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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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given at all in public, they will form the topic of a later
The information that can be related here is but a scant outline of
not express itself in any particular external formalities, nor does it
innermost depth of being. Precisely here a transformation takes place
former incarnation had already attained to a certain level of
truths for you.” It appears as if this is to be achieved by a form of
make the attempt to give up certain formerly held inclinations. Then,
through sheer force of will. A formerly careless person must get
all but that he learns to love it more and more. Thus he performs a
utterances are formed out of this clarity. Only if this has become the
The rules presented in this book were never made public in former
fragmentary form in one place or another. All the instruction that one
person is seen like a nebulous cloud formation. When a person sleeps,
spiral formations become clearly organized. They become increasingly
disseminated than formerly. It must be placed within reach of
older times. Hence, the book replaces the former oral

Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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was performed for them. It really seems as if that simple, loving joy could
we have just seen, were performed for people who could experience them
the connection between the human soul and the forms of the eternal. Further
flames as if from a crater we can see the forms of the flying devils.
the spiritual world keep their childish form.
with the forms of children borne by angels into the land of the blessed. In
the same way we must see in the form of the innocent child the Being that

Title: William Shakespeare
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were thefts, based on stenographic notes taken during a performance
form. One of these investigators is Eugen Reichel, who thinks to
that the plays, in the form in which they now exist, are able to
was proved by a performance of “HENRY V” at the
while they were enjoying the performance. He then became supervisor of
when performed in the poorest way.
informed on currently applicable copyright laws.

Title: William Shakespeare
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performances, so that the texts did not completely correspond to
have existed in quite a different form. One of these researchers
opinions are contradicted by the fact that the plays, in the form
performance of Henry V under the direction of
flight of his fantasy, his sudden transformations in the action,
of the visitors while they were enjoying the performance. He then
performed badly.

Title: The Manicheans
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explain the confluence of Life and Form out of the cooperation of Good
and Evil. Life becomes form through finding opposition. It does not
all at once express itself in a form. Only consider how Life hurries
from form to form. Life has fashioned the lily, then Life overcomes
the Form and it passes over into the seed out of which a new form will
be born. Life is formless it could (not?) live out its own nature in
itself. Life is everywhere. The limited form is the hindrance. There
would be no forms if Life were not obstructed and arrested in its
forces which stream out in every direction. Form grows precisely out
example in the Christian Mystics.) The form is nothing else than the
surrendered its Life to the Form. (The old offices of the state were
poured into the old Form. What was formerly Life, later becomes Form
The fructification of Manes is today the Life of men. The Form is what
evolution was the Life of men. Now this is its outer shell, its form.
In the confluence of Life and Form, the other is given at the same
Christianity. Christianity will appear in its perfected form in the
Life as such overcomes every Form. It propagates itself through
Christianity and lives in all forms and confessions. Whoever seeks the
Christian Life will find it. It creates Forms and shatters Forms. But,
in addition, a form for the Christian Life of the Sixth Root Race must
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Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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against All. The significance of forms in connection with future
the other hand, everything that is performed without regard to self, that
survived of the good old Freemasonry takes the form nowadays of charitable
science well knows in what way the human being can perform selfless actions
setting up a wave-movement here and causing it to take a particular form at
terrible form. Great and mighty forces will be let loose by the
before, why the “good and proper form” as it has been called,
the future by using the good old forms than by having to struggle out of
forms,” as they say ... but those forms have nevertheless a deep
together with a new knowledge into these forms, much good would accrue, for
form, however belong to the whole. The state of affairs today is that the
form, strife in the sphere of investment and profit, industrial
ennobled, this will lead to brutality in every possible form. This state of

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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external physical, but to spiritual forms, — agree with
Christ Being has of course assumed the forms which were suited to the
the Christ which later formed the content of the doctrines of the
origin of man led us back to a form still hovering in spiritual
spiritual form, gradually descended to become the material being we
forms, whereas Spiritual Science leads us back to forms which more
lives, so that they can say: ‘In comparison to my former life
whereby the soul can be transformed into an instrument for perceiving
sanctuaries of learning as we should say to-day — performed for
and mythologies have preserved information, stepped forth upon the
Divinity is the creative formative impulse.’ Now however he
is revealed to men in its complete form. Only when man senses
obstacles which hinder him from seeing the world in its true form.
will realise, after he has thus formed a photographic image of the
light.” Just as the eye is formed by the light and the
overcomes himself shall he so come into his own that the form he has

Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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Everything which comes from other directions and seeks to transform
goal of transforming social life in a real and true way, and this can
“lack of guilt”. Even if we discard the most extreme form
we develop in the physical world in the form of SPIRITUAL LIFE. It
form of impulses. In the same way in which we bring along with us
life in the form of love for humanity and brotherliness. These forces

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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the life of the human soul which express themselves in the forms of
sacred buildings and give birth to new forms as the evolution of
motifs of the windows in the Goetheanum expressed in the form of
themselves in the forms of sacred buildings and give birth to new
forms as the evolution of humanity advances. The forms of
Material through new forms which through metamorphoses from within,
great building of wood, with its hand-carved, weaving forms and
rented in Munich for performances of these Mystery Plays had brought
chosen by the Association formed for the purpose of carrying this
forms, the colours and so on. For in those times the Gods themselves
is afforded by the forms of temples belonging to the Second
original form can only be dimly pictured or reconstructed from the
Akasha Chronicle. Something reminiscent of their forms did indeed
have little information to give on the subject. But if, assuming that
Riddle.” The upward-rising form of the pyramid in which there
any rate, a façade is indicated only in the form of a riddle
presented to us. In the interior, as well as information on manifold
dynamic power, of inner forces weaving in the forms, it is whole and
embodied, within Earth-existence. This is expressed in the whole form
minds of the Faithful; and every one of the forms in the space we
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Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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teaching exists in a very beautiful form. This was the result brought
teaching into a new form. A less definite doctrine of reincarnation
racial stock was grafted upon the former Turanian people who in
revival, in a new form, of the ancient magical achievements.
in the first place — and these form what is known as the ancient
Rome) The task of these Initiates was to take in hand the formation of
passions. This takes place in forms adapted to the different peoples
its civilization to carry the outer form of organization out on to the
personal in its highest form, given expression on the physical plane
people who had received the highest form of the law, were of such a
existing forms, taking the form of the law from the theocratic State,
from Judaism. Judaism could not accept the new form. It had its
own, which was the highest existing form of the law. But Christ had
the physical plane. Therefore He uttered His wisdom through the form
this idea very life. The Christ is given form in the Jewish
The Jews provide form for Christ
Jerusalem and had a definitely Roman form. In Rome, the physical
Rishis who now experience the teaching in a Christian form and want
From this stems the adaptation of the original form in which Christianity
that man himself is born out of these constellations, in conformity

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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were just as enclosed within the limits of a certain form of growth
in embryonic form as with a bean. The bean grows from the seed in any
of forming an idea of this participation is to get to know a fact
have basically retained the same form. If, however, you compare the
which they could take something in and transform their nature. All
mental picture we have formed of an external impression, and now have
that happens, however, happens in conformity to law. Everything that
remains behind, but in a concentrated form. The astral body is the
sculptors and overseers working on the form of the life to come. For
man largely spends his time in Devachan working on the new form he is
groundwork for his future form. The life in Devachan is always spent
prototype of his next form. He forms this prototype by working into
forgetting assume a slightly different form. They change in such a
another form, and arise before man in the Akashic Record. Then he

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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incumbent upon men to form each lecture so that it is part of a
medicine, irrespective of its various forms, still makes itself felt
you will know that definite forms of chronic illnesses are connected
national character and therefore take quite different forms. Thus for
will see that any form of one-sidedness must be avoided in the field
strongest justification for this form of illness and should not be
five different forms of human illness, that stem from the ego, the
a modern form, you must realise that this wisdom is, in some

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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shape was formed differently, and both sexes were in a way contained
within it undifferentiated. We can form an external picture of the
individualities, which expresses itself in the multiformity of life
before the arising of the sexes. A great uniformity was there then.
say the earthy nature of the earth intensified, this uniformity
became less and less capable of transforming himself through the
everything that formerly helped to form man came from the
incarnates he comes down from the Devachanic world and forms his
human form. You have before you a human form, a human phantom
has taken antimony, you have before you a human form of very finely

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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protective measures. This revolt is usually in the form of a
can see, then, that spiritual science helps us to form a judgment of
external form, it can be classified in species according to the

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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up to form a deeper understanding of the being of man and various
movements of the planetary spheres that form a correlated system —
matter of course that man in his inner rhythm conformed with outer
us come back to the clock. In a certain respect this also conforms to
absolutely conformed to cosmic relationships. Man really was a clock.
And if he had not conformed to the cosmic situation, exactly the same
man's. In spiritual matters they conform absolutely to the cosmic
earth in his present form he fell out of this rhythm, hence the lack
without rhythm. Just as his inner life was formed from outside
covered with this basic formula of spiritual science. Think of the
the transformation of the three lower members: the third into the
count those that form the foundation of these, namely the physical
spiritualised form at the fifth stage as Jupiter, the Sun at the
transformed and spiritualised. So that here too, when we look at the

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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beyond it. This is the moment you form the intention of getting rid
this good resolution forms a bond of attraction between B and A and
that we form connections with a great number of people in one life,
particular example. In Kamaloca we form the intention of carrying out
heredity, and is capable of re-forming the organism during the course
through our line of heredity. Its delicate convolutions are formed in
its effect. This effect appears in the form of some illness, and here
unfit to perform the task, is rebuilt through the illness so as to be
capable of performing it, although by the time the illness is over it
development. In order that the soul develops the power to form an
ancient time in which man came into being in his present form, the
therefore also capable of producing wrong formations of his organs

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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at what moment this kernel of individuality can start its formative
to transform man's organism, assuming that circumstances are normal,
gradually transforms the organism, so that it becomes not only the
animal has a group soul, or we could say a group ego. Its form is
definite form, a form that is complete in itself? This is because
this form is imprinted upon it out of the astral world, and
essentially it has to keep it. Man has a form, which, as we have
stressed many a time, contains as it were all the other animal forms
within it as a harmonious whole. But this harmonious human form, the
animal body. It must not have such a rigid form as an animal body. We
compare that with the mobile human form, with its change of gesture,
him to imprint his own form on himself because his ego dwells within
we can see the way his particular individual soul forms itself more
still has this mobility because man can give himself his own form
itself in an external form like laughter and weeping.
all that forms man is in continuous development. That man has the
that cannot adapt themselves to the forms of the astral body, then

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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man takes on a different form in different regions of the earth.
begun to acquire a form that is anything like our present-day one. We
Man could only acquire his present-day form because the sun shone on
descend, as it were, and to incarnate in a physical human form in
consisted of transparent forms that were therefore not actually
physical form they showed a lower form of humanity. They lived in an
strings from above, the deeds they performed were perfectly
belonged to a number of forms below. Up in the North they were group
take on the physical human form of the Lemurian people.
migrated to Atlantis, the human body evolved its form to the extent
acquired this form in the regions corresponding to the present
confined to rigid forms, and the highly developed human beings, those
of transformation. Just at the time when Atlantis began to sink there
of soul, and were a race of little men, and the giant forms who were
we see that in Atlantean times the human body could still form itself
on the form which enabled it to mould all the organs, heart, brain,
representing combinations: those on European soil, forming the root
bring the right form of culture to each different shade of the
but it happens again in ever new forms. The anthroposophical movement

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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the bell do not immediately combine to form the thought that the bell
within it. The plant emerges from the seed, forms its physical body,
transformed more and more by education and life, and it will have
Here you have the plant before you in another form, as a small seed.
interpenetrate to form the physical, and the spiritual
our ego. Henceforth, however, they will need what is formed by the
thought, aesthetic judgment or the fulfillment of duty, forms a
not have been able to perform any action that can be created out of
connections into which he is placed so as to form the foundation for
educated by all manner of circumstances; these influence him and form
metamorphosis into different forms, but the old is perfected and
prove itself to be something new, will continually build new forms

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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is not enough to form a simple concept or give an ordinary definition
the content of which was first given in the form of lectures, before the
fatal, but his whole being was transformed. There are many such
world-karma. The man was chosen to perform a task of special
higher knowledge will be attained by one who attempts to formulate it
we form for ourselves by means of our intellect, so in the spiritual
fact that mutual relationships are continually being formed between
the life after death in a kind of formula, although as our language
long as we are out of the body. If we have formed an erroneous
feelings they form the basis for a new conception of life. A monistic

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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the gate of death we can make compensation in some form for
views of the world. But it is through what is thereby formed in our
universal”. It is also true that a great transformation will
relationship which ensures freedom from any still imperfect form of
sphere does not appear empty to us but that the deeds He performed
etheric body shall be rightly formed in his next incarnation. The

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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Anthroposophy in the upper consciousness may take the form of longing
first, the same as was formed during our existence on Earth and we
the form of longing in the subconsciousness. It does not necessarily
possibilities; this may not be in the form of definite ideas but of
use of a differently formed body, just as the message from Berlin to
to a quite different planetary existence. The particular formation of
very little relationship with the former earthly body.

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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remembrance of what had formerly been direct vision. By the time of
form of an oval (A) but during sleep divides into two parts (B), one
Ego-aura seems to envelop the human form.
information available to one who studies ancient records or records
are still well-informed about the starry sky will steadily decrease.
You can form an idea of this experience by picturing
with it. You then form an idea of the rose. It was in this way that
the Graeco-Latin epoch of the faculty of judgement and the formation

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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tree in the form of an anthroposophical Christmas study — a
he performed towards the end of the sixteenth century. This deed is
continued to work, perceptible to those who through some form of
propagating Buddhism in its old form, for he too had advanced with
to be transmitted of the old form of Buddhism came to expression in
Christian form. It may truly be said that when the Buddha had become
great transformation which could have been achieved only by
industry only, of external forms of culture on the Earth.
to be formed entirely under the influence of certain old Mars forces
the souls of men. But this would have led to the formation of a class
of participating in external, material forms of civilisation. These
sound natural scientific principles, to formulate ideas and concepts
in the sphere of the Earth as he had formerly worked in the Mystery
of Christmas gift, certain information about Christian Rosenkreutz.

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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correspondence between the true form of man and those faculties. The
human form stems from the Spirits of Form. These Spirits are opposed
to the Ego. The bodily organs are pervaded by the Spirits of Form
experience connected with Buddha in the form that is right for the
spreading in the world in the form of occult teachings, of Spiritual
presentation of Christianity in its more advanced form?
to the further transformation undergone by the human being between
much, much deeper! How can we form an idea of this real ‘I’,
We can form a valid idea if we say to ourselves: the ‘I’
utter the first word of which you were capable and to formulate the
upright, walk, speak and think, he is an expression of the form
between the true form of man and the faculties of standing and
talk only because its form is upright. The fact that it is able to
in the spheres of the Spirits of Form, the Exusiai. These Spirits of
Form, known in the Bible as the Elohim, are the Beings from whom the
human form actually stems; it is the form in which the human ‘I’
down to a level below that of these Spirits of Form. To what category
The Spirits of Form are the Beings who enable man to
him, to begin with, a perverted form. These Spirits ought really to
Form. They are Luciferic Spirits who have come to a standstill in
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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teeth marks the culmination of the formative process which works from
act of what may be called the formative principle. The last
contribution made by the forces that give the human being his form is
formative process, for the principle which builds up the human form
is no longer in action. With the seventh year the formative principle
of what has already been established as form. After the seventh year
of what is already established as basic form. Therefore we can say
that the principle of form unfolds its activity specifically in the
first seven years of the life of a human being. The principle of form
stems from the Spirits of Form; thus these Spirits of Form are active
birth, his actual form is not complete. What happens is that the
Spirits of Form continue their active intervention during the first
his form merely needs to grow. The basis for the form has been
formative principle still produces out of the human being. The
formative principle has now come to its conclusion. Were its activity
we may ask: When these Spirits of Form have worked on the human being
on growing and the basic principles of his form develop still
without interruption. If we think only of the principles of form that
forms should not continue to grow if nothing were to intervene. But
principles of form still have an effect upon him. They have already
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Eight
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everyday life we want to think or form judgements, but for that very
within us the transformed Saturn foundation, the transformed Sun and
transformed physical conditions. The only part of all this that is
substances of the Earth, transforms them into his blood and permeates
blood and what has been transformed by the blood, that is to say, a
containing invisible currents — all this exists in the form of
have been transformed into blood. It is through this process that the
And Seeming's changeful forms, around you flowing,
former we behold what is already in existence and in the latter what
detail. It is not only our present form of education that helps to
its indifference to form and colour is in such contrast to what we
assimilated is transformed into faculties for the new incarnation.
form a judgement of the mission of Anthroposophy.

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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appropriately formed brain which, on passing through birth we formed
and mould his organs; he can fashion them in an imperfect form only
Earth he can certainly form and mould his body, but he moulds it then
form in which it will be revealed depends entirely upon how we have
could only be received by him in a form that would finally result in
in the form of Anthroposophy. We need not, however, be dejected by
A certain form of mediation is, however, possible in
can help them either by putting what we have to say into the form of
information given during this Winter about the life between death and
allow Anthroposophy to transform our lives in a way commensurate with

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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question: How is the information given, for example, in the book
soul, it will be easy for you to form an idea of what remains of
become compared with their former vividness; that will give you some
can possibly have sense-organs formed entirely of substance of the
recognises that thoughts such as are formed on Earth have
differ in youth, in middle life and in old age, a particular form of
wishing continues throughout a man's earthly life. This form and
ceases to long for sense-impressions or for thoughts formed by his
because material existence is not the only form of existence evolving
only enter into the form of existence that has its archetypes in the
adopted a creed; without religion in some form it would be lonely and
of all forms of religious life; but when it reaches the Jupiter
lectures and lecture-courses, we should be able to form our own

Title: Michelangelo
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particular form, a second or third time. The author argues as
into the basic ideas and forms which are to be found in the
the forms in which it appeared, must have spoken to the Greeks like a
message from another world. This creation of form was possible to the
organism is formed. The whole of a Greek's general education
models in order to create his forms. An inner knowledge gave them the
appropriate form. He put his soul into matter. It is natural that at
state, to appear again later in strengthened form. The achievements
of Greek sculpture had to pass through a sort of formative period in
the day of wakening, in a new form, in Michelangelo. But whereas in
nature things reappear in the same form and one day resembles another
and the plant its earlier form, the progress of humanity shows this
receive from the form of the hard stone the feeling that what lies
nature. Each type of stone calls for its own specific form, and each
from that in which Zeus or Hera or Apollo even in the form of the
sculpture to his painting the vital creative principle which informed
through them; they put into words, though often in confused form,
ourselves, and he expresses all this in external forms. If we then
Libyan, we see in them, though transformed, what we must call the
forms so directly to express what was wanted as this juxtaposition of
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Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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the physical world gradually transforms itself and assumes the
horizon of our consciousness appear forms, beings, and events
need to sleep which appears in the form of fatigue.
multiplied form. What is so alarming is that the oneness, the
foundation of memory, began to form part of man's structure
something which we may designate as having been formed upon the
form, many things will be pressed into their organism; they will
the form in which it now exists in the animals of the earth. The
with something of which we may say that it forms part of us when

Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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that the first form (Gestalt) in which the new, super-sensible world
world in its first form; he must not only recognize it as a
has transformed itself into an organ of perception for the spiritual
area or the circumference of the circle. This task of transforming
always strove: the transforming of the circle into a square. Now, no
cannot take on the form of the universally reigning error. Thus she

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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formed by the Christ-Power. The Christ-Power within the eye
body will gradually be transformed. A wonderful vista of the
of ancient times is still contained, transformed into the
Schiller's time the Christmas Tree in its now familiar form
can speak of human beings in their present form or having the
rudiments of that form, we shall everywhere find an
find it in constantly new forms among the widespread masses
reality from which new forms ever and again spring forth.
keeping with the times, as outward forms of expression for
year and her eternal forces bud forth in forms that are
the forms of objects in the kingdoms of Nature. Everything
alternated with a form of clairvoyance that had remained as a
the seed of a new plant; the blossom forms itself into a new
outer form of the physical world as the expression of the
expanse, lives a Being now revealed to man in veiled form
temple towering before us. In its forms, in its perfection and
world an event of the physical world which forms the
formed for those new Gods of the future, of whom Christ is
out of the formless haze of the Spiritual? As a prophetic
the Egyptian portrayal of another female form: Isis with the
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Title: Lecture: Buddha
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events in the form in which this truth is now often conceived. For to
we examine objects with our senses and form chains of thought with
current among ancient peoples, though clothed in pictorial forms.
men's former union with the spiritual world. Consider the Sankhya
therefore, looked back to former Buddhas, of whom five had already
former earthly lives. The legend is well-known and we need only
form an idea of the realm entered by one who has been liberated from
for an act arising out of an earlier consciousness. This former
page I look back upon my former lives as upon an open book; I see how

Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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as well as into the origin and evolving forms of the creatures
spiritual science — that knowledge which has always formed the
— within the earth's strata — it forms its
regard to their rock formations or other contents, that these layers
investigate the ground as to the nature of its rock-formations and
formed. Over one layer which originated in that way we have to
strata of the earth all kinds of forms have been embedded,
this way it is possible to form some idea of the appearance
contain fossils of more highly developed forms of animal- and
of less developed forms of life, which today we are accustomed to
geology seems to be fully in conformity with what natural science
from quite primitive to more perfect forms. When we now examine
forms, which as yet had no skeleton and were the first predecessors
remained unchanged, while others developed towards vertebrate forms and
primitive and simple forms of animal- and plant-life gradually
evolved to higher forms. That would give a clearly outlined picture
instance, one observes how certain layers are still being formed
surface, form mountains, and thus become visible. The tenets of
fire-process the oldest rock-formations and minerals
conceives the earth before the time of the first rock-formation as
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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reflect for instance that in Neuchatel a Lodge was formed wanting to
an enormous amount for it. How did she do this? Was it by forming the
from this she formed the idea that Christ had never lived at all,
form. Nothing more could be said against this — from our

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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the studies we have carried on in our Lodge evenings in former years,
it is quite obvious that the former embodiments are equally detailed,
old Saturn-existence. And in order that we may form a conception of
you must form a conception of what is necessary, to be able to feel
wish to form an idea of that soul-disposition which a man must have
concepts, or to form concepts and ideas on it; it is far more
will keep to the same order as formerly: Saturn-Sun-Moon; though it
difficult to form an idea, except for one who has taken the trouble,
formerly experienced you experienced formerly; you are fastened to
of Rosicrucian initiation is the forming of imagination. The
to-day as transformed into an ‘imagination’: we can
we have to attain; we must be able to transform the ideas we receive
formed, even if they are anthropomorphic, even if the beings appear
formerly much used by students for examinations, but now no longer
these things are transformed on the Sun, and other glorious events of

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being; and we have seen that spiritual achievements formed in truth
the very existence of ancient Saturn; and we have formed a picture of
of the soul. No man can know what heat is who is not able to form a
Sun, we must again first form an idea by which we can imagine the
devotion. Sacrifice is devotion transformed into activity. The
in the form of prejudice, and prejudices always destroy the higher
which the best is the artistic longing to master colour or form in
very hard to understand something, or to form some sort of thought.
Suppose you have formed the thought. The next day you will make your
mind as clear as possible so that the thought you formed yesterday
may come back into it. What you formed yesterday is received by you
reflected. What formerly was received is now reflected. Everything
that formerly existed is recapitulated. So that we have to think of
later are transformed into the inner and the outer; and spate is
what was formerly there, the earlier. The gifts they receive they
conception of what has just been described and transform that into an

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from the outermost periphery of the Sun, in the form of light. But
back by the Archangels in the form of light, but also that smoke
these intrinsically Spiritual cloud-formations is seen to take place
light. Let us try to form a picture of this in our minds. We must
the centre of this globular formation the meeting of the accepted and
image, we can only compare it with the form of our present Saturn
then form an element in everything that happens in evolution. We
re-issuing in the form of heat. All that remained as heat on ancient
clouds of the air; that is to say: In the outer form of the air would
forms part of the Divine resignation, for the gods created evolution

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peculiar form stands behind them, as we experience this spiritual in
feeling is represented in an accentuated form. Hence we do not find
what he had formerly endured is rising to the surface, he may have
form, is — longing. We also know the names by which this force
every one. Sometimes it takes one form and sometimes another. One
be active in a thousand forms, and would be more accurately defined
a will towards an inclination which in its immediate form cannot be
was what is called ego-nature which comes out in every form? It is
egoism flashing up in the weakest form, as longing, but we can also
one place to another, for that is only one of the many forms of
We can form an idea of
form of boredom? But between the boredom which is as a rule only
suffer from it incessantly seek to form relationships to new Beings.
but one form of the more comprehensive movement which has just been
one particular form of change. In this connection let us imagine a
place is but one of the many forms of change. And the Spirits of
with the Will now transformed into longing, and within these Beings
Soul-form, came at that time into our being and that of other
the balm which flowed into these Beings in the form of

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wonder, this astonishment, from which every form of learning must
conveyed the impression of a presented sacrifice. We can form a
form it is fundamentally the same thing. For when we look at a corpse
something in a concrete form, showing how the solid was formed from
sense. Suppose ice forms in a pond; the water then becomes solid. The
organism of the earth of which the plants everywhere form part. And
change, metamorphosis, transformation. Only with regard to man can we
which we call death, nothing but transformation, metamorphosis.
already formed. But once more let it be said that if we wish to

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this or that form of existence, is not yet given much thought in the
particular forms, its particular ways, how it makes itself felt
microscopic formations — the plant cells. No wonder such a
formations, these building blocks, the secret of the nature of plants
at the forms, the structures, of individual plants, he was led to
individual plant forms and structures.
such a formation other than in connection with an entire being.
entire planet earth and forms a whole with the earth, just as the
finger or piece of bone or the brain forms a whole with our organism.
the earth planet as a dead rock formation but rather as something
of the earth's crust and were then transformed chemically in
earth's rock formations as the great skeleton of the earth
out and float over him like a cloud formation; rather this whole
it forms a unity, the forces it needs in order to replace what the
unless we understand him as formed out of the entire macrocosm.
to everything that comes down from the sun and forms itself as it
should form itself under the influence of the sun activity. In that
belongs to the earth itself. In this exchange the organs are formed
transformations that plants go through in winter and summer, but it
active in the plant world and how in the plant the leaf is formed out
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sub-human element which formerly he did not know, and from which he
a line which returns on itself, forming a circle as the expression of
Zodiac, the Amschaspands have to perform the specialised activities

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In the successive epochs different forms of
world of form subject to these laws but man's qualities of soul and
in forms not wholly human; we often find human bodies and animals
heads, or an amalgamation of human and animal forms. Wonderful
deeper wisdom and their purpose was to convey in picture form,
the form that has been built up by our active thinking. Now the act
within him substances living in his blood or forming his bones, but
substances which have now passed into the human form, whereas they
man. Just as the substances in the blood now live in the human form
but were formerly spread over cosmic space — so the
in search of some form of language, some kind of script in which to
within a form that is the “coffin” of the spiritual
kingdoms of Nature: in the stones with their forms based on
mathematical laws, in the plants with their life-filled forms which
he beholds Man he must penetrate through the outer form to the
is formed from Nature. Now the system of nerves is the physical
shown in picture form the processes taking place in his inner being.
experienced in clairvoyant form. The forms were of course not so
learnt to know how air enters the body in the form of oxygen; he
exoterically to the people in the form of legends. Those who were
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Pasteur's researches there can be no doubt that the former
execution by journalism has taken the place of the former
form the erroneous opinion that Anthroposophy is trying to use
verified in a corresponding form if you descend to the region
in a corresponding form, and that Natural Science can be naught
neither the former nor the latter doubted the sentence:
scientific convictions. He who wants to explain the form and
swinging without having formed the above conclusion. The point
physical-animal heredity ceases. The form of Schiller's nose and
in the same way as we derive the form and habits of life of the
to the development of one form of life from another, and this
has spurred people on to find the connection between such forms.
revelations of Natural Science were to form the basis for this
animals and man himself originated we were unable to form any
inorganic forms. Our hiatus in the evolution of nature has been
animals? Can we doubt that animals, when their form grew more
perfect, when it evolved into the human form, merely on the
are many people who are anxious to gather information on
light as to form a basis for Anthroposophical system. They
animals with higher types of souls have evolved form those with
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form an antithesis which depends on the nature of that to
to form a conception of what is around him or of what is
natural science is not at all applicable to man in this form.
forming a new plant. One can therefore say quite certainly of
plant-forms, like parasites, are, as it were, planted on to
originate because a former living organism leaves behind it a
form, the different capacities and talents develop. (We will
form, the nature of that with which we are dealing, they ask
upon the egg. In what is formed as disposition, as different
man is. Every man is working towards the formation of what is
formation of the species. Every development, every advance in
are led from our own individual life back to a former
outer living form, but continues to work even into the most
elementary formations and functions of life. When man arrives
and form organs according as it required them, while now in
we look at it for once in a lower form and take under
order to form, as it were, conceptions and ideas concerning
that the individual life-kernel is transformed during
what has become wooden, as it were, what it has itself formed
might express thus; “We purchase the higher form, the
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form that He has attained. For as high a being as Zarathustra
evolution is re-formed. Highest power through the cosmic
merrymaking form of the Saturnalia, and this also testifies to

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cry from the great Zarathustra or Zoroaster, who formed the
true.” Galileo, who based his information upon the
former is truly the origin of certain currents. For
written there, written in the form of minerals, in the course
single manifestation of the visible, whose bodily form is the
able to take on another form. For each Monad is obliged to
take on, not only the form by which we know it here, but
every form which it is possible to take on in the Universe.
Giordano Bruno conceives of a procession through every form.
of sense have to give him, he enters (forming the picture
has its bodily form in all things, possesses that of which we
everything is the Spirit in Nature, as form, he replies, by
Spirit is in the crystal, which has a form; it is in the
plant, which has a form; in the animal, which has a form; it
is in the human body, which has a form. Of all visible things
which have form, a counterpart exists in the human soul as
thereby. While we are forming our concepts, the Divine
merely recast the words of Giordano Bruno in a poetical form.
that that which existed in Nature as form was capable of
from the clairvoyant stages of perception to a material form
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element, and that a uniform stream of spiritual development has flowed
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
the Reformation. The experiences and writings of Augustine as compared
rise up before us in picture form and our immediate impression is that
transformed Florence as if the direct radiation of the Reformer of
of scorn, the Reformers their attacks. Yet this Papacy was the Patron
his soul flow creations which give a new form to Christian conceptions
naturally to form themselves into human figures, one being the Child
beautiful forms. Raphael, however, remained with me as a breath, as
one of those revelations sent to one in women's form by the Gods of
it form in a picture like the Sistine Madonna, stands there in its inner
form to the figures of Christian tradition in an age when treasures
State, Greek sculpture, or Greek philosophy. A formless element
and noblest in external form confronts us in Raphael and his contemporaries.
forms in all their objectivity and roundness could not have been created
an age when Christianity was not yet expressed in picture form or in
turn once again to the forms that had been created by this Greek spirit.
outward manifestation in a world of artistic forms permeated with the
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concerned about, and that all speculation and reforming must
former centuries. That is not the case. We would decisively be
undergone a transformation.
This transformation of the soul we have to study more closely.
recapitulates the forms of life that have previously been gone
also—by contrast—have had to form a picture of
future evolution. He would have had to form a picture for the
different form. If we consider cultural progress from the
Theosophical Society: “To form a nucleus of the universal
time work has greatly changed its form.
performance out of the recognition of necessity, out of the
realization that it must be done. People perform it because
performed because it had to be performed. And what is the labor
formed the first Soviet (Council).
Simon (Claude Henri de Rouvroy), 1760-1825: social reformer.
vigilant, so that they anticipate them with timely reforms

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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that only the human spirit could form such ideas, and that such an
sense-observations and the formal working out by the mind of what
come remarkable forms — Will-o'-the-Wisps. They want to be
the Snake moreover if she could not inform them how to come
formerly found metals and so on, she now sees remarkable forms.
former power and strength, and we learn from their conversation how
The Snake next forms a Magic Circle; and the Youth and the
the Old Man sinks in the River and thereby a bridge is formed over
This work is written in letter-form to the Duke
formulate a complete picture of the soul, so that it can develop

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formulating ideas. You will constantly hear it: that alone can be
reason and capacity to formulate thoughts to these
formulate ideas and concepts is a capacity of the human soul among
formulating ideas, limited as it is to observation, may lead to
thinking capacity, the one-sided capacity to form ideas. The
the personal in the case of thought and the capacity to formulate
that soul-activity and transformed his feelings in connection
Will-o'-the-Wisps and the Green Snake, and that the former cross over
or feeling, but which can nevertheless grasp in beautiful forms
follows from step to step how the spiritual reality or form creeps
into every physical form. He himself creeps about like the Snake in
(gestalten, forms)
rises and each soul-power performs its service. This is meant to show

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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Weimar, we to-day possess the form in which it was when he took it
there. We therefore know the form in which Faust was printed for
recognized that Goethe had worked at it and transformed it out of a
In the form in which Faust appears in 1808 it seems as if
included all kinds of physical and chemical forms. For those who
rise in the perception of a form which at that time followed him
the heights, and out of it formed their ideas, they were able to
the books, although they were really only an outer form, but
possessing a very deep meaning. Through formulae and retorts all
and historical growth of man. This ruler has no visible form, but
If we could penetrate every word of this formula we should
consider Faust in this first form, we see what difficulties Goethe
outward form, but would have presented itself in such a way
that its outward form seemed Maya or illusion, as if it were not
presenting the outer world to the view of a man in an untrue form
true form, was called Mephistopheles. This figure was called in
over into the West in the Middle Ages in the form of
forms of Lucifer and of Mephistopheles. In the age following
forms. Men no longer knew how to distinguish between Lucifer and
Ahriman, and they united them in the form of the Devil or Satan;
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form ideas, but they are guided by spiritual beings behind the
perform, in meditation, concentration, and so on, which are
mountains, crystals form themselves out of their mother-substances
everlasting, the permanent residue when the physical form of
forms of the sense-world of what penetrates into this sense-world
To shapeless forms in liberated spaces!
presented thus. ‘To shapeless forms of liberated
spheres,’ i.e., into that realm where the forms of the
embodied in a physical form — this we call
combined in the formation of a human being.
the tie is formed, when the spirit comes into the physical world.
form of the astral body.
how one can proceed to a physical form, when one is spiritual. All
information from Proteus and Nereus
body is formed by degrees round him. Finally comes the moment of
Through thousand, myriad forms ascending,
assume from them a higher form. The Homunculus is shattered
three realms, to form a human being — and before us stands
presents in pictorial form the experience of the clairvoyant
intentions a delimiting form and firmness by means of the
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Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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qualified to form a judgment on the contents of these works
elementary a form as possible. It is, however, necessary also
find it at all in any former fleshly incarnation; but if we do,
form because into this very etheric body an Avatar had woven
numberless copies of the original to be formed; and these many
numberless copies of Shem's etheric body were formed, his
then had an ego which as ego was capable of forming very
Dominican, but that all the thought-forms employed in the
learned the thought-forms from the scholastic science of the
knowledge. Then for a time Christianity in its true form was
most various forms as the foundation.
existence, so is it true that the modern man with his ego-form,
the astral, the etheric, and the physical form of Christianity.
past, just so true is it that the ego-form of humanity can
appear only after the astral and etheric form of Christianity
arise in new form: the transformed astral body will
appear as the Christian Spirit Self; the transformed etheric

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develop new forms of being. Passing through death and the submergence
metamorphosing to higher forms of being. In the microcosm as in the
development to new forms of being rules.
inform this larger circle of an intention from the narrower circle of
theosophical art has already begun in many ways by the performances
occult laws what is a very small circle at first is formed which sees
are to be formed as the thing develops. As a tree in the next instant
time: If something happens, the members will be informed by Three
Kings Day. Nothing was informed and it is therefore obvious that the
self-evident because nobody informed anything. It is self-evident
that the information would have been sent if the thing had been
organically moving forms, warmed and waved by the human hands
dome paints derived. Weekly eurythmy performances provided the
a Jewelry art school, could have been arranged in Dornach. The form
formation

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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
longer be presented the way they were in former times.
that wisdom in a new form. In so doing, the old forms will
purpose. In fact, the hatred and intolerance that formerly
and that Truth takes on different forms in different souls.
rather Truth in all its forms should act as a unifying force.
questions, but the answers are formulated in a way that
physical data, the kind of answers that have formerly been
advent of the microscope had transformed all research. Now it
influence social life, just as was formerly the case with
forms, while the old forms that have become influenced by
person formulates about supersensible matters have an
always been due to religious faith. Such feelings transform
information of this spiritual research, thus making spiritual
political and social systems, bringing about a transformation
from all sides in various forms, we must acknowledge the need

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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
from the wound, forms the words: “Oh man,
with his unsophisticated views, to depict in the form of
like crystallized pain; pain transformed into its
was formerly the case. It arises when cultivated people are
absorbing the oxygen, is transformed into red, life-giving
having formed the blood, absorb into it oxygen from the air
indication of blood formation. Only late in embryonic
development does formation of blood and blood vessels become
exists must conform to the faculties a person happens to
crystallized into the form of a person's physical body. When
form. The next member of our being is the ether body, which
are endowed with life. The ether body transforms physical
material into living form. In animal and human the ether body
substances transformed by the ether body into living matter
transforms inorganic substances into living fluids; the
astral body transforms living substance into sensitive
transformed into living substance, and living mobile
laws of inorganic nature. (A crystal can be formed only
forces exist that combine to form and sustain us, so too, in
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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
No art form
freezing so that ice has formed. This ice is nothing but
water in solid form. Spirit relates to matter as water to
a certain form. We speak of material form, of life that
arises within that form, and of consciousness arising within
the living form. Thus, we speak of the three stages: physical
corresponding stages: form, life and consciousness. Not until
time. You only have to observe the simplest form of life and
new substances are formed and old ones thrown off. But life
only then can we speak of the lower form of consciousness,
Not every form
transform that death into life, then it is a conscious being.
begins to appear. A delicate form of destruction occurs that
of enjoyment because it becomes transformed into something
whole world differently, so the whole world is transformed
consciousness, transform out of compassion the suffering of
suffering in one life point to wrong done in former lives.
former life led to external action are transformed into
nobler ones. Sin is like a poison that when transformed
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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
of the beings belonging to the forms of existence they have
carry the maximum weight, or think of the wonderful forms of
attacks the wise form of the heart. The astral body will need
conflict, but love will overcome the conflict and transform
were formerly guided by instinctive wisdom; then it withdrew
love of self; the former was good, the latter was bad.

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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
alter the original meaning; we must endeavor to transform the
they are the architects and contain the formative forces. The
the formation of the second teeth, so is the principle of
purified and transformed them into moral feelings and ethical
or indeed the average civilized person has purified and transformed,
he will have transformed in his astral body all that is
manages to purify and transform in his inner nature sustains
exhausted, an individual loses the inclination to transform
whole natural world and give it human form, the result would
originally poisonous, form the human organism; today's
strength we must absorb weakness and transform it into
enhance life, transforming discontentment into contentment.
transformed, fructifies life and becomes a source of healing.

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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
to the twenty-first year, corresponds to the Reformation, and
inwardly transformed. The day will come when a teacher will
portrayed; former epochs must come to life. The school must
what is taught bears fruit and forms the character. What the
that a person's character is formed partly by study and partly
will be rightly formed when study is also life.

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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
matter be transformed into spirit.
that the spiritual, by transforming itself, adapts to the
way that they appear as reflected forms, approaching from
projected and appear as forms approaching from outside.
their true form, but if they become projected outwards due to
becomes apparent. The form of mental illness that results
distorted. The various forms of insanity are the distorted

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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
innermost being. It is not through some magical formula that
as shadow is to reality; however, it can be transformed and
darkness if the eyes did not transform the light falling upon
eyes are active transforming light. Unless the soul creates
transform the concepts of spiritual science into vivid
and transformed his knowledge into vigorous inner forces.
error, they can transform so that it becomes wisdom once
attained through experiments; knowledge is transformed into
however, go further; he will transform such knowledge into
clairvoyant sees the spiritual in every plant whose very form
is transformed into wisdom, the spirit creates the
wisdom transforms his compassion into action. Basic to all

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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
body its human form.
earthly experiences were transformed into abilities during
former lives. He has as it were added many pages to the
The core of his being, bringing the fruits of former
described as the essence or extract of the former physical
body is freed; this is what gives the physical its form,
that coaxes the inner organs to develop their inherent form.
principle, which is the principle of structure and form. The
former incarnations, begin to develop. Consequently, a true
formed the organs, but now our task is to instill into these
former life. This is also the reason why it is important that
should not be obliged to form personal opinions and
important beliefs and opinions; to be obliged to formulate
inner inclinations and talents brought over from former
former life experiences no longer have to be inwardly

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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
are consulted, one is informed that the Rosicrucians are
information.
transformations represented symbolically how inner human
transforming base metals into gold, they meant that it was
possible to transform base vices into the gold of human
such as the transformation of metals, simply to demonstrate
information about Rosicrucianism stems from two writings that
by many others proffering all kinds of information about
seldom accurate information.
say that the ultimate truth attainable takes different forms.
oneself. Human beings must be able to formulate thoughts that
always found in every Rosicrucian school. The form it takes I
who first formulated the theory of evolution.
formative forces. As far as matter is concerned, the old
transform carbon into oxygen.
transformation of the inner life processes from one day to
future a person will be able to transform within his own
does for human beings — transforming the carbonic acid in
developing. An individual will accomplish the transformation
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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
art, or takes some other form. He is strongly aware of the
forms was caused by what he called “their selfishness
and egoism. Instead of the various art forms going their
such an ideal form. He thought to recognize it in ancient
civilizations, art and science formed a unity that was looked
performances. We can conjure up before our mind's eye the
these things. The performances were dramatic musical
formed into the various creature's of the kingdoms of nature:
In other words, divine essence streamed into and formed
knowledge combined to depict in dramatic form the creation of
However, at that time one received, in the form of pictures,
hearts the selflessness that must form the Basis for a future
ancient Greece, to a time when various art forms still played
an integral part in performances, when music expressed what
dance became an art form in its own right, and poetry
established the accepted classical forms of the Symphony,
one-sidedness of this art form, strove to burst the Shell and
saw that formerly the bond between human beings was based on
recognized echoes of a former picture-consciousness that had
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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
about which they were not informed by the leading few who did
formulated the Nicene Creed in A.D. 325.
collating the Gospels and bringing them to present a uniform
the physical world, a relationship between animal forms and
the noble human form, it does not justify the assumption that
external bodily form, is closer to the highest evolved ape,
animal form and continues up to that of man. Spiritual
acknowledges the enormous difference between the lowest form
Everything physical is condensed, transformed spirit.
presented in a new form, and this is what spiritual science
the Gospels different forms of initiation. They differ
form an idea of this connection is to think of the
planet; the Being that endures through all transformations.

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extreme form of determinism is fatalism, which clings so
form.
delicate form right into the fourteenth and fifteenth
Think how sensitively this story has been formed. The same
both together form a whole.

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namely in the form of the clock itself. We see that the
that it is difficult to form a true, permanent judgment
to point out how extremely difficult it is to form a judgment
questions we started with. We can form a judgment of ourselves
in the world only if we apply to ourselves a uniform method of

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the meantime the former headmaster, because of his insight into
the pupils are like, then I can form my schedule from week to
the former headmaster. “You cannot anticipate anything.
selected the more successful ones. The former headmaster
progress than those of the first two. But the former headmaster
traced the subsequent life of the former pupils of these
social status. It is not just our particular form with its

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forms of bad deeds. The bad deed as such is never really
surface.” The material has a very definite conformity to
through a human being into the physical world in the form of
human beings want to do something, we consider what form our
form, but because they have the right intentions. These right

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture V: The "I" is Found on the Physical Plane in Acts of Will
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necessity which more or less form a connected whole. Let
is there. In the past people knew that if a person forms the
and produces this form of the muscles. If we were to go back as
the ancient Greeks used a model for the wonderful forms they
even gradually lose the capacity to form any idea of anything
yet create a world view. For if one does form a view of life
in its purest form with the Christ impulse is expressed in the

Title: Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe," Theosophy
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apparent not alone in outward form, but also by that similarity
which compels attention in the evolution of form. He tells us
heretofore, all those curious formations which serve to
forms of life. It is thus that Haeckel constructs man's entire
undergoing a change, a transformation. Hence it was that Huxley
form of Leonardo da Vinci there was some “gaseous
how active is the Spirit in the moulding of the form, where, to
sees how form builds itself up, as it were, from the simplest living
transformation of organic forms by a study of his works. We
seeker. Thus, man must transform himself into an instrument for
confused. (Should anyone desire more information on this
concerned, this is true, although the hypothetical forms of
entirely conform with those known to theosophical research.
to a great extent in transforming the archetype of those
doing so is that the energy used at a former time for the
transforming of the organs has since been directing its whole
represented by the anthropoid apes. These, then, form, in the
“archetype” transformed the serviceable
so far as man's outward form is concerned, at a genealogical
deteriorated and degenerate forms occupying those lower stages
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Title: Spirit of Fichte: Lecture I: The Spirit of Fichte Present in Our Midst
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the mansion, which formed so great a contrast with everything to
once individual and yet altogether in conformity with the Bible
the Bible in a form of his own. He did this in such a way that
element is distinguished from other forms of German life especially
which made a strong impression upon him. He formed a deep
Klopstock he formed a close intimacy, at first a friendship, which
form of spiritual expression which he sought as his object in life.
to enter formed the impression that Fichte's manners, which then
revision of those views of the world which he had formed for
which had formed itself within him. But Fichte was not a teacher like any
that is no real existence; or at least no opinion can be formed at
form which the Kantian philosophy had assumed in Fichte's soul. And
for a moment upon the wall. Well, you have now, I hope, formed a
in sentences this or that information, but strove ever and again to
author's will; however, he wrote in the form of a preface some
concerned are only misinformed, and will try to put them right. No
and evolution, and which, in the form of the moral impulses,
has never formed any true notion of the real all-embracing ideal of
it had to emerge sooner or later, albeit in a rugged form, this urge
enemy, surrounded by spies and informers, there was a man who yet
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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former greatness. His habits prevent him from perceiving this
Christmas plays were performed when this time approached, in the
when these people performed these plays during the festival season.
Such art was actually performed by village lads who engaged in
those people who he felt were suitable to perform them. These plays
in the most primitive regions where such plays were performed, people
plays which I have just characterized were so primitively performed
plays were performed one after the other in that primitive way: the
must find it quite understandable that in the place of this former
would then perform at some place, they would first extend a greeting
happen in former times in a much more childlike mood, then we may

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 1
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takes on different forms in successive periods, so is it with
world through his senses. He perceives it in colours, forms and sounds
physical plane he judges things and forms opinions about them. After a
everyday life it is impossible not to reflect and form judgments upon
things. On the physical plane we are forced to form judgments and to
transformed. In the first place there will be a quite new mode of
formed itself into a watch, so that the watch was there through the

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 2
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a rock crystal has the form of a six-sided column ending in two
aggregates itself in such a way that this crystal form appears. We
interests us in the animal kingdom, first of all, is its conformity to
encountering, and if he is to form any judgment of what their
so-called natural death is brought about through an inner conformity
grotesque form once pictured by a German poet, they are there in the
carpet over the Earth. Formerly he looked at the plants and was

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 3
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experienced when formerly they rose into the higher worlds. It might
work performed by these beings presented itself under a different
upon the physical form of the Sun but upon the spiritual beings who
able to send forth mould the human head and form the different parts
into it. These forces bring together the complex lobular formations of
physical and etheric bodies formed out of currents which stream forth
able to make use of his former ways of thinking and judging. If he
how the etheric and physical sheaths arise and are formed out of the
forget the art of understanding which formerly guided you through the
physical world, to lay aside your former power of judgment, your
impenetrable veil hides the form of Isis from mortal eyes.”
such a form that through the inner significance it expresses it can be

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 4
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The Being formerly known spiritually as the Creative Word first became
to form, as it were, the leit-motif of the exposition to be
only by saying to himself: “Formerly, when I entered the
form. We know that in the third post-Atlantean epoch the emphasis was
turn found legendary form in the saga of the Holy Grail. Everything
because their souls have forgotten those former impressions of the
When the Initiate of the Middle Ages wanted to present in picture form
transition from life in space and time into more spiritual forms of
see, expressed in a wonderfully dramatic form, all that the most
how a soul who in former incarnations could rule the entire man can be
form. And just as we can discern deep secrets of the human soul in old
though in another form.
formed itself. It has acquired its form through human beings having
brain would be an unformed mass — as to-day in cases of softening

Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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called synoptic because they can be taken together to form a
must, in some form or other, face the two important
represent the forces which formed the corresponding organs.
form of a cloud. There are colours — violent passions
whole inner man is expressed in a luminous form. This is the
be formed. If a person does not practice exercises he remains
form the content of the first twelve chapters of the John
on the astral plane. The formula he used for meditation
This is the form of the meditation. Those for whom the John
first five sentences must be taken as a formula of
says: Do what I have done. Let the great formula, “In
without pain. All that forms this higher connection with the
marriage one can say this. One can look back on the former

Title: Second Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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initiation. Those who know other forms of occult training and
over them in the form of a ring, in the case of an
undeveloped personality, and later, in the form of the
what formerly hurt one — to take upon oneself the
standing below him and the transformed lower self is the

Title: Third Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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transforms something in us.
practised in the Persian Mithras cult. It was a form of
this sentence signifies. What one formerly considered as
sees a picture on the astral plane, which formerly he had not
principle, in different forms. We should not despise any
extreme form of this teaching was the dogma of eternal
punishment and eternal reward. This is an extreme form. What
much. In Lemurian times he had no skeleton. This was formed

Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture VI: Easter: The Mystery of the Future
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IN A former lecture I pointed out that Christianity is wider in
Christianity will have thrown off the outmoded forms of religious life
the forms in which, in the cultural development of our day, we quite
announcements of the last performance at the Opera of Wagner's
This motif and trend of the Nordic sagas reappears in a medieval form
form, outside the narrow bounds of ordinary religion.
transformation, on a wider scale, of what already lives in
remember that these colourforms surrounding and blurring the sharp
colour-forms and tones, with impressions of smell, taste and so forth.
still earlier form, the sun in the heavens rose at the vernal equinox
experiences of the earlier form of Atlantean consciousness. These
cultivated in the Mysteries was preserved in the form of an ancient
all-embracing vista of the universe. But forms of consciousness which
coincided with it. This gave rise to the later form of consciousness
form of atavistic remains of an earlier age. Later, during Greco-Roman
which we have been trying to form a concrete picture, we can say that
religion in our modern sense. What now forms the content of the various
preserved was expressed in the form of the folk-religion — here
expressed in varied form according to the needs and conditions
same stages as on the descent, but now in a higher form. To-day man
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death
which we as souls bring, into the form which we receive from our
parents; and out of the abstract soul-substance we form the individual
on the fact that the general human form, even in its finest
ourselves to all the different organs which form our body physically.
the forces, the inner psychic-spiritual formations, so that what we
quite clear to us, and then we shall be able to form an idea of what
in a practical form between death and rebirth. But we know that what
structural formation of man built up here between birth and death
into the spiritual world can immediately give information about
new forms. Even to those who do not yet see into the spiritual world,
Just consider — you get up every morning, you hardly form the
lecture. And that would be worked upon during sleep, and transformed
Now, perhaps one day the spiritual investigator forms the intention
them; we work upon them and transform them, as stated above. And what
require to enter a physical body. Thus the souls of the young form a
they will behold in stronger form when they come to see it again; they

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 2: On the forming of Destiny
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The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death
On the forming of Destiny
ON THE FORMING OF DESTINY
Munich in those early years, through the performances of the Mystery
— we reckon on those who have only changed the form of their
consciousness that those who formerly belonged to us, are still our
soul in so many different forms — and on this we laid stress in
with the people who in a sense formed the upper classes. And there
times and the forms in which such doings occur change; but the
dwell on the transformed world which will arise out of these difficult
sleep life in a special form during the time we call Kamaloka, and
forming, in a sense, a kind of central point of our cosmic horizon,
ourselves, we turn our gaze outwards. Now, if we want to form an idea
form. It is not yet perceptible, but it is there.’ To make it
while we are undergoing these effects, the experience is transformed
and through which we can form for ourselves a body suitable for our
the way in which he went through his former life. The objection is

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
human soul, the entire human Ego, to form such connections with the
swelling of each single muscle, he felt the angle it formed. That is
feeling of the form of the arm, of the physiognomy, etc., and this to
body, whereas in Greece there was rather a struggle for form. Thus we
There we find a host of dexterities, a mass of information. For
evolutions are completed, will the Ego be formed, as the physical body
transforms the entire life following after death. It is just the same
not their true form; it is rather the expression of it. A child may
thus live more for universal humanity, have carried up in some form,
indicated in broad outlines. You can then form some idea how great is

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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world, we form thoughts which can unite us to him. We surround him
friendship or enmity for him. Briefly, we form here in the physical
our souls had formed to him, the outer physical presentment itself
the man changed, we had to expect that the feelings we formerly had
eyes see him, or our hands grasp his.’ The picture we formed of
individual case, when a human soul which formerly impressed us from
course appear in many different forms, according to the preparation
our globe people visit a cathedral and behold those forms which they
death and rebirth receive. In such customs, which are formed in human
in conformity with what is active in the spiritual world, and without
because we are quite unaware of it, but we can at least form some idea
in reference to our actions, and to forming of intentions, it varies
forms a friendship for another. You may say: ‘I really cannot
understand why he has formed this friendship. I cannot make it out. No
other for something much later on. He formed a friendship with him,
not form this friendship for its own sake, but as a means to something
forming that friendship he attained some prospect, through which his
us in quite an easy and popular form. For example, a person has come
form conceptions different from those we can build so comfortably in
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 5: Concerning the Subconscious Soul Impulses
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referred in a recent lecture. This memory forms part of our experience
the spiritual world. If a student performs his occult exercises with
enables him to form real conceptions of these things. The concept
by the person to whom this information refers.’ (Hofrat
was begging to be let in. Involuntarily the question formed itself:
conduct was. His former iron will was in this respect weakened, and
noticed that he could no longer remember certain things which formerly
form of a novel. The novel is very cleverly written, and could only be
Markus Freund to be convicted. The force which formerly proceeded from
memory was transformed into the force of instinct, and this drives
then changed his civilian attire for his uniform, and for a long time
spiritual world and forms a man here, in whom arises, at first as a
ultimate aim of the Divine Path,’ forms to a certain extent the
former times men sought the spiritual path, but in their own way; but
another form. To-day it is necessary to find it in just the form most
the method of that science herself, the right scientific form must be

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
primitive clairvoyance formerly existing in humanity. The story is the
transformation of the earth at the different seasons of the year; a
nature in whom we live, undergo states of spiritual transformations as
critical epoch has resulted in this: that man forms nothing but images
Now, Mauthner finally explains how man actually forms nouns,
thought, formed exactly after the style of the above thinker who wrote
poured on to the paper. With the few miserable forms of its accidental
streams on further and groups itself according to the formations
for cleverness expresses itself by a man forming in a certain logical
nevertheless not merely symbolical, but forms part of the reality.
comprised in our spiritual movement, it really forms part of it that
forms of thought. Everywhere we should lay aside in our own souls that
That should form part of the practical life of our Spiritual Science.
centuries passed; that which was formerly carried on below in the
reached him in a special form — (this is certainly a personal
underneath the stars, and formed a delicate arch through them. It had

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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selfless undifferentiated gaze of the Earth Spirit, thus forming the
out in the world when the spinal cord was formed, and has remained at
forms that the soul is prepared. This is why in earlier times the

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with parts of human nature. These may be said to form guiding threads
surrounds us. The original form of the universe is for the esotericist
perceives its form. This astral body is in continuous transformation.
All wisdom, according to its form, is rhythm. In the astral body there
hand, the astral body is formed partly by other powers, partly by man
himself. That part of the astral body which is formed by man himself
transformed the whole of his astral body, has he reached the stage of
would be unable to form concepts about the physical world if he did
everything which man formerly perceived around him with his organs, is
transformed into wisdom. What has been worked over and transformed
preserved which he has worked over and transformed, also the very
When a human being has progressed so far that he has transformed his
transformed his etheric body so that it remains intact after death and
the collective form of his earlier desires still exists in Kamaloka;
This is a specific form of the Double.
next incarnation have the abnormal form of the Guardian of the
which could take the place of this old form of initiation. It is
substitute has been created for the old form of initiation. Through
relationship through a special form of the verb, in Latin for instance
can be transformed into rhythm. Rhythm must be instilled into them

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Sphinx as indication of the future form of man.
form, life and consciousness. Today we will speak about the different
extended by the higher beings; they gain information through the
structure in the form of a snail shell, filled with very fine little
of uttering the little word ‘I’ we might regard the human form
different forms of consciousness, the consciousness of the visible,
soul. The consciousness only becomes ‘manasic’ when its separate forms
light forms which are however only to be observed by the consciousness
consciousness to this level he then forms his physical body for

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processes transforms it into carbonic acid by uniting it with carbon.
The plants build up their bodily form out of the carbon which they
the dead plants; then the former forests of fern and equisetums were
transformed into the immense coal fields of the Earth. The rock
formations developed gradually, either from the plant kingdom or the
sea and are formed from the cast-off shells of sea-creatures. Thus the
kingdom will be spiritualised by man. He transforms it with the
world of industry, is the transformation of the mineral kingdom. When
kingdom will be transformed by man. To a great extent this will be
end of the Fourth Round he will have transformed the entire mineral
process of transforming carbon, which the plant now carries out
He will then transform matter just as today the plant transforms the air
the transformation which is now carried out by the plants and which
man will transform himself into a being who manifests himself through
But if formic acid had not been introduced, the whole earth would have
aware of the moment when formic acid had to be brought into the earth.

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mineral kingdom to be found? That is the highest form of
kind of ether, the Light Ether. Bodies which shine send out a form of
of ether is the bearer of everything which gives form to the finest
matter, the formative ether, which is also called the Chemical Ether.
Thirdly, when one transposes oneself in dream into the air-forming
is transformed into selflessness, into love. Those animals which
present time thinking is the form in which man can bring his will to

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needs other beings. Now man must incarnate in a bodily form determined
Now man tried to introduce Kama into the animal forms. Kama is first
to be found in the human form, in actual fact in the heart, in the
attempts to become human forms endowed with Kama. Everything in them

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development of speech in connection with consciousness, life and form.
The Old Moon was surrounded by Warmth Ether and other forms of
beautiful forms. The beings who only possessed the lower human
text ...] Now the remaining material could be condensed to form the
formed they interpenetrate one another. Through this, birth and death
the former means of reproduction. Through speech man propagates
remain, will be given form through the will, which then lives within
sense is ‘the word’ which undergoes a transformation from thinking,
warmth-permeated word), and lastly ‘form’, the word shaped through the
one another, we have: consciousness, life, form. Everything, which
today is form stems from earlier times and has arisen through such a
process. The physical body, the form, is the most perfected body; less

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disciples in actual form. Jesus once said to them: ‘Elias has come

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that interests us, not the outer form, the matter, but what it has to
the brain in an elongated cylindrical form.
general, will express itself in the air and indeed in forms, for
formed. When therefore today man uses evil, blasphemous language, then
on Jupiter terrible formations will be brought about. This is why one
today will give Jupiter its form; what he feels will engender its
Just as today we can trace the rock formation of the Earth back to
earlier conditions, so will the rock formation of the Future Jupiter
we inhabited the grotesque forms of the Old Moon, so these beings will
inhabit the forms which we develop by means of our pineal gland.
been formed through human error. A hunchback owes his deformity to the
astral, to Karma. The external form, the physiognomy and so on, are
ordered. All forms of illness are errors which find their expression
present as form and being. The physical body is called a temple in all

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The formation of the etheric body as the opposite of the physical
of the woman. The forms and colours of the astral body and its sheath:
conditions of form of the earth. The membering of the human auric egg.
It is the body according to which the physical body is formed. Taking
the descending line, the form of the etheric body is the reverse of
Around the etheric body appears the astral body. It is the outer form
in forms of every description. The surrounding part shows cloud
formations; it radiates the most varied colours. Frequently somewhat
tattered formations are attached to it. The forms and colours are
To see how the auric egg has been formed we must consider the
Theosophical literature a condition of form is called a Globe and one
an astral form. This future astral condition of form however will
Seven conditions of form together make up a Round. At the present time
Earth will have become completely transformed, so that eventually
which forms can develop. The Earth then passes over into a Mental
its forms as the plant kingdom. In the Arupic condition of the Fifth
denser form. This takes place in the Rupa condition of the earth. This
more material form is called in occultism, for example in certain
radiates the third Globe (condition of form), the Astral-Earth; it
we have a solution of cooking salt it appears as a uniform grayish
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XI
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itself formless, but gains form through human life. Man gathers the
carries these, as firmly established forms in the soul, up into the

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forms from left behind stages of what was laid down earlier. It was
astonishing fact that the whole inner formation of the crab has a
between the internal formation of the crab and the human brain. Like
The third stage is that in which the whole is transformed by the
astral body working within it. This organic transformation is
and morality. Only after a gradual transformation of his desires can
form. So thought-forms, as they are called, are made out of a kernel
reincarnation, forms a central point, around which what is to be added
transformation of his etheric body. The stage of chelahood is
development and has transformed but very little of his etheric body he

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ordering of the world. Alteration in the forms of the flora, fauna and
Dionysius who formulated the teaching about the Gods. The Church
form. Dionysius had bequeathed to his pupils such a teaching in regard
animal kingdom, in the transformation of species. The force which
instincts so that animals undergo transformation, takes place through
transformation of the plant world is the result of Devachanic forces.
own world. They can, for a particular purpose, form for a short time
We can only form definite ideas about the Devas when we take our start
beautiful, form they possessed the teachings of Theosophy. These
again into the world. One finds the same idea in a deeper form in
formation of the earth were not yet able to recognise the underlying
sympathy and antipathy also arose in picture form within him. All this
passions approached him in the form of auric pictures in which lived
formed within him according to which later planetary activity is
as the rocks and stones form the foundation of the earth. In one

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Man's sojourn in Devachan between death and a new birth. The formation
three interpenetrating worlds. We can form the most correct idea of
prepared for Devachan. If he is unable to form such relationships he
Formerly I was not able to speak the word ‘I’, now I have become for
separateness must be overcome. This we do when we form human
But ever more and more spiritual organs are being formed in the Mental
form (Globes), a state of Pralaya that comes about when everything is
achieved that can be achieved in the physical condition of form and
the Earth is metamorphosed into a so-called astral condition of form
already forms itself as predisposition in the devachanic state. When a
religions have formulated the doctrine of hell.
names and form

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concepts, Wisdom, Beauty, Power, in connection with the transformation
future work formatively upon the organs. It was said to the pupils:
but they no longer know that thereby formative forces work on the
the building of a great cathedral. He knew that the forms of the
and Rosicrucianism. They sought the perfecting of the ego in the form
as the ego has been formed through these other kingdoms, so must it
transformation of our etheric, astral and ego bodies.’ These three
development of mankind. The transformation of the world was not given
transformed. When the Earth again becomes astral everything will have
been transformed in accordance with these three aspects. Thus it was
Leonardo da Vinci or the smallest piece of work, forms an organ in the
between name and form (Nama-rupa). Through this man reached the outer
Next comes what we form as mental image in connection with an external
depends on the object stands at the stage of Nama-rupa; whoever forms

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we are now going to approach, we must be able to form a conception of
past which at the same time shows its results in the forms around us.
one thing to another is something new; the forming of the shadow.
formed like strata around them. Relationships which make their
appearance as something altogether new form very little of the content
creates is not there in reality. The mere form worked upon by the
there is only the form pulsed through with life. A mere form would
performed actions. Then actions were something which only came from
language can never be entirely selfish, whereas the deeds performed by
individuality is like a thread which goes through all forms of
world by means of another activity having a form quite different from

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into a new formation of our earth. We therefore distinguish three
being is formed of the same substance as that of which thought
spiritual being because this higher being has a body formed of the
to form again for himself a picture out of every thought, then he has
As a rule man forms merely thoughts. The more highly developed man
formative spirit within him. Imagination corresponds to hidden
unconsciously. Behind them the spirit is forming the symbols. The
active. The completed form of the plant comes forth from Imagination
Spirit. Thus behind everything that lives in form as such, that can be
we are speaking remain behind, formative forces which create new
foundation for this form of Karma? Where is the Spirit of the Race
perceptions it would be the greatest folly on man's part to form
world, which form our destiny, through tendencies which have their
source in Karma. Thoughts form the character: the tendencies or
the form of great moral laws. Vijnana is the name used for the

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kind of fiery coloured formation was visible, which streamed out from
and formed additional organs of movement, so that he went on four
a crab-like form. The human being could stand on one pair of legs and
nature. It had a form which was not entirely egg-shaped, but more like
upright posture, the formation of the head, quite open in front, out
grotesque form at that time, reptile-like. The Guardian of the
Threshold, the lower nature of man, frequently appears in a form of
this kind. It represents the lower nature with the open formation of
the head. At that time, the union took place between these forms on the
head formation united with the winged-serpent body with its fiery
of the astral body, as it then was, fell away. One portion formed the
which was bound up with the form of the winged-serpent; it could no
longer have any further development on the Earth. It formed, as a
Horus. The merging of the serpent form with the etheric head, with the
newly acquired astral body and head formation, led to the conception
of the form of the sphinx. The sphinx is the expression of this
There were seven kinds or classes of such forms, all of which differed
developed formation of the human form down to those which were utterly
grotesque. These seven kinds of human forms had all to be fructified.
half, the lower nature, and transform it. In so far as man today
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When a thought penetrates into astral space it forms a denser layer
up. It is the thought-form which we then see. The astral substance
the case of certain animals too, such beings are formed, and indeed
impulses into its own astral form, so that it usually creates its own
form, its own image in astral space.
of noble form also arise and the elemental beings created in this way
in the astral forms which we ourselves create. They are the so-called
passions, meditate, creating strong thought forms, they conjure up
he has no counterbalance, such beings incarnate in his thought forms.
is thus formed can however not work so harmfully as what the human

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Necessity of a strict schooling for forming judgements about the
Yesterday we considered the forms in the astral world brought about by
the pupils with their Masters, in so far as someone who has formed a
for each part to form an ego. This is the black path. The white path
is the one which strives for what is common, which forms an ego in
formed between us, in our midst, then we are drawn together, then we
from forming judgements as long as possible.
desirous of incarnation, whirl towards the life-ether and now form a
In Devachan this is transformed from what is connected with the past
into what is connected with the future. These two moments can form an

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In order to form an exact concept in regard to the technique of
we study the structure of a crystal we can observe its form, its
be there first. These forces which create the forms on the physical
plane, that work there in a formative way, are not themselves on the
ourselves inwardly to its form, perhaps allowing its form to work upon
its forms in the disposition of our soul and finally allowing them to
not only let the form work upon us, but also its inner mobility, its
working on us, extinguishing its sensible form — one can practise
the etheric body. An artistically formed piece of sculpture or a
tries to create a form as unemotional as that created by the
Destiny is formed through yet other factors: feelings fashion the
opportunities, actions fashion the form.

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forms of development until their unification in the Lemurian Age. The
transformation. Then he would pass over consciously from one world
as an astral form. The astral man who was originally present was a
formation unlike the present astral body, a much more comprehensive
body, the latter gradually developed in a purer form. What had been
thrown off however remained as separated astral forms, beings with a
and what formerly he had had within him, now worked into him from
off ten different forms, which are now around him. Previously they
pictures arise in the purified astral body of the forms existing in
they are active within him, transforming the nobler, purified astral
these are now outside it as pictures and work upon it as formative
up in it a new body. Formerly man had had the macrocosm within him, he
then separated it off and now this formed within him the microcosm, a
Thus at a certain stage we find the human being in a form which is
physical human body. Thereby the human forms became more and more
later develop, forms at the same time a kind of central point in the
Because during Earth evolution we have manifold forms, the parts in
relationship. Harmony comes about in the former chaos and an astral
form arises which survives, remains living. In the physical and
the astral body. The latter retains its form for a short time only,
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separated off from man, the other beings had been formed which lived
form having a certain great beauty. Their substance was much softer
in their form.
They were formed out of a still nobler and even more delicate
formed out of a soft, pliant substance similar to a jellyfish, but
much warmer. The human beings with the best forms, consisting of the
differently formed, having only a physical body, much less dense than
Fourth Round the Hyperboreans lived in their soft forms, these Sons of
the Sun were in position to incarnate and they formed a particularly
Epoch they created for themselves an upright form, completely
transforming the Hyperborean bodies. This the other human beings were
biscuit formation developed.
able to form this specially favoured species, the Sons of the Sun,
Such forms of evolution take their course only under the special
forms, for he was indifferent to what is inward, intellectual. Jehovah
wished to produce beautifully formed human beings, like beautiful
that only bore upon it beautiful but completely motionless forms. If
would have developed into a completely rigid, frozen form. Jehovah
take on special forms. The force enters into the form with ever
grotesque forms were able to live on the quite differently constituted
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yet to follow. Seven Sub-Races together form a Root-Race.
from the astral Globe to the physical is a transformation of
Arupa Mental-Globe; ‘Arupa’ because no actual forms existed, but
however, they are four successive forms of the Earth. Thus we have
were still indeterminate, receiving their form from forces outside
give himself his own form. On the previous astral Earth Jehovah and
his hosts had given man his form. On the plastic-astral Earth however
man will give himself his form out of his inner force; hence this is
an undifferentiated, uniform sleep condition but very differentiated.
activity, he will have worked over and transformed the mineral
into pure astral forms.
redeemed the mineral kingdom, when he will have transformed it by his
One is not working in vain when one gives form to the mineral kingdom.
in living cloud formations everything which today has been painted.
Just as now human circumstances conform to fundamental laws of Nature,
so in the future will they conform to what is moral. They will be

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Rounds or elemental kingdoms, Globes or conditions of form; in
Going through the seven conditions of Form or Globes is called Glory.
form. The Lord's Prayer gives us in its final words: ‘For Thine is the
see there is a space with definite boundaries, a definite form. Of the
reflected light. The rays of the sun are reflected in a certain form.
compressed together to a spatial form. If one takes away the colour of
mineral kingdom that light and sound appear through such forms. Let us
through space and are not perceived in connection with definite forms.
without being bound to a form; then we have the Third Elemental
We will now take a further step forward. When we see a thought form,
draw the forms into space and then surround them with astral
interpenetrating lines: everything expressing beautiful forms having
was ordered according to measure, number, form. It is possible to
Kingdom which underlies the Third. Here we only have forms woven by
intention before the form has actually arisen, thus first into the
imagines a world filled with such thought-seeds. This formless world
The Second Elementary Kingdom is the formative element of the Third
belonging to the Third Elementary Kingdom. The plant reflects the form
of the Second Elementary Kingdom and thus develops the form out of
First Elementary Kingdom at the stage of physical form. In the
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Round and within this Round in the Fourth Condition of Form or Globe.
formless state as thoughts. We can gain a right concept of this when
this as thought seeds. The forms were not yet present, but only the
Now the Arupa-Sphere densified; everything emerged as thought-forms.
it as models were all the forms of human beings, animals and plants.
filling the forms with light and colour. Here are to be found all the
astral forms of human beings and animals, as well as the whole plant
still united with the Earth; they formed one body with the Earth.
the three remained together. There then arose a kind of biscuit form.
Only in the Fourth Earth Round did the body regain its spherical form;
then however there again arose the sack-like formations in the ether,
with all wisdom, but at the same time formed into a living statue.
Jehovah's aim was the perfection of form. Lucifer would have been able
would not be possible for wisdom alone to manifest in a form-creating
gold and silver formed drops just as water does now. The fact that
brought down from Mercury in etheric form. Had we not had quicksilver
It was at first in astral form and later densified. When we trace the
outwards. Then the Earth will be transformed into a sphere on which
man will create his form from within outwards. The Earth will then be
human being not only works plastically on his form, but will be able
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The Three Logoi, or Form, Life and Consciousness (Creation out of
consciousness, life and form.
Conditions of Form.
Our physical Earth is such a Condition of Form, the fourth Condition
of Form or Globe, in the fourth Kingdom of Life, of the fourth Planet,
construct a whole, a creation within a form. Now there are other ways
Arupa-form was a planet present, we are there even before the moment
Form
Producing new formations with new Life content out of existing
N and I also have a concept of the reversed N. I can also form a
negative, he has created a completely new form. This he could imbue
three Logoi. Let us form within the framework of our planetary system,
place all the parts are combined which then form his physical body. At
Forms of beings are fashioned. This is called the work of the Third
On Saturn man received from the Third Logos what in him is form. On
the head what may be called a focal point is formed through which the
ether). Let us keep to the four lower forms of our physical plane and
States of consciousness can lie in all four forms of the physical
Thus, on our Earth there exist various forms of consciousness, and
freemasons also bring about definite forms which manifest in
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through him, man himself was formed. Before the light had passed
form and light became necessary. God said: ‘Let there be light and
there was light.’ Then it was that man too first received his form.
also the whole Earth was still aeriform; the life, or the atomistic
spiral.) Formerly he was a source of light, now the light streamed
solid form. Through the introduction of the chemical ether he acquired
ether he acquired life. Thus through the eyes he acquired form;
when the heart was formed. The Lemurian landscape rises up within us.
Lemurian Age. There was a uniform temperature over the whole Earth.
in the form of fire. The Promethean-Saga
In the Fourth Sub-Race work was performed as tribute (Slave Labour).
In the Fifth Sub-Race work is performed as a commodity (sold).
In the Sixth Sub-Race work will be performed as an offering (free work).

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engendered in the Europeans created spiritual forms. If such an
decaying forms and these provide a source of nourishment for beings
such as bacilli. Later they incarnate in those material forms suitable
quite definite forms which work disturbingly in human life just in the
of the War of All against All would take on ever more menacing forms.
of the plant world. From this we can form a concept of how Worlds go
process on the Old Moon. We can form a picture of the earlier process
Lemurian Age the breathing process began to take on the form it has
exhaled warmth, transforming this into the circulation of the warm
blood, so the pupil of Hatha Yoga seeks to form the breathing process
Hatha Yoga rules signify the transformation of the breath into a
towards such forms as could breathe, which were endowed with lungs and
a condition where life in the same form was no longer possible. The
form had developed into something else and needed a new Planet. The
forms, a race of the good and a kingdom of the evil side by side. At
form out of the separated, downward-thrust evil of animality. Let us
Monad. Oxygen therefore in the Lemurian Age formed the body for the

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Development of the different forms of nourishment; origin and
the power of clairvoyance. We can however form a conception of this
nourished in the body of the mother. This was the old form of
It is the old food of the Gods, the first form of nourishment on the
the first form of human food. When the physical constitution of man
The taking of milk is a transformation of a primeval form of
of the plants, belongs to the Sun. Formerly their growth inclined
the second form of human food.
the transformed Moon food, was called by the Jewish people ‘Jehovah’.
is the first form of nourishment as it still is now in the first weeks
of life, and the Eastern healer relates this form of nourishment to
forms, at first in the case of the developing hunting peoples who
Later another form of food was added which did not exist earlier. Man
beginning the transformation of water into wine, for Christianity came
had to appear that changed water into wine. Formerly wine was strictly
be possible for the third form of nourishment to begin to make its
form the second part of the coming spiral. At the present time a
What belongs to the future is as yet unformed and naturally

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Concerning Old Atlantis and the formation of the Fifth Root-Race or
of the front of the brow, the formation of the part of the brain on
civilisation. They formed the Fifth Sub-Race of the Atlanteans.
in a form which elaborated matters in minute detail with subtle
new civilisations, but yet possessed in germinal form what in India
and further towards Asia. A common teaching formed its foundation, but
that which remained here in Europe in a more primitive form as the
it is true, was recognised by the Indian but was more uniform; the
varied way. In Europe too there were initiates who formed Mystery
the North was the thought that their old form of culture would
Northern Gods. Thus in what was still symbolic form, the battle of St.
knowledge attached to the personal human. This finds its form in the
The Graeco-Latin stream is a higher form of the Judaic; here the cult
all the ancient forms of culture.
fundamental character in a new-form, in a way in which it could now be
took on a more established form. At the same time as the epoch of the
This is a modernised Atlantis, in a new form, an atavism, a

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this riddle — the former by understanding the natural laws that
destroyed, it leaves nothing of its form that could be passed on to
particular form. When we move on to the world of plants, we notice
crystal. It can only originate from another, earlier plant. Form is
gradually in this paragraph. His point is not that a newly-forming
does the spiritual-psychic stream, of which man forms a part through
overall form.
the external form as mobile as possible. Whereas the choleric has
manifested in every outer detail, for example, in a slender form, a
never manifest themselves in such pure form. Every human being has one
different magic formula may be applied. For the sanguine child this
formula was love for a personality; for the choleric, it was respect

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believes he has learned anything from the concepts he has formed
organically formative. In an animal the sense organs, the functions
form, it remains inwardly alive in the animal. And we speak of this
is a creative force, we form a concept of intelligence, of reason, of
expression in the forms, in the law-determined workings of matter —
unfolds what man can perform only through his intelligence. Then the
astral body — expends itself in organic formations, in what the
specific formations, the spirit expends itself. The animal brings
the fashioning of the organs. In the formation of the organs,
same applies to the faculty of forming concepts, and the development
development beyond and apart form heredity, man has something that is
possibility of forming ideas, and in the experience of the Ego
hand, wrests his organs away form the life of soul and thus
familiar with the characteristic form of soul experience which is
connected with certain work that is being performed by the etheric
in men — either in a subtler or cruder form. If indigestion

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Particularly important for us were the views we were able to form,
contradistinction to the spirit life seen pre-eminently in formation
everywhere in the animal form, in the conditions of animal life,
species. And the external form — the external life in the same
is important. In the animal form and organization the spirit works as
making it possible for it to carry on its life. It is so formed that
form, or that this is also the case where the elephant is concerned?
riddle; how life is as it were discharged into the form, is caught up
into the form, appearing to us as if frozen there? Here, too, man has
come in a certain way to pour life into his own form. We need
form with open mind, we are interested far more in the universal, the
individual forms. What interests us in man's skeleton is the
of the spirit in man, this imprinting of the spirit into form and
form, these forces are really active and coming to expression. Then
appears in later life in a finer, deeper, more intimate form when,
external form, but still in movement, in mimicry and in the
justifiably interests us in man is the particular form of his skull,
we have to say: In this particular form of the skull of man something
broadly, this is the case, and that in the form of the brow, in the
form of the skull, of each human being, we shall always find
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they disseminated to the common people only in an esoteric form. Here
Akashic Record the way this twofold form of mankind expressed itself.
The Akashic Record gives no information of a trinity existing in
Only a symbolic action was performed for those who participated in the
What formerly was impossible could now be attained. Man could now give
differently, can now be understood in the form of three Divine
descended still further. Today it has taken on a peculiar form, which

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“Unceasingly she generates new forms; what exists was never here
the human soul has worked in and formed the human body for its higher
moon, forming one body. At that time, the earth beings of today had
different shapes and appearances that conformed with the consolidated
moon separated from the earth and formed an external relationship to
down into unconsciousness for a time in order to form there the lower

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assumed forms in accordance with the various religious confessions.
universe; only then was the rite of awakening performed. It took place
earth, and the earth, sun and moon still formed one body. Man already
formed, ring upon ring. Those who saw it knew that this was the
The rod with which Moses performed his miracles was carved from the

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Commandments how little the form in which men know the Bible today
that to restore the Bible to man in a true form is one of the most
into this spirit, you will see how the interpretation of them forms
the ego was first given to the Jewish people in the form of the old
transformed it to buddhi or spirit self, when by means of his ego, he
directly confronted with the divine, whereas the form of his astral,
of those lower divinities, it had the form of something that was on
etheric and physical bodies would be well-formed and would produce a
take on an entirely new form, because an entirely new life was being
Now the form is there that is at the basis of the Mystery of Golgotha.

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is a Christendom. Its actual form is in fact unknown to people.
a new form which would reveal the true Christian spirit.

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Such a one “was Hercules, who performed the twelve labours. The
physical structure of man took its start (man was formerly purely
not have the specific form which they have to-day. If you study
other. Whereas formerly man worked on Kama from Prana, now he has to
primordial times and transforms itself at a certain point There is a

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formerly been at the disposal of mankind, as something lost, something
Human culture, which formerly was one stream, now separates into two
Lucifer-Gnosis was later published and forms chapter 1 of

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race was first given by the Manu in its spiritual form to this
the disposal of a higher individuality. Hence later the transformed
Now you all know how the Siegfried saga goes on in this old form. It
is not the oldest form, but it is the one that concerns us. You know
truths of the past and of the future. Apocalypse always forms part of
have the thing in its most developed form, for these people had so

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which the Israelite people forms a branch, indeed the most important
Kundalini fire. And because it emerges in veiled form as premonition,
transformation and to bear it. The initiates are in a position to

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stands in the middle, the former on the summit: it is the point of
illustration. In former times there were the so-called Mysteries,
grown out of a simple germinal form that originated on Saturn.
been transformed in order that it might achieve its present
gradually did these organs assume their present form, one being
and understanding. The first three senses inform us concerning the

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little stone formations in them, the so-called otoliths, that lie in
These formations that signify a human sense organ were promptly
there appear formations that up to a point can be compared with the
formations in plants that the latter, too, have a sense of
outward image, and we shall see that the tongue is formed
expression of this work is the forming of folk physiognomies, the
was used in old Hebrew to denote the first human form, but by the

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with the formation of a concept. If we were able, in hearing a
momentarily transforms a melody into a harmony. That is the secret of
sound; it is melody transformed into harmony. This marvelous
transformed into harmony and then the fundamentals disregarded,
it. This underlying sense of visualization is always uniform,
regardless of all the differences in the sound formations. But now,
task it is to proclaim Him in manifold forms — His messengers
substance is pushed out from a certain part of the head and forms
to thrust out astral substance increases, he forms a second organ in
two-petal lotus flower forms, there are tentacles of this kind that
proper arises, that is, thought forming. So the order of the
it, and we form thoughts about it.
man. Now, when this inward motion is transformed into an outer
at forming the body. We can put it this way. There is in the human
these form what appears to us as the sensibly perceptible human
and in the center, where they act upon each other, they form the
soul, or its image, is active. The face is formed by the sentient
forms its organ.
and this is the form of the consciousness soul. There the
consciousness soul is active, extending its formative work into the
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currents that shape the human organism and give it form in a manner
formative forces, we must perceive that they could not function
is, in the plane in which the human being is formed symmetrically.
further formed on the old Sun, the old Moon, and so on. Had this not
body were to be formed, not into a lopsided but into a symmetrical
The etheric body experienced a similar transformation.
direction. This condition obstructed the whole process of formation,
sentient body boring their way in. They form the sense organs. In the
rear the formative forces are active that build the brain over them;
prehistoric existence of man. It is incumbent upon him to form right
perception, so that man could look at his thoughts. That was a form
that is directed inward. This form of thinking, having itself as the
endeavor to form judgments by observing them. The only thing they can
In the first instance we can form a judgment only of
forms we passed through in former periods, such as the Lemurian. That
through all forms recalling animal stages, thereby repeating, in a
sense, the various forms of the whole animal kingdom. At the time
really passed through these forms that thus appear in the germ state.
actually did develop through such forms. Fortunately, as we can say
him. This he did in turn with all the animal forms, because they were
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form a bridge connecting the three worlds in which we live. This will
interaction of bodily weal and woe, and the forms of the soul life.
pertains to our soul life. To meet a person and to form a conception
and this fact is the key to the soul life. By forming the judgment,
rose is red” has been transformed into the conception “the
experience. When we perform such an inner act — let judgments
them their true form; ergo, it must be of a permanent nature.

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the outer world, and they are then transformed within us in such a
original form. Now, the youthful soul of Goethe embraced something
things are jumbled in the wildest ways. What was formerly known by
conditioned by space; the form in which the judgment is expressed
but quite a common form in German.] without the

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And marries it to form. All hail to you!
Of all the pictured forms not any fleeting trace.
that in what opposes the sense experience an imprint has formed from
life; no memory visualization would form. There is, indeed, a psychic
attention shows us that in the former case the impression cannot be
then, manifests itself as a special form of desire. But at the moment
sense sensations we designated the former as experiences encountered
appear in obvious forms they are readily distinguished, but there are
Connected with the satisfaction is a form of desire, no matter how

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this man's chief mission. He wrestles with the poetic form, and we
realm where poetic form becomes possible. Clearly, not many such
no alterations. The form in which it was written, with its mighty
transformed into a visualization. The latter, however, is a response,
interest, and so forth, form a current flowing from the future into
therefore itself be transformed into a mirror within the etheric
would be repeated in modified form what was studied in the third, in
If you think of a man as bringing over from a former
hardly yield accurate information. Research practised on the physical

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I will sketch the former for you. Aristotle speaks

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manner, but to become acquainted with it in a concrete form; hence
adequately armed. True, the former could answer this objection by
is merely an image reflected outward, and is incapable of forming the
transformation of error into truth; this cannot be explained as a
to stop at error, but is in a position to conquer it and transform it
transformation of error into truth shows that error as such is more
In former times, of course, men did not express the
in the form of ideas, felt the presence of the Luciferic along with
Aristotle proclaims the importance of outer sensual form, outer
must act as a preparation for creation and as formative forces for
merely formal but actual. It must be an imagination immanent in the
humanity associates with the contrast of the sexes. What a formidable
new souls in bodily forms that obscure and estrange the greater part
reason to inform ourselves concerning the difficulties encountered by

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context? It is that we should be able, so to speak, to form a valid
visualization, “a tree is green,” I can form the valid
passed judgment. Only when I try to form the proposition do I know
proposition be formed in the case?
could you anywhere discover the possibility of simply forming a valid
you to form the proposition, “a green tree is,” out of
perception, then and only then is it possible to speak of forming a
outset we lack entirely. By doing this we learn to form allegorical
We start by forming the conception of man as he presents
present form he disapproves of. That this second conception cannot be
we have performed something that manifests itself as intrinsically
forces; now we can say that in the transformation of an allegorical
super-sensible through this experience of transforming an allegorical
visualization perform in the soul what has been described. Just as
visualization itself and transforms it. It becomes something that may
true form as a fact, the region of emotions points out beyond the
performing an action we are gratified or disgusted by it. I don't
he spread out his arms. Suddenly his voice was transformed. It began
must penetrate some form of emotion — a sorrow or joy, a
tension of this or that feeling. He must form wholly new conceptions

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appears in his physical form, is an image of God in the true Biblical
How uniformly important this imaginative world seems! It
the earth passes from one form to another, but that something in the
its true form, discloses as its prime impulse, its predominant force,
crystallizing, of the bodily, corporeal form. Were we to translate
man to rise to new forms of existence has been extracted from the

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development of humanity from one form of life to another. Progress is
could have been heard in this form 2,500 years ago? It would have been
form of pure thought. Suppose some individuality 2,500 years ago had
a different nature, could in that particular brain take the form which
of the Ego we call the form of pure thought. 2,500 years ago there
of civilisation, has it become possible to speak in the form of pure
period; it must gradually form the physical organisation of man into
grasped in quite other forms, can flow in ever purer and purer
the form of an astral, pictorial apparition; the Furies or Erinyes,
perceive that every wrong act created astral forms in his environment,
done. Those forms were man's educators at that time; they gave him his
cycle of human development other forms and other capacities will be
asserting that the form in which this is given out to-day will be
revealed in this form, but in a different form, according to the
form. What was experienced in the Egypto-Chaldean period is being
recapitulated now; it will thus be experienced in a two-fold form.
different form. The manner of man's development in the Post-Atlantean
seventh period, and these latter will resemble the former. A like
wisdom can be clothed in the concise forms of pure thought? We owe
forms of pure thought, he would not have had the faintest idea what
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 2: The Law of Karma with Respect to the Details of Life
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experiences and activities of a former time are connected with the
the age of eighteen or nineteen, assume a different form. He may cease
had formed within him when he was following a different line of
permeates the soul and, as life goes on, it becomes transformed. In
the second half of life it reappears in a different form; it appears
may clothe in the form of a picture and say: The hand that never
A feeling of devotion in early youth is transformed into a very
transformed in later years into a force which works invisibly, pouring
they are well able to form an opinion on the whole subject. Such
opinion formed by this visitor, which he did not hide under a bushel!
which all such reforms and programmes must make on one who is able
Anthroposophy is only present in its true form when we enter into all
formerly, or that we shall experience later, in subsequent lives. I
that in those members that we have brought with us from former

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 3: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity
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drawn there from can be usefully applied by those who now form part of
over from the former embodiments of the earth, (the astral body,
not have come in the same form. Not only did man acquire from Lucifer
spiritual, were, through that influence, less well formed, made more
sheath is laid aside, a new form of existence begins; but he would
only as a kind of memory remaining over from former incarnations. It
placed on his former decisions. During the time which extended from

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 4: The Sermon on the Mount
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in a continually increased form, till they finally appear in their
highest and best form in the body which was derived by inheritance
performed by the forces active behind evolution, that at a certain
present in rudimentary form. Although not expressed in their external
feel the law, the conformity to law, outside itself, but feels that it
with my ego, ‘whereas man formerly entered the Kingdoms of Heaven
Formerly, when man was placed amidst the sorrows and sufferings of
body, and informs us that it was formerly possible, in the olden times
divine spiritual worlds. Whereas in former times strife and disharmony
‘blessed,’ but only such as formed the kingdoms of Heaven
on another form. ‘He will pass through the world with his
Every single sentence of the Sermon on the Mount in its present form
Christ in the form in which He now lives, if they will but listen with

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 5: Correspondences Between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm
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the fusion of the two different forms of Initiation of ancient times
into the one single form of Christian Initiation; it is an example of
in which these two forms of initiation flow together and as it were
furthering evolution, while dualities unite again, and once more form
in its full depths, not allowing ourselves to form a habit of taking
Spiritual Science, with the human forms of early ages, we find among
the course of the ages have brought about the whole form and movement
space, and which have transformed him from a being which gazes on to
macrocosm, man and woman would be alike, but as it is they form
In primeval ages the external human form was totally different. The
present human forms — male and female — have gradually
evolved out of an earlier single form, which had not yet divided into
two. There was formerly a unity, where now there is a polarity,
between man and woman. Now we know too, that the earlier uni-form was
develop a dense material form. When we look back not only do we find
uni-form, but one which was more spiritual than the human form to-day.
the woman formed a physical body for herself which, if we may say such
a thing, did not completely pass from the earlier form into the normal
material form. The body of woman remained at a more spiritual stage,
more spiritual form. Thus a spiritual stage has become material. The
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 6: The Birth of Conscience
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feelings, to form a concept of the human conscience. The answer to
to come, just in its present form. It will develop further, and take
different forms; it will discover itself as something which man had to
From this we see that conscience forms part of the treasures of the
to-day know as the inner voice, Æschylos represented in external forms
a certain clairvoyant consciousness which was formerly the common
in that soul to absorb certain forms of civilisation. Thus then, the
possible for a body to be formed not having the premature ego-feeling
inner part of his soul. What is to be formed by the masses, must be
Sicily to-day. The body of Empedokles forms a considerable part of the
and spiritual form, came to the earth with Christ, appearing in its
psychic and spiritual form in the East, — for thus we first see

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but the passing from one form of work, from an activity stimulated by
particular try to form a clear idea of what we ourselves must make of
form societies or unions for carrying these into practice. Not in this
hold? He formed the concept of a purely Spiritual Christ, who can
information — had not been able to make a Saul into St. Paul.
— and yet we must take care not to confuse the former with the
This forms part of a certain tendency of our time, which we may
doing something which is in conformity with external science!’
official living in 1910 wore a certain uniform as an outer sign of his
wear the same uniform. It will not be the uniform but the individual
the same uniform was being worn, we see therefore, that the coat,
experienced! Suffering, death and resurrection are like a uniform in
uniform we meet with in the legends, but to the individualities who
understand them, have so to say performed Christ-deeds which show that
sign that the legends and myths take certain forms in certain peoples.
species of uniform is later found to be in use for the same office.
towards acquiring that higher faculty through which in the form of
voice of God which was formerly experienced in a different way.
in a new form.
inner process. Then will Maya be transformed into truth, into

Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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its form, and how it is divided into single petals; you see the stone
experience of the external world took the form of pictures. I have
certain forms; how it develops further; and then how, in the Middle
motion, then out of the form of the movements there can arise
hold of the triangle in its general form; we fail to get there only
“general thought” by passing constantly from one form
into another. “Form”, I say; rightly understood, this
the movement is a self-contained form. Previously I drew only single
forms: an acute-angled, a right-angled, and an obtuse-angled
brings forth the single forms as its stationary states.
“Forms”, I said — hence we see that the
Form. Within this realm, which is all around us, forms dominate; and
forms. The philosophers I mean have never made up their minds to go
outside this realm of forms, and so, in the realm of universals, they
to go beyond the realm of specific entities — i.e. of forms —
bounded by fixed forms. You have the living element which ramifies
plant-kingdom, and creates the forms. During this process it changes
particular entities. Goethe brought the petrified formal concepts
only a remembrance of what you have seen in the kingdom of form. That
forms general words for general concepts — men themselves would
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Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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how soles are cut, how the shoe is formed over the last, and how the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost — who form One Divine Being, but are
Realists did, that the Three Persons formed not merely an imaginary
Let us imagine the way in which one forms general concepts; the way
Then one has formed a general concept. All these creatures have
the real difference comes out. In forming the general concept “Pussy”
we have taken the line, and rightly so, of Nominalism; and in forming
is essential, if one wants to form a correct idea of what thinking
mathematical formulae. This may be called Mathematism.
And he gradually becomes able to form for himself an idea of the
he formed no further ideas on the subject. He only said to himself
from them an abstract characteristic. So I form for myself this

Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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We had better arrange the twelve world-outlooks in the form of a circle
another that they form a mental copy of the Zodiac with which we are
form as it were our spiritual horizon.
everything conceptual takes the form of Logicism, Schopenhauer lays

Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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world-picture. What the soul formerly produced, perhaps as a
Thus you see how an inner conformity to law exists between the
to say that the brain forms the thought — more exactly, that
the central nervous system forms the thought. For anyone who sees
your soul-activity, are the very thing that gives the brain the form
engravings. The main substance and form of the brain must first be
cannot ourselves do this engraving, this giving form, form has to be
engraves our form in us, just as our little thought-work makes its
constellation behind them. All forms of one-sidedness that try to
more and more how a man is formed through that which lives in him as
have gone so far that an indefensible physiology forms the

Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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its form, and how it is divided into single petals; you see the stone
experience of the external world took the form of pictures. I have
certain forms; how it develops further; and then how, in the Middle
motion, then out of the form of the movements there can arise
hold of the triangle in its general form; we fail to get there only
“general thought” by passing constantly from one form
into another. “Form”, I say; rightly understood, this
the movement is a self-contained form. Previously I drew only single
forms: an acute-angled, a right-angled, and an obtuse-angled
brings forth the single forms as its stationary states.
“Forms”, I said — hence we see that the
Form. Within this realm, which is all around us, forms dominate; and
forms. The philosophers I mean have never made up their minds to go
outside this realm of forms, and so, in the realm of universals, they
to go beyond the realm of specific entities — i.e. of forms —
bounded by fixed forms. You have the living element which ramifies
plant-kingdom, and creates the forms. During this process it changes
particular entities. Goethe brought the petrified formal concepts
only a remembrance of what you have seen in the kingdom of form. That
forms general words for general concepts — men themselves would
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Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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how soles are cut, how the shoe is formed over the last, and how the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost — who form One Divine Being, but are
Realists did, that the Three Persons formed not merely an imaginary
Let us imagine the way in which one forms general concepts; the way
Then one has formed a general concept. All these creatures have
the real difference comes out. In forming the general concept “Pussy”
we have taken the line, and rightly so, of Nominalism; and in forming
is essential, if one wants to form a correct idea of what thinking
mathematical formulae. This may be called Mathematism.
And he gradually becomes able to form for himself an idea of the
he formed no further ideas on the subject. He only said to himself
from them an abstract characteristic. So I form for myself this

Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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We had better arrange the twelve world-outlooks in the form of a circle
another that they form a mental copy of the Zodiac with which we are
form as it were our spiritual horizon.
everything conceptual takes the form of Logicism, Schopenhauer lays

Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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world-picture. What the soul formerly produced, perhaps as a
Thus you see how an inner conformity to law exists between the
to say that the brain forms the thought — more exactly, that
the central nervous system forms the thought. For anyone who sees
your soul-activity, are the very thing that gives the brain the form
engravings. The main substance and form of the brain must first be
cannot ourselves do this engraving, this giving form, form has to be
engraves our form in us, just as our little thought-work makes its
constellation behind them. All forms of one-sidedness that try to
more and more how a man is formed through that which lives in him as
have gone so far that an indefensible physiology forms the

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Suffering
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been aware of this connection. Such a consciousness will form a
form the elemental part of the whole of human nature and
lectures (11 and 25th October 1906. The former is not translated. The
water, water in another form, in a solid condition. This is the way
distinct names. We perceive matter in a certain form, appearing to us
in the outer world in a certain way. We speak of the Form, of the
shape of matter and of the Life which appears in the Form and lastly
three stages: Form, Life, Consciousness. Only from Consciousness does
its formation. Life can be present only where a much more complicated
material and form new again — that is life. But life is not yet
able to let death arise within it and to transform this death
becomes somewhat transformed and a tiny eye appears. What is it
something still higher than life, and so in the midst of life forms a
new man arises to whom the whole world seems transformed to a higher
transform his thoughts into will-impulses. He is weak as a man of
compassion is born when we transform the sufferings of others in our
out of the pain to form a higher being, an eye; when we are able
an earlier life is transformed from base forces into lofty ones. Sin
transformed picture of the original abode of pain. A brilliant man,

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Evil
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guide and leader of those beings and forms through which it has
physical human nature, for it is really the most perfected form of
beings approach the lower, unevolved element of love. They form the

Title: Lecture: What Do We Understand by Illness and Death
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innate philosophy — forms the undercurrent of these records.
the other three members are working as formative principles and
architects. But the formative principle of the physical organism
support man and give him a form sufficiently firm to move about
and the fibres which run to the brain in the form of sense-nerve
physically has the task of forming firm supports. What is expressed
purified them and transformed them into moral perceptions and ethical
of these men have been purified and transformed by their ego. Thus we
in four different bodies the outcome and the fruits of former
forces strong to transform his astral body; another will soon grow
say: this amount suffices for the ego to work on the transformation
be estimated when he will have transformed all that comes from his
in his life. What man in his heart and mind (Gemüt) transformed
exhausted he can summon-up no more courage to transform fresh
its sheaths just as they were formed. In this way the individual life
understand death only by seeking to know its origin; and we form a
that outside things actually form and build the physical organs. When
light; vice versa, eyes susceptible to light can be formed only where
there is light. For this reason Goethe says that the eye is formed by
with Paracelsus we may say: In this plant is an organism conforming
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Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 1
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strongly and definitely indicated. The outer form of European people
generations. In the formation of arms and hands, for instance, and in
ice, water is water; but ice is also water, only in a different form.
spirit in another form, spirit that has passed into another form as
material processes as well belongs to one particular form in which
are transformed into liquids, are taken into the human organism and
nation-spirit. We do not only eat; substances are transformed in us,
transform substances, the nation-spirit can live in this process. The
calls forth the special form and character of the nation in question
and in the head. The way in which the head performs its metabolism,
shine out in its own true form — there one encounters something
formed, and so on. The way in which the nation-spirit works is here

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the bluish-violet something of a golden form, a golden crystal form,
Try to think this with someone who has died: the crystal form of the
universe; the opposite way of seeing things must bring men to form

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas VII: The Creation of A Michael Festival Out Of The Spirit (Extract)
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force which did not descend in former centuries. Thus we can face the
festivals, how everything has taken on a traditional, external form.
external social reforms, etc., but to do something that connects the

Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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feeling, his life of will, his intelligence, nay even his form, because
“Spirits of Form”, the “Spirits of Personality”,
Earth the Spirits of Form endowed him with the ‘I’, the ego, in order
Spirits of Form he had become independent vis-à-vis the
independent of the Spirits of Form themselves; he would have remained
Form. It was these Luciferic Beings who gave man the prospect of
of Form. They would have instilled into this astral body the forces
Gods, namely, of the Spirits of Form. All this man would have come to
dependent upon the Spirits of Form.
time from the Spirits of Form or from the higher spiritual realms as a
the Spirits of Form in the Lemurian epoch. Had the Luciferic Spirits
actually a transformation, an elaboration carried out unconsciously,
and there he remains. Through the unconscious transformation of the
— the transformed part of the ether-body — that Ahriman established
transformation of the physical body. You will remember how this
transformation came about. Towards the end of the Atlantean epoch, the
transformation of the physical body, at the development of the
that human thinking is but a transformation of a faculty also
his form and moreover in his whole being descends from the animal —
understanding Christ, that Lucifer, resurrected in a new form, can unite
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Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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gradually have developed a form nobler and more beautiful than could
his former state of dependence man had looked back into the bosom of
behold the physical sense-world in the form in which it would
lapsed into the practice of a form of black magic; having been led
could be drawn forth just as the forces used in the form of steam for
“Devil” in his various forms.
as an astral form visible to the astral body, the manifestations due
“Form Stratum” is so designated because it contains the material and
entities cast into form. And the characteristic of the fifth stratum,
air and water, in cloud formations, in lightning and thunder — all
to work upon fire which man had formerly possessed, was withdrawn from
inevitably occur in some other place and in a different form. The
occult science to be obliged to formulate the questions in the right

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - I
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man first assumed his present form in the middle of the Lemurian Race,
denser than that of cloud-formations over mountains today. It was into
earth write and speak, a symbolic language, a symbolic form of speech.
interlacing triangles which together form a six-sided figure. Below
must develop in man before he can really see what has formerly
sub-race. We are striving for a different form of science, namely for
different forms of life, of which we will speak on another occasion.
wondrous religion, of which those who do not really know it, can form
no conception; neither can they form any conception of the
idolatry in its very crudest form. What is usually to be found in

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - II
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Inspiration and Intuition. A lower form of Intuition suffices when it
is a matter of making known the destiny of a former Root Race, but a
higher form of Intuition is necessary in order to see what will come
religions, and also for Christianity in its earliest form, the
come in the form of a man. Whoever does not apprehend this, whoever
given a different form, adapted to the understanding of the people.
formerly attained through Initiation by a few chosen ones in the
to believe with inner freedom of soul. Therefore, what formerly took
every detail the sacred acts which had formerly taken place in
had to be presented to the world, in a more popular form. Therewith a
descended and took on human form. Henceforward it was not a question
fleshly form and lived among us. The Threefold utterance became

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - III
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fact that what formerly took place in the deep secrecy of the
Ascension, are historic happenings which were formerly enacted in the
something that was formerly made known only to the Initiates and
formerly presented in the Mysteries, and what is written there is
to guide and lead men as formerly they were led by the superhuman
When the Word took on human form, so says the writer of the
Apocalypse, this Word, the Logos, took on human form as the
“Son,” just as formerly the Word took on human form as a

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the human being is able to transform the content of his soul into sounds in
particular combination of sounds which form a word or sentence and that which
example, that language was originally formed by an inner ability of our
formation is called onomatopoeic, an imitation of the sound. This was held by
formation. Of course the question how the human being came to name beings
consists of the ego working on the transformation of the other three members
transformed these three members in such a way that nothing will remain of
thread of logic, then a part of the astral body has become transformed. It
has become transformed from a product in which the ego takes no part into a
astral body which has been consciously transformed by the ego the
ether body transformed by the ego the “life-spirit”, or, with a
future — that it transforms the physical body and regulates its laws
already transforming these three members of its being on the basis of a still
together: the astral body and the transformed astral body or sentient soul,
transformation of the ether body by the ego. And finally, the ego has been
working in the past also on the transformation of the physical body in order
to enable the existence of the human being in his present form. The result of
that transformation is the consciousness soul, which permits the human being
more complex than that part alone which the ego has transformed into the
consciousness soul and which can be called the physical form of the
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something frightening approaches? This means that the bond formed by the ego
latter's substances in the form of tears. What, then, are these
sort of compensation for the stricken ego. The ego had formerly felt itself
reason is that although an ego from a former incarnation is living in the
transform body and soul. During its early days, the child shows only its
science, the enduring element that informs the species is called the
that someone makes calculated use of this form of human expression. Consider
forms of appeal can thus be grossly misused, because pain and grief, mockery

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 3: What is Mysticism?
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give any idea of mysticism if we go by those old forms of mystical
to present-day concepts if we start with the still fairly recent forms of
form a kind of veil through which human cognition cannot penetrate in its
soul, however, form a much thinner veil, and it is possible to penetrate
mystic to feel that he must overcome and kill all his former experiences;
reproduce in a modern sense what the mystic reveals except in the form of
standpoint of these lectures we can form a clear picture of the
inner experience of individuals takes various forms, so that the experiences
forms of mysticism. Just because mystical experience is so intimate and
path immediately. The modern form of spiritual scientific research is
many such examples and is best given in the form of a dialogue between master
the world in a new way. Thus he has not remained as he formerly was, but has
sufficiently free and independent of ourselves, so that we are unable to form
outer world, and fundamentally this is only a subtle, refined form of

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In the lecture on mysticism, we spoke of the particular form
forms of cognition, which we called Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition.
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.
If we transform this realisation into a feeling, we shall be able to look
is the outcome of a contemplation of the past, transformed into perceptive
describing a definite form of it — humbleness to whatever the future
desire when a misguided form of theosophy asserts that if only we turn aside
forth the mystical frame of mind, and it can be the subject of higher forms
form of temptations and passions. But as soon as the soul, after having

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 5: Sickness and Healing
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environment which take their form from the physical and chemical forces
in normal life we observe the former internally, but the physical body
between the astral body and the physical body, forming a link between outside
“outward” and an “inward” human being, the former
death. Experiences are transformed initially into abilities of the soul which
that they are transformed into abilities and also into wisdom.
insight into how this transformation takes place if we take a look at the
knowledge, wisdom of the world. Others transformed them into a deep wisdom,
transformed in the soul into ability and wisdom? They are transformed by
being taken in their immediate form into our sleep each night, into those
necessary to transform these experiences in periods of sleep. For example, a
sleep in order for them to emerge as abilities or in the form of wisdom or
transformed to such an extent that they can emerge as wisdom, as abilities,
daytime experiences catching fire in his soul and being transformed into
inner structures and forms of the physical and ether bodies cannot be altered
physical and etheric formation of his ear did not permit him to establish the
being to be whole, all the members of his being have to form a unity, to be
is drawn each morning by the structure and form of the internal organs. These
if the organ is not formed in a suitable way then this is prevented. Those
transformation between birth and death.
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affecting his habits. He will have formed certain ideas and concepts about
transformed as time goes on. Compared with the other, “positive”
individual between birth and death as following always a uniform course. For
these we called the sentient soul. Its primal form is best seen in men at a
and elucidate the outer world in its true form. Thus we can infuse our inner
lecture on mysticism, we can rise to a higher form of soul-life by cutting
be made easier if we avoid the hampering influence that particular forms of
qualities, so that he passes them all by and may be unable to form a
spiritual world are given in a strictly logical form, a form well recognised
There are even people who are highly mistrustful of information about the
and minerals and embodied as laws of Nature in the form of concepts and ideas
For if anyone realises how much positive work has gone into formulating a
us in such a way that our fear and pity are purified; they are transformed

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something must have formed and prepared our ether body which is similar to
disharmony can arise between our consciousness soul, which forms the basis of
all different forms.
yet able to express himself properly about the subject, who cannot yet form
bodily mis-formation with the light of a healthy willing, a healthy feeling
transform disbelief into belief, into true strong spirituality. The belief in

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Art was to become a necessary element in every form of human existence worthy
concerns, who has not formed some idea of what conscience is. Everyone feels
and that to form some kind of opinion about it is relatively easy.
into an inward form. Here we have an extreme example of this kind of
insist that virtue can be learnt. Socrates, indeed, says that if a man forms
leave alone”, long before we learn to form ideas concerning good and
evil and thus begin to formulate moral precepts. Moreover, conscience brings
within the consciousness soul he develops a higher, clairvoyant form of
physical body; we look on it as having been formed out of the spiritual world
the wisdom inherent in the formation of the external physical body. And
not think of this formative power as having the character of an immeasurably
forms were beheld in dreamy clairvoyance as the counterpart of man's
transferred to his soul in the form of a reflected picture. When the ego
cosmic Spirit which had formerly shown to man through clairvoyant vision the
external form. Apollo had approved the deed; but there is something higher.
dreamlike, clairvoyant pictures that have not yet been transformed into
freedom and independence. Whereas man had formerly felt himself entirely
form the concept of conscience. He strives to give this new form of
transferred to the inner life most intensively, and in the form of conscience
or for its presence in embryonic form.
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who sought to find a uniform substance in all the phenomena of life. Spinoza's
the gods, found in various forms in different countries, were the product
consciousness of mankind. In Homer we find presented in metrical form, from
in the soul and could endow it with formative power. Poetic imagination is
especially to visionary symbols in picture form.
Aeschylus is still aware that the gods were once visible in picture form, but
ego. This emergence took a particular form in regions where the Orphic
devotees cultivated the older form of ode, the hymn, addressed to the
truths living on in another form in art, and the achievements of ancient
heights, but applies itself to the world in the form of mere shrewdness and
for what comes directly from their souls in the form of thinking, feeling and
public that these plays were first performed, although many people today
poetic transformation of what Goethe had experienced in his own soul. While
ever-advancing forms. From the imperishable spiritual world resounds the
form in the perishable creations of human genius. Out of the imperishable

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inmost depth, cannot live, neither shalt thou say that any one form
where he can express them in a form accessible to all. However much a
formulate into any language that corresponded to a sound sense for
progress upon earth. We must therefore ask in order to form a right
individual life must he gained on the physical plane, and in forms
meet ourselves in our true form. There are very few things which are
experienced in true form in the outer world. We live interwoven in a
him of what formerly gave support, those acquired perceptions, all
words that agree with the ordinary formula of logical veracity. It is
These rules are calculated to give that inner strength which formerly
is spiritual — must form the preparation for spiritual life.
more artistic, more individual form, what had otherwise been said in
that is with the very individual form the preparation for initiation

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in order to form a comprehensive conception of it. If anyone said
form some idea of how the human race has developed. It studies
civilised peoples have passed through in former ages. In this way
Anthropology forms its conceptions of what man has experienced up to
etheric body, astral body, etc., he tries to understand and form a
sun, that these formed one globe; the earth only separated from the
that the animal and plant forms found on the earth to-day are the
and sun were one. But just as the animal forms of to-day are suited
to the present conditions of the earth, so the animal forms of that
then both sun and earth. It follows from this that the animal forms
but are the continuation of creatures that existed formerly. There
animal kingdom we find those that have formed eyes after the sun
man could not experience his own ego, he could form no conception of
original; but when the ego forms a conception of itself it is
former one. There it was built up, and we are able to confront the
perception (Wahrnehmung) certainly, but in its true form. Everything
the form of the mirror. Ego-perceptions come before us absolutely in
their true form.
if it is to have any meaning or value for us. We form true pictures
ego-conceptions do), and are therefore formed in the same manner as
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epoch. We have passed through all the earlier ages in former
fruits of former evolutions, and the most intimate things within us
first age. In it man's physical body receives its form, is
form, in all its essentials, is fixed. The man then continues to grow
within this form, which has received its essential direction. What is
form. This period has to be understood from all sides. We
post-Atlantean period in forms similar to those employed by the
science of to-day. This is hardly possible. The scientific forms in
university professor mounts the platform, or a public speaker
communicated it at the moment he passed it on to others. In former
ancient times. But you would form no true picture of the Rischis of
of form receives its shape, later there is only growth within the
established form. Thus it was with the spirit in the first
be initiated into that form of Mystery-knowledge (truly
dawned in them so that for the first time it took the form of human
the ancient Rischis in the forms of modern science, this is possible
strictly logical form, this is in the book, and it might have been
post-Atlantean period, with his acquired powers of forming
any form — men did not concern themselves in the least. All
that it might assume forms that thought could grasp on the physical
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might for this reason form strange opinions as to what spiritual
was not always exactly the same in form, though similar in character,
open for all the world to see, which formerly had been attainable
see the Heirophant performing the rites of initiation, so that the
before all the world, as forming the link between the Mystery of
that what formerly had only been seen by initiates in the temple of
the different stages formerly passed through during
why that which formerly occurred in the depths of the Mysteries now
which, transformed into something greater, fulfils the instructions
(Geheimnisse) which formerly arose by a kind of natural clairvoyance
While the mission of former Angels had been to reveal to man the
revelations of former Angels had not been suited to a self-conscious
whereas formerly men had to go out of themselves in order to enter
able to attain what once was mine through the old form of
“I can no longer develop in my astral body what formerly it was
have felt in those early days, that it is possible for us to form
In this form of words you have approximately an idea of what can be
From former lectures you know that a man can either be initiated by
“Waterman-initiation” known; and the information he gave
Mark; but we must first try to form something of the nature of a

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when analysing a chemical compound formed of four substances; we must
of the world formed by a horse, a dog, or any other animal. If a
a wrong way into his own being. We are even told that the form of his
forms appeared to him, these he describes as desires, telling how
connected with his former incarnations, so that the moment he dips
incarnations. Man can therefore find the way to his former
In the information
separate forms, although I could not yet see what these forms were,
former incarnations when he was a Bodhisattva he must have already
illuminate and work within a human form.
informed of the birth of Zarathustra, which had been divulged to him
see reality but imaginary forms, fantastic images which are described
always a sign of a fantastic vision when animal forms are seen on
rising to the spiritual world. Such animal forms represent the
spiritual world and being surrounded by animal forms which attack us
Zarathustra. The whole thing exists in its archetypal form in the
the same, only here it is carried out in its sublimest form: Christ
as it occurred formerly in the childhood of such great persons: the
the form temptation assumes at the descent of a man into his own
experienced both these forms of temptation, whereas earlier
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the Reformation from that of pre-Reformation times, and again a
different kind of super-sensible Being. In order to form an idea of
has produced, but he also receives to a certain extent what former
overcome those forms of earthly existence which had entered into him
laws a man accepts, and which form the content of his consciousness,
always thus. In former times, which do not lie so very far behind us,
and investigators of to-day do not know that in former times men
Calliope alone, he could only have given information concerning
female form.
later states of consciousness, gave him the ancient form of
form a foundation, for the evolved human ego is not yet present. But
dawning within a later consciousness, something would be formed in

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not inform themselves intimately with what concerns the central nerve
that fruit, and through our spiritual knowledge can always form an
etheric and astral parts, is a most wonderful formation.
of in regard to spirit as ice is to water; matter is formed out of

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great that it will shortly be necessary to form councils to establish
introduction, that the picture he has formed may perhaps be a
distinct form in his soul and he desires earnestly to make this idea
emerges in another form from that in which it first appeared.
things felt by man formerly in the partitioning of his life according
development. He will come to understand that it is but a refined form
wisdom could say: The form in which the ego dwells at present
serves it no longer; in this form it shall be slain, and after
connections, it will rise again in a higher form.”
past, but gave a temporal form to the wisdom of the gods.
must experience “death and birth.” What formerly had only
inform us concerning such self-understood wisdom, as that the terms
case of the well-known Chladnic tone-forms, when a fine powder
body is filled with nothing but such forms which are at the same time
tone-forms, and their united activity is what causes our astral body
This is but one form
physical human form. That we have to guard against such a belief we
in its true form: — “And except that the Lord had

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When we try to form a
age will reappear in the seventh age in another form — yet so
individualistic form in the Arabism of Mahomet.
clairvoyant imaginative content and given abstract forms. From this
important period with which we are dealing, what really forms the
Schopenhauer's philosophy, especially in the form of Buddhism.
thinks it is better in-formed regarding the Christ than the western
Buddha-like form has appeared by chance among Christian Saints.
has been much changed and has assumed various forms — Josaphat,
that it was known where the later form of Buddhism, or rather of
changed form in which it exists at the present time. We are obliged
its old form, so neither does Buddhism reappear in its old form when
itself, but is formed from the combined activity of the ether body,
organic formations in man can only be explained when we turn away
important is not that we should say in what form we desire truth, but

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Part IV: The Path of Theosophy from Former Ages until Now.
IV.The Path of Theosophy from Former
remained even if in another form: — “There seems to be
the old kind of Theosophy well; he knew also that this old form would
and whose changing forms are preserved by the links of a
Can we form an idea
always there, and has only assumed this last form since the dates
unconscious way into the hearts and souls of men. Let us try to form
and astral body were formed; he then entered on his earthly
a third time. He had successfully performed his task. The dragon
turned into thought-forms, into feelings and perceptions, thus they
changed, they were transformed into something else. Into what were
know the threefold nature of the human sheaths. In former days we
mantles. And to the souls that then received the thought-form of the
Formerly, people were presented with a picture. The king's son
thought-forms, so that such souls are to-day ripe enough to listen to
the other form of instruction, the form cultivated in spiritual
pictures have been formed as they are, because those who formed them
through the world giving rise to thought-forms so that souls might
of the three mantles. By this means thought-forms are built up which
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could have little confidence. However, we know that truth formed the
the question also from the standpoint of science. It can form the basis
the wisdom of former times. Because the way to guide the human being
have regarded it as profaned if one had informed anybody without selection.
forms his judgment quickly also about that which he does not understand
the eternal in the human being what we see being passed on or transforming
history of the states. What once constituted the external forms of the
of your bodies were not in you seven or eight years ago. What formed
form my body do not remain the same; they enter other connections and
is subordinate to this law. An idea of development forms the basis after
which the imperfect living beings transform themselves to more perfect
a new kind of the permanent. If the naturalist explains a form of life
physical forms owe their origin to the development. Today we understand
how the animals transformed themselves up to the monkey to higher forms
of life. If we consider the different animal forms as temporal sequence,
imperfect forms of life. However, people have an exceptional belief
his ancestors? Who may explain his head form, his figure? Who may get
soul must have been there once in another form and has developed from
this soul form, regardless of the external form, as the seed develops
to another type, depending on the law of transformation. However, like
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truth forms the basis of all religions. The religions existing today
are different from those of former times, but in spite of the frequently
spiritual. As life only seizes the form of the animal to present itself,
the soul once touched the animal form to spread out. Our knowledge is
observed this multi-formity, this composite character of the soul.
is something that is active in us and lives and penetrates all performances
develops from organic forces, from the small gametes. He forms the organs
of his body as the plant forms its leaves and flowers, and the growth
to nature, to everything organic. The first that forms the human being
form the organism, the animal soul moves us to take up the subordinated
the human soul-life forms the intellectual soul. We would get stuck
from the universal soul like the animal formed from the general animal
can give information about the spiritual who are experts of the soul
are these who can give information about the nature of the soul. They

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sensations and feelings with the human beings. They form the different
communicate about the riddles of life. The Greek could not form the
formed in the course of time, and what will they always form? They form
different forms and aspects. However, we are allowed to absolutely have
I am only a human being, and it is my spiritual obligation to form thoughts
can form no other concept of the divine being as such which is adjusted
are also justified to form a suitable concept of the divine. Only one
again the human beings formed ideas of the gods in such a way as they
were themselves. Thus they could also form bull and lion images of gods.
speaks in the human soul if this human soul forms thoughts and opinions?
say that the human being, in so far as he forms himself physically,
forms himself according to God as the most perfect being? Who does not
The human being forms thoughts;
to form higher and higher opinions of the God being that it is, however,
is formed also our thoughts are formed. As any formed being is an allegory,

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the stories about the person Jesus Christ that formed in the times in which
ideal human being in the way as Strauss formed it. One does nowhere find the
which Christianity made its start. We have the information from Irenaeus
for the fact that something higher forms the basis. One cannot emphasise this
that has formed unilaterally needs a supplement, the justified materialistic
altar at which one was informed what the wisest men had explored and revealed
only worthy of experiencing this mystery. Which is this mystery? He informed
the mystery temples at all times. Christ has informed his close disciples about
existing before, in those souls which have experienced the effect of a former
which formed the basis of the old offerings? Did they not go, the sinners, to
“flesh of our flesh, blood of our blood” in any form. Somebody who

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Kant gave philosophy a scientific basis. One says that what he performed
warm up the stone, then we have already formed the judgment that the
my judgment formed in pure knowledge. I approach the experience with
my purely in the ideal formed judgment. Have I drawn this judgment from
experience? — Kant continues asking. There is no doubt, forming
filled into it. Any effect has a cause — is a purely formal judgment
are formed before in me to be applied to the observation of the world.
effects, and I order them in a lawful world. I form an organism of sensations.

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me only, in so far as I perceive them, in so far as I give form to these perceptions
is based on Kantianism. It has taken on different forms, those from Herbart
who believes that one can know something. I want to show how somebody forms
up by the ear, and that which is only an oscillation is transformed; we experience
is inconceivably fast. Physics of the 19th century transformed any light sensation
has to take on spatial form. We spread out this form over that. For physics
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.
never transform anything into light. If you see forms of objects, the rays have
without us. What takes place in our eye is not that which forms the stimulus,
and this has to be transformed anyhow into the real sensation, so that the whole
but there is only a continuous transformation. I nowhere know any being, and
Look at your hand which transforms
have nothing before myself than an object which I have to transform again to
in transforming the contradictory world to a world without contradictions. Herbart
of the 19th century: the transformation of truth to a world of dreams. The idealism
which happens below from that which happens on top. Kant left this uniform way

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Kant’s epistemology or those forms of it which Schopenhauer or Eduard
of truth forms the basis of each of them and that the quarrel of the Buddhists,
I am and in myself, so that I know from myself what forms the basis of my idea.
are informed only by our ideas about the things outside us, if their being is
this. Forming an idea can be compared with a seal and its impression. The “thing-in-itself”
Even if this form of thinking got stuck in the elementary, he is on the way.
of the planetary system to us and formed the idea that the planets circle in
say: what I had recognised gives me information about that which is real outdoors
me information about other things exists only if I accept the information? —
to this gate the further way is the spirit. The spirit forms the basis of the

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to two points of view: the first informs about the corporeality, the other point
of view informs about the soul. This means, popularly expressed, that the human
to inform about the basis of the things about which only the revelation should
inform.
cerebral parts, cannot form ideas, it would be a proof that he has no soul if
sciences and form psychology differently. During former centuries one realised
old psychology from the standpoint of science were well-versed in former lines
in former times the wisdom of the soul was cultivated unlike by Aristotle. We
knows what was performed before his time — this gigantic mind was not
of thinking which formed in the course of modern mental development. For Aristotle
it can become something else in the course of times, but then this transformation
his experiences to tomorrow, he transforms development into history. As well
as he transforms experience into theory, as well as he gets the truth of the
so that the human being can form history, that the universal spirit sinks into
to find access to soul and mind. One would form a wrong idea of those who believe

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else than the transformed foodstuffs which the great poet Shakespeare had eaten.
do not yet know all movements, all performances of our cerebral mechanism. For
the life of this brain, anything about the form of this brain directly by mere
the living beings. A living being is not formed arbitrarily. Any living being
is formed according to its embryo. According to its embryo the lion is a lion,
the animal is formed as a particular type or genus. These laws of heredity prevail
by the formation of the organs which have been left to the being. This law of
the facts correctly. However, the facts also have to inform us about destiny
is descended from its ancestors whose organs were transformed gradually to the
We are completely informed about a lion if we have understood how the lion species
in particular form before us, as a miracle if we did not understand it in its
well as in the animal realm the single animal form is related to the species,
has developed so far that its body has taken on a human form, then the creator
works the soul into this human form; this is the only consistent point of view
as his external form and figure is determined by his ancestors, because, otherwise,
after species incarnates itself and a transformation of the species takes place,
a transformation of the soul takes place in the human being. Nothing else than
the reincarnation of the species is, the transformation of the species in the
soul, it forms a whole with this soul. Thus destiny and soul-being are connected
a lesson to make the performances more perfect tomorrow which prepared listlessness
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the human soul in another form than one normally hears it. He puts the question:
This also formed the basis of all
in his inside and flitted away like a shadowy formation, he had to be attached
life? Today it cannot be my task to explain the various performances which have
life only because it transforms itself into our personal wishes that it is accepted,
mind thinks about the colour. It forms a thought. But between the thought and
thoughts must be taken up by the soul, why our thoughts must be transformed
disciples, then our wishes are transformed in such a way that we bind the whole
being because he transforms the impression which he receives in the visual purple
that he has a growing mind before himself which can form only according to its
of the child works and must work in another form directly on us if we have the
to extinguish ourselves, just as with other higher performances, if we are able
and teachings; it depends on the life and on the transformation of the forces

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laws if one wanted to get information about the laws of the spiritual life.
with pride to performances of the natural sciences with regard to the control
have not performed so much in this field as the 19th century.
immense upturn is the lack of spiritual life. The harmony which existed in former
can say that the clock is a mechanical engine and that which it performs is
gave them; these are scholars who performed much more in our modern science
the test in scientific fields, but also performed the best in practical fields
advantage over all former centuries that these exceptionally important questions
as long as it could receive information about the burning soul questions, however,
What constitutes the human nature what forms the cover of the soul-life and
which calculates, deduces, and informs us about our moral life. Imagine what
of our organism and are still working in us. Those forces which formed our organism
could be built in the course of world evolution, other forms of the brain developed
fell behind on former levels of existence. Exactly the same way as the human
as it were back to former stadia of our development where we were more spiritual,
student and the spiritistic medium. The medium delivers information of the spiritual
in former phases of his development.
of past times of evolution. In former times all human beings were media and
which formed us once, then we are their tools for better or for worse. This

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with which we perform our everyday actions with which we get used to nature
not receive particular information from them.
as a ticking as your usual ear hears it, but it has transformed itself, has
priest transforms himself, he gets wings, he changes into a cock, he crows!
it has transformed the cockcrow symbolically into this whole story which I have
consciousness, but they are transformed to symbols, and the especially typical
but this event has transformed itself like lightning into a quite dramatic action.
a peculiar kind of human instinct points out a remedy or a necessary performance
transformed which one has spoken to them, and that is the reason why the dreamer
give us information about that. Natural sciences can teach us only of that which
processes, and arranges them as it were in the form as they take place within
in the form of the double body which resembles the external physical body very
propensities; there it shows other colours, other cloud-like formations than
processes in the background of my eyeball, they transform the so-called visual
impression which forms the basis of these processes. The light impression, the
the brain transforming in the astral body into the picture of the flame which
ether come to my eye and are transformed by the astral body into a picture of
whose spiritual eye is opened can give information about that; he exactly beholds
that we oppose something from within that transforms it into pictures, into
this astral body can transform what it receives from without into pictures but
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basically starts taking on a certain form that one can rightly call spiritism
the forms of the things appear — a new world appears to somebody whose
initiate informed people in pictures of that which he could behold within the
big mass is no longer informed about the truth of the super-sensible world in
could transform the whole sea into gold if it was permitted. Another says that
only to you to show you how these questions were discussed in veiled form at
and wants to inform me about alchemy, magic and the kabala ... — This
could seriously give information about the super-sensible world. Reasonable people
its true form, convinces himself soon that this medieval thinking did not imagine
sixty miles from Stockholm. He informed the guests, with who he was in a soirée,
the fact that somebody sees — as soon as he enters this field which forms
informed him that she saw beings of other worlds which went through her, indeed,
also know that that which he performed goes in a direction which runs against
time of the forties when the law of energy conservation was discovered forming
could not stand; there an idea of development had to intervene. Davis was informed
book he informs us that he was educated as a farmer boy like a Christian, but
the scientific form of spiritism Kardec had founded. Hellenbach played a prominent
Spiritism got a scientific form in Germany that way. Also such spirits founded
the intrusion of beings unknown to us whose forms Hellenbach leaves open. But
to the modern thinking, also to the materialistic views. A new form was sought
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history which, indeed, repeats an ancient history in a certain form, but in
we want to give short information of something related, of somnambulism.
Kircher, and comes from the year 1646. I would like to inform
of the same form as the string from its eye on the soil with chalk or any other
animals. Nevertheless, the reader eager to learn may inform himself about it.”
we call hypnotism of animals. I have already spoken in a former talk about the
these questions. Somebody who studied the matters may hardly deny the information
sages knew even more. Because they knew even more, they were prevented to inform
highest force because it happens by means of a transformation of the whole human
form the basis of the question for centuries, and it does not depend on something
could be divulged in popular scientific way. In former times anybody who knew
but he would have kept the secret for himself and would not have informed others.
that he only informed trustworthy persons of his secrets. It says nothing at
with the fact that those who really know something of such matters do not inform
of them, because it does not depend on informing but on developing certain qualities
concerned to ask whether the information of the medium is right. In truth nothing
can be performed and repeated any time. This requirement was also put to this
influence. In 1847, chloroform was discovered; a means of which the materialistic
whole literature of the Nancy school which is a superficial or a positive performance

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nothing more should remain. We see that he forms the idea — on account
the soul and the mind, and forms the basis of the theosophical world view. What
fairly hard. This was not the case in former times. Today, however, the human
things of the world have come into being once; they formed and were not there
regarded as the highest and most marvellous human performances. If we look at
Thus you can study the whole realm of external forms, of external phenomena
hold sway in the realm of the forms, in that realm which is accessible to the
of forms, the consideration of the external phenomena to him it may probably
a germ again. Look at a seed; there you see how in this world a form comes into
one calls force which exceeds the mere form and the mere figure.
eye of the mind as the external form for the bodily eye. The forms originate
and death are the qualities of the external phenomena and forms, rebirth and
perpetual renewal are the qualities of life. The form which we call alive has
and death is the typical in the realm of the forms, the external figures. If
externally insignificant, and of the way, as it has formed life, you can make
which this soul works, with which this soul is active in the world of forms.
by the former plant; then one did not assume that from the seed a new figure
mental picture that forms the basis of a main thought of the theosophical world
in the sense of transmigration from form to form, a transmigration which we
it indicated in various forms with Goethe even if Goethe did not express himself
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the present-day human being. — If we take another book which should inform
which is no longer science but religion, transformed the world of perception
This nonsense of transforming everything
beings who form a judgement, with all care, after the most profound examination.
individualities since millennia, even since there are human beings. In the form,
was given to humankind in the most different forms, we are led to a common core,
handed over only to somebody who goes through these ordeals. In former times
the soul needs something spiritual that forms its basis. Theosophy does not
being again in a form which is suited to the modern human being, in the form
of thinking comprehension. Thus theosophy brings the old truth in new form to
a third one. These three forms of insanity are taken to show that one can also
was not covered by such an air as it forms our atmosphere today, that the expression
folie circulaire). This form of insanity is today called manic depression

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already because the researchers of the former centuries knew nothing about the
off bit by bit, became more solid, how then water could form and collect, and
researchers, even with Haeckel: we cannot form any mental picture of the condition
life. You see that the Darwinist Preyer transformed the view, which other naturalists
and then Lotze put it in the formula: the world round us would
be dark and dumb if we did not have eyes and ears, which transform the oscillations
the reasons to us why the eye and the ear form in a particular way. This is
threefold living being before ourselves which forms a whole of body, soul and
wants additional information, can read up more about this human race in my magazine
which form the basis of ours, — and we find that the temple constructions,
shows us a former development.
that part by part separates from that which was a uniform view and becomes special
in a new art form which should be more than the art founded on pure imagination.
art and philosophy there were the mysteries. The whole world view was performed
this Dionysus drama, was performed in the ancient Greek mysteries. It was shown
his heart is saved by Zeus. This is the performance of a great human drama;

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else than one of the manifold forms in which this teaching of wisdom is spread
what goes far beyond the mere information, beyond the mere word.
comprises not only a study, but a complete transformation of the human being,
has disappeared from the information that a book delivers.
it were at the words, that can suck out from a book what as esotericism forms
transformed and changed.
advanced human brothers were also the communications which form the basis of
it has shown the true, real form of Christianity, and it also has led many of
and words are only external forms of this spirit living in the human being.
Buddhism is something strange in its form. We really have to put ourselves in
but in his deepest inside he must find truth in whichever form it expresses
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impressions, even the impression of sun and light, only formed
into an earthly form. When the soul of the natural kingdoms

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 1: Whitsuntide. Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit
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who is the only existing source of information about it.
present-day form during the third Root Race, the time of ancient
of the human spirit could descend into it to give form to the human
the individualities who incarnated at that time formed the small
postponement of incarnation — in the form it assumed in consequence
evolve a more mature form of consciousness than would have been the
the form of luciferic aspiration is the only safeguard of our
epoch. This form of consciousness will again be conveyed through
higher form of consciousness out of his life in the physical plane.

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 2: The Contrast Between Cain and Abel
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We must be clear about the fact that they all retained the same form which
of the soil and transformed it. This outward difference in the
form and not stated openly? I must here remind you that the great
form of a fairy story would, when that spirit reincarnated, have prepared
it to understand the truth in a more complete form. It is not faith, but

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 3: The Mysteries of the Druids and the 'Drottes'
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reveal mystical truths in esoteric form, even though they are usually
all things which appear to us in the form of symbols must be
had descended deeper now had to overcome matter and regain his former
Everything which existed in the form of passions and desires was
that the rudimentary stages in the formation of the spinal cord

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 4: The Prometheus Saga
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performed the twelve labours. The enactment of these labours is the
the twelve tests which have to be performed by someone undergoing
and thereby released Prometheus. That is the outer form of the
leaders of those former Root Races were also united in a White
(The name ‘Manu’ comes from the Sanskrit root ‘man’ = ‘thinking.’ In Indian theosophical terminology this denotes high spiritual beings, who have the task of formNote 2)
the thought is transformed into reality. This is Promethean thinking.
of Atlantean times were still able to transform the power inherent in
fifth epoch. What is it there for? If you are able to form a
spread out and formed the base of the nose first of all, so that the
had the special form which they have today.
Lemurian epoch, we do not find man in the form we know him today, but

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 5: The Mystery Known to Rosicrucians
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pictures which they present. These were given to man in this form at
he who, in a former incarnation, had founded the Rosicrucian Order.
Manas. This Triangle, with all which it entails, will form the

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 6: Manicheism
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come to know Manicheism in this form it will seem radically
the harmonisation of life with form.
into form? Through coming up against resistance, through not
form to form. The life in the lily has fashioned, has elaborated, the
form of the lily.
form has been created, life overcomes it and passes over into the
seed to be reborn as the same life in a fresh form. And so life
strides onward from form to form. Life itself is formless and could
appears in a limited form, spreading and interweaving. The fact that
it appears in a limited form is a restriction imposed upon this
universal flowing life. There would be no form if life were not
that form evolves in the great cosmos.
comprises life is always set in the framework of a form which was
does the form come from? It is no less than the life of the old Roman
form. What was at first a Republic, then an Empire, what lived in
into form, to the later Christianity; even its capital city, Rome,
bishops. What was previously life later becomes form for a higher
times, has today become his inner life. The form is what is carried
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 7: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 1
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the waters was to be held fast in Form. The surging sea was to be
preserved alive artistically in a rigid form. That is the point. The
Warden, deem you the candidate worthy of forming part of our
achieved with the help of many forms and gestures.
performed on the astral plane.
Freemasons of old were actually stonemasons. They performed all the
— that the manner in which architecture was formerly studied is quite

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the same as what the plant formed, but is a crust or shell made up by
take place as in former times — which they do not — then
the formation of the earth through the first two Root Races and into
was no longer any conscious appreciation of the transformation
left of Freemasonry is only the husk of what it was in former
are possessed in a fairly complete form by the larger communities of
masonry of what it formerly encompassed. The most interesting point
as archetypal. But we will never take the form, the vessel, the
content within the form’
through this spiritual content the absolute necessity of the form,
transform the whole of nature through his own spirituality. That is
effectively be transformed.
revive. In the first stage, the outer form will be grasped. The next
it in Europe are able to form an adequate conception of it. But

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however, he was successful in Lyons, forming an occult masonic lodge
time continued to exist in a rather diluted form. In fact, the whole
forms only an elementary part. So that the theoretical side of the
Philosopher's Stone was formerly much more universally known
entirety. There is a very similar piece of information recorded by a
different form. The overcoming of death in Atlantean times is
today who passed through that period in their former lives and who
difficult to say at the moment what form the matter will take in
seemingly only vegetating receives form for outward
able to form a conception of what the atom is. It stands [in the same
living within him which, in a frozen state, forms the atom. Here is

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In my former
particular form at some other place. This will be within man's power
of these things last time, why the Good [and Proper] Form must be
with the good old forms, than in chaos.
easy to jeer at empty forms, but they have however a deep
‘form-state’ of our planet there are seven great epochs
‘form-state’ of our planet there are again forty-nine
with a new knowledge, into these forms, much good would accrue.
content and form belong to the Whole. The state of affairs today is,

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 11: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 1
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to know and decide how best to reform social life and the state.
reform movements. Thus there are movements for reform in all spheres
anyone wishing to start reforming society know the laws [which
reformers and the like are nothing without a theosophical basis,
For one who understands the matter, what the social reformer is doing
take shape of their own accord. One cannot reform society without
transformed into the Temple of the Earth, into an image of the whole
conceived, as it formed itself at the time, as a sequence in seven
building: whatever we set ourselves to do must be in conformity to
forms, that is recognised again in the way in which the cards are
nature and transform it through the arts of man. Enoch, one of the
the all-embracing universal thought, in order to transform the world
is also called the God of created form,
life would expire in form. In occult science, that is called the
things around them, but are themselves the creators of new forms. The
out of intuitive wisdom. This is the thought which formerly under lay
born from a nature which was once so formed by the gods that
technical and juristic reform, then one is building the lost temple
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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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together form the Pythagorean square. And Judaism added thereto the
that could transform man himself into a god. Two images in the Bible relate
Temple is so formed as to enclose the five-fold human being. The
square is holy. The door, the roof and the side pillars together form
form of a venerable man with a long beard (symbolising the Father).
contemplated the developing power (fruit) and outward form of
what is needed to transform the world, to create the sheath for the

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together and form the trinity which is the foundation of all growth
nurtured. Only because strength is transformed into striving for
heavenly virtue outward form into beauty, the words of man's ordinary
just as the artist fashions outer forms or expresses a certain idea
together with his ‘I’, through which he will so transform
Covenant, to be arranged around it. Everything which was formerly of
incumbent upon humanity. That is the real sense of it: to transform
the mineral up into life, if we transform [it into] the thoughts of
formerly used to be, we call, in theosophical terminology, the three
living forces of metamorphosis and transformation, the creatively
between plant and man. It has made a half turn, forming, so to speak,
line formed by plant and man, to make a cross. Imagine to yourselves
Animal Kingdom thus horizontally; then you have formed the Cross from
Kingdom; this is the basis today- The Animal Kingdom forms a kind of
today drawn into higher nature. Formerly he lived in lower nature. In
dies; how it is only able to form an external union between the three

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commences thus: the planet forms itself as an exceptionally fine
quite correct to speak of Races here; the forms which then lived
keep speaking of Races. There were other forms that manifested
called the Kingdom of Wisdom, and their forms are called the seven
us be clear about what took place during, the formation of the earth,
from our standpoint. As the earth began to form itself, it was still
Together with these two bodies the earth formed a single whole. First
somewhat in the form in which we know it in the cell-bearing plants;
present we distinguish three forms of matter on our earth — solid,
liquid and gaseous bodies, the latter formerly known as air. Moreover
we esoterically distinguish four forms of ether: firstly fire [or
astral body has been transformed into Manas, man can then begin to
work upon his etheric body to transform it into Buddhi. What he
body, and earthly matter was crystallised or formed. The ‘Word’ was
nearly the same form as the physical body. At death man's physical
ordinary human beings a new etheric body has to be formed at each
the Lemurian epoch the denser [state] had to form itself. Then the
led by the ancient Rishis. We can only form a hazy conception of
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 15: Atoms and the Logos in the Light of Occultism
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Devachanic plane. There, man helps create and transform the plants.
transformation of the plant world. He makes use in Devachan of the
remaining a long time in Devachan, [man] also helps transform the
come to what will influence transformation in the world from a still
higher plane and in another form.
each other, that weave from person to person, forming continually
understanding has already transformed the mineral world, for example,
transforming the whole mineral world into a pure work of art.
Masters have in plan form in their Lodge. Every atom of the fifth
Therefore, if we examine the atom in its present form and then go
look for the transformation of man himself during the great world

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 16: The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement
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the steam engine, which then developed itself from this simplest form
then involved had to be followed in the strictest performance of
physical body] this is held in by the form; but so long as it remains
dead, the astral body came to be formed by its autonomous forces.
work on the etheric body. And then, after he had formed his etheric
body in conformity with his astral body, he returned into his
formed itself, to which we and the neighbouring nations
that much of what was formerly kept secret has today become a matter
formerly guarded within the occult brotherhoods, and people only came
near to these things if their whole hearts had been transformed.
was formerly reserved for the later stages of instruction must now be
brotherhood, for it is formed on a democratic basis by which each
of occult knowledge must be popularised in a form appropriate for
the wall in colour and form; the picture is permeated with what first
from the past, has no relation to the present. Only if we have formed
souls, those powers will be prepared which will so transform the
by outward forces. These were formed by the forces of sound and of
that are working and creating in the world, were formerly taken from
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 17: Freemasonry and Human Evolution I
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and brotherhoods. Such secret societies — at least in the form in
form. Any structuring of the physical plane is a realisation of
which formerly worked in woman as the power of fertilisation, but was
then transformed, at a higher level, to spiritual wisdom. Out of this
ancient priestly wisdom; for him, for Solomon, who transformed this
retrieved and enclosed in a stone shaped in the form of a cube. The
means the transformation of mineral kingdom through art. He was also
relieved by a male culture. The female, as a physical form, will die
formed. What [today] is the upper part was at that time combined with
expression of the former connection between the organs of speech and
re-establish it; only the male form of the larynx is in a position to
rudiment. It is the male larynx which will however form the organ of

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 18: Freemasonry and Human Evolution II
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taken such a grotesque form in the Lodges of Freemasonry? If one
matters to the two sexes separately. First, a form must be found, in
into documentary form by Ezra
form. So the human spirit in the fifth Root Race [our present Race]
its outward physical form, more towards the female. In this
differentiation started in the transformation of the female's
Tree of Knowledge. The organ of wisdom is formed in the vertebrae by
female form. The female side — the capacity to produce human beings —
they were guilty, and were driven out of Paradise, to the formation
is fertile. The same divine power which formerly worked within woman
the earth in physical form had its origin in the spirit. In the very
the wholly exclusive principle of former times was abandoned as early
speak, mummify it in its old form. The plan of the higher [worlds]
old priestly wisdom should be transformed into a new

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 19: The Relationship Between Occult Knowledge and Everyday Life
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form consisting of three main bodies — the physical body, the etheric
only gradually acquires form. Whatever [will] gradually make the
that everything possible can still be born to it. It will be formed
structures flow into the child's astral body and form it, according
thus has an astral body which is still undifferentiated in form, but
who is so harmoniously formed within himself continually directs
surroundings in the form of beauty. As teacher he directs into the
his astral body. These show themselves in the most various forms. The
itself and become transformed [in a manner] corresponding to the
forms already developed there.
do with, say, reincarnation. The other has however already formed a
person who has formed for himself the idea that reincarnation is
and would then have to be transformed by the thought forms already
newly transmitted thought to his [own] thought forms and therefore
in the astral world, which shows itself as the thought form of
feeling engenders a thought form which is blue in
someone, then a different thought form exists in you, and you bring
this up against him. You then emit the red thought form of egoism or
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 20: The Royal Art in a New Form
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THE ROYAL ART IN A NEW FORM
become informed, and then such rubbish could not gain
form an opinion, as there is already a tolerably abundant literature,
developed out of the former fullness of the life of the Mysteries.
usually nothing but a form of words. If at that time — or now indeed
questionable. Most think it is some sort of verbal formality, or they
as a result of human thought. Human wisdom has thus transformed the
human powers have brought about in the mineral world a transformation
having been transformed by the hand of man, the effect of the whole
transform the planet artistically. You find this expressed in the
into matter that is unformed, he chisels out of the dead stone; while
man has only mastered the inanimate in Nature -the transformation of
the living forces, the transformation of what sprouts and grows in
awakening perfection in the living — in the form of a triangle. That
told in an intellectual formula.
religion, the escape from the rigid uniformity of the organised
What manifested itself for the first time in the Reformation was already
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Therefore, it is important to form a clear concept of the mind
which it has formed like from a fine mother substance.
is a form of spirit different from the spirit as such like the
ice is another form of water. However, the etheric body is not
first. If we take a rock crystal, it keeps its form, until it
for example: “the eye forms in the light for the
the ocular light in dark caves, the light has formed the
human being, it is also true that the eye is formed in the
forms the spiritual organs as the light the eyes. Thus, the
formed for the spirit.
develop and to form. So spiritual science speaks of the spirit
form the third level. One attains the imaginative level doing
this: “Die and be transformed!”

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and regards the uniform spiritual tie so little which lives in
that aims very well at the uniform, at that which is separated
uniform picture. In addition, in order to give no rise to
that he formed it so that the
information how to come to the beautiful lily. The snake says,
of the lamp transforms the most various matters: stones into
eaten from the gold pieces and was transformed into a precious
has the capacity to transform any precious stone into something
man to whom, however, as he says, all his former power and
the snake forms a magic circle. The young man and the canary
snake forms a bridge over the river. They all go over the snake
shown to us how the young man regains his former strength due
This work is written in letter form to the Duke of
with this unchangeable unity in its transformations.”

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represent in nice forms what productive spirits have performed.
that form how it takes up quite different forms in lower or
spiritual reality or figure creeps into any sensuous form. He
that it transforms the things, wood into silver, stone into
sacrifices itself. Up to now it has formed a bridge only if now
transformed!” you will only be a gloomy guest on the dark
and be transformed! Get to know what life can offer, go through
has transformed the human being; it has transformed everything
up and each soul force performing its service. It is suggested

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that it is no uniform document. In the eighteenth century, the
old documents which they interlinked and formed a whole from
to him as the most tremendous that was maybe performed in
science. In relation to the formal, in relation to the
look closely at the result of this research performed by modern
the present form,
That the forms of civilisation ascended to the modern complex
forms.
know of the physical science that before the first forming of
form. He investigates the spiritual processes and finds how at
can go back to former times when still the spiritual primordial
first and at even former times, he was spirit, then he
intervenes now, is a being who belongs to a former development,
forms of the modern authors. Where exactly and precisely should
be spoken, you cannot talk in any stylistic form. What there is
been forced to this attitude. They had to transform the
this: “Die and be transformed!”
transformed” remains only a gloomy guest on the dark

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longer able to inform about the events in the beginning of our
that form of Christianity, which went through the world, then
says that one must apply the usual scientific forms. Then one
development had to cover, while the God Yahveh started forming
forces work and form in the human evolution already long
before. They form in such a way that we can recognise their way
from other forms of consciousness. If we go back far to the
kind of naming was connected with the different formation of
Yahveh God was forming, in which the “I am the
methods with which the human being is transformed into an
emphasise that this new spiritual science is able to form the

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are able to form an opinion about what he said when he came
most scornful sense one speaks about all possible forms of
them. For it does not need to be an old form of, like with this
dramatist speeding on his bicycle. New forms of superstition
old forms of superstition may be exposed worst to some new form
feeling in our time opens the doors to various new forms of
other forms of superstition are, he states that astrologers
ancestors believed in former times, then those who are active
old forms of superstition are rightly thrown to the window and,
on the other side, new forms slip in that are not just simply
of making gold is informed. However, what you read there
As long as one keeps to formalities, as long as one does not
became able to make gold, while he transformed a certain amount
it gets the quality again to transform mercury. Then a tiny
he is exposed to all possible forms of superstition when he
particular abilities. However, if this wisdom is informed, so
to come along. However, if one informs him of anything that is
present at such a performance. Now the truth became known. S.
dressed the matter in this form, because he could not believe
the original process and found the form of suggestion
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its outer form. As with the limb of a human being, the outer
form is the expression, the gesture of the spirit. Something
body. It forms the basis of the physical body; it is the whole
plant, because the process of the plant is transformed into its
is opposed to the plant. Something spiritual forms the basis of
physical form, astrally in the astral body. The spiritual light
partially transformed by the animal, already prepared, Since

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performed by the academic medicine in the last time. How subtle
the process, which the animal has already performed with the
must be healthy. It forms the basis of the healthy physical
light, the idea forms the basis to let the physical light work
formative forces; they leave the soul dead; they do not invoke
Somebody who forms his thoughts from the big viewpoints of the
form of illness finds its recovery if one has found suitable
the body healthy, the body has formed a healthy soul again.
healthy soul must form the basis there. A materialistic time

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they formed in certain circles influences him. She is a person
forms ever so long rows, nothing valuable results. — At
comparison, a picture that he forms is rather typical of what
He became religious in certain way, although the outer forms
to the point of a uniform way of feeling. However, he was not
this something like a transformation of all present life should
formula but applies it quite differently. There we see
as a bobbin boy in his twelfth year. He has to perform hard
He says, we have institutions of former time that make it
he formulates this, which can appear grotesque, which
talents and abilities that these are caused in former lives. By
life forms of the present: he is led to the gates of the
known, to the performed. Moreover, we see if we familiarise

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someone who wants to inform himself cursorily with this or that
about the different methods and performances, which the human
performances and measures which were carried out for decades,
forms an independent, free judgement, the more he goes beaten
uniform letter postage was introduced in England. However, not
to the professor and inform him that he has made a great
this machine perpetually performed an immense work. My friend
formed according to thoughts. All that we learn about nature
1773–1843, physician, formed the term
practice of thinking. Imagine that a person would have formed
yesterday and so on. I go back and try to form a view from that
immersing itself in the facts that it does not form any mental
If he even forbids to himself to form abstractions, then he
the same being in two different forms. He faces it once with
beings form, are often almost dreadful. Our microscopes and the

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Thus, something mental forms the basis of that which we see in
nevertheless, one cannot imagine that these things form a
third human member is this astral body, that which forms the
picture about this or that. If we form a mental picture
the plant only malformation could originate if the etheric body
malformation originates in the human being if he works wrong
cannot be corrected later. If something is not formed well
look for something that is formed by this or that experience
form of claustrophobia.

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needs only to pronounce the word temperament, which should form
animal experiences the former shapes, the lower phases of
that the human being is a fruit of a former existence. The
overcome; even as the opinion of the scholars of former
from his former embodiment. The temperament compensates the

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chemical formulae. However, on someone who saw what he can read
without wings below, forming a circle. When he read the words
enthroned in divine heights and if they formed concepts about
spiritually, what were only external formulae in the books,
with formulae and in retorts, and the result was that at this
could penetrate into any word of this formula and would realise
him in an only material form; then the outside world would face
material. The outside shows that to the human being in the form
was transformed to the medieval figure of Mephistopheles. There
I can pour it only in the forms in which it appears as truth.

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performed by that body of loyal students who know such an
symbols once again, but to form new, independent symbols of the
Goethe can point to that where he himself can inform what
strive henceforth towards being's highest form. —
all that surrounds me forms a paradise!
the rainbow forms its changing-unchanged arch,
their laws only. In the spiritual world beings form the basis
and which transform the soul when it goes out of the physical
which is behind the whole sensuous world, which forms the basis
first. Imagine how in the mountains the crystals form from
their mother substances to their crystal forms and lines, the
grow out like the crystal forms from their mother substances.
steady forms that are streaked by those contours which are
transformations of the everlasting existence. Here the
escape to realms where forms exist detached
where forms exist detached,” that is in the realms where
the sun, which forms a peculiar triangle around it. The soul
to know how the tie is formed when the spirit comes into the
Middle Ages it was nothing else than a certain form of the
is an astral formation, which is not able to stand still which
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information was gathered. This answered: Nietzsche is able to
imagine which forms all that has accepted in the course of the
performed in the nineteenth century. It appears to us compared
art: he makes them human-like, raises the form of the human
could not recognise in the outside what he had formed inside as
a book which appears in aphoristic form, he
this spirit in the modern form of Christianity. It will turn
transforms the sufferings described by Buddha. Overcoming the
but also by the transformation of the soul. At the sight of the

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be easily conceptualised in rigid formulae and which then look
scientific formulation in certain narrow circles that will
from which the figures of the visible world are formed. One has
wants to penetrate to these mothers. Creation, transformation
sensuous picture. We ask ourselves, have we not transformed
called Typhon causes to form a box, and by stealth, Osiris is
former figure of the same process. In the bodily mother, we
more spiritual forms of conception and reproduction.
transformed it according to the human progress by the
universe when the uncertain cloudscapes form to angel heads and
religion. For the spiritual works in its form on the human

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development of the external forms, the material figures of
back at a former form of consciousness, which was overcome by
excellence, we can call the former consciousness
stage of consciousness generally like the higher animal forms
are developmental forms of the general animal figure. The
consciousness of danger appears. It was not that way in former
manifold forms, until it has developed into the modern form. If
them. This consciousness could only form because the old
up certain advantages of former stages. Now something remains,
inheritances of former times still projecting into the present
They are the remainders of a former developmental stage. The
human being once had such a head form that the ears were
well as such organ forms have been left in the course of
bed. There we have the same again: the dream transforms an
in former times, he had disappeared into the etheric body and
appear to him in their true forms otherwise, lead him to
have to say, the human organs were so formed by the universal
a former stage. Therefore, the old-European human being felt in
even if it is a decrease to a former state, this state is,
he was still closer to the plant stage, he had another form of
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consciousness has developed only from this former state of
natural clairvoyant talent, but the big uniform legends, which
transformed in such a way that he can perceive the higher
former being in the spiritual world if he rises above the
mother out of whom the soul is born that retains the forms even
to him. Just in these mysteries we see something that forms the
personality consciousness forms an undertone of all cultures in
in a bad way if he wants to inform himself about anthroposophy
and the anthroposophic movement by that what is informed
or warm, that he transforms his etheric body or life body. This
is the transformation of feeling, and there emerges
“buddhi.” Then the will is still transformed in the
human being transforms his thinking, feeling, and willing and
spirit man. This transformation is the expression of the
performed in full seriousness, not as a playing. If the
initiation is performed with dignity, it is, as if the human
little known, which Konrad Fleck transformed into poetic form

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transforming the outer material world civilisation and
which natural sciences can perform. If natural sciences are
their habitual ways of thinking that informs the human soul not
that what natural sciences have performed as great achievements
soul can take up that way is transformed in it and becomes that
— and forms science that way. One takes, I say, the human
as he is, it is also true that he only must transform himself
being must transform himself only, so that the slumbering
and that the reason forms in this outer sensory perception. In
What the spiritual researcher has to form
means that: the spiritual researcher has to form any mental
laws, it must take on a form different from the scientific
teaches us to recognise that that form of the brain, of the
form, for the other in another form; however, it has always
You must return in your body and you have to form what you have
enlarged memory at former lives on earth or at his last life on
earth. This is nothing else than his transformed wishes that
thinking speaks in such a case about self-formed wishes,
former life on earth that it is not a transformed wish or
or that human being has experienced this or that in a former
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However, one realises at once that a certain requirement forms
develops what we should become according to our former lives on
world and have seized the organism to form it plastically in
accordance with the former lives on earth. Because all
everything that lives in the organism that forms the organism,
penetrate into those creative, formative soul forces that are
transforms into a mirror. Indeed, the development of the
a uniform self is in him? He does not perceive this uniform
entire recognition of the great results of modern science forms
give information about that. One can externally understand such
say in life if the sentence is felt, as if it forms the basis

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the human soul is able to transform itself and outgrow the
Spiritual science requires that investigations form the basis
the pictures transform themselves, combine themselves in
letter case and forms words, the imaginations are confused as
while it originates from the uniform of the human nature.
deeply and to transform internally. However, it still has
spiritual world. He experiences the uniform spiritual world
perceive the uniform spiritual world in which the human being
thirteenth who shows us that a uniform spiritual forms the
perform concerning the religious confessions: the fact that
religious life becomes visible from a uniform primary source
also how these confessions originate from a uniform spiritual
explanations have lacked what forms just the emotional element
nevertheless, from that what forms the spiritual basis of
gradually, that means it experiences religiously what forms the

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the start that this talk and that of the next week form a whole
mysteries. Someone who would like to inform himself more
that are different from those of former times, after the souls
That which one can perform as a
body, then a big transformation of his ego-experience takes
place. For that transformation one has to be prepared, so that
Indeed, you feel a transformation taking
did not walk thinking through the world if we could not form
certain movements must form the basis of a thought in our
wants to form thoughts. However, in such a way as it appears it
cannot form thoughts. You get to know a part of the soul
form thoughts from your inner activity if your brain did not
experience, but you learn to renounce to form thoughts from
prevents it but in that what forms the origin of a new physical
experience a transformation, too. Then you realise how much the
inform us about death within the everyday life for which just
transform a circle into a square using a compass.
that death forms a necessary link in the whole life, and that

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lived in former times which have carried over the fruits of the
mental experience. He opens himself to the exercises informed
first in this form that our own experience faces us as a memory
maintain, before sleep overcomes him. You experience the former
lives on earth, cannot transform these forces. Nevertheless, he
transformation. He sees as it were originating in himself how
can give as physical substance and to form a new life on
with which you were connected in former lives also appear. The
these or those talents go back to former lives and he beholds
these or those performances which are of original kind a
many cases with admiration of the fact that wisdom still forms
“real” in life. If we see various lions, we form
transform the human being. If one realises then at least that a

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earth depending on what it has experienced in former lives. It
transform egoism into altruism, so that it becomes something
Messiah, 1888) to inform
existence that the divine existence went over from a former
to take on that form which appeared with Mainländer who
can prove to us so much in popular form that we have to

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rock crystal, how its particular crystal form has to result,
crystal form how this law expresses itself in the outside
recognise all those principles of formation and other
principles that are inherent in a human form, as for example,
the crystal form is inherent in a rock crystal, and the human
being would express this sum of formative forces inherent to
expresses his formative forces. I admit that I express a rather
his formative forces into being as the other physical creatures
formative forces. The other part projects in the human
that the being of man is not concluded with his formative
forms the basis of the moral impulses as forces.
something that must form the basis of most moral actions which
that a world of spiritual beings and spiritual facts forms the
performances, in something that can be carried out externally
performance of these exercises. While one gives the soul forces
experience now is built on consecutive former lives on earth,
world. They form the basis of the sensory world.
effects in our moral impulses what we perceive as formative or
spiritual-scientific information in our time in such a way as

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the fruits, the results, and the impressions of the former
develops its different formations and arrangements in the
formulating this view of nature in a particular way at the same
assumed a form at first that cast off any cognitive connection
forms which assumed a surely unpleasant character sometimes in
relates to an older struggle of the human soul in former
in which in any form of culture the affinity of the human soul
in shorter time than all former epochs had done. Yes, in the
compared with former ages in which the human soul could still
former times gets a tragic character as it were; and we see him
through the often cynical-frivolous form in such a way: the
indeed, in the form as he could see them.
realistic forms, so that one cannot consider her as mere
He form'd the vow which Jepthe's lips

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1878, German physician), the transformation of natural
that they form an outer spiritual world of thoughts except us.
In this world, everything is in the form of thought that we
possibly perform in this respect.
soul experiences then, and which forms the force that the
disappeared thoughts forms a part of the self-consciousness
between birth and death. While the thoughts form a world
faces these experiences of life transformed in thoughts. One
compensate the defects and imperfections of the former
living together in former earth-lives. This is the first
common with which we formed an entity so to speak.
our soul must form its new embodiment to search what must
result as an effect from the former earth-lives in the life
behold our former friends and relatives, our ideals et cetera
characterised, the ability originates in the soul to form the
What we had to send off as the experiences of life transformed
life, of our former friends and relatives, of our ideals in the
being gets a review of his former life on earth. He thereby
approximately, where the thoughts transformed into objective
appears, what can lack from our former life on earth to develop
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I choose a form of worldview that believes
and mother, and that what comes from the former embodiments,
correctly, while they form a fantastic picture of the human
twenties of the nineteenth century, he remembered former
performed what was theory once. Thus, we see the academic
transform them into human beings rather fast.
founds an enterprise in which he wants to transform the monkeys
that one cannot transform an educated monkey to a human being.

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soul transforms itself into another instrument of knowledge and
information of remedies is often demanded from spiritual
we perform the development of the young human being
science subjectively, and that one feels the urge to inform
inhale not only the breathing air vividly, but transforms it
while he is active and transforms the outer
succeed spiritualistic associations and circles form. The
Actually not to boast but to inform
newspaper is not informed especially well if it writes that

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form a worldview on basis of modern sciences; but this view is
of modern natural sciences who performed a lot in a narrowly
exhaust the wealth of that what must form the basis of the
not taken from the outer world, then something forms in us that
who can experience the divine spark in his soul who informs us

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that being that we carry in us as the result of our former
former life, we have experienced this former life, and we have
product of the material existence, but collects and forms the
say: he performed great achievements, but later he became
different sculptural forms if one also looked at the facial
works into the forms of the body. May one pursue now by certain
point where not only certain forms of our face are changed in
pressed, but where the indefinite form which the human being
nebulous, into blurred forms. Then the falling asleep feels, as
on the forms of his skin; this is connected with a certain
transformation when the human being becomes free of his
a revelation. Spiritual beings, not atoms, form the basis of
really forms the body while it combines with that what comes
cannot yet speak; then we see the forms becoming more and more
essence develops and this forms the human being working on the
the spiritual essence of the human being is busy forming the
spiritual world that forms our soul being everything is
We take the former example once again. A
in a former life on earth. Therefore, we have to carry through
into his body what he has got in former lives on earth. We see
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nature is a uniform, but she speaks in many languages, and just
changes its form in the different regions, one advances to the
informs us about the nature of health and illness in the sense
bending the words and in formulating so that they could
alchemist who transforms the outer substances which do not
transforms the substances into poisons destroying the organism,
formulate it; but he settled in the sick person. He needed no
transformed which he knows from Germany. There he learns how
the outer forms can express the same being in various way. Thus
the unity in the variety — the uniform as the
creating in the Faust figure, because his Faust informs us

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the ideas form the basis of the most important causes and
the once uniform kingdom was already divided in the kingdom of
she did not inform Ahab about her secret at first. She kept it
to experience what I must experience, so that I can inform
soul development forms the basis of them. Pictures appear there
idea, on a transformation of his ego, so that it could become
one wanted to wait whether the people got any information by
Ahab went home and informed Jezebel what had occurred at the
often afraid. Elijah informed him about the state of affairs.
But the outer history does not inform about the most important

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human being his form and life
animal forms which are directly next to him. This faith is
nineteenth century. Which view has formed when Darwin
with him and his followers? There the view has formed that once
the forms which belong to the simian species, from forms,
indeed, which did not comply with the forms of these animal
not only dedicated himself to the view, as if the outer forms
the animal had gradually developed from such animal-like forms,
are also found in the animal realm, which were so transformed
then just as the outer forms of the brain or the limbs. It
have developed like a kind of superstructure of former lower
forms, so that one would not be entitled to connect the human
would arise that the animal life has developed from lower forms
egotistic to search immortality in any form.
views form. Spiritual science could never get involved with the
fighting against ideas that have developed on basis of former
the human being were formed in a former time is such a way as,
apes would have developed from an original form which must have
brain of apes as degeneration of a form which does no longer
exist today, and which one has to assume as the original form
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power towards the being of Christ has always taken that form
not yet embody itself, so to speak, in the outer material form.
human being backward, gets to outer animal forms, while
spiritual science gets to forms that more and more resemble the
spiritual-mental forms and, finally, completely show the
that beside the immediate idea which one formed of “Jesus
Middle Ages that science only dares to give information about
development by modern spiritual science which transforms this
thing sends rays of immense power and forms an impulse for the
formative. —
because the human being forms incorrect mental pictures of the
which he is, then he has formed the preconditions of the
equal to it, and the eye forms in the light for the light, so
eye is formed by the light as the perception of light happens

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the consideration of the human development accepts a form that
human soul lives in a former period and takes up certain
with the outer physical form. One can trace back the descent of
have something in any animal form from which the human being
one has the view that the formation of mental pictures is
brought these laws into a certain form. Would it not be a
filled with logic laws. If the human being wants to form a
miraculous dens of the beavers and other performances of the
considerations out of other forms of consciousness, out of
subconscious forms in the world coherence as human conscious
which had a form of consciousness different from the present
turn our view to the possibility to educate ourselves to forms
present form. Such a clairvoyant consciousness can perceive in
It becomes also apparent that in former times humanity had a
form of consciousness different from the present logical,
and today spiritual-scientific research shows that the form of
our consciousness can be further developed to higher forms. The
developed again from other forms of consciousness, so that we
would discover other forms of consciousness, of the soul life
cannot yet search such different forms of the soul life. Since
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this old knowledge in the form as the modern human being can no
spiritual view down, it sees its former physical body. It
spiritual world so that it transforms the experiences of the
recognising the laws of the universe in their true form, I
spiritual and formed the contents of the Aristotelian
Way was composed of single star formations. Galilei was, as
being does. So for Galilei the divine spirit formed the basis
which forms the basis of the old Aristotelian culture. These
as if from a former life on earth that came over which appears

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form its principles, its rules of conduct based on authority of
something else forms that confronts the human being with the
If the human being cannot remember former
that we cannot formulate as strict rules. Yes, just the
organisation is formed, admittedly, formed by the
another way: that forms our will, which leads us beyond us to
character of the child is something steady, but forms just with
which forms its basis in the spiritual, is necessary if the
present life is the effect of former lives, and what I
was determined in appropriate form but that at the same time

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transformation of animal forms on account of observations of
evolution of the animal forms. Those do not stand only in the
Darwin transformed the thinking of many people within few
in former times people have thought about the becoming of the
organ forms and of the activities of the single beings, if one
human forms to get to a particular result, and if we consider the
as transformed vertebrae. Goethe meant that this spiritual has
a basic form in the dorsal vertebra that transforms it in such
a way, that this form encloses the organ of the brain. It was a
only a transformed ganglion, in any ganglion that is already
included as it were embryonically which the spirit transforms,
most complex forms from the simplest ones and develops the work
cover the hindbrain, and that with such persons the form of the
human being originated is expressed in the inner forms of the
spirit uses the transformation of the forms to let the manifold
phenomena arise from few basic forms.
single animal forms and plant forms. We have seen in these
forms and plant forms to construct, so to speak, a pedigree of
what shows resemblances and connections between the forms in a
way unexpected in former times. This is the significant.
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that urges us to form mental pictures of all phenomena and
Spicker finds: unless we assume that the thinking informs us
the soul sees blue, it performs a destructive process in the
nerves. This process forms as it were the reflecting surface
older form of spiritual science have probably known. Hence,

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as it is in the usual life, but transforms it up to that point
way. We get to know the body of formative forces of the human
of formative forces belongs to the human being just as the
penetrating this physical human body, this body of formative
physical body by the formative forces of this body which must
world of the body of formative forces. I would like to say that
formative forces without which the physical body would be a
spiritual world the spiritual world of the body of formative
that world in which the body of formative forces is, which is
formative forces to cause all mental experiences which are
and the body of formative forces. In the weak sleep, at the
the body of formative forces as visions. The purely spiritual
on the physical body and the body of formative forces. Then the
abstract information: after the human being has woken, he
forms the basis, subconsciously or unconsciously, of the dream
can recognise the body of formative forces of the human being.
conception or birth, with all forces that form our life from
that comes which forms life from without according to our
form the basis of connections that take place in the next life
only behold into the current life, but can form mental pictures
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different in its whole form from the thinking of the usual
experience, by observing. He thinks that one can form mental
the beholding consciousness. However, what forms the basis of
form, but they emerge and announce themselves in such a way
with the form that one gives this question, otherwise. One
these bodily tools are cast off at death, the form of thinking,
former. If the person is ready to recognise this twist of fate
former. However, you also get to know that this view is
intimately with the soul that it is just the worker who forms
repeated lives on earth by performances, by forces, by effects
method remains right. In a higher sense, the human beings form
nothing but a piece of iron in form of a horseshoe, and you are

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body whose real explanation I have given in former talks; since
the thinking, actually. Something peculiar has formed with
he has formed a concept that this concept is immediately
About that which science has been performed in this area one
school of Haeckel performed quite extraordinary results. One
performances as far as Verworn did who says that the
this pan-psychism one just forms such words: two persons are
persons any process forms that is reflected in the
soul only transforms that into light and colours which is
gets around to forming mental pictures of these impressions
mental pictures which I have developed now if one forms correct
senses are formed in such a way that they are invigorated
imagination; then something always takes place when we form a
can admire what natural sciences have performed concerning the
the own nervous mechanism. However, a certain view has formed
brought forward once as evidence. The soul wonderfully forms
prepares in that which it performs in the metabolism what it
mental pictures that form the basis of the free will as I have
ask someone who forms such a sentence concerning the big,
1833-1911), Franz Brentano and others have performed. But, the
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cannot manage with the question of matter if one tries to form
forms such a concept like the concept of matter. This struggle
forms or aggregate states: solid, liquid, and gaseous. However,
science assumes something else except these material forms, as
with these material forms, but they reach for that which
basic forms: solid, liquid, gaseous; I do not care about that,
typical which he formed about that and by which he got now
material elements, that uniting formative principle of the body
invisible body the etheric body that forms and develops the
persevering in all visible, — he has only removed a form
that he did not yet get around to informing the matter in a
bodily with its formative power, and thereby can cause the
action with certain abnormal formations or states of the
really studied will become a proof of the lowest form of
real. As in the dream always material processes form the basis,
the aftermath of a former life on earth or the preparation for
included in the usual present soul life, but is rest of former
that are said to have developed what then accepted solid forms,
youth. From the rotating world nebula a gas ball forms from
riddle assumes another form while you familiarise yourself with
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that also the air that forms our atmosphere today will be
with this liquefied air in form of a sea. The cold will change
Today the opinion is spread that spiritual science forms flimsy
I have not formulated this way up to now what I have pronounced
subconscious soul life performs a separation, and vice
development, but it experiences inner transformations in this
development. One cannot get to know these transformations if
development if one cannot form a mental picture how in the
evident. This requires above all that one transforms the inside
itself, informed various things by the media: how he lives now
comfortably into reality while one forms flimsy concepts of the
only copies the spirit in its forms sometimes. Since one has to
nature shone by the sun did not face those who form a world

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forms. One has to say that just because many people project
what one has tried to perform just in the area of psychology in
the body than if we form present thoughts by direct
ascetic ideal forms. Nietzsche asks, what is then, actually,
example looking at the forms of plants and animals how you can
the fact that you find information and indications in my
is only another form of that what Goethe meant with his
difficult to form a mental picture of it. That is also, why
difficult in relation to the informed facts, but they are
levels of existence, the latter is only a transformation
product, a metamorphosis of the former. If one does not take
coloured petal is a transformed leaf. That which the human
the forces in a later life, which form the head, as well as the
present head has developed from the organism of a former life
be able to remember. He would be able to form mental pictures
in a strange situation today if it forms a worldview. It has
However, this book by Oscar Hertwig is strange. Any former
Renan felt this. He felt that where former times have searched
to a really uniform and adequate view of nature and soul.

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been cast off, forms a special area. However, then one comes to
spiritual-scientific researcher informs of these results: these
way: after the spiritual-scientific results have been informed,
string can sound or resonate with the informing soul. One can
spiritual science informs. Even if one has to admit that also
science feels strictly obliged to inform logically and
clear about the fact that at last a spiritual world forms the
supersensible that forms the basis of the human brain.
is formed for many people from certain scientific theories,
transform it into a body, into a plant, into an animal, or even
has formed as a view of the human world, animal world et
distant times, even if he had performed nothing else: the
goes beyond it, he can say, nevertheless, what he has formed as
like Goethe: the convictions which I have formed of a spiritual
world fantastically that should form the basis of all! -- One
uniform principle to explain the world monistically. Spiritual
the universe uniformly broken because two currents co-operate
other side -, is still based on a uniform existence and appears
Hydrogen and oxygen can still have a uniform origin even if
worlds can also have a uniform origin even if one is also
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mental pictures form, as it were, within the horizon of the
being perceives the colours and forms, warmth, cold and tones
with his physical senses. Already in the former talks, I have
that one has imagined in former times when one looked more at
that, any human being would have to form the idea, that the
different; the mirror shows only the form, maybe also the
life. However, while we perform the other activity, restoring
again what forms its basis. From a certain point the spiritual
in quite different forms, you think pictures independently from

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consideration, as it should also form the basis of the today's
lifeless, inorganic materials and forces and as if it formed
world nebula, the central gas drop forms from which the earth
transform its figure completely in a certain respect, to become
earth-lives, so that these are facts, inform observations of
in logical forms that are exactly the same logical forms with
of the informed; healthy sense of truth and logic without
imagine, because no other information could intermingle
point of view consists in saying: we come from a former life,

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living being that determines its form from itself, but it takes
its form in the outer life. Thus on the whole, we have to
bodily organisation changes, is formed plastically under the
works on the human being. It is real like a sculptor who forms
as it were the brain. We can also pursue this formation of the
side: what has formed the brain first? Then we can answer: what
intervenes in the outer physical organisation, forms it
forgotten in the first years what forms us in our soul being
consciously in our soul life what creates, however, and forms
wants to form his outer physical organisation by that what he
Animal Spirit. The animal appears with particular formative
development is to be regarded as coming from former levels of
forms. There is no variability, no modification, also no
the boy is thereby squeezed in particular forms, whereas one
form the spiritual-mental organisation according to the
it forms its organisation in the best way as it is prefigured
activity pressed in solid forms by the fact that, nevertheless,
principle forms the basis. Just this principle is infinitely
surroundings. The whole way of performing something depends on
the human being can perform for his fellow men and how we
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style of the former outer events, which do not at all mean
does not assume that the consciousness of a fact forms the
transformations of typical dreams as Laistner understood them,
but one has to understand them as arising from a former state
However, something else forms the basis of such representations
The old clairvoyant consciousness appeared in different forms
human development. Hence, any form of consciousness enjoys life
something like a new leaf, a new blossom to the former because
indicates something significant. From former talks of this
we have these forces in us that they form as it were inclusions
uniform being and not such forces in his thinking, feeling and
organise the soul uniformly. Nevertheless, he felt given
uniform, but he said to himself: what is in me is only the
the medieval seven free arts in abstract form; they are the
forces imagined as separated before in a uniform soul life, in
development that comprises the others to a uniform
the uniformity of the world. If the human being looks at the
imagine, because no other information could intermingle
recognised as the uniform world spirit. Small wonder when this
portrayals often exaggerate, nevertheless, something true forms
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movements of the stars, if we transform them into thoughts, a
grouped again, and then certain groups form the molecules.
transformed into other natural forces according to particular
transformable. If one connected this thought with the laws of
differs in relation to reality only because a certain form of
into another. We have a certain form of movement in the
system. Heat is transformed into locomotive force et cetra that
movements the atoms and molecules must form a group in the
maybe form an explosive force. This quotation was overshot if
in general that we can transform natural forces into each other
that we can transform, for example, heat into work or if we
heat can be transformed into mechanical work, into kinetic
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
transformed into movement with a loss of heat, as it is sure
can only transform about one quarter of the heat into movement,
transformed into heat but heat cannot completely retransformed
that heat cannot be retransformed completely into kinetic
transformation a rest of heat remains, one can easily
will be the transformation of all kinetic energy, of all other
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struck him, not only the resemblance of the external form, but
also of that which comes to the fore in the form. You can read
rather childish today caused a tremendous sensation and formed,
of childish imagination of former human epochs, if one supposed
worldviews are formed only with the cool considerations of the
is effective with the creation of the forms where apparently
sees how the form builds itself up from the simplest living
and transformation of the organic forms if you study his works.
We have every reason to show which great things were performed
research. If the human being transforms himself into a tool for
muddled pictures during sleep. If you want further information
former state of consciousness.
the physical corporeality, although the hypothetical forms of
considerably to the transformation, to the reorganisation of
the “forefathers' bodies.” It transformed the
once used up for the transformation of organs, was later
became degenerate, and forms the present great apes. These
formed — in the true sense of the word — from the
they could transform the human souls in themselves. Thus, the
of the human being. He transformed the useful ones and left
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all former theories of the struggle for existence do not comply
species. For the soul of the whole species is uniform, and
because it is uniform, it must control the parts.
species is simply the expression of the uniform activity of the
formed with him, which we recognise as the self-consciousness
development and trace its future trend. Go back to former
more uniform the human beings appear who are united that way.
on that ground which forms the ground of the Atlantic now. This
single soul lives peacefully with itself, this is the uniform
the task of spiritual science to develop this uniform soul in
the common breath of this uniform soul. Not the present human

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as a spiritual mirror of the world forms, as true it also forms
he forms the things that are outside him not yet consciously.
spirit. Consider the human being on certain former stages of

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the human being in manifold forms. The human riddle appears as
forms of the human being, the races, are certainly such a
variety of the human existence, in these different forms of the
uniform nature and being exists. However, how does this uniform
nature and being behave to the manifold forms and
the human being who has, nevertheless, a uniform nature can
of the uniform human being as the other worldviews. It has a
European race today went through other races in former times
view. They trace the human being back to the former epochs of
experienced stages in the former times in which he satisfied
perform small work. To even former times the natural sciences
This akasha matter with its imprints really forms a large
information comes which spiritual science announces about the
These researches do not lead us back to those forms of humanity
millennia, maybe even farther. All those human forms and racial
forms that the naturalist can find in the earth point again
back to quite differently formed human physiognomies, to races
and the various soil formations, also some relationships of
existence are purchased with the disappearance of former levels
receding forehead and with a defective formation of the
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then probably above all because he wants to inform himself
satisfaction, perhaps in such a book if the information makes
supersensible, which forms as spiritual causes the basis of the
most advanced people cannot form an idea of the insights into
present forms of minerals, plants and animals exist, the human
form itself does no longer exist.
life, which forms the basis of all phenomena, and were then
taught a uniform ground of knowledge, an ancient truth in that
perception. This force produces form by form repeatedly up to
The human being today strives for forming thoughts and images
prehistoric human being formed symbolic images, which appeared
you face a person today, you try above all to form an idea of
and the ego. The different forms of the confessions are nothing
find this connection again. Therefore, they are formed so
differently to become understandable in this or that form to
had to get religion in another form than the modern human
there that there is something that as a uniform world ground
and destination of the human being, which forms the basis of
things formed. This is why there an original soul was in the
the spiritual beings who form the basis of the world. While one
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while that those beings in the world are formed most suitably,
this morality formed on the ground of a consciousness an idea
formed and, hence, they formed gradually according to such
so-called construction guild formed. A determined cooperation
The marvellous tool of thinking, the brain, is likewise formed
understand that we would perform much more if we refrained to
soul sometimes, with melancholy in the heart and transform it
such a way means transforming it in practical respect. This is
It is true: a talent forms in the silence —, however, it
the whole humanity form in the perpetual current of the

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and often performed experiments — that the demands which
uniform being with my fellow men, then is that who speaks to me
uniform green is separated into a duality, in blue and yellow,
work, which has already been performed by others, would be in
form the basis of those.
animal life proceed in their external form rhythmically, the
body must become as rhythmical as the performances of the
modern human being needs more than in former times to bring in
develop by meditation; it is the means of forming its organs.
This meditation must then be performed regularly. It is
performed in such a way that the body of the human being is the
lump to the organism in which the organs form. I have described
using certain formulae. If they have developed, the human being
faces me. In his former incarnation he was a far advanced
form certain prejudices in him that work so vigorously that the

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Since that time, this human soul forms and works in the human
because the spirit of the sun caused our spiritual form. The
solar victory. It followed a former solar time only. Thus, it
the glory flowing through the world. In former times, one felt
founders formed. However, they do not know that one was in the
mess as the instincts form a wild chaos generally. However, if

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himself, and if Christianity has to perform anything great for
detailed way. However, we announce Christianity in a form in
speak in a new form. They are those to whom the spiritual
big trouble and that is why the human being had to form his
moment, when the uniform intellect was applied to the human
brightness, until the law took on the form of the intellect
that he forms and builds up reality and introduces it into the
comprehensive than all sensuous and is the creator of the form
forms in which the stars were arranged were the letterings of
inform of the greatness and the power of science. Thus, we have
have it, this “Die and be transformed!,” you will
fourth epoch. What did humanity perform in the third epoch? The
these teachings of wisdom not in old traditional form, but to

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There are two spiritual-scientific concepts that should form
more the soul creates in the body from inside and transforms
and as the following animal formed bit by bit by the
perfect soul that it gradually formed from an imperfect soul
thoughts and language are only higher forms of that which we
our everlasting essence, which formed its body step-by-step.
being that always takes on a new human figure and form like the
lily as a species always takes on new forms, while it goes
from incarnation to incarnation what is imperfectly formed with
educated person. It becomes perfect. However, what we form from
our essence today formed and created us from the outset. Thus,
accordingly formed bit by bit, depending on the essence growing
his desire by the judgement that he has formed, and this
transformed into strength, so that an inner voice exists: you
the devachan; he transforms the experiences, which he had, to
experiences of his former incarnations which become his
remember his former incarnations? — This question has
already arrived who can remember their former earth-lives. If
point of view by these experiences to remember his former
earth-lives. How does this recollection of the former
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uniformity of these contrary powers. Schiller's Song of the
centuries. You all know that Goethe transformed the medieval
created from nothing, but he originated from former
realm forms the ground, from which my roots grow. Without this
the plant realm transforms the mineral perpetually in the
the formation and stimulation of the mineral realm, what do the
formative one, then his desires and passions, the animal in
have expressed in modern form what you can find in all
allows the mineral to form the crystal, it makes the plant
knowledge, the luciferic knowledge, has to be transformed into
however, to look for inner development. The law was transformed
into the soul by Christian grace. Our science is transformed
transforms science into wisdom, freedom into willingness to

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formation of this dramatic poetry in our time and on the
in the former stages of existence, is already over some
recollections of former stages of existence. However, the
possibility to behold in the higher world, transforming
particular lower forces of our existence, forms the basis of
means of higher knowledge are transformations of subordinated
prehistoric time as undeveloped vague senses can be transformed
transformations, metamorphoses of lower forces. Human forces
can also today be transformed into higher senses.
other human beings. Such personalities could give information
They are works of human beings, formed according to human
brought it to Zeus who formed Dionysus anew.
because he has not yet formed own existence. Bit by bit he
matures and becomes independent. Then he works and forms on his
transformation of the lower forces to higher and higher ones
transformed. Sensuousness changes into love. It spiritualises
human being feels that strength which forms, indeed, the basis
out uniformly into the whole nature up to the point when the
form and in wisdom to develop the beauty of the external form
order. One sees this principle of the external formal creation
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European culture deeper teachings of wisdom form the basis of
body, but it forms the basis of the physical body as the bearer
abilities, which he has appropriated in the former lives by
in former lives. Thus, the one appears happy, the other unhappy
about any part of the world civilisation, but forms the basis
spiritual world. Thus, the principle forms the basis of every
place within our present folklore still in numerous forms.
in another legend forms the same thing becomes more and more
exercises, trains himself spiritually, he can transform the
These are the contents of all secret doctrines, which form the
form of animals. These are beings living in the person
concerned flow out of him and appear reflected in the form of
another form of human beings, they could not yet think with
secret doctrine, which forms the basis of all religions, is
originated. The former astral consciousness, Baldr, is killed
way that from Loki, the fire, the lower nature formed and from
This forms the basis of the Germanic legend. This is the secret
has remained from a former development. He had to deliver his
was the view of the former world.
with a secret doctrine, which forms the basis of the pictorial
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performed does not exist. In particular, there is a lack of
found access to it! The most important that was performed in
itself.” Whichever ideas and concepts we form, whatever
century whose end forms in conceptual respect Johann Gottlieb
appreciated the individuality during the former centuries less
knowledge in geometrical forms, and Novalis, who illumined the
geometry. How circles and angles form a group together, how the
different forms like polyhedra, dodekahedra and such build
initiation in former incarnations. Everything was a
recollection of former incarnations than of the current one.
This comes out in his imagination. The former incarnations
In pleasant dialogue form, like with Plato, he discusses here
informed a lot of animal magnetism and the mysteries in his
that all. He put the big treasure of former initiation memory
in that which he has like a recollection of former lives. In
uniform idea of the whole nature, how it extends over the whole

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form of a dragon a giant guards this treasure. This is a
the transformation of the whole soul, knowledge becomes
can inform about the destiny of the human being before birth
becomes its permanent possession. Where mystic facts form the
flames form from the higher consciousness, and the initiate has
“unaware.” Here rather something else forms the
basis. What is art with its creative forming, through which a
silhouette a recollection of a former clairvoyance and a
the most different forms, the human beings have expressed
truth. However, someone understands the form of truth who has a

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lord of these sages who formed a spiritual centre, a kind of
Celtic time for whom the time of love had transformed into a
remember from the former talks how the initiation ceremonies
human nature, and it was something uniform because the internal
human nature is a uniform one, because a life spent in the
form of love. Nothing that ties me together with a human being
Parzival is informed of the higher virtues, and there he
was a Brahmin girl in a former life and rejected the love of a
legend form. Today we are no longer talking pictorially.
the most various forms. If we penetrate into this truth, we
forms, and we hear it echoing how in the manifold tones the one

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and actions at the big consistently uniform facts of the big
Nature appears to us like letters, and the human being forms
he has created in nature to form the crown of all this
form an eye in the human being to grasp itself. Universal
being looks at his former existence, at that which preceded the
— The sun formed the eye, light formed light. Once when
who will mean the uniform, the harmonious compared with all

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any reasonable performance, must have come about by a
performances with the hammer; however, nobody is able to do the
performances of the brain of the fellow man. Hence, the human
organs anew. However, these forces must pay to form something
forms the tools gradually, which the human being uses. The soul
he must atone for them with certain performances taking place
but now they are informed because of certain reasons. If a
the purest superstition. The pupil must overcome all forms of
from the giant Ymir the whole world is formed.
a form of thought that one should better call a form of

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in the spiritual forces and beings that form the basis of
time of the bourgeoisie, the performance of the single was
was performed once in the realms of the spiritual life and how
characters with each other. This personality was uniform. With
body, a fine body, forming the basis of the physical body and
form of superstition has changed and that superstition becomes
distinguishes Paracelsus is the uniform sight in the spiritual.
from the externally physical at that which as a force forms the
change, are transformed, and as these are dependent on the
beings still had forms of existence very different from
spoken of the transformation of the earth often enough. He
passions; he has them in himself, only in reduced form as the
distributed in the forms of the animals in himself, invisible
that still preserve the form that the human being had at that
when the human-bodily formed and took on the figure on earth,
Sulphur and the present form of mind have a parallel cause of
that forms the basis of the bodily; the mummy is different in

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transfigured form with Jacob Boehme. It already faces us in his
we look back at former times of the distant past, we find that
imperfect forms. He still says then at best, everything on
earth developed from a universal nebula. The forms emerged from
former conditions, the forms, which the human being had in
former times when these beings were not yet such beings as they
about the tinctura that was real once when it formed our globe
womb, that then the forms come out. He calls a type of the
forms the acerbic ones. The human forefather was a being with a
also had the form of a skeleton. However, everything that
second form of nature is that which preserves the internal
the fifth original form of nature if it spiritualises itself.
sixth form of nature originates if the inside penetrates
uniform divine nature. The seventh form then originates, the
forms, Jacob Boehme sees the whole nature included.
not form single abstractions that stand side by side like
again. If you have a concept, you must be able to transform it
understand Jacob Boehme who read him because they form solid
independence. Although the harmony of the soul forms the basis,
work in the sense of the great spirits of former times, in the

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flow out in printed form into the world. However, the
far as they are accessible. During former centuries, it was not
in such forms that they correspond to the today's thinking,
which occult science informs. They are incomprehensible not to
illness. They fall ill, even if in a psychic form. — One also
certain form of mental illness belongs to it to think generally
incapable to keep the body healthy. Occult science transforms
letters and in the manifold forms of life and is life itself.
harmonious health in all directions. This attitude forms the
events in the former educated world. He can summon up
to look at — the performances of the Colosseum! What did they
despised in former times will seize the others or go along with
occult science transforms our attitude, our feelings, and
humanity. It is the mission of occult science to perform this

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speculative fiction. You get this information from many sides
agrees with the natural sciences that experience forms the
persons have believed to be able to form a kind of creed, a
One speaks much of former
things. However, if you compare these processes of former
It became obvious that many former conjectures had to disappear
research came along forming a bridge between history and
simple elements form the basis of our materials. There are
cooperation of lifeless small atoms. Hence, Haeckel formed the
physicians in which he brought up something that forms the
different groups formed. One said: howsoever the things may be,
occurred at a spiritual time when one knew that spirit forms
change and transformation of the organisms. Darwinism never
could have performed great things for spiritual science with
living crystals: by their forms, they create the impression to
can go adrift transform themselves strangely enough into quite
the fact is that radiations of radium transform themselves into
the atom in future? It is something that originates and forms.
Every atom forms, has a certain lifetime, and dissolves after a
certain time again. There you have transformed what is the
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thinker who performed many quite extraordinary things in some
information. You find all kinds of questions answered about the
spiritual science? It is only another form of the spirit. If
is water in another form. Now, however, somebody could come and
in life. Even if one says, ice is water in another form — and
deny that ice is water in another form would make a fool of
matter. It exists; it is only spirit in another form. In which
form? In the form, that one can observe it from the outside by
are all things outdoors in the world, only in other forms. They
are it in such form that one can look at them from the outside
physical body, is spirit for us in the form in which it exists
narrower sense, is exactly the same. According to its form,
that these materials cannot form the physical body by
it shows a change of form or, otherwise, any outer reaction,
life itself is transformed internally into joy and sorrow where
recognise this ego in its nature. In former talks, I have drawn
worked less on his astral body; he has it still in such a form
high-minded moralist and idealist has transformed and purified
the ego has transformed the astral body, as much spirit self or
ego and spirit self. Then we have the possibility to transform,
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for in which sense does anybody talk who informs about such
information about these worlds resembles someone who was once
not speak of it publicly in former times? We speak of the
seclusion of former times was broken through. That is why today
secret is not informed in words from human being to human
colours, and forms appear from the darkness. Only if this
schools and which are informed initially today to the public by
circle in concepts only, we would never be able to form a true
circle. However, we can form a circle and its principles in our
humanity what Goethe performed with the type of the plants,
plant in himself, he conjures up that form after which the
means, namely those about which spiritual science informs. What
for that. However, he who has got the possibility to inform in
a certain way can form a bridge. Then everybody can convince
man! One can inform about the world that is not accessible to
theory how the logos poured forth and formed more and more
complex forms and worlds: plants, animals, human beings, how
all differentiations formed, evolutions and involutions and so
the higher worlds this way. You can thereby form ideas, which
outer realities; but pictures are formed corresponding to the
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this radical form. However, for someone who can observe more
former not. Nevertheless, it is not completely in such a way,
maturity and immaturity, it forms a sort of theosophy. It can

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transform in higher regions? The solution of this question
being today goes back to a former soul existence. It is a
True knowledge of the ego is the highest form of knowledge. The
becomes only taller, the form extends which he has received up
form of the child. If one does not do this, one has omitted
formed it conclude. They do no longer impress anything into the
increase of the form, but only a kind of recurrence of the form
acquired on former stages he shows as effect of his ego now. As
allowed to form it in our own image under constraint, but we

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over the plenty of animal forms, every one presents a specific
resemblance of the higher animals and their performances to the
in a raw, unimproved form, which are weakened in the human
animals really have a subtle, distinctive gift to perform this
performed an action that was suitable for its life. Because the
animal performed this suitable action, it could get living
which performed favourable actions, such impulses of action
because one must ask which form of usefulness is the basis of
adaptation forms the basis of the struggle for existence that
contents of his soul is nothing else as a transformation, a
in, and gets it again. Intelligence forms the basis of that,
or to let, how could anything uniform, a uniform enterprise
While we practise it, we must perform certain activities of our
say, a group-soul that poured its qualities in the firm form
could no longer develop the qualities poured in physical forms.
relation to the physical body that could still be transformed.
for forming a physical body as early as the group souls of the
souls were still imperfect. Hence, they could form imperfect
was destined to develop formed certain group-souls; it built
animal forms. Then it was not able to advance. Others have
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the opinion of many people — that certain forms of life have
in order to penetrate this field of our manifold and variform
this form, as he exists today, actually, only the result of the
proletarian worker. With him, only the modern form of our
everything in materialistic thought forms.
phrases, but as an announcement of that what forms the basis of
products, in their form, their appearance etc., than if the
the craftsman of former times and the modern worker. Today
transformation of the human soul welfare and progress can come,
performs as a work he works from an impulse towards the thing.
the product that the former craftsman had; this is past
formalities only, for example, all that what encloses a group,
that we work, but that we perform work which is fruitful for
the coherence knows that the most important works are performed
twenty postcards without having to inform of something
in this way no productive work is performed. This is the work
person work, but which work is performed, just work which the

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general: in order to illustrate the formation of a heavenly
Laplace and continued it in changed form, however, the
edifice, it turns out that the primeval nebula formed with a
active here. The former ones come from the earth, while the
concerns its form. These formative forces relate to the solar
forces in a certain way. Sun and moon form the contrast of life
and form necessary for the human development. If only the
but it contains formative forces. The sunlight is not only
he were exposed to it only]. The human form is the result of
stiffened heavenly body, not the formative spiritual force. In
the rainbow forms its changing-unchanged arch,

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older, former times. Admittedly, it is not so easy to do
astuteness has performed in this field. We would like to think
ourselves back to a former state of the earth with the physical
evolution fish appear. Many of them have quite different forms
of the earth forming, the distribution of water and earth,
forms of plants and animals appearing, and the physical picture
transparent air before himself, and clouds form in this
ice from the water, the water from the water vapour forms, as
has formed. With the other lumps of water, the ice granules
number of the resulting formations such bigger ice cores
stages form back on earth, while other lumps transform more and
last which have transformed all water into ice and whose mother
decadence, in withering, as the tree forms the bark, as well as
soul feels as an impulse. The human being will perform his work
and he will produce his equals by his transformed vocal organ,
middle, we know that this matter is a converted and transformed

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the attempt in the most different forms to relate the
transform their selfish desires into the good.
plant from a former plant, from a spiritual-mental of
our spiritual-mental existence points us back to former lives
and who has no interest in anything that forms the basis as
identifies himself only with that what forms his body. What
brought from former lives. Thus, we see the incorporated fruits
of the former life and of all former lives in a human being
death, the life essence, the forces of the former life that are
from all that what chains him, so to speak, to the former
can form the mental picture that that what the human being
the human eye; it is formed, as Goethe says, “in the
time, he would have remained in that spiritualised form in
organs of progress only. They have to hamper a former
formed a mental picture of those progressive forces in which

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basis of this concept forms the contents of the devoted faith
(1908). To someone who wants to inform
German poet) formed the all too justified dictum
forms the basis of such things. It is a deep misunderstanding,
These persons form mental pictures of the supersensible worlds
knows nothing of its contents. I want to inform of something
the ideas of heaven and hell that he himself has formed stands
something appears in the increase, in the transformation of the
former earth-life. If the child reveals its dispositions,
former earth-lives. The human being has struggled through many
stages of existence, and what he has gone through in the former
life has transformed itself into the germ and has become
spiritual scientist, how does this sixth sense form? — The
transformation if the human being dedicates himself to the
his soul. That love transforms the before dumb and
of the spirit. The spiritual forms the basis of any physical
present human being. What does form the basis of this physical
thing? Spiritual creativity forms the basis of it! The tone
many deep spiritual truths: “The eye is formed in the
that have formed the wonderful construction of the eye. Thus,
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Let us proceed to-day from simple forms of pain, from
its elementary forms. When we cut our finger and feel pain, or when
most primitive form of pain. Let us begin by considering this.
they have for the simplest form of pain, we find, particularly in the
active element, the forming, constructive element — i.e. the etheric
form the finger, gut it also maintains these cells in their structure,
formation of its inner parts. In what way is the etheric finger really
renunciation in the form of pain.
form of pain. This is how pain arises, and it lasts as long as the astral
Organs of the body which were formerly active and living are, in a certain
body and is able to say to himself: I dispose of surplus forces; formerly,
and who has a lot to digest In the case of the former, where everything
form of his future incarnation. In Devachan there is purest, freest
unchecked will to work takes on the form of bliss. There he forms his
recognition of those occult forces which formed the brain. When the

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the few and he expressed it when he said: “When I form thoughts,
world does not conform, is not of like nature, to thinking that he says
We therefore perform a real
that this science, particularly when it forms the basis for a view of
If his genius takes other forms people are nowadays apt to vent their
etc. will be ahrimanic if, when formulating them, one relies solely
takes the form of a disinclination to rise to anything spiritual; there

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even in its crudest form, has been eradicated from natural science.
the former Austrian prime minister, entitled “The Structure and
the basis of information received.” Verworn suggests with these
childish ideas that the brain receives information from other groups
that a political State has a physiological basis, therefore information
organization.” —Verworn would no doubt have said that information
theories, even though the earlier crude form has given way to ions and
hand our cognition, our thinking by means of which we form mental pictures,
short, in the will it is too wide. That is the reason our thinking forms
of one incarnation together with the will of a former incarnation and
formulated, it must unite itself with our being. Thoughts which become

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man does not know he is surrounded by the Angeloi is because he transforms
to transform the concept, the mental picture of Christ in the human
cultural developments in their true forms seldom find any accurate picture
exists of beholding again the Christ in His true form. As long as one
to be a description of Christ in His spiritual form. Just as spiritual
other forms. Today it comes to expression in the fact that we have a
— whether in the form of natural science or history — far
that this battle assumes such a terrible form in the external world
avoid the conflict it will make its appearance in a different form.
ages and the healing resulted in the formation of the eyes; they came

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return to his former profession as a German officer. Nevertheless it
all he could to bring the life of spiritual knowledge into masonic formalism.
an exceptional degree, all the profound but now formalized and rigidified
the way modern humanity, in contrast to former times, relies more on
convinced it had been formed in an ancient volcanic eruption. But others

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Christ impulse, how does one come near the Being of Christ? In one form
of all former atavistic clairvoyance, does owe its existence to slow
Whereas formerly everyone was able to experience the spiritual world
used, but is not, produces sickness in some form. Illness is caused
but in a spurious form while genuine spiritual science is not approached.
was an experience not to be missed. He further informed the writer that
had to catch the last express train to Berlin after a theater performance.
fast-talking gentleman had led him to form a picture in his mind of
the writer's description: “On to the platform came a medium-sized,
and living solely for others? He says: “The image I had formed
on the platform saying in a soft voice: Believe me Ladies and Gentlemen,
to himself: the way this man on the platform expresses himself, the

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perhaps in the form of a dream or some other kind of vision. Much more
cannot formulate the appropriate concepts for receiving rightly such
to someone unripe for the information. Nevertheless certain situations
indiscretion in spiritual communication, appear in distorted form in
are formed according to the way we are organized. I may mention, not
of Freedom. These works set out to show that when we form concepts
Orientals call Maya. In the activity of forming mental pictures of the
an inferior aspect of the world; its true form he would experience only
formulae into epistemology is not the point; what matters is the kind
related to true reality it enables one to form appropriate judgements.

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in evidence. Not with its former strength, it is true, but although
weakened, it was clearly a remnant of the former atavistic clairvoyance
sufficiently to form mental pictures of it. But though the consciousness
the formation of the seed to the extinction of the rose what we see
not found in parents or earlier ancestors, from former lives on earth.
beings. When he attempted to grasp his experiences in conceptual form;
i.e. form mental pictures of them, these pictures would vanish in the
very process of forming them just like a dream vanishes as we wake up.
cosmos although he could not bring it into conscious conceptual form.
what helped Henry More to formulate what lived so beautifully in his
to give conceptual form.
with his students what Lessing had written about a drama performance,
because of his former conscious experience — even though as Luther

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16th centuries than modern historians are inclined to admit. Great transformation
gaze to external nature, to the sky, to cloud formations and so on,
a former incarnation, in the pre-Christian Mysteries that prepared the
epoch, man's former connection with the spiritual world has grown dim.
This is so even when the experiences had been as vivid as those of former
from the spiritual world, as he is bound to forget what he formerly
former's thoughts and feelings, his whole relation to the world is determined
appeared to be, that composition could still be transformed into another.
altar, when bread and wine are to be transformed through a mysterious
He wanted to convey to man's soul the strength it had formerly gained
the fifth post-Atlantean epoch human knowledge had assumed a form that
and materialism, man is not able to perform actions that spring directly
to the conditions of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. He formulated and
strives to reach the spirit by transforming matter; that is, physical
in dramatic form the overcoming of ahrimanic powers in external life.

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pursuits. What aspects of our being is active when we formulate scientific
the laws of nature to enable us, through understanding them, to form
to form mental pictures of spiritual reality. Plenty of phrases are
Roman times had to perform their religious worship down in the catacombs;
selflessness. The members soon formed the habit of turning to those

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and formerly had special experiences during this
outward materialistic form. One who is connected with the

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this particular organism. And on this particular formation of the
extent all the abstract thoughts formulated in his soul. These two
they have been formed in him, and especially his habits; he also
in many previous incarnations. This is the worst possible form of
exact opposite. For example, people who in a former incarnation were
probably have possessed in a former incarnation (here I must remind
former incarnation, it is well to reflect upon those things for which
former incarnation but died young, so that this talent never came to
This was because in his former incarnation he had been an exceedingly
their former incarnation they thought in forms; they took this
thinking in forms with them and during the life between death and
intensity in architectural forms; these experiences lived as forces
form necessary for architecture was transformed into an
learn Greek and Latin, for many of them in former incarnations will
form in the next incarnation; they are transformed into forces and in
which enables them to form more unbiassed judgments than those who
had less talent for languages; these latter will tend to form
something which passes over in transformed forms of force from one
those who still adhere to certain old forms of religion; but it
has no foundation for me if I cannot know anything of my former
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thoughts contained in the last lecture will in that form have
form a living conception of this process of recollection, we see in
concerning such a recollection in reference to a former earth-life.
we do this over and over again, forming a living conception of a man
within me in this form in my present incarnation!” So
us in this form, lies further back. Only we must realise that we are
we do not form concepts as we form them here; after death we see
eyes, but what he does not see here, and about which he forms
lived in him as thought — does not survive in the same form in
diversity of forms. There are the well-known antitheses in the life
one. Thus we meet with feelings in the most diverse forms and we can
form of kleptomania and so forth. Here there is no ordered
Magdalene, or somebody like that in a former incarnation. It is more
we recall them in memory, we must say: “In the form in which
Christian Rosenkreuz came to him in a former incarnation, but for
said are easily forgotten, or retained in a different form from that

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Some form of association is
circumstances—will come in some form or other; for the
essential point is the form which the subject of Christ
comes the question: What form will life take under the influence of
responsibility will be intensified to a degree that was formerly
A vast transformation
in a former life — in most cases the immediately preceding one
also together at the beginning of a former life. Not at the
chosen by us in a former life at an age when we were more conscious
progress. When we know how family connections are formed, the ideas
were put into the form of logic afterwards but were not discovered
reincarnation and karma are true. The transforming power of these
karma in the form in which we must present them, as distinct from
association or society must be in conformity with the mission of
incarnation, we too hastily form a derogatory judgment of someone who

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which it was their mission to impress upon humanity in the form
covering is a manifestation in condensed and crystallized form of
Zodiac, taken together as forming a closed curve in space, should
which Goethe formed of ‘God’s sons’ as the
them in the form of twelve cosmic outpourings, flooding in upon
in our present age, but transformed into material terms, that
it will be discovered in what manner, and form the spirit, which
form. And where the Ized-flux, as such, entirely ceases, and the

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word and form, of the occult doctrines taught to the disciples
acquired different forms of consciousness, and that that order of
evolution affects not only the outer world of form, but also the
Science can alone obtain, from the sources of information at its
form of an attenuated heritage in the picture world of our
racial or folk-character, formed different conceptions of that
and an animal head, or again formed of the most varied
these legends, is to convey to us in picture form, information
to form abstract concepts and ideas; for by thus opening the
associated with the ideal forms of Osiris and Isis. Further, it
factors that finds expression in the ideal forms of Osiris and
condensed form, there slowly to unfold and grow throughout the
me here — a spirit embodied in external human form. In times
[We can form an idea of the old Egyptian concept
bone formation. The whole human system owes its being to the
enter the material form; these elements can be physically
Osiris. Even as the elements which form the physical body enter
she may pass on the power of his radiance in the form of
which are of the external perceptual world, and his material form
take this form: — ‘There dwells in me a better self, but
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repeated earth lives, or as we term it, Reincarnation, forms a
conception which Lessing really formed was of the prospect and
regarding which we obtain information from external historical
another form of conscious state. I have emphasized this point
visions were not so meaningless as are the dream forms of our
Hence, we look back to a certain form of primeval clairvoyance
form of visions. All those curious ideas which come to us through
formed regarding the probable future of man’s evolution,
confirmed. We must look back, not merely to a form of primeval
concerning a former union with the Spirit-World. If we consider
uniform and continuous, but as having taken place periodically
understand those contemplative moods, underlying a form of
often find portrayed in a figurative form based upon
belong, not only lapsed from its former higher spiritual
conformed to the order and intent of that Divine plan in which I
things has been transformed into one of illusion, such that we no
personality which in by-gone times found expression in the form
former lives, as I might look into an open book, where I can read
perform a deed which shall quicken and make fruitful, all that in
form during the further development of mankind.
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 4: Moses
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subject matter had gradually become welded together, in a form
in many cases have been perpetuated in the form of mythological
appear to form a sequel to events typical of experiences in a
evolved from a different form of conscious state; and it is just
form of intellectual consciousness, which acts through our power
the ancient clairvoyant forms of consciousness manifested in
uniformity of tradition concerning this old clairvoyant
in many and varying forms. If we would indeed understand all that
implies ever recurrent and successive forms of
natural disposition, corresponding to a former period may
capable of formulating and undertaking a new mission. Hence it
When Moses had acquired all the knowledge and information
the singular form in which such religious narratives are
of some matter of deep significance. During former lectures of
once again from the form in which they are presented, that they
soul itself may display in the form of female figures — even
form any conception of this primordial consciousness is by
in these days we form no such conception, it was thus that
Gradually the conceptions formed regarding the capacity of the
form characteristics typical of the symbolic representation of
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 5: Elijah
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be recognized externally as forming a part of life’s
not merely to supply information concerning the personality and
researches have formed the basis of the various portrayals
enduring many and varied forms of privation. We must recall the
transport ourselves in mind to those days when all that formerly
a sort of alliance had been formed; this compact was further
outer forms and ceremonies, and found expression through external
information concerning the individuality of Elijah as came to the
followers of this pagan form of worship must have created in them
had formed, as far as they could form any concept at all, was as
manner: — The nation must henceforth form a new Jehovah-concept
Jehovah-concept in the form which I have described. To this end
unable to tell, at times, just where the external form of some
qualities that shall fit me to cope with every form of trial and
come corresponding definite experiences in the form of visionary
soul there arose an image of God Himself, in that form and manner
inner-life experiences, assumed the following form — Naboth
essential transformation of his Ego, and thus become worthy to
performance of certain sacrificial rites (religious exercises in
which is in me.’ The sacrifice is performed, and everything
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be an ever increasing tendency toward the formation of a
Science, which traces man’s origin back to spiritual forms,
of conception concerning the Christ-Being and the form which it
concepts were formed with regard to that Being whom we term The
which were evolved in the form of gnostical conceptions during
Man we found that we were taken back to a form of humanity which
denser form which we now call man; and that owing to the
beginning has been traced to external animal forms. Spiritual
companion of man or ‘alter ego’, in the form of an
causes me to look upon myself as a man transformed.’
9), we can then readily conceive an entirely different form of
fresh light upon all forms of human culture quickened by its
Christ-Event expressed in its most elementary form. It is
of such momentous import as to form what might be termed the true
the form of noble and uplifting spiritual impulses. Thus it was
which have appeared in many and varied forms. For the present,
that particular form of development through which the soul is
transformed into an instrument capable of apprehending that
transformations of this character.
present state and assume a more perfect form of soul-being which
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Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture IX
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narrated, so that it is for each of you to form your own
being who had been transformed into the Archangel stood
musical and dramatic form. I do not propose to enter the

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to form a closer conception of what has so often been
The former knew that it was a temptation to be obedient
the fact that he formed the first man out of the Earth.
himself. Paul realises now that formerly he had seen
former times it was right to adhere to the Serpent; since
but through the Spirit itself. In former times when men
formerly available to man, came to him through heredity,
this later age it came to them in the form in which it

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information revealed by the “Fifth Gospel”
existing knowledge and the information contained in the
five usually enumerated forming only a part of these
formation of the etheric body. Moreover for everything
presented to the human soul in the form of visible
‘form.’ The ‘form’ alone remains,
do not apply moral concepts when clouds form, when
ear to information concerning the spiritual worlds, then

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plays we have performed here on several occasions, plays that have for
heights of the world and take on earthly form to become one of us children
progress when everything that formerly would have been spun into
to speak about it. And then it was a question of finding a correct formula
eye, it did not stay for even a moment in its first form, but unfolded
and it would appear before him as a spiritual form and then of itself
take on various forms.
then changed of itself, and he could also return it to its first form
that one can form ideas and paint them without looking at nature shows
has performed the most remarkable manifestations of all sorts for years.
about in school, a central nucleus of gas forms, which later becomes

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If we perform an autopsy on a human being
substance originated in processes that took place before the formation
accept what He has revealed in the form of anthroposophy as a true Christ-revelation.
get when you lace some formulation or other of Buddhism, Brahminism,

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formed the basis of his actions and his work — to appreciate and
uniform and consistent since the beginning of our work.

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reason that its first rudimentary form can be found as far back as the
Saturn phase of evolution. That early physical form was then transformed
evolution our physical body has only been remodeled, transformed, and
form, but in a process of development, of unfolding, during the old
animal form, is actually an imaginative representation of our physical
could still be changed and undergo transformations and imagine you exposed
the one that in its noblest form can develop into freedom from selfishness:
for reality had been given the task to create a human form suffused
for its deviation from the so-called normal human form; they admire
as I said, the form and shape of our head are essentially the result
of person you were in your previous incarnation. The formation of the
heredity in this connection. In reality, we create the form of our skull
felt within himself the shape and form of the muscle. And when he wanted
to represent a movement, he felt what it is like to perform the movement
shows what kinds of associations between ideas are formed and what kinds

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many concepts formed are just like Friederike Kempner's “busy
then formulates the explanation so that it fits, for if it didn't fit,
the creation of religious feelings and ideas as well as in the formation
tendency of the soul, the whole form and understanding of the soul.
world to reform and improve it.

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science. These verses were originally intended for a eurythmy performance
in Dornach and were indeed first performed in eurythmy. I will soon
form. Spiritual science seeks to connect the human being with the great
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
women wearing the kind of clothing I had to design for the performance
These things have led me to write a satirical poem to be performed in
true laws of form for the poetry of the future.
Please keep in mind that they were intended for performance in eurythmy;
composition, in the way he forms his sentences? Who can sense that if we
only, which aims only at getting information, is really a schooling
If you just read it as it is, you will find in terms of form, in terms

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cosmic edifice. We form concepts, ideas, and images of what it is like
being. While the rudiments of our sense organs were being formed, they
artful structure of paper rolls, but the paper rolls have to form it
may even have been great world reformers and have influenced world history.
he became a very important personality, a reformer who accomplished
an emotional understanding of others, which we do not need to transform
certain conditions, it takes only a particular formation of the etheric
England were headed toward the formation of a sect. And many people
informed us that articles and pamphlets, whose titles constitute a direct

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the single currents united to form a great comprehensive
formulae of the alchemists, or to some philosophical or other
of alchemistic formulae, or such things, it is only verbal
tó say in all kinds of alchemistic formulae. But only when
formulae from what we know today as scientific thinking, as
the human being has brought it about that he does not only form
to think through speech, instead of forming speech through
transformations, or the growth of grass like a modern
with the changing clouds something is transformed for his
that the question of evil is transformed into an entirely
light if darkness were not opposed to it, so can good perform
into a simple formula — not what he gave theoretically,
experienced, — into the formula: No
without a No” is the simple formula
it is not a theoretical formula, but in this philosophy, there
and saw in the “Runes” which took form all kinds of
formulae of Jacob Boehme, but that they also take refuge in the
the glistening, high-flown formulae of Jacob Boehme, and

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root-race. The representative of the former is Laocoon, priest of an
of Lohengrin the new form of consciousness, the civilisation of the
not take place in an external form, for the course of evolution cannot
complete and perfect form was to raise human beings above the
informing him of what takes place in the world. The ravens are
occult way and inspire the intellect in its external form.

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initiation he wins Gunlöd's draught of wisdom. In the form of a
development, and penetrated into the new world in this form. They
to the earth as a soul-being; his body is formed out of the ether-earth; the

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which was formerly given to the sons of the gods is lost upon the earth, it
poem expressing redemption from a separate, divided form of existence:
the form of desire. Nevertheless it is a noble form of desire if the
necessary for an artist to have these thoughts in an abstract form. Just

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between what was formerly understood as love in the Germanic
the root-legends which can also be found in a somewhat different form in
In this form
transformation. Later on, in the early times of Christianity
when love began to take on a spiritual form, people sought to throw a
form of Christianity: a Christianity was to be called into life which
things had in the meantime taken place which were formerly
only rooted in the race: with a form of love which is rooted in the
into a higher form of love. What lives within the race must be
two forms of Christianity. One kind is represented by the knights of
the organ of desire. He personifies the form of Christianity which
and seeks everywhere a sensual love, this force takes on the form of
a love which must first be purified, undergo a transformation, like
led toward the highest form of Christianity, it is willing to become

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Theosophists in 1913 and formed the Anthroposophical Society. This
theosophical teaching, and I can inform you that several of our
solar system form? How did the planets and the star groups come into
information about the soul-spiritual aspects goes so far back that no
to decipher the Babylonian cuneiform characters and the Egyptian
performed. I will only point to the books that have appeared
but it was in a completely different form than that of today's
the modern form of thinking the wisdom that has been imparted to us in
the form of intuition. Thought is a force like electricity, like steam
of the world in the form of European thinking and science. These
formation of our earth. We will be led back to the most ancient times
where, in the grayest light of dawn, those beings formed who later

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Theosophists in 1913 and formed the Anthroposophical Society. At that
above all, the formation of our planet Earth, we must make our own
itself in a brain, created it, formed this brain to correspond to its
own being. Such an organ cannot be formed just like that, however. It
level is not the same. The task our spiritual Self is to perform
Before the human being could form this body in order to create the
is the form-giving element. Our physical and etheric bodies must have
a very certain form when they are born, and this form must grow. You
The forming energy is not an astral function. The astral can live
within this energy, but it must be formed first itself. The human
had not preceded it — the period in which the human form was
prepared. Allow me to call this period the “Formation
is the period in which the form of man was prepared, so that his
present form could develop.
“rupa” or formation round, he acquired the ability to give
himself the form he needed to perceive, think and act as a human
was a formless seed. We call this point in time the
“Arupa-Round”, the formless round. Thus we have three time
fourth round the humans of the mineral realm because they were formed
astral round, in which he formed his astral body, a human of the third
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Theosophists in 1913 and formed the Anthroposophical Society. At that
at least a picture in descriptive form of the origin of the world
development of animal or plant life from a previous form, but we also
mean the great transformations within the universe, and we include the
so to speak, before it takes on form in the outer world. Such a
hollow form, swimming in a great, mighty sea of the highest spiritual
than water, only in another form. Raise the temperature and the ice
times. In this way the Earth is transformed from the lowest to the
there were no mineral forms yet, no physical nature energy and no
temperatures that none of our present substances could have the form
and disappearance of irregular forms, also of forms that remind us of
The emerging and disappearing seems to follow a pattern. Forms arise
something that takes on human form, and then disperses. The humans who
elements formed. You can find this second stage wonderfully described
the most wonderful forms coming into existence which remind us of
later forms, only they are not yet solid: star-like forms, angular
forms, tetrahedrons, polyhedrons, round forms and so on. The forms
crystal forms were prearranged, the plant forms were constituted in
water, but forms a kind of mist, or steam. It is no longer an ether
form, but rather somewhat as cloud formations are today. And within
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obvious that the former embodiments are equally detailed, and that it
Saturn-existence. And in order that we may form a conception of how
must form a conception of what is necessary, to be able to feel such
wish to form an idea of that soul-disposition which a man must have
it in concepts, or to form concepts and ideas on it; it is far more
simply a uniform and undifferentiated sea, but we meet here with all
will keep to the same order as formerly: Saturn — Sun —
difficult to form an idea, except for one who has taken the trouble,
move, then you will no longer be able to say that what you formerly
experienced you experienced “formerly”; you are fastened
Rosicrucian initiation is the forming of imagination. The
to-day as transformed into an “imagination “: we can
what we have to attain; we must be able to transform the ideas we
clumsily formed, even if they are anthropomorphic, even if the
— the so-called “Old Schwegler,” formerly much used
these things are transformed on the Sun, and other glorious events of

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being; and we have seen that spiritual achievements formed in truth
the very existence of ancient Saturn; and we have formed a picture of
No man can know what warmth is who is not able to form a conception
the Sun, we must again first form an idea by which we can imagine the
devotion. Sacrifice is devotion transformed into activity. The
life we only know self-will in the form of prejudice, and prejudices
Art, where the idea has an urge to master colour or form in some way
trying very hard to understand something, or to form some sort of
thought. Suppose you have formed the thought. The next day you will
make your mind as clear as possible so that the thought you formed
yesterday may come back into it. What you formed yesterday is
ancient Egyptian-Chaldean age are being reflected. What formerly was
there is now reflected. Everything that formerly existed is
later are transformed into the inner and the outer; and
Archangels preserve? They guard the beginnings, what was formerly
conception of what has just been described and transform that into an

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outermost periphery of the Sun, in the form of light. But now besides
Archangels in the form of light, but also that smoke which was not
intrinsically Spiritual cloud-formations is seen to take place
light. Let us try to form a picture of this in our minds. We must
the centre of this globular formation the meeting of the accepted and
image, we can only compare it with the form of our present Saturn
would then form an element in everything that happens in evolution.
sacrifice reissuing in the form of heat. All that remained as heat on
is to say: In the outer form of the air would have been expressed
resignation of Divine Beings, is necessary to freedom. It all forms

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form stands behind them, as we experience this spiritual in our own
this feeling is represented in an accentuated form. Hence we do not
formerly endured is rising to the surface, he may have different
original form, is — longing. We also know the names by which
Sometimes it takes one form and sometimes another. One person may
in a thousand forms, and would be most accurately defined as a kind
in its immediate form cannot be satisfied; for were it satisfied, the
comes out in every form? It is thus that we must look upon what lives
weakest form, as longing, but we can also see it slipping into the
one place to another, for that is only one of the many forms of
We can form
superficial person takes the form of boredom? But of this boredom
seek to form relationships to new beings. The torment of longing can
another, is but one form of the more comprehensive movement which has
there is only a particular form of change. In this connection let us
place is but one of the many forms of change. And the Spirits of
with the Will now transformed into longing, and within these
naturally in its soul-form, came at that time into our being and that
filled with the balm which flowed into these beings in the form of

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wonder, this amazement, from which every form of learning must
the impression of a presented sacrifice. We can form a clear idea of
proper place. Even when death comes to a man in concrete form it is
something in a concrete form, showing how the solid is formed from
certain sense. Suppose ice forms in a pond; the water then
the earth of which the plants everywhere form part. And when we bring
death; only of change, metamorphosis, transformation. Only with
such thing as that which we call death, nothing but transformation,
already formed. But once more let it be said that if we wish to

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that this building was also to demonstrate how form and
originally primitive form of human life gave way to
another form in which those who had earlier lived as
in pain, with ourselves to form a living unity. How often
word is used in this way in the formula you will be
spirit when we mean its essential nature. The formula is

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formation, the particular stamp to human existence in an
transformed into hatred.
express in their forms what comes to expression in the
consider the form Corneille [1606–16841] and
how they were wrestling with the Greek form. This is of
struggle with outer form, with what Aristotle
[384–322 BC] established with regard to form, lives
That may well be. A German has to form them first in his
character in its outer aspect, in its form? It is a fact
tried to find a succinct formulation for the feelings
make it clear that the words I am about to speak form a

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But they need to be transformed in the soul. They cannot
transformed to such effect that through this life of
to give form and function to something fruitful. It is a
be seen. A cloud formation may look undefined when seen
now emerging in this form because men resist them. An
plane emerges as a product of transformation, as
will therefore always be transformed into a war of
love, for man is transformed by the spiritual life he has
profound transformation is indeed most uncomfortable for
formulating the things I said in my public lectures that
they become effective truth; to formulate them in such a
on former occasions, I would appeal to you, dear friends,

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form of the Christ, but rather the fact that he has been
impulses arising from their former life into their future
our former life. If it were otherwise our children would
its present form. Events had to take that course so that
form of the orthodox doctrine? Well, they found they had
Europe also in the form of an external garment. Souls
souls formerly incarnated in Western Europe or on the
mission expressed in bodily form, as it were, have to

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when Rome was founded anyone needing information on major
possible to get information, from a seeress. But, as I
in the work whatever her form of existence. And she did
These are in evidence even in the outer form and fashion
form ideas; a way that was wholly an inner one, as it
form ideas and concepts. This is why it has been stressed
of understanding we possess will undergo a transformation
transformed to such effect that out of what emerges for
have a bar of iron in horseshoe form here, then it is
characteristic form of things. That is the way to achieve
form concepts, are made inwardly active. To bring
intellect has the greatest powers to give form to the
using the architectural form as such to render such
separate building for this, giving it a special form, so

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hard duties you have to perform.
other. Just imagine someone forming a very clear picture
spiritual process in which moral impulses are formed as a
to form an idea of how much of what man has lived through
You can easily form an idea of what we take with us if
same applies to all the ideas we have formed on the basis
derive from any form of external impression; and one
into the life of the present age, one form of leaven, is
when we form a vivid picture of that person in our mind
into it as something uniform. All thoughts going in one
any external reality. In some form or other this
forces rightly — and expressing it in form of a
form of proclamation. This proclamation reaches enemy
formations' There is no point here in speaking of blame.
be satisfied once we have formed a thought and recognized
has been reached or a thought has been formed. It is
the most important after death. To form such images calls
the form of considering truth to be an inner gift of the
all of anything that happened earlier to help them form

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to perform!
physical world we confront the object. We form ideas
by touch. We know that it is we ourselves who form the
form, being unable to do anything ourselves to make the
words form in that particular way. We need to able to
death had occurred Impressions arose that took the form
possible attempt to receive in its pure form what that
Your own self you were transforming
but those words in the form I have just read them to you.
My own self I was transforming
transforming
are transformed. This applies even more so in the

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to perform!
presented in the form of images and it will be up to you
enveloping form holding this thought, this feeling. We
assumes reality, taking on a form of identity. Then the
something that has definite form, extending into the head
outside.’ The thought assumes the form of a winged
thought grows to assume that form. One feels one will be
see the thought entity taking the form I have described
form with the entities of the spiritual world.
us to digest food and perform a number of other functions
for us to digest our food and perform those other organic
We must let those forms that are without sound or colour
form the brain, for instance, and particularly the
used to form the perfect organ, the brain. If on the
have not been used in the same way to form perfect
marvellous colours and hues upon the forms you are
it out. Letting this radiate out into the forms seen
marvellous structure of the brain — and make forms
digestive process are after all merely transformed power.
We will experience them in their right form if we get

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to perform.
will form the first part of today's talk.
full conscious awareness.) Any form of initiation always
now folded up to form the brain were then able to move
physical organs in forming and holding the thought. We
you are impressing your thought form into the general
and we perform it in such a way that it establishes a
able to give him that information in very high regard.
achieve some form of awareness of the spiritual world
what is also there without science, it cannot form a link

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to perform.
present in water, forming a compound with oxygen, the way
of all encounter the experience with our senses; we form
is a kind of image taking the form of the human head and
the form of a shadow image of a head and its
powers but an imprint also forms and is left upon the
form. He will be very much aware that what he finds there
there in another form. We come to realize that what we
enveloping form of the body and I am at the same time
are as human beings, this lives among the forms of being
moment onwards everything I had formerly considered
revolution in recent times, the Reformation; what is

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to perform.
and the forms, entities and realities of the spiritual
form of existences with a year being a day for it. Within
is the one we call thinking, the forming of ideas. I
point, but the activity of forming ideas takes place in
still older, and the activity performed in remembering is
engrave the signs on which memory depends were in-formed
able to perform this specific function of thinking, of
forming ideas. So you see that it is necessary to go far,
on to the fact I have stated — that a core forms in
between two kinds of human actions which we perform.
There are the actions we perform in the ordinary run of

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to perform.
scientific whole but also of artistic forms and indeed
not in symbolic form, the way attempts have been made to
found expression in its most concentrated form in the
head of this figure really has a form reminiscent of man,
form of the body is such that we may get an inkling...
human countenance, will have to be given a form that
formed the lower part of the auricle (external ear). Huge
for Lucifer merely shows in localized form something that
human form. You will also realize that it has to be an
the left brow formed differently from the right, the
next is really only the earth's spirit in another form:
form of presenting the divine, as the highest form of
this idea will take form. Two civilizations on this earth

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to perform.
transformation. But still, it will often be fairly
variety of form as many of the things we experience here
dissect it out in such a way that it retained its form,
as human beings on earth we form thoughts and will
self in the case of the Russians takes the form of
elemental realm of the earth in form of very, very fine
though in the form of very very fine dust particles. You
Only the Saturn man you have been remains, in the form of
Jupiter existence, forming the solid skeleton of Jupiter.
as spiritual science today has the form appropriate for
present form will perish into night. And then the future
science and influencing Sun man pass across to form the
passes across to form the animal kingdom on Jupiter. The
transforming those thoughts into our whole inner life,

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to perform.
young fellow, I asked a former schoolmate from our
simply a more subtle form of matter, the way English
is called Inspiration. This is a higher form of
in creating the fabric. We perform deeds that are not for
form of thinking he would develop if he perceived the
exists below consciousness would be a heavenly form of
formerly spoken. Yet — and here we get an element
have to say will form the impulses of the future —

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those who are interested in our Movement should form some idea of its
exercised by four-fifths of the world, to form an impartial opinion;
the forms and creations of our building at Dornach, which place
especially in regard to the last two centuries form a picture of
that the soul in accordance with that conforms to all that has been

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avoid mere analogies. The original causative forces for the formation
of the skeleton is from heredity. Man's outer form has a twofold
apparently external consideration of man, from an external form, as
form.
human form in what is approved to-day as science, but in a sense
outer form. At the present time an artistic study really gives far
On approaching the human form we at
rest of the human form. If we thus turn our attention to the most
superficial difference, it may strike us that the formation of the
head as approaching a spherical form is no superficial
spherical formation of his head is in no wise accidental. We must
living being is formed within another living being, as, for instance,
the egg is formed in the body of the hen, he sees there how something
forms in the smallest space; but what does not usually strike him is
take part in it — the whole cosmos in its spherical form
egg is formed in the maternal organism. That of course is heresy in
germinal rudiments is formed from the whole universe, — the
human head forms first in the maternal organism — so too is it
formation work from the whole cosmos, and man's head is an image of
observed, is seen in its configuration, its form, to be more
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than appears to outer observation — should form a subject for a
life of ideas, yet, taken as a whole, we can say that, when we form
death and rebirth (made known in a more abstract form by the lectures on
is only dreamt or slept away, — we shall be able to form an
not so easy as the former). This we know. I shall only add that this
which man is accustomed; for habits are formed in course of life. Not
these ideas if we do not form wrong thoughts about a connection I
to them in conformity with our life of will and feeling, we prepare
life forms and establishes what follows as relationship after death.
interested in what I know of him. When intimate relations are formed
prepare ourselves to join him. Hence we form more

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desire to return and complete them. Formerly one could complete one's
this. We only become free after death to form certain thoughts,
reasons given — that we actually form in our souls the
‘given,’ not formed by ourselves.
formation of such a mood is able to appear on swift wings — it
condensed form, as it were. Our physical world of sense is like
in our environment, and we see how it forms us and brings us forward
described, we approach the dead. Then, when we form thoughts, which
well-informed about it and to look into the facts. (The question of
of intellectual life only one, a former Minister of Finance, was

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But we are not to believe that they do not also form part of reality.
human life. We perform actions. These actions in our life call forth
by his actions, but we do not only form actions and experience
of 40 performs some act, his life passes on through the 50's and the
structure and form with those of man, or the head of the animal with
these two streams will form an introduction to this relationship of

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for our life here and for former companionship. This feeling of
spiritual form — the life-conditions of the Jupiter-evolution.
spiritual world in so far as it is coming to fruition in some form at
Hierarchies also carry the future within them and are able to form
it; but they do not do so without also forming something which is
the perception of what the higher Hierarchies accomplish, forms as it
imagination. A man cannot avoid forming certain connections
This also takes part in forming our
sixth post-Atlantean epoch, we prepare for the formation of such a
feeling; so that the formation of this, which becomes necessary from
to hint at this. When a man forms this feeling of unity he is able to
only forming a picture of it; but it is a picture of a true reality.
first formed. This is an absolute error, — an error taught in
all the same concept we first formed that rises within us, but while
we are in the act of forming the concept, a second subconscious
place of itself subconsciously, like the formation of memory or the

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remembers former incarnations. The remaining organisms are
brain is a transformed spinal cord, and the present spinal cord is
which, as it were, forms a bridge to the knowledge of the so-called
community of which it forms a part, as our finger forms a part of our
mystery. Reference has already been made to it in former lectures
expressed even in his outer bodily form, which shows us man as a
man is because it remembers former incarnations. The rest of his
longer possible for the rest of the animal creation to take form. It
the case; the brain is a transformed spinal cord of former
transformation has taken place. Formerly he could help himself by
seen to-day how we can work upon our souls in forming certain
may be formed between the so-called dead and the living. What has
more to form a kind of perception with regard to some particular dead

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generations. In the form of the arms and hands for instance, and also
only in another form. It is somewhat like this as regards what is
called matter; it is spirit in another form, spirit passed over into
another form, as water into ice. Hence in spiritual science we have
is expressed also in material processes is due to a special form of
really referring to forms of activity of the spirit, as they appear
which they are just the Italian nation, and formally worthy old Roman
formerly inhabited the France of today as well as those who still do
about the peculiar form of the British Folk-Character. But here again
Folk-Soul activities, he is not forming his Folk-Soul in freedom, he is
and will only then rise resplendent in his original form. As the
thought, on the manner of forming concepts, sensations, etc. Thus
through nourishment or breathing. All these forms of heat are a
account, for if we go back to the former periods of the Earth's
their inner life if not in outward form.

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human organic members is perceptible in the form of these separate
members. The arms are formed differently from the legs, the heart
been said, certainly in a somewhat scientific form, but clearly
us should the effort be made to go about trying to form opinions from
former centuries, but that it erected a spiritual wall
with a golden form, a golden crystal form, is to be seen in the
someone who has passed over, of the crystal form of the heavenly
which can be traced back to animal forms. During the Old Moon period
man had animal forms, not those of the present animal kingdom, a more
spiritual, etherical animal form. This has hardened into the human

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works from outside. Mankind must learn not to form
spirit are gradually transformed into the material, the
because it has transformed itself into the body, because
“old,” the reverse transformation is going on.
are not able to form correct ideas as to what is happening on
the ordinary physical plane. We form false ideas about what
allow us to reach it. If we form such concepts as the second
etheric body or body of formative-forces, and the astral
a world of imaginations gradually forms; and his
unformed body. Many people (though not precisely the mothers
“Soul-Man” is formed, one of the principles of man.
the imaginative spiritual-body, forms itself thus; it first
work with him at the forming of his Soul-Man.
already formed in the dead. But these very principles form
we can only gain information about it from Spiritual Science,
devoted to the formation of the “Soul-Man,” which
in the Northern World.” In former times they did not
when transformed into the spiritual element, between death
spiritual life. As formally in conformity with the nature of
former life are present in the child.
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to form a connection with much of a like nature which is
forms of the bones in man and in the higher animals and finds
ourselves upright. While we are transforming ourselves from
round the first line. It has essentially a spiral form,
form. In particular what we call the Etheric or
Formative-forces Body follows these three forces. Immediately
Formative-forces Body takes place in advance and also in the
Formative-forces Body. But if there were nothing there but
his own form coming forth from him. He would perceive it, but
together on Earth within his form. And that leads us to
which work against one another in the form. Indeed in a
certain sense the Etheric or Formative-forces Body Works with
without inwards, the Etheric or Formative-forces Body wishes
death. When the body of Formative-forces or etheric body
things which formally expressed truths were counted of no
in picture-form. Today men tolerate myths, pictures and
among mankind on earth in many different forms in the near
former times, and peace made, and all went on as before. But
representing spiritual reality in the form of thought which
he had the remark: “This is an unusual form of
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call your attention to the fact that what forms the beginning
such ideas, such concepts might form the bridge from the
We must understand that because an opinion is once formed
the Sun-Mystery in the old form; he did not yet understand
units should form together in man a whole attitude of soul,
some of the forms existing before these conditions, who does

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have to be corrected; that much may appear in another form in
forming of ideas) through which we then work upon these outer
external bodily form has an image of the divine reality of
alone is really formed as natural science imagines him today.
is more complicated in its outer form than the eyes of these
In its form is not merely progressive, it is retrogressive.
general; the fact that man, as regards the formation of his
interwoven with an inclination to perceive our former Ego and
then again, to perceive the former Ego and then again the
East something absolutely anti-philistine will be formed; but
one-sided Ahrimanic power in regard to the form the social
at least a few people who formed an objective opinion about

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In former years
From the former
head of each one. Formerly the souls of the individual
expressed in abstract form. We must realize this
have been discovered? Can you imagine that the Reformation
forming for decades in the sphere of so-called socialism, and
flutterings of such a conception, which has been forming for
continually flowing into mankind, and that man has to form
Pan-Anglo-Americanism. That such a thing actually forms part
present day? I might formulate the question differently. In
of former forces of spiritual life in the different parts of
form new ideas is uncomfortable to man, and what I have just
also transformed. For the other years of childhood we may
his etheric body, his formative-forces by, it becomes ever
formative-forces body which grows younger in old age. Men go
have a body of formative forces, which has a sprouting and
would say if at a performance of “Faust,” after
were to allow Wagner to appear in slightly altered form but
approaches him in the form of a poodle:
to form the first part of a little book about to appear:
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forms of consciousness known to everybody — dreaming
third form, best described perhaps as “higher
To-day let us start, if only apparently, from the outer form
physical form: the man of head, chiefly concentrated
sources. If the human form is examined with super-sensible
stream of physical heredity. In the formation of the head one
chief shore in the formation of the head, belongs not so much
awaken a sense for this kind of form, it is possible to see,
through the formation of the head, into what we call the
usually supposed by initiates of a lower grade, the form of
decided, so individual a form as in the head. Each person has
his own individual form of head, pointing back to an earlier
the human form. Ordinary anatomy and physiology see merely
individual form in each person (differing in each one
according to the particular formation of his head) a picture
super-sensible reality, and in dreams we have in picture-form
because the contemplation of the outer form alone is not
its outer form that it points back to a former life; it is
by the senses, and the mental conceptions we form about the
the dream about? It is actually about the former incarnation,
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been maturing through long ages, and in another form will
a form of labour which continually extends its influence over
the laws with which man was formerly in touch. To take the
wider sense, to include its use in the form of chemical
face; the living thrill which formerly passed directly from
in the mechanical forms of industry, etc., on the earth, is
the same degree as it takes visible form on earth, as just
physically the enclosing is there; but the forms of the
complete form develops from the incomplete. The ordinary
so that the bases form incomplete circles. One circle is
erected as to form two circular spaces, a larger and a
forms a kind of platform, there are twelve, as against
fourteen in the former. The sculptured designs of the pillars
perception, one form out of its predecessor; and while, I
material, to express artistic form; but within the concrete
of art through his appreciation of the forms. What has been
etchings in glass. With an enlarged form of dentist's drill,
which forms a work of art with the co-operation of living
wood-carving, architecture and sculptures the pure forms are
style of painting had to conform to our conception. To paint
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familixe form of consciousness; but we have established the
death until the next birth. In short, all these forms of
form was continually present, and the corresponding feeling
of that form. The strength of this feeling made the teaching
spatial form in the dream of his earlier earth-life. His
dream-like remembrance of a former earth-life — chiefly
humanity was to be found under varied forms in the most
consciousness will appear in varied forms in different
be gradually formed into a “system of instruction for
history-myth, elaborated in so many forms, is no longer
forms of the Question (of which the right one will certainly
special form of the Consciousness soul, the most earth-bound
flows the new manifestation of the spirit, in its infant form
now published in book form, is entirely
former Finance Minister! We must take into account all the
form — that these outer forms are not adapted to speak

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back knowing with certainty, in some form or other —
preconditions for forming the right conceptions are
grotesque forms in the future, and Faith will have a great
had not come far in connected thinking or in the forming of
disposition to form very defined conceptions of anything
in the form of “a Church Catholic but not
Dandolo, Doge of Venice (1120–1205), formerly in

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on, in a fully formed body, in which the poles have separated
similar are ultimately reduced to a featureless uniformity.
only; while we form a conception of ourselves, between birth
to the work performed by the soul-Spiritual element on the
studies of this year and former years you will gather that
your physiognomy, in its present form, results from your
physiognomy we can really see a connection with his former
give us our present form, whether great or small. That is
correctly, we should be obliged to look back to a former
life. Paying attention to what forms our organism, in the way
would be thrown on what we ourselves cannot form, and we
would see how it has been formed by an earlier life. We can
first, and this it is which was formed from the past life. In
Jesus. Then the Church took on a defined form. This form can
ecclesiastical forms were given certain tasks — which
been formulated in dogma, the close union of theological
determined Catholic theology as to form, expression and
entirely different form. However, it must remain in the form
humanity, and even then its transformation into
Alive;’ it takes an amazing form in the one on

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form of soul-life developing among them. History hardly
kinship with the Cosmos human souls had owed their former
to put into trivial forms what never could be confined within
such forms, what could be the object only of wisdom's highest
— this was reduced to a convenient formula!
form: “Concerning the Divine-Spiritual only faith is
allowed to atrophy — leading to a purely animal form of
figures as Lenin and Trotsky; as in the former century there
which set out to reform the world are concerned only with the
men with admirable ideas through which they wanted to reform
Notice the kind of thought it expresses, it's thought-forms; compare
principle. Bolshevism may perhaps, in the form of its
higher form, in Goetheanism. — This is plain speaking,
impulse to build up fear of the spirit, so the former seeks
terrible form in the East: a social state based on a purely

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture VII: Problems of the Time (II)
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reform is necessary in our ideas concerning this most
concepts are formed in conformity with which they
Marxism. This way of looking at things is an extreme form of
none! The formula is repeated in many different ways: —
— and themselves take the place of the former
of revival of the Mysteries, in a form adapted to the modern
form of the Mysteries. Comprehension of all this is
with which men had formerly looked at the world was dying
power. In this way, out of the cosmos reform the many
forms, simply to penetrate a little way into an imaginative
fructified, it will assume an Ahrimanic form, and the earth

Title: On The Gospel of St. John
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The German original of this lecture is available only in the form or
available only in the form or notes and the text is not always
comes only from Intelligence. Formerly, all the affairs of life were
transform the Earth, spiritualise everything material; we must
Paradise. In free, creative activity men must transform the Earth.
of material existence, the importance of every form of manual work
Neurasthenia. In earlier times it was unknown, in its present form.
The true form of Christianity to-day is called Theosophy and it is a

Title: Occult Significance of Blood
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lectures form part of Steiner's remarkable public lecture series
the blood flowing from the cut forms the words: “Oh man,
undergo a peculiar transformation with regard to the whole conception
form what the occult investigation of today is revealing to us with
flourished. It is an axiom which forms the fundamental principle of
when you gaze upon a human countenance, you must not stop at the form
before the first tendency toward blood formation becomes apparent. The
groundwork for the formation of blood, with all its attendant system
and from this natural science has rightly concluded that the formation
attaining to the condition in which the world was before the formation
of blood, is it ready to perform this crowning act of evolution
the former, by hearing them thus applied to new and special cases. To
shape and form are concerned, is but a part of the complete Human
just as I am. All that there is in the world must conform to my
“feeling” may exist, an image must be formed within the
in the first place, that which has crystallized into form as man's
body, that living Force which exists behind the visible form.
that substance into living sap. What is it that transforms the
living configuration, a living form.
that which the etheric body has transformed into living substance is
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Title: Lecture: The Lord's Prayer
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Meditating in even the simplest way upon one of the formulas pronounced by
the spiritual leaders of mankind, admitting to the mind a formula that
— and letting such a formula really live in the heart and experience,
form of his prayer will be but a means of rising to higher spiritual realms
each soaking up a part of it. What had been a uniform mass of water is
flowed into human nature to form its eternal part, consists of name, of
physical body. What was formerly in us is now somewhere else,
formerly he drew in what he needed from the universe, as a single drop in
In this form of salutation, man concerns himself with the deepest
All formulas for meditation in the world's great religious societies
Not at all; rather, the great wise men have adopted these prayer forms
form of prayer was born of this great knowledge; and the great Initiate

Title: Lecture: On Chaos and Cosmos
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created the Heaven and the Earth; and the Earth was without form and
“The earth was without form and void” — these are
many words have assumed quite a different meaning. Formerly it was
worlds not only deeds, but words. In former ages this was done; and
founded; it guarded and preserved the occult secrets in their form
from Physics that most substances can be transformed into gas.
which was formerly there in the water, divided there into finer
passes over into quite another form. This new condition, the
vapourous state in a higher form of development, is what we call the
and Comenius, the gaseous state was unknown in this form. It was in
which, however, as from a gas, the Universe was formed. Once upon a
clouds of misty vapour are formed out of the gas, so out of the
Heaven and Earth, and the Earth was without form and void, and the
us into vibration, and every word shapes itself into forms in the
Godhead, working formatively into this space. Then we hear the words
original foundation. Then it became cloudy; the seeds were formed;
the shapes and forms arise; worlds were formed out of the Chaos. But
perhaps at one time a beautiful, marvelously-formed plant, an entity
in the world that had also once been formed out of the Chaos. Then it
past of our earth. For Spiritual Science the future form is the
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Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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By means of external documents and information we look back
is in our time. If in the first place we form a preliminary
formation of Grecian cities and also in Greek Art. We saw too
Roman laws. Whereas formerly man had felt himself part of a
to them, that which he performed according to the spiritual
are just as familiar forms as are men upon the physical
conformity with truth when the sages attributed the words to
they were able to bring to the men on earth the information
information as to what was happening in the physical world.

Title: Lecture: The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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events of that time, we find quite different forms of humanity.
etheric parts of the elephant form, which stretch far, far beyond the
man. That sounds terrible for modern man. That which today forms the
other men so that they form a ring which again sends its forces
forms a unity in itself, and within it, the egos. Thus there is a
which forms a unity because the egos are caught up in it, and the
over the world. These human beings form, then, this “round.”
That which is formed through the flowing together of their egos is
not indeed such a beautifully formed etheric body, but still it is a
because their egos formed a unity — and indeed, there were
Everything was still in a soft, slippery form — seething,
Among these grotesque forms were already, of course, the ancestors of
— such egos as were adapted to quite special forms, which were
category to enter another. The forms which were below must correspond
in their formation, in a certain way, to the kinds of egos which
waited. There were forms existing which were especially adapted to
have called the Bull soul enters quite definite forms which are there
soul was drawn to other special forms.
in their form. They were those in whom the heart, the seat of the
heart was specially developed, formed the human beings whose group
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Title: Lecture: Christianity in Human Evolution
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or parts thereof in any form.
and elementary a form as possible. It is, however, also necessary
course of time, we may perhaps not find it at all in a former fleshly
etheric body received its archetypal form because an avatar had woven
original to be formed, and these many copies could be woven into all
etheric body were formed, his own etheric body was also preserved in
forming false notions of all sorts of things, but immediate
Dominican, but that the thought forms employed in the natural
learned the thought forms of the scholastic science of the Middle
capacity. Then for a time Christianity in its true form was
forms as the foundation of the objective world.
form and present thinking could only be developed from the astral,
etheric and physical forms of Christianity. Christianity has now
it is also true that the ego form of humanity can appear only after
the astral and etheric forms of Christianity have been developed.
will arise in new form. The transformed astral body will appear as
the Christian spirit self; the transformed etheric body will appear

Title: Isis and Madonna
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clothed in abstract formula but seek artistic expression.
true this has always found its scientific formulation in certain
in a sphere out of which the forms of the visible world are fashioned;
that lives in space and time. Formation, transformation, this is the
have a confused feeling of inter-weaving, hovering form, just as
that the further we go back to ever more imperfect physical forms the
look upon the material form, man's physical body, as a densification
physical, until he comes to his present physical form. The age to
physical form we see today. But spiritual science looks back into a
formations out of which the spiritual is born in the form of angels'
and Raphael, where after many transformations the Child and the
appears to us only as final emblem and symbol of the earlier form of
form of a spiritual Mother who is behind her; and we see the
back to ever more spiritual forms of fructification and reproduction.
times and transformed in accordance with the progress made by humanity
fructification out of the spirit of the world is given tangible form
given new form in the modern pictures presented throughout the world
masses of cloud form themselves into the heads of angels, and out of
this when he gave final form to his Faust when he had led him on
work in this form as divinity once again in the heart of man, and give

Title: Lecture: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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easy for our present consciousness to form a true conception of these
born. The body too is born from them but at first in spiritual form.
This true form of man is now hidden.
playing his own part, they form a kind of higher organism or body, and
culture. It was present in all Germanic lands, in a much stronger form
are content to draw their information about Spiritual Science from
Parsifal or Grail legend is simply a form of the Christ Mystery. The
transforming his “ether-body” or “life-body.” Out
of the transformed ether-body (it is a transformation of feeling),
transforms his willing and therewith the physical body itself, into
“Atma” or “Spirit-Man.” Thus by transforming his
finally his physical body into Spirit-Man or Atma. This transformation
notice has been taken of a legend which was given poetic form by

Title: The Nature and Origin of the Arts
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kind akin to dreaming in its form. It was the manifestation
the first time thou seest my real form.”
and changing movement into dance, completed it as a form.
“Now thou hast transformed me!” cried the figure
Spirits of Form by grouping thy steps into a rhythmic
pattern. Thou hast brought me myself to Spirits of Form. But
the Spirits of Form who are charged with the bringing about
upon the mission of the Spirits of Form thou wouldst destroy
transformed into one arising out of mad passion. So long as
just done and by grouping them into form thou makest in thy
steps a copy of those mighty measures performed by planets
when they think of a spirit form. The figure which confronted
their own physical form, where they call him one of their
earthly form, for she had been asleep but a little while, she
could pour into that form everything now contained in the
pour into the form just what thou expressest by movement. As
the form into a grimace, and the destiny of thine art will be
personalities; that which permeates them in the form of a
persistence to their individual forms. But they have fettered
feeling of selfhood and dissolve thyself in my form —
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Title: Lecture: Buddha and Christ
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form of existence that was satisfying in itself. Therefore, one
teaching of Gautama Buddha, although in an entirely different form,
it then, which collectively is Man? It is Name and Form. But
then, it is even so with the name and form of a wagon. If we gather
which stands before me as Man, Name and Form pass from life to life.
Is it then the Name and Form of the self-same Being that appears
transformed itself. That which was growing upon the mango-tree simply
name and form; but it is not the same fruit. Still, one can punish
earth-life strives to reappear transformed, as effects, in later
parts. This man busies himself in the world, and performs various
Form, reveals itself in all its emptiness! There is no truth in
the parts into movement, but performs all the separate acts.
Form; when nothing passes from incarnation to incarnation save the
revealed at last in its true spiritual form. What is apparently
greatest of the forms of its presentation, no less than in its
that arises from man himself, who has so formed his organs of
outer world in its true form!’
man is so imperfect a being that he cannot perceive the true form of
before the true form of the outer world can be perceived. Repeated
possess the forms of his present knowledge.
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag I: Das Wesen der Geisteswissenschaft und Ihre Bedeutung Frü Die Gegenwart
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die Worte, die etwa in dichterischer Form dasselbe geben,

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag II: Leben und Tod
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naturwissenschaftliche Definition von Leben in dieser Form
verstehen, wenn wir ihn einmal in einer niedrigeren Form

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag III: Menschenseele und Tierseele
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Form, ist er innerlich lebendig im Tier. Dieses
den Formen, in der gesetzmäßigen Wirksamkeit des
und physischen Stoffe so formt, daß sie Lebensprozesse
als die Meister, die der Geist geformt hat, damit sich das Tier

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag IV: Menschengeist und Tiergeist
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Vorzugsweise in der Formung, in der Ausgestaltung sehen,
überall sehen wir sozusagen den in den tierischen Formen,
Tiergattung. Die äußere Form und das äußere
wirkt sich der Geist in der tierischen Form und Organisation
Organisation einer Ente an den plastischen Formen zum
Elefanten an den plastischen Formen zum Ausdruck bringt? Und
die Form hineinschießt, in der Form sich
gewissen Weise in die Form hineinzugießen, so
wir eine tierische Form mit unserm plastischen Sinn studieren,
individuellen Formen sehr vernachlässigen. Beim
Geistes am Menschen, diese Ausprägung des Geistes in Form
der Körperformen sich diese Kräfte wirklich
Innere des Menschen sozusagen in die äußere Form
berechtigterweise die besondere Schädelform interessiert,
so müssen wir sagen: In dieser besonderen Schädelform
in der Stirnform, in der Schädelform finden wird.
Formen, die im menschlichen Schädel zum Ausdruck kommen,
in der Form in unmittelbarer Beziehung arbeitet, wie die
einlassen, was in der menschlichen Schädelform, die das
unmittelbar sich auslebt in den Formen. Da das seelische Leben
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag V: Das Wesen des Schlafes
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ein Gegenstand, wie es die Farben und Formen, Wärme und
etwas ganz anderes; der Spiegel zeigt dir nur die Form,
ganz anderen Formen, jetzt denkst du Bilder, unabhängig

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag VI: Der Geist Im Pflanzenreich
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in diesen oder jenen Daseinsformen auslebt, daran denkt man in
sprechen, sondern die von den besonderen Formen, den besonderen
sondern wenn er sich die Formen, die Ausgestaltungen der
Pflanzenformen und Pflanzengestaltungen zu untersuchen. Worauf
herausgestaltet wird in den verschiedensten Formen. Goethe war
BlÃ¤tter formt, sie rundet und sie auch im Gewinde um

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag VII: Wie Erlangt Man Erkenntnis der Geistigen Welt?
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bereits aus der Schule mit — formt sich der zentrale
Welten herunterholt, in logische Formen, die genau dieselben
logischen Formen sind, von denen auch die andern Wissenschaften

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag VIII: Anlage, Begabung und Erziehung des Menschen
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kleinen Keim eines Lebewesens, der seine Form aus sich selbst
machen soll, diese Form im äußeren Leben darzuleben
seiner Umgebung aufzunehmen bemüht, formend und bildend
Plastiker, der gleichsam das Gehirn formt. Wir können
diese Formung des Gehirns in den ersten Zeiten, ja Jahre
Gehirn erst dazu geformt? Und wir können antworten:
in den ersten Jahren vergessen hat, was uns formt und bildet im
ruht, was aber in uns schafft und formt, wird das, was wir
Organisation formen will im Leben, findet er in diesem Leben
Daseins! Daher tritt plastisch bestimmbar, formbar sein
Mensch, seine eigentliche Wesenheit formend und gestaltend,
theoretisch in ganz bestimmte Formen eingeschnürt ist. Da
bestimmte Formen hineingezwängt, während es sich
die geistig-seelische Organisation zu formen.
unterscheidet sich von der in feste Formen geprägten
uns Angeregte sich zu Gefühlen umformt, dann leben wir in
Organisation, bekommt starre Formen, und der Mensch
gewissen Weise ausgebildet hat, dann formt dieses Gehirn, das
Seelisch-Geistige der Former, der Plastiker, der Künstler
weiter viel mehr zur Formung der Anschauungen beiträgt als
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag X: Galilei, Giordano Bruno und Goethe
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Bücher des Aristoteles oft gar nicht in der Form, wie sie
göttlich-geistigen Wesenheiten in die Formen der
«informierte» Schrift der Gottes Weisheit. Das war
ist für ihn der Geist in der Natur? Als Form, sagt
Form hat, in dem Tier, das Form hat, in dem menschlichen Leib,
der eine Form hat. Und was in den Dingen draußen als Form
einfach in poetische Form umgegossen hätte, was
zeigen, wie das, was in der Natur der Form nach lebt, eine
einzelnen Teile der Materie formt. Die Materie folgt dem
einem besonders geformten Schädel den Genius Schillers
Schädelform, die dann auch in die Fürstengruft
Schädelform. Die ganze spirituelle Grundanlage
Schädelform schrieb, und besonders jene Zeilen, die so oft

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XI: Was Hat die Geologie über Weltentstehung zu Sagen?
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darin zuweilen groteske Formen mischen, die zum Beispiel in den
neue Gebilde entstanden, die eine neue Form geistiger Wirkungen
unterste Form eintreten sehen, wo von der nachfolgenden Zeit
die einfachsten Wesen in der kambrischen Form von der

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eine Entfaltung verschiedener Bewußtseinsformen
Entwickelung nicht nur die Ã¤ußere Formenwelt,
Bildern, die zwar in Bildform uns vor die Seele treten, aber in
dieser Bildform auf ein wirkliches Anschauen einer geistigen
Menschen die ragende Pyramide an in ihrer viereckigen Grundform
menschliche Form, wÃ¤hrend sie vorher
Menschenform und das andere Mal draußen ausgebreitet sind,
Mechanismus der Uhr geformt hat. So wie die Zeiger einer Uhr
Menschenteiles geformt wird, in welchem — unsichtbar
die Steine siehst und auf ihre mathematischen Formen,
merkwÃ¼rdigen Formen, die von innerem Leben belebt
Form stehenbleiben, sondern mußt in das, wo seine
aus der Natur das herausgeformt wird, was physisches Werkzeug
hellseherischen Formen und Gebilden ×™ die
verhÃ¤lt, so konnte man es in Form der Legende
Himmel und ihren Formen hergenommen, was man wirklich als
die Urformen der Schrift ansehen kann. Denn so wenig, wie
Ã¤ußere Formen gegossen, herumgestreut in den
auf die stehengebliebenen Formen uralter

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XIII: Buddha
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hat sich erst aus einer anderen Form des Bewußtseins

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Bewußtseinsformen traten in verschiedenen Arten, in
durchgeht, so daß irgendeine Bewußtseinsform sich in
selbst heraus die neue Mission zu formen. Daher mußte die
sonderbar es klingt — in einer abstrakten Form das, was
sich in einer etwas verÃ¤nderten Form, indem wir aus

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XV: Was Hat die Astronomie über Weltentstehung Zu Sagen?
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Form von Bewegung innerhalb der Welt der Atome und
eine bestimmte Form vonBewegung in den MolekÃ¼len
der Erde gewesen sind, von einer Urform abstammen, welcher das

Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture I: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod
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die auch in der älteren Form der Geisteswissenschaft sich

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von innen heraus sich formende Schicksal; und in dem, was
sich formt, Plan und Zusammenhang ist, sondern auch diejenigen
formen, die an unserem Schicksal mitarbeiten. Und weit ist die

Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture III: Seelenunsterblichkeit, Schicksalskrafte und menschlicher Lebenslauf
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einem Denken kommt, das in seiner Art, in seiner ganzen Form
derselben Form, in der wir sie heruntergelassen haben in das
Form des Denkens, Fühlens und Wollens
Hufeisenform und sonst nichts, und du bis ein Phantast, wenn du

Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture IV: Menschenseele und Menschenleib in Natur- und Geist-Erkenntnis
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«teilweisen» Form der edlen Seele nachfühlt, der

Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture V: Seelenratsel und Weltratsel: Forschung und Anschauung im deutschen Geistesleben
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Stoff-Formen — denn auf diese kommt es ja jetzt an; wenn
Forschung dazu, außer diesen stofflichen Formen noch etwas
Stoff-Formen nur gelten zu lassen, welche ich eben
nehme an die drei Grundformen: feste, flüssige,
jenes einende Formprinzip des Leibes nicht gefunden werden,
ihre Formen hereinbringt, sie gestaltet, sie ausbildet. Und I.
bestimmte Form der Sichtbarkeit abgestreift. <Totsein>
Muschelschale ist nachgebildet die Form der Muschel, die aus
dem Leben geborene Form. So ungefähr hat man aber auch
Beweis werden für die niederste Form des
dann feste Formen angenommen hat, zu Planeten, Sonnen und
aus der Schule mit — formt sich der zentrale Gastropfen,
Instinkte ebenso erblich sind, wie die Formbestandteile unseres
uns festgelegt sind wie die Form unseres

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gewordenen Luft, in Form eines Meeres. Die Kälte, wie sie
nach seinem Weltenbilde sich in der Vorstellung zu formen, und
Ich habe bisher in dieser Weise nicht formuliert, was ich in
der nur in seinen Formen manchmal nachbildet das Geistige. Denn
bereits aus der Schule mit — formt sich der zentrale
geformtes Tröpfchen, nimmt ein Kartenblättchen und
Weltenbild sich formen aus den physikalischen Begriffen,

Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture VII: Das Jenseits der Sinne und das Jenseits der Seele
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versetzt, nimmt sein Denken, sein ganzes Sinnen gewisse Formen
daß das Fluten, die Form des Flutens, alles, was da ist,

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Science and Speech
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imagined, for instance, that speech-formation took its start from the
sound and calls the dog ‘bow-wow.’ Word-formation of this
word formation, — at least so it was stated by those who
working, from his Ego outwards, as it were, at the transformation of
in a far-off future the human Ego will have transformed these three
transformed. Whereas formerly it was not worked upon by the Ego, it
consciously transformed from out of the Ego, ‘Spirit Self,’
for them even to-day. Man will only begin consciously to transform
consciousness, the dim activity of the Ego has already transformed
transformed astral body, or sentient soul, belong together in the
memory, is connected with a subconscious process of transformation of
past ages already worked at the transformation of the physical body
in order that man may exist in his present form. The product of this
transformed into the vehicle of so-called ‘human
spiritual activity has been at work on our sheaths, imparting form,
Group-Soul similarly transformed, developed and regulated the three
what is inwardly working there correspondingly forms and transforms
soul, intellectual soul and sentient soul, he is also transforming
if it lays hold of the whole soul, has a transforming effect on the
influence, man's form was so moulded that it has become, on the
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Title: Lecture: Prayer
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recent lecture on mysticism I spoke of the particular form of
forms of knowledge, designated the imaginative, the
misunderstood than when it is permeated with some form of
within us greater than all that we have employed to form
transformed into a feeling, we shall be able to observe what
transformed into feeling and perception.
future, when we transform it into feeling and perception?
the form of a judgment of rejection, of regret or shame, but
thus easier in this case to transform the idea into a
transform into a right feeling what comes so surely to us
one of two forms of prayer that lead to an intimacy with God.
why it has failed so to form itself that it can approve of
definite form, an acceptance of what the future can bring
ideal form it would be the sort of soul attitude that would
result of this second form of prayer that is directed to the
it in our words and ideas is the second form of prayer, the
soul. Impulses of will and ideals formerly strange to us rise
counterforce that assails us with greater vigor in the form
Silesius, which form a fitting conclusion to our

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drips steadily from strange stone formations upon the stalactites
architecturally formed entirely out of the spiritual world, a
former times and who had gone up yonder to help now from over there.
poetical form, awakes in us a feeling for the kind of perception
from their own soil. For what they had experienced in the form of
souls in a purified and milder form. And thus we may say — it
Erin's finest sons the ancient battle cries had now been formed

Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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past. There are still among you a few who, in a certain respect, form a
with us six or seven years ago, and have formed the nucleus around which
at what belongs to other worlds in order to be able to form a judgment
richer and more extensive than the physical life, which forms only a small
first thoughts formed in the morning, the first feelings moving through
and it will be easier to form an idea of these classes if we take an
passed to a definite being of the astral world. Then the man formed
to form many such currents into the astral world, and we would also
form of anxiety or a feeling of love are connected with another being
is not so; it is like this: When the thought has been formed, it also
form of this thought, and another being stretches out from itself the
same space as a newly-formed being. In this way, there is a continual

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themselves find their way and form a nucleus through whom spiritual
principle of the etheric. A leaf is formed, then a second and a third;
There is a kind of wreath of leaves forming the calyx of the flower,
though they have a different form from the other leaves. Yet, you feel
that it is still a recapitulation of the same leaves in altered form.
essentials, they are still leaves — greatly transformed leaves.
and flower petals are transformed leaves, but also how one must see
recapitulation; it causes the transformation of the green leaves into
form leaves and flowers, then the plant-soul permeates and tastes all
would form circles flowing round the earth. This astrality harmonizes
then find another that belongs to this one. Now you observe the former
in it, it would be particularly fitted to transform the physical and
submerge into a body, not organs of food-intake are formed but organs
that come together there from outside must form a unity. They did not
on the top, there is a formation that has, actually, no other ability
causes the whole structure to stand upright. If this bell-formed part
nourishment, but instead, they possess certain muscular formations. These
formations, one kind that only keeps balance, another that only nourishes,
there grow ball-shaped forms that have no other capacity than reproduction.
beings is delegated to quite distinct formations that have no other
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Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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does one attain knowledge of the Higher Worlds? [Now in book form],
alter and transform it, so that it becomes different from what it was
The process that transforms
Things are clothed in pictures of form and color, and through Imagination
— deprivation in most varied forms, nuances and differences; that
forms of the astral world. No one must believe, therefore, that if he
— this is what conjures forth the true form of the astral world.
powers of knowledge is attained through the transformation of one's
are so transformed that he or she may be led up to higher knowledge
and experience. When pupils gradually develop and transform the content

Title: Prophecy -- Its Nature and Meaning
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times was really a form of astrology. The mere mention of this word
form and that prophecy as a whole is a much wider sphere, connected
his predictions seemed to rise up in him in the form of strange
life reveal conformity to law and principle does not gainsay our
freedom. Many people are apt to say that this conformity to law in
but nevertheless related form. In those times, therefore, causes were
different forms; in short, the effects of causes laid down in ancient
in the womb of time and appear again in transformation, so too this
The forces in Nostradamus' soul remained and were transformed,
transformed into the gift of seership. The same may be true of human
the same form as those of Nostradamus after their transformation.
Hebrew prophets in the form of mighty pictures and visions. The gift
with the transformation of surplus forces in the soul.
them before him and believes that they conform to the realities of
which more or less conform to fact. And one who rightly exercises the
has formed, not for the appeasement of cravings for knowledge or of

Title: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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soul life: one that forms an extended, or subconscious (as it is now
on normal well formed sense organs and a well-developed brain. Are we
friend Overbeck (formerly Professor in Basle who died a few years ago)
chaotic forms apparently lack all law and order, yet follow a subtle
transformed, and, after several intermediate phrases had been passed
when spiritual science informs us that from falling asleep to
man's grasp of form, giving him the faculties needed to look at things
as a draughtsman and to express what he saw in forms. The central core
all flow into the transformation of the body and then appear as
transformation into his consciousness, enabling him to exercise his
asserted through a particular dream. It is clothed in this form to
produce the faculties in a crystallised form. But this stage having
dream its activity is transformed into forces evident in conscious
being still needed first to form the organs which will produce the
mankind is involved in continuous self-transformation. Man is sometimes
animals performances. In this way we can survey the whole range of
not applicable. For who performs the operation, even when it is carried
out by an ordinary man who is no philosopher? It is performed by the
former quite special experiences. One will then find — anyone who
following is seen. As the man's former urge had remained unsatisfied,
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Title: Good Fortune Its Reality and Its Semblance
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“The right to form a judgment on the content of such privately printed
value too of the forces forming the foundation of human life.
which ought to develop regular forms according to definite laws, should be
forming its proper angles. There are actually very few crystals in Nature
perfectly formed in accordance with their inner laws. Or, if we study the
what is without in picture-form is also within us in our apprehension of it;
with what dwells in the soul of a man who has to perform some menial,
perfect in form but permeated by a deep life of soul. He left excellent
man has prepared this bad fortune for himself in a former life, and that in a
former life the fortunate man has prepared his own good fortune. Such an
inmost core of man's being. In former lectures (see
transform the experiences within ourselves and what we make of them. If
means of the transformation described, that man is actually called upon to
approach him and raise his existence, he can, nevertheless, so transform it
reality. Thereby man becomes the transformer of outward semblance into
in the inner and a semblance transformed into real being. It is only because
that man transforms semblance into reality shows us that this dualism is
transformed into inner reality. And life shows us, too, that what we
To be sure these truths are often presented to us in a very crude form.
of his life, can transform them and assimilate them with the evolving core

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formed quite specially that exactly the same causes, powers and
the natural investigator Wilhelm Preyer forms his own imagination. He
life formed backwards, in a certain way, so that the latter may
It is indeed true that the great results of natural science performed
in showing the metamorphosis of one form of life into another, and
of today's life forms, perhaps by means of a few differentiated
original life forms. But then Darwin says, in a very characteristic
forms of life back to an original one and in explaining the life of
speaking of these original forms of life in such a way that he
that if we could assume there was life in its simplest forms created
simplest forms full of such impulsion power, such impetus that it was
able to transform itself to complicated and manifold forms. —
more and more complicated forms through adaptation to their
already transformed into the lifeless. And the belief that life can
us as matter is only a transformed spiritual — then it
back to a form of the earth where the earth does not present itself
moving, but not formed, living matter in the most inferior organisms,
matter is, so to say, a living but still unformed substance, and
that which we call the formative principle, the transcendental
formative principle, as something purely spiritual at the starting
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Title: Lecture: Death in Man, Animal, and Plant
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in one form or another, as poison phenomena making an end of life.
of death, insofar as this death may then be spoken of as uniformly
ceases, as of a plant death added to the former death.
form the exterior corporeality, so long as the essential soul and
to explain again in detail what has been already indicated in former
even in the form adduced by the already-mentioned Russian scientist
hypotheses he can form a world conception which apparently stands
form the result of the disposition of the soul of our earth. And if
external form; just as in man the spiritual triumphs over the merely
instinctive, represented not in the separate form but certainly in
appear in such a way that what forms the foundation of the spiritual
individual animal form. We could only speak of a real death in
to a victory of what the lower, the individual animal form being
forms the background to our will impulses and in which this constant
in any form can indeed also be something which signifies an advance
incarnations, so that the life also assumes a more exalted form —

Title: Lecture: The Nature of Eternity
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then expounded, in a form suited to Western consciousness, in
thus: whatever may be maintained by any form of spiritual
Former
Among the innumerable concepts a man is able to form, not one
former lectures. For it is a fact that we make a certain
transformed into warmth. Hence we say that energy can be
transformed, can go through a metamorphosis, but can never
felt again. But they live on withal us in a different form,
of will that are then not transformed into action but into
point, as it were, and they appear again in a new form when
undefined features and faculties gradually take form. Finally
gate of death in a concentrated form, in readiness for
the fruits of his former life. In this way the ego proceeds
former life, and gathered together as the ego of his present
our body, like our sheaths, and our former experiences. All
to overcome it. The deeds of my former life, now forming a
when we re-enter earthly life we form ourselves again round
when it will unite itself with the deeds then performed. When
each link in the whole is formed, and all abstract
Science, however, this idea can be transformed. Before our
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Title: Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci
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receive the impression that every form of the human soul and
colors formerly used were not striking enough. He wanted to conjure
wanted to own something of his. First he would form an idea of what
the human form, he would enlarge a single limb, to ascertain how in
organism. Caricatured forms — in all sorts of contortions —
and their original form is no longer recognizable) we have the “St.
this form they correspond to what we can now see of the “Last
with respect to Judas, is, that this form itself conjures up a shadow
science new ideas and new conceptions were formed, but where it has
molded the form from an external model or made studies in detail as
instance, all the forces that formed that arm. Man felt himself
within the independent inner being of his own form. He did not look
at the form from outside but created “consciously” from
within, for he was still conscious of the formative creative force.
existence, which might take form in art, and the fragment of it which
embedded in the super-sensible; they must live in it to form the
soul: “Symmetrically and beautifully formed, there he stood, as

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will be among us in another form.
decreasing and because of the various forms which this longing for the
that this should have taken such a remarkable form. Sir Oliver Lodge
possible to form a complete picture of what happened, from the
atavistic forms of clairvoyance, which appear as presentiments. For
may here be said to have taken a materialistic form. Sir Oliver Lodge
form, in one known part of the earth, so will the etheric Christ walk
the form in which He will be seen in the great moment of evolution in
strength of the impression made by the Gospels in their existing form
may be so permeated by the words of the Gospels as to form some idea
the form in which these words were laid down in the Gospels at the
it what it really contains. The Gospels, in the form accessible to us
time indicated, in the twentieth century, in various forms near to the
believe that they put the question in the form in which it is put

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 2. The Metamorphoses of the Soul-Forces
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formed. This feeling of personal gratitude to the higher kingdoms
dead but alive, — living in a different form of existence. A
different form of union with the Spiritual world. It is now only
in a definite way to form certain thoughts and ideas which we could
lecture, when Christ will walk the earth in His etheric form. I even
original activity can be suppressed, — but they then transform
— these forces will transform themselves into the forces of
illusion in human life. Their activity then takes the form of inducing
the capacity of forming accurate concepts concerning external physical

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 3. The Human Soul and the Universe (part 1)
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forms and images — manifestations — of the divine Spiritual beings by
The fact that we are the Microcosm, the little world formed and
forceful information about these things, said very much the same from
bodies which forms the head becomes the expression of every feeling of
seen that that part of the etheric body which forms the head projects
aura in rudimentary form as I have described; but it still has to be
consciousness of every man in some form or other; but the
in its living form and living practice enkindles the Spiritual
(which in different people may take various forms) as something which
in another form in a like connection, in the book

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 4. Morality, As A Germinating Force
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from a former incarnation. I have been told that this is very
to have been formed by the concepts of Natural Science. These people
were formed; they do not know that the ideas of Natural Science have
centres, whose mind and disposition have been formed in accordance
formed in accordance with purely earthly physical and chemical laws,
point; it is not the ideas that we form that signify, but the attitude
form that a purely mechanical idea of the origin of the world was
the tendency to form conceptions of a materialistic nature. This
form. They lack the necessary courage for this. They still admit of
common life; that man must form these moral ideals, though they can
is transformed into the grave. People do not sufficiently carry these
believe themselves to be very courageous, the Christ-Mystery forms
course, even if the earth had formed itself as the mechanical world
their height in forming the seed, in which they become visible. But as
present in man, and he chiefly forms these during his sleeping state.
The forces then formed, my dear friends, are not immediately related
on the forming of our future, meet us during our time of sleep.
future. Just as what takes place during sleep forms the germ for the
descendants of their ancestors, carrying over from former incarnations
compel the smoke of the incense to take on form. He sought for such
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ones, for those who form the partly-true concepts and ideas rely upon
body and because we are tired we must sleep! I have often, in former
forms of his being; hence these parts of the body, as such, correspond
understand above all, that the whole man is formed out of spirit, but
at different stages. The head of man is formed out of spirit, but is
more fully moulded, it belongs to a later stage of formation than the
which finally culminate in the formation of the blood. The ego is
beings have today, that head is, as regards its outer form, the
head, to make its outer form a manifestation of the spiritual, that
the human bodily nature as regards their outer formation are the least
to form them by observing external conditions, by studying the
external world. Ideas formed in this way alone, leave the inner part
concepts except such as he forms under the influence of outer
the impressions and ideas formed in the outer world and to apply these
One possibility formed as a result of not taking up Spiritual Science
stimulated to form ideas by outer circumstances people may let
the forming of spiritual ideas, we shall so mould our thought that it

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own human soul will also belong when it has formed the Spirit-Self; in
pictured animal forms in the signs of the Zodiac. But it is only the
on in that world. While asleep at night the forms of the stars in
experiences man formerly went through when asleep at night, there are
depends entirely on the arrangement and formation of the metal filings
ages, of course, but it was formerly perceived by means of atavistic
was formerly perceptible to the atavistic clairvoyance of man at
connected with this; and, as I stated in a former lecture, the fact
the former vision only filtered through in fragmentary form into the
gained, not only of the great religions, but of every form of
some justification for calling Him the Sun-Spirit. But we can form no
and forms part of the earth while he is awake. During the night time
west form the second direction of space, that direction of which we
outer life. These form just as great opposites in man as above and
astral body. Then for seven years he forms the sentient soul; from
twenty-eight to thirty-five he forms the intellectual or reasoning
of our system. Now let us consider this. If Saturn forms the boundary
I have already pointed out on a former occasion, that many things of

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 7. Errors and Truths.
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inform themselves as to what happened from the earliest times down to
whether one absorbed or did not absorb the peculiar form of ideas
human head, when a man forms ideas. Everything in the nature of the
smallest use in putting what one has to say to the public in the form
today. The mode of forming ideas which de Saint-Martin employed is no
in which they must, and rightly so, formulate their thoughts. Just as
first, so would it be foolish today to use the form of thought of de
had to be. In the former the external world was only just beginning,
but in its dawn, subsequently took a different form.
theosophy directed to Natural Science, a more religious form of
the particular form in which it then reached a climax, ruled, I was
comparatively humble circumstances, who did not even form a connected
his fiery zeal against all forms of idealism.’ ... Such a
tendency of the time of the Reformation breaking through again, as
peculiar form in which the thoughts appear. It seems to me that there
background, with its wonderfully formed mountains in the far distance,
poetic form. All this would be inconceivable if it had not been
material structure such as man, who in his form is the expression of
able to form an idea of how these things can be expressed according to
Not only have our conceptions undergone a great transformation, but
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Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Universe
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forms and images — manifestations — of the divine Spiritual beings by
The fact that we are the Microcosm, the little world formed and
forceful information about these things, said very much the same from
bodies which forms the head becomes the expression of every feeling of
seen that that part of the etheric body which forms the head projects
aura in rudimentary form as I have described; but it still has to be
consciousness of every man in some form or other; but the
in its living form and living practice enkindles the Spiritual
(which in different people may take various forms) as something which
in another form in a like connection, in the book

Title: The Story of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily: Lecture I
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in many different forms in the various ages. It is the task of the
Theosophical Movement to look for these forms in the various
his works, it forms the conclusion to his “Unterhaltung
is to be found! Yet it is in all the editions and forms, as I have
even more intimate way than in the former. I shall try to disclose in
put them into symbolical form, and expressed them by symbols. This
abstract form, but that a sort of experience or initiation was
that a man is transformed thereby. A certain shyness must possess a
organized for a higher life. These three bodies form, according to
of free love, what he was formerly driven to do by his own nature,
forms part of a man's nature, it makes him self-seeking and
resembling human forms — the Serpent had reached a temple; this
noon the green Serpent laid itself across the River and formed a
River, — that too can form a bridge, but only in the hour of
who is weak, can do nothing of himself; but his shadow can form a
it should be ready to form the bridge from one side to the other; so
selfless, the Serpent is transformed into precious stone, which forms
Temple, which is none other than the transformed hut of the Ferryman.
It is a remarkable feature that Goethe transformed the hut of the
original elemental power, — in the form of storms, as they now
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Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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Life and Form are the two principles that must guide us
through the labyrinth of the manifested world, in multitudinous forms,
were not to appear in constantly new forms. The form is the revelation
of form, were it not ever and again to become seed for the building of
new forms out of the old. The seed of the plant grows into the developed
form of the plant and this plant must again become seed and give a new
form existence. So it is in nature everywhere and so it is in the
forms also change; life maintains itself through forms of infinite
variety. But life would lose all power were the forms not perpetually
renewed, were not new life to spring forth as seed from old forms. Just
life changing in infinitely diverse forms during these epochs. In the
lecture on Theosophy and Darwin** we heard of the diverse forms
something of the forms that existed in the ancient Vedic civilisation
a common life flows more and more into external forms, for this reason
it may be called the epoch of forms, the epoch when on every hand man
is taught to devote his life to form.
Wherever we look we see the predominance of form. Darwin is the most
forms of animals and plants in the struggle for existence. This
confirms that the attention of science is directed to the outer form,
animals live out their lives in the most manifold forms but that
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is the same Festival, but in its Christian form. This Festival was

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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form as the physical body. It is, however, not of the same nature
which I have often described — that cloudlike formation of
forms. Illogical, confused thoughts come to expression in figures
of man has taken a somewhat different form, as since that time, since
perpetually transforming our aura. But this transformation must be
arise, and so on. The whole coloring of the aura transforms
transformed aura.
forming, developing, and interweaving the available capacities of the
described, takes on a form that may be compared with that of a Lotus
been formed in the far-distant past; today eight have still to be
progressed so far that he begins to form the astral sense-organs,
self-consciousness. The etheric body in its present form is
outer world are the single letters, and the word that is formed from
form themselves into a picture before him. And then he emerges. After
appearance of a blessed memory of some former existence as a great

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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forms the basis for the greatest advantages and greatest achievements
from the path. Therefore, these qualities must be formed with the
and, finally, the higher members which form the basis for the
and animal life, in its external form, takes its course rhythmically,
Then our dream-life begins to take on a conscious form. If we are
connecting something formed in the physical body with the
begins to form its members. From a lump, it grows to be an organism
in which organs are formed. I have described the astral sense organs
because you are not far enough to be able to confirm the information.

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celebrated it, in another form. Then the days begin to draw out again
able to form a clear idea of the process of the development of the
they lived in forms which were suited to the conditions of existence
The form and essential being of everything that lives upon our Earth
who inform the Initiates in the temples what is happening in the world
Christianity itself which will form the subject of a later lecture.

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no longer work. It is easy for the pupil to form false ideas about
rearrange them. Only an overview of the information shall be given
Initiates, bring thought into ordered forms. All of this is a part of
form of thinking must enter. But for the three worlds below the
same form of thinking is valid. One who therefore schools himself in
Imaginative cognition forms itself out of these things. Then it is as
perhaps beautiful shapes, as animal heads, plant forms, or even
in an alluring form, whereas a good characteristic may not
clothed in the enticing form of beauty, but virtues are in modest
occult script? There are certain pictures, symbols, which are formed
planes. It can present itself in the form of one vortex entwining
in all possible forms. When you understand this figure, you can grasp
through it how one race transforms itself into another. At the time
of formation of the first sub-race of our present main race,
formation of the human physical body. The eye was created by light,
ignore. There are many people today who have transformed their
Through that which forms
Devachan. The next is the ability to see how forms change from
one state to another, transmutation, the metamorphosis of form. Man
they had another form; before that, another form, because he found
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not merely a single animal, nor form a particular relationship with a
comprehension of the group-soul if he is able to fashion a form that
is a quite concrete picture individually formed in the imagination.
region of the Devachanic plane. Then he observes the flame-forms that
in different forms and colors, but the fundamental experience
particular configuration and form. Let us go back in the evolution of
the earth. It once had a completely different form. Let us immerse
sheaths gradually began to form with the cooling process, enveloping
always being formed in man during the earth's evolution, something
correspondingly new had also been formed outside in nature. The
First the etheric body formed itself and this again formed the human
physical organs formed out of the finer etheric body. The physical
organs were formed within man while outside the earth became solid.
In every age the formation of a human organ took place parallel with
the formation of a particular configuration outside in nature.
kingdom the chrysolite was formed. One can therefore think that the
man formed the eye.
for the reasoning faculties was formed in the Atlantean age,
powers submerged themselves in the various forms of existence. At
Satyr type, in which we find a completely different form of the
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strength and is noble and outstanding, and from this he forms an
streams into the soul like the divine in its different forms. Hence,
however, transforms the three states of consciousness. First, man's
transforming dreamless sleep into a conscious state. This world that
to surround its forms; it does not wish to absorb anything from
expresses it in his philosophical formulations.
transformed into matter. The same is true of the works of sculptors
form.

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture III
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the physical form of the body — of the nose, for instance —
is much older than the sense of hearing. Formerly, man perceived

Title: Lecture: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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been preserved through the ages, varying in form according to the
awakening and only then was the sacred Act itself performed. It took
with the earth, when earth, sun and moon formed one body. Even then
The staff with which Moses performed his miracles is cut from the wood

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the king asked the former glass king if he knew where he could find a
many different forms. This was not like one of our dreams today,
around us are the facsimiles of our own former appearance, people
everything was formed and brought about; through
everything wisely. While the giants are generally seen in male form,
is formed and themselves forming everything. In these figures we see
fleeting forms of our astral organization. When we recall the
impressions of the day, it seems as though the subtle etheric forms
form behind it related to our own intellectual soul, we will perceive
a union of the night-form with the day-form.
strength, and as we see their forms in images according to their
that lies behind sense perception peopled with such forms. In our
forces in their true reality. However, the transformed glass king
finally appears in his true form and is the very personality who can
transformed; these forces assert themselves when the human being
original form and recognize it as such. Everything has to correspond
question may arise whether the human being has the same form today as
answer is no, we do not. We have passed through very different forms
overcome and cast forth appears in a quite distinct, external form.
other than the grotesque form, transformed in the spiritual
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simple and elementary a form as possible. Thereafter,
received its archetypal form because an avatar had woven
those days the human beings had egos capable of forming
thought forms with which natural objects have been tackled
learned his thought forms from the Christian science of the
Christianity in its true form was repressed for a while until
beings with their ego form and present thinking, could have
developed only from the astral, etheric, and physical form of
that the ego form of humanity can appear only after the
astral and the etheric forms of Christianity have been
development and way of life will arise in a new form. The
transformed astral body will appear as the Christian spirit
self, the transformed etheric body as the Christian life

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form. Similarly, if the soul wanted to create a substitute
good for the human form. By becoming similar to Osiris, the
yet perceive the Christ-Being. The being that was formerly
cultivate and improve it. Ancient Persia formed, as it were,
steadily progressed — was able to form a new astral

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 1: The Mission of Spiritual Science
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— which is as old as humanity — appeared in a form very different
from the form it must take today. In speaking of the present, I naturally do
collected by the new forms of scientific thought. With regard to external
new form to what he had found emerging from the course of history or from
Kant was wrong. Kant, says Goethe, claims that man has the power to form
order to give answers in a form adapted to the soul-powers of mankind in
But they had to transform what they saw into symbolic pictures, so that
soul. Today myths are regarded as fantasy; but when in former times the myth
higher knowledge was given to a minority in symbolic form. While today we
times the only valid forms of expression were pictorial. These pictures are
downwards. In former times, this picture could kindle an active response; the
to information given in ancient writings, for in himself he had nothing that
form not given to the senses, will be increasingly understood by those who
researchers will impart information that goes against the facts. Moreover,

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 3: The Mission of Truth
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time it gradually transforms the powers of the soul and makes it capable of
towards truth; but when people try to form views concerning one thing or
form a thought or reach a decision about something, does it follow that we
tree. No-one could form a true image of the tree from this one photograph.
forming a view of something is doing much the same as the photographer who
form an opinion or take a certain view, we must realise that all such
learn more about beauty, we turn to aesthetics, which deals with the forms of
importance of truth for the education of the human soul. Truth conforms to no
instrument, he has to formulate laws that are not part of the outer world.
possess the content of the world as his own truth. All forms of seclusion and
have been formed by the living wisdom which calls forth their inherent
Nothing more can be done except to formulate thoughts about the thought
thoughts take form as realities in outer life; here he is working after the
to subtle forms of egoism. In order to find confirmation of truths gained by
extreme form. Then Prometheus comes forward carrying a torch and emerging
whilst the latter take what Nature offers, the former work on the products of
Nature and transform them. Therefore Prometheus says of the shepherds: they
Her form sublime, from ancient dark emerging,
Then Hope, also, is transformed in the soul — Hope who says yes to
ended with the transformed Elpore, Elpore thraseia, coming forward to tell us
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speech. In all forms of mysticism — and Goethe gives these closing
form to its present stage. We cannot say this of the human soul, for the soul
have the will to enter into everything which forms the object of its
form. The sentimental soul, with its fond dreams, wandering through life as
bear on it, and it is the same with the super-sensible, whatever form this may
be deceived by information said to come from the spiritual world if he has
in whatever form it is experienced by the soul, whether through prayer or
of reverence in human gestures — what forms does it take? We bend our
always prone to error, are permeated by the light of the soul and transformed
youth reappear in a different form during the years of decline. If much
whatever form, who pervades and animates the cosmos.
itself with the unknown in any form. If the Ego has lost itself, it will

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 6: Asceticism and Illness
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word asceticism ought to mean. In its original Greek form it could apply as
particular colouring from the form taken by this way of life during the
senses and yet can give us truth. One of the first stages towards this form
it in the form of a conversation between a teacher and his pupil.
which is no longer capable of life, the dry wood, and set it up in the form
that it is possible to call forth a different form of consciousness. I have
accomplishing something, transforming sleeping forces into active ones. This
energies which are transformed into achievement, and therein lies the
information about the spiritual world while lacking the inner urge and
in the human soul: it is a bad form of asceticism when someone
attitude has existed in many forms in
statements are in strictly logical form, and that in other realms, where his
does try to develop these inner faculties, and makes use of such forms of
world. This, indeed, is the outcome of many forms of training and it applies
quite mistaken to regard this as a form of asceticism which can be a means of
concepts which are formed in observing the sense-world. Hence we can say that
the spirit were only an infinitely refined form of nebulous matter. In

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form. This Society had elected a President, as all societies do, and the
quite petty forms of egoism, perhaps out of vanity and the like. On the other
beautiful as she can, and to grace herself with the finest possible form,
upon to sacrifice its highest self on behalf of its successor in the form of
species and to exist as an individual. We shall come to know the true form
accomplished by the Ego in transforming the other three members of his being.
purify his astral body, so that he transforms it into something which is
so far as he transforms his astral body, he creates what we call Spirit-self,
be possible for him to transform by degrees his etheric body, and so to
processes in his physical body, the transformed part of it will be what we
being. In the far distant past the Ego transformed a part of the astral body,
eye is formed by light for light.”
astral body the Sentient Soul emerges, formed by the work of the Ego from the
eyes, if he can rightly rejoice in colours and forms, if musical tones give
takes this form, so that man is not continually nourished and vitalised by
plant is in course of imprinting its inner being on its visible form, the
the human organism draws its form and substance. How painful it is for anyone
indicated. Wherever egoism takes a perverted form, it has a desolating effect
by bringing the true form of egoism into harmony with our
shines back to us. As our eyes are formed by light, so is our strength of
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 8: Buddha and Christ
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that Spiritual Science should be charged on this account with being a form of
in a quite different form, has no more significance for Theosophy or
its significance from its whole way of thinking and forming ideas. Our best
that the composite form designated by a “name” does not actually
with the composite form that is man, which passes from one earth-life
the form. But just as with the chariot, when we look on the sum of the parts
that what passes from one incarnation to another are the name and form of the
the name and form of the same being?” Nagasena answers: “Behold,
the fruit has the same name and form, but it is not the same fruit. Yet the
Buddhist, stands before us. He plays his part in the world and performs
away from the sense-world! For if we reduce to name and form everything
brings out clearly enough, even if in a pictorial form, what
which holds together the parts of anything is only name and form, and if
nearly perfect, until at last it appears in a spiritual form. Even the least
resurrection when the spirit has transformed it in the right way.
recognises not only that repeated earth-lives occur but that they form an
in its true form. Christianity, accordingly, looks for a pre-historical event
which has prevented the human heart from forming a true picture of the outer
while retaining the forms of modern knowledge. Today we are living in a
of the greatest of men left his palace, saw a dead body and formed the
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 9: Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
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“scientific”. Since the views of most people are largely formed
crater-like formations, grooves, plains and valleys and suchlike, and the
Consciousness Soul. That which forms crystals in the mineral realm is
them so that they may acquire a strictly scientific form. Inspiration and the
one of us has come in soul and spirit from a former incarnation, so has the
earth emerged from a former planetary incarnation. But our earth retains
the force which keeps it in orbit through having once formed part of the
the body, and reappears in a new form at the next incarnation. Here there is
relation to the moon reflects a former condition in its own evolution. Man's
higher qualities which were formerly an external influence and which are now

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture One: On the Investigation and Communication of Spiritual Truths
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other hand, we shall never say that the one form of truth we
But at the same time he will communicate them in a form
when he has clothed them in a form in which they can be
physical plane and must be moulded into forms appropriate to
their true form. A man lives in a web of ideas, of impulses
possible to give a more artistic and individual form to what

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them and since buried in the earth, and then tries to form an
Anthropology forms an idea of the various stages through
try to understand and form certain ideas of the nature and
when the Earth and Sun were one, when Earth and Sun formed
agree that the animal forms and plant forms on the Earth
forms of to-day are adapted to the conditions prevailing on
the present Earth, so must the animal forms of that earlier
body of Earth plus Sun. It follows that the animal forms
from the Earth, and also animal forms which are survivors
understand something that confronts you in the form of an
the eye confronts the light. A sort of organ is formed from
our own previous ideas; and for anything not formed in this
incarnations. This organ was formed then and we confront new
‘I’ in its true form. Everything else comes
comes to us in its own intrinsic form.
‘I’ we transform everything into an inner
Thus we form pictures of the external world which then live
itself, and are consequently formed in the same manner.
strong forces of the external world it is stimulated to form
form imparted to it by the surrounding world.
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Three: The Tasks of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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culture-epochs, for an idea of the future can be formed only
in this form it is a very abstract truth and does not lead us
acquires its basic forms and with the coming of the second
teeth these forms are to all intents and purposes
seven years is the construction of the bodily form.
forms assumed by scholarship as it is to-day appeared only in
preserved in the grotesque form of letters and words printed
transformed the knowledge to be communicated into something
received by men in the form of an inheritance continually
this period the basic forms are developed; whatever comes
later is merely expansion within these established forms.
the first time to take the form of concepts. The ancient
forms of modern scholarship but to some extent this is
but the concepts as such had to be formulated before the
forms of thought employed on the physical plane. This was the
forms of thought applicable to the physical plane. In the
first mastered in the form of symbolic concepts. In short,
epoch has an important task to perform, it always happens
concepts in their old form to the physical world. It was his
where in its present form it must be given new life through
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Four: The Symbolic Language of the Macrocosm in the Gospel of St. Mark
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former times could be attained only in the secrecy of the
what had formerly taken place in the deep secrecy of the
revealed all the secrets formerly revealed by the astral body
diverse forms. When a man wished to pour his soul into the
proclaimed: A higher form of Initiation will be vouchsafed to
Gospel of St. Mark be possible. We had first to form an idea

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pride, arrogance, vanity, ambition. All these forms confront
injured by all lower urges, by every form of egoism in human
distinguish particular forms. But still I could not see what
the forms actually were, for I was not yet perfect. Again I
its highest form by the great Buddha. Taking Zarathustra as a
do not always entirely conform with the individuality and on
would see grotesque, fantastic images and forms, said by
if on rising into the spiritual world, animal forms appear.
These animal forms are indications of our own irresponsible
animal forms which attack us and try to force us into error
in the form of hostility, as in the case of the
revealed in its loftiest form by the great Buddha.
point. What had formerly taken place in two separate streams

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Six: The Son of God and the Son of Man. The Sacrifice of Orpheus
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Reformation, another in our own day. The Time-Spirits, the
Beings of an essentially different order. To form an idea of
Time-Spirits to still higher forms of revelation. Such
through forms of external culture, the effect made by nature
expressed in his pictures, or form a living idea of the work
form assumed throughout the Lemurian and Atlantean epochs and
forms of earthly existence into which man had entered through
individual in society is conditioned by whatever forms part
the form of consciousness which has produced this feeling of
a man's consciousness in an abstract form only, for
Man's picture of himself is pure maya but his form of
consequently saw in female form whatever communicated
form. Hence the command of the God of the underworld that no
present, in its highest form, the consciousness otherwise
In the normal man of to-day these two forms of consciousness

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plane our actions can never wholly conform with our highest
perform a deed in life that is of greater importance than our
single deed we perform an image, a picture, is left in the
etheric body and in that form remains perceptible in the
form an idea of how the fruit — an apple, for instance — is
thing remaining to us as an inwardly formative, upbuilding
most concrete, most balanced form. One of the achievements of
they will in any case be very limited in scope and this form
water; matter is formed out of spirit — call it

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eight: Laws of Rhythm in the Domain of Soul-and-Spirit.
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widely than it is to-day, that men will be able to form an
traced right back to the time when man was formed from
that the picture he has formed of it may be a caricature or
with enthusiasm; it takes definite form in his soul and he is
merely a matter of information about scientific or artistic
form.
only a subtler form of egoism. They will come to feel the
in conformity with law. And when some idea occurs to them,
the form in which certain things are presented by St. Mark is
declare that in the form in which the ‘I’ is
present, it cannot function; in this form it must be killed
cosmic laws — it must rise again in a higher form. And
divine wisdom into the form that was fitting only in the
formerly be experienced only in the Mysteries became
perceived in its real form: for it is a law that what is to
a metal plate and forms itself into figures when the plate is
body is filled with numbers of such figures or tone-forms

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Nine: The Moon-Religion of Jahve and its Reflection in Arabism
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significance of that time. When we try to form some
descent was transformed gradually into an ascent. The Christ
Egypto-Chaldean epoch are repeated in a different form. The
nevertheless recognisable form.
the Jahve-religion; we may expect that a similar form of
Spain: this represents a re-emergence, in a different form,
Mohammed in an intellectualised and individualised form.
into abstract forms. They reappear in the wonderful
is impossible to form any idea of how much the
world-conception which arose in a new form under the symbol
form of Mercury-culture.
contains elements of Eastern wisdom, particularly in the form
this stream there is another, claiming to be better informed
form. The attempt might be made to transplant this as a fixed
and has assumed several different forms — Josaphat,
will see that it was known where the later form of Buddhism,
accept it only in the changed form in which it now appears.
original form, neither will Buddhism — to the extent to
form. It will appear in an altered form, because what comes
body does not appear to us to-day in the form imparted to it
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Ten: Rosicrucian WIsdom in Folk-Mythology
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fundamental to the spirit informing our Movement that we
form, many people felt that there was something in the air
of the old form of theosophy, but who also knew that owing to
but in a new form. I am going to read you a passage written
breaking through and was held together in its manifold forms
conscious form; its influence has flowed into the hearts and
happened in European culture, can we form an idea of how this
form. This Rosicrucian spirit goes back to a very distant
form some idea of how this spirit made its way into humanity.
astral bodies were formed; and how finally he entered into
We have formulated definite ideas, for example of the
different form. People did not travel about giving lectures
must become my servant and perform a task that is not easy.
performed his task. The Dragon-mother then presented him with
experiences and their souls were transformed by new forces.
They gave their message in the form of a story about a
coming from a ditch and thereupon performed a good deed.
pictorial form and the soul was helped to understand what we
form of concepts was conveyed through the picture of the
the soul through the thought-forms they created; and the
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Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: Lecture 1: The Poetry of Fairy Tales
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emotions, and will forces — but this form of consciousness
consciousness has developed out of the earlier forms in ancient
understanding them. The soul formed these into pictures and images
transform one thing into another in a trice — something the
form a concept of this creature who lives within you and is so much
arrows. They shot so well that the arrows formed figures, towering
elemental, primary form. Knowledge of these soul-happenings, when it
is present, does not destroy the ability to transform them into fairy
everything connected with it, they are of all forms of literature the
clearly perceptible form, the result will be great art, intrinsic
forming itself, bringing about the growth of its body, unfolding its

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Dritter Vortrag, Berlin, 18. November 1913
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durchaus begreifen kann, und auch in jener Form, die der Geistesforscher begreifen kann, die

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Vierter Vortrag, Berlin, 6. Januar 1914
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in der neuen Form jenen Zusammenhang

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Fünfter Vortrag, 13. Januar 1914
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hat, daß er aus Erde den ersten Menschen geformt hat. Aber
kÃ¼nstlichen Formen gebaut,

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Sechster Vortrag, Berlin, 10. Februar 1914
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Frucht wächst. Name und Form sind es nur, was die neue Mangofrucht mit der alten gemeinsam

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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becomes substantial and forms itself into a kind of being. And then
with definite form, which from outside our head continues inside so
outside.” The thought takes on the form of a winged human head,
knows: “Now that I am awake, I think, I form thoughts, I
thoughts formed themselves. The one approached the other, explained
cannot immediately be their master; the thoughts form themselves and
may under certain circumstances bring information about other human
appears to us in the form of a dragon. We must contemplate him when
we must let these colorless and soundless forms take on life from
because the colors are expended in forming, for example, the brain
bodies are drawn out of these organs, the forms seen are imbued with
used in digestion are involved in a process of transformation
of death, and he wished to give this information, to reveal it.
can become universally familiar through the form of knowledge called

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Our thought also turns to the Christmas Plays so often performed among
the Ego build themselves up and shape themselves to that form which we
cosmic heights and take earthly form in order to be a child of earth

Title: Social Forms: Address: On the Occasion of the General Meeting of the Berlin Branch
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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
initiation and the impulse for freedom; and viewpoints on the forming
forms.
spiritual life in the form it must take in modern
Central Europe, and wrenched itself from my soul in the form
could not simply be continued, as it was in the earlier form
he hesitated and asked for more information about it. He

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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
initiation and the impulse for freedom; and viewpoints on the forming
forms.
outward form from within, how various features appear, smooth
segments of life take on special form when one has such an
as a soul-spirit being, increasingly takes on form in the
form solid, contoured concepts; to be sure, the child
forming the body, and the culmination point of its activity
transformation in the soul life! When through spiritual
intuition that Goethe said, “A talent is formed in the
formed in the stream of the world, in the exchange between
transformation of the larynx or similar organs. Here you even
works upon the shaping of our form until the seventh year,
him, and spirit worlds that build him up, that transform him.
there was a nebulous formation, and that out of it, the sun
and so form the carpet of color, the network of sounds, and
conglobulated. Human beings form ideals; what is to become of
did not conform with that was wrong. When people spoke of
an especially grotesque form. This is no longer the logical

Title: Brotherhood and the Fight for Survival
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form, “sisterhood” doesn't even appear in the
Spiritual Scientific Movement know that our first aim is to form the
more than the gentle critic.” This we can find in various forms
were the main forces for forming out the character of these human
principle of mutual help appeared in a different form. Those who felt
common professions and trades began to form sort of trade unions
building guild was formed in which cooperation came about agreed upon
selflessness come about in forming the totality? None of our cells
pain in our hearts, to take up the Fight for Survival and transform
have to wait till that which forms roots in the totality ripens to
It is true that a talent is formed in quietude. It is also true that,
in the stream of the world, character is formed and with it the whole

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ancient, holy events, the birth of Christ was transformed to
letters of which man forms the word.
with which to perceive it. — The sun formed the eye
— light created light. Formerly, before any such outer

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over into the memory in the actual form in which it is
believes he can have genuine spiritual experience in the form
pictures formed by himself and a direct experience of a
spiritual world takes a different form each time. We may be
formerly fallacy, he finally recognises the truth of the
form as in the ordinary waking life of day. The
sense-impression is always transformed into symbolism —
a transformation that is actually brought about by the life
such, has been transformed in this way in the soul;
transformed, cast into symbolism, by the soul. For example,
transformations of the outer stimuli of dreams. But the
such a form. You will at once say to yourselves : Anxiety is
rest — is transformed into a dream-picture of this
result of the soul having brought about the transformation of
him. He was healed by the form taken by his dream and was
form moral judgments, but that when we act morally the soul
world is not changed; the form assumed by the pictures is
In the dream he is not aware of it in this form, but he
kind. Again it is a matter of transformation brought about by
real, whereas we know that it is merely a symbolic form of
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Title: Raffaels Mission Im Lichte der Wissenschaft vom Geiste
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Reformation. Wie charakteristisch erscheint uns der angedeutete
ob unmittelbar eine Art von religiösem Reformator die
Zornesworte gerichtet hatte, gegen das sich die Reformatoren
menschenähnlichen Gestalten formen, von denen eine, wie
die schönen Formen, sinnlich palpabel. Raffael blieb mir
formt, eine solche Seele stellt sich dann wie etwas ganz
Bevölkerung sich wieder hinlenken auf die Formen, die
künstlerischen Form ihre Götter-Ideen
zu formen versuchen, wenn in unsere Seele einströmt die
sich die Griechen nur in Gestalten geformt gedacht hatten, das
Formenschönheit, tritt uns in dem gegenüberliegenden
der schönen, vom griechischen Geiste durchzogenen Form. So

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 3-16-'13
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post-mortem state, s is the spinal column's form. Thus the masters

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poisoned. Now the form in which the experience is clothed isn't the

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that's when ego-consciousness began. The physical body's form is
which his light form comes to him, there the Christ is also.
A man will then experience that the light form of his astral body is
floating towards him, and he'll know that this light form is

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within it. For these formulas were given to you, dear sisters
the physical plane we encounter his physical form in which an
think that we see someone there in the same form as on the
give the right expression to the human form. These messengers of the
Spirits of Form are as it were still at the childhood stage, but
and were sent out by Spirits of Movement and Spirits of Form. Other
they bring single letters together to form a word. Man has 12 senses
helpers of Spirits of Form, Movement and Wisdom. These

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-5-10
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body's form was reflected in the earth's first beginnings.
rise before us later and remain there in its true form, and

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 1-17-11
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other and eventually form physical objects. The harder a stone is,
one who never thinks supersensibly never brings new formations into
etheric body, but the etheric body is inclined to take new forms and
thoughts into itself. Old forms have a destructive effect on it and
forms, the lotus flowers, are created in his astral body.
ideas we form about theosophical teachings — for our thinking

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the two feelings well, we can form a concept of the difference

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and concepts form in us; we get to know the thing we're looking
theosophical knowledge? We also form concepts and ideas about
astral body and forms certain new members there; new threads become
that a man's astral body surrounds him in an egg form. Since an
becomes transformed into the symbol that initially means earth but

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passions, we were brought ever further away form the goals that the

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formations on the earth's surface are produced by destructive

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physical eyes that were formed out of indifferent organs by light. As

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the pupil should imagine that fire burns the child's form that
the illusion of an ego has been added. He sees how the form turns to
that's now only a pile of dust for him was formed out of the
made him into what he now is as a form. And we should take what the

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father and form the upbuilding forces there that are most strongly

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your will world beings are working. This can be transformed in him

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture I: Aim and Being of Spiritual Research
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however, I would like to form the single talks in such a way
has to intend that which is ancient in an always-new form, even
we can look down today at the childish achievements of former
forms of development. Thereby one gets around to imagining a
special form of development not as a final truth. Since just as
about nature which forms one level of human development which
aims at a form as natural sciences have that it has, however,
and forms, as physical ears hear tones. By such exercises, the
particular in the today's form by the fact that it can be
of measures to quite different performances than the so-called
perform. Of all these things cannot be talk in the true
to the usual memory. You have to do certain inner performances
these performances. If you have managed by these performances
remember only the soul performances that you have done. You
repeating of the soul performances. Without such condition, you
that was in it once. The corpse in all its forms and
that which should be performed as outer institutions for the
second that matter forms the mind. If we believe that we are
benefit. If we believe, however, that the spirit forms its body
what had to be performed within this war, a man speaks, after
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture II: The Human Being as Being of Soul and Spirit
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can give information about these parallel phenomena. One must
spirit, than everything that was tried to perform about the
argues again that real science can be performed only in the
inform himself because of hunger and thirst of those processes
play about that which forms the basis of the soul as something
experience only how mental pictures form a group, how a mental
experiences have led me to this form of spiritual science
contact with the outside world and thereby transform their
those exercises that the soul has to practise to transform the
Das Reich (The Empire) the body of formative
is there in which chemical transformations of the blood take
of the spirit as you get to know the chemical transformations
the chemical transformation of the body subjectively hunger and
formative forces,” as we feel the physical body usually
Sometimes I anticipate something in a former talk that I
we feel the body of formative forces in ourselves as we feel
in the remaining world with this body of formative forces. Then
supersensible in the body of formative forces as if a tone
formative forces proceeds much slower than the life of the
plant body of formative forces. I have more exactly explained
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture III: Goethe as Father of Spiritual Research
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Philosophical Confession of a Former Capuchin that appeared
point. We will see immediately which deeper impulses formed the
that he had to form own mental pictures of these or those
secrets of nature. You know that he formed views this way that
notice in a letter to Herder in which he informed his discovery
continued this view just in relation on the animal forms. There
nothing but transformed vertebrae. He thought that the
growth, can be transformed into the cranial bones that surround
Goethe carefully indicated the cranial bones as transformed
complete human brain is only a transformed part of the spinal
cord as a physical-sensory organ that the human formative
forces are able to transform what is only a part of the spinal
Goethe really had the idea to regard the brain as a transformed
“The brain is only a transformed cerebral
leaf. The coloured petal is the transformed green leaf, also
the stamens and the pistil are to him only transformed leaves,
plant leaf as formative force can accept all possible outer
forms. Goethe explained this so nicely in his writing
brain which itself is transformed from a part of the spinal
to develop sharply outlined concepts only forms the firm
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture IV: Mind, Soul and Body of the Human Being
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and mind. I have also already indicated in a former talk that
experience to the bodily processes which form the basis of the
things, actually. Only these things that should form the basis
of spiritual science are, like the scientific performances in
Two points form just the starting point of spiritual-scientific
is performed not with the help of the body because the human
based on something opposite that forms the basis of the
conscious life partially in ourselves. While we form mental
forming the consciousness, seized the whole body each time as
the destructive process that the mind performs.
from the psychic only which forms the basis of the soul
pointed in a former talk to the fallacy that happens there.

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finds in the sensation of hunger that expressed what forms the
nature approach the human soul in a new form. I will point here
body, a supersensible body forms the basis of his physical
have also called the body of formative forces in the magazine
Das Reich forms the basis of the physical body and is an
what forms the spiritual basis of the human body at first.
not only generally that the spirit forms the basis of the
while it faces the etheric world, it forms, stimulated by that
inner agility of this body of formative forces. One discovers
above all that the body of formative forces is not dependent on
formative forces has than that of the physical-sensory body.
physical-sensory, is still on a former developmental level.
lower organisms. The lower forms of the organisms appear in
of the formative forces of the etheric body by which it follows
them. No matter which form one cut out: upwards head and
for the human-mental in the body of formative forces. It is
certain place into the lower animal being; then there forms
lives not only in this form of consciousness but also in other
forms of consciousness. If one does not know other forms of
that the usual consciousness is only one of various forms of
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considerations of Wilson, and that what Wilson has performed,
ways of thinking, Lamprecht said to himself, the former merely
historian performs describing so clearly:
how new feelings form,
former talks.
mental pictures that we form from these percepts. Compare only
Imaginative cognition forms in it. It is the first level of
the ancient form. One did not tell history, one told myths and
a former talk, if the spiritual researcher learns to behold in
something else appears. The result of which I have to inform
reflect everywhere. There the individuality starts forming.

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natural sciences have performed as great achievements up to now
to inform details, rather I would like to evoke a sensation of
question very suggestively is the form that the wholly
However, one forms wrong mental pictures of the scope and the
to misunderstandings about what forms its basis, and that one
The former represents the view that only the material is the
Those listeners who were present at the former talks know that
animal realm faces us in most different forms. The animals are
“material” which is formed most different by its
different animal forms is intimately connected with the
gravity if the hind legs are formed different from the forelegs
he lifts himself out of all forces, which form the basis of the
determined from without but is formed in his own organism. Now
is poured out in the most manifold forms what is poured out in
can observe; we form thoughts about that. Of course, I know
animal forms lives in the human being in extrasensory way.
While he freed his figure from the formative forces of the
sensory form of the animal.
animal the form, which it has, and another animal another form:
the animal. The human being, however, forms back his
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acknowledge in a certain sense that everything that he performs
relations. We have spoken in a former talk about the
regards as an inspiration is nothing but the transformation of
in mind. There quite weird performances are carried out
something quite different than of forming mental pictures.
the object of the outside world and form, inwards directed, our
that that which forms as a mental picture appears and
organism the mental picture is anew formed. What I want to show
very necessary for the human being, namely that which forms the
consider such a thing like this accompanying activity forming
unconsciously, but quite normally to form the memory. For that,
formed it, so that you know, any part of this mental picture
life to the formation of memory. You have pushed one level down
fact depends on that the human being is able to form memories.
your consciousness by its nature. This memory-forming force is
related to the formative force in us in a way. Since while the
near by the memory-forming force. Always something immediately
growth and the memory-forming force to a compound thing which
formative force is — increased and refined — the
same to which you appeal if you form memories. However, it is
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fundamental tone: while you apply those inner performances to
consciousness. However, from my former explanations you have
he is aware of his weaving. While forming the figment of the
forms the basis of the work of a spiritual researcher appears
this retrograde process exists that really destruction forms
investigates what forms the basis of this Inspiration, that is
view of that which as a former life on earth forms the basis of
forms the basis of the human extremities suffers no devolution;
That which I have described now has to form its basis as it
imagination. That forms the basis of the free will.
humanity of former centuries and millennia that had another
must arise what forms the basis of the human life. The human
to that which forms the basis of the research in the areas

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became a preacher and social reformer. To-day such a purely
Questions are unfolded which, in the form we see, reach no
— that was more or less the form in which La Mettrie
formulated his materialistic creed. Goethe already
deepest problems of existence. The peculiar form taken in
other forms and relationships, to serve other purposes. The
art; and so he would like to transform the whole world into a

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assumed their peculiar form when he left the Karlsschule and
this longing receives a new form. In the
form. One fundamental evolution runs through all that is,
so that that which forms the flower in the plant, develops in
God, soul and immortality: that is the form of the Wolffian
Reformer of Kantianism: he strove for a monistic view, but
he attained to that form of creation which was peculiarly his

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he could imagine another form of natural observation. He then
came to a realisation of the various forms of artistic
of the world had still to be expressed in the form of artistic
“Xenien” of 1796 form a fine memorial to their

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take on a new form. This was Goethe's experience all through
before us in its clearest and finest form in his

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art. Hence comes a new form of participation of the artist in
formulated by Hebbel when he said that only that is tragic
plays Schiller tried more and more to give form to the idea of

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tragic in a new form. He never rested satisfied in a belief
artistic form; it was meant to elevate man and fortify him
spectators, what developed later, in separate form, as
regarded the primal drama as the higher form, was already alive
tragedy of destiny in a new form. There must be something in

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the form; but the romantics despised the form and demanded of
thanks to Schiller that there was formed what we may call the
had only to give form to something
enthused by Winckelmann and formed his artistic ideas out of

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him truth was the beautiful; a work of art was to give form to
idealist standpoint: — the very views he had formerly
creation was his form of religious worship. The fact that his
form which it takes must strike us as immoderate. In Schiller's
Then artists will once more create, as they did formerly, from,

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“In the conquest of the matter by the form lies the
and not the form; he has not yet reached the aesthetic view. He
in external form. Goethe showed in Grosskophta
he only seeks to find the spiritual appearing in sensible form,
master of an etheric spirit-permeated form.

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a survey of larger epochs of time, in order that we may form a
existence, as expressed in the form of general economic
that all the former theories on the struggle for existence are
uniform activity of the species or of the group-soul. And if
and becomes more and more independent. Whereas formerly he
what I prepared for myself in my former lives! If this is not
Everything that takes place to-day in the form of a material
kingdom must be attained for the whole human race in the form
itself and a uniform soul. Only man's individual soul has
truly this uniform soul that lives within the whole human
the Peace Movement in the only form in which it can exist in

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how the nerve-sense organism functions as we form our mental
forming mental representations, of thinking, something like
contain the activity of forming mental representations.
activities, in the sense of forming mental representations, one
human brain or nervous system which forms itself in
a result of all this, the conception has gradually formed,
Just through this, however, that the human senses are formed in
facts in the outer world. While we form mental representations,
from without, and, as a result, one forms the judgment: the
world whether we form mental images about it or not; the world
he only finds the forming of mental representations, mental
of human feeling to the body, when the relationship of forming
spiritual science shows that forming mental images is connected
built up and formed by the human life of soul. The head —
head appears at birth as something formed through, if one may
forming mental images, of thought representations”
we consider it as the formative expression of the life of
feeling than when we consider it only as the formative
bodily formative expression in metabolic processes; nerve
should sometime observe how speech develops out of the unformed
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brought forward in a positive form concerning world
form mental images or concepts about what matter actually is;
the soul when one forms such a concept as the concept of
form an impression of darkness, of a dark room. What does he
forming mental images, ceases. It is just by letting the spirit
purely material outward formation of the human body, he is
processes that the spirit has transformed itself into them;
life of forming mental images, to be able to penetrate into
of forming mental images belong with the human nervous system,
let us rather say, substance-forms - - because it is on these
above-mentioned form in which physical substance appears
existence of these substance- forms, which I have just
the natural scientist at least forms the concept of an ether;
lives? I accept the three basic forms: solid, fluid, gaseous
not form the concept of the ether. They were unable to so
which Immanuel Hermann Fichte formed about this matter, by
substance ... that which truly endures, that uniting formative
visible body into their form, which sculpts them, forms them.
spirit and in organizing power as he formerly was. His
simply stripped off a particular form of the visible. ‘To be
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Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture I
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constantly forming in the social organism. The process of cognition is
formed about individual cases, but they were not told to the patient
present form, only three or four hundred years old. This
of the spirit, but in another form, because of what comes to him from
spiritual life in men with power to form healing forces out of

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formed from within him. The gift of this phantasy was ascribed by
intelligence devoid of spiritual content, a formal intelligence; for in
form; now, people must turn to the inward, vicsorous creation of ideas,
the most obvious experiences, but out of these surge up demonic forms.
little noticed, but forms of disease are beaming to appear — as

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one could form it differently. Invention comes to them spontaneously.
intestines. Whatever can form nutritious material for man is then passed
is spiritualized in comparison with the uniform food juice, the chyle.
while the other part is formed from the right side of the trunk and head.
changes the former into spirit-self or Manas and the latter into life
or the food obtained from these plants are transformed into the chyle.
illuminated from a still deeper aspect how folk-character is formed from
him to come to his present form and shape; they must however be overcome.
the lungs and is transformed through its combination with oxygen into

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our Earth will be transformed into a “Jupiter,” a “Venus”
only and it has risen from this to the form of existence belonging to
form of existence belonging to a fixed star but have expanded their
Zodiac upon a planetary system themselves evolved, in former ages,
when from being descending forces they are transformed into ascending
fourth; it has passed through three “form-conditions” —
Therefore in respect of the “form-conditions,” our Earth
form-condition of the fourth life-condition of the fourth planetary
man is able to conceive. How is it possible to form any kind of idea
are outspread around you; you perceive them, you form concepts of them.
form concepts. You have to rely upon receiving from outside the content
else than a transformed etheric body. In respect of substance, therefore,

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popular science forms from its own facts look like tiny, gasping, dwarf-like
the day. To express the sentence in this form would simply strike modern
event, but within the whole forming of globes, within this whole crystallizing
were active in this whole process of planet formation and we will now
was transformed into the Moon-condition; and so it continued, again
They went through their human stage in a different external form. The
most varied forms. Only the Earth-man goes through it in the flesh on
Apart from Uranus, all that forms our universe was contained in an original
gradually formed during the conditions of ancient Saturn, Sun and Moon,
much time to relate now in detail — had again formed a theatre
behind, and two special arenas were therefore formed for them through
itself from the earth and man began his existence in his present form.
He has acquired this existence in the present form through the fact
develop, he had a very different form. You would open your eyes in amazement
if I should de-scribe it to you, for the present human form has arisen
form. They could certainly have given him a form, but an inferior one.
him fast in one form. Forces that give the form must proceed from the
moon, while forces that continually alter the form proceed from the
sun. But in order that the present human form should arise, a molder,
a modeler of form, must work from the moon; it was not possible otherwise.
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of Form sent their life-giving forces to Saturn; first inception
Sun the Spirits of Form sacrifice the etheric body, on the Moon,
kinds are active in all this evolution. We have pointed out too in former
present formation. Everything on that Saturn cosmic body was, however,
but it helps to form an idea of the condition — you would not
sub-stance of which modern man can scarcely form a right idea —
in quite a different form — namely, the warmth contained in your
form a blackberry. In this way the Saturn-globe was a great berry made
of Movement, of Form, of Personality, and so forth. To-day we will turn
our attention especially to the Spirits of Form for the reason that
and environment of Saturn, we will therefore select the Spirits of Form
become more and more perfect, so have the Spirits of Form passed through
These Spirits of Form
to think away completely the physical body in the Spirits of Form, and
the Earth's embodiments. These Spirits of Form therefore act externally
rain from the etheric bodies of the Spirits of Form. The nature of Saturn
rays of the etheric body of the Spirits of Form and raying these back
again. We can form a rough picture of it, if we remember how the rain
mirror-pictures. You can form an idea of what was present on Saturn
was with the Spirits of Form in the environment of ancient Saturn. They
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture V
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Albumen formation. Origin of sense organs. Origin of ash after
the sun separation. Formation of the mineral through thought,
stages of evolution. Their formation was essentially more diverse, more
Moon. They united at the beginning of Earth evolution forming again
the first forms of mankind as warmth-beings. When with clairvoyant sight
of the newly-arisen Earth, sink into the surface, and form there masses
formed in its first rudiments at that time.
but in streams of force going down and forming a kind of centre where
at the same time in the development of man. What was formerly merely
peculiar came about on this human formation, the rudiments were added
and the beginnings of a breathing process were formed. Thus we see a
lines of force took on a thicker form. And as the finer substances went
And the important thing was this: formerly it shone out-wards, now
inner light. Formerly they had shone out to the light that shone towards
the forming of water. And exactly as the action of light streamed through
and see how most varied shapes were formed. Tone created forms in the
bow. The Chladni sound-figures are formed and you know of course what
regularly-shaped figures and formations appear. Thus the instreaming
music from cosmic space gives rise to most manifold forms and figures,
they listened to the cosmic music and arranged themselves in conformity
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evolutionary conditions. Transformation of the systems of blood,
Lord of Form. Impulse of the laggard spirits. The future spiritualizing
warmth-system was trans-formed to the later blood-system, and under
was formed. It was further described how that was all still in a rarefied
Earth would be a kind of warmth-system which formed the rudiments of
and only then arises what appears as the senses-system in the form suited
advanced a degree and the nerve-system also a degree. Changes and transformations
a sense-system which is transformed later, and it is the same with the
old Moon. We have seen how this personality has been formed gradually
for instance, that certain forms of family revenge, tribal revenge,
of love. For the animal kingdom has developed forms of love which have
stayed behind as laggard forms; and in so far as love appears among
on the Moon, became the Lord of Form on the Earth, the Regent of the
in the lowest form as sex-love, in order to rise through the various
how experiences made on the earth must be transformed) proceeds under
the Late-born, to Jehovah; he is the Lord of Form — and man would
was chosen, but in order to form a balance between the Spirits of Wisdom
and the Last-born of the old Moon, the Lord of Form, who was the point
ennobled human form to complete spiritualization. And we see how human
outer form one will recognize how good, how noble he is, one will see
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are folk spirits, Archai, time spirits. For these, men form the
it forms a supplement to them, recapitulating much that has been said
We will first try to form
an idea of the nature of the Angels. We shall most easily form an idea
in man and the task of these Angel beings. What then is forming in man
body, an astral body and an ego and that he is now occupied in transforming
which guide this task of man — the transforming of the astral
into his being and forms the basis for the upbuilding of the physical
Thus man has this life-essence and forms his next body out of it in
man not only forms this body but that in Devachan he is by no means
continually transformed. At the time when Christ Jesus walked upon earth
they work with those forces which transform the physiognomy of the Earth
to the transformation of the Earth, but he cannot do it without guidance.
who guide man's work of transforming the earth with the forces of Devachan,
can work, not indeed creatively, but transformingly. Such an Angel being
or a whole district and to transform them into virtues. To one who knows
man can form any idea guide the course of world-evolution through such
to them out of his human consciousness information about the animal
forms on the earth. For their consciousness reaches down only to man;
astronomy, and one arranged earthly affairs in conformity with this
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beings, to higher spiritual beings who formerly played that part in
of these elemental beings which take various forms and occupy the spiritual
a man go on four feet? Why has he transformed his front limbs to instruments
everything material, right into the form, is a result of what stands
those I have just described to you which are unable to transform their
come to expression in a material form. Yet the material form of beings
form an idea as to where such beings stand in the course of evolution.
of his form as well as of his abilities and destiny. What meets him
as his destiny are the deeds which he himself formerly engraved into
present form.” A man who thrusts from him such a Leader of mankind
will appear again in the same form. And if this attitude hardens, then
too will appear in an ever progressed form. He however who thrusts the
move forward to a higher racial form. I cannot today speak about the
but not in the forms of the later epoch. They appear in a later epoch
to develop the fifth principle there will be no avail-able form. They
Love in its lowest form originated in the ancient Lemurian age and becomes
transformed to ever higher stages up to the highest spiritual form.
is in a certain sense crystallized wisdom, which was formed little by
little on the Moon. But wisdom was formed gradually just as on our Earth
love is gradually formed. And just as we wonder at the wisdom in all
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last formed species of these elementary beings. We pointed to the fact
that each animal form — or to put it differently — a totality
of similarly formed animals is represented by a group soul. We have
world, similarly formed animals being members of their group ego. We
that there are certain animal forms which go too far in the process
entity. There are in fact certain animal forms which cannot send everything
which they were formerly united, have taken in exchange a strange role.
sleeping in unconsciousness, did not exist formerly. When it was daytime
Formerly the giving of a name went as far as the memory reached back
not know that the giving of names in former times was quite different
wider regions will be grasped by this form of truth and more peace can
that are formed. The individuals voluntarily allow their feelings to
stream together and this again causes the forming of something which
The more that associations are formed where feelings of fellowship are
with moss, thus forming a kind of partition between plant and stone,
A fourth species are the Salamanders which form, so to say, the youngest

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so conditioned that — speaking loosely — similarly-formed
Then on the Moon when the physical body had undergone a third transformation
body itself. We have seen in former lectures that the blood system appeared
flow in the present form in the blood channels? What does this blood
today is only one form of many. On the Moon, on the Sun, on Saturn,
in lines, in forms, what you learn to know as laws in physics. Externally
example, to the physical principle that our ear has such a form, that
now nothing of a material physical nature can subsist in the form which
class that we call “phantoms.” They form a certain group
man's soul understood of outer forms. Spiritual science will not
in forms. But then mankind too will live as spirit in the spirit. Then,

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forces which take the form of architecture for the physical body,
as well as the form forces which take the form of sculpture for
of the spheres take the form of music for the intellectual soul.
receives in the night take the form of poetry in the day consciousness.
is also formed between man and the spiritual world through his many
would form a clear thought about this bridge.
earthly bodily element which we can set up and which forms a bond of
our earthly sphere those forms of physical reality with the relationship
then these form an opportunity for the etheric bodies of these beings
worlds. In those forms of art expressed in space we have on earth physical
are for man thus acquire a very real significance. They form the magnetic
we must consider in somewhat more detail the different forms of man's
in all the forms of his temple what lives in space, what one can feel
in it, because the God can dwell in the forms. Only thus does one really
the space-lines, are so arranged that in their forms they point the
the forms that are expressed in the Egyptian Pyramids from the paths
with its rounded arches, which has formed churches with central and
living form what nature has offered him. The greater understanding possessed
have the three forms of art which work with external means, taking their
who are formed on a grander scale than normal man. He seeks the superhuman
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begins with a dramatic performance produced in a form appropriate to
one such performance before a Course of Lectures in Munich, last year
we were able to give two performances, and this year we have been able
These performances are always, of course, a
nothing more than a beginning. These performances, combined as they
strikingly evident in these Munich performances that it is not the aim
year 1909 we gave one dramatic performance, two last year, and this
performances. If you study deeply enough, a work like The Soul's
those of external life, can be presented in artistic form. If it were
not only for the performances but also for the lectures. During the
occult ideal: There is in reality only one true form of occultism. To
greatness of her achievement consist in formulating the three
printed on our forms of application for membership? It certainly did
was enticed into an Oriental form of Theosophy.
heard that I have sometimes used the form of address: “My dear

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time I did not perform my duty properly, I was obliged to lead on
in the form of his great talents Very soon he became a man of high
set free, although he had formerly “proved the unreality of
spiritual world — not in the form in which it is expressed in European
form, in the literature of Europe — except it were to be imitated by
to incarnation. I said that this form of the evolutionary process
the process which had formerly been set in train by interaction
formerly been received directly from the spiritual world but were now
assumed, more or less, its present form. The Atlantean peoples on the
“The form I see there derives from the Earth, but what is within
on ... in the form of Imagination, Phantasy. Let us assume that in
experiences in the form they had taken in Atlantis. But there would
world of men and the world of spirits, will express itself in a form
form of narrating how a Star-being suddenly resolves to incarnate as
a deeper spirituality than in the products of later forms of
in a different form will be capable of throwing the West into
Science has to offer, then one day, in a form unsuited to Western
we say about those other phases of evolution, about other forms of

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which conformity to law cannot be admitted. When modern science speaks
really puts a ban upon any suggestion of conformity to law. Both
meaning, any inner conformity to law, to this “chance”
without bothering to ascertain whether any conformity to law could
there is no Divine-Spiritual conformity to law, nor anything like it.
law manifested by happenings in Nature; their conformity to law is
chance, man will learn to perceive a deeper conformity to law; when
rigid conformity to law, appears, finally, as evidence of spiritual
recognise conformity to law in so-called matters of chance, or to
normal consciousness but connected with higher forms of consciousness
form of intercourse between human beings, based as it is, merely upon
tolerance to other forms of idealistic thought, adopt an attitude to
you may know how things are, and form your own judgments. Among
evolution, the Exusiai, the “Spirits of Form,” the
sense, the Deeds of the Exusiai, of the Spirits of Form! When man
of it as the Exusiai, the Spirits of Form, speak in the facts of
this impulse he will recognise conformity to law in all the facts of

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B.C. when man's life of soul began to assume the form and character
with a certain form of clairvoyance: and it was during the period of
light of intellect and reason in their present form. Before the
which are also to be found in lower forms of life. Spiritual Science,
human form becomes an “Imagination.” In those olden days,
too, the soul attained to a form of Imagination, beholding in pictures
remarkable people we find, in a form of Imagination springing from the
spiritual research. The human being of today has the outer form we see
was able to become the recipient of his present form. In other words:
while the animals developed their various forms on the Earth, man
the animals had already assumed their destined forms. The foundations
Earth-existence in the external form in which he now lives.
manifestation in outer form, the threefold life of soul that had been
into his present form — a form able to receive the imprint of the
threefold soul was “membered” into the human form. And so
actually a compilation, but nevertheless, it forms a complete whole,
folk-poems which form themselves into one whole. We find how right on
this day retain many customs and arts reminiscent of an ancient form
epoch by the Consciousness Soul. There will follow a form of culture
maintain his rightful place it was necessary to form a link with a
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certain forms of spiritual life there is a decline, followed again, in
again, but in a new form and through a new impulse. In olden times,
form of what humanity may call the “Divine” can be glimpsed
the “ I ” can find the Divine within itself. The form in
Christianity. And then perhaps we ask ourselves: In what form did the
informed by them that the Child in the arms of the Mother, the Child
most perfect possible form. Few people, after all, have the
Conception, a form of Christianity independent of all differences of
passing away. Just as he provided for the revival, in a new form, of
of humanity, and of the enrichment which human life in all its forms
Its form all hidden 'neath a rosy veil!

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information as to how to reach a much less distant place, but he is
when the form in which the things of sense are made manifest, can only
In the kingdom of the animals we see the individual forms coming into
souls, men share in the forming of the Astral Body of Christ. His
form such a portrayal of Christ should take. For it would have to
unusual form of the chin and mouth, the power of conscience unfolded
in the lower jaw will seem to form themselves into a mouth. All this
will have to be expressed in the countenance. The form of the lower
Christ Figure a bodily form similar to that possessed by the physical

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been described. Its form stands there as a complete, self-contained,
form and structure, if we think of it as the dwelling-place of a
the architecture of the Egyptian time, every line, every form,
men must have undergone preparation before the architectural forms
beings within it! All its forms seem to convey that they are there to
the evolution of Form from the Egyptian Temple, through the Greek
of understanding the architectural forms of the Egypto-Chaldean epoch
is being recapitulated, in a certain form, in our own age; the Second
course, in the same form, for the recapitulation will everywhere bear
the knowers and sages in ancient India. They felt it in the form, as
Greek form of “Kaliyuga” is “Kalion.” And because
knowledge to life once again, but in an entirely new form. The lecture
into the physical, and of the form they take.
of them and to reckon with what endures in the form of live and potent
it is not the “form” but the content of the dream that is of
on, he is now fully aware that these impulses, in the form of a
The biographies give the information that Raphael's father was
down to his beloved son — in the form of delicate and intimate

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THOUGHT FORMS
period, and the present form and structure of the human body did not
consciousness he does not merely formulate ideas and thoughts but also
consciousness, filling and forming it, needs the outer, physical body,
the earthly body; when an idea or thought is formed, the being of
everyday consciousness are formed, disintegrates and decays at death.
physical body must be preserved in its accustomed form. In respect of
substances change, but the “form” remains. And the form must
the time the physical body retains its form. If, however, the memory
performed a deed of compassion or a deed born of fellow-feeling with
who performs them in the sense that his memory-pictures belong to him,
preserved in the form of personal memories has been inscribed into the
performed on Earth. And just as the personal memories are inscribed
backwards through the deeds and acts performed in the past life, they
of knowledge here described? Deeds performed during life are
Earth-evolution his physical body was transformed into the instrument
but, in addition, it has been so transformed as to become
being. Deeds performed in some life persist as his karma, and he can
with man but detaches itself from him as forms created by thoughts.
— the forms created by thoughts and feelings — go forth into the
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FORM-CREATING FORCES
physical body into the instrument of man's present form of
significance only for him, for other beings have quite different forms
make compensation for his deeds. But “forms” or
Now in respect of the forms or forces deriving from the “ I ”
compassion are unfolded, these “forces” or “forms”
individuality of form, of gesture, facial expression, and so on —
the distinction to be made among the individual forms of men in the
Everything that is “form” on the Earth derives from the
Spirits of Form. The name “Spirits of Form” is actually
that has form, shape, life — everything that takes on shape
inwardly and evolves an outer form, has received the essential impetus
for this form from the “Spirits of Form.” Now all these
In our present age, the Spirits of Form are moving to the higher rank
Personality” to that of “Spirits of Form; the
or “Archai.” As the Spirits of Form move upwards in rank
Form,” but the succeeding Spirits of Personality do not, at once,
assume the functions of Spirits of Form. This will help you to
passed. At the beginning of Earth-evolution, the Spirits of Form
stamped the principle of form into man; this comes to expression in
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture One
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representations that we form and with which we live, are not
sources which forms the basis of my book
and was associated with a progressive transformation within
eighteenth century as a sacred tradition in the form of
had 16 roots and 490 branches. He has now forsaken his former
had evolved a special form of community or social life which
formula was coined to avoid any reference to the spirit as a
simply overlooked today. The complete transformation of
ancient Mysteries. They had a fear, a horror of every form of

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should like to remind you that this idea of trichotomy forms
idea forms the nucleus of the whole book. I quote the relevant
immortal life is such that the man who performed good deeds
view, despite its many modifications, forms the core of all
lugubrious chants were suddenly transformed into wild
mortal, not after the fashion of other forms of organic life,
any transformation. From the outset the nature of the animal
Europe, have only recently been informed.

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which the ceremony was performed — unless we summon to
not only to this form of baptism, but more especially to the
deteriorated, was less and less fitted to perform its
Judaism or Romanism, but against their outward forms as
was split into separate languages. Unless we are able to form
which He worked and by which He performed His acts of healing
entered into them, for all set forms are Ahrimanic. The
seed which is formed within the organism, and the Christ
how can that be tranformed into real force such as the one
solid reality? To achieve this transformation a new impulse
that our articles of faith are not simply a form of
the power to transform the seed “morality” into a
encounter between the former body of Christ-Jesus and the
understand that the physical body must be transformed by the
physical form. If we recognize the trichotomy of body, soul
corporeal form which man can perfect in the course of
evolution, if the human form were to perish, if man could not
practised prophesying, a form of extempore preaching which

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plant forms could be envisaged. Schiller shook his head and
Fertilization should take a different form. The only course
around us shows a deterioration from its original form and
in the form of plants as they are today an intimation of what
form. Thus the first group do not develop to the full their
not betray their origin. The former fail to fulfil their
origin in their present form.
sphere and must recover once again its former high estate.
to account in our life. Amongst the various etheric formative
and originally it possessed all etheric formative forces in
warm blood. It was therefore possible for man to transform
he simply radiates it again so that a lower form of
its original form man would have continued to dwell in those
in former times those conditions really did exist. Great
these conditions as a former reality.
would have contained formative forces and the formative
Jesus has set forth His teaching in a form that conflicts
capable of performing miracles. Since the original world
order has descended from its former high estate, the purely
kingdom in which miracles take place. For Christ performed
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that he was unable to formulate clearly.
kingdom cannot attain in its present form because it cannot
be no eye; the eye owes its existence to light, it is formed
complete. The wealth of information, the facts of past
a complete transformation. He then realized that the kingdom
human kingdom do not in their present form reveal their true
former times. The hierophants were in no way responsible for
“Brother Jupiter” was the customary form of
form that we can present to our fellow men. Yesterday I came
world in a form that is acceptable to modern man. And

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add further information based upon our recent investigations
is usually recognized. We are told that Christ performed acts
world therefore knew of His advent. The more informed leaders
against this policy of the initiated emperors we can form a
Barres; indeed Biblical exegesis assumes very strange forms
inheritance in its various forms, and the whole social order
for these ritual performances symbolized the struggle against
possible for us today to form an idea of the significance of
informed on these matters. But he shrank from initiation into
Roman empire. But he could not incorporate his form of
for these “Imaginations” often took the form of
forms. Today many things which appear in their purely
able to form an idea of the attitude towards the Roman empire

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personality who had to abandon the former coercive measures
possible way). In order to form a true estimate of such a
that the physical sun is but the external form of a spiritual
form of Christianity.
into the schools in the form that had existed since the time
form, in its ramifications in the sixteenth century when the
forms according to our capacity to form conceptions of the
the information derived from his inner life which is
concepts and concepts in conformity with reality. The basic
consistent with Manichaeism to form representations that were
but the seed-bed of a transformed humanity, if we cannot
the whole man, which so transform his being that when he is
The formal

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formulation of the particular dogmas by Councils and
chain, a uniform pattern of unchanging character. It is true
fragmentary information as we possess is of doubtful
information, it is impossible to arrive at a reliable picture
even into their formalistic details, were a symbolic
abundant representations of symbolic art forms, but in the
destruction of the pagan temples) we are also informed that
been predicted) was, in fact, a decadent form of sacrifice.
times was to revive the particular form of sacrifice
form known to the Mysteries at that time. In the priestly
who performed these sacrificial rites in the correct way were
In their purer form they were suited to the Third
in this epoch. Through the performance of particular rites
nature. The priest performed certain rites in the presence of
owed their sense of form to an instinctive feeling for the
forms and movements of nature which they experienced in their
artist portrayed his visual imaginations in concrete form.
original ritual has been somewhat transformed; the sanguinary
find that their concepts and ideas were informed by an inner
intelligible, on the other hand in the formation of certain
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which must be clearly formulated and become concrete reality,
lecture yesterday. I pointed out that the forms of Christian
ceremonies of the ancient pagan Mystery cults, that the forms
Christianity had made a clean sweep of the pagan forms of
people of Antiquity it represented the external form, the
dramatic performances he became aware not only of the
information from the people and to initiate only a select
not so much attached to the group-souls as that of former
interpretation. The performance of cult acts or ceremonies
from mineralized thinking, dead thought forms to which the
believe in a higher form of State which recognizes a more
lengthy disquisition on how the war has transformed us all,
informed and has every reason to commend it. But he also
conformist, opposed to tradition and culture. This

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information we have about his life, we shall find that
transformed into colour
formalized gestures, singly or facing each other, the whole
perform this trick with consummate skill. They attach no
reality of the spiritual world through the performance of
and now crawls helplessly in the dust in the form of a
he saw a form of Christianity emerge which modelled Christian
eyes of Clement, the human form is made in the image of the
the human form as a fusion of tones from the music of the
it may seem we must make the true form of Christian life once
that we wish to form an opinion about a certain field of
man. I see his form and complexion, his external aspect, just
appeared in book form by the man I am referring to —
and I have already indicated what form it must take. We must
to form a judgement about the particular case. The dream may
form of a dream-picture, a situation which could not have
Grant that Thy former aspect may return,
spectrum of colours and forms, known as
some form or colour.”

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that which as old religious contents performed so big services to the
souls in former times. Above all, these were those who had looked at
that one could form a world view from the old religious books. Yes,
the religious element formed quite differently during the past centuries.
formed wrong concepts about anything because the thinking is basically
world views to themselves in quite different way than in former times.
say: as well as the earth is today changed, it was also changed in former
ages; and thus one also understands how bit by bit the earth has formed.
ideas according to their true form and content, and there one found
images which one had formed about God and soul in imperfect, primitive
this criticism has performed concerning the Gospels. The historical
it became obvious that all the conceptions, which they had formed about
which transforms that which proceeds outside round us into the coloured
its own: forming the core of a general human brotherhood which is built
but love creates and forms. The sighted human mind will see the creative

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sentient soul. The animal also has a sentient soul, because it transforms
and constitute a unity. Roughly one can compare what here forms a whole
the sword in the scabbard. This forms a whole for the mental observation
of the physical body and the lowest member of the soul form a whole
three oval nebulous formations which wrap up and veil the human guise.
human soul. Since the third member of the physical body forms a unity
highest part of the soul and the lowest part of the mind form a whole
former times they could be shown only figuratively. The Fairy Tale is

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture III: Reincarnation and Karma
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we are re-embodied; this is the cause which forms the destiny of our
sciences have transformed that which one once could observe only side
human realm. If you want to inform yourselves about the generic of the
the animal evolution. Then you know, why Schiller had a particular form
peculiar way how we are able to live out emotionally. As well as performances
the specific performance of Mr. Miller or Mr. Lehman has the specific
should be and of that which should not be. This was transformed in the
wrong. And from it the word conscience forms in Greek and also in Latin.
if the human being lived repeatedly, he would remember his former lives.
former lives will gain it later.
of these substances, I never achieve sulphuric acid. My personal performance
do another action which possibly cancels injurious results of the former
form to a future culture full of life. Even if it is not that which
spiritual. It wants to transform the human being so that he can see
the first trial of initiation. It was not only an external form, but
were able to trust themselves. The internal transformation was the
spiritual is connected with them that is not only an external formality,

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views of a certain epoch developed out of the former points of view,
looks at the development of the human mind in the different forms of
forms the basis of the universe like a house is based on an idea.
accomplishes in thoughts, transforms into reality is around us and is
We just call that an instinctive activity which is performed by a being
the course of these talks today I can only indicate it to former levels
mind of the modern human being and that of the former one. If we traced
people perform more mechanically, more in a feeling way, more intuitively
other, higher forms.
unless he had acquired the laws of the ellipse, the forms of it in loneliness
he saw something living because he himself was alive and can form the
concept of life from his inside. Thus the former human races also have
and its different transformations in the world, but they were not yet
forms the general concept of the spirit and the general concept of the

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Life and form are the two
Life perpetually changes into thousand and thousand forms. This life
in the world unless it appeared in new forms again and again. Form is
of the form, all life would have to lose itself unless the form were
to create new forms out of the old ones. The seed of the plant grows
up to the organised form of the plant, and this plant must again become
a seed and give existence to a new form. It is in nature everywhere
in the spiritual life of the human being and humanity the forms change,
and life keeps itself in the most manifold forms. However, life would
ossify unless the forms were perpetually renewed, unless new life emerged
from old forms.
most manifold forms also in the big history. We have seen in the talk
on Theosophy and Darwin in which manifold forms the human cultures and
history have expressed themselves. We have seen some of the forms in
the ancient Vedic culture of India. We have seen these forms changing
forth into forms, and our age may be almost called the age of forms,
life in the form.
form everywhere. We have Darwin as the most brilliant example. What
form. What had just Darwin to say and explained openly? I have shown
forms that, however, according to his conviction there were primal forms
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physical. No eye and no ear can give information of the human destiny
world that he acquires property, forms tools with the materials of the
the physical. This is the lowest form of the soul life, the region of
colours and forms round us, of smells approaching us. We call this susceptibility
turns its emotions to this object of the environment just in the form
colours. This forms the spiritual light which gets the driving forces
and are of equal nature, the manifold beings issue form the imperishable

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physical. What the human being performs out of the purely ideal, the
being performs beyond the physical realm comes from forces that become
being can form no work of art, can construct no machine if he does not
field, who is able to remember his own former incarnations or who can

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of the human development. He already performs a lot in the field of
philology in his youth, more than others can perform in a whole life.
in the world where the spirit exists as such only in the form of a blind
race is embodied in forms which have birth and death in themselves.
new culture-epoch which we have to regard as that of form and figure.
matter as science treats it. He himself became a student of the form,
into being and passes, appears again, which rushes from form to form
soul breaks the form to be reincarnated in a new form. And the third
three conditions in the world: form, life and consciousness. These three
This is the course of the world. Consciousness takes that from the form
which is worth to be pulled out to higher formation. Thereby we have
a development of the things from form to form, from one condition of
life to another condition of life where life remains and the forms and
figures show higher formation. He did not understand the consciousness
the form only; he did not understand the moving agent that comes to
the fore in always higher form.
in higher and higher forms. Hence, he taught the “eternal recurrence
of the self-similar form.” He did no longer know that the consciousness
in the same figure, not in the same form, but in a higher figure, in
a higher form. This was the second state of Nietzsche's development.
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The human being is transformed, and nobody, not even the most intimate
is the case if one was in former lives already on a certain level of
himself, so that he is thereby able to transform his soul by his own
to be attempted. Who has never tried to transform his soul, who has
by economic activity, things which refer to the internal transformation
informed which do not harm to the human being even if they are not carried
a sum of such rules have been informed. It depends whether you have
undeveloped people the aura is formed cloud-like.
interwoven rings form the aura with the sleeping. If the human being
and both spiral formations fitted into each other organise themselves.
must immediately inform another, who cannot keep to himself what he
developed to form a lens, and quite slowly and bit by bit the physical
practice patience and steadfastness in these performances. If the human

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but to feel and sense the uniform being of stone, plant, and animal

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opponents of our so-called supernatural creation have formed to themselves
serious, also Christian, researchers in the former centuries.
doctrine is most nicely developed with Aristotle. Plato says: God forms
of the supernatural creation history have recently still formed.
in different lower animal forms reminders of the former shaping of the
it out of former ideas. But it suffices to show that the Gnostics had
gnostic form. He imagines that in the concepts of the Bible external
a scanty outset of a return to former ideas. Development is said to
the mathematical in space, you get to the great mystics who inform us
This psycho-spiritual, atma, buddhi and manas, forms the basis of all
develops as forms on earth approaches the eternal spiritual part of
life must have existed there in a still plant-animal form.
was in a liquid-soft condition once. If you look at certain earth formations,
in a much finer, thinner etheric condition. Akasha is the finest form
everything that is on our earth now also all plant and animal forms
existed at that time in this subtle akasha. Akasha is the subtlest form
plant, animal forms later. In this akashic matter in which the human
being incarnated all animal forms were still contained, just as everything
that became human form later.
If one wants to form an
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in this form. One finds two important clues in Goethe's conversations
the highest form of the human consciousness, the lily.
does, but which shows the connecting band of all forms, which points
to something higher, something uniform behind all sensuous phenomena.
Goethe drew his archetypal plant, a formation which was similar, indeed,
come! The snake informs them that the ferryman is allowed to ferry over
ways? Yes, at midday I myself form a bridge, the green snake says. But
in which in former times the truths were announced, were deeply hidden
feeling which revealed the forming hand of the human being, above all
Which alchemy transforms
evolution takes the perpetual transformation of the things as basis.
human form. This is the king who expresses the willing-like soul-force
maturity, nobody was admitted to initiation in former times.

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When later the beautiful lily is informed about these words, she regards
quality to transform all stones into gold, all wood into silver, dead
if no other light is there, it shines particularly and transforms everything
both get across the bridge, which is formed by the snake at noon, to
the hut of the ferryman forms a nice small temple within the other,
develop divine force not human force, to master the things, and to transform
transform the stones into gold, how to destroy the metals. These are
development in a perpetual transformation; also nature changes perpetually.
due to the progress of technology to transform the raw product of nature
an art product; he transforms everything that nature presents to him
everything in the world is transformed, is infiltrated with the human
This external transformation
to transform dead matter into living matter.
Wisdom transforms the plant
However, the snake transforms
the lamp can transform the dead pug into a nice onyx. The change of
of passions, must receive the toll in form of “earth fruits.”
Before humanity got the present consciousness, three former states of
sleep, while the transformation takes place; they live over into the
new state without noticing the transformation. They already got by nature
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entity of the human being experienced the most different forms. One
These spiritual knights have always tried to form an alliance with the
and form a golden bridge, and he enters. Over there the girl meets him
lives in the soul that points back to former states. At especially ceremonious
moments the human being penetrates into these former soul conditions.
here to his mission. He remembers former initiations.
moments of life. There also the memory of former stages of existence
of his former incarnations. “I once received the initiation,”
he has brought this initiation from former stages of existence with
him from stage to stage. There he also had to perform the symbolic action:
row, tilt downwards and form the bridge which the boy crosses. This
of Paris, according to the urge working from a former incarnation in
on the scene and explains what he has experienced in former incarnations.

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took place on a continent which forms the bottom of the Atlantic today.
also the feelings and instincts in the form of an aura. The physical
being is embedded like in a cloud in which all sorts of formations surge
with pictorial ideas, with a pictorial kind of soul formation, and basically
We come to a formation of the human realm which is different which shows
roughly: what we have today as earth mass formed only because the crude
sun. The effects which come from the sun were in the former times still
on the matter. These had effects on our physical bodies. They formed
in quite decadent forms of the lowest animals. The human being reproduced
days vital forces. They overpowered the material. They imprinted forms
were formed like the physical aura were placed into the earthly scene.
In the soul forces worked that imprinted forms into the matter soaking
up the matter into themselves and forming it so that they became external
being at the former developmental stadia. The human being who was placed
already create forms. It had to develop for that for long times.
former developmental states. The soul had to have already gone through

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but it also has organs. This formation, this etheric body causes the
which I have already described occasionally, that cloud-like formation
certain virtues, certain performances of the soul most carefully beside
attention to particular soul performances if we want to develop these
which influence the soul performances have on those bodies which must
These are formed,
performing the actions consciously in the physical world in such a way
like a blissful recollection of a former life of a great initiate. Who
the former founders of a religion. Christ says: “I am the way,

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characterised before, that of the past when the external form held good
to do it with the human being who rests on the only formal, on the hollowed
yet form the free human being: animal grimaces rise before him. He tries
to form something creatively that lifts him out of them, a resurrection

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has to conform to unless he wants to blunder into future in the darkness,
was based on the connection which they formed by memory. For example,
consciously which he already completed unconsciously in former periods.
significance for us. However, this must be transformed again to clairvoyance,
ability to form colour pictures with the outer reality. The physicist
described forms soon; and the principal race which follows ours has
are states that belong to former and later states of development. The
of a world view, nevertheless, something forms the basis of the thing.
cycle of development, and he will complete it, so that he transforms
fifty years ago. His task is to transform the unliving into a big piece
obtained because a big part of our technical work is performed applying
always only a certain part of heat can be transformed into work or into
the forces of transformation we know today.
who can pursue the spirit of development: He sees the whole earth transforming
formed. The senses have transformed themselves, and the astral state
on quite different forms in future. However, at the same time for somebody,
Theosophical Society: forming the core of a brotherhood without differentiating
from our opinions, from our reason cannot form the basis of any social
The present has formed the personality. The personality is the characteristic,
of the individuality, we cannot squeeze the human being into a form;
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Any gesture, any form and
takes place in the poet's soul if he lonely forms the figures
he forms his figures, which move there on the stage, we see this already
in new form: why should it not be there if they looked at life? In the
they are more significant than a lot that has been performed by the
first observation of the things you would have comprehended the form
sends up as his eternal. Schiller calls this the forming figure. As

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Everything that was otherwise done formed a group round the theological
beings in the highest form had lived in which the human being can attain
experienced the highest form of knowledge with wisdom. He must have
he must strive and experience what introduces him into the highest form
who is not informed about the deepest questions of the spiritual existence
If you look at the great sages of former centuries, you can see everywhere
need to inform this today. However, someone who observes the development
Time goes beyond the form of our science as we have gone beyond the
former forms.
was a uniform world edifice that stood before the soul, and the basis
minerals. One had a uniform world view of the origin of a solar system
up to the formation of the mineral. The atom was chained together with
centre in itself, rotates, pushes off rings which form to planets, and
in this way you know this hypothesis such a solar system forms, which
admit that again new worlds form et etcetera.
forms of thinking. These sit much, much deeper than any understanding.
With this transformation
form which should express truth of the higher plane, not only symbolically,
but really. This forms the basis of every true poetry. Therefore, Goethe
forms to express the divine.
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question; I have considered the thing once again and have still to inform
find it also in all reform literature. You find it everywhere, also
service of a reform movement. Who has a mathematically trained thinking
reformer really. Three weeks would be enough if one got involved in
to foresee something of the layers and formations of the mountain. Only
before one approaches a practical reform movement, to acquire the whole
someone who has been filled with particular forms of concepts for years
A totally unmathematical and inexact way of thinking formed the basis
unless a plan forms the basis of the whole. Otherwise the carving of
called their teachings mathesis because they formed a self-knowledge
that forms the basis of the theosophical world view, and what we have
you find no exit. So single reforms are sought just concerning the legal
life. There is a legal alliance; it is led by a former theologian. He
and forms then the mathematical theorem of the sum of the angles in
the practical life reform. Then one understands the theosophical movement

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is the same principle that also forms the basis of the oriental medicine,
a principle which forms the basis of immunisation, the vaccination,
as we know it, with an antiserum. They combat a certain form of disease,
forms the basis of this principle. You know that the human being becomes
transformed into heat, something changes by the homicide of a living
involved in that which forms the basis here, they would also see the
of concepts where he cannot form an opinion. Then he finds a way of
forms with theosophical spirit. Big lines are developed in such thinking,

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education, but at a formal education which should form the spiritual
training of a human being in a formal way. Among other things, rhetoric,
ripe. The feature of our time is to set little store by the formal education.
underestimate everything formal compared with the material. One makes
human being must remain at the formal very long, that his reason is
We have to learn to talk fairly, before our thoughts are transformed
the ability of logic formally, then this precious good of humankind
without further ado. So at first formal education, before that matures
will get to the formal quite naturally. Science takes a particular position
in which the soul food is transformed, is assimilated. Only then the
arguing was fertile because one had acquired formal education. Today
to be an examination of his life forms; the only honorary title of the
human being the life contents of this life form is included. Otherwise,
the philosophical doctor is an arabesque, a pretension, a social form.
transformed into art of living. One already had such consciousness.

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture I
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that today it is too lightly assumed that in former times,
forming any idea of how man's soul, and in particular his

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture II
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as such the possibility of transformation, of metamorphosis
he saw as transformations of the basic concept
pictures is something new. It enables one to transform
conformity with human evolution, it is now. I drew attention
recede. He sensed that growth had stopped, that the formation
bestowed upon man what formerly he had possessed as an
The connection man formerly had with the spiritual world came
certain form of life which then progresses to ever higher
capable of delving into reality can no longer be formulated.
the furnace is missing that could transform them — one
whether under the system of representation or any other form
antiquity is the best example of such a formation of an
position of Homer in antiquity is an example of the formation
advisor is an example of how an idea-complex is formed. It is

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture III
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transform him over comparatively short periods of time, and
the elemental spirits revealed to them formed the basis for
organism is so formed that the nose could only be where it is
main form of worship in the third epoch was a star cult.
of reformation, only just begun by Luther, is completed, the
true of the crystal's form and existence. If on the other
hand you form a concept of a flower without roots, you have
who thinks in accordance with reality to form a mental
anew to form concepts that correspond to reality. A tree
especially biologists do are not formulating real thoughts.
The State as a Form of Life.
Czar. He was clad in his regiment's ceremonial uniform,
formerly a follower of Baader

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture IV
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forces, by flowing together, form a common stream of
recognizes the generally held opinion. Thus for the former
what is there left to transform? So again what he has written
gives the cell body its form.” (p. 256)
Saturn's environment, those of form (Exusiai), of
forces at work in the formation of the brain during early
speaks is transformed into clusters of demons while a
demonstrating it. One must formally show that the man is
is Dessoir's source of information. I know that people who
conclusion be drawn that primitive thought forms continue
unites with the folksong (Agathe); thus words and song form

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture V
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formulate and elaborate concepts that have content. We find
physical-bodily nature. The concepts formulated by Brentano
threefold in that it thinks; i.e., forms mental pictures, it
as threefold but not according to forming mental pictures of
between forming mental pictures, judging or assessing, and
forming mental pictures, judgments, and fluctuating moods and
form mental pictures of something, the images remain within
“this tree is green.” The former is a mere
formulation of mental pictures, the latter has a basis within
activity of merely forming mental pictures one remains within
acknowledge not merely that I am forming mental pictures, but
and rejection, and forming mental pictures.
question may be formulated differently: Where does the good
formula that good is that which is worthy of love. Instead,
the latter experience does not coincide with the former; you
formulated into concept, into mental picture; for that to
what is formless in the I and astral body is
Christ find entry into human souls in the form presented by

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VI
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the I through the mental activity of forming thought
significance. The I of which we form a mental
I of which we form a mental picture contains already
necessarily exist in the form in which we encounter it. When
discovered that one's thinking, i.e., forming mental pictures
force which lives in us in this life in the form of a
formulate mental pictures of future events you clothe the
forming mental pictures, the making of judgments, and the
out of a force that was in me in a former life on earth.
their spiritual connection from a former life on earth across
guide it, whereas thinking and will can be transformed
formula as answer. The whole of spiritual science deals with
in the form in which He now lives within the earthly sphere.

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that insofar as we form a thought picture of the I
expressed in a simpler, paradigmatic form, saying: “If
objects and phenomena to be investigated, and he formulates
somewhat formally, saying that natural-scientific
of ideas and ideals; he will be concerned about social reform
and Chamberlain who formerly had looked upon their opponent
in things they can manage. Lloyd George was well informed
policeman's uniform and be smuggled through a side door
many former Ministers of Trade had come to grief. The way he
revenue is really a form of tariff, worked out so that the

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VIII
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formless, at another it may have a definite structure. A
formulas, sets of concepts with which they can live and be
kept at hand in one's pocket. In place of ready formulas,
formulated into concepts, whereas spiritual-scientific truths
capacity for continuous transformation, which is an
debated and already the form in which the problem is
going through a process of transformation in our time, which
A former
by formulating a theory saying: Every province has its own
provincial presses a uniform model newspaper. One could
which presents in conceptual form a social structure within
we have an inherent inclination and ability to formulate such
“Renaissance and Reformation — aesthetic
form a whole.” Such a sentence tests my patience too
and pull from beneath the ground and form the footprints in
formations and processes of the brain the forces that create
originated from people walking over it, so are the formations
phenomena, to rise to a thinking that formulates thoughts

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understanding, we are carried on the wings of transcendent, transforming
yet formed part of our studies, a general indication of it is all that

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body in the specially constituted form which was to be used at that
Testament conforms entirely with the historical facts. Everything that
external world. This was to be the introduction of that form of
were on the foundation of shadowy clairvoyance, the particular formation
conformity with the purpose for which it was originally created. If, with
these experiences. And so Joseph forms the link between the ancient Hebrew
experience. The whole picture which a man to-day is able to form out of
became the appropriate personality to form the link between the Hebrew
reality in the form of a mathematical world-picture — received
form of actual experiences. For it was essential, as we have seen, that
gift and was able to form the link between the Hebrew and the Egyptian

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expressing itself in the form of concepts and ideas of a physical nature,
all the other forms of pre-Christian spiritual life, and why had they
because it was held that in the grape the plant-forming principle has
aspire to the higher form of clairvoyance, but who worshipped the god
gives form to the physical body can be perceived only if it is loosened
past was portrayed in the etheric body and acted as a formative force
as the vision of the soul-nature of the etheric body, in the form of
given the physical body its form and shape was itself a creation of
knew from the form in which the etheric body appeared before them, when
in its Egyptian form. It would be erroneous to imagine that the ancient
of the Hebrew people and would have produced an abortive form of culture.

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture I: Celts, Teutons, and Slavs
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directed to useful ends. Hunting and cattle-rearing formed the chief
printing. All this, which led to a complete transformation of
Palecky, the Czech historian, referred to the reform movement of the
before the so-called Reformation, this movement was tentatively
are distinguished form the sagas of ancient Greece and Rome in that
within their hearts they formed their God.
the races sprang, too, the thought of reformation. To be themselves
introduced a reform movement in England. The folk-spirit demanded
nor during, conquest, that the Germanic character was formed; but
by right. But another form of unfreedom, material
forms could be maintained; economic unfreedom alone persists.
who is freed from all these forms of oppression, he who, released

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture II: Persians, Franks, and Goths
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of our own to form such a picture. Tacitus, in his Germania,
Istavones and Herminones If we compare this information of Tacitus'
culture of all these peoples was maintained in this form by the
characteristic forms of their religion, which do, indeed,
greater conformity with those of the Persians. According to the
overlaid by the ice, and brought forth a mighty human form. From
this human form sprang the Gods: Woten, Wile and We, whose names
indication in an ancient Persian formula or poem of exorcism, which
women. Here we meet with a civilisation and a form of society which
civilisation came from the east, held a different form of
tolerance for every other form of religion. No compromise was
had been formed from the above mentioned tribes, who were for ever

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Roman Empire was split into an East and West Empire, the former with
former Gauls, rose a mighty empire — the empire of the Franks
characteristic culture of this form of Christianity was developed.
life. Thus we see how spiritual life was being formed, unhindered by
formed what we know as the Merovingian Empire, which later came
Franks, the Goths and what was left of the Roman race, formed the
type and form is described as something quite peculiar. An important
point was that this race formed a compact unity; a submissiveness,
than Christianity; all sorts of culture forms received their stamp
their free character, they provided a framework for mobile forms in
formations grew out of material interests. The population which
realm, the empire of the Franks, was formed. Not having pressed into

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observe a transition of forms into their exact opposite.
forms of society evolve from old ones. From the fact that many men
kingdoms, formed in the most natural way. The Merovingians remained
their equals. All these kingdoms had been formed in the following
relationships, the relationships of rights were formed, and it is
kingdom, there was formed in France a kind of official aristocracy
the spiritual side of Christianity they were not inclined to conform
transformed into saints; ancient festivals and ritual customs became
authority, formed a gradual preparation for the subsequent rule of
stimulus into account. Out of Asia, form the far East, whence
fundamental Being, whose nature and form is not closely

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were little social assemblies, which formed their original
of the former population, partly the Roman colonists or prisoners of
the formula: the ancient Frankish Empire progressed through purely
It was the form
properties formerly possessed by the Saxons were distributed. The
thus the Church undertook what had formerly been done by secular
certain definite form. Nothing of what we picture as spiritual
One form of culture
disciplined thinking there already. The forms of thought with which
others, their formal schooling, was rooted in this spirit of the
Rome, namely, that the bread and wine was actually transformed into
continually grow larger and form themselves anew from the influx of

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a complete form of culture, such as Christianity is, was living a
districts which form the Germany of today, the original Germanic
The educated clergy supplied what had formerly been provided by
quite uniform education, issuing from the monasteries. Side by side
same form, since they were taught, from Greece, in the monasteries
science of space. Arithmetic is a higher form of counting.

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that time, than to form an accurate picture of the individual
States with central administration and uniform armies. Hence arose
kings. Increasingly undignified relationships were formed. A number
of people, who had formerly been free peasants had to surrender all
artisans and tradesmen was being formed. In places where there were
against the Magyar horsemen. This cavalry formed the basis of the
reform which emanated from Cluny. The influence of the Cluniacs was
was nowhere a uniformly governed empire, we can estimate what it
Formerly, secular princes had possession of every bishopric which

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VIII: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
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time, they formed what is called the lower nobility, out of which
becoming more and more externalised, the outward form of faith had
Moorish science, too, found a real entrance in this way. Formerly
influence of religious emotionalism had assumed a definite form; it
the world as idea — form an outgrowth from mediaeval
Manufactures flourish, and guilds are formed. NO longer need the
the serfs were wont to do. Soon kings and princes form alliances
forms. Knights who could write poems composed odes to their lady

Title: The Human Soul in Life and Death
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nature, in the form of a thought. The spiritual-scientist
experience, that we have just transformed; here we do not
grace bestowed on us in the form of power. The preparation, on
as objectively before him as the forms of nature lie
transformed into experience, into the most direct
that of thought-concentration, and form as it were the second
fate. And whereas formerly we had separated ourselves from our
fate, whereas formerly we had set ourselves up detached, as a
becomes so transformed that we ourselves become the objects of
finds what would otherwise be called 'rebellion' transformed
from the form of our Self between birth and death. Between birth
those that, in the form of a craving for the body, obscure our
them himself — memory grows back beyond former
unhurt, over the broken fragments of thy forms. It surprises me
is indispensable for the formation of the bond between the
us within the form in which events to-day put it —

Title: Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
illness, and the problems of education. These lectures form part of
phenomenal forms are regarded as the things themselves. One
etheric body, the former life passes before the soul in great
water, so one can also transform matter so that it becomes
with what is inherited; together they must form a harmony.
Almost always a harmony also is really formed, for the physical
adapts itself to the spiritual (transforms itself). How, if
outwardly, hopes, wishes, desires, meet it in forms from
also with spiritual diseases. The forms of mania are
forms stand furthest removed from the spirit, condensed to the

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and say “Here I see very remarkable forms, — two
is nothing but quite simple architectural forms. It can however
forms among the clouds — and yet in such a way
still, above this interweaving of the forms of clouds and men,
left to remind one of the human form. What would the visitor
represent by clouds and human forms interwoven together, and by
forms on a golden background that bear no resemblance to man.
artistic form. Just imagine how great and mighty must have been
formerly felt as a kind of breaking loose from a nature which
form. Christ born from the bird, — let us hold the motif
form. This Dove of the Spirit will break its form, and from it
to-day in its first form as Theosophy. Other figures, new
world of form; and what will come about through the Spirit,

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contains the letters, as it were, and Man forms the word that is composed of these letters.
The Sun formed the eye for itself and
with a faculty of dim, hazy vision that they beheld the world of the Germanic Gods and formed

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picture you can make of the etheric body is that its form is approximately the same as that
and the qualities of character. But in respect of form all this comes to expression in the
to each other as the minute hand of a clock and the hour hand. The transformation of
and habits stem from ideas, thoughts and concepts that had been formed in previous lives.
individual will be reborn with a body that can be exposed to every possible form of
influence upon the karmic formation of the following life. There we must speak to begin
the transformation of habitual behaviour, a violent, choleric individual can become a
him in the form of a certain feeling of antipathy towards the world he now encountered.
exempted. They may however also perform utterly different deeds because they are different
certain form of evil, does not contravene the law of Karma. The Redemption through Christ
etheric body and in the course of further progress the future formation of the physical
today to induce human beings to live in conformity with the law of Karma and to prepare the
endeavour to answer next time. Briefly, how do the relationships of the one life form the

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life of a human being the effect of his former lives and
also with our actions in former incarnations. Their results
so that man appears to be formed out of nine parts:–
preserves the results of my actions in former lives. It
former lives have made out of it.
of imagination, the formation of idea, thought and
forms. We will not now enter into the question as to what
qualities through the deeds of my former life having
these, external actions were performed. The body causes man
a person performs, and on the other they form his personal
character. The action I perform as a consequence of my
the desires of strengthened by each new action I perform
part of the “remains of memory” is formed in
former from what it had in the latter. What capacities we
results of my experiences, and this forms the foundation
which the experiences of former lives change into
again to a new incarnation. It brings, in the form of
gained in former lives.
an important work, try to explain the gradual formation of
past these he has formed in the supersets will conditions
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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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influence on the forming of Western Christianity: to
weakness is not always able to perform it, so that goodness is
Then he looked at what bodily forms a human being, and which
create a world, he must conform to that which is true without
from its bodily nature, that it really can perform a spiritual
the former its own task completely. If a human being could only
selfishness can be transformed into becoming a benefactor
world of animals is basically an outer formation of an
was only natural that in the latest times, that deeply formed
former being has gone over into us, and that our world can only
bring about their rapid transformation into frogs through long
play, that make it possible to perform what they have to
perform; they are hungry because they hold back the forces,
to force a way into another form. That is an image that is
human pondering had to take the form that we meet up with in
can prove it to us in such a popular form, as when we, if we
and this should spark off a kind of transformation of such a

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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in the Jordan formed the main topic of the Basel lectures. Already in this
special beings, which must be formed in such a way that the currents could
body. That Buddha can be seen today only by the clairvoyant. Such a form,
one can get the right information why the two genealogies are and must be
Nazareth. The former Jesus came from the line of the Davidic house, which
different abilities in his early youth than the Nazarene one. The former
passes over into the other Jesus boy. From the twelfth year on, the former

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that form which the Buddha assumed after his last incarnation, in which he
law, Dharma. The Buddha brought the law in such a way, in a certain form,
so that it could be recognized by the soul in that form, so that people

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him joins with his own creative activity to form an organic
special light. We see how a uniform spiritual element flows
than we are from the Reformation. Humanity's progress becomes
a kind of religious reformer Savonarola had transformed the
system that Savonarola had railed against and the reformers had
ideas appear in many respects in a new form. We see the most
by clouds that seem naturally to take on human form. One of
were only human pictures; in memory, their beautiful forms palpable
female form, in our happiness or sorrow; like pictures that
ideas, but forms them into a picture. By virtue of its inner
We see Raphael giving form to the figures of Christian
impressive and noblest becomes manifest in outer form in
in the form of art, but received that mighty impulse at its
directed its attention once again to the forms the Greek spirit
expression in a world of forms, of pictures in which the purest
realms of the spiritual, but assumes artistic form — much as
lives and weaves formlessly in the universe, pressing this into
attempting to form an overall picture of his works in their
exalted, perfect forms, they appear to us as possessing a
What the Greeks had conceived and formed into figures we now
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that we have it only in a truncated form, this book by Leonardo
most wonderful way in conformity with the truth. Nothing
Thus, in conformity with the entire spiritual stature of
concepts were formed by means of natural science. And where
from earlier times took effect only in the form of a certain
example with an arm, all the forces that formed it. One felt
human form. Things were not viewed from outside, but created
from within, while being aware of the actual formative forces.
of taking on form by means of art, and what he had been able to
bequeath to the world after all only in fragmentary form.
features, well-formed, he stood before humanity as an exemplary

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expression oneself in the form of a fairy tale of some kind.
set forth in a more philosophical-abstract form in his
tragic, as well as other forms of artistic expression, results
having developed out of older forms of human consciousness.
the inner battles it had to undergo, giving pictorial form to
transforming one thing into another. Nature is
form a conception of this cleverer, wiser, more skillful being
resin and could only perform his work during the night, since,
avenge him. And they shot arrows. They shot arrows that formed
the form of pictures, since external happenings have to
characteristic fairy tales are those handed down from former
Grimm collected in the form told them by relatives and
hand, nothing of the artistic form of the fairy tale is
whereas the fairy tale form is really the more comprehensive
the innermost soul, it is precisely the form most suited to the
expressed in the simplest possible form. In fact, one
art capable of expressing in the most self-evident form what is
work creatively on its own physical formation,
summoning the formative forces for its own growth, for
formulated in words this man spoke — knowing as he

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to the boundaries of the human form and disappearing into the
beings formerly saw warm, feeling-imbued beings in the
see physical forms around them with defined contours.
come to expression in a different form in a future humanity.

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University of Berlin, also published in book form. Anyone
on form to become a creation, of Goethe's phantasy. How, he
sensibility transforms everyday events in the physical
transformed it artistically, who have utilized it for cultural
without putting it into an abstract formula — having been
of European cultural life in the last form these lectures took.
transformed itself into a point of light that became visible to
it took on form — Arthur stood before her! She saw him,
his form.”
himself, no mere phantom that had taken on his form.”
behind the entire sense world. It could appear a form of

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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one form into another, so thoughts should also take on other
forms when they enter into other spheres. One thing remains the
be called “scientific certainty” which forms the
developed, here the mathematical way of thinking forms a
rationalistic way had to form a foundation by the introduction
elongated or other plant forms, soon forming the flower, soon
according to which all plants could be formed. It is quite
unconsciously join the single forms together and encounter its
in the forms of expression. One would achieve what I would like
in imagination to let it rise to the form of the plant and to
the form of the animal. Already during the eighties (1880's)I
the actual principle of the process, the formative principle,
spiritual world outside reflects itself in the form of lungs,

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discovering the difference within the form, within the human
organ formation were transformed and then gradually through its
within man, and in such a way reveal the transformed
itself, in its forms, only depends on the animal and the human
takes on form through his organs. In brief, one needs to search
on. Such an unconscious conclusion in reality doesn't form the
life, forming his spinal axis vertically, he has brought
When we track the formation of single bones, for example the
possibility of how the formation of ribs or head bones in a man
with the animals, but it is something formed within the human
hand we must regard thoughts of a particular imaginative form,
being is fitted out with the same forms as the animal but they
metamorphosed forms. This can also simply be anatomically
the finer areas of the human, animal and plant forms, because

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who lean towards the former idealistic philosophy. There were
into clear scientific forms with which to create his world
trouble to go back to Kepler's planetary movement formulations,
he analysed Kepler's formulations about planetary movements and
anything new because Kepler's formulation already contained the
scientifically formulated thought, while with Kepler it had
conceptual forms and means of expression which we know, from
comes the striving to formulate a world view scientifically;
formulations, formulations and concepts used by the West in
view was formed through the characteristics and abilities of
collects these concepts and forms a separate abstract unit. I
form a concept of grasping a reality, quite apart from
thought experiences developing into living form, then it may on

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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person, this makes love more intense, transforms human vigour.
try to define this in some way, to formulate an abstract
coloured theory assumes that the bodily-physical should form
— if one focuses on the first important transformation
around the seventh year of life. Such transformations in the human
gradually to not only being able to observe the transformation
organism, works also in the formation of the brain in the first
acquiring freedom, the form appears. So a comparison isn't made
the bodily form during the various periods of life. This means,
transformed so that the human being later, in his thirtieth
transformed by him as he had transformed his limbs. Everything
powers of growth, powers of transformation; that means we must
on the child's performance and on the other, the teacher's
judgement of this performance, and is expressed as:
appears in various forms as the youth movement — one can
only appears later. As a result, abstract forms of writing and
continue this way and try to find forms of a particular nature,
total being in the artistic form of writing which can evolve
the lessons. It needs to be metamorphosed, transformed
form judgements and learn that everything we do in the child's
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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the same facts and indications acquire their form only
those who stand within it, formed out of their personal actions
reject wanting to talk in this way about the possible form
into the social form, how so to speak everything which ruled in
how labour and suchlike must be formed; I gave at most some
examples for how one could think about forming the future
spoken about the transformation of capital forces in my
“Key notes”, just so this transformation can be
following can never be said: it has this or that form. If the
only; we need to understand them in a lively form. If
physiognomy. — Yes, if at that time I had formed a concept of
form thoughts and ideas about capital and labour and so on, and

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need a formulation of natural laws, in which experience of the
which speaks about the supersensible world, but it forms a

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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“soul” and words streaming in formed the
transformation of the human soul constitution. I have
repetitively characterized this transformation as having taken
we restrain our gestures and they transform themselves within
us and this transformation appears as consonants.
form gestures out of the collective vowel system, so that the
world — but in a transformed way — so that in contrast, through
the vowels, he forms his own inner relationship to the outer
human being, formed a contour around him or her.
live in the German language today we must live into those forms
could the dumb have fixed forms of language while still so
form of speech, according to his sympathies or antipathies.

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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have hitherto sought in the form of beauty, artistic
fewer socialist “programmes” would be formed; they
“history” gives no information regarding the
giving it first the form it had in Lemurian times, then the
form for the Atlantean, and lastly that of the post
came to the point where, through transformation of older forms,
form of man.
formation of man.
formation of his body, that he is in a certain respect so
earthly form as man passes through the remainder of our
for instance, possessed an organizing force which formed the
in the main abstractions and have no formative force at all. We
enough. The theory must become so practical that it forms the
only to profess some formula but to carry this knowledge right
be more “formal” (classical) or
“formally?” Certainly not the latter. But it is all
imposes on us the obligation to shape the forms of external
wish to remain stationary in the forms of ideas already
bring genuine social transformation. The best understanding of

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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great importance that it forms, and always must form, a
gradually to form the being of man as time goes by. In a sense
ever new forms.
have never before existed among us in this particular form. We
phenomena in their deepest, most fundamental form as riddles to
merely form a kind of vapour rising from true reality, and are
the middle-class world. This is the view which, forming in the
Other impulses have formed the Eastern view of the world, and
as an instrument for transforming the world around, what shines
towards transforming, revolutionizing the world, but that
forms. Thinking of this sort is as sensible as saying:
civilized world in manifold forms. Looking at the West,
their own inner being, not to be bound by the old forms of
are permeated with all this more than we think. When we form
forms of which people at present have no idea. We must grasp

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give the corpse over to the earth in a form and condition which
two forms in which this temptation can arise; one I would call
We carry the Western form with peculiar strength in our own
who now hold a position so different from their former one. In

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form it took at the moment of the outbreak of the appalling
hand to building a new form of social organization. And just in
former leading and dominant class has the practical experience
a sort of precipitate, formed out of the intensely active
the former and all the longings, wishes and impulses of the
proletariat. We may understand the form of the words when they
transformation of private ownership into common property; but
further, how the form of education will differ from our present
have been formed into single state-economics, the intellectual
life in its wider form has been absorbed by the State
nowadays has taken the place of the Church which formerly used
from the lowest form to the highest grade in the public
must form its experience, I may remark, on such an occasion as
consequences, and now there is a new form for the social
will reveal itself in its true form if we take socialism
seriously. Moreover, we can ascertain that true form if we so
spheres, covering what remains of the function of the former
effect of which the ruling classes can hardly form any idea.
them, but that is impossible. I must just indicate what form
depend on the formation of Corporations (whether elected, or
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