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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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presentation. The problem of how one may gain personal comprehension

Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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find manifest the fact that man may, indeed, cherish a great hope for his
wildly and chaotically the winter storms may rage in us, there is one hope
in order that man may take hold of what is expressed in the Campo Santo
destiny of the soul to remain young even though the body may grow old.
increasingly sure that no matter how wildly the winter storms may rage

Title: William Shakespeare
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Berlin, May 6, 1902
they do not claim to be complete. Their 7 pages of typescript may
may have been on certain difficult questions. For it is not
decorations, etc., so that the effect of his plays may be handicapped

Title: William Shakespeare
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Berlin, May 6, 1902
be complete. The 7 pages of typescript may correspond to about 25
consequently useless to ask what Shakespeare's own standpoint may
scenery so that the effect of his plays may be handicapped by bad

Title: The Manicheans
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mingling of the Good with the Evil, in order that the Evil may be
in order that through itself the Darkness may be redeemed, in order
that Evil may be overcome through gentleness (Milde). We must

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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connected with occult science have initiated their members. Somebody may
for his clients. Part of his work may well be selfless, but the real
the epoch of evolution that may be called the mineral epoch; and our task
this may be an unselfish deed; but only to the extent that it was
may be extremely egoistical when, for instance, it gives rise to a
him some in order that we may feel justified in eating our own Christmas
chaos. People nowadays may be inclined to jeer at “empty

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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with them. Perhaps in no problem — and this may well be due to
here.’ Such an event may perhaps occur as the result of some
as it were, of human evolution. This Gnostic conception may be said
whatever we may think of the Reality — on the one hand of the
bluntly, we may say: Historical research has here arrived at
In studying the Gospels, we may ask ourselves: What
its farthest future may be summed up by saying that a clear knowledge
‘error’ may arise when incongruous pictures of the world
be brought about in order that he may, in turn, free himself from
for the light, in order that the inner light may meet the outer
Thus we may say: The 20th century will produce the
the Divine nature and in the human nature, the above sentence may

Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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the great change which takes place in man's inner life may be
just been expressed. We may say: every kind of pessimism is wrong.
else it may, on the other hand, seek the path leading to an AWAKENING
social life may be very useful; but humanity should strive after the
that the human beings may rise in their feelings from their

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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what the earlier temples in that part of the world may have been, it
it makes upon us. Paradoxical as it may seem, this is the conception
upwards from the ground in order that it may come within the sphere
symbolic expression of what we may feel at the sight of a human being
that may be present and yet not be seen. The comparison is not
interior will have renounced every trace of egoism that may be
may or may not be prosaic ... that does not fundamentally matter. The
may even be writing them as a philosopher, not merely as a
son of her own in order that her stepson may not succeed his father;
age. And whatever may be said against these things from the point of
may thus be able to take its real place in the evolution of mankind.

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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as we say, slipped your memory. You may then have wondered why such a
true that the gardener may bring his influence to bear on it and

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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following Monday. It may not be immediately apparent to the audience
symptoms. One or another symptom may appear, which nevertheless
have really got to know this aspect of a person, you may have to
unnecessary to maltreat the heart or, as the case may be, the
stomach, for they may, in principle, have nothing directly the matter
may perhaps hear various remarks to this effect. But it is not just a

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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make this quite clear I would like to tell you something that you may

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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set daily by electricity from the Enckeplatz observatory. So we may

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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related to that. We may have put hindrances in our path, lived in a

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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brain and the other organs so that they may become its instruments.

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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3rd May 1909
beings congregated who, if I may express it this way, laid no claim

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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Take the may-fly; it comes into being, lives until it is fertilised,
stage. We can understand how we may throw away the parts, piece by
image, so that we may say: The rudiments of what I am to become were
they may not extend to what may be called cosmic dimensions, are
something new may arise. This is the tremendous idea of progress,

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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Anthroposophy; he may ask how he can decide to join something for
lectures on the Gospel of St. Mark. These studies of the Gospels may
You may remember what I once said about Christian Rosenkreutz
Thus, paradoxical as it may seem, our activity in the
the spiritual world. It may truly be said that even the most
may agree together, firstly, as to how certain facts are discovered,
may be called the ‘Imaginative’ life, or life filled with
through this period after death. Here on the physical plane it may,
such circumstances, if we are not stony-hearted, the idea may occur
nature of the encounter we may well be aware that we have hurt the
him; we may also wish to make reparation, but we cannot. During this
mobility, and thus adopts a certain posture. The impression may well
people may be disappointed but truth will be the gainer! I could well
Useful as it may be to indicate these things, they are
world demands of us inner tranquillity, in order that we may
self-absorption. Paradoxical though it may seem, I can only say that
Sunday sermon may expound any number of moral principles but as time

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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being may reduce the value of his 'I' as the result of
We may remember events which took place very long ago in our life,
and when memory recalls them we may feel that we have as little
may happen.
him the fruits of a moral life, is what may be called a spiritually
are on Earth. On the Earth men may live side by side without any
Grotesque as it may still seem today to those who do not distinguish
can learn a very great deal from what may lie openly before us.
some understanding of it. Trivial as the following words may be, let
Anthroposophy, may bear it into later times as an inner impulse and

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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Anthroposophy in the upper consciousness may take the form of longing
certain time in his life and becomes an anthroposophist. It may
You may have known such a case. If the friend had been the first to
often clothed in maya. Consequently it may happen that the one who
subconsciousness he may very likely not share in the antipathy.
Without realising it he may even be longing for Anthroposophy. In
including those of which he has no conscious knowledge or may even
which may have developed precisely because of his violent opposition,
circumstances in such a case, the one who is on Earth may be able to
kind of case that may frequently be observed in our own ranks.
Maybe someone will ask: Is it possible that this will annoy the dead,
Nevertheless it may be possible to verify that had we been in the
alive. Or on another occasion we may hear of an accident to a train
attention only to what actually happens, not to what may be
may be said that this happening had no significance for our outer
Now the following may happen. A man may take serious
in his thoughts but only in his feelings. He may realise that he
happened to miss. This may make a deep impression upon him and such
may actually reveal to us wishes or thoughts of souls living between
physical world may be received from the spiritual world.
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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rebirth is that forces may be drawn from the stellar world for
before his death. To sum up, we may say that as long as a human being
The important point is that what may be called the auric

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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study which because of the significant knowledge it contains may well
Christmas season we may very properly think of an individual
spoke of what may be called the last Initiation of Christian
Christian form. It may truly be said that when the Buddha had become
Mystery of Golgotha. What may be called the advent of the Buddha on
been abandoned to materialistic civilisation. But because what may be
part of the general stream of evolution. The event that may be called
great Universe, we may well take with us from this centre of

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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Impulse is comprised for the West in what may be called the Mystery

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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occur at exactly the same point of time, but in most cases it may be
shall find that the cessation of growth may be compared with some
act of what may be called the formative principle. The last
we may ask: When these Spirits of Form have worked on the human being
intellectually, but superficially, about life today may readily
reality? You may remember that I have spoken of certain spiritual
progress although they may simply be regarded as late developers,

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Eight
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As to the content of our memory, this may well be of
the great intensity at what may now be called the human body; we
quite correct. But someone else may turn up and say: This man is
intolerant, for example, in rejecting Spiritual Science. Someone may
May that which works and lives, the ever-growing,
may be seen as the temple of cosmic mysteries, for it contains more
them, that is not only a maya of the senses but springs forth as
in the spirit may begin. Now, in this incarnation, each one of us can
coming into being for a further existence, he may realise that this
trivial sense this experience may be compared with being obliged to
side of existence we may receive from there the impulse that can

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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may be a life after death but why should we trouble about it during
way the subject is expressed it may often, in a certain respect,
the Beings of the higher Hierarchies in two ways. We may recognise
may pass through that world with understanding, with awareness of
what these Beings are offering us, or we may pass through it without
that may enlighten him about the super-sensible world — such a
what gifts we may receive from them for our next life on Earth —
Another possibility may occur. I am saying these things
life between birth and death may become more and more intelligible.
there I may recognise God. But what he is seeking there is only his
another of their spiritual inclinations may bear fruit. All that they
Powers whom we may call the Lords of all healthy, budding and
duty — although of course anything may happen! In a certain
this connection and I have already spoken of it. A person may die and
anthroposophists. The man who has died may have refused to have
thoughts, conveying knowledge in this way, or we may take an
have died. I recently had an experience that others too may have had.
concerned, but it may still have some effect in the general pattern
These things may well give a true conception of the
our own being a stream of spirituality may find its way into

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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may be called the region of the Moon, then that of Mercury, of Venus,
Earth. The soul may long since have ceased to yearn for
permeate his being with theirs, in order that his being may be able

Title: Michelangelo
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the best of it (much of which may be no longer accessible to us) in
bring it into motion so that it may seem to live in our world. And if
that she may foretell the future from what the book says; and she
This is the only thought we may find worthy to be set side by side with

Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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whereas the spiritual is something which may spatially be
We may now ask:
you read a book, you may think through (not always, but this does
may have lived through something years ago and gathered from it
the etheric body may engrave upon it the signs which lie at the
these signs may be drawn up again from memory. That man carries
may thus be of immense importance in pedagogical life.
something which we may designate as having been formed upon the
ordinarily remains concealed, may shine through and reveal itself
the stream of Karma darkens our outlook into the events which may
through us, but to us — may gleam through.
event we may say that the will had nothing to do with it, for
certain deepening, something arose which may be compared with
Through feeling, we may learn to know the things which lie
closest to us, and in the same way a light may be kindled in the
lives something which we may designate as man's etheric body.
outside. This example will show you how you may confront your
sensation may be reached in regard to our own being: that of
to, we may always deny them. But our observation should be
with something of which we may say that it forms part of us when
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Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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world. Whatever one may think concerning this fear and anxiety that
unsympathetic as it may sound, for one who knows the soul it is

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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order that this Being may have a body. He recognises Christ
maya, illusion, unreality. Nor could souls have endured such
placed, the world he now sees as maya, there will spring the
the blossom contains the seed, as truly does maya unfold the
Good. What he said to his pupils may be rendered in somewhat
all the people of ancient Egypt. In the legend of Osiris may

Title: Lecture: Buddha
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beginning of the Middle Ages! Grotesque as this may sound, it is
that man's sojourn on earth may become fruitful if earthly lives are
earthly life and we may look forward to an ever fuller life wherein
the fruits of past lives may ripen. The prospect of a rich and
necessity — only then will he enter the state that may be
entered the phenomenal world but this world is maya,
world in the throes of decline, of a descent from Spirit into maya
from Spirit into the world of maya had proceeded stage by stage, as
sustained in earthly life and not utterly lost in maya. In his
may be filled with wisdom and through this wisdom be filled with
illumination “under the Bodhi tree.” We may express the
in a world of illusion. Life after life we live in this world of maya
may rise in Spirit to infinite merit — yet the wisdom of
gradually to reach and enter Nirvana. In other words, he may learn so
world of maya from which the wisdom of a Buddha now and again can
prejudices now widely spread in the world, we may describe the
from Divine-Spiritual heights into a world of maya, but must be
maya and illusion;” the Christian: — “I have
of life may be attained. He knows the world to be full of sorrow and
into maya. Yet he need not alienate himself from this world in order
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Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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conclusions concerning the way in which our planet may have
referred to; we may assume that the geologists have access to the
imagine that these beings have had descendants, that the latter may
is conducted may be gained from the following. — If, for
may seem to be a gloomy picture. But it can only be so
time, in order that we may be received into the fold of the spiritual

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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more together after a long summer interval, we may say a few words as
something new, so that they may have the necessary humility as also
Probation that occult perception may very well be turned to
of Theosophy that they may perhaps not be understood at the present
work in Munich, it is inevitable — if by means of all that may
if only we have the proper room to do so. That this may have good
over and over again, how easily in our day the longing may encroach
have worked with us may have already discovered that precisely in
may truly say that we do not make it easy for anyone wishing to enter
this deepening. We may, without exaggeration say that we do make it
may be. Anyone speaking after the manner of the modern theologian
say that, notwithstanding everything that may be said against these
though we may say that it would be a good thing to take Isis
‘you do not understand this,’ we may be considered
do not. Neither do we deny that this being may reincarnate in the
goodwill not dependent on the denial of any truth that may have been
desired. On this account we may say that we need oppose no one. We
into we may perhaps come upon a very awkward situation, and be
things. Thus perhaps we may be accused of pride, and sometimes we
own. Hence we may say that we have for once imposed upon our occult
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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they appear, so we may alert admit that those things that are near us
old Saturn-existence. And in order that we may form a conception of
by-acquiring a feeling that may be compared to the giddiness
every thought that may come to him, in a sort of condition of dimness
may be so deeply absorbed in this impression that he can do no other
possibilities. The first is that he may have understood the
concrete beings. Naturally it may appear strange to say that we meet
discoverable. If we revert to the simile of swimming, we may say it
Time-Spirits, and that external heat is nothing but maya as compared
Externally heat is really only maya. And if we wish to speak truly we
perhaps may not appear less impressive than the glimpse afforded us

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
deeply immersed in Maya and Illusion; and we must first work our way
psychic nature which we may experience in our souls.
contemplation of active practical devotion may call forth the
For instance, people may say: ‘Suppose one takes up any
be empty able to wait quietly for what may enter into it from the
through which we may receive what may be offered to us as revelation
to its external physical properties. That is only maya and illusion,
feeling we may ourselves have if through the above-described mode of
idea; such an idea may produce in us a distinct perception of
the world something having an independent existence. We may describe
may come back into it. What you formed yesterday is received by you
radiate outwards. Thus something new is created which we may describe
that we may think of it objectively as the incense of sacrifice, as
it dawns on the soul that what has been described may in a certain
Divine grace may be either accepted or rejected. If we think of all
ordained for the earth that it may also be rejected by the traitor.
We may feel that this is the Earth-Being, in as much as the Sun-Being
taking place on the Earth may perhaps be only of importance to one

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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us — although in maya or illusion — in all external
that behind all that we may call flowing air or flowing gas, there is
reality mere illusion, nothing but maya; and only when we progress
from maya to the incorporeal, the spiritual, do we obtain the correct
in the world. Certain deeds that man may do — particularly such
renunciation of wishes, desires, and impulses of will which may
self-inflicted suffering. In many cases the practice of this may be a
spiritual self-indulgence, for a person may practise it in order to
resignation, which we may experience in the soul, as a conception of
something else with which we are already familiar, but which may
we may call a division of the whole Sun-substance, a divergence. If
risk of repeating ourselves, we may say that Time continues.
veiled in Maya, we learn that the evolution of ancient Moon followed
the external world. That which had been sacrifice reappears in Maya
as Heat; and that which was bestowing virtue appears in Maya as gas
or air. Resignation as it has now become appears in external Maya as
Fluidity, as ‘Water’. ‘Water’ is Maya and
mind it will at any rate be possible to grasp a question that may be
actual nature of water. But now the question may be raised: There is
fault — if we may venture to speak of such an original fault
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 2)
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may just be mentioned here, that in earlier conceptions of the world
have been designated “Spirits” may be looked upon as
and indeed in the outer world it may often occur that people use this
trickling in, and which has its origin in what may be called:
encounter a Soul-mood resembling in many respects what a man may even
some other age may have experienced some injustice, to which children
are particularly sensitive. He perhaps may have been blamed for
may have bitten deeply into the childish life, the later Soul-life
is concerned the child forgot it. And indeed it may very well never
what he had formerly endured is rising to the surface, he may have
the surface of the Soul-life just as there may be movements beneath
person may long for the homely stories of the family circle; he does
the term ‘home-sickness,’ expressing something that may
somewhat of this nature. What we may discover in the depths of our
beings whom we may designate as: Beings with wishes which are
fluidic movement of our own thought; yet this expression may serve,
another in a dream may evoke a conception of what takes place in a
Moon-existence may be called the ‘Planet of
able to satisfy it — such as a modern thinker may find if he
Kleist described in the most significant manner what may live within
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 6: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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that we call Maya or the great illusion, there is the Spiritual. Let
following. Does all that we have in this world of Maya or illusion
that the world of Maya might be compared with the rippling play of
indifference, we may very well put the question:--Is there in the
wide realms of our Maya or illusion, anything that is real? In this
knowledge may be acquired externally and established by man through
is something that is not as yet in me, but which may fill me.’
through the experience a man may have on the physical plane to
communicated to a person, which although it may be true, he must call
spiritual atmosphere, may be described in many respects by saying
feelings of such Beings, you will have an idea of what may be called:
‘displacement’ — if we may once more speak
left behind in the world of Maya, we know that it consists of nothing
really flowing virtue; if (3) we may describe flowing water or the
appears and may be experienced.
of illusion and Maya, whether there is anything in it corresponding
nothing real in all the world of Maya around us, but that the reality
ascertained that within the world of Maya there is that, which,
be in the spiritual world may be called death. Thus something is cut
off in Maya, which actually ought not to be there. In the whole wide
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Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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its spiritual essence; also of what may be called anthroposophical
such a contemplation a person may feel himself in a rather difficult
of the nature of plants may have appeared somewhat too early. Fechner
concepts of the nineteenth century may find trivial, possibly even
cases it may happen that he doesn't get anywhere. Why not? If
human hair. If we wanted to explain how it may have originated there,
to a matter that may annoy many today, though it is valid
mineral element, of lifeless matter. Spiritual science may not speak
themselves belong to our earth. This means that we may not look at
his skin, of his sense organs, and the like. In other words, we may
may appear to be a mere comparison, but for spiritual research it is
spirit-filled organism we may say that it surrenders itself to an
over the whole planetary world around us. As incredible as it may
being, although it may be tempting to consider winter as the
to the sun being is simply something that may be compared spiritually
is why we may not consider plants by themselves but rather must
science reveals, you may no longer see anything but an expression of

Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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of human nature during the various epochs. Superficial opinion may
must always draw from the source which we may call Illumination,
approach. There are two ways by which we may raise the inner powers
of the soul above their normal level so that we may pass from the
belongs to the physical world, we may indeed find our real spiritual
mystic, this world was Maya — illusion; he turned from it in
behind the world of the senses there is the Divine-Spiritual. Man may
but a vague Pantheism. We may think we express a
and in the same sense the spiritual part of the physical Sun may be
may imagine a line continuing indefinitely on both sides — in
have to speak of something which may appear extraordinary to-day to
disciples appears again, materialised, in our own age. People may
have said may be illustrated by quotations from historical documents.
that may enter the soul from the outer powers; deepen yourself in the
who would fain penetrate into you from the world of Maya, the outer
of savagery. Do not look upon external things merely as Maya; you
May we
Leaders of whom we shall speak in these lectures, may be summed up in
as stars in the heavens of Life Eternal. May it be vouchsafed to

Title: Lecture: Hermes
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years before our era, perhaps even earlier still. This may be one
active thinking. After having been active in soul, we may then be
Osiris may be envisaged as the active power of light proceeding from
the Sun, living and moving through space. Isis may be seen in the
whole life of soul. A man may imbue his soul with abstract ideas and
destiny or his happiness may be quite unaffected. Abstract and
mathematical concepts of Natural Science may be so deeply absorbed
the power of the intellect, it may again reach the well-springs of
dead man feels that in the spiritual world he may himself be called
experience which may be described as an approach to
The next stage of the Isis-Initiation may be
attained to his Isis-nature. This again may be expressed by saying:
statement may be a cause of irritation to the science that describes
Again it may be asked: Does the science of to-day, representing as it

Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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may be raised that any inclination towards the conceptions of
animals may easily lead to such a conception. We need only
that horses which notice the loss of a shoe may go of their own
which are shut up in a room may open the latch of the door. And
raise objections to this. It may be observed that the last word
on this point has not yet been said, and that one may eventually
soul-activity. One may admit over and over again that the person
temperament, may be traced back to his ancestors, but, his
Strauss may reveal the following prospect in a “modern
may object to the above exposition on the grounds that Natural
the spiritual so that it may become the ruling power of your
the exposition of a thinker, however careful he may be to
scientific hypotheses. But even though it may be possible that
Wundt's school may be very shocked when I speak of the “Soul”
wisdom of Wundt reminds one of the assertion that you may not

Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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man to Life and Death to-day, we may be reminded of a
expressions used in this sphere may be shown by the fact that
with which a living being may come into relationship through
“Charles: wants this,” or, “May wants
further possibility steps in that he may now, even during the
soul-kernel may be present in man and that we carry it
“life” and “death.” And we may say
but in order that new life may come into being, the old must
new plant may take life from it. He who observes the world of
life. Although Shakespeare may make the gloomy Danish Prince
that we may place opposite the words of Shakespeare this

Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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our hearts than an anthroposophical movement? And we may also
souls — we really have before us that which may be called
the feeling that we may have on this Christmas night?
from this Christmas night something may overflow into all our
feelings during the rest of the year, so that we may
the all-power of love into our hearts. May it be possible for
this Christ Impulse stands before us, we may say, in a
something may stream out into the rest of our anthroposophical
time the possibility of deepest guilt. It may be said, apart
Eudocia's poetry may not be very good, still we must say: there
which in the full sense of the word we may call Anthroposophy,
body may lie — in order to set apart a tiny body; for the
Then you may feel how it is immersed in the all-power.
And now you may realise the feeling that can pass through the
live in the world, and we may not scorn any of the impulses of
through the world. But there is one moment in which we may
forget this, in which we may remember what St. Luke's Gospel
of the year, that it may flow through and bless the wisdom that
spiritual — so may we feel ourselves connected with
may have a kind of excellence of feeling. Though they may not
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Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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Giordano Bruno — so that we may be able to understand
must infer that what we may term intellectual knowledge,
knowledge governed by reason, may come much later than the
completely misinterpreted Aristotle — who may be taken
passages in his works, as may be verified, ”through
exists that it may read what the Divine Spiritual Beings have
stars. Human nature exists that it may read the thoughts of
stars. In short, all which may be expressed as the revelation
Monads from the Chief-Monad, so that the Chief-Monad may be
is everywhere, wherever we may look. The Divine Intelligence
does not dwell in that vague realm, of which we may say
exists in man which, though it may be clothed with tones and
that the vertebrae may be distended if the activity of the

Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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the other side of the spiritual conception of history it may be said that
in a whole organism. We may here recall an utterance once made by Goethe
Applying these words to the evolution of the ages, we may say that in
Therefore we may say: not only does Raphael live on through the following
with the world peculiar to it, — a world where we may place the
I have to say in this lecture may have the appearance of symbology,
And indeed it may be said that Spiritual Science today has no need to
— it was in May 1498 — down to the people who had once hung
but in order to characterize as fully as may be the feelings that arise
Above all in Perugia we may feel that the eye is beholding the very
at the Sun-illuminated clouds there may don on us a realization that
only proceed from the Earthly. Our perception may feel itself raised
natural feeling may arise before the world-famous picture in Dresden.
fire” as may appear to have been the case.
so may it be said that the different “Spirits of the Age”
must mutually fertilize and work together in order that evolution may
about the Mass”, the fairest thing that the soul of man may
urge of the human soul may signify, cannot but feel security and hope that
passed over from days of yore into our own time, we may well be aware
disappear, but may it not be said that they exist nonetheless in other
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Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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quality. Non-Theosophists may believe it or not, but one who
must know the laws of becoming, may not have gray theories,
that we may allow nothing that is in our soul to go unused. We

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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We may well say that Schiller, who at that moment was
Thus we may regard as a testimony to the objectivity of Goethe's
human development. We may say that there is something exceedingly
students can fight from opposite camps, but both believe they may
if you did, be certain that he may indeed take you across, but not
the remarkable words: ‘Do you not know that my lamp may
illumine only what is already illumined? that I may not lighten the
he may also come in with his wonderworking Lamp.
spiritualized, he gains his spirit and may be united with the
strength of which her touch had deprived him, how he may now come
‘Every individual human being, one may say, carries in him

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture II
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Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily.’ We may well be
allowed the question, whether we may approach the work from any
and powers that lie in him? One may say that Spiritual Science is as
one may say, on this principle of development towards knowledge, this
this comparative superficial review, we may say: man is not merely an
will always repeat: in science, only the power of thought may enter,
formulating ideas, limited as it is to observation, may lead to
striving mankind, we may see in the Beautiful Lily another
— the Ferryman may take only fruits in payment
humanity, may not lead us back again. For this other forces are
must develop it in the body, so that we may find it outside the body.

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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existence, and the importance of this moment for him may be
One may well ask whether these lines may not have signified
from the beginning of 1770 that he had what may be called the Faust
other. Man may shrug his shoulders and look down on the minds of
arrive in thought at ideas freed from the physical, may easily
may be satisfied. But anyone understanding life and the way in
that its outward form seemed Maya or illusion, as if it were not
felt in himself the discord caused by what we may call the
It was in what we may call the tragedy of Gretchen that Goethe

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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Mystifications, Indian and may be
which is aware of the spiritual experience which we may call
this realm, that he may not enter it unprepared. Hence the words:
upon human nature — we may say that in man are combined
he much honoured. In doing so he may, after all, apply the laws of
may be already born and at once jump about and stir himself and say
What does this mean? Nothing else than that he may not
that it may be a touchstone for us of what his meaning is:
surrender to the outer world, with which egoism is connected, may
such things as Care become disturbing forces. Some things may

Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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speak of this soul sphere, we may say nevertheless that however
advanced these individual souls may be, however far they may
human bodies as ours. At any time therefore a being may
One may think of the content of scholasticism as one
that the wish for discussion may really be taken as a sign of
that he may henceforth see into his spiritual environment

Title: An Impulse for the Future
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words express, and a light may be felt which must be half veiled,
the avowal to a thing may not be true when this avowal is spoken of.
you may say that I am talking a lot
members will have been given to understand that they may participate.
counterweight for what is connected to the Ahrimanic. It may be hoped
(Rudolf Steiner may be
Wherever we may be, the spiritual moment

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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may sound rather sensational, but it is in fact a subject
is about, but what satisfies one today may not do so
may not seem valid, but in the article it is
those with interest in these things, I may mention that at

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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fact, what I am going to say may well appear as just a string
been made clear for the spirit's entry, the divine Self may
absorbed by his blood. Incredible as it may seem to the
blood. Surprising as it may seem, marriage between strangers

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As you may
grasp that suffering may originate from sin. But when one has
evil; it may be a first cause from which will result a more
salvation through Christ Jesus. It may strike us that,
may not appear to be connected with suffering.
of varied and complex structure. As you may know, the basic
sensation, and to organs like the eye and ear. You may have
action. Another disturbance may be that someone is unable to
Thus, we may

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evil. Materialism may appear to have explanations for
may seem very strange, yet it is a fact more real than, say,

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture V: Illness and Death
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You may well
that may provide logical proofs to be argued and debated.

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VII: Education and Spiritual Science
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puberty. There is no need for concern that things learnt may
may vanish but the essential, the universal, will remain and

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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may be asked: How is it possible for insanity to establish
such cases exist. They may be due to any number of causes.
effect may be so strong that delirium sets in; such attacks
the astral body. It may happen that the disharmony between

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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may lead to science, but not to wisdom. Had Goethe remained
We may not as

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture X: Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
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general, though they may become modified in various ways. In
The brain of a seven-year old may still be incomplete, but
arbitrarily; I may do irrevocable harm unless I pay heed to
particular may find this division oppressive; not, however,

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XI: Who are the Rosicrucians?
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may have found that Rosicrucianism is able to throw light on
revealed. The second rule concerns conduct, and may be
learn the description of what today may seem a far distant
may turn to books on spiritual science. There he will not
is essential as he may otherwise easily stumble. As a student

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physical nature. He regards as real only what one person may
spiritual science, but others may find it somewhat strange.
behind, and in death uniting with the spirit, or he may

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we may learn something new; we inwardly grasp something we
may sound extraordinary to many, but there are, and always

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture I: The Past Shows Us a Picture of Necessity
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another thing will happen in which we believe we may be
Some of you, however, may not yet have asked yourselves
This awareness can come to them in two different ways. You may
afterwards he comes to you and says — or it may be
something you experienced and you may say, “Actually I
say, deeper natures may feel that events not taking place on
plane. He may have progressed a stage higher in knowledge,
recognize that this may be the exact opposite of what is
For instance, the following may happen. If someone has acquired
she may have the following experience: Supposing a party of
left the physical plane they may well have been called to
spiritual world. In short, the clairvoyant person may have seen
spiritual one, may necessarily belong together.
all, I may look at the chauffeur himself and consider how he
spiritual plane it may happen that when you have seen a being

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture II: The Legend of the Prague Clock
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good. For a lot of people may have looked at this work of art
tempting — that you really may get somewhere if you think
you may consider at this moment to be the only opinions one can
... Among the multitudes who applaud, my voice may be
There may well be some intentions behind Faust, yet a
against the man may have arisen in you, and they could well be
have to resolve to get up? This decision to get up may be so
experienced in the spiritual world may be infinitely more

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people in my example. For what I have just described may have
outer nature may go very wrong.
generations, but brings with it causes that may have been laid

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture IV: The Roman World and the Teutonic Tribes
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choose — if we may use the word — on the strength
artist can take things in a human way — he may not always
be in a position to do so, but if he can — he may
intentions, and that these intentions may be realized in the

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture V: The "I" is Found on the Physical Plane in Acts of Will
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ugly according to natural law, one person may be what is called
This may well seem a dream to those who want to stay nowadays

Title: Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe," Theosophy
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am about to make may possibly give offence to so-called
And here I may say that I should hardly have dared to speak my
materialism may well be understood, and may therefore
development of mental life. Anyone who may be inclined to think
creature may be accredited with a sort of consciousness, but he
these words the way is indicated by which man may, by the
may be glad to have it in extenso, as given by Edward Clodd in
and from this book much may be learnt. It
what is extinct, of which only the last remains may now be
elucidate by making use of an illustration. You may find it no
had and how it may probably have functioned.” In the same
the professor of anatomy. There may have been no mistake. All
may have been correct. Well, then, in that case, says the
all appearances, matter alone reigns supreme. Much may be
learnt from that; we may learn how to acquire spiritually
already granted by the materialist may in this example of
depends upon what may be demonstrated to the senses. What can
“seer.” in order that he may see what is spiritual
even be believed; it may just be accepted as an assertion in an
loftiest secrets of creation, it may surely be a matter of
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Title: Spirit of Fichte: Lecture I: The Spirit of Fichte Present in Our Midst
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minister and preacher. Indeed one may say he had shown himself
prospects for this life of mine?” Though it may not have been
the ideas themselves, however excellent these may be.
world, he said: “Now may I ask you just to fix your attention
at Jena: this person was the Duke, Karl August. And we may
may well prove to be of the highest value.”
doubt they may say that there is a tradition in this matter dating
Whatever one may think of such outbursts as this, it is truly characteristic
of Napoleon, of which it may be said that an image of the Emperor,
though he may have had in his soul occasional glimpses of freedom,
ribbon-weaving business. His parents were still alive; and we may
nothing of practical life!” But it may well be imagined that
doubt; as to these others, may kindly nature have them in her
then Fichte's was a nature which stood by itself. He may be called
century, that — we may say it without the slightest fear of
that to-day we may think quite differently as to the substance of
that of him more than of any other we may believe that, if we
such a way, then we may believe that we hear him clairaudiently

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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such as ours, we may well ask: Does all of this correspond rightly to
not feel the full extent of this discord, the reason may well be that
human soul of good will may share in His powers. Indeed, for many
So we may expect to gain some understanding of how in times past the
knowledge of these Christmas plays we may well say that we were merely
the soul. Certainly we may like to immerse ourselves in what past
out of their sensing and feeling of the elements of Nature. If I may
soul”, we may then look forward to the Eastertide, the
Outside, the traffic of cars may move by, electric trains may speed
on, perhaps even balloons may fly across the sky. Nevertheless, in
happen in former times in a much more childlike mood, then we may
“cribs”. We may then look upon these halls in a
Let us also feel, therefore, that in these halls we may have faith
may be resurrected at the great Eastertide of humanity. In its very

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 1
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certain points of view which may have so far received less attention,
quite special experiences which can have a dismaying, revolutionary
to the higher worlds. A mixing of the two attitudes may occur: one can
upon certain difficulties which may arise in living together with
of fear may lead to all kinds of inner soul-experiences. Hence the
At a certain stage of knowledge the lack of these things may not seem
for one must have large reserves in order that all this may take
Then the following may happen. The aspirant naturally has no physical
indirect way, in order that we may be able to confront them and
I have brought forward these things so that you may experience a

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 2
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experiences in order that he may also experience other necessary
conditions (we shall see later why “necessary”) and so may
that this may do him no harm he must also apply these new feelings and
what the plant has. Considering all this, you may say: A plant grows

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 3
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Initiation — which may be a protection from this despair, at
first, though not permanently. Something like a remembrance may arise
rise. Yes, from these memory pictures you may well come to recognise
into what one may call the super-sensible equivalent of that which one

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 4
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have the humanised Cosmos. What we may call the pedagogical high
these mysteries; but it may provide a starting-point for more detailed
studies which may one day be undertaken regarding these mysteries of
can be nurtured there, while the other part may remain exposed to the
to make their abode there, circumstances may arise in which there is
a man must now go through, so that he may make one part of his double
harmony between the outer and the inner, may enter fresh incarnations
incarnation may make him very well able to dominate the conversation
in the soul a configuration which may be ever so fine intellectually
So in this modern time the nature of man may still be twofold. The
thoroughly grasped. Now it may perhaps be true of many a modern man
Yes, it may well be that the “fool's motley” is still
life may perhaps never dawn on people who believe that real knowledge
Amfortas within himself, so that he may also come to know Parsifal.
It is because modern man is so fond of surrounding himself with Maya

Title: Third Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the

Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture VI: Easter: The Mystery of the Future
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being may become spiritualised and once again have vision of the
man's past experience in the physical body. In such conditions men may
anything of the spiritual world about him. This is the fate which may
etheric body. In order that he may be conscious that what then comes

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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May your vibrations waft
Our prayer may helpfully radiate
May your vibrations waft
Our prayer may helpfully radiate
mankind, for the healing, progress and freedom of the Earth — may
world — and this stage may soon be reached — even if such an
“No matter how far the spiritual world may extend, however great
a man may hold it as unproven; yet, he in his being, extends to the
world extend may be concealed, they do extend into the human being.
As I have said: it is a foolish hypothesis, but we may make use of it,
a severe psychic illness. It may happen that a man is suddenly torn
earlier life. He may, for instance, go to the station, and buy a
memory. The understanding may be in order, although the memory is
be a continuous thread, which may not at any time during daily life
Death is a Maya, an illusion. Herein lies the great difference between
the spiritual world. For one may look for a very long time, and the
this may be a proof of the truth of that for which a true and genuine
may see that Spiritual Science is striven for here in an honourable
that this sleep-life may be lit
sitting here, I may say: it would be possible to hear infinitely more
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one may say that from this first occasion when Fraulein Stinde
and above all, it may be said, with the understanding created by the
profound nature of their studies, and by the will which may itself be
born of this. I may perhaps point out that the intense labour which
her. We are sure that in her case we may quite specially emphasise the
may be especially emphasised with reference to Fraulein Stinde, that
will become conscious of how very much may be connected first with
accordance with these events. Thus we may say: If a man at that time
scientific and spiritual culture it may be said — though this is
permeates himself with them, may have the assurance that here too some
day what is kept under will be on the top. Here then our thoughts may
I should like to point out — if I may do so without seeming
that we may say a widening of our vision appears. While during the
are endowed with a physical body, that we may be able to perceive
activity in order to get some conception of it. I may say it is
all the forces which may be expressed as an intense longing in the now
the wish to become such that everything undesirable may be wiped out.
may penetrate deeply into our forces of feeling and willing — we
absolutely different from that of the living. The living may very
terribly wronged another and can do nothing to put it right, you may
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 3: The Subconscious Strata of the Soul-Life and the Life of the Spirit After Premature Death
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no attention, but through a wound the whole life may be altered,
everything that follows may be different. Now, the astral body beholds
the entire connection, before the wounding of the man. One may say the
the inner part of his soul. It does not cease to exist, and it may be
see it while here!’ We may compare that remark with what the
conviction of the merely obvious existence may not spread, there
be considered from a higher human point of view, then one may say:
earlier than should have been done according to plan. Thus we may say
imagination may picture the dead as we last saw them here, but that is
not their true form; it is rather the expression of it. A child may
die, but the human entity incarnated in the child may be a highly
spiritual truths may sometimes seem cruel) it is nevertheless true,
wisdom of the Cosmos we may console ourselves. For in proportion to
with our feeling, then may things become comprehensible. Certainly our
to our own times, may be embodied in the great truth:

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 4: The Connection Between the Spiritual and the Physical Worlds, and How They Are Experienced After Death
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solved if we have the courage to approach what may be called the
may commence with a trivial observation, yet one which contains
world a certain relation to another man. This relation may arise
through ties of blood, or it may be brought about by the preferences
appears in the relation of the two people. As has been said, it may
get any perception. For instance, they may be aware that another soul
this existing entity, so that the picture may arise. The process is
active in so doing: but it may remain more passive in reference to a
Now that which enters one's consciousness as the solution, may of
one has made in one's soul. The truth may present itself in many ways,
inner picture, which, I may say, gives one an inner impression of
The picture may arise of a man who allows himself to be photographed,
something which, one may say, need not of necessity exist. If she were
not there, all the necessities of nature might still go on. One may
man. We may put it thus! These things are not known by the ordinary
there lives what may be called a dim knowledge of what takes place in
in which you may perhaps fall and break your leg.’ Of course it
may be quite possible that we absolutely cannot avoid this; and if we
accomplish in the evening what we have arranged, there may previously
that even things which may cause annoyance are also dominated by a
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 5: Concerning the Subconscious Soul Impulses
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may create a feeling of security.
his memories. Even although all we have experienced may not arise in
but we may go to the occasion when he was once chosen to conduct an
due to the law. Only the first sentence may be quoted: “Mr.
as we may call it. Now, this made such an impression on him that he
behind the secret of the rose may not reflect, for if he does, nothing
should lay hold of them, as may truly happen through the inner
of nature may come about through external experiments.
consciousness what lies beneath it, so that man may know something of

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materialistic mind of man understands nothing. Yet man may grow into
As we are able to meet here to-day, we may perhaps speak of a few
things which may be useful to some of us when we look back to what
our present epoch should not see it. This may be said, that one ought
special task, we who follow Spiritual Science may point, just at this
ideas. In reference to this the following may be mentioned. Our epoch
can never arrive at the ‘Thing in Itself.’ One may thus
the fact that man may even become a mystic in the depths of his soul,
One may be very clever in some branch or other, and possess a really
position they may occupy, in accordance with these explanations.
picture may continually appear in our souls: In ancient Rome, beneath
Frederick the Great may be verified. Christ did not wish to make
that the existence of Christ may never be proved in that way, for that
external fashion, Ahriman plays a part. But Ahriman may never meddle
truth, nothing materialistic may intervene in this.
in the field of matter. For the spiritual you should not and may not
have materialistic proof. Thus those may even be right who destroy the
We may be told that Christ exists, but to find Him really is only
remark, but perhaps I may make it this once), he was told that I had
This has no value because of its personal character, but it may serve
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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spinal cord, it is a fact that he always sees a snake. He may perhaps

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture II
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with parts of human nature. These may be said to form guiding threads
may perhaps be much sympathy, then there is much green in the aura.

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture VI
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The colour must however first be produced in order that we may
impressions may be brought to us. There are beings who can manifest.

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture IX
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body went through a fourth stage. So we may say that the physical body
inwardly. We may think for instance of the decrease in mortality

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it is not undifferentiated. It may be compared with the following: If

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XII
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body came forth. This is what may be said in respect of the physical

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in another sphere they may be able to evolve. An individuality is

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIV
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that when it has reached self-consciousness it may die selflessly.

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out of the past. One may then think of him having advanced so far that

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connected with daily life. When the ego returns, it may or may not
person returns most of them have usually disappeared. It may well
them. It can come about that in his ego someone may have such a strong

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effect of feeling in the world. There, where a beginning may be made

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Planet we must consider seven Rounds. The passing through a Round may

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This creation may be compared with the following: Somebody sees
the head what may be called a focal point is formed through which the

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This may be compared with the Achilles Saga.
Whatever one may experience, one can look with complete trust towards

Title: Lecture: The Four Temperaments
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inherent in our existence. Now as correct as it may be that man's
* Translator's note: The reader may conclude from this remark —
child's interest in them will intensify; then they may be restored. In
different magic formula may be applied. For the sanguine child this
objects, objects toward which one may be phlegmatic.
spiritual science may claim to lay the foundation for humankind's most

Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Animal Soul
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may have noticed that the lecture today on “The Human Soul
realities only to the spiritual investigator, it may nevertheless be
shown that instincts may far outstrip human intelligence, and that
observation of life should be based, and which may be put in somewhat
experience that we may speak of a being in man who is not inherited

Title: Lecture: The Human Spirit and the Animal Spirit
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animal soul life may not be distinguished from that of man in such a
man. Therefore we may not speak of animal soul and human soul by
We may also say that there lives itself out in the animal's
inherited characteristics which we may call an outpouring of the
we see human activities arise in such a way that they may not be
original warmth necessary for hatching a hen's egg may be
namely, the gaining control over what we may call our bodily
imprinted into him — if one may use the word imprinted; whereas
more to where the inner being of man may be found poured into the
body. There exists, however, as a certain ground work what may be
part of its life of feeling. On the other hand, it may be said of man
in this way, we may say: If we do not approach man with abstract,
disregard this, for higher points of view may drive it into the
you must be hypothetical; to talk of it may seem bold to some of you
man we have what may be thus described — according to the
part in the history of the spirit. We see that we may not confound
with his gestures. Some of you may remember that I have not only
may judge how great is the significance of the position and all the
may be found information about all the individual human organs.) Thus
works two poems may be found together. Each contains three remarkable
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Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 2: The Christmas Festival as a Symbol of the Sun Victory
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what is true, millions of others may dissent but he will remain
mankind, we may have now, today, a presentiment of the harmony that
“Nature! We are encompassed and enfolded! ...” we may be clear about

Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 3: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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They early may enjoy the light eternal
May depths preserve and seal
order that the new plant may spring forth from it. The pupils of the
arouse in themselves what may be called faith in man's greatest ideal.
only the initiate may take the three seeds from this Tree, the three
meaning of the pentagram may not now be mentioned, but it is the star
our souls may rise the joyful confidence: Indeed, I, too, shall

Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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part of the studies we have just begun, even though it may appear that
order that your existence may become an image of My existence. For
existence may become an image of My existence. For what lives in you

Title: The Mission of Savonarola
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learnt. In a being such as Savonarola's we may see the dawn of
may conclude that Savonarola was the everlasting

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture I - The Prometheus Saga
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would be possible, so that we may say that the discovery of fire was
outset that anyone who reaches the third interpretation may take it
Berlin, 29th, April, 1st and 6th May, 1909, published in Dornach,

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture II - The Argonaut Saga and the Odyssey
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in Maya, but behind Maya, thus in a mystical sense he returns home as

Title: Wisdom of Man: I. The Position of Anthroposophy in Relation to Theosophy and Anthropology.
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together here at the seventh anniversary of our German Section, may
lectures may be characterized as the historical chapter of
took up what may be called anthroposophy. The term actually occurred.
may be, thereby bringing the elements into harmony again. But talking
relation to its surroundings may be regarded unhesitatingly as

Title: Wisdom of Man: II. Supersensible Processes in the Activities of the Human Senses.
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pressure is exerted, a little lump, as we may call it, always
calls aroma, pleasant or unpleasant scent, etc., as the case may be.
substance flowing in is but maya; it is external will. Your
is also mere maya, an external image that is experienced as feeling.
objects, so that we may know them. Beings of an order higher than man

Title: Wisdom of Man: IV. Supersensible Currents in the Human and Animal Organizations.
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forward, and so forth. At this point someone may try to catch me out

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: I. The Elements of the Soul Life.
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soul life, no matter what mental pictures we may add to our
we may call the inner experiences of love and hate.
This may sound dry, but it is indispensable for an
naturally out of the inner soul life. The external cause of it may
in expounding the elementary concepts of the soul life. You may think

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: II. Action and Interaction of the Human Soul Forces.
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approaches Goethe with such profound veneration as I feel for him may
be learned. But may we say this of anything he wrote? We can say
good. It may return some time without anything having occurred in the
visualization is a being that may temporarily refuse to appear in our
These elucidations may seem pedantic to you at the
employ a verb when we may have something else in mind. We can say,

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: III. At the Portals of the Senses.
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tomorrow. This time we are dealing with a poem by one whom we may
relationship is maintained between the soul and what we may call a
designated “satisfied desire” may connect with something
soul's aims must be raised may be surprised to learn that in a

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: IV. Consciousness and the Soul Life.
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with the inner peculiarities of the two soul forces we may count them
way. Representing the visualizations, which we may possibly remember
common. They all refer to the future, to something that may eventuate
because we are placed on this plane in order that we may learn to

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: I. Franz Brentano and Aristotles Doctrine of the Spirit.
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as a feeling I may have in connection with a rose. Those are
consummated within the soul. However strongly emotions may grip us,
death upon this one life. In one case the spirit may thus see its

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: II. Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
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O SOME of you it may seem superfluous in
may be fraught with many a disagreement, but one praiseworthy feature
and this alone suffices to explain how plausibly its existence may be
there may be a spiritual world, but there is no immediately apparent
Further, it shows what pathological phenomena, as they may be called,

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: III. Imagination--Imagination; Inspiration--Self-fulfillment; Intuition--Conscience.
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different relation to the soul and to whatever else may enter our
visualization itself and transforms it. It becomes something that may
itself to what we may call the imaginative world. Just as there is a
separated from the body, is filled with what we may call imaginative

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: IV. Laws of Nature, Evolution of Consciousness and Repeated Earth Lives.
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penetrating this imaginative world may be morally quite casual, for
different things, that something outwardly small may be perhaps more
filled with the impressions of the card game, or whatever it may be.
— cross, unresponsive, carping, and so on. Then again, you may
way gradually arrive at what may be called inspirational cognition of
Penetrating maya, the world of spiritual activity
re-ascent to the spirit has commenced may this ardor abate.”

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 1: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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and may perhaps not believe it possible, yet such was the case. Before
descent of a Bodhisattva — if we may use this Eastern term —
evolving to the point where the true expressions may be found in its
region of man; in order themselves to learn, in order that they may
is projected into the earth in such wise that we may render it in the

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 2: The Law of Karma with Respect to the Details of Life
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on certain points which may have puzzled those who have attended our
enigmas of life. — Some people may perhaps say: All that is
There may be certain orders of mind of our day who would like to have
ourselves may be very far from having as yet developed any clairvoyant
sympathies and antipathies he feels in his work, may, as he reaches
the age of eighteen or nineteen, assume a different form. He may cease
to take pleasure in it; his attitude towards trade may alter. Those
rapidity, and the result in the case of the lad may be that the
ourselves: — When did such a turning-point occur? — It may
may say: — Causes and effects of this nature are connected with
things that upset it. After the age of fifteen other circumstances may
regard the law of karma as a law of life it may become an influence in
know him in youth, one may have forgotten what has happened to him
Perhaps you may remember in this connection what I have said in public
injustice that may be going on in his vicinity; he is not yet mature
moved to a righteous anger by anything like injustice, although it may
be only in his feeling that his soul can sense the injustice. He may
may clothe in the form of a picture and say: The hand that never
That is now some twenty-five to thirty years ago. You may have noticed
You may remember what I said of the mission of Devotion, of the
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 3: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity
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for this may well be only one point of view, selected for the moment.
We may say that as a result of the luciferic influence, man descended
evil, underlies all the deeper sayings of the New Testament. We may
They will arise within your own ego. Though the spiritual light may be
perceptible to the senses, though spiritual sound may be concealed
world,’ so Christ Jesus had to say, ‘whereby an impulse may
body. Blessed may those now be who have an affliction attached to
noticing that anything has happened. The most important things may

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 4: The Sermon on the Mount
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activity which may be called an activity of the Life Spirit. This
required very special preparation. This preparation may to-day give us
within him he may even be more subject to failure in this direction.
world's history. This may give us an inkling of the secrets, regulated
capacities have not appeared, that would not contradict what may be
On the other hand, Anthroposophy may be successful in spreading
into the Spiritual worlds; it may succeed in lifting mankind out of
accidental, it will come of necessity. It may be that in our own time
through their mistaken philosophy been led into curious ideas, may
conclude that effects may be produced without causes, and that there
how high they may lead us! Not in vain has man been placed in the

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 5: Correspondences Between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm
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which may be taken as a continuation of the lectures on St. Luke's and
development, we may call the two opposites: man and woman; whereas in
difficult to imagine as it may seem to the man of to-day, who is not
another polarity in the being of man. Now we may ask: can we not also
the woman formed a physical body for herself which, if we may say such
retains the form the human being originally possessed. Hence we may
a maya, an illusion. If we accept the idea of a certain point in
Thus the saying that the world is ‘Maya’ can be applied to
world is Maya,’ but a man cannot grasp its meaning, if he does
development which we know from the Akashic Records, we may put the
of a woman is as that of Comet to Moon. If you like you may perhaps
contradict those of Spiritual research. We may depend upon statements
life as well as in the Cosmos, we may ask: What then is brought forth
externally. First of all, we see something of which we may say, it
swoop, and may bring about changes in the day's course. Take the case
of itself, must feel the resistance to Spirituality so that it may
send forth from the universe, forces which may lead humanity down into
a still more arid and dreadful materialism. Something may be born,
impulse must follow it that we may rise from the depths of materialism
that man may not sink more deeply into the materialism indicated by
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 6: The Birth of Conscience
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Berlin, 2nd May, 1910.
period. (The two epochs preceding these we may for the moment leave
going through successive incarnations, namely, that we may gradually
developed the Consciousness of an ego. We may say that among the
are being prepared in order that in this variety the greatest may be
do what is right that he may press up to the higher ego.
Conscience awakens in the West, that through it Christ may be
next Sunday (8th May), for the best way of celebrating our White Lotus
may be gone into yet more profoundly. But it will be some time before

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 7: The Further Development of Conscience
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Berlin, 8th May, 1910.
To-day, the 8th May, the Theosophical Society celebrates the Day of
our Spiritual movement so that it may represent a continuation of that
remained on it; so that on the one hand it may be a continuation of
duties the theosophical movement sets before us, and which may also
what way then may we regard the Theosophical movement? It may be
the Flood, came that impulse that we may describe as the inflow of
soul. In religious life souls may in reality be extremely egotistical,
author of The Christ Myth, — a modern philosopher who may
reproducing what may live in every human soul as an impulse towards
Christ may remain with humanity; that He may be rediscovered.
winter, have we not testified how fruitful this new way may be?
opinions of her capacities and the details of her life may be, she was
This forms part of a certain tendency of our time, which we may
day do we hear of a case in which some prominent person may please the
public; for one or more decades what he or she does may be quite
the person in question may be the means by which the spiritual life
Christ-Jesus; although she instigated the movement in which He may
example wherein such comparisons are at fault; on the surface they may
not in the books someone may have written. Spirit should be cultivated
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Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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Man experiences within himself what we may call thought, and in
and picture it to ourselves, someone may rightly say: “You can
yourself that hidden within it there may be something else which does
say, when I set a thought before my mind, that there may still be
something more in the thought, as there may be in the rose and in the
may perhaps appear to many of you as somewhat abstract. But later on
Nominalism may say: “In the Berlin Zoo there is a lion; in the
one may not derive existence from the mere thought of an absolutely
been put forward here may appear to many as somewhat abstract; still,

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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business.” He may perhaps even allow that it is necessary to
underlying spiritual. Such persons may take no particular interest in
come to them through their own inner activity, they may go through
matter and its laws they may be able to discover some exceptionally
useful and valuable facts; but in speaking of the Spirit they may
Again, there may be other persons who speak as follows. Around us are
ideas that permeate the world-process, may be called Idealists and
“Yes, but however complicated the machine may be, one can never
mathematical formulae. This may be called Mathematism.
If he has become in truth a Pneumatist, then he may well grasp what I
the following. If we are Spiritists, then it may happen that people
Now there is still another possibility: someone may not take the path
Hierarchies, but may still come to an acceptance of certain spiritual
Then one may say: “No, to believe in ‘forces’ is
kind of message from reality.” This outlook may be called
A critic of this outlook can then say: “You may reflect as much
way, so that from the consideration of man in terms of thought we may

Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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people have different world-outlooks. How, in spite of this, it may
find that people who call themselves good Theosophists may go through
soul-mood which simply accepts whatever experience may offer. Through
does the world unveil its secrets. One may look all round about and
Now the soul may be so attuned that it cannot become aware of what
may arise from within itself and appear as the real inner solution of
the riddle of the universe. Such a soul may, rather, be so attuned
contrary, it says: “One may experience red or blue, or this or
sense-appearance, in Maya, the essential nature of things does not
“This world is Maya, and one must seek the inner being of
world-outlook. Thus someone may be a good Logician, but his logical
constellation of Mathematism. This may happen. When it does happen, a
be called Theism. Or, in contrast to Theism, there may be a
world-outlooks, in order — if one may say so — to be in
which one may say that it is shaped like a half-hemisphere, those

Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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I remark expressly, so that no misunderstanding may arise, that these
mirror. If you have no mirror, then you cannot see your face. You may
reflection may appear is some part or other of the brain. You, with
serve them so that they may be able to think through us, yet at the
our brain is to our soul. Thus we may have a glimpse into something
may express myself figuratively — that the eyes of the Beings
a book are to us when we are reading. This we may look upon only with
Powers of the cosmos. Indeed we may gain a glimpse into the logic of
one category to another, so that this in turn may think me in my

Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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Man experiences within himself what we may call thought, and in
and picture it to ourselves, someone may rightly say: “You can
yourself that hidden within it there may be something else which does
say, when I set a thought before my mind, that there may still be
something more in the thought, as there may be in the rose and in the
may perhaps appear to many of you as somewhat abstract. But later on
Nominalism may say: “In the Berlin Zoo there is a lion; in the
one may not derive existence from the mere thought of an absolutely
been put forward here may appear to many as somewhat abstract; still,

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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business.” He may perhaps even allow that it is necessary to
underlying spiritual. Such persons may take no particular interest in
come to them through their own inner activity, they may go through
matter and its laws they may be able to discover some exceptionally
useful and valuable facts; but in speaking of the Spirit they may
Again, there may be other persons who speak as follows. Around us are
ideas that permeate the world-process, may be called Idealists and
“Yes, but however complicated the machine may be, one can never
mathematical formulae. This may be called Mathematism.
If he has become in truth a Pneumatist, then he may well grasp what I
the following. If we are Spiritists, then it may happen that people
Now there is still another possibility: someone may not take the path
Hierarchies, but may still come to an acceptance of certain spiritual
Then one may say: “No, to believe in ‘forces’ is
kind of message from reality.” This outlook may be called
A critic of this outlook can then say: “You may reflect as much
way, so that from the consideration of man in terms of thought we may

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people have different world-outlooks. How, in spite of this, it may
find that people who call themselves good Theosophists may go through
soul-mood which simply accepts whatever experience may offer. Through
does the world unveil its secrets. One may look all round about and
Now the soul may be so attuned that it cannot become aware of what
may arise from within itself and appear as the real inner solution of
the riddle of the universe. Such a soul may, rather, be so attuned
contrary, it says: “One may experience red or blue, or this or
sense-appearance, in Maya, the essential nature of things does not
“This world is Maya, and one must seek the inner being of
world-outlook. Thus someone may be a good Logician, but his logical
constellation of Mathematism. This may happen. When it does happen, a
be called Theism. Or, in contrast to Theism, there may be a
world-outlooks, in order — if one may say so — to be in
which one may say that it is shaped like a half-hemisphere, those

Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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I remark expressly, so that no misunderstanding may arise, that these
mirror. If you have no mirror, then you cannot see your face. You may
reflection may appear is some part or other of the brain. You, with
serve them so that they may be able to think through us, yet at the
our brain is to our soul. Thus we may have a glimpse into something
may express myself figuratively — that the eyes of the Beings
a book are to us when we are reading. This we may look upon only with
Powers of the cosmos. Indeed we may gain a glimpse into the logic of
one category to another, so that this in turn may think me in my

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Suffering
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in human nature then we may hope that through a grasp of the actual
is once more put before you so that we may orientate ourselves in the
So we may well say with
of learning, knowledge. And just as in respect of much else, we may

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Evil
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service of the world. The rose may adorn herself only in order to

Title: Lecture: What Do We Understand by Illness and Death
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with the question of death, which for thousands of years we may find
two thinkers only, that you may see how even present-day philosophers
Schiller or Francis of Assisi, and it may be said that the impulses
with Paracelsus we may say: In this plant is an organism conforming
brought to mankind by spiritual science. Today this may well speak to
in order that this wisdom may work upon mankind in a strengthening

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas VII: The Creation of A Michael Festival Out Of The Spirit (Extract)
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inner resurrection in his soul, he may go through death in the right
the risen human soul may go through death in the right way. Just as in

Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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science may appear, at first, to be one conception of the world among
the many others now existing. It may be argued: The riddles of
desire for knowledge. Spiritual science may well be considered just
monism, animism, idealism, realism, or what you will. It may be
evil, man's evolution may still advance, whereas the good Spirits made

Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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the title — strange as it may seem to begin with — being:
of Faust who, in a certain respect, may be thought of as the
nether region where the Mothers dwell. Mephistopheles himself may not
It may occur to those who read the introduction to Faust, the
When you are thinking about the figure of Mephistopheles, you may
may turn, and, on the other, of the malefic power of Ahriman and his
perversions to which man may be subject occurs when the forces of the
images which may themselves often be majestic, awe-inspiring. Such is
Ahriman has been cast into fetters — if this expression may be used
overtaken by such a destiny. An individual within some community may
because he stands within a field of collective karma, calamity may
but also think of the karma of the future. A terrible fate may befall
The cause of such karmic happenings may lie far, far away — but it is
connected with these people nevertheless. And it may be that the whole
help human beings because we may be sure that our help means something
You may remember something of what was said at the end of the lecture
this point something may be said about these hindrances.
of humanity in the sense that the dire results of such happenings may
question demands. Spiritual science may pass through many destinies;
its influence may even be crippled, remaining within narrow and

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - I
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whatever they may be called) do not differ from each other. Strange as
it may seem to one who is not an initiate, if for example, reference
of new wonderment. The wonderment that may be aroused by our modern

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - III
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may well cause opponents to attribute all kinds of phantastic things

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 1: Spiritual Science and Language
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The question may now
Strange as it may
as the various languages may be — that even in the individual human

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 2: Laughing and Weeping
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displeases it. The ego may exult at some occurrence or it may fall into
deepest sadness; it may recoil in terror, or it may lovingly contemplate or
environment, results in certain consequences. In some cases we may feel that
being. Even if we have good reason for feeling fear of a being, our ego may
itself — though we may not be able to see it in that light until
them, and can feel itself rightly related to them. Or it may be that the ego
It may happen,
what we may call, in a certain sense, the normal. Then it may find itself in
It may happen,
between lions and their progeny as we may find between human parents and
relationship to the outer world may or may not be justified. We may rightly
mind may make us unwilling or unable to understand what is going on. Laughter
and proper, he may think he need not try to understand the other person and
laughing. Or it may be that attitudes currently in fashion make it seem that
It may happen also
whether they agree with him or not. Now it may be justified for him to refer
his hearers. In fact, by so doing he may help them to free themselves from
has the laughers on his side, his case is as good as won! That may spring
his hearers may not be aware of it. So you can see that this counting on
laughter may involve a certain dishonesty.
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 3: What is Mysticism?
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anyone else may have knowledge of it, as is the wont today, they dismiss it
equilibrium. We said also that inner truth, as we may call it, arises in the
mystical path, we find that it must lead to what may be called a unity of all
may be held, but if we are to give a clear answer to the question “What
unity derives from his own ego, but he may truly say that he experiences the
of one mystic may not agree entirely with those of another. But if two
view, it will be the same tree and both descriptions may be correct. This
blank. However much it may be his ideal to obliterate external experiences
concepts drawn from his own life. Two mystics may experience exactly the same
however earnestly one may try to understand and enter into what is said. The
point is that two mystics, if both are far enough advanced, may have the same
systems of the latter may contain error upon error, but they can be discussed
either of these two paths remains as he already is and has become; he may
of existence; or he may obliterate external impressions and allow the inner
may lead him into error, wrong and evil. The plant grows according to its
mastery of all that might drag him down. His red blood may then be compared
may be, it has to be done. In order to bring before us inwardly the
through mysticism, there is a danger that we may not have made ourselves
knowledge too early in his development is that he may become an eccentric or

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 4: The Nature of Prayer
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strike into the soul. And we know that this stream from the future may bring
future and that our soul must be a match for anything it may
security in this situation? Yes, there is. It is what we may call a feeling
of humbleness towards anything that may come towards the soul out of the
may bring. Anyone who looks anxiously and fearfully towards the future
mean saying to oneself: Whatever the next hour or day may bring, I cannot
in fetters you may bind me,
to use, then prayer is a cry to the divine that it may fill us with its
to it in fruitful hope. So it is that humbleness, which may seem to diminish
may emerge from that dark womb; of warmth, because prayer helps us to
hint of the future. If we feel fear and anxiety as to what may befall us,
whatever may come to us from the future, we find that we are able to meet
world we are standing somewhere surrounded by the blackness of night, we may
development we may have reached. The simplest person, who perhaps knows
nothing more than the words of the prayer, may still be open to the influence
power to raise him higher. But, however high a stage we may have reached, we
around us with whatever illumination we may have received, then prayer will
people say — can prayer change anything, whatever we may ask for? The
of their souls, far-fetched as this may sound. Would that more people were
by Angelus Silesius in lines with which we may well conclude today. They can

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 5: Sickness and Healing
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sickness may occur in the human being, but he must develop. Through illness

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impulses which will not be affected by whatever transient impressions may
this or that and he will stick to them, whatever other facts may be brought
many experiences, errors and disappointments may nevertheless surrender to
every new impression and may still be easily elated or depressed: compared
man's development may go somewhat slowly, so that he retains the same
ideas, as it may seem to be at a casual glance. On the contrary, the soul has
may have the strongest, most headstrong impulses in his sentient soul; he
ego-centre remains in relative obscurity and he may be hardly aware of it. At
may imitate the other person's actions and examples, to the point even
of coming to resemble him quite closely. Such a man may indeed be open to
always subject to the prevailing average mood. Thus a man may go to a meeting
may be affected not so much by the speaker as by the acclamation won from the
we may be exposed also to bad spiritual influences. When we educate ourselves
without changing our ways of living and acting, it may under certain
hindrances that may have arisen from our previous eating habits.
may have happened when we last went through the gate of death and entered a
of marriage or deep friendship even his handwriting may be influenced.
person may come to resemble increasingly that of his or her
themselves, so that their individual soul life and ego-sense may be
qualities, so that he passes them all by and may be unable to form a
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is correct. This may sound paradoxical, but nevertheless it is true, that
This may seem
paradoxical, and it may provoke some reflection in this field, if we imagine
Now the question may
however much it may be descriptive.
the outer human being which can show us how man's normal soul-life may
circumstances. If we develop a strong soul-life we may still encounter a
of his being may have fallen behind if these rules are not observed. Ignoring

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5th May 1910
vaguely that whatever conscience may be, it is experienced as a voice in the
of such matters may be presupposed — the philosophers. But in this
philosophical leaders of mankind. But we may note that from about the first
our inner life, although we may hope that our inner life will advance from
inhabit. Anyone who refuses to believe this may imagine something different,
man first has to work slowly upon himself in order that his ego may gradually
necessity of the times may lead us to ask: Could external history perhaps
may intrude.

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 9: The Mission of Art
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12th May 1910
Something else may
Although Homer may
may reproach Dante for being a didactic poet. Anyone who understands Dante
truth as people today may lightly suppose. On the contrary, Goethe was right
we may add: Art is called upon to transfuse the transient and the perishable

Title: Excursus/Mark: I: A Retrospect
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them, that our appreciation, I may say our reverence, for them was so
in the composition of Goethe's soul. But however well we may
know Goethe, however deeply we may enter into what he has to give us,
understanding the problem of Christ, but may, if rightly received,
opinions, other paths leading to the highest things, that may differ
may gradually draw nearer and nearer to thee. And it will approach
There may be many
be overcome if it is to be gone into thoroughly. It may seem that the
clairvoyant may be able to investigate and see in the spiritual
incorrectly; we know that though such a one may seem to have been
describe as “immoral,” may certainly acquire faculties
work carried on outside our own group during the past year I may
group, so that from here it may pass out into the general culture of
so that here also we may experience how modesty in respect of
knowledge (Erkenntnisbescheidenheit) can be attained, and may thereby

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may perhaps not seem very obvious to a beginner in Theosophy. For
may perhaps be only a few who can travel the spiritual path described
We may now ask:
itself, however closely it may be confined to one point.
to them in order that they may he so greatly enhanced that we can
immortality of the human soul, you may be sure most people would
acceptance of truths? One may accept truths calmly even when one is
— that in the same measure as we long for truth that we may
with his own person may be investigated in the spiritual world.
excluded. I may add that the “exclusion of everything

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grasp what was super-sensible then first made its appearance. We may
threadbare. Although they may divine that something lives in these

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teachings are constantly repeated. May I say here something rather
Event of Palestine, so that you may discover through your feeling
words an image is presented to us by which the whole spiritual world may
in-ward events — though these may occur outwardly — the
illusion — to Maya the great “Non est.” For the
word “Maya” is compounded of “Mahat aya.”
Maya. The truth regarding the sun is that it is a meeting-place of
say something that appertains to Maya. Why? Because forces come from

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is only illusion, Maya. What he regards as the physical body is in
that what is usually called man's body, is a Maya, an illusion,
part of the etheric body is so strong that however much a man may try
him, no matter what may be developing within him. To clairvoyant
Spiritual Being is working. Siegfried may have faults. But what

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mean to the man of to-day, however much he may believe the Bible,
further towards what may be called the secrets of the mission of
as he is on earth; they constantly influence what may be called the
— However much we may admire what man has achieved, what is
the true man, the spiritual man (of whom in this world of Maya only a
Maya exists) came down in ancient Lemurian times to this world of

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further, it must be grasped in its widest meaning. It may perhaps be
you may enter into the whole composition of the Being of man, as
body may be denied, its consequences cannot be denied, for they are
world and only approach spiritual science as thorough unbelievers may
It may be misleading
in thoughts which are materialistic. A theoretical idealism may yet
(It may seem strange that such things should be mentioned, but it is
spirit. If you like you may call it consolidated spirit. Therefore if
material, is Maya (illusion). In reality it is the spirit we
the astral body, what is in some ways suitable for them, may soon
may last during the whole life.
removed, but the patient may sink into idiotcy. If only a part of
closely connected with the real facts of life, we may well laugh at

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to-day, which may serve as an introduction to certain facts of human
course of evolution, but in order that it may bring well-being and
introduction, that the picture he has formed may perhaps be a
caricature, and that it may possibly only reach fruition in a more or
process may take seven days. But this time is necessary. And if the
noticed he may have this experience, but if he goes madly ahead
is that his soul is not disposed to listen for what may happen on the
“Yes, my dear spiritual investigator, such laws there may be,
of Paul: — “Not I, but Christ in me,” may become
“motor-nerves” as they are wrongly called, so that we may

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people living within the new order may themselves be unaware of it.
so we may call it — the Christ-idea, developed out of the
religions — we may say that the old moon religion of Jehova
We may say that the
— we may expect, after the renewal of the Moon-wave during the
evolution of our own time aright we may describe Goethe as the last
oriental religion that may have appeared as a revival in our time
Maytreya-Buddha, who is now a Bodhisattva, and will later become the
testing what is said. You may frequently hear it said: Take the whole
rests on blind belief is sterile and stillborn. It may be easy to
a public lecture given in Berlin on the 7th of May, 1911, See

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it may fill you with a certain satisfaction to know that we can see
to-day required, so that they may have both the possibility and the
certainty of life. We may therefore add to the thoughts put forward
understands spiritual life, where it may even perhaps see spiritual
to help thee, whatever the position in which thou mayst be, when thou
third day perhaps thou mayst attain thy desire. But if thou doest not
withdraw from the surface of the earth so that she may be with me;
of what enters us as Maya. We ourselves are it; we who go on from
in delusion and Maya.
every age that which lives in the depths of the spirit may be brought
words may be, it is the reality that matters, not the way the

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heredity. Who may explain, for example, the genius of Michelangelo from
his ancestors? Who may explain his head form, his figure? Who may get
to sense this also in the parents. We may have to thank our parents
from this consciousness of eternity I may express using the words which

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that two times two is four must apply at any rate, may the transient
truth of the senses lose their validity under other circumstances. May
beings live on the planet Mars of which kind ever, may they hear the
tone by means of their ears differently, may they perceive colours differently,

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of the matters. That is why it may not surprise us if the western science
of Brahma. If you ask him: what is Brahma? — Then he maybe mentions
with the divine — with our limited abilities. We may never dare
expresses itself in that which I told now. We may be convinced that
changes and never shows itself as a whole. — Then we may also
is a reason why we speak of the idea of God. — Hence, I may point

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This parable may be paradoxical;

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human mind, with a natural, maybe religious feeling and with a need
it has been necessary to look around, maybe just in our time, at Kant,
in philosophy. You may examine the different currents: Herbart, Fichte,
appear to you in blue light. However the things outdoors may be made,
same. The world may be as it wants; we recognise it in such a way as

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how it may be in the external reality. That is why we are not allowed to speak
and that way, and, therefore, something — may it be spatial or not —
There may be no nicer description of that than those which Fichte gave in his

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You may allow me now to speak about
can also prove the truth of his thoughts like he may do this himself. One can
always be mistaken, but one may not position himself sophistically on the point
von Hartmann appeared; I do not want to defend it. May it have its one-sidedness;
May be everything else that surrounds me an idea, I myself is my will. —

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I myself. But great human beings also have big shortcomings, and thus it may
We may say that we have something in the of Aristotle’s doctrine of the
reflection of the highest spirit. That is why I may close the first lecture

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I may light up this question still
or maybe also the pain which one can feel with this colour can be different,
a desire may be due to the fact that this colour reminds him of an especially
of a sad experience if he sees this colour, therefore, he maybe feels pain.
to live in poverty and misery, maybe not only by the surroundings in which he
not make sense to anybody immediately which maybe appears to anybody as something
transformation. Julius Robert Mayer is the discoverer of this
Julius Robert Mayer, however, says: if superficial heads which regard themselves
Robert Mayer (1814–1878), German physician and physicist

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to which no senses can get. Proofs — they may be the sharpest, the most
whichever shape we may give it. We know that this sentence makes sense to us
we do not care how big the angles of a triangle may be et cetera. It is this
he feels nothing of that which would have caused pain or maybe a pleasant sensation,
Now one may ask: why does not the
lot may be round us, may be real, and may be essential — we know nothing
the respect of the divine spiritual core may arise in every human being. If

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There we may probably put the question:
it may be also quite right to refer to them as authorities; because it does
opponents of my view may sit here; they must admit one matter with unbiased
they all are trivial and unscientific; one may also be right if one states brainless
the knowledge of the common origin of these two movements may contribute to
state of the lowered consciousness may be quite untouchable, no one may doubt
I may say so — through this astral world again, become clairvoyant again.
more and more by the leading spiritists, and it may be only a question of time
current have to offer, they may bring this; what the followers of the other
current have to bring, they may lay down this on the altar of humankind for
eternal life, which I obtained long ago, is the only reason, why I may still

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as I have suggested now. I said that one may imagine that our reason, our consciousness
The strangest delusions may happen
to do at all with a usual earthly being. It may be a being which lives in the
cheated, even if the facts are not correct. A mediumistic woman may go, for
but she may be completely intact and honest.
if experiments with media should be done — and, indeed, conditions may
rate; but we have seen that this danger may result because the sense of direction

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May 30th, 1904
It may be not easy to speak just
listeners among you who may be enthusiastic followers of spiritism not to roundly
mind that he may take into consideration that the views of science were subjected
answers may appear quite futile to the rationalists and materialists. The first
may call him a seer or visionary — was a particular class of phenomena.
People may think about such matters
he has developed in himself. A proof of it may be a simple example.
facts may be there, whichever reasons of these facts may be there, it became
came in along with other people. Some people may say about these matters: Kerner
of a truth which shows an exact image of the sensuous world. It may be characterised
sensory nature only, maybe by means of a beholding which is analogous to the

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scholarship. Just today some — maybe a little bit harsh — words
animals. Nevertheless, the reader eager to learn may inform himself about it.”
here is nobody, the room is quite empty. — Or you may also say to him:
you can see that he thinks to eat a pear. You may give him water to drink, and
what I posed for him. This is a posthypnotic suggestion. This may apply to strange
these questions. Somebody who studied the matters may hardly deny the information
be carried out by a human being to another living human being or being. It may
not have the qualities to produce the hypnotic state. Nevertheless, there may
on that who hypnotises who is active. The qualities may be even caused artificially
of which we have spoken, yes that much more important phenomena may happen.
him. It was a quite peculiar person, a person as they may have appeared in the
he carries out such experiments, may fool him as well, maybe without knowing

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remains for centuries or millennia; and may the human eyes feel contented at
the sight of the works of Raphael or Michelangelo, may human hearts be delighted
of forms, the consideration of the external phenomena to him it may probably
One may argue: certainly, it would be a psychic miracle; it would be a psychic

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human evolution, a school of thought, which does not find acceptance or may
people who burnt heretics. But it may less depend on that. Today the burning
will find — maybe not only in coffee parties — that which has really
author of this brochure. “He may reveal his name to us and we consider
tabs and what also escapes somebody who only investigates the paint and maybe
Hence, what is outside must be colourless. Then I ask: does it still have maybe
other qualities; does it maybe have the quality of heat? There the physicist

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conceivably biggest authority, maybe the only real authority. However, in such

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conditions? And someone who stands on the point of view of modern science may
western Buddhists also spoke of nirvana. We may get a better idea of nirvana

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Hardenberg, called Novalis, was born on 2 May 1772. Whoever has

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Whit Monday, 23rd May 1904
you who are interested in such things may hear much which is not
today. Some of it may appear incredible.
spirit. It may possess other members, but we are unable to find them,

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something which may easily be overlooked, but must be taken quite
in a human body. Now you may believe it or not: this is something of

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sheath. The veil of maya is really a sheath which must be penetrated

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which may appear a little remote. But we shall see how our
(During 1904 Rudolf Steiner not only spoke at the regular Group Meetings, which took place on Mondays, but occasionally also on Fridays to a very small circle which gathered in the flat of Fraulein Klara Motzkus in the Schluterstrasse. The main subject dealt with was the myths and sagas. We do not have reports from all the lectures which were held there; at the most they are very fragmentary notes. These lectures of 1904, except for lecture 1 of 23rd MayNote 1)
may say that the discovery of the use of fire was the main discovery
(This is expressed in H.P. Blavatsky\'s The Secret Doctrine, Volume 3, ‘Esotericism,’ p. 330, in the following way: ‘Prometheus is a symbol and a personification of the whole of mankind in relation to an event which occurred during its childhood, — “Baptism by Fire” — which is a mystery within the great Promethean Mystery, one that mayNote 3)
impressive the result may be, when the forces of the intellect and

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misunderstood, betrayed, killed. The secret may not yet be revealed.

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reminder that — even though he may be strong as far as Freemasonry is
the secrets, I will allow any of the Brethren who may get to know

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Freemason in existence in the whole of Europe. This may strike you as
people may be present at any time. These twelve represent the twelve
commit himself to rising at least to the eighteenth degree. He may
this you may draw the conclusion that what belongs to the world's

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the meaning of these two things. They may be treated with a deal of
It may
a row of dots was printed in place of those things which may not yet
the future. It is only the frame into which a good picture may later

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Part of his work may well be selfless, but the real question is one
maybe called the mineral epoch; and our task is to permeate this
very few [deeds] are selfless. A good deed may be very egotistical
him some in order that I may feel justified in [eating] my own roast

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Berlin, 15th May 1905
well-intended they may be — lacking this attitude of mind, then one

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Berlin, 22nd May 1905
may come to expression, in which the Name of the Most High may find

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Berlin, 29th May 1905
the Covenant, into the soul, so that it may itself dwell in the

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But there are some amongst us who may not have heard last year's
lecture; so it may not be superfluous to refer to these things again.
modern civilised man die, you may see the etheric body for a while,

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May I
may ask why this custom is retained, since — only through the
standing at our side; we may turn ourselves to them and allow them to

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and which we also learn from the records, that the sex — if I may
that there may indeed be plenty of men who take over the female

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only the reason why such an experiment is made may not be understood
forces in the world will always be understood right away. It may be
achieve a harmonious balance it may be necessary to pour into

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may I say a few things relevant to some of the questions which have
been coming before your souls recently. Today, may I amplify
something which may have been provoked [in your minds] by remarks
higher realms of existence. Whatever may have happened in the past,
someone or other may say that these are rather theoretical

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May I
May I simply
Egyptian names, and so from these names you may infer that something
correctly. May I explain by an example how what manifests as science
masonry.’ At first this may seem to be fantasy, but it is more than
built by man's hand, conceived by man's wisdom! It may seem fantastic
lost. May I indicate just one case; in architecture, the ability to
experiment, as a final, I may say desperate, struggle in a receding
seem fantastic to the uninitiated, on account, I may say, of the
May I be

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way, the other person in that way. The one may feel sore just
bit. Thereby ice may originate, so that we see some lumps of
maybe forgotten fear would face the danger intrepidly. However,
you may see something before yourself in the red plant sap that

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involved in something that could seem symptomatic maybe at
may say that Schiller could not yet see at that moment what was
Goethe although they do not understand each other. Maybe some
appreciated in our time. One may adhere to the picture
many have at the sight of this picture may be suggested.
would maybe have no deeper understanding for a feeling as it is
oddly, are restless and fidgety, so that he gets fear they may
it may become true. The hand will dwindle bit by bit and

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The question may be
plant ideally? One may hold against him: the plant knows
higher — may play a rather bad role under certain
knows that just concepts — and may they be also the

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soul. Certainly, one may say that just our modern time presents
something to it even today, but it is maybe important and more
could maybe think too little of that to which is pointed with
it. They could say, even if there may be some people who turn
science, it may seem to them fantastic — we rely on the
from this may come? He says to himself that that or those who
them. The one may come from this tribe, the other from that
to him as the most tremendous that was maybe performed in
may it hope it ever so much, will never be able to pursue the
author may ask himself, why should this God not assume another
under the inspiration of the spiritual world. We may probably
clever person or maybe a symbolist as researcher may get to the
the Bible. From the few indications I have given today, you may

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when maybe those are disgruntled who want to say today that

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may be something that a person has banished completely from his
worldview and it may be that he protests strongly against it in
old forms of superstition may be exposed worst to some new form
of superstition. It is maybe difficult to realise these
may regard this as the biggest superstition some centuries
that theosophy — admittedly maybe also unfounded —
Sometimes trends are not far from that which one may call
dinner. He, who observes such a thing, maybe observes too short
After we have characterised the situation a little, we may be
went insane thereby. They may have lost their wealth, because
himself, this wisdom may have come wherever from at first, I
There one could maybe come to the view: how poor is that which
the book trade for a long time. Perhaps in libraries it may be
one tells such a thing, it may seem stupid. If one sees the

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may be right — that it is irrelevant to one's spiritual
want to say only how matters are. Then everybody may organise
may espouse the most spiritual theories. It is not this which
plants. In order to support our view we may start from
The identical weights keep the balance. On both sides there may
beings and maybe at the food of the ancestors. A person who has
one-sided vegetarian may say, we are not allowed to enjoy milk,

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they maybe say, fresh air, light, or water help. These
activity the ill human being and maybe the healthy one is
different one-sided views. It may be one-sidedness —
assume that the stomach really secretes too much acid, it may
have may be seen if you have cared about such questions because
if one impeded the contact to these persons, one may recognise
in single cases something may be right but “every shoe
the core of the thing, which maybe do not restore the
viewpoint. However, it concerns, as strange as it may be, the
can have recovering effects on the human being will maybe laugh
of the outer reality. One may put up such a theory, but today
fanatics of the external facts may speak about it ever so much
supersensible world. However, as paradoxical as it may be,
may interpret the proverb “sound mind in a sound

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basis of our consideration today may seem a weird arrangement
one may find something just in this teaching of Carnegie that
allow to be fertilised by a great personality may receive a lot
we find the centre in it, which we may imagine possibly in the

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maybe since centuries and which are strictly compulsory. He
maybe refrained from it. However, just in the activities we
a human being does not find time, may it be only short, to do
question of the worldview, it may be anything usual or anything
ourselves also another answer, maybe also a third one, or a
thought again in myself. — Maybe I do this still a second
hostile may occur,

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without any doubt; the benevolent nature may provide for them
Then the human being has to approach and co-operate. It may be

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prevailing mood facing us. Therefore, one may only hope that

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may arise from the words which he spoke in this time. He said,
There you may probably say to yourselves, these verses may have
may look down at the spirits of that time with a shrug today;
feeling of such things, may have infinitely more of it.
people, who have a certain drive for spiritual science, may
of Maya or illusion, as if it is not the external physiognomic
is nothing for us! — The spiritual scientist may answer

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one probably senses mysteries, maybe even
representation of the spiritual world, one may probably say
this roseate dawn in the complete first part — this may
May
which he creates in poetic licence, may they refuse to call
may believe that egoism has not yet disappeared if care exists,
destructive powers. One may have overcome some things with the

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thereby with the spiritual existence. May the earth then be

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understand it correctly. We may explore the Egyptian religion

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Berlin, 1st May, 1909
and thunder are reinterpreted in any way. There is maybe no
of lower spirits have admission to the human being. You may

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Berlin, 6th May, 1909
prevails that one could call a tragic one. One may express it

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spiritual-scientific point of view. Hence, I may ask you today
misunderstood. Immediately from the start, I may say that about
centuries, which may also apply to spiritual science that has a
there may be such a spiritual world, but the human cognitive
Nevertheless, it is in such a way! This attention may be weak
in life, may be weak compared with the intensity that it
chemist may be frightened in his field, if he separates water
which may appear, otherwise, as fear. A certain soul condition
may say, what one experiences in the spiritual is usually very
you may easily believe if you feel anything as painful and if
and hallucinations of a morbid soul life. One may say if one
spiritual researcher do not differ from them. One may even say,
may say if he absolutely wants to do so: the matters
One may say this in certain way, although the objections that
these goals, one may say what a man of the present said, namely
One may smile at this medical board.
It is indifferent what the single human beings may think about
and souls. Even if it may also correspond to the details that
may be the most different nuances of these two extremes; but

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as much as one may object against it
opposition may get up against that what one would have to
points to work on this human organisation. I may use a picture
soul life: may they attempt it with the only way out, with that
no matter how angry he may be against
the real world, we know it maybe as well as they do, maybe
benevolent nature may rule and give them rain and sunshine,

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and that it may come —
need originated from that what one may call soul cult. The
I believe that anybody may say that my
things themselves may produce the feeling. He would feel it as
may be the same case in the intellectual that we make ourselves

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It may appear in the turmoil of the
scholarly, you may say that you get to know the latent
may be content with that. You get to know another part of the
like from the inside from which you may say to yourself: you
life. Maybe you understand just at this point that the
this case; this seems maybe fantastic, but I have to show the

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may have the effect that they discharge gradually into the way
It may seem now, as if the passage through
many forces participate, so that it may be that we believe to
Some questions may become clear to the
which may end unfilled in the prime of life, maybe because of
goes without saying that now somebody may believe that I give

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can maybe approach an answer to the riddle of the evil. I
evil that way, one maybe regards such an answer as naive
negative as something positive! By this picture, it may
may be possible that one deals with nothing positive; but these
A remark may explain which I do not want to
says then, maybe one must take more into consideration those
accessible to this knowledge. There we may ask ourselves, what
and everybody may pursue the lines of thought I have touched
We may pursue all human imperfections and
crimes, may it come more from the soul or more from the
up thoroughly if I may use this trivial word.
beings that maybe outrank the human being realised the evil
sense maybe only to few people that will settle, however, more
May monists or other thinkers smile at it
May philosophers and other people neglect
the evil, one can maybe extend the Goethean quotation, while

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Just the today's discussions maybe show
beings of the plant realm, maybe less of the beings of the
spiritual world. Since maybe the requirements, views, and
to point to that what should be mentioned only as it were maybe
maybe indicate this source in that world which one reaches if
originates under this impulse, so that we may say, we can live
as sympathetic, may be. However, in the
Yes, one may say, when the human being falls asleep, the forces
effect on the capability of love, by which we may be likeable
himself as the borders of space was recognised as Maya, the

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present epoch. One may say that the most primitive part of this
What we face there becomes maybe most vivid
cleverness to bring all reasons whichever they may be whether
necessary spiritual basic conditions of modern times. One may
Voltaire objectively that then some people maybe say that it is
destroyer, of that who abolished so much, can maybe arise

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time which has the great discovery of Robert Julius Mayer
otherwise I would spoil it maybe because I am not yet ripe for
earth, maybe only after two or three lives on earth, you will
death and rebirth that by the untimely penetration, may
all forces that can be ours by other conditions we can maybe
words. Since it knows that the soul must accept what may occur
to it, while it looks at that what may happen to it outside of

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present, maybe more than they already know it, strive
may it be put forward for materialism,
but hopes that he may soon obtain a
There the thought may arise in a poet: how

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live in the field of the recovering forces. This may be
to his forty-fifth year had become without it maybe thirty-five
some outer means something may be
these results to his fellow. There many a man would maybe
specialisation in science caused by fact fanaticism, one maybe
put wood into it and kindle it. Somebody maybe could say that
has supposed; he may become possibly a rather bad brat. That
besides, he does not say something wrong; he may even say
something completely right. Let me mention finally that he may
what is connected with spiritual science may cause some

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supersensible worlds, and that he is just unable maybe to
it must not be content to say only, there may be a
within science. Then perhaps one may consider it not so
— it may
their hearts, who maybe want to receive peace and harmony in
thinker may feel satisfied in a way, but somebody who stands in
pains and sufferings can be. But he also knows that maybe if
sense of existence. If I may summarise what the today's

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today, it may seem, as if at first such a consideration is
But it may seem today, as if in case of all
on earth. Indeed, one has to go far back for reasons that may
works into the forms of the body. May one pursue now by certain
question emerges which maybe the child puts that is justified
see, for example, a burning candle going out. May one also ask
again if it is kindled again. — May we compare the
has its taste on the tongue. Something may well give the
characterise only in the following way. You all may know that a
may still exist; but, the later absorbed can no longer work
one may say, it is to be found

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Something that matured in that boy that we may come to know in
one did; maybe call charlatanism what he did. Nevertheless,

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to you to what extent these things may anyhow prove, explain,
to themselves, whatever may appear in the outer world,
howsoever the human being may live from day to day beatified,
how strongly distress and misery may affect him, these outer
in history. If the word is not misunderstood, one may say: that
something goes forward that we would maybe call a kind of
significant spirits had a particular power. What I say may seem
pupils know it. Somewhere, maybe in an extremely insignificant
directed to Elishah. Now you may think that Elijah knew Elisha

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it may appear, as if just compared with this question that
ago or maybe still before short time, then it may seem
dies. One may say that just the fairest sense of truth and
in such a way that one may notice a low sloping forehead, a
where maybe the adult turns up his mouth only.

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sciences. However, maybe with no question the disharmony
produced. Nevertheless, even more interesting it is maybe to
the image of a new life. — It was maybe
talks one may say that it has, actually, a great idea of the
Christ is not real but a fictional god. Yes, one may express it
Palestine, the big progress which gradually took place maybe in
One may say that the entry of the divine
immediate truth, and that at most an error may originate

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of the human development may originate from his desires and
One may say: if one really knows the
hypothetical idea may arise from it at first that that
representation has not come about maybe by clairvoyance but by
express this working. Hence, one can maybe find no other word
may characterise this ancient Indian culture while one says,
as awfully as Robert Hamerling may show the killing of a mere

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the human mind and intellect can maybe understand successively,
Thus, one may admire the strength of Leibniz's philosophy as an
the thought may now become again something else, something that
maybe come to their own who run after everybody today who
Maybe such a thing could also recur in our

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the rich possibilities which may come from his inside, so that
likes mostly maybe according to his palate and preference,
his vitality, but restricts and limits it even if he may
maybe even bliss because of such a restriction. However, one
Speaking of self-education we maybe can get
This may appear as an even bigger contradiction than the
and death learns to recognise by spiritual science that he may
child. If we consider this, we maybe find something in the
child, which does not become conscious? It may seem weird;
beings or things by drawing threads or in any way, may it be in
What is not recommended for the body? It has become maybe rare,
exposes himself to solar heat so and so long what may be quite
useful for this or that purpose, but may not be a means of
but may lie idle. We develop it, while we hold together our
modern spiritual science can add. May the protective god do

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life. A strange man. He inquired his pedigree. Now we may
One may say that, the name Gobineau was known to few people
the serious research, even found an entire worldview, one may
leads to an idealistic spiritual result. What may it depend on
century. One may say, if it had been possible that Darwin would
life from it. It may be that his pedigrees are wrong — they are
not —, one may abandon them, the idea of descent may be quite
descended from the spiritual. As fantastic this may appear
personal fact what is only a theory, maybe religious conviction
which may be argued, spiritual science has already removed. But
maybe also as folly if you limit yourself to its outgrowths,
outgrowths that maybe appear within it. The few human beings
thinking and willing may still be alone today. Lonesome were

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“How much and over what they may quarrel, philosophers
biologist may come and investigate how everything is reflected
may prospect. One has absolutely to accept it and cannot found
spirit and matter maybe appears shocking at first: While the
maybe the time will also come that you will have to walk
so that he may hope: if the bodily sheaths are cast off, soul

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vital questions. One may say that just in the way how he
physical-sensory world. You may exert yourself ever so much, if
stand in a life of struggle. The inner and outer life may give
dedicates himself to certain thoughts that maybe can explain
other. But logically complying thoughts may be only apparently
looks at the mere logic, it may absolutely be that the
down maybe from a human being in the fourteenth century through
the modern genetics, this thought is maybe still absurd. That

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with the usual day consciousness. So that one may say, those
if you may make it ever so internal and subtle, you stop in it
ascetic means or predispositions so that the body maybe becomes
maybe unhealthy, but he will be right also while he says, they
usual consciousness so mystically if one may
emotionally dulled for the other twists of fate; he may fully
howsoever this destiny may be designed, that it is connected
the circumstances. The states of their lives may be ever so
destiny appears, even if it works covertly, it may be moved by
often move in its direction. May the course be ever so
may calculate correctly, the other wrongly, but the arithmetic
Maybe just the consciousness of the standstill of the soul in
our life as abstract this mental picture even today may appear

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want to explain this with maybe absurd examples that could
leaves the room, one can maybe say to him, well, did you not
that one may say, concerning feeling such a researcher has to
and considers it only as an adjunct of imagining. One may also
may learn from this example that it is impossible for this
be not right to speak of the fact that something may be assumed
May
something may be outdoors that works on our eye, and that the
least one obvious objection may be indicated here: yes, but the
What one argues today maybe just from the
may be decried as a bad materialist. However, the spiritual
a hypothesis. One may speak of the unconscious, but one has to
of the harmonies of Tristan and Isolde may be, the material of
(Philipp S., 1755-1820) was sitting, who maybe wrote a letter
letter of Seidel may have been in whatever, the ink is the same

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opposite may assert itself in the soul, the opposite seems to
Somebody may say, we want to agree at first that certain
feelings very obviously. However, someone may say, yes, how do
difficult, and one may say, the different thoughts that one has
metabolism, may be called 'body' from now on which is not
which is composed of the outer material. We may call this
organism. Then it may happen that it remains inside, instead of
flimsy. Since, of course, one may say that one should not wait
maybe gets from such quotation of that naturalist to the real

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listeners. It may be still fine for such scientific
just concerning this example that I may be influenced in my
then this may be acceptable; but if one works from an important
these concepts are entitled. One may be rather far away from
grasped by the longing for recognising the spiritual may it be
by their living inner development, may it be by outer
from which the spirit is expelled even more, although it may
itself “envelops,” one may say, in the contrary
worldview, so that one may say, our world of space and time is

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“If we recite anything, we may get stuck and we are
matter is in such a way that one can characterise it maybe best

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may be allowed to say that spiritual science (German:
sciences, some people maybe say, then, however, spiritual
important? This is another question, which answers itself maybe
really have been so silly — one may relate to Hegel as
the same way, it may also be with many things of spiritual
blossoms. You may call this an idea or a monad as you want, I
life may they be like a personal faith, however, they
Against this question, one may object many things. Here should
somebody may also state that the monistic principle is broken

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day — even if it may be conceptualised and investigated
appropriated a certain method or maybe a sensation only
way: one wants that this moment, actually, may extend in the
afterwards. The human being has — if I may help myself
think, he tries — because he maybe faces a very hard
may fare exactly the same way as a pupil fares: his mental
peoples coming from the north, but they saw them maybe coming
materialist may be content with such an explanation.
maybe remember nothing at all.
themselves maybe even in the centre of the soul life. We must
different; the mirror shows only the form, maybe also the
sensation has maybe released the dream.

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some allegorical things will be more important than it may
appear at first. Something that may pass the human look maybe
without being touched by attention may appear deeply
unforgettable things for me — what may appear as a trifle
maybe know the brilliant, significant biographer of
Michelangelo and Raphael and know maybe that as it were the sum
there may probably be such a way; nevertheless, we human beings
maybe has forces in itself that I must get out only from it. I
anyhow? Transfer this example on mathematics that somebody may
strikes the eyes. Then everybody says, indeed, this may be;
this way for a while, the external scientist may say to him,
may be in such a way that it does not clarify all world riddles
This may happen where we go out and see a wonderful spectacle
maybe take a single leaf, look at it exactly with all its veins
spectacle of nature. It may appear weird, but, nevertheless, it
afterward: it may do a big impression if the human being sees
the cover which we have maybe investigated on top. Thus, we
infinite may be revealed. This fills our soul with sensations
it were that way, one could maybe say for the sake of
picture. Even if many Schopenhauerians may come, he will
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particular tasks, particular qualities at a certain age, He may
the structure of his own character maybe as a soul force, as a
differentiate: there is one to whom you may preach for years,

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authoritative for him. We may say, it was the mission of the

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Julius Robert Mayer had shown already during the forties of the
maybe form an explosive force. This quotation was overshot if
Arrhenius (Svante A., 1859-1927) may be mentioned who refers in
spiritual-mental causes. — May it not seem comprehensible
those who write popular books about worldviews maybe mean,
investigation of the highest things. — People may say:
maybe come and say, do you not know the basic nerve of any
However, the people could want to refer to Julius Robert Mayer
Mayer did the strange dictum: I exclaim wholeheartedly, a right
universe, one may remind those who act in such a way of a

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life, and that my explanations may scandalise the left and the
overcome manifold opposition. On the other side, we may not
arguments. I may be allowed to speak impartially because I
I may express myself radically. There also secret education
matters. No mistake needs to occur, everything may be right.
This comparison is suitable, although it may seem stupid. In
Indeed, they may exist, but here it does not matter at all. It
spiritual-scientific research knows. However, this may not
simple error in reasoning. One may make clear this error using
may compare him, for example, with somebody who has brought it

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forces in nature. Maybe he has not pronounced it so radically,
those in whose hearts pain and maybe even aversion of the
us have a look once at the human soul, where we may study it in
you may say: but the researchers may have been quite humane
may have gone too far in its radical realisation, but this had

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exists certainly, than what your senses can see. It is maybe
human being may stand before you and another beside him. What
other person at first. He may be tempted to state under
also able to improve himself further? May it become discernible
soul — if I may express myself this way — was
the achievements of our civilisation may be. There was another

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millennia, maybe even farther. All those human forms and racial
population that was left from Atlantis and maybe from Lemuria,
which moves from the west, maybe from England to Asia. It
current that did not progress so far which came maybe only to

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reads Haeckel's Natural Creation History may possibly
these facts only. Then maybe he assumes that there is a little
observation by the means of spiritual research. You may call
the inexpressible primal ground. In such respect, we may call
Those who have not yet approached spiritual science maybe come
again to hear more. However, some may also say that it is a

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maybe of a garden, everything was common property. Every now
may imagine how remote humanity is from such a principle of
spiritual fraternity. Everybody may educate himself — if
existence. As a materialist, you maybe think that you have done
Thus, we may wage the struggle for existence with hesitating

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the practise in this contemplation — that one may shoot a
may believe it or not — every practical occultist who has
short time is enough, maybe a quarter of an hour, even five
sort them for itself and they may seem to you inappropriate to
years, maybe also seven times seven years, maybe also seven
incarnations, maybe also only seven hours. — It
along with him. A person may face us, who is apparently quite
undeveloped brain may sometimes conceal great spiritual
maybe only a few are able. However, this should not discourage
me, this may have validity for the other life; this does not

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principles least of all, maybe, we act most of all according to
harvest may take place at another time than it takes place. Up
has recognised once what is true, then millions may come and
human being may probably remember that during these days this
so on, we may be clear in our mind that we interpret nature,

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They experienced the great initiates. If I may express myself
modern investigation of the sensory material existence may

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carry on between birth and death. He may be born into a family
The only difference may be that for the understanding of the
you tell there, because this may be anything that you have
devised, this may be fantasies —, and one can answer:
you see a chemist going to his laboratory, he will maybe go in

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human evolution and I may connect with an excellent piece of
at a corresponding lifestyle that is maybe somewhat surprised
may develop something according to the highest and most
being that — if we may express ourselves figuratively

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may be deplorable, but understandable in any case, if one hears
do not name unknown names to you, but I maybe have to represent
is true, as deplorable as it may appear, the German spiritual
from the so-called Enlightenment. We may characterise this
approach the primary sources of existence. Now it may be true
world as Maya in another sense. They always said only, to the
the external impressions, to the appearance. Whatever you may
went through. Then we may get other thoughts by his forces in
who may be challenged in certain ways, who is not yet

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this and has not overcome the lower nature, it may become

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Christianity maybe was nowhere expressed as magnificently and
everything that doubts may bring along, he has acquired that
with magnificent correctness, maybe not quite philosophically
the temptations may be. Then it is that time to be taken up in

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humanity, and we may be sure that the redemption by Christ

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Further, on, he has then to learn — this may only be
I let only this feeling live in me — may it be the

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If I may express myself somewhat roughly, one can say, if
may be right with it, but one does not anticipate that only the

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Berlin, 3rd May 1906
said about him in newer handbooks, one may say, it is

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may probably prepare himself for meeting the most different
weird as it may appear, one has to say the following. The real
opponents may be for him less dangerous contemporaries, less
judgement. If the occultist were afraid, one could maybe make
turnabout which I characterise maybe already in the course of
contemporaries who say, it may be quite good that there is
maybe so much but the future humanity most certainly.
argued against what I have said today maybe just from those who
just with those whom the so-called enlightened ones maybe

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sciences. Indeed, some among you may see in this talk a kind of
today's intermezzo may probably be bearable, in particular with
It may be very good if we
thought, they have thought it for themselves; another may find
different groups formed. One said: howsoever the things may be,
may seem as if the natural sciences advance in our present

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you may call that a manifestation of life. However, talking of

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The question may now
suggestion. However, it may serve to find the principle. Hegel

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so-called practical people, maybe better, that ideals are not
the improvement of humanity. Hence, God may give them rain and
theosophist may console himself out of an objective
one may also speak of that once publicly which gives cause,
to the soul. It is used to casualness. It is maybe forced to be
maybe somewhat distracted by the contact with the
science. Then it may happen that they cannot stand the healthy
soiritual world, may take this as comparison. However, those
because they know for selfish reasons what may result. Imagine
maybe even more sides, that teaches to look from the appearance
A person who has maybe dealt since his fifteenth, sixteenth
immaturity. Nobody may be surprised that it is that way. If he
develop quicker, a sum of bad qualities may come out with him
overnight. These qualities would maybe have spread over sixty

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owns the force of the ego only, hence, he may be regarded as a

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a certain way. If he looks at the animal realm outdoors, it may
to know the human nature. The following may seem absurd, but to
are confronted with all things that may be undeniable, which
existence, adaptation and the like. As strange it may sound to
these instincts before. However, once such an animal maybe
animal soul without the animal, as absurd as it may seem. Just

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examples of the large quantity that may show how quickly those
expressly that I begrudge describing these realities —, may
that which I produce by my work, then my work may correspond to
my ability, it may be lower if I have low abilities, it may be

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practitioners, maybe better, that the ideals are not directly
may give them rain and sunshine at the right time, the
once on our earth maybe millions of years ago, and which beings
were maybe as big as a child head, they were provided with huge
becomes water. Maybe it goes on: the water freezes to ice. The
densified as a spiritual being if I may use the expression the
May the human beings

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Then you may lay your fetters on me,
the clock may stop, its hand may fall,
may attribute it only to the physical body. However, this would

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Berlin, 14 May 1908
describe this for the thought life at first. Who may deny that
wisdom is concealed in it if one says, for example, may anybody
a bridge, the thought of a bridge in all details may be quite
correct — the thought may be right, however, the bridge
another iron and you have a magnet — another may come and say,
thinking. Chwolson says, Mr. Kossuth may only take his pocket

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But something else may arise.
Up to a certain degree, the hand may be prevented in its particularly
used productively, which may be guided from within, since the external
And now we may transfer this
to appreciate more fully the ascetic methods of development. We may
to blissfulness, and also how the tearing of pain may become a kind
of bodily pain may become a kind of training, a path of knowledge. Imagine

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to the thinker concerned. He may then give us his thoughts himself,
it may receive, spiritual thoughts which it so sorely needs. A thinking
thinking. You may remember my explaining that what is understood by
true significance is not recognized. They may even be laughed at and
himself. Then the thoughts of man, which may be excellent, often have
gradually come about that the individual may have fine ideas but they
and is being promoted in the strongest possible way by what may be termed

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this to be the case. They may have absorbed one or two ideas considered
in physiology can be verified under the microscope. Facts may be falsely
interpreted, the most extraordinary discoveries may be construed, but
matter are really described by Lucifer and Ahriman. You may say: this
comes about in a remarkable way. You may remember my speaking about
may be questioned but the authority of a great many people is thought

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as we may forget something. They forgot man, lost him from their consciousness.
danger that while he may talk about Christ his intellectual picture
quite impossible for a theologian in the 14th century. This fact may
may be spoken of but is not understood. That is the case even in a philosopher
to a universal Godhead; or he may go to the other extreme and simply
to answer such questions one may draw attention to the fact that no
a good, wise God allow evil to exist? To this the following may be said:
is exposed to very hot sun rays. This may not at once result in actual
someone may strive to understand the world through natural science;
as a consequence he fails to find the Christ impulse. He may later learn

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may find through this event also our own relation to the spiritual world.
may come face to face with these powers. In such moments when he puts
may even speak of the death of an individual as a necessity, as a duty,
and sorrow we may gradually come to value the thought that death, as
We may balance this thought
is suffering. We may balance it against the pain we ourselves feel over
our dear friend, we may attempt to enoble our pain by thinking of him
you. This thought may not ease or tone down the pain, but its spiritual
that come to nothing especially in our times? Why is it, we may ask,
nurture them, for they are forces, effective forces. Any doubt we may
spiritual world. He says: “You may tear me to pieces but I cannot
he may refer to my publication ‘Taking Stock’ and ‘Expressionism’
they have helped me but may not necessarily help others” and “Should
It may be a good thing when
things are not the concern of the world in general. I may add my voice

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we have reason to hope we may find Him. At present it is of particular
I may add, modern philosophers take great exception.
It may be asked why in these
we too may hope to attain an intensified comprehension of Christ. This
of a specific example. I wanted to show how a human being may make a
as it may seem they are strong inwardly. Many who go about like weaklings

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and active. Strange as it may seem it is possible, particularly in our
very effective is when, in a spiritualistic seance, such a spirit may
this you will understand better when I now say something which may seem
knowledge may become a vital force enabling souls to deal appropriately
may suffer as a result. — In speaking about these things one is
are formed according to the way we are organized. I may mention, not
Orientals call Maya. In the activity of forming mental pictures of the
a course of lectures I gave at Helsingfors in May and June 1913. At

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The question may have arisen
may recur, although the greater issue itself is not repeated. This applies

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in characterizing his inner experiences. But what he felt may be expressed
Roman had felt. Odd as it may seem this had the effect that he could
no longer reach. Luther may not have been conscious of these things
Aristotle's teaching on substances. Be that as it may, one has to say
cultural influence in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. One may ask who
of Lessing and Goethe. An initiate may have wanted to tell his fellow

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intimately connected with the 'I' during life, may receive moral impulses
derived from spiritual insight. You may ask how it then comes about
an example which may seem strange to some but which perhaps conveys
One may ask why people today
be is maya, is a great illusion. He wanted man to have the opportunity
may have succeeded but it did not. Today we again find ourselves within

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Narrow it is, and makes one dismay.
we have to recognize what may be called a sort of
strengthen his soul's powers it may come about that he

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture I
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and his evolution, may well ask: Why is it so difficult to gain a
From this we may
It may be asked: What
intimately bound up with the outer organism, we may conclude that
difficult as it may be to realise it as a picture of yourself in this
for mathematics at all. If we wish to discover what gifts we may
may happen that a man had a special talent for mathematics in a
are stupid. If we discover the dullest sides of our nature, they may
of man's inner being. We may love a language for the sake of
the picture stand twelve persons; another may perhaps feel that
this may represent the number of centuries that have elapsed since
will be in a position to know and who may say to them:
for instance, a man has a great thought, however great it may be, the
simile we may obtain an idea of this by thinking of something we like

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fully see the reason for it, we may say to ourselves: “I really
from some situation we are in. For example: a man may be destined by
happened to you twenty years ago, reappears in memory. The event may
degrees, and it may well happen that something has struck a man such
1866, and imagine what may have taken place in his soul at that
kinds of feelings. To these also belong what may be described as the
again must not be classed with what may be called experiences of
other soul-forces, if I may put it in that way.
someone says: “But we may be simply imagining it all,”
Theoretically such an objection may be raised, but life brings the
who says: “That may be imagination,” any more than we can
although the same thing may happen in a hundred, in a thousand,
A man may be walking
in a wood, and being lost in thought may forget that the woodland
it was a happy chance that he was saved in this way. But there may be
only be told, not proved. We may say: ”Processes in the
we bring the proper devout attitude to bear on such an event we may
in this devout feeling, he may experience something that makes him
There may not be many
in our life here between birth and death. It may happen, and in
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It may be asked: Why
right and natural spiritual impulse. It may be asked: “Who are
Anthroposophy?” To this we may reply: “Those who have an
two truths of reincarnation and karma. It may be said that the first
believe in them may say: “When I have passed through the Gate
This idea may be
friendship, of ‘conscious love,’ if it may be called so?
are so logical their author may perhaps have arrived at their content
about questions which may seem to those outside Anthroposophy to be
maybe.
matter that may seem to us devoid of reality in one incarnation will
something that may be regarded as the essential kernel of

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world, although there may now and then intrude some higher level
that which we may term Illumination, whereby they are initiated
may approach the region of the superperceptual world from two
man must traverse in order that he may enter into the spirit
realms. There are two possible methods by which he may raise the
which we may term the ‘Mystical Method’, and another
perception, in order that you may look around upon all things,
merely maya (illusion), and turned from it in order to attain to
tells him that whatever may be his present condition this
principle will work persistently within, and through it he may
therefore be developed and expanded, in order that the world may
begins to gain spiritual experience, a feeling of awe may come
inscribed alphabetical characters, these may be combined into
they may be divided is, however, indeterminate, being variously
may be traced back, and shown to have its origin in that Great
self-purification alone may evil be overcome. Thus did the great
the outer world of Maya; from all such you must turn away,
whatsoever may befall.’
civilization. You must not regard all things as merely Maya, but
spread around you; and avoid everything that may be of the nature
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great cosmos. The Isis-Force may be pictured as the sun’s
she may pass on the power of his radiance in the form of
their whole soul-life. The soul may indeed incline towards
bliss. For instance, there may be discussion and debate relative
The ‘Legend of Osiris and Isis‘ may
and Horos leads me on, back to Osiris — to his Father — who may
There are but two paths by which Osiris may
Osiris may be reached through Initiation and the consecration of
at hand whereby we may break through to this inner power and
cometh thy physical quality, with all that it may express of that
in order that he may obtain such enlightenment, he that would
depths of his being, for thus alone may true understanding and
Isis-Mysteries, may discern that spiritual life and power to
at midnight, for, metaphorically speaking, he may at all times
consonants are connected in a way which may be likened to that
they may well go hack to a date still more remote’.

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as may be within our power. Hence, we must regard as the
widening and fuller recurring corporal states, in which we may
wisdom as may serve to free him from those future reincarnations,
peacefully upon that condition which we may term
Maya.’ Only at such time as man might commune with the
currents to which I have referred, may be expressed in the
philosophies and the Yoga training, we find that these may be
Deception‘, which is indeed Maya. It is also understandable
sink into illusion — into Maya — but that again and again there
repeated earth lives, to the dignity of Buddhahood, if we may so
which caused him to exclaim: — ‘Man may indeed be
possessed of much wisdom, and through his knowledge there may
in which we have our being is Maya, — illusion; that here life
spiritual realm. While we are yet here we may indeed be exalted,
and even rise to noble heights in the divine sense, and we may
which spreads itself abroad throughout this world of Maya is not
which will show us the way by which we may be freed from
things which may be apprehended in the material state in which we
realm, where all may enter who have overcome the need for
reincarnation, since it is not of those things of which we may
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happenings and experiences may become merged in one of quite
reality, however, the latter part of such an account may be
to our present intellectual consciousness, which latter may be
that a certain order of conscious-state may reappear and be found
fruit, and the task was ended. It may, however, happen that with
natural disposition, corresponding to a former period may
it is that certain singular and distinctive national traits may
order that we may understand the circumstances, it is necessary
deep down into the evolution of mankind, so that man may be
Egypt, may be regarded as an actual account of mundane events. As
man may gain true understanding of those grand spiritual heights
soul itself may display in the form of female figures — even
specific and divine spiritual beings. This concept may be
Strange as it may appear, in the medieval
adequate faculty, or organ, wherewith he may realize that many
that he may be active and untrammelled in his soul-life. The
graphically portrayed in order that we may realize that Moses was
that these two simple words may be fraught with the uttermost
sorrow and adversity, you may turn from Him; but of a verity
may weaken, and lose his feeling of unity with the vital source
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that may be consciously apprehended, and the results of which can
light upon the world’s history may become clearly apparent
3. No matter how much we may argue concerning the reality and
external occurrences, for their inception may oft-times be traced
familiar to us from the Bible, and in order that my subject may
a strange and peculiar feeling of fear and dismay. For it was
evident from what they heard that the Jahveh-religion, as it may
supersensible God may only be described by saying: — ‘It
that such a statement may appear somewhat grotesque, but those
through these hidden powers of the soul that man may raise
order that there may come therefrom the wisdom necessary to the
may be stated to be somewhat as follows: — The clairvoyant
that in me lies, in order that the force within my being may find
true and proper expression; and that I may acquire those
experience that may come upon me. Thus shall I know how to impart
advanced, that the particular personality in question may
passing. They are merely symbols, such as may come during the
suffering from palpitation of the heart, may, during sleep, be
one, through whom it shall be proclaimed that man may still
now rest in peace till times may mend — for albeit it is the
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of the Christ-conception. This divergence may well be due to the
Jesus through this sacred baptism, which event we may consider as
turning-point in their lives. A situation of this nature may
origin. Then indeed they may say: — ‘That which has now
and quite unlike any which may break in upon men’s souls
it may be easy of comprehension. In the example previously cited
concepts to which we may raise ourselves, than is that of things
toward what may be touched and seen, while all that is of the
minds of the people. But it may be said that an echo of the true
historical means as may be applied in other cases has merely led
life of Jesus of Nazareth, as may be used to demonstrate the
proof may be found in the original Christian documents of the
of his intimate soul-life, may verily raise himself above his
primeval times. Whereas the soul may now through its own effort
What actually took place in these sanctuaries may be briefly
Now, although what we may term man’s
which Christianity and the Christ-Impulse brought to mankind may
he is man, may find if he but seek steadfastly in the very
which all may discern who but look deep within.
mankind once admits the verity of the above statement, it may go
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speak, in the way that may be possible in the intimate
on, and may kind of interpretation at this stage might
intelligible. It may, perhaps, be possible to speak here
urge was leading him. And after may wanderings he was led
judging, may read all the books and the lecture-courses,

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spiritual-scientific investigation, we may be able to
to develop in such a way that man may find his place in
divine wrath within him— for others too may voice
so by gazing, as Zarathustra had gazed, at what may be
foolishness by modern science, but it may be the kind of

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that what eludes intellectual understanding may be
And we may say with truth that in ancient Greece, St.

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it will be more appropriate today to speak of what may be useful in
them mere daubing. This may often have been true, but we will not argue
day may still come. In any case, you can see that here a man is working
“Perhaps that may be the case with you, but definitely not with
have such a distorted view of philosophy? I think it may interest you
so we may be able to meet again next week for another lecture.

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Of course, you may say that at first glance
not cowards know Christ is always revealing Himself; therefore, we may
talk, maybe one about anatomy or physiology, by looking at the substances

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meaning of the signs of the times correctly. May many follow this soul
May your wings carry
May our prayer be a shining help
the sense of smell. As you may know, certain composers were especially
obviously gotten to know only false theosophists; maybe genuine,
And so Franz gets the idea that maybe this very man is one of the white
what we may call the core of spiritual life common to all people. This

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However, things may happen quite differently.
As you may remember, I once said that the
may be more or less true and can sometimes even be quite correct, but
skulls. However, they may not have been musicians in their preceding
may be said in all modesty — what we are trying to do thoroughly,

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events do indeed follow upon one another, one of them may be far more
a particular time may mean much more for the understanding of what follows
However, if I may say so, truth shines forth from these events.
matter how different the situations they may be in, they always try
You see, people may go through the world, they may stand on a mountain
but don't connect it with the spiritual. Or people may go into homes
and so on. Imagine the hiker wandered for an hour, maybe, or an hour
and a half, and then came upon a simple wooden crucifix. The hiker may
we may experience on seeing the figure of Christ in Michelangelo's famous
there would be much less versifying and, if I may say so, much less
As you may know, one of the most biting critics in Berlin had to call

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see, is really a satire. Now you may easily think it improper to treat
Prince Rudolf and the Archduke Johann — who, as you may know,
in the context of life as a whole. You may have read about the shocking
unique. Some of them may seem weird and crazy to strict and narrow-minded
critics. Well, their opinion may not always be a valid criterion, —
as we may say today, of the ladies in question. I have known scholars
physical body. Now, you may object that then the Mystery of Golgotha,

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it, we have something we may call, metaphorically speaking, a great
from everyday life experiences, which we may call by analogy “a
the paintings on the inside of each roll. Now, you may wonder if a description
can easily describe them and find them interesting and beautiful. Maybe
some rolls are more slanted than others; maybe some are curved, and
Now you may say that such things as told in
more closely at life may perhaps not go so far as to agree with Shakespeare's
Though we may not arrive right away at that
Now, you may want to know why there are musical
not become musical. Nevertheless, they may have other excellent qualities,
may even have been great world reformers and have influenced world history.
Most people may understand truths like these,
people may have an exceedingly lofty understanding of the world, as,
an individual may understand it, but you will not influence our culture
write nonsense about it — if they write about it at all. You may
are now sold in second-hand bookshops. Granted, we may not be able to
people may want some friendly advice and to refuse that would be absurd.
As you may remember, in an earlier edition of
to this example to show that something may follow from calculations,
This may be a particularly blatant case; still,
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greatest imaginable dissemination we may say, considering the
state.” One may, for all that, grant the right to those
many a reader may fare strangely. Some have said that Jacob
to happen. We may say that the instinctive life of the animal
experience will not seem as strange to us as it may have
may say, with regard to many persons who have sought an answer
Deity Himself may come to realization so much the more
— that may yet be nothing. But it is something else to be
over it, — I can and may hope for liberation, so that the
Then something in Jacob Boehme may well become
may be that this Dr. Harles, the antagonist of Jacob Boehme,

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this element which may disturb us today should make us consider the

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture II
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5th of May, 1905
In England we may still find them at the time of Queen Elizabeth.
initiate for a dwelling. This we may find in all the Mysteries. Even
in the case of newly-born children, a faint trace of this eye may

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May 12, 1905
black order. Even a magician of the black path may walk about
longing re-echoing throughout the drama may be expressed as follows:

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19th of May, 1905.
their name from it. Christianity itself may be led back, as a fourth
which may be designated as a semitic impulse.
follows: In Asia, in the Hindoo race, we may find something of the
is reached by the Brahmins. Then we may find in the North a more
the act of killing made man feel his own strength. This may be said
In his opinion, the only way in which a race may grow in strength is through

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Theosophical Society on May 26, 1904. Rudolf Steiner was the general
believe that the indications I am able to give may be useful to many
Take a poet whose work gives us pleasure. This poet may find a
through their own experience. You may ask: what is an initiate anyway?

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the only English translation to my knowledge. The first lecture may be
briefly indicated. There may be an opportunity later to elucidate
were, if I may use the expression, result, fruit. In a way similar to

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lecture may be found at
4 Double creation: This may refer to Genesis 1, 26, where God creates humankind. In Genesis 2, 7, this creation is described again, albeit differently.

Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 1: The Inner Aspect of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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away they are the less clear do they appear, so we may also admit
Saturn-existence. And in order that we may form a conception of how
acquiring a feeling, more or less known to everyone, that may be
can do no other than lose every thought that may come to him, in a
having no perception at all. He may be so deeply absorbed in this
has two possibilities. The first is that he may have understood the Gospels,
really concrete beings. Naturally it may appear strange to say that
discoverable. If we revert to the simile of swimming, we may say it
is nothing but a maya as compared with the sacrifice of the Spirits
of Will!” But so it is. Externally heat is really only a maya.
perhaps may not appear less impressive than the glimpse afforded us

Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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concepts and ideas through which we may reach those strange and
is very deeply immersed in Maya and Illusion; and we must first work
through something of a spiritual psychic nature which we may
contemplation of active practical devotion may call forth the
For instance, people may say: “Suppose one takes up any
be empty and able to wait quietly for what may enter into it from the
through which we may receive what may be offered to us as revelation
physical properties. That is only maya and illusion, only outer
the feeling we may ourselves have if through the above-described
something having an independent existence. We may describe the nature
yesterday may come back into it. What you formed yesterday is
radiate outwards. Thus something new is created which we may describe
heat of the sacrifice being so transmuted that we may think of it
account, when it dawns on the soul that what has been described may
human being in the way of Divine grace may be either accepted or
belongs to the earlier, and so ordained for the earth that it may
also be rejected by the traitor. We may feel that this is the
himself: “Something may take place on the Earth of which only a

Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth - 1
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— although in maya or illusion — in all external
that behind all that we may call flowing air or flowing gas, there is
reality mere illusion, nothing but maya; and only when we progress
from maya to the incorporeal, the spiritual, do we obtain the correct
deeds that man may do — particularly such as bear upon the
will which may appear within us. The less we “will,” the
self-inflicted suffering. In many cases the practice of this may be a
spiritual self-indulgence, for a person may practise it in order to
may experience in the soul, as a conception of something far removed
familiar, but which may until now have appeared in some respects to
we may call a division of the whole Sun-substance, a divergence. If
Now at the risk of repeating ourselves, we may say that Time
in Maya, we learn that the evolution of ancient Moon followed that of
the external world. That which had been sacrifice reappears in Maya
as Heat; and that which was bestowing virtue appears in Maya as gas
or air. Resignation as it has now become appears in external Maya as
Fluidity, as “Water.” “Water” is Maya and
in mind it will at any rate be possible to grasp a question that may be
into the actual nature of water. But now the question may be raised:
fault — if we may venture to speak of such an original fault
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perceive in water what might be called resignation. It may just be
designated “spirit” may be looked upon as proving this,
Indeed in the outer world it may often occur that people use the word
which has its origin in what may be called: “readiness to
resembling in many respects what a man may even yet experience at the
some other age may have experienced some injustice, to which children
are particularly sensitive. He perhaps may have been blamed for
may have bitten deeply into the childish life, the later soul-life
is concerned the, child forgot it. And indeed it may very well never
formerly endured is rising to the surface, he may have different
surface of the soul-life just as there may be movements beneath the
Sometimes it takes one form and sometimes another. One person may
“home-sickness,” expressing something that may be active
it was somewhat of this nature. What we may discover in the depths of
beings whom we may designate as: Beings with wishes which are
fluidic movement of our own thought; yet this expression may serve,
fluidic pictures that succeed one another in a dream may evoke a
embodiment — that of the Moon-existence — may be called
able to satisfy it — such as a modern thinker may find if he
described in the most significant manner what may live within a man
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Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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call Maya or the great illusion, there is the Spiritual. Let us once again
the following. Does all that we have in this world of Maya or illusion
that the world of Maya might be compared with the rippling play
indifference, we may very well put the question: — Is there in
the wide realms of our Maya or illusion, anything that is real?
other kind of knowledge may be acquired externally and established by
not as yet in me, but which may pass over into me.” So that we
through the experiences one may have of men on the physical plane to
something is communicated to a person, which although it may be
spiritual atmosphere, may be described in many respects by saying
picture the feelings of such Beings, you will have an idea of what may
that the “displacement” — if we may once more speak
behind in the world of Maya, we know that it consists of nothing but
flowing virtue; if we may describe flowing water or the element of
Earth is the element in which death appears and may be experienced.
our world of illusion and Maya, whether there is anything in it
real in all the world of Maya around us, but that the reality must be
that within the world of Maya there is that, which, precisely because
spiritual world, may be called death. Thus something is cut off in
Maya, which actually ought not to be there. In the whole wide realm
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 1: The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations
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the result gave us hope that the aim may be achieved and
of thought may thus resound in that space.
our lives the soil may be created for peace, where
blessings may arise and come to flower for the
of you may already have the first volume of my book,
life of man are decided. Events may have come upon us
may look for such comfort in the words that are spoken
we may have faith in our hearts that events will take the
grim signals and the thunder of war. Many a soul may feel
hearts of our friends the words: May everything we have
to be part of our spiritual endeavour may prove
dear friends, and do everything that may emerge out of
Let us look for opportunities where we may be allowed to
mind I have described. This may be achieved with words
These spirits may be asked to show us the right way into
ourselves. You may ask how we are able to know that we
thing may come for the good of mankind. It is in the
That striving it may find
tonight. May the love that we have invoked so often take
firm root in us. May we find a way of keeping faith with
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 2: Nationalities and Nationalism in the Light of Spiritual Science
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peace — may he rule over everything you are asked
self that may wither away with the body and its
‘Maya’ when referring to outward appearances,
the processes of physical life, become Maya because man
world. This makes them become Maya.
plane, is what may collectively be referred to as
easily understood. Indeed, they may well be truths which
science, so that it may bring clarity even into physical
enables us to overcome Maya in this field and look to
field do we find something that will take us beyond Maya,
another nation and, indeed, may be ranting and raving
told about them, someone seeing things not as Maya but in
It is embarrassing to speak of this now for it may appear
replace Maya, misconception. We shall then understand how
may gain even without seeing the building, we note above
above the outer Maya which holds men captive and come to
truths but we must first penetrate them in their Maya to
That may well be. A German has to form them first in his
faces his opponent — this may also be in a duel and
may have nothing at all to do with any feeling of
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May the
is that the things which have to be said may only too
reality — is Maya, a kind of ghostly dream, and
must be clear to us that this truth of the Maya cannot be
evolve which we may call the inner eye, the inner ear. It
a way that, for example, it may still evoke sympathy and
particular moment, a certain number of folk souls may be
things are said we become aware how the reality of Maya
awareness one of them may be more inclined towards the
most silly and erroneous results. For it may hold true in
looks when we see behind the veil of Maya and how the
external doings of man may present the opposite of the
be seen. A cloud formation may look undefined when seen
may happen that a person rejects spiritual truths, that
the wrong view. At other times they may behave quite
incarnation. On the other hand, a person may make his own
shall go on regardless.’ That is how a person may
in Maya.
things. We may find many of the things that are happening
point of view the events of today may serve as a lesson,
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spirit we have long been seeking in our movement, may he
that they will no longer appear to us as Maya, the great
that these outward appearances in themselves are Maya or
wisdom may have achieved at that time, if nothing else
human skill, but — and enlightened minds may refuse
created around them, externally. We may say they assumed
Orleans, Joan of Arc, [16 January 1412–30 May 1431]
of Arc achieved something about which the following may
impulse may be seen in two ways. On the one hand we may
take a different view. There may have been a point to it
beginning of the 19th centuries and which we may hope
as it may seem to modern man with his materialistic
Many facts that deeply move the soul may come within the
Christ impulse may be taken hold of in conscious
the best of them all: Goethe. We may quote Goethe as an
Christianity in such a way that it may be borne through
culture were now to suffer through what may come from the
The time needed will be so long that we may reckon on
Maya. It is not that the outside world in itself is Maya.
sympathies or antipathies that may arise and with no
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May the
Golgotha, be present above you, may it stream through you
words ‘Spirits of your souls’ may not be
then. There may be some observant people among you who
overnight. They may have had the strange experience of
one may wake up quite frequently — and finding that
brought about whatever the external conditions may be.
again the leading spirit on earth. We may make a
iron.’ But there may be magnetic forces within it.
one may be considered a great philosopher, to hurl abuse
may be pointed out as well. Nor is it necessary to hurl
and instead we may say: Perhaps the very place where the
however, a German may easily get himself misunderstood as
demonic Ahrimanic entity may be found.
will come to fruition. We may hope that it will all be

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May the
our mind deeply — may he be with you and with the
points that may of value to us in one respect or
on page 10 makes the significant statement: 'It may seem
may be considered clever can so easily point to the fact
world. You may take up correct ideas or incorrect ideas
strength to the souls of men. We may also say they make
them radiant within so that the souls may be real not
has grown very old, i.e. has reached what we may call a
bodies. Something else may be noted at every point where
feelings one may perceive in the dead in relation to
several or, indeed, many persons. This may seem absurd to
common aura may be seen, with people's thoughts flowing
the external world. Such beliefs may then take hold of
completely subject to materialism may nevertheless be
religious in an external sense. And such souls may
experience that reaction in a particular way. They may,
own culture, were a race of barbarians, and they may make
looking at these events is about all one can find. It may
powers that may be the fruits arising from the seed of
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May the
may sometimes believe one has a very special relationship
Then may I live in hope,
Then may I live in hope,
therefore came to me from Fritz Mitscher's soul that may
May revealed be to the seeker
May revealed be to the seeker
us have something in common, however much they may
breathe, however much the ignorant may, and indeed will,
physical life — we may ask the question:
where a stone was lying. Superficially it may indeed
external life may be completely wrong.

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May the
want to consider more the path the human soul may take to
‘dead’ souls may be found. It has to be
and I shall do so from a point of view that may be called
doors, as it were. The first may be called the Door of
we may gain that allow us the enter into the spiritual
may be sitting on a chair — but he is in a kind of
an experience that may be referred to as going through
This terror may present itself in all kinds i of ways, as
is not to give in to fears that the will elements may
denied and may indeed have much to be said for it that is
other people—may on occasion give news of other
people, even of people from the past; or it may offer
may bring great successes but it still is not the right
life in our thought may be able to expand. In the end it
example we want to use what may be called ‘head
That is the real point. It may happen, for instance, that
body at a specific stage in the digestive process; he may
thought element we can also be aware that we may have
as the great destiny of the age demands. They may be said
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 9: The Sleeping-and-Waking Rhythm in the Context of Cosmic Evolution
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May the
one part of the human being — and this may surprise
This is a process we may consider one of natural
methods but consumption does take place. We may return to
that place which we may very roughly compare with what
way that they are like the branches of a tree, if I may
quite a general state which may be found in all kinds of
different areas. We may say that wherever we look it is
example, one that is peculiar yet may have special
what may be gained by taking the path of spiritual
else is considered a figment of the imagination. It may
Eastward, wherever my valiant steed may go,
powers that may be good or evil, approach man, enter into
We may ask
deliberately. Yet in an age that may be said to have been
— an insight the universal spirit may be said to be
now, in these pain-racked times. We may only be able to

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 10: Problems on Spiritual Path - National Characteristics in Europe Moulded by Folk Spirits
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May the
consider today will once again be aphoristic. They may
certain as this may be — it is also very easy to
may later come up as a memory. To the clairvoyant eye it
we say to ourselves: It may be that I have nothing
self. These ideas go to the other one. We may experience
world independent of his body. We may say that man had a
spiritual science so that we may find the folk spirit in

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May the
nature and the spiritual part is what may be called the
belonging to several worlds. This may be presented from
Now we may ask: ‘What is the essential difference
may be said to have radiated in only with earth
This may be perceived as a genuine entity into which the
of what may be said to have evolved on the Sun. It, too,
for whom an inner point of light may arise for events
world. He grows together with what we may call his
he wears the garment of a body. May the events we are

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 12: The Group Sculptured for the Building in Dornach
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May the
that it may be seen as part not only of a spiritual
It is primarily a group of three. More may be added, and
may be seen to be winding itself around this figure, with
our soul for a while we may come to feet that this is the
form of the body is such that we may get an inkling...
painting so that the two may be seen in juxtaposition to
inwardness, purely Luciferic. Thus the globe may be said

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May the
some of the things we may know already, though it is good
to review them again and again, for they may serve as
this life of ours. We may therefore expect to find
something in our present life that may, as it were, be
and also something that may be seen to point us towards
aspects that we may consider to be to some extent
undertook maybe ten, twenty years ago. And the person
ago.’ But if he reflects carefully he may well find
that direction. We may think up a sentence, for example.

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 14: The Cosmic Significance of Our Sensory Perceptions - Our Thinking, Feeling and Will Activity
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May the
entity on earth, is one thing, and what may be called
may always be engaged in the whole process of earth life;
yet any significance they may hold for us depends on our
stars in the universe. I think we may say that people
world builders. We may think, as we stand before the
thought may flash up: ‘What have I been thinking?
with the whole of one's soul. We may be its protagonists
May 1347, on Whitsunday, that Cola di Rienzi
Whitsunday — on 20 May 1347. It was then that the
sword to the Mayor of Rome as a sacred relic on this

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May that spirit Whom we have sought
humanity, may He be with you in your heavy tasks.
which humanity is now passing may perhaps be one which will bring
the terrible events of the times. We may say that everything that can
direction. One may say that although at first there was in
and it may well be that karma has placed our building in Switzerland
because the work may have a special significance for that land;
deep satisfaction. We may say that anyone who takes into
fact, as is not always done, while on the one hand he may feel
sorrowful, yet on the other he may feel satisfaction in the hope that
anthroposophical science may yet render it possible for the German
It may strike a sorrowful note, too,
ourselves, so that we may behave accordingly. To-day I need only
dream-life. We may say: Historical becoming is a great dream of
about ruin (and perhaps a sorrowful proof of this may yet be found in
matters may be discussed; though people outside often laugh at such
at the door indeed of all human impulses. It may be said — as
under which men live are of consequence. I may be allowed to be
wanted something which may not be realised under ordinary earthly

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 2: A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Human Being
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in an artistic consideration of the universe, he may find more truth
superficial difference, it may strike us that the formation of the
schoolmastering, which in other words may be called Wilsonism. This
education so that a man may look back upon his school time with
warmth and joy, and may wish himself back, is connected with one of
not to offer himself until he has become a whole man. Thus we may say
things must be so. What may underlie public decisions must be drawn
body grows old; for, strange as it may seem, the etheric body, the
observation of man, an impulse may arise to apply one's intelligence
matter. I may perhaps here introduce a few personal remarks, though
In connection with this I may mention

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part of our souls with them. On falling asleep we may address the
Although with many people dreaming may well be intermixed with the
idea that the forces of the dead may live in what we dream or sleep
with the spiritual world, a mystery by contact with which a man may
discarnate souls is not like this. Strange as it may sound,
from the undifferentiated depths of the soul. A man may,
which from a certain point of view, may lead us farther and farther,
concerning these can be described differently. We may say that they
as it were; — if we may use such a comparison. The souls of the
Trivial as it may sound, for every age is a ‘time of
think how rich our times may become, if we accept this life with the
strange as that may sound, — for the impulses working in life

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toll.’ That is, one may allow almost anything to flash at will
necessary to continue the subject he began. It may be
‘inspirations,’ if we may so express it. That, however
we may encounter in life, but those of a more subtle kind daily press
is often — it may not always be so — not under the
stage. Let us take some simple ordinary instance from which we may
weak. That depends on the imponderabilities. We may easily have the
of man may be enriched thereby. If we could but bring to the heart of
realities. Untrue thoughts — however well they may be enwrapped

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guests, as you may imagine, ran after her and finally seized hold of
the soul exist (which is not to be denied) it is only that they may
general ought not to arise,) then exceptional cases may appear when
This may seem very strange, but it is
we may say: We fix our attention on man, and observe how he rests on
of each one of his actions. He may be an ‘angelic’ being
man may be a thief; while he commits the theft he judges his action
conscious life. There is in man, in a complicated way, what may be
animal. The other being — strange as it may sound, but the
In order that it may be further

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 6: Feelings of Unity and Sentiments of Gratitude: A Bridge to the Dead
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and another to speak of the stronger or weaker consciousness we may
Paradoxical as this may sound, yet it is true. It sounds paradoxical,
because the question may arise as to how the beings of the higher
takes place in us consciously. Often we may feel an antipathy towards
whom our conscious impression may be very unpleasant — he might
but it may happen that he lies quiet for a time after waking. Then he
may observe what he perceived before he awoke, and this he can
before he appeared — we may feel that we had seen him before he
can, however, exercise himself in this; he can apply what may be
place there. Often this may be even strikingly expressed; when a
life. As regards what may be called ‘the desire of the hands
holds intercourse with the living in such a way that we may say: We

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 7: Confidence in Life and Rejuvenation of the Soul: A Bridge to the Dead
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One soul may have similar stars to another, but not the same starry
certain psychic element, and it may be said that when this element
living through two directions of feeling; the first of which may be
smallest. Our difficult experiences may for the moment cause us
some, it may be, even inanimate; but wherever we have done anything,
into the consciousness, a feeling which we may put alongside of the
steadfast disposition of soul, so that life, however it may
‘confidence’ in life may lead to a sharp criticism of
theory, may be applied. In respect of his head, man is placed, as it
this respect something like a parasite. We may well think of it in
may be said that this is difficult to imagine. The only reply is that
may see in the right light the fact that the soul needs something
may not grow weary with our progressing life, but are always
It may seem strange to say so, but a
may be formed between the so-called dead and the living. What has

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture I: Folk Souls and the Mystery of Golgotha
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which may come very near to the human soul at the present day. Above
workings of the Folk-Spirit of the people. We may say that the air
Now one may raise the
the British Folk-character. We may
shown in the public lecture that the Americans may even say the same
is looked at in the abstract. But two men may say the same thing in
substance, and the remark made by the one may sound exactly the same
as the other, yet the one man may have fought out, conquered things
in his soul, and the other may utter them as the result of
Individual nations and whole races may be subject to these deviations
misunderstood. At a later date, perhaps we may be able to speak about
it can be individualized. There may be people in Central Europe in
whom this working of the Folk-Spirit may be different, sometimes
is again a self-created warmth coming from within. Therefore we may
characterize; so everyone may take this as he wishes — as
be good Yogis in America. Yoga may be transplanted there; but we
humanity. Therefore we may really say, that on the one hand we have
order that man may grasp its connection with the earthly historical

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture II: The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology
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emphasize this at the present day. For we may say that traditions,
something else, something quite special, which may be compared
more numerous, so that things may be illuminated from different
sides, that we may obtain concepts and views from various sides,
‘correct,’ so that they may now look arrogantly upon

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passive — one may not say mysterious — manner, is
have been lost chiefly because what one may call the Latin or
present-day battalions, although they may be responsible for
order that a better understanding of the world may become
appears to man; but what appears to thus is Maya. In many
this, we ought really to say (I may just remind you of what
with Maya, with the great illusion, for we must exactly
death and rebirth. We may say that man then gradually enters
not look at her very closely, it may occur that she does not
subconscious soul, and into our dreams may enter just that
consciousness. This may very easily happen when in waking
plunged in thought and a friend passes by; perhaps one may
not even have noticed him, yet one may dream of him, in spite
which we may say that we have it in us when we lived
hold onto that they may wish to unroll. If we live call up
pictorial manner. There may be loving memories connected with
these things — and of course it may also be otherwise.
directs his attention chiefly to the Earth — if I may
friend who is still here is undeveloped, he may have a
connection with the dead friend may be felt and experienced
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truths may lead man's observation very, very far, and serve
Maya-consciousness come to us, of being within that content
Maya-consciousness which is produced in us. And death among
many other things also disproves this Maya-consciousness
But now you may
are men, though it may be difficult to believe this today,
calamitous the present events may be, however much, from a
certain impulses which we may perhaps go into more
Perhaps he may not have “an appropriate
very characteristic; for if we may compare the great with the

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Berlin, 16th May, 1918
an idea which one may have concerning the life of the soul
true names and described as they really are. We may say that
and on the other hand where he may find the entrance to the
which may really fall to Spiritual Science. What we must
has appeared by Julius Robert Mayer. This essay, which
amateurish. Julius Robert Mayer was indeed later confined in
History of Philosophy by Überweg, in which Mayer is also
which it was treated by Mayer, but in a much coarser manner.
Julius Robert Mayer himself, but those of the English brewer
thoughts of Julius Robert Mayer, have permeated science. It
chained to materialism. For the unconscious, though we may

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VI: Spiritual Science, the Practice of Life and the Destinies of Souls
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Berlin, 14th May, 1918
is certainly in a sense a Science, and as such it is, we may
present day, only partly established; what it may eventually
have to be corrected; that much may appear in another form in
Then perhaps there may be a different content in one or
another department of this Spiritual Science. But what it may
only a characterization.) It may be asked what this is. It
senses. Those of you who are somewhat older may think back to
and purely sensuous impressions, so that he may be thrilled
may say ‘head-man’). Secondly, the trunk-man; and
strange as this may sound. If a man does not regard Spiritual
so that he can escape; or the designing murderer may be
motives of feeling may also be related. So for instance the
murderer may be so terrified at his own image, indistinctly
it. For it will blossom and flourish, you may be quite sure
order; but we may study some examples of their work. In the
consciousness may not grow faint; in Spiritual Science it is
it may be raised out of limitations, philistinism and

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Berlin, 21st May, 1918
with some such purpose in mind. We may however be allowed
such a life of his own initiative, that his neighbor may be
Whitsuntide message. For that reason it may be said that in a
always compare what Spiritual Science may become, with what
through whom reality may enter into Earth life from this
the columns of a thousand books and newspapers there may be two
— to what is really going on. The rest may all be a
rule attaining a true observation. It may be something right
and correct, but events may so discount this that perhaps it
may only come to expression in a distant future. It is
life. To-day it may perhaps occur to man to believe in his
also transformed. For the other years of childhood we may
simple reason that a man has reached the age of forty he may
what he had allowed to pass him by, which may be the Easter
Science. This may perhaps become the most fruitful germ
thoughts, so that they may oppose the present in a powerful

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture I: States of Consciousness
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possible to arrive at such a dream, although it may be hard
may think they have accomplished something important in
so that health, and not sickness, may stream into the body.

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though it may not seen so — with the character of our
among us may still remember the time when matches were
to materialism in practice, even though in theory they may
Building, so that you may see the connection between it and
basis is concerned: it may well be that future occult
just what I did. The result may be a feeling in the beholder
It may well be
acquired some small notion of the Building which, we may

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quite different arrangement of man's life may be brought
man may well look towards the East, for what is to develop in
It may perhaps
may seem paradoxical to speak as I have done about the West

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again so that you may see what very, very different
He was also without doubt a pious nan, but that may belong to
about. Older people may still know something of how certain

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being may be. To become aware of that would at once lead us
old way of understanding. “Christianity — men may
been reading to you from this author so that you may see the
however necessary it may be. The further progress of

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture VI: Problems of the Time (I)
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Golgotha. This may sound very strange, considering that
B.C. until 693 A.D. something was accomplished which may be
If everything, everything goes wrong, may the blame be on
revelation, which may not be contested; to speak against
Such truths may
the human with the Divine, or whatever it may be called. We
have so little to do with reality that may arise
ideas are not derived from spiritual knowledge they may enter
the spirit. However find they may be, they become abortions.
born, a beautiful child; his mother may be charmed. Mothers
principle. Bolshevism may perhaps, in the form of its
characteristically in what may be discerned as the essence of
events of the present day may be met in the right way, it is

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conclusions such as may result from hypotheses like those we
mentioned, we may perhaps have to go far afield for them. Man
general bearing may not perhaps seem particularly
ideas held hitherto may talk as much as they wish — they
totally different origin. It may be discussed in the
Goethe; which may develop out of Goethe's views, concepts and
sentiments. It may be concluded, therefore, that in
cleverest book about Goethe whatever may be said to the
Well they may well have done so. Imaginations are not so very
for a new edition. I see that in it may be found everything
may be spoken, this cannot be shaken, and that is what we
this he clings. We may not as yet be able to say how we shall
accomplish many things; but we may be sure that we shall

Title: On The Gospel of St. John
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means provided by culture to the end that men may still their purely
fairy-tales which may seem very elementary to us, but which proceeded
may be fulfilled — for that and for nothing else. The Masters
us work together as brothers, wherever we may be. No one is too weak

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It is true we may at first be inclined to ask how it comes about that,
Very much more may be learned by thoroughly examining the foundations
may be called crystallized pain — pain that has been conquered
on the face of a thinker which is suggestive of what one may describe
such repetition may serve to render these laws more and more clear to
universe, that which I am about to say may seem little else than so
when the latter convey nothing to a person. Indeed we may here adopt,
body, and may therefore indeed speak of the ‘boundaries of
plane of feeling, so that in the life-substance may move not only
fluids, but also that in it may be expressed all that is known as pain
particular things that may be brought near to them, yet such a
“feeling” may exist, an image must be formed within the
God,” and whatever interpretation modern philology may choose to
now superseded, but which may be experienced when, by special
sense-experiences. He can only be aware of such things as he may have
the pictures which his blood received, for, incredible as it may seem
simultaneous with the advent of exogamy. Surprising, as this may seem,
days, in order that humanity may evolve to a higher stage of
the individuality of a people may be destroyed if, when colonizing,
to rule his ego. Hence we may say that the sentence which has formed

Title: Lecture: The Lord's Prayer
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meditation may reach any of a number of stages, from the smallest gain in
a double character, as you can see, From one side it may be regarded as
may thus be looked upon as the three highest principles in man, but
You see that the three principles of higher human nature may be looked
earth incarnations, or, we may say, at the end of our present planetary
One may picture this “great sacrifice,” the highest expression of
human nature. The three higher principles may be thought of, we know,
as principles of the Godhead. Similarly, the four lower principles may be
Divinity, we may observe the four principles of our lower nature as parts
The physical body may be seen as part of the physical substance of our
it. The etheric body likewise may be considered a part of the environment
indicates the kind of fault through which an ego may fall. The human
with his fellow men. Temptation may assail the astral body in any respect
petitioner, at the time when he uses it, may rise to understand the full
Observe a plant. It delights you, though you may know nothing at all of
is there, and may have interest for you, but it would never have been

Title: Lecture: On Chaos and Cosmos
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resounded the Word of the Godhead: “May Light become.”

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he perceived it as “Maya” — he longed for
may the physical world and the spiritual world be said to

Title: Lecture: The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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gathering what one might call inner tolerance. May we succeed in our
this spirit of the most inner understanding may become effective.

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only in the far distant future. Nevertheless, we may say that however
advanced these individual souls may be, however far they may tower
just such bodies as our own. At any time, therefore, a being may
course of time, we may perhaps not find it at all in a former fleshly
from even one embodiment to which he may subject himself; he enters a
perhaps the ultimate in human intellect. One may think of the content
wish for discussion may really be taken as a sign of ignorance.
opened so that he may henceforth see into his spiritual environment

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was to him the interpreter of truth. It may be said that in this
exercises that may be found in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, what
which have grown entirely out of Egyptian wisdom may in a certain
ancient times. You may read in the Bible: “Adam knew his wife and she
Whatever modern times may have to say, this is the reason why Raphael
Anthroposophical Quarterly, IV, 3.), that of 1st May and that of 6th
May, 1909, will show us in a strictly scientific sense how these

Title: Lecture: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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Berlin, May 6, 1909
A lecture delivered in Berlin, May 6th, 1909. Translated from a
for instance, may resolve to develop principally the thinking faculty,
deeper understanding than elsewhere. The attitude of the Initiates may
which everyone may discover in his own individuality. The Mystery of
definite element of feeling so that each thought may be said to have

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may be described as “astral imagination.” And if
at present thou mayest go no further; for wert thou to
the figure from the spirit world. “Thou mayest only
For that which is in thee may only be taken up as far as the
“Thou mayst go only a certain length in the moulding of
a wide-flung realm to come down into the world I may say that
physical world — also one that maybe termed a
may call reflected images of things not to be found upon the

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effect, — one may as well say at once that it is really
designated by a name, in order that he may thus reveal the
So that we may observe this still better, there is yet
from the idea of what may be regarded as the separate individuality,
attachment to nothingness, so that he may rise to a higher existence
be able to draw out of the world of the senses something that we may
regards the world? or may be perhaps differently placed in the
Maya, is Illusion!’ Christianity asserts: ‘It is true
is Maya, it is the Great Deception!’ ‘Not so,’
No; it is not that we are surrounded by Maya, but that
Maya — that is the inner impulse of Christianity.
Science may rest in the hope that the rightly comprehended Christian
strange though this may sound — if it had not been for the
trace may be wiped out of all that connected him with this physical

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Julius Robert Mayer schon in den vierziger Jahren des
wollen auf Julius Robert Mayer, auf den BegrÃ¼nder
Robert Mayer hat den merkwÃ¼rdigen Ausspruch getan:

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the inner life of some great individuality may feel that human speech
man may easily mistake the word, or what the word infuses into him,
kind may be called ‘onomatopoeia,’ an imitation of the
Ego. And just as we may speak of three of the members of our being as
being products of the past, so may we speak of three other members
in order that man may exist in his present form. The product of this
therefore, we may speak of the sevenfold human being: the three soul
been elaborated by the Ego into the consciousness soul, and which may
It may appear strange to say that spiritual activities
within man, even though there may be no ideas in the external world,
around us. We may say, therefore, that everything around us in the
However strange it may appear, the air around us is not merely the
or less like a dream. We may dream, for instance, that a shot is
It may therefore be said that speech has arisen just as
single languages may be, artistic power has been at work in them all.
say, all that may be spoken of as the predisposition to build up
It may seem to many of you that I have only been able to

Title: Lecture: Prayer
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origin. This may, indeed, be called “knowledge of
spiritual science, and the soul activity that may in the true
the message, then, of what we may call the stream of the
unknown stream of which we know only that it may have
within itself what we may call a devotion toward the divine.
ego may become present in it. The soul will know that if it
our souls? It is what we may call the feeling of devoted
about what may come to the soul from the future. Only actual
may throw me into chains,
live in anxiety over what the future may bring, still lacking
what we may call a force of warmth and light — light
future may bring; warmth because it helps to realize that
inner blessedness, that we really may call divine. It is the
feel fear of what may befall us, and the world is like a veil
to all that may come to us from the future, we shall find
that may indeed be said to express the deepest secrets of man
development may be. A true prayer can give everyone
we may have achieved, we are never finished with a prayer.
that the garden may be fair, is perfect, but for their own
this greatness so that I may become perfect, then, even so,
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Title: Lecture: Mendelssohn's 'Overture of the Hebrides'
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something which may be likened to a wonderful cathedral. It is
which may be compared with the impression made by this poem. Goethe,
of my people in war. But never may you need it, warriors; while the
battle, that his fame may rise in song! O ye ghosts of heroes dead!
and bear them to your hills. And may the blast of Lena carry them
over my seas, that they may come to my silent dreams, and delight my
souls in a purified and milder form. And thus we may say — it

Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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may look back just at this time at our common anthroposophical life of the
We may say that in the course of these years, not only the increased
number of these meetings may tell us something, but that in
These people may otherwise have the most varied experiences and thereby
the others of another, then the two parties may inwardly want to murder

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We may therefore say that the green calyx-leaves up above where the
separated astral structures may be so interdependent that no process
to the whole. This may not seem to us so very peculiar. But it is peculiar
structure that has embodied itself to form the fish may evolve higher,

Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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thinking may no longer depend on the external sense-perceptions that
of knowledge. This may sound unbelievable for modern science! One can
is the content of Kamaloca. Just as light may be differentiated into
in the future evolution of the world that it may not remain at mere
are so transformed that he or she may be led up to higher knowledge

Title: Prophecy -- Its Nature and Meaning
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and charlatanism, or maybe something even worse, it will certainly be
absolutely adequate basis for scientific truths. Many things may be
may possibly have been exempt from their effects all through our
life, but in old age things may appear of which we know that their
may have been able to devote himself to study but was suddenly
that belongs to this sphere, although it may sometimes tend to
awaken the forces whereby these laws may be fathomed. But the soul
As may be read in the little book,
Such things may well be
subject to moods of depression which may even affect him physically.
life, may express themselves in deeds or they may find no outlet in
transformed into the gift of seership. The same may be true of human
outlined by the seer may not be absolutely accurate. Anyone who is
than others that false pictures may arise of what the Future holds in
pictures may well be ambiguous. What matters, is that impulses
work upon and awaken slumbering powers in man. These prophesyings may
or may not be accurate in every detail: what matters is that powers
seership is within man's grasp. Shadow-sides there may well be
against prophecy may be met and having recognised its core and
they may be — are sometimes completely valueless because they

Title: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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the tremor lasts he is wondering how far it will go and what may still
we may call the next member of man's being — the etheric or
brain. Thus we may say that everything belonging to man's
I may now refer to a
his soul man carries out what in arithmetic we may call a division
nothing may hold sway in the depths of our soul. We may have
pattern. Thus the following may occur. An experience that has made a
deep impression in childhood may remain present in later years in the
the conscious soul-life covered it. It may have been forgotten in so
Another child who has been spared this earlier experience may grow up
and sinks into subconscious regions. But the same thing may happen to
time the matter does not pass unnoticed — and may result in a
suicide. The explanation is that, whereas the same thing may have
regions, and how man may make contact with these subconscious depths.
comparison all surface experience seems merely a small extract. Or may
one may then enter those spheres where the soul lives as an eternal,
Man may come to a point
conscious life of the soul — all this may be found in a book I
riddles may often cause a shudder when we find riddles in our own inner
experience, or when we stand anxiously facing what unknown things may
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Title: Good Fortune Its Reality and Its Semblance
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acceptable to many of our contemporaries we may count that of repeated
To the phenomena we may include in this field quite certainly belong those
may be in a man's life. This element of enigma can certainly not be solved
theory, more than what may be called abstract science, is needed to answer
amount of disharmony may be expressed when sometimes a man must say
grave but as in this case beyond it. Of course, the story may be a legend,
may at least be challenged to look beyond a single human life, when we have
that apart from mankind there is much outside in the world that may indeed
of their environment. And we can say the same of the animals. Indeed, we may
continually obstructing him. Or we may see that a man — like a crystal
fortunate enough to develop its angles freely in every direction — may be
life may be directly hindered, frustrated, destroyed. We feel that we cannot
Diogenes (again this may be based upon a legend, but it may also have
That good luck as well as bad may be in the highest degree subjective, that
fortune may be entirely dependent upon the inner being of man, the idea of
common. However paradoxical it may seem, we can quite well connect a
gambler's luck with the satisfaction a man may have in acquiring an item
himself which come to his assistance. When this is in question, a man may
conceptions of fortune. One case may serve as an example for many.
conceptions he may be fanatical in his protest against the idea of good
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science
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he therefore supposes that it may not be out of the question that the
life formed backwards, in a certain way, so that the latter may
once has poured life into them.” Yes, we may say outright that
may assume a development from the outwardly unaccomplished to the
into it one after another? Whatsoever His Will may have been, the
in whatsoever manner He May have accomplished His Will, nothing can
any time may have existed, it is far less possible to explain life in
conditions, and which nowadays could no longer exist. Now that may

Title: Lecture: Death in Man, Animal, and Plant
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Nevertheless from another aspect one may stress the point that, if
the efforts of modern science. Indeed, we may even say (and this,
conscience are to be examined, we may — even as spiritual
of which would carry us too far today, one investigator at least may
matter. Here, one feels that, sincerely as we may agree concerning
deaths, though we may perhaps have occasion later to refer to these
that the spiritual element may intervene actively and effectively in
organic life, and that perhaps this spiritual element as such may
of death, insofar as this death may then be spoken of as uniformly
similar in plant, animal, and man. We may see where this leads, by a
melancholy, Hamlet may say:
may say, and we understand it in its dramatic connection; but when
may be, as Huxley suggests, in a dog or in a hole in the wall;
examine separately the phenomena of what may be called death in
processes taking place in man. We may indeed sometimes feel obliged
Thus, for the spiritual investigator, there exists what may be called
may be called the earth soul has to do with everything living and
something different is at work from what may be called the beginning
Science, may say: Here we are not dealing merely with the rise and
weariness. — Hence we may say: We see the processes of the soul
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Title: Lecture: The Nature of Eternity
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our conscience may allow us to assume that Lessing was most
up in the soul against the idea. One impulse may be expressed
thus: whatever may be maintained by any form of spiritual
abilities, or the reverse. Many souls may well exclaim:
between what we may call the outgoing activity of the soul
being an individuality. Yet, whatever fine things may be said
all open to one fatal objection. Intimately as we may come to
the ego is given to man only as a reflection, it may vanish
being passes through the gate of death. This may be contested
the body. We need remember only how bodily ailments may
semblance, Maya, like everything else, and I must endeavour

Title: Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci
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of each of the twelve figures so individualized, that we may well
we may perhaps then be led to investigate further. The impression
the picture within us, the following feeling may perhaps arise: Did
may quite naturally arrive at this feeling. Why?
labors of a personality who, one may really say, tried to discover
bring forward a hypothesis of Spiritual Science, which may be reached
the wall, we may perhaps maintain that what he painted there could
shows us all Leonardo's greatness and, we may say, all his
feeling animated his soul, we may say that this is apparent
in me in the course of many years and we may believe that the more we
lives made it possible, one may have experienced the cosmic mysteries
from another standpoint and say: No matter what this soul may have
Science we may understand the world. If we contemplate spirits such

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 1. Materialism and Spirituality.
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May your vibrations waft
Our prayer may helpfully radiate
May your vibrations waft
Our prayer may helpfully radiate
seek, to Whom we would draw near, May He be at your side in all your
consideration of what may happen, to make that progress with the Group
has been so closely and intimately linked. May it be laid on all our
extend the scientific knowledge he has acquired that it may be applied
which, to the uninitiated, may easily be mistaken for the life of the
may be conveyed to his etheric body through the medium, and that this
etheric body may occasionally give striking replies, which may really
dead. Yet, perhaps, they may only proceed from his etheric corpse.
of times. You may read descriptions of it, if you have not experienced
Or perhaps, one may see not his own funeral or coffin, but that of a
To instance a particular case, one may see oneself leaving the house
You see how greatly one may be misled by striving to give a
how blind one may be to the actual facts; such a vision is, of course,
may here be said to have taken a materialistic form. Sir Oliver Lodge
roused, so that a sufficient number of persons may be ready really to
being prepared. Yes, we may say that although humanity seems as
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 2. The Metamorphoses of the Soul-Forces
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than that of Spiritual Science. It may certainly appear, at first
that demand will take us. It may seem as though Spiritual Science only
other respects, however, it may appeal to him; for he is accustomed to
may use so sentimental a word — the salvation of the Spiritual
attention to it, may be very fruitful for us, if we try to wake up
essence. At the moment of perception something may momentarily reveal
— for that moment may, as indeed is generally the case, pass away
may occur that a man sitting in his room or walking in the street may
his fright he may have a moment of musing, during which something
ourselves, and may be able to call up, though perhaps but very
hard-and-fast rule for the duration of a man's life; a man may live
If a man be deadened by materialism, he may indeed deny the existence
which are able to seek a connection with the Spiritual world. He may
do work. You may say; Is it then possible for a man to be a
within him; no matter what he may do they work within him. What effect
some of that capacity for illusion in one person, it certainly may
this dislike may not be in the soul of the person subject to the
illusions; — it may have been suggested to him. For in Spiritual

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 3. The Human Soul and the Universe (part 1)
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our minds today, and which I may enumerate as follows: the three
Angels. So therefore we may say in simple language, and speaking in
can experience in the middle of a long sleep, what may be called an
one's genius during sleep. The feeling, which we may have in our
meeting with the higher world; and it may be said that most people are
indications already given it may be gathered that the first meeting
we may call the meeting with the Life-Spirit: the meeting with Christ
ideas, the spiritually scientific conceptions, that man may acquire as
and exercise of religion. Spiritual Science may in the highest sense,
(which in different people may take various forms) as something which
Science. If Spiritual Science may be said to be a support for a
subjectively the time has come today when we may say that a man with
impulse to acquire Spiritual knowledge. It may be said that an inner
religious life may today subjectively drive a man to Spiritual
may say that the ancients were sensitive to this, as are even the
the Father-Principle. The after-effects of this may extend into later
for these, they may pass them by unobserved. If we fill the minds of
of death. At the moment of death this meeting occurs. Here we may
say: Through his self -chosen death a man may eventually deprive
may be brought to his consciousness — may ascend in three stages:
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 4. Morality, As A Germinating Force
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a few points which may perhaps help to make the question better
and may come to its final end, we are thinking along the lines of
It may be asked: What is the reason that people today live thus
as this may sound if one is not familiar with the thought and hears it
ideas and sentiments. (I may perhaps have more to say on this subject
Spiritual being, and though he may be quite unconscious of having had
more or less how it will run its course, although we may not know what
the weather will be or what separate events may affect our lives. In
it. I said that when a man is in his thirties he meets with what may
order of nature. One meets persons in cities — though they may not be
point for the moment, that may perhaps be the subject of another
perhaps he may say that a new age must come which is already
as ideas are nothing but husks, however beautiful they may be, they
concepts one may have that signify: what is required is that with
their deeper reality. It may sound almost trivial to speak of the
the ideas and concepts themselves, however beautiful they may sound,
germ requires the connection with Christ that it may not fall into the
forgive the expression, which may be rather hard to swallow —
even the political concepts of the day, may create blindness; for they

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 5. The Human soul and the Universe (part 2)
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sleep; we may try to explain sleep itself by means of these same
often alluded to before, that we sleep because we are tired. We may
circumstance than from what may be called freewill; but the
very readily believe that he may be so fond of his body that he would
he may even prefer that to listening to a lecture, let us say, which
spiritual training is really needed, so that people may learn to
Now, in order that we may not fail to understand completely, I will
commonplace consciousness may very likely lay hold of this point. It
may say: Well, but we do really feel tired, and when we are tired we
every opportunity without any need for it, may just as well bring
Through connection with spiritual knowledge, one may conceive a
strange as it may seem, for the truth is often very different from
what the superficial consciousness supposes — strange as it may
the human body, when connected with the physical head. We may
opposite to what the superficial consciousness may lightly suppose.
of view, we may say that the ego actually dwells during the waking time
may know nothing of it in our outer consciousness — only because
be quite polite, and we may, therefore, say that the non-recognition
industrious certain learned people may be as regards all the concepts
to elucidate the whole significance of sleep. A man may be extremely
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 6. Man and the Super-Terrestrial
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described. We may say that they belong to that region of the universe;
future, to learn so to strengthen it that he may be able to find the
to the earth during this intimate duologue. This may be compared today
itself. Yet we may say that there were times in the earth's
said that Christ may be called the Sun-Spirit. From what I have said
This ‘above and below’ characterises what we may call
Now we may ask: well, how is it then with other opposites to be found
course of life, we may say that when we speak of an inner and outer
— so that we may say: a man prepares for it in his twenty-eight,
solar system; so that we may speak of Saturn as the outermost Planet
of the solar system, we may say that in its circuit round the sun, it
(as may be said, according to the Copernican Cosmic System) takes from

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 7. Errors and Truths.
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will to the human organism. It may be that in these two lectures a
beginning has been made of what must come, though it may perhaps be
time it may take, it must eventually come about that people win
into which man may fall in his philosophy of life as well as to point
shows how on the one hand one may use Mercury, Sulphur and Salt to
what may perhaps spring up as a thought or an impulse of will, while
present. He may ask the teacher: ‘Are not clouds damp? How then
air, Mercury and Sulphur may be connected in a special way, in a
deeper into this, I should be giving out truths that I may not
may see how in Richard Rothe (who was then in Heidelberg) lived one
very awkward position, however well they may have accomplished their
after, but one in which was inscribed what a man may really
referring to the whole configuration of the soul A man may have a very
However much people may laugh at Bengel's calculations, which, of

Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Universe
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our minds today, and which I may enumerate as follows: the three
Angels. So therefore we may say in simple language, and speaking in
can experience in the middle of a long sleep, what may be called an
one's genius during sleep. The feeling, which we may have in our
meeting with the higher world; and it may be said that most people are
indications already given it may be gathered that the first meeting
we may call the meeting with the Life-Spirit: the meeting with Christ
ideas, the spiritually scientific conceptions, that man may acquire as
and exercise of religion. Spiritual Science may in the highest sense,
(which in different people may take various forms) as something which
Science. If Spiritual Science may be said to be a support for a
subjectively the time has come today when we may say that a man with
impulse to acquire Spiritual knowledge. It may be said that an inner
religious life may today subjectively drive a man to Spiritual
may say that the ancients were sensitive to this, as are even the
the Father-Principle. The after-effects of this may extend into later
for these, they may pass them by unobserved. If we fill the minds of
of death. At the moment of death this meeting occurs. Here we may
say: Through his self-chosen death a man may eventually deprive
may be brought to his consciousness — may ascend in three stages:
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Title: The Story of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily: Lecture I
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matter how polished a man may be, no matter how much wisdom he may
may come in particular to those who believe profoundly in the
friend, I will tell you something that may be of use to you, when you
Spirit to spring forth; the extinction of sense reality, that man may
secret which may be called the Secret of Alchemy. Between the studies
by a disposition of the soul, which may be described by the symbol of
consciousness, in which a man may be free because he will then not
mind may also be described as the Lily, Spinoza describes it as the
place. Then the man may venture to permeate himself with wisdom —
may pass to and fro. That will be a time when all men will have made
that not only a few may be able to wander across, but that all men
gives the dead Mops to his wife, that she may carry it to the
Mysteries, and the Temple of the Mysteries, so that he may unite

Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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it may be called the epoch of forms, the epoch when on every hand man
in Gegenwart, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (May, 1956)
“However strong or rapid a man's movements may be in his death
however weak and motionless a man may be, if we see that his animal
great and impressive though they may be! Go bade to the original,
we have this conception of the spiritual ideal we may claim to have

Title: Lecture: On The Three Magi
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Earth-Round, men may be likened to fishes, in the sense that their own
Feeling must be sublimated in order that God may fertilise it. This is
earthly in order that the Higher may come to life. In the middle of

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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It may well be said that
any other we may meet because it can satisfy to such a great extent
leaving aside a certain fundamental stock of such truths, we may say
described, takes on a form that may be compared with that of a Lotus
itself. He may call everything by its most profound name, whereas the
culture. From medieval times there comes a beautiful myth that may be

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distancing from external practical life, may arise in him lest he
had all the experience and wisdom which may be gathered here. You
and confusedly, one may often hear that the higher self lives in the
A feeling which may seem
who have been guided along an abnormal path. A person may readily
you may awaken. You must meditate about a great thought content that
external world. The second is what we may call imagination or the
requirement for the student. No one may train to become an occultist
may seem to you that these things are too intimate to discuss with
on what the human being brings with himself into life. We may meet a
may at times conceal great spiritual faculties. But if he can be
taught the usual everyday abilities, it may happen that the inner
what has previously been hidden for him reveals itself. Maybe not
everyone can do this; maybe only a few can do it, one might say to
not relate to me; this may be valid for the after-life.” For

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun
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of all obedient to her, it may be that just then we are acting most
When man has once realised what is true, millions may come and tell him

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with certain principle themes of Christianity, may choose the
not so often the case as the pupil may believe. The effect that the
great importance. They may work unconsciously in the pupil's
sensations — may present themselves as strange, hideous, or
in an alluring form, whereas a good characteristic may not
practiced this long enough, he may go on to immerse himself in the
things he has thus discovered. He may, for instance, seek out
Self-knowledge may only be practiced when the pupil of the white path
essential truth which no one who wishes to walk on the white path may
is necessary to lead man up into the higher worlds, where he may not
sketched once in an orderly way. It may be possible to take a journey

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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the pupil just as someone may tremble and feel moved at the tears of
Secondly, one can observe the circle that may be called the Mercury

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture III
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physical plane, he may incarnate now. Chances are that the

Title: Lecture: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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time it will come to everyone. Although for some it may be only after
must wither and decay in order that the new plant may come into being.
life, in what may be called man's highest Ideal. Thus did they learn
more death. But in the meantime only he who is an Initiate may take
of the tree. Of the deepest meaning of the pentagram we may not now

Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: Lecture 2: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
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we must not introduce into the fairy tales just anything that may
something of spiritual reality, the following may happen. If he is a
where there are different conditions of life.” It may be that
possible. Yet it may still be there. It depends on whether someone
but many of the details may well have been altered. And then the
question may arise whether the human being has the same form today as
perhaps you may never see her again!” They wanted to go,
to hire himself out to her as a servant. “That you may,”
still wish to come and are also not able to stand up to it, you may
remnants of atavistic clairvoyance. Somewhere or other he may meet
clairvoyance is becoming rarer and rarer, at least, what may be

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say this: No matter how advanced these individual souls may
be, however far they may tower above normal human beings, yet
of time, we may not arrive at an earlier fleshly incarnation
ever undertaken in the history of human thought. One may

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture X: The God of the Alpha and the God of the Omega
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Berlin, May 25, 1909
features, one may come to the conclusion that it is a view of
knowledge itself. People may say: Of what use are these ideas
of our lives may be today, our strength will grow from one
that those with open hearts and unprejudiced minds may be
maya, illusion. Then came the ages that issued a
maya. On the contrary, human beings now had to immerse
“Certainly, what the sun shines upon is maya,
but I must seek the spirit behind this maya. The
world: the soul may not share its path with others.
maya, the great illusion. Whenever I perceive this
maya, this would have led to its seeing not the
that was regarded as maya. That is why all names for
maya. Turn your steps back into the world in which you were

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nature as a thinking being. For although we may know that man is a thinking
whether the human soul may not possess other hidden powers that can be
awakened? May it not be that if he develops further the powers that lie
however far the refinement of our physical instruments may be carried. Kant,
is that wherever a man may turn his gaze, he sees only this one thing he can
order that he may perceive and grasp and understand the existence of the
development and culture we may be, for the answering of them is spiritual
nowadays we may have, instead of the old initiate who misused his power, the

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 3: The Mission of Truth
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ineffectually through life. Or he may lapse into the other extreme. Just as
he may lose himself if he fails to strengthen and enrich his Ego, so, if he
thinks of nothing but developing his Ego, he may fall into the other extreme
however spontaneously they may arise. They are forces to which the soul may
element that the soul may love within itself, leading not to egoism but to
striving towards it. He speaks of truth as a distant goddess whom men may
fails to get away from himself. Up to a point we may conclude that it is
example may lead to a deeper understanding of this matter. If we want to
We may indeed acquire a wide, open-minded picture of natural truth, but the
fills his mind with phantom ideas and bloodless abstractions. Such a man may
feel like an outcast, condemned to a mere savouring of truth and may come to
who is discovering truth. When he perceives the light of truth, he too may
May the shores and seas together
honest search for truth may well be echoed by every man in his solitary

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 4: The Mission of Reverence
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attitude gains increasingly the upper hand, the result may be that the Ego
the soul falls into what may be called an enduring state of dreaming or
bear on it, and it is the same with the super-sensible, whatever form this may
permeate the soul. Or someone may relate how with trembling hand, later on,
The head may
the reaction to reverence cannot itself be called reverence, we may not speak
we may without misunderstanding, speak of the element which must
comes before us, we may, having come to

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soul. What we cannot know at one stage of development we may know later, when
reason bound up with the senses. In order that we may from the beginning
details, we may say that for ordinary knowledge the difference lies in this,
through the stimulus of the senses. However strange and paradoxical it may
As may be shown
The teacher may continue: “And now look at man. He certainly has a
is permeated with instincts, desires and passions which may bring him into
may ask what we must do in order to rise to that level.
of our instincts, impulses and cravings, so that it may be a pure, chaste
Someone may now
Someone may
faculties required. In some circumstances this may last not merely for years,
of military forces on these occasions, so that in real war they may be ready
that they may be applied to the outer world later on. Play and asceticism,
historical document, he may say: There are statements and communications
may feel too weak to call forth in himself the forces necessary for
to a dangerous side of asceticism. People may have a sort of avidity for
conscience to test everything by reason and logic. They may indulge a liking
research because you trust the researcher. You may have learnt that his
penetrate further into what may be called the ascetic training of the soul in
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with whatever sympathy or antipathy may be evoked by this or that human
characteristic, or how it may be assessed in accordance with some prevailing
“egoist”. This may sound like a mere play on words, but is more
cares not whom it may concern. And yet, it is by drawing its life-forces and
“egoism” may do so. Then one could say: The human ego is there to
itself in order that something new may emerge. The highest manifestation of
the plant, its individuality — as we may call it — which achieves
we may call a higher man. In this way he brings forth something in himself,
Whatever points may be set out in the programmes of societies, however many
societies may have “universal human love” at the head of their
But at the same time he knows that although a man may have to work his
may accompany a man but cannot lead him through life.
heartless towards it, may bring him some satisfaction and a certain
himself an active life of soul; he cannot go far and high enough in what may
man is led, even though the course of his life may lie through “folly
may realise how he himself has grown up from it. Then he must learn to
reckoning of Providence they were left out; but may a good God — he

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name that may be given to it. The fact that the doctrine of reincarnation or
Science, so that we may then compare it with the spirit of Christianity, we
No. Is it the yoke? No. And so”, says Nagasena, “we may go
exist as such in the physical world, so that he may thus bring out the
action. From thus experiencing the sense-world it extracts something we may
man may have stood in a different relationship to the external world or
whether in the future this relationship may again be different — though
emphasises again and again that the outer world is Maya, illusion.
Christianity, on the contrary, says: Man may indeed believe that what he sees
Maya, the great illusion. Christian thinking would reply that it is wrong to
can seem to be only Maya — that is the innermost impulse of
order that it may experience resurrection in the spiritual sense.
thus a doctrine of reincarnation, of resurrection, and only in that light may
highest type of man is he whom we may call a “saint”; a man who
sense-life, so that nothing may remain of all that leads in life from fear to

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such ideas, the public at large may be inclined to regard my statements as
year, though it may occupy us further next year. The reason for touching on
intimate aspects of natural science. It may be better not to discuss this
game; and however stimulating a game of this kind may be, the greatest care
as Fechner employs this method, his work may be very interesting. But there
results. It could hardly be denied that phenomena of this kind may take a
may well ask. Is it really science that compels us to reject spiritual
may seem to us — that Homunculus could be put together out of separate
motion would require millions of horse-power. Julius Robert Mayer
are built up from the outer universe, and in order that they may serve man in
region, they are not only apt to become bad-tempered and morose, but may
them so that they may acquire a strictly scientific form. Inspiration and the
rhythm, as we may call it.

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture One: On the Investigation and Communication of Spiritual Truths
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good our knowledge of Goethe may be, however deeply we steep
really matters is not so much the knowledge that someone may
truth in the particular view we may hold, we should always be
the supreme truths which may differ from our own or from that
may have grasped is the whole truth.
The path of Spiritual Science may appear to be easier than,
an appeal. It may be the most difficult of all the paths
accessible to everyone. However much a clairvoyant may be
yourselves a man who may have made quite exceptional
us. Admittedly, our modern conception of morality may not be
selfish purpose after death. On the other hand, a man may
benefit existence in the spiritual world, there may be a wish
spiritual development a man may have been a reasonable,
development, he may become arrogant and do all sorts of
functioning properly he will get giddy and may fall down —
a danger of giddiness. When the supports fall away we may
although it may not previously have disclosed itself.
Spiritual Science. I emphasise it not in order that I may
development — although he may think he has been very
these individuals may still be able to acquire faculties
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though there may be only a few who can actually find them,
material world before him, and he may ask whether his study
Someone may
may easily think, for instance, that you experience the
other mental pictures, all other experiences which we may
sense-perceptions reach us. You may think that no organ is
channel for a sense-experience. We may smell some substance;
immortality of the soul, you may be sure that most of them
there he cannot possibly be disinterested. People may ask why

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post-Atlantean epoch to an end may be thought of as a
learnt. It may help us to picture this if we say that through
ideas about supersensible reality may be applied to physical
tornado-like effect it may have on the soul — to set side by
significant that the fourth post-Atlantean epoch may be
applied because facts are being collected and may be allowed
the ability to further their progress. A man may have no
It may be that the Christ Impulse will work most strongly

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prophets may, in a certain sense, be included.
to maya, to the great ‘non-being’. The word
‘maya’ is derived from mahat aya — mahat =
great; ya = being; a = non, negation; hence maya = the great
a victim of maya, of illusion, of non-being. The truth is
a victim to what we have called maya. The real fact is that

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physical body is an illusion, a maya. What is taken to be the
Although you may think that it happens whenever a man dies,
environment. This is necessary in order that evolution may be
which he may truly be said to be ‘among wild
they may picture as their own ideal. It disturbs the lazy
consideration. Siegfried may well have had faults. What
We may

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wider sphere. They are the Beings whom we may call
and of the supersensible worlds. Individuals may well become
man, of whom in the world of maya there is only an illusory
which they cease. You were already in existence then and may
therefore be said that the principles a man may accept for
Man's picture of himself is pure maya but his form of
Christianity. We may think of him as the one responsible for
man may seek to penetrate the mysteries of childhood, to

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very wide interpretation to this aim; and it may be only
matters which, although they may seem to be remote from the
faculties. It may well be asked: How can any belief in or
they are quite apparent in life. And in order that you may
passion to drive him to whatever action he may take.
the prevailing mood of their whole life of soul; they may
the astral body may be denied but not its consequences, for
disbelieve in Spiritual Science may hear that the physical
materialist may use his intellect just to create concepts;
idealism may lead to the conviction that theoretical
maya. In reality it is spirit with which we come
validity of natural law, though the details may be affected
hands and water may exercise a healthy influence on the
may bring about a healthy sensitivity to the environment; but
an excessive use of cold baths and the like may cause an
all-important to know the limits within which methods may be
strange that a man may become feebleminded if his thyroid
described elsewhere, showing that a man may endeavour to
seeking to become aware of his own essential being; or he may
of our ‘I’ must be enhanced, may induce a mood of
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eight: Laws of Rhythm in the Domain of Soul-and-Spirit.
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to reflect that the time may not be ripe for its fulfilment,
that the picture he has formed of it may be a caricature or
importance this process may take seven days — that is the
definite experience. This experience we may have if we pay
be alert to what may happen on the seventh day. In the case
with it, and it fades away. We may feel ill at ease, perhaps
etheric body, it may pass coldly into the world. If we wait
have allowed to be baptised by the Gods may now be given over
— we may feel that we have been blessed by the World-Spirit
after nineteen days a similar process of fructification may
Yes, that is all very well; there may be such laws, but why
instinctively. — Now that may have been true in the past;
when they may desire to communicate some inner experience to
St. John which may well be a manual of guidance for the
order that we may be aware to some extent of the muscular

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Nine: The Moon-Religion of Jahve and its Reflection in Arabism
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think of Christ as symbolised by the direct sunlight, we may
may call the Jahve-religion a Moon-religion — the transitory
however, still another way in which an earlier epoch may have
an effect in a later one. Shorter periods may also occur in
prevents our discussing adequately to-day, we may say: Taking
the Jahve-religion; we may expect that a similar form of
developed we may justifiably name Goethe as the last
maternal organism we may say that this organism is the focus
concepts originated in an earlier epoch. You may ask: Is
another world may be compared with the way in which a fish is
truth must be proclaimed. You may be sure that plenty of

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may have been a very faint voice, easily silenced.
whatever use he may make of his faculties. No matter in what
department of science you may be working to-day, you learn
are no help at all towards understanding what the spirit may
‘but go on and on and you will find my father who may
good condition you may possibly achieve your object after
may keep her for half the year but for the other half she
faces maya, the great Illusion; each of us, in that we live a
to the sense-world and are imprisoned in illusion and maya.
come down again to the Earth in order that their souls may
through death in order that he may raise his own soul,
these pictures thought-forms may come into being and live in
depths of the spirit may be made accessible to men.
to express it. My words may well be imperfect but it is the

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difficult this may be to discern, requiring as it does our finding
then we may have such a special waking up that we realize: You are
which one awakens. It may sound strange that this daily battle takes
the physical-sense world. Then there comes to the soul what one may
facts of the universe. It may be too picturesque, but nevertheless
that something greater than oneself is present in the soul that may

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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May
prayer may stream with helpfulness
May
prayer may stream with helpfulness
And may the Spirit for whom
through the Mystery of Golgotha, may He be with you and your hard
may be called “Imaginative Cognition.”
entered, as it were, through three portals. The first may be called
good for a real knowledge, but it may happen that one reaches this
not be lying down, he may be sitting, but he is as though asleep.
may be called the “passing through the portal.” And then
the spiritual world which may also have much good in it; but it
may under certain circumstances bring information about other human
the future. The experience may be accompanied with great success, yet
experiences in the spiritual world. This dragon may have very
intimate that they may easily escape us, and we are not in the least
water spirit through what we may now call “head
may see wonderful things and sketch a picture with gorgeous coloring.
digestive processes, at a certain stage of digestion. Such a man may
of thought, one may at the same time have the consciousness, “I
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Title: Lecture IV: WHITSUN: A Symbol of the Immortality of the Ego
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of the human soul in order that mankind may go forward to better days.

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future. You may remember another remark made here in Berlin
that people will show toward this activity. I may perhaps

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physical body. One may or may not believe it today — a
important one. As a teacher, one may ponder over how one

Title: Brotherhood and the Fight for Survival
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directly to the household, the tools, and maybe a garden, all else
we would forego to look for quick success. Maybe you stand in pain in
We may not lose ourselves into the outside

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and dates from October, 1905 through May of 1906. The title of these
and dates from October, 1905 through May of 1906. The title of these
of man may be expressed — everything that, in one way
future whose sublimity may only be surmised. The most
illumined knowledge then the sun may represent the most
so that a fully conscious clairvoyance may be developed in
human body so that it may be rejuvenated. The symbol of
plant may arise. It is the sacrifice of one phase of nature
of the whole of humanity, and we may be quite sure that

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the revelations of spiritual reality may flow into him
spiritual world takes a different form each time. We may be
however highly trained a person may be in body-free
The same may be said of the contention that thinking must be
dreams which have been instigated by the senses. A dream may
which may well be a source of irritation to the teacher. He
shape in order that certain tensions in the soul may be
in dream a man may commit all kinds of misdeeds of which he
people may tell of dreams with utterly different contents,
manifestations of the unconscious may occur in the form of
or a vision may arise: it resembles spiritual experience but
This may indeed sound strange, but it is nevertheless a
of other cases he describes the one that may be regarded as a
This may seem miraculous enough but these are quite ordinary
proof that Myers was protecting his son. It may have been so,
abnormal way. But these abnormal manifestations may never be
induced artificially, any more than pathological states may
although naturally there may now and again be slight

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is God in maya? What has to be said now must sound rather

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in ordinary life is really maya. It's only with “I am”
unconscious sleep comes over us at night, and we live in the maya
maybe two thirds of our feelings, but most often it's more like three
maya, since we can't bear the truth. Meditation on the mantra: It

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 4-11-'13
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Now through one's continued exercises one may have gotten so far that
his doppelganger. For instance he may have planned to go to a party
therefore the etheric body — maybe only the parts that take
may be that at the beginning of one's esoteric path one sees figures

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devote ourselves to maya — the great deceiver — the

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 12-21-'04
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me. My karma is connected with that of other men. I may have been an

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-4-10
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That through them I may see
That through them I may perceive bodies
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.
So that through me the spirits may act

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-5-10
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May my I raise itself from below upward,
May it get an inkling of you in the all-embracing.
May the spirit of my being be illumined
May the soul of my being be enkindled by the fire flames of your servants.
May the will of my I grasp
May your being permeate my will
That through them I may see
That through them I may perceive bodies
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.
So that through me the spirits may act

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gives us. Everything in that physical world is maya, including our
That through them I may see
That through them I may perceive bodies
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.
So that through me the spirits may act

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and our feelings about it is an illusion or maya. We can picture it as a
That through them I may see
That through them I may perceive bodies
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.
So that through me the spirits may act

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That through them I may see
That through them I may perceive bodies
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.
So that through me the spirits may act

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Our education may have
gotten us to the point where we don't tell any big lies, but we may still
That through them I may see
That through them I may perceive bodies
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.
So that through me the spirits may act

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we'll find a lot of beings there. This may seem strange to us at first,
meditation to make the words “The world is only maya”
thinking with reverence, devotion and humility, we may hope to

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the middle of the Atlantean epoch. Men saw them behind the maya. Men
would have had to drown in the maya that surrounds him, but the
him again behind maya.
why this maya was woven by the Gods. It was so that a man did not
beings through the veil of maya at the moment of waking, but at the
portal closed completely and man had to drown in maya. In ancient
Surrounded by maya wherever we look, something real sounds forth from
born from God. And we won't drown in more maya, for we die in
surging of maya, and they'll become living forces in you.

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That through them I may see
That through them I may perceive bodies
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.
So that through me the spirits may act

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sense that maybe they were the most tremendous experiences that one

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 3-22-12
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people may feel that it's hard to have to think of themselves
day — but maybe every 3 or 4 weeks. It's basically just

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much exercising a man may have the feeling that he hasn't
gotten further in his experience of the spiritual world. But this may
be based on an error. It may be that one notices nothing during or
that no matter what may hit him, it's brought about by himself,

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a new religious foundation or as the case may be. This is
of the maybe most significant psychologists of our time is
to exclude the subjective, may you be surprised that a way of
Robert Mayer (1814-1878, German physician and
however, they are surprised. They have done maybe quite
will maybe learn already from the few indications that
creatures of flesh, then someone who wants it may sweeten life;
after the judgment of such a discerning man. Maybe it will be

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture II: The Human Being as Being of Soul and Spirit
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One may say that the anthroposophically oriented spiritual
the case may be. It points to the fact that in the body
picture is maybe caused by outer perception, how it causes
profound thinkers. If I may bring in something personal here:
may be. The real penetration into the spirit is based just on

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture III: Goethe as Father of Spiritual Research
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this necessity out one day, as deeply as it may prospect. One
Howsoever one may behave now to the details with Goethe, the

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture IV: Mind, Soul and Body of the Human Being
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where he speaks in a very nice article about Raphael, which may
dreamless sleep and the thought which may be evoked by a
conscious spiritual research. However, I may adduce something

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture V: Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
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by the experimental method of spiritism. You may say that this
such an outer experiment — even if various things may
to ascribe qualities to the ether, these may be, in any case,
essential basis of the externally observed, may it be in
Maybe just because the scientific worldview has worked in the
May
Indeed, if one considers the sleep spiritual-mentally, it may
Hence, I may say, just this problem to fix the relations of the
course, they may be apparently refuted very easily if one looks

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture VI: The Historical Life of Humanity and Its Riddles
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must do, it may be quite unpleasant to someone if he reads
is strange now, that Lamprecht, as the maybe most significant
may have an astute usual consciousness, you may be the most
things according to cause and effect, and you may have that
life, but maybe just something that appears to us as externally

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objection: are you able to behold into the animals? May the
nebula may have developed and conglomerated. Some time ago, I

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investigate what maybe proceeded in my surroundings. When I
things which you have maybe taken up decades ago which have a
from telegraphs or railways or as the case may be. From it, one
consciousness that may darken it. It is the first requirement
“spiritual science” which may cause a lot of ease

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Maybe another comparison can illustrate that which should be in
mental-spiritual, maybe it is a cover of anything
know maybe how matter thinks. Indeed, he does not know what it
“future ego” if I may so express myself. What does
talk of body and soul while the latter may have some spiritual
as a deadly serious conviction: May details be still imperfect,

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture I: Schiller's Life and Characteristic Quality
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IT will be a hundred years on 9th May, 1905,
power. It may be that this year we shall see more exuberant
and to observe the universe from other sides. We may say, of
many a book which we do not understand, but which we may
what we may call the “aesthetic conscience.”

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want to describe these ideas in a word, we may say that the
was thus no gulf between what we may call the moral claim and
Carlos, he works his way to another standpoint. We may look
imperative, the “Thou shalt,” which may not be
order that we may believe, he thrust down knowledge from her

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the transitoriness of all appearance, of the veil of Maya,

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture IV: Schiller's Weltanschauung and his Wallenstein
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may be in one case a personality built upon itself which

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture V: Schiller, the Greek Drama and Nietzsche
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the ideal quality of the spirit. At first sight it may seem
Even to-day we can find in Schiller what may guide us to the
best we may hope, for the present and the future. And so he may

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may call the demonic and is carried forward by it. She is to
Hartmann, Fechner, etc., important and true as they may be,
personality which is drawn with infinite art, and which we may
Deep, rich, intimate and delightful Goethe may charm us all in

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his significance for the present and finally to what he may yet
influence may be compared, in a way, to that of Herder at the
period. One thing we may emphasise, that his influence and the
thanks to Schiller that there was formed what we may call the

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VIII: What can the present learn from Schiller
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beautiful you may pass into the land of knowledge.” To
Century. Men like Jacob Minor may write large tomes about his

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seeks to grasp the spiritual, so that he may impress it upon

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One, fact which everyone may perhaps remember is that on the
dedicated his strength to this task. Hoping that this, may be
things, may indeed induce us to ask: Do wars arise through
history of human development, you may again and again ask,
a survey of larger epochs of time, in order that we may form a
kingdom. This contrasting difference may be expressed in the
future may be connected, with the idea of the struggle for

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may be grounded, are tools only with which to judge reality as
idea, then this idea, this concept, may be immediately applied
method of thought. You will agree that one may be quite
may result: someone, somewhere, pays a visit and comes upon an
However, one may conceive of the connection of the other soul
feeling.] From this one example you may see how impossible it
else than the element of soul. There may, perhaps, be something
fail and instead of joy, unhappiness, sorrow, pain may be let
may be something out there which affects my eye, and that only
our senses one may not say that it is merely an impression,
from the outer world, or as he may later recall them out of his
strange as this may sound — as it first arises,
head appears at birth as something formed through, if one may
researcher, about the facts as one observes them, one may well
may coin the expression — then we have the whole human
element rises up into consciousness. But one may not speak of
“Whatever may be the brain cell of a glow worm or the
and Seydel's letter may have been whatever

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whatever else it may be — something which at any rate has
built up out of incessantly active metabolism, may from now on
and the true ... individuality of the human being may not be
denial of spirituality. Many, however, may object: But it just
soul's life but may originate in the past. Something occurred
significant that it may well be brought before the soul again
may not appear sufficiently respectful in the face of such a
Goethe — may come to the genuinely Goethean attitude,

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of the millennium. Certainly this may be well meant, though it has its
roots in poor understanding and still poorer intelligence. But it may
may gather from what I have been saying today. For this idea of the

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about. Thus we may say: In the second half of the nineteenth century
necessity — even in the organising of public affairs. We may
possession of human beings there will be a change. We may indeed say
contemporaries. We may think how we like about the theory of these
Haeckel the cleverer or his opponents? This question may still be asked
this kind of will, taking effect. Certainly it may be asked: What can a
sphere in life do what lies in him; he may then await what is done by
many people as possible in the world may be moved by the urgent need

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lectures may perhaps feel somewhat surprised by what is said today,
and is waiting to be convinced may find a sort of craziness in many
who may equally well be considered personalities for those worlds, but
elemental beings, as they may be called. Man is really never alone;
Then — you may ask
strange that may seem. Living in this fluid that courses through the human
may come on the one hand from the good, gentle, mild Venus beings, or
may be called a combustion process, and with this breathing and combustion
he may first learn in pictures what he must later attain in clear concepts.

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Now you may quite naturally
You may ask me: When a
We may picture to ourselves that around this Saturn, this first, dawn-condition
Zodiac. Each single planet may have undergone considerable change through
in our earth existence may be conceived as follows: — on the one
In a certain sense, therefore, we may say that at the present time,

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The modified Kant-Laplace theory may definitely hold good as an external
that one of the Sun-Spirits forbore — if I may so express it —
— if we may say so — in a spiritual embodiment and were
work as the teachers of the first initiates. From this you may realize
in the physical realm may be just what the physicist describes, but

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and material, spiritual beings of various grades. These may be beings
system, or they may be spiritual beings of a lower kind who hinder and
way. This may be the case right here.
It may be that some people will deny that to-day, but this event was

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may be a hundred of them. This is naturally only a comparison, but in
were warmer. It may be clearer for you to realize to what extent man
Materialists may think as they will of the mechanical construction of
beings? The hard bone substance! If I may express myself popularly,

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may not rest content with the idea of the reversed recapitulation. For
so that at the end of his evolution he may be able to give it back to
on the earth. Although men may not admit that directly, yet in practice
John is not a document that may be placed side by side with the others;

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VII
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had little value for them; it was maya, illusion. It will seem strange
and whom man needs in order that he may go through his evolution.

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from animal group souls. They are ego-like... May 16, 1908.
for a time it may be merely a period of waiting. During this life in
who in this case may be called “advanced theosophists.”
acquaintance of beings who may be said to be among us, if we regard
just spoken we may say that they differ from man by not having developed
great store by mankind may say: “What strides humanity has made
I may say so. What is this relation of the group soul to the single

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observations of the spiritual-super-sensible worlds — if one may
who, we may say, have severed their connection with other worlds to
a voluntary association, although we may be well aware that it has not
and individuality. Indeed, in a certain respect we may say that they
conditions may well be surrounded as if by fine spiritual beings who

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It may well be that a remark here or there seemed somewhat aphoristic,
— if one may so call it, have indeed such ego souls as man, differing
he may perhaps appear to a naive observation we need only remember that
the transitional state of dream, they have what we may call a sleep
These at the same time are the beings — that is why we may not
body. They need not in the least be abnormal influences, they may come

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that may seem to the man of the present enlightened age — as one
less so in more recent ones. However greatly one may esteem Bocklin,
architectural thought, crystallized space. And however strange it may
The Unheard no ear may smite.”[1]
worlds at night. The sublimest sphere sounds may resound, the loftiest
spiritual tones may whisper something to the soul, it brings nothing
whole may come to expression in the one. Richard Wagner has no wish
something whereby, if we may say so, the Gods may dwell with him, whereby
carries a future culture. Others may ask what he has already accomplished.

Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture. Winter Session, 1911-1912
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a few words may be said about what has been happening in our Movement
order that they may have the due humility and strength — that they are
and the inner aspects of these activities may have been particularly
Spiritual Science that they may not be understood today, but it will
extent ... when we think about this, we may truly say that we do not
this deepening — how easy it is made! It may be said without
great a theologian he may be — can understand Christianity unless he
“You do not understand this” — we may be considered
being? We do not. Neither do we deny that this being may reincarnate
things clearly, if there is a sincere wish to do so. We ourselves may
that ultimately we may find ourselves in the very disagreeable
no knowledge of certain truths.” This may lead to an accusation
progress — for so it may truly be called — that has taken
mentioned in any Movement other than our own. It may be said,
It may be regarded as a good augury that at the founding of the
spoken as I have today, in order that each of you may know how things

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Thereupon the big man answered him: “Maybe you would like
about such matters is in the least afraid of what may happen in such a
that however close a search you may make in the literature accessible
the earth as men may, in reality, be embodied Star-beings. This
All this indicates that what may be surmised from a study of occult
source it may come, for all that interests us is a sensational vista
of the spiritual worlds.” There may actually be neo-theosophists
set free, this may well seem more credible to them than that anything
said, may be accounted among our finest achievements.

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out of his own thoughts — whatever they may be — ascribe any
in his intellect and reason. Thus it may well happen that in his life
depths in the life of soul, it may well be cleverer than the intellect
Therefore we may say that what rises out of the depths of the soul
may say at this point: “But I have observed that feelings
more! So that you may see what I mean, I want to quote a special case
deal may be learnt if it is viewed in the light of Spiritual Science.
case, karma may be expected to work in a very definite way and all the
where no psychical factor is in evidence and which may therefore
maya. Human prejudices being what they are, it is, of course,
difficult always to see through maya; when people are deeply imbedded
in maya it is by no means easy to see through it. Those who look at
history today from the standpoint of materialism, may say: “The
through such things and emancipate themselves from maya.
respect men are truly courageous And why? It may sound harsh but in a
but after all, it, too, may well be only “chance ” ...
matter of chance; the daily sunrise may be regarded as chance as
but you may be quite sure that somewhere or other there will be
may say: “Yes, it is possible to come to terms with advocates of
attention may be drawn to it for it is mentioned in the current German
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We may well feel that the venerable Finnish epic,
culminated in a delicate reference to Christianity — and, it may
Earth. It may be that the veneration in which the Kalewala is held in
there may be necessary, but nevertheless it is complete in itself. And
future may be indicated in the following way. Spiritual Science has
teaching, may not previously speak to the outer world of their
by his contemporaries; the fact that he is such a teacher may not be
of which we may speak prophetically — and a clear realisation

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difference. The matter may be summed up by saying that the whole trend
form of what humanity may call the “Divine” can be glimpsed
And then we may think of another life, the life of the personality
mention of Raphael. The name of someone else may also occur to you,
with enchantment, and this may well be assumed in view of all the
As we think of all this, another feeling, too, may arise in us. In a
the following may be said. If we steep ourselves in Spiritual Science
and it may indeed be said: Raphael himself is able to ensure that his
It may be that concrete examples like these, given as illustrations of
world. Deep insight may come to us when, in the light of such concrete
it, undefined intuitive feelings may arise here and there. A striking

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definite ideas with what may be called the “meaning and purpose
incarnated in a physical body in order that he may be able to
The purpose of Earth-evolution is that there may be implanted into the
the element of sexuality may be associated with love between man and
something was imbued into mankind which we may recognise as the
seriously. Certainly, there may be fewer publications, if the aim is
is not reality, but “Maya,” the “Great Illusion”.
bear its fruit. How Christ may truly be portrayed is a problem still

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following upon the great Atlantean catastrophe. This epoch may be said
great catastrophe of which you may read in the lectures on the
traditions of practically all the peoples — an idea which may, it
thought may occur: “Here is a strange current of the times. Most
people regard those who belong to it as fools; but it may be worth
into the life of the child! With this knowledge, success may come
sympathies and antipathies which may express themselves in the child.
affects them, and that when the air is chilly they may catch cold. We
beings at a later age of life. To begin with, a man may be quite
After a time a man may say to himself: “I do not know why I am
Subsequently he may have a very striking dream. Little heed is paid to
importance. From this you may conclude that if Edison had made his
On the Meaning of Life, 23rd and 24th May, 1912; three
and 29th May, 1912; and two lectures in Christiania:

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order that the next lecture may contribute to an understanding of the
of the physical body to be observed outwardly is only illusion, maya.
here been speaking. In order that consciousness may exist at all, the
In what sense may we speak of a strong moral impulse in the principles

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the Jupiter-existence they may endow the beings who once belonged to
that the qualities with which he was originally endowed may pass more
upon man. For the design or pattern of the evolutionary process may be
progressive evolution. However specialised the subjects may be, appeal
And so it is the task of occultism — if one may speak of
easy-going principle that either the one or the other may be believed;
Let us take a very far-reaching example, of which you may well say, to
may well say this, when it is first put before you.
Golgotha, for as may be read in
direct continuation. You may compare much in the Buddha-life with the
judgment of all these things may be based, is recognition of human
age. Objections that may crop up here and there would die a natural
world. In such circumstances, moreover, the other side may well become
the victim of injustice. A semblance of intolerance may easily be
antipathy; it is demanded by something you may perhaps yourselves
care not to copy things that may grow from the rich and fertile soil
fifty years, possibly, one point or another may have been investigated
still more closely, may have to be differently expressed.
occult movement, whatever storms may rise up against us in the world

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superfluous to remind you that an idea may be true in a
only emerge gradually, but one may arrive at an understanding
consisting of body and soul alone. The actual wording may not
to this period once again. Originally (if such a word may be
in this context, but we may perhaps risk it here — they
stage of world history. In that event, we may ask, why did

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pre-existence. Franz Brentano who had been a priest may be
admiration. But, one may ask, where does that take us? If we
sheer folly. That may well be. But what is foolishness in the
eyes of men may often be wisdom in the sight of God.
“However much I may desire to enlighten you, the
touch upon matters which may not be disclosed today. Man is
these men of earlier times had to wrestle. Though they may
possible today. Perhaps it may be possible thereby to awaken
in us much that may one day be a seed that will only mature

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cognition. We may readily believe, for example, that through
is not so. What, at most, under these circumstances may
— and can only portray — what may be called a
Christ we are no longer in touch with Him. We may, in that
the calculations of the physicists. Such calculations maybe
millions of years hence may be mathematically correct, but
that lives in the elements of warmth and air, may perish (as
may pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” This
that I may understand).

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words of Paul and say: “What is foolishness to man may
fantastic as they may seem, of the situation that must arise
plane. In order that the world may not fall into a state of
spoke when He said: However much the Scribes may speak of
order that our social life may be invested with the Christ
have some truth to impart may already have encountered an
present (1917) are celebrating the Easter Festival, may

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It may seem
may sound paradoxical at first, but it is nonetheless true.
body is loosened, so that you may see that which cometh after
historians may doubt his responsibility for the destruction

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years of Christianity. This may seem paradoxical today. It is
this new material so that our later enquiry may bear
whom you think may contribute in some way to the world order
— if I may risk an oracular statement — that Rome

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cease, that no one may practise ritual magic in order to
injure others and no one may communicate with the dead, and
Manichaeans. By this means perhaps I may be able to achieve
This may seem paradoxical, but the facts are as follows:

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than the historical sources which may contribute to an
manner; but this superficial portrayal may provide a
again from their own ashes. However much we may imagine they
may well happen, neglects the order to fast before
these enlightened mortals, one may come to the conclusion
may be, it is a spiritual desert. It has no understanding of
Perhaps I may
may think, so long as we are imprisoned in the physical body
You may
representatives of new principles, though they may lead to

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especially today, so that they may enter into the evolution
incarnation, if I may use the word in this connection, of a
not a gross injustice, you may ask, to withhold vital
following may prove fruitful: what would have happened if, at
is wondering what is to be done so that men may once again
You may socialize, you may order social life in accordance
agents and exercise a powerful influence. We may ignore their
the view he expresses in a passage which none the less may
judgement of Nietzsche, even though it may not be sound in

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may play a decisive part in the different spheres of life. It
courage to pass an objective judgement on this issue. It may
Wagner. Otto Ludwig was not only a poet — some may feel
vision, but is something that accompanies it. One may be a
to describe may remain entirely in the subconscious. It is
over the recent past it is possible that many may have
contain material that may well determine the course of
the idea of preestablished harmony. Such visions may describe
people may regard the symbol as naive. Our response to
and Forces. He realized that this may happen on the physical
it may seem we must make the true form of Christian life once
to form a judgement about the particular case. The dream may
reality. Indeed what I am saying at the moment may not apply
may none the less feel that the following way of thinking
Grant that Thy former aspect may return,
Make strong my tongue that in its words may burn
Men may the better estimate Thy might.”

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those may have seen uneasily into the world who believed that salvation
may be ever so far from the so-called cultures of our time, in front
whom the organs are missing under usual circumstances. Or may there
However, science may teach humanity this using the methods theosophy
may imagine the divine again how he finds his own soul but love should
May he be noble,

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he has recognised is the whole of the world view, it may happen that
may not be the best. But it does not depend on terms. The fact that

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture III: Reincarnation and Karma
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language, for conscience. One had no word for it. It may be especially
of all religions, it agrees to that. The human being may thereby get

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of life I may still quote the concept of the sky, a concept which science
creator and reveres him in humility. The same researcher may also be

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forth into forms, and our age may be almost called the age of forms,
the movements of the human being may be in the fever delirium, in insanity
and immobile a human being may be if we see that his animal personality
up in the forms, as large and immense they may be! Go back to the original

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if I may make use of a Goethean expression from a rich, varied, manifold
this region. Also the uneducated human being, however fast he may hurry

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For others this may be a prosaic riddle of reason; however, what others

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attained by a personal teacher. It may appear to somebody, as if the
soul forces, spiritual view with himself and it may seem deplorable
is one able to do this? If reincarnation is a truth, it may not be vain
a way, as if they were truth. He has to leave it open: maybe they are
true, maybe they are not. He should have neither doubt nor superstition,
school of spiritual science. One may easily reply: I am free from speculative
to express himself in the spirit-land. It may appear as something difficult

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the second half of the 19th century. You may assume that the results
human being was incarnated there as an aerial being. It may seem peculiar

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XIV: Goethe's Secret Revelation III
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Paris. It may seem that something unnatural, something worked out
box something could be that may be sold for money. He discovers a crack
physical human body in chemical compounds may they be salts, sorts of

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origin of the earth can be taken as something very speculative, maybe
deeper than the opponents. Thus spiritual science or theosophy may also
I have said this to show that one may also disprove theosophy in similar
way. However, theosophy may give this rebuttal better than any other.
I do not make any objection to this schematic description which may
figuratively, we may call it a spiritual spark in the human nature,
the human being is a quite reasonable, maybe a somewhat sober human
If I may express myself

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every day anew and maybe works on one single sentence for weeks, and

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world may be, I put human beings into it who set this world on fire.
my personality may be powerful or weak, but it is the support of these
maybe later.

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which may appear fantastic to the materialist. But at the same time
back than the scientific documents can lead us. May it seem fantastic
that then possibly the point in time may have come that life itself
ideal. One has just to say: no social theory, whatsoever it may be,
feeling, maybe a clairvoyant talent whether the human being in question
may be said. If I speak here, the word fills the airspace. The oscillations

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XIX: Schiller and the Present
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4th, May, 1905
it may be a substitute that we bear in mind clearly and vividly what
there no conflict may be permitted between the sensuous and the spiritual.
Comedy with the world view of the 17th, 18th centuries. One may
in Schiller's philosophical letters. Indeed, these may be somewhat
Goethe. Goethe answered: there may probably be another way to look at
shortened, would maybe rendered quite superfluous. Then already in the

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XX: The Divinity Faculty and Theosophy
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11th, May, 1905
because one cannot deny it, although one may also struggle against any
movement. You have maybe heard something of the name Kalthoff (Albert
them for many, many years. These teachings may establish the contents
on the 31st May, 1904 with a pastoral conference in Alsace-Lorraine
may be important to a materialistic history. but it is not theology.
what it announces to us, what it may offer as living, as fertile to
than in that which quite a few people may tell about the immediate experience.
But the course of the spiritual life cannot be impeded. May there be
many inhibitions, may those be ever so reluctant who work for theology
wishes that wisdom may flow into those who are appointed to speak to

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18th, May, 1905
no connection with the practical life, then this may be due only to
You may say that philosophy
who knows philosophy, knows him only too well. This may be to you a

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25th, May, 1905
It may be an example of
Certain concepts which one has obtained may be absolutely correct, but
the methods of application may be wrong. Often two great authorities
You may ask now: would it

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Berlin, May 9, 1917
external viewpoint it may seem that when human progress is
designate as the ancient Indian, we may ask: Which age in the
may read Goethe's
concerns oneself with such things! This may not be a general
— if I may use that expression, which of course is
may live to be a hundred, but their age remains at 27. That
person may then be 30, 40, 50 years old, but if he has not

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may seem like trifles; nonetheless they are closely connected

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detected; all kinds of incompetence may be practiced. The
been laughed at. One may get away with writing in that way
intellectuality and, if I may put it so, quite equal to its
Monists and theosophists may go in
different directions; they may vigorously fight and despise
part of their natural development. We may ask if this has in

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the ground; an element rises upwards from it. You may
may become separated from the physical. We say then that
humanity may be extended in many directions. Let us suppose
worlds; I may not look upon it as belonging to my ordinary
Such a man may in fact say: something
three components may be quite independent of one another

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As you may have
human soul to the spirit. And there one may remain at the
will, man's physical nature may appease its cravings or
picture as such may refer to something real or to something
question may be formulated differently: Where does the good
be; nothing would be more meaningless. One may not like a
see aspects not recognized before. In this way, one may come
has been acquired already or not yet. We may ask, why? The
age of 14, tend to dominate us throughout life. We may modify
person may get on well enough with his own instincts, but if
evil. It is really like a plant which may be an attractive
further plants can arise from it. As single plant it may be
human being's instincts may, unaltered, serve him well enough
quarters it may well be maintained that goodness is due
we may consider the following: On the average, people living
there is only one answer: Christianity. Strange as it may
concepts with which so much is pursued nowadays, then you may

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A person may at
who seeks his I along the path of thought may, in a
abstract manner, its immense importance may not be
life of which I spoke. It may occur to someone — as it
One may, of
may be regarded as a mere chance meeting, and it is only
lift your hand; you may be aware of a certain mental picture
such subtle thoughts in one's mind. Such concepts may be
after the division. Without the concept the result may
today may be satisfied by other means. But only spiritual

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insight and outlook he has attained by the age of 27. He may
three of his most powerful enemies died — and you may
individuals, various leaders may be weak or strong. Their

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different from one time to another; at one stage it may be
formless, at another it may have a definite structure. A
may seek advice. However, it is clear that what is expected
image remains with us forever, if I may express it so, lying
basic and beyond dispute may in the future have no relevance
This may sound somewhat grotesque but it does illustrate what
none. Some may have appeared in Central Europe because these things
may have noticed that some of the ladies present are wearing
really springs from this tendency, although it may be thought

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grasped with sufficient depth — may be conceived as an exegesis
may call the universal Light of Wisdom and the universal Warmth of Love,
with the Gospel of St. John we may speak of great, transcendental
bull, whose life-blood is offered up in order that man may conquer what
he may be able to advance along his path of life, provides the right
can here be given. I may put it in this way. The Christ presented in
that Wisdom and Love may be led to fulfilment. Seraphim, Cherubim,
must choose the other path and pass on, as best we may, to the study

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of the human physical body. From this we may rightly infer that the
ocean, but regarded all this as a great Illusion, as “Maya”,
of the etheric body. The beginning of the third period may be described
from Abraham to the time of the early Kings — may be compared
Ego must become sufficiently mature to develop within itself what may
on some other occasion, in order that we may acquire a clearer picture

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knowledge is to be found among all the peoples of antiquity. We may speak
try to see it against its spiritual background. Strange as it may sound,

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first sight, that may seem very far-fetched, but — as already
example may illustrate this.

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tribes, and the struggles with the Romans, they were called may

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Italy. You may suppose that, under the existing circumstances where
which were foreign to their nature, that was developed which may be
faithful to the character of the Frankish tribe, and it may be seen

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official aristocracy. They had been mayors of the palace to the
engaged in work. Real work was being done, as we may see, in
Walther von der Vogelweide the perplexity which may assail anyone

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people who may be called the successors of the Huns. Charles was
centuries. Now some may feel it to be unjust that the masses at that

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springs what we may call the scientific and scholarly conscience;

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uneducated as the knights or peasants: nothing of what we may call
From the standpoint of materialism this may seem a foolish point of
learning is concerned, calmly affirms that the question may be

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may be called scientific in the best and highest sense, it must
notice that however the blows of fate may have fallen, whether
we may rise into the consciousness of higher Beings we rise in
nature, and know it must live and may not succumb, because it
soldier may be deeply conscious that he is living to-day his
Austrian War. The event referred to in the last sentence may be
says beautiful words about the ideal deeds of his people, we may
death, we may ask: What is the meaning of the deaths, the

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Part of a lecture given by Rudolf Steiner at Berlin, on May 5th,
Part of a lecture given by Rudolf Steiner at Berlin, on May 5th, 1909.
May 1909.
Berlin, 5th May 1909

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the Sun may well be accepted as the worthiest symbol of this inner awakening. Through the gate of
Nature in order that a new one may begin. Sacrifice and Becoming are interwoven in the Easter
Man. Those who do not understand very much about the fundamentals of anthroposophical thought may
collective Karma of mankind. He could bear and help this Karma, and we may be sure that the

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circumstances may occupy a smaller space than what it actually creates. Thus, we have here
things in accordance with true morality, and who in this striving may perhaps still have
example, here is a case based on definite results of investigation. It may at first be
something of a shock but in a study group it may certainly be spoken of. A certain
external wealth. It was not a matter of a healthy striving for riches which may spring from
abnormal. Such an individual may very possibly be born in the next life with a physical
behind him an earlier life — or maybe several lives — during which he had a
Councillors may do the same thing because they happen to be Councillors but that too is
exempted. They may however also perform utterly different deeds because they are different
may, of course, also he the case that through general conditions, through his vocation or
it, so I may not help him — this is so much nonsense. It is just as if one thousand

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Facts may be experienced but they cannot be proved by the
of the natural philosopher Du Bois-Reymond to say: we may
We may
wicked may be fortunate. This apparent injustice in one
It may easily be seen that this condition must last the
that the range of this may be perceived we need only give a
a cosmos. But just as little may we accept the fact of the
light upon another doubt that may arise regarding the
refrain from helping him, perhaps the opposite may occur.
above example it may also be the case that the
world, may signify something absolutely different and
reverse may also be the case, namely, that common ties may
karmic ties of these 500 people may have nothing whatever
may in the far future start a common enterprise; through
3. It may
may meet, which inwardly have nothing to do with one
That may be the case, but it is not necessarily
false conception may be formed on this subject if a
tone may in the next life be the apparatus for the
Therefore the musician may in the next life become a

Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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may perhaps be able to feel about such a question, that it is
anything positive. It may be that in this regard, we have
comment that I will not suppress, because maybe it will make
turns around to say: maybe one should consider more like
the senses? Maybe it has already arisen before us, so that we
accessible to him/her. Maybe we should ask ourselves here: what
several hours; but I will only set this out and each person may
selfishness, if I may use a trivial expression.
the other, so that it may be something of value for the larger
basis. Humanity may one day finish with the perfection of the
may laugh more or less at this; whoever better understands the
Philosophers and others may look away from such a human
materialism and that of spiritual science. And maybe nothing
we may extend Goethe's remark, in that we take the following as

Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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in the course of time. We ourselves may have once lived in ancient Egypt,

Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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then one may ask: How does it stand with this overall
periods. What we may call the “internalizing” of
that what may be called, in the best sense of the word,
in today's presentation may sound like a kind of symbolic
word. This was in May of the year 1498. Having now forsaken
one of his best-known paintings may be singled out, so as to
in what we call the life of Raphael. How, we may ask, does this
moral-religious impressions, Greek culture may be said to have
immediate feeling deriving from Raphael's works, it may be
in the beauty of outer revelation, and to what may be seen as

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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Maria delle Grazie we may attempt as it were with the
the enormous amount of work of a personality who, it may be
In short, this work shows Leonardo in his greatness and, it may
could not bring this to realization. Though someone may have
what it was for instance in Greek times. We may attempt to
result in asserting: this individual may be viewed only in
adopt a different standpoint and say: Whatever Leonardo may
provide indications as to how such souls may be approached.

Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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that what may be offered as a kind of spiritual scientific
may be regarded as entirely natural that someone like
for us, we may feel, in seeing the human being — for
a particular life situation may become involved in. It is
aesthetic, artistic enjoyment of the fairy tale may
favorable circumstances, one may have the feeling:
it may sound that such a battle takes place daily in the soul's
the human soul may be called a feeling of its own
lectures, additional light may be shed on hidden aspects of the
experience of a quite vague and indefinite nature may lie
comparison may be trivial, it is perhaps still apt:
would like to be. In conscious life it may
part of the soul, we may feel reverberating in this fairy tale
“Sun” existence. Thus, we may speak of a
piece of it, so to speak. Thus, we may speak, as it were, of
And we may also refer to the moon of today as a product of the
We may remind ourselves of the relationship of the
child. For it may be said of fairy tales that they have brought
can come alive more fully in the child. The childlike soul may
considerations as we have presented today. It may be

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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this lecture was given at the Architektenhaus in Berlin, may be said to
those whose growth is as yet far from being at an end. we may
Herman Grimm's Homer book may seem intolerable. All the many
reveals him to be the finest knower of human souls. We may
in Herman Grimm, of which we may say that it came close to what
which he can likewise affect us. We may treat this or that

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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— particularly if I may express it as the field of
in which to verify human causalities — if I may use
problems. That may of course be admitted. I also don't believe
different sides may appear taking on this or that, adapting
to “read” as well. You may remain within the
may not take a system of beliefs which have been fully

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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place in the animal and human organisms. We may assume that in
we may speak about the sense of equilibrium as we speak about a
may also, when we go to work without prejudice, not say: we get
in an outer lay method, research may be done which can also be

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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back over the experiences, of — if I may use a pedantic
thought experiences developing into living form, then it may on

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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thoughts. We may say that in the time when people didn't think

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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Now, my dear friends, this event may be anything; what it
would like to say that Catholics may obviously take part in the
spiritual content — if I may express it this way —
may use this expression again — comes to a Father-godly

Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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in the words. We may not at any stage confront Sanskrit with

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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quality, may not find in the future the same comprehension as
time of transition may result in some dimming of the
life to be fostered here, may be taken as symbolical of the
may say without hesitation that the great movement of the
that we may hold any view if it is agreeable to us, a belief
— but that he may consciously raise himself to
time is beginning when we may not leave this out of
a pupil for this or that calling, so that he may be suited to
to the higher Hierarchies and about karma. A third thing may be
existence so that this revolution in our inner life may be
expressed. We may say that all pessimism is wrong; but it does
should feel themselves as a centre from which may radiate the
sides for the reorganization of social life may be useful, but
have put before you some of the important things which may give
these new rooms with the wish that in our work here we may

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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spiritual forces can flow. The question may and must be asked,
answer may deal with things which apparently have little to do
creeds may speak of to-day, whether of God or Christ or other
the Angeloi, they may rise in their feelings to the
nature — what is it all? It is Maya! What then is
meaning, knows that the words “Maya” in the East
economics — as Maya. The Westerner, on the other hand,
“Maya,” and what arises in his soul is for him
into complete fatalism, as the philosophy of Maya
Maya, in the outer world, reality in the inner world alone. In
learning, maybe instinctively, yet still learning (as they
been saying about the opposition of Ideology-Maya, etc., works
speaks of these things — Maya, Ideology and so forth
mayst carry thy soul wide awake through the gates of
classical education. It may have been mere coincidence that a
spiritual, all outside it is Ideology, Maya. These

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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which we may call “the present,” much must be made
supersensible means may discover what can only be
soundly, we may see from a fact like the following:
and fire, so that the necessary understanding may be given to
same thing may be noticed in other parts of the body. Forces
they usually are; so that we may be able thereby to struggle

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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therefore I may be pardoned if I give you one of my own. It is
future may bring.
thoughts are inadequate to master facts. We may say that the
the masses which may in reality be ever so deeply justified but
proletariat. We may understand the form of the words when they
sufficient wage to keep him alive, in order that he may
capital and technical organization. If I may once again speak
must form its experience, I may remark, on such an occasion as
represent these facts, pointing out how healthy it may be to
is control of capital) and of labour: we may only admit
May it be received and grasped by many, many minds, so that
what is only a question to-day may be the practice of

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