
that from apparent death life springs forth, that from dead stone,
Mysteries were to experience that in death life resides, that out of
overcoming of death by life that is present in death. This was shown
arouse in themselves what may be called faith in man's greatest ideal.
Christos was to appear as the great Ideal of all men, that He had been
as it contains life in its death and lets it stream forth anew, so
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be superficial to treat these things in such a way. Recall that we
used in both instances. It is of great significance that in the description
The Ten Commandments are interpreted by the great majority of men
in discussing them we are creating an inappropriate diversion.
and great grandchildren, and their bodies will become waste. If you
what lives in you as “I” created the world in six days and lived
fellowman, nor upon his servants, nor upon the other creatures by
So we see the full power of ego recognition slowly permeating the
That means that when the ego has become permeated with the essence of
divinity who is involved with the creation of the earth!
no notion of the highest divinity who helped create him and lives
working and creating, but his name he proclaims to you now.”
etheric and physical bodies that he currently possesses, were created
the crown of earth's creation by what he perceives in his ego. No
great mystery of the ego, who also knew the ego-god of whom there was
priest-wisemen on the one side, and on the other, the great unfree
I would have to tell you a great deal to portray for you the deeper
A strong ego impulse that creates good health was to be given the
permeate the entire folk.
nothing more than a shell from which the Jehovah God has retreated.
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or how it expressed itself in the wonderful creations of
also, like Savonarola, see the great De Medici, of Lorenzo de
were actually the enemies of Savonarola? All those who created
his preaching was with great difficulty because he could only
utter the words from his throat with great effort. However he
us to know the day and hour when the divine Creator got
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Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture I - The Prometheus Saga
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Now Zeus had created the human race. But humanity had become
beings to-day. Mankind was guided by great leaders and teachers whom
also guided by great initiates, but our initiate are different from
what this difference was. There is a great difference between the
Epimetheus. An invention occurs when a human being creates something
life-force permeating the etheric body) you will see that in one way
to the paths that are to lead over into the future. The great
The saga thus expresses great cosmic truths. That is why I said at the
root-race. This Promethean struggle with suffering is repeated in the
those schools as the great destiny of man. Just as I was able to show

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture II - The Argonaut Saga and the Odyssey
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permeated with love. When intelligence and love are once more united
First he had to overcome two fire-breathing bulls. Then he had to sow
beyond death. Odysseus was an initiate and the Odyssey itself is the
the great wisdom teaching of Manu4 who, in the sub-race

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must first find its place in the great cosmic happenings in the world.
means, “that which leads to death, to destruction.” It is still
who had paved the way for the great initiate who is to lead the northern
death”. That is the note which sounds forth in the various
I must draw attention to one feature which we always find in such a
race of the great discoveries and inventions, the race that has
conquered the entire physical plane and that waxes great amid the
older version she wages war against the great initiates who
came into possession of the Nibelung treasure and had been a great
brings death to the ancient folk-soul. First we have the dawn of
you have the tragic deaths of Baldur, of Siegfried.
relatively short intervals between each death and rebirth. He is not

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture IV - The Trojan War
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mankind, their Manus, will arise in mankind itself. None of the great
to the earth as great impulses. The Manus of Lemuria and Atlantis, as
were political leaders and leaders of great religious communities,
Last time I discussed the great initiates of the northern region. On
matter of which alone we can treat when we would speak of physical
of the lower nature; it is what draws us downwards, the great signpost
something of great significance in the sphere of the mental life of
it already has a great importance, it has a great influence upon what
fire will acquire great influence on what lives in the human heart.
mere symbolism but man will then really be permeated by a force which
well-being of the whole. So deeply will man be permeated by the
be permeated with its full power. They will provide the material, they
wrath. When the whole of mankind is permeated by this
itself by working with great power in individuals and since the others
great events in the history of the world to the initiates from this
secret, because they reveal not only the great events of the past, but
penalties. In ancient times the penalty was death. It was not the

Title: Wisdom of Man: I. The Position of Anthroposophy in Relation to Theosophy and Anthropology.
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the top from below. At the top, everything is beneath you, and above
reaches down to him; he is permeated by the spirit. In contemplating
above. At the same time he sees what is merely nature beneath him; it
you speak. Speak of what is beneath as well as what is above you, and
takes its view from a point beneath human capacities. It is chained
spread out beneath it. They cannot rise to the planes of imagination,
reality, for something created by human thinking. There is, as a
creatively without having recourse to the higher worlds.
For this reason a great number of expositions given

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Something that is different permeates and flows through the etheric
life spirit, or buddhi, which in time will permeate him, but which
We come now to a third element that can permeate man's
pressure without being squeezed to death, he receives the answer that
water he wasn't squeezed to death.
sentient soul. This thought substance has far greater elasticity than
can bear the heat no longer, and we are burned. When it is no longer
possible for the sentient body to stream out, the heat becomes
permeate him — the Angeloi, the Angels — that send their
Essentially, then, it is foreign astral substance that permeates man
during the process in question. They are the Archangels, who permeate
creation of the particular expression of the human organism as
greatest experiences vouchsafed him who ascends to higher cognition
sounds in relation to their creative force.

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Creative Laws in the Human Organism.
and Creative Laws in the Human Organism.
aurally disregarded, and only the harmony created by the harmonics be
Incorporated in this harmonic series, which creates the
never that in “the news created a sensation.” In other
a great deal of us that we cannot perceive unless the appropriate
When an organ is to be created in which not a conscious
be a sheath and something like a blood vessel membrane against the
there was such a person as Frederick the Great. Formally there is no
belief that there was a Frederick the Great. When someone constructs
for you the life of Frederick the Great from external data, you

Title: Wisdom of Man: IV. Supersensible Currents in the Human and Animal Organizations.
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from without, nor bring them to us. That is the great secret of the
must permeate him just as it does what surrounds him. The two
through all forms recalling animal stages, thereby repeating, in a
more we will see in it a great school for learning to think. The
them. What at first permeated the sounds they uttered was sentience.
the great continents, in the southern, the vast oceans; the tendency
In this way a great deal becomes clear. When we know the
intelligently, although this intelligence is not permeated by an ego.
or at least prepare, the feature of the intellectual soul that the

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it will greatly help us to understand phenomena that concern us
introspection will convince you of this. If you want to create higher
to how great an extent the soul life consists of products of
world, the conception of the ego can never possibly be created merely
during the night it follows that after death it need not necessarily

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insignificant among us, as well as the greatest genius, is chained to
greatest genius is subject to the domination of these conflicting
to unearth the earliest works of great men, if possible in their
twenty-one, thirty-five, or a still greater age.
greatest efforts to remember them. This conflict is actually a
in different ways with a great variety of results. This conflict
between our own soul forces and the visualizations varies greatly in
recalls conceptions, is of great importance because it is a measure
you are absorbed, the greater is this opportunity. Looking back at
with the soul life — it is of great importance to note whether
repeatedly made an impression on him in the past; he shuts himself
time remains unoccupied, and this time void is permeated by the old
the cause of our greatest bliss and our deepest suffering, in so far
great healer of the ills caused in our souls by sorrow and suffering.

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: III. At the Portals of the Senses.
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The dooms they utter from their council-seats!
by far the greatest portion of the soul life is achieved at the
power of attention, and the greater the attention, the more readily
many feelings in a great variety of satisfactions and decisions.
impatience, are permeated by the other element of the soul life, that
achieves satisfaction; there is a great difference. A desire that has
world surges up to the soul, and we then develop a desire, permeated
When a longing of the soul surges in great waves to the
be done by permeating the conception with love. To give part of our

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: IV. Consciousness and the Soul Life.
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thought. We saw that thought itself become poetically creative, as it
awkwardness in the poetical treatment of the material; poetry is not
features of the soul life, one that we encounter at once, has been
occurs immediately after death, with the result that during the
it were, from its inner walls. The essential feature of ego
be reflected from within, that is, it must create a substitute for
would be repeated in modified form what was studied in the third, in
That accomplishes a great deal. It is really possible to bring a
physical plane upon which the great world powers have not placed us

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: I. Franz Brentano and Aristotles Doctrine of the Spirit.
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resulting in the creation of an ambiguous being, a sort of
features of the current concept of the soul would be unaccounted for
Instead, the spirit is an original creation of the Divinity, directly
definition, “When a human being enters existence he is created
through actual creation (creatio), it is interesting to follow
had previously not existed at all; the God creates him. Neither for
be when soul and body pass through the portal of death. On the
contrary, this spirit that has been created remains in existence
after death, and although it had been specially created for this
well, follows the course of a human life through the portal of death
and then has that which was created by God for the individual live on
of the birth of a man in one incarnation — an original creation
reincarnation would not be a new creation. This alone suffices to
doctrine of creation. Now, it is a curious point, and one that must
death, other than that the spirit finds itself in a rather
contemplation of life from birth to death. According to Aristotle,
death upon this one life. In one case the spirit may thus see its
sense, would carry on after death. We must ask ourselves, however,
mere existence in the vale of tears, but that it is of great
meaning later on. Had the God created the spirit-man without having
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Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: II. Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
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because the great majority of those who join us feel in their souls a
may be fraught with many a disagreement, but one praiseworthy feature
derived through a method of observation that must be created by means
objection that man creates super-sensible truth within himself; hence
This presupposes that all objects are permeated by the divine nous,
When the outer world has created for itself a reflecting
because we have error. So the feature of the super-sensible world you
endowed with the spirit as a new creation [“Aristotle's
If the God were to create a super-sensible man, then, as
we saw, an unsatisfied state would arise in all men after death. It
would follow that the God created man for a state of discontent, but
his super-sensible component, is created by a God, it would be
unthinkable that after death he should pass to an imperfect state.
of reincarnation and repeated earth lives.
greater compulsion to believe in the devil than in anything else that
says that we pass through the portal of death and take with us our
divinely, spiritually permeated sense world. Though materialism
must act as a preparation for creation and as formative forces for
its realization and perpetuation; that is, as creative force not
world, continually active and creative, a sustaining force or
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through a connection with the outer world. It has been repeatedly
all artistic creation, in fact, of all productive work of man.
memory; they thought of him a great deal. One morning they found that
spiritual world as a spiritual being, created a bridge to him. Let us

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: IV. Laws of Nature, Evolution of Consciousness and Repeated Earth Lives.
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Laws of Nature, Evolution of Consciousness and Repeated Earth Lives.
and Repeated Earth Lives.
man's spirit passes through repeated earth lives, and at the end of
imprisoning the human soul for the period between birth and death?”
In view of such an honest objection to the doctrine of repeated earth
beauty and grandeur of the external world. The doctrine of repeated
be admitted that among the advocates of the doctrine of repeated
with general, vague ideas about repeated earth lives. We could ask
call a feeling of moral responsibility, particularly toward the great
opposite can occur. People who have achieved great skill in
to a humble man must seem great appears to him small, like the tiny
lies in ambush. You can see a great variety of things in the
of this sort, in reflecting on the extraordinary creature he has
its true likeness. The reply to the oft-repeated query of why one
A great deal, then, is required to attain to this
our outer world and our bodies with their organs, but great indeed is
imaginative world, cannot possibly consider himself great and mighty.
the soul when he passes through the portal of death. The
were equal to it. If we repeat such an exercise many times, then,
adapted we are to what lives in the great realm of nature. Another
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 1: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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years. Let us consider the nature of this progress. After the great
Indian civilisation, during which the great Rishis were the teachers
if we take great periods of time, we find that all the sentiments and
words, we could not have advanced if there had not been great Teachers
perceive that every wrong act created astral forms in his environment,
I have repeatedly laid stress on the fact that no one who really
successive age and that the attitude of the great Teachers towards the
that the great Teachers themselves undergo development from one cycle
progressive evolution of the great Teachers of humanity. Just as man
turning-point, so likewise do the Great Teachers.
Man goes through a descending and an ascending development. The great
meaning. The great Teachers could not have taught the Old Indians by
they have explained it by word of mouth. To the Old Indians the Great
pupil. What was of greatest importance was what the teacher saw, in
of his soul were of the greatest importance; for a sort of inspiration
the great Teachers of the Old Indians to have a particularly developed
One thing, however, was necessary in these great Teachers: their own
were those of the people. If a great teacher had stood at the same
in through the sentient body, that the Great Teacher of the Indians
contact with one of the great Indian teachers, he would have said:
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 2: The Law of Karma with Respect to the Details of Life
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should continually enter in greater detail into the questions and
felt in the constant and repeated study of all the details connected
sufficient merely to know that there is a great law of destiny
time to studying the law of karma, the great law of destiny, with
in the external world. If we wish to find a comparison for this great
water remains as it was. We now take the other ball and having heated
of another event, the result of the ball having been heated. — The
plenty of confirmation between birth and death of the existence of a
and was put into the new trade, he took a great interest in it. At
with greater zest. When he is eighteen or nineteen the feelings and
of karma is experienced between birth and death. There is a remarkable
death.
permeates the soul and, as life goes on, it becomes transformed. In
results of this treatment show themselves. All the children who had
true observer many years after. Nothing but the great connections and
then be able to trace the law of karma even between birth and death,
who was very greatly respected and honoured. I had not yet seen him
is of great and special value in any life. I have known men who
heavens! Could you create those? Look at that wisdom-filled structure
is good for a child we must not force him to eat it, but should try so
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 3: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity
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In each of the Gospels light is thrown on the great Mystery of
presented by the Gospel of St. Mark from the aspect of the great
‘There is a great difference between having the ego only in
subsequent earth-periods was destined to attain greater and greater
In the course of years a great deal has been said as to what the
part of the same, but we cannot repeat it all now. To-day we will
divine-spiritual world Order, but to decide for himself, creating a
noble, wise and great. As human beings, we are not only able coldly to
of still greater significance has come. If man had not been subject to
of death would not have come to him. If man had descended less deeply
sheath is laid aside, a new form of existence begins; but he would
disease and the realisation of death. Man is being led back into the
greater good-health; and when we have gradually learnt to understand
death in such a way that the Death at Golgotha works as a prototype of
death in our own soul, death will then have lost its sting. Man will
retrospectively, thus enabling the holy Rishis to reveal their great
become what it was to be, when that ego takes into itself the great
to be aglow for what is great and good, to feel enthusiasm for the
brings about to a still greater extent the consideration of one man
event was taking place? Just reflect that Tacitus — the great
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 4: The Sermon on the Mount
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in the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount, and, starting from that
Zarathustra. We have a great deal more to learn through our studies
In Solomon there were great, important rudiments, which were to be
in his outer life the germs of the qualities he is to bequeath to his
descendants; perhaps for the very reason that such great forces are
order, in the development of physical humanity, to create a sheath
realise the relation to the spirit in his own ego, and thence permeate
permeate itself with what was the pattern of Christ. That enabled man
the good but to the evil spiritual powers. That is the great
later, in the Sermon on the Mount, Christ in the second Beatitude
Spiritual Science, to read the great scriptures of old aright, through
A third point is this. In olden times, when men could permeate
expression by pointing to the great progress of evolution. This has
occasion in the Sermon on the Mount when the subject of the Beatitude
difference between the fifth Beatitude and the others, in all of which
understood without knowing that the fifth Beatitude points directly to
Christ-Impulse should stand firm on the basis thereof, quite permeated
inwardly with its force. If they are inwardly permeated by the force
the last of the beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount points straight
of the great teachings of cosmology and humanity, while everywhere
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 5: Correspondences Between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm
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the divine Spiritual life of the world. A descent beneath those
regions of the soul which are illuminated and permeated by the Ego,
indication of a deeper foundation of cosmic Mysteries, permeating all
existence. In reality this is in itself as great and mighty a fact as
a great and still more comprehensive law permeating all human
unities. We can point externally to one great and mighty fact,
among other things, that great fact in the evolution of the world, the
expression, the image, of a still greater cosmic polarity rooted in a
unity; greater than the example in our present-world life, of the two
microcosm, is born out of the Macrocosm, the great world — must
the great Cosmos. If we compare man, as seen to-day in the light of
others one characteristic feature of immense importance for the
of greatest importance in it. For example, there is much truth in what
greater importance. If we wish to feel the force of this, we must make
in the great world, is that of the Sun to the Earth; and the same
cosmic space, — these forces have their seat in the Sun. Anyone
their outer sheaths. This must be thoroughly understood; for if what
and is just as greatly out-of-drawing as that of woman. Thus the
human being in one incarnation between birth and death. We incarnate
physical body is permeated with the effects of having plunged down too
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 6: The Birth of Conscience
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such questions can be drawn from much greater depths in a study-group
great poet, Æschylos. When we let the personages depicted by the
that name. Five hundred years before the Christian era the greatest
repeatedly emphasised that only gradually has the soul developed to
Æschylos, the great Greek dramatist, depicts around Orestes. What we
instead of contemplating short spans of time we look at great periods,
greatest height possible, so that in the Graeco-Latin civilisation it
some slight extent grasp the great thoughts of the guiding Cosmic
Beings! When man asserts that the truth is simple, that is great
universe yielded eternal verities, is making a very great mistake;
physical plane. The content of these pictures will succumb to death,
In this way we can divine a great mystery of our human development,
vehicle for the highest. A premature ego-feeling, a too great feeling
It would have been impossible there for one person to tower so greatly
is right for that time. It is one of the great assets acquired by
lived and experienced in advance by the Great Leaders, the Great
having greatly developed his inner personality, was of particular
realms of shades!’ The great value of the invisible, of the
juncture, at the turning-point of the times, a great Leading
This deed was accomplished by one of the great Sages of ancient
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 7: The Further Development of Conscience
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terminology of the day, as the death-day of the instigator of that
an ever-increasing knowledge, that what the outer world calls death is
stimulated by the Spiritual world. When to-day we remember the great
development of man, and must repeatedly take place in the future. It
great impulses through which Spiritual life has flowed down from the
In the primeval past, not long after the great Atlantean catastrophe
Finally, we have the greatest Impulse of all in that mighty inflow of
given in the past, and as we have repeatedly emphasised, it is greater
We have also repeatedly stated that new impulses must ever come; new
Christ-Impulse, that greatest Impulse in the development of mankind. I
individual manhood; they even celebrated His suffering, death and
an individual man having really passed through suffering, death and
know that to him that Event was the great revelation, whereas all he
We have repeatedly laid stress on the fact that the first thing for us
undermined. Thus while there was the greatest necessity that this new
this is the great and final result of the materialism which has been
play so great a part; even though the reverence of a few persons is
personality and belief in Authority is particularly great. We are,
doing, for we know that the activity of that personality after death
were to carry out its great original impulse, unweakened, and with a
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Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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we do encounter a difficulty, a great difficulty — not for our
plant-kingdom, and creates the forms. During this process it changes
into movement. That was his great central act; his most significant

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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a great many. We find that one philosopher is after this and another
would be beneath the dignity of man to let one's things be made by
nails are driven into the soles and leather. He knew all this down to
constructed. I will suppose that there is a great last at the
foundation of the world. Over this last the world-leather was once
describes animals; there are doctors who have learnt how to treat the
shoe-leather and the repolishing of it in the night. But in terms of
there. Only look at the paths which the disciples of great men have
had to follow in order to come to this or that great man, and then
they eat mice, etc. One can call such creatures “cats”.
Then one has formed a general concept. All these creatures have
that a great many of these people call their pets “Pussy”.
Hence he classes all these creatures under the name of “Pussy”.
creatures belonging in both cases to the general concept. And yet no
ideas that permeate the world-process, may be called Idealists and
valid only whatever can be treated mathematically. From this results
actual. (I have treated this more precisely in my book,

Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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unable to grasp with their whole souls anything of the greatness and
world-outlook signs. Certainly, the Gnosis will render the greatest
can lay hold of into a great concept-organism — a logical
great men. Thus, for example, Hamerling is an out-and-out Monadist or
voluntaristic Psychist. It is precisely great men who have so

Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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constellations are of much greater importance in the life of the
would bring to expression a mathematical world-structure permeated by
permeated by will — a will that wants to effect its purpose by
than the image of a face is created by the mirror. The brain, in
is the “great thinker” which down to our last finger-nail
carry out the great thought-activity which engraves upon the world
activity of the cosmos. Then resounds the Creative Fiat, the Creative
be placed one-sidedly in life, we know that we belong to a great
them. And thus they create conditions which call for adjustment.
Otherwise he could probably do something greater, much greater;
constellations. These persons do great harm by hypnotizing the world
perceptive feeling, into the spiritual features of the world.
I might say: “With bleeding heart I declare that the greatest
— the greatest hindrance to the knowledge of this fact is the

Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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we do encounter a difficulty, a great difficulty — not for our
plant-kingdom, and creates the forms. During this process it changes
into movement. That was his great central act; his most significant

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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a great many. We find that one philosopher is after this and another
would be beneath the dignity of man to let one's things be made by
nails are driven into the soles and leather. He knew all this down to
constructed. I will suppose that there is a great last at the
foundation of the world. Over this last the world-leather was once
describes animals; there are doctors who have learnt how to treat the
shoe-leather and the repolishing of it in the night. But in terms of
there. Only look at the paths which the disciples of great men have
had to follow in order to come to this or that great man, and then
they eat mice, etc. One can call such creatures “cats”.
Then one has formed a general concept. All these creatures have
that a great many of these people call their pets “Pussy”.
Hence he classes all these creatures under the name of “Pussy”.
creatures belonging in both cases to the general concept. And yet no
ideas that permeate the world-process, may be called Idealists and
valid only whatever can be treated mathematically. From this results
actual. (I have treated this more precisely in my book,

Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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unable to grasp with their whole souls anything of the greatness and
world-outlook signs. Certainly, the Gnosis will render the greatest
can lay hold of into a great concept-organism — a logical
great men. Thus, for example, Hamerling is an out-and-out Monadist or
voluntaristic Psychist. It is precisely great men who have so

Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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constellations are of much greater importance in the life of the
would bring to expression a mathematical world-structure permeated by
permeated by will — a will that wants to effect its purpose by
than the image of a face is created by the mirror. The brain, in
is the “great thinker” which down to our last finger-nail
carry out the great thought-activity which engraves upon the world
activity of the cosmos. Then resounds the Creative Fiat, the Creative
be placed one-sidedly in life, we know that we belong to a great
them. And thus they create conditions which call for adjustment.
Otherwise he could probably do something greater, much greater;
constellations. These persons do great harm by hypnotizing the world
perceptive feeling, into the spiritual features of the world.
I might say: “With bleeding heart I declare that the greatest
— the greatest hindrance to the knowledge of this fact is the

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Suffering
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Origin of Suffering, Origin of Evil, Illness and Death
and death, and the highest a human being can attain: the fruit of pain
Illness and Death. Yet each of these three lectures will be complete
illness and death, seems to man sometimes to grip so deeply into life
as to be connected with its very greatest problems. Hence the problem
together, one of which no doubt a great part of mankind would like to
higher creatures on our globe. Thus at the beginning of the Biblical
story of Creation the knowledge of good and evil and suffering are
around us in the Old Testament and study the Creation story in regard
he has seen the suffering submerged in death and that out of death
death. Through nothing in art can this highest victory of man, this
again take place before the eyes of the spectator in the theatre, we
look up to what is still felt by a great part of modern humanity as
one of the greatest upliftings, one of the greatest upbuildings and
sprung from the world historic sight of suffering. The greatly
eternity, a victory over death. All these supporting and uplifting
small and great, ever again rise to the surface, how they actually
continually asserts itself and which stands as a great consolation
sees Spirit only as a crowning of perceptible creation, above all as
creative element. At the base of all things we perceive the conscious
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of Evil
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Origin of Suffering, Origin of Evil, Illness and Death
and death, and the highest a human being can attain: the fruit of pain
illness and death; but not for evil. In the case of the animal one
of man was once the stage of the Beings who are the creators and
repeated. Nothing happens in the world twice; there was never the
complete way the problem of how to carry the greatest possible mass
characteristic of physical nature and where this wisdom is permeated
one another. If there were no plants then in a short time the breath
breathe out life-destroying carbonic-acid. Yet the plants inhale
the lower for the breath of life.
ambrosia from the mortals. Both signify love; love is created within
the human race. And the race of the gods breathes in love; it is the
gods' nourishment. Love which is created by man is food to the gods.
higher, is breath of the gods. Now it might be said: If all that is
as love is today. A creative wisdom-instinct prevailed, as today
a creative love-instinct. Wisdom led man instinctively; but through
devil-figures. The creators of the world needed evil in order to

Title: Lecture: What Do We Understand by Illness and Death
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Origin of Suffering, Origin of Evil, Illness and Death
Illness and Death
and death, and the highest a human being can attain: the fruit of pain
ILLNESS AND DEATH
the words “illness” and “death” express
often too in a vexing, frustrating, frightening guise, and death
presents itself as the greatest riddle of existence; so that when
that death is an unsolved riddle — a riddle which no-one will
understand by illness and death?” Hence we cannot go into
answer to this question concerning the nature of death, one that has
words: “For the wages of sin is death”. As we have said
solution of the riddle of death. Today those who think in modern
the nature of illness and death.
text “the wages of sin is death”. For Paul and those who
The undercurrent is something of this kind: All living creatures in
“sin” and thus Paul defines death as the “wages of
with the question of death, which for thousands of years we may find
solution Schopenhauer could arrive at was that death consoles us for
life, life for death; — that life is an unpleasant affair and
would be unbearable were we not aware that death ends it. If we are
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Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 1
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notably because man is bound between birth and death to a particular
humanity inhabit, is a kind of great living being, and that we
ourselves are included as members within this great living being. In
really spiritual processes. Man eats. He takes up into his own
processes through which the substances he consumes pass. We breathe,
involved by the process of breathing with what happens in the
by the nation-spirit. We do not only breathe in oxygen. Something
spiritual lives in the breathing of oxygen, and in it the
nation-spirit. We do not only eat; substances are transformed in us,
entering us through breathing, nourishment and so on.
Man breathes. Through this he stands in a
continuous connection with the surrounding air; he breathes it in and
breathes it out. And when in a particular case the nation-spirit,
relationships, chooses out the path of the breathing — and
through the breathing — then it can be said ‘the
organism. Thus what the inhabitant of Italy breathes in through the
air — what through the breathing gives a special character to
wrappings.) It is the rhythm of the breathing, which beats up towards
present in a still greater degree when we go further eastwards. That
Against this there works the rhythm of the breath; in this lies the
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Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 2
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living, ensouled, spiritually permeated earth has to be conceived
between death and a new birth, but — in a way conditioned by
an ensouled and spiritually permeated organism — and the
between death and a new birth, differentiated in such a way that for
can be guided between death and a new birth by what he then learns.
relationships man develops between death and new birth the forces
being can use what he can observe between death and a new birth to
death: ‘Ex Deo nascimur, in Christo morimur!’
which we live between death and a new birth, but in very concrete
death and a new birth.

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas VII: The Creation of A Michael Festival Out Of The Spirit (Extract)
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THE CREATION OF A MICHAEL FESTIVAL OUT OF THE SPIRIT
... In the first period after the great Atlantean catastrophe, the life
earth has been exhaled entirely; breathed out into the wide spaces of
repeat themselves periodically. In ancient times, something was known
their way back, in the right way, through death into spiritual life.
in which man contemplates death and the immortality which follows it,
through His own victory over death; but we human beings understand the
midst of earth-existence, namely, the Death and Resurrection of the
through death in the right way. This means that death and
inner resurrection in his soul, he may go through death in the right
At Easter we should submerge ourselves in Christ's Death and
the risen human soul may go through death in the right way. Just as in
death, so we are able to acquire another feeling when we have lived
we experience springtide. Just as we can experience the Death and
experience in the autumn the death and resurrection of the human soul,
go through death in the right way. Moreover, we must understand what
wither, the trees grow bare and Nature faces death, — just as it
great and worthy way out of the spirit. How much more important than
such a creating out of the spiritual world. For what would that imply?
It implies a great deal for an insight into man's inner nature if I
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Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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We have often looked back to the times preceding the great Atlantean
They are the great builders and architects of existence who have led
pain and what is connected with them, namely death, the Beings whose
suffering, illness and death in order that despite the possibility of
in the great cities come to expression in orgies of dissolute
even death, were brought by the Spirits who are intent upon man's
thou bear thy children!” Death has come into the world. Death was
world through which man passes between death and a new birth
those who entered it through the portal of death. Each one felt
Feelings” are united in the great Guiding Lodge of mankind. And as
under his command, but by permeating himself with the Spirit, by
the human being when he passes through the gate of death. The modern
mind finds great difficulty here.
immortality. Spiritual science is an active power, permeating the soul
of orientalists to say that the Buddha died from eating too much pork
redeemed. For everything in the great World Plan is good and the evil

Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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greatest blessings.
Hence in those great centers of the Oracles in ancient Atlantis the
Zarathustra, the great leader of the ancient Persians. The mission of
by Zarathustra as “Ahura Mazdao”, the “Great Aura”.
a mysterious way with the nature-forces in wind, weather and the like;
appeared in the realm into which man enters after death, where
here on earth between birth and death. In the realm of existence
between death and rebirth, Ahriman's influences worked upon man with
egoism would have set in between death and rebirth; man would have
spiritual world a great deal appears the connections of which are not
substances of the earth are permeated by forces of magnetism and
warmth — is permeated in a material sense with forces similar to
victims of such catastrophes will be all the greater, for our
difficult kind because the hindrances are greatest. — And perhaps at
relationship. The greatest hindrance to occult investigation in this
happenings connected with the great karma of humanity is to be found
possibility will be created for individuals themselves to have an

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - I
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epochs which preceded these journeys through births and deaths. I also
surveyed too the life that stretches beyond birth and death. Before
During the period immediately following death, the astral body is
between death and a new birth. The position of the etheric body today
physical body that is of the greatest significance for him. The
permeating itself with physical matter. At the end of the first Root
that in that epoch man had greater power over his etheric body
great inventor, or discoverer, or king is established as a principle
sublime, majestic spirit-world of the Brahmans. The great light-sides
2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. \
churches, to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - II
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drawn down from the heights of spirit has been gathered into a great,
Me.” These words were uttered by the great Christian Master
world-creative Will. And when the Christian says anything at all about
world-creative, universal Will. When man desires to bring the highest
Will, that is, through the world-creative principle, then this is
into being through the Highest, world-creative Will, just as man
Flesh, the One Who in the great Universe can be seen with eyes, heard
is great similarity. This similarity in the Annunciation, in the years
a life repeats itself in certain epochs of human evolution. But in the
sacrificial death, the suffering, the dying, which do not occur in the
they who do not see and yet believe. This epitomizes the great,
seclusion of the Mystery-Temples, attained through vision of the great
Mystery wherein man himself goes through the gate of death in order to
enacted on the great stage of outer world-existence. What came to pass
Mystery-rites. The rites of sacrifice and the sacrificial death were
constantly repeated, in the Mysteries. But the old Mystery-teachings
indicated what I have said in words of great profundity. All the
from these depths. But true Christianity must be permeated by fire,

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - III
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again repeat that this explanation can be of real value only to those
sympathetic understanding. A great deal will have to be said here that
Mystery-Temples was carried through Christianity on to the great arena
realise that the way of the Passion, the Death, the Resurrection, the
there find something that I will now briefly repeat.)
beginning of a race gives the great impulse, the direction in which
Fifth Root Race began its development, the great impulse was given by
we find the superhuman Manu, by whom the great impulse was given. But
Paul, one of the greatest Christian Initiates, could only hint at
round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats
to receive glory and honour and Power, for thou hast created all
things and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
Passion, Death, Resurrection and Ascension. The seven seals belong to
This is repeated four times. The unsealing of the mystery of the
book, the same experience is repeated. When this has happened several
in such a writing, finding in it ever greater depths. That is the
this springs the consciousness that the greatest treasures given to
maxim, and which must permeate theosophists ever more deeply. For it

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 1: Spiritual Science and Language
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which did not emit a sound remains unanswered. The great linguistic
of the imagination, feelings and perceptions, was created initially without
and permeates it so that it rules over everything which lives in the physical
also, because this work begins with controlling the breathing processes, with
(Cf. German “atmen” — to breathe.)
three members of the human being developing into the future, created by the
working in the past already on the ether body. This created internally in the
been created; the sentient soul, the intellectual soul and the consciousness
before the ego was ready to establish itself within them, spiritual creation,
spiritual actions, worked on our sheaths and gave them form, movement, shape.
and action of these three sheaths of the human being.
physical body affected when it is permeated by an ether or life
work of these beings on us through air created what gives us our form as
organ and connected with the other vocal and speech organs, was created from
hidden being which is capable of creating the eye for itself.
times to create in the human being the intricate organ of the larynx and all
because before the ego begins to create order in the human being, the drive
in the astral body all have to be considered as having been created with
— and having been created in such a manner that a sculpted, an
as it were, has been created in our larynx and in the whole of the
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 2: Laughing and Weeping
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with eternal life, with the highest qualities of the soul or with great
is achieved in the legends and the great traditions of mankind — so
the great Zarathustra, who became so immensely important for Eastern culture,
was particularly significant that this great spirit came
all creatures in the world exulted, while evil spirits and adversaries in all
these legends and traditions to the works of a single great genius, we might
of great significance. But to speculate on the nature of spirit is easier
three external sheaths and within them lives the ego which makes him the
crown of creation. The ego works in the soul-life on its three components,
are concerned, as regards our inner soul-processes, with creating harmony
outer world is broken. Because of the soul-condition created by our
Just as the expanded astral body loses tension and creates in the physical
compensate for this by spurring himself on to an inward act of creation,
species to which it belongs. For example, there are no such great difference
great spiritual-scientific whole. If we observe a person laughing or weeping,
we can see that a change in the breathing process occurs. When sorrow goes as
contraction also of the physical body, the in-breathing becomes shorter and
shorter and the out-breathing longer and longer. In laughter the opposite
occurs: the in-breathing is long and the out-breathing short. When a
breath of air is drawn in. In weeping the opposite occurs. We press the
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of what great men have understood by mysticism and of what they believed it
life and death of Christ.
to flowering and withering, to birth and death. And when we observe what
all ideas of growth and decline, of birth and death, are not applicable to
birth and death, will arise within him. This awakening of the inner kernel of
the soul, after the death of ordinary soul-life, is experienced by the mystic
as an inner resurrection, an analogue of the historical life, death and
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
immediate, his attitude to the world. Certainly we can learn a great deal
ego, and contrast it with the green chlorophyll sap permeating the plant, we
wreathed with red roses becomes a symbolical summing-up of what the soul
meditation, it creates a new spiritual eye, and then we can see into a
make its activity flow into the external world by the creation of symbols. In
thinking, feeling and willing and permeates our inner and outer

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— as a great and wonderful preparatory school for spiritual-scientific
when it is permeated by some form of egotism. In this lecture we shall try to
that is greater than anything we have employed to form ourselves in the past.
something greater, with something in our soul that guides us to stand face to
that something greater than all our will-power dwells within us. And thus we
greater than itself, this realisation will evoke in the soul a reverence
Faust the great lines, addressed to
view it will not seem surprising that the greatest mystics found in their
mystical means. This mistake was repeatedly made by mystics and even by
of prayer came to be permeated by egotism, an egotism which impels the soul
if we have come to live in this feeling, we know that great moments come for
my clever thinking creates in my consciousness, from everything brought about
man, when he repeats the prayer, will not be able to fathom these depths. But
Similarly, if the wisdom of the world has gone into the creation of a prayer,
being grasped. However, unless it has been created out of wisdom, it will not
something great in me to which I have never allowed full scope, but now I
will let it permeate me and perfect me — then in a certain sense a
have no need to learn or experience anything to do with the great secrets of
would deny that in a great majestic cathedral we have something like a prayer
powerfully on his soul. And what is it, fundamentally, that permeates and
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“Understanding Sickness and Death”
life. And since we have inquired repeatedly into the preconditions, the
order to clarify how illness, health, death and healing stand in relation to
creation; the bearer of the ego, his self-consciousness. When we consider
awake we can make our soul-life perceptible, we can create it before our
experiences are significant in our life between birth and death. An example
existence between birth and death we have a whole series of experiences.
has taken place in the human life between birth and death. We have had a
death. Experiences are transformed initially into abilities of the soul which
All personal experiences between birth and death take place in such a manner
each night what she has woven during the day. Great depths are revealed where
and death. Development between birth and death is essentially restricted to
transformation between birth and death.
instructions were given on how to create life from the environment. Thus a
carcass of a horse has to be beaten tender in order to create bees. Similarly
bullocks created hornets, donkeys, wasps. It was in the 17th century that the
great scientist Francesco Redi
threatened with burning. Today this type of inquisition has been abandoned.
axiom of repeated earth lives, of which a closer study of spiritual science
furnishes the proof. Our life between birth and death leads back to other
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another, we find the greatest possible variety. In these lectures we have
to make it clear that this treatment of the subject — which will be
individual between birth and death as following always a uniform course. For
greater than anything evident in his daily life, he will be impelled to look
up in worship to this greater thing that towers above him. We saw that in
certain stage and will then be able to carry through the gate of death what
we can repeatedly experience the truth of what a dialect poet, Rosegger, has
There are great dangers here for persons of a negative type.
about our ascent into higher worlds by vegetarianism or by not eating this or
that; it would be altogether too easy if we could eat our way up to those
threatened by one danger after another.
hindrances that may have arisen from our previous eating habits.
may have happened when we last went through the gate of death and entered a
it possible for us to receive a great deal into our soul-life between death
soul, while on the whole throng of followers, who merely repeat the doctrine,
Thus we can say that it makes a great difference if a man achieves a
about Nature does the reverse. But we must qualify this by repeating that a
system of ideas such as geometry, he will learn to respect the creative
calls forth its hidden forces, so that they may permeate all the saps and

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who greatly emphasised a theory set up by him about the
is justified: if an ether body which creates a hindrance for our intellectual
has been emphasised here repeatedly and which is considered to be nonsense by
often seen as comparable with another truth which the great natural scientist
ether body on the intellectual soul becomes too great, it is plausible that
normally take effect immediately in our present life between birth and death.
This only happens if it becomes repeated and habitual. For it is another
matter if we continually compound error upon error between birth and death in
thinking, feeling and willing and live with them between birth and death. The
outer bodily nature can only change a limited amount between birth and death.
When we pass through the gate of death the physical body with all the good
and willing everything good and bad which we have created. And in
someone was standing in his way. Where such an effect by the eye creates an
appear as symptoms of the actual, more deeply seated sickness.
inner regulated, strong soul-life, if the obstacles are too great. But it is
expand our thinking to encompass the greater context; for seeking to pursue
outer human being is greatly encouraging. Thus spiritual science gives us the
it is said: “Prove what you say about repeated earth lives and so

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to be heard in the concert of voices which speak of the great and fruitful
underneath this power of the soul there is something else, something of finer
these is the great German philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, who pointed
for example, who at one time had great influence on Nietzsche, wrote on the
a martyr of philosophy, whose death crowned and ennobled his philosophical
sense-world are to be found. And it has repeatedly been shown — for
treated as quite separate from one another. We named these three members the
makes the great discovery that something like an awakening of the soul can
with an ego-nature of unlimited perfection worked upon our bodily sheaths. In
sheaths as though in the darkness of a mother's womb, we find that
human ego, but of incomparably greater perfection. Clairvoyant insight thus
external world to the inner life of the soul? If it was the great cosmic
encounter in ancient Greece the great dramatic poet Aeschylus,
reason that the same subject was treated by a late Greek poet in a quite
great poet could only show how bad deeds rose up before the human soul in
great poet as he was, cannot yet speak of conscience itself, while his
which from all spiritual standpoints must be seen as the greatest impulse
the Creator of things and of the external sheaths of man, can be recognised
the conqueror of death through the Mystery of Golgotha, men would never have
created by light for light.
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greatest treasures that spring from man's inner life. We will consider
that truth and beauty have nothing in common. And yet, the great leaders in
the realm of artistic creation have always felt that true art should flow
and to find answers to the great riddles of existence. Before the time of his
beheld great works of art and caught in them an echo of the art of antiquity.
have been created by men as the highest products of Nature in accordance with
could discern that the great artists who had created works of art of this
so that they come to full expression in the soul's creative powers.
of artistic creation, many similar indications of the inner relationships
soul with convincing power and permeate our feeling with a conviction of
primal act of creation, when chaos was ordered and harmonised, long before
be added here. When we make acquaintance with great works of art in the sense
mysterious revelations of great art? We will approach an answer to this
Greek poetry, whose work has come down to us in the two great epics, the
forces of the great world; and he could say: “When something takes
primeval consciousness of mankind: we need only look at some features of the
Homer describes a great armed struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, but
first great work of poetic art, Homer's
bound to be a great difference at certain times between the souls of the
before the soul in great dream-pictures, and how man can witness the deeds of
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greatly enhanced.
one of the greatest minds of western civilisation, we have, as we all
those great spiritual individuals who, from time to time, have made a
when stirred by its great spiritual truths. The thing that matters
within our souls when the great truths of humanity strike these
knowledge of great spiritual truths; the feeling that the nature of
these great truths is such that we must approach them in humble
comparison should impress on our souls the way to approach great
illumine the great facts of existence from the most varied
time the need will grow ever greater for observing things from every
present a system or a survey of those great events comprised within
the greatest of all truths without which the human soul, in its
these studies to impress repeatedly on you the first requirements for
The great questions
beyond it, the truths concerning life and death: all such questions
great question, and springs from the most human of desires. A man
before man to-day when these great and puzzling questions arise
death, those without doubt are the most important which he can take
with him through the gates of death. Or let us put it as a question
him? All his discoveries would be wiped out after death! Just as much
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permeate our whole movement, all our spiritual efforts. We realise
given by us of the Event of Palestine great care has been taken that
have repeatedly pointed out that the accounts of the four Evangelists
four Gospels, a great lesson is given showing the necessity of a many
of a country by walking about on the level, observing the features of
then fade and only certain features remain. So it is with spiritual
conception of, but at first he is far from the greater difficulties
confined to life between birth and death, that we bear within us a
spiritual man, that we pass through repeated earthly lives, and so
accept and understand them presents the very greatest
are especially concerned with the creation of this feeling for, and
but are the continuation of creatures that existed formerly. There
sun when it is outside. Thus among the various creatures of the
regards the greater part of what people think in daily life. We are
another way. This is because one man has within him a greater,
to describe the characteristic feature of these images we must say
feature of the human soul to-day is this powerlessness of its
great moment. All sense-perceptions do not grant us the pleasure of
to them in order that they may he so greatly enhanced that we can
I would like you to notice. The great difference between the interest
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of another great catastrophe, so that we have to reckon in all seven
the little world, or microcosm, and the great world, or macrocosm; I
have shown how man, the little cosmos, is a copy of the great world
greater world.
catastrophe until the next great catastrophe is macrocosmic. Humanity
evolves like one great man throughout the seven post-Atlantean
In the first period the teeth are directly bequeathed, in the second
the physical organism is bequeathed, and it produces the second
wisdom. People make a great mistake when they try to express the
soul as a characteristic feature of the time we are considering. This
what they recited, it was as if newly created at the moment. This was
feature of the ages that followed is that Atlantean knowledge had
had been treated in this way a hook of fifty
treated in this way. But it is also possible to proceed otherwise.
learnt that the super-sensible part of human nature which permeates
Christ-Impulse. The greatest spiritual Reality entered
along-side that great Spiritual Outpouring. We can think of no
greater disparity than between the spirituality that came down to the
but also gave him the first great impulse upwards. Naturally this
men's thoughts. The greater part of what is called philosophy
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teachings are constantly repeated. May I say here something rather
and which no one requires to know about any actively creative
emerges on to the great plane of history. The Evangelist who begins
which, transformed into something greater, fulfils the instructions
He tells from the first how man has evolved so that this great fact
of immeasurably great importance to human evolution; an event
Prophet refers in these words to the greatest event in history
You, know that in our studies of the other Gospels great trouble has
great deal behind the words, because the images employed were taken
example of how great were the errors that arose through this. To-day
What is the fact of greatest importance in the Christ-Impulse? The
create within their souls a place for the ego, to prepare for the
the reference to the great change in the evolution of the human soul;
certainty that the greatest mystery of the spiritual world could well
you study the Gospel of Mark further, that in certain cases great
this voice? It sprang from what I have just described as a great
In this materialistic age man has become a great Philistine in
gives the first impulse to this development. This is the “Great
of the souls it now begins to evolve ever greater power and will have
repeat. Isaiah referred to the great event that was to take place
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it than from the other Gospels concerning the great laws both of
that to which I have referred when indicating certain features of the
teaching of that great leader, Zarathustra; and the other is one that
comes before our souls when we study the special methods of the great
Buddha. These two great teachers, Buddha and Zarathustra, differ very
ego enclosed within three sheaths: an astral sheath corresponding to
the Moon-evolution, an etheric sheath corresponding to the
Sun-evolution, and a physical sheath corresponding to the
dies. But this is not correct, for what a man leaves behind at death
live when the laws present at death are active in it. These laws did
in the course of his repeated earthly lives. Man does not see these.
great moment of his life when he sat under the Bodhi tree. Buddha
through his lower desires man injures his astral body. The greater
only in the course of repeated incarnations that the faults he
spiritual being, the sheaths that envelop his spiritual nature only
world. This sinking down, this breaking through the sheaths of the
bearer, the sheath one might say, of a higher Being, of a spiritual
“sheath-nature” he receives from his parents or his
sheaths, and on this account such a man feels more or less
dissatisfied with the way fate has treated him. But so heavy, so
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their external physical constitution — as regards what they eat
Angels, do not differ much from each other. Creative influences are
this creative activity of Hierarchical Beings beginning with the
must develop in the temperate zone, for all those great Beings who
the plant creation as light.
“Which has the greatest effect on my soul, that which I have
provided by nature. He might then ask: — Who is the greater
appears to us infinitely the greater!
When the great
merely repeated. Compared with what we have received as the
nature has to give is infinitely greater. For the revelations of
know how the greatness of the Hierarchies increases as they ascend,
they originally presented to us. So that it is in all great works of
art, in all great works of genius. Something continues to affect us
creation,” the first Adam, so that he might have spoken
us to-day in the course of his evolution between birth and death in
differ greatly from each other; only this difference is not noticed
great importance when man is studied as a whole. Human evolution must
within the great world. At present he loses this. He has no later
fact nonsense, for the moment man exhales breath, the breath he had
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which will be of great assistance to us in our later studies.
acts according to instinct, who eats when he is hungry, sleeps when
always something greater than in his deeds. According to spiritual
science this is the outstanding feature of the idealist. Keep this
are always greater than what he is able to accomplish on the physical
something, when we carry out some piece of work that is greater and
the etheric body, thoughts that are greater than the fulfilment of
There is a great
on the physical plane is gradually prepared for death. But those
experiences which our thoughts only grasp with the greatest
difficulty. Eating and drinking are things that spring anew each day
regards eating and drinking when we have discovered why, in order to
is possible so to regard them that we say: — We eat this or
case accustom ourselves to allow eating to be no mere material fact,
perfectly as regards eating.
causes is gradually prepared for death; and another set of forces
When after death we
forsake our sheaths with the spiritual part of our being we still
to work in us after death, and contain the life-forces necessary for
who created ideas merely through his understanding, and such ideas
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After being told that John the Baptist is the great prophet who
the great facts are put before us so, that again without giving any
These we have in great measure, and faith in them is not wanting. The
great that it will shortly be necessary to form councils to establish
objectively, and the temptation is very great to give it to the
artistic natures reveal certain periods in their creative activities,
that they had not roam so much as to eat bread. And when His
3:20 And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. \
Science, great antipathy will be manifested by those who turn from
fanciful tales by the greater part of humanity.
to be made clear, one sentence, the special feature of which consists
“death and birth” (Stirb und Werde) in the course of
death-like state after having endured the tragic suffering of one
must experience “death and birth.” What formerly had only
pupils of this greater wisdom.
inner nature of the Gospel of Luke is of great value, for it is the
post-Atlantean period of civilisation, and on until the next great
nature of music permeates our astral body; and finds expression
can be illustrated in a trivial manner. We are permeated by music and
are permeated by the Logos — they will then feel for the first
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periods of transition, it is helpful to recall the great
passed, often mentioned by me as the great incisive moment of the
essence of Christianity Jahve did not really differ very greatly from
more powerful it will permeate all human life until earthly evolution
are repeated which occurred in the third age — the
of Mahomed, but permeated in an extra-ordinary way with what we might
the souls of men, then the great Impulse for the human head, for the
great mind who united in himself the fullness of science, of
concerning the repeated cycle of six, and again six centuries, we
regarded as a heathen.
creatures, will only be understood when quite different ideas
present confusion. It will be realised that a great part of what is
of human nature, concerning which there is the greatest confusion at

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of the great wisdom of the world the hearts and souls of the men of
already accepted sufficient of the great law of Karma to know that it
creatures of the different kingdoms of nature, and of what enters
therefore cannot have any great results. It would be most
bequeath these truths to others who are unable to travel the path
think of what is greatest in this, we think of the spirit without
Everything a man creates must be created by the spirit; if he thinks
The smallest creative act, even in everyday concerns, has an eternal
thou hast not experienced death and becoming, thou art a gloomy
repeating some of the things that were spread abroad through Middle
bring him safe home the dragon will eat thee — we shall all eat
know the threefold nature of the human sheaths. In former days we
of the kingdoms) he acquired a covering, a sheath.
concerning the threefold sheath-nature of man was brought to people
A man can only create
repeat the macrocosm microscopically in ourselves.
other hand, grew ever greater and greater, the more the ideal of a
life could only be preserved by spending the greater part of it in
this way from greatness of spirit. Ritter Wahn sets out to conquer
death. On the way he meets with three old men. It occurred to Julius
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need only to realise that the human being thinking of death feels a
in death cannot get through this horror completely. One has tried to
from creating a better life here. Others say that only in this way existence
this question. But just the admiration of Haeckel’s great achievements
saw a big threat betraying the mysteries if they were in everybody’s
facilities, of the states? The individuals who created them disappeared,
again, the parts take on their characteristic shape again. The creative
if they are sowed to the fields. The whole creative power rested invisibly
Hungarian wheat which was
created once. — This was an easy answer. Everything that had originated
was brought to life by a creation miracle. The natural sciences of the
we recognise that they were not created as those, but came into being
his great discoveries in biology, would he have limited himself to examine
The great laws exist everywhere,
also after death. The human soul moves into the body and leaves it again
to create a new body after the time of maturity again and to enter in
at death; we have to look at that for which we cannot find physical
neither the soul came into being at birth nor it disappears at death.
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Iron, great laws
knowledge the influence of a great poet is based, namely: how much closer
that Confucius, that all the great founders of the different religions
depends on the time in which he lives. Aristotle, the great scholar
of the body. It lives in the movement, in the breathing, in the digestion.
first level of the soul. It created the human organism. It built our
the creator. The soul is a creation from nothing for Aristotle. A new
creation is every soul also for the exoteric Christianity of the later
soul creation. Like the origin of the vegetative soul has resulted from
itself, but by the great teachers helping this human race.
There must also be great
These great teachers who
because the human beings would not understand their language. The great

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find our great discoveries and inventions, our sciences and what they
science teaches and recommends living, all great laws which it makes
creation were often presumptuous so that they could not advance. There
to a book. One says it is a great merit of Feuerbach,
turn round the sentence: God created the human being according to his
image — and say: the human beings created God according to their
above himself. Then his imagination creates an image of him. The gods
true that really the human being creates his gods to himself? Is it
as for example Du Bois-Reymond, the great physiologist: I would believe
created from their own chests like Feuerbach says.
in a great, nice, worthy and valued whole if the harmonious pleasure
only that human being also creates a deep feeling, a feeling, which

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big topic in great detail and comprehensiveness, and, hence, I ask you to make
thereby differs quite substantially from the time of the great spirits who developed
of the peoples created. — The Son of God evaporated to a divine ideal
and through him all things came to be; without him no created thing came into
the physical reality up to death by which Christ became enslaved without being
The Lamb of God was the most innocent; it is able to do the sacrificial death.
This one should remember. Therefore, the sacrificial death should not be considered
temples. Christ, like all great teachers, taught his adherents in the inside
spirit of God Who created the universe.
Bethlehem and not in you, you are still lost forever.” The great mystic

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by a philosopher. One says that the great mental achievement of Immanuel
is a higher experience. If you read Leadbeater’s
the value experience has facing the world in this way? This is the great
see that the solar heat falls on a stone. We think that it is the solar
heat which warms up the stone. What do we see? We perceive solar heat
solar heat is the cause that the stone becomes warm. That is why Hume
important knowledge of the great physiologist Johannes
However, this is only your own mental picture. You create the whole
Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934), clergyman and theosophical

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great physiologist Johannes Müller found the law of the
the nerve transforms it into a sensation: in heat and cold, in softy and hard.
concerned, the organ transforms it into heat or cold, into softness or hardness.
he says: the starry heaven is created by us. It is a reinterpretation of the
consciousness creates. He is enclosed in his consciousness. He can suppose —
world which surrounds us would be nothing else than what we would have created
and that also the inside world is nothing else than a creation of subjective
your movements to sensations of touch. This hand is nothing else than a creation
a creation of my subjective consciousness. Or I take my brain: if I could investigate
Also a philosopher who had great influence — also in pedagogy: Herbart.

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Schopenhauer, Kant and similar great German thinkers. I tried to show at the
von Hartmann created. I have shown with it that basically that kind of epistemology
If they were only subjective creations of our egos, we could not come beyond
as subjective creations of our egos. Thereby we would always be rejected to
philosophy. As far as that is concerned, the greatest spirits have never thought
in by the creative spirit; that we are not loafers who only think about the
universe, but that the contents of our mind is creative outdoors. That is why
of world creation, guaranteeing the real being, like Schopenhauer about the
of this philosophy in images. You find a philosophical treatise on that in my
He knows what real knowledge is even if he has not still come to the great thing

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the heavenly wisdom. Plato revered his great teacher Socrates particularly because
and the admirers of Ernst Haeckel — as a great man of science more than
I myself. But great human beings also have big shortcomings, and thus it may
find the body and its functions, but nowhere a soul. The great moralist of Darwinism,
of modern psychology, nothing of the discoveries of the great Johannes Müller
There Nagasena answered using another metaphor: how have you come, great king,
By the way, the great anatomist Metchnikoff reckoned that
great discoveries in the field of the theory of electricity that the modern
which have led the first Christians and the great Christian Church Fathers to
founded his psychology at the end of the great Greek philosophical epoch. For
its creation, and then the possibility is there that the soul element comes
Kepler, this great astronomer, read through what he says about this basic phenomenon
the creator of the future that way. Somebody who thinks through these two things
the spirit. The saying of the great Kepler that the laws won in a lonesome study
clearly say this. Indeed, he says repeatedly: the soul develops gradually up
of Aristotle that is put into the human soul from without by creative activity.
with Aristotle. He adds the idea of creation to the view. We will see how the
theosophical psychology overcomes this idea of creation how it draws the last
but receives its heat from the fire. — The human soul is just like a higher

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else than the transformed foodstuffs which the great poet Shakespeare had eaten.
and its processes must be treated as academically and impartially as the questions
a way as once Galileo discovered the great pendulum law when the sense dawned
if we have understood their creation as a species. We have to express the important
We would have to look at the single animal, which stands in perfect creation,
has developed so far that its body has taken on a human form, then the creator
is created into any single human being. There is only one other way, and this
the recently deceased great English philosopher, has shown. He realised —
not profess himself to the theory of evolution must profess himself to the creation
miracle of creation at any birth. The scientific doctrine of creation is a belief
are as many species side by side as have been created originally. There are
also in the field of psychology only these two ways: the miraculous act of creation
to do that, he will also profess himself to the creation of any single human
will be the two ways which we must pursue in clear thinking: either soul creation
life within the single personality was exhausted between birth and death, the
we look at the life of the human being beyond birth and death. The balance of
to the principle of energy conservation. This is the great principle which controls
by the energy which is its cause. If we convert heat into vapour in the steam
to our psychology. Listen to the discoverer of this principle, one of the greatest
and prepared Darwin is Lyell, the great English geologist.
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III - Lecture III: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part III: Soul and Mind
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Socrates facing death stands before
his pupils. During the next hours the end of the great teacher must happen.
Facing his death, Socrates speaks about the eternity of the spiritual core in
the great teaching of the human soul and the human mind to them. He makes it
consecration of death, a conviction which simply testifies because it is expressed
defeats the event which befalls him in few hours.
over to him in view of death.
souls, we think of two things. Plato, the great sage of Greece, tries to support
it in view of death. This conviction expresses itself as something that lives
this great teaching, why does it make sense to them? It makes sense to them
Which human being could treat other
to approach these questions. Without desire and grief the human being must treat
does the human mind live before birth and after death? And: which is the destination
of the human being in time and in eternity? that these questions cannot be treated
can be treated. Because one was clear to himself about the fact that then the
with our death more or less. We must leave this narrow circle of that which
laws, controlled by the laws of gravitation, magnetism, heat, light et cetera.
an immediate natural force, there the thought becomes creative. The thought
is creative, and the spirit is creative in the whole nature. It only does not
be the determining factor. If the great basic principles of the theosophical
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV - Lecture I: Theosophy and Spiritism
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life had received another physiognomy. Great naturalists postpone the dawning
like the great English chemist Crookes, did completely commit to spiritism?
the great chemist, knew to which extent nature follows the sensuous laws, to
and he found — independently of each other — the great thought of
and the attitude of these great men.
are treated as scientific questions. These researchers do not at all regard
the great emissaries of the Theosophical Society, went out from the spiritistic
has a spiritual nature in himself that his life between birth and death is only
them are able to give evidence of them. These great beings are the leaders of
and calls it the great brotherhood of the so-called adepts. Who believes honestly
Only with regard to the soul question a counter-pole had to be created, a spiritual
what it concerns here. The human being is not created by purely natural forces.
spiritual life is not created by means of physical strength. Wisdom created
the world. Wisdom also created every human being. I presuppose this here; it
the organism of the living body, we find no God, no divine creativity, but only
natural forces. They do not find the spiritual, creative forces. Already if
without the spiritual influence of its creator — this human soul with
was necessary — I have to talk figuratively — to create the basis
legitimate creators of the organism could have built only up to one of the lower
steps that they would never have been able to create this intricate human organism
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Or another example: somebody is in the dream in an overheated room; he sees
saw an overheated stove and the like more. So not only events and facts of the
so-called vegetative physical life, our digestion, our breathing, and our heartbeats
This etheric double body holds together the physical processes. At death the
picture which I only must create to myself to be able to perceive the flame
astonishing kind, not only that their dens are true creations of an instinctive
greatest possible effect with the slightest expenditure of energy, one could
cheated, even if the facts are not correct. A mediumistic woman may go, for
Your mortal breast in roseate dawn!

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV - Lecture III: The History of Spiritism
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and the great organiser, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, went out from the spiritistic
to the physical science. On the other side, in the great spiritual movements
give one example, the great representative of the occult science of the 16th
comes from to you? — The answer is: it comes to me from the creative ,
asked for a secret which a brother had not completely told before his death
was put in another séance. The answer was: the soul is not created, but
séance followers of the so-called creation theory were, and at the other
You will not deny that that has a great cultural-historical significance. However,
which takes place in the human being between birth and death, but also knowledge
of that which is beyond birth and death. Spiritual science cannot do this without
aware that all the spiritual movements must converge at a great goal at last
by anything that is analogous to the sensuous. Therefore, he says the great

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history which, indeed, repeats an ancient history in a certain form, but in
to show how difficult it is to bring certain great phenomena in the life of
assure you that I have the greatest respect to many a scholar with regard to
him, while you give him a potato: this is a pear, take and eat it! — And
you can see that he thinks to eat a pear. You may give him water to drink, and
In 1766, a treatise appeared by
believes. However, this first treatise should not occupy us, because it shows
and cheated souls in big public gatherings again and again. The experiment consists
such cases were mixed up repeatedly with flawless facts. One must be in the
it was a certain Stone who caused great sensation and became a talking point.
scholarly treatises about these phenomena from the forties. They referred chiefly
in which from now on these questions were treated by the official science for
was understood in such a way as if it could be treated like an everyday scientific
can be performed and repeated any time. This requirement was also put to this
with this field which is so subjected to deception that even great scholars
the phenomena of hypnosis in a coffin; thus that retreated into the background
they wanted to protect science against the treatment as the Nancy school has
and whether one has abandoned himself to self-deception or has been cheated.
nothing is to be hoped from the modern academic treatment of hypnotism and suggestion.
Schwenter, however, had taken it from another book Recreationes mathematicae
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture I: What Does the Modern Human Being Find in Theosophy?
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to live stopping to breathe, sees him dying, and that he cannot imagine that
spiritual experiences which the primitive human being has to a greater extent
are our images of a life after death, of a yonder realm which is not enclosed
from there to the phenomena which one calls human creations, to that which is
if we go to the realm of the living beings: birth and death. Birth and death
and death hold sway continually, the only one which is accessible to the human
phenomena, in the processes of originating and passing, in birth and death.
gain the external experience. You cannot go far beyond birth and death in the
have, no, only in those soul forces which are beneath the external superficial
the simplest one: the plant life. There you see birth and death perpetually
and death are the qualities of the external phenomena and forms, rebirth and
and death is the typical in the realm of the forms, the external figures. If
is the force, and this force, not the external appearance, is the creator of
has left behind nothing but the force of the creation of a new one. As we never
to the creation of a new lily, just as little we can understand how the surging
life. There you only need to take a great German spirit, then you will get an
being. Bruno died a martyr’s death because he agreed openly as the first
but that, above all, an image is created by this teaching which makes the world
that everything emerges and disappears, is birth and death. We have seen that
also the most wonderful works which are created pass. If we ask ourselves, however:
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture II: What Do Our Scholars Know about Theosophy?
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great sensation, have experienced many editions and conquered hearts and souls.
not join in this choir of materialism who spoke about a self-creative spirit.
believe in the materialistic history of creation? How many are among those who
to believe what is in Haeckel’s history of creation, that you yourselves
other qualities; does it maybe have the quality of heat? There the physicist
answers: heat even comes from oscillatory movement. However, these people are
however, as single great spirits have owned it, it could not been given to the
others as great spirits if this materialistic scholarship has brought it so
find symptoms of insanities with the great spirits who are regarded as leaders
oven, heat the room and make it warm. — If one wants that the oven gives
off heat, then one must put heating material into it and kindle it. One must
put heating material into it. This is the spiritual force, the ability to behold
this theosophical attitude with the attitude of theosophists, of great, lofty

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture III: Is Theosophy Unscientific?
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particularly if the reproach is done repeatedly from the part of science, in
particular from the part of those who want to create a configuration of life
In the preface of The Wonders of Life you find repeated what Haeckel
today. If, for example, the great English researcher Darwin was asked for his
the great sentence that the physiologist Johannes Müller
To a more distant past the spiritual researcher rises and with it he creates
Attempts were made later repeatedly
see him trying hard to create spiritual natural sciences and to find a bridge
what was once and how the world laws are: an image of life was created there.
to rise to the spiritual again in future. In great pictures this piece of art,
his heart is saved by Zeus. This is the performance of a great human drama;
unite, they create that atmosphere round themselves in which the single human
The great spirits have expressed

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture IV: Is Theosophy Buddhist Propaganda?
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in the world. Not only Buddha, but all great teachers of wisdom have spread
All great religions of the world made this difference between internal and external
the peculiar shading caused by the finer soul forces, the whole spiritual breath
of these great Christian teachers know to tell how their souls were completely
words from the force that is created in esotericism. It had become necessary
founders. These religious founders were nothing else than envoys of the great
Blavatsky wrote her Secret Doctrine, not only oriental sages as great
in certain way. The great sages of the movement emphasised that immediately
in the outset of this movement. The great sages had come from oriental knowledge,
All great world religions and all
great world views come from envoys of these great brotherhoods of advanced human
beings. But while these great religions do their wandering through the world,
times there were great sages also in Europe; and there were also such brotherhoods.
this secret doctrine of Buddhism and all great religions of wisdom in a living
deprives a human being of his life, holds a eulogy on death or stirs up others
to suicide and says: what is this life of use for you? Death is better than
Buddhism reads that way and a ban to speak to anybody of the fact that death
one can repeat a hundred times, but over and over again people speak of renunciation
The great cardinal Nicholas
This is the important feature of
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profound sense can only be created because the largest part of
that Theosophy as a teaching is based on the greater occult
experience, in their life mood they were totally permeated with
mathematical imagination became a great poem which filled him
became the expression of divine creation, divine thought as it
her in death” (Ich sterbe ihr nach!). Nevermore was he
interruption, as is expressed in the words: birth and death.
no sense of death in this prehistoric past.
Then the thought of death struck into the life of these gods
impressions creates a weaker fragment out of the great world of
Sophie's soul by emulating her in death. In this emulation his
perceived a point of transition: how death hit the world and
how the human beings during this time placed death as their
fantasy and art. But death remained a riddle.
this universal womb of creation from which everything
origins, to the unsolvable riddle of death. The Greek spirit of
death appears as a pondering muse, as an enigma which cannot be
Golgotha, that here victory overcomes death and as a result a
actual essence of what the Christ death implied. In the night
of the soul the riddle of death revealed itself to him, the
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 1: Whitsuntide. Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
theosophical ideas concerning the creation of the universe. Those of
request, therefore, that today's lecture be treated as an episode in
the Vatican Library, where it is guarded with the greatest care. To
Devas all around. He sees them as creating powers when he penetrates
purely soul-spirit nature. That was the reason for the great contrast
with its animal-like creatures had not evolved so far at that time,
lacking then — one thing of great importance, if not of the utmost
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread’, etc. That is no less
was also the endeavour of all the great founders of religion, that
After repeated refusals Jesus finally went up to the feast. The
(In the last day, that greatJohn 7, 37):
‘In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and
mankind's greatest Representative. Therefore it is also said:
human spirit, as the great symbol of mankind's struggle for freedom,
which emanates from the great Masters, which flows through a few
great Adepts, who are the founders of our spiritual movement — not our

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 2: The Contrast Between Cain and Abel
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
last time that a great number of occult secrets
created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male-female created he
created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son
Male-female created he him; not yet sexually defined, asexual. And
how was he created? In the likeness of God.
created after the image of God. They were propagated by asexual means.
as the Creator has presented it. One does not cultivate the herds,
which has been placed on the earth, that is Abel. The one who creates
ask you to visualise the following. The greater the importance
during the Great Plague, was able to foretell the future. He wrote a
Jesus Christ remained on the earth for ten years after His death.
form and not stated openly? I must here remind you that the great
would be a great sin, a sin against mankind. But to deny him this knowledge
life between birth and death had to be acknowledged.

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 3: The Mysteries of the Druids and the 'Drottes'
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
to receive their instructions beneath oak trees.
sheath. The veil of maya is really a sheath which must be penetrated
by him who is to be initiated — the sheaths drop away, the human
aware that the sheaths had dammed back the impulses which would have
creative thinking, which builds and constructs things of the world,
replaced by a thinking permeated by spiritual force. The blown skin
of a caterpillar is the empty sheath of the caterpillar; when filled
sheath-thoughts, living active power is poured so that the priest is
to deceive even the higher beings. He must not only repeat truths but
preparation. He, [the initiate] however, could create these sagas so
utterance to things in this way of course had great power over his
fellow men. The creator of a saga of this kind imprinted something
the merest vestige of it survives death. Eternal truths remain
longest after death. Of less elevated scientific thought hardly
‘Drottes’ priests, a power over life and death. It is

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 4: The Prometheus Saga
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
whole development of our fifth Great Epoch. At the same time you will
time in great torment.
with all the outward attributes of the man of the fifth great epoch.
incurable illness. He was half beast and half man. He suffered death
this saga lies the whole history of the fifth Great Epoch and true mystery
the future of the fifth Great Epoch. An understanding of this is only
leadership of great teachers and guides, whom we call the ‘Sons
of Fire-Mist’. At present, humanity of the fifth Great Epoch is
also led by great initiates, but our initiates today are of a
fifth Great Epoch took its start from a handful of men, who had been
sifted out from the previous Great Epoch. They were collected
(The name ‘Manu’ comes from the Sanskrit root ‘man’ = ‘thinking.’ In Indian theosophical terminology this denotes high spiritual beings, who have the task of forming new cultures or epochs. For further details concerning the Manu of the fifth epoch see Rudolf Steiner\'s Cosmic Memory, Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1971; Occult Science, Rudolf Steiner Press, 1969, and a lecture given in Heidelberg on 21st January 1909; Some Aspects of Reincarnation and the Life After DeatNote 2)
already great masters and advanced leaders of humanity, and we have
these great masters who are leaders of the fifth Root Race is
sixth Root Race will be the first great epoch to have as its Manu one
heat were also included under that heading. The consciousness of the
(This is expressed in H.P. Blavatsky\'s The Secret Doctrine, Volume 3, ‘Esotericism,’ p. 330, in the following way: ‘Prometheus is a symbol and a personification of the whole of mankind in relation to an event which occurred during its childhood, — “Baptism by Fire” — which is a mystery within the greatNote 3)
fifth Great Epoch.
things of his surroundings work upon him, but creates something for
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 5: The Mystery Known to Rosicrucians
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
fifteenth century, it has often been repeated and explained in the
a time when one of the Elohim created a human being whom he called
After this, another Elohim, named Yahveh, created Adam. Adam also
descendants of Cain are all those who have been creators of art and
fire; they went further. And during the creation of man they were no
creation with calm and clear wisdom. That is the essential Jahve — or
fire of the Moon Epoch, created the Sons of Cain.
showing enthusiasm for wisdom. These two types are creative within
earthly culture, the great Temple of Solomon, has already been built,
describe in a few words how this Christian Rosenkreutz came to repeat
Molten Sea is what is created when the appropriate amounts of water

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 6: Manicheism
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
movement whose great opponent was St. Augustine,
It is further related that at his death he left these writings to his
Manicheism is a great cosmic legend,
significant feature which I beg you to take account of — they were to
death. Therefore, it continually consumes itself and thus carries
through death, what should not have been there; to conquer it within
form has been created, life overcomes it and passes over into the
that form evolves in the great cosmos.
body; now this has become the sheath, the form. Always the life of
intention is to create a spiritual current which goes beyond the
creates forms and destroys forms in various religious systems. It
That must be created beforehand, it has to be there so that Christian
beings who create an Organisation, a form, so that the true Christian
future. That is why such great stress was laid on absolute purity of
who will be gifted with great love and goodness; but, on the other
disposition without any disguise in a great many people, no longer
spread this view. For they must create a receptacle, a form, for the

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 7: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 1
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
creative spirit with Eve, Cain was born. Then another of the Elohim,
Jehovah or Adonai, created Adam, who is to be regarded as the primal
divinely created human being, Adam, is the true representative of
conception underlying the creation story according to the Temple
Legend. Jehovah creates enmity between Cain and his race, and Abel
for his livelihood. The race of Cain creates, as it were, the living
already imbued with the breath of life. Abel's sacrifice is pleasing
are the creators of the arts and sciences of mankind: Tubal-Cain who
wonderment at the great Temple of Solomon, her desire was to meet the
the air and descend again with great force in a rain of fire. Hiram
the impression that he is losing a great deal of blood. After that
thereafter in the Lodge must be treated in the strictest secrecy.
symbols which help to create a higher community, or whether ... [Gap]
swear is so terrible that it cannot be repeated here.
engineering feat of Lake Moeris in Egypt; a lake which was
astral body could originally be trained was so great that it led to

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 8: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 2
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
should be treated by one who is himself a Freemason. He would not do
At the same time I would request that you treat what I have to say
reflection of the great cosmic proportions, that a cathedral has to
temples and other great buildings according to cosmic laws and
effect. Those who built the great cathedrals of medieval times were
the great Freemasons. They were aware of the importance of the fact
sound, breathing and fluctuating in significant vibration which would
exercise still greater effect on the astral body than on the physical
Great Britain, America, Italy, Egypt, and also by eastern Freemasonry
respect there are great differences between the masonry practised in
Germany and that of England or Great Britain. In British masonry a
‘That is and has been the great longing of
needs to have this assurance of a life after death in order to be
forces of Creation.’
death.
come to us through great conquests of nature must be incorporated in

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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
that the Memphis and Misraim rite possesses a great number of
of Germany, Great Britain and America possess the ninety-sixth
so-called Philosopher's Stone; secondly, with creating an
the meaning of these two things. They may be treated with a deal of
however, who imagined that no death, in the conventional sense of the
here with physical death, but with the following. Physical death is
other people it is a real happening, which signifies a great division
Stone in the way that Cagliostro intended his pupils to do, death is
body at the moment of death. Everything has already taken place in
death. Death is then no longer possible, for the said person has long
— the Philosopher's Stone — which allows physical death to become a
in a school of the great European adepts, who taught that the five
place as it is described there, but something on a much greater scale
the King's presence. But he described to the Queen with great
occasion that he uttered the great saying which was based on truth:
had been repeated by Christ. Those were words which were
conquering death was really something which was commonly known. I
different form. The overcoming of death in Atlantean times is
Great Britain and Germany. You will perceive that one must reckon
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 10: Evolution and Involution as they are Interpreted by Occult Societies [The Atom as Congealed Electricity]
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
many different channels. A great deal of occult knowledge exists in
great law which governs the progressive development of consciousness
maybe called the mineral epoch; and our task is to permeate this
knowing how a man can act selflessly in order to attain the greatest
great account. If someone gives a coin to someone in a selfless way,
when, for instance. it creates a feeling of comfort. Good deeds
among us has no roast meat at Christmas, and I feel the need to give
him some in order that I may feel justified in [eating] my own roast
meat, that, after all, is egoistic.
will give you back. That is connected with the greatest universal
it for ourselves. But what we ourselves create in the world — that is
the great thought at the basis of these secret societies, that all
smell or taste Nature, you breathe it in. What you see does not pass
button concealed in his pocket, to [explode] some object at a great
against All will break out, in the most terrible way. Great and
we are living in the fifth period of the fifth great post-Atlantean
great epoch. Then the seven periods of the sixth great epoch will
follow and then the seven periods of the seventh great epoch. This
‘form-state’ of our planet there are seven great epochs

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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
will explain a great allegory, and deal with an object which is known
all a result of not knowing that great laws exist which rule the
there are great laws for the building of the state and of the social
— it could become an image of the great spiritual structure of the
harmony with the great life of God. And the life of just such a
about the cultural epochs of our fifth Great Epoch. The first of
great monument to the conquest of the old priestly culture by the
saga of the Trojan Horse. The intelligence of Odysseus created the Trojan
And that permeates the whole of creation. Hence it was self-evident
so unreasonable. Today people are inclined to treat the physical body
is constructed. The best engineer, the greatest technician, could not
greatest possible strength using the least amount of material. And so
therefore possesses the greatest perfection. Less perfect, on the
war, through which Rome became great. Under the fourth king, Ancus
that the great sages must be these pillars — it is this intention
which is permeated with the ancient wisdom. That is not a kind of
we should take into ourselves something of the greatness and all
thought must be permeated by that kind of wisdom which leads from
great conceptions into the details — just in the same way as house
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 12: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 2
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
greatest symbol. Now the point is to understand this symbol. You know
the word ‘I’. The moment in the lives of great
changed into a moral God. The human body is thus turned into a great
self with a house created by his own spirit, by his own wisdom, by
or, similarly, a sun-worship . However, a great mystery lies behind
great mystery. Mass fell into two parts; the so-called Minor Mass, in
how it was connected with the great march of world
the whole of man's life underwent a change. Birth and death took
following stages. Everything has been repeated, including the
evolution of the global stages in the first, second and third Great
to the third Great Epoch, the moon during the third epoch [Lemuria].
of the fifth Great Epoch had begun. This turning point was denoted by
announce a Christ who would renew the Temple, once the great point of
yet ripe for understanding the great teachings; we still have to
to be a sheath for what is higher. But this Temple
The ego is in a threefold sheath: firstly, in the astral body,
the threefold sheath of man. And when he has then passed through the
three bodies, when the ego discovers in Christ its greatest
will be ripe for joining in building the great Temple of the Earth;
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
is indeed living in his physical, etheric and astral sheaths,
plan of creation.
as it is a dead, mineral thing. It treats the human body basically as
a creative and growing way. This force of life must enter into
living forces of metamorphosis and transformation, the creatively
institution, ought to be created, that is not red hot with inner
seen at the entrance as the great symbol, for man was to strive
which we can imagine as a great ocean. Now Plato said about this,
world body as his sheath three times.
where God rests, because man himself creates. Then will have come the
seventh Day of Creation, in which man will have taken on the likeness
of God. These are the stages in the story of creation.
human evolutionary cycle in greater glory and clarity. And when man
something with which our earth was at one time permeated; the sun
immortal man, who will no longer be subject to death. The etheric
body at present still dissolves with the death of the human being.
for the inner living force. There the great mystery consummates
Our great
him that the Old Covenant, which creates an antithesis between man
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
treat them fundamentally and exhaustively; we have added somewhat to
in the great symbol of the Fall, in the scene of the temptation,
where the Devil or Lucifer appears to Eve and persuades her to eat of
repeated in the first Round, the Sun development in the second Round,
epochs. Thus we have seven Race-cycles [or Great Epochs] in our
life thereby became different. At this point death made its entry,
whereas before there could be no question of death, because there was
longer the whole living [process]. This kind of death came in for the
warmth] ether which makes all bodies capable of being permeated by
completely permeated by the work of man's own ego, then we can no
Resurrection in an etheric body that was completely permeated by what
body has first been permeated by it.
nearly the same form as the physical body. At death man's physical
ether. But this etheric body has been very elaborately created for
Globe. This etheric body disperses after death. Only that etheric
initiation] — and that does not dissolve after death. If you see a
rebirth; the ability to create a new one is attained in Devachan. The
greater and mightier than our present traditions about it. Only
us in the Vedas. The original religion of the Rishis had great
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 15: Atoms and the Logos in the Light of Occultism
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
The great
made fertile by Buddhi. We have to work together with this great
world current, and therefore we have a great responsibility towards
also in everyday things. Anyone who allows these great world
death, man is in Kamaloka. We do not ask: Do the animals and
Devachanic plane. There, man helps create and transform the plants.
great Lodge [of the Masters].
groupings. Such were Buddha, Hermes, Pythagoras, and so on. The great
family groupings, etc, are all linked up in the great plan which
atom of the next Round, then one can see the pattern of the great
universal plan. The great universal plan develops in continually
look for the transformation of man himself during the great world
mysteries which come from the great Magi of the world.

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 16: The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
however trifles compared with the great structure of humanity that we
confront. The most important matters are based on much greater and
self-aware creature, and has to take his destiny into his own hands.
antipathies that the great world-embracing affairs of the human race
participant in the great affairs of the building of the earth. To do
with it. This event repeated itself in all the ancient mysteries.
we should answer: One can certainly comprehend a great deal in
as something the divine forces followed in creating the world — and a
step, as he is able to approach the great world thoughts, as he
but otherwise occult power that penetrates these great world thoughts
great centres of spiritual activity will spring up. You see,
within the great Root Race of humanity, which has peopled the earth,
the great Aryan Race has been the dominant one on earth. If we
of the great Aryan Root Race. The first Sub-Race lived in the distant
see also how great differences arise in the course of time in the
the wall in colour and form; the picture is permeated with what first
1850. We can see the great things that it has achieved on the
the cells that have to combine to create a future culture. In our
will be able to gather that the forces which have created the world,
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 17: Freemasonry and Human Evolution I
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
[human] race has already passed. Every planet repeats, in its initial
the Elohim, Jehovah, also known as Adonai, created Adam. And Adam
Through male knowledge the creative
feminine wisdom. This feminine wisdom is able to make great
his greatest success. Then he was led by a figure to the centre of
and wants to destroy them; he wants to destroy his own creation. But
Jehovah had to create this basic force, so that the race could
propagate itself. Jehovah created the Sons of Fire, which was only
For it was an expedient [?] which had been created, and therefore he
then [procreative] force. The power in the larynx is indeed the other
half. Speech is not as yet creative, today. It has to be penetrated
creative, so that he will produce his own kind through the Word, then
Then [the work of creation] which was once done by the gods, will be
be self-creative, just as the Elohim are self-creative. Therefore the
the procreative force which the female already has. When we remain in

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 18: Freemasonry and Human Evolution II
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
strictly adhered to. Nowadays, the sole possibility of creating a
sex only, and then became two-sexed. That had a great influence on
time. Already, in the second Sub-Race, there was a great schism. The
clearly: Before Yahveh created man, he made fruits and animals and so
on, on earth, and only then did he create man, Adam, whom he then
fertilising and fructifying force by which a new person is created,
masculine power that the woman had in herself turned the creative
the woman; the creative physical forces stayed with the man. As a
two sexes was forbidden to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. The power
in the woman. ‘Thou shalt not eat of the Tree of Knowledge’ means the
power to fertilise herself through wisdom as well. By eating [from
against this, and forbade man to eat from the Tree of Knowledge for
that reason. However the woman did eat and gave to the man. The man
previous existence; death and [re-] birth come into the world. Woman
of death enters the world.
the creative, the productive, the intuitive, what is original, what
which flows into him. Cain creates something new out of what the
gather wisdom and to create from what has been gathered. Cain killed
wisdom that had been taken over by the priesthood. The great images
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 19: The Relationship Between Occult Knowledge and Everyday Life
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
image of the physical body. The astral body, the auric sheath that
envelopes and permeates the human being, is the structure in which
physical body experiences no great change, nor does my etheric body,
very similar takes place between teacher and pupil. It makes a great
filling the soul with concepts begins. If a child is treated
position to create within himself an image of the beauty of the
child's nature all the greatness he, as a fine person and good
Through his concepts, a person is continually creating structures in
permeated by warmth. If one transmits a reverential thought to
in warmth, we ourselves grow thereby, through the greatness of that
flows into the astral bodies of the individual person. A great
permeates law with a morality, so that one single earth life gains so
greater empathy develops between individual sensibilities and the
development. When such a person dies, who was a great and noble
suppose that such a person has become a martyr. He created something
noble, but has been illtreated by his nation, just as such advanced
into play immediately after his death. What he had suppressed as
which treats its idealists in this fashion creates for itself bad
powers in Kamaloka, which rebound against it. Russia has created bad
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 20: The Royal Art in a New Form
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consciousness, he says, the right effect depends on our permeating the
like thunder through all the rows [of seats], the call resounding: We
great party within Freemasonry — that all Freemasonry originated in
building of the Wonder Temple, which is the theatre of the human
great universal masonic idea. [They consider] it would be a falling
away from this great masonic idea, if it is claimed that masonry
in books, in this or that record of the Creation [about the origin of
feelings to greater heights than we experience in front of an
one was concerned with the suffering and death of gods, with the great Greek
with individual human beings, who are images of the great Godhead.
great and learned discussion since the days of Lessing. [For the
uninfluenced from this quarter. But there was a time when the great
greater role in the contemporary culture than anyone could ever
opened and the Worshipful Master has taken his seat and the Outer
with exceptionally great caution. Precisely for this reason, it was
the great ancient secrets of Freemasonry have fallen today; and on
stress this — with the two great streams running through the whole
holiest, the noblest, the greatest and the most spiritual [principle]
great piety on the one hand, or blatant superstition on the other, in
Kingdoms. If he wants to control them, then he must create a new
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture I: Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?
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do if he creates the necessary preconditions of it only. To the
to which the thing is created. Only someone can believe that he
seems obvious. Physics, science generally, point repeatedly to
other. Then we have created a basis to know that all bases of
life body. If the etheric body is outside, like after death,
body or life body prevents the decay between birth and death.
your mortal breast in roseate dawn!
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture II: Goethe's Secret Revelation - Exoteric
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significant repeatedly, a scene that took place in the nineties
materials of the whole building of nature. Because you recreate
concealed technology. A great and really heroic idea which
traditions and to create feelings, thoughts and ideas which
with that who created it, but also in those who want to enjoy
Allow me now to explain the principal features of this fairy
without imagining those features that are of importance if we
much the better. It has happened to me repeatedly if I held a
I repeat: it is included in every issue of Goethe's works and
soon which deep meaning any feature and any single fact has.
eaten from the gold pieces and was transformed into a precious
pug to them. Then a very important feature of the fairy tale
can only take out single features. The beautiful lily is the
repeats what her husband said in the subterranean temple, and
creature that established a kind of connecting tie between her
destiny. And it is the great task of his existence to agree
the development of the soul correctly and pictorially creating
creating and his whole way. Thus, he works in the sense of that
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture III: Goethe's Secret Revelation - Esoteric
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that a poet created in the free play of imagination. We have
Repeatedly, it will
ideation, and as if anybody who feels called, so to speak, is
on truth, on objective reality. You can hear it repeatedly:
figure. Thus, he created the process of the fairy tale that is
that one receives if one ignores the distinctive features and
joins the common features. We have seen that Goethe said on it,
This is the instructive and great of Goethe's scientific nature
creating. We heard about the ferryman that he is able to lead
world, to the creative, spiritual powers. While we long for
these creative powers, we long for the beautiful lily. Thus, we
would say, the temple is something concealed, it is beneath the
world, which he enters usually after death only, already in the
other saying: “And thus death is the root of all
overcome temporality. The fact that she is treated in such a
harmony up to his latest age with that which he had created
his secret revelation still there where he brings his great
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IV: Bible and Wisdom I
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creation by Moses. However, we read the creation story and find
overpowering pictures the creation is unrolled. In them, the
this creation the human being originated, how he came to the
Bible tells us that the world was created within six or seven
days? We have no use neither for the creation in six or seven
following up old writings, indeed, writings of a great
What was the basic feature of this aurora? While one had taken
repeated as tradition for centuries. If we read Giordano
human nature, other abilities take a backseat. That is why we
in its first beginnings by Euclid, the great mathematician.
from subordinated creatures, but that he was first there as a
spiritual processes, and only later, the lower creatures
earthly creation with the methods of geology et cetera only to
most cunning of all creatures the LORD God had made asked the
woman: Is it true that God has forbidden you to eat from any
was the most cunning of all creatures Yahveh had made.”
passage “Is it true that God has forbidden you to eat
the fourth verse of the second chapter that the world creation
earth after their creation,” and then, “When the
creation” (Genesis 2:4). Here the same Hebrew word is
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture V: Bible and Wisdom II
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Tübingen School, which the great Bible scholar, the
so that John created a picture of Christ Jesus, which could
there have been great human beings in the world evolution:
of Nazareth was the greatest. Nevertheless, we must remain
life over death — what we regard as the real essence of
life in spirit carried off the victory over death.
other phenomena, because he says to us, after death, Christ
carried off the victory over death, and that he knows since
which are supersensible, which are the real bases, the creative
Bible also distinguishes those beings now who are the creators
about the creator of the human ego, of the creator of the
Jehovah, are the creators of the physical, etheric and astral
this youngest of the creative gods about which the Bible starts
the ego. Moses became the great precursor bringing the
development that a force takes a backseat, so that the other
lives in us between birth and death, and that it maintains its
kind between birth and death. Thus, the ego maintained for
grandfather, and great-grandfather.
pre-Christian time in which the God was creating, in which the
death of matter.
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VI: Superstition from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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theatre management rejects the drama.” — I asked,
as superstition can never become a characteristic feature of
are numerous which examine the mental conditions of great
spirits. A Leipzig scholar took great pains till recently to
examine a whole group of great spirits, among them Goethe,
who has to treat such a sick person has to pay attention in
crows on the dung heap, the weather changes or remains as it
Becoming conscious and regulating breathing according to
After particular instructions, someone breathes who becomes a
This breathing has a particular result for the whole organism
regard him as a swindler, a charlatan or as the greatest sage
are greater than those who stand on the ground of the so-called
Whether one can call it great, this depends on what arises if
recognises as great.
child is recreated completely. I do not want to decide what is
he is the great researcher. Who knows me also knows that I always
atoms that they can create conditions which simple living
ancient sages could show great natural phenomena.
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VII: Issues of Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science
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materialistic way of thinking judges differently. A great
often been repeated and that causes many who are idealistically
“The human being is what he eats.” Most people
eating, with diet. An outsider cannot understand why the
that they should avoid this or that, should not eat or drink
eats.” It is a one-sided view at least.
well. When we eat we absorb not only what spreads out
respect: “The human being is what he eats.” Only
being, indeed, could be what he eats, through following a
abstinence, vegetarianism, meat diet.
death, the physical body is subject only to its own principles,
all that we call our inner soul life. All that has its seat in
The human being is thereby the crown of creation, he towers
body. They are that which the etheric body creates in the
is the actor, the creator. We can imagine just as a clock or a
also emotionally, is at the same time the great assistant of
however, the human being has also to create everything
look up at the greater connections of things that raise him
thinking freely from the great viewpoints, this he owes to the
meat-based food.
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VIII: Issues of Health in the Light of Spiritual Science
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of his working and creating. Hence, we can probably explain why
acid, one does not yet suppress the tendency to create too much
fact that the death rate has really decreased by so many
the last times, indeed, the death rates have decreased
had an uncontrollable aversion of meat. He could not bear meat,
could not eat it. He could not eat what is connected anyhow
with meat, too. He developed quite healthy with his vegetarian
every day once more to what he should eat, actually, if one had
we consider how the death was caused in this case, we can
health and illness, turn away from the view to eat this or that
eat the hemlock without harm, while Socrates died of it? In
addition, goats and horses can eat the hemlock without harm,
he would be treated after a prescription, which compares the
that is a fighter against the illnesses, up to death, is the
should eat. On the other side, he has an indicator in the
emerging sensation of hunger when his organism should eat.
being concerning his relation to the outside world repeatedly.
colour is something that depresses the soul beneath itself. If
that our astral body is the real creator of the physical and
inner co-operation of the soul creating pictures, have no inner
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IX: Tolstoy and Carnegie
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could treat his farmers in such a way, as it was necessary in
certain chapter of the code of Catherine the Great (1729–1796)
Then he tries repeatedly to manage his estate, and we see him
disregard features in the life of a young person. Thus, this
soul seems to be great and to have many talents from the start.
Thus, he is thrown back repeatedly from that life he leads and
Between such moods, this great soul was thrown back and forth.
and died. Tolstoy had often seen death in war, had often looked
itself towards death possibly in such a way that he said, I am
searches in vain is finished by the futility of death and if
death, who is generally able to speak about the meaning of
the sight of death had put the riddle of life in such horrible
death, he gets to know Liszt (1811–1882, Austrian-Hungarian
which the great novels come in which he gave the comprising
tried to fathom the meaning of life in great philosophies and
basement and has to heat and maintain a small steam engine with
big heat. He feels that as a responsible post. The fear to turn
telegraph operator was not there, a death message comes in. He
efficient man, than to bequeath his wealth to his children.
allow to be fertilised by a great personality may receive a lot
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture X: The Practical Development of Thinking
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pursued, it places the greatest value on the fact that
forms an independent, free judgement, the more he goes beaten
to the professor and inform him that he has made a great
could find any thought from a world, which is not created and
in the world. He has to educate himself to that great,
searched than the real creative thought. If anyone has this
this repeatedly, one notices that one no longer makes mistakes
greater poet than anyone was who is not allowed to be disturbed
him intellectually, he can remain always only on beaten paths.
creatively, which captivate us to life, which enslave us; they
create vitality, new talents and they go into the subtlest
world, but by working to our satisfaction we create something
not able to intervene creatively. If anyone develops a level
if we also believe that thinking itself is a creative force, we
who can use the beaten paths of their occupation very well; if
great practitioners do not have this practical thinking; they
survey because he is able to think from great viewpoints into
correctly. Goethe showed repeatedly from his practical way of
from the greatness of the worldview. Goethe's dictum is
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XI: The Invisible Human Members and Practical Life
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of the creative of the visible.
repeatedly, so that he learns to believe that the supersensible
complicatedly. Anything, we must say, is there that threatens
us; the soul feels threatened. This expresses itself as
against decay. Only at death, it separates from the physical
ego, which makes the human being the crown of creation. The
repeatedly, it becomes a habitual mental picture. Because it
repeated judgments, the moral judgment becomes a permanent
great, elated ideas of spiritual science flow into the physical
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XII: The Secret of the Human Temperaments
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grandparents and so on. He hands down these features to his
features.
with the physical features, by which the human being is put in
line of inheritance? A balance must be created. While both
and the natural inherited features ray out. The temperament
death, a separation of both occurs. The astral body follows as
possible. If we have clear-cut features with the choleric
features. Even in the slim figure, in the skeleton, we see the
inside, we cannot beat them out of it. However, we can deflect
else, it gives it. Thus, we create social bases by such true
moralising, but creating a social basis in which the human
basis of that which is the greatest goal of human destiny:
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIII: The Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Exoteric
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published only after Goethe's death. Goethe himself was aware
barely a breath;
At the important moments of his life, he came back repeatedly
There we must think of the greatest dramatic representation of
student. We know that he faced up to death by an illness in
the “great God of nature.” This fire should come
immediate greatness and meaning, it is clothed in an external
looked spiritually at the creative of the world sitting
they proceeded (the creators of these pieces of art) according
physical laws.” What the artist creates is physical work
and teach me thus to know my fellow creatures
shows what a great leap
Great, tremendous profundities speak from such Eastern writings.
express that wisdom, from which they created the world. Indeed,
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIV: Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Esoteric
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creatively uses the language in this poem, and that we are not
Your mortal breast in roseate dawn!
someone beholds, who bathes “the mortal breast in roseate
this roseate dawn in the complete first part — this may
“to bathe the mortal breast in the roseate dawn”
world. It is greatly shown how Faust's soul develops to grow
which he creates in poetic licence, may they refuse to call
spiritual sun and called it the great sun aura, Ahura Mazdao.
We are reminded of Zarathustra, who spoke the great, tremendous
me, the great Ahura Mazdao. Who does not want to hear His words
have a bath in roseate dawn. Hence, the sage speaks, “Go,
neophyte, and boldly bathe the mortal breast in roseate
roseate dawn:
Life's pulses beat with fresh vitality
and breathe new-quickened there below,
during the rapture, and he bathes the earthly breast in roseate
This is Faust, who bathes the mortal breast in roseate dawn to
Faust is the student who bathed the mortal breast in roseate
this world through the gate of death. Indeed, if the
in roseate dawn, who has found the entry in the spiritual
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XV: Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
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which humanity has gained and created for itself, than in the
satisfaction. We see one of the great spirits of the nineteenth
creatively in it, and creating is something blissful. Working
creative enthusiasm, which has something divine-spiritual.
music the Greek expressed this harmony and created it in his
myth creation and art. Nietzsche did not know this. He thought
who was close to the mysteries, creating his drama penetrated
already creating their dramas which only
when Wagner was at the peak of his creating and had realised in
on him from those who had created these works. He must always
repeatedly, even if after long intervals. As well as we are
shows Nietzsche's vain and fateful striving that is so great in its
illness is suffering, and death is suffering. He recognises
that in every rebirth the sufferings must come again. The great
permeated the earth with his forces. — The first
Golgotha, the symbol of death became the symbol of redemption.
everlasting life going through death.
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVI: Isis and Madonna
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Goethe referred repeatedly to the fact that someone who
creations his whole life through how art was an interpreter of
wants to penetrate to these mothers. Creation, transformation
soul. This is the great moment for him in which the spiritual
repeatedly referred in these talks to the fact that the human
of creations weaving and floating into each other in the spiritual
repeatedly transported ourselves in a time of human development
have repeatedly drawn your attention to the fact that we have
I have also used this picture repeatedly. We imagine a mass of
activity of world creation. Let us try to perceive what
already gone through death, in youthful beauty. At that time,
gate of death.
and the kingdom that the soul enters after death, in which
only after death that he can be combined with Osiris. The
is to Osiris equivalent to death. It is shown here in a wider
with initiation or at death.
globe is the expression of the creation in the world. We would
great model of everything that the human soul should bear out
are only a paraphrase of the great dictum Plato has spoken:
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVII: Old European Clairvoyance
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repeatedly that there is knowledge of supersensible worlds. I
consciousness by which we recreate the external world in
become a great dramatist. A student dreams, for example,
this hazy consciousness remembering something great in the
breathed into the nostrils the breath of life, so that he
became a living creature (soul).” A certain organisation
being learnt to breathe as an upright-going being, he stayed
Which is the physical expression of irregular breathing? It is
which creates myths and legends.
However, while breathing changed, some other things changed
world and that created the flowers and crystals, up to the
We realise that the god who lives in the breath, Wotan, becomes
temporary death of the soul. However, they felt this decline
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVIII: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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preconditions in our educational consciousness to create a
had European mysteries of great significance and deep influence
the student was shown: death is a process in life like other
neophyte was brought into a condition similar to death, so that
thing that decides whether a feature is dreamt up or goes back
all these mysteries wherever we investigate them, a feature
not completely victorious over death. However, the great
meant an ascent to a divine-spiritual world, but the breath of
eternity and immortality, knowledge of the victory over death.
between birth and death; but my blood runs down from Father
illumines, have a particular feature. Thereby they tower above
Goethe's greatest poetic deeds are fed from the sources of
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture I: The Spiritual World and Spiritual Science
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spiritual science is treated in adversary way and is often
great cultural power of the modern scientific way of thinking
the soul life. This encloses the questions of death and
that what natural sciences have performed as great achievements
know in a great measure how his self-consciousness, his ego has
science as threatened if one admits that the human thinking is
these active, creative forces that stand behind all
mental-spiritual must approach the gate of death. You
experience the death in yourself pictorially. You experience in
death. We still speak about that; today I want to indicate like
beyond your brain, beyond your body, you are urged repeatedly
conception and death.
repeated lives on earth, the fact that the complete human life
consists of repeated earth-lives between which lives are in
distinguishes the life in the body between birth and death and
the life between death and new birth in a wholly spiritual
between death and a new birth where you are in a wholly
patriarchal relation. Wilson now demands that one creates
beings and that what civilisation has created. Many things
Archimedes, the founder of mechanics, and Plato, the great
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture II: Theosophy and Antisophy
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death, but also it is to be recognised in the time between
death and the next birth. I have already drawn your attention
to the repeated lives on earth in the last talk. The human
among spirits in which he is after death. This world is
penetrate into those creative, formative soul forces that are
the creative spiritual-mental life. He must advance from the
created to the creative. Then he perceives something
unites with the creative origin of existence. However, besides,
region of the creative nature to face and to find himself in
because some people assert repeatedly that I hold these talks
entire recognition of the great results of modern science forms
subconscious soul lives of many people who have the greatest
fear because one holds fast onto the materialistic creation of
grasps the divine-creative forces in theosophy that organise
theosophy into the creative source of existence, he also
penetrates into the creative source of existence concerning his
believes that they are bright and clear. Theosophy creates that
was a great naturalist of his time; nevertheless it is an
No created mind penetrates
“No created mind
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture III: Spiritual Science and Denomination
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You can repeatedly hear that objection
to understand this as the characteristic feature of spiritual
tones, a world of the differentiations of heat, a world of
it appears in the artistic creating or in the artistic feeling
everybody who has reflected about the artistic creating or
creating in the modern naturalism that gets free from the outer
those human beings have indicated as the greatest who tried to
religious confessions in a great united whole. Thus, he
repeatedly to the fact that this view is poles apart from those
perpetually creative nature — of the spiritual
Mountain (= Königsberg, place of Kant's birth and death)
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture IV: On Death
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On Death
On Death
which are connected with death and with that what follows for
the human being from death, and what I would like to call the
outer and inner obstacles against a consideration of death in
by death to everything living. Now just spiritual science shows
draw your attention to the significance of death in the plant
and animal realms. I intend to speak about death of the human
of the death problem not clearly arising in the human
to do it relating to the great religious researcher and
what he wrote about death here or
the possibility of investigating anything about death. Even the
great Max Müller managed to say that all human thoughts
that exceed the human life between birth and death even if they
life after death, the human being would understand these
repeatedly that the human being cannot know anything about the
fields that are beyond death.
mentioned in the previous talks repeatedly is so significant
penetrate into the fields beyond death. What is this scientific
way of thinking based on? Why has it become great? Because it
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture V: The Meaning of Immortality of the Human Soul
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the life of this soul outreaches birth and death.
saying: also great spirits grow old and proclaim many a pipe
repeatedly on earth. If one imagines that the soul which lives
today has lived repeatedly in preceding epochs in which it has
them. They go with these fruits after death through a wholly
life of the single person is greater and more comprehensive
death.
this single human soul lives from birth up to death, fits into
of death, casts off the physical body, and penetrates into a
the single human soul at death. Then, however, the earth, after
of his treatise on The Education
souls carry over what is created in one epoch from epoch to
finds its way to look at that what exceeds birth and death.
such a way that it is subjected to death as something external.
treated that one can compare this work to the writing of
birth and death; but one has to search the real basic origin of
treat the body with the spiritual-mental activity first, we
birth and death in which he can reflect his spiritual-mental
between birth and death. If the body did not carry out its duty
the more. He returns repeatedly, as long as it is granted to
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VI: The Evil
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human being feels pressured into putting it repeatedly. Since
and sermons have made a great stir in certain circles. He
something negative, namely the absence of heat. Therefore, one
profound answer, which also great philosophers of the
the cold compared with the heat.
material-physical created the human being. By submerging in the
create a world, he had to act on that what is true without Him,
that evil is connected with any world that He wanted to create.
He had to create evil if He generally wanted to create a
His omniscience; or He did not want to create it
create it —
and how one had to confess to oneself repeatedly that these
different in itself, must create an opposition to itself in a
creates its opponent, so that it can become aware of itself. By
the participation of a creatural being, Jacob Böhme
but what the divine being must create necessarily as its
originate. The divine being creates its opponent to become
divine. However, while something creatural originates, and
while this creatural embeds itself not only in the flowing
However, I have to repeat what I have once
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VII: The Moral Basis of Human Life
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spoken repeatedly about the moral life and the moral world
greatest?
concluded one like the other physical creatures. Yes, one could
his formative forces into being as the other physical creatures
1804), the great philosopher, felt forced to separate
a moral volition is creative; so that you must say if you look
with the idea of the ethical in ourselves, we create beings in
the repeated lives on earth. The life on earth that we
way that one knows: you are the creator of these processes that
side, however, also that one creates realities with the moral
creators, co-creators of the world. We can understand how we
death we recently celebrated. He says, what is the sensory
existence by birth or conception and death. However, as the
in space, birth and death are only the borders for the human
borders beyond birth and death open up for the human soul, and
death.
creatures are in the universe.
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VIII: Voltaire
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Shortly after the death of Voltaire (pen
mentioned this writing by Lessing repeatedly in these talks. It
tries to find the causes for the view of the repeated lives
and the modern spiritual science in repeated lives on earth.
experiences a life between death and the next birth in a wholly
breathe —
It is great to see Giordano Bruno standing
repeatedly to find itself compared with the view of nature, but
shies away from it repeatedly because it is helpless to find
speak, completely defeated by the power of the view of nature,
categorical imperative. We see him repeatedly endeavouring in
glance at that which he created in detail, then he becomes
appeared to him much more important and greater than that which
recognise this in the figures of Homer and the great Greek
figments about nature; whereas the age of the great scientific
co-creatures that the connection with such beings got lost to
that they do no longer face. Voltaire was too great to be able
great for that. Hence, we see the longing projecting in
And o'er their breathless bodies chant thy
death of Henry III and Henry IV, he prays to heaven, so that
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture IX: Between Death and Rebirth of the Human Being
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Between Death and Rebirth of the Human Being
Death and Rebirth of the Human Being
death and rebirth, I say in such a way that I tell the suitable
time which has the great discovery of Robert Julius Mayer
century the great discoveries that Darwin made. It has
experienced the great results of natural sciences, for example,
say about the life between death and rebirth of the human being
death, he belongs to a world that is accessible, however, only
enters that world which the human being enters after death. Now
researcher has to say about the life between death and rebirth
it has become free of body after death in natural way. I have
between birth and death. I have to fight beside the generally
death from a certain viewpoint that uses the words
the gate of death, he experiences something in relation to his
life between birth and death in such a way that we have the
most images of an outer reality between birth and death. When
they are in us. After death, the thoughts also break away from
human being has collected in the life between birth and death
death in such a way that we have thereby become just richer in
after death. However, it does not look like fleeting thoughts,
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture X: Homunculus
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of these winter talks repeatedly to the fact that one can
creation, is composed.
spiritual world between death and new birth after every life on
the “spirit” repeatedly, restricts himself to this
also emphasised here repeatedly that it feels in harmony with
has gone through the purely spiritual life between death and a
which prevails between death and a new birth, and that what
the life between birth and death what prevails in us between
birth and death, what is spiritual, but what lifts us from the
death, and causes during the life on earth that the soul
him of his everlasting meaning between birth and death and
he feels “life's pulses beating with fresh
mix different substances and treat them according to the
creation in reality. He stands before the retort and
-creation (conviction) the
super-creation
to that is great where it concerns the passage through the
Let Eros now rule, the creator of
the human being is the highest member of creation because these
— Hamerling created
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture XI: Spiritual Science as a Treasure for Life
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pointed repeatedly to the fact that spiritual research is based
portrayal of the life between death and a new birth, I have
repeatedly to the fact that one has not to be a spiritual
spiritual science. Spiritual science creates cognitive forces
I have repeatedly pointed in other contexts
instincts completely which say to them while eating: now you
how much the piece of meat weighs they eat. I expressed that
knowledge cannot dictate what he has to eat and to drink, how
breathes in the right relation to the outside world, spiritual
like a spiritual-mental heart that breathes in the surroundings
healthy so that it can oppose the inner breathing air what it
believe in this spiritual breathing today. In the future one
breathing. The soul thereby develops human freedom. As the
inhale not only the breathing air vividly, but transforms it
souls. Spiritual-scientific concepts are the heating material
starve. One can expel hunger, without eating really. It is
still today. I have repeatedly pointed in the course of this
to prove that we can show how spiritual science can be creative
relatively big means that were necessary to create this college
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Title: Human History: Lecture I: The Relation of the Human Being to the Supersensible Worlds
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could believe that today a science owes its greatness more to
forward repeatedly if one wants to refute the possibility that
Since phenomena like light, heat, electricity and so on should
repeatedly: for the purposes of modern physics,
been philosophers. Not only students in the sweat of their
life. Still those people who created such systems of thoughts
riddles in the philosophical systems of great thinkers. They
that is, before Socrates where the great thinkers interest us
Even the greatest philosopher — who spins
way: what is apparently so abstract is still the greatest
and which show how the conceptual creating prevails in the
creates thoughts about the world connections but wants to
during the slow, patient progress if he gets on it repeatedly:
If we do this repeatedly in life and
where the great mystics have come. If we look at these mystics,
You find this, for example, repeatedly in such mystic
death and immortality. In the course of the talks we shall
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Title: Human History: Lecture II: Death and Immortality
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Death and Immortality
Death and Immortality
If I speak about death and immortality
position itself to the questions of death and immortality
like fear of death and the like, we have the question of the
remains for the human knowledge regarding death and
death and immortality are disregarded. Since if one takes one
consider issues like death and immortality. There that
Indeed, the questions of death and
persons if it appeared with a great spirit, as for example with
life of the last decades. Concerning the questions of death and
repeatedly, as well as at that time, that it is over now with a
doubt really that one could once create life in the laboratory.
means that the creation not only of subordinated living beings,
death.
between birth or conception and death. Then one speaks of
that what one can observe between birth and death, or what
of one life on earth of the human being, but of repeated lives
gone through death and then through a life between death and
this essence going through death and a supersensible life
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Title: Human History: Lecture IV: From Paracelsus to Goethe
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with mead, nor with wheat bread; but with cheese, milk, and oat
Goethe — “how nature lives in creating.” Since he
source to get such a picture how nature lives in creating, he
debates became heated. There, for example, the others talked in
outdoors in wind and weather, in rising and setting of stars
changes milk and bread into meat and blood. This was to him a
often cheated him out of his fee; then he went on and did not
old features, wrinkles, and baldness and which struggle and
met his death and was carried to his house. Even if that is not
understand his early death completely.
and develops later into the great, also clairvoyant ideas about
of the reappeared Paracelsus lived when he created the Faust
Faust works as a figure of the Goethean creating on us.
and teach me thus to know my fellow creatures
the depths of the creating of nature and world. Thus, we
year of Paracelsus' death is something before that big
worked beyond Paracelsus. Only after his death, the quite
great, superior figure. Goethe created a figure in his
appears in the greatest geniuses, and in the difference between
creating in the Faust figure, because his Faust informs us
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Title: Human History: Lecture VII: The Prophet Elijah
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greatness stick to our hearts as they are described in the
there would be a great significant spirit. This spirit is
work, because they saw how he treated the human beings, because
howsoever the human being may live from day to day beatified,
have anything to eat. They want to eat the last that they still
After the death of the son that means of
face, and refused to eat”
stopped eating! Such things arise only if one can investigate
invited and treated honourably. He could not escape from it. He
picture of Elijah after his death that he had murdered Naboth,
About Jezebel was said: “Jezebel will be eaten by dogs near
through the gate of death work with a particular force from the
spiritual world, Naboth Elijah now worked after his death with
worked on his disciples after his death, after his
after his death on those who could dedicate themselves to him.
Elishah experienced in such a way that his great teacher Elijah
faced him vividly also after death, and said to him: I want to
soul goes through birth and death; it goes from one physical
Jezebel caused Naboth's death. According to that what you read
(1 Kings 19:2). Since according to the Bible she caused the death of
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Title: Human History: Lecture VIII: The Origin of the Human Being
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being had to be repeatedly put.
spirit that saw their greatness to break with all old views of
actions live on. One repeatedly stressd that it is, actually,
saw himself repeatedly forced because of his discoveries to
arbitrary acts of creation that had put the single forms of the
existence for the creation of the human being from a primal
by geology. Natural sciences themselves lead back to creations
conception to death, and of that part, which lasts from death
the life in the sensory world between the last death and the
that what is there creating in the human being what removes
why we see the creative power of the spiritual-mental becoming
way that it created the human figure first, and then it has
being has only become weak in truth with the outer creation,
Now it must interest how compared with this human creation one
the spiritual-mental essence is so strong that you create an
everyday life, in the life between birth and death, so that he
being is also in this respect that being which creates itself
actually creative, and later the material life appears in the
original, the creative, and the sensory is a result. Everywhere
the human being returns after every death to the existence on
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Title: Human History: Lecture X: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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talks one may say that it has, actually, a great idea of the
great secret, at a mystery which just at that time, when Jesus
the Great, otherwise, with historical means. Not only this, but
soul into that which I have repeatedly mentioned already here,
death, but it was able to behold into the spiritual world for a
during the repeated incarnations also from their initiates
ceremonies face us in the Gospels, only applied to the great
recognised that an initiation took place as a great historical
If the twentieth century can take the great
That binds all creatures.
That binds all creatures,
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Title: Human History: Lecture XI: Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science
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a consideration to the necessity to accept repeated lives on
repeatedly to the life on earth and in these lives, the soul is
repeatedly which are not due, indeed, to the present research
the animals? I have repeatedly drawn your attention to the fact
weather, earthquakes, volcano eruptions and other elementary
nature or creation is that what our modern science is often
appear great and full of sap evenly in a certain respect with
existence without applying logic in the great tremendous
great Greek who says there, I prefer to be a beggar on earth
condemned with it to death. The transition of the old culture
leads like every development to its death. If the mere
transformation of the consciousness faces us greatly at a place
developed. The language is a pre-conscious creation of the
Threatened by grief and death's fury,
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Title: Human History: Lecture XII: Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
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that time in the sixteenth century when already after the death
of Copernicus his great work
replaced by Copernicus and his great successors Kepler,
spiritual-mental essence of the human being stop at death, but
and uses the body as tool lives on after death. However, he was
death. It is interesting how Aristoteles imagined the destiny
which it experienced here between birth and death. He lets it
body lives on after death in the spiritual world, but has to
of repeated lives on earth. That is why he could not show how
the soul appears after death in a new human body again and uses
death. Only that way Aristotle could become the founder of the
repeated lives on earth and the life in a spiritual world for
to the bodily, although he had lost the view of the repeated
the destiny of the soul after death out of a deep penetration
someone who is even greater than Copernicus is although he did
fifteenth, sixteenth centuries when the greatness of the old
greatly with the forces of the strong human personality. If we
da Vinci is a person who created this completely from the
records have a great effect on us if we study them. He is the
greatest representative of the time that developed to the
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Title: Human History: Lecture XIV: The Self-Education of the Human Being
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that he takes it as an ideal from the great impulses of world
talks repeatedly: the insight into the repeated lives on earth
and death learns to recognise by spiritual science that he may
body and lives not only between birth and death, but goes
through many births and deaths and appears
repeatedly.
that it creates his personality first, becomes effective in it.
heat. The other is more widespread that one recommends
weather, against it to expose oneself to aerial and solar
exposes himself to solar heat so and so long what may be quite
education, or that he does cures with cold water repeatedly.
cold, or to walk once in the boiling solar heat about a quite
be treated rather leniently. Carneri tells an interesting case
present views that he had to pummel his people repeatedly. This
stock of perceptions, while we peruse it repeatedly, look back
to put it repeatedly before us. In particular, it is important
ideas of the repeated lives on earth and of karma in your life
especially complacent if he stresses repeatedly that nothing
always new life will defeat the old death. — The soul can
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Title: Human History: Lecture XVI: Darwin and the Supersensible Research
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death, one would like to say is symbolically typical for the
everything great, immense, elementary and continuing to have an
were reflected in a great, ingenious man who felt the urge to
sensory facts and the treatment of these outer sensory facts by
everywhere from the lowest creatures to the highest ones and
spiritual sense as Goethe did it, that the creative, prevailing
great connections were explaind between the organs of the
events in the time between birth and death. Entering the
self-knowledge, the human being gets to know the creative being
without going through the gate of death that a spiritual world
spiritual world to create a new life and a new earthly
creations.
correctly what was created on basis of Darwinism if one beholds
the creative human spirit in all details which are brought to
it has got its conscious, historical creating. Thus, something
great has been prepared that one only misunderstands, as if it
creative divine spirit pursued on its way to humanity. With it,
repeatedly, so that the pessimistic idea changes into the
corpse at death —
to new creations, to create a new existence
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture I: Spirit and Matter, Life and Death
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spiritual-scientifically with spirit and matter, life and death
what belongs certainly to that from which already the great
situation with the riddle of matter. I have repeatedly drawn
sight.” He pointed repeatedly to the fact that everything
the life between birth and death. The soul could not perceive
the world void of figures threatens me. It whispers to me like
“Beneath it a bottomless abyss yawns, a nightmarish
creative power, that it penetrates the world, that it is not
equal but compare it with the dream. Above all the great German
which his life between birth and death must take place. On the
death.” One recognises that death is not only the unique
life, but death is also that which is perpetually working in
combated. Just while death is working from birth or from
over and over again, life and death work in the human being
process at death if consciousness should develop. — Thus,
co-operation of death. Death is the basis from which the
life, it must be active in life together with death.
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture II: Destiny and Soul
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Spirit and Matter, Life and Death
solution. Thus, he wrote an interesting treatise about the
his thinking says in this treatise that one should take his
repeating such exercises, you separate this complex of thoughts
forces in the life between birth and death. I call it in such a
that accompanies the human being from birth up to death, that
birth and death. Now the soul can imagine the independent
repeated lives on earth, and thus he experiences a time, which
passes between death and a new birth. In this time that usually
death the soul lives in a purely spiritual world; but in this
for which the forces develop between death and a new birth.
with a spiritual reality and not with a creation of your fancy.
in the purely spiritual world between death and a new birth.
repeatedly that this thought is not very realistic and logical.
That works on and is carried through the gate of death, which
between death and a new birth preparing a new life on earth.
carried through the gate of death. I can compare this way to
in our souls in our sub-consciousness through the gate of death
human being lives between death and a new birth and enters
repeatedly that the objection cannot be accepted: I do not
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture III: Immortality, the Forces of Destiny, and the Course of Life
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However, at last you wake from this amazement repeatedly with
repeat it from another viewpoint.
personal, but in that which is beneath your conscious personal.
treatment of our soul life the unconscious can emerge in the
himself in such a way, he has created the best ground as a
out repeatedly that just astronomy attained its big progress by
to death, as if it goes along. However, spiritual science shows
from birth to death. Therefore, the matter is different:
up to death, while the experiences are reflected to that what
between birth and death. But the true soul being does not
these bodily tools are cast off at death, the form of thinking,
being at death, then that which never has left the spiritual
world will also walk through the gate of death. This has not
repeat this once again from a certain viewpoint, so that I can
another outer means shows just that he is completely permeated
which we experience in the life between birth and death is
carried over to the soul which goes through birth and death to
repeated lives on earth. Thus, this soul is carried through
repeated lives on earth by performances, by forces, by effects
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture IV: Human Soul and Human Body Considered Scientifically and Spiritual-Scientifically
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Spirit and Matter, Life and Death
phenomena do not know what to make of the great admirable
the bridge to the soul phenomena from the great results of
can always say, it is admirable and great. Important works
connected with breathing. However, just in such a way as we
that is a creation of the human soul life. The head it becomes,
spiritual researcher this miraculous creation of the human
and the nervous mechanism, as between breathing and the
carries over then through death for the further postmortal life
understand the big questions of immortality, of death, of
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture V: The Riddles of Soul and World in the German Cultural Life
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Spirit and Matter, Life and Death
that which I have also treated in the first talks of this
mental pictures or concepts repeatedly what, actually, matter
outer material creation of the human body, he resembles someone
the great philosophical idealists, like Fichte, Schelling, and
great genii as the idealists were. We find this ether concept
son and a disciple of the great Johann Gottlieb Fichte. He said
death. Since Fichte says in his Anthropology:
this death process. He remains after the last, visible act of
returns to the invisible world only at death, or rather,
of visibility. 'Death' signifies only to be no longer
Thus, the publisher of that treatise about immortality could
body which is released to the spiritual world at death.
that take place from birth or conception to death. On this way,
does not become aware of itself how it creates and works, while
births and deaths.
the effort of any outer force to keep the same heating
to this last excrement of creation as which our earth would
that the instincts are hereditary. We eat, drink, and travel
in their field very much. This naturalist has great merits in
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VI: Life, Death, and Immortality in the Universe
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Life, Death, and Immortality in the Universe
because I suppose that the human beings have frozen to death
repeatedly, but then you also observe how this mental picture
death. This observation of the soul happens with the same
calculates the laws of metabolism beyond the bodily death,
in it for future world creations that I cannot describe now.
has gone through death in such a way that it has been merged
dealt for some centuries up to now repeatedly with thinking
Among those books which made a great stir apart from the war
spiritual world. The death of the son still pulled its weight
way that Myers saves him from death in action; after his death
Death and Life, 1916).
made one after the other. With great exactness, this medium
the aberrations to which even great thinkers are exposed who
of a great spirit man who died early: Novalis (pseudonym of
about life, death and immortality in the universe one will get
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VII: The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul
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belongs to the merits of Hartmann that he stressed repeatedly:
scientific writings as one of the greatest actions of modern
his considerations of natural phenomena. He gave a great
world and develops between death and a new birth, which becomes
others as great philosophers. Therefore, one can state that
existence at birth, works in the body, and leaves it at death,
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture I: The Nature of Spiritual Science and Its Significance for the Present
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existence, the relation of life and death, of sleeping and
life turning our look to the great individualities of the human
philosopher should be great who speaks such nonsense:
greater spirits did not yet feel the need of speaking of
great individualities have the greatest say for humanity, in
itself clearly, if we look at the greater individualities.
Wieland's death (Christoph W., 1733-1813, poet and writer).
which goes beyond birth and death of the human being that is
immediate occasion of the death of Wieland, very respected by
the personal continuation of our soul after death, it is like
great action of Kant, to the foundations of the mechanical
speaks about the great secrets of the human soul, about the
must consider that after Goethe's death the big discoveries of
spiritual-mental nature of the human being repeatedly
and death?
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture V: The Nature of Sleep
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spoke of the sleep as “the brother of death.” We
consideration of death in certain respects.
touched repeatedly in the last talks concerning other fields
We have indicated this for the death, for the entire spiritual
that he creates order in his whole image life from his
He could create a certain mobility without using the too
and created figures from oneself without being bound to a
Latin suddenly at his hour of death, a language that he had
Indeed, we can also impair the reflection. If we breathe on the
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VII: How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Spiritual World?
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which are great and can fulfil the human heart with warmth; but
spiritual worlds that produces what the human beings create to
greatest spirits of our time, a feeling, which I want to
what the human being creates in his imagination. Many a person
the right to create pictures of that from unaware, dreaming
maintains the border of both activities sharply. The great
piece compared with this last excrement of creation as which
what they should eat and drink or should not eat and not drink,
spiritual world must get clear about it above all repeatedly,
the influence of their great teacher Pythagoras about the
of that which presses down him beneath himself, but raises him
prepare their souls to be able to look back at repeated
distinguished spiritual creations, the things of art and
with all sensations of the greatness of this fact. If the human
it to appear before the soul repeatedly.
repeatedly that the human being can attain the training of the
ascending through the gate of death to the spiritual world.
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VIII: Predisposition, Talent and Education of the Human Being
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and death, but of which we assume as existing in repeated lives
life, and to look at the real builder, the real creator in the
being has learnt ballads or other poetries of great heroes with
consciously in our soul life what creates, however, and forms
subconsciousness becomes creative in our soul. We are what the
death. Since he finds a certain organisation every time if he
creative in our soul must attack that. Assuming that by that
organisation. When we go through the time between death and a
death, there we build plastically with that what we have
birth and death. Hence, we can say, what works on forgotten
mental pictures during the life between birth and death only in
our soul, this works if we walk through the gate of death, up
to the time of reincarnation in the creation of our next
birth and death.
is to be solved, and that it is down to us to create the
goosequills. Because everybody trimmed his feather himself, it
educational instinct of humanity has already created a
possibility to observe certain great principles.
spiritual-mental essence of the human being uses the features,
sons to face death with heroic greatness for what she believes
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XIV: Moses
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the present only if we look back at those great spiritual men
linked to the other great men. This makes it easy, on one side,
has to stress repeatedly that — even if we consider the
condition. Thus, we have characterised a feature of history if
development repeatedly to fertilise it. What existed as the
repeatedly if we go through the evolution of humanity. They
What Moses should experience now as a pupil of this great
centuries which should create the basis of the intellectual
radically from it, we are allowed to clarify a feature of the
their seats, the animals are aroused. Thus, we consider the
weather for hours. Imagine that because of their clairvoyance
weather could be forecast, but it had a feeling, was determined
should be the source of your life treats you in such a way,
curse Him. Then indeed, it is certain that death is the result
greatest spirits and events of the development of world and
the consideration of the greatest human beings and events:
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XV: What Has Astronomy to Say about the Origin of the World?
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outer consideration repeatedly to reach for concepts that can
remains to us in the effects of heat et cetera even if we want
comprehensible that this has a beatific effect on our inside.
way at first. For if we believe that light, sound and heat are
same character; however, Schramm treated the thing first. Thus,
a great ideal before the thinkers of the nineteenth century.
of the more precise investigation of the conditions of heat
nineteenth century ingeniously: the fact that heat can be
pressure changes into heat. If we heat a steam engine, the heat
changes into the locomotive forces of the machine. As heat
changes into motion or compressive force into heat, the other
system. Heat is transformed into locomotive force et cetra that
to astronomy to something that we discussed repeatedly in these
that we can transform, for example, heat into work or if we
have done any work this into heat. However, that is right with
heat can be transformed into mechanical work, into kinetic
energy and kinetic energy again into heat — we must say
on the other side that if one wants to transform heat back into
movement by heat, but we cannot at all transform all heat into
kinetic energy. Some heat gets always lost, so that we always
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture I: Haeckel, the Riddles of the World and Theosophy
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representation and thinking lives. He has in a great measure
worldviews. However, a peculiar breath of wind still blows
Haeckel himself told repeatedly how through the mind of his
great teacher, the unforgettable naturalist Johannes
Müller (1801-1851), this peculiar breath blew. When
any research, feelings and emotions play a great role in the
heat and Darwin's evolution theory falls in this period of
descendants of a prototype to which the Creator breathed life.
before his death: we recognise a sequence of life in nature,
his popular book The History of Creation. One can learn
art-historical treatise. Everything that has been created in
death what the idealistic art historians tell us, we must fight
is effective with the creation of the forms where apparently
We have every reason to show which great things were performed
nothing about that — organs, spiritual eyes are created,
natural creation” have seen what is stated in it as facts
if we go through these rows of seats, through everything that
mammals, with the great apes. However, one cannot speak about a
became degenerate, and forms the present great apes. These
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture II: Our International Situation. War, Peace and Spiritual Science
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directly today, in which way one treats the current events, and
or to be addicted to authorities. I said that repeatedly from
national well-being, work and capital are headed off in great
requires, the reason, even the heart creates a mask with its
question repeatedly, if you see lighting up principles or
again. Thus, we have great theories within our economics,
talk that is of great importance for those who are thoroughly
those who deal with such matters seriously a quite new feature
was a completely different matter when Alexander the Great
the single animal species, the great group souls guide and
the great previous development of Christianity that it
This is the great achievement of our soul which we obtain from
the common breath of this uniform soul. Not the present human
the physical science of the West to a great harmony. Then we
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture III: Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Soul and Spirit of the Human Being
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like by a great spiritual guide of humanity, to such eternal
great guides of humanity who have spoken to us about the soul
you how the great seers of humanity spoke of soul, body, and
so to speak, completely in the soul. It does not create
spiritual world to his soul. This is a great moment in the
is enclosed between birth and death.
that of the soul which is not enclosed between birth and death.
within this life between birth and death. There you learn to
of the human being is handed over to the earth at death.
extends beyond the borders of birth and death. However, what
environment. This is the great knowledge of wisdom that the
universal brotherhood permeates his heart. And then, and only
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VI: The Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Human Races
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to an area repeatedly. This is the area in the south of Asia,
The independence of the Atlantean was also not as great as that
Lemurian was a dependent creature in the hands of higher
matter. The passion did not create this matter, but the former
passions created the forms of the physiognomy. Thus, the human
physical matter is created on the other side, which is the tool
of intelligence. With the creation of the brain, a compression
develop the logical thinking, to create tools for the work on
you pale-faces, you do not understand what the Great Spirit
tribe. — This was a great speech. The Great Spirit was a
the great thought structures, then in the marvellous science,
— This is self-knowledge! The great saying in the temple
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VII: The Core of Wisdom in the Religions
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reads Haeckel's Natural Creation History may possibly
Creation History by Haeckel or from popular representations
Natural Creation History the field of the sensuous facts
differently towards the representation of a natural creation
history and the representation of a supersensible creation
and taste, seize objects, feel heat, cold, and so on,
humanity,” or the “great White Lodge,” it is
each of the great religions goes back to that which was
were great, excellent individualities who experienced the
from which central site the great sages came who went to the
south and the west, and brought the great messages to humanity.
the great founders of a religion who brought the first messages
came out of it, the great teacher of the Greek people. That man
perception. This force produces form by form repeatedly up to
every breath, which is the symbol of the loftiest developing
developmental stage of the intellectual and rational ideation,
This is the great sense of the human development. Since the
else than the means, than the ways taught by the great sages to
received the instructions of the holy Rishis, great initiates
original old teachings, shows us how great and stupendous and,
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VIII: Fraternity and the Struggle for Existence
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fraternity, represents a great ideal penetrating humanity, and
important ideal. It has indicated that way that this great
great critic more than the little one. — We can find this
other side, we hear repeatedly emphasised that the human being
being has to fight that has made him great and strong? In my
existence achieved great things in the evolution of humanity,
In a great measure, there was a common property of land. A
and I repeat once again, I do not speak of anything figurative
This is the great thing of the spiritual-scientific movement
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture IX: Inner Development
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repeatedly, where from does the knowledge of the supersensible
that this cannot be different, that just the great advantages
loneliness which the yogi must search for. He has to repeat the
repeatedly: on the other hand, how useful are these teachings
practicing these qualities repeatedly. They are a necessary
great teachings and so on.
words: “a servant is not greater than his master, nor a
teeth of the dead dog. This direction leads to great tolerance
life of the physical body proceeds. The heart beats
rhythmically, the lung breathes rhythmically and so on.
marvellous organ with the regular beat and its implanted
means to control the desire of eating and to eliminate the
astral body concerning the desire of eating. He who fasts
produce a kind of calm, so that the great esoteric master can
world, which he enters when he walks through the gate of death.
attain the great aim, which should be attained, namely the
undeveloped brain may sometimes conceal great spiritual
that the great day when the soul awakes and enters the higher
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture X: Christmas as Symbol of the Sun's Victory
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theosophists this way — who once used these great
saying by Goethe, which the great poet spoke when he entered
creates forever new figures; what is there was never, what was
and teach me thus to know my fellow creatures
empathy with nature and the universe were created, which we
recognise as the great festivals from the spiritual-scientific
announcement, the symbol of the big creative word that lives in
was the intention when the great festivals were established.
the great basic idea of Christmas as a universal festival, a
commemoration of a great event which had taken place once on
midnight and tried to reveal a great mystery to them and spoke
earth. There the sun celebrated the great victory over the
soul. Then a moment came in this prehistoric time, a great
the higher human soul. Spiritual science calls this great
important of their earthly existence. This great moment was
admire the big rhythm and feel the great, infinite wisdom that
breath pass yourselves by, and compare it to the irregularity
rhythmical, harmonious heartbeat. Thus, it is with the entire
great ideal for that who should be the leader of the remaining
them that sun myths about the lives of all great religious
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XI: The Christian Teachings of Wisdom
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Great, astute spirits never doubted that the human mind is able
the fact that our great German poet and thinker, Lessing
remind you that another great German thinker whom, admittedly,
great German philosopher Hegel (Georg Friedrich Wilhelm H.,
the core of wisdom in all great religions. Just concerning the
said repeatedly, anthroposophy wants to transplant some Eastern
by which the whole culture of Europe was created and from which
himself, and if Christianity has to perform anything great for
being. I do not have the time today to explain these great
you must not misunderstand this. Great Christian authors
humanity together. Only the great masters were beyond the
produce his food and create the conditions of existence with
to the law, which the intellect created. The instincts of the
the instincts in the mutual action where he wanted to create
great persons, these personalities who have arrived at a stage
abilities slumbering in the matter, the great spiritual culture
build houses, to create mechanical civilisation, the great
That that which happens between birth and death is only one
That an essence outreaches birth and death
comprehensive than all sensuous and is the creator of the form
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XII: Reincarnation and Karma
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carry on between birth and death. He may be born into a family
that we can say, he accomplishes something great and
impartially. The great worldviews and their preachers always
questions: the idea of reincarnation or of the repeated earth
passed the gate of death, when we are on the other side.
more the soul creates in the body from inside and transforms
it. How could one explain the face of a great thinker, of a
great world benefactor by inheritance who works from his inside
is only the idea of development, the idea of repeated
already existed, was already repeatedly in a body. There you
cannibal: you are not allowed to eat a human being, because it
why? Where from can you know this without having eaten him? If
we have eaten him, we know whether he was good or bad. —
say that he goes through many lives, through repeated lives.
nature — when he walks through the gate of death —
repeatedly through the grain to come to a new life.
which creates — which does not create a human being, but
wisdom there. The universe is created by the same wisdom by
where we see it with the modern human being, up to the great
can completely get to know the passage through the repeated
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIII: Lucifer
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For what he builds what he creates,
only need to remind of the name of the great genius Goethe to
created from nothing, but he originated from former
merely receive from the creative powers like today, but he is
then a creative, a spiritualised and deified being.
creative gods. I know how ambiguous such things are, even if
developed, the human being is a creature among them; they
created Adam and Eva, fated to be led by the divine powers to
As the Jehovah principle created human communities based on
universal power —, always creates the good — to
be remelted. As by Christ's death the love of the sensuous
wisdom of his heart in the future and attains an even greater
and if a single — Christ — accomplishes the death
of redemption, this death of redemption is for the whole
death of redemption, indeed, I died once for the whole humanity
to bring humanity the certainty that death can be defeated by
life, but this death must be reborn in the soul of the single
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIV: The Children of Lucifer
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of Lucifer shows us that the living creating of the artist
this book a spirit breathes, which differs from that which we
death. One cannot express that more appropriately than he did
if one looks into the psychology of Schuré's creating.
creating and — on the other side — into the mind of
creating later, on which the gods are today. — The Greek
Lucifer is something that is created not only out of the
it is created almost out of the spirit of the next human
third of the 19th century a breath was to be felt that
breath of the divine, and that the human being then feels at
that an image was created, a quiet, dreamlike image of the
created afterward as an image of the Dionysian art. It is the
Richard Wagner's art, Nietzsche saw a renewal of that great art
idée (1875), Schuré also created out of this
the musical drama greatly; for Marguerita Albana had introduced
original drama with great ingenuity. What was now the
creates with his thoughts today, and as he puts his thoughts
mechanic is in the machine, the thoughts of a creator, of a god
death of the godhead and the grave of the godhead in the
it? It was shown in the mysteries as the creator of that in the
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XV: Germanic and Indian Secret Doctrines
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cover is as it were the sheath or the tool of the human being
immediately after death, he has to purify himself for a number
repeated earth-lives. His immortal essence can deify itself
repeatedly. Thus, the human being returns to the physical world
returns again to the spiritual world and so on. These repeated
If a human being, after he has gone through repeated
death. All religious cultures preserve this as a secret that
human being can already cross the gate of death in this life
from wind and weather, from flash, thunder, sunshine, and rain.
cultures. What I have shown in great thoughts and outlines as
always attributed this to the great initiates. Thus, an
great initiate just now in the sense of the secret doctrine, a
did Wotan become the great teacher of the prehistoric times?
the lower human nature, which causes birth and death. Hence,
ability of brahma is the creative knowledge, called vidya.
He had creative knowledge first. Such a creative knowledge,
it. But he has to develop again back to vidya, to the creative
to the creative knowledge. A science of knowledge, a higher
mythology gives us a great and fine answer. The higher
warlike people, the passage through the gate of death and the
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVI: German Theosophists at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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almost any academic circle treat such a movement like our
Hegel's great life of thought among our philosophers. The
great German thinkers really if the university circles, the
repeatedly denied that Buddhism contains a secret doctrine that
connection with the great German thinker Johann Gottlieb Fichte
great spirits developed from the Enlightenment. One only needs
great lines of thought something that one can obtain among the
who say, what did Kant different from all those great spirits
reads: “I had to override knowledge to create space for
that mean: “I had to override knowledge to create space
great thinker, Johann Gottlieb Fichte. An Indian says this who
makes the discovery that Fichte achieved something great,
according to his great conceptual demands; they would have come
great difference whether one says that it is a conglomerate of
that lost at death forever? No, this does not get lost.
has often said, the great human beings have the big mistakes of
finds it there carries it in a healthy way through the repeated
great human beings and shows that we can learn from them even
great soul achieved.
geologic layers of the rocks and minerals by great geologists
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVII: Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods
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German people like Goethe, ascribed the greatest importance to
centuries were only later creations of a much older folk
basis of the great renewal of art by the poet musician Richard
something great in our time of materialistic thinking to accept
symbolic suggestions of great inner human truth in the myth. It
of another. That becomes fatal and leads to his death. You know
has been created has been acquired. It comes about by the fact
divine, creative forces. Such an initiate must have overcome
and after death.
straw death and had to descend to the region of Hel where the
of death.
dangerous. The initiate who has defeated the dragon can unite
invulnerable where Siegfried was still vulnerable. The great
the “unaware” creating of the artist. This is no
shadowy images, the artist works in the creating. It is more a
calls this living in imagination and creating
basis. What is art with its creative forming, through which a
was a great epoch when the last echo of that old time was got
art have a prophetic significance. They are a great, eminent
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVIII: Parzival and Lohengrin
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core, about the spiritual contents of those great legends in
found Siegfried as such a great initiate of the Teutons.
resting like a breath on these old times, and just the
ideal. Something great was said with it. The Lohengrin and the
Middle Ages had their great ideas in the same time in which
Silesius, the great Christian mystic, later expressed with the
the secret doctrine, one knows that the great leaders of
consciousness regards him as the great initiate leader who
it. All great proceedings of humanity are shown in this way.
her and becomes her husband. It is with all great masters that
that time, he realised the whole greatness of the figure of
Wagner appropriately shows the greatness that is in it. The
the great legends of the Middle Ages. This lived in Richard
else than pictures and expressions of great truth. The pictures
tribes and peoples that can grasp the great truth only in
not only that is true which Schopenhauer says that the great
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIX: The Easter Festival
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great festivals are connected with characteristic phenomena in
rightly calls Brahman the great master builder of the world,
beverages, and meat. Thus, they prepare themselves to get an
shorter and that from Christmas on the sun emits bigger heat
Christian meaning of the resurrection after death. The
death. The awakening of Vishnu takes place in the time when the
human being are, what permeates his soul anyhow, we recognise
creation. Aeons had to precede until the universal wisdom was
great thought of the universal spirit that has built up the
he has created in nature to form the crown of all this
creating, the human body. In this human body, the universal
wisdom outdoors, universal wisdom inside, creating in the
present like in the past, creating in the future, which we can
condition about already before death which one calls the
passage through the gate of death. He encloses those
such symbols that remind of death and of resurrection. The
idea as something great. He was in the Villa Wesendonck at the
sacrificial death has an effect on the karma of the whole
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XX: Inner Development
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have talked repeatedly about the phenomena of the higher
fellow man a treat, to what end does he need to look for higher
death. With the birth of the human being, a whole sum of
animal creature, but the higher he develops, the more he also
birth and death, but only if one recognises the forces that
and in all external creatures, facts, and processes. If anybody
Haeckel is a great naturalist, it must be clear to everybody
human being wants to develop higher, his breathing has to
strictly prescribed way, he has to inhale, to hold his breath,
and to exhale. If the human being regulates his breathing from
the spirit, he spiritualises his breath, his life air. With it,
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XXI: Paracelsus
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look around among the great spirits who preceded us. However,
classes only had the greatest say concerning the spiritual life
time. Such a great insight, as he had it, his reasonable nature
feeling for nature. He emphasises repeatedly that those people
bred with figs, nor with mead, nor with wheat bread, but with
whole world: “This is something great you should
greater and nobler sense of the origin of the physical human
also repeatedly, but for him the human being is a confluence of
one does not know that the great Paracelsus cannot be pleased
with Paracelsus: it depends on the great, on the comprehensive
precursors of this great astronomical-astrological medicine,
judge you more after my death than before, and even if you eat
my body, you have only eaten filth: the Theophrastus will
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XXII: Jacob Boehme
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About 1600, when Giordano Bruno died a martyr's death, Jacob
Boehme's soul was penetrated by great, immense ideas for the
Jacob Boehme was one of the greatest magicians of all times, of
a greatness that has not yet been reached up to now.
something great! — Jacob Boehme knew that these words
the world and its creation, “because I was not present
that goes back to the beginning of the creation of the human
misunderstood word. At that time, there were also great spirits
things. From the tinctura, Jacob Boehme derives the creation of
Boehme imagines the great master builder of the world as an
the connection between the sensuous-physical and the creator of
creatively and gains influence on that which lives as tinctura
allowed to call him the greatest magician of the new time.
Jacob Boehme calls imagination the great virgin of nature, the
virgin wisdom. Now, he goes back to the creation of Adam and
change took place in the world creation. He places this change
on the fourth day of creation. He did not see this original
creation was originally all around. The primeval man beheld
other great spirits of the 19th century. Only when materialism
comes then, when one understands such great spiritual deeds
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture I: The Mission of Occult Science in Our Time
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out from such great discoveries of single researchers as those
recognise nature in her creating, when the wholly sensuous
of the human being between death and new birth has to believe
harmony is created in the development of the initiatory and
death and new birth, of the development of the human being
human being and the world, of birth and death; we do not search
arteriosclerosis was treated and the symptoms were given with
tight on to the outer existence only. Occult science creates
sentence that a great friend and researcher of truth
was a great researcher and a great painter and artist and knew
despicable that if it tells great things about God it robs His
pictures. Someone who surveys the great cultural creation of
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture II: Natural Science Facing a Crucial Decision
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repeatedly: the natural sciences stand on the ground of facts,
Germany, one had a great, idealistic-philosophical spiritual
of heat controlled everything. The big discoveries in the field
other and rebound and thereby produce the phenomena of heat.
What was there heat? Nothing but a result of that which exists
bodies accomplish, and the degree of heat depends on the power
nothing was in the outside world for the theory of heat
materially. Not only the warmth or heat, everything was
teachings of the great German philosopher Leibniz (Gottfried
Büchner emphasised the sentence repeatedly: the motion of
could have performed great things for spiritual science with
facts, which show that one can treat lifeless substance with
living crystals: by their forms, they create the impression to
(Henri Antoine B., 1852–1908), the great physicist, discovered
bookstore, you can buy treatises about that today. However,
scientist stresses repeatedly: if you combine the materials
that you have separated as copper and chlorine again, then heat
must originate. If these two substances combine, heat is
spread. The fact that heat appears there is something real and
to separate both again, one must add heat again. We perceive
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture III: The Knowledge of Soul and Spirit
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and to end if death occurs? Does it only take share in the life
but also a great thinker: “Never search anything behind
our retina, which impregnate it and create the mental picture
permanent struggle takes place in it. At the moment of death
the earth creation, that what we call “I” or ego.
or the spirit man; atman means breathing (German atmen).
between birth and death and a life in the spiritual between
death and a new birth, until he prepares himself for a new
destiny after death. The human heart has these questions
obstacle for the pure, purified life in spirit between death
only from the body — by death — but from the longing for the
consider everything in great enclosing pictures which are the
spirit that both work creatively in the body. Schiller
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture IV: Initiation
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Goethe repeatedly pronounced and emphasised in the most various,
From the force that binds all creatures
eye is created “by the light for the light.” The
the dictum of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the great thinker, we
which the rays of world creation and world principles go out.
the world around himself by his senses, he creates mental
did the great Plato write above his school? He wrote that
is a wonderful great achievement of the spiritual life of
created a spiritual biology there. It enables us to create in
the creating force in all plants. The archetypical animal was
the creative in any animal to him.
creatures in such a way that one cannot see their coherence.
with my eyes. In the plant is the force creating life. Because
was possible that in his mind that was awoken which creates in
plants have been created. We regard ourselves in this way as
misunderstood me.” Hegel tried to create concepts free
Reclam's Universal Library in which he gives a great survey of
mathematics free from sensuousness and create as one can do it
life after death, the development of the human races and
those to be initiated. The pupil creates a figurative notion of
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VI: The So-Called Dangers of Initiation
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emphasised repeatedly that a spiritual world underlies our
risk. There is the risk for the great majority at most that it
civilisation into the cheerful and beatific air of occult
human being wants to get knowledge of the great and beatific of
to say, when the human being sees that gate of death, he also
human beings attract forces by fear of death. The bigger the
fear of death, the stronger is their power. The fear of death
strong and knows that he cannot change the event of death by
the fear of death.
able to overcome the fear of death and to face death
in his inside for which death is only a change of the way of
fear of death. However, the more materialistic the human being
becomes, the more he is frightened at death. No occult science
beatitudes behind the scenery of life without showing the
externally say repeatedly that the first demand is to become
From the force that binds all creatures
and treat it affectionately, but with it, nothing is done. Not
before you give wood to the stove, it heats. Thus, it is also
the world. The right thing is to heat, to give the human being
heating material; and the heating material is the
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VII: Man, Woman and Child
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creatures is as follows: all that interests us in the animal is
centuries ago, one still believed in procreation, for example,
Death and love are tied
together with certain creatures. Some animals die after the
crown of creation. That personality felt the depth of the word
enclosed only in a kind of motherly sheath up to the second
too. The human being are brought together to procreate the
as he has learnt this with himself. The child is the greatest
spiritual beings create constructing the universe for ages and
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VIII: The Soul of the Animal in the Light of Spiritual Science
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knowledge of those creatures must be that are the next on the
feature developed in detail. If he looks at himself, he finds,
these creatures related to them. We realise how the one wants
less materialistically, could not make the distance great
something for their hill and carrying to it repeatedly, also
repeatedly to the place, which it has kept in mind.
cocoons itself as a chrysalis and is treated then in a certain
we see them plunging into it repeatedly.
repeatedly which the drones and the queen do not have. The
the qualities repeatedly which the queen does not have. Thus,
last talk when we considered the view of repeated incarnations
animal. I repeat briefly: the entire animal species arouses the
father, son, grandson, great-grandchild of a lion has so much
certain specific features are always there. A quill also has
specific features by which one can distinguish it from other
this as a self-contained creature as you find the human soul in
its death. In the single case, this leads to death, however, on
animal creation is a one-sided representation of the divine
in the biggest variety the divine creating is active; then we
prototype secretly. The prototype that was already created in
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XI: Occupation and Earnings
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great ideas has something marvellous. For others both things
also to create the method, the conditions which make a real
human thinking, human mental work created in the course of the
anyhow by that which has been created for humanity this
create such a social structure which is in any harmony with
that which the human mental power has created in the fields of
he came to a hut and got something to eat, one said to him, he
“Desire and love are the wings of great actions.”
Really, desire and love are the wings of great actions! They
working miner with an artist who creates his works to the
and love are the wings of great actions,” and try to
the product they created. Try to imagine the medieval cities.
look in the workshops where these things were created. Imagine
created.
repeatedly.
occupation and earnings in all variations repeatedly. If
treatment, nevertheless, one would like to ask, is it not more
colony. He attained something great with it. He made the matter
have created the conditions and then brought misery in these
the big, immense world connections can create no institutions
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being with the physical life appear repeatedly. If we find such
decreased heat emission of the sun, which causes big changes
feel if we see how one of the greatest scholars and such a
concerning this doctrine, but he treats it as something that
working from star to star. The great initiates taught not
centre of creation.
main features remained the same. The great discovery by
being does not yet appear as an independent being. The creative
nebulae and suns! Is nature only great, because she gives you
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Speaking about the great ideals and about the determination of
reveal the earthly past with great, enclosing astuteness. They
bottom have come with the faults at the top. A great astuteness
thankfully as a great achievement for humanity what the
seat in space for millions of years. He would see the surface
conditions of cold and heat changing, the various classes and
sciences and spiritual science now? One says repeatedly from
being, as a crown of the creation on earth, does not have in
lump of water. You would treat this lump of water artificially
creatures developed, up to the today's human being who is in
latest one of the creatures; spiritually he is the first-born;
question, which they put repeatedly and which is so intimately
see the physical creation of my thoughts bustling about in the
will have later to the creation of its equals: it is the word.
the human being, the creators who started their earth's
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XIV: The Hell
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human being repeatedly faces the intimate relationship between
For what he builds, what he creates,
power is victorious, we have one of the great pictures before
are condemned who did not die an honourable death in the
honourable death. It is strange that the realm and the forces
personality who represents the force of death, of
depths of the world existence. How magnificently and greatly
yet passed — a great scientist played, the Italian naturalist
repeatedly to the way in which the qualities sum up in the
which our spiritual-mental arises repeatedly. We speak in the
spiritual research of repeated earth-lives, while we say that
become mathematicians repeatedly, it is
gate of death. There we must not only consider death, but
alternating states of life and death.
In the bed lies the physical body that is handed over at death
up and down during the day like heat and cold, smell and taste,
imagine the moment of death now. We can do this, using what
demonstrate the way of the human being through death. At death,
between birth and death in special cases. During the whole
at death, it separates from it, and thereby the physical body
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enlightenment, a man whose works made a great stir within the
abstruse to disparage the great service even in the slightest
about Life and Death
Life and Death
feelings that, nevertheless, it is much nicer, greater and more
which the human being has created is connected with his
Is nature only great, because she gives you something to count?
fights a battle against their self-created windmills like Don
all that repeatedly because just the object of our today's
to speak of repeated earth-lives that the human being enters
the physical existence repeatedly in the course of evolution.
physical existence and leaving it at death again is in the
interim, between death and new birth, in a spiritual,
only to visualise repeatedly what it means to perceive this
eternity live in his soul repeatedly, then they are effective
life, in a world in which the thought itself is creative. That
them; we see the light working creatively on the plants. The
something that flows through the space creatively that is much
that is animated by creative forces as the physical plant is
is a creative force for a higher kind of elements which
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Title: Concerning the Nature of Pain, Suffering, Joy, and Bliss
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external physical world The finger is permeated with the etheric and
thus preventing the finger's decay. The etheric body permeates the whole
If a person treats his body
demands on the etheric body, and then another man who likes to eat as
ideas grow, there is a great amount of suppressed activity in us. But

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 1
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that exists beyond birth and death. Few people are aware of it, but
“Man, in fact all living creatures, is subject to pain. However,
upon as great figures will appear rather puny and others, quite different
figures, which are now forgotten will emerge as the great ones.”
just as our individual bodies are permeated by soul and spirit, so does
soul and spirit permeate the whole cosmos. Soul and spirit live all
protect his thoughts—what I am now saying is of the greatest importance
last third of the 19th Century produced a great number of highly significant
thus enabling our thinking to become creative. That is why in the course
or history. It becomes alive and creative when it is receptive to what
of a genius happen to be of a mechanical nature he meets great admiration.
independent of man. They do this even when man has created the events
is not great enough to realize their implications. Take the following
took place as feelings in Russia were running high, threatening already
has such excellent concentration is because he simply repeats what others
mechanical way. Thinking must become creative, it must become saturated
is of great importance. What lives there is bad conscience which they
creative thinking. Creative thinking is only attained when man is inspired
it, there is no great difference in their physiognomy. That is to express

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before, is deemed one of the greatest authorities in his branch of science.
merely through certain distinguishing features and through his cultural
animals eat and digest, how they gradually develop, how the individual
within the greater body of the State. We then, according to Verworn,
we try to think of the political State (as he calls it) as a great organism.”
as a basic feature of the animal organism, but his view of development
of great and reliable science. When such ideas are applied in physiology
they do no great harm in individual cases because what is investigated
It is in fact possible to be a great physiologist yet a dunce when it
they lead to great tragedies in life.
in repeated attempts to try again what has already been tried and has
the absurdity even further when he says: “The level of greater
is the sum total of all the ways and means created by man himself that
of all the values man has created for the preservation and advancement
well! Culture is supposed to be the sum total of values created by man
have ceased to function for undoubtedly the culture created by man at
as preserving and advancing human life. Had it been described as created
values which cannot be created by single individuals, as they are values
at present is longing to know how and where it belongs within the great
aware of the danger threatening mankind if what today calls itself science
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earthly man's essential nature — manifests itself through breathing.
I indicated last time that the rhythm of the breath, and with it knowledge,
on earlier occasions, namely that the rhythm of breathing is in wonderful
number of days equals the number of breaths drawn in one day. And I
harmonious agreement that exists between our microcosmic breathing process
and the great cosmic processes within which we are placed.
observation, that the rhythm of breathing, more than anything else,
shows man to be a microcosm, a little world. Man's breathing copies
the processes of the Great World, the macrocosm. However, in regard
characteristics. The fact is that there are no two people whose breathing
connected with the rhythm of the breath remains unconscious. Only under
abnormal conditions or through some illness does the process of breathing
the process of breathing and is, as a consequence, not so closely bound
up with the cosmos. If cognition had been based on the rhythm of breathing
This secret of the breath
mankind, breathed into man the breath of life and he became a living
of Golgotha. This is because the brain and not the breath became the
was to have been based on the rhythm of the breath. But before the Mystery
and sense organs instead of to the chest and breathing. This is looking
man's intellect, this holds good for his life between birth and death.
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the event of death of someone near to us — filled with sentiments
severed through the event of physical death.
of their lives. The strength of his personality, the greatness and radiance
spiritual insight. While his father's great influence held sway in the
thought pictures permeated with feeling.
great hardship. He was in Paris where he had lived for years and where
nature. Such souls are not easily led astray into what can be the greatest
towards great ideals, towards powerful, effective ideas of spiritual
such as the present one. The death of Herman Joachim strongly reminds
karma, the comprehension of the great karmic questions of destiny, enables
us to come to terms with the death of someone, at a comparatively early
experiencing a death of this kind. In these circumstances things must
the great strength which reaches beyond death, the strength that encompasses
both life and death.
me how he is taking hold of this task now. His death is revealed
may even speak of the death of an individual as a necessity, as a duty,
and sorrow we may gradually come to value the thought that death, as
Thus the event of the death of someone near to us can become an experience
accepted death because of an iron necessity, then that thought will
The death of our dear friend
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I may add, modern philosophers take great exception.
that human consciousness is related to death, to dying, and as we, in
gradually developing those forces which, at the moment of death, confront
us all of a sudden. In other words Fortlage sees the moment of death
sees consciousness as life which gradually develops into death. It is
not life as such which develops death, but the consciousness in man
develops death forces and death itself is enhanced consciousness compressed
death. But this was not the case at the time of the ancient atavistic
to death, which is progressively dying. The fact that we are overwhelmed
the Mystery of Golgotha he gains knowledge through the forces of death.
during its life between birth and death, overcomes a now comparatively
live again in a body which is subject to birth and death. This became
consciousness. What kind of forces are they? They are death forces,
Mystery of Golgotha. They express what united itself with the death-bringing
circumstances such a great number of people still do not acknowledge
from the forces of death. What had to happen to give evolution so mighty
of death? The Christ-being, that lived for three years in and through
death, for it is only then that the entire secret connected with human
through death in order that this whole impulse of consciousness could
stream into mankind? Indeed, it did! And death is also that moment when
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the attitude of a great many people today in regard to spiritual matters
made important statements which have caused a great deal of indignation.
of events allows us to sleep through things of greatest importance.
as a theologian looks upon the beauty and the greatness of nature as
the spiritual world appears as “the great unknown,” as “the
the realm of the Hierarchies appear as "the great unknown"
today who feel that it is a great step forward when theology has, at
Century there was a great upsurge of natural-scientific thinking and
said about his “great, noble and unbiased” mind. Those who
to eating an orange from which all juice has been squeezed out. Yet

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to a far greater extent than is realized. It is particularly important
and could be encountered over the greater part of the earth.
of this kind in the last lecture. However, the difference is very great
a far greater extent than is imagined today. At the present time it
As I have often mentioned, one's contemporaries would receive too great
subtle art of ideation, of defining and elaborating the finer points,
being, what is becoming. What I am now saying is of the greatest importance
a member of the greater organism of the earth. Man cannot tear himself
a great impression on someone else; namely Luther
impression on their soul. That is why so much of great significance
to voice one, she tries to treat him fairly. Others usually dismiss
the issue by saying: Well, Luther was certainly a great man but his
and one must excuse and forgive the great man.
with those who hold such a superior view of great spirits of the past.
also create a situation in which the Royal Academy of Science awards
slatternly superficial treatise you will get an idea of the kind of
experiences; when it is realized then the power of his words is greatly
one of the greatest participants in those Mysteries that prepared the
by Ahriman. The characteristic feature of today's materialistic outlook
may recur, although the greater issue itself is not repeated. This applies
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The significance of the epoch is much greater in Luther's case than
16th centuries than modern historians are inclined to admit. Great transformation
karmic links to a far greater extent than is believed today. In this
cultural epoch he felt with great intensity the deprivation which the
that universe interested him greatly. However the relation to the world,
with great exactitude. But he no longer has vision of the spiritual
It became a great riddle for Luther how the human beings of the fifth
its reality with great intensity. It made him feel that it was essential
if they could be demonstrated today, would greatly amaze modern scientists.
in the physical world he would be in fact just a creature of that world.
spoke so that everything he said was permeated with his impulse to preserve
so intensely with Luther, comes to place such great importance on his
greatness that could have enriched Western culture in works such as
I cannot refrain from repeating
There is nothing abstract about what can be gained from great literary
those, now regarded as great figures of the 19th century, would no longer
appear all that great, whereas quite other figures would emerge as the
great ones from the grey mist of that century.
could be achieved if, as is so greatly to be desired, spiritual science
were able to rouse people to recognize the deeper impulses beneath the

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of death with which men mangle each other, causing untold suffering.
The following is of great
birth and death.
the greater contexts just outlined. But the article in The Bell
this one must be in contact with spiritual reality, which however creates
freedom. Liberalism, socialism, conservatism all want to create paradise
permeate the physical world with spirituality and recognizes that man
later what had become of that old order whose treatment of early Christianity
the great world issues must be related to those of everyday life. Mankind
good while inwardly wanting to do the bad. Luther had a great deal of
to talk a great deal about spirit and not come anywhere near it. This
creates fear of spiritual life, even fear of thinking itself. The man
day of blessing when a greater number of people recognize the truth
than indicated. To go into these things in greater detail would mean
have become of the Lutheran movement had Luther not possessed far greater,
be is maya, is a great illusion. He wanted man to have the opportunity
great spiritual movement and had given much thought and preparation
repeated ad nauseam. These days spirit dominates everything, it is enough

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the time when — after darkness has been greatest
sun develops its greatest power. Man has been torn out of
treats of a man who was still in connection with the
When by the church-door Olaf seated himself
The wide plane of a thorny heath,
The bull, he threatens violence:
With glowing coals beneath their feet.
Threatened he cannot be
people and is spreading with great rapidity. The fact of
so was led to the portal of death. We are shown in many
portal of death. It is pointed out particularly clearly
experience what man has to go through after death, for
well as great and mighty beings connected with earthly
a great deal of what we are able to relate regarding the
period between death and rebirth was known among certain

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture I
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repeated earth-lives — that being, which, if one could only
insight into the secrets of repeated earth-lives and even of karma?
of repeated earth-lives and karma is true? This endeavour, which is
because, as men living between birth and death, we have been given
conclude that when we pass into the life between death and a new
Gate of Death? First of all, his physical body; and of all that
passes through the Gate of Death. It is in a certain sense easy for
that we create for ourselves, in feeling and thought, a being
with great intensity. If we can do this, if we can identify ourselves
death, even if it did not lead to the conviction of another
has lived to a great age, so that his talent has spent itself —
thinking in forms with them and during the life between death and
hearing, so that in his next incarnation he became a great musician.
He did not appear as a great architect, because the perception of
preceding incarnation. This picture will arise in great precision if
great-grandfather.” If however the student allows the picture
feeling is there and is of the greatest significance. If, for
traditional, accepted ideas. For to a very great extent these are
is almost impossible to imagine a greater difference between two
spiritual world, thoughts such as we now form between birth and death
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Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture II
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soul's life between birth and death — or more exactly,
and lasts until death.
but a great deal will result if we practise it in connection with the
memory-images. If we repeat this process over and over again, we
we perceive with the greatest inner clarity that what exists within
characteristic example and we shall see how great the difference is
of Anthroposophy have always taught us the great truth that all the
passed through the Gate of Death. For concepts belong to the things
in a sense, bound up with life between birth and death. After death
we do not form concepts as we form them here; after death we see
concepts, is the same for him after death as red, green or any other
‘seen,’ perceived, in the life between death and
content of the conceptions in the life between death and rebirth.
concepts. The fact that these concepts, permeated with feeling, can
our soul-life experiences of feeling. These appear in a great
between birth and death; we have seen how we enter life and build up
between birth and death.
through careful soul-development we really can create for ourselves
impossible for him to stop, and he will fall over to his death. But
to-day; for this is how a great Initiate of modern times tests those
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Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture V
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their greatest advantage to launch their fiercest attacks at times
something that is similar to all the great spiritual truths that have
cause too great a shock to those outside the anthroposophical
recognise only what lies between birth and death, that at most he
is not of very great significance when regarded merely from the
then that the whole greatness and significance of the ideas of
reincarnation and karma are revealed. A very great deal could be said
belonging to earlier epochs of Western civilisation and the great
passes through the Gate of Death, it is imagined — because no
spiritual life after death is entirely separate from earthly
whatever takes place when a man has passed through the Gate of Death
in the soul of a man who has passed through the Gate of Death has
and death. The earth will have the outer configuration that is
beyond the bounds of birth and death by knowledge of reincarnation
of Death I shall be punished or rewarded for what I have done here; I
between birth and death, but that a period extending over many lives
limited to the one period between birth and death. We live as we
between birth and death. Nor can it be otherwise, for habits change
period only between birth and death? As far as the one life is
the Self beyond what happens between birth and death, when he feels
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 1: Zarathustra
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1911 and January 1912. Soon after Steiner's death in 1925, Marie Steiner
during its enfoldment in the course of repeated earth-lives. It
successive period between rebirth and death human individuality
great living stream of evolution.
dawns a true comprehension of those Great Spiritual Beings who
at once realize how great is the dissimilarity in man’s
development great and important changes take place, especially as
to the conclusion that the personality concealed beneath the name
great many centuries before the time of Buddha. Greek historians
great antiquity of the Zarathustran era, as indicated by ancient
came to them were not merely indefinite unrelated creations, for
was one of those great leading personalities who gave immense
guiding personalities must ever draw from the creative source
great cultural progress of humanity. His influence has long ago
essentially to those Great Ones in whose souls lived a measure of
Vedas. To the North, where spread the great Brahman Doctrine, is
situated that region which was permeated throughout by the
from the teachings of the great Ieaders among the Indians, whose
with its colours, tone sensations, heat and cold; and if we so
which lies beyond the colours, the sound, the heat and the cold,
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 2: Hermes
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1911 and January 1912. Soon after Steiner's death in 1925, Marie Steiner
It is of great importance to Spiritual Science to
Here we find one of the greatest scientists of
therefore a matter of the greatest interest to us that we should
thought, but with an understanding of the creation and spiritual
was in accordance with ‘The Great Eternal Plan‘ that
great nation was still permitted to retain a certain measure of
with the greatest piety, thankfulness and religious feeling,
called THE GREAT WISE ONE — THE OLD HERMES. When, at a later
Trismegistos‘ — the Thrice-Great Hermes; but as a matter
held in the greatest reverence, and in them the Egyptians saw
those things which the Thrice-Great Hermes had taught them, and
interaction of forces and matter, which combine to create and to
In that creation which surrounds us during our
great cosmos. The Isis-Force may be pictured as the sun’s
grand creation of moving orbs, so wondrously interrelated with
positions of the heavenly bodies, and thus create an universal
be attained, the one is by way of the Portal of Death; the other
man has passed through the Portal of Death, and after certain
who have experienced death and entered into the World of
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 3: Buddha
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1911 and January 1912. Soon after Steiner's death in 1925, Marie Steiner
Great Buddha, which have found their way into the course of human
repeated earth lives, or as we term it, Reincarnation, forms a
of freedom, that is, redemption from repeated rebirth, or
Western spiritual life, we learn that the idea of repeated
who in his treatise on The Education
the personality of the great Zarathustra. In accordance with this
superperceptual creations and events. Mankind had in connection
divine essence that was spread about us and permeated our very
doing, to further the progress and evolution of creation.’
mankind looked back in meditation, pondering over that great
the external creation, and by thus freeing himself from material
state into one of sense-illusion, or that ‘Great
Before such great teachers could advance, through
repeated earth lives, to the dignity of Buddhahood, if we may so
great change, wrought by struggle and toil through repeated earth
is dissolved by death; and that the death element breaks in upon
life’s procreative and fruitful progress. He next came upon
must be clearly understood. Gautama realized that in the great
this truth first dawned upon him, his great soul was so affected
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 4: Moses
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When we study the great historical
great spiritual characters of by-gone times, who have helped to
workings of those impulses which emanated from this great
with those other great personalities to whom I have referred. It
Moses, or to the great patriarch himself, we speak as if we were
features. But on the other hand there are certain difficulties
that this point should be repeatedly emphasized. The industry,
sections which deal with the great outstanding figure and
development, greater enlightenment, a more advanced stage of
understandingly into the strange and unusual features associated
become immersed in the study of Spiritual Science, the greater is
of certain passages which occur in the graphic delineation of
question of his great Mission. The true object of his
to Peoples who differed very greatly from one another; and thus
this great nation, however, retained their original temperament
in our day of the greatest interest, while its example and study
would later raise him to great heights in his relation to
deliberately intermingled with the soul-experiences of the great
disciple of this great wise priest, opens with a description of
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 5: Elijah
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evolution, and that great illumination which he brought to
deeds, the characteristics, the greatness of this outstanding
actions of greatest import are born within the confines of the
In order that this truth which sheds so great a
then took place in the soul and spirit of that great Apostle and
treating of a subject covering so wide a field, the question as
though my subject must of necessity be treated in a somewhat
possess some singular and hidden attribute of greatest import.
symbolism — in other words a species of heathenism. Such
followers of this pagan form of worship must have created in them
still a belief in One God — in One Great Spiritual Being in the
approaching when there would be an ever greater and more
treated mankind, for there was a terrible famine in the land. If,
This great revolution in religious outlook was
personality]. When it is ordained that some great momentous
called up from the hidden depths of his soul – deep-seated
Such [great spiritual] personalities [as Elijah]
gathered around them certain followers who came from the great
unable to penetrate deeply into the soul of their great master.
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 6: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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1911 and January 1912. Soon after Steiner's death in 1925, Marie Steiner
fact that the questions involved belong to the greatest of all
beneath a mantle of gnostic notions; such an assertion could only
Holy Spirit creating in Him a new-born life, that the ancient
still far from experiencing the feeling of greater satisfaction
an upturned vision which realized the presence of some great
Alexander the Great.
which, during the greater part of the nineteenth century, it was
Christ? He is looked upon as a visionary creation, a mere ideal
body, which was then in a condition of deathlike sleep, and for a
through repeated reincarnations, and through knowledge gained
descriptions have reference to that great outstanding historical
The Christ-Being. Thus we find a great similarity between the
the basic principles of Spiritual Science the reality of great
which had not up to the time of that great happening really
If we would know in what manner that great and
man’s uttermost understanding. Hence, that great message
made it possible that this great impulse should come to humanity.
investigation in a proper and logical manner. An amazing feature
believes that at the uttermost, man’s greatest fault can
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Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture IX
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had been in the spiritual world), and permeated the soul
to pour into the threefold sheath. And so we can
Essenes were greatly perplexed for they did not
Why do you wrap yourselves in sheaths of deceit? Why does
be great.”
Gospel will be revealed in greater detail as time goes
question was thine Who hath made me great? And there
Jordan for the Baptism. And here too, I repeat that the
In our age, by far the greater part of external culture
a great deal more than what the mere words contain will

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essential features of this culture. It had, as we know, a
the Earth as the theatre in the Cosmos that is allotted
had been established. The biblical story of Creation
‘being who was created from Earth’. And
also look for the origin of the Great Flood itself in
Jews absorbed a very great deal from the neighbouring
worshipping what comes from above. But the great
they had adopted certain customs of the heathen; the very
endowed by Jahve with the power of breathing air, but in
contaminated. Only those animals which do not breathe air
heathen peoples and this was in his mind when he cried:
indicating a deeper meaning lying underneath. But we
living in the Aura of the Earth. That is the great truth
called the physical sheath of Christ, the “Ahura
to permeate the Aura of the Earth. In this sense and in
“the greatest of these born of woman.” This
of John the Baptist as “the greatest of those born
experience is permeated with the Christ Impulse. These
in ancient times spoke of being carried by death into

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sheds new light upon the great steps taken, as it were in
bodily sheaths were those of the Nathan Jesus Child and
the Zarathustra-Ego was present these three sheaths until
departed from the bodily sheaths. Then, at the Baptism by
threefold bodily sheaths of Jesus of Nazareth.
twelve. We will not enter into this in greater detail
that found its way to his organs of breathing, too, man
was faced by yet another evil. This third evil threatened
George overcoming the Dragon, vanquishing death. This is
created for the intellect but for the feeling, in order
Christ Being permeating the soul of the later Jesus boy.
feeling and willing. Great and sublime truths were often
been by great and momentous happenings in the spiritual
Death or through initiation, but we will think now only
of one who enters the spiritual world through death. He
lays aside his physical body and this outermost sheath is
through cremation. Suppose that after death a man looks
death we can by no means look at what the ether-body is
becomes visible to us after death. Then by a complicated
paramount significance after death when we realise that
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of the great sufferings of our time in our prevailing spiritual condition.
Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. Everyone will feel the great difference
hearts, and it brings into these hearts something great and tremendous
time of nature's awakening, leads us to the gates of death. We can characterize
We are led to the great and sublime idea that the divine being descended
to earth, incarnated in a human body, and passed through death. The
enigma of death and of the preservation of the eternal life of the soul
in death — Easter brings all this before our souls.
of Jesus of Nazareth, which has great significance particularly for
this diminishing and death. We have to develop our astral body during
take into ourselves the seeds of death. It is quite wrong to believe
that death is connected with life only outwardly and superficially;
there is a most intimate connection between death and life, as I have
divine spiritual Being descended who experienced death in the person
physical death. In other words, the festivals are tokens reminding us
body symbolizes what brings death and is connected with the higher spiritual
the world of the stars but permeates everything.
only in the life of nature in general and pass through repeated deaths,
neither cosmic nor merely terrestrial, but permeates everything, yet
greatest poets called for you in the name of humanity. You languished,
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 2: Blood and Nerves
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different. The great and significant difference between them becomes
great deal from the most modern anatomy and physiology to provide further
death upon itself in order to become earthly, and why the blood has
because it has been transplanted onto the earth. Death — as you
is alive — though by its very nature destined for death, that is,
And now think deeply and with great sensitivity
consigned it to death and left its life behind in the cosmos. That life
our blood received a cosmic life, that is, life became death and death
had left behind in the cosmos followed us. It can now once again permeate
our soul, because it did not permeate our body at the beginning of our
were to be ensouled by what did not permeate our body right from the
very beginning. This great and wonderful connection reveals the activity
are an abundance of facts and material just waiting to be permeated
of several great minds of the nineteenth century, who were striving
spiritual science. I tried to show how these great minds reached out
some of the great, spiritual works our great writers created in the
and therefore did not repeat in this book, among the greatest of these
have done a great deal for the life of their soul. Several people have
of great minds such as Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Troxler, Planck, Preuss,
The outstanding feature of my new book is
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 3: The Twelve Human Senses
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words about the great and grievous loss on the physical plane we have
of death.
outstanding part he played in the great and fateful events of our time,
As we have repeatedly emphasized, we are
dear friends, where you can see the greatness and significance we find
and led to the greatest crisis humanity ever had to go through in its
and sorrow are justified in a case like Herr von Moltke's death. But
only when pain and sorrow are permeated by a sound understanding of
what underlies them can they become great and momentous active forces.
while creating music. It is not the fragrance that rises up out of memory,
that tasted good as we are when we eat it again. As you know, this is
not the case. People want to eat again what tasted good to them and
I tell you that in the time between death and rebirth the senses that
deeper after death. Just as the sun rises, so does our soul rise, figuratively
death it sets again. When we encounter another soul between death and
In the life between death and rebirth, the
most important part in our life after death.
Our outer world during the life between death
physical life it is we who touch others. Between death and rebirth we
usually we are not aware of this. During life between death and a new
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our physical body has to be a highly complicated creation for the simple
connected with our death. It is only because our astral body gradually
for reality had been given the task to create a human form suffused
and permeated through and through with the passion of love, the noble
matter, so-called actuality. Every time artists had the task to create
spiritual science, but he must feel as he creates a Venus that her astral
sense for the depleting astral body, set about creating a Venus? He
Suppose an artist had created a Venus. As
he was creating her, he felt correctly that she had a more strongly
age. When an artist achieves such a creation, spiritual scientists will
we will say that artists, while they are creating, often feel a true
one who is not a spiritual scientist, when he sees such a figure created
Others say these features are the result of Botticelli having painted
science cares to acknowledge. The human being is a complicated creature,
existence of reincarnation, repeated earth lives, is plainly visible
of Beethoven everything that was purified in the time between death
heredity in this connection. In reality, we create the form of our skull
Even though dolls are not alive, children treat them as though they
and yet are treated like living beings. We are dealing here with a philosopher
the symptomatic features of this case.
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of nothingness, but because of the balance created by the possibility
and it finds at certain times particular events that are of far greater
itself in them to a greater or lesser extent. Someday people will write
realize that there are important facts that can speak to us of great
the most noble and greatest striving that can light up in human souls.
awake because he or she has seen beautiful, great, noble, and sublime
words can be greater and can touch our hearts more profoundly than what
glide,” is one of the greatest poets of all time. But first one
grandest poetry! To be made aware of the greatest event in the evolution
verse that has kept me from setting great store by definitions and explanations
To an ever greater extent, we, and indeed
the creation of religious feelings and ideas as well as in the formation
that the threats of our enemies are speeding up the process of adaptation,
above all this last threat of the complete destruction of our export
“Ours are faith, hope, and hatred.” But hatred is the greatest
of cycles, where everything is said to repeat itself. That the earth

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form. Spiritual science seeks to connect the human being with the great
laws of the universe, the great laws of the cosmos. The deepest impulses
the connection between human beings and the great transcendental laws
must flow into poetic form. If we create certain mental images that
there in the great laws of the universe also speaks in the form of our
the seven lines is repeated in each stanza corresponds to the laws determining
see, is really a satire. Now you may easily think it improper to treat
of “looking up to the great cosmic revelations.” He never
Naturally, people in Vienna back then talked a great deal about these
so many of our talks, namely, spiritual science as it permeates us should
life. One thing above all must permeate the activity of our soul if
by a view of life that is certainly not permeated by honesty in its
life, and must be added to those terrible, great, and gigantic blows
of the great events of the day is considered to be on a small scale.
be the greater because he was such a good painter and had been able
that he wanted to become a painter greater even than Rubens, a successor
him greatly. He got very furious with Paris, went back to Brussels,
when he believed the man great who recommended such an abominable book
contradicted each other? Great pains were taken to find all the contradictions
understand the smallest as well as the greatest things, to understand

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it, we have something we may call, metaphorically speaking, a great
beings were much more open to the great cosmos, and the forces of the
permeated the physical one. In ancient times, people were always aware
because they have kept features from earlier times, you find that to
treatise about the same matters would cite innumerable logical arguments,
are not, and there is a very great difference between those who are
may even have been great world reformers and have influenced world history.
when Michelangelo and Raphael produced their great works and not seeing
great things. What I am telling you is not meant as malicious criticism.
we should have for the great spiritual truths. This reverence consists
of great spiritual heights.
And then spiritual science will create what our culture, which is developing
us in Asia who tell us all kinds of great things; however, when we come
of the late Franz Hartmann; in every lecture he repeatedly explained
the Gospels confirms the truth of the great word, “Where two or
This cab driver has created a marvelous picture
So I indicated that he should permeate all this scholarly material with
him; he could not permeate the one with the other.
we find that a great deal of what these days is called historical materialism
one can easily prove that many great geniuses did not learn anything
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in which we must record the great achievements of Kepler and
outlines the great problem of a modern world-conception,
the single currents united to form a great comprehensive
the greatest imaginable dissemination — the
greatest imaginable dissemination we may say, considering the
few decades had passed since his death. Again and again, Jacob
the very greatest minds.
a far greater profundity in his soul life than thousands and
the year 1610 this experience of re-birth was repeated. He then
of Goerlitz. About this I will now simply repeat the words that
And in the years 1620 to 1624, up to his death, he wrote
rapidly, one after another, a great number of his works, as for
Boehme repeats himself again and again. It is true; one cannot
few of his works, because he always repeats himself —
the sounds; that nature wishes to create her own language
which long occupied other spirits, even the greatest
created by the Wurf, its counterpart.] as Jacob Boehme
the great Faust question. He could now say to himself:
aware of Itself — that is, duplicated Itself, created, as
it were, the reflected image of Itself — It created this
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Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture I
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containing great truths, which great initiates have related to men.
development of politics are all connected with great initiates
therefore appears to us as an emissary of the great White Brotherhood.
personifies the medieval soul. Lohengrin, the great initiate, the
great initiates always brings about the promotion to new stages of
Böhme proclaimed great, profound truths. Whence did he obtain
the great Atlantean flood, when the surviving peoples began to
great initiate Wotan, the god of the Aesir. Wotan is an initiate of
the Atlantean period, and all the other Aryan gods are only great
distinguish three stages in Wagner's treatment of the Siegfried legend.
sees the great difference between modern human beings and those of
industry. Our great men have always felt this: Goethe had the same
labourers in this world, but no men”, and so forth. Every great
man has longed after truly great human beings.
expression of deep inner truths, of great truths; for instance, the
impulses. These legends were the reminiscence of a great time which
Barbarossa we find a great initiate. We are told of his journeys to
something which, filled with force and life, is able to permeate the

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture II
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very point where Siegfried could be wounded to death.
creation. The new and the old creation, the kingdoms of the Moon and
creations.
creates the body from outside. The sexes face one another in a
human bodies are now endowed with one sex instead of two; they create
ever since he has become an Ego. The creative Godhead still contains
love, it is still creative in the outer temple. The myth explains

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture III
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of Siegfried's ruin. He must incur death through the lower powers in
In the world's breath, wherein
life-principle is the breath of the world; everything must be

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture IV
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selfish love, this is the great process of evolution which must take
place through the mysterious involution-process of death, the
destruction of physical matter. The contrasts of life and death are
Wagner created an eminently Christian drama, the work with which he
create an entirely different work of art, by setting forth the
he had developed to the extent of being able to create a drama of such
of Parsifal. In him we find the same theme, created out of the deepest
Minnesingers, minstrels of love. But there was a great difference
disease, which can only be healed through the sacrifice and death of
meets a woman of exceeding great charm and attraction. He experiences
great turning point of the times. Life in the world outside is
every one of these races was inspired by great initiates. The fifth root-race
great flood the peoples who had emigrated and had thus been preserved
impulses of one great stream penetrate five times into the earliest
civilisations. We have one great spiritual stream coming from the South,
which surrounds us to such a great extent to-day, the chaos in which
the great masses of European people, whose spiritual life remains hidden
avert the danger of death from these knights and to supply them with
and finally attains spiritual power, the feeling of the great oneness of
all existence. Richard Wagner thus unconsciously comes to great
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Title: Lecture: Theosophic/Esoteric Cosmology: Spiritual Cosmology
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Blavatsky, treated the questions about the beginning and evolution of
though you make a great effort to do so”. If we consider this
century, which had a great influence on culture, this knowledge was in
only through great exertion. When this knowledge was first made public
whom I greatly respect, who energetically stood up for oriental
secrets still contained great treasures of ancient literature, but
great Brahmin Sanskrit scholar heard about this from Mrs. Blavatsky,
verses by herself we would be facing an even greater wonder.
criticizing the great care and the exact mosaic work the scholars have
with the translations of the old creation myths by our scholars. These
celebrated its greatest triumphs in the 19th century.
thinking. The great teachers of the Orient did not have this
power, like the power of heat. And whoever receives the thoughts that
us, we will see for ourselves the great goal to which we are heading:
and Assyrian creation myths (“Bibel und Babel”, Leipzig 1902).

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itself in a brain, created it, formed this brain to correspond to its
would be impossible for someone to simply create a viable brain
Before the human being could form this body in order to create the
managed the physical body. It had to create an intermediary in order
clairvoyant. The human being had to create an astral body, a
towards man?” The great cosmic event had to occur; the human
form during the fourth round. The human being was the co-creator in

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mean the great transformations within the universe, and we include the
hollow form, swimming in a great, mighty sea of the highest spiritual
to create a foundation for physical existence; it created this
the fourth Round all beings were created so they could live in this
During the middle of the Lemurian age the great event occurred which
the middle of the Lemurian age, birth and death arose and therefore
The task of physical evolution is that what is created for us humans
could be created. Through the first four Rounds the kingdoms of nature
the seven days of creation in the Bible. The first three days of
creation have gone by, we are now in the fourth day of creation and
the last three days of creation are yet to come. The first three days
of creation in Genesis represent the past Rounds, and the last three
live in the fourth Round; he describes the fourth day of creation in a
quite special way. That is why you find a double creation in Genesis
understand it. The human being of the seventh day of creation has not
been created. That man was made of clay is a symbol of our fourth
Round. The double creation tells us in images of what has been
created, the stage in which we now find ourselves, and of the stage at
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Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 1: The Inner Aspect of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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mentioned with great respect. This school was well known for the
be impossible to think of greater nonsense, yet the psychology of the
that such a thought could have arisen as the greatest production of
“of Hegel as the ox understands of Sunday, when he has eaten
loses not only the ground beneath him, but also what eyes can see,
the person makes an impression upon you like a breath of
enchantment. Imagine this breath of enchantment enormously
sacrificial heat offered by the Spirits of Will to the Cherubim. This
that behind every development of heat, there is sacrifice.
have proceeded the Archai, the Time-Spirits, and that external heat
of Will!” But so it is. Externally heat is really only a maya.
And if we wish to speak truly we must say that wherever there is heat
they send up this sacrifice as foaming heat, so that the sacrificial
sacrificing to the Cherubim and resulting in the creation of the
as living time, as a creation of sacrifice. Then we shall see how all

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and air, but of “heat.” So, too, in first speaking of
no substance dense enough to be called gas, nothing but heat and cold.
“heat” or “fire” as it is called in
without, as it were, which appear as “heat.” Conditions
of heat are the external expression — speaking in a general
throughout the world, wherever heat is perceptible it is the outer
expression of what lies behind it. Conditions of heat are the
sacrificial acts of beings. Thus in describing heat we must say
“Cosmic heat is the manifestation of Cosmic sacrifice, or of
Saturn consists of “heat,” we do not merely require
external, physical concepts (for “heat” is a physical
permeating our soul, it will gradually lead to the understanding of
what lies behind the phenomenon of heat. Try to picture what in our
sacrifice can come to meet us in the outer cosmic heat. He alone
the phenomenon of heat.
that ancient Sun reorganised heat by adding to
phenomenon. Just as behind the heat we must seek for the glow of
the air and the light which are added to the heat on ancient Sun. Now
of the beatific sacrifice which he contemplates and which awakens the
beatific sacrifice does not leave him unaffected, he will feel a
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Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth - 1
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spiritual to be found behind the phenomenon of heat, and then that
of all conditions of heat and fire must be sought very far away from
what we know as external physical fire or heat. To a man of the
recognised as the essence of all conditions of heat: a sacrifice made
conditions of heat or fire. In the last lecture we also recognised
their own being. This is to be found in every breath of wind, in all
conception of fire and heat; for in fact fire, heat and light bear
fire, heat and air are illusions; and the realities behind these bear
of a hand or the greatest of deeds, the impulse of the will underlies
act, one for instance that is to bring about great healing and
assumed that the greatness of the deed depends upon the strength of
that as we intensify our will we accomplish great things in the
which we particularly live, the greatness of our deeds certainly does
wish to accomplish, the greater are the efforts we must make
to pass. There it is the case that the greatest deeds, or, better
said, the greatest results, do not necessitate any strengthening of
when we eat well, when we are well nourished and acquire greater
something important we can precisely do so with the greatest ease,
The greatest spiritual, magical effects, always require preparation
is, above all things, fond of eating and drinking and has other
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Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth - 2
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For example, in ordinary life we recognise the properties of heat or
naturally a greater sense of the spiritual behind the outer material
greatness and significance to be found in resignation. None the less
recollection of it, yet it works! It becomes active beneath the
surface of the soul-life just as there may be movements beneath the
who lives in great cities is less affected by it, but he will have seen
universal Beings, by others who found their greatest bliss in gazing
never create the same inner disposition of soul as would have been
the disturbance beneath the surface of the sea drives up the waves,
enters our consciousness. Beneath the surface of our ordinary
obtain a conception which is of very great importance and weight:
was an eminently great soul. If only something could have flowed into
yearned for an end to this search for pictures — the greater
all ends in death! We meet here, three Springs long we love, and then
One of the million deaths we have already died, and shall yet die. It
us of how a great mind expressed this undefined longing in the
it was a great one) which she could span with her earthly
the Prince of Homburg, who carried out all his great deeds in a kind
he was not a particularly great man, for he whines and whimpers over
spiritual contours: that is, Spiritual Science. The greatest unites
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Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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call Maya or the great illusion, there is the Spiritual. Let us once again
phenomena of heat, presenting it in its true character of sacrificial
that we must reduce the element of heat back to the spiritual, to the
microcosmic soul to that cosmic creating which we ascribed to
earnest. All the fragrance of knowledge that is created by the
create a connecting link between these ideas and those brought before
resigned it. The peculiar feature of the spiritual atmosphere of
kind of recapitulation of this peculiar feature of the ancient Moon
Movement. They created a possible way by which the longing arising in
lesser planet wished to make sacrifice to the greater planet —
single great satisfaction, but experiences a number of partial
from their actual meaning, their great cosmic purpose.” Certain
is Death! Death is none other than that which necessarily enters the
evolution — to Death.
significance death is neither more nor less than the nature of
proper place. Even when death comes to a man in concrete form it is
matter which at the moment of death was shut out from the Ego, astral
within the Beings to whom it was thrown back lapses into death, for
death signifies the exclusion of any cosmic substance or cosmic
wherever we encounter fire or heat, behind it there is its spiritual
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 1: The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations
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how the whole enclosing structure would treat the sounds,
our lives the soil may be created for peace, where
great universal riddles, to show how thought progressed
the great struggle has now started on the physical plane,
the great, hard struggles that came with the Barbarian
events of such great moment as we are experiencing at
to be a token of rightful understanding of the great
Be breath of healing.

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those who have already passed through the gate of death
one particular great truth that we should have in mind
significance. For when we pass through the gate of death
pass through the gate of death.
going through the gate of death on the field of battle.
case, to go through the gate of death like this. We need
life. Let us remember that death means the entrance into
anthroposophy. It is the proverb which says ‘Death
beyond the great illusion? We do not get to know about
through which it will now have to pass between death and
nationalities is greatest and where the most lies are
truth can perceive the true reason, which is that a great
full seriousness of what we teach, the moral greatness
understanding in the life between death and rebirth. Then
in the life between death and rebirth: a uniting with
gate of death, we shall look above all for the Goethe
were the characteristic features of Egypto-Chaldean
times. They had a feeling for the great, cosmic
If this is to be repeated as the mission of a nation in
repeated in such a way that it now is part of the inner
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 3: The Nature of European Folk Souls
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through the gate of death we say:
gradually shed after death. Many things have been spoken
of that man will shed after death; and one of these
generation to generation. After death, between death and
same time lends significance to the hero's death, on the
going through such a death in the right frame of mind
surely will feel this — will know that this death
is a death of love. It is not suffered for personal
the whole period between death and rebirth—it is
think of death in battle without knowing that it is
is so great, so utterly tremendous in this death on the
cast off between death and rebirth. It has to fall away
differences in the casting-off process after death, in
image he has created of himself. The consequence of the
spirit is that when the soul leaves the body when death
occurs, sharply distinct features are left in their ether
astral body bearing distinct features. The consequence is
folk spirit after death.
death bear little of the stamp of the Russian folk soul
the souls that have passed through the gate of death,
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 4: The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It - 1
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great and serious events in life really enable us to see
that they will no longer appear to us as Maya, the great
Christianity is so great, so tremendous, that human
became deed, and as a result the world was greatly
created around them, externally. We may say they assumed
greatly affected by it. They became serving members
The way they went through the gate of death also was such
realm through which man has to pass between death and
spiritual world, when passing through the gate of death,
between death and rebirth because they had not integrated
great discoveries were made and with everything they
great deal more than could come about through mankind,
their ego, merely into the ether body. The great
through the gate of death that necessitated their being
for example, is illumined when we know that souls make repeated
struggle once they have gone through the gate of death,
death it is possible to see how they continue to join the
considered. People still think reference to repeated
of weakness even the great Lessing accepted the idea of
repeated earth lives.
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through the gate of death:
between birth and death so that in terms of space we are
great majority of the people whom we have to consider in
environment of mechanical contrivances created by
first breath. And, indeed, she did — for she was
that the Maid of Orleans took her first breath on earth
through death at the age of 19 was taken hold of at the
can also point to her death which occurred because all
bring about her death. Her misadventure in a battle was
but that after her death the English would meet with a
much greater reverse than any they had known before, and
the gate of death was prepared to continue contributing
to the work of shaping events after her death, to share
Joan's adversaries were able to bring about her death, to
demons we create in our machines influence our earth life
through when it has undergone death. In the case of the
soul that went through death at that time something very
create in our machines, and that it is necessary to
be understood. We generate the great strength we need to
it brought acceptance of the idea of repeated earth lives,
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 6: Spiritual Perception Essential at the Present Time
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through the gate of death:
It would of course be possible to pick up a great many
strange to some of you that I put such great emphasis on
is through treatment directed at the soul life.
one to treat a soul if one has not developed any concept
those with greater moral resilience.’
with greater moral resilience'. It is hard to imagine
anyone producing greater nonsense than this. Both
greater moral resilience in a person. It means that
were not there, nor the ground on which it rests beneath
here on earth goes with him through the gate of death.
ears, by far the greatest part of human soul content
would simply not be there. Now, after death the human
only be carried through the gates of death through
only be carried through the gate of death as memory. The
through the gate of death? It most certainly cannot
gate of death as an idea. My comment is that materialism
death in terms of ‘being’, for that would
light. On passing through the gate of death and entering
the gate of death. It is this effort that will benefit us
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remember those who are at the front, in the great arena
events have already gone through the gate of death:
gone through the gate of death just a few days
death.
immediately after their death, impressions connected with
after death the impulses arose for me from the spiritual
to that soul's life after death.
through the gate of death one will immediately notice
the gate of death.
death had occurred Impressions arose that took the form
the soul which had gone through death:
gone through death — the thoughts, ideas, feelings
mould this individual after death, leaving their imprint.
gate of death was expressing itself, saying what it felt
through the gate of death was doing therefore merely
the gate of death. And so the following words arose and
Of world-soul creation
spoken but the moment when the heat of the furnace took
first conscious moment after death occurred. I shall go
death a review of life presents itself in the fain of a
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 8: Three Decisions on the Path to Imaginative Perception
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great arena of present-day events:
through the gate of death:
Death, the second the Door of the Elements and the third
Death has always been very fully considered wherever the
mysteries were taught. This Door of Death cannot be
world does many things that wear us down, threatening to
also a great many obstacles in the objective spiritual
it meant one had to do a great deal of thinking and
indeed, especially the concepts we have made great effort
Door of Death because it is really much more of a death
even than Physical death. In physical death people are
Death, such being its nature. Then we shall be able to
is the first door, the Door of Death.
way. You see, having gone through the Door of Death one
create a particular line of thought quite deliberately.
have first gone through the Door of Death we come to a
has to be done in the thought world, great fear of
has to be overcome at the gate of death. We feel terror.
world is threatening to devour us. All the time the
all gone through the gate of death we are then outside
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 9: The Sleeping-and-Waking Rhythm in the Context of Cosmic Evolution
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the great arena of present-day events:
events have already gone through the gate of death:
most satisfying, the greatest, knowledge of the spiritual
to a much greater extent. If the same held true for the
by far the greater part of the ego and astral body is
greater part of his ego and astral body the way he
subtle process of meditation causes heat consumption
— a very small amount of heat is used, is taken
that the process of meditation involves a subtle heat
moment just consider the fact that we use up heat and
has to do with heat; it leaves its imprint and the
everything else, the heat, light, etc., we consume does
small amount of heat is used up during meditation. When
heat is used up coolness develops; the general cosmic
has gone through the gate of death he will gradually
being experiences after death and what he has left
being has gone through the time between death and new
it also takes place in the great process of cosmic
him about conquering death. The main theme of Julius
I can beat death and can his power stay.
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the great arena of present-day events:
events have already gone through the gate of death:
ordinary life between birth and death trains us to relate
death, except for the time between going to sleep and
gradually to get our bearings after death.
recreate the whole thing in your soul. All this happens
repeatedly make an impression in the world ether,
repeating a meditation over and over again, what actually
we have been within a great body of experiences yet it
now understand that it needs great inner strength to work
gain greater and greater powers, growing so strong in
We also progress between birth and death here on earth,
be revenge unto death against all that is German and
chauvinist; one merely has to repeat what Renan wrote in
greater significance than literary figures known to us
to unite ourselves in the greatest possible degree with
have to say: ‘These deaths give expression to the
this by the way in which they enter into death. We have
to say that all these deaths must have been in vain
through death in vain at such a young physical age if a
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the great arena of present-day events:
events have already gone through the gate of death:
world. We might say that the peculiar features of the
saying within the earth — as though within a great
summer. The earth is then truly asleep; the great
sleep presents itself. The animal world consumes, eats
of death. what the astral body makes its own in this way
us through the gate of death. I am describing things the
life. Memory creates a context for our life, making this
life between birth and death a whole. A second principle
automatic memory who however cannot be very creative in
to himself as T because he is a creature of will. If he
gate of death. This core is the vehicle for our karma.
the great illusion consists predominantly in man being
between birth and death. In going through the gate of
death we grow into a world very similar to the one I have
gate of death, if we want to make ourselves at home in it
the gate of death. And he can of course live the life
between death and rebirth. But life as a whole exists in
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the great arena of present-day events:
events have already gone through the gate of death:
quite distinct from the way they are commonly treated in
forces radiate from it, creating the impression of a hand
forces are present, creating the imprint of a hand.
the figure itself writhing beneath it. And you will see
have three figures: Man in his essence; beneath him
down to the smallest detail, has to be created out of
pushed in beneath it. Another thing is that particularly
the spheres. Man was one great ear. The reason for this
brow is greatly developed, in Ahriman the lower jaw. The
the principal figure had to be given greater inner
history. One of the greatest among them is Michelangelo's
recognition of the inherent greatness of the Christ, a
greatness not yet to be found in Michelangelo's Christ.
considered the greatest poetic work there is.
greatest works ever produced by man because Goethe was
why the whole great work of Goethe's Faust
with Mephistopheles causing the Homunculus to be created,
is the scene where Homunculus is created and Wagner
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the great arena of present-day events:
events have already gone through the gate of death:
our present life on earth, between birth and death,
and the many lives we have already lived between death
lives between death and rebirth that lie ahead in the
It is just as rich and varied, showing just as great a
kind of coating, one might say. As you know, at death the
a great writer.
consider Shakespeare a great poet, certainly one of the
greatest poets of all time. But let me bring out those
originality which made a great man. Characterizing a
great poet one should not demand such a great person to
‘Great men are more distinguished by range and
making bricks, and building the house; no great men are
renown exactly by showing that great men plagiarize on
every creature in nature was waiting to be uttered in
creator himself has first made provision for the idea and
Emerson came to characterize Shakespeare as a great
robber and Goethe as the great ally of the truth. This is
them. On the one hand he calls the English the greatest
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the great arena of present-day events:
events have already gone through the gate of death:
we could do nothing else in that case but repeat
is going to happen after death plays its part in this.
For everything is created from images. Images are the
dead mirror image relates to the living creature it is
of a great multitude of entities within hierarchies. The
in creating the fabric. We perform deeds that are not for
great work of building the world. Through our feelings we
to being the greater one. It is really necessary,
not true to say that they do not emerge. When you heat up
an engine the excess heat supplied does not disappear; it
You can deny them, you can be a great materialist in your
in Rome at the head of a great procession. He was wearing
have believed all the great flaming speeches of Rienzi

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have passed through the portals of death.
death.
experiences of human beings between death and rebirth, and what
lessons have been learnt from the great events that have occurred;
Science, to the great social and judicial problems of the people in
One great advantage to us in that
the forms and creations of our building at Dornach, which place
great demands on humanity.
slow to take in new ideas. Indeed it is a characteristic feature of
this for two reasons: First because it would have been of great
dream-life. We may say: Historical becoming is a great dream of
in the great questions of the world as one coherent whole has
the greatest republic, wants to lay down the law to mankind. If we
feeling for a great drawing together of mankind, for ideas having
meant. Jung brings forward an example cited by the greater number of
a cab came round the corner. The guests all beat a retreat to the
does everything with far greater certainty if the consciousness has
experienced in relation to the heathen Gods, for instance. Through
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death and re-birth we work on the head, and there is added something
needle is sought in the great universe. Yet this is not done in other
in the entire cosmos, not in the hen. Exactly as the great universe
great. If, however, facts were approached with the practical
the organism needs the whole time up to death for this assimilation.
fruitful, so flourishing, that it would last until its death. Thus if
throughout the time between death and rebirth in the cosmos itself we
activity we exercised in the spiritual life between death and rebirth
incarnation. When we pass through the gate of death, the forces
organism during life; man carries these during the time between death
outer physical view, but stands in a tremendously great relationship.
was a great leaning towards ‘sanatoria,’ great measures
directed to that. The great cosmic laws have provided that man as a
his greatness in the universe is due to that very fact, and we must
comprehension of Nature, those older times were permeated with what
not intended personally. A great proportion of the opposition to

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The fact we have so repeatedly set
we were always able to illumine with ideas what we dream (the greater
death and rebirth (made known in a more abstract form by the lectures on
‘The Inner Nature of Man, and Life Between Death and Rebirth,’
through the gate of death, whose souls live in the world between
death and rebirth. A consciousness of the unity of all mankind,
abide between death and rebirth, but also to come in contact, into
come from our thoughts. We feel that we are the creator of our words;
passed through the gate of death. I shall to-day bring forward facts
souls who have passed through the portal of death, as soon as we have
juveniles — pass through the gate of death, it is seen that the
remains present. The young remain above all, because after death they
young have a very great deal to do with all connected with
life forms and establishes what follows as relationship after death.
one who does not care. There is a great difference whether I talk
gate of death, such eagerness to know what answer he will give, or if
whole life is, in reality, permeated with this relation. We, as
death. This is specially good. We mourn for children in a different
a child that has passed from us by death is really in many respects
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certain perceptions unexercised. They continue after death, giving a
that in the time we spend between birth or conception and death, we
the gate of death old or young, there is a residue of unexercised
through the gate of death, whether young or old, these occasion an
this. We only become free after death to form certain thoughts,
necessary it is that what is carried through the gate of death unused
of their reach, when they have passed through the gate of death; yet
through the gate of death. There are, of course, at the present time
a great many hindrances to finding this common ground. The first
great atomic world behind physical reality; but if we wish to speak
consciousness we also help to create a sphere common to us and to the
we pass through the gate of death, it is necessary for the living to
great demand on our age. Nevertheless, it is said, because we are
the great demands of our time. I have tried this winter, and many
wholly unjustifiable estimate of the great Athenian. The
life; in Jesus, too, I see the greatest bearer of ideas who has at
is not a great man; but if this were applied to much greater men,

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subconscious, but after death becomes conscious as he discerns the
Science. It defeats another mood that encroaches on Spiritual
souls which have passed through the gate of death, we have
which man lives between birth and death, and that in which he lives
between death and rebirth. We shall try to consider these connections
through conviction that a true creative knowledge of the world and
the same way. In this connection the great number of seed-forces that
man's life is seventy to ninety years but that by far the greater
this will call our attention to the fact that there is a great deal
inadequate means of knowledge. Let us repeat a paradoxical
she ran before the horse. All this could be arranged with great
so clever; but the lower had this cunning which is greatly enhanced
able to plan with great subtlety.
continuous light which extends far beyond death. Throughout life
60's, then through death, and further — into the existence
between death and rebirth; and as he passes through that existence,
judgment of his deeds which he thus meets in the life between death
him remains subconscious; he only becomes conscious between death and
individuality. That is discovered after death. In such a case, and it
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death and rebirth we are anticipating the life conditions of Jupiter
— to the disembodied souls, those living between death and
In the time spent between death and
of lectures on the life between death and rebirth to learn that the
between death and rebirth, certain conditions which will only become
death and rebirth anticipates — albeit in a subtler, more
something belonging to the future during his life between death and
dwells between death and rebirth has its own special conditions of
feeling can greatly increase, it can develop an intimate perception
thrown out beyond death into our evolution between death and rebirth,
place incessantly, but beneath this we dream about everything and
specially notice if someone has knocked at the door and not repeated
selflessly of what he was to us until his death, and not upon what we
in a truly living way, the place is created upon which our gaze and
think ‘easily.’ Anyone who makes a greater effort with
the ‘great silence’ would commence.
summit of a mountain, and arriving at the top, breathing
is a great help towards the inspiration which such a thought can
existence in which the dead live between death and rebirth,
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up life hopes. The essentials repeated. A short but important
other egos and astral. In the world after death man is singled out
death and rebirth, the chief thing is to direct the spiritual vision
possibility of a blending in the psychic atmosphere is created by the
himself to build a bridge to souls living between death and rebirth.
the dead between death and rebirth. Thus there is a very definite
sorrowful experiences, but in the greater life relations these
to extend beyond death; it is then simply a ‘memory’ of
for the conditions after death; but it is necessary that this
confidence in life, for the relations of life after death are
age. A great deal depends upon this. If man is to take his right
certain additional organs of still greater significance; this
longer possible for the rest of the animal creation to take form. It
by those who hold Kant as a great philosopher. That is due to the
much thought-force to understand Kant. As he was to them the greatest
the greatest geniuses!) they can understand none of the others. It is
by them as a great philosopher. With this is connected the fact
and youth our head organism can absorb a great deal, therefore
remark, to the sound of the voice, to the permeation with feeling of
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture I: Folk Souls and the Mystery of Golgotha
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virtue of the fact that man, between birth and death, is bound to a
ourselves stand within this great living being, as members of it; in
this great living being which is our earth. The life of the earth is
connections between the great organism of the earth and the different
processes. Man eats. He thereby takes into his own organism substance
substances undergo in our organism. We breathe. In breathing we take in
breathing-process is under the same ruling as are the processes in
continue to work on in us. We do not merely breath in oxygen, for
something spiritual lives in the oxygenised breath. We do not merely
eat; substances are transmuted in us, but this material process is
Man breathes. He
breathes it in then he breathes it out. If, in a particular case,
various kinds, the Folk-Soul chooses the by-path of breathing and by
regards the Italians, that together with what they breathe in with the
principal feature; the watery element works in the French national
You will be able to study all the separate features of national
feature of the American Folk-Character. While of the British national
embryonic coverings.) It is the rhythm of the breathing which strikes
rhythm of the breath, and therein lies the secret of the fact, that
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture II: The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology
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ensouled organism, permeated by spirit. For, as an organism has its
whole, as in ensouled organism permeated by spirit, each part of the
once between birth and death, will not come to any very reasonable
to Spiritual Science of by far the greatest part of mankind to
be absolute truth or absolute truth. Searching great conceptions of
creates the objects there within itself, and ‘dreams’ the
brain-vibrations; and afterwards the soul recreates the
brain; we come to what Copernicanism represents to us as the great
features of the Earth's being, as it appears when viewed from the
human soul between death and rebirth is, as it were, floating around
the Earth becomes very greatly differentiated; to man's perception
between death and rebirth it becomes so differentiated that in fact
death and rebirth can direct himself by what he then learns. He
death and rebirth, develop the forces which occasion him to
he beholds between death and rebirth, whether he is to appear in the
the Imaginations into which she entered at death: “Out of God
dark part of the Earth disappears. This creates the blue which
between death and rebirth. Finally, all this is adapted to prepare
higher Hierarchies; with that world in which man lives between death
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on this. It is in a sense a death in miniature, and the
and the nerves a sort of death-process, a destructive one.
grows in unity with the body and creates a full image of
independent, only appears in its entirety after death. Thus
with Maya, with the great illusion, for we must exactly
great illusion, we shall also be able to accept the fact that
Spiritual Science to a great extent consist in the fact that we
death.
takes place between death and a new birth. The matter can
death and rebirth. We may say that man then gradually enters
coverings between death and rebirth, indeed three such
Earth, so do we take on after death the “Individual
that life which runs its course between death and rebirth, the
his experiences between his last birth and last death, or
birth and death is much richer than we are aware of. Suppose
handwriting, but with every feature of the handwriting
of not knowing that he had passed one in the street. A great
the first thing that happens after death is the
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture IV: The Eternal and the Imperishable
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took great care that those who had been initiated into occult
regarded with a certain great earnestness and reverence. For
certain things must be treated tenderly and reverentially if
body and the life between death and rebirth, just these very
a great resemblance between them: it finds a great
to be influenced by the great and important contrast between
birth up to death, and from which it was immune by virtue of
death gradually passes over into an enormous realm of
but it passes into a great enormous realm of substance and
death and continues its life between death and rebirth. But
which is dissolved into the Universe after death. The
and death we maintain the opinion — a strange one for
body are held together between birth and death. It is also
after death. Only between our birth and death does this
Maya-consciousness which is produced in us. And death among
the air we breathe out when we speak. The
set free at death and to disperse what is here held together in
after death — during the first days — what we
is only in so far operative that it fixes the moment of death
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and the leaving it, conception and death — stands in
which there is conception, and at the end, death. I called
the single moment of death. I called your attention yesterday
to the fact that one who is able to observe the death of
conception and death. Such is the life of the human soul, and
is conception) — and death.
down before their instruments in order to maltreat the soul
this little book laughs at all those taken things treated
in mind how greatly life is stimulated by what is expressed
this work, but that for centuries the great Ahrimanic forces
— the great Sun-mystery, which throughout the ages
which it was treated by Mayer, but in a much coarser manner.
thoughts of Julius Robert Mayer, have permeated science. It
is a great deception. We must really look at what actually
concern ourselves with the death, but not with the fact of
death. Yet this fact of death likewise leads to the
takes place after death between what remains of the purely
individuality, himself discovers after death. Whereas we,
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VI: Spiritual Science, the Practice of Life and the Destinies of Souls
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birth, or conception, and death. Through spiritual
our own times has accomplished great things, great things in
back again. It has been repeatedly said that such an idea is
head, is dammed up and turned back, room is thereby created
life which we have spent between death and the present birth.
death and birth, that is to say, our Ego. The search for
name; it betokens a fundamental feature of many of the
great deal; and thoughts about Saturn, Sun, Moon, the
the great circumstances of the world. We must first of all
today over a great part of this national force? Leninism! One
beyond all that is narrow and pulses into all that is great.
against that which threatens mankind: awkwardness. This is a
characteristic of our time to a far greater extent than we
it is necessary however to be quite permeated, thoroughly
permeated, with the knowledge of the super-sensible world, and
past life and also the life between death and rebirth to flow
in. The life after death also close into our organism.
beyond the needs between birth and death. Let us consider
birth and death. Thus, just as man physically out of his own
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feature in the Whitsuntide event is, that the communal life
of those who had taken part in the great Easter Event of
This should give rise to another thought; how greatly we
we should learn to a still greater degree than the present
to be spiritual life; for the greatest imaginable
vision for the great world perspectives of the present day,
necessary to create an inner trust in what one feels
inwardly, a much greater degree than men are accustomed to do
present. Indeed one great reason why Spiritual Science is
man, even between birth and death, can never be fathomed
between birth and death and have at first a sprouting and
we have ceased to understand much that is great and which has
of what lies before us; if besides this we think of the great
relations of man to the whole comprehensive great universe.
great cosmos. That was how the thoughts lived in the soul of
with Luciferic features, and the Mephistopheles of the
great extent he succeeded in this. But really everything that
be placed on the great cosmic stage, then it is necessary to
giving his Mephistopheles Ahrimanic features. A Luciferic
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture I: States of Consciousness
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and after death between death and the next birth.
What has been the soul's environment between the last death
surround it between the next death and birth, (or
activity, the process of breathing. Out-breathing gives a
— of what took place in the soul between the last death
and this birth; while in-breathing gives a picture of what
will operate in and around the soul between death and the
incarnation: in the out-breathing, with its distinct
of the forces surrounding the soul between the last death and
rebirth; in the in-breathing, the forces to be met with by
the soul between the present death and the next birth. The
breast-man. Although the processes of out-breathing and
in-breathing are not followed with any , distinctness by the
bound to them. In the East, the processes of out-breathing
and in-breathing are so attentively followed as to be lifted
breathing processes so as to arouse a distinctive type of
breath-consciousness. Tracing the inhaled air, as it pervades
in the breathing-process — that is, of the life in the
spiritual world between death and birth. This clear
Persists in the East to a much greater extent than is
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period in human development has a characteristic feature,
thoughts regarding certain characteristic features of
sense, and the greater part still is so. The rest, in Europe
rather astonishing to calculate, as can be done, how great
to work twelve hours a day. That means a great deal. There we
to a much older way of producing: fire — where a great
technology, something deathly spreads over nature's living
man extracts death out of nature, to incorporate is into his
important from a spiritual point of view in the creation of
of death, which in this Ahrimanic civilisation has for the
chief point. The great thing is that, as I have said, a
of the greater space, under the large dome, there are seven
it so that in the scheme of the windows something is created
man in his real being, various mysteries of creation, and so
regard at least to a great macrocosmic stretch of time. Here
Ahriman-figure is repeated. Above the one to the left is a
were naturally not easy to create, for the reason that, in
represented but in a certain artistic treatment of the
variety of treatment shows how all these things can be
the Building with the greatest devotion. Most curious things
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“repeated earth-lives” already exists as a
through the process of out-breathing, which belongs to the
life between the last death and the present birth; and
through the process of in-breathing, likewise belonging to
death until the next birth. In short, all these forms of
re-enters the spiritual world at death, does not crudely
of directly perceiving repeated earth-lives gradually
comparatively great difference between what man met within
the great oriental region, stretching from Eastern Europe,
repeated earth-lives is germinating differently in these two
tendency to oppose the teaching of repeated earth-lives. An
cessation of these repeated earth-lives, alternating between
birth and death, death and rebirth, so that in the end a
souls into a condition in which, after death, they feel
living to have an ever greater influence on the earth,
and life after death similar to one another. Thus will be
prevailing custom — as immeasurably greater, stronger,
relationship between the creature in the physical body and
greatest, bitterest enemies of true spiritual development,
creations, for in them one could find a true indication of
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the path of the human soul in its repeated earth-lives
repeated, that souls incarnated at thn present time will come
own inward exerience — the fact of repeated
the course of history, human beings have not greatly changed?
coincides with the greatest dread of self-knowledge in men's
— in which the great transition to modern times was
accomplished. Looking back at the three great epochs which
grotesque forms in the future, and Faith will have a great
these peoples. Because they were not great thinkers, more was
event in the worlds of great cosmic happenings.
conceal the greatness of the Christ-idea and the profound
in course-of the last few decades a great change has come
experience. When anyone believes himself to be permeated
inwardly by a divine being, he is generally permeated only by
Ego, as it was between the last death and the
death and present birth. What is thus actually experienced
described. It was a moment of great significance in the history
relics were gradually treated as stocks and shares; they rose
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repeated earth-lives. We need to understand clearly why it is
Science shows how greatly souls changed in their essential
possible, he would above all notice a great and constant
change in his personal life between birth and death. Looking
between birth and death. He is conscious, of course, that he
unceasingly between birth and death. Such a conception would
similar are ultimately reduced to a featureless uniformity.
and death. There we have our individual education, our
own personal life between birth and death; but we do not see
passes through the gate of death, and before he returns to
between birth and death. An understanding of how the
conception or leaves it again through death. We pay no heed
give us our present form, whether great or small. That is
great difficulties for many commentators of the Gospels,
justification as an extraordinary impulse for human creative
many features of the present day become clear when we realise
content of the latter is spontaneously created. In our view
Spiritual. Lessing's views went as far as to embrace repeated
the believers, and the necessary defence against heathen
source of this creative work. The drift of its speculation on
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mentions it, because history has no neans of creating the
really characteristic features. This epoch, which I have
traits which are great and powerful in the it effects, for
equally capable of a beautiful, great and glorious one.
must play an ever greater and greater part — is to
could not be treated in the same simple way. To say to
people: “Your human capacities are limited to eating
these two are the great adversaries of the human soul. The
and Americanism. In that respect Jesuitism is great: it
deep study of it. Jesuits are great spirits in the round of
differences are left out of account — a great
physical-sensible alone is in question; hence the great
great extent animated by the legacy of the old, as well as by
— all this, in view of the great events now playing
greatest power of destruction in human evolution, due to
tends to produce greater and greater fear of the spirit,
end, destruction dooming it at last to death , because the

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matter and energy plays a great part even for those who are
literature and are treated by the ordinary reader as
none! The formula is repeated in many different ways: —
expanses in Imaginations, was dedicated to death. This was
that, there would be nothing but knowledge of death; because
the actuality which surrounds us is itself doomed to death.
how far Christ-Jesus is this double Being is a great task;
but at the same time many have taken pains to create
brings death to it. Genuinely fruitful concepts regarding
between birth and death, or rather between conception and
death. The problems of conception, of birth, of embryology,
conception there is implanted in man what makes his death
development towards death, and the seed of death is implanted
possibility of death is thereby grafted onto what would
otherwise be immortal. Parents are called to give death of a
clothed and which was received by him with seed of death at
incorrect ideas, for example, created by Woodrow Wilson out
Christ in us”, it is the greatest blasphemy against
life-and-death struggle must be endured by him who would meet
created in order to understand the social connections of
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Title: On The Gospel of St. John
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progress in technical skill, the efforts of our greatest thinkers,
life. But in those past times a great spiritual power was in
spiritual forces of great power, inspired and brought a spiritual
part of one great chain. We are the messengers of the Godhead, and
Paradise. In free, creative activity men must transform the Earth.
realise the great dangers lying in materialism, the prevalent nervous
not greater than his Lord; neither he that is sent, greater than he
the passage stands: “The servant is not greater than his Lord,
and the Apostle is not greater than he that sent him.”
occultist says: The Gods have created the physical body in
theosophical teaching. “The Apostle is not greater than the
pass. This power is given us by the Great Masters who are the Keepers
theosophists. When we let the breath of the Spirit stream through our
Light which comes to us from Christ Jesus, the greatest of our

Title: Occult Significance of Blood
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treats it in the light of an ironical remark made by Mephistopheles,
greater clearness.
Questions of great importance are pressing upon us these days;
and which cannot fail to be recognized by all who note the great
we are also confronted by great, serious, and vital problems of the
constitutes the very breath of life. Through the absorption of this
has repeated in itself all the earlier stages of human growth, thus
its seat in the astral body. And so we come to see that that which has
This etheric body is, in its turn, permeated by an astral body. And
to have inner experiences, if it is to create inner reflections of
permeated by what we have come to know as the astral body, for it is
permeated by nerves capable of sensation. If you look at a crystal you
little world, and a counterpart of the great world. And when substance
the most elementary creatures? Such sensations mirror the cosmic laws,
so that each separate living creature perceives within itself
elementary creature is thus an image of the life of the universe, just
living creatures is, of course, but dim. Yet this very vagueness of
consciousness is counterbalanced by its far greater range, for the
three bodies found in the simplest sensitive living creature.
developed astral body material for the creation of pictures, or
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Title: Lecture: The Lord's Prayer
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something of what is given by the great guiding spirits of humanity or by
the spiritual content of great civilizations in which the human being
embodies a great thought — not every thought is suitable, as you know,
wishes by prayer or entreaty, he would soon entirely disregard the
it, the thoughts of the great leaders of mankind draw the meditant onward
mankind to the great Atlantean flood recorded in the deluge-myths of all
as “the great sacrifice,” signifying the power of will to sacrifice
One may picture this “great sacrifice,” the highest expression of
When the will has become capable of making the “great sacrifice,” it
actually creates a universe, great or small, whose mission is bestowed
upon it by its creator. Such is the creative will in the Divine Being.
Now imagine the inner being of a Divinity that has in this way created a
the “outpouring” — when Divinity makes the “great
being into a reflected image is an exact picture of this divine creative
entire universe. In spiritual science, this process of Divinity repeating
kingdom,” “animal kingdom” and all the great divisions of
separate members of the great multiplicity of the kingdom, distinguishing
separate members of the great multiplicity of the kingdom are distinguished
body with the hour-hand and the minute-hand of a clock. A great
knowledge. The student has accomplished a great deal, indeed, if he has
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Title: Lecture: On Chaos and Cosmos
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created the Heaven and the Earth; and the Earth was without form and
knowledge at that time. Comenius, the great educationist and thinker
to our own times it has secretly carried on and handed on the great
Amos Comenius, the great educationalist, was among those who
a gas? When you heat water, and cause it to evaporate, water vapour
particles. You can divide the great majority of substances into
vapour. But you can heat them still further. By further heating you
We can learn a great deal from this sentence. Helmont calls what he
spiritual way. In the breath that flows from the mouth, that turns to
The breath, for them, came from the inner being, from the soul; thus
the whole world to them was the result of the outbreathing of the
than man has today. Space, to them, was not a great infinite void in
created, and spring forth through the Word of the original Divine
beautiful words of the Bible: “In the beginning God created
over the waters. Into the waters the creating words of the Godhead
the Chaos, all things are permeated by it. It was the first and
and lives on, along with the world. Everything is still permeated by
the Chaos — every stone, every plant, every animal is permeated
by the Chaos. Our soul and our Spirit are permeated with the Chaos.
beautiful things that are found in the works of these great men, he

Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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through in the time between death and a new birth.
the idea that in the regions in which man lives between death
time between birth and death. Now let us suppose that the man
dies he goes through the period between death and a new birth
between death and re-birth-between two incarnations? If a man
previously lived in ancient Egypt and after death passed into
between death and re-birth, we give a general picture of what
this life is. Starting from the moment of death, we describe
how after the man has developed the great memory tableau
death and re-birth, in this purely spiritual existence. You
of the life between death and re-birth approximately as
for that world also in which man lives between death and
death and a re-birth at the time of the Egyptian, the ancient
ourselves how in that age when birth and death could first be
when at death the Atlantean passed into the world beyond,
peculiarity of this life between death — a re-birth
death and re-birth, in place of the self-consciousness,
time between death and re-birth. That blissful feeling of
birth and death gained an increasing value, and the old dim
physical world. We have often spoken of the great
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Title: Lecture: The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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compared with what we should call today the most grotesque creatures.
in their form. They were those in whom the heart, the seat of the
nourishment, of procreation, were especially developed. In the third
itself, so that the procreation of humanity was especially cared for
the spiritual, a non-sexual procreation. The bull race, however,
nature retained this mode of procreation, since the fructifying force
more of the activity based on physical creation. Occultly regarded,
procreation was yet possible, then we must say: The external physical
other. This is also the case, even in the greatest things we

Title: Lecture: Christianity in Human Evolution
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since repeatedly experienced reincarnations during the
able to descend repeatedly to incarnate vicariously in a human body.
The greatest avatar being who has lived on earth, as you can gather
incarnate repeatedly but obtain no benefit from their earthly
narrative a great part of post-Noah humanity is derived from his
complications in human evolution that can explain a great deal to us.
his threefold sheath. First, however, we will take into account
to the pupils of the Apostles. Great value was set upon being able to
The great prominence that was given to everything of a physical
plane to which the greatest importance was attached.
Christ, of His death on the cross and of His continuing life in the
it the greatest folly had they been told that the events of Palestine
Nazareth had been preserved and were woven into a great number of
Here we see verified a great historical truth that should be of
must rediscover the primordial wisdom of the Great Avatar, Christ. By
As the greatest Avatar Being, Christ descended to earth. Let us view
existence. What the human being is in particular, the great
far greater things and the Christian development and standard of life

Title: Isis and Madonna
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has repeatedly pointed out how a man who draws near the secrets
for art. And all through life Goethe showed in his creations how art
spiritual forces in his soul. This is for him the great moment in
In these lectures it was repeatedly indicated that when man practices
repeatedly been drawn to how, in the sense of spiritual science we
This being of soul is sheathed from outside in the lower elements of
little world in the great world, who out of his purified soul brings
within him is a new begetting of cosmic creative activity.
in the figure of the Madonna. These Madonnas are, it is true, greatly
age when Christ had already passed through death but is portrayed with
representations repeated so impressively in olden times and which is
being interred in many graves. Hence the great number of tombs of
death itself becomes an Osiris.
which the soul enters after death where Osiris holds sway. But at the
after death — that he could be united with Osiris. The initiate
round the earth. The learned ones of the earth in council have created
death.
finding him through initiation or death. By conjuring this Osiris and
seated on golden tripods — three Mothers. The human soul has passed
The globe represents the creative activity of the cosmos. I should
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Title: Lecture: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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is a much greater similarity in the more important mythological
sense. The great mythological figures lead us back to the experiences
There were Mysteries of great significance, deeply influencing ancient
of the womb of worlds, out of the great universe.’ To-day the
rites of Initiation were a means of revealing to the pupil that death
is only one of the many processes in life. Death changes nothing at
neophyte was put into a condition resembling death; his senses could
because their creators were conscious of an inner union between the
essential feature of European culture, namely, the development of a
danger likely to be far greater here than in other regions of the
and legends of Europe to the Mysteries. We should find a great deal in
thing that can reveal whether a certain feature in the legends is
tells of the Twilight of the Gods. But then came the news of the great
Mysteries the Initiate had not fully vanquished death. — But now
immortality, with knowledge of victory over death. The soul is
often told you of the great stimulus given to the evolution of man by
between birth and death, but my blood streams into me from my Father
the ancient Hebrew felt himself part of one great whole, secure in the
permeated the Druidic and Trottic Mysteries that the Initiates
creation.
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Title: The Nature and Origin of the Arts
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beings who are active through an artist's true creativity.
imagine a great snow-clad plain spread out before us and upon
part of me; thou wilt become as great as I am myself; in this
and suns in the sky in order first to create the physical
woman's soul expand, waxing great and beautiful. And the
personalities; that which permeates them in the form of a
individual talent in the great domain after which thou hast
with plastic fancy, with the ability to create in plastic
with me. By this means thou canst place a creative
greatest difficulties will occur when thou allowest men to
soul itself beneath thy inspiring influence. They must fan
souls, as if they were creating from heavenly heights! And
when men create in this fashion, something will flow out of
out of the souls of men. They will be enabled to create
would freeze to death if they were dependent upon verbal
the possibility of breathing out the innermost being of the
breathe into the souls of men that faculty which men on earth
stage to the forms assumed by the will when heated passions
of conflicting passions brings death to one side and victory
aware that the other woman, who had nearly frozen to death
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Title: Lecture: Buddha and Christ
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and the great facts of evolution, as being similar to Buddhism. But
identified with Buddhism, namely, the conception of repeated lives on
Reincarnation, or repeated lives on earth, is also to be found in the
better if we do not at once turn to the great doctrines — which
carriage, is. Are the shafts the carriage? No. Is the seat you sat
carriage, for the yoke could not carry thee. True it is that the seat
theories and principles, cleaves these two great world-conceptions
conception as expressed by the great Founder of Buddhism himself. The
but joy, where disease and death had never come near him, and where
Heavily indeed, did this discovery weigh upon the great soul of
Buddha! Life contained pain, sorrow and death. He had seen it for
sickness, old age, and death within it!’ And out of that cry
sorrow! Old age is sorrow! Sickness is sorrow! Death is sorrow! All
to the great Buddha, there arises by degrees within men's souls
enlightenment under the Bodhi-tree, gave out in the great sermon at
building stones for the completion of a great edifice that is to
greatest of the forms of its presentation, no less than in its
only are there repeated lives on earth, but that history rules in
Nirvana, his state of bliss, solely in the relinquishing of repeated
is Maya, it is the Great Deception!’ ‘Not so,’
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Science and Speech
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the inner life of some great individuality may feel that human speech
life. Those who have knowledge will be able to learn a great deal
of Speech’ assumes great significance.
enumerate, — and they have been evolved with great diligence, —
Ego; and since this work begins with a regulation of the breathing
German ‘atmen’ (to breathe) is derived.
sheaths.
it was elaborated, permeated and interwoven with the etheric body,
and grew more complicated. Then it was permeated by the astral body
of the external world. But this physical body has to do a great deal
more than create a knowledge of the external world through the senses
these three members. Thus it must be said that spiritual creation,
spiritual activity has been at work on our sheaths, imparting form,
inner movement and activity of the sheaths of the human being. Before
have to do with an individual soul, with a soul permeated by an Ego
as yet unpermeated by the Ego, the result of which is to-day
body in such a way that it has become permeated by an etheric or life
material world is permeated and woven through by Spiritual Beings.
seek in the light the hidden essence that is able to create an eye.
say that the air is permeated and ensouled by a Being who at a
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Title: Lecture: Prayer
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only to gain an illuminating insight into the great laws of
that lecture, as a great and wonderful preparatory school for
misunderstood than when it is permeated with some form of
within us greater than all that we have employed to form
from the past. This sense of something greater is the first
there is something within us that is greater than our own
in judgment or in shame and regret, feels something great
flow into itself out of the stream of the past, it creates
mightier thing it left unused and that has not permeated its
were possessed of this greatness, it would be different, but
speak these great and significant lines to
within us to full development, we have now permeated our
devotion to prayer, the greatest mystics found the best
heat in the cosmos that appears in higher beings as physical
inner warmth and it originally created the higher beings; the
their surroundings. As this physical heat interiorizes a
prayer began to be permeated with an egoism that impels the
know this feeling, when our environment becomes breathless
cleverness it created by its own thinking. What it brought
to feel this, it must be called up by the greatest thoughts,
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Title: Lecture: Mendelssohn's 'Overture of the Hebrides'
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constructed with great symmetry in long aisles of countless pillars
foaming waves of the sea which ceaselessly beat and resound with a
beneath, making melodious magical music.
upon the battlefields and to shed their blood, but that after death
But all this creates an altogether different conception of humanity.
It creates the conception that the human being is united with
that they create for us again a consciousness of the connection of
able to make a great impression upon spiritual Europe. The whole
children of echoing Selma! Come to the death of thousands. Comhal's
the king. Then slowly he retired to the rising heath of Lena. His
Attend to the words of his power! Gaul, strongest arm of death! O!
and clarified, and had become words which could express the greatest
now works further in mankind is of great significance for occult

Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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as well as in inner contents, we have created the ground on which we stand
science, to seek first to create a fundamental feeling, and we have
understand a great part of the world. But human nature is difficult to
of the astral world. The astral world is peopled by a great number of
know, of course, that actually far the greater part of mankind's social
dangerous, and a great deal of what is said about its danger is connected
world precisely within a spiritual movement. That will be a great field of
— to create on the physical plane an image of the astral world.
in it and as it permeates our physical space, is in a certain respect

Title: Astral World: Lecture II: Some Characteristics of the Astral World
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both in the words and in the ideas. Therefore, in wider circles a greater
there will then be a great number who say, “That is all stupidity
body consists of the same, and therefore, I can treat the human body
if the etheric body were not to permeate it in every part. Hence, the
leaf after leaf develops, since the plant's physical body is permeated by
There is a kind of wreath of leaves forming the calyx of the flower,
essentials, they are still leaves — greatly transformed leaves.
It was in Goethe's great
goes over to the animal. That is the great difference. If you take a leaf
form leaves and flowers, then the plant-soul permeates and tastes all
permeates it and in which the soul nature of the plants plays its part,
as absorption of food. On the one hand, the being eats — on the
sea-creatures, which you will understand if you remember what we have
creatures that have a remarkable life as marine creatures. We see in them
the whole stem, which they permeate.
creature must seek other spots where it can find new food. For this, it
enabled to reach other creatures for food. The “medusae” move
And such medusae, which are genuine movement-creatures, have now also
only there as a protection, so that what lies beneath has a certain
structures, but if the creature is attacked by some hostile creature, the
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Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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fore; for another goal, thinking must retreat, and again for another goal,
the wreath of roses and all such symbols are to bring to expression
after death, which in anthroposophical literature we call the period
can give him. With death, the physical body is stripped off and left
behind, and so, too, the etheric body to a great extent, but the astral
immediately after death, but only gradually. If a person has longed
but after death the soul lacks the physical instrument with which to
astral world — whether after death or through other means —
think that someone leaves the physical body, either through death or
then in the moment when through death or initiation one is out of the
body, the red circle changes into nothing, because one permeates the
death. Through a certain universal relationship, so much harm has not
human being one is led there after death — what does such a
or in the case of the ordinary human being after death, such a one will
to play their part in the Creation. When they poured out on Saturn their
where the whole being is permeated with ever-new nuances of bliss, where

Title: Prophecy -- Its Nature and Meaning
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Lichtenberg, a great German humourist, as a kind of rejoinder: “In
Think of one of the greatest natural scientists of all time and of
prophecies is well known: think of Kepler, the great
culture today, the greatest stumbling-block in these astrological
after him; not only was he one of the greatest astronomers of all
would then be obvious to which category the greater number of tokens
so in those days) to have great confidence in Kepler and on many
at Gravelingen in the year 1558, where the French were defeated with
astronomer of great eminence in his day. Tycho de Brahe was also
of men are connected with happenings in the great Cosmos. Tycho de
predicting the death of the Sultan Soliman, which although it did not
to a great age. As the hour of birth was not quite accurate, Tycho de
endure the ordeal of terrible storms at sea. He came very near death,
death. Such things made a great impression upon people at the time
weighs less than that of the male. After his death, however, his own
Mars would bring him great misfortune. He was an opponent of all such
modern astronomer — a man greatly to be respected too, for his
death cannot be said to have been correctly predicted in the
between the macrocosm, the great world, and the microcosm, the little
gets on quite well but after a few years, great inner difficulties
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Title: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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so-called scientific findings, repeatedly raised objections to the
“Death and Immortality”, [an untranslated lecture given in
of death. Man brings these forces and substances into the physical
which decay sets in the moment the etheric at death is loosened from
same degree as daily consciousness, but lives beneath the threshold of
to the great surprise of his friend Overbeck, he immediately went on
it has disclosed a great deal about what lies hidden in the depths of
we find that this dream has a great deal to show us. First it points
repeated.
would be repeated throughout the week. It would then disappear for
years, but would again return, be repeated for a week, then disappear
filled with a greater capacity for expressing himself in his drawing.
ignorant of what his soul experiences yet this works creatively in him;
at other times this creative activity is discontinued and then it rises
and contain much greater wisdom than the fully conscious man is aware
the world's basis its creative element, “the creative imagination
imagination is more creative in the things than reason can render
shows how in its depths life holds far greater riches than appear on
think world creative forces run parallel with Imagination, because
infinite being among creative beings who are infinite as the soul. Only
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Title: Good Fortune Its Reality and Its Semblance
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acceptable to many of our contemporaries we may count that of repeated
to a recognition of the enlightening nature of these great truths.
bequeathing a large fortune to the child. She died, however, while the child
the death of his father — who had not long to live — he would be
called to his father's death-bed. Now, to add to the troubles of this
through between birth and death. In such a case we seem compelled to look
beyond the limits set by birth and death.
development in the struggle against wind and weather and other conditions
speak of “misfortune” when we see a great martyr who has something
of importance to transmit to the world, condemned to death by hostile
himself alone; on the contrary, he attaches great importance to its
luck of the gambler — here no doubt the small and the great have much in
successful unless it were sent in to the manager of the theatre concerned
my play in to the theatre”, he said. “Is it finished then?”
1837. It was his fate to serve for the greater part of his life as a common
quartermaster. This man left behind him a great number of poems, not only
perfect in form but permeated by a deep life of soul. He left excellent
a man to create happiness out of his inmost being.
being goes through the gate of death and passes into a super-sensible world,
insignificant, but I am glad that my fortune has brought me something greater.
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science
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that the greatest triumphs of natural science have been realized just
on the one side the great longing aims at a pure natural development
A great part of the thinkers of the present and the recent past did
can be called in the real sense an original procreation or an issuing
“earth” has done its breathing — so to say —
huge enormous organism, the breathing of which we have to look for in
out in a new direction who have obtained the greatest results of
It is indeed true that the great results of natural science performed
in which this great pioneer points out the way in which he succeeded
assumes that — as he says literally — “the Creator
from the Creator. As we can know from Darwin's whole manner of
that if we could assume there was life in its simplest forms created
separately created by the sublime Originator of all things.”
creation of all species at their starting point, and that he must
this? Could not the Almighty Infinite create an order of matter (things?)
Creator — but he restricts himself to the presentation of what
has emanated out of this Will of the Creator and what issues forth in
great progress in natural science, if one goes back only about two
it is beaten enough, a species of worms would develop which could
bed, and this physical body is permeated with that which in a
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Title: Lecture: Death in Man, Animal, and Plant
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DEATH
concerning the nature of death. From a certain point of view one
nature of death have been sought in the main without success. On the
and in human society; here the opinion has repeatedly been expressed
death, immortality and the like, are to be examined. Modern science
wherever death intervenes in existence, we find, when we look more
too, has been often emphasized here) that when the great questions of
of the death of created beings. This has come about in a peculiar
be mentioned, who has handled the question of the nature of death in
has written on the nature of death from the standpoint of his natural
concerning the data, the actualities, which bring about the death of
deaths, though we may perhaps have occasion later to refer to these
violent deaths brought about by accidents or otherwise. When,
however, we discuss the question of the nature of death —
phenomena of life before our eyes in such a way that death belongs
among them. So, then, the riddle of death can be solved only in the
case of so-called natural death, which is brought about at the end of
could give a real reason why death, the annihilation of the being,
death makes its appearance without our being able to give the ready
drawing towards death; that this is brought about by exhaustion. This
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Title: Lecture: The Nature of Eternity
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his masterly treatise, ‘The Education of the Human
repeated earthly lives experienced by the human soul, and
theory of repeated earthly lives is the only reasonable one
human soul from accepting the doctrine of repeated earthly
repeated earthly lives be in accordance with truth, they
justice towards oneself. Repeated earthly lives require an
to a far greater extent than is generally believed, we
earlier lives on Earth created the destiny in which I am now
certainly not reveal itself only after death, but must be
death but must belong to it already during earthly life. If
during its existence from birth to death and everything
present one, and of the causes we are now creating to take
repeatedly finds that all that takes its course there
we experience repeatedly every twenty-four hours: sleep. It
be no great difference between that and the emergence of the
to know the ego in its activity, in its creative impulse; and
this experience proves to us that this creative element,
sleep is needed. We know quite well how lack of sleep creates
of soul. We realise our need of sleep as a creative element,
have gathered their greatest strength by the time the gate of
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Title: Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci
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His Spiritual and Intellectual Greatness
to what the picture expresses, is embodied in them. In his treatise
the soul — aye, the very heartbeat of the twelve Disciples —
door heightened. This ruined a great part of the picture. Then at one
short, the picture received the most barbarous treatment. Then there
the magic creation which Leonardo once painted on this wall has been
greatness, of the power and content of the comprehensive personality
mouth, and the features which betray something of the opposition
making the greatest artistic plans, constantly making new ones. He
had also commissions from people who recognized his great gift and
he wanted to create and then he began to study; but in what did this
whole day if a feature interested him, and sometimes he would invite
might study their features in the different soul experiences. Once,
attained the creation of any work of which he could say it was in any
Leonardo, which was too great in itself ever to be able to reveal its
full greatness.
great and comprehensive genius Leonardo was.
occasion — arranging this or that artistic or theatrical event,
greatest contrasts; one cannot paint them in one year; there are no
there is a wonderful treatise on painting. In it painting in its
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 1. Materialism and Spirituality.
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LECTURE 1MATERIALISM AND SPIRITUALITY.Life and Death.Berlin, 6th February, 1917.
place where the great destinies of the time are being fulfilled:
And to the Spirits of those, who have passed through the gate of death:
difficult tasks! (These meditations were repeated at the beginning of
Motzkus shared in the great events of our time, right up to the last
days of her life. She told me repeatedly that she would like to remain
of the most prominent and learned men is making a very great
psychologist, Frederick Myers who, before his death many years ago,
and made a great impression upon them, especially as various things
afforded great surprise to the family, and strangely enough, they also
caused great surprise to a wide public. They would not have surprised
through the gates of death. From the other side he told them that he
not only might one say that such a case would naturally make a great
passes through the gate of death, the human individuality is at first
You see how greatly one may be misled by striving to give a
the form in which He will be seen in the great moment of evolution in
the twentieth century, that the great moment is being now prepared.
regards its present actions far from being permeated with the
may be so permeated by the words of the Gospels as to form some idea
immeasurably greater force than anything else on earth, — so it
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 2. The Metamorphoses of the Soul-Forces
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course of time, must lead to a spiritualising and permeating of the
greatly altered in the course of the development of mankind. Only at
passed into the Spiritual world through the portal of death. It was
himself from eating because he has eaten the day before. At meals one
repeats the same process over and over again. Life is a constant
torpid, was yet created by spirit. In particular, shall we become
permeated by the life of the spirit, our inner attention increases. It
with all its crude brutality. In this respect there is a great deal of
very great space of time; the difficulty is to have the Spiritual
constitutes the great difficulty of grasping the Spiritual world. Were
connection with the great Cosmos, which is composed of both substance
the whole great Cosmic Connection, as each one of our fingers is a
today — at least the great majority no longer feel themselves members of
the great World-Organism, in so far as they as Spiritual beings are
the great Greek philosopher, called these 25,920
years a cosmic year — the great Platonic Cosmic year. Now if one
In his normal state a man draws eighteen breaths a minute. This
varies, because he breathes rather quicker in childhood and more
draws eighteen breaths a minute. It is easy to reckon that 18 times 60
make 1,080, which is the number of breaths to the hour: multiply this
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 3. The Human Soul and the Universe (part 1)
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by the divine-spiritual beings that permeate the outer universe and
— I might say — to our great astonishment it can be expressed by
the fact that the number of breaths a man draws in a day equals the
can, if we permeate them with feeling, fill us with awe, with a holy
manifested out of the Macrocosm, the great world, is felt as still
to the great cosmic future of man, to these three stages of evolution,
Angels. It is of great importance that one should enter somewhat
the life of today, permeated as it is by materialistic opinions,
the ego and the physical body is very greatly displaced in present-day
man. The second meeting is already more in connection with the great
year. When the sun develops its greatest heat, man is much more
the heavens — with the great Cosmic conditions. For Easter is
itself with our physical earth manhood. The great Mystery that now
disappears into us and permeates us, so that He can remain with us
to the way in which Christ is now able to penetrate and permeate our
permeates the world, and which we can now hardly distinguish in
— at the present day to a great extent unconsciously, yet it is
greatness, and of the sublimity of the world-processes. We are
withholding a great deal from the growing boy and girl if we fail to
draw their attention to all the revelations of beauty and greatness in
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 4. Morality, As A Germinating Force
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theory of the creation of the world, according
developed; nay, more: to the great majority of men who study it, it
impulses must have played a part in its creation. Still it remains a
nature — heat, electricity, and so on — intervene in the plan of
like heat which expands bodies, or like light which illuminates them
and makes them visible and permeates the world of space. For this
moral force is present and soars as a great illusion over the
to gauge the views of the world held by others, ideas permeated by
particular time, a great, perhaps even the greatest Teacher of the
Earth-world appeared, and that His teaching is the thing of greatest
importance. Now, if Christ is only considered as the greatest Teacher
things, it might still be possible for a great Teacher to arise who
the weather will be or what separate events may affect our lives. In
only knows of what is great and cosmic; not of the weather. If one
could therefore predict the weather. This does not alter the fact that
every night. This meeting with the Father-Principle is of very great
while when death is premature it occurs sooner. You know that, as the
permeated with reality than the merely mystical marriage of Mechthild
in greater illusion than these despised men at the time of the old
permeated with reality, can be perceived in the ordinary things of the
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 5. The Human soul and the Universe (part 2)
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in its life between birth and death, and which even while still in
actually bring about great catastrophe. These half-true concepts are
up, though it is in a great measure still believed, is the idea I have
outside our body, for in the life between birth and death we are still
other ideas with this division of the human being. The great Greek
soul and spirit sense in his physical life between birth and death,
seem, the ego of man is between birth and death, physically connected
dream-consciousness — beats and pulsates under the influence of
of the spirit, its greatest manifestation; here the spirit has entered
it. But in this greater portion of spirit which does not dwell within
will then become spiritualised by a magical breath of holiness. We
is given me whereby I am permeated with the spiritual world, which is
and permeated in his whole collective existence by the Grace of the
does indeed prevail to a great extent, in this materialistic age. In
develops his feelings for the great concerns of the world, that he can
up to the thoughts given us in Spiritual Science of the great
the great goals of humanity, we can then rise above all the emotions
It is undoubtedly necessary, that through Spiritual Science, a great
through it. This, however, is of great significance. It is immensely
go through the Gates of Death, is thereby cut off.
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 6. Man and the Super-Terrestrial
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the physical and etheric bodies during sleep — being breathed
forth as it were, on going to sleep and breathed in again on waking
great course of the world-order, with respect to this rhythm. In olden
symbolic creative imagination of the ancients; it says, we in our
dubious echoes of this greatness in their superstitious fancies. When
that great matter of which I have described. Therein the endeavour was
continue to be held in harmony with the rhythm of the great universe,
to him, that, though he can no longer come into touch with the great
of very great importance to our age. I have often drawn your attention
gained, not only of the great religions, but of every form of
Christ did not suffer death for a limited number of people, nor was He
words to express them. One is often obliged to express the great
with what lives in the course of the year as does the breath in a man;
earth in the Mystery of Golgotha, with the great secrets of the world
of man. A great deal of social science is practised in our day, and
not in sleep, but at death. For the soul on leaving the body goes
outer life. These form just as great opposites in man as above and
to do with what I might call a representative delineation of the whole
life in connection with the life and death of man, we refer to the
period, so something yet greater must be connected with the sun,
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 7. Errors and Truths.
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Spiritual life, and the effects of which were much greater than is
nineteenth century. This book is of the very greatest interest, more
postponed for a long time by the great resistance made in the external
repeatedly alluded to is not sufficiently realised — that
play so great a part with Jacob Böhme and Paracelsus: Mercury,
Breathing-Man? De Saint-Martin replies, Sulphur. So that according to
fine treatise (which to the modern physicist is of course utter
true Spiritual Scientist can read a great deal between the lines in
with the French Revolution, one must read a great deal between the
surveying longer periods of time and applying to greater epochs what
the schoolmaster Hartmann, who had a great influence on Jung Stilling
reminds us in his convinced acceptance of Theosophy, of those great
the Spirits behind created things.
there was a very real existence; he was profoundly permeated by the
existence, either divine or creative. This is a startling and new
understanding of created things and their history, without clear and
world, which is the object and aim of Creation, for only thus can
sweeping away the dust from these documents on account of their great
their features. No wonder there are so many passages of which a host
laid great stress on calculation; he reckoned out the periods of
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Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Universe
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by the divine-spiritual beings that permeate the outer universe and
— I might say — to our great astonishment it can be expressed by
the fact that the number of breaths a man draws in a day equals the
can, if we permeate them with feeling, fill us with awe, with a holy
manifested out of the Macrocosm, the great world, is felt as still
to the great cosmic future of man, to these three stages of evolution,
Angels. It is of great importance that one should enter somewhat
the life of today, permeated as it is by materialistic opinions,
the ego and the physical body is very greatly displaced in present-day
man. The second meeting is already more in connection with the great
year. When the sun develops its greatest heat, man is much more
the heavens — with the great Cosmic conditions. For Easter is
itself with our physical earth manhood. The great Mystery that now
disappears into us and permeates us, so that He can remain with us
to the way in which Christ is now able to penetrate and permeate our
permeates the world, and which we can now hardly distinguish in
— at the present day to a great extent unconsciously, yet it is
greatness, and of the sublimity of the world-processes. We are
withholding a great deal from the growing boy and girl if we fail to
draw their attention to all the revelations of beauty and greatness in
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Title: The Story of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily: Lecture I
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I should like to ask you, by means of the example of a great
in study, we find, not only the great Poet very pre-eminently there,
inexhaustible fund of greatness. And if we have learned to add to our
created a work of art of eternal beauty. The direct, symbolical
but of living it; not merely a question of permeating wisdom with the
divine, that it is permeated by the Divine Cosmic Blood, which draws
This was the question for the Mystics of all ages; and this great
himself took a great deal of trouble to become acquainted with the
spiritually. All that the great Spirits have disclosed about the
substances and metals in the retorts, and they took great trouble to
misuse his freedom, and will never create a disturbance in the circle
the “Lion,” the creature in which the Will is most
action of our own, by the forces lying beneath our consciousness,
cultivates (frohmen) his passions, the River throws up great waves.
knowledge, permeates itself with the gold; this “self” is
entirely permeated with wisdom, and becomes luminous. Then the
place. Then the man may venture to permeate himself with wisdom —
found the three great priests of Initiation; these priests were
the evening, when the shadow of the great giant is thrown across the
twilight. What is this shadow of the great giant? Goethe went into
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Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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and bequeathed to humanity in his theory? The origin and change of the
life was breathed by a Creator of worlds. This is what Darwin himself
of ours! Create better outer conditions for human beings and the
think of the greatest writer at the present time you will perceive how
and the great world of stars. But in later times, life has become
in death. Death is still the great stumbling-block for the
material world alone as real, grasp the meaning of death, how can he
get the mastery over life when death stands at its end like a barrier,
surmounted this standpoint of materialism. In the novel The Death
And here we find a remarkable understanding of death, not as theory or
makes it possible to think of death not as an end but as an outpouring
the rediscovery of the self in the great primal Spirit of the world.
The problem of death is here solved by the artist in a wonderful way.
Death has become a blessing in life. a dying man feels the
“However strong or rapid a man's movements may be in his death
paroxysm of passion, we do not recognise life in him, we do not treat
treat him accordingly.” (p. 62)
great and impressive though they may be! Go bade to the original,
himself creates form. You must enrich his soul, imbue his soul with
hope of the future. His judgment is based on the great law of
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Title: Lecture: On The Three Magi
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on the 6th of January) will assume greater and greater significance
single individual a grave was created for Manas — for the dismembered
death. What is the meaning of dying and of resurrection, as
The great sacrifice made by Jesus of Nazareth is that he gave up his
mystical fact then consummated. At the moment of Christ's death, the
Myrrh is the symbol of sacrifice, of death, the sacrifice of the
In the Lemurian Race, Osiris meets his death, in the Sixth Root Race,
understand more and more what a Magi is, and what the great Magi, the

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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The Great Initiates
any other we may meet because it can satisfy to such a great extent
not, to a certain extent, the greatest arrogance for anyone to regard
essential nature of such schools — and of the great Initiates
strokes to illuminate the essential being of these great Initiates.
simply a creation in which work chemical and physical forces, but a
living creation, a creation that lives and is endowed with capacities
creation, this etheric body, produces man's essential life. Its color
above both space and time. Such thoughts are contained in the great
an eternal truth of the kind that flows from the great Initiates, or
notice the deep influence that emanates from the greatly
great Initiate such as Buddha does not speak out of a vaguely felt
out of the great Initiates' deepest knowledge. Initiates know that
you see how the great Initiates essentially gave their directions for
Chela, a real student of the great Initiates. Then he can be led
stages which belong to the great Initiates, those Initiates who at
all times have given the great impulses to our culture. They were
found the great religions of the world.
great religions that came forth from the great Initiates; it was
exercised on the world by the great Initiates who have gone through
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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wishes to create electricity in a glass rod, yet refuses to rub it.
forms the basis for the greatest advantages and greatest achievements
the deep solitude the yogi must seek. One must repeat the same matter
this does not happen. These are great difficulties in our
are beneath humanity, but in a certain sense you are far above
humanity. You are beneath humanity because you cannot make for
give people high ideas, great teaching,” and so on. The
“The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is
sent greater than he that sent him.” These words were spoken
they must reach equanimity and steadiness. Neither the greatest
sorrow nor the greatest joy must unsettle their composure. They must
course will lead you to the great ability to tolerate, and to an
enable us to meet matters with the greatest possible openness. In
greatest precision. Then comes the occult life, whose
so does the life of the physical body. The heart beats rhythmically,
the lungs breathe rhythmically, and so forth. All this proceeds so
wonderful organ with the regular beat and innate wisdom, and you
creating rhythm in our astral body. What does it mean to fast? It
means to restrain the desire to eat and to block the astral body in
develops no desire to eat. This is like blocking a force in a
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun
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once inaugurated the great Festivals as tokens of what is eternal and
will; she will not cherish hatred for her created work. It was not I
strictly in accordance with the great laws which pervade the realm of
The ranks of living creatures thou dost lead
that the great Festivals were inaugurated.
itself was created. Yet the alphabetical word ought to be the
representative, the symbol of the Word Creative in Nature around us,
in the great universe and within us too when self-knowledge awakens,
a token of something greater still, of something momentous and unique.
great happening on the Earth. At the hour of midnight the priests
teachers of the people, and spoke to them of a great Mystery. (I am
came that great moment in evolution when the immortal, imperishable
descended. This descent of the divine ‘Sons of the Spirit,’ this great
of the other creatures belonging to the Earth — the plants and
children of the great universe and they said: “We have become men
the great moment when they had received the impulse which was
all-essential for their earthly existence. And this great moment was
the great rhythms of Nature. If we think of all that encompasses the
of your pulse, your breathing, and then of the irregularity, the
meet the challenge of the chaotic! And how greatly the rhythms of the
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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with occult powers observes the great differences in human types, it
still inwardly upright and honest Christians, those who are permeated
knowledge exist great distinctions. The first important
great importance. They may work unconsciously in the pupil's
evolution, the great viewpoints which have been opened by the
do a great deal for himself. He can, for example, look closely at a
out in the country, the farmer's wife plucks a goose's feathers, she
actually calls the interior of the feather “the soul.”
lessons is repeated from week to week. But who does that in normal
into the pupil's breathing. Inhaling, holding the breath, and
formation of the human physical body. The eye was created by light,
great value upon an objective and quiet contemplation of the external
between death and a new birth. This confronts him in
science will be served well by this map after death. The occultist
this would bring him great benefit in the other world.

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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the experience that must permeate the pupil on gazing at the
which permeates the mineral kingdom is chastity.
sheaths gradually began to form with the cooling process, enveloping
for instance, the life that goes forth from death. Thus in Goethe's
the Devachanic plane. When one sees a precious stone and is permeated
in a chaotic age, in an age devoid of style. All great epochs of art
spiritual world view permeated and saturated everything. In the
created. The modern age is entirely different; it has brought forward

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture II
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sculptor, for example, wishes to create an ideal figure, say of Zeus,
completely to expression nor attain in her creations, at least not
with the details. The creative artist tries to recognize these
revelation of nature's secret intentions and that the creative
Goethe sees nature as the great, creative artist that cannot
the answer, saying that in all the other creative arts, such as
astral world. This is no newly created world. It is new only for a
if he undergoes the discipline of so-called “great stillness.”
He must become still, utterly still, within himself. The great peace
astral world, and he feels afloat in a great, deep peace. Gradually,
then louder and louder. The world of colors and light is permeated
this wondrous world through the portals of the “great
stillness.” Through the great stillness, the tone of this other
Leadbeater, for example, gives an accurate description of the astral
however, lies in tone. That which was light in the great stillness
region dwell inspired authors. Here they experience a real permeation
great art there are wonderful things that are much more
beneath the skin and thus characterizes Bacchus's nature. It is
as if the body were imbibing the light and, permeated with its own
which he created his paintings — that is not what matters —
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Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture III
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the Bach family, the great-great-grandfather of Johann Sebastian was
understand in this sense the words of the Bible: “God breathed
into man the breath of life, and he became a living soul.” In
heat it melts and becomes “water” in the esoteric sense.
physical body is permeated by the etheric body; similarly the astral
body permeates the etheric body. The astral element can descend as
in the element of air. Just as there were only cold-blooded creatures
at the outset of the Lemurian age, so up to now all creatures had
canals. The musical family's distinguishing feature is the

Title: Lecture: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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And at my feet fresh breathest from thy sleeping.
The dales, where through the mist-wreaths wind, lie dimmer,
Thus in decay and in the night of Death
Find the Creation's new beginning,
In darkness dwelling, create a Sun.
Greater Mysteries man beheld the forces working through all existence;
place at the time when darkness on the earth is greatest, when the
the evolution of humanity, realising that the great festivals have
presented as a picture which made them realise: For you too the great
out of apparent death, life arises, that life is born from the dead
The pupils of the Mysteries were to realise that within death, life is
overcoming of death by life, by the life that is present in death.
spiritual re-birth, as the great Ideal of all humanity and moreover
darkness is greatest, as a sign and token that out of the darkness of
and then again streams forth, as in its seeming death it holds life
power of his spiritual life had gained the victory over death, night
man; myrrh, the symbol of the victory of life over death; and
more death. But in the meantime only he who is an Initiate may take
which is a symbol of life that passes into death and yet has within it
the power to bring forth new life. The great symbol of worlds stands
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Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: Lecture 2: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
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indeed, a great deal more; and secondly, we should be willing to draw
as such, and then try to permeate the fairy tales with it. Not
what you have promised. You shall eat and drink well, as long as you
this, but till the bears come I must ask for as much to eat and drink
cannot slay the bears, and they kill me, I shall at least have eaten
manner of things that bears like to eat and drink — honey and
you can render me an even greater service. Every year great strong
that giants like to eat and drink, and went to meet them. On the way
made a great impression on the giants that he could do something
tailor was married to the king's daughter. The king marveled greatly
know it, but twice you have done me a great service; I will also do
they lived in great happiness, they themselves and all their people.
see what lives in that activity: wind, weather and other natural
trees, when they could control the weather, the mist and the rain.
stage where the human being had only the sheath of the ego. We see
will create the right sort of sensitivity to what you are telling.
backwards and forwards, armed with his sword, he saw something eating
he saw something eating the fire, and on looking closer saw it was a
was walking up and down carrying his sword, he saw something eating
fighting Creatures replied: “We are the sun and the dawn, we
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture II: Christianity in Human Evolution: Leading Individualities and Avatar Beings
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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
repeatedly reincarnated — reembodiedduring the
the being is able to descend repeatedly in certain intervals
blessing and progress of all human beings. To repeat —
The greatest
latter incarnate repeatedly, but that they derive no benefits
Nazareth when Christ entered his threefold sheath. However,
to which the greatest importance was given.
the existence of Christ, of His death on the cross, and of
verified a great historical law that should be of special
wisdom which is the primordial wisdom of the Great Avatar, of
descended to earth as the greatest avatar being. Let us view
existence. What the human being is in particular, the great
will offer humanity far greater things, and the Christian

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture X: The God of the Alpha and the God of the Omega
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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
features, one may come to the conclusion that it is a view of
our souls time and again those great comprehensive thoughts
rises in the wisdom that permeates our spiritual thinking.
moments of inner activity are repeated and we allow them to
Those who have a feeling for these great truths should hurry
the Great Spirit of the Sun with all its subordinate beings
all of nature is permeated by it.
between death and rebirth. For the peculiar thing in this
epoch was that consciousness between death and rebirth became
an individual in ancient India. When it passed through death
culture, such was less the case; the world between death and
death and rebirth. Human beings at this time wanted to
had the notion that in death he would be united with Osiris.
death.” And so, by clinging to Osiris, the soul tried
to create a surrogate for everything that could no longer be
form. Similarly, if the soul wanted to create a substitute
for the lost spiritual power of vision between death and
danger threatening humankind in those times was that
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 1: The Mission of Spiritual Science
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but a discipline which treats the spirit as something actual and real. It
great riddles of existence.
seventeenth century thinker who is of great significance for anyone who can
those days. This lonely thinker discusses the great central problem of the
something which enables him to recreate the world in the light of his inward
works as a unity, if he feels himself within the world as in a great,
permeates himself with all perfections and virtues, summons forth order,
selection, harmony and meaning, and attains in the end to the creation of a
have made possible the great progress of physical science.
gestures and forces which are divided up among a number of lower creatures.
Spiritual Science. This was a time of rest for the greater part of mankind.
historically important feature of Kant's philosophy. But in Kant's argument
We need only think of the great martyrs, who gave up everything the
great mediaeval split between those things that can be known by reason and
his inner life could extend to a vision of nature permeated by the Divine;
to pass out of existence at death, but that besides the physical part of his
throw light on the great riddles of existence. He will come to feel that
these riddles and the great questions of destiny can be resolved through
and death, and what is the eternal core of his being. In brief, it will be
Bathe in the roseate hues of dawn!

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 3: The Mission of Truth
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he overcomes falsehood and error and pursues truth as his great
must be the aim of man's endeavour, while he treats anger as an enemy to be
human interest. His aphorisms, found after his death, include a remarkable
gained great distinction through his lecture courses on the lives of
inevitably into self-seeking. Herein lies the great and most serious
that the entire realm of Nature is permeated with wisdom, and that wisdom
thinking we can rediscover the element that enters into the creation of the
other from “creative” thought.
repeatedly returns and ever and again goes through a series of events and
experiences between birth and death, we shall find how much satisfaction, how
great difference whether a man devotes himself to truths that come from
reflective thought or to those that come from creative thought. If we steep
ourselves in the wisdom of Nature and create in ourselves a true reflection
of it, we can rightly say that we have in ourselves something of the creative
be made. The wisdom of Nature is directly creative and gives rise to the
creative, productive element is absent from it. Hence the immediate effect of
creative power of the Ego is crippled and devitalised; the Self loses
himself to Nature's productive power and lets it work upon him. He creates a
different with creative thinking. Here a man is himself productive. His
attainable by creative thought are limited, for man is weak in the face of
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 4: The Mission of Reverence
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permeated by thinking. Its primary role is to receive impressions from the
levels; he has permeated the Sentient Soul with his thinking and with
permeate his Consciousness Soul, the impulse to do so must come from within
also, the will can be permeated by a force which goes out towards the
permeate the Ego; reverence is to flow from the Ego towards the object of
must then immediately exert itself to permeate with the life of thought the
consciousness to be illuminated by the light of creative thought. No one can
confirm. The stronger the will is to creative thinking, the greater is the
ever-greater heights.
permeate the soul. Or someone may relate how with trembling hand, later on,
particularly helpful when we are trying to unravel the great riddles of
always prone to error, are permeated by the light of the soul and transformed
element which must permeate all reverence — the Eternal-masculine.

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 6: Asceticism and Illness
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of earthly creation: the ego. These last two parts split off during sleep
great deal that is not present in the plant. He can experience impulses,
is permeated with instincts, desires and passions which may bring him into
to a further picture. The plant is permeated with the green colouring matter,
chlorophyll, which steeps the leaves in green colour. Man is permeated with
through our sense-perceptions. But the picture we create, though its elements
flow from these pictures he creates. The pictures call forth a number of
repeatedly emphasised that clairvoyance is not necessary for understanding
to permeate my spiritual life, they would confuse it; I could make nothing of
described in greater detail in my book,
may do him great harm. A person can develop all sorts of faculties and powers
great stress on a certain diet. This does not at all imply that such a mode
any meat-eater but will be superior in working capacity. That is the very
a little bit of meat!
slightest benefit. So long as a desire for meat persists, vegetarianism is
ago, someone was asked: “Why don't you eat meat?” He replied with
a counter-question: “Why don't you eat dogs or cats?”
what I feel about all meat.”
point. When pleasure in eating meat has gone, then to abstain from meat may
breaking the meat-eating habit can be helpful only for getting rid of the
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 7: Human Egoism
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selflessness. We shall not treat them as catch-words, but will try to
someone proves himself to be a great benefactor in one way or another. It
than that, for in fact this playing on words permeates our entire life and
Seek you the highest, the greatest?
character something as noble as the plant is on its own level. And the great
created being, if it belongs to those realms of the plant world which can be
of service to higher beings. And it will now be an idle triviality to repeat
himself to be living in the world as in a great and beautiful and worthy
finally rising to the creation of a work of art.”
for then the vegetable law retreats and becomes again merely a
the seed-bud. There is something great in this act of self-sacrifice by the
so far as he transforms his astral body, he creates what we call Spirit-self,
create what we call Life-spirit, or Buddhi. And when finally he masters the
said — enjoys the feeling of living in the wide expanse of a great and
creates harmony between himself and the world around him. Or he can let his
egoism, and we must now characterise it in greater detail.
any active interest in the great and beautiful ordering of nature from which
great and praiseworthy in himself would be absent, were it not for the people
the great law that we have gained from studying egoism and apply it to the
invigorate the human soul are those drawn from the life of the great outer
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 8: Buddha and Christ
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about world origins and the great facts of evolution. And if one particular
— namely our treatment of repeated earth-lives and the working of
repeated earth-lives is to be found among the ideas of Gautama Buddha, though
persons who know nothing of Theosophy. Even the great Orientalist, Max
never been defeated by a sage, being always able to repulse any objections
follows. Let us suppose that King Milinda has arisen from death as a
Christian and that the ensuing conversation is permeated, with the spirit of
the yoke alone you cannot drive. True, the seat is not the chariot, for with
the seat alone you cannot drive. And although the chariot is only a name for
this question of repeated earth-lives from the standpoint of Spiritual
truly not being given in order to promote opposition to the great originator
heavily on the Buddha's great soul that human life entails suffering and
death, as he had seen them in the sick man, the aged man and the corpse. For
he said to himself: “What is life worth if old age, sickness and death
is suffering, death is suffering. All existence is filled with suffering.
eight-fold path, in accordance with the teaching of the great Buddha. This
four holy truths that were proclaimed by the Buddha in his great sermon at
suffering — of release from the cycle of repeated lives on earth.
great edifice that is to arise by a bringing together of everything spiritual
This is evident in their ways of thinking about things great and small and in
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 9: Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
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human soul-life to the great connections we find in the wide universe, the
and is subject to the vast influence of the sun's light and heat, it was
sea, the moon has always been regarded as affecting weather conditions on
on the weather or on some other terrestrial phenomena. Schleiden, who had
he achieved a great deal for the more
investigator who tried, with immense assiduity and great care and precision,
game; and however stimulating a game of this kind may be, the greatest care
the weather, etc., he said that for these people the moon was like a cat in
Schleiden. It was the supposed connection of the moon with weather conditions
His first conclusion from a mass of facts — which I need not repeat,
frequency of rainfall were in many cases shown to be greater with a waxing
than with a waning moon: greater when the moon approached the earth, smaller
studied weather conditions on the odd and even dates of the moon's phases,
to recognise that the moon had no very great influence on the weather, but
us — you can read a poetical treatment of it in the second part of
the surface of ordinary life or in weather phenomena.
be collected in relation to weather conditions. Since Schleiden and I live
shame, the more so as she sets no great store by it. The result will be that
they would treat as a superstitious dreamer anyone who clung to the belief
that the moon could have anything to do with weather conditions and the like.
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture One: On the Investigation and Communication of Spiritual Truths
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greatly increase.
named in Oriental philosophy. They are the great spiritual
we have when we confront great spiritual truths. For what
confronts the great truths of humanity. In our Groups the
greatly but the most important of all is reverence for the
great truths and the feeling that we can approach them only
to grasp a great reality through a few concepts and ideas
be to the great spiritual truths. We can make no progress at
possible aspect of the great facts of existence. The age in
increasingly to understand the problems and the great truths
spiritual being. The great questions about man's place in the
life and death — these questions meet a profound need,
features of this path, one has repeatedly been mentioned
you will certainly attach very great importance to those
death of the spiritual truths he has assimilated on the
physical plane between birth and death. Or, to put it
discoveries are extinguished after death; only so much
naturally of the greatest importance that clairvoyants should
face the prospect of the death of culture if spiritual wisdom
death there is its value for the progress of humanity on the
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Two: Higher Knowledge and Man's Life of Soul
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permeated by the same spirit which actuates our study, for
would be greatly mistaken. Many errors arise from failure to
been repeatedly pointed out that the four accounts present
the great Christ Event from four different aspects and that
A great deal
the deeper understanding of Spiritual Science. The greater
are not limited to existence between birth and death, that we
are very great difficulties in making what has been observed
studied in our Groups the object is to create this feeling
but developments of creatures which were already then in
different creatures belonging to the animal kingdom there
lower species of animals. And we find that such creatures
something of great importance, namely that through it we are
greatly in different nations and in different periods. Only
‘I’ create a mental picture of itself. What man
within him a greater number of ideas than the other. All our
characteristic feature of all these pictures or images is
the ‘I’ itself. The significant feature of modern
strong enough to create a picture of what the ‘I’
desires are therefore not strong enough to create pictures
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Three: The Tasks of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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another great catastrophe.
‘great world’. Man, the ‘little
‘great world’. This is literally true, but stated
create disorder in our own being. Ahrimanic and Luciferic
essential feature of post-Atlantean civilisation. The
macrocosmic process; humanity as a whole evolves as one great
we are considering. It was a prominent feature in the
experience in them, a kind of new creation. Moreover a direct
characteristic feature of the epochs which followed was that
permeating the physical, can be conceived as threefold. Other
world: the Christ Impulse. The greatest of all spiritual
and ideas. No greater disparity can be imagined than that
permeate our concepts and ideas with spirituality.
in a great deal of what is called Philosophy to-day.
conventional astronomer, who will inevitably treat anything
first half? And when that is all used up, death follows. The
spirit alone can be victorious over death and carry forward
— symptoms of death everywhere in the evolution of human
show how essential this greatest of all spiritual impulses

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Four: The Symbolic Language of the Macrocosm in the Gospel of St. Mark
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understood, they must be regarded as treatises of Initiation.
temples had now been transferred to the great arena of
Initiation though enacted on an infinitely greater scale.
such a way that this great event might come to pass and
the prophet Isaiah points to the greatest event in all
with spades and shovels. But it was a peculiar feature of
things, spiritual worlds could be apprehended with great
passage therefore draws attention to a great revolution in
the greatest secrets and mysteries could flow from the
was prophesied by Isaiah and repeated by John the Baptist.
Macrocosm. Generally speaking, a very great deal was
on. I have said repeatedly that there are twelve different
to maya, to the great ‘non-being’. The word
great; ya = being; a = non, negation; hence maya = the great
forces create the effect of making us think we have a heart
taken in the great World Lodge and in consequence the
real understanding of the greatness and significance of the
Gospel — one of the greatest sacred records in the

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Five: The Two Main Streams of Post-Atlantean Civilisation
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holds good to an even greater extent in the case of Spiritual
the case of Zarathustra, the great Leader of mankind of whom
characteristic features of the path followed by the great
three sheaths — the astral sheath, the etheric sheath and
the physical sheath, deriving respectively from the three
this is not correct. What a man leaves behind at death is not
exist under the laws which come into operation after death
complex of laws by which the physical body is created within
create, let us say, quartz or emerald.
etheric and physical sheaths. And in the mystical life it is
the great Buddha, what is described symbolically as
astral sheath, but in his stronger moments, as he sat in
repeated incarnations that the faults for which he is
and complete as it was in the case of the great Buddha, this
sheaths gathered around this spiritual being. Man was born
into the sheaths enfolding the physical body is a path
great heights through the faculties of his own Individuality.
sheath, of a spiritual Being who cannot himself incarnate in
within a human sheath.
its highest form by the great Buddha. Taking Zarathustra as a
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Six: The Son of God and the Son of Man. The Sacrifice of Orpheus
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physical make-up and what he eats and drinks. It cannot be
members of man's being which do not differ greatly from
Archangeloi and Archai are concerned. But creative influences
than that of the Time-Spirits, as having greater weight than
shall ask: Who is the greater artist: Raphael, Leonardo da
revelation of divine-spiritual Powers is far greater.
is merely repeated by others can never have an effect as
herself is far the greater. It was only when the revelations
Hierarchies the greater are their powers, we can understand
the supersensible reality behind the creations of men such as
inspiration. Great works of art, works of spiritual genius,
own times can dimly surmise. Actual investigation of a great
described in the Bible as the creation of Adam, the first
in man's life between birth and death in every
the Great World. As things are he loses his feeling of
oneness with the Great World and believes himself to be
world for the breath previously indrawn is now outside.
Orpheus was the great Preparer.
sheath. The essential element was what had descended from a
great delicacy and subtlety in connection with Orpheus is set
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Seven: The Higher Members of Man's Constitution
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main theme, will be of great help later on.
into the spiritual worlds? Here we must keep on repeating
in response to external stimuli, eating when he is hungry,
perform a deed in life that is of greater importance than our
there is one great difference between the reflected pictures
with the greatest difficulty. We eat and drink every day by
eating and drinking we shall have achieved this only when we
gradually spiritualised. When we are eating fruit, let us
eating as being something more than a merely physical
eating.
and in others the range of the thoughts and ideals is greater
towards death. And we have within us other forces which bring
in our etheric body as life-giving forces. When at death the
spiritual part of our being abandons its physical sheath, the
These forces continue to work in us after death and actually
body of man is somehow permeated by certain higher members.
materialist may use his intellect just to create concepts;
together. But external life too is greatly influenced by the
that there is a great difference between the various parts of
great fondness for washing their hands; directly the least
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eight: Laws of Rhythm in the Domain of Soul-and-Spirit.
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small-scale Messiah and is anxious to create a picture of
like the imprint of a seal. If the idea is of no great
very great. We must resist this with all our might, for there
mature. This holds good for ideas of no great
example, on some particular day — and such days vary greatly
in the creative work of artists there is evidence of a
again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. And
again we must repeat that as time goes on the most important
will be regarded as fantastic nonsense by the greater part of
the Gospel which has all the peculiar features due to the
for three and a half days in a deathlike condition, after
the Mystery of Golgotha to become disciples of this great
man's task in the sixth epoch will be to permeate
meditation, in the sixth epoch men will be permeated by the
being. To be permeated by the Christ Impulse can hover as an
need of a great deal which, as spiritual beings, they will
so to speak, permeated with music and give expression to this
man was created. This means that on the physical plane man
permeated by the Logos and will grasp for the first time the
seventh epoch up to the time of the next great catastrophe.
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Nine: The Moon-Religion of Jahve and its Reflection in Arabism
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the greater epochs of transition in the evolution of humanity
Egypto-Chaldean epoch are repeated in a different form. The
the third epoch is in a certain sense repeated in the fifth.
life of soul, the greatest impulse given to the human
great individual to combine in his soul the full fruits of
a true idea of Christ. Such occurrences will be repeated, for
strong enough to see through these things with greater and
greater clarity.
great majority of them are incapable of assimilating ideas
creatures, can be understood only when quite different
evident that a great deal in human nature as we know it
this will not happen without great hindrances being
greater appeal? Why do you expect so much of our

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Ten: Rosicrucian WIsdom in Folk-Mythology
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rather pay heed to the great, all-embracing wisdom needed by
will certainly have understood enough of the great law of
Preface to a treatise on Oetinger, a theosophist living in
would never have been possible. Thinking of its greatest
man creates he must create from out of the spirit. If he
thinks that he can create without it he is ignorant of the
value stems from the spirit and no created thing survives
creation, even when used for the purposes of everyday life,
must return beneath the surface of the earth and be restored
spiritual world and create powers through which he can
to understand the threefold sheaths of the human being. In
King's son was given a mantle, a sheath, every time he
is related to the other sheaths of the human being as copper
creative faculty can work effectively only if he does not try
world repeats itself in his soul, that he must live in such a
the soul through the thought-forms they created; and the
created its imagery were filled with the living spirituality
spiritual greatness.
sets out to conquer death and on his way he comes across
Ritter Wahn because they are themselves subject to death. Ird
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Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: Lecture 1: The Poetry of Fairy Tales
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the creative mood; to dig down into those wellsprings with the
tragedy concerns itself — as do other artistic creations —
world unload their great strengths on us as we stand there more or
unconscious dream experiences — an infinitely greater number
nature, to create something of the kind oneself, even though one
for nourishing pictures arising out of their creative soul life; we
child often succeeds in creating for itself a comrade or “friend”
little girl lets the paddock eat with her out of her bowl of bread
little creature as to another human being, saying one day, “Eat
the great collections of fairy tales from everywhere in the world, to
prosaic but accurate comparison to say, we can know a great deal
delicious we're eating. And so we can know and understand something
The soul feels (but unconsciously) the great antithesis she has to
there is something within you that is far, far greater than the part
form a concept of this creature who lives within you and is so much
eleven brothers. After Quatl and his brothers were created, Quatl
began to create the world. But in this world that Quatl created,
the fairy tales contain elements of the great stories of heroes and
to every single person at every period of life from his first breath
itself the deep-seated soul experience on awakening from sleep, of
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Zweiter Vortrag, Berlin, 4. November 1913
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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Death:
this, you will see that this path of knowledge is of great
the Portal of Death, the second the Portal of the Elements, and the
The Portal of Death has
Portal of Death can only be attained if we strive to reach it through
repeating, again and again, the silent inner efforts to devote
has a life of its own, so that one feels oneself to be the sheath of
enlivening of the thought, is a moment of great significance in
repeatedly say that they can only grasp the world by contemplating
world has been called fundamentally the Gate of Death, because it
really is a greater death than even physical death. In physical death
firm, we must not, as it were, retreat. This retreat is in most cases
call this portal the Portal of Death. And then we look through this
Portal of Death.
You see, if a man has passed through the Portal of Death he feels
passed through the Portal of Death, one is in the spiritual world
overcome, just as the loneliness of the Portal of Death must be
want to use in the spiritual world threatens to devour us. One is
essentials. If one has first passed through the Gates of Death, one
hearts beat come from the spirituality into which we plunge when we
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Title: Lecture IV: WHITSUN: A Symbol of the Immortality of the Ego
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hearts at this season by reminding them of the great and unique event
heart and mind. Yet it brings to such childlike hearts something great
nature is waking to life, leads our minds to the portal of death. By
human body and passed through death. The whole riddle of death and the
preservation in death itself of the eternal life of the soul —
this is the great vista presented by the Easter festival.
connected with the death-bringing processes. The fact that we have to
the seeds of death into our being. It is quite incorrect to believe
that death is connected with life in an external sense only, for the
through death. If one were speaking in an age more alive to the
brings death to the physical, and to provide him with tokens reminding
rise again from death to prepare for a new incarnation. It is by
astral body symbolises the death-bringing principle that is connected
nature, do not merely undergo death, but that we are individual
immortal beings, rising ever and again from death.
those who have come to Spiritual Science should feel with even greater

Title: Social Forms: Address: On the Occasion of the General Meeting of the Berlin Branch
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be assumed that today there already are a great number of
fact that the distress has become so great, it would have
to lead one to assume the same tone which a great many
— you will find a great similarity. You will find the
Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg, or Bremen with what such great
birth and death and points beyond the merely sensory world
just this comprehension of three-foldness by the great masses

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XVII: Consciousness of Pre-Existence
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thinks mainly of nothing but living on after death, the
death. Today, one does not sufficiently realize the
outward form from within, how various features appear, smooth
watching such a developing human being. How great will be the
human soul after death. It is this feeling of thirsting for
continuation of life after death, one discovers the access to
for the soul's indestructibility after death.
retain its existence after death. From the many descriptions
about the experiences after death based on the science of
we will not speak about what really lies beyond death, only
life after death. An interest in this area will only be found
doctrine of the origin, of the creation, of each individual
much as it exists after death. We need a word for the
speaking of repeated earth lives. Of course, if you speak
that the soul is not created at birth? Why should it be
created somewhere along the way before birth? In short, you
absolutely arrive at repeated earth lives when you speak of
also speaking of repeated earth lives.
existence if this teaching of repeated earth lives is not to
— a feeling that every teacher is permeated with
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Title: Brotherhood and the Fight for Survival
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circles it is repeatedly pointed out how progress is brought about by
side we hear repeated in different ways that we shall not just fit
brought about greater changes, or have both contributed to the
it greatly enhanced the development of the culture. Those who had
or she got food. Even beyond his or her death this brotherliness and
common life was created. This morality was developed on the basis of
so a guild or community also has a soul, and I repeat, it is not
speech. This listening creates a completely different understanding —
one's soul. Then it becomes a reality. The greatness of the spiritual
to ourselves, and then to a greater extent to mankind. If we are

Title: Lecture: Easter
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human desires, impulses and actions to the great
Vishnu and Shiva. Brahman is rightly called the Great
from certain foods and drinks, and also meat. In that way
relation to great natural phenomena — the power of the
radiates more heat from Christmas onwards, so that Christmas
after the death of Winter.
deepest meaning will always be felt to be the greatest
festival of the greatest mystery humanity — not merely
meaning of resurrection after death. Also in the
death is indicated. The awakening of Vishnu falls into
reasonable creation possible; it is a concentration of the
creation. Aeons had to pass away before cosmic wisdom was
countless ages, — worked creatively in nature in order
— light created light. Formerly, before any such outer
before death — the state of consciousness
called “passing through the portals of death”.
ideas such as death and resurrection. In man, the astral
for the sake of creating a new one. Sacrifice and becoming
of entire humanity, it is his sacrifice in death which
permeates the Karma of mankind. He helped to carry the Karma
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Title: Lecture: Manifestations of the Unconscious
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Science is so repeatedly and so mistakenly associated with
exercises enable him to do this more easily and with greater
to be repeated in the same way.
experience because they at once show the great difference
investigator must to the greatest possible extent be proof
for spiritual investigation. Anyone who knows how great a
how few efforts they make to create in their own souls the
soul. The upsurging and ebbing world of dream which beats
publicly reputed to be a great thinker produces a bulky
philosophical treatises on the life of dream, I want to refer
wrote a fine treatise about Volkelt's book. But academic
circumstances the pendulum-beats become the trampling of
repeats the question and now the pupil does not answer
enumerated at great length. Although we cannot enter
peculiar features which must be particularly borne in mind.
greater exactitude and depth than is usual in life and in
overheated because of a too warm covering, he would be
that equally with body-free experience between death and a
The ordinary process of ideation (Vorstellen) taking
in greater detail today of how that which as a bodily
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 2-8-'13
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us pleasure, the enjoyment of creative activity here in the physical
artist's soul as he worked, from which the work of art was created.

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of our thoughts and ideas around us, permeated completely by
we're completely permeated by piety.
through nature's great life realm. We would see plants' etheric
death. Here the consonants are more important; p r = feeling that one
have placed the secrets of the creative word in here, and ever more

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more important than how one does the meditation. If one repeatedly
and thereby creates a kind of a sphere around one in which there's no
created through spiritual science belong to the physical plane and
lay our thoughts aside during sleep and after death. But our feelings

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don't find their way to the Christ see the figure of death walking
it alive in us, the picture of death takes on Christ's features and

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only as if in a sheath in which spiritual forces surge stormily up
physical sheath. The relation of our sensory surroundings to the
repeatedly in us in thought. Three verses that we meditate in

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blood system will stand behind it. It's only with the greatest awe
devote ourselves to maya — the great deceiver — the

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special relation to her that doesn't end at death. For us death is
death of a beloved person often has an egotistical character, because
some of the feathers of the garment that must bear the soul upwards.
thereby weave feathers into the garment. So when a personality dies
pores and streams to my heart, the seat of life. My soul shines again
people were allowed to say it. We also have to work after death in

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no difficulties on the path except those the pupil creates for himself

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-4-10
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of our life between birth and death, then from an esoteric viewpoint we
turning away from what's around him, which creates a feeling of coldness
isolated and surrounded by a great frost. The pupil must bring love
towards this frosty feeling that's created by pure thought.

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Your creatorword's force.
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a vegetarian but his body still has a longing for meat, even if he's unaware
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creates a kind of a “forebone” in his etheric body;
While a man's sheaths

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thought a long time ago, and all we do is to repeat these thoughts,
forms, the lotus flowers, are created in his astral body.
That's why it's necessary to repeat a meditation hundreds
imagine this in sensory pictures at first — as the heat in our
repeated, the sensory element that is still attached to it falls away
always please him more than the lesser one, because greatness is

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must never do them without also developing a great sympathy for everything

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doesn't enrich us or leave anything behind after death, the
breath into man, and he became a living soul. But the carbonic acid
we exhale can't maintain life, it's lethal air. Death
had remained in paradise, he would also have eaten of the tree of
did by eating from the tree of knowledge. But now the tree of life
that conceals a life that's all the greater and that a man can
enveloped by the air that men breathe, so there's a special

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purple and a brown root as dark blue. One should permeate all of

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Atlantean epoch through the karma that men created. Karma that has
earth evolution is permeated by these destructive powers or Luciferic
men. Intellect and reason are permeated by Luciferic forces. Before

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myself — but in such despairing moments one should repeatedly
feel great thankfulness that should be carried into the

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Egyptian esoterics speak of: Arriving at the threshold of death, a
threshold of death. For there one felt: what I'm experiencing

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it — our sheath nature.
he's still the same sheath man that the child was, except that
physical, etheric and astral sheaths must become as indifferent to
was before the Luciferic force worked on it. This is how the sheath

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themselves with these thoughts a great deal, but in a quite different
or when Yahweh created the first earth man in his etheric body
and namely he created him out of the earth-planet's substances,
who's gone through the portal of death can know her; no living
through the portal of death.
death.
were locked up for men. We look at the great wisdom that underlies
all these mysteries with great wonder.
there would be no death.
forces between birth and death. Christ Jesus couldn't get older
mother forces predominate, we create karma for the next life through

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has had such experiences can be permeated by the consciousness in
spare moment in daily life one can permeate oneself with the thought,
that what otherwise appears to me as “I” was created by
his greatest sin if he can have the thought, It thinks me, without
certain feeling, the feeling of reverence for the beings who create
permeate themselves the most at every moment of their lives with
However, great help is given by what we receive from theosophy, when

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their great achievements and insights into the outer existence.
I have to emphasise repeatedly that spiritual science
sciences great by which they got their great results has
soul life just because of that which makes it great?
the great achievements of somebody like
leads us back to the great ideas of Lessing that the
and death, it must penetrate into the depths of the human soul
greatly applicable to the outer nature banishes what the human
have to say repeatedly what I have already stressed at other
repeating of the soul performances. Without such condition, you
we repeatedly practise it. This causes the force of habit. What
creating and working in life is based on the fact that we
the immediate problem of death and with it of immortality. We
the right investigation of this secret of life and death the
death, but enters the earth with birth through the gate of life
and leaves it through the other gate of death into a spiritual
have the great pedagogic value if one does no longer look in
creatures of flesh, then someone who wants it may sweeten life;
“No created mind penetrates into the being of
nature.” Haller was a great naturalist. However, he stood
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know that I have stressed repeatedly that spiritual science
all directions. Hertwig repeats
we add the dictum which already before decades the great
repeats and develops in a way what the senses perceive from the
if you put them repeatedly to your
through the whole life between birth and death. We learn to
our life from birth to death, we look back, actually, always
Rittelmeyer has written a treatise (On Rudolf Steiner's
from the lung the air originates that we breathe. Someone who
breath is anyhow generated from the lung. No, our true ego is
gate of death and settle in the spiritual world to return to
the creator of life, and it can be the only creator of real,
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repeatedly while he said, he owes everything that he got as
attempt to prove its correctness already requires it. Beneath
a significant characteristic feature in the life of Goethe
picked out repeatedly to prove the views of Haeckel or also of
This occurred once in a great historical moment when Goethe and
important treatise, On
if the human being creates or feels artistically if he puts
appears which enables the human being to create or feel the
births and deaths. The usual psychology deals a lot with the
creation to creation. The inner life seems to disappear
imagination, into this percipience and imagination repeatedly
through births and deaths. The human being thereby enters the
greatness, he wrote to Goethe, how he had to think about
for the explanation of the individual ... A great and really
then he was not able to work on. Someone who creates
spirit create in himself like Goethe cannot advance sometimes
just if he is great as Goethe was. Where Goethe had to stop, he
phenomena, that severe quotation which he did about the great
had said once: “No created mind penetrates into the being
“No created mind penetrates
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this true introspection, one creates a basis while one tries
scientific treatise is for some people daydreaming from the
himself repeatedly to such lines of thought would realise
make historical remarks in his treatises about
the Great (1712-1786, Prussian king since 1740) and
this treated the important subject of human dream fantasies, he
One cannot cope with it. One creates misunderstandings about
spiritual eye must be created first. Then you need no proofs of
human organism, so that we carry death through our whole
destructive processes. Fortlage says, if the partial death that
the physical death does it, the human being would have to die
perpetually. As to Fortlage the physical death only expresses
death each time, if our usual consciousness appears, that the
general death is the merging of a consciousness into other
world after death. There appears like a silver lining in no
cause death processes in his nerves to make way for the work of
body repeatedly a proper, a legitimate destructive process
little the human body creates the ego anyhow. Only as long as
of his being that goes through birth and death which is the
which I have said in my talks and books repeatedly that they
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observe here in the life between birth and death, but that it
this consciousness which accompanies us between birth and death
being who lives between birth and death really a higher,
deaths. You get to know this spiritual-mental human being how
the human being as spiritual researcher treats his soul as I
being is a supersensible, spiritual being that creates its
death. However, if you learn to recognise by spiritual research
must give the human being the instinct to treat the physical
birth and death in which he will only perceive when he has
crossed the gate of death because he is different connected
that are in the outer nature are not treated correctly as
does one treat them? A much-respected naturalist of
the soul after death.
“The great Laplace-Kant imagination of the origin and
piece compared with this last excrement of creation as which
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to take towards two opinions: history can be the great master
that he treated a segment of the historical evolution of
you can realise that every feature of his face expresses that
nineteenth century to which the great classical period of
cognition only will create history.
does not consider the great men of history, their appearances,
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natural sciences have performed as great achievements up to now
least thirty talks if it should be treated in detail. Thus, I
of creation. — It cannot be my task today to speak about
the Mosaic history of creation. I believe that it has often led
of creation. That means this that in the course of the
with the Mosaic history of creation.
have repeatedly pointed to an event in the sixties of the last
Copernicus, and Kepler. Science has become great because it got
picture repeatedly which my old friend, Professor Vincenz
creation; he himself creates his figure, while he gets free
An inner contact is thereby created between the organs of will
female elements, and death on the other side. Conception and
death are bound to certain parts of the human and animal
is connected with conception and death, because one has already
With the physical creation one deals with the fact that the
the animal life, conception and death are apart like beginning
development. Everything, however, that determines the death of
spiritual-scientifically what conception and death are real for
consciousness is the moment of death — and as a spiritual
animals at death. These two moments of the highest reduction
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say that that kind of knowledge which has developed so greatly
a great stir confuses this spiritual research with its
usual consciousness. I have repeatedly shown also here what the
in any experience from birth to death. However, this weird
accompanies us from birth to death; we penetrate into the
and in the life after death.
temporal. Birth or conception and death become the borders of
firmament beyond death on one side, beyond birth or conception
on the other side. Today we face this great leap forward of the
birth and death are borders beyond which one cannot get.
with creating the necessary preparations first to enter the
births and deaths in the human being. You have to recognise
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world context and does not create pictures from this in such a
is in the usual consciousness between birth and death realises
destruction creates space, and while it creates space, his
the present one. Talking about repeated lives on earth is based
the human being after death? However, it will add the other
the gate of death. There is the spiritual part of our future.
death. That is why over-development is there because,
otherwise, the development would stop at death. This is the
spiritual-mental organisation after death.
after death. These are three members of the human being, and
over to the spiritual world after death.
leads to death; it contains the impulses that become
significant after death. They exist, live in the human being,
death. However, if that appears which works, indeed, here, but
receives its full reality only after death, and then it is the
have to remember if I see repeatedly that philosophers treat
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
great Schiller festival took place in 1859, but with quite a
threatening to explode in social struggles — that is the
culture. But to-day, Tolstoi, who has created masterpieces in
in science as in artistic effort, there is nowadays great
a great pedant, and took his daily walk so punctually that the
Messiah made a great impression on Schiller.
Matter breaks up again, at death, into its ultimate elements,
problem took on a new feature. The deepest questions in
was acting as reporter at the Mannheim theatre, he did it
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
this harmony. In the figure of Karl Moor, we see the creation
natural evolution that lower creatures require shorter periods
of preparation than the more highly developed animals. Great
have to realise what we owe to Schiller's greatness. But things
have a great influence on his own personality. Kantianism was a
embraces a mass of great ideas; there is a striving after the
is wholly permeated by this striving for unity, as it found
makes of man not a free being but a slave, bowed beneath the
quite different from this bowing beneath the yoke of the
he attained to that form of creation which was peculiarly his
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
spiritual in abstractions and striving to create it immediately
beginning of their personal meetings these two great geniuses
to be taken as a service of friendship. This step was of great
Schiller's true greatness as a man shows itself in the way in
in Goethe's method of creation, the letter of 24th August 1794,
death. Their friendship was impregnable, though envy and
creation, which he put down in his essay on “Naive and
to nature, who is himself still nature within nature, creates
naively. That is how the Greeks created. An artist who longs
for a return to nature, after being torn from her, creates
This collaboration is seen also in Schiller's creative
greatness, in the relation in which they stood to each other.
natures, and as a result something of new greatness came
to understand the great. It is hardly credible to-day what
an example how greatness can defend itself against the
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
life; greater struggle through with difficulty. This is because
lesser personalities are incapable of seeing into the great
riddles. For the greater every experience provides a new
make his ideas living, how he strove to grasp the great forces
to understand the greatness of his personality aright. There is
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
— so that it is artistic creation which gives man
wished to treat a wrong-doer with the same loving care as he
paradoxical: it was created out of the lofty view of art which
have here then a great law which goes beyond the merely
Thirdly, Wallenstein's death; here he is driven into events by
do with the great lines — is thrust into a corner. It
does not specially fit into the plot. Schiller's great
reverence for Wagner who wanted to create a new religious art,
Schiller we have already the great conception of leading
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
greater heights. All the later plays, Tell, the Bride
have seen him treating the problem of destiny, creating a
into symbols of great human experience. Hence Schiller became
and he orders her death. But the Duchess has dreamed at the
plays, we must breathe the fine air of real education that lies
Wallenstein. The drama was never finished; death intervened.
There is something tragic in Schiller's death; all the
the bliss of poetic creation.”
is the tone which makes his death tragic — for in the
ordinary course of things death does not bear this irrational
his creation which reminds us of home manners and custom, is
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
influence cannot be separated from that of the great classical
cried after his death:
Schiller's great gift, to be able to raise the moral and the
moreover, a hero's death filled with the ideals planted in him
was permeated by the special note that was given to the soul by
Th. F. Vischer, the great aesthetic thinker,
third work, which treated of space conditions, was in a sense
Is no greatness in nature, save that she gives you to count?
which permeated all his contemporaries as feeling and thinking.
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
imagined as being permeated. It was an idealist view of the
greatness and breadth of his spiritual horizons: the world of
death. An artist, for instance, like Peter Cornelius, creates
gulf between life and art becomes ever greater. And so Schiller
truth in great ideal laws. Art was for him the representation
integral element of our times. Particularly, it is the great
religion.” That is the greatness in the man, that his
creation was his form of religious worship. The fact that his
ideal lived in this way within him is part of his greatness. We
our culture, is to become the great educator of the world.
Then artists will once more create, as they did formerly, from,
the theatres in Schiller's honour if the people who sit in them
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
breath of it. The tragic was to consist in the
the great dramatic figure, and the chorus round about him
recreated for us the mystery drama. The dramatic cult-action
him, as eating and drinking are; he can be led to it, if the
to the great impersonal sympathy when the god was seen
was created a pure and noble conception of art; the
objective, divine image of the world, and create for himself a
which treats of these things. Before he had struggled upward,
greatly excited by a strange prophecy which a mysterious
sees it first as beauty. The beautiful, conquered and permeated
Goethe cried to him after his death, became the full truth. The
rises to greater and greater heights of spiritual insight, and
master of an etheric spirit-permeated form.
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with the great laws of the universe. We are able to achieve
events only if we act in accordance with the great laws of the
in the great problems of the soul.
battle of life, that can gain the greatest advantage over their
fellow-creatures, are those who survive, whereas the others
greater style than his followers, took it from a conception of
sphere. We thus have great theories in national economy, in the
by bringing forward innumerable sound facts, the great
point, where it arrives at the great turning point, we really
the animal breathes in oxygen and breathes out nitrogen,
whereas the plant breathes in nitrogen and breathes out oxygen.
Alexander the Great
so the different nations were guided by the great group-souls.
development of the world five great races, the so-called
greater part of the time these workmen built the immense
the great course of development of Christianity, up to the
come, the earth had to acquire this great significance.
see, the great acquisition which spiritual development
the development of spiritual life can permeate us with the
breath of this one Soul. Not the people of the present, but
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series entitled, Spirit and Matter, Life and Death, and published in
times find themselves in misunderstanding of the greatest
who seek to gain insight into the great riddles in the realm of
it only creates the impression — and this “apparent
for the greatest questions concerning the soul, for instance,
bodily process, is then taken into the soul and is permeated
the sense organ; the bodily life permeates the sense organ.
nervous system in which every process of ideation, of
world the impression created is a strong one, coming as it does
breathing and related activities. Feeling as it arises has, in
belongs, rather, with the breathing organism. However, at least
which has to do with breathing! I shall come back once again to
nothing which is connected with breathing, rather, just as we
perceive the process of breathing itself, although in a more
breathing organism with the central nervous system. These
to breathing, are nothing else than sensory nerves. They are
perceive the breathing as such. The origin of feeling, in its
breathing process and what belongs to it as its continuation in
breathing process run from a central organ, from the brain, but
breathing processes are there, they are perceived by certain
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series entitled, Spirit and Matter, Life and Death, and published in
insist that human life can only be sustained by breathing in.
Breathing in assumes breathing out, both belong together. So
way demands the other, just as inbreathing requires
outbreathing, and vice versa. And thus, just as real life can
only reveal itself through breathing out and breathing
confirming concept is like a breathing out, within the living
breathing in, and only in their living working together does
bodily life lives in outbreathing and breathing in, then one
far from the beaten track for many people — such a one
wanted to give this as a preface, in order that ever greater
arises — is related with the human breathing
organism, with everything which is breathing, and which is
connected with breathing, as the life of mental representation
life of feeling of the soul to the breathing organism. Then
are connected with the breathing organism; for no one can
breathing organism to this which quite evidently arises in the
must take into consideration that with every outbreath an
rise with the outbreath if it were not prevented from rising by
top of the skull — the breathing carries forward into the
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greater part — hunger, thirst, various emotions, desires, the
into which flowed their organic life permeated by spirit. In the course
intellectualism does not suffice; we must permeate intellectualism with

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world-history, of outer, physical world-history, something of great
have repeatedly been such events, of which external history takes
however, there was a great difference between the experiencing of these
centuries before the birth of Christ creative art was already in
— this phantasy did not create as if the spiritual appeared in
perceived as something of still greater significance how their whole
since the fifteenth century people have attained to great heights as
world-history. He had no share in the experience of that great,
give imaginative shape to what was created in accordance with external
form; now, people must turn to the inward, vicsorous creation of ideas,
face of the great demands of the age. That passivity must be overcome.
within us the principle of death.
This great secret about
forces of death in us. Indeed, because he is conscious of his thinking
head, his head actually being an organ always in the throes of death.
We should be in constant danger of death were merely that to happen
of death, what in a man is continuously disabling that principle of
death, is living there, it might be said that in this respect the
you know, they change — in which the constant process of death
materialism was assuming great proportions. Men came to the fore
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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
is derived from the presence of these creatures. Where on the other
there you find the mild, gentle Mars beings present as astral creations,
the atmosphere is created for the inventive Saturn beings. On the other
of mind, beings are there who have their seat on Venus.
opportunity for the presence of creatures who encroach into man's forces
what creatures are summoned in response to certain deeds and circumstances.
of the chyle are also influenced greatly by the soul conditions, but
the builder, the creator, of the lymph. In the same way man's etheric
body is the builder and creator of the whole glandular system, as well as
in another aspect the organizer, creator, and controller of the circulation
to a greater control over his astral body and his etheric body as he
environment he eats, not only the substances analyzed by chemistry, he
eats at the same time definite spirits, and it is these spirits which
of the means by which the great spiritual guidance of the earth distributes
when the human body is being built up, the liver occupies the greatest
with the oxygen, so in the lungs there is a process of burning. Breathing
may be called a combustion process, and with this breathing and combustion
breathing is that which leads him upwards to ever higher spheres.
human breath and which leads man upwards. But a wonderful explanation
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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
brought into being. Even at its greatest density this Saturn was not
rarefication. That which today permeates all beings as warmth —
long and greatly differing periods of evolution; the forces working
to zodiacal existence and then has the power to be itself creative,
existence it has had upon it three great races: the first, the Polarian
be when his sevenfold being has fully developed. But in the great cosmic
three sheaths. They are therefore beings who send forth ‘Egos’
from outside; they are “givers,” they are themselves creative.
the Sun-condition and the Moon-condition when the sheaths into which
I. In those earlier conditions, other beings created the dwelling-place
upon the outer, bodily sheaths from within. The fact that the ego is
universe. This is the Being Who has the power to make the great sacrifice
Aries and thus He becomes Himself the “Great Sacrifice,”
and forces present on the earth are His creations. The configuration
of forces is such that He could become the Creator of these beings in

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
creatures which run puffing and blowing at a considerable distance behind
keep up. In the world-conception of theosophy you have the great illuminating
often-repeated fact that before our Earth became “Earth”
similar to man's condition between death and rebirth in Devachan. One
kind of great primordial nebula, as our physical science describes.
Only we must think of this primordial mist as immense, far greater than
sub-stances from the earth and made their theatre the sun. By virtue
with our earthly existence. Uranus has become the theatre for beings
condition. And for these beings a special theatre, “Saturn,”
was created, since standing at that stage, only just beginning their
much time to relate now in detail — had again formed a theatre
the beings more highly organized than the plants, permeating the red
sun. Dwelling-places had to be created for them. None of the other theatres
who had by no means attained the great age of the beings who, though
themselves created the dwelling-places in which they could live. Now
clairvoyance — the teachers of the great Mysteries of ancient
the teachers of the great masses of mankind, so did the beings of Mercury
besides that had to be the great schoolmasters of the great initiates.
continuation of merely materialistic science would do great harm to

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
as belong to the “creative beings” — considering first
yet, before he ascends to the rank of a “creative” being.
between a lower creature of the animal world, which has preserved certain
stages of evolution, and the human being. A lower creature has the warmth
that creates it. This force is not water, not the solid, not air, it
form a blackberry. In this way the Saturn-globe was a great berry made
germs of man were permeated with an etheric body. The etheric body which
and created pictures, they have gradually grown more independent and
capable of the greatest deed, namely, to lay aside their etheric body
in sacrifice and to permeate with their own life-force that which they
have permeated themselves with it. As the lowest member of their being
only lower passions. These passions and emotions now worked creatively
the creative Titans within our earthly evolution, the creative passions
of course with the astral body which surrounds him like an auric sheath,
1.) This was of great significance and produced an important result;
body began to permeate it more deeply so that the ego was increasingly
permeated by the force of the incoming ego. The next stage is when the
greater and greater, and that this new structure, which has been gradually
acquired a greater fall, in order to construct a dam in the water at
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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
systems of breathing, nerves, glands, and bones. The “dance
same time light arises. — Warmth-matter is still dark, not permeated
and the beginnings of a breathing process were formed. Thus we see a
sort of breathing process added to the previous warmth process. It is
breathing process appeared, and that this in fact was the addition of
air to the warmth-matter, permeating the warmth with little bubbles
system. The nervous system is a creation of the light. In all your nerves
had the power of creating inner light-pictures, visions; clairvoyant
of the earth, left the earth without light, but the beings created an
become fluid were in particular permeated by sphere-harmonies, by tones
and see how most varied shapes were formed. Tone created forms in the
formed a kind of sheath, cartilaginous gluten, one might say, as a protection
had to be born from a living creature. Organisms have never formed themselves
The last developed portion of the human creature at that time were the
heart proceeded from the fire-element. Then were added the breathing
beings like a sort of glutinous sheath.
nothing in your physical body today that is not permeated by mineral
the rudimentary stage of breathing was produced by the air, light entered
The things that exist in us are created from outside: First, the rudiments
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VI
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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
great Sacrifice of the Earth. The Spirits of Wisdom and Yahve, the
Christianity as religion of humanity is greater than all religions...
was added which later became our present breathing system, while the
He was not permeated by the substance of blood, but etheric warmth-lines
the great age attributed to the Patriarchs, to Adam and the succeeding
was not a smaller one but embraced immensely great groups — that
is permeated and imbued with wisdom, then we know that the wisdom of
a great number of them, chose the sun as their theatre. Only the Being
theatre which was suited to them. We have also spoken of beings who
and Mercury beings, have been the great teachers of humanity in the
shines towards the earth-man as the wisdom which permeates his structure.
of Wisdom, the creators of wisdom, who on the Moon had streamed wisdom
of Love man between birth and death and the way in which he develops,
What man is between birth and death, what he develops in himself while
of the Spirits of Wisdom. But you must not treat this mechanically and
death were meaningless for all the following lives then you might stereo-type
and death stands indirectly under the element of wisdom.
“Great Sacrifice of the Earth” or the “Mystical Lamb.”
of departure for the creation of the present moon, a central situation
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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
this. — Let us remember here what happens after a man's death
who create the harmony between the different human individuals and the
can work, not indeed creatively, but transformingly. Such an Angel being
completely corresponding to reality. They are the beings who create
way in which they treated the animals was an expression of this consciousness.
beings of the great epochs and also of the Spirits of the “meanings
very well be felt when there is no heating — so is Satan very

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
spirits. To call them elemental spirits shows the greatest possible
does not matter; what is necessary is that we create a certain concept
own bodily nature they become larger. Even when they reach their greatest
size, they are still always small creatures in comparison with men.
astral body because it lies higher still. But beneath physical matter
far quicker than the dissolution of the human body after death. Hence
know that man himself is actually a co-creator in each new incarnation
and faculties. Thus man shares in creating both — his external
after death we assimilate the fruits of a life and bring with us what
lead? It leads to a man who sits at the wayside when a great Leader
who listen to the great Leader of humanity. They will preserve the soul
of human beings in individual incarnations creates the destructive nature-powers
form. The other animal creatures are at a backward stage because they
developed in the animal kingdom by the group souls. Man creates his
great store by mankind may say: “What strides humanity has made
only fresh creations of the group soul. You can follow up the animal
human natures which have remained as a species of spirit and permeate

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture IX
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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
Birth and death in animal and man. Group souls
know only metamorphoses, not death. Connection between bees and
future, spiritual truth will create the union between individualities.
creatures before our spiritual eyes. We were considering one of the
can realize from this fact how birth and death in human life have not
birth and death have not at all the significance for the animal group
takes place under certain circumstances. When the ox eats grass there
in their contact. The peculiar auric sheath which always arises when
sensation of taste in the body. Then the whole swarm is ensheathed in
the particular creatures to the particular places. In a certain way
will also have come when a fairly great number of representatives of
super-sensible worlds offers a wonderful answer to the great riddle of
existence. These things are of great importance from yet another side.
group souls, and such knowledge will play a great role even in the purely
great change since that time, namely, the alternation of waking and
between birth and death, what had been experienced by the grandfather,
the great-grandfather, were as much an object of memory as a man's
single individuals between birth and death. Today a name is given to
the one individual whose memory is enclosed between birth and death.
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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
permeation of the world with spirit is symbolized by the Whitsuntide
group soul, after the death and dissolution of the animal. We know that
more complicated the further we go into the connections with great cosmic
assimilated the laws and substances of the mineral kingdom, which permeate
take. Certain beings are left behind, beings which have been created
feeling which it creates in the common life that the effect is continued
death or shortly afterwards all this rises up and disperses and populates
social arrangements, deposit their creations spiritually among us on
if intolerance had not created the demons which pervade our world, influencing
accomplishes must be permeated by spiritual principles. Many human beings,
life. When the world creates spiritual life again then all will be possible.
permeation of the world with the spirit so beautifully as the story
man when his etheric body is ripe for spiritual creation. But if man
been created, those worlds of spectres, phantoms, demons, which the
world creates as phenomena existing at its side.

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture XI
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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
deepened towards human artistic creation and acquire an appreciation
artistic creation and artistic appreciation. To come to this realization
of the impressions from the din and rattle of a great city — these
and permeating it with forces would become increasingly undermined.
the harmonies in the spiritual world — to permeate the forces
culture-epochs the soul brought back impulses with it that permeated
belonging to the great times of art when there was still a strong feeling
less so in more recent ones. However greatly one may esteem Bocklin,
living form what nature has offered him. The greater understanding possessed
with the soul body and permeates it, there arises the feeling for the
relationships of the great spiritual universe. Goethe too pointed to
when the astral body becomes aware of itself. In the creative musician
man experiences in the musical art. And since music creates in our physical
that is to appear in ever greater perfection in future incarnations,
time this inner nature had, as it were, broken asunder in artistic creation
handling of the orchestra Richard Wagner sought to create that great
into one great stream, we see this feeling live in the artist who sought
him from past ages. And a divining of that great human impulse of uniting
writings is the main feature that lives in them, the religious wisdom,
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year — in spite of great difficulties — we were able to prepare three
a very great deal to say.
Lecture-Course, this lack of space was such that the heat of the hall
caused great discomfort to the listeners. The obvious answer would be
greatly our age lacks true feeling for Art.) Inappropriate as it would
inappropriate for Spiritual Science. Ancient Greek theatre might be
create our own premises and surroundings. This has led to the idea of
Neuchâtel a Group was founded, desiring to adopt the name of a great
Think, for example, about the following. I have said repeatedly that,
that relates to the great Appearance of which we have been speaking
great a theologian he may be — can understand Christianity unless he
greatness of her achievement consist in formulating the three
Universal Brotherhood. The greatness of H. P. Blavatsky's work lay in
must look at the positive side and say that a great and powerful
Unveiled contains great Rosicrucian truths — even the
connected with Christianity contains great truths, but the greatest
another three thousand years — and then he will be a great
time when Jeschu ben Pandira was living and saw that a great
do not deny it. Or do we deny that a great Individuality dwelt in that
the greatest Teacher of Christianity — Christian Rosenkreutz —

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did not greatly affect his circumstances as a small inheritance
down beside him. He gave the impression of not having eaten anything
to trade. This naturally aroused in the little man the greatest
his sleeve. Then he saw a great ship approaching, drawn and steered by
dragons In it was a great vessel of water, and the big man who was
in the form of his great talents Very soon he became a man of high
But the young man replied: “I have written a treatise on the very
not exist. I could write a great many more and nobody who has written
the house had, moreover, profited greatly through him. The time came
for his examination; as well as having had a great deal of amusement,
the intrigues of an enemy caused the rumour that he had cheated in his
eat. Finally, however, one of his spirit-friends brought food to him.
his spirit-friends a friendship much greater even than it had been
are quite unique. A curious feature strikes us when we study their
spiritual being, a great organism permeated by spirit-and-soul. We do
Light can be shed upon a great deal that comes our way in life, if
body. In these domains there will be greater and greater
imprisoned spiritual wisdom and knowledge greater than anything
friend M.B... . at our General Meeting) the great majority of human
greatness will shock and amaze. It will pour over what mankind has
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greatest intolerance to be found in history.
right. After persistent efforts he solves it, to his great delight.
earthly incarnations, to permeate with reason and intelligence what
intellect and reason — something which indicates a great deal
which is to be regarded merely as an example but from which a great
of the husband. The case has ugly features about it because the
turned over the dirty rubbish heaps, and finally produced a treatise
there would be an inclination to pay greater respect to those who are
this might evoke greater respect because it would be a radical and
Movement. The treatise was returned to me as “unusable”! You
fortuity in the world is permeated with meaning and divine purpose.
The great Easter-Impulse given to humanity consisted in this: There

Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 4: The Forces of the Human Soul and Their Inspirers. Kalewala: The Epic
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present day. It meant a great deal to me when our friends in Finland
to spiritual knowledge and to Initiation, great revelations have been
It has been emphasised repeatedly that human consciousness and the
clairvoyance. And in their great Folk-Epics the peoples depicted the
think of the Creators of these three manifestations of the life of
figures, these three Heroes, are the Creators and Inspirers of the
threefold powers of the soul in man. The Creator of the Sentient Soul
“Wainamoinen” is given; the Creator of the Mind Soul is
“Ilmarinen,” and the Creator of the Consciousness Soul,
With this in mind, we can say: Man, as the created being we know
great imaginative power, as the “forging” of a mysterious
One of the many signs of the great spiritual happenings of the near
plane; the most characteristic and remarkable feature of the Fourth
but which in the thirty-third year passed through Death. To begin
during the next three thousand years as a development of great
the Christian will recognise the greatness of this teaching of
Christ which passed through death with Christ Jesus has streamed over
passed through death; and that thereafter His power streams through
spoken of until a hundred years after his death — not before

Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 5: The Idea of Reincarnation and Its Introduction Into Western Culture
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the one side, a picture of great and significant progress in the
The First Post-Atlantean epoch of culture after the great Atlantean
will its heights be reattained until the Seventh Post-Atlantean epoch
physical plane was created. But an utterance of a great Greek is also
epoch, we do less than justice to the greatness and significance of
established principle to which repeated allusions are made but to
has knowledge of the great cosmic Laws revealed today by Spiritual
has had eyes only for the life of a man between birth and death, and
possesses definite knowledge of the return of man in repeated lives on
Earth; and the knowledge of this great manifestation of law in the
teachings regarding the leaders and great heroes of human evolution
the great leaders, the East points to the Individuality who passes
through repeated Earth-lives; the greatness and significance of these
leaders are attributed to the merits they acquired through repeated
And now compare this with characteristic features of western culture.
There we are told of the greatness of a Plato, a Socrates, of a figure
— not the “individuality” who passes through repeated
from birth to birth, from death to death, but to the one personality
we are on the threshold of a great change in the spiritual life, are
with great significance is here opened up, of which mankind will stand
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on the Earth through repeated physical incarnations? We will here
having any great mystery about it; but to the thoughtful, compassion
is a great and mysterious secret. When we look at a being only from
other souls by the impenetrable sheath provided by the physical body.
very remote, a great deal of attention was paid to these things:
example of the stirring of wonder. The very greatness of Homer lies in
in Greece. How great the difference is between these founders of
the physical world, only to have to reattain them? Why could he not
a philosopher as great as Aristotle still regarded the existence of
slavery as it was in Greece. Nobody will deny that the greatest of all
turn to the greatest of all Impulses — the Christ-Impulse which
three sheaths of a human being, but we realise, too, that even at that
astral body of Jesus of Nazareth; within these sheaths the Christ was
present in the spiritual atmosphere of the Earth. The great turn given
is not reality, but “Maya,” the “Great Illusion”.
sheaths of Jesus of Nazareth. When the goal has been reached, the
But from whence are the three sheaths of the Christ Impulse derived?
been transcended, become the sheaths of Christ.
to be solved. Men on Earth will have to be greatly enriched in their
express how the enveloping sheaths woven of the forces of wonder,
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heard that sheaths will weave themselves as it were around the Christ
following upon the great Atlantean catastrophe. This epoch may be said
great catastrophe of which you may read in the lectures on the
and recall one of its characteristic features; this again can be
compared with a similar feature in the preceding Third epoch and in
other side of the Gate of Death. It was the period when human beings
experienced, in greatest intensity, their union with the physical
indicate a great physical catastrophe or deluge. Obviously it does not
Post-Atlantean epoch, when the Holy Rishis were the great teachers of
at the present day, these pictures, although full of the greatest
the great Cosmic Spaces remained. Whereas perceptions of the world
world outside. This was a great and epoch-making transition. In the
at only a few scattered places did men awaken from the great spiritual
the physical plane between birth and death; Western culture cannot
personality, whose life between birth and death runs its course on the
world will have to unfold in greater intensity in the times lying
“generally speaking” the human being lives on after death;
the human being passes through the Gate of Death, he lives on still,
death being merely a transition. We must realise, not as a theory, but
us physically, through his body; after his death he works spiritually,
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is not the creation of the Earth alone, but that his origin must be
Today, however, we will think of what man is as a creation of the
upon him by the Creator-Powers of the Universe.
consciousness between death and a new birth are essentially different
changes according to its instrument, and between death and rebirth, as
everyday consciousness are formed, disintegrates and decays at death.
In reality, a great and mighty process underlies what is called the
death the physical body of earthly man slips away, falls away from
him at death.
first moment of consciousness to death, can remain all the time. It is
stretching between death and a new birth if something quite definite
death we did not remain for a certain space of time in the ether- or
life-body. This is the interval after death during which the
past life spreads out like a great panorama, a great tableau. This
“life-tableau” can only appear to us because after death we
lose it altogether at death or immediately afterwards, no such tableau
before us after death. This whole life tableau is gathered into,
permeating space. And there it remains — in the universal
further existence between death and the new birth in the future. We
after death it is still preserved, in the universal life-ether. There
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 9: Form-creating Forces
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FORM-CREATING FORCES
a sense, the Spirits of Form leave man greater freedom as they
form-creating function devolving upon them at the beginning of
and feelings, will assume greater and greater importance. And in so
causes everything to repeat itself just as spring, summer, autumn and
winter repeat themselves when a year has run its course — only
creation of races in earlier times will simply be repeated for the
repeated merely in slightly different form, but actual progress takes
with repeatedly, for many years.
greater extent than was the case later on. As evolution continues he
another. But the “forms” or “forces” created by
more a matter individual to each one; they will have greater inner
development, that the forces once employed, cannot be repeated in the
great Teachers of humanity, and new ones are about to come ...”
because it brought all the ancient religions into one great unity.
Earth, was the Christ Being, the great Sun Being Who through the
come. (This task was described in greater detail in the Christiania
an Indian Yogi with experiences that are permeated through and through
judgment and examination will assume greater and greater importance.
know, too, that Christian Rosenkreutz will be the greatest of martyrs
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture One
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since the Church attached great importance to this, the
world a more deep-seated antagonism than between the spirit
religion there were repeated attempts to suppress the idea of
fund which no longer existed. The real creative forces of
deep-seated motives — stemmed from the famous question
Father. The great confusion over this dogma could only arise
the tip of the iceberg. We must probe beneath the surface if
century. Things are done differently today. I must repeat
repeated too often that it is insight into these things which
the greatest mystery drama of all time was enacted on the
Fathers. That is of no great moment, but it leads to
something of far greater moment if we bear the following in
threatened if it should come to be accepted in any way that
greater miracle than this, namely, that Christianity has
develop its greatest strength in face of bitterest
deep-seated feelings underlying these nebulous concepts, for

Title: Building Stones: Lecture Two
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spirit is eternal; the body is subject to life and death in
permeated with this idea of trichotomy.
procreation of man through the parents.
birth and death. When man passes through the gate of death
direct creation of God working in conjunction with the
this spiritual part did not perish at death, but entered upon
reincarnation, he had no option but to accept creationism,
the doctrine that the soul is created ex nihilo with each
doctrine of reincarnation and to recognize only creationism
resolutely strove to clarify his ideas about creationism and
connected with something of the greatest importance,
death the spirit dwelt in the souls of men so that by virtue
Passion, the Death and Resurrection of Christ, can be found
seemingly given over to death the multitude broke out in wild
centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha, show great
the suffering, death and resurrection of the God were
science of today — there is no need to repeat my
true that science has made great advances in certain spheres
“great advances”. The invention of wireless
the seeds of death. In other words, spiritual investigation,
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death on the Cross, has thereby established a relationship
How great is the contrast between this conception of faith,
every detail is of the greatest moment. All criticism is
which He felt arise in Him when the woman who had great faith
have been at great pains to elucidate this mystery by means
that his meat was locusts and wild honey and his raiment was
intention? His purpose breathes through every page of the
spirit that breathes through them, become responsive to the
enlightened man. Protestant groups or sects have created an
and provide for her greatest good.” Had these giants of
when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none
4:25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; \
nor a great nation such as the Romans, nor even the whole of
features of the Apostles seemed to rise up before them. For
were able to picture the actual features of the Apostles.
something of great importance. We must bear in mind this tone
essentially a period when, in a brief space of time, great
great changes that have taken place in a short space of time,
a new soul is created. He was an advocate of
“creationism”, but accepted that after death the
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understanding of the greatest and simplest truths must be
great importance to the idea of faith, or trust, as an active
stature he was sometimes treated indulgently — did not
animals bear the seeds of death in them. They are not as
originally created; not that they were created immortal, but
creation of the animals and plants around him. But this has
Luciferic temptation, but involved the rest of creation in
the services it has rendered to mankind, despite its great
This thinking, together with the rest of creation, has been
what, I repeat, would have been the fate of Earth evolution
they will be treated medically! By that time medicaments will
in former times those conditions really did exist. Great
breathing process — for our breathing always responds
without; from within, our breathing responds to this
spirit, when, through the breathing process he responded to
beneath the threshold of consciousness. But man would be
within, that is the cause of death. If man had retained his
material substance and thus he would have created in his
treated medically, in order that good and evil, all personal
and will have the same creative power in the external world
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rooted in the modern outlook that many are at great pains to
looked for a botany permeated with spirit. As a result of his
day, a view which Haller neatly summed up in the following
words: “No created spirit can penetrate into the heart
“No created spirit can penetrate into the heart of
his creative imagination. For this view is identical with the
realized within ourselves “where no created spirit
great influence at the present time. It offers reflections
and subjective factors. When Goethe says: `No creative
slightest attempt to probe beneath the surface. I promised to
The great
especially set great store on this. Just as Christ Jesus
greater, Caligula or Jupiter (and for this purpose Caligula
greater.
temptation in the Garden of Eden: “In the day ye eat
innocent man had been condemned to death because he had been
guilty!” And when Petronius lay under sentence of death
persists amongst us today and permeates the early
because those sublime impulses which Christ bequeathed to the
that Jesus’ death was inevitable because Christianity
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penetrate a little beneath the surface events of our time
certain facts connected with the great impulses of cosmic
the initiated emperors, Hadrian among them, made repeated
Romans repeatedly emphasized that the Christians were
otherwise it would not have had so great an impact. Of
fundamental principles of the Roman empire, a greater
this answer. It was seen by all, even by the heathen, as a
unlimited authority, you can even order the death of those
a despot cannot do, he cannot compass the death of his
Seneca wished to indicate that death set a limit to the
period we find repeated attempts by initiated emperors to
simply buried it beneath the social order of a materialistic
ordered the palladium to be dug up and to be placed beneath

Title: Building Stones: Lecture Seven
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murder should bring greater disaster in its train. People
been at great pains to misrepresent his actions in every
great historical movements of mankind are governed by a
quite the reverse. In effect he accepted one of the greatest
cost of great capital outlay Julian decided therefore to
of the greatest Church Fathers, Augustine
homo that signifies (approximately) the procreator or the
procreated.
roseate hues that, after an hour's lecture, the members
in the course of time this mode of thinking permeated the
misrepresenting Goethe (the great opponent of Kant) as I
showed in the case of Haller, who wrote: “no created
Julian. Julian spoke out of a natural creative gift whilst
great erudition and downright theological sophistry.
failure if we belittle his great achievements, if we fail to
And it is of paramount importance today to recall these great
— herein lies his great tragedy — to reconcile
unwilling to face realities and this is the greatest need of
learn to understand the principle of the creative spirit and
what it means when it is said that the spirit, when creative,
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One can hardly imagine a greater contrast than the contrast
the great artists of antiquity, who, to a certain extent,
of the creative activity of nature and the spirit. Now if we
greater importance than the evolution of dogma. For dogmas
were to enter into the minds of these great souls, we should
relation to the great cultural manifestations men are fast
thinking of a particular epoch is merely repeated time and
independent of the body and which is unrelated to the death
that we have something within us that transcends death,
experienced his immortal soul which death cannot destroy. He
idea of immortality is limited; I realize that after death I
conviction that the solitude we suffer is self-created, that
we have brought it upon ourselves. We create our gods in our
own image. This solitude is not born with us, it is created
responsibility for the death of that which is born of God.
for the death of the divine within him. If time permitted I
progressively; we ourselves experience the death of the
born in us. For the Risen Lord, He who has suffered death, is
His death is experienced in the manner already described.
that after his death his spirit is still alive amongst us
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me the greatest pleasure. The author is one of the few who
at greater length about the Mithras Mysteries if I had more
gates of death and therefore has a deeper insight into the
death.
how Charles the Great in the “Salzburg
they say that although Nietzsche had many creative ideas, he
to the age in which we are born — an age of great
feel the mild and ominous breath of the thaw-wind. Within a
referring are for the most part those for whom I feel great
present age should be permeated with the impulses of
looking far beneath the surface we perceive today an urge
unless we look upon him as the result of repeated lives on
of all a person such as Hermann Bahr for whom I feel great
greater whole which will later emerge. Thus Bahr sometimes
distinguishing features. And they would have learned that
every mental climate creates in the course of time its own
have great respect and affection for Hermann Bahr I would
like to show that he is typical of those who find great
the greatest clarity of thought is called for if we wish to
would he the greatest calamity that could befall us today if
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own creative experience and his response to the poetry of
far greater poet than Otto Ludwig and that which one is able
mean feat — but who, as a scientist, stood head and
enlightenment he wrote a superb treatise on this subject. The
treatise — the kind of treatise written by one who has
insight into the spiritual world, not the kind of treatise
spiritual vision. At the conclusion of his treatise
accurate description of the spirit in which the treatise was
through the gates of death it is of less significance than it
gates of death — finds itself, according to
today. In reality the great Church Fathers of the
especially we see that his works are shot through with great
streams through and permeates the Universe. He pictures the
is buried beneath an avalanche, everyone sees the avalanche
caused by an ice-crystal. And so it is with the great events
thinking, then the greatest nonsense results. Political
Socrates after the latter's death. Now this is
after the death of Socrates. This idea must be revived again
the death of your friend, plays no part in the dream when you
death is behind this dream-picture, is it not self-evident
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gave consolation at death and which have shown to the human being for
reach beyond death, beyond the limited. The big question “where
between birth and death, and that the human being has to fulfil his
into the worlds and to create a world view which does not contain, however,
from the mountain and picking up scree and creating thereby land and
are missing. A statement is characteristic which a great naturalist
a higher disposed animal, as a member of the physical-natural creation,
moral philosophies and created commandments of the social living together.
his needs. There were not few people who received the books with great
the recent time has created. It investigated not only the smallest living
researchers like Max Müller and his great colleagues initiated
is also able to see the creative love in the outside world. As the human
being created a view of nature in the 19th century which went out from
his idea of struggle, he will create a world view of love because he
force of the world. If the human being wants to recognise God, creating
but love creates and forms. The sighted human mind will see the creative
love approaching him. The creation of love in him leads to the knowledge
that love created the world. And the Goethean thought is fulfilled:
This legacy of the great
pushes the germ out of the dark earth. What the soul creates must be
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stimulation from the East, from India. From there the first great teachings
In the first chapter of this book it is pointed to the great teachers
else than great initiators in the spiritual fields. Indeed, their development
great initiators to us; however, they do not demand the belief in any
great German philosopher. He still spoke in such a sense that one can
breathes, he eats and drinks, he carries out that internal physical
carried out, of course, with the greatest care, because illusions of
He lives them in such a way as he lives digesting and breathing.

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as we live now, we create the causes of the destiny which meets us when
development correctly. In the 18th century the great naturalist Linnaeus
Because I have heated the metal ball first, the water starts boiling.
spiritual human being as the heating-up has changed the physical metal
whether I do a moral action or a physical one. What the heated up metal
if the human being lived repeatedly, he would remember his former lives.
has only the recollection of his experiences between birth and death.
how does the spirit work between death and the next birth? We have to
through the stations between death and a new life. Then we see what
that which the great spirits said will come true; time will tell that
be really understood to fulfil us with their ideal. This is the great

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task little unless it applied this concept of evolution to the great
descendants are the cultural creators of our present human race. If
architects who study them assure us that they were created so extraordinarily
understand the things round itself, know about them. It has to recreate
them in his inside, has to recreate as concepts what is outside in reality.
the human being has created the knowledge in him, he can find it in
special mind. They had a great idea of the all-embracing world spirit
spread out in space, life spread out in space. He understands death
and contraction are the phenomena of life and death for him. Life is
at that time the human cultural development had not yet created the
Then the great discoverers
which was animated by the creator.” This is a careful researcher,
creator and reveres him in humility. The same researcher may also be
up toward the Darwinist theory of evolution. He shows us a great overview

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to create new forms out of the old ones. The seed of the plant grows
which were animated by a creator of the universe. This is Darwin's
greatest poet of our present, Ibsen, then you just see him looking at
creative work. From here he finds the possibility to understand life
into death. Death remains the big stumbling block for the materialistic
he understand death, how should he cope with life, finally, because
death stands like a gate at the end of this life, fulfilling him with
this point of view of materialism. Already in the novella The Death
representation how life is found. A peculiar view of death faces us
gives the possibility to understand death not as an end, but as outpouring
as retrieval in the great primal spirit of the world. The problem of
death is thereby artistically solved in marvellous way. Death has become
in his treatise On Life (1887): “As strong and rapid
or death struggle, in drunkenness, even in the burst of passion, we
do not accept the human being as living, do not treat him as a living
has submitted to reason, we accept him as living and treat him correspondingly.”
new forms repeatedly to the fact that it is necessary to understand
not taught the ancient wisdom to us, so that we repeat it in words,
This is great with Tolstoy

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In these talks I have repeatedly
view suggest so often. I have rejected this repeatedly. Today I have
human being transmigrates between death and a new birth. For the adversaries
death.
destiny between death and rebirth. For this purpose we want to become
senses can distinguish electricity from light or light from heat, the
devotion, and piety. As heat and light are different, love and piety
death means, actually. We want to try to understand the concept, the
idea of death once with this idea just won. What happens at first when
goes its own ways after the death of the body.
them after death; then his “body” is only a soul body.
its influence. The soul is there after death as it was there before,
consists of mind and soul after death. And as the human life takes place
world, like heat, electricity, magnetism, there also are the most manifold
soul after death only. There we have the lowest class of soul qualities,
happens between death and a new birth. We get to know the further processes
between death and a new birth, I want to describe this group of soul
which it goes through immediately after death. There it lives in a world
death, it gets to know the feeling of the body without being able to
death, his mind, his third part, the highest part of the human being,
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point of the development of the spiritual human being between death
also something of that between death and a new birth.
inventiveness creates things which are not images of our earth; he creates
in the time between death and a new birth , then he takes everything
a university study. We see there how this Helen Keller has already created
different round her. Even more different it is if at the moment of death
he is able to pass the gate of death by means of his mystic contemplation
everything away at the moment of death that your eyes and ears make
the states between death and a new birth which I have described to you.
the great philanthropists here; all those who can appear in the world
as the geniuses of philanthropy, the geniuses of charity, as great creators
life as artists, as great inventors or in some other way with brilliant
can immediately walk after death again to a new incarnation because
spirit-land between death and a new birth which is beyond the connection
a little in it, must spend short time at least between death and a new
which penetrates him between death and a new birth. Those who have got
in the contact of these beings between death and a new birth, the purer,
being has to go through on his pilgrimage between death and a new birth.
earthly lifetime, the time between birth and death, with a number which
and has also to feel a lot of that which one calls the beatific sensations
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parsonage. In 1844 born, he already shows a great interest in all religious
human beings still created divine things at that time, in contrast to
was written about Nietzsche. People who repeat his words pay attention
Our great philosophers, up to Kant and Schopenhauer, are completely
of nature single great personalities emerge. This view had an effect
have come. The living god Dionysus was the great figure of the Greek
the Greek created the redeeming religion and wisdom and later also the
which showed life and death in powerful sounds.
want to treat and solve with reason, mind and imagination it became
called the Tolstoy problem also just like the great problem of the Greek
The external figures are that in which birth and death prevail forever.
We have seen how any plant lives in its figure between birth and death,
how whole nations pass between birth and death, how the most marvellous
works are subjected to birth and death. But we have also seen how one
thing remains that defeats birth and death and makes the old rise again
race is embodied in forms which have birth and death in themselves.
from state to state. However, birth and death live in everything. While
matter as science treats it. He himself became a student of the form,
of the external figure which passes us by in birth and death forever.
the external figure which is subjected to birth and death which comes
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in this field is not without results, and one must know to treat these
up in devotion to the great spirits. He has learnt to overview the whole
the spirit-land. This is a feature of these worlds.
of the soul, which refer to the greatest, to the most significant of
to the stammering child like a revelation, he has created in himself
embankments before his soul. This must be always repeated. Always new
of that. The greatest sages of humanity attained the great truths in
and he finds what he has got to know in the great world views of humanity:

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and that this world is nothing material, but active, creative spirit;
Your mortal breast in roseate dawn!
created from the fruits of life. The earth spirit is no symbol; Goethe
created up to the human being, the crown of creation. He also expressed
represents a great world view or world religion in The Secrets.
In Mephistopheles Goethe created the picture of an ancient idea that
was before birth and will be after death; soul is the connection between
such a way: “for death is the root of all life.” And: “who
“neatest cell.” This indicated: the release from anything

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world interpretation or a supernatural creation history, as well as
the biblical idea of six creation days would have completely controlled
marvellously far substituted it for a natural creation history. However,
opponents of our so-called supernatural creation have formed to themselves
a creation doctrine which goes back to the name Plato, and that this
Christian Gnosticism we have a creation doctrine which I have to characterise
of the supernatural creation history have recently still formed.
we come to more and more imperfect creatures. This was the view of the
another creation doctrine than one normally states.
if one speaks in such abstract higher ideas. Hence, the creation history
all great church teachers of the Middle Ages, also with Thomas Aquinas
century people believed to give something quite new with a natural creation
newer time, this creation history completely became materialised, while
one faced it with spiritual concepts once. The creation history by Darwin
creation history once; it was interpreted in the spiritual sense only,
gives a creation history which faces up to the documents of the religious
faced up to them, and let us now develop this creation history with
us from the outside world which the human being creates only from his
the mathematical in space, you get to the great mystics who inform us
physical creation. Plato also speaks of it if he says that the spirit
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It concerns the great connection
of Man. This treatise, little known and studied, is a repository
he would give an explanation of it. They were not found up to his death,
and the explanation was not given. After Goethe's death, a big
the same with it as all great teachers of humanity who did not want
to teach in abstract words who treated the loftiest questions in pictures,
which the soul experiences after death, but also if it got free of anything
with a wreath of oak leaves. He asks the snake where from it comes:
third is of ore, he is decorated with a laurel wreath, the fourth king
sheaths the self has to gather the fruits of an incarnation after the
for the human being, this is more refreshing than the great revelation.
love, the creative word of the world buddhi, the god, being aglow with
Let us seek for this spiritual band in Goethe's creations.

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Starting from this great
have to regard the temple as a symbol of the great occult schools which
the walls, and then cast it off from themselves. The pug has eaten the
then. At first he neatens the house while he lets his lamp shine and
adds the fruits. This is a significant feature.
sensuous realm to the spiritual land is created.
the sheep! While the golden king presses the wreath of oak leaves on
into something that serves the civilisation. In his art he breathes
spiritualised that way. The human being becomes the creator of a higher
his spiritual alchemy. He takes up the same wisdom which once created
of the alchemists: “death is the root of all life” and:
has eaten of it, and now it lies there dead. The will-o'-the-wisps
death. Death means deadening everything, all lower desires. Thus Goethe
The great teachers of humanity, the great initiates are always active.
has to go through death to become new afterwards.
king presses the wreath of oak leaves on the head of the young man and
Goethe pointed to this great

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The man repeats and arranges
is created, however, these soon position themselves on the side of the
Goethe wanted to say with this fairy tale. The race of dwarfs, created
we are also in the case that we always decrease since the creation of
child Goethe tries “to approach the great God of nature, the creator
should burn and signify the human soul longing for its creator.”
The old man comes, threatens
the human soul lives a life between birth and death again and again
must also get to know the so-called threats of initiation if he chooses
of the creative world word, which sounds through the world as the sphere-harmony.
as reward: he wants his guide, the small creature. He wants to lead
again, and then the initiation on higher level is repeated for you.
Also this fragment indicates the greatness of what he had to say, also
is manifested in his great spirits. But the words can apply to them
Our great spirits want to be recognised, and then they

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which originated from Darwinism. When one noticed which great impression
about the great initiates of the world. Any real initiation can be connected
only with the gift of clairvoyance. The capacities of the great initiates
the time of the creation of the human brain.
already create forms. It had to develop for that for long times.
all mystic schools this is emphasised. The human being takes the heat
into him and reworks it inside. The myth which always shows the great
that he got down there, not the external heat. Thus the human being
is a real creating, and this is connected with warmth. We have a similar
The light played a similar role in those days as today the heat on the
human being is creative by love, he was creative in those days using
powerless the creating human being is before the physical things of
the past to receive an idea of the great human future. I have quoted

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The Great Initiates
schools and of the great initiates who have outgrown the lower levels
of these great initiates today. As one must get to know the methods
Because of this etheric body the human being is not only a creation
in which chemical and physical forces work but a living creation that
which changes time has caused, then you see that what permeates your
consciously to that which is beyond space and time. The great religious
which arises from the great initiates or inspired human beings. This
Such a great initiate like Buddha does not speak out of a vaguely felt
deepest knowledge of the great initiates. The initiates know that somebody
Thus you see how from a deeper knowledge of the human being the great
astral body must penetrate and treat the etheric body in the same way
and it completes with threat of thunder
real disciple of a great initiate. Then he can continue this path. One
which the great initiates have, those initiates who gave our culture
by which they were enabled to found the great religions of the world.
Not only the great religions,
world originated from the great initiates. Only two examples are cited
which kind of influence on the world the great initiates have who experienced
off-loaded all human virtues or weaknesses on the creatures outside.
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it behind as a big will of his life. After his death he leaves a legacy
his death Goethe points out that to us. Faust cannot become outdated;
finished his life work long before his death with his drama When
the poet who is the representative of our time, the poetically greatest
of art: Plato creates a state idea in which the single human being should
and death.
the Robbers: Karl Moor wants something certain, he wants to create human
by power to a greater or lesser degree. Thus we see Henrik Ibsen as
to the world; he should be an emissary not reproduce, but shape, create.
with everything that constitutes the greatness, even if the emptiness
to form something creatively that lifts him out of them, a resurrection
birth and death who made himself familiar with the big law of karma
have. If a great man is quiet in tragic modesty, one like Henrik Ibsen

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In the talk on the great
that the great initiates are basically the supporters of the future
point today. The great results of natural science have shown us how
energy”), the great mechanic who furthers us although his mechanical
have pointed to the Rosicrucians repeatedly; also to the fact that one
not cause the great and real progress, but that these were the theorists
who created from the plenty of ideas and also brought about the future
With some great examples
in the talk on the great initiates, then the world laws appear before
the human being stays between death and a new birth. These are the worlds
between death and a new birth.
heat, by conversion of heat to work. The theorist of heat shows us that
always only a certain part of heat can be transformed into work or into
that what is technically useful. If you heat a vapour machine, you cannot
use all heat to create forces of locomotion. Imagine now that always
heat is used for the work but a part of heat cannot be converted into
work and remains behind. This is the state of heat which the heat engineer,
the theorist of heat can show as a kind of death of our physical earth.
which significance have these images of humanity? How does this great
to really great and radical points of view. All the social ideas, even
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the great spiritual heroes who are, in the end, the creators of our
among the German education directs his thoughts upon one of our greatest
these days to honour of our great spiritual hero. However, as intimate
great ideals, the great portrayals of his dramas settled down, slowly
in Schiller has decreased because Schiller's great ideals do no
treatise after he had completed his study of medicine. This treatise,
Schiller treats in this
answers to this question; but that does not matter with such a great
is the sense of this treatise. The end of the treatise is brilliant.
There Schiller speaks of death in such a way, as if this is no completion
of life, but only an event like other events of life. Death is no completion.
He says already there: life causes death once; but life is not finished
with it; the soul goes, after it has experienced the event of death,
human being takes a book in hand again and again, the soul returns repeatedly
to a body to make new experiences in this world. It is the great idea
is great in them. If we ask ourselves why Schiller's great thoughts
as young people in the theatre, or if we read the dramas. There flows
big harmony. All things were the outflow of the divine, of the creativity
permeated by God, and he felt contented.
when the world was permeated with the modern spirit of research. There
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Middle Ages, it still was in such a way. What the great medieval theologians
world as a big unity. The divine creativity was on top, at the summit.
the theological science should treat.
found the words which were got out of any heart. The sermon was permeated
verses, then he creates that current from him to the community within
the Bible verses which causes an influence of the divine creativity
in the writing of the great truths which are written in this ancient
religious book. He looked into the bases from which the great truths
and to interpret, but behind him the great powerful writers stand whose
There we have a science of the divine, then a great doctrine of the
If you look at the great sages of former centuries, you can see everywhere
has the sun as a spring of life and heat. However, what is developed
In a book which made a great stir in the last time, and which the people
is the conviction of the victory of the crucified over death, of God's
tries to lead the human beings upwards to understand this great mystery.
on a distant island finds great physical truths without instruments

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and without knowledge of the great principles of life. Just in this
ways of thinking of our time are those which put a certain main feature
for Law (1872). Everybody also knows, which significance his great
created that is basic for a whole sum of principal views in our conception
mentioned who had such great results with his significant works, in
the explanations of the great lawyer concerning the basic education.
from theology. Everything that philosophy treated went back to the big
the most eminent sense became great in the history of humanity by the
It is typical that a great
man of our time not even sees that it would be our task to create a
to create it in the fields of the external sensuous natural phenomena.
Therefore, the Gnostics, the great mystics of the first Christian centuries,
if our greatest lawyers do not have to complain of a lacking basis of
there is such a thing like mathesis. The great philosopher Leibniz was
a magnificent lawyer, a great practitioner and a great mathematician;
into in the soul life like a mystic, he is ripe to treat real soul questions
hence, it also had to be created out of life
it gives. Next time we see how with the doctors another feature comes
feature, this undertone of a renewed life. If we understand this, a
breath of theosophical attitude has to pour out about all branches of
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beings figure out the single life of a creature in connection with the
transformed into heat, something changes by the homicide of a living
the methods of application may be wrong. Often two great authorities
in a salutary way, then only a religious feature inspires it again and

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ripe. The feature of our time is to set little store by the formal education.
could better take sentences from any great classic. Thus it has come
to master everything. Great spirits like Leibniz, Leonardo da Vinci
in life. The chemist, botanist et etcetera is compared with the great
great spirits of the world not without reason. There is no branch of
no inkling of the fact that mathematics introduces in the great principles
of any knowledge, even of art. There could be the great idealism of
Vinci (1459–1519), this representative of the great idealism,
do not want a thing in nature. What the human being creates consciously
we take this point of view, we have taken up the great idealism in ourselves,
of his development. The arts faculty should have the greatest say. It
treated, leads into big depths. One needs physiology; one must study
great world view do not have the saying, but rather psychology, which

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come to light, especially this winter, which is of great
appear to have the greatest significance for the fourth, the
coming into being is permeated with soul and spirit. But the
soul's independent life after death, or before it had entered
man within it was permeated by soul and spirit. It was just
view of the Greeks. The great Aristotle scholar Franz Brentano
that after death man was no longer a complete human being. As
from him as happens in death, then he is truly no longer a
death, man, according to Aristotle, is incomplete because he
that point the death on Golgotha took place. Christ Jesus had
coincided at the moment in time when mankind was threatened
evolution and the age and death of Christ Jesus. I can think
of little which must have a greater impact on the soul than
when the death on Golgotha took place.
taken great pains in investigating this man's soul
as a creative force, his wishing to express only views that
threaten mankind. At present there is plenty of courage shown

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become so much more complex. I have for years repeatedly
repeatedly said in various places the following: If we survey
dealing with issues permeates all spheres of knowledge.
spirit-permeated, God-ensouled nature alternate with
permeated with the spirit of the cosmos, later known as the
must be recognized more and more as a feature of science of
spiritual counterbalance is created by impulses that
towards ever greater perfection.
effective impulses beneath. If one pays attention to what
recently in Austria. A certain Robert Scheu, a man of great
greater spiritual influence in people's lives.
fundamental conviction, which I herewith repeat, is: As far
the point of decadence and that a great number of people have
or conservative is of no great moment when it is a question
possible by treating the problems in the old manner. He
present materialistic way of life creates huge difficulties
One could sweat
unraveled a great contradiction which developed between the
of the present war. Since he regards himself as a truly great
rather he quotes himself (quotations are a peculiar feature
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from various viewpoints to draw your attention to the greater
back once more to the time immediately after the great
aware of the air as we breathe it in and out; we sense a
creations of fantasy — but originate from direct
and death. He was also aware in a philosophical sense, that
death.
were discussed. He takes the greatest trouble in his attempt to
“is an obstacle to religion; as soon as the great work
All that is great and significant in the
as yet they are not sufficiently permeated by Christianity to
permeate them once more with the spirit, the spirit in which
have great respect for Kjellen. His book is both widely read
mankind at the present time causes one to turn repeatedly to
consort was Catherine, later to become Catherine the Great.
of his subjects. It is therefore with great sorrow that he
through this calamity is all the greater because of the
a greater benefit than anything they could expect to obtain
to devote their best forces to achieve so great and
conclude not only a lasting peace, but a treaty of alliance
concluded treaties and amalgamations.
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his scientific investigations cover a great variety of subjects.
into dowsing, or water divining. The war has caused great
metallic or water in the ground beneath.
walks over ground beneath which there is water, a change
strictly tested by me. A great many doctors and other
be expected; such things always create opposition. Professor
naturally colored objects and also from fabrics treated
the great secret of our time. It must be striven for so that
remember my pointing out the great significance of
just what there is beneath the ground in certain regions
be treated in the peculiar ways I have indicated in recent
anthroposophy is currently treated.
significance that people of this kind, capable of treating a
serious objections would have given me great pleasure.
“The Christ or Sun-man taught seven great
with great cunning. One gets the impression that his
find that I proceed with the greatest caution when I explain
greater extent. I emphasize that these things are difficult
explained with great care in such a way that it is rendered
pulsebeat is not always regular; it often becomes
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realized, a basic feature of the various considerations in
been used in the lectures of past weeks. Great impulses at
bring before you what in our problematic times a great
great efforts to understand these members of man's soul
the two greatest riddles of the human soul, the riddle of
no right to say that one ought not to eat people. We have no
it has to be said that Brentano's greatness does not lie in
death. If we did not we would lose the sense for the truth,
for the reality of the time between death and new birth. We
in that we live for several days after death with the great
people do speak like that. In this area great misconceptions
question is asked, What has suffered the greatest shipwreck?
seem to many, the greatest loss has been to Christianity.
death — tragic, because he did have a feeling for the
reality-permeated concepts! If we simply continue with the
before his death he is said to have given assurances that he

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and hazards become all the greater.
death the same entity. If I look back in memory over my life,
as a whole, appearing more substantial than mere ideation,
causes the greatest difficulty. One often feels as if
death into the spiritual world. But one's life of feeling
then it is feasible that it is also extinguished at death.
through spiritual science. This discovery is of the greatest
the physical body whiCh is laid aside at death. We must make
connections that must be sought, as it were, beneath the
from cleanliness these children are deprived of a great many
his answer in a long, learned treatise, but in essence it was
and the treatise in which he voices the same opinion as the
scientific treatise about it and was not awarded a prize by
things occur to one than before, which is of great
gypsy who, with good appetite, was eating meat from an animal
eating dead animals they happen to find, nor do they suffer
any ill effects. The person who found the gypsy eating,
wanted to impress upon him that one does not eat animals that
saying: Well, the animal I am eating was slaughtered by God.
to eating what God has slaughtered.
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result of the last life having been worked on between death
a great leap to another group of concepts we also obtained
evolution during the time between death and new birth; what
previous incarnation. What is accomplished between death and
are so conditioned during life between death and new birth
would attain much greater inner contentment. This is directly
A passage which Pascal before him discussed at great length, Lessing
a great deal. They imply that while incarnated in a human
to the evolution we went through between the previous death
years old, he becomes, through the death of a member of
much attention that as a result he won a seat in parliament
interesting to observe this great man as a representative of
however, score over that same squire in his bid for a seat in
created a precedent. The British press was, in fact, hurling
greatest adversaries died, all exceedingly wealthy men. They
call it a coincidence, but the death duty he had already
engulfing also Lloyd George who, though a great man, is
in the present, the discord became all the greater when that
interesting interaction does certainly explain a great deal
to know the influences at work beneath the surface. Such

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should create a certain condition of the comprehension of
sickness to a far greater extent than is admitted. The near
“eat” so that spiritually he never needs to eat
soul must repeatedly unite itself, which must be repeatedly
to a greater or lesser degree of egoism. Man's task cannot
as someone who wanted to eat food which could then only be
presented creates great difficulty for the mobile human soul
We place the greatest store on what we can objectify by
Latin races. A feature of Western superstition —
by the fact that great value is placed on producing
today the unseen power over a great part of the British,
to a great extent been lost. This applies especially to
is creative individualism — I hesitate to use yet
was done to create a general public opinion. Work on this
scientific terms how greatly the German spirit had
mainly in militarism that created hell for the rest of the
will have seen that I value and admire him greatly.
Vischer was a great
outlooks that led to the greatness of Western Europe are no
have come from? There must be forces beneath the ground that
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Him — is so great, so all-embracing, so mighty, that there can
of the greatest of all world-problems. Reverence, veneration — these
the greatest problem of life, one should try not to place too high a
of describing more than a single aspect of this great, overwhelming
greater than anything that could be conveyed in the lectures on the
greatest imaginable self-surrender, is the very fount of Compassion and
how the greatest sacrifices spring from love for some being or cause;
— But so great was the mother's love that she could not bring
is capable of deeds of untold greatness. The significance of the Love
with the Gospel of St. John we may speak of great, transcendental
two attributes because in Christ-Jesus the greatest of all riddles stands
great ever to allow us to imagine that thereby we have already grasped
Strength which is the creative power surging through the world, for these,
in St. Mark's Gospel. The misunderstandings would be even greater than

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to human history. This is a direct indication that this greatest of all
treatment, and that great harm can easily be done to the cause of Spiritual
should be made with great caution; nor is it too much to expect everyone
we are shown how the two great pre-Christian streams of spiritual life
into the great Christian stream of spiritual life on the earth. The
more clearly the fact that an Individuality as great as Zarathustra
within three sheaths, each one of which is more ancient than the Ego
if it was to provide the body for a being as great as Zarathustra. If
of the ancient Persian people, this great being had been developing
had to be provided from a racial stock whose greatness was commensurate
created, fit for Zarathustra. Through all the evolutionary periods of
have entailed great divine-spiritual labour, in order to produce a human
ocean, but regarded all this as a great Illusion, as “Maya”,
to men from outside, manifesting Himself in wind and weather. When man
conformity with the purpose for which it was originally created. If, with
This signifies something of the greatest profundity. The human corporality
as being entirely the creation of Jehovah, was of the same nature as
the Babylonians a great Teacher from the East was working there, with
in the regions whither the Hebrews were led. Some of the greatest of
they were following their great Teacher, Zarathustra, on his way to
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life converged, in order, eventually, in the great Christian stream,
were both permeated with the ancient wisdom. A science derived from the
modern age. That is why in a spiritual movement such as ours the greatest
place to make it possible for mankind to be prepared for that great
intermingling of blood, conditions which in earlier times had great
in great strength. As the Bible tells, the choice was made between the
mankind was drawing near. The last great Nazarene lived at the time of
given the physical body its form and shape was itself a creation of
baptisms. Men now beheld the creative forces of the etheric body, no
This etheric body was no longer permeated from within by what issued from
the Baptism of John were able to say: A great and momentous event has come
This, however, can only be understood by reflecting upon a certain feature
‘stone mountain’, the great stone. One might say that Moses
received the revelation of the Law from the ‘great stone’

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture I: Celts, Teutons, and Slavs
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the modern epoch, to the time of the great discoveries, when that
great historical struggles. If we are to study their
the far past we see a great and remarkable culture of the ancient
features of the Germanic character are courage, the roaming
races beat for the heroes who externally failed, but whose souls
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these alone are known to him. He tells of characteristic features in
races in the north, a great similarity is specially evident in the
greater conformity with those of the Persians. According to the
on the seashore, and from them created the human race. The Persian
to it, has attained a greater height of culture.
rise of Christianity, which was to acquire so great a significance
cultivation of feeling. The Goths had the greatest possible
together was created. In place of the blood bond, appeared the bond
deep-seated kinship of different races. We see the external
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We find here a great difference in levels of culture. Among the
Thus the leaders received great tracts of land, which they
procedure caused great hardship and could not be permanently
great forests and uninhabited tracts of land. There, too, the
leaders, so that the leaders became great landowners, and rulers
possible for this to happen without great oppression. In the days
themselves under the protection of greater. Thus arose a protective
interest of culture. The great men in the Empire of the Franks were
among the Frankish tribes, where the Church was the great landowner.
Celtic monks and priests in great numbers, to spread their faith
civilisation, great struggles had been going on outside. But what we
Aquitania. This heroic song narrates the feats of Walther, Hagen and
the year 451. This is the first defeat that the Huns suffered. Their
irresistible terror to other races. After their defeat on the
Catalaunian Plain, this army received its last decisive defeat
through Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, who withstood Attila, and
induced him to retreat. Leo knew the power which Attila exercised
lasting influence. After Attila's death in 453, his army soon
new creations taking the place of old. We can, however, only
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Nature makes no leaps. This is repeated over and over again; but it
2. The great
we find the great discoveries, the voyages to India, America, etc.,
shall see through what circumstances it was that such great power
these properties, a great number of people were employed, some taken
counsel about their concerns. But now the great landowner was not
northeast, could conquer great territories. At a time when war
The great landed
nobility, and this attained the greatest significance.
characteristic feature of the Frankish Church that, to begin with,
creating those mighty currents which then flowed out eastwards. In
transferred at that time from heathen customs. In the Frankish
event which proved to be of the greatest importance, a material
Thus Peace and Right are done to death.
great struggles which rent that age asunder
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inordinate space in it. Following the feats and triumphal marches of
faith, with great tenacity. Victory was won after wearisome wars,
then become a leader. One of these was Widukind, a duke with great
the most violent opposition. He had to be subdued with the greatest
of the great influence obtained by the Church whose suzerain he was,
cultivating oats and barley, but also wheat, leeks, etc. These were
scholastic way of thinking. The men who carried through the great
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The Middle Ages had come into a great heritage. Yet, of what we have
the other hand, a very great inheritance has remained from the days
or justice. A great transition now took place in the relationship
death of Charlemagne, and so it remained under his son, Louis the
great importance of this training, to be able to make conscientious
century, Meister Eckhardt calls Plato the great Greek
enjoyed great respect, since he had succeeded in conquering the
Normans. But the jealousy among the princes was so great that Arnulf
was that, after his death, the Church, as we shall see, made use of
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those beneath and those above it.
defeated had come into feudal relationship with the conquerors; the
absorption of the smaller properties by the greater, the Saxon,
relationship with the Church. Powerful enemies threatened Central
to begin by asking for a truce in order to create for himself at
treated, so that the congestion became greater and greater. This
defeated, and suffered such terrible discomfiture that their
Ages a new character. A great accumulation of sagas, fairy tales,
permeated by an element of great importance, namely, the cult of the
Middle Ages. He shuts his eyes to such facts as that the great mass
of the world. This great event, to be prepared for by penitential
acceptance and was recognised as legitimate even by the great poet
power of the Church. At the death of Henty III, it was not secular
The permeation of the
Crusades, we shall learn to know another influence of very great
influences that the great inventions and discoveries were made. For
was given to the great inventions.
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because in it we can study the rise of the great empires. In
studying antiquity, too, we learnt of great State-dominions, but
the difference was great between the secularised clergy and those in
the Crusades. Added to this, a great number of people were now
there were a great many with nothing to do, who were ready for any
external impulse was given by the ill-treatment of the numerous
completely closed book; and great cultural treasures were preserved
ecclesiastical thinking had been before, you can see from the great
artisan stop beneath the oppression of the lords of the manor, as
loves; others paid court to them in different ways. Great ignorance
the same time, when the breath of freedom was blowing in the cities,
unprecedented, but you see that far greater heights had been reached
absorbed into the constitution of the great States. Much is said
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Title: The Human Soul in Life and Death
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The Human Soul in Life and Death
known as, The Soul's Passage through the Portal of Death.
The Soul's Passage through the Portal of Death.
Human Soul in Life and Death
great contemporary events are capable of exciting in us, and
great personalities. With these observations I attempted
human soul in life and death, has always concerned men as one
and death urged so violently and so near us, when countless
to-day by the great majority of people. After all, the
still more to a thought permeated with feeling; at the same
This is a shattering, great, tremendously significant
ourselves in death, if there falls from us what inner
death, yet we go through death's door and see, with the help of
your own death; for you are not living in your own nature,
great spiritual law for the development of the human soul.
great inner experiences that, looking back on a blow of fate,
feeling ourselves one with our fate we do not experience death
from its greatest strength to death and to a second flowering
when we are really permeated by our will, so that we no longer
a psychic state in which the soul was creating for itself the
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and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
and destiny, the mystery of birth and death, the origin of evil and
speak of spiritual diseases Further, the greatest errors have
nature. The medicines of to-day create nothing positive in this
idea), which exercises a great suggestive power on weak
works into the life body and especially through the great
becomes ever greater and greater. The ego also works in the
death. The astral body and the ego separate from the physical
death. In the next hours while man's being remains in the
etheric body, the former life passes before the soul in great
talents and powers all the greater and more numerous.
digestion and procreation. That which builds crystals could
Procreation ------------------------- Etheric Body.
heredity; but also, the procreative organs, nerve system and
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great artistic development, to give utterance to the
order to discover the great thoughts that underlie them, as
in lines of electric light over a great
down. We could really reconstruct a great part of the history
motif, with his great knowledge and understanding and his
find four times repeated in the pictures.
artistic form. Just imagine how great and mighty must have been
to inscribe the great ideal into his soul.
will find pictures of this kind, created out of good and great
Dove of the Spirit. The Dove of the Spirit, what a great riddle
stand before the soul of every Theosophist as a great and
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Title: Easter and the Awakening to Cosmic Thought
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Nature. The great Festivals are connected with definite and distinctive phenomena in the Heavens
God, Brahma, is referred to as the Great Architect of the World, who brings about order and
all salt, all intoxicating beverages and all meat. This is the way in which people prepare
weakens. But from Christmas onwards greater and greater warmth again streams from the Sun.
there is a great difference. In its deepest significance, Easter is always felt to be the
festival of the greatest mystery connected with Man. It is not merely a festival celebrating the
in Christianity of the Resurrection after death. Vishnu's sleep sets in at the time when, in
undeveloped human being. The wisdom made manifest in his bodily structure is the greatest that
hallmark of an infinitely long past. Physical man is the crown of the rest of creation. What was
being that this wisdom first begins to manifest. The soul hardly so much as dreams of the great
Nature, always with the purpose of finally producing the crown of all its creative work —
creative in the present as it was in the past and will be in future time. Gazing upwards we
glimpse the ultimate goal, surmising the existence of a great soul by which the cosmic wisdom
had the great vision he describes. Seventy years being the
Jesus comes to the help of the human race, His sacrificial death becomes a factor in the
Redemption. Because cause and effect belong together in the spiritual life, this great deed of
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and details of the law of Karma. You know that by Karma is meant the great law of cause and
Spiritual Science since it applies to repeated lives on Earth. We speak of the
Reincarnation, of repeated lives on Earth, comes in for the fiercest possible attacks from
creative quality and is actually the upbuilding, constructive principle. The best mental
through it. At the same time, it is creative; man's physical organs are built of it. Heart,
lung, liver and so forth are created out of this etheric body. From the materialistic
circumstances may occupy a smaller space than what it actually creates. Thus, we have here
to do with creative life, with a creative body which underlies the physical body that can
think of your childhood, you will be able to say that you have learnt a very great deal.
world, about history or literature as well as a great deal else. Now you have knowledge of
learn a great deal and yet no great change takes place in his original character and
changed a great deal in their own natures and characters. Perhaps indeed there is no
temporarily and disappears again has its seat in the astral body. What becomes a man's
succeeds in changing a habit, a characteristic feature of his temperament, when, for
great deal, assimilating it so thoroughly that it gradually becomes an asset of his very
repeatedly: the principle exists so that is why I obey it — then the principle is
therefore rooted in the etheric body, the greater becomes the capacity of the individual
moral, sincere, conscientious soul is the future creator of a healthy body. But actual
control the heartbeat, the pulse beat and the breathing. A process that in ordinary life is
contact with particular personalities has himself created the conditions for this in a
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often been celled the younger brother of death. This simile
possible that many who think themselves great scientist
created anew out of nothing; and the human spirit would
have to be newly created, it would have to
good picture of death, for during sleep we are really
belongs to the creatures which, on account of this life,
have lost the power to see. These creatures are only able
breathing, it's heart beat, its metabolism, its warmth
to birth and death according to the laws of the physical
beyond birth and death, when he must assume something that
survives death, to postulate a principle which she
physical body which is subject to birth and death.
death, — no one who was aware that he is dealing only
shall find the conditions I myself created the preceding
death? The answer is, No! To the extent to which the desire
The desire is carried by the soul through death must
human spirit passes out of the body at death he possesses a
forgotten and the heart simply beats for the future.) It is
the greater the prospect at death of the acquirement of new
incarnated, or the greater his efforts have been in his
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that at the same time create a spiritual impotence, are held
with those features, from which one strives upwards; it must be
into such a kingdom that is beneath him/her: doing that is so
circles had created a great sensation. He too believes, that
absence of heat. Therefore, one cannot speak of it as something
truly does not go beneath the surface, and which indeed even
with heat.
matter, which from the outset creates obstacles and limitations
world, even though it is greatly widespread, can explain a
create a world, he must conform to that which is true without
him. So any world that he wanted to create is perforce
to create a world, prepare evil and wickedness along with it.
he must not have wanted to create it, which conflicts with his
a certain point create its own opposite on the surrounding
for it to create its own adversary. Now through taking part in
the being of a creature, Jakob Böhme thought, not only
divine being had to create necessarily as its adversary,
divinity for becoming self-aware. But since creatures arose,
and those creatures are not simply embedded in out-flowing
through saying this. But it should be repeated, what was once
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prehistory we have very complicated relations before us. The greatest, one
great teacher of humanity. This latter gradually takes on other capacities
was created for mankind to experience the same in the future. Since then,
of the great Buddha, to lead an appropriate life that crystallizes the
to it as a bodhisattva. In this way The great Christ event was also
physical corporeality to bring humanity a great step forward by means of
experience the great Buddha himself. Asita, that was the name of the sage,
child the great Zarathustra of the past was incarnated. That Zarathustra,

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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earth. This is a great achievement, that an individuality does not need to
however, he also needed the great endowments of the ego carrier, the great
individuality of Moses? What the Buddha brought is rightly called the great
especially creative abilities at a certain age. But one would not like to
which are creative forces, which otherwise would have been
then strips off. Then he is still surrounded by the astral sheath, which he
man appear before forty-two judges of the dead after death.

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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fated to die early. Whose death all Rome mourned. When the works of Raphael
themselves into cultural life as a whole, as into a great
Raphael's creations worked on after his death like a living,
his death, reaching to the present. If Herman Grimm was able to
expression of Raphael's creations. Thus, what Homer brought
something would at once be lacking for us if the creative power
him joins with his own creative activity to form an organic
concerning the repeated earth-lives of the human being — takes
spirit appears again and again in repeated earth-lives
natural outcome of considering Raphael's creative activity from
contemplating Raphael's creations from many points of view —
creations of the Greeks appear as fully permeated with
taking effect as an ever greater internalizing of the soul.
still greater chasm will loom between everything that goes on
creations.
of expression. On account of Raphael's towering greatness, the
development and evolving brilliant creations. And when Raphael
unfinished next to his deathbed, the
historian's mind is of a warrior subjugating the enemy beneath
greatest and most significant pictures in the development of
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heartbeat of the twelve figures must have come to expression.
the picture. They found the door too low that led underneath
the head of Christ: in short, the picture was treated in the
painted them. In thus getting to know Leonardo's creations,
just as little remains to us of this magical creation once
features that betray much of what Leonardo must have felt in
year he went about with the greatest artistic intentions, with
recognized his great gifts and wanted something from him.
wanted to create and then begin making studies. But how was it
feature interested him. He would invite all kinds of people of
their features in connection with the most diverse emotional
Drawings by him exist in which he sketched a particular feature
students, there are still a great number from his own hand.
features of an animal or of the human being. If a battle scene
— though never actually arriving at the kind of creating
Leonardo soul, too great in itself ever to be able to manifest
its own greatness.
the creation of an equestrian statue of the duke's father. We
way with this or that painting project or theatrical event, but
said, sought to investigate world secrets in creating a work in
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sources lying at greater depths of the human soul than is
than do the sources of creativity and artistic appreciation
disposition frequently creates something for
eating. The toad, however, only likes the milk. The child
wants the toad to eat some of her bread as well. The mother
still find a bite to eat flavorful, so it is possible to know
really a great magician, such as the human soul itself
greatest skill. It can grant you wings, enabling you to see an
time, of the creatures that might have been externally
and of the life-body which permeates it. But that does not
and Quatl have been created, Quatl begins to create the
present world. In this world he created, a difference
of the periods of European life in which the great heroic
great heroic sagas. It need not surprise us to hear that it
every age, from their first to their last breath. It need not
soup. He finishes eating the milk-soup, leaving the flies. Then
things bears like to eat. Then he approached them and
the soul. These events are such that we can know a great deal
great deal, Goethe wanted to say in pictures what he felt
life there is no greater art than that which completes the path
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ceaselessly through the world, repeating this procedure over
vicinity. This power will begin to permeate the current nature
wither away. Human beings are called upon, however, to permeate
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elemental spiritual breath of Goethe. Thus, he felt himself as
death [in 1832J, rather than one who had “studied”
death. So much else of immediate everyday concern stood in the
meantime profoundly permeated German life. They listened to the
on form to become a creation, of Goethe's phantasy. How, he
of creative phantasy — a new experience?
sum of spiritual impulses. This breath of the spiritual
realm of “creative phantasy,” as Herman Grimm
creations of “folk-phantasy.”
encompassed by what he termed creative phantasy. Proceeding
creative folk-phantasy at work in western culture — a
of as an expression of the being of creative phantasy. Again
creations had their place within the unbroken flow.
creative phantasy. For Herman Grimm this was especially
Madonna, or one of the creations of Leonardo da Vinci, or.
of creative phantasy — over three millennia.
soul-forces has to become greater. Deeper soul-forces are to be
courage and boldness are required to a greater extent than in
feeling her entire guilt in the death of this man, she sees him
to death. For her, the deceased, to whom she was so closely
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I have in mathematics, when I created a concept of function. It
when concepts are created.
created, which are equal to the other two angles in the
as an inner creation. If you then have an outer triangle you
senses harmony within the experience of creating mathematical
not to create a rationalistic world of atoms.
having been created in the same way as inorganic nature.
foundation for a discussion can be created. Anthroposophy never
wants to keep the route free from the creation of thought
sphere and now needs to be created for other areas of nature.
great clarity. Whoever now, equipped with such a scientific
inner image permeated by experiences and will impulses of the
movement of the stars, in the creation of minerals, plants and
animals, then one enters in the spiritual creation of the outer
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come under scrutiny, namely in his treatise entitled:
came to this treatise on the basis of some anatomical and
who should be, to some degree, the crown of creation, and the
man and animal were created according to their entire
evolution created the possibility to make space for what is
than the animal. However, every being is created out of the
Let's take the process of seeing. We could create divisions
creates the other pole of what had been observed. For instance,
we create mathematics and we believe we have a purely a-priori
the bridge, we have created the sense of balance through maths
can create an entire construction in thought, a
created an organ for abstract thinking.
speech and the organism becomes capable of creating speech.
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into question when philosophy was created, that only words were
philosophy's blossoming, you look back at the great philosophic
create something within his thoughts, which originate in
into clear scientific forms with which to create his world
out of it was interest created to observe the world in its
other; here the human soul faces the great, meaningful problem:
Consider Hegel's logic — he wanted to return repeatedly
Logos, must be penetrated with the creative principle of the
world. The Logos must be “God before the creation of the
creation as the content of the divine” could have been
there? This is abstract logic, the demand of the creative, the
experience of something misty, mystical; an overheated element
in the mist but through the way with which he treats religious
and wrestle in the centre with the problem of how to create a
separate sciences should create the totality of teaching. This
does the development happen in biology? Goethe created an
the impartial person, because it turns into the great world
this comes to a question and out of the West a great question
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are being created out of an anthroposophical source, this is
ideas, acquire greater power, greater urgency and so on. This
and teaching of our children. In the present it is repeatedly
great educators of humanity on pedagogical principles.
Anthroposophy fully acknowledges the existence of great,
before anyone in the recognition of the great educators. Only,
you have to admit nevertheless, with all great educational
the social areas. It breeds in relation to ideation actually
influence. Only when these principles are permeated through
have been brought to such a great blossoming, we must take up
that point had been quite neat and tidy, had suddenly stolen
From the money the little boy had bought treats which he didn't
permeated by the cosmos, just like in the physical world his
against great pedagogic accomplishments but that it will be the
assistant to the great one, if we are not to remain stuck in
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contradiction is namely nothing other than what permeates our
anthroposophical grounds, created with anthroposophical methods
treaty, a time in which value relationships in central and
created into the thought structures of the
repeated about the social question, if you question
I repeated in conclusion of lectures which I held in the end of
grasp spiritually permeated social relations. I would like to
the one hand you have the economic theorists who created axioms
connection with the permeating social connection that they
life. Only when conditions are created which for instance the
created among people will they develop something of a real
have been established as socialization, and can be created
out. When we want to deal with things abstractly, we can create
features and childish qualities. Twenty years later I look at
the concept which you had created in one place is no longer
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the greatest possible triumphs — I don't mean in a
scientific methods, and in relation to the treatment of the
different area being discussed. In the treatment of the purely
the creation of ideas and concepts, which are needed for
be created out of the senses, only the mind itself can't be
created out of the senses.
created out of the sense world. One remains true to that which
I've heard for years and now a seated person here has also said
observe people in earthly life between birth and death where
find that for example in the presentations of the great
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Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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When speech is the subject and when one sets the goal to treat
easy to have speech as an object for scientific treatment as it
already great variations in the inner experience of the conduct
within the human soul. Not a clearly delineated mental picture
— which permeates our inner being, we say that as its
the I like a sphere of water, with air permeating this sphere
greater part in the establishment of phonetics, in the
much more bodily nuance came about. One had a far greater
abstract-imagery-life have made greater progress. If we want to
water something is created like ice floes, like when something
“theory of creative synthesis/invention”
Creator. Dr Geyer already dealt with this yesterday; currently
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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great and far-reaching events of world and human
times, attend with so great care to such outward things of
certain connection between the recent great events throbbing
great events throbbing through our time.: Out of such feelings
may say without hesitation that the great movement of the
the opportunity to create, as has been done here, something for
great and revolutionary impulses occurring in the earthly path
in so far as he goes through his existence between death and a
have felt and experienced this great revolution, which, of
always had to live according to karma, the great law of
Race, the consciousness of repeated Earth-lives sprang
great achievement in the education of the future. A social
attitude must be created, built up upon a spiritual relation to
previous incarnation. To hold the theory, of repeated
have taken the trouble to find out a great deal about what is
karma, of repeated earth-lives and the
prefer to sleep, to sleep so soundly that in mid-Europe great
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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great importance that it forms, and always must form, a
existence of the soul after death” — that is, the
extinction at death, so that a certain response is always to be
found in man's soul when “life after death” is
mentioned. The treatment generally given to-day to the idea
not to die as souls at physical death. Naturally, the soul's
continued existence after death will be assumed in all
existence of the soul after death is very far from being
should not only speak of life after death, but also of that
and death. For as you know, this life is also a
passed between our last death and that birth through which we
something of a religious impulse permeating the whole of life
youth, but through its whole span between birth and death. For
feeling had permeated men that their doings in the day were in
to regard this life between birth and death as a
we stand at the beginning of the greatest conflicts, the
greatest spiritual conflicts of the civilized world, and
Increasing opposition is threatened in the soul-attitude of
decades we have heard repeated in socialist circles holding the
(I have discussed this at greater length in the first chapter
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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evolution men are confronted with great tests, though for the
consciousness. The great obstacle to be overcome is the desire
really important feature of our post-Atlantean age is
feeling, everyone could realize that a great, important and
— became fainter and fainter. This great Mystery,
mankind, will be as wreaths of vapour. These differences lie in
is felt, how men avoid approaching the great knowledge or
must be drawn to it. The physical body of man is permeated
during his existence between birth and death by the soul;
death are added to the earth and go their way according to the
emphatically not without significance, that from birth to death
birth to death of a being, man's soul and spirit, which before
even what we relinquish to the Earth at our death is important
the gate of death and leaves his body behind him, he releases
body to the earthly world at death.
interesting to see the most important features of the day from
five years. The great thing in all these things is to prepare,
entire life between birth and death. At birth we take over the
back into the spiritual world at death.. There they accompany
presents itself the fruit we carry through the gate of death
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
MAIN FEATURES OF THE SOCIAL QUESTION
became possible, and at this point occurred a great historical
place about us might have become the great instructors of
great imperial states, the affairs of these states had acquired
say was a great contrast to what at that time, and indeed even
life. Opposed to these circles stands the great mass of the
course of years, various things have eaten into the feelings of
would be no share for each worth having. I repeat, it is
although in social questions he falls into great errors
in Berlin no theatres, no high schools, no public school,
felt: here is a spiritual life created by what we produce, by
men who were divided by a deep golf from the great masses to
religion and theology. Proudly it is asserted and repeated:
very distinguished scientist, for whom I have great respect (I
That is only one example of what might be repeated a
bring about the death of all culture. We must look not only
control. That is one of the great objectives we must specially
of education, who were creative spiritually. But to-day we have
created out of the spirit, to satisfy the demands of education,
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