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Title: William Shakespeare
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his marked personality, the expression of Christian ideals of that
ethical or moral idea. For example, the idea of a tragic guilt, as
consistently, uninfluenced by the idea of guilt and atonement. It
Shakespeare also did not intend to present ideas of any kind, he did

Title: William Shakespeare
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the Christian ideas of that time. The Christian type of his time,
presenting to his audience an ethical or moral idea. For example,
the idea of tragic guilt, as found in Schiller's dramas, who
uninfluenced by the idea of guilt and atonement. It would be
also did not intend to present a certain idea, not jealousy in

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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theoretical ideas and conceptions which arise out of these habits of
Christ. The Gnostic ideas were only able to prevail for a relatively
development of the wonderful Gnostic ideas concerning the Christ
life. Modern Spiritual Science, the ideas of which we will try briefly
the true ‘concreteness’ of spiritual ideas than can ever
idea; that is to say, the conception of a Being Who became incarnate
development, as it were, of ancient Gnostic ideas, has however
renounce the real Christ Idea, and endeavoured to confine attention
entered history as a mere ‘idea,’ as an impulse created
historical science is that it speaks of ‘historical ideas,’
as if outer, abstract ideas were taking root among peoples and
superficiality imaginable. Ideas are not the source of development of
process would be meaningless if the ideas which surge into the souls
conceptions and ideas when, freed from his present bearings, he has
him and the world to which he really belongs. The idea of the
“The world is my Idea.” In other words this means:
knowledge, are only the result of redemption. Through the idea

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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And now let us turn to certain fundamental ideas which can make our
study the buildings of a later epoch, gleaning from them some idea of
The idea of the temple
in existence can prefigure the ideal structure that ought, one
feels: ‘When I try to formulate in concepts or ideas something

Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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element, into the great idea of the organization of States. The
understand the idea of the incarnated God. To begin with, this idea
this idea very life. The Christ is given form in the Jewish

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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experience you often have if one or another idea or impression has,
the ideas of education.
the first thing that happens in this process of acquiring ideas is
perception, but to have an idea, a mental image, you need the etheric
necessary for the retaining of ideas, so little that it hardly need
of forming an idea of this participation is to get to know a fact
It is the forgotten ideas! That is the great blessing of forgetting!

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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world. So that however pious a doctor is and however many ideas he

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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his surroundings vastly increased, you get an idea of how the man of

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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investigate the causes because they have no idea of the spiritual
this is only roughly speaking. A rough idea is sufficient for a
spiritual science is not a collection of abstract ideas for those

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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man, with his materialistic mode of thought, laughs at the idea that

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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instrument of our life of concepts and ideas is inherited externally
order to get at least some idea of it today — we shall return

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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course of ages. All this gives you an idea of how external conditions
to acknowledge this as an acceptable idea? He united himself with the
And whilst it could not take root over in the East where the idea of
itself as the idea of a personal God, which Jehovah is and which
we see it meeting with understanding, when envisaged as the idea of a
evolution and that of the East. A remarkable idea emerged there which
were in the idea of the ‘One God’. The Ongod would be
according to this way of thinking the idea of a personal God was

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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and hold one idea before you, and you will soon notice the difference
to who is the thief. The ideas you put together have nothing to do
vehicle. And now transfer this idea to human evolution. During the
what man sees before him as a great and wonderful ideal in the far
we are able to do this we shall acquire great ideals which, although
progressed to the point where they have the following ideal: “When
we have placed before us as our ideal those whom we call the masters
something new may arise. This is the tremendous idea of progress,

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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founded a religious Order in the West. Before the idea of
such circumstances, if we are not stony-hearted, the idea may occur
to us that we must make reparation. When this idea comes to us it is

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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realise that as a human being never fulfils his ideal value, his ‘I’
Mystery of Golgotha is a great ideal, the ideal of supremely

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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ideas about the members of man's constitution or about what can come
ideas, we can bring them to him after death in the way described.
connected with the astral body. It is not so easy to convey an idea
surface of a sea without the faintest idea of what is down below on
from what it now is, because you have no idea of what might
thing were said it would imply ignorance of the fact that the idea of
possibilities; this may not be in the form of definite ideas but of

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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very simply, although people who are not accustomed to these ideas
inscribed symbols here and there to represent their idea of the
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
and ideas; after death they are living forces! But this applies to
spiritual ideas we acquire are life-giving forces. But a man cannot

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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sound natural scientific principles, to formulate ideas and concepts
have the capacity to deepen and develop the ideas spiritually, in
culminating in death. But you can have some idea of it if you reflect

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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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’

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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standpoint. Admittedly, we come across idealists, materialists and
appropriate either for materialism or idealism, The world does not

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Eight
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feelings and ideas are different; consciousness during sleep has
achieve. We must work not only according to the concepts and ideas of
everyday existence but with cosmological ideas. Hence it is not a
derived from earthly ideals but from the vista of the entire span of
life, not concepts and ideas only. But the concepts of

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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contacts between death and rebirth. Rejection of spiritual ideas in
Earth was unresponsive and antagonistic to all thoughts and ideas
into the spiritual life no relevant ideas and concepts, we shall pass
have been receptive or antagonistic in our souls to concepts or ideas
receive their forces, the ideas and concepts which are the light
during the present cycle of time has rejected all spiritual ideas,
deliberately refused to concern themselves with ideas and concepts
to be taught any ideas about religion for that would be against
nature. If children are allowed to grow up without having any ideas
themselves arrive at ideas of God, immortality, and so forth. The
inference to be drawn from this is that such ideas are unnatural to
against children being taught any ideas about religion would
cleric cannot propagate his ideas by means of his logic, for both he
idea, assuming one can get hold of it, cancels itself out.
the acceptance of certain concepts and ideas needed by man for his

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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soul, it will be easy for you to form an idea of what remains of
idea of how little of what the sense-impressions have conveyed is
this is an ideal to which the thought-life can be devoted; in the
region only if it has acquired religious ideas in earthly life; it

Title: Michelangelo
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science. — Now if we accept the ideas and concepts which are
into the basic ideas and forms which are to be found in the
just a matter of realism or idealism as we use those clichés:
during which sculpture rested, there appeared the Christian ideal: an
was merely the first expression of his ideas, his feelings; as he
artistic idea into the same world in which we live, helped him to

Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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moulded his Karma had already had the rescuing idea. The dream

Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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in the depths of the soul of which one has no conscious idea. Man can
he has a definite idea of what constitutes proof. Maeterlinck can be
the circle into a square was an ideal, as it were, toward which one

Title: Lecture: Buddha
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connect Buddhism, among other things, with the idea of reincarnation.
the history of Western spiritual life should tell us that the idea of
culture we find that Lessing had a magnificent conception of the idea
the idea of reincarnation neither from ancient tradition, nor from
Buddhism, for the idea of reincarnation arises of necessity from an
the idea of repeated earthly lives, for to understand the essence of
closely interwoven, he should have evolved the idea that this descent
increasing life. His soul is then filled with the idea of
The idea of fruitful growth proceeds from wisdom. Gazing into the
ideas have arisen as to the meaning of “Nirvana.” One who
form an idea of the realm entered by one who has been liberated from
to have a false idea of history.
Buddhism, and his ideas assumed a Buddhistic colouring.

Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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this way it is possible to form some idea of the appearance
Some idea of the methods applied and of the manner in which research
which, according to the ideas of geology (conceived and expressed precisely
to ideas prevailing at the present time — have been on
few preconceived ideas want to build up a world-conception. But a

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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position to carry out the idea of a building in Munich it must be
theosophical movement we have to look upon the occult ideal as the
from this she formed the idea that Christ had never lived at all,
two are conflicting ideas!’ No, we must not allow it to be said
that these are two different ideas; we must emphasise, even on the

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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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
difficult to form an idea, except for one who has taken the trouble,
ideas than anything else: space ceases! It no longer has any meaning
ideas themselves flow in time. On Saturn no thought is before or
we have to attain; we must be able to transform the ideas we receive
intellectual ideas. These latter owe their existence to a much
correct idea of how helpless a man is who writes an intellectual
And in doing so we shall see that there too we come to ideas which

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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and ideas through which we may reach those strange and distant
living idea permeating our soul, it will gradually lead to the
Sun, we must again first form an idea by which we can imagine the
idea of this virtue of giving. Let us bring home to our mind the
idea; such an idea may produce in us a distinct perception of
self-creative. Anyone who has an idea and feels that he can give it
think of this creative idea in the mind of the artist, and how it
their conception to the idea of the sacrificial incense pouring
the Christ-being when we grasp the idea of the bestowing virtue, the
idea that can stir in a human soul on hearing such an account, when

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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actual conditions of development we must acquire a definite idea from
renouncing all idea of satisfying them. Suppose a man has made up his
we bear in mind the idea of resignation or renunciation which we just
we have the idea of the Thrones or Spirits of Will sacrificing to the
Time and Eternity is so faintly perceptible that our ideas and words
trying to burst forth in that word or idea, what at the most can flow

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 2)
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our ideas, seems to reveal so little of its spiritual nature, we have
the regions referred to, both conceptions and ideas slip into use
knows what I suffer,’ if we wish to convey an idea of the
different concepts and ideas on the subject. But if his earlier
We can form an idea of
but as ideas. We can best picture these to ourselves by the ideas
that a man has when he dreams; the fluidic ideas that succeeding one
that; but it is able to take in the transitory idea of the other
Soul, drowning, silencing the longing for ideas while he yearned for
an end to this search for ideas — the greater the yearning, the

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 6: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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these observations further, another idea is necessary. That is the
satisfaction only in the advance of that world of ideas which we have
thereby contradict what we have said about the idea of wondering; for
between this idea and those brought before our minds in the last
clear idea of what this implies, if we think symbolically of the more
feelings of such Beings, you will have an idea of what may be called:
to a reality. I want you to hold clearly to the idea we have just
world's development, the idea that effects such as these produced by
necessary, and if we are thoroughly to enter into the various ideas

Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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ideas, concepts, and mental images of things and beings if these
concepts and ideas, this spiritual content through which the human
Theodor Fechner must already have experienced this idea when, around
with the idea of a ‘plant soul’ after the material aspects
idea!” to which Goethe could only say, “Isn't it
nice that I can have ideas without knowing it and can even see them

Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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MONG the ideas advanced by Spiritual Science, that
of Reincarnation occupies a foremost place. The idea that the human
conceived ideas of morality exactly as he does to-day. But Spiritual
so deepen our feelings, ideas, and impulses that the powers of soul
of this doctrine lay, not in its theoretical concepts and ideas but
re-create this idea nowadays. Zarathustra calls this
this religion and the nobility which lifts it above ideas which play
highest moral idea (the moral purification of man) among the

Title: Lecture: Hermes
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ideas of outer physical consciousness. The pictures must be related
consciousness was limited to the physical world around and to ideas
ask ourselves: of what nature was the life of feeling and ideas among
The idea of a triangle, for instance, must have been preceded by
The active principle of thought has become the power of ideation in
of man. Into the thoughts and ideas there
expression for such ideas in the world surrounding physical existence
whole life of soul. A man may imbue his soul with abstract ideas and

Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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who accept certain ideas of Darwinism as incontestable truths,
acknowledged everywhere, though the ideas of different thinkers
true that Ernst Haeckel's and Virchow's ideas on “the
would be glad if authoritative people had as clear ideas on
Darwinistic ideas. And it originated in a person who said to
natural idea. It is true, we believed that here as well as
general ideas about evolution are insufficient; you must also
is that while they have no idea that they have fallen prey to
unusual idea of the evolution of the soul as the above-mentioned
the clearest thinkers of the day, “The idea of creation ...

Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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establishes the idea of an antithesis between life and death,
establishing conceptions and ideas in the most exact manner
That is an idea which ought to make clear to anyone who
for instance, the idea of the indestructibility of matter has
fishes. The idea, that the living can only develop from the
order to form, as it were, conceptions and ideas concerning
being. We must first gain an idea of the nature of fatigue. I
cannot now go into all the ideas which have been collected on
we work with ideas which just merely touch the surface of
ourselves that it is possible to develop ideas and
when the idea of “I,” the conception of his own
experience, and the conception or idea of this
conception or idea and which can embody itself in the memory.
the universe is only our idea of it. But that lies in the
confusion of perception with idea. Both must be emphatically
differentiated. The idea is something which is reproduced. No
not receive the inner impression of the idea, it cannot be
stated that the idea is nothing more than what presents
the idea of a hot piece of steel, no matter how hot,
between idea and sense-perception. Therefore we an say that
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Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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we have lived the great ideal which we want to express through
inclined to dedicate our forces to this great ideal of mankind,
as of an ideal; but over against them stand Ahriman. We can
speak of ‘all-wisdom’ as of an ideal; but over against it
can stand as ideals. But cosmic love — we feel that it
are reminded of the highest wisdom, and that the ideal of
impulse which can bring us the high ideal for which we strive.
anthroposophical ideal. We shall attain that which is to be

Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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Scientific Knowledge was then very different from the ideas
had no idea that Aristotle was speaking of the Etheric
space.” To men with views such as these, the idea was
surprised at the excitement such an idea created in all,
this terrible complication of ideas which had to be got rid
differently, Galileo had already demonstrated this idea;
idea of that time. Galileo said: — “If you take a
Giordano Bruno mirrors for us all the great ideas of that
been content to grope about amongst the old ideas of
ideas of Giordano Bruno, we shall not see the fleshly human
enthusiasm — to the idea of the re-incarnation of the
have the representation, as the idea is the conception of the
as Idea, as the Thought that precedes the Word.” In
which he means, that the idea which exists in the Divine
shadows of the Divine Ideas. “Note well”, he
of the Divine Idea, our concepts will be again fructified
Spirit is weaving His Ideas into the original, so that we
the Divine Idea.
into the world of ideas; and in his own words “The
Goethe could not understand this highly materialistic idea.
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Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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as an attempt to create as broad a conception and idea as possible,
and ideas. In the Madonnas and other works, the tenderest, most inward
does not express the mystery of existence in ideas, but senses and gives
artistic forms their ideas of the gods united with the formless element

Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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immediately become clear for everyone, arise out of a mere idea
life-awakening. It is not a matter of the concepts, the ideas,
of dealing with the ideas as such, nor the intention of
live. We all have an idea of what food and clothing we need. A
toward the juridical that brought out the ideal of Liberty -
ideas. So also the idea that each living entity, in the first
and it is suitable for the human being to be raised in the idea
to travel to America in order to get the idea that someone who
those who had an inkling of the great ideas of the future.
He had great ideas about the development of humanity, and
to acknowledge reincarnation if one carries Haeckel's ideas further.

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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observation, that is an idea’ — having in mind
that only the human spirit could form such ideas, and that such an
idea had no significance for external, so-called objective nature.
at all, for he replied: ‘If that is an idea, then I see my
ideas with my eyes!’ He meant that just as an individual
increasing comprehension of Goethe's ideas. A letter of his
the manner of nature. A great and truly heroic idea which sufficiently
idea-world that which in his consciousness brought forth such a reply,
it is raised to ideas.
spiritual, the world of ideas. We see that for this reason Goethe's
abusing Fichte. To him he is a windbag, thinking and writing empty ideas.
a comprehensive idea of the mountain only by comparing the
overboard old traditions, and create feelings, thoughts and ideas
reach the Beautiful Lily. She had become his Ideal. But her lovely
only a slight idea of what there is in this legend. But if we
according to inclination and his destiny, a pure, ideal person, to
express the riddles of the soul in abstract ideas. For him they
idealist climbs to the heights. The power of the religious mood is

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture II
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particular point of view, and attempt to find the basic idea, the
consider the inevitability, and the true ideal content of the
idea-conception and as if he who, as it were, feels himself called
upon to put before you the ideal philosophy of Goethe, were
average European with some ideas of science can know of the world, we
absorbed a number of the scientific ideas of the present age:
the ideal of a certain knowledge-perfection, the object of his
formulating ideas. You will constantly hear it: that alone can be
formulate ideas and concepts is a capacity of the human soul among
ideating, but also a feeling and willing being. Now those who
formulating ideas, limited as it is to observation, may lead to
abstract ideals we set before us, but of what we can accomplish in
thinking capacity, the one-sided capacity to form ideas. The
differences when we examine the region of ideas and their
representation. There are regions of the idea-life which give us
ideas has always been called the ‘purification’ of the
the things, the ideas of the things themselves say to him, as
through my concepts and ideas. Hence there is present in me the
proto-plant was an idea, an abstraction, which one receives when one
And we saw that Goethe thereupon said that if that was an idea, then
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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at that time a frame of mind regulating Goethe's ideas in a new way
of ideas and disconnected observations of nature. Nowhere
after ideas! Away from the merely perceptive sense observation!
can only give me dry, empty ideas; anything that can be squeezed
the heights, and out of it formed their ideas, they were able to
through ideas which were fine and transparent as crystal, but full
empty ideas, but ideas which enlighten the heart and warm the soul.
When Faust lived this time had passed. Ideas then became dry and
abstract or drawn from thought. They were ideas which could be
these ideas and the living existence lying around us, or any
arrive in thought at ideas freed from the physical, may easily
which owing to the narrow-minded ideas of that time could not
It was possible for such moods and ideas to flow into Goethe's
have clear ideas or to speculate much about it. We can only try to
they drop it again after having acquired a few ideas. The riddles
the sixteenth century there was no longer a clear idea of these
knowledge of nature and just as good an idea of that which we see
necessity; here is God!’ — ‘I have an idea

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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One idea Goethe had for his ‘Faust’ was that at
The idea, as the now meaningless stage instruction tells us, was that
knowledge — the outer influences on one who has dim ideas of
that he has a dim idea, or he bathes in the morning-red, of the
the general idea of these Masque scenes: For a man who surveys
form ideas, but they are guided by spiritual beings behind the
‘He has no lack of qualities ideal
represents the idea of re-incarnation cryptically — as
the ideas, which stretch from epoch to epoch — nothing else
These ideas are not unfruitful; for him who is limited to the
these abstract ideas — is carried by them through the world
ideas’ — of whom, however, he who can look into it
sharply-outlined, ecclesiastical figures and ideas.’

Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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have not devised any ideas which we intend arbitrarily to
only those ideas which have been gradually prepared

Title: An Impulse for the Future
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caught up in the old ideas. The attempts at social renewal were met
must say to ourselves: the contemporary world is full of ideals
ideals by those who believe in them and are in the service of them
is generally demanded when such a representation of ideals is brought
demanded; but what is mostly demanded is that the asserted ideal
an assertion of the ideal is that an absolute agreement is demanded.
– a spiritually ideal counterbalance to everything connected to
ideal spiritual movement with any other, which also calls itself

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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time. Such impulses cannot be derived from views and ideas of
ideals. But life is shared with people of different cultures
an ideal to provide concrete knowledge about life's deepest
any so-called modern ideas. Just consider how rigid was the
while in Spain the young king is obliged to allow new ideas
a vestige of ideas and ideals. No social system can endure
ideas about what is regarded as spiritually the most exalted.
on an individual's inner life. The thoughts and ideas a

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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some of the basic ideas of spiritual science. You will come
to see that these basic ideas are the “above,”
case, repetitions help to make these basic ideas clearer, as
life. However, when ideas behind words seem to have no
meaning, it is not always the ideas that are at fault. In
which at present we can only look to as a far-distant ideal.
such a consciousness enhanced, you will get an idea of the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture V: Illness and Death
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change. Those who shudder at the idea of teleology must
ideals. When we compare a person with a savage, we realize
modern ideas concerned with medicine are extremely vague. If
If our concepts and ideas about the world and life are sound,

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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being occupied with religious ideas. Yet the most curious
religious person becomes mentally ill, his religious ideas
become distorted. Had he been steeped in materialistic ideas,
ideas in this realm. Many illnesses that in fact belong in
possessed by certain hallucinary ideas which, because they
imaginative, pictorial ideas and images are more akin to

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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perception of the archetypal plant. The idea of the
entities. This is the realm of Imagination; of ideas that are
not abstract but creative images. Abstract concepts and ideas
who said that eternal ideas are behind everything. The
is built up from such spiritual images. These eternal ideas,

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture X: Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
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presenting to the child ideal examples to
comes to expression as high ideals, beautiful hopes and
brought out during his school days. Ideals are not simply

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XI: Who are the Rosicrucians?
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to connect even remotely adequate ideas. And indeed, it is
describing the ideal. Do not think that these things can be
also in what preceded Rosicrucian¬ism, the ideal of the
a moment at the true nature of the Holy Grail. This ideal is
height, a person will attain this ideal. When no impure
level the great future ideal of mankind, attainable when the
— mankind's highest ideal. He saw the whole of nature
Levi. This can provide an idea of what the signs look like,
into the ideal of a plant body, which will be the bearer of a
ideal, one's watchword. It stands as the symbol for a human

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XII: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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striven for a similar clarity in the ideas they derive from
separate ways, he saw their working together as an ideal,
such an ideal form. He thought to recognize it in ancient
distant ideal the existence of selflessness within the arts.
future ideal, he was referred to as “the
related this idea to the discoveries of foreign lands; the
Wagner's great ideal and the sense in which he wanted to
Wagner's basic idea was of mystical origin; he wanted to
corresponding to this ideal — a feminine aspect with
link him with a particular name. The ideal was seen in the
and mobile ideas. If taken in a narrow, pedantic sense, we
the Middle Ages. Before that happened, another idea, as it
Victor was never performed, but the idea it embodied was
a beautiful interpretation of this idea, taking it as far as
this idea in 1856.
idea, that of death — the two polar concepts to which
ideal — the ideal that human beings shall attain a higher
other creative ideas pushed those concerned with Parsifal
desire nature. As an ideal this is depicted as a pure holy
Grail. At one time he meant to incorporate the idea into his
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XIII: The Bible and Wisdom
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more religious age. Nor can a person have any idea of the
that says: I look up to a godlike ideal of man, the seed of
ideal. With this insight into spiritual development man
ideal; through what he is, is revealed what we shall become.
form an idea of this connection is to think of the
Omega. Indeed, we recognize it as the ultimate ideal, the
I” in all its greatness and might, and you have an idea
ideal. They are those mentioned in the Sermon on the Mount as:

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conditions? Can we resolve to use the ideas and skills we have
through their will and their ideas. You know too that the most
senses, we have no idea that wherever we look there are

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scientists' ideal to be able to calculate future occurrences
mathematically on the basis of past ones. Ideally, scientists
This diarrhea of undigested ideas is not caused by an excessive
flood of his ideas cannot break through the dams of art, for
ideas into the direction that will show you that we can only

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“But you won't have any idea how to avoid mistakes next

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forgotten, and how that remarkable idea took hold of

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will have less belief in moral ideals. Outer dictates will be
although the physicists already have the ideal of the sixth age
even gradually lose the capacity to form any idea of anything
ideas, and the resultant movement we designate
functioning according to the laws of the association of ideas,
at any price. On no account ought the motivating ideas be
given ideas they cannot fully grasp and that surround them with
awaken his soul to the ideals of spiritual science, yet you
ought to acquire ideas and knowledge about spiritual
to bring home to people is that we should not take these ideas
again that we have to gather a great number of ideas to arrive
comparing it with outer reality. They assume that an idea is
extremely obvious idea, that people think they are great
see it has already become an ideal, this eliminating of

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wonderful edifice of his ideas.
pursuit of natural science, rise to the idea of a Divine being,
idealisation of our art historian; we must combat his phantasy,

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that it was able to give him. It was not only the ideas which he
many young people who introduce all kinds of philosophical ideas
philosophy or of philosophical ideas and notions. On the other hand
in life which was the ideal of his father and mother, deeply
his mind was the idea of a voluntary death. Then, just at the
There in Switzerland his thoughts turned to the ideas which were
his mind that those were the ideas which deserved primary
deep religious feeling and acute intellect with the new ideas of
human happiness, human rights and the high ideals of humanity.
the ideas themselves, however excellent these may be.
bestowed upon mankind. And in Fichte's soul, all the ideas derived
the ideas he had assimilated from Kant, but also to immerse himself
at Zurich, in all those ideas about the aims and ideals of humanity
of his own thoughts about human ideals and endeavours with the
ideas now passing through the world. He was so independent a nature
inevitable conclusions on the ideas about human progress then held
the highest that no higher ideal of knowledge could ever be found,
was the ideal which now hovered before Fichte's eyes.
engaged in working out his ideas within himself, he received a
utmost satisfaction the idea of introducing into this famous College
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root in our circles; for these people have no idea how a simple, yet
I would still like to give you some idea how people felt their

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Thoughts, ideas, judgments, must be for the would-be Initiate what
picture. In ordinary physical life thoughts and ideas are an end in
real idea of it only when it is no longer there.

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necessary change in their ideas. They struggled against it because to
feet. All the resistance of those times against this new idea sprang
idea of the enormous extent of indolence, love of ease, among
upon the idea that all men should be free to compete in the exchange
Enthusiasts and intellectual idealists, those who already experience
Nowadays men build up plenty of abstract ideas on this subject.

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Parsifal: the ideal of later Initiation. Present-day Mysteries are an
Now it is extraordinarily difficult to speak in ideas and concepts
abstract ideas. And the whole of the hostility to the Grail was
the figure of Parsifal, this ideal of the later Initiation in so far
in circles wedded to materialistic or monistic ideas; but then certain
and to the ideas which hold it together — these concepts set up
commercial and industrial life, or absorbs only the ideas of

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sight. You can get some idea of astral vision if you think of

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outer sense world into spiritual life. The idea of the raven
born blind) if one bases it on the idea of reincarnation. One
of reincarnation and karma as a generally accepted idea was

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central idea of Christianity comes to birth, how it bursts the bonds
Christianity, as a religious idea. And after he had reached the
Nibelungs,” this central Idea of Christianity found still wider
— this is what the Christ Idea will be in the future, pervading
is contained in the Easter Idea, we shall find there a Christian

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quite clear to us, and then we shall be able to form an idea of what

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ourselves, we turn our gaze outwards. Now, if we want to form an idea
following idea arises in me: It is there, but I must accomplish an
comparable to touching a thing so as to get an idea of it. This inner
Now, there is one idea, one characteristic, which has indeed been

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have some idea of this, from what has previously been said. Thus we,
soul-life. We have no idea how clever we are in the subconscious
conceptions and ideas change on entering the spiritual world; not only
people are already greatly taken with this idea of ‘the concept
idealism, then he loves existence only. But in order that this
continually arise from time to time the Idealists, who lead humanity
to believe in ideals and their efficacy, in the power of Idealism in
the progress of history. These ideals of the ethical, the beautiful,
beautiful: if man were not capable of having ideals, if he could not
in on us from a spiritual world, as the ideals of humanity, that which
of history are in a special sense the bringers of ideals appear as
sense, spiritual messengers, as are the Idealists who come here on the
idealists impelled to the heavens, who become what they are, by going
position there to the idealists here on earth.
in the spiritual world as they last were, when here. The trivial ideas
tendency towards the ideal evolution of the earth by having carried up
reconcile oneself to acquiring the following idea of the spiritual:
here mingled with the earth as Ideal, is at the same time that which
is otherwise merely an abstract idea in our materialistic age, becomes
strong forces, working for the ideal to be really worked into earth
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events which have occurred to us and for which we have retained ideas.
because we are quite unaware of it, but we can at least form some idea
gradually to acquire ideas of a world quite different from the

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exaggerated ideas of Schopenhauer as to the secret identity of all
one and the same person. And as if in confirmation of this idea, silly
‘Now, as this man and his name had gradually become a fixed idea
over afterwards. But while one puzzles out these ideas acquired

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his inner nature. In our present age those concepts and ideas are
fact remains that those concepts and ideas which are created in our
ideas. In reference to this the following may be mentioned. Our epoch
sighted. Our thinking throws out an idea in a pedantic fashion and
cannot get beyond it. It holds up this idea like a wooden mannequin
manner those ideas of which he is capable, turning them one after the
‘You must go further and further. You must perfect your ideas
each day. You must develop the belief that your ideas can lead you
refine one's ideas, and to evolve higher. And he certainly no longer

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Today we will concern ourselves with three important ideas connected
ideals, duty, are bound up with the astral body. When one speaks of
living idea. Thirdly, the rose gives pleasure to the person and in

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the saga indicates as the ideal.

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ideas and expressed them in a grotesque way in order to nudge people

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a karmic result of earlier idealistic periods. The founding of towns
educated idealistically; for instance, Haeckel, Büchner, Moleschott.
owe to their idealistic education. Present day materialism is actually
the outer expression of the preceding idealistic period.
result of the earlier idealistic period made its appearance in
Idealism and spiritual impulses. It was in accordance with this law

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can read in the Astral Light. For example, Caesar conceived the idea

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satisfaction. Through the ideas, through the aspects of knowledge

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confused idea of what it actually is. In point of fact what we have
these be changed into duties and ideals. Man can only pursue this path

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We can only form definite ideas about the Devas when we take our start
incarnations. The idea that was embodied in their lives then flows out
again into the world. One finds the same idea in a deeper form in

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three interpenetrating worlds. We can form the most correct idea of

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an introductory idea of it.

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spiritual ideas. Those desires and wishes live in man which are

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an idea that has significance for the whole world-conception; that is,
ideas can be gained which are directly related to human life. It is
This ideal which man should attain in the distant future appears in
point to this as to an ideal, in the hope that one day, in other
with their instincts and passions they are involved in their ideas in

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begin with, man works upon his astral body. He works ideals into it,
replaces passions with ideals, instincts with duties, and develops

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When we approach religious writings with such ideas we find that the

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who were in a position to think with their intellect. All the ideas of
perfected, was lacking. Thinking was governed by the idea that

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ideas that ebb and flow within them. Something like this occurs
constant and varied flow of images, sensations, and ideas since in
postulating abstract ideas and concepts, but by means of pictures.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1762-1814. German Idealist philosopher.

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it today, where concepts and ideas which — if things are to be
science, the idea of inwardness, of inner experience, is
concepts and ideas he acquires in order to understand outer phenomena
If one clings to current ideas it is easy to disavow many things and
and if we keep this idea in mind it will be a great help in
possibility of forming ideas, and in the experience of the Ego
It is different when, without preconceived ideas, we observe the soul

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start from the concepts and ideas developed in our consideration of
sound, the inner nature of concept and idea, and the inner nature of
speech-sound, concept or idea, and consciousness of self. In reality
ego being, the being in idea and the being in speech-sound, work
idea, congealed concept or conception, and as congealed sense of
ego being, what the sense of forming ideas can yield and undergo, and
from the outset Goethe could never reconcile himself to the idea that

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indestructible ideal for man.
finally dissolves into a veneration of an abstract ideal that is
revered only as an abstract ideal.
ideal that they themselves live. Spiritual science reminds us of these

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everywhere for Christmas. Clear ideas about this festival are scarce,
world harmony was presented as the great ideal for those who, in
as examples and ideals. Just as it would be a great disaster for the
relationship of this future to the idea, the percept of humanity in
the ideal, one has not yet grasped real truth. Where does real truth
today, then the ideal of mankind, which radiates from the wisdom of
race, then the ideal of the ancient teachers of wisdom, of
correct or logically false. Everyone can place this ideal before his
soul and in so doing he raises the ideal of the Sun Hero, of all
To allow these ideas to sink into our souls, not as theory or doctrine
the sun in nature in the right way, the great ideal of peace will be
Therefore, these festivals are celebrations of the great ideals. The
Christmas festival is the festival of the greatest ideal of humanity,
philosophy into the world, but life itself. It is our ideal to have
superfluous, then our ideal will have been achieved. Then the science

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arouse in themselves what may be called faith in man's greatest ideal.
Thus they learned to look up to the highest ideal of mankind, to the
When Christianity arose in the course of evolution, it bore this ideal
Christos was to appear as the great Ideal of all men, that He had been
of a Sun Hero who embodied the same ideal as is connected with the
Christos in Christianity. The bearer of this ideal was called the Sun
also deepens our Christmas mood. We feel in it how the Christ Idea
Nativity. This idea is indicated in the living roses that adorn this
festival of the most lofty ideal of the Idea of Mankind, so that in

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into being as concept, as idea, and as actual soul force. It was
flourish when he does not destroy life. This is presented as an ideal

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Try to acquire an idea of what we mean when we speak of this

Title: Wisdom of Man: I. The Position of Anthroposophy in Relation to Theosophy and Anthropology.
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and Its Attainment, is set forth how one can reach this ideal
give an idea of genuine occult physiology and anatomy, which

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limited to the visible; it covers abstract ideas as well as concrete

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imitates long before he has any idea of visualization whatever. First
does not necessarily proceed from the consciousness soul. The idea of

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: I. The Elements of the Soul Life.
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Our observations will lead us up to the high ideals of human society,

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people would put such things into practice they would see that ideas
ideas of the future as vital concepts. Once Goethe permits all this
plane. Certainly anyone who has grasped the idea of the astral
ideal, but keep constantly returning to it in a practical way. This

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idea of the spirit. I refer to Franz Brentano, the distinguished

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denied. It explains why one might marvel at the idea of searching for
been raised again and again throughout the ages by an idealistic or
external-physical as such. One then cites ideas produced by man about
view the concrete actuality of the true world of ideas is sufficient
concepts and ideas, in the nous, as he calls it, man lives in
idealistic philosophies.
processes representing matter and ideas have their being, and the
itself to man as ideas — the world sphere in which the divine
the West from ridding themselves of their prejudices against the idea
in the form of ideas, felt the presence of the Luciferic along with
sensual life. It is not a question here of concepts, ideas,
the West from becoming reconciled to the idea of reincarnation. A
principle, as Hegel dealt with the idea and Schopenhauer with the

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with general, vague ideas about repeated earth lives. We could ask
harmony. Those who boggle at the idea of reincarnation only show how
ideal for man's inner law. It was by no means fortuitous that in the

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general idea of the Bodhisattvas and their mission. We must accustom
try, with the help of the ideas and sentiments which we have acquired
lecture to-day to begin by giving some description of the idea men had
of the Bodhisattvas and of how that idea moved through the world.
feelings, all the conceptions and ideas of men, alter and are renewed
advocating the idea of re-embodiment or reincarnation, if we did not
forms of pure thought, he would not have had the faintest idea what
soul which did not as yet exist in any living man. Ideas or

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If you hold this as an ideal before you, you will be living an

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which is capable of judgment. All the feeling, the idealism and
enthusiasm for what is good, for high ideals, we owe to the

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it must be given out now! It would be a mistaken idea of Christianity
increasing extent the materialistic ideas of man. Under this
materialistic ideas, for it was believed the Messiah would come in the
through their mistaken philosophy been led into curious ideas, may

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a maya, an illusion. If we accept the idea of a certain point in
are to-day the leaders of culture and of the cultured ideas prevalent
a culture which has created its ideas with a densified brain, those
same ideas tend to create dense outlines which cannot be modified, so
that when ideas are once formed they must be held on to. But the
spirit does not admit of this. That is mobile, and when we form ideas,

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ideas and concepts from all sorts of different sources and sides which
Euripides, who in his tragedies shows us that he already had the idea
of conscience. In ancient Greece we can see how the idea of conscience

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particular try to form a clear idea of what we ourselves must make of
more persons determining to follow certain ideals according as the
these ideals, trying to enthuse other people and to induce them to
the idea the Christians have of Jesus Christ — were already in
ask: ‘What then is actually the difference between the idea of
Paul had in his heart and soul, and the idea of the Messiah already in
the general idea — The author of The Christ Myth now asks:
extent did he carry the idea of Christ further?’
that idea! He is supposed to have grasped the idea of a Christ Who
such! St. Paul is therefore supposed to say, that the highest idea
obtain a purely abstract idea, which in itself might be contradicted?
rightly said. He did not receive the mere idea, the concept of Christ
such words. It was not as the result of an idea, an outer ideal, or of
such and such a day does not harmonise with our ideas! Can we,

Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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idea is meant to evoke — the general thought is in motion, and
not come to it. Thus their first ideas of things-in-themselves come
about such ideas except in so far as language preserves them.
would expect from somebody who came along with ideas such as those I
ordinary life, opinions are the result of inferences, and ideas come
ideas from opinions? It is just as clever as if someone were to say:
get an idea of where the boundary lies between the realm of the
one comes to such an idea is intimately connected with whether one is
prepared to admit only ideas or concepts of individual things —

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ideas people have about the world. When one concerns oneself with
better prepared, according to the ideas of those times, than is
where Nominalism — the idea that the collective term is only a
some realm of thought somebody has got hold of the idea “general
is essential, if one wants to form a correct idea of what thinking
the material world and its laws. As all their ideas of the spiritual
exceptionally correct ideas, but concerning matter and its laws they
outlook, there must be a realm of ideas and ideals within the
ideas work through it and give it purpose. It was under the influence
ideas that permeate the world-process, may be called Idealists and
their outlook: Idealism. Beautiful and grand and glorious
things have been brought forward on behalf of this Idealism. And in
show that the world would be purposeless and meaningless if ideas
in this realm Idealism is fully justified. But by means of it one
distinguish this Idealism from other world-outlooks:
Idealism there is a certain transition. The crudest kind of
world is ordered mathematically. If mathematical ideas are found to
be real in the world, why should not other ideas have equal reality?”
Such a person accepts this — that ideas are active in the
world. But he grants validity only to those ideas that he discovers
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Idealism, Rationalism and Mathematism.
were, by Idealism. Other souls are open to be shone upon by
But a man can also be, e.g. a Gnostic of Idealism; then he will have
a special proclivity for seeing clearly the ideals of mankind and the
ideas of the world. Thus there can be a difference between two men
who are both Idealists. One man will be an idealistic enthusiast who
always has the word “ideal”, “ideal”,
“ideal”, on his lips, but does not know much about
idealism; he lacks the faculty for conjuring up ideals in sharp
Idealism, but knows how to picture the ideals clearly in his soul.
The latter, who inwardly grasps Idealism quite concretely — as
Gnostic in the domain of Idealism. Thus one could say that he is
mental-zodiacal-sign of Idealism.
are neither Spiritists nor Idealists; they are quite ordinary
Idealists are often not Gnostics of Realism at all. We can indeed
concepts and ideas can settle such knotty points more easily than the
constellation of Idealism, is Hegel. But this special mood in which
Idealism, for it, too, can pass through all the constellations. It is
ideas with one another. As when in looking at an organism one comes
develop Logicism in the constellation of Idealism, as Hegel did; one
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is influenced by the world-outlook of Idealism. We will say that he
called the Venus mood, flows towards Idealism and is nourished by its
the soul by this standing of Mysticism in the sign of Idealism waits
in the sign of Idealism. Now the forces which arise in this way do
stood in the sign of Idealism, this will pass over into another
of Idealism; and such a soul, in the course of the same incarnation,
Idealism — Realism in
corresponding way. The configurations below the line from Idealism to
for all that lies above the line running from Idealism to Realism.
idea of it prevails that many people nowadays cannot grasp it at all.
For example, that which appears to us finally in the sign of Idealism
Idealism, and it can so work upon a man that it prepares his whole
organism so that he inclines to Idealism. In like manner are the
virtue of his earlier incarnation, the forces of Idealism and of
Idealism) so worked upon his whole bodily constitution that he was in
the first place capable of becoming a mystical Idealist. Then his
in our brain, and then the ideas “lion”, “dog”,
things together, Mysticism and Idealism, and we then say: “Mysticism
appears in Idealism.” Imagine this first as the preparatory
can develop a natural bent for becoming a mystical Idealist. Into the
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idea is meant to evoke — the general thought is in motion, and
not come to it. Thus their first ideas of things-in-themselves come
about such ideas except in so far as language preserves them.
would expect from somebody who came along with ideas such as those I
ordinary life, opinions are the result of inferences, and ideas come
ideas from opinions? It is just as clever as if someone were to say:
get an idea of where the boundary lies between the realm of the
one comes to such an idea is intimately connected with whether one is
prepared to admit only ideas or concepts of individual things —

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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ideas people have about the world. When one concerns oneself with
better prepared, according to the ideas of those times, than is
where Nominalism — the idea that the collective term is only a
some realm of thought somebody has got hold of the idea “general
is essential, if one wants to form a correct idea of what thinking
the material world and its laws. As all their ideas of the spiritual
exceptionally correct ideas, but concerning matter and its laws they
outlook, there must be a realm of ideas and ideals within the
ideas work through it and give it purpose. It was under the influence
ideas that permeate the world-process, may be called Idealists and
their outlook: Idealism. Beautiful and grand and glorious
things have been brought forward on behalf of this Idealism. And in
show that the world would be purposeless and meaningless if ideas
in this realm Idealism is fully justified. But by means of it one
distinguish this Idealism from other world-outlooks:
Idealism there is a certain transition. The crudest kind of
world is ordered mathematically. If mathematical ideas are found to
be real in the world, why should not other ideas have equal reality?”
Such a person accepts this — that ideas are active in the
world. But he grants validity only to those ideas that he discovers
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Idealism, Rationalism and Mathematism.
were, by Idealism. Other souls are open to be shone upon by
But a man can also be, e.g. a Gnostic of Idealism; then he will have
a special proclivity for seeing clearly the ideals of mankind and the
ideas of the world. Thus there can be a difference between two men
who are both Idealists. One man will be an idealistic enthusiast who
always has the word “ideal”, “ideal”,
“ideal”, on his lips, but does not know much about
idealism; he lacks the faculty for conjuring up ideals in sharp
Idealism, but knows how to picture the ideals clearly in his soul.
The latter, who inwardly grasps Idealism quite concretely — as
Gnostic in the domain of Idealism. Thus one could say that he is
mental-zodiacal-sign of Idealism.
are neither Spiritists nor Idealists; they are quite ordinary
Idealists are often not Gnostics of Realism at all. We can indeed
concepts and ideas can settle such knotty points more easily than the
constellation of Idealism, is Hegel. But this special mood in which
Idealism, for it, too, can pass through all the constellations. It is
ideas with one another. As when in looking at an organism one comes
develop Logicism in the constellation of Idealism, as Hegel did; one
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is influenced by the world-outlook of Idealism. We will say that he
called the Venus mood, flows towards Idealism and is nourished by its
the soul by this standing of Mysticism in the sign of Idealism waits
in the sign of Idealism. Now the forces which arise in this way do
stood in the sign of Idealism, this will pass over into another
of Idealism; and such a soul, in the course of the same incarnation,
Idealism — Realism in
corresponding way. The configurations below the line from Idealism to
for all that lies above the line running from Idealism to Realism.
idea of it prevails that many people nowadays cannot grasp it at all.
For example, that which appears to us finally in the sign of Idealism
Idealism, and it can so work upon a man that it prepares his whole
organism so that he inclines to Idealism. In like manner are the
virtue of his earlier incarnation, the forces of Idealism and of
Idealism) so worked upon his whole bodily constitution that he was in
the first place capable of becoming a mystical Idealist. Then his
in our brain, and then the ideas “lion”, “dog”,
things together, Mysticism and Idealism, and we then say: “Mysticism
appears in Idealism.” Imagine this first as the preparatory
can develop a natural bent for becoming a mystical Idealist. Into the
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imagination that makes many scientists have such a false idea of

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ever solve. People who speak thus have no idea how arrogant these
words are; they have no idea that there does exist a solution to the
be mystified by the idea that sin — something entirely moral
ideals. Compare a savage to an average European, or perhaps to a

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speak today not only in general abstract ideas about the world in

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against the very disturbing idea that the Easter Festival should fall
reasons against this idea; for what underlay it was this: If Easter

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monism, animism, idealism, realism, or what you will. It may be
moral ideals of humanity are merely sublimations of animal impulses,

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is associated with the devil, or the idea of the devil, for the word
spread among the other peoples and into their world of ideas. Ahriman

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ideas of spiritual Divinities contained in ancient Vedic Culture, that
books on ancient Indian Culture is a jumble of ideas of gods and

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Apocalypse must, above all, have a clear idea of how the religions
non-initiate a feeble idea of what an initiated Christian of the first

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as a whole. Whoever states that concepts and ideas could arise in us without
ideas existing in the outside world might just as well say that he can take
example of how the Chinese language forms its concepts and ideas.
comprehension of a work of art. Only those ideas illuminate a work of art
which are able to recreate in a fruitful way as ideas the things which the

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own feelings and ideas. When Faust, despairing of all existence, comes near
sorrow, terror and amazement, and also of all the ideas which flow into and

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study the historical origin of the word, we shall gain a quite different idea
give any idea of mysticism if we go by those old forms of mystical
all ideas of growth and decline, of birth and death, are not applicable to
blank. However much it may be his ideal to obliterate external experiences
mystics, especially, we must set aside any idea that the knowledge they have
subject gives difficulty because of the subtlety of its ideas, the best way
ideas, feelings and sensations; he excels the plant in possessing human
affections. Picture an ideal which man strives to realise, when his blood

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whether through a feeling, a word or an idea, we have the prayer directed to
Ideally, it would
words, perceptions and ideas — that is the second mode of prayer the
prayer are expressed better in images than in ideas. We can think, for
by my feelings and perceptions, from all the ideals set up by my will-power
shine into the soul. Impulses of will and ideals strange to us spring up in
unbiased the discussion might be. The idea that a congregational prayer, in

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instincts, desires, passions, of the surging imagination, perceptions, ideas
than one ideal, one judgment, but that there are as many judgments as there

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being, at least up to a certain point. Hence he will have clear-cut ideas and
impressions and is strongly influenced by ideas which come to him from this
affecting his habits. He will have formed certain ideas and concepts about
correct his ideas if facts go against them, would become — perhaps in a
theoretical ideas but in all its variety, and if we use concepts only as an
characteristics and ideas throughout. In another life he will have to catch
ideas, as it may seem to be at a casual glance. On the contrary, the soul has
world. Its conceptual images and ideas are no longer there only to control
achieved only by someone who raises himself to moral ideas and ideals,
to ideas. We draw forth these ideas from the spirit in ourselves and bring
without any definite ideas or feelings; then he listens to a speaker who
these facts with ideas gained from his education and his life up to date or
one-sided view of the facts. In so far as the concepts and ideas he has
who carry in their heads the same basic ideas but have not acquired them by
their own efforts, these ideas have an unhealthy, negative, weakening effect.
and minerals and embodied as laws of Nature in the form of concepts and ideas
these ideas. On the other hand, if we respond with living appreciation to all
system of ideas such as geometry, he will learn to respect the creative
ideas. The only way of approach to the spiritual world is through the life of
and historical periods. The idea of positive and negative throws light into
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inappropriate situation and acts on the basis of an idea which was correct
normal soul-life — the impossibility of progressing from an idea
III, who also had a goatee; and this idea of Napoleon III which had pushed
sequence of ideas which unfolds whilst something completely different is
immediately afterwards he had the subsequent idea of the photograph album of
Rome; he would be subject to a haphazard life of ideas; he would be unable to
set of ideas to the next.
amount by the association of ideas. He concentrated on his walk to the tax
ideas; it produces the image of the illustrated work about Paris and the
the whole of his attention to determining the sequence of ideas. This
concepts and ideas, but we can carefully differentiate in the soul between
primarily the result of a breakdown in the link between our ideas turn out to
notice the obstacle in our consciousness, ideas of megalomania and paranoia
conclusion, who does not want to define his ideas clearly, who is not intent

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concerns, who has not formed some idea of what conscience is. Everyone feels
our times. His ideas — allowing for some inevitable distortion of
clear ideas as to what he should and should not do, then gradually, through
leave alone”, long before we learn to form ideas concerning good and
idea of conscience that we have today, although we feel whenever we approach
of virtue speak through his words? The reason is, that the ideas, concepts
idea of conscience and our feeling for it were not present in the same way in
unmistakably that he ought to indicate the idea of conscience in its
Shakespeare. Here we have palpable evidence of the stages whereby the idea of

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ideals, he had pursued his search for truth, together with his Weimar
dissertations on the idea of God made a deep impression on Goethe. Together
idea which could appease in some way his Faustian aspirations. But
from the ideas of Spinoza. Thus he wrote to his friends in Weimar: “One
sure an idea of what can be represented and of how it should be done, as
then according to ordinary ideas we have to go back very far indeed. Here we
antagonism generated by the passions, desires and ideas which stem from the
tempted into presenting his own ideas, for as Shakespeare he is completely
ideals, endeavours and renunciations during the sixty years he worked on his
when he refused to speak of the idea of truth and the idea of beauty as
separate ideas. There is, he said,
idea, that of the necessary workings of the divine-spiritual

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we accept them. They are ideas concerning man's spiritual
From these we receive many ideas that in no way prevent our
Ideas dealing with
hurriedly acquired ideas or with a few quickly won conceptions!
feeling that all our ideas are acquired from one point of view only.
net of ideas, will-impulses, moral perceptions, and customary actions
and to which we cling with our ordinary ideas and actions, fall from
what is connected with the idea of spiritual truth in the following

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form some idea of how the human race has developed. It studies
what emerges in daily life as characteristic human feelings, ideas,
idea. You understand the idea that comes to you. By what means do you
understand it? Only through other ideas that you have previously
comprehends a new idea that comes to him in one way, another in
another a smaller sum of ideas which he has assimilated. The material
of old ideas is within us and confronts the new as the eye confronts
the light. Out of our own old ideas a kind of
“idea-organ” is constructed, and what we have not
new ideas that come to us with an “organ of ideas.” We
even an “organ of ideas.” What confronts us here is a
as some contradictory idea enters, to correct it.

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mission, we can only gain some idea of what lies before us in the
and ideas of post-Atlantean times. Among the followers of Zarathustra
and effect” and the other ideas we have to-day with logic in
super-sensible ideas. This is difficult for the men of to-day. Try and
physical science, but people had ideas that had been gained
accepted as symbolic of ideas. Men had this and made use of it
right to apply my super-sensible ideas to physical facts?” You
world, how he still used ideas in the ancient form, applying them to
(spüren) that conceptions and ideas are super-sensible things
most people the fabric of conceptions and ideas is worn very thin and
reached, because the conceptions and ideas concerning the solid
most people the fabric they have spun from conceptions and ideas is
longer believed in — shreds of that fabric of ideas which it
gift of ideas.
spiritual nature of Christ with the thin thread of ideas spun from
to refill our ideas with spirit from within.
driest, most desiccated ideas of the old philosophy are those of Kant
man evolves as ideas, between perceptions as an inner life, and that
which ideas really are. All this is old and dead, and is therefore
the ideas that come to us froth the spiritual world, once more our
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some idea of what Isaiah desired to say, and John the Baptist to
In this form of words you have approximately an idea of what can be

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I began by giving some idea of
exact idea of what is meant by this if you recall that we have
stranger, that those about it have no idea, no feeling, by which they
ideas easily. When people are told that the events connected with
ideal. It disturbs the materialistic peace of their souls when they

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understanding of them everything in the way of thoughts and ideas
different kind of super-sensible Being. In order to form an idea of
“Folk-Spirit” or Archangels, for ideas connected with
the ideas that connect him with epochs of time. The activity of these
must study everything that this idea brings with it.
him, and his existence is ignored. According to the ideas of the

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place, consider the difference between a man who is full of idealism
and sets up high ideals, and one who is disinclined to do this, who
thoughts and ideals rise far above what they are able to attain in
ordinary life. Such idealists are always in a peculiar position
highest ideals in any domain of the physical plane. Idealists
ideals.” We must therefore acknowledge when speaking strictly:
in a man's ideals — in what he thinks or feels, there is
science this is the outstanding feature of the idealist. Keep this
clearly before you: the idealist is one whose intentions and thoughts
them. This means thoughts that are the outcome of idealism, that are
deeds that are the outcome of idealism. The first contain something
transcending action by idealistic thought. In ordinary life such
there are not only people of a purely idealistic nature whose
idea of how an apple, or any other fruit, is related to the universe
to hint how thoughts and ideas can be brought into this realm.) It is
only people who act instinctively, and others who act idealistically,
follow, and others so that thoughts and ideas have a wider range than
us because our ideas transcend the sum of our actions. These continue
himself: — “How can I gain those ideals which best
them at the present day the most certain, most concrete idealism. And
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will first gain some idea of all that has been poured into the
so-called ideals for mankind are certainly not wanting at the present
special ideal for our humanity; might construct out of his head and
heart an ideal by which well-being and blessedness might be attained.
of to-day believe? He takes counsel with himself; an ideal rises in
his soul and he believes he is capable of making his ideal actual. He
with general ideas, but will keep rather to what has been observed in
someone before us who has been able to grasp some idea in his soul
distinct form in his soul and he desires earnestly to make this idea
actual. Let us suppose then that this idea first arose in his head,
giving reality to his idea.
this was quite a small idea concerned with some scientific or
entirely strange idea at once before the world? We are assuming that
the idea is quite a small one. The occultist knows that it appears
harmful when people do not allow the idea at this stage to rest
quietly and not set it at once before the world; for the idea has
as a seal does, on the etheric body. If the idea is a small one this
man goes ahead hurriedly with his idea, he is apt to overlook one
seventh day. With a small idea it always happens on the seventh day
feeling perturbed he is attached to his idea.
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new order of ideas and thoughts is gradually emerging, though the
conception of how this most important “idea” — for
so we may call it — the Christ-idea, developed out of the
to remember that the Jahve or Jehova-idea meant as much to the
ancient Hebrews as the Christ-idea does to the believers in Christ.
connection between the Christ-idea and the Jahve-idea. It is very
two ideas which has been developed by me in many lectures and cycles
— overpassing the Christ-Impulse as it were-ideas which had
Only into the idea of this indivisible God-head something was
worldly events. Hence many of the thoughts and ideas found among the
all the ideas connected with the Egyptian art of healing and Chaldean
into Europe along with the Arabs by which all the old ideas that had
with the course of human evolution have no idea what the mental
development of the west. Such things, for instance, as the idea of
Arabs. If they had anything to say their ideas would not accord with
the real Christ-idea. The various prophets who arose as false
Christ to the people of Europe. They imparted many ideas concerning
Rosicrucians, with Christ as its central idea, will be established in
How the central-idea
spiritual science of the Rosicrucians. It brings all kinds of ideas
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to speak casually of introducing the ideas, feelings, and knowledge
occasions that we can speak of the spread of our spiritual ideas, but
see how the ideas we hold were gaining ground. And when from that
Can we form an idea
some idea of how this spirit entered man unconsciously.
thoughts and ideas which can set the spiritual life before your eyes.
ideas, but that they impart life to our whole mental outlook, making
such ideas to gain understanding of the secrets of the world. And if
Why are there souls present to-day who understand the views and ideas
lectures in this course I said: — When an idea rises in a
observe a certain rhythm. After seven days the idea has entered
deeply into his soul; after fourteen days, the idea now being more
other hand, grew ever greater and greater, the more the ideal of a
and experienced in silent martyrdom, how the ideas which were once
theosophical ideas. His soul was filled with longing to solve the
these, which bear the stamp of many centuries, ideas enter into man
to-day and speak to mankind in ideas as will be done later; to-day

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says that the appearance would be contradictory to the idea of immortality.
state has passed, what presented itself as a leading idea has remained.
is subordinate to this law. An idea of development forms the basis after

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as far as it is to be got, about this idea. This way is long and leads
idealised human beings.
are not yet able to rise to a higher idea of God. Their culture does
by this virtually paralysing idea of God, we say to ourselves: this
is a reason why we speak of the idea of God. — Hence, I may point
again the human beings formed ideas of the gods in such a way as they
also souls which have not yet far advanced in their idea of God, and
Nicholas of Cusa because he can be an ideal for the
this view of Cusanus, you get an idea of the fact that Christianity
type that one cannot have any concept of them using our ideas. Thus
our concepts, our thoughts. Where come all our human ideas from? From
If we say: God is, we attribute an idea to God which we have got only
This is not an idea which
This is not a concept, not a restricted idea, but living life.
our ideas of God are also allegories of God — but never the divine

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likes to rise to the lively spirit. Indeed, there are ideals at which the human
beings look up, and they speak a lot of ideals, but that they could realise
the ideals that the spirit could be active and that it is the task to recognise
of the peoples created. — The Son of God evaporated to a divine ideal
in them, and you will nowhere find a certain idea with Jesus: the idea of the
ideal human being in the way as Strauss formed it. One does nowhere find the
has come to an image of Jesus from an idea which Jesus did never suggest nor
not in shadowy way, as shadowy ideal, but as reality, as the theosophist imagines
in the regions where only “simple men” where only ideals are, but
still imagine the ideals at most which contain abstractions. Then he speaks
He imagines shadowy ideas. He can still rise to “simplicity” in

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but our idea, and that also the starry heaven is nothing else than our
idea in us? — He considers this as the most certain knowledge
natural truth that this is my idea, and that one cannot know what it
be our idea.
my purely in the ideal formed judgment. Have I drawn this judgment from
such purely ideal judgments, that we have, actually, no reality of experience.
critical idealism and overcame the naive realism. What submits to causality
Kant’s idea seems to be thereby supported.
motivated by physiology. Kant calls it critical idealism. This is also
to the true critical idealism. The view of Kant is the transcendental
idealism, that is he knows nothing about a true reality, nothing of
Is this transcendental idealism
Idea of a Transcendental Logic, Part I On Logic in General

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it does not matter whichever ideas of the other world we have, and, hence, any
The idea of the ego is also an image;
of the 19th century: the transformation of truth to a world of dreams. The idealism

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and makes the whole world a world of ideas seems to be the only right one. This
if one doubts the sentence: the world is my idea.
to the conclusion: the world is our idea; I have shown how everything that surrounds
temperature sensations, the sensations of touch et cetera. This percepts, ideas
directions corresponds to Schopenhauer’s doctrine: the world is our idea
to the principle: the world is my idea. — It wants to overcome the naive
my ideas.
would be in vain. We know that our knowledge of the world is not only our ideas.
Hence, theosophy can never be content with the sentence: the world is my idea.
beyond the sentence: the world is my idea. There is still the other sentence
that is in the starry heaven is only my idea, but I do not recognise my own
existence as an idea. I act, I will; this is a strength in the world in which
I am and in myself, so that I know from myself what forms the basis of my idea.
May be everything else that surrounds me an idea, I myself is my will. —
of temperature, we know that we have only ideas of our ego. Let us be consistent.
As true as my world is my idea,
it must be true that I myself am my idea with everything that is in me. Thus
is thought about the whole subjective and objective world as nothing but ideas.
admit that everything that he has ascertained about himself is only his idea.
said: if I want to come to the real, I am not allowed to stop at the idea, but
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cerebral parts, cannot form ideas, it would be a proof that he has no soul if
feelings and ideas Nagasena? No, all this is not Nagasena. Then the connection
the body, behind the feelings and ideas? Is that nothing who does others a few
looking at the external organs or at the interplay of ideas is a wrong track.
the ideas are a milliard. In terms of this correct saying of the sage Nagasena
than that of the careful inner work to learn the ideas of Aristotle, the ideas
with Aristotle. He adds the idea of creation to the view. We will see how the
theosophical psychology overcomes this idea of creation how it draws the last
to find access to soul and mind. One would form a wrong idea of those who believe
Yes, Thomas Aquinas says that the task of the religion in its most ideal sense

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ideas. No observer of this big cerebral machinery will see what the human being
and ideas. Human inner experience is necessary to refrain from any spatial consideration
forefather. Thus we get the ideas which the deeper soul researchers of all times
that this soul of Mozart encompasses a big range of ideas with one look which
links the ideas. This soul capacity can be so small that it is not possible
to have an overview of five to six ideas for some time. But the human being

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sober and cold is the world of ideas. It is this to which his desire and harm
so far that the world of ideas, usually called abstract, moves, enchants, soaks
speaks about the world of ideas, of the spiritual world. It talks about that
of the individual human being. If I have an ideal, I want to convert this ideal
has to fulfil a higher ideal. He fulfils this ideal if he understands the mysterious,
we lead it unselfishly within education. This unselfish ideal as an attitude
of our culture, therefore, it is the field of the educational ideals above all

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with its wishes, desires, ideas, concepts should also be nothing else than the
because they do not have an idea of the soul. They have put about not only the
the sensuous world up and down, and have no idea what takes place behind the
an ideal brotherhood which joins the hands together through times, but a real
of the consciousness. The ideal of the theosophist is to attain knowledge about

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put the question to himself: why do we find the laws, the concepts and ideas
that a complete ideal is realised at every point in time, therefore, theosophy
tries only to perform under the ideal of the conscious clairvoyance what it
to give a spiritual, a really idealistic world view, a true knowledge of the

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could not stand; there an idea of development had to intervene. Davis was informed
by an example. When his first wife had died, he had the idea to marry a second
He represented the idea of reincarnation, the re-embodiment of the human soul.
their ideas confirmed on account of the spiritistic facts. If you imagine a

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the masses of ideas of the person to be hypnotised into a state of concentration.
If this concentration is achieved if the whole mass of ideas of the person concerned
He is the same researcher who established the idea of the so-called moral insanity
time before which he stands there reverentially. Our ideal must be that our

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foundation of their concepts and ideas with regard to the super-sensible world,
which ideas the human being made to himself in the different epochs, ideas of
nothing more should remain. We see that he forms the idea — on account
human being tries today to found these ideas of the super-sensible.
an idea of the force to yourselves. If you see, however, in your own soul with
idea how you can look with the spiritual eye at the life flowing from figure
view, the idea of the reincarnation of the psychic life. What we ask from the
Thus everybody can get the idea
who understood the living nature, to the idea of transmigration in this sense,
is why he was led to the idea of reincarnation by itself.
calls brotherliness the ideal which the spiritual development of humankind wants

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happened as Christianity had to assert itself against old ideas, against an
with these names. Who wants to get an idea of theosophy from this short representation
point of view knows better that from this education, from the concepts and ideas
an absurd materialistic idea.

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This is the ideal of theosophy. Because humankind is a whole in every single
human being, this ideal is the big human ideal of our time. On separate ways

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appropriate the ideas are which are announced over and over again by those who
western Buddhists also spoke of nirvana. We may get a better idea of nirvana

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fact show that in their imagination, ideas, feelings and
idealism”.

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theosophical ideas concerning the creation of the universe. Those of
such festivals, the writers of which have not the slightest idea of

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will have an idea of what Freemasonry used to be and you will realise

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Arch degree. I am talking about an ideal situation, in fact, which
as a kind of ideal

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nineteenth century historians, who have no idea of the difficult
self] these are mere words, or at best, abstract ideas. Nothing,
less the right idea. It is only very recently that science has been

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an enormous number of ideas are contained in essence in this image.
individual parts, it is built according to a single idea, much more
— are only useful if they all work together. Their ideal can only be
the idea that lies behind the allegory of the lost temple which has

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the Middle Ages, the idea of Solomon's Temple was revived again in

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just as the artist fashions outer forms or expresses a certain idea
you conceive these higher principles as the idea of a work of art,
poet Goethe presented the idea of the bridge in a beautiful and
to bring Christianity nearer to contemporary ideas; but instead raise

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rising to moral ideals and religious communities, and so on; we will

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preparing itself now, is finding its expression now, as an idea, as a
earlier in the bud as ideas, bursting to find expression in the minds
how the pan filled with boiling water already contained the idea of
duty. For, as the pupil progressively advanced to higher ideals,
thought, in ideas. But ideas have no real existence. An idea is
plane. It is different when such an idea is brought face to face with
soul up to it. What leaves one cold as an idea, appears in the
pupils who follow such spirit-filled ideas, then these will be a
is necessary. There are movements in plenty which are idealistic,

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Freemasons set themselves the ideal, therefore, of taking up this
The ideal which the Freemasons had set themselves was therefore to bring
quite specific ideal. Freemasonry created its ideal for the future —
the Church created its ideal for the future. It had nothing to do
with Freemasonry. Christ lived in the Church as ideal — a male ideal,
indeed. This male ideal could not suffice for the occult current
earlier one. This was in the back of the masonic mind, as an ideal;
ideal does theosophy have in the back of its mind? The ideal of
Order] chose the ideal male in contrast to the Cult of Mary. It used

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materialist or an idealist standpoint. For a process of progressively
astral body of a child which has met with an idealistic teacher, who
and pedantic person with narrow and opinionated concepts and ideas.
fixed idea about reincarnation. Let us assume him to be a prejudiced
person who has formed for himself the idea that reincarnation is
himself not only to his own pedagogical concepts and ideas, and works
earlier times, the idea of reincarnation and karma was universally
level is intellectually or mentally grasped, then ideals can easily
idealists; they are the martyrs for the progress of a nation. They
elevated souls to an ideal in a selfless way. Then, when such people
ideal comes into play. Henceforth it is only concerned with its own
idealist, who has devoted himself to the ideals of his nation, he
follow his ideals boldly and spiritedly so long as he lived, looking
killed, on account of his ideals, then the thought of revenge comes
which treats its idealists in this fashion creates for itself bad

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great universal masonic idea. [They consider] it would be a falling
away from this great masonic idea, if it is claimed that masonry
world; and to perfect the high ideals of humanity in a fully
conscious way, so that these ideals are not just abstract
ideas.
when a Freemason talks about ideals and one asks him what he means by
the highest ideals, he will say that the highest ideals are wisdom,
— the discussion about these ideals is with someone who actually
Freemasonry was the French Revolution, in which the basic idea of the
ideas of equality, liberty and fraternity as its corollaries. Whoever
knows this also knows that the ideas which emanated from the Grail
ideas of the French Revolution — liberty, equality, fraternity were
the last ideas to flow out of the inanimate. Everything that still
comprehensive, all-embracing range of the idea. What man prints as a
humanly-conceived ideas of eternal value, with an eternally enduring
world-embracing ideas. The great artists did not invent their topics,
only be moral, that is the idea of the future; a most important force,
new masonic ideas will strike new sparks from Freemasonry's ancient
Freemasonry, a double life was led; the great ideas which came to
this profound masonic idea will be unable to have any inkling of what
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ideas is extremely significant and detrimental. The modern
concept, to the idea of the thing. Then we should realise that

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an idea. He had the opinion that only the human mind could
develop such ideas, and that such an idea had no significance
answered: if this is an idea, I see my ideas with eyes. He
externally objective with each idea that the external sense
that time, we see Schiller understanding the Goethean ideas
concealed technology. A great and really heroic idea which
entirety of its ideas in a beautiful unity!”
objectivity of Goethe's world of ideas what in Goethe's
which it rises up to the ideas.
world of ideas. We see that Goethe's thinking has become so
mountain which they painted. You can get a comprising idea of
traditions and to create feelings, thoughts and ideas which
to reach to the beautiful lily. She had become his ideal.
ideal human being in himself as a natural disposition and
whereas the idealist rises upwards. The force of the religious

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and to try to fathom the ideal, real contents of such a poetic
plant ideally? One may hold against him: the plant knows
ideal contents of the fairy tale in the same sense as that
ideation, and as if anybody who feels called, so to speak, is
justified to present you the ideal Goethean worldview —
point of view that the human being has the ideal to strive for
to develop ideas, concepts is a human soul quality among other
that that which you gain as an idea of the being of the stone
depend on our abstract ideals if we want to understand the
objectively represented by my concepts and ideas. That has
to the idea, but only to the feeling, namely to the purified or
lines as an archetypal plant was an idea, something abstract
if this is an idea, I see my ideas with eyes. At this moment,
abstractions and lives preferably in the ideas of the things
any ingenuity, are unproductive, and cannot grasp any idea.
These ideas are strange to them. They do not have the intention
arrange that which he can experience in concepts and ideas not
and of any Goethean striving that his concepts and ideas have
lily, the ideal of perfect knowledge and perfect life and
human ideas, not with those powers which are characterised by
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usual school geometry, the Euclidean geometry, was written down

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They did not accept that the confidence and the ideas of the
development of the world generally. The confidence and the idea
ideal human figure that does not top the human level, even if

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present that those who speak about superstition have no idea of
superstition today. We ask ourselves, should not the idea light
idea what the expressions and the signs in particular signify
ideals, and moral, all religions are for that who can judge the

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particular idealism, their particular spirituality by saying:
often been repeated and that causes many who are idealistically
unconsciously on the idea that the human organism consists more
work — to get an idea how they could continue chemically
not matter so much whether one is an idealist or not, but it is
Spiritual science is something that can be an ideal for the

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desires, impulses and ideas, and, finally, the health of the
light, the idea forms the basis to let the physical light work
the basic idea of such a thing, we can hope to be able to
being as an ideal who tries to think only what the eyes see

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ideals of human happiness, human welfare, and progress flash as
ideals. This causes a conflict in his soul, something that does
be stressed that he had an ideal of education in mind, which
telegraph by own practicing. Thus, he can aim at the ideal that
a steel tycoon when he got the idea to replace the many wooden
application of wealth. Above all, we find with him that ideas

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beautiful ideal of thinking as it distinguished Goethe: the
things is again such a magic ideal of the practice of thinking.

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ideals. Fichte (Johann Gottlieb F., 1762–1814) tried to explain
the determination of the human being using high ideals.
high idealistic viewpoints knows what can be objected to it,
namely, that ideals cannot be shown directly in practical life.
Perhaps, those who put up these ideals know this better than
idealistically, but one interpreted it wrong.
immediately to the ego. All these world-enclosing ideas do not
remain dry ideas and abstractions. They emit warmth and bliss;
great, elated ideas of spiritual science flow into the physical
exercise. Who has a living feeling, not only an abstract idea
often misunderstood. This will be the ideal of the human being

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an idea that there is such a thing as it has been characterised
and Mephistopheles substantially. One had no clear idea of
He says to himself, if you want to get an idea how “one

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puts the idea of reincarnation, as he had to do it at that
abstraction, the ideas, which extend from epoch to epoch, what
him from epoch to epoch. These ideas are not infertile. They
grasps these abstract ideas — they carry him through the
fellow would say, these are the historical ideas, — about

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mind. Such a human being does not live in ideas, which are
the physical concerning the evolution idea. This year also
idea. To complete the picture: that work appeared which wanted
being to the ideal image. The Greek was not that way in
idea of that what led to the sources of existence. He built the
said, there can be new ideas, one can do this or that, then the
at all. He was confused by his idea, which he had got of
which had led him to Wagner. He was confused by any idealism.
With the idealistic Wagner, he lost all ideals which humanity
idealism and all contemplation about the spiritual is a lie, is
ideals like masks of desires and instincts. In
tries to show how basically all ideals do not lead beyond the
Now, however, we see significant ideas originating to him from
such conditions, ideas from which we must say that Nietzsche
ideas, one can prove almost how it has originated. In
subconsciousness, the idea of the so-called everlasting return
worked in him. This idea, which he developed more and more, has
become the materialistic thinker by Dühring's idea of
idea.
see Nietzsche's ideas crystallising from the cultural trend of
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does this legend show? Oh, it is a childish idea if one asserts
appears in it, the highest human ideal is born out of the human
highest ideal, the highest humaneness that is just Christ? In

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thoughts, images, and ideas in our inside is only one
images, and ideas of what was only a perception. In our

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could get the idea what the water is if he investigated the
hydrogen only, just as little one can get an idea what the
everlasting being in such a way that he grasps that idea of
development about which I still speak in these talks. This idea
their fields. Then the human being grasps the idea of the
wholly spiritual worlds. The idea of reincarnation

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easily in an idea, in a concept. It would be the opposition
pictures, and ideas and so on. But it is useful to understand
the succession of the sensations, mental pictures and ideas in
fragmented thereby. We go to the highest idea. For pragmatism,
Today even the empiric psychology already gets the idea that
spirit: “We know the fact that ideals cannot be shown in

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preconceptions and to change over to purely scientific ideas
a concept, for an idea, for a definition of religion, and that
increased so that it can experience ideas, sensations, inner
between his idea and his perception. If there is no difference
between idea and perception, if the whole tableau of the
outside world is my idea or representation, the human being
Goethe had more an idea of this relief than our time has. Our
another idea. Goethe pronounces it especially nicely when he
walks through Italy where his ideal to study the old art came
Religious ideas of all times testify that

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that it distracts the human being from the idea to gain any

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idea of immortality.
spiritual testament to humanity, he renewed the ancient idea of
this idea less valuable because it is the oldest, because it
“ideas” are effective in the history of humanity,
as if “ideas” could be realities one day! However,
ideas cannot be effective in history, because mere ideas are
can stand as an ideal of true humanity before us.
his ideas of immortality forward the editor draws the attention

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call this the basic question of the stoics. As an ideal for the
according to his determination the ideal of the wise man
describe the ideal of the stoic wise man in detail, and how it
who overcomes his passions and emotions is the ideal of the
himself, if the human being has to strive after the ideal of
position myself to the evil in terms of the educational idea?
That is why Lotze rejects the idea of
that this educational idea would contradict the omnipotence of
He got the idea:

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knowledge and the moral impulses, ideas and mental pictures?
the Imaginative world. What about the moral ideas if we ascend
with the idea of the ethical in ourselves, we create beings in

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intellectual work realises that by the ideas of this writing
ideals in other things than in later epochs. We can say as it
development. Thereby one can really speak taking up the idea of
exists as elementary beginnings already in Lessing's ideas
arbitrarily constructed concepts and ideas; but we see at the
to get an idea of that what can arise as a view of nature, and
itself separated from nature, since it must get an idea of it
that riddle: how does the human soul attain an idea by which it
a view of nature. Nevertheless, he adhered to the old idea of
being with the whole world existence, to the idea of freedom of
human being has to adhere, and leads to the idea of God and the
idea of freedom. That is why Kant had to tackle with the matter
thoughts and ideas.
he gets ideas of freedom, immortality and God only with
abstract ideas of God, freedom and immortality. His soul is too
idea of his Faust

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connection with souls or also with ideals appears from the
face us who were ideal figures for us in the last life, even if
ideals, our mental world.
behold our former friends and relatives, our ideals et cetera
life, of our former friends and relatives, of our ideals in the
extended idea of God, one can only say, how much disheartened
are you with your idea of God, with your religious feeling!
spiritual scientist feels his idea of God like a shining
spiritual sun. He knows that the idea of God, the religious
radiance of this spiritual-scientific idea of God in the
spiritual worlds, and the idea of God will suffer as little

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willing arise from the physical laws. It is an entitled ideal
ideal of modern monism, this Homunculus, that what the modern
that is really an ideal of people with modern worldview who
ideas that slipped in the
Out of human freedom, he can get an idea of his ideal and that
understood his idea completely.
Robert Hamerling had taken the idea to put
part of humanity for an idea which appeared first with the
poet could have this idea that the modern human being who
develops his completely natural human ideal looks, actually,
as soulless being, as the representative of that human ideal
human ideal divested of spirit before itself. It is another

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pictures,, concepts, ideas, and results of spiritual research
has nothing to do with lively life which ideas the materialists
on the recovering forces of the soul does not regard the idea

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results to get an idea about the solution of the world riddles
enough to receive a satisfying idea of the solution of the
to exclude any idea of the human being of a supersensible
idea with which so many hopes were connected just for the
contemplation of thoughts and tries to get an idea of the
an idealistic or spiritual worldview, in both cases one has to
ideas of Parmenides emerged. It intended to penetrate into the
the most marvellous edifice of ideas something is contained
ideas can never exhaust the full life and with it also never
spiritual worlds has to strengthen this edifice of ideas in a
gets involved with mere edifices of ideas that he gets cold
architecture of a system of ideas, so that one can say in a
which you have an outer cause, but you put the ideal to
develop it systematically, it gives us an idea that we can
complacent life in thoughts and ideas.

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lives on earth. This idea of the repeated lives on earth faces
mistakes.” Nevertheless, this idea did not let single
recent Darwinist natural sciences approached, the idea of the
idea. Soon afterwards, a little community was to be found which
induced many persons to consider this idea of
think of the idea of incarnation. Nevertheless, it is not only
also that, indeed, the human being must come to the idea of

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concepts and ideas. Hence, he wanted to go through another
and develops later into the great, also clairvoyant ideas about
Faust — Goethe translates it only into the ideal
gets no idea of that storm which broke out when the earth

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the ideas form the basis of the most important causes and
in the world, where one had to search it; one had no idea of
of the Jahveh idea, we have to characterise this progress in
destiny to grasp the Jahveh idea first in such a
happen in Elijah. Hence, it is important to show the Jahveh idea entering in the
the Jahveh idea in such a way by his initiation, by his
Samaria, having an idea of it, actually, his neighbour. King
the vision, which shines there from a quite new God idea you
idea, on a transformation of his ego, so that it could become
Jahveh idea instead of that which replaced it because of the
had no idea where from the man came — he approached King
ascending, working the Jahveh idea out for humanity in an

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real idealism which said to itself, no one can hope that he
fighting against ideas that have developed on basis of former
much from that what we have as ideas of the
their ideas by their sense of truth and their intellectual
ideas that the human being has developed by the struggle for
is a childish idea which could not at all be maintained today.
Of course such an idea called childish by this researcher will
matter, this idea should be presented. Besides, I wanted to
hypothetical idea. But natural sciences still think that this

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gnosis magnificent ideas of the Christ Being develop. These
gnostic ideas can maintain only for a short time against the
ideas that spread out as the popular ones and became then the
go into the gnostic ideas about Christ with few words only,
correspond in any way to the gnostic ideas. Since those only
spiritual science whose ideas we want to discuss briefly this
point with a few words to these gnostic ideas. However, there
gnostic idea if you think the following.
With it, we have given the old gnostic idea
talks one may say that it has, actually, a great idea of the
really concrete of that what lies in the spiritual ideas to
further development of the idea of the Christ Being in the
that beside the immediate idea which one formed of “Jesus
real idea of Christ, at least in wide sections of the
ideas. However, other sections, also scientific-theological
poetry, something that only intervened in history as an idea,
what history still soars is that it speaks of historical ideas,
as if, so to speak, outer abstract ideas intervene in the
believe. However, ideas are not anything that develops power.
if you did historic research unless the ideas, which squeeze in

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longings, from his hopes and ideals for the future. It is
This is Lessing's basic idea when he was stimulated to his
Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
following times has never again left the ideas that Lessing,
force for the present and as hope and as ideals for the future.
Thus, the human being can get an idea how
hypothetical idea may arise from it at first that that
concept, as an idea, as something invisible within the usual
today in particular? Take the highest ideal which people have
age of humanity. No oppressive future ideal arises if we
can we relate to the world goals in our ideas? We can answer

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necessary to realise that hardly any idea of humanity seized
reasonably processed and brought in ideas what he had taken
his reason could understand, we would realise that the ideas of
teachings of Aristotle. There we find the idea that universe
Greeks, and which Aristotle brought in rational ideas. One can
ideas. With the Indian culture, we see the interesting fact
There Aristotle had the sombre idea that
the idea of retaliation not completely shattered?
humanity on that level on which it grasped the idea inside
Copernicus to apply the idea of simplicity to the outer
he had never become estranged to the idea that the human mind

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intellectual idea or any immature criticism. The authoritative
impersonal ideal, so to a purely spiritual educational impulse
this age. This is just the being of the ideal for which we
commensurate to the ideal that we can never really reach it.
that he takes it as an ideal from the great impulses of world
history, and that other human ideals are given to him that he
impulses are founded upon an ideal, upon the relation to
ideal-inconsistent.
that ideal to give instructions with which the human being is
few basic ideas. That human being who does not endeavour for
some basic ideas that can control everything else will see his
certain things to main ideas will realise that he faces the
not lead back that to some basic ideas which life offers will
system is furthered by leading back our life to single ideas,
at certain ideas, and survey what we have experienced in life
ideas of the repeated lives on earth and of karma in your life
Thus, just the ideas of reincarnation and

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far-reaching, significant ideas that have become principal and
results of his study of ideas, the few people who understood
had spoken in a particular time of its development. Ideas were
fulfilled with ideas that point more than something else does
the East. The idea had arisen to him from an exceptional wealth
idea of equality flooded humanity in the course of time, the
that the Christian culture with its ideas of equality and
think the ideas of his time not only to a quarter or half, but
significant his ideas are in the just characterised sense, they
each other, and without remembering to bring the idea of
becoming into the idea of the continual being. But it took few
quite different had happened. The leading ideas of the
Darwin alleged as an idea. Today we realise that those who have
say found a “religion,” on the Darwinian idea.
whose ideas settled down in the minds. So that one can say,
who did not familiarise himself with the current ideas, which
penetrate the public thinking, and at the same time with ideas,
significant fact that he was stimulated to the basic ideas by
leads to an idealistic spiritual result. What may it depend on
that his results would have been interpreted in an ideal
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and physicists, materialists and idealists, Darwinians and
penetrate to the mental pictures, concepts, and ideas that the
thinking. There he got the idea of that thinking which is
with the following words: “The most shattering idea,
whether anything exists generally. From this idea, the abyss of
seems to mock at my idea. It forces me in its circles, makes me
obey its orders, and laughs at my idea of its nothingness as at
a chimera. And, yet still this idea this absurd seeming idea
has just reached the idea that has cast off the sensory world,

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life as an idea of a plan.
connection with certain scientific ideas of the present. There
with the idea of physical heredity. There we realise that just
scientific clearness the idea of heredity was founded, starting
world of ideas that is the result of these spiritual-scientific

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come to many ideas and mental pictures in the nineteenth
There I am allowed to point in particular to the idea, to the
the strange fact that the soul being with which the idea of
way. I do not only develop ideas of purposefulness. Someone who
realise that I do not regress to teleological ideas or ideas of

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himself to his concepts and ideas today. He does not think in
most cases that concepts and ideas, even if they are well
scientific observations to get an idea how our mental pictures
concerned has no idea what is actual there outdoors. Then
the idea and thereby the misunderstanding comes into being from
the spirit as the superconscious that comes in the ethical idea
or in the spiritual-scientific idea, which penetrates the
diverts too much from the ideas that can give clearness in this

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exceptionally significant scientific period of German idealism
the great philosophical idealists, like Fichte, Schelling, and
were fertilised by this idealism, although they were not as
great genii as the idealists were. We find this ether concept
the German idealism the same appeared. I have drawn the
tried to get to this question with ideas and concepts. However,
of the ideas in the sensory world by free conscious action...
of the German spiritual life that leads idealism from its
idea cannot be a fruit of speculation, and the true ...
nurtures them, not because metaphysicians had the idea that

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regard the spiritual-scientific ideas one does not yet get
life of an idea, of a mental picture just this appears that one
how with the general world picture which arises from his ideas,
ideas and sensations as starting point that are not saturated
the ideas of gravitation one felt the Newtonian theories having
for example the so often cited one where somebody gets the idea
an idea which deepness is contained, for example, in his words:
and people believe to develop special idealism if they abstract

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a general idea of this incapacity. If one looks in detail at
about the ascetic ideal to which some people dedicate
How does one often describe the ascetic ideal? Well, one
ascetic ideal forms. Nietzsche asks, what is then, actually,
behind this ascetic ideal? He recognises that someone who lives
according to an ascetic ideal wants to get power. If he
power is behind the ideal of the lack of will, of
thinks, to the ideas of freedom, of immortality, why should it
still has no idea of this beholding consciousness it is indeed
approximate idea also in the usual consciousness of that which
of a reality exist. It takes a one-sided idea as starting
point; but in spite of its one-sidedness this idea gives a
research takes its starting point from the idea that there is a
he had lost faith in religious ideas because of the knowledge

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peoples and states. One probably speaks also of general ideas
ideas speaking of the forces, of that which guides the human
destinies. These are general ideas in certain respect to which
“You know for a long time that the ideas which are
blossoms. You may call this an idea or a monad as you want, I
scientific ideas. What Goethe could say at that time, every
case: in our Euclidean geometry, one can draw only one parallel
not only abstract ideas, but spiritual science speaks of
results -, then we get an idea of the significance of spiritual

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now of the two ideas contrived before — as it were a
this, but this thought comes to the fore by the scientific idea
again, and one gets feelings of such ideas, which are due to
Indeed, certain modern ideas about the centaur seem to comply
that, any human being would have to form the idea, that the
the idea of the reflection of the soul life in the bodily life

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is an irritating idea for many people, for — taking a
face the ideal of that which the human being can attain by
becomes the vividly felt idea of development. Then a whole
can easily say, of course, you recommend the idea of something
aware of it. The others do it unconsciously, have no idea of

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and ideas too early which refer only to an outer sensuousness
approach the child at least with opinions, theories, and ideas
the consciousness soul: on his opinions, concepts and ideas.
ideas cannot intervene in the entire mental and feeling life.
and ideas as little as possible but give him very pictorial
ideas in the time when he should still be formed mainly
plastically and when abstractions and ideas are effective at
and ideas, that one takes up concepts that should be developed

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ideas are living beings that are as real as only the materials

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would have to be the ideal of a physical explanation to reduce
and more the ideal to recognise our nature astronomically.
Thus, astronomical knowledge became an ideal in the course of
a great ideal before the thinkers of the nineteenth century.
ideal to the most different phenomena that astronomical
knowledge was just a radical ideal. One is allowed to say that
— to promote this ideal, because to that all the results
around at the ideas of those people who were in the immediate
cultural life and ideals of their time. For I do not want to
There Du Bois-Reymond spoke highly of this ideal of an
assuming that the ideal is fulfilled that we can really say,
time than that at what one looked as the ideal fulfilment of
certain radical ideal of an astronomical molecular and atomic
However, besides it Arrhenius represents another idea that is
possibility in his idea of the radiation pressure that a
the individual emerges. We have the ideal of a human future
find lightweight ideas — like the newer astrophysicists

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construction of his ideas.
achieve the idea of a divine being from the physical research.
death what the idealistic art historians tell us, we must fight
everybody, who only knows the usual ideas of the origin of the
have to say. However, all these ideas have arisen from the

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on all nations constitute an ideal in the present situation of
the 16th, 17th centuries, who stimulated the idea of such a
person who pursues her ideal with a rare devotion and with a
noble human beings for the idea of peace, the love for a global
peace already in the hearts of high-minded idealists, and,
question of peace as an ideal question as it has developed in
nevertheless, we must probably say that how this ideal of a
reason that we call idealism, the other is the human desire,
idealism.
idealism here and there: which desires and passions are lurking
and desires are not yet advanced enough to follow the idealism
to a mere idea, but to the modern ways of life. This struggle
their deepest idealism. However, their profession, their
This book brings in a sum of concepts and ideas to the human
difficulties and efforts of which no one has a right idea
this earth, apart from the ideas of reincarnation and karma. We
understand how the idea of the future is combined with the idea
idea. You can read it not like a phrase in Light on the
peace as an ideal, conclude contracts, long for decisions of an
built on love. This is our ideal. We carry out an ancient

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ideas to understand it. However, on the other side, the idea of
ideas which we want to develop here and, hence, I ask to be
human ideas.
ideas is woken in us that is connected with the external
few words to give an idea of it.
much of the ideas and thoughts living in me, of the feelings
motives, by moral ideas and concepts that do not penetrate from
this sensuous object is before you. We call this the idea of

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extended between Europe, Africa and America. The idea is also
borders on the miraculous compared with the modern ideas.
modern naturalist, accustomed to materialistic ideas, supposes

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most advanced people cannot form an idea of the insights into
idea of the divine being than Goethe had. Thus, we can also
However, one gets no clear idea of the being of this religion
you face a person today, you try above all to form an idea of
and you try to get an idea very soberly which corresponds to
developmental stage of the intellectual and rational ideation,
the universe. One had another idea of this word in ancient
would like to try to give you an idea of that which one felt

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fraternity, represents a great ideal penetrating humanity, and
important ideal. It has indicated that way that this great
talk on the idea of peace, which I held before you, I pointed
has an ideal mental power but a feeble body, or the other one
attention to what I already said in the talk on the idea of
today. You can easily get the idea that hunting and war were
this morality formed on the ground of a consciousness an idea
as his ideal. In those days, in the middle of the Middle Ages,
a harmony existed between that which one felt as his ideal and
an idealist and practitioner at the same time, it might have
highest ideals of the soul. Human life produced the manifold
substitute the struggle, the war by the ideal. Today one does
can be only an ideal, but such an ideal must exist, which is to
still calls the theosophists impractical idealists. It will not

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a series of talks, I have spoken of the ideas about the
be produced in our civilisation, how little one has an idea of
earliest youth, a personality by which in you the highest idea
humanity because you cannot conceive ideas of human beings
place, I could provide high ideas to the people; I could give
Thus, an idea can be grasped still in a way different from the
The one idea I wanted to wake is that the higher life develops

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able to evoke a clear, somewhat more in-depth idea in their
ideas about this festival today and they correspond less to the
the great basic idea of Christmas as a universal festival, a
great ideal for that who should be the leader of the remaining
pattern, as ideals, and said about them, as big as the
relationship of this human future with the idea, the image of
ideal, there one has not yet understood what truth is. Where
is without passion, then that the human ideal is attained which
ideal of the old teachers of wisdom, of Christianity, of
wrong or right. Everybody can put this ideal before his soul,
and doing this, he has the ideal of the sun hero before him,
Thus, the great ideal of peace places itself as the highest
are annual festivals of the great ideals; and Christmas is the
birthday celebration of the greatest ideal of humanity, the
ideal that humanity must gain if it wants to reach its
This is our ideal that everything that we say and teach, and is
then our ideal is attained, then spiritual science will be

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the great basic idea, the big aim, which the big cultural

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questions: the idea of reincarnation or of the repeated earth
lives, and the idea of karma or the big principle of existence.
of existence with these both ideas as the physical researcher
is only the idea of development, the idea of repeated
us to mind that our most elated moral ideals, our holiest
only ideal, but also holy leader of humanity, up to Francis of
What is now this idea of reincarnation compared with the
an idea how this principle works, and about which I would still
with the idea: if I bring together sulphur, oxygen, and
and Goethe with whom one regards these ideas as senility or the

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portrayal of this idea in nature, in the surrounding world. To
develops love with the noblest ideals of humanity. This love is

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week ago, I spoke before you about the idea of Lucifer. In
something about the same idea and its significance for the
with particular religious-philosophical or other ideas and aims
significant theosophical ideas. Édouard Schuré just
spirit which was round Wagner, and he represented the idea of
processing these ideas in a piece of art that he called
human ideal is that which comes from the light, from the real

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this without having an idea of the fact that no people write
ideas of the Germanic mythology. We also here find initiates,

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itself.” Whichever ideas and concepts we form, whatever
would be good if people studied Fichte, because he got the idea
idea of the personality in its everlasting importance in his
construct of clear ideas. There the right thing immediately
him, one of those who got out the philosophical ideas, was the
uniform idea of the whole nature, how it extends over the whole

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time, the legend of the Nibelungs. Indeed, we owe the ideas of
beyond the everyday life. That is why he took the idealised
the obligation — if we accept such an ideal obligation
and everyday ideas. He must overcome all that; a real deeper
ideal of the human being lived in the memory of the old German.

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knightly bravery, which were out for possession. Other ideals
ideal. Something great was said with it. The Lohengrin and the
clairvoyantly into the spiritual regions. Ideas of the
Middle Ages had their great ideas in the same time in which
he has purified himself of the uncontrolled ideas and leads a
the ideal sense. This is also meant by the sentence you find in

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idea as something great. He was in the Villa Wesendonck at the
With the idea of it, he got the idea of the dead and
resurrecting World Saviour, of Christ Jesus, and the idea of
idea of Easter. Hence, Dante (Dante Alighieri, ~1265-1321) also
Easter festival and the spiritual-scientific idea of karma. It
seems to be a contrast, this idea of karma and that of the
the idea of karma. They say, the thought of the redeeming god
lives. Spiritual science also deepens this festival idea. The
knowledge of spirit deepens the idea of Easter that seems to be

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Only someone can argue in such a way who has no real idea of
Today, the human being is given away to any idea; however, he

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ideal. The modern scholar can cope neither with that which that
idea: if anything is ill, it is less crucial, which external
gets the idea: what does Paracelsus really intend fighting in
passions, the ideas, joy and sorrow, all that as the two basic
idea automatically, one thinks of what today the human being
idea how you can get around to understanding what he means if
me properly, because it is far from present ideas. Paracelsus

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Boehme's soul was penetrated by great, immense ideas for the
grips with his ideas. The human being is normally glad if he
senses the world had become perceptible to him. It is the idea
idea taken from the material world, so that he himself became a

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thinking, at least only with such people who have no idea of
bold idea today; however, the development goes in this
come about by communication and exchange of ideas between
the highest degree. You can get an idea of the difference
exercises of which the modern human being hardly has any idea.
science do not know it clearly but they have a dark idea of it.
say this have no idea that they are even the biggest obstacles
hearts. They have no idea that by that which spiritual science
They have no idea that talking in such a way they reject just
ideas, then just these ideas enliven our souls to overcome what

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Germany, one had a great, idealistic-philosophical spiritual
supersensible world. However, just this idea will appear in the
mental pictures, ideals et cetera in himself — also as nothing
natural sciences so far that in us the scientific ideal has
perceive it itself? The ether was the most fantastic idea that
the ideas that one had up to now that many people already
There one gets the idea that the dream of the old alchemists

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absolutely free research and has no idea that it has taken up
high-minded moralist and idealist has transformed and purified
idealist, as for example of Schiller or Francis of Assisi,

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studied history and anthropology also have the same idea
the world secrets, the views, concepts, and ideas that lead us
imagining, you can get the idea that today it looks different
pictures and ideas of the world. These mental pictures and
ideas make the world comprehensible to him. However, all that
able to put up a building of ideas that harmonises with the
such ideas free from sensuousness within our German education
archetypical plant. This was no mere idea to him, but it was
poet, said, this is no fact; this is an idea, no reality.
Goethe answered, if this is an idea I see the ideas outdoors
those who speak in such a way have no idea of the conditions of
the higher worlds this way. You can thereby form ideas, which
future ideal: you will have the plant nature again! One gave
idealistic writings before you and this idea where we go up

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the occult science entails. One has only the uncertain idea
ideas puts a bug into the ears of the people, and the people
the practice on the one hand, at impractical idealism on the
Johann Gottlieb Fichte said: the idealists know as well as the
so-called practical people, maybe better, that ideals are not
life ideal, from that which is not yet there what should become
the human beings have no idea. The only difference concerning
deepest, to reach this ideal. One reaches it best of all if one
such ideals as, for example: you shall overcome your ego. —
any case, a very good idea of the man. Most people do not

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ideas.
Here the ideas of

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crazy ideas of the seers are true, and if we take them
grasp the great idea in your inside that the order of the

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our contemporaries have received the idea more or less
the idea as seldom as it expresses itself in the words: oh,
speculations as the spiritual-scientific ideas are.
those who deal with theosophical matters and ideas really face
great ideas has something marvellous. For others both things
attains some abstract ideas from it, but also the deepest
that — as so many people say — an “idealistic”
topic best of all envisaging both ideas of occupation and
human need, and human ideals, even the simple-natural human
ideas of life. Of course, such human beings can only be
stood who said [about theosophy]: these are brainless ideas! It
wanted to realise certain ideals that fulfilled him. However,
realise that a short thinking, a thinking that has no idea of
cannot be an accumulation of dogmas, of ideas. The ideas are
regard the official as the ideal of the human being, with whom

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was a childish idea to think that the other world bodies could
good, can close his heart against the idea of that which lived

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according to vague, instinctive impulses, but to clear ideas
his future out of ideas or ideals independently. The human
of all if we anticipate in our ideas and ideals what we want to
the past and to the future, as if we wanted to deal with ideas
against those people who turn against ideas and ideals out of
practitioners of life have no use for ideals and ideas.
Speaking about the great ideals and about the determination of
against those people: we, as idealists, know as well as the
practitioners, maybe better, that the ideals are not directly
according to ideas and ideals, they show only that one does not
is necessary to get an idea of the earthly evolution from that
us. Who still has no idea of the fact that air is round him,
idea of the fact that he lives perpetually in spirit, and means
present ideas sticking to the material will argue: do you
psychologist) which even wants to be idealistic with which the
materialistic ideas mingle in the entire thinking. I have

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envisage the origin of both ideas that soon force themselves on
sense, above all in a spiritual sense: the ideas of bad and
followers of these ideas add to them, but also not less many of
that was foreign to the sun according to the Germanic idea in
such ideas like heaven and hell in the souls and hearts of the
ideals. All that sinks in an uncertain darkness with sleep.
development and evolution. This is the idea of the infernal

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the ideas of heaven and hell that he himself has formed stands
supersensible world, because this is its true ideal.
great ideal that wants to spark the wisdom of this

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ideas grow, there is a great amount of suppressed activity in us. But

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gradually come about that the individual may have fine ideas but they
with sensible ideas are active in these events but are overwhelmed by
and ideas to spiritual reality. Thoughts are powerless unless they are
Healing will come to our age when the thoughts and ideas that are applied
concepts and ideas are dependent today to an awful extent on his external

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this to be the case. They may have absorbed one or two ideas considered
cells in their organism interact. We must then transfer these ideas
He says: “We shall arrive at sound ideas in this domain only when
when it comes to the exact application of concepts and ideas. If a sentence
Verworn conceives the idea that the reason it nevertheless does evolve
such somersaults in ideas. These things are simply looked upon as signs
of great and reliable science. When such ideas are applied in physiology
comes to working out ideas. However, the harm becomes immense when someone
sphere false and misinterpreted ideas remain undetected as they no longer
Verworn come to entertain these ideas at all? The answer could be that
at this idea of interacting systems of cells: He coined a word; calling
the idea of the State and compares the animal organism to it. Verworn
turns the idea around, he extracts the concept of the State and proceeds
and have no idea that concepts, belonging to quite a different realm,
organizing a State. The whole idea is so preposterous that we need look
at one aspect only to realize the insanity of the whole idea.
things the true idea of individual freedom, seen here in its natural
childish ideas that the brain receives information from other groups
inner strength of soul one must have attained concepts and ideas which
has to be done it is true, before distorted ideas give way to sound
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This gives an idea of man's
brain, the life of ideation connected with the human nervous system.
not however through man's breathing but through his thoughts and ideation.
for ideas born of faith are also concepts, are also our mental pictures.
having no ideas of his own on the subject, mentions the name of Christ
them. To this end they conjure up in man's mind ideas such as: “In
sensuous feelings of well-being such as those conveyed by the idea of

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towards great ideals, towards powerful, effective ideas of spiritual
knew how to endow the ideas she conveyed to others with the kindness
and pliable enough to grasp ideas that quite concretely explain the
him to the idea of Genius. What is done by a genius is also done out
Hermann Bahr makes great effort to find confirmation of this idea. For
idea that when it comes to the human soul's ability to grasp truth it
ingenious idea of Jacobi's. I expressed the same thing somewhat differently
further than Harnack and others. He comes as far as the idea of a universal
To do this requires one to make the effort to grasp the ideas, the descriptions

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town. I could not avoid the idea that this man would be perfect as manager
desire to serve the good. In short, ideally a town council should be

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which must be approached with concepts and ideas gained from spiritual
at last, the old fashioned idea of speaking about the spiritual world
the whole direction of the ideas employed. One must be able to evaluate
ideas from which all content has been extracted. To read it is comparable

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pedantic and narrow ideas of the Scholastics. But in truth, compared
subtle art of ideation, of defining and elaborating the finer points,
in the 13th Century, attained the concepts and ideas he elaborated in
his writings in a completely different way from the way ideas are acquired
find dreadful the idea of having to sit down and wait till his Angel
very spiritual concepts and ideas concerning Christianity and the Bible
are to be found in this period. These concepts and ideas often seem
slatternly superficial treatise you will get an idea of the kind of
Naturally he considers himself far above such a superstitious idea that

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while being expressions of his own soul, assumed in his words and ideas
voiced the very concepts and ideas that stirred in them. But he also
Ideas concerned with the
in opposition to Luther's strong proclamations, but these ideas could
and in fact already Lessing protested vigorously against that idea.
because of shortsighted, obtuse and foggy ideas, and the men fighting
it are in many respects mere puppets of those ideas. Today there is
to war or to peace or whatever. What is needed is that our ideas, our

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will come about only when socialism has been established. Well, idealists
insist that the earth will become paradise when idealism gains the upper
to Woodrow Wilson's immature ideas. They are even taken seriously! In
of experience should at least be able to produce a few enlightened ideas,
ideas that could, in the sense of spiritual science, throw some light
not only towards people, but towards concepts and ideas; if they are
moral ideas they exist entirely in the spiritual world, for they arise
concepts and ideas; i.e., ideas that relate solely to external phenomena
does not indicate moral or spiritual ideas; it indicates rather no advance
the intricacies of human life; the latter require concepts and ideas
human beings still rely on old, even ancient ideas though they no longer
pictures, derived from spiritual knowledge. Naturally, these ideas are
However, these new ideas
events taking place at present and the kind of concepts and ideas which
striving, as is done at present, for the ideal of everlasting peace
the present unreal ideas are to be replaced with ideas based on reality
must be done can be expressed in a number of practical ideas with which
these ideas are nothing but practical answers to immediate problems,
work out eminently practical ideas which can lead to salvation from
for present-day cultural life, the most unenlightened, elementary ideas
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between two incarnations and the effect of the idea of reincarnation
the idea of which we have spoken to-day, but it was an idea which led
them we obtain a clear and vivid idea of what truly belongs to the
these ideas, so that he says: “I will strongly desire and will
very few cases, but it conveys the idea. Most people will find that
traditional, accepted ideas. For to a very great extent these are
simile we may obtain an idea of this by thinking of something we like

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between two incarnations and the effect of the idea of reincarnation
experiment I will give myself up to the idea that I willed this with
consequence that such ideas are grotesque; the point is what we want
concepts and ideas we make our own when we perceive anything through
purely through concepts, or rather ideas (in the sense of
idea.” But if we were to shut up a wolf and for a long time
the idea of the reincarnated Plato in a school class, making the
soul we live in ideas, in feelings and in impulses of will. We have
seen that the life of ideas is connected with a single incarnation
our own life of ideas. This is not the case with the life of feeling,
ideas before it can speak; it relates itself to the surrounding world
through its conceptions or ideas. But it has very decided sympathies
understood how to carry the idea to its logical conclusion. He ought

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between two incarnations and the effect of the idea of reincarnation
then that the whole greatness and significance of the ideas of
alleged to be working into this world, the current idea is that
reincarnation and karma changes this idea entirely. What is contained
incarnations. That is the moral element in the ideas of reincarnation
and karma. A man who has assimilated these ideas knows: According to
the deep moral consequences of these ideas. A man who does not
realises that the ideas of reincarnation and karma are based upon
is that the fundamental ideas of the anthroposophical conception of
human beings learning to live under the influence of the ideas of
will take place in life when the ideas of reincarnation and karma are
less quickly than ideas. Only when we introduce into our lives right
and concrete ideas of reincarnation and karma, only then shall we
significance, but we gain an idea of this ‘choosing’
This idea may be
and then the ideas of reincarnation and karma will become really
fruitful in his life. The point is that these ideas are not there for
progress. When we know how family connections are formed, the ideas
these things bring home to us the deep significance of the idea that
the light of the ideas of reincarnation and karma. That is why
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previous lectures, the most prominent is the idea of
very beginning humanity has always had the same ideas concerning
ideas were such that he did not contemplate the world from that
and ideas — in short, of our soul impulses; when in fact we
teaching in theories, concepts and ideas; but in active vivid
conception; its basic ideas were treated seriously, there were no
viewed from the standpoint of modern cosmic ideas, is liable to
its nobility, which transcends all those petty ideas which play
idea finds expression in the Hebrew, where evil comes upon the
All those hateful ideas which are disseminated
Pythagoras failed to find the purest and most ideal ethical

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ideals.
pictorially and not in concepts and ideas, as is the case with
place did all these strange ideas occupy in the image world of
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
with ideas similar to the following: There is a latent higher
[We can form an idea of the old Egyptian concept
throughout the universe. A similar idea prevailed among the
thoughts, concepts and ideas of mankind — it was this influence
ideas concerning all that I feel within my soul,’ he knew

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persist in associating Buddhism, primarily, with the idea of
well-established and essential part of their preconceived ideas
into these matters, the association of Buddhism with the idea of
Western spiritual life, we learn that the idea of repeated
that the idea of reincarnation, both with regard to Spiritual
with the idea of reincarnation indicates a superficial attitude.
form of visions. All those curious ideas which come to us through
come to him the idea of plenteous benefits; but in life we behold
grotesque and fantastic ideas, so frequently spread abroad.
that ideal state — Nirvana. In other words, he must learn to
the light of our ideas concerning humanity regarded as a whole —
own act, enveloped the inner being as with a veil. The idea of
History tells us that this idea has been frequently put forward
and ideas for the active principle of existence; for the vital
regarding the influence of his thoughts and ideas upon his pupil,
ideas, thus causing him to ponder upon this olden
adjusting itself in harmony with the flood of new ideas which
and personal ideas, seek a higher plane merely through the
after he had become imbued with those ideas and convictions,

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analyse our ideas and motives according to his doctrine and
world, through the medium of our senses; these ideas we group
one abstract idea, or unit, in this ancient conception of the
starting with our current ideas as a basis. We speak in these
abstract and intellectual. Plato conceived ‘Ideas’ to
those concepts and ideas which came to him and were destined to
convey the idea that all those things regarding which Moses spoke
ideas concerning all things which come within his cognizance; but

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man’s evolution are not merely dependent upon those ideas
But no man knew rightly, or had indeed any idea, in what way this
embodying the old thoughts and ideas, through which must flow a
land] the people, however, had no idea where the mysterious
the King had no idea. And there was a strangeness in the manner
this neighbour is a pious man, whose mind is filled with ideas

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fact, those theoretical ideas and conceptions which have sprung
in connection with a certain trend of ideas and spiritual
short period as compared with that idea of The Christ which was,
ideas which it has to put forward with regard to The Christ
forward the most profound ideas concerning the Christ-Being —
We can obtain an idea of what underlies this
idea of man’s being, for it regards him as
Whenever conversation turns upon any idea similar
centuries side by side with that simple idea of Jesus, which
Christ? He is looked upon as a visionary creation, a mere ideal
The fundamental idea underlying this work has been but little
is, that it actually speaks of historical ideas as if
‘ideas’ are not what historians consider them to be,
merely historically, and if it were not that those ideas which
this method where a complete change in ideas has become
part in man’s ideas concerning the cosmos. But in future
thoughts and ideas, so far, not generally accepted.
of the fundamental idea in redemption in addition to mere
from his present false ideas, risen to a higher standard of
progress a complete change of thought, a reversal of ideas, be
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do not want to go into the idea behind the story of
the personification of an Ideal for our Movement.

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perceive in the figure of Apollo the idea that the God

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We are led to the great and sublime idea that the divine being descended
and the ideas it evokes are closely connected with all the festivals
imagination, concept and idea are all at work at once, manifesting
with the world view of modern idealism and spiritualism, you will find
that one can form ideas and paint them without looking at nature shows
ideas that are completely removed from anything spiritual. It takes
never mind. These are the ideas Hermann Bahr arrived at inspired by
the people of Danzig, and out of these ideas he then wrote this book.
This example also shows that anyone with a clear idea of what spiritual
achievement to find thinking people in what is left of idealism and

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task devolving on anyone who has some idea of how necessary it is that
of other things to give you an idea of how matters really stand and

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Keely harbored the ideal of building a motor that would not run
Of course, this was only an ideal, and we can thank God it was just
an ideal at that time, for what would this war be like if Keely's ideal
in all modesty that he did not come to us; and we can get an idea of
such grotesque ideas as we see here. This Franz is then invited to the
And so Franz gets the idea that maybe this very man is one of the white
lodge. You know how easy it is to get such ideas.
want to claim him as an ideal Catholic.”
and Franz hits on the idea to say the fellow is a Spanish infante. You

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is important is that we connect increasingly definite and concrete ideas
body during Earth evolution, we will only get a false idea if we rely
people have no idea how wonderfully the mysteries of cosmic evolution
— who wanted to prove philosophically that ideals are nothing
view that will let ideals stand at a pinch but considers them as not
little to do if he did not let ideals stand. After all, the physical
Now, then, ideals have no intrinsic existence,
And this man then developed this idea into a whole philosophy, the philosophy
readers understand that we can hold on to ideals while at the same time
words, why should we reject ideals when children do not reject dolls?
were. Why shouldn't we do the same with ideals even though we know they
Here we have the view that ideals have no
who compares ideals to dolls! Now, let us try to understand this analogy,
ideal unless we also assume the ideal is after all a representation
this analogy. The second lies in saying we should base our life on ideals
representations of living beings; ideals, on the other hand, are not
shows what kinds of associations between ideas are formed and what kinds

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against letting certain ideas and concepts that are meaningful in our
against approaching the ideas of spiritual science — in many respects
usual feelings and ideas these words evoke. We need only picture how
view of Lucifer, we should not have the same negative ideas and feelings
connected with the old idea of demons. Nor should the ideas that arose
view, but he has the most peculiar ideas about the reasons why people
Well, this man hit upon the idea to look
the creation of religious feelings and ideas as well as in the formation
These ideas are not to be taken lightly.
ideas are spreading. In my youth psychoanalysis, the Freudian theory,
In connection with the grotesque idea to
their ways and see that their ideals are not relics but fossils. The

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examples, and you have no idea how little people are generally inclined
He has at least some idea of how badly the book is written — and

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cosmic edifice. We form concepts, ideas, and images of what it is like
without having any idea that each brick in turn is a small work of art,
of the elaborate structure of the rolls allows us to get an idea and
is completely unable to arrive at the idea that the spiritual underlies
taking a page from a book, without having any idea what it means to
Asians who have preserved older, atavistic ideas of reality; they often
you will not find any grounds for the idea that the Gospels advocate
this extraordinarily significant idea in philosophical terms, nothing
The ideal we have in mind, my dear friends,
this, did not have this ideal, then spiritual science would not be able
way could come up with the strange idea, for example, that he or she
ago, we would have become a sect. For all the ideas brought over from
has applied this very obvious and convincing idea, but in a different
works, for the idea of accepting a person's teaching in order to refute

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ideas, shows similarity in words and turns of expression to the
let us say, a visionary or a false idealist through this, nor
colour. Whoever conceives an ideal is, at that moment, one with
the ideal. I le distinguishes himself only afterwards from his

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time we no longer have the slightest idea of how a medieval soul was
the house was the expression of an artistic idea; the whole
splintered. This was the first idea in Wagner's mind in
idea rose up before Wagner's soul as he descended into still more profound

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human being is not yet man and woman, and he has no idea of possession or

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Nazareth. He conceived the fundamental idea of this drama when he was
and becomes a disciple of Buddha. According to Wagner's idea, the
the crusaders fought. The idea that Jerusalem must be the centre was
idea of Bayreuth. The events of 1848 were only an insignificant symptom
a new impulse had to come produced in Wagner also his ideas concerning
replace earlier influences. This is connected with his ideas
ancient ideal of the Brahmins, and perceived with sorrow the symptoms of
these ideas. Sorrowfully the Greek disciple of the Mysteries spoke of

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periphery. One feels that they have no idea of how to arrive at the
ideas of today's astronomers. If we develop the forces that slumber in

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conception could not be satisfied with the idea of the insignificance

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idea of this state. He says: imagine a plant. You see this plant. Now

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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
difficult to form an idea, except for one who has taken the trouble,
ideas than anything else: space ceases! It no longer has any meaning
very difficult for man to imagine this to-day, because his ideas
what we have to attain; we must be able to transform the ideas we
intellectual ideas. These latter owe their existence to a much later
on Jacob Boehme, and try to obtain a correct idea of how helpless a
And in doing so we shall see that there too we come to ideas which

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concepts and ideas through which we may reach those strange and
sacrifice on the altar of the universe; if this becomes a living idea
the Sun, we must again first form an idea by which we can imagine the
accurate idea of this virtue of giving. Let us bring home to our mind
with an idea. Such an idea will always produce in us a distinct
feeling. One has the best impression of such an idea if one thinks of
Art, where the idea has an urge to master colour or form in some way
Anyone who has an idea and feels that he can give it forth for the
creative idea in the mind of the artist, and how it imprints itself
Christ-Being when we grasp the idea of the bestowing virtue, the
the dim idea that can stir in a human soul on hearing such an

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of evolution we must acquire a definite idea from the following.
and desires, and renouncing all idea of satisfying them.
in mind the idea of resignation or renunciation which we have to-day
through that of the Sun, so that there too we have the idea of the
Time and Eternity is so faintly perceptible that our ideas and words
forth in that word or idea, what at the most can flow forth in the

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In what meets us as air and at any rate, to our ideas, seems to
the regions referred to, both conceptions and ideas slip into use
knows what I suffer,” if we wish to convey an idea of the
concepts and ideas on the subject. But if his earlier experience had
an idea of what was attained in the Cosmos at this stage if we once more

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we carry these observations further, another idea is necessary. That is
it, he does not thereby contradict what we have said about the idea
create a connecting link between these ideas and those brought before
the impression of a presented sacrifice. We can form a clear idea of
picture the feelings of such Beings, you will have an idea of what may
corresponding to a reality. I want you to hold clearly to the idea we
the idea that effects such as those produced by Christianity could be
necessary, and if we are thoroughly to enter into the various ideas

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German idealist philosopher.] There has been some
France conceives of its own idea of [glory] as the
national ideal; the Englishman takes action and does
ideas, ideas we try to stimulate with reflections like
those of today or of the last occasion. These are ideas

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the supersensible beings the concepts, ideas and feelings
knowledge of the spiritual world, not mere idea, mere
time: to call forth ideas that are a little more the

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handful of foolish dreamers. The idea is one that is not
of weakness even the great Lessing accepted the idea of

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form ideas; a way that was wholly an inner one, as it
form ideas and concepts. This is why it has been stressed
it brought acceptance of the idea of repeated earth lives,
— getting an idea and an awareness of the spiritual

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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
the ideas and concepts it holds within it, is in actual
same applies to all the ideas we have formed on the basis
quality should an idea have if we are to take it with us
with your ears.’ The nature of such an idea or
gate of death as an idea. My comment is that materialism
ideas they presented?
to present ideas to people that would strengthen the
know that all these ideas are really correct?' Let us
imagine someone was spreading ideas about the
supersensible worlds, ideas accepted by a number of
taken up the wrong ideas than to have taken up no ideas
in accepting any kind of idea about the supersensible
world. You may take up correct ideas or incorrect ideas
ideas which have evolved with the flowering of modern
grow in inward Power so that these very ideas enable the
strengthens them for the spiritual world. Ideas
world. Ideas not relating to the supersensible or ideas
and present ideas like Saturn evolution, Sun evolution
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physical world we confront the object. We form ideas
ideas. If one is dealing with a soul that has gone
life in her feelings, In her heart and mind, the idea and
gone through death — the thoughts, ideas, feelings
that these ideas and experiences became forces that would
This individual had therefore used the ideas and concepts
ideas familiar to us from spiritual science will then
possible to get some idea now, at a time when countless

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people have no idea how much they cling to prejudice with
idea: Unity, unity, unity! She wanted to look only for
behind on the threshold. All concepts and ideas, and,
aside our concepts and ideas and to allow our essential
ideas that can help us get on in the spiritual world. It
past inheritance. They now need to acquire ideas bit by
earthly ideas and into spiritual ideas. Let me
of the world as the ideas of spiritual science come to

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that includes all ideas or concepts. Entirely of our own

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According to some authors, one idea is recorded in one
part of the brain, another idea in another, and so on.
consider in our mind the ideas presented in spiritual
self. These ideas go to the other one. We may experience
idea we have to do without all those physcial props;
and ideas about them. In the same way the different
ideas on the basis of the fact the we are objects to
think about this, the idea of 'being within the living
stream of spiritual science" links up with the idea of
‘human responsibilty’. This idea of 'human
busy activity in concepts and ideas where egoic nature

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is the one we call thinking, the forming of ideas. I
point, but the activity of forming ideas takes place in
forming ideas. So you see that it is necessary to go far,
controlling his karma had already had the idea that would

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things are not done in accord with a pre-set fixed idea
at the idea out of their own feelings and out of artistic
wrong to approach the group with the preconceived idea
attempt at this when the idea had been put forward in a
lecture.) It is not a question of expressing the idea in
progresses when we show that past ideals cannot be our
ideals for the future. The ideals of the future will be
this idea will take form. Two civilizations on this earth
Striving for a moral idea — 7%

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never have had an idea of, at least as far as he is aware
creator himself has first made provision for the idea and
ideas, for it seems most desirable that as many people as
possible today ideas like those which not all that long
down. We should consider these ideas not so much for
Yushakov's ideal — that the one to liberate the
friends, you see an ideal set up here that surely makes
down in his diary, as an idea for a play, that a grammar
is a very good idea.
wanted to put some ideas into your hearts and minds which
theoretical, by merely absorbing ideas, but rather by

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present age. People have so little idea of how small a
ideas, something that could help me enormously if only I
spoke of this in his Zarathustra, for he had some idea of
naturalistic. One man's idea of what constitutes a nation

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world. Besides all the usual ideas which flow through our souls at
those who are interested in our Movement should form some idea of its
quite new and unaccustomed ideas before one's hearers. In the
slow to take in new ideas. Indeed it is a characteristic feature of
not the remotest idea of the forces governing the historical life of
conscious concepts and ideas going, and with the help of these, to
feeling for a great drawing together of mankind, for ideas having
circumstances in the face, must be: in socialism. Ideas were there,
material life and alas, these ideas encountered no other world of
ideas to stand against them. If we really understood the ideas which
in a sense historical ideas, dreams of humanity; — but what
How has it come about that these socialistic ideas have taken root in
understand in abstract ideas what holds people together and makes the
ordinary ideas, runs its course in the subconsciousness; but on the
Wilson's ideas are very widespread (far more people are of his way of

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etheric, but in youth we must learn to supply spiritual ideas as
through his head a certain number of ideas which, if directed to the
that if at 15 years of age he can produce ideas of sufficient force
such sustenance of spiritual ideas that they suffice for working into
idea of how children ought to be taught in earliest childhood that
wholly changed, ideas formed before the 20th century have gradually
become more and more abstract, they have become ideas of the head.
When we compare the rich ideas of the 13th and 14th centuries with
difference in the abstract ideas, the dry conformity to law of the
he could not, for, read with the ideas derived from modern physics
is most spiritual; for these abstract ideas are the most spiritual
through the spiritual ideas he has developed. It is precisely in them
that he has become so remarkably materialistic. When these ideas come
simple existence of abstract ideas is the first refutation of
these impulses and ideas something will come to humanity which to-day

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our ideas less so; in our feelings we are not awake. F. T. Vischer.
world in the ideal sense. To ordinary observation the apparent fact
respect of our life of ideas, as accurate self-observation will
ideas. When withdrawn from sense-perception, that is, not outwardly
awake’ purely in the life of ideas has always a shade of
life of ideas, yet, taken as a whole, we can say that, when we form
feeling, because ideas, that is, waking activities, are mingled with
we were always able to illumine with ideas what we dream (the greater
of our life of will is, in its turn, illumined by the life of ideas;
perception in the world of sense and in our life of ideas; even in
perception of the sense-world and our world of ideas; and, imbedded
idea that the forces of the dead may live in what we dream or sleep
get accustomed to the idea that we ourselves are in the other as the
these ideas if we do not form wrong thoughts about a connection I
flow to it from the content of the life of ideas but from the
understanding, and thereby to bear within one a real world of ideas
with concrete ideas when it is deepened by Spiritual Science.

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very meagre idea of how we make ourselves get up; perhaps, even the
place changes when he enters it. Other people have an idea of this at
life; in Jesus, too, I see the greatest bearer of ideas who has at
ideal, which the man of to-day should set before his soul, is to be

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least some idea of the things which man must feel rather than think,
day, we shall gain an idea of all that might have happened. We shall
To obtain a really clear idea of
much of it is lost in [the] course of a year. If we extend this idea
idea.
rest all got out of its way, but the peculiar idea occurred to her,
various ideas about fatigue. We know from the public lecture on

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its ideas. Those who find it easy are not always those who benefit.
ideas and thoughts must be entirely different from those we must
the idea: ‘I will go now across the street;’ we then walk
we gain an idea of how we leave behind everywhere the stamp of our
the idea that we have them no more, for that is an ungrateful
‘difficult.’ They just think, they grasp their ideas
a certain effort is needed to accept its ideas. People avoid effort.
side of the human perception; how ordinary ideas are grasped by the
brain, but intimate ideas pass through it as through a sieve, into

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ideas by which they claim that the world is easy to understand, and

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the idea: One thing is right — and another is wrong. But I must
view, it is one definite way of making pictures, thoughts and ideas
certain ideal of natural science would be to turn out the light and
we shall gradually gain the idea that in the relations between the
of acquiring, by means of such Imaginations, ideas of the Universe
pictorial ideas. Copernicus has led man to calculate the universe;

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In the idea
clearly upon ourselves certain ideas in Spiritual culture
something that is of main importance, that certain ideas now
ideas. Although all sorts of world-conceptions have appeared,
nature, they all deal with old ideas which have been in use
traditionally; for instance, ideas which appeared in Plato or
the object. This can be found in Plato. The more recent ideas
understand nothing of it. It is the kind of idea which you
because such ideas rests upon something which existed in
times certain ideas have been lost which must be
fundamental, basic ideas; ideas which must, as it were, again
draw your attention to two ideas which must be
possible. One of these is that an idea exists that really the
no idea! For that reason it does not know what physiological
can find this idea introduced by psychologists and especially
This idea too is the opposite of what is true. Instead of
idea. For if we do, we shall no longer say that what runs
reverse many of our ideas. If we seriously consider that in
are not able to form correct ideas as to what is happening on
the ordinary physical plane. We form false ideas about what
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only get reliable ideas concerning the incisive events of the
page I had for instance the sentence: “The idea is an
spirit by means of intuition. The idea is an individualized

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an idea which one may have concerning the life of the soul
animals can gain an idea of how in reality the
will, he considers thought or the idea as an illusion. That
This idea is
and it would be possible also to gain an idea of the
such ideas, such concepts might form the bridge from the
that, it is of immeasurable importance that the living ideas,
the spiritual life to find a place. To the ideas disseminated
Into this pregnant atmosphere, Darwin threw his ideas. All he
the ideas of Lamarck, for these things have been known to
to grasp the concept of how very different the ideas of the
idea, but also into the profoundest depth of the human being.

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and ideas which come to us from Spiritual Science. It might
through its ideas and its thoughts, would not be affected
forming of ideas) through which we then work upon these outer
back again. It has been repeatedly said that such an idea is
from this point of view what thoughts and ideas of Spiritual
possibility of making the ideas more mobile, occasions the
such an idea!
“Another idea is the discovery of the stealthy
tendency which has at last stripped off the old idealistic
ideas, a newspaper reporter wrote that I myself used symbolic
ideas which were untenable: the idea of
idea). It caught on, and now a second edition has appeared.
nature of the concept, ideas and thought in our soul, so that

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of flesh and blood. That however is an ideal which has been
have correct ideas as to what is taking place.
correct or false forces into our life of idea. The times can
1914. Yet no man today can be really awake if all his ideas
will unconsciously conceive of it according to the ideas of
form new ideas is uncomfortable to man, and what I have just
disclosed is a new idea; it is nowhere to be found among the
required before we can grasp such ideas aright. I must
ideas. We know however that humanity becomes
change of ideas. One thing which must especially be
and the insipid tones which come from Wagner, to gain an idea
times; we must renew our world of ideas, we must renew our

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limbs, to a dim idea of what has just been said, and this
which are not to be clothed in ordinary ideas. They have, as
Nobody carrying out the idea, “I move my hand”,
theory, not a result of forming ideas about it; but something
subjective ideal or tendency which Spiritual Science has to
research. Certain concepts and ideas are necessary in order

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and so among our friends the idea arose of providing an
idea of our building with that of a cake-mould. This is made
architecture. That was the first idea. — After much
driven to give up the idea of realising our hopes in Munich
near Basle, we set about building. The idea of the encircling
work on walls has been in connection with this idea, that the
idea of the wooden building. As it stands, it has really no
of pillars. If the windows were to carry out the idea of the
without a model, some idea of what the Bau is meant to be. As
idea of it came to me, for I believe I have grasped as
artistic idea was not to produce a representation of Him. The
idea rests purely in the artistic form, in its manner of
programmatic idea. The artistic thought must rest in the
show you a few pictures, to give you an idea of the principal
idea of the carving; therefore this elemental being sprang
idea of what is intended, and I hope that you have at least

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from one earth-life to another are hidden, disguised. An idea
striving after a remarkable and strange ideal: no longer to
thus to be directed to the ideal of making life here on earth
spiritual ideal such as I have described is set up. By this
physical life will be overcome, and by degrees the ideal will
guise. A very interesting point is that this ideal can be
such an ideal as I have described. This will set the pattern
West. In the West a sort of battle against such an idea will
the idea: “I feel as if something were there; something
Those who seek the ideal humanity, because the first step
peoples, is inwardly connected with the ideal of becoming
idea were to establish a sort of pan-nature, a universal
by ideas taken from the spiritual world. What is taught in
chaos. Ideas that not long ago were recognised as significant

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no possibility nowadays of giving an adequate idea of how he
ideas, pagan culture and pagan experiences, they understood
Son. Nowadays people unite no conceptions with these ideas,
ideas which lead into the spiritual world; they were strong,
conceal the greatness of the Christ-idea and the profound
Golgotha. That is why the favourite idea was brought out:
favourite idea — that truth must be
independent of Rome. It was an idea which held sway for
such ideas should sink into men's souls; they are needed
in which the ideas of the transition-period of the new age

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hindrances, he would have quite a different idea of his
a soul-being, he has not much idea of how he has
altered in the course of time. Strangely, but truly, his idea
centre.” We speak of our Ego and we have the idea:
give us a really coherent idea of ourselves if we could but
ego, we cannot arrive at the idea of the ego being so
the idea of what does remain true to the species through long
divest ourselves of the fantastic ideas of modern learning
and resources: sharply circumscribed ideas for organising the
different ideas He says: Supposing that Christianity had not
prudence. A school of ideas which would replace

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ideas and conceptions which would fit it to deal with the
all thse efforts went towards getting certain dogmatic ideas
themselves, here on earth, to certain ideas concerning the
man's horizon no longer extended to the idea of a connection
same aim — to prove that human ideas and concept should
No idea, no conception, engendered in the inwardness of the
credulous in respect of theories, taking the content of ideas
was concerned only with the “content” of ideas
ideas are never carried into life in accordance with their
it. No one knows the truth unless he knows that ideas often
content of their ideas, but anyone who knows how things
ideas are not derived from spiritual knowledge they may enter
applies to the ideas of Marx, which are intended to banish
to turn away from abstract ideas and say: “Daylight has
“subject-matter” of ideas, and refuse to reckon
men with admirable ideas through which they wanted to reform
the world, and these men were admired; yet the ideas became
abortions! For ideas themselves are but dead things; they
people. I can only outline this, but it gives an idea of what

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and ideas devoid of life and vigor. It should be
with the same ideas as on the past, the determined, is
One idea, according to this view, must be received
intelligent leaders of thought: the idea of “the
means of the ideas and concepts that can be
reform is necessary in our ideas concerning this most
such conceptions, and this habit spreads into ideas concerned
familiarizes himself with the ideas of this school knows that
possessed of the ideas of the future, whereas they have only
throughout it refuses admittance to ideas with a fruitful
this view refuses to entertain ideas with any germ of life in
passing away; and the only effect of these ideas is to
concepts are rooted in reality. These ideas are useless for
ideas held hitherto may talk as much as they wish — they
that their ideas point to the future, are very often immersed
lifeless, barren thoughts and ideas, because fertile ones can
cannot reach the ideas they really need in order to learn
idea is brought into modern life — but it is not really
incorrect ideas, for example, created by Woodrow Wilson out
— deals and ideas that apply only to the transient, in
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in a primitive state of development and with primitive ideas,
often been set forth, and you will see that these elementary ideas of
fault does not always consist in the lack of an idea behind the words,
Theosophists who are desirous of changing this name can have no idea
Atma, the actual and true Spirit-Man, a far-off ideal to the man of
his senses and forms ideas about them. These ideas about the external
some idea of how this was also expressed in a corresponding form of
to the materialistic ideas of the present day, there was at one time a
considered, and the idea that changes are capable of being forced upon

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If you would rise to penetrate what the names, or conceptions or ideas of

Title: Lecture: On Chaos and Cosmos
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express in the words of ordinary language the ideas of super-sensible
far more directed to the non-material ideas — far more
so. Helmont was the first to give to mankind the idea, the concept of
of the gas. Helmont came to the idea that among the states of
Godhead. This ancient idea contains quite another concept of Spirit
cosmic origin thereof. You can gain an idea of the Spiritual if you
Science realizes concepts and ideas that are not taken from the past,
himself ideas, feelings and impulses of will, taken directly from
Chaos. Such ideas out of the Chaos, taken from the higher worlds, are
us. Thus we can see how comprehensive the idea of Chaos is for anyone

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the idea that in the regions in which man lives between death
an idea, because he had so completely lost it. The capacity
Christ. And we gain an idea of the progress of history in the

Title: Lecture: The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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fairly correct idea, this crystallizing from a watery salt solution.
idea of the group souls.

Title: Lecture: Christianity in Human Evolution
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ideas that we intend arbitrarily to project into the future, but we
intend to harbor and to follow only those ideas that have been slowly

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Now what does this legend tell us? It is a childish idea to maintain
highest human ideal, which is born out of the human body impregnated
sublime ideal, the highest peak of humanity, the Christ Himself — for
He is the ideal of what they represent — Who would naturally enter

Title: Lecture: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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The Northern Mysteries were based upon the idea that when a number of
tittle-tattle of history written down much later on, his ideas on the

Title: The Nature and Origin of the Arts
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architectural fancy showing them single ideas if thou wilt
follow up these ideas by which they will be able to build
ideas in color, and thus hast become the archetype of the art
ideas in color. And through this sense men will be able to

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astonishing that this idea of Reincarnation should be designated as
opposition to his own ideas, comes to Nagasena to speak with him
from the idea of what may be regarded as the separate individuality,
incarnations succeed each other, and there is no idea of evolution
an historical conception. The Christian idea seeks in the ‘fall’
world in ideas and concepts is at hand.’ In other words: ‘Man
more and more deeply penetrated. It is just the evolution-idea which
of the Ideal of the World-environment within him; who desires naught,
ideal in some one who has overcome all enjoyment and pain that

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ich das Ideal dessen vor mir, was der Mensch durch

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wie Pythagoras das reinste Sittenideal, das Ideal für die

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daß es das Ideal einer NaturerklÃ¤rung
und mehr dem Ideal nÃ¤hern, astronomisch unsere Natur
Jahrhunderts ein Ideal, durchdringend alle
gewaltiges Ideal die ganze Zeit Ã¼ber vor den Denkern
gemacht hat, der weiß, wie damals dieses Ideal
eben ein durchgreifendes Ideal war. Und man darf sagen,
Jahren — geeignet war, dieses Ideal zu
geistigen Leben jener Zeit und in solchen Idealen mitten
Ideal einer astronomischen Erkenntnis gepriesen und gesagt,
sagte: Nehmen wir an, es wÃ¤re das Ideal
insbesondere dann nicht, wenn sie dieses gekennzeichnete Ideal
Zeit zu finden als das, was man als die idealste
Ideal einer astronomisch-molekularischen und -atomischen
Wir haben das Ideal einer Menschenzukunft vor uns, die uns

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Philosophen und Physiker, Materialisten und Idealisten,

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Jahrhunderts geltend gewordenen deutschen Idealismus aufbaut
— nicht in diesem Idealismus selber, aber in dem, was
dann aus diesem Idealismus geworden ist —, Ansätze,
Idealisten, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, trotz ihres von mir ja
Idealismus, die gewissermaßen die Gedanken, die damals
Idealisten-Vorgänger, dieser Ätherbegriff entsprungen
Nachblüte des deutschen idealistischen Geisteslebens
die, ich möchte sagen, den Idealismus von seiner

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besonderen Idealismus zu entwickeln, wenn sie mit den

Title: Geist und Stoff, Leben und Tod: Lecture VII: Das Jenseits der Sinne und das Jenseits der Seele
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über das asketische Ideal, dem sich manche Menschen
Wie schildert man oftmals das asketische Ideal? Nun, man
was man das asketische Ideal nennt. Nietzsche fragt: Was steckt
denn eigentlich hinter diesem asketischen Ideal in der Seele
asketischen Ideal lebt, der will Macht, Erhöhung der
dem Ideal der Willenlosigkeit, der Selbstlosigkeit. So meint

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and suffering, of all ebbing and flowing ideas, feelings and
ideas, if we did not know that it has been bestowed by the whole
external world. Anyone who stated that concepts and ideas arise
within man, even though there may be no ideas in the external world,
concepts and ideas.
intelligible. Only those ideas which are able fruitfully to recreate

Title: Lecture: Prayer
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thus easier in this case to transform the idea into a
this attitude, either in feeling or in word and idea, we have
ideal form it would be the sort of soul attitude that would
it in our words and ideas is the second form of prayer, the
than in ideas. Consider, for instance, the Old Testament
into being by its thinking and feelings, the ideals to which
soul. Impulses of will and ideals formerly strange to us rise
the most splendid ideas and impulses living in the soul. Here
often told today, particularly in the ideas of a falsely
prays has an idea of this, when in prayer he comes to true

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the most manifold feelings, perceptions, ideas, concepts, and impulses
the astral world. It would be quite an erroneous idea if you thought
and it will be easier to form an idea of these classes if we take an
of the astral world. But since these people think similarly about the idea
of justice, have acquired this idea in the same way, they therefore
persons. All of us who have the same idea of justice, for example, are
many things, have had a number of ideals from youth on that have gradually
evolved. Each ideal can differ from the others, you have had the ideal
the god Dionysos strides to the River Po and looks down at all his ideals
physical plane are regulated by our ideas, concepts, representations,
In the astral world, the most completely opposite ideas can interpenetrate
each other; and the idea that is the more fruitful, which is therefore
idea is the more fruitful, which idea will drive the other from the

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both in the words and in the ideas. Therefore, in wider circles a greater
astral body as ideas, which they can then apply as guides when they

Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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There, we need not question nor try to find a solution in ideas that

Title: Prophecy -- Its Nature and Meaning
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convey an idea of the significance of the subjects we are studying.
outcome simply of ideas and not to lead back to any one personality.
have ideals. Ideals, however, are usually abstract: man sets
the Present. But instead of setting up abstract ideals, a man who
concrete ideal. This picture seems to tell him: Mankind is standing

Title: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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being soon sees that all the life of ideas playing part in the
of ideas. This alone should make those pause who, starting from
instincts, desires and ideas, in their pulsating soul life, arises when
out that in elucidating a dream we cannot reckon with the ordinary idea
of time. The same idea of time expressed when looking back on our
von Hartmann, we find them starting from the idea that when man views
soul can now be translated into ordinary ideas.
Cursing in secret such ideas;

Title: Good Fortune Its Reality and Its Semblance
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fortune may be entirely dependent upon the inner being of man, the idea of
good fortune as a general idea disappears. Yet again, if we look at what a
This only proves that when all is said the idea of fortune in general eludes
Let us suppose that a man with very high ideas, even with the gift of an
conceptions he may be fanatical in his protest against the idea of good
fortune or equally fanatical in explaining life one-sidedly from the idea of
important. For instance, let us think of a man who rejects outright the idea
observations of to-day may serve to set before men an ideal that
us, but that we may interpret beyond Goethe's hopes as an ideal for every
single human life, but as an ideal for man's life as a totality — if a

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already somewhat difficult from the point of view of the ideas ruling
But in contradiction to this idea many philosophers of recent time have
surroundings. We see that Lamarck's idea is the following: We
reconcile the origin of the organic or animal world with this idea.
based on the following idea. (The following lectures will draw your

Title: Lecture: Death in Man, Animal, and Plant
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the fading of our thoughts and ideas, our feelings and the impulses
processes of our soul — our life of ideas, of feeling and of
of our ideas, feeling, and will. We know quite well that if we give
the conscious ideas and so on sink into indeterminate darkness —
ideas, is something like a springtime experience in which we see what
life in this way, we give up the idea of comparing this sprouting
can follow consciously at the moment of waking how his ideas and all
rising of our ideas on waking in the morning, autumn conditions had
connected with our ideas, with our thoughts. This is a very
all the details of the ideas which came into my mind, so that I can
have faded, severed themselves from the idea, and sunk into
ideas from the deep strata of our soul life, but — apart from
the bare ideas. Is it entirely lost? Does it lapse into nothingness?
feeling experiences separated from the ideas which could only be
only of the ideas he has had, which can be recalled again and again,
richer in ideas, and riper with respect to the impulses of our will.
becomes increasingly mature; the whole of our feelings, ideas, and so
the brain is destroyed by the life of ideas. But whereas the brain
ideas, so we now understand the necessity of death for the life of
of ideas lays waste in man is repaired by sleep. What is destroyed by

Title: Lecture: The Nature of Eternity
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up in the soul against the idea. One impulse may be expressed
the idea of reincarnation. The second arises from a sense of
contained in the idea of reincarnation and in that of karma
future. If we do not take eternity as an abstract idea, but
in the outer world can I derive the idea of the ego, yet it
idea that the thought of the ego arising in normal
not a reality; for realities do not vanish as the idea of the
say: In the idea of the ego there is no reality, but the idea
idea of the ego at the present moment. Ultimately it is
havoc in our ideas, and to some extent lays waste our states
the body. Thus our ordinary intelligence gives us some idea
ideals, ideas, even with mere concepts, flashes through our
harmony with our enthusiasm for ideals. Because of our wrong
idea of repeated earthly lives held good. At the same time
ideal of evolution, and we have to admit: As a child I had to
certainly not be in sympathy with it — that many ideals
Science, however, this idea can be transformed. Before our
strength to the ideal of eternity.

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knowing it, does not admire the mighty idea expressed more
reproductions have given us an impression of the idea of the picture
through the idea which had just been expressed with difficulty, but
wanted to own something of his. First he would form an idea of what
Jesus. Then, as if of itself, the idea comes into one's mind:
science new ideas and new conceptions were formed, but where it has
the ideas of natural science live within us and have educated our
become mature because the ideals of natural science have really not
yet been solved. Leonardo had most wonderful ideas, of which, in many
idea that this soul has still to carry out something in a

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 1. Materialism and Spirituality.
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of how powerfully these ideas filled the souls of men at that time. As
may be so permeated by the words of the Gospels as to form some idea

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 2. The Metamorphoses of the Soul-Forces
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de-materialising of thought and of the world of ideas, which, in the
speaking really very near to the Spiritual world; but the ideas and
in materialistic ideas, that would be its least harmful
in a definite way to form certain thoughts and ideas which we could
feelings and realise how our ideas have changed since we busied
just as the ideas pertaining to Spiritual Science are abstract
compared to the thoughts, ideas and feelings aroused in the soul under

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the ordinary outer man an inner man, who to the ordinary idea is
waking conscious life, through absorbing the ideas and conceptions of
ideas coming from the materialistic view of the world and especially
ideas than those set forth by materialism, the perception of the
concepts and ideas of Spiritual Science, when he has thus deepened and
ideas, the spiritually scientific conceptions, that man may acquire as
standstill, stopping at the merely abstract ideas of God or Christ,
longing — for the very ideas that can be developed in Spiritual

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When we consider the ideas and concepts which have found their way
Natural Science and its ideas. There are of course plenty of people
were formed; they do not know that the ideas of Natural Science have
with them, and whose ideas are based upon what is taught there, cannot
accordance with the ideas of our times, we ponder on the way in which
point; it is not the ideas that we form that signify, but the attitude
of mind which gives rise to these ideas. The conception I have just
mad idea in our age; they will wonder that such a delusion could have
point is not so much the ideas in themselves, as the impulse and frame
form that a purely mechanical idea of the origin of the world was
believe in this idea, it exists in the widest circles among all kinds
with all their ideas, feelings and impulses of will, what then, apart
concepts, swept away as something which, if this idea of the
themselves arise the moral ideas of right and wrong, of good and evil;
from the first state to the last, that man requires such ideas for his
common life; that man must form these moral ideals, though they can
against what Herman Grimm, for instance, felt to be a mad idea of
ideas and sentiments. (I may perhaps have more to say on this subject
true reality, he is unable to develop ideas and conceptions by which
to gauge the views of the world held by others, ideas permeated by
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the spiritual world, only arrives at half-true concepts and ideas,
ones, for those who form the partly-true concepts and ideas rely upon
illumination, for these ideas are, after all, partly true! Such
up, though it is in a great measure still believed, is the idea I have
Everyone would consider such an idea absurd and would say that the
other ideas with this division of the human being. The great Greek
shall then have a definite and positive idea of what is called the
rhythm between sleeping and waking, with the idea: ‘I am allowed
it.’ When we have once realised and felt this idea, this
of spiritual ideas during the day, he owes it to the fact that his
ideas drawn from the spiritual world. We compel our head — the etheric
effort for thinking the ideas of Spiritual Science, than it does for
latter really come of themselves; but the ideas not connected with
accept such concepts and ideas as are not connected with the material,
ideas. Just think how little some of the leaders of spiritual life are
capable of developing such ideas. What I am about to relate is of less
gravitation was established. Well, in such cases a man's ideas as well
ideas not connected with material things, they will be able to develop
ideas, on what are their concepts to be based? They will only be able
external world. Ideas formed in this way alone, leave the inner part
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inventing such ideas True it is, however, that in the state of
idea of this, we cannot picture it, unless we keep the cosmic relation
all sorts of social ideals mooted. Certainly nothing can be said

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whether one absorbed or did not absorb the peculiar form of ideas
the ideas and conceptions current in certain circles up to and into
ethical life, de Saint-Martin employs the three principal ideas which
human head, when a man forms ideas. Everything in the nature of the
wonderful wealth of imaginative ideas, of true imaginations, which,
like his physical ideas, can only be understood in connection with the
today. The mode of forming ideas which de Saint-Martin employed is no
comparatively short time did the ideas ruling Jacob Böhme,
his fiery zeal against all forms of idealism.’ ... Such a
saying might appear strange, but it has to be understood. By idealism
the German understands a system which only lives in ideas, whereas
with their pallid notions, have described as the so-called ideas of
history. As though it were possible for mere ideas — one really does not
know what word to use in speaking reality — possible for mere ideas to
abstract and dead. Hence Ötinger's fiery zeal against any idealism;
Spiritual, not merely talking of an ideal archetype at the back of
things, but real, solid (massive) thoughts and ideas, such as look for
lack of appreciation, the tendency of the idealist to despise the
richer, Christian world of wonder than that of this idealism to which
This refers to a time in which men did not seek for the ideas of the
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the ordinary outer man an inner man, who to the ordinary idea is
waking conscious life, through absorbing the ideas and conceptions of
ideas coming from the materialistic view of the world and especially
ideas than those set forth by materialism, the perception of the
concepts and ideas of Spiritual Science, when he has thus deepened and
ideas, the spiritually scientific conceptions, that man may acquire as
standstill, stopping at the merely abstract ideas of God or Christ,
longing — for the very ideas that can be developed in Spiritual

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study life. They say: Ethics and the idea of morality are no business
economic life, not the forces of ideas, are of paramount importance in
— this is regarded as the ideal by many moralists and
the welfare of the single individual's form of life is not an ideal,
no ideal of common welfare can be produced by an accumulation of
individuals. The ideal cannot be the welfare of an individual, nor can
innermost, ideal according to external forms, but according to what is
vouchsafed as the ideal to the inmost essence of the soul itself by
does not take the ethical ideals, the cultural ideals, into himself
The ideal prescribed by Tolstoy is that the simplicity of the soul
judgment on these scientists, above all on the ideal striven for in
ideal civilisation? No, you must take hold of the human being where he
ideals of culture — European science as well as European art
bearer of the future ideal of culture. It is there that he sees the
ideal hovering before us is an ideal of Love, an ideal which the human
we have this conception of the spiritual ideal we may claim to have
particularly characteristic of his ethical and moral ideal:
of Leo Tolstoy lies in this: he has shown that the ideals are not to

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ideal, but out of knowledge of human nature. He knows what influence
same way as we cause our wishes, our thoughts and ideas to proceed
need to secure the truth in order to compare his ideas with the outer

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give people high ideas, great teaching,” and so on. The
Thus an idea can be grasped in an other-than-usual manner. Its

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Festival, have any clear or profound idea of what it means? How seldom
do we find evidence of any clear ideas of this Festival, and even when
able to form a clear idea of the process of the development of the
desires, especially of his ideas and thoughts. Think of the regularity
In earlier times this cosmic harmony was placed as a great Ideal
were looked upon as holy men, as Ideals, and it was said that if a Sun
relation of the future to the ideal of mankind generally. As humanity
ideal, this is evidence that men have not realised what truth really
thinking stands to-day, then the ideal of the ancient wisdom, the
ideal of Christianity, the ideal of Anthroposophy will be realised. It
ideal and right as it is to vote about what has been recognised as
This ideal can stand before the soul of every human being and then he
has before him the ideal of the Sun Hero, the ideal to which every
more peace and concord there will be upon the Earth. The great ideal
Festivals are the commemoration of great Ideals, and Christmas is the
birth feast of the very greatest Ideal before mankind, of that Ideal
have reached our Ideal, for Spiritual Science will have become common

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him. Many muddled ideas about this prevail today in the theosophical
simple man who holds only a few popular ideas about modern science,
no longer work. It is easy for the pupil to form false ideas about
speak,” they have no idea of the danger that lies therein.
and have no idea where they really are and what they are

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Then you will receive through this an idea of what the group-soul is.
nature, but an ideal stands before the occultist. He says to himself:

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Idea, he speaks of art as a kind of knowledge that leads more
of the human mental image or idea. This reflection arises only
sculptor, for example, wishes to create an ideal figure, say of Zeus,
carries. This is the idea in man, which can be acquired only if the
other arts are expressions of the idea of nature. Since music flows
however, he is unable to reproduce anything close to the ideal that

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life, in what may be called man's highest Ideal. Thus did they learn
to look upwards to this supreme Ideal of humanity, to the time when
When Christianity came into being it bore this Ideal within it. Man
spiritual re-birth, as the great Ideal of all humanity and moreover
of a ‘Sun Hero’ who embodied the same Ideal which, in Christianity,
Festival of the supreme Ideal of mankind, for then it will bring to

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genuine fairy tales you will find that certain basic ideas run
related to me.” Therefore the idea of “sisters”

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gain a perfect understanding of this idea, you have to
extremely false ideas about all sorts of things, yet in their
because we have not devised ideas that we intend to project
harbor and follow only those ideas that have been gradually

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ideas about Saturn, Sun, and Moon? What other theories of the
long have been popular ideas. However, because modern
knowledge itself. People may say: Of what use are these ideas
is a body of ideas that leads us into super-sensible worlds,
gaze into the world that it inhabits during sleep. The idea
day. Thoughts of how the ideal of our own sovereign will
considered the ideal state to which spiritual scientific
“By setting up Christ as my ideal, I develop something
be a model and an ideal for every human being. For this to
before us as an unshakable ideal.

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false idea of what the mission of anger is. It is not through unjustified
ideal.
we will consider the idea of truth in its right sense, and it will become
nature of beauty in accordance with his idea of truth. He could not deny that
lives in all natural things. In a plant there lives the idea of the plant,
fills his mind with phantom ideas and bloodless abstractions. Such a man may
some idea of how deeply he had penetrated into the problems of spiritual
union of the Logos or Word with the Deed gives rise to the ideal that Goethe
this, we shall be in the right relationship to our high ideal,

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gradually build up from them what we call moral ideals. Reverence is

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natural that most people today should have a somewhat false idea of what the
ideas, for, as we shall see, we are not discussing the essential difference
between man and plant, but trying to get hold of a useful pictorial idea).
from blind sensation and instinct to the highest moral ideals. Only a
not found in the plant. He must hold before his eyes the high ideal of one
ideal.
are drawn from the external world, is based on certain feelings and ideas
difference in content between the idea of a hundred shillings and a hundred
materialist with crude ideas. And for anyone with a feeling for such things,
materialistic ideas into a spiritual outlook produces a horrifying impression
to be seen in its true light. Then we shall not get a wrong idea of what the
his highest ideal in relation to so serious a subject as our human faculties.
Our ideas can indeed rise high if we have before us an ideal picture of how

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the rest of the world. This means that the only concepts and ideas that can
a high ideal before his students, but he knew what he was doing, and to those
We know as well as you do: and perhaps better, that ideals cannot be realised
immediately in ordinary life, but ideals must be there, in order to act as
ever and again. And of those who reject all ideals, Fichte said that in the

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repeated earth-lives is to be found among the ideas of Gautama Buddha, though
similar ideas are to be found in the Buddha. At the same time we must make it
its significance from its whole way of thinking and forming ideas. Our best
brought against his own ideas, wants to converse with Nagasena about the
can give us a much better idea of the whole spirit of Buddhist teaching than
wishes to direct attention above all to the idea that, although what appears
any idea of historical development. That is why Buddhism can see its Nirvana,
of concepts and ideas is near at hand. Men are no longer dependent on the old
concepts and outlook of Christianity. And precisely the idea of evolution, to
exists in his body, deriving no ideals from the world around him; he has no
While Schopenhauer's ideal is a man who has overcome everything that external
thinking, so that his ideal man waits to reach the state of perfection until

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by the ideas generally current in scientific and popular-scientific circles,
such ideas, the public at large may be inclined to regard my statements as
a particular level or more in general, there will always be those with ideas
understanding of the more intimate ideas of Spiritual Science. People who try

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to grasp a great reality through a few concepts and ideas
humble enough to recognise that all our ideas are, and cannot
humility we shall welcome all ideas which throw light on any
mean to the soul? It means that anyone who has some idea of
cognition and express them in ideas and concepts which can be
Earth. To have the right idea here, distinction must be made
their true form. A man lives in a web of ideas, of impulses

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presentation. We can get an approximate idea of an object if
comprehensive idea of it. And if anyone were to imagine that
idea of how the human race has evolved through the ages. It
Anthropology forms an idea of the various stages through
try to understand and form certain ideas of the nature and
at some period in your life you grasp a thought, an idea. You
idea. How can you understand it? Only through those ideas
see that this is so from the fact that when a new idea comes
within him a greater number of ideas than the other. All our
old ideas are lodged within us and confront the new idea as
our own previous ideas; and for anything not formed in this
ideas with it. We must have an organ through which to receive
as soon as a contradictory idea crops up it can also be

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culture-epochs, for an idea of the future can be formed only
consciousness was by no means as wideawake as it became later
more ancient times. You would have an erroneous idea of the
ideas about supersensible reality may be applied to physical
feel that concepts and ideas are in essence supersensible
this. What concepts and ideas contain is for most people
ideas are as unsubstantial as a cobweb. They are, in fact,
for concepts and ideas.
and ideas. No greater disparity can be imagined than that
permeate our concepts and ideas with spirituality.
concepts a man evolves, between ideas as inner experiences,
and what concepts and ideas are in reality. Kantianism is in
But the ideas and concepts we make our own must have their
work only with ideas previously evolved and it was obvious
concepts ideas which would be quite impossible for a
century produced a really bright idea: Psychology without

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Four: The Symbolic Language of the Macrocosm in the Gospel of St. Mark
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Spiritual Science, erroneous ideas would be inevitable.]
you an idea of the feelings and mood of a man living in the
are able to feel what this means can you have an idea of what
sentences give an approximate idea of what can be felt in the
Gospel of St. Mark be possible. We had first to form an idea

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clearer idea of what this means if you remember that we have
they may picture as their own ideal. It disturbs the lazy
attain his own ideal! In dealing with great events, however,

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ideas about the spiritual world acquired in the course of
many years. Such ideas alone can give us insight into what is
Beings of an essentially different order. To form an idea of
of thought, ideas, and so on, but they do not work through
expressed in his pictures, or form a living idea of the work
modern ideas the way in which St. Paul — and also the writer
all this you will get an idea of the meaning of the words

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idealism, who sets himself high ideals, and one who,
those others whose purposes, thoughts and ideals infinitely
Idealists such as this are in a peculiar position. They have
ideals. An idealist always has to accept the fact that
actions must inevitably fall short of his ideals. Strictly
speaking, then, it must be admitted that in ideals there is
standpoint of Spiritual Science the mark of the idealist is
fulfilment of the ideals, reflected pictures are left in the
of idealism. The first contain something which endures as a
experience how idealistic thought can be loftier than
individuals who are idealists, whose thoughts are loftier
form an idea of how the fruit — an apple, for instance — is
than indicate here how thoughts and ideas can penetrate into
of instinct and others who act on the basis of ideals. The
and in others the range of the thoughts and ideals is greater
that our ideas have transcended the bounds of our actions.
best way of acquiring ideals which transcend our actions we
members of our being and this gives rise to idealism in the
materialistic only in his thoughts and ideas. Theoretical
idealism may lead to the conviction that theoretical

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adequate idea of what has been poured into these Gospels out
shortage of ideals and programmes for the good of humanity.
ideal human happiness. Above all there is no shortage of
and ideals: indeed so convinced of their value are their
An ideal takes shape in his soul and he considers himself
us suppose that someone conceives an idea which fires him
anxious to bring it in some way to fulfilment. The idea comes
to wait; he will go all out to bring this idea to fulfilment.
Let us suppose that the idea is, in itself, insignificant, or
proclaim his unfamiliar idea to the world. An occultist knows
that such ideas live, first of all, in the astral body: the
does not let the idea rest as it is but proclaims it at once
to his fellow-men or to the world, for the idea must follow a
like the imprint of a seal. If the idea is of no great
idea he is always apt to overlook something very important,
launch the idea into the world, the soul will certainly not
of an idea of only slight importance we shall always find
in spite of this we find ourselves attuned to the idea.
idea is now in the etheric body.
If the idea is
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are living in a period of transition are the key to the ideas
that thoughts and ideas of a new kind are emerging, although
ideas further, so this evening I want to give certain
conception of how the supremely important idea, the
Christ-idea, arose out of thoughts and feelings of the
Jahve- or Jehovah-idea meant as much to the ancient Hebrews
as the Christ-idea meant to those who became His followers.
relationship between the Jahve-idea and the Christ-idea. It
represent the exact sense in which the two ideas should be
kind of revival of Mosaic monotheism. This idea of the One
the thoughts and ideas current among the Egyptians,
is impossible to form any idea of how much the
Europe at that time knew very well that the Christ-idea was
the ideas put forward were incompatible with the true
Christ-idea. The various prophets down to Sabbatai Zewi
able to bring to Europeans many ideas through false Messiahs
a true idea of Christ. Such occurrences will be repeated, for
Rosicrucianism, with Christ as its central idea, will
you can gather how the central Christ-idea must penetrate into human
ideas and dogmas which will develop quite naturally out of
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to speak of how the ideas of Spiritual Science are being made
instance, that our ideas were beginning to find a footing
happened in European culture, can we form an idea of how this
form some idea of how this spirit made its way into humanity.
trying to let concepts and ideas which mirror the spiritual
We have formulated definite ideas, for example of the
Truth, of Prayer, of Anger, our ideas of the three bodies, of
for whom the ideas and concepts developed here become a guide
idea has arisen in the soul we must allow time for the idea
rhythm in the process. After seven days the idea has
the maturing idea can lay hold of the outer astral substance
twenty-one days the idea has become still more mature. And
longing grew all the stronger and the ideal of the
few who in a kind of silent martyrdom felt that ideas once
theosophical ideas was a living reality in him. His soul was
these ideas without being able to penetrate them spiritually,
of years’ life that ideas stream into artists of the
clothe your message in concepts and ideas, as will have to be

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explain them with one's own ideas must surely destroy their fresh
ideas. Everyone can realize, however, through spiritual research how
in abstract, theoretical ideas if the child's soul is not to become

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Es galt diesen Essäern als Ideal,
Wir könnten also auch das Essäerideal so

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gegenüber unbeantwortet gebliebenen Frage bei dem Christus Jesus das Ideal entstehen, nun

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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become a fixed idea with her. Unity, unity, and again unity! That was
notions, and our ideas and allow our being to be built up anew.
the world, so that the idea of spiritual science begins to live in

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from that standpoint, get some idea of the change of views in
not only by means of concepts and ideas. Above all, one
might give this or that child the idea of immortality. Today,
thinks: How do I teach this dumb child something of the idea
way when the idea of immortality is taught to him by the type
idea of immortality in this way, it is quite different. For
does not have it, or if he has it only as an abstract idea in
himself, this idea will not have a fruitful effect. For it
conglobulated. Human beings form ideals; what is to become of
such ideals if earth turns again into nothing but a heap of
religious ideas that ever arose, would be lost, forgotten and

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“We were studying and living with the principles and ideas of
wonderful and inner ideal called Brotherhood [Although
spearhead of its movement, as the most important of its ideals. With
to give about the idea of peace, the following; the principle of the
who has an ideal spiritual power but a weak body or the one who has
what I have said in my lecture about the idea of peace. Even natural
in Animal and Man.” Among the ideas, which today are being put
abstract; morality and justice, ideas about the state, and different
from everything that people regard as ideal.
there was a harmony between what people felt as their ideals and what
they really did and if it was ever shown that one can be an idealist
Brother/Sisterhoods out of the spirit, out of the highest ideals of
work, to replace fighting and war by the search for ideals. One
only be an ideal but such an ideal must be present, introduced into
impractical idealists, but before long one will see that they will be

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ideas, the primitive vision was a vision in the astral light.
ideas such as death and resurrection. In man, the astral
conception of Easter and the idea of Karma inherent in
idea of this anthroposophical thought, — a paradox
salvation through Christ Jesus and the idea of Karma. Such
the idea of Karmic justice. It would be wrong to withhold aid

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notions and ideas, it will become more and more evident that
insist that the spiritual investigator simply brings ideas
in grasping chains of ideas, a certain love of inner,
ideas which he then uses to describe some imagined spiritual
then an idea occurs to her. ‘There is a pickled
anything whatever to do with the idea of the cooking and the
present moral ideas and moral reproaches in concrete
sense — how one idea or mental picture is related to
ideas of genuine Imagination. He knows that with his soul he
The ordinary process of ideation (Vorstellen) taking
function underlies the normal life of ideation arises through

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another world where we have our ideas, thoughts and concepts before
ideas about what approaches us in this world. We should just open
pedagogical principles. One could set it up as an ideal that esoteric
remain calm in everyday life with respect to all events, ideas, etc.,

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of our thoughts and ideas around us, permeated completely by
idea that we think ourselves. But we esoterics must learn to face the

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ideas about the spiritual world and also Imaginations very

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much pride and blindness that it gets wrong ideas and feelings about

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“I am” as strongly as possible and with the idea that God

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ideas we form about theosophical teachings — for our thinking

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theosophy gives us. When we let an outer perception work on us, ideas
theosophical knowledge? We also form concepts and ideas about

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in everything. We shouldn't just believe in the karma idea

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present naturalist must consider that as an ideal to pursue the
mind adds from itself. If the ideal of natural sciences must be
leads us back to the great ideas of Lessing that the
ideas, and mental pictures that are suitable for the physical
their mental pictures and ideas just firmly on the ground of
of ideas. However, someone who penetrates deeper into spiritual
with the ideas of spiritual science.
spiritual methods on the other side after the ideal of
researcher presents himself with any stubborn idea to his
together properly if one cannot develop lively ideas. One can
certain ideas and mental pictures about which some people say

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worldview has almost got to a kind of ideal limitation of its

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would well understand if anybody considered the whole idea of
as rather dubious to raise the lawfulness of the world to ideal
However, he could get closer to the ideas that immediately
the brain. Goethe thereby got to the idea that the human being
intentions of Goethe that he wanted to apply this idea of
Goethe's ideas advanced farther in this field. He would
whether such ideas have really lived in Goethe from which one
Goethe really had the idea to regard the brain as a transformed
heroic idea which shows only too well, how much your mind holds

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idea. Then the sense of touch differentiates again, so that as

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture V: Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
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that Wallace got to those epoch-making ideas of evolution, even
now immediately dependent from the earth. It is a more ideal
consciousness, one can also not attain any idea of the
penetrate because of his imaginative idealism just into the

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the present. It is even more comfortable to get an idea of that
what Lamprecht puts as his ideas about the historical
development of Central Europe. These are original ideas. He
pictures at the same time. If we get an idea about a vision,
About at that time I held a talk here about similar ideas and
explained that the least of all typical ideas of the beginning

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trivially. So one has the idea today, as if the relationship of
certain fantastic ideas of development which asserted
own biography knows how he rebelled against the idea: if one
one stops at the general trivial ideas of evolution, one
to take up, for example, the idea of immortality, of the
presently, you will find it confirmed. This generates the idea
Then, however, another idea of development arises, and I do not

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ego-idea also the following is associated.
have shown last time from which vague feeling this ego-idea
stimulates our ego-idea. This ego-idea must not be considered
significant that in Giordano Bruno's soul the idea appeared
the soul, although one wants to make modern ideas fertile for
millennia, there you get stuck into the idea: you have to

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religious ideas, and it will not only ask: what happens with
and laboratories has no idea of the real relations. Strictly
ideas of spiritual science if one does not regard the

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
the ideas which had been brought out by Schiller's poetic
pictures (and ideas) of the Goethe-Schiller period have
vanished. In 1859 these ideas were still incorporated in
in trying to explain the whole world by a few barren ideas.
Schiller was young when these ideas of freedom were ripening.
Rousseau's ideas had, as we have just said, a colossal
in by the real world and by his ideal of reason. But there is

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
have seen how Schiller grew up out of the ideas of the
Eighteenth Century and how the ideals of the Age of
want to describe these ideas in a word, we may say that the
ideal of freedom fails through this disharmony in the soul of
order into the moral ideal. In “Kabale und Liebe”
ideals and general ideas applicable to the world had been
expression in Herder's Ideas for the history of the
embraces a mass of great ideas; there is a striving after the
ideas of God, Freedom and Immortality by their reasonableness.
the growth of man beyond nature to his ideals. He never puts
the cosmopolitan idealist, Schiller sets up a claim for the
independence of the ideal from all that comes from nature.

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
the ideal was something peculiar, born from the spirit and in
of idealism did not appeal to him; and Goethe was so much in
Everywhere we see the old tendency to grasp the ideal as
different idea of Schiller. But their friendship was not to
Schiller, “that is only an idea.” “Well, if
that is an idea,” replied Goethe, “I see ideas with
asking how this or that idea harmonises with Goethe's spirit,

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
deepen and harmonise his ideas and experience of life. Very
make his ideas living, how he strove to grasp the great forces
show us how he wrestled with these ideas. Apart from the
the confusion of his ideas concerning himself with the message
Satisfaction is only attainable if we rise to the ideal planted
mood, as he called it, not from ideas. The stream of complex
idea under the influence of which Schiller stands which does
help in the realisation of the ideal. He cries to them: Human

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
the ideal quality of the spirit. At first sight it may seem
place round about him. In the same way the idea of treachery is
thought contains ideas of the moment which have only to be
plays Schiller tried more and more to give form to the idea of
developed these ideas further in his Birth of Tragedy from

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
in Schiller. Schiller's idea of raising the beautiful to higher
the poet of idealism: he used experience to bring the ideals to
the idea of freedom, but from purely personal feeling, offended
by step, on the completion of his psychology, and his idealism
mighty strain of idealism can be seen continuing through the
continued activity of Schiller's idealism in the spiritual

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
works? And yet everywhere we meet the ideas which he has
active opposition to Schiller. The Romantics found their ideal
moreover, a hero's death filled with the ideals planted in him
quite alien to the new ideas which were appearing at the time.
To emphasise Schiller's ideals in 1859 fitted strangely in with
the other ideas which saw the light that year. There are four
one of the lines of modern thought. He started from the ideas
— Schiller period and whose aesthetic was of idealist
the Schiller celebrations and the ideas which were germinating
enthused by Winckelmann and formed his artistic ideas out of
came that abstracted ideal of beauty, an art so cut off from

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
the idea, the idea by which the world as a whole is to be
imagined as being permeated. It was an idealist view of the
never did. His ideal was always truth, but truth on a spiritual
believed that he saw the basis for his artistic ideal, he stood
idealist to a realist attitude. Indeed, this revolution was so
idealist standpoint: — the very views he had formerly
supported had become unintelligible to him. The ideas of the
to emphasise the rights of the ideal. Even art called itself
realist. Any idealist tinge failed to find approval with the
truth in great ideal laws. Art was for him the representation
looked for the ideal of Freedom. What we call
philosophy appeared, which though pessimistic, had an ideal
always find that men whose standpoint is that of idealism are
contrariwise, understand the idealist.
Schiller was a believer in the ideal. There is a deep saying of
ideal lived in this way within him is part of his greatness. We
there is a new ideal of freedom we can learn to understand
— found a new aim and a hint of new ideals, which still
ideal was much less provincial than Stirner's. The ideal of men
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
Schiller and Idealism
a clear idea, while the beautiful exists in unclear and
confused ideas. It was only a few years before Schiller's time
that ideas like this could occur.
had a living idea of what beauty is, and never got three miles
The idea was not understood because men did not understand from
and Schiller looked for a realism, but it was an idealistic
this way Schiller and Goethe laboured to awaken an idealism,

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weigh upon the nation constitute an ideal of modern
civilisation, an ideal upon which the governments of all
idea of holding such a universal Peace Conference. Seven of the
praiseworthy person who pursues her ideals with such rare
has now broken out, in diametrical opposition to these ideas,
very noble-hearted men are lighting for the ideal of Peace and
minded idealists — nevertheless so much blood has never
subject. When we study the problem of peace as an ideal problem
perhaps the way in which this ideal of peace has been pursued,
power of judgment and understanding, what we name idealism; the
understanding, the heart itself, provide in idealism the mask
idealism flashing up: What are the passions and desires which
developed to follow the idealism of individual men. The problem
theory, the so-called Darwinism. There is one idea which plays
the idea designated as the “STRUGGLE FOR
Setting out from this idea, Darwin placed the struggle
conception is not only in keeping with a mere idea, but with
set out from these ideas, and in warlike
see, this idea could be expressed, it could be accepted as a
idea that war, battle, in the human race as well as in Nature,
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necessary for me to use expressions, ideas and mental
concepts, to his ideas. In most cases he does not take into
consideration that concepts and ideas, no matter how well they
idea, then this idea, this concept, may be immediately applied
correct concept, a correct idea. If, however, in a particular
such a broadening of concepts, of ideas, is as much needed as
the brain and nervous mechanism in order to arrive at an idea
ideas which I have developed here also out of natural
nervous system in which every process of ideation, of
have to enter into the Goethean idea of metamorphosis —
in the form of an ethical idea or a spiritual scientific idea
education have tended to lead away from those ideas which can
personalities; but, the ideas which they have developed are too

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reaches out to that which one usually calls ether. The idea of
nineteenth century by German Idealism — not in this
Idealism itself, but in that which then evolved out of this
Idealism — one finds the first beginnings leading toward
idea of ether from the material side. And, if one truly wishes
philosophical Idealists, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, despite
allowed themselves to be fructified by this Idealism, who, in a
were not as great geniuses as their Idealist predecessors
spiritual life of German Idealism, the same thing appears. Some
easily accessible natural scientific ideas in this field. What
spiritual content of the ideas (which lives beyond ordinary
drive idealism out of its abstraction toward reality, the
overlooked that this idea cannot be the fruit of speculation,
mental pictures, the ideas, to which spiritual science comes,
for them not because metaphysicians had the bright idea that

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were their ideas to be carried out, they picture as a paradise on earth
indeed, the realisation of certain ideas is even said to mean the dawn
that, anything like the idea of the “Threefold
bringing men health by putting their ideals into effect merely through
intellectualism, which sees its ideal in the natural laws perceived
to giving life to the idea of the “threefold” are those you
may gather from what I have been saying today. For this idea of the
about this “threefold” idea cannot immediately grasp it, or
perhaps find it at variance with some other idea, should wait till they
describe as the present necessity for spreading this idea of the

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themselves our concepts and ideas are empty — they merely reflect
become quite an ideal to approach the spiritual life with the passive,
the School pedagogics and didactics.” Thus the idea is very
form; now, people must turn to the inward, vicsorous creation of ideas,

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and clothe his thoughts and ideas in words. One could say that the thoughts
a prey to illusionary ideas, or where insane people are gathered. Such
fine and crude, deeds of idealism and the most ugly deeds, all give an
you would then have an idea of what men are able to do — consciously

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get an idea of what this means if you remember that not even the farthest
man is able to conceive. How is it possible to form any kind of idea

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You would certainly not get a right idea if you thought that this Saturn
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 —
of your blood then you would have an idea of those first rudiments of
blood: a physical body consisting only of warmth! It is a horrible idea
mirror-pictures. You can form an idea of what was present on Saturn

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and ideas that one has fully grasped the matter or presented it completely.
idea of what was embedded — all that remains behind as ash when

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content ourselves with the idea that we have to do with a mere reversal.
may not rest content with the idea of the reversed recapitulation. For
into a Kingdom of Love. If we would characterize the great ideal that
legal idea of the personality. It is only a quite perverted scholarship
are one.” It opposed in the first place the idea that one can

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an idea of the nature of the Angels. We shall most easily form an idea
inactive. It would be a false idea to think that man had only to occupy
man can form any idea guide the course of world-evolution through such
Angels, Archangels, and a slight idea too of the Original Forces and

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a Group one not only acquires concepts and ideas concerning the nature
would probably have laughed and made merry over such ideas, and most
is to gain as far as is possible without definite perception some idea
form an idea as to where such beings stand in the course of evolution.
or the other side. The ideal condition would be that a man in each incarnation
of humanity passes by. He however rejects the ideas of the Leader of
of which we have not the least idea shows itself only too well in external

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are people among us already who look on it as a lofty ideal for everyone
to have his own religion. The idea floats before quite a number that
themselves, uniting in groups with those of similar ideas while retaining
is to acquire any idea of future evolution, he must have a thorough
not the slightest idea. All these things are founded on good grounds

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etheric body. All the utilitarian ideas, all the concepts bound up with

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many feelings and ideas that we touched on in the last lectures if we
all but make visible what is already present in space ideally, spiritually
back with it into the life of day. And then men scoff at idealistic,
the idea arose in his soul of uniting Beethoven and Shakespeare. We

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create our own premises and surroundings. This has led to the idea of
occult ideal: There is in reality only one true form of occultism. To

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be inclined to accept the idea that an Angel from Heaven sent the
no idea. What is needed is an invigoration of the impulse which has
idealistic philosophy when they base their acceptance of a spiritual
tolerance to other forms of idealistic thought, adopt an attitude to
hold — nobody would have any idea, any “false” idea,

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THE IDEA OF REINCARNATION AND ITS INTRODUCTION INTO WESTERN CULTURE
Vatican in Rome has been ruined by the many restorations. No real idea
wonderful and unique resurrection of the Christ-Idea, of which
because the time has come when the idea of the reincarnation of the
reflect about these things, an idea that is beautiful and true comes

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keeping it before us as an ideal and striving with the right means, we
definite ideas with what may be called the “meaning and purpose
ideas like that, for example, of the “Three Logoi.” I have
the Christ Idea. Yet outside our field of work, by talking round an
as long as people allow themselves to spread false ideas of the views
Ideal embodied in Him. When man reaches out towards this highest Ideal

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Physical Body. Thereby that Ideal Being Whose “ I ” —
future Ideal of humanity was described in one of its aspects and the
... then we have grasped the “idea” embodied in the Greek
Temple. Human beings really have no place there. This was the idea
A very widespread and characteristic idea finds expression in the
traditions of practically all the peoples — an idea which may, it
everything arises from within. A man of today can only have an idea
be the ideal of the future.
given a fortnight ago (The Idea of Reincarnation and its Introduction
not merely strive for this ideal in theory, but receive it into their
understand the truths but actually to unfold all that the great ideas

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consciousness he does not merely formulate ideas and thoughts but also
the earthly body; when an idea or thought is formed, the being of
remembrances, the power to retain ideas and thoughts in the memory,

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things, the ideal is not immediately in sight because not every
the human being. The ideal vantage-point is that the occult teacher is
possible ideal for mankind ... As, however it is a fact that every
principle here outlined. The ideal of man must be to fathom and
insinuating itself into the true ideal of Theosophy.
ideal, it must stand on its own feet, set up its own rules of conduct
to let nothing happen except what is true ... even then my ideal

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endeavour to ensure that the concepts, ideas and
strive for ideas that are steeped in reality. In the matter
superfluous to remind you that an idea may be true in a
course what we really mean by ideas steeped in reality will
of such ideas by means of simple analogies. I propose
the unreality of ideas today because, as you will see later,
presents certain ideas which seem absurd to modern man,
willing to tolerate theoretically the idea that the present
religion there were repeated attempts to suppress the idea of
be ignored, otherwise the old ideas of the tripartite
progressively to eliminate the idea of the spirit. When we
reply. He had no idea that this was the consequence of the
Rome to reject the idea of trichotomy.

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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
to define clearly this idea of trichotomy. For by laying
special, even decisive emphasis upon this idea we are really
central theme of our study. I have shown how the idea of the
the West. I mentioned that the idea of the spirit was
development of religious ideas and sentiments, but left a
slightest interest in philosophical ideas, sees everywhere
the effects of the proscription of the idea of the spirit.
permeated with this idea of trichotomy.
doubt that this idea of man's threefold nature has been
Mystery of Golgotha, and it was with the help of his ideas
interpret his ideas as implying that through all eternity the
grasp this idea, for the style of Aristotle is economical to
actively interested in these ideas, in so far as they stemmed
accept the idea that the spiritual part of the soul was a
Brentano asks, if he rejected this idea? And he believed that
Aristotle was right to accept this idea. There was only a
idea of reincarnation. It is a strange phenomenon, both
resolutely strove to clarify his ideas about creationism and
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idea of faith with the conception which Christ Jesus
idea or to awaken knowledge. He who possesses faith shall be
“trust” appear, they are associated with the idea
grasp this idea. Those who have made a careful study of the
in the right way the idea of faith referred to above:
a clear idea of what is meant by the expression: the Mystery
the idea I want you to grasp. What did John the Baptist do?
generalized human ideal. The age of
light. Dewar put forward this idea a few years ago in a
have very confused ideas about history and historical
differently constituted. Hence people have no idea of the
must realize that Aristotle's ideas were not far
physical or corporeal, then we arrive at the idea of a
Universal God, an idea that was known only to the
does not easily grasp such ideas and for the most part is
order. But think how anaemic has become the idea today that
with the modern scientific outlook. But these ideas about
moral ideas which man feels to be an integral part of
honest, moral ideas are unrelated to the natural order, to
Moral ideas have become emasculated. They are powerful enough
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great importance to the idea of faith, or trust, as an active
extent we acquire our moral ideas in conjunction with these
the position today. And in the future our moral ideas will
become increasingly impotent. The idea that a deed or an
never occur to the modern botanist to apply moral ideas to
to anyone who took such an idea seriously. But people did not
simple sketch his idea of the metamorphosis of plants, in
idea.” Goethe did not really understand this objection
and said: “I am glad to hear that I have ideas without
could be described as an idea. He maintained that he actually
saw his ideas. Goethe, therefore, strove to discover
realized that he could not fully communicate his ideas to his
metamorphosis. He was attracted by Schelver's idea and
But, of course, this was considered to be an absurd idea even
modern science can of course make nothing of such ideas, for
certain assumptions are necessary before these ideas can be
originally destined for immortality. This idea has further
for stating a plain truth, for today such ideas will only
for years has been accustomed to ideas which provide evidence
nothing more than an idea, then I can see my ideas with my
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is my idea” or “without the eye there can be no
arose that strange idea which flourished especially in the
tune with Goethe's idea. I will quote his words once
space of time! His ideas are distorted; their meaning is
“Weltanshauung” supported the idea that history
satisfied his ideal and he was able to accept conversion

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because, through the appropriate use of the ideas derived from
good idea of what happened at this decisive turning-point in
something that is opposed to the leading ideas of the Roman
possible for us today to form an idea of the significance of
The Christians, for their part, championed the idea that Rome
able to form an idea of the attitude towards the Roman empire

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accorded with the ideas of Constantine. It was wasted effort
describe in detail he lighted upon the idea of utilizing the
could not rise to a certain idea because at
idea of humanity. When we use this vocable to
wish to express the idea that man is spirit and his physical
Manichaeans did not cultivate abstract ideas which divorced
principle of Manichaeism was to cultivate only those ideas
which are consistent with reality. Not that unreal ideas do
somewhat nebulous idea of the Christ who had incarnated in
evolution. Ideas about Christ have become incredibly vague,
take us very far. If Christian ideas are not powerful enough
powerful ideas in order to be able to conceive of the
emit a blue light and so on. These ideas are the inevitable
ideas that in any way echoed Manichaeism were forbidden, i.e.
the inclusion of material ideas in spiritual thinking. The
clear-cut ideas which could lead to such an understanding.
inferior to that of Plato. The idea of a jealous God and a

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idea of the ego. Outside the Mysteries the idea of the ego
find that their concepts and ideas were informed by an inner
try to grasp the ideas of ancient writers with the ordinary
communicate their ideas is different from that of normal
Hebbel wanted to dramatize this idea but never carried it
Understanding in the sense of the accurate grasping of ideas
ideas and concepts that he wished to bring to the attention
idea of immortality is limited; I realize that after death I
meditate upon him, then his concepts and ideas become alive
today. The idea of resurrection has then become a living
that we believe not only in ideas that belong to the past,
but also in the living continuity of ideas. This is connected
representations.) Great as Goethe was, his ideas were greater
that the form in which ideas first arise in us is not their
final form. Believe therefore in the resurrection of ideas!
vitally important idea of resurrection as a living force. And
upon our firm faith in the Risen Christ and in the idea of
world of spiritual ideas. When we study the Eleusinian
is referring to the league of nations idea of the Stoa
idea and declared it to be a feasible proposition in his
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ideas, and especially of those impulses and thoughts which
are receptive to the ideas of Spiritual Science and the more
here was a person who, as I said, was receptive to the ideas
he possessed the ideas or the intellectual grasp which could
they say that although Nietzsche had many creative ideas, he
prevented him from adopting a critical attitude to the ideas
which arose in him. None the less these ideas stemmed from an
he does not believe in the capacity of man's ideas and
idea of the deeper layers of understanding and knowledge
thinks realistically, one demurs, because the idea has no
Earth can be compared to an organism. A fruitful idea then
into the entire organism of the Earth? Pursuing this idea we
political science must be founded on a higher order of ideas,
on the ideas of the plant kingdom. We must look to neither
higher order of ideas embodied in the plant kingdom, but
if you think realistically, you will arrive at the idea of an
that must face us if we wish to grasp any idea that is to be
fruitful. It is not surprising therefore that ideas which are
idea of its cause? No matter how many Wilsonian manifestos
powerless to develop ideas which could reconcile and control
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significant for those who seek to clarify their ideas about
the idea of preestablished harmony. Such visions may describe
demonstrate the idea of spiritual influence on purely human
no better than the Cartesians; they defended the idea of the
the idea of “pre-established harmony”. Swedenborg
symbols is different from our response to abstract ideas. The
understand and develop ideas and concepts which are necessary
for mankind today, ideas which they must acquire by effort
before the Mystery of Golgotha to grasp the idea of the
immortality of the soul; but the idea of immortality he
talking about man in terms of body and soul. This idea of the
and the same is true of the man in question. The idea that an
with his own foolish ideas — that if those disciplines
puts forward a remarkable idea, but neither he, nor others
less can they make anything of the other idea which I
indicated as a new path to the Christ. This idea which we
after the death of Socrates. This idea must be revived again
seriously the idea of resurrection. It is through personal
it, by some arbitrary association of ideas, the seeing of

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Christian; whether it is still possible to retain to the ideas which
has nothing of those ideas which were so valuable for the human beings
or non–religious who said: the religious ideas are contradictory
ideas according to their true form and content, and there one found
was able to penetrate into these ancient human ideas. As well as science
the religious ideas of ancient peoples. One recognised that something
went out from ignorance, from certain mythological ideas, from poetic
did not know the ideas of the ancient peoples, and when one got to know
with the ideas about ethics of Laozi (Lao Tse), of Confucius, of Zarathustra.
we had no idea before. If the heavenly bodies pass us, we can see the
one came to the idea at the end that the human being has developed from
idea of revelation was academically destroyed and was given back to
his idea of struggle, he will create a world view of love because he

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not correspond with the generally accepted ideas. For who wanted to
is no strange idea if we say that the so-called masters are for us nothing
get an idea of it if you imagine that not any living body is also able
fields with Goethe unless you have any idea of theosophy. Only somebody
understands Goethe's explanations of the plant realm who has an idea

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a little more exactly in these ideas of the soul development and the
to get used to the idea gradually to be able to correctly see that which
part of this lecture are connected with doubt and ideas whether theosophy
One feels constrained to advance; one has to extend the idea of development
is not important for the idea of reincarnation or re-embodiment. The
idea of development in psychic fields as we did it in the physical.
theosophy regards as its highest ideal, it is also not the last ethical
consequence which we draw from theosophy. It is a step to the ideal
be really understood to fulfil us with their ideal. This is the great
and deepen him spiritually that he does not want to show him the ideals
ideals which are able to appear in the soul only. If we are right theosophists,

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changeable. They have no idea of the fact that the most important concept
our view so that we do not overestimate certain concepts, certain ideas
architect, and if it is ready, it is a materialised idea. But we also
forms the basis of the universe like a house is based on an idea.
special mind. They had a great idea of the all-embracing world spirit
one would have to become engrossed to return to the comprehensive idea
being grasped the idea of the physical relationship of the material
Bruno's ideas of the all-embracing world life to the individual
This would have been the idea of anybody who surveys the matters completely.
Still another idea, another
get to the recognition of life and spirit; he keeps to the idea of a

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ideas which have to lead us through the labyrinth of the world phenomena.
idea of morality! Provide better external living conditions to the human
ideal forces are the most principal, but the external forms of the economic
there, not as a theory, not as a dogma, but in the feeling. This idea
regard this as the western ideal of the cultural development: subordination
life form is not an ideal, an ideal of the public welfare cannot originate
of the single, not the well-being of all can be the ideal: this only
and the community. We want to understand our moral, our innermost ideal
as an ideal from the inside of the soul, from God who lives in it. That
not take up the ethical and cultural ideals from without, but allows
he is: Tolstoy regards this as an ideal. Thus he becomes a strict critic
these scientists. Above all, he criticises the ideal, which is striven
cultural ideal? You have to understand the human being where he gives
the preacher of a dogmatic ethical ideal, but the furtherer of a perfect
ideals in dull indifference today at the European science as well as
ideal. His criticism is based on the big principle of evolution, on
for life in all these forms. Our spiritual ideal is an ideal of love
the social life. If we understand the spiritual ideal this way, we are
allowed to say that we understand this ideal correctly and then we are
that is distinctive especially of his moral ideal: “The whole
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with new qualities; then we have an idea of the human being who awakes
occult ideas. We understand them as those ideas which refer to the super-sensible
and ideas shining, other only gleaming. One calls this light cloud that
idea of death once with this idea just won. What happens at first when
the soul learns gradually to take off the desire. This is an idea which

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physical. What the human being performs out of the purely ideal, the
divine, as the higher spiritual, as the actually idealistic, which comes
to an idealistic attitude, the more he is able to have an idea of something
ideas, with encompassing view of the world, with encompassing wisdom.
he has again seen to it that he has become pure, noble, and idealistic

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his ideas, with which he was bubbling over, anew in an intellectually
life. But these thoughts or, actually, these ideas tore us out of nature.
forces to us, and then we get the idea. That is why the origin of the
thought, of the idea was mysterious, in particular for the philosophy
of the 19th century. The thought, the idea itself became appearance.
idea on one side and will on the other side. But both do no longer have
effect on him. By means of thoughts and ideas we can never experience
He saw that the ideal he had got of Wagner was too big, that it was
had realised what he had dreamt of as a future ideal; there Nietzsche
all my youth ideals compromised. He stood in midst the ruins of a world
must develop further. From that his idea of the “superman”
human being. Compare him with the corresponding mystic idea, and then
who appears from the future world as Nietzsche's big spiritual ideal

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idea of the higher worlds, soon convinces himself that the least is
idea as a rule to seek for a mystic development without personal instructions
or anything like that, try once to have the idea again and again: this
himself to such thoughts, ideas and sensations which are not descended

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writings, we find ideas of reincarnation. We find them with Schiller
In Mephistopheles Goethe created the picture of an ancient idea that
also needed Catholic ideas. Thus he let Doctor Marianus appear in the

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days, about the theosophical idea of the origin, of the descent of the
something against which one cannot struggle. Just this scientific idea
the biblical idea of six creation days would have completely controlled
one left aside one matter. One did not know that the ideas, which the
the bodily world according to his ideas, which are the models. Also
the human body came into being from the archetype, the idea of God.
that his spirit must be eternal, because it is an eternal idea of God.
in such ideas of the origin and the goal of the human being. In the
to show you how little applicable the ideas were which the opponents
human being exist. It is somewhat difficult to make these ideas clear
it out of former ideas. But it suffices to show that the Gnostics had
if one speaks in such abstract higher ideas. Hence, the creation history
the popular ideas. You can find the same with Scotus Eriugena, with
returned to the old ideas without knowing the old evolution doctrine.
a scanty outset of a return to former ideas. Development is said to
of the human being must be eternal, because it is an idea of God. What
idea about the processes within the earth development which happened
do not completely contradict the scientific ideas and that today it
medicine belong where the content of the ideas are merely taken from
today. Hence, one has to express the ideas in a language understandable

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right thing in it. Goethe put his most profound ideas into it that he
objection that his archetypal plant were an idea: “If this is
an idea, I see my ideas with eyes.” At that time, Goethe showed
makes ideas of them and combines them by his thinking. However, this

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the will-o'-the-wisps have ideas and concepts, but these are abstractions,

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also understands the ideals of the philosophers.
the first time what the philosophers might understand by their ideals
I had an ideal of myself, and appeared to myself sometimes in the dream
ideal of true humanity; they should live with the dwarfs in good harmony.
of the young man concerning the ideals point to it. Ideals are what
lifts out above all is the possibility that he puts ideals, is the possibility
possibility to grow into a higher future, he cares for idealism.

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of my topic to the contemporary ideas.
knowledge of the present that today the theosophical ideas about the
and the theosophical ideas. We have to get absolutely clear about the
scientific education of our time, so that he has an idea of it, how
much he violates the generally accepted ideas. However, I would like
decidedly idealistic philosophy appeared which made a deeper impression
has resulted historically. Hartmann bore down on the ideological ideas
clear idea how these human ancestors were in some way, actually, we
they could not connect ideas with these external percepts. If you imagine
However, it is not completely the same. For the pictorial ideas which
green or red; the colour idea did not yet combine with the object. Nevertheless,
with pictorial ideas, with a pictorial kind of soul formation, and basically
idea how it looked at that time. An animal world, nevertheless, lived
are not used to such ideas. The time has come to pronounce it once again.
We stand on the point of evolution where again an idealistic world view
ideas without clairvoyance to an end understands that what I say is
it existed in an older time. We want to take an idea in hand which makes
ideas of the environment? Just by means of the visual percepts. You
visual percepts. Because we have visual ideas today, wisdom can pour
the past to receive an idea of the great human future. I have quoted

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ideal, he speaks out of the knowledge of the human nature, and he knows
a way as we let our wishes, our thoughts and ideas come from the self-consciousness.
his ideas with the external environment, then he lives in the sound,
the possession of these laws of nature. Thus all his ideation is following

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cycle of this winter with a picture of the human future and human ideals,
a century, what existed in revolutionary and other ideas penetrated
to him as something mysterious, something unreal the ideals collapse
of art: Plato creates a state idea in which the single human being should
ideal; but this new one is purchased by the price of the relationship
community. But this ideal remains something quite uncertain. He says:
human being had sharply outlined ideals. He knew not only that he should
ideals. Thus it was in the 18th century.
certain ideals awoke in our classical authors. It is interesting that
interesting that Schiller trusts in the ideal and says: whatever the
human beings see their surroundings; but no ideal pours out of them;
the human beings are no longer borne by ideals. The human being stands
ideals, the cover of my individuality. The sum of all these ideals is
was nothing to him. He expresses it: oh how have these old ideals of
to come when the human being has ideals again and coins them from within
for is the internal ideals which the strong human being can impress
The third world age in which the ideal comes into its own is not yet
This unification of Christianity with the antique ideal is the reverse
way. But Ibsen put this ideal on a weak soul which collapses; Julian
An ideal which is a higher
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ideals of humanity and that their force, their mode of operation consists
mystery and put it into the ideals in an appropriate way what becomes
idealism of humanity, the future ideals of our race are expressions
principles. I pronounced at that time that the theosophical ideals which
come from the masters themselves differ from the ideals in life and
say which the ideals of the human future are. The developmental law
currents assert themselves preparing the future. New ideals arise just
pointed to a pillar of idealism, to Tolstoy before. Today, however,
idea is not yet a practical one. Some questions are connected with it
we want to get to know an idealism that is of another type than that
literature contains nothing of these ideals of the future.
and this question has often been put: Are these the unworldly idealists
the idealist as a small intermezzo and show that the pragmatists did
who created from the plenty of ideas and also brought about the future
had this idea first, not a practitioner of the postal system. When in
show that the ideals do not arise from the practical, but are supported
makes available finds that these are no fantastic ideas, but concrete
and that he can at least indicate the direction of the future ideals
of humanity. The ideals of the initiates thereby have a value that the
unconscious ideals can never have. Then the human being moves between
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interlinked with jamborees, with devoted words to the highest idealism
great ideals, the great portrayals of his dramas settled down, slowly
in Schiller has decreased because Schiller's great ideals do no
to a body to make new experiences in this world. It is the great idea
ideal and reality, nature and spirit. But the trend had torn up a deep
on his soul. How can one reconcile ideal and reality, nature and spirit?
of the spiritual, of the ideal had faced up the greatest of the contemporaries
time in which one felt the ideal of life so much, one had to feel the
to the ideal! Which is the right social existence which is decreed to
(1785–1787) and which great ideas were exchanged is reflected
the lofty spiritual, educational ideal, which lives in his aesthetic
as a semblance that expresses the ideal, the spiritual to us. Spirit
in the human being has to be awakened. This is Schiller's ideal.
no experience, this is an idea!” Goethe responded: “this
can be very dear to me that I have ideas without knowing it, and even
really heroic idea which shows well enough how much your mind holds
together the whole wealth of its ideas in an admirable unity. You can
a Greek, or just as an Italian, and a choice nature and an idealising
d'Eleusis). Engrossing his mind in this drama he got to the idea
know anything about the drama of the future, you can get an idea of
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who work at least if you look at the matter idealistically as bearers
natural, if you consider the matter in the abstract, ideally to call
If we want to get an idea
conceive an idea how these faculties interrelate if we look at the matter
ideas of the Trinity, of the Logos the Bible verses become something
authority in this or that epoch. As an ideal the human being had it
sensory world. They wanted to conceive ideas of that which is above
is not yet explained, but one can get an idea already today how this
beginning. This impression works too strong, even on an idealist, so
in six days. One did not have the odd idea that one has not to study
nobler and more idealised. Theology has also become materialistic. These
is the basis of the spiritual life of our idealists and spiritists.
materialistically. All idealistic theories are of no avail, as long

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our impractical practitioners have no idea how the everyday life is

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and to show how theosophical thoughts and ideas can work in every field
unless the ideas of theosophy flowed into these views. Fichte says that
ideals cannot be applied directly in life, but ideals should be the

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of any knowledge, even of art. There could be the great idealism of
which our time cannot have any idea. A typical remark by Leonardo da
Vinci (1459–1519), this representative of the great idealism,
we take this point of view, we have taken up the great idealism in ourselves,
and this idealism would have to flow through the whole arts faculty.
any idealistic world view into the world. The arts faculty is not able

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture I
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forming any idea of how man's soul, and in particular his
today we can have no idea unless we perceive it in the
Aristotle developed his ideas precisely on this fundamental
observations, or ideals always bears the stamp of issuing
him to understand many phenomena. The abstract ideals of
his inability to discover fruitful ideas that relate to reality
do not want any ideas more mature than those coming from a
ideas about peace, which have swept through the world, are so
future man's ideas as well as his ideals must be far more
standpoints. Ideas and ideals must spring from real
“idealism” on direct spiritual investigation.
Arbitrary notions will not provide ideals that have any

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Human Development, the Necessity for New, Living Ideas, Spirit
the materialistic concepts and ideas of our age. That we are
in need of new ideas must be obvious from the many things we
the field and scope of thoughts and ideas, by means of which
shall find that the most valuable of those ideas originated
epoch which began in 1413 has not produced any ideas that are
ideas. Let us take an example: What Darwin and his successors
and ideas are taken seriously and their true nature and
Goethe brought the ideas from the past into movement can it
concept of evolution is needed. The Darwinian idea of
that man produces ever fewer concepts and ideas. The concepts
and ideas at man's disposal in ancient times bubbled forth,
will become a blunt insensible instrument with which ideas
idealism, has tried for decades to bring about what he
can produce abstract ideas like clockwork, and are so sure of
ideas. That is why he says that “as far as cognition,
poured our abstract ideas concerning socialism,
and so on. We also have abstract ideas about conservatism. On
the network of ideas on which are based liberalism, social
abstractions with reality. Instead of the abstract ideas he
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peculiar idea of a piety that is German; this is just about
justify his idea of German piety, and also to show that,
That is why nowadays all concepts, all ideas are abstract.
and the unreality and abstraction of ideas. Indeed our
concepts and ideas will remain unreal unless we learn to
kind of concepts and ideas capable of bringing order into
inherent in ideas. To acquire this sense, this feeling that
ideas are realities is one of the most urgent needs of the
concepts and ideas that are incapable of intervening in
idea of genius. He opposes the idea that from some
he was honest he opposed the idea.
actions not on facts but on some idea with which they have
healing got the idea that movement is good for certain
the facts as they truly are, not the idea one is in love

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture IV
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The idea thus gained of the guidance of
amazing that such distorted ideas can take hold of the brain
is a matter for ridicule, but when he himself finds the idea
of ideas slide to the periphery and become engulfed, yet
that region incidental thoughts and ideas, so that one's

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significant is the fact that Franz Brentano's ideas still had
ideas. But, as those who have studied
pure concept, a pure idea, can be said to be a free action, a
witnessing so very many ideals on which people have built
simply whether the idea is Christian or not. And is it
wrong, unrealistic ideas are applied to external, material
the aftereffect of wrong ideas, but do people see the
to adjust one's ideas, but that is what there is so little
concepts, ideas, feelings or impulses that work across into
clear-cut concepts and ideas. If you want to pursue the

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as a whole, appearing more substantial than mere ideation,
realize that it is by no means easy to find the kind of ideas

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concepts and ideas, vivifying it enough to engender new
our ideals can be enriched up to the age of 27 simply through
of ideas and ideals; he will be concerned about social reform
he does will be based on the ideas and impulses of a
would enable him to carry out precisely the ideas and
anything significant with his impulses and ideas, then he
possibility to carry out in practice the ideas and impulses
people felt. It also expresses the idealism of a 27-year-old.
reminiscent of the other ideas as they had been in different
abstract ideal of a 27-year-old.
of the 27-year-old. This makes him the ideal representative
in war slogans existed as an idea, as a plan, already in the

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VIII
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the human soul needs concepts and ideas in life which can
so on. The human soul needs ideas with which it can live. If
it cannot develop such ideas, or only unsatisfactory ones,
possible to make society — that is, the ideas and views
striven for in the East as an ideal is to read less, to be
connection exists in the ideal sphere between the object and
Similar things are taking place in other spheres. The idea of
ideas that can be effective in society, ideas that are, so to
did the idea come to Lessing? He knew of course that it had
been a teaching among primitive peoples. But the idea came to
Through such a comprehensive historical survey the idea of

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be labouring under the erroneous idea that a single manifestation which
of St. John and St. Luke will be able to gather some idea of what in
the sublime Ideas which bring the Gospel of St. John into the range of our
Ideas, above all occurrences in the life of the individual human soul.
These all-embracing, eternal Ideas are the concern of that Divine Wisdom
Ideas sweeping like eagles in heights far above the heads of men, in
we can claim to have some faint inkling of the transcendent Ideas which
of St. John we glimpse the Ideas of the Divine Sophia, through the Gospel

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expressing itself in the form of concepts and ideas of a physical nature,

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ideas. It was the Celts who gave the stimulus for the legends
The complicated ideas of justice in the Roman State were derived
Such factitious ideas
ideal.
throughout this stage, and eventually developed to these ideals. The
ideal. History teaches us that the free man acquires a new value
from out the spirit. The man who fulfils the ideal will be he

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Palestine, traces of similar mythical ideas.
from the north, and brought with them ideas which they developed
meantime been reached. How far does a man get with the ideas that

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture III: The Impact of the Huns on the Germans
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Although the Visigoths were originally Aryan Christians, other ideas
develop freely in the Empire of the Franks. Plato's world of ideas

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essentially, based on simple monotheistic ideas confined to a divine

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arrangements of ideas, which are not derived from thence.

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allied with that other idealistic culture movement by which the
idea of what we look upon as the first essentials: reading and
give you an idea of the activities of the class which ruled on

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VII: France and Germany
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which the West had no idea: the manufacture of paper, silk-weaving,

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depended on the content of ideas, not on the external wording. You
have seen in how free a way the Christian idea was developed in
fancy, must admit that the idea of a cosmic law, which men seek and
the world as idea — form an outgrowth from mediaeval

Title: The Human Soul in Life and Death
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within us thought, conception, idea. But who does not feel that
abstraction — of ideas and natural laws, the human soul
compared with the external reality, the concepts and ideas are,
we have mastered, in our world of ideas, the laws of nature. In so
inner psychic experience in ideas and thoughts.
Such a reflection cannot be made only in thoughts, in ideas,
dramatist, journalist, idealist, novelist. He was sentenced to
says beautiful words about the ideal deeds of his people, we may

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etc. These ideas all designate symptoms. No one can become
demented through a religious idea. One can e.g. read the
itself differently, in different ideas. If one lives in
religious ideas, and then becomes ill, his religious ideas are
distorted. If he lived in materialistic ideas, then these are
latter live under an idea, as if under a fixed idea (compelling
idea), which exercises a great suggestive power on weak
abnormalities. It is the bearer of image-like ideas. If the
reflect. the images externally, then delusive ideas (paranoia)
oases which can have quite different origins, especially Ideas
delusions. These delusive ideas are like scars on the wound in
fixed (compelling) ideas. One calls this disease
ideas of Imagination, saturated with Passion. These can drive
must give counter-ideas through the force and power of
always ready the necessary counter-ideas. Spiritual Science is

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should make his life's ideal into the very content of his soul.
we do not interest ourselves in that wild idea of some modern
acquaintance with them, having assimilated certain ideas
to inscribe the great ideal into his soul.
mighty ideal. This picture cannot be painted yet, for the

Title: Easter and the Awakening to Cosmic Thought
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In the primeval ages of evolution, outer objects did not give rise to ideas or mental conceptions
of contradiction between what a Christian sees in the Easter Festival, and the idea of Karma.
There seems at first to be a contradiction between the idea of Karma and redemption by the Son of
see a contradiction between the redemption wrought by Christ Jesus and the idea of Karma. Such
Christianity of the future there will be no contradiction between the idea of Karma and

Title: Karma and Details of the Law of Karma
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he had absorbed the corresponding ideas or closely scrutinised his own nature. Propensities
and habits stem from ideas, thoughts and concepts that had been formed in previous lives.
stressed that the idea of Karma, rightly understood and to be found in Christianity, must
idea of Karma, but there are new listeners here. Many misunderstandings are to be found,
the Redemption through Christ Jesus is unfounded, that Theosophy could not accept the idea
importance of these connections and what a deepening the idea of education, especially of

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superficially, for it give an idea of the way in which the
physical existence. It is quite in accordance with the idea
convinces us that unless we except the idea of an
of imagination, the formation of idea, thought and
into this mistake. Especially do the opponents of the idea
concept in my memory. And as the idea-picture in my memory
ideal of its development. One should not ask: is
clear idea about it, for man in his present condition is
it disparagingly, but one who does so has no idea of the
With the right idea regarding the laws of reincarnation,
example, higher ideas can only be expressed in this world
the piano that he can express his musical ideas upon it, so
person's ideas of the laws of reincarnation depended too

Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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Stoics. And as an ideal for humanity, that strove to insert its
purpose in the universe accordingly, the ideal of the wise
take us too far, if we were to exhaustively portray the ideals
ideal before Stoicism. And that which inserts itself as wisdom
his/her freedom towards the ideal of wisdom, the possibility
Freedom must reside in striving for the ideal of wisdom. But
put the idea of education about evil and wickedness? One must
same animal kingdom issues? So Lotze turned away from the idea
omnipotence of God would contradict this idea of education;

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ideas.
ideas, but the entire city-state. Florence stood wholly under
ideas appear in many respects in a new form. We see the most
a proper idea of what lived within him.
us inwardly, this enables us to forget all legendary ideas from
ideas, but forms them into a picture. By virtue of its inner
we should not think that the Christian ideas could appear to us
the ancient Greeks had united their idea of the gods with what
as little as one can still gain an idea of it — the
can gain little idea of what Raphael once conjured onto the

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marvelled at the tremendous idea that comes to expression in
received this impression of the underlying idea of the picture
terms of the idea that has just been haltingly enunciated, but
partly the painting as such; it is also the idea that
Leonardo would first of all let the idea arise of whatever he
world. Natural science evolved in this way. But new ideas, new
imprinted itself on souls. The ideas of natural science live in
medium. And today, in that natural scientific ideas are
found even today. Leonardo had the most wonderful ideas that
ideas both in his written works and in his artistic

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Goethe, a grand, a colossal idea had stood before him —
the idea of viewing occidental cultural life as a whole in the
idea stood before his mind's eye of following three millennia
stood before his soul, though not as a general abstract idea,
that the idea had floated before him of a portrayal of the
impressions then become bold, powerful ideas — and what
with the same subtlety of ideas, Herman Grimm does venture,
that, in collecting his ideas on Goethe for publication, he
is an idea with which those who approach closer to spiritual
indicates the idea of karma, the idea of the causal connection
then appear in a certain way corresponding to the ideas of
exception to his ‘elbows’ in the general exchange of ideas.
themselves aright, who differ from him in their ideas and in

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corresponding manner. In any case, with the idea of further
regards under such an idea as the expansion of thinking. A
metamorphosed idea need to be contained, so that if you want to
internally. Take for instance a simple example of Euclidean
‘This is no experience, this is an idea.’ Schiller actually
been spun out of oneself, it is good as an idea and as a
then I can see my ideas with my eyes.’
ideal image of the Ur-plant would be rediscovered in each plant
Italy, how he developed the idea of the Ur-plant ever further.
Plants”, p. 86: “The idea of such laws for the design
of the plant was first developed by Goethe in his idea of
‘Urpflanz’, what he put forth as the primal, or ideal
to say: ‘Then I see my ideas with my eyes.’ He saw them with
“idea”, because he found complete resonance in the
experience of building an idea; just like a mathematician
ideas. This led Goethe, if I might say so, through an inner
naively: ‘Then I see my ideas in Nature’ — which were
was Goethe's goal with the development of his idea of the
Ur-plant, which he came to, and the idea of the Ur-animal, at

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anthroposophical ideas relate historically to the Goethean
which simply supports ideas which are torn free from the
about these ideas and the results will actually be a way for

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who lean towards the former idealistic philosophy. There were
utterance to Schiller was obvious: “I see my ideas with
state that the idea of the triangle is not to be grasped,
the idea of higher spirituality came about for Hegel, that on
This is on the one side. Now how did Hegel develop this idea of
it, then all the ideas of empiricism and rationalism
tragedy that Hegel could only care for abstract ideas, which he

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view understandable, it is always accused of having its ideas
ideas about the supersensible, before it became possible to
Whatever is taken up through anthroposophic ideas, when they
merely theoretical observation, are no mere ideas of
other need for theoretical knowledge. No, these conveyed ideas
While the ideas and thoughts of usual science, which only draw
sense world, by contrast it is characteristic of the ideas from
through anthroposophical ideas, one can see how the actions of
ideas, acquire greater power, greater urgency and so on. This
concepts and ideas of human knowledge, then the accusations
regarding the alienation of the world of ideas is solved by
the social areas. It breeds in relation to ideation actually
abstract ideas — how the child copies and adapts to his

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—; that these ideas would be made
be fixed in a manuscript. It is not important that ideas are
say the following. The network of intellectual ideas is too
national economic ideas of Adam Smith, as in everything which
natural foundations of production simply as ideas being thought
form thoughts and ideas about capital and labour and so on, and
they believe these ideas must always have the same validity. It
doesn't have mobile ideas moving within life.
ideas, which can teach you how you can provide your ideas with
forces of growth and inner mobility and that with such ideas —
Anthroposophical grounds towards social ideas but to arrive at
should have said: social ideas or social thoughts, because the
indicating realities and not abstract ideas. Obviously one had
to express oneself in abstract ideas.
even those very ideas which were considered at that time as

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the creation of ideas and concepts, which are needed for
soul through the mind's categories where ideas are experienced
world of ideas live, there is something which goes beyond the

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appeared. Ideas about language have in many cases become

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
beauty as the arrangement of a place devoted to ideal spiritual
sight of a noble, selfless devotion to an ideal, through
the furtherance of an ideal, spiritual task, even if it be on a
regard to these things. An idea is prevalent that it is easy to
Therefore, we ought to get some idea how future ages will look
educational ideas, has felt no more than that he was dealing
wish to remain stationary in the forms of ideas already
you an idea of the necessities of our present age. I speak in

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on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
mentioned. The treatment generally given to-day to the idea
instructing about the true ideals of education! He began by
about twenty years of age he feels shame at the idea of
altered their ideas somewhat, but not their feelings. You hear
will be so much extended that we shall incline to ideas which
have given you an idea of how to work up into the sphere of the
reality, but with those of an olden time. We have no idea what
our views of the world, we really construct ideas still suited
the cud of Greek knowledge, to allow the Roman political ideas
forms of which people at present have no idea. We must grasp

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on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
thoughts and unfold ideas of the scientific, materialistic type
ideas and this scientific view of the world the physical body
understanding of what is included in our idea of the Threefold
ideas which spring entirely from a living view of these
day (perhaps with the idea of showing a little monarchical
perverse fantasy to cling to our own pet ideas because they
idealists, we are compelled to speak. No pity should prevent
comfortable ideas. In this sphere, also, reality must be seen

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on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
in dealing with the social question, to abandon limited ideas
acquiring social and socialist ideas. Unless we have gone
ideas to which for years the proletariat had devoted itself
last three or four hundred years, developed no ideas which can,
their own course. Their thoughts and ideas had become so
life, in which protection and similar ideas had been
motive for regulation; in which ideas were active, not moulding
purpose than is customary. It is, after all, obvious that ideas
idealist,” not to say a fool. What I was then obliged to
time from some knowledge of its underlying idea. What did these
but lacks the effective ideas necessary to the practice of
the one-sided ideas derived from Marx. So we find that in the
in the soul the idea of how beautiful the economic life could
have power over the facts, but no idea how to use it to control
ideas which have no correspondence with the facts.
expressions like “the lack of ideas in the practice of
ideas? Can they be regarded merely as a subject for logical
actually to fitting the idea of the threefold organization into
lectures, books and the experiences of men who had living ideas
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