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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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worlds surrounding him, namely, the actual physical world, the soul
world and the spirit world. Later on, I plan to speak about the main
world outlook. It must be kept in mind that there is a great
worlds. It cannot be emphasized enough that nobody devoting himself to
insight into spiritual worlds, becomes an anti-social, inferior member
superstition in the world of sense reality, it soon tends to be
thoughts before ever venturing into soul and spirit worlds. One who
world unites us with sensuality and the ordinary everyday world. All
proclaims day by day are part of a vast spiritual world panorama that
world, are powerful in the internal world. They are not only moral
begins to perceive the great, eternal truths. Then, suddenly the world
audible that he had never heard before. The world will radiate in a
soul world that one “sees” it. It is equally characteristic of the
spirit world that one “hears” it.
public will be found in my book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and
Worlds and its Attainment, stem from ancient traditions. Because it is
What is found in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment is
world, one must have sense organs for this soul world just as one has
sense organs for the material world. Like the body, which possesses
the radiance of the soul realm and the soundings of the world of
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Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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IT MIGHT SEEM as if our world conception, based on spiritual science, could
our world conception. Indeed, every heart and soul will be filled with joy
Actually, today we face another world, a world that will become
spiritual world, remaining, as it were, in the childhood stage of mankind
before the Temptation, and it was he who entered the world endowed with all
the spiritual world keep their childish form.
is brought before the world so magically, uniting himself in his thirtieth
his link with the divine spiritual worlds. Now we are living in the winter
be found externally in the world, but also within, because we no longer
have the divine spiritual world of the earth's spring and summer around us.
experience as Christmas feeling arising from our anthroposophical world

Title: William Shakespeare
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world-conception. But such statements are contradicted by the fact
But little by little a new world-conception aroused the interest in
a way as to thrill an audience. In the whole literature of the world

Title: William Shakespeare
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plays was a man with a certain definite worldview. But such
new worldview aroused interest in the Individual human being.
literature of the world there are no plays which are so

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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the mineral world with human spirit. Spiritualised natural
aims in world-evolution? To such a question my answer would be that they
have a real connection with the way in which beings in the world evolve and
realise it — that the world cannot do without such societies. To put
fruits of occult science do, of course, find their way out into the world
spiritual world — that is a very different matter. All of you have
on-flowing life in the spiritual world.
consciousness in the world does something to further the evolution of the
members to work in the service of humanity, to work in the world
is to permeate this mineral world through and through with the spirit
fact that you have united the spirit in you with the mineral world, a
just so much consciousness goes with you into the other world. Occult
to the objective world without asking for honour or for the preservation of
the world in such a way that their deeds are hidden in social organizations
immortality. In the outer world we see the reflex of such deeds. They need
much as you yourself lay into the world, that much consciousness the world
world is the measure of the consciousness that the world will give back to
you. This is connected with great and mighty laws of world-existence. Each
of soul. But as beings of soul you were part of the world soul; as beings
of pure spirit you were part of the universal world spirit. The world
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Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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that a philosophy of the world wherein the problem connected with the
world-history, man’s capacity to evolve a conception of the
existence, the Christ Being remained above in purely spiritual worlds
him into the material world.
through a certain evolution within the material world and has to
in the world of Matter. Hence even in historical ages the Christ
material world — passed from the spiritual into the physical
world, in order to work on in that world as an ‘Impulse.’
united with that world in which the Christ was active. Then, at the
was ready to receive directly from the spiritual world That Which as
spiritual world has taken immediate hold of the course of historical
regard to the first principles of the outer world — such as
their attention to the lower phenomena of the World Order.
issue. Human history, world history, is not exhausted by all that
historical world-conception that has been inaugurated by Leopold von
the spiritual world behind the physical world of matter. We know that
where his soul-being lives in a spiritual world, just as the being
incarnate in the body lives in a physical world.
capacity to rise to the spiritual world through a purely inward
in a world outside them. The forces, the true essence of this
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Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHER WORLDS”
spiritual world, he will, to a certain extent have that experience
strives to attain clairvoyance in the spiritual world, namely, the
the face of the spiritual world than the more abstract feelings of
beings. Man's attitude and feelings towards the spiritual world
spiritual world which is more encompassing than the one which
civilised world, during the past four or five years. Many people have
battles, of the SPIRITUAL battles of the civilised world! Let us
existence the forces of the super-sensible world, taken from our super-sensible
we develop in the physical world in the form of SPIRITUAL LIFE. It
develop a world-conception or a science, it would be impossible to
impulses for what we then carry along into the spiritual world in the
from the spiritual world forces that constitute, above all, our
spiritual world those forces that we develop through our economic
accompany us in the spiritual world; there, they are important
coming from the spiritual world, enabling us to develop a spiritual
we carry along with us into the spiritual world when we pass through
contemplate the spiritual world as a contrast to what we develop in the
spiritual world between death and a new birth. Read my descriptions of the
the spiritual world forces that we unfold through it; and what we
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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
world, together with the Mystery they contain.
and the all-pervading light. Could there be any sight in the world
its prototype or model exist anywhere in the world?
now look for something in the visible world that is as whole and
mysterious world within himself but able to let the forces of this
inner world stream perpetually through his being, directing his gaze
the annals of world-history tell us: The Temple is — MAN!
in the world of sense. In other words: The spirit that is received
world of sense if it is to be expressed in Art. No epoch except our
with the Spirits of the surrounding world, with the all-pervading
world-mysteries and entrusts them to man's keeping. The word
outside appearance is there for the secular world — with
— secluded from the material affairs of the world and open to
the spiritual world — be born from the Spirit of man as the
then placing them before the world. Styles of architecture are
art of all is the world itself — Macrocosm or Microcosm! In
olden times the secrets of the world were expressed in pictures, or
‘explain’ the secrets of the world. In comparison with
prosaic Theosophists; we have to strip the world bare of its secrets
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Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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care by the spiritual guidance of the world. The ancient Rishi Culture
State which had already founded a world empire. The priest who
the elemental forces that are present in the world. We believe that
the scientific attitude to the physical world.
separated into purely worldly science and materialistic religion. They
other worlds the great impulses they had to give to the earth. The

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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world does not make much impression, and whose education has
recovery from an illness, it makes the world of difference if we have
world with your eyes open and notice how mentally lazy and mentally
through before entering Devachan, the spiritual world proper?
being to the physical world. So if man wants to enter Devachan, he
must first learn to forget all that binds him to the physical world.
memories of the physical world. Just as worries can torment man when
of the physical world do the achievements and fruits of his previous
physical world, and then the physical world hovers in front of him
world. Just as these forgotten memories can become a source of health
life in the world of the senses.
remembering. The happenings of the world have not disappeared, of
psychologically and physically, I am of no use to the world. We can
do. Knowledge of the facts of the spiritual world, as imparted by

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 2: Different Types of Illness
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limited to the sense world but have an existence in the spiritual
world. So that however pious a doctor is and however many ideas he
has regarding this or the other spiritual world, if he nevertheless
materialistic world conception, that is, he treats people as though
living motion the forces behind the external world of the senses. Nor
understood. There have always been scientists in the world working
but only as a rule, for things are not so clear cut in the world,
realise that everything around us in the wide world of the macrocosm
has a relationship with our complicated inner world of the microcosm,
Germany. And just because of his responsible position in the world,

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 3: Original Sin
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meaning from higher worlds. As long as we are in the physical world,
our world, we must step beyond the physical world and enter the
to come into the world today with identical appearance and character,
and more, and the spiritual world withdrew from men's sight. Men
beheld the sense world more and more clearly. We must picture this
from the spiritual world of the gods. It was the gods themselves who
withdrawal of the spiritual worlds, and the more independent and
passions and instincts aroused in the physical world. We must look
for this incitement in the physical world after human beings had
taken into himself from the world of the senses.
world. So we now have two types of human being. These two types live
in the physical world and perceive the world through their senses,
fructification, it is implanted into them. And this worldly life of
theirs, received not from the world of the gods but from the external
side of the divine-spiritual world, is passed on to their offspring
experiences in the physical world. Every time the sexes glow with
who is descending from the astral world. When a human being
incarnates he comes down from the Devachanic world and forms his
still connected with the divine-spiritual world the possibility of
in the same way to the animal world.
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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but also with the cosmos, the whole world about us. For what we have
feelings at another time. At one time he felt more alive in the world
world, and vice versa. They combine and balance one another and this
out into the world again out of the strength of his own inner
time transfer his rhythms to the world, when he has reached the stage
the same way as the animal world is classified nowadays according to
world with a consciousness for these things, will find in some

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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lead us deeper and deeper into the secrets of the world. Today I
the objects of the physical sense world appear round you again. You
world. And in a public lecture I also indicated a remarkable fact
sense phenomena into the spiritual world, knows of these rhythms, and
world. And we must penetrate further and further. Now let us enquire
true image of the great world relationships, for he is created out of
they live in higher-worlds. But in regard to the particular things we
not imagine though, that all this is being said to encourage a world
take an external fact of the world and stir up a mass of thoughts
wisdom of the world. When we bring the inner rhythm of number to life
macrocosm. When we grasp what is there in the spiritual world behind
must look to the spiritual world to find the impulse to carry forward
will take into himself more and more from the world of his origins.
importance and world significance of the anthroposophical mission
divine-spiritual worlds which are the basis of anthroposophy. And
then we must let them flow out of us again into the world, so that

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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understanding of man's being and task in the world. You will remember
to look at world existence in a spiritual scientific way has an
etheric body, is laid aside and absorbed by the general world ether,
until man has grown accustomed to live solely in the world of the
the spiritual world or the kingdom of Heaven: ‘Except ye ...
Devachan or the kingdom of Heaven, and be in the spiritual world from
another being or creature or the world in general, hinders the doer
at all. Then the world would be the poorer. We must altogether
solely at the wisdom of the world that intended, right from the
of the world allowed man to become evil and gave him the possibility
in the spiritual world everything you yourself did in the external
world, and in the process you acquire the strength and the
is, in the physical world, where the injury was done. The force of
comes down from the spiritual world our soul is attracted to the kind
acquire his strength by overcoming obstacles in the world, one after
we are touching on matters that our profane world would certainly
outer world, moving forward from incarnation to incarnation until the
relationship with the outside world was he capable of doing wrong and

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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we see into the depths of the world. For the things of the spirit,
until the child has come into the world.
the child has entered the world this kernel of individuality begins
itself does not begin until the child has come into the world. And
weakness in relation to the outer world cannot occur. Being in
this form is imprinted upon it out of the astral world, and
our being. Thus you could say that pain and joy became creative world
of teeth to those regions of world existence in which primarily
sorrow and tears in that world where they can no longer be overcome.
spiritual world behind the physical, and that what appears in human
These two aspects are absolutely there at the root of our world, and
we must understand our middle world as deriving its forces from these
arise in anyone who understands the world when the elevating of the
surrounding world all the time, then sorrow and joy will be real
because we can see that it is in and through the outer world that the
relationship between ego and outer world has been disturbed. That is
The right relationship is there with the outside world, when she has
them in the outer world, can also laugh while he cries and cry while

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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grasp all the wisdom of the world with their etheric bodies, as
weaving the life of world spaces. But you could almost say that their
level. With them, devotion to the outer world and ego-feeling
were more susceptible to influences from the outer world than they
to the outer world. Thus it was the normal human beings that were the
between this and their devotion to the outer world. Those are the
completely passive Negro soul entirely given up to the outer world of
given to losing themselves in the outer world; their inner character
altogether, and only listen to what the outside world says! They did
today who say: Oh, the anthroposophists talk of a spiritual world
about a higher world! Of course everything is more spiritual today
finding the wisdom of the world in all its different aspects. And we
the world in all its aspects. Anthroposophical development is a
ego is there outside, manifest in the wonders of the world. For we
are born out of the world and want to live our way back into it.

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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world. To a certain extent you can train the animal to do things that
physical world when he leaves his mother's body and frees himself of
outer world, just as the physical body is enveloped until birth in a
perceives the outer world, of course, but its brain is not yet an
thought what he perceives in the external world, but these connecting
its physical and etheric body here in the physical world, whereas its
world when puberty occurs, and after it has been fertilised, it
Then the plant has nothing else to develop in the physical world, and
astral body of the animal has no ego within it in the physical world.
as group ego in the astral world, where its possibilities of
in the physical world. What the animal possesses as astral body has a
world. The lion has something in his astral body that expresses
development. There are things like this in the world that arise
him into contact with the outer world. Because he feels this joy,
the objective world who has done the stealing, but you know nothing
man does not merely look at the external world or merely observe it,
something in the world that strikes you as silly, and you laugh at
further. The ego puts this into our world, and what is thus put into
the world does not perish. What men have introduced into the world
view of our human world conception we call an abstraction: the spirit
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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the spiritual world. Activity in the physical world, quietude in the
spiritual world. Since 1899, spiritual influences must take effect
seriousness when speaking of the spiritual worlds. This, after all,
their significance in world-existence as a whole, in the evolutionary
knowledge brought from the spiritual world.
living on the physical plane to the spiritual worlds has changed from
worlds; it was necessary for evolution that only little of the
content of those worlds should flow into the human soul. But now we
prepared and revelations from the spiritual worlds will be able to
can make its way into the soul today from the spiritual worlds.
experiences the realities of the spiritual world in a very definite
spiritual worlds. Hence it is true to say that what takes place
in the spiritual world — can be revealed through Initiation.
experience of the spiritual worlds but also to the right
understanding of communications received from these worlds. The
difference between conditions in the spiritual world and the physical
world has often been emphasised, also the fact that when the soul
enters the spiritual world it finds itself in a sphere in which it is
opposite of conditions in the physical world. Here is one example:
bring about something in the physical world. In the spiritual worlds
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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result of contacts and collisions with the external world and with
come into any sort of collision with the outer world, he could never
the outside world tells you that you are an ‘I’ and you
with the outside world need not always cause bruises but in essence
world, this amounts to a slight collision and the same holds good
by such contacts with the world outside that the child becomes aware
consists in learning to distinguish himself from the world outside
world the child acquires self-consciousness and says ‘I’
collisions with the world outside have completed their essential
world which do not particularly concern us. What is otherwise
colliding with the external world, we keep that consciousness alert
destruction that ultimately brings about death in the physical world.
world. Man feels the truth of this, but it is in his power to reduce
being the forces must be drawn from other worlds.
planetary worlds. How does he succeed or fail in this respect?
and prevailing conceptions of the world. The only way in which human
views of the world. But it is through what is thereby formed in our
their religious principles and conceptions of the world while they
Initiate experiences in the spiritual worlds is in a certain respect
view of the world, he would undergo similar suffering in the Sun
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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physical world and the spiritual world. Possibilities which do not
the spiritual world. Actual experiences are only a fractional part of
creation of an actual link between the physical and spiritual worlds.
spiritual world after death, the relationship between us is, at
spiritual world we come into contact with a friend or an individual
circumstances. Viewed from the spiritual world things look different
resulting from the admission: I am now in the spiritual world and
physical world, not directly from the spiritual world.
gap between the physical and the spiritual worlds, and that will
to him from the spiritual world. The bridge between the physical
world and the spiritual world cannot be built until we realise that
of the fact that our world consists of physical existence and
into the superphysical world what can be gained and can exist only on
spiritual world only in their Ego-consciousness, only in what
world and the spiritual world. But we can also ask: Is mediation also
world? That is to say, can the one who has passed through the gate of
them as an astral or devachanic or other spiritual world. But if
and means to break through the boundaries of the physical world and
direct attention to the spiritual world that is round about them and
How can we become aware of this spiritual world?
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Four
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stellar world to the extent to which he developed moral and religious
rebirth is that forces may be drawn from the stellar world for
constellations. Anthroposophy is a torch by which the spiritual world
death. Forces once drawn from the stellar worlds must now be drawn
forces are drawn from the world of the stars. We have also heard how
the human being is able to draw these forces from the world of stars
needs for his further life in the spiritual worlds, also for his
radiating from the worlds of the stars. In man of the present age,
to draw these forces from the world of the stars. But this process is
and rebirth, however, a man beholds how forces from the world of
world of stars, he too is actually in that world. And it is a fact
consciousness of the world in which he is living, whereas between
into the higher worlds conditions are complicated. A complete picture
but rather with his whole relationship to the world. We will
infinitudes of the world of stars. The Ego-aura is thus divided —
the world of stars and draw its forces into himself.
developing powers of attraction drawn from the world of stars; it can
with the world of the senses and the brain-bound intellect. Thus when
happenings in the world of stars. A man living in the Egypto-Chaldean
now, turning from the more remote worlds of stars to the planets,
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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what that ascent means and also of the world-wide significance of the
what it signifies in the history of worlds when a Bodhisattva rises
physical body but can continue his work in purely spiritual worlds.
present in lofty spiritual worlds continuing to influence evolution
in the spiritual worlds and the reflection of these forces in the
co-operated from the spiritual world in the development of
intellect, to what is of the nature of soul-and-spirit in the world;
remoteness from the world and everyday experience — let them
preparing Francis of Assisi for his mission in the world. Numbers and
from the spiritual worlds was undergoing a phase of descent, just as
forces gathered from the worlds of stars, among them the forces of
spiritual worlds; all his study was rooted in the spiritual worlds,
Cusa and was wholly dedicated to the spiritual worlds, could appear
soar into the spiritual worlds. The souls who passed through the Mars
materialistic conception of the world. Nevertheless the results of
of materialistic knowledge of the world; and in the further course of
materialistic conception of the world by pouring strong forces into
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds. How is it Achieved?
spiritual worlds as the result of ascetic isolation from life but to
into the spiritual world. That the ascent into spiritual worlds
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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connection with the evolution of worlds is possible only if our
spreading in the world in the form of occult teachings, of Spiritual
world. The prelude to the advanced study we hope to reach in these
to the world in our own main epoch, in the epoch that was preceded by
finding his bearings in the physical world. Which part of him is most
disappear when he is already in the physical world; but they become

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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man's life between birth and death in the physical world on the one
world. And there will be still more to say about this subject in the
be regarded as realities, for a world of swirling thoughts does
from cosmic worlds and had brought with them to the Earth a certain
is to be a beggar in the upper world than a king in the realm of the
public opinion with him into the spiritual world and whatever element
persons who believe that within the world of public opinion there can
wonderfully how wisdom holds sway in the world, how everything that
final outcome is harmony in the evolution of worlds. Man cannot
appropriate either for materialism or idealism, The world does not

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Eight
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memory we grasp a tiny corner of world-creation, namely what has
outside us in life on Earth becomes our inner world. Preparation of
the spiritual world that which bears a new life germinally within it,
observing only the smallest part of world-existence that is connected
the world from the other side, namely, from the side of sleep. What
gaze out into the world but in modern life we cannot direct this gaze
found in the outside world but within man himself. Let us recall what
is really observing in the world that which amounts in his own
have in the world around us, not the thoughts of the immediately
world-creation, we grasp what has passed over from creation into
Whereas through physical perception of the world we see
our vision when we are contemplating the world from the viewpoint of
from our body into the world that is not our body; from the point of
heavenly worlds are within our being, just as here on Earth we feel
an inner world, and just as here we look outwards to the stars,
their characteristics from the spiritual world. Thus Goethe —
his ancestors because he worked continuously in the spiritual world
life. This is what constitutes the soul's outer world. Notice the
organism is perceived as outer world. The outer world is then the
outer world, but otherwise what we see is a process of destruction.
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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earthly life means loneliness and darkness in the spiritual world
beings who send down to the physical world forces that promote
health. Life in the spiritual world depends upon the mode of our life
life in the super-sensible world and passes into physical existence
brought with him from the spiritual worlds when he enters again into
touch with the outer physical world, to act and moreover to think in
that world.
If, here in the physical world, we do not possess the
for ourselves out of the forces of the super-sensible world, we remain
unable to cope with life in this physical world. In the real sense we
are fitted for life in the physical world only when we bring with us
from the spiritual world forces by means of which we have been able
to build a body able to cope with this world and all its demands. The
because it is dark in the higher world in which we then live. Thus we
may pass through that world with understanding, with awareness of
which we pass through this spiritual world, which of the two ways we
that may enlighten him about the super-sensible world — such a
through a world of darkness. For the light, the spiritual light we
acquired in the super-sensible world itself; it must be acquired here,
of the super-sensible world that have been accessible to us and will
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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Reference to the book Theosophy, Chapter III on the Soul World, the Soul
in the Soul World after Death, the Spiritland, the Spirit in the
Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man
the soul after death through the Soul-World. This Soul-World is
was how the Soul-World through which the soul has to pass after death
the soul's life in the world of the senses is specifically earthly
sense-impressions in a world for the experience of which the
necessary sense-organs have been discarded, a world in which no being
as a kind of spiritual region of the Soul-World. Read the description of
highest region of the Soul-World, the region of pure Soul-Life, is
the Soul-World begin and extend to the sphere of the Sun. The soul
Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man,
with the rest of the world. Thus here we look upon the archetypes of
relationship, our unity, with the surrounding world, by observation.
he belongs to the spirit-world. He is aware of himself as a spirit
individuals sitting here today. If the souls incarnated in the world
dependent upon influences connected with a world beyond the Saturn
sphere — a world altogether different from the one where
of the spiritual world than do the planetary spheres. For these
space, a world that is embodied in culture on Earth because souls of
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Title: Michelangelo
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and this we can also do in the world which does in some way repeat
world and there made fruitful in the period between death and a new
message from another world. This creation of form was possible to the
world that strives to reveal itself. This is true also of the larger
their purpose is to make us feel something of a world of soul. Around
and about us is the rest of the human world, and indeed ourselves;
space, the same world, in which we normally move and hold converse;
of soul; they are set within the actual world around us; we should
created works of art which deny the outer world and produce their
effect on our souls as from another world, Michelangelo sets his
figures into the same world in which we live; they share our life
within that world. With a slight exaggeration we might say that while
faculties which he brought with him from the spiritual world. Our
Western Europe we have the world conception which reached its peak in
artist who poured his soul forth into the outer world that he might
bring it into motion so that it may seem to live in our world. And if
has represented so majestically the creation of the world, the
Apollo Belvedere were related to the Greek world. These, although
they were the creation of the Greek world, belong to a space of their
greatest works of art the world has seen, the noblest pattern that
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Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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different picture of the world. The essential thing is that our
the spiritual world. When the soul progresses in its development,
the physical world gradually transforms itself and assumes the
aspect of a spiritual world. We might say: Little by little, the
characteristics of the physical-sensory world vanish and on the
pertaining to the spiritual world.
ourselves change, and even the surrounding world which exists in
very little of the world which transcends the earth, if during
if he remains within this whole way of looking at the world,
penetrate into the spiritual world (we are then outside the
being expands and becomes a world. Man himself actually grows to
the size of a whole world, when we thus look back upon him.
spiritual development we identify ourselves with the world. We
perceive a new world which seems to come out of our own being. We
expand into a world. The earth instead loses is solid substance,
are outside our own world, and our inner world, this inner
reality, now becomes an immense world, whereas the physical world
self, the human world expands into an immense world, and we
behaves like the animal world, except that it gnaws at the roots.
organism. In the present time, occult immersion in the world
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Title: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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super-sensible world first needs a healthy organ of perception, just
super-sensible world. These spiritual organs must be developed in the
the reality, of higher spiritual worlds. As we have seen, this
spiritual world must, and this is quite natural and proper, take his
spiritual world.
of the spiritual world as distorted or, as we shall see today, in
existence, even before the path to the super-sensible worlds is
spiritual training lead one ascending into the spiritual world to a
faces the higher world in a state of what one must designate as a
Losing consciousness in the spiritual world means a stupor, a
stem from the ordinary sense world or from the ordinary experience of
world by being filled in the spiritual field of consciousness with
By taking such elements along into the spiritual world, the
in the ordinary world — into that consciousness in which it no
the facts of the higher, super-sensible worlds purely and clearly. Any
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment,
impartiality, a loving penetration of things and worlds, an attentive
certain moment in his development that another world enters his soul
that the first form (Gestalt) in which the new, super-sensible world
real world and is not in a position to eliminate these reflections
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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Individuals appear in the world from time
humanity. Men looked out upon a different world, where there
world without falling into the oblivion and unconsciousness
the divine worlds were no longer the highest, creative worlds
had as yet no faculty for cognising the material world; he could neither
world. In the days of Atlantis, sight on the physical plane
The world is born of
Gods — such was the ancient teaching. That the world will give
the Indian people, of the reality of a spiritual world, for
outer form of the physical world as the expression of the
them of the glories of the ancient world that had departed
it was said: ‘From the world in which man is now
placed, the world he now sees as maya, there will spring the
Being who cannot yet be visible in this world because the
world will appear!’ Vicva karman was the name
germinating power that will make life in the physical world a
that primeval wisdom according to which the world was
teachings that must precede vision of the higher worlds, then
forces of the physical world, forces that are not yet ready
they bring the God to destruction. The physical world is not
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Title: Lecture: Buddha
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lies hidden behind the world of sense. Our consciousness to-day
Prehistoric man, gazing into the super-sensible worlds with this
soul with a spiritual world. In his intellectual consciousness
concerned, he had come forth from the spiritual world into which he
and more evident that sublime conceptions of a spiritual world were
connection with the spiritual world.
modern intellectual mode of observing the material world. The one
man was once united with the spiritual world but has descended into
the world of the senses. This feeling gradually extended into a
entered the phenomenal world but this world is maya,
illusion.” Only when he was linked with the spiritual world
— “We must adapt ourselves to the new world which now
would enable them to penetrate and understand the surrounding world
world, not to look back with regret, but to look forwards, to be
were once a part is also poured into the world immediately
surrounding us. It is in this surrounding world that we must seek it.
help forward the evolution of the world!” This conception is
men's former union with the spiritual world. Consider the Sankhya
spiritual world whence he had come forth; he tried to disregard all
that surrounded him in the world, to free himself from the links
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Title: Lecture: What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
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Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World?
could weigh like a nightmare on the world-conception based on spiritual
you and the firm basement of the primeval world; you do not walk, as
and so on, like an outer world.
few preconceived ideas want to build up a world-conception. But a
feel us “fatigue.” A world-conception based on natural
dealing with words, theories, hypotheses, world-conceptions so
and in the form of popular views of the world; and then it is said:
regarded as being on a par with popular world-conceptions which are
primeval world has given us, and which, through a process of
world with which, if we have the right understanding, our inmost

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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to make the convictions and knowledge of the spiritual world too
the spiritual world. And yet, as the years go by it is more and more
number of occult truths have penetrated into the world, and any one
respect to all the religions and conceptions of the world with the
after Jesus ben Pandira nothing particular happened in the world.
Mrs. Besant, The Changing World in which all these things are
books Esoteric Christianity and The Changing World

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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taken place in the course of the world's evolution is in a sense to
our physical world sees the details of objects in its vicinity more
world we really do not need to trouble ourselves about these ancient
the world. Future writers on the history of civilisation will have
to learn to know the ego in its own world must represent to himself a
world such as ancient Saturn. This world is hidden; to man it is a
super-sensible world. At the present stage of his evolution man could
inner world, in so far as this consists of the wonted working of the
mind. Further, you must think away everything that is in the world;
external world all that the senses can perceive, and from the inner
world all the workings of the mind, all conceptions. And now, if you
our own world. Neither of these feelings is much cultivated by people
what underlies the world it does not suffice to speak of it in
penetrate into the spiritual worlds without the Gospels through a
because something entered the world through the Mystery of Golgotha
world directly through his own impressions. This is what we call the
ruling of the Holy Spirit in the world, the ruling of cosmic thought
in the world. Whether we take one or the other of these two ways, we
The Knowledge of Higher Worlds etc. and other methods
dependent on these — and enter a world born from that which has
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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conditions of the evolution of our world. I have already called
throughout the world, wherever heat is perceptible it is the outer
it as to be ready to devote its best to the welfare of the world,
is who can grasp the thought: Whenever heat appears in the world
way up to the higher worlds. There he must be able to experience this
concealed secret world free from space and time, free from things and
meet us from the spiritual world. If we wish to describe what thus
Cherubim, were inspired to pour forth into the world, to offer to the
world as a gift, everything ho possessed — we should thus be
only outer manifestation. For wherever there is air in the world, the
some way or other, to send it forth into the world, thus to give to
the world something having an independent existence. We may describe
forth for the good of the world, and can represent it in a work
— so through ‘an act of giving’ to the world by the

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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possessed its starting point in the world-evolution, appears to
the same relation to the real world as does the reflected image of a
fire nor air should be sought in the world of reality, but sacrifice,
concept must now be introduced, which belongs to the world of reality
as concerned with the world of illusion. But before passing to the
in the world. Certain deeds that man may do — particularly such
as bear upon the spiritual world — do not, strange to say, now
physical world, in which we particularly live, the greatness of our
efforts we must make. But in the spiritual world this is not so,
ourselves as much as possible; no — in the spiritual world we
mind to bring something about in the world by means of inner
whereas in the physical world we grow stronger when we eat well, when
the spiritual world, when we wish to attain something important we
higher worlds, is that of renunciation. In relation to this many
realm of the Beings of the higher worlds, for these Beings, as we
be faulty beings actually injurious to the evolution of the world;
the conditions of heat or fire present in the world. Now: if we look
the external world. That which had been sacrifice reappears in Maya
would not be in the world at all were it not that its spiritual
to be found in the world there is divine-renunciation. Just as heat
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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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world we have now carried a difficult aspect of it far enough to
external sense-world. Concerning such phenomena, at first outwardly
may just be mentioned here, that in earlier conceptions of the world
and indeed in the outer world it may often occur that people use this
must understand by this is symbolically expressed in the world's
is known to the outer world, but they are only metaphoric and
as longing and cannot be satisfied in this world, there are many
world. At this phase of development we see the arising of the
universal Being living in the world; otherwise that which ascends
everything that happens in the world has had a prelude, we need not
‘Who would desire to be happy in this world! I could almost
no evil spirit at the head of the world, He is only not understood.
manifested existence like this world of ours! What is the name of the
one room to another. Lo! The world to me appears enclosed in a nest
world's forces of gravity and attraction. For instance, in the
outside in the world which has been dryly called the forces of our
what they longed for in their hearts, and what the world could not

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 6: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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behind the world of illusion, we must admit that in this world of
true existence, in this world of reality, there lives that which
service, as the flowing sacrifice in the world, it means precisely
existence, showing that which in the external world is similar to
following. Does all that we have in this world of Maya or illusion
this world of sense, the world of our external comprehension which to
quite a good comparison if we were to say that the world of truth,
the world of reality, is at first concealed, as the inner forces of a
that the world of Maya might be compared with the rippling play of
satisfaction only in the advance of that world of ideas which we have
left behind in the world of Maya, we know that it consists of nothing
the question as to whether anything real could be found in our world
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
than the great occult truth: ‘In the whole world of Maya one
the universal Maya to the great principles of the world, a very
to occult science from yet another side, that in our world of Maya,
in the super-sensible world. The reality of the animals is only to be
apparent death, only in the world of Maya is that
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Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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world.’
of the world is made rather frequently. Even those who speak of the
relation to the plant world! It is entirely natural that the person
narrow-minded, what is said out of the world view that wishes to
suggestive power of the world views that are merely a consequence of
to consider the world of plants, this wonderful covering of the
world cannot be considered in isolation, because to the view of the
spiritual investigator the plant world at once relates itself to the
‘What Has Geology to Say About the Origin of the World,’
world, surrendering itself to the spiritual world. In this sleep
over the whole planetary world around us. As incredible as it may
human being in sleep passes into the great world and in the morning
human world, into the microcosm. There, because his body offers him
physical world.
the daytime he draws himself together into the small world, into the
limits of his skin, and then expands into the great world during the
night, drawing forth through surrender forces from that world in
when the human being has drawn together into the small, inner world,
outer world.
spiritual world: if we direct our attention to spiritual entities
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Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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man did not contemplate the world with the strong, clearly-defined
meaningless reminiscences of the outer world. Interwoven though they
consciousness of man. Man then lived in a world of images —
images not vague or empty but proceeding from a real external world.
with the spiritual world. The spiritual world actually entered into
his consciousness. Nowadays the door into the spiritual world
states between waking and sleep when the spiritual world appeared
world of sense. He had direct experience of the spiritual world,
outer physical world and the life of sense, but I also have
know that there is another world behind the world of sense — a
spiritual world.”
possessed of understanding the spiritual world became less and
worlds — regions lying far above the normal
he lived in a part of the world directly adjoining on its South side
Zarathustra's message to the world was fundamentally
consider that man can reach the spiritual world along two paths of
world of the senses into the super-sensible world. One way is to
around us by the physical world. Both ways lead into the
super-sensible world. If in the intimate experiences of soul life we
belongs to the physical world, we may indeed find our real spiritual
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Title: Lecture: Hermes
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the world will only be understood in the future.” So strongly
regarded by the civilised world in general in olden times. An
the way in which we grasp the outer world by means of our senses and
world of form subject to these laws but man's qualities of soul and
world of dreams. But whereas our dreams are chaotic and meaningless
nature. The pictures referred not to the physical world but to the
spiritual world behind. In reality, all clairvoyant consciousness,
physical world.
these pictures indicate an actual vision of the spiritual world. If
several peoples built up this world of pictures in different ways,
picture-worlds represented, to the several peoples, the higher forces
those still able to gaze into the spiritual world contained less and
less of spiritual force. The higher worlds gradually closed their
consciousness was limited to the physical world around and to ideas
clairvoyance, to gaze into the spiritual worlds. In the people of
life, a vision enabling man to see into the spiritual world. But they
to gaze into the very depths of the spiritual world.
The mysteries of the spiritual worlds were
lower spiritual world; vision of the spiritual world is possible and
behold the external world.” These later Egyptians had, it is
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Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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world are only improvements of those lower functions found in
position and his mission in the world. And where this begins all
Strauss wanted to give the world aa.sort of bible for the
linked to the animal world through “eternal,
not importune the world with the result of his ignorance,

Title: Lecture: Life and Death
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O, that the earth, which kept the world in awe,
trivialities, was new, and even unknown, to the world of
sentence bears in the world of natural science. We need not
which is mentioned there is also made use of in the world of
anything which is here in the physical world, but solely from
many things in the outside world, then this individual kernel
himself to the outer world and gathers experiences. When,
unite itself to the outer world; and as it grows ever more
but by the outer world itself; that is to say, by the world
outside world. The old, which was present in the germ, enters
experience in the outer world. A sense-perception can even be
world it is impossible for an idea to be kept in the memory,
experienced externally between the Ego and the outer world
the outer world in such a way that his Ego experiences all
far as the sense world.
world, therefore it is not serviceable to him who wishes to
rise to the higher worlds. A life of idea must therefore be
sense-world. The soul must therefore incorporate into itself
now say: “Now I have looked behind the Spiritual world
not gained from the sense-world, for I have brought it with
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Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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and treasures of the world, the treasures and the power and the
lived wholly in the world of the old heathen gods and could
we see the awful collision of the old pre-Christian world with
the Christian world. In Cyprian we see a man who feels himself
That which the gaudy snake, prince of the world, conceives
Assigned to me dominion o'er this world
from this confusion into which the old world brought him,
the world felt itself challenged by his kingly spiritual power.
the world, in the whole world, is love: that wisdom is
yet greater; that the might and the power with which the world
is architected is something great without which the world
the divine impulses of the world. And that we must strive after
power and might! Through wisdom the world is conceived, through
world is fashioned and built. Everything that comes about,
beings and we should be shutting ourselves out from the world
world. We see this mighty power in the world when the lightning
against heavenly force. And we look into the world, and we
know: if we would ourselves be beings of the world-all, then
power and in might. Through them we stand within the world:
in the wide world-all we turn our gaze, there is nothing that
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Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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was able to see behind the material world into the Spiritual.
world. He was, in the highest sense of the word, the man who
new aspect to the conception of the world through external
of Copernicus in miniature to a visible world. Hence Galileo
extending across the stars were disintegrated worlds of
of the Divine Wisdom expressed in the world of sense. All
world, naturally influenced him greatly. Galileo first
relation of man to the world of sense and to his own
the fact that the world around us is nothing but illusion and
colour subjective, which is visible in the world.” Thus
ever being able to penetrate behind the veil of the world
Giordano Bruno's own personal attitude to the world, quite
beyond this world and beyond that inhabited by man, in the
great periphery of this world, the Divine Spirit, which
literally directs the revolutions and movements of the world
not that of a God who directs the visible world from outside,
visible world.
the sense-world. Not in the way in which (as he thought) it
knowledge of the ordinary visible world, rather than those
which relate to the higher worlds. But when Giordano Bruno
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Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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to the Raphael who was later to appear in world evolution like a limb
about the world of Space and apply it to the world of Time. Goethe once
starry world and all that is spread out in Space amount to if it were
lit up in his soul. Observation of the sense-world was not so detached
with the world peculiar to it, — a world where we may place the
in the world of sense. In Greek culture the balance is not between the
perceived when the senses were directed to the outer world. The Greek
contemplation and the sense perception of things became two worlds which
world that we see in Augustine, — how impossible all this appears
is united with the processes of the external world. The evolutionary history
of Christianity was not to direct man's gaze to the world of sense in
between all that is proceeding in the world in a more or less mechanical,
technical life of the outer world, and the goal ahead of the human soul
was going on in world history and concentrate wholly on the inner
of the world of sense, and it then becomes part of history itself.
life. His world was enclosed within the circles so far as the world of
Perugino. One gets the impression of two worlds in the town, —
around him in the physical world.
with the outer world. And on the other hand stirring events that had
upon his lips but revered him as deeply as if a spirit from a higher world
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Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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(Anthroposophy and the Riddle of the World), 1905/06, Bn/GA
world will know what a distinct language these facts speak. It
universal law of world destiny and world events occupy
which are active in the great world-all are also active in the
Theosophy, the world and life are considered will notice
Theosophical world-view will not produce such impotent
orientation toward the world and toward workers. Here are
charlatans and will have to witness the world collapsing around
and powers working in the world. To look at the matter rightly,
arise for us in world history if we are not, like the modern
Theosophical world conception comes in with practical
world framework, sees what is going on in this soul. And only
Haeckelianism, [The worldview of Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919),
world. Theosophy looks for the laws that are to be cognized by
of these great world laws that can be a guide for us is the law
descent into the physical world. More and more the human being
soul element itself. That is what the Theosophical world
will thereby again know how to place itself in the world, so
surrounding world.
into the world today.
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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in the world, uniting the various plants.
external sense, was objective, existent in the outer world, living
idea-world that which in his consciousness brought forth such a reply,
spiritual, the world of ideas. We see that for this reason Goethe's
fact-world of concepts in a comprehensive, systematic frame,
calls the proto-plant the proto-phenomenon of the vegetable world.
While he speaks from the heights of the spiritual world as
firm ground of Goethean world-conception, and so we see a
importance of relying on Goetheanistic world-conception. You can
world-conception, a force which has such an influence on others
contradictions and struggles of world-conceptions, is able to show,
world-conception based on the spiritual, we consider what he did
world-conceptions, and which makes it a principle not to stand
Goethe's World-Conception,
to get Goethe's world-conception, will get the feeling that Goethe
World.’ ‘Whither are ye going?’ ‘Into the
World.’ ‘What do ye want with us?’ ‘You to
of a study of Goethe's world-conception, which became deeply
and perfectly human manner, penetrate the secrets of the world.

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture II
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soul-world clear. It has been already pointed out in the previous
address that the world-conception represented here starts from the
things; he observes the world with his sense-organs, takes in
senses, and the result is an absolute knowledge of the world which
certain way — stands the spiritual scientific world-conception
penetration of things, and a more correct view of the world by rising
of the laws of the world around us and compare it with what an
average European with some ideas of science can know of the world, we
instance, an African negro's picture of the world and that, let us
depreciating the world-picture of the man who takes his stand on pure
world-picture corresponds to a stage in human evolution, and that man
experiences in the process is objective world-content, which he did
world-conceptions, whether spiritualistic, or materialistic,
the world around him. Goethe stood completely and all his life long,
influences of the world of feeling and will.’ Perhaps some of
question, if we want to understand the world, of what kind of
soul must function if man is to unravel the riddles of the world.
nature of things in the external world. What man experiences in his
the crevices of the earth. Thus for Goethe the conception-world is
something of Goethe's method of thought and his opinion of the world.
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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world. Certainly it was not produced there. But because one
a world which had long become rooted within him. A world of which
opened, so that he can see into the surrounding spiritual world.
worlds, between the spiritual world to which man can raise himself
world which drags him down. Faust becomes a being placed
between the world of good and the world of evil. And while
beings fight in the world. Though in the very beginning Faust is
deeper into the human existence of which the world to-day knows so
passage through the great world, but in such a way that the second
existence, passes through the physical world and penetrates to the
world, dissolves together with it and knows wherein it finds peace
of the most realistic of those pieces of world literature which go
experience it in the spiritual worlds, something far more true and
world. Step by step we will endeavour to penetrate into that which
world; men who in the fullest meaning of the word, felt in
for the clearest thinking with relation to the world; and on the
spiritual vision to the creative power of the world, enthroned in
the spiritual world. Theology he had studied and had turned away
possibly lead to any good in life. The opinion of the world between
a man of the world and calls himself a
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Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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of the spiritual world in the two parts of ‘Faust,’ we
the spiritual world, and who tries to enter it through
world.
supernatural worlds behind the physical world. Truly, Goethe was
supernatural world: he indicates this, too, clearly enough, where
“The Spirit-world no closures fasten;
sleep. Beings from the spiritual world are busy with his spirit,
which is withdrawn from the physical world. Marvellously and
to grow into the spiritual world. Then we are shown how his soul
really does grow into that world which is described as the
spiritual world in the ‘Prologue in Heaven,’ in
world is met by the secret music of the universe:
This must be the music from the worlds of the spiritual
Faust, withdrawn from the physical world, now proceeds to
grow, like an initiate, into that world from which this music
II Faust is withdrawn into the spiritual world, it is written again:
at the sun, and feeling the world full of spirit, spoke the great
revealed. No more shall the False Teacher destroy the world —
what is the highest in the world, what He, the Great, Ahura Mazdao,
The world unfolded lies in twilight glimmer,
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Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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spiritual-scientific world-view, what we could give in the
world which surrounds us in the physical, sense-perceptible
existing behind the sense world. But because of much that
in the world of special significance for himself —
spiritual sphere of our super-sensible world — this Being
when the human being is born into this world he fashions about
own etheric body was also preserved in the spiritual world; for
etheric body was preserved in the spiritual world, so that it
physical world which alone make explicable to us what occurs
in that world. We come to understand history only when we are
physical world is to him the important and essential
seemed grotesque; but the world of their moods and feelings, of
deepest possible reverence for the entire world of his
mediation in world evolution between past and future. The
Middle Ages. This, indeed, would mean to observe world history
world, it must now be possible for the ego to be made
get a perspective view of this; let us try to look at the world
world-becoming illuminated and pervaded by the Christ-Being.
objective world, it is now capable also of seeing in all
phenomena in this objective world spiritual facts which are
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Title: An Impulse for the Future
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have climbed to ever higher stages of knowledge, worldwide and
However, as this emerged from the catacombs into the outer world, the
lived anew in signs and symbols protected from the outer world. They
with the hardest opposition from the outer world. A great pain can
world, we must try to bring to consciousness the preserved and not
Thus was it with the French Revolution and also the world wars of our
spiritual world. It was a call delivered to humanity – followed
third time, it is taken back to the spiritual world for a long time.
we look around in the world today we
must say to ourselves: the contemporary world is full of ideals
agreement with much that is valid in the world. Thus it must be said:
that it is applicable to innumerable instances in the world and can
world but the super-sensible world.
to represent certain aspects of this occultism before the world.
exists in the world as a reality and which can be cultivated as such
belong to the super-sensual world. Therefore the attempt will for
world: an attempt not to found a community of people, but to
overlooked bringing this difference to the world.
which, if possible, should enter the world; it refers to the artistic
to make is that a method of working shall enter the world as an
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
science, for example, our relation to the spiritual world,
and soon spread world wide. Yet, after
place of Christianity the world is to be inoculated with a
great philosophy or world outlook has arisen out of the
conflict between the world outlook of spiritual science and
to show that all the great world religions are based on the
The various epochs of world evolution provide human beings
aims to provide a spiritual world view with a scientific
world outlook based on spiritual insight.
world.
no one should be given bread without receiving also a world
world in wes that correspond to our time, and are therefore
never reach the status of a world view. “When
the ‘world-I,’ he finds contentment.”
of unworldly abstract thought — nothing but a play on
spiritual world is presented with the same scientific acumen
There will be awareness that the world's foundation is of
that are streaming into our world all around us, this
nothing illogical in the knowledge of higher worlds of which
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
spiritual science that the world accessible to our five
of a spiritual world hidden behind it. This hidden world is
called, according to the Hermetic axiom, the “world
above, or the upper world.” The sense world spread all
intellect, is called the “world below,” and is an
expression of the spiritual world above it. The physical
world is therefore not complete to the spiritual researcher,
spirit world behind it, just as when looking at a human face
spiritual researcher does in regard to the whole world. The
world: the configuration of minerals, the covering of
vegetation, the world of animals, is the physiognomic
contact with the external world through the fact that we
directly into itself substances from the outer world, and
outer world. And indeed our entire being constantly takes
blood made its appearance only late in world evolution, and
world.
world to physical sight, represent only a part of their true
surrounding lifeless mineral world. In addition, they have a
living creature is a small world that mirrors the great
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture III: The Origin of Suffering
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
that come under scrutiny. In all world views since ancient
precisely through contemplating a suffering of world
science recognizes that the whole physical world about us
looks at the way spirit first appears in the natural world,
that, as a human being comes before us in the physical world,
world, but in us it lives as conscious spirit. It will be
life. The spirit that in the physical world appears as the
everywhere in the external world.
Wherever the element of life meets the external world, a
for that inner reflection of the outer world to arise that we
the countenance of the world. Indeed, the physiognomy of the
visible world. Herein lies the strength of the spirit: It
consciousness, in defense against the outer world, consists
attained that enables us to perceive the spiritual world.
whole world differently, so the whole world is transformed

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IV: The Origin of Evil
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
world.
higher development in no way neglect worldly, everyday
affairs; the ascetic who flees the world will not attain
the sour s experiences gathered in the physical world. The
gathering honey, saying that the world of color and light
worlds. The task of the human soul is to spiritualize sense
experiences and take them up to higher worlds.
humans and animals depend on the world of plants, so do the
the world.
the external world. They had earth-consciousness, but no
not only selfless love for the surrounding world, but also
it in the service of the world: The rose should adorn itself
to say that the world is imperfect or incomplete because it
were removed. The world creator needed evil in order that

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture V: Illness and Death
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
ages, thinkers searching for a world conception have
he no longer understands the world. Once a person is old he
world views what it has to say about the cause of illness and
in the physical world outside, and further that the ether
were, pushed aside; the senses are freed; the outer world
teeth the spiritual forces of the ether world act on the
the surrounding world of nature. Let us look at what takes
natural world. With every breath, sound, light, and morsel of
what exists in the outer world actually builds up the
for example, saw the whole external world as an
of that world. According to Paracelsus, one can say, when
whole natural world and give it human form, the result would
If our concepts and ideas about the world and life are sound,
anthroposophical world movement differs from other movements

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VII: Education and Spiritual Science
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
influences from the external world. Not until the time of the
expressed it by saying that no world traveller learns as much
spiritual world. The will that flowed through their limbs was
those days, the influence of the spiritual world was much
that lives in the world also lives in humans. The teacher
must feel that he or she belongs to a spiritual world-order

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
between old and modern world conceptions was the cause of
worldether.
contains our mental pictures of the outside world. As long as
contribute to practical life. To be effective in the world
that the material world is an imprint of the spiritual world.
connected with the spiritual world, we wish to find the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
bring healing to the world.
we discover the spiritual world. What is required is that we
The spiritual world is there and should not be sought as if
yet have access to the world of imagination, but it is a
world that is attainable.
pictures, and images within itself, the spiritual world
pictures full of color, sound and life; when the whole world
for others, for the whole world. Even if the pictures we
body. If they are derived from the spiritual world they have
surrounded by wisdom because wise beings created the world.
world of the future. Love is born of wisdom, and the wisest

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture X: Stages in Man's Development in the Light of Spiritual Science
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
spirit-light, existing in the eternal world, that created our
general world ether. However, something of the ether body
spiritual world where everything the “I” has
express himself properly in the physical world, the new body
exposed to the influences of the external world.
with a pure spiritual delight in the world, for these are
faces the world as a distinct individual. This gradual
human being attain a personal relationship to the world;
only now does a person face the world as an independent
members, in direct contact with the world. The fruits of
world. If a person is obliged to do so earlier, his best
bodies — and up to the twenty-eighth year what the world
the astral body. Up till now the world has taught him, but

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XI: Who are the Rosicrucians?
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
faculties enable a person to look into the spiritual world
that exists behind our physical world. The physical world is
an expression of the spiritual world of which it is a
knowledge of the spiritual world is attained. An individual
the world together” — a revelation that is truly a
which he looks into quite different worlds, he realizes the
highest secrets of nature and the spiritual world, to that
to perceive and to investigate the spiritual world.
you will find in my book Knowledge of Higher Worlds and
Becoming one with the macrocosm or great world
spiritual world.
astral world, that is from the spiritual world next to the
physical, as much as he is born from the physical world, what
thing, however, is the same in all three worlds — in the
world — and that is logical thinking. It is precisely
because it is the same in all three worlds that it can be
learned already in the physical world, and thus provide a
firm support when we enter the other worlds. If one's
not qualified to rise into higher worlds. This happens for
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XII: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
what the external world is unable to say about itself is
scientific world view, they find it nebulous. This has not
spiritual worlds. Properly understood, mysticism, far from
being obscure or sentimental, is in its approach to the world
discover answers to the world-riddles than Richard Wagner.
secrets of the world. Wagner's awareness and experience of
mission of world historical relevance; he felt that the
drama depicting the world's creation. Such dramas existed
out to become world-substance that they then shaped and
people have always felt that the world is of divine origin,
the world. Deep feelings of religious piety were called up in
being functions as a healthy entity, and he feels the world
creation of the world.
concepts to explain the creation of the world and its beings.
existence of a spiritual world behind the physical. You must
spiritual world behind the physical, one is aware also of
become articulate, strove to permeate the whole world and envelop
also speaks when showing that everything in the world
now. Those who take note of what goes on in the world will be
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XIII: The Bible and Wisdom
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
could come. People saw the Bible as dealing with great world
if a person truly will, he can attain that spiritual world
the physical world, a relationship between animal forms and
the spiritual world. A blind person will see the world full
whose spiritual eyes are opened sees around him a new world.
attained insight into the spiritual world around him. The
spiritual world.
the world the way humanity in general sees it today. That is
to say, they investigated the world through the physical
Higher Worlds and its Attainment, you will find this
external world he was like someone asleep. However, what was
The neophyte experienced a world of spirit; all about him
thought of as ordinary music. The spiritual world, the
heavenly world, resounds in the astral light.) In this world
the sense world enriched with knowledge of spiritual
world. All initiates on their return to the ordinary world
in the everyday world. Those who guided the initiation knew
recognized to be his significance to the world.
truly represents a world event depicting the entry into a

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture I: The Past Shows Us a Picture of Necessity
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human and world existence, and we shall certainly not be able
speak about, I would say “necessity in world events and
souls. If we look at world events and our own actions, feeling,
playing a part. Ought we not assume of the wise world guidance
without this latter assumption we cannot maintain our world
firmly to the belief that the world is pervaded by spiritual
fate that fills the whole world just because everything is
space the world is infinite,” and on the other side “In
terms of space the world is finite.” He then went on to
logical exactitude that “the world is infinite with
regard to both space and time” or that “the world
happens in the world, including human action, is subject
beyond the sense world — and infinity does go beyond the
sense world. And do not imagine this to apply only to unlimited
the sense world — after all, had not Matthias Claudius
unable to get beyond this world of the senses?
way there are many things in the world people could become
sense world — if we happen not to be just like that
view accordingly. However, the world of the senses cannot
transcends the sense world. We cannot just quote the other
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture II: The Legend of the Prague Clock
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aspects: world processes and human action. I began by
example demonstrating this difficulty in regard to world
we call the ahrimanic and luciferic forces in world events and
Ahriman and Lucifer could also be seen in events of the world,
introduced. Basically the world always confronts us as a
model for their world outlook. This has gradually led to
namely, that we relate to the world in two ways.
spiritual world, as indicated in the legend, when it tells us
spiritual world, when our souls are stimulated to do a
the one hand we are in the physical world, and in this world it
preceding one. But we are also within the spiritual world. In
events of the physical world. We are also placed within this
physical world. Because human beings are in the world, they
ourselves be carried through the world by sympathy and
the world by Lucifer and Ahriman. Only we must not fall
then we should also have to leave the world. For just as there
world with sympathy and antipathy, Lucifer and Ahriman
things and events in the world outside us, but also consider
how we judge ourselves in the world. And this
“judging ourselves in the world” leads us a
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture III: Three Teachers with Different Attitudes
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living beings and a part of a living world. If we realize this,
of world processes and human action, we must not fail to
that this principle applies to every process in the world. For
possibly to be found in the spiritual world. If we merely trace
with world processes, we will arrive at a satisfactory way of
outer human being in the physical world. An ordinary
individual being originating in the spiritual world comes from
spiritual world and uniting with the physical being as a kind
beings in the world, it is true with regard to human
ourselves and the world, we must not put up the mirror. We must
necessity and the interrelationship of human action and world

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture IV: The Roman World and the Teutonic Tribes
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The Roman World and the Teutonic Tribes
interrelationships are in the world, and that what takes place
another area of the world.
see such significant world events as those of the present, we
of the Middle Ages the Roman world and what is now Central
different if, at that time, the world of the ancient Roman
position in world history could not fully take up Christianity,
had not fused with the world of historically young peoples who
through world events and spreading out over immense regions.
are connected in the world. Imagine a Roman or a Teuton
world, impulses about the particular effects of which we don't
action and world history shows clearly how necessary it
at the world, we can really only speak of necessity.
at the proper time. We would see the whole world wrongly. If
impulses from the spiritual world. In one passage it is
spiritual world. However, that does not exclude the utmost
world existence.
has appeared in world history and of whom one can say that we
endangered by what exists in the world as necessity, he
world events.
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Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture V: The "I" is Found on the Physical Plane in Acts of Will
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is in the physical world, to the part of the human being that
in the physical world can observe it in the same way and has to
physical world this physical body can be perceived from
I within the physical world except will, acts of will.
to physical observation in the physical world.
physical plane. On the basis of the physical world, we know
beings relate to the world changes in the different
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment,
the world. When the ancients looked at gold, what they
world, the elemental aura that modern people have lost sight of
beings have come to the point where they see the outer world
a time when the outer world will be far more bleak and empty.
there are colors outside that tint objects. The outer world
fact that they themselves put the colors into the world. Just
world outside do not believe that it exists, people in the
outer world has any objective significance; they will ascribe
relationship of the will in their J to the outer world. They
to the world, must be rediscovered in a different way. We will
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
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Title: Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe," Theosophy
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general conditions of the world and the usual conceptions
the conception of the world in so far as it is based upon
of the world, such as immortality, freedom of will, origin of
fundamentalising of world-theories are to be found in still
world. Things that now seem puerile created then the most
the world to consist of naught but what can be perceived by the
for him excluded from the world, except as a reflection of
Haeckel has recognised this accurately. That world-history,
knowledge as to the world's material combination, how to
the world was facing the deeper riddles of humanity as problems
wisdom in the world; not seeking the mere widening of its
be from his in saying that the world is devoid of light and
methods of investigation that the spiritual world opens to the
those higher powers, one able to penetrate into worlds hidden
astral world.
The Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment.
cognisance of worlds quite other than this, then will
Then the whole world will assume a new aspect, and you will be
apparitions of the higher worlds pass before the spiritual eye
as visions of light, but the tones also of those higher worlds
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Title: Spirit of Fichte: Lecture I: The Spirit of Fichte Present in Our Midst
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escape secretly into the world outside. Accordingly, he made ready
a sign to be given him from the spiritual worlds as to what he
the attitude towards various views of the world.
France and the world with their imperious significance; making up
grew in communion with the outer world. His soul knew unconsciously
as a personification of the world's purpose in the age in which one
immediate action, with the world. For this German-Swiss character
in the world — as he frequently remarked at the time —
its resources. He wanted to make his way further in the world
wanderings through the world, abandoning the cherished plans which
guidance of the world and on the way in which the mysteries of this
enthusiasm. It went out into the world without the author's name,
to him so to appear before the world that the public, when
his present status in the world, not indeed in a mundane sense, but
which were now permeating the world. And he mingled the substance
ideas now passing through the world. He was so independent a nature
that he could not refrain from communicating to the world his
revision of those views of the world which he had formed for
now from 1794 onwards were his pupils, the outlook on the world
spirit might apprehend the stream and mystery of the world at a
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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certain parts of the world around us, with the mood that once
Who is the Savior of all the world.
descent of man from spiritual heights to the physical world — and
Impulse, upward again towards the spiritual worlds.
the spiritual world to the world of the senses, and then, of the
world of the senses into the world of the spirit. This can be sensed
not as impossible to look towards the spiritual worlds as it is today.
exist then. In those times the spiritual world was accepted as
spiritual world and how it differs from the world of the senses. Today
succeed, understanding can again be awakened, also in the outer world,
conscious connection with the spiritual world was present is no more.
again the divine-spiritual world, precisely by an even stronger and
divine-spiritual world which in bygone centuries appeared before the
are cradles, places in which, secluded from the outer world, something
hope in anticipation of that World-Easter-mood which is to express the

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 1
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Initiates in the higher worlds. The principles of Initiation change in
through the elementary world, seeing the Sun at midnight, meeting with
the Upper and Lower Gods. The path into the higher worlds is bound up
higher worlds. We shall have to bring forward things which in a
worlds. It is from the higher worlds that the knowledge and the
incarnations. In most cases the appearance of the external world has
worlds between death and a new birth, we enter again through birth
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.
Initiation. He can go so far that the existence of the spiritual world
the external physical world. By slowly and gradually applying to his
understanding of the spiritual worlds. The Way of Initiation can now
public the Way into the higher worlds. But it must be said also that
the higher worlds, one need hardly say, is never closed, but anyone
world through his senses. He perceives it in colours, forms and sounds
and other sense-impressions. He lives within this world of
Thus it is with the whole thought-world. In ordinary life man thinks
an end. The Initiate, in fact, is entering a new world. In order to
to the higher worlds. A mixing of the two attitudes may occur: one can
be so absorbed in the urge to reach the higher worlds as to be guilty
to an end where the higher worlds are concerned.
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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 2
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Natural laws and moral laws intermingle in the spiritual world. The
illnesses, are caused by forces and beings of the spiritual world.
spiritual worlds depends upon the strengthening of the inner forces of
for the purpose of penetrating into the higher worlds, he develops
new world which he can experience through the fact that — as the
spiritual worlds which then present themselves to him.
So now, after having left behind him the physical sense-world in this
aspirant is in a new world. And in this new world he not only
moral standards to the mineral world. Neither do we apply them to the
plant world. And only in a somewhat indirect sense — and, one
As already said, we regard the facts of the physical world as enmeshed
the world in this twofold way. Hence it is not very easy, after one
spiritual world where a different kind of judgment is necessary;
the physical world. The world of natural law and the world of moral
law intermingle when one enters the spiritual world.
first the impression that in the spiritual world these souls — of
about by the spiritual worlds. But everything that happens in the
physical world comes about through influences from the spiritual
worlds. Those deaths which are to a certain extent untimely also
happen through influences from the spiritual worlds; that is, they are
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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 3
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Ascent into the spiritual worlds is accompanied by certain unavoidable
of the Akashic Record. In the higher worlds a seer is able to discern
in order to descend into another world.
enters by means of this training into the spiritual worlds; and there
our time ascends into the higher worlds, he goes through certain
experiences much that is significant in the higher worlds through such
of our time, when he has thus mounted to the higher worlds, feels it
worlds, would finally bring about something like despair in his soul.
ascend into these higher worlds, you are met by forlorn-ness, despair.
distant times men ascended into the worlds into which you now wish to
experienced when formerly they rose into the higher worlds. It might
higher worlds; but his soul now feels lonely and forsaken, whereas
same worlds, but experienced innermost bliss. He will recognise
differently what they beheld in the higher worlds. What is it, then,
beings of higher worlds who are working upon the sense-world from the
super-sensible worlds; beings are perceived who stand behind our
sense-world; conditions are seen such as were described yesterday. But
higher worlds, and gazing down, as it were, into the sense-world; he
super-sensible worlds in order to bring about the processes of the
different kingdoms of nature in the sense-world. He sees the whole
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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 4
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Life of the Elementary World; Beholding the Sun at Midnight; Standing
results in the higher worlds of this changed situation in the life of
spiritual worlds became a participant in the fate of Osiris, the God
who was dying to the higher worlds and descending into the earthly
connection with the most intimate things of the higher worlds, where
spiritual worlds, I found Osiris permeating cosmic space with the
physical world the Voice that in earlier ages had been heard only in
the spiritual worlds: “Ejeh asher Ejeh!” — “I AM
the outer physical world, then men would deteriorate more and more,
spiritual world which go with the vivifying and building up of the
life in the external world that had prevailed in Greek and Roman
attacks of the outer world. And because the forces described are able
worlds in modern times, must be enacted in the Consciousness Soul.
and, concepts which relate only to the sense-perceptible outer world
be permeated by a spiritual comprehension of the world.
it. Man must come to have knowledge of the spiritual worlds. Only
who is striving to attain to higher worlds that in the shape of his
on in the course of world-evolution. In our Intellectual Soul, in the
the spiritual worlds in order to know Isis, so is it right for our
world, and through it to rise into the higher spiritual worlds. A wish

Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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are realities pertaining to higher worlds, that besides our
world of the senses, there are soul-spiritual things, and
world but present facts of a higher world. Those who have
gotten to know the realities of the astral world which lies
behind our sense world, and of the devachanic (or mental
world) which lies even deeper, will come to a new and higher
worlds. The John Gospel is not a poetic work, nor a writing
revelations from higher worlds that the writer of the gospel
the John Gospel learned, through experience in higher worlds,
employed in the sense world. It needed that which the
came into this world from higher worlds must be understood
from a higher world. And he who portrayed Him most deeply had
to raise himself to the two higher worlds we have mentioned,
the astral and the devachanic, or mental worlds. This
these two higher worlds. His Gospel reveals this to us.
astral world. From chapter thirteen onwards it is his
experiences in the devachanic, or mental world. He who wrote
higher worlds. There one can find the wisdom to understand
the John Gospel rise to the two higher worlds and become
initiation into the astral world and the devachanic, or
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Title: Second Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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initiation of a man into the spiritual world. Every sentence
of the John Gospel directs one to the higher world. When we
experiences in the higher worlds. This is possible for
here experienced, represents a symbol of the higher world. He
who is able to live spiritually in the higher world, who has
the washing of feet in the higher world. He who
experiences humiliation in the physical world, goes through
the washing of feet in a higher world. This is the
suffering of the world. This too finds expression in the
higher world. The strength acquired by the soul is symbolised
spiritual world as the crowning with thorns. One sees oneself
body. In the spiritual world he sees himself with the cross
This is the mystical death. The whole world appears as
spiritual and original aim. He gazes into a quite new, world.
spiritual world.

Title: Third Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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outer sense world into spiritual life. The idea of the raven
a spell in the mountain and the outer world. In the Mithraic
which flows through the whole world. For him whose vision is
able to penetrate into higher worlds, all that is, to begin
reflected into the outer astral world. So you see what is
physical world, but is born a second time.
world with the senses. If one does not pass through an
who directs his gaze towards the spiritual world to become
convinced that there is such a world and that man is a
physical world and to believe that one cannot depart from it
sooner to reach the spiritual world. This shows ignorance. It
mature but would bring it into the world at two months, and
expect it to live there. Likewise for the higher world, one
his higher self. The physical world is the school. He who has
maturity in order to enter the spiritual world itself, so
wheels, which enable him to enter the spiritual world and see
world. As the human being is prepared in the mother's body,
so in the body of the great world mother — where we are
worlds. One is perfectly justified to speak of a higher world
and to value it higher than our lower world, but we should
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Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture VI: Easter: The Mystery of the Future
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world.
from the inspiration belonging to the world of saga and legend. For
world around him. He plunges with his astral body down into his brain,
sense-world and of the waking life of day are obliterated; joy,
world. The pictures were much less distinct and definite, rather as
bodies, the world into which he passed was not a world of darkness and
by that world of Nordic gods of which the legends tell. Odin, Freya,
they were experienced in the spiritual world with as much reality as a
same depths of world-existence that are disclosed to-day through
forefathers worked in the spiritual world as powerfully as the
worlds. So strong and intense were the experiences that when he was
worlds, could himself bear witness to what was happening there; he had
fixed. He sees only the surfaces of things in the physical world. What
from receiving the impressions of the spiritual world — in the
completely cut off from the spiritual worlds. Individuals here and
content of the old memories of the spiritual worlds, but, gradually,
all belief in the very existence of those worlds. There you have the
world has simply vanished.
in the reality of the higher realms of the spiritual worlds, for in
faded away, and more and more the content of the spiritual worlds
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
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Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND LIFE BETWEEN DEATH AND
our gaze to a knowledge of the spiritual world, which stands more or
world cry in these times to our hearts, even to those who do not wish
to penetrate into the spiritual world, but whose hearts are
nevertheless the windows into the spiritual world. How clearly and in
how manifold a way does the spiritual world knock at these windows in
to know concerning this spiritual world.
existence of a spiritual world). The view of those who do not deny the
existence of a spiritual world but merely maintain that man can learn
world — and this stage may soon be reached — even if such an
results which can be acquired through the ordinary material world,
kingdom in the spiritual world lying behind the physical-sensible.
trivial and limited is that which the physical-sensible world
“No matter how far the spiritual world may extend, however great
whole kingdom of the spiritual world. Although to sense-perception,
world extend may be concealed, they do extend into the human being.
product of the spiritual world, and how far in him are really to be
we pass in the spiritual world between death and rebirth. From many
earth-life, when we descend from the spiritual world and incarnate in
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Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 2: On the forming of Destiny
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the world, we reckon on the help of those in the spiritual-world
civilisation of the world, it is because we have the full
best forces, that they work among us from the spiritual world with
spiritual civilisation of the world. I should now like to continue the
man is certainly able to acquire regarding the spiritual world. Times
to the beings of the spiritual world. For who does not see at each
greater part of the civilised world — who does not see at almost
world with but a short-sighted vision, will judge such far-reaching
of the earlier configuration of the European World there has arisen a
connected with the whole later configuration of the European World
the occurrence. The affairs of this world are all very intimately
quite foreign to the world-culture up above, but which they carried so
dwell on the transformed world which will arise out of these difficult
man cannot reach worlds such as those with which we are concerned. We
beings of the spiritual world. Thereby we accustom ourselves to that
man does in the external world when he contacts things with his eyes:
will, even if he does not himself see into the spiritual world, feel
and we see the world around us which makes an impression on our
the physical plane we look out of ourselves and regard the world as
that this distinction between us and the world does not exist. For we
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them the possibility of taking up the world in the way best adapted to
general development of the world. Man has completely different
world as are possible with a self-conscious soul. In our epoch we gain
his inner being in the physical body, he contacts the external world
leave the world in which we dwell between death and rebirth, we leave
of the spiritual world. Then, during the Vulcan epoch, an
wonderful manner our connection with the spiritual world. We men in
characteristic of seeming to come from the outer world, rather than of
brings something quite different into the spiritual world from what he
spiritual world. What does this signify for the spiritual world? This
relation of the spiritual world to the physical world (as one can in
conceptions and ideas change on entering the spiritual world; not only
on entering the spiritual world through initiation, but also on
In the evolution of the spiritual world the reverse is the case.
object, is for the man in the spiritual world something inimical,
spiritual world are just as simple as many souls appear to be in the
earthly world), then one finds the opposite opinion prevailing even
thus: one stands in the spiritual world; behind one stand souls
‘existence.’ That which in the spiritual world works on one,
simply exists of itself, that is of no value in the spiritual world.
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The Connection Between the Spiritual and the Physical Worlds, and How
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PHYSICAL WORLDS, AND HOW
between the spiritual worlds and the world which we perceive through
Science, that in turning our thought to that other world, we are able
to make a contribution to this world, by ennobling and invigorating
between the spiritual and sense world, from a special standpoint, we
world, we form thoughts which can unite us to him. We surround him
world a certain relation to another man. This relation may arise
world and passes through the gates of death, at first there remains to
meet with in the external world, for they belong to the past. If we
accessible to us in the external physical world, but existing in the
spiritual world. That to which those thoughts are directed is present,
occurred here, in the physical world. Now, if we observe the fact
world. Now we know, and this must be especially clear to us from the
spiritual world, but that the consciousness of those who have passed
world between death and rebirth, also extends to what transpires here
in the physical world. We can say: Those discarnate souls who live in
the spiritual world, receive into their consciousness, from the
physical world, that which their spiritual gaze and their spiritual
living in the spiritual world must continually be active in order to
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into the spiritual worlds, yet through illuminating these worlds from
world which he beholds with ordinary consciousness. Beneath the
place in the world with reference to the whole entity that comprises a
into touch with the spiritual world, consist in trying to see
spiritual world, we use the same force which we otherwise employ in
gives a lecture on what one really sees in the spiritual world, one
world. That which lives in the thought must be produced anew. Both the
spiritual world that which is usually the veil of memory becomes
the spiritual world. If a student performs his occult exercises with
world, with the support of the body as a physical instrument which
a memory. When, however, we enter the spiritual world we must be
can do nothing but wait until the secrets of the spiritual world
similarly, when the spiritual world reveals itself, the imagination
in the physical world one is so united with it that one stands on a
firm basis. One sees other things in the outer world and moves about
with ordinary senses what position we occupy in a spiritual world
Above all we must understand this world as spiritual, and not think of
it as a duplicate, a simply more refined physical sensible world; we
relates to the spiritual world. For truly, not only because of the
to impart truths concerning the spiritual world, but from the whole
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within the world of these Sagas there lives the perception of the
nights he experiences the secrets of the spiritual world; he
nature, rise to a vision of the spiritual world such as humanity as a
from out of the spiritual world. For whether he says Brooksvalin and
we say Kamaloka or soul-world and spiritual world, or whether we use
of union with the spiritual world, and that this had to be lost so
world through which he had to pass, and from and beyond which he must
again develop a higher perception of the spiritual world. I might say
that this spiritual world which the primitive clairvoyance has
way into this spiritual world in a different manner. It is important
through which man can live more and more into the spiritual world. The
union of the human soul with the world-soul is a Cosmic mystery.
to know anything of the spiritual world.’ To do the necessary
who asserts anything about the spiritual world in the sense of
limited, for he perceives the outer world through his senses; yet
Thus man perceives the world by its effects on his senses, therefore
he cannot get behind the things of the world, for he can never
‘The human soul has only pictures of the world;’ and thus it
and we behold them, we have then a world of images. Then come the
a mirror, in a reflected image, has a picture world of his own, and as
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more closely connected with the rest of the world than the nervous
whole world. This is so with the invertebrate animals. For instance,
the world, so does this common Earth-Soul create the invertebrate
animals as eyes and ears in order to see and hear the world.
abstract way as one does nowadays; one learned to comprehend the world
out in the world when the spinal cord was formed, and has remained at
the world. This pictorial way of seeing things is astral vision
part of the world each single one of his organs belongs. The old
Each part of the world reveals to the esotericist its connection with
surrounding world — stones, plants and animals are signposts
and animals into the world, but also stages of consciousness. In a

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through the entire world. They are as follows: Activity or Movement;
of continuous activity, a point in continuity. The whole world is in
himself, through the physical body it lives in the physical world. He
would be unable to form concepts about the physical world if he did
body he builds into himself. In what he observes in the physical world
bodies into the external world. What man takes in from the outer
world, he takes in through these three bodies.
however the desire to take part in the world surrounding him. This is
everything from the world, he has no further use for his organs.
Between birth and death man accustoms himself to perceive the world
perceive the world, then he finds himself in the condition which is
evil into the rest of the world; otherwise he would work his harmful
hypnotised works into the world the harmful instincts of the
From this aspect we must consider the entrance of Christ into world
But through the coming of Christ into the world, it came about that a
into his etheric body without doing harm to the world. When one bears
suffered for all, so that through the world-historic initiation a
central point was created whereby the tumultuous emotions of the world

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The plant world as sense organ of the Earth. The organ of orientation
beings extend their senses into the world in order to behold this
world through them. Let us take our start from the sense organs of the
higher worlds. The plants are, as it were, only the feelers which are
‘The World Soul is stretched on the Cross of the World Body.’
world into the physical world. This earthly consciousness of man is
expression in the spinal cord. Then a person perceives the world in
such a consciousness. Idiots, for instance, see the world in pictures;
world have a similar consciousness.
One is then conscious in the plant and sees the world through it. One
himself out of the minerals of the world.
world-existence.

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then can make use of them to find one's bearings in the world.
world of industry, is the transformation of the mineral kingdom. When

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in the condition described as the dream world, and when one then seeks
Manas. What the ear experiences as sound is the wisdom of the world.
In the perception of sound one hears the wisdom of the world. In the
act of speaking one brings forth the wisdom of the world. What is
outside, as the ear does sound. Thereby it perceives world warmth. The
the warmth of the world in the heart and lets it stream forth again
streams out as today our words stream out into the world. In the

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become. What is around him in the outer world will later become his
bring into the Earth something coming from higher worlds. Such an

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that time the dual nature of the world was understood, the opposing
forces of the world, Ormuzd and Ahriman, Good and Evil. Thus the
impulse must come into the world. When one epoch comes to an end

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The greatest impulses of world history can however no longer be read

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Man's participation in the physical, astral and mental world. The
ourselves how it is connected with the so-called three worlds. All
other worlds, with the exception of these three, hardly come into
three are the physical, astral and mental worlds. During the day
condition of consciousness, we are in the physical world; there, in a
certain sense, we have purely and simply the physical world before us.
world as such before us. But the moment we look on the physical world
astral world and only partly in the physical world. Only the
beginnings of living purely in the physical world are present today in
physical world, forgetting oneself, is very rare. It is only seldom
true consciousness of self. In all other worlds the ordinary man is
still immersed in a world of unconsciousness.
In the physical world man is not only aware of his self, he can also
he is unable to forget himself. Here the physical world is not the
hindrance, but the playing in of the astral and mental worlds. If,
gains senses adapted to a particular world can he become
self-conscious in that world. Now he only has senses for the physical
world but the other worlds continually play into the consciousness of
self and cloud it. When feelings play into it, it is the astral world;
when one thinks, the mental world plays into the consciousness.
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camera, there appears within it a picture of the surrounding world.
was produced as [a] picture of the surrounding world came to the
for the inner being what sunlight is for the outer world. Actually we
to develop an objective observation of the world or a sense of duty
instance, because they are needed in the world.
re-birth takes place. He waits at first in the astral world, as in a
must break himself from this longing for the outer-world. Kamaloka
world, that Kamaloka comes about.
astral world, the souls of Russians executed for political reasons

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ordering of the world. Alteration in the forms of the flora, fauna and
World. This grandiose thought could only have been carried through if
himself from the more delicate connections with the earthly world.
conditions of Kamaloka can also be made use of in the world outside
for the whole world.
in the earthly world, destiny too is prepared by man for himself, and
transformation of the plant world is the result of Devachanic forces.
And the physical world which also changes, the outer conditions of
own world. They can, for a particular purpose, form for a short time
this must be made to serve a useful purpose in the world. The beings
again into the world. One finds the same idea in a deeper form in
consciously brings to life within him that world which man in the
to attain conscious seeing of an external world. The further
evolution. Through his contact with the outer world, faculties are

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relationships (Life in the Groups). The physical world as world of
causes, Devachan as world of effects. Three stages of pupil-ship. The
For Devachan, the astral and the physical world are nothing other than
three interpenetrating worlds. We can form the most correct idea of
Devachan if we think of the world of electric forces before
contained in the physical world, only it was then an occult world.
difference between life in Devachan and that in the physical world is
perceive the physical world but not with organs that enable him to
physical world serves the purpose of making him more and more
us as devachanic sense organs for the devachanic world. As preparation
is why the devachanic world is called, the world of effects and the
physical world the world of causes. In no other way can man build his
entered into the physical world as a being who must find his own way.
I then undertake the task of selflessly fitting myself into the world
out into the world.
does not lead us to underrate the world on the physical plane, but to
World-Rounds are completed. Then everything will have become human
nature. The initiate describes the world as it is on the other side,
penetrate through the veil of the external world and to look at the
world from the other side. The initiate is homeless here on the earth.
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language, to the way in which things were expressed. In the world of
Lodge. From them went out in very truth events of world significance.
play their part in the outside world. Voltaire was in the most eminent
through Theosophy today. In the outside world however there was no
on language in order to teach the outside world. The occult pupil
make themselves understood in the world, the initiates only have at
their disposal the language used by the world at large. At the time
‘Lead in your daily life in the outer world, a life of Wisdom, Beauty
soul. As a rule however all these works in the outer world remain
of the outer world. In ancient India nothing of this was yet known.
that is also in the outer world, not so much in the inner life as this
in the world around thee. The Gods have raised thee out of the mineral
development of mankind. The transformation of the world was not given
incarnation he knew nothing of an outer-world. Self-awareness first
Somewhat different however from this contact with the outer-world is
again into the earthly world. That is the eighth force. Trishna =

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The whole of our surrounding world is nothing other than the result of
into the world. A certain man, let us say Mr. Kiem, is the result of
new deeds into the world. What is new comes into the world through
past, but where man only carries out actions in the world which are
world-history.
his hands he filled the surrounding world with deeds; through speech
accomplished through deeds and words in the surrounding world.
of humanity began in the world. As soon as human beings speak with one
our deeds is actually something new coming into the world. Each single
human being brings something new into the world, something new strikes
become active in the world that came forth from Nirvana, from that
world and embodies itself in what is already there and which, for its
In so far as he expresses himself in the outer world, man leaves
world will be there in which our entire thinking no longer lives
world by means of another activity having a form quite different from
we explain the world by means of thought, this world-explanation is
The Planetary Spirit who represents the Being of the World is now

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More lies in these things than in a whole world-history. Through them
In the higher spiritual world there is a counter-image for every
the traces of what is happening in higher worlds.’ It is with regard
world was active; and indeed in such a way that in everything which is
Intuitions. Behind the entire physical world lies a cosmos of
consciousness existent in the world also lives in man, in abstract
which flows through the world outside, is healthy. The Holy Spirit is
with the Holy Spirit flowing through the world. This is the Spirit
in the world, but also the forces working outside in the world.
world once more, if looked at from the point of view of Karma is
impressions in a world behind which lies not only what is physical,
but what has life. In the world of life the Imaginations about which
the entire world of feeling. This resounds into what a human being has
In the outer world thought is connected with everything having
perception. The fact that we can in any way perceive the outer world
in physical space as a world of colour and sound is only possible
on the consciousness which in the outer world is itself thought.
make an impact on the Intuitive World: Rupa.
Through all words we make an impact on the World of Creative Feelings
World of Thoughts outside us: Sanjna.
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Certain species of Elemental Beings in the Astral World — Asuric
astral powers. When he dies he first enters the astral world. But even
The miraculous is nothing other than the penetration of a higher world
the affairs of the world rise from him into the astral plane, they
pour cunning intellectualism into the world. In the case of decadent

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Beings and experiences in the Astral World. Black and White Magic.
Astral World. Technique of reincarnation. The memory tableau
Yesterday we considered the forms in the astral world brought about by
When awake, the human being is so taken up with the outer world that
etheric body, is engaged with the outer world. When man is in a
that flit into it from the outer world also enter into the etheric
directly from the experiences of the astral world: from echoes of day
experiences and certain things from the astral world. As a rule the
bring with it into waking life the experiences of the astral world.
obliterated by the outer world. He is not always aware of his thoughts

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and Devachanic World in the life after death and the preparation for
an idea that has significance for the whole world-conception; that is,
entire spiritual world and it is of the utmost importance to know this
If we wish to comprehend the world in a deeper way, we should not
occultists an extraordinary magical power. Even in the plant world one
present on the Arupa plane, so in the physical world we always have to
to creep into the plant world, then we should learn to know from
effect of feeling in the world. There, where a beginning may be made
that is truly artistic, where this is conceived in its world-cultural
without concerning themselves with what is noble in the outer world of
in buildings, paintings and sculpture. If we were to have a world
After the world of feelings, we ascend into the world of thought. When
astral world unites itself again with a body that corresponds to what

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worlds, in the physical, astral and mental worlds and that our
existence changes between these three worlds. We have within us an
throughout the three worlds. It lives within us in the physical world,
but also in the astral and devachanic worlds. This inner kernel,
astral and devachanic worlds the garment of our kernel-of-being is
the physical world clothed with a particular kind of matter. He then
enters the astral and devachanic worlds always with a different
three worlds, so that he could perceive the things around him. Without
the physical world. If man today were equally conscious in all three
worlds there would be no death, then there would only be
transformation. Then he would pass over consciously from one world
these three worlds. At first he experiences it to be a darkening of
his consciousness when he enters the other worlds from the physical
world. The beings who retain consciousness do not know death. Let us
from outside. To begin with, the whole world was interwoven with us;
In the purified astral body pictures arise now of the world
the outer world. These mirrored pictures become a new force within him,
world it has thrown off and which were earlier within it. They build
mirrored images of the outer-world, microcosm in the macrocosm.
met by the Monad on its descent into the astral world. This was in the
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mankind further in this direction. In the earthly world Jahve
ourselves, and brings death into the world and everything connected
birth and death entered into the world. Previously this had not
principle of asceticism entered into the world — reluctance to
attempt to find his way in the world. Because he had original Karma,
Thus there exists in the world a Jehovah Principle and a Lucifer

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The Cologne Cathedral will eventually grow as plant world out of what
work in the mineral world around us grows.
In the Fifth Round we redeem the plant world, in the Sixth the animal

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for they are not conceived in connection with the whole world, with
concerning the other side of the world. On Vulcan the spirit is
This condition endows man with an exact knowledge of the entire world.
ear. All that we perceive in the world as mineral kingdom is a whole
think of a world in which only the qualities of perception stream
Let us think of coloured clouds floating through the world, sounds
resounding through the world, all our sense impressions filling space
think away the qualities induced by the senses and the world filled
thoughts, the World-Ether-Thoughts.
imagines a world filled with such thought-seeds. This formless world
world.

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able to send his thoughts out into the surrounding world. On the
of mental images and concepts. When we observe the civilised world
today we say: It is out of the Ego that the civilised world has
know the world from outside. His Ego was at that time like a hollow
In this way he started to work formatively on the mineral world. What

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The course of evolution in the world appears to us on three levels:
everything existing, who puts the world together out of things.
These three Logoi always manifest in the world in and through one
experiences, the observer would be able to create a new world.
In contemplating the world one continually sees the interaction of the
goes into the astral world. In the case of the plant things are again
connection with the mental world. The entire plant world has its
The consciousness of the entire mineral world is in the highest
regions of the Mental World, on the Arupa plane. The consciousness of
mineral world, when we break stones, each single action is in a
separate the etheric world from them.
accordance with definite laws in the physical world. Through a
beings. So we have a world of elemental beings around us with a king.
great attraction towards the astral world and very frequently result
astral world and has become unaccustomed to using the physical world
world and the physical body is often a hindrance.

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outer world as such became perceptible to us. Previously the eye was
not yet opened to the outer world. We must imagine the same force
order to illuminate the world for him. The divine being had no means
of the waters.’ At that time the world was simply water, even gold and
the world through man.
Originally through him there had been introduced into this world:
Now man receives back the light from the world. (Reversal of the
surrounding world reflect itself in him. The next stage is that he
relationship to the world outside him. Then finally he also gained an
Through the introduction of light into the world man acquired his
a relationship to the world. Through the introduction of the atomistic
through the sense of taste, relationship to the world; through the
can be discovered today; it has been placed into the world. In the
primeval wisdom man was concerned with the plan of the world. Now you
then to create light within us, until the world appeared illumined
is outside in the world is the remains of what man himself once was.
Hyperboreans. So one travels back into the worlds as they once were.
various organs in their relationships with the world. This is the way
individualisation; and in the world outside the opposite came about:
Because of this, what was previously there as Fire-Spirit in the world
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Those who take earnestly the principle of not looking at the world
world. Let us assume however that it comes in conflict with another
seventies quite definite battles took place in the astral world which
forces confronting one another: the sentimental world of the declining
introduced the Theosophical Movement into the world. It arose out of
brotherhood dissolves what streams into the world as means of decay,
everything that exists as animal life and the plant world. The plant
need to breathe. This source arises from the plant world. All that
of the plant world. From this we can form a concept of how Worlds go
under, how the World which preceded our Earth passed away. On the Old
the world. With knowledge, birth, death and illness came into the
world. This was the price man paid for knowledge. We see therefore

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create life for himself out of the mineral world.
people who will introduce a new impulse into the world. This is
(Riddles of the World)
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away from the world; their souls were completely similar to the
picture world. Through the practise of Yoga, working from within
conception of the world. Of this, what has been handed down as
imperfect in the world, was for the ancient Indian nothing but
people said: Nothing whatever exists in the world that is imperfect
looked at the world in a way sufficiently free from illusion. Rust,
away from the world.
World-process, was regarded as the goal. It was said: The Good must be
sought for. The world is good and evil, Ormuzd and Ahriman; and what
came into the early Persian world-conception as the principle of
the world, and on the time-concept. Man is placed into life in order
Second Sub-Race was not one that was estranged from the world, but
work, attention directed to the outer world, concerned as to how
someone could himself create good out of the world: this was the
of Gods; because the world, if not regarded as illusion, but as
man and the outer world — into harmony with each other. Whether
wisdom brought down from the spiritual world makes its appearance in
whole world is made, corresponds to the cutting into pieces of Osiris.
outside world; to create initiates who laid great value on what was
The initiators do not always introduce something great into the world,

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world. This he adds to what his father and mother, his ancestors, are
particular form. When we move on to the world of plants, we notice
completely different world, that must seek a father and a mother,
world. The first super-sensible member, the etheric body, is integrated
of the two streams upon a person's entry into the physical world. In
Yet, without the temperaments the world would be an exceedingly dull
enthusiasms will overcome their native indifference towards the world.
burned at the stake as heretic. Taught that the world is infinite in

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with reference to the world around us, we are clear that in
grasp of the external world unless he admits that what he eventually
finds in his own spirit concerning this external world — the
about the things of the outer world, he will not admit that there
something into my spirit from the things of the world, no matter to
“spirit” we realize that it reveals itself in all worlds,
these worlds. We speak differently of “soul.” We speak of
see it in the outer world, consists of physical body only.
spirit weaving and working through the world. If we thus contemplate
animal actually brings with it into the world. In creating these
with it into the world what it is able to bring and what existence
concept, there lies what man himself so brings into the world that by
world — but a great deal when we observe how it experiences its
delight in the things of the external world, can take in what the
world. Admittedly, without demonstration, there is no absolute
who compares things in the world, and does not confine his

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about objectively within the animal world in the building of their
dependent on the life of his environment, of the world outside, in
if we consider man as he takes his place in the world, to become what
world as a helpless being. It is perfectly easy to see what we are
arise through man's contact with the external world. But it is
Thus we see in man a being with a sense world lying between two
poles. He has his sense world, the world of perception, sound world,
world of taste and world of smell and so on, lying between, on the
of the spiritual world, before the spiritual world is reflected into
ego has direct intercourse with what lives in the spiritual world.
course of world history, only when we see in man the emancipation of
immediate intercourse with the spiritual world.
ego enters into direct intercourse with the spiritual world
of the Higher Worlds. There we see how in normal human beings the
advance to direct vision into the spiritual world.
of the spiritual world, by seeking the real significance of the human
the spiritual world which works into it; rather, from necessity.

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their descendants, how the relationship of world and man and the great
which the science and culture of the physical world is being
fire, evil, which had not previously existed, entered the world. Evil
and spread finally over the whole world.
important event occurs in the world, whenever one stage of evolution
world, two such spiral movements intertwine. One spiral of the sign of
the astral world. I can only describe the lesser Mysteries of the
in the world that leads from disharmony to harmony, so duality is
pre-ordained by the eternal world order, in the Trinity. Man looked up
in the world upon which he himself was dependent. In truth, however,
cosmic law that creates the everlasting harmonies of the world.
world emerged out of disharmony, and that peace and law developed from
revelation in the world and man. In the East all men of the
post-Atlantean epoch saw in the light the garment of the wise world
order, of world wisdom.
Mystery temples, but who also appeared before all the world so that it
facts of necessity sound together in the world's course.
world. The one who can really understand them, celebrating them with
thoughts or a web of dogmas. It has a great task and world mission to
the world, in a wisdom which, besides much else, streams from
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Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 2: The Christmas Festival as a Symbol of the Sun Victory
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the Infinite and Imperishable in the world. The preparations being
materialistic world view of today — one observed an event taking
the image of what the soul born in me will become.” The divine world
means. It is the expression of the glory permeating the world. This
world harmony was presented as the great ideal for those who, in
the temples what happened in the outside world. This was the case in
perspective we look into the divine world order, into the revelation
harmony in the outer world sink into us, the more will there be peace
comprehension, world harmony, world peace will prevail. This is the
fourth century to establish the festival of the birth of the World
great world religions, and when the Christmas bells ring, we can
throughout the world in the past. It was celebrated wherever on earth
philosophy into the world, but life itself. It is our ideal to have
struggle and war in the world.

Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 3: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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life through a deepened spiritual world view. In a spiritual sense the
Now lies the world revealed in twilight glimmer,
So find in world decline
perceive the world around him filled with spiritual qualities, with
spiritual beings, to behold the world of the spirit around him in
the midnight hour, when the world around rests in deepest darkness.
between the external world of material life and the inner world of
spiritual world. These Ravens are to be found everywhere. They are
always the messengers who pass to and fro between the two worlds and
before the world to proclaim the occult truths that he was permitted
world symbol stands before us here — life, which overcomes death. The
which were recorded all world events from beginning to end, from Alpha
whole world.

Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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out of the living sources of our anthroposophic world view when we say
important tasks of this world view, indeed, of anthroposophy itself.
what lives in you as “I” created the world in six days and lived
the plant world. Images from the animal world can symbolize for him
as ‘I’ created the world in six days and lived within Himself on the
everything that happens in the world. While the right of inheritance

Title: The Mission of Savonarola
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members of our Anthroposophic world-view and world movement
world. One could compare Christianity with events happening in
Rome, with the actual worldly life of the Pope, the Cardinals,
could at that time connect the higher worlds in a glowing
involved with the world.” This Augustinian monk spoke in
world. When we search for a specific word in our thoughts which
meant the church turning into a worldly organisation, then we

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture I - The Prometheus Saga
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significance underlies the world of saga, that myths are the
Prometheus belongs to the world of Greek saga. He and his brother
into the underworld. Only Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus
The reflecting man is the man who allows the things of this world to
mineral world, the results of all these powers of invention and
he controlled the Prana of the outer world. Because man has risen to
Adam Cadmon. See also Rudolf Steiner's lecture given at Oxford, 22nd August, 1922, which appears in English in the book Man's Life on Earth and in the Spiritual World.

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture II - The Argonaut Saga and the Odyssey
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fathom the purposes of the rulership of the world; and this can also
insight into the purposes of the world-ruler. A purely intellectual
companions into swine. Then he descended into the underworld, and made
underworld. In the world of Greek mythology this always signified an
underworld, the narrator wants to express the fact that the hero
before the initiates as the temptations of purely worldly arts,
worldly culture. These are the siren songs of the young fifth
of the external world and of worldly goods, seeks his soul's home not
Astral plane and Mental plane. These are the “soul-world” and “spirit-land” in Rudolf Steiner's Theosophy.

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture III - The Sigfried Saga
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must first find its place in the great cosmic happenings in the world.
northern world. None of the currents which passed over the Flame-race,
invisible to the outer world. The possessors of the Nibelung treasure
harsh difficulties of the external world. It has both to possess
plane. The northern saga-world is so interesting because it expresses

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture IV - The Trojan War
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planets, and thus they brought from other worlds what they had to give
that of the World, the culture within which we ourselves live,
pass over gradually from the priestly outlook to that of the world. A
worldly king, a king who was not a priest, would, in the early stages
worldly occupations. We come down in stages to those who are concerned
the rulership is able to pass over to worldly kings, who however still
during the fourth sub-race that we find purely worldly kings, kings
first see worldly kings, and, as the Greek colonies become
established, in them too we find worldly kings.
purely worldly rulership.
worldly kings. Previously there had only been kings who stood in
about. The earlier leaders of the world were free from kama, for they
any trace of kama to enter into the guidance of the world. Kama caused
worldly principle. There you have a perfect illustration of the fact
that what is victorious is nothing else but worldly cleverness. The
purely worldly cleverness, it ensnares Laocoon, the priest, the
others, is simply adhering to a true world-historic continuity. This
great events in the history of the world to the initiates from this
world-history. They have to derive from the Mysteries the forces to
external course of world-history. Those who understand something of
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Title: Wisdom of Man: I. The Position of Anthroposophy in Relation to Theosophy and Anthropology.
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called the cyclical course of world events. At the time of our first
from detail to detail in the world of facts, theosophy ascends to a
at all would vanish. In my book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
himself: between nature and the spiritual world. What is above
the world from a purely human angle, he does not take his point of
within you speak; what He reveals of the world is theosophy.”
learned to look into the spiritual worlds. As much of such matters as
experience, the experience of the higher worlds, shining through
creatively without having recourse to the higher worlds.
common with the sensory world that is perceived through the senses
In the matter of the sensory-physical world, anthroposophy must start
physical-sensory world. Starting from the physical plane, it is
an interaction with the outer world begins. The first of such
relationship with the outer world.
possibility of penetrating still more deeply into the outer world.
world, the fourth sense leads us into this outer world, and by means
senses of touch we perceive the outer world on the surface, and
smell is the first to lead us into the outer world, into which we
penetrate the spiritual world. There we find an eleventh, a twelfth

Title: Wisdom of Man: II. Supersensible Processes in the Activities of the Human Senses.
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world, without his being able to participate in it. Later on, in the
an analogy from the sense world, we can compare the effect to that of
flows into him out of the spiritual world, and, as with atma, the
of the world. Its action is different from that of atma. As water
outer world and must achieve equilibrium with it, for when this is
to identify ourselves with the outer world. We must distinguish
of a simple analogy from the sense world. We have two hands and we
substance as well, but this is forced out into the surrounding world

Title: Wisdom of Man: III. Higher Senses, Inner Force Currents and Creative Laws in the Human Organism.
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soul life. Starting from without, from the sense world, we have
world, borne by spiritual beings.
and to surrounding nature, to the whole world. We have ascended to
as an instrument for perceiving the world, experiencing it with his
your eyes but only out of them, into the world. Here the sentient
sense world by means of his senses, and with his mind understand the
concerning the existence of spiritual worlds and the belief that
in this world acting as it could not act according to our knowledge
Thus to observe the world without prejudice, that is the standpoint
of the spiritual world and the things of this world, and explains the

Title: Wisdom of Man: IV. Supersensible Currents in the Human and Animal Organizations.
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does look that way, and that is evidence proffered by the world of
relation of human thought to the outer world. With our sense organs
about the outer world cannot be correct without an inner tendency to
permit right thoughts to arise within us. What the outer world can
thoughts concerning the wisdom of the outside world, but his thoughts
at a time when it still received the wisdom of the world directly.
the wisdom of the world. What is now relegated to the brain as
thinking was once in contact with the outer world, like our sense
foregoing. In all cases involving the sense world, sense perception
being is in direct contact with the outer world. But concerning all
such things in the outer world as are encountered by the senses. The
lie open in the sense world, that are not hidden from us. There we
that life through which the outer world becomes transparent and
the animal world, but not memory itself.

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: I. The Elements of the Soul Life.
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form a bridge connecting the three worlds in which we live. This will
world, but then ascending to higher realms in order to show that the
life we encounter and can observe in the physical world leads up to
accustomed to call the outer world, all that we see before and about
ourselves. Nothing in the outer world can tell us that the act is a
outer world by reviewing these three cases precisely from the outer
world.
the outer world: the rose. Second, we experience something in
The outer world must reveal itself to the soul by way of the body.
will show you that we do not pass by the outer world in such a way
certain way, the visualization must be valid for the outer world.
of our soul life, and what these sentinels report of the outer world
outer world. You hold the tone, the color, the smell, and so forth —
retained something of your experience of the outer world, even though
it with you. If it were part of the outer world you could not carry
you detach from the outer world. The experience you thus derive from
and reasoning flow to the boundary of the outer world
Above the heavy line is the outer world, below it the
world of the soul. The line is the boundary. When at this boundary an
occurred in the outer world. A judgment has been reached that remains
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Title: Wisdom of the Soul: II. Action and Interaction of the Human Soul Forces.
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the outer world. We experience our sensations while in contact with
the outer world, and they are then transformed within us in such a
that presents itself to the soul life as an outer world.
outer world masters us, and a similar inner master must be recognized
a master in the outer world, and as we progress in our soul life it
sensations of the outer world because, when we see a rose, the
outer world to cause its reappearance. It is simply that a
your soul life during which the outer world gave you nothing; even
impressions from the outer world. External events run their course as
a process of the outer world, and what occurs within the animal keeps
different from the one obtaining in the world process outside. As a
no longer let them enter our soul worlds, yet the external passing of
man. You begin to reason from what the outer world has to tell you,

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: III. At the Portals of the Senses.
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Of Godhead, which — though all the world should fall —
arise in you through contact with the outer world. So we can say that
boundary of the sense world, at the portals of the senses.
world, in the manner set forth in the lectures on Anthroposophy.
for the moment disregard the content of the outer world. Call to mind
that is, the intercommunication with the outer world. Relive vividly
speak, while having a color or tone experience of the outer world
soul was exposed to the outer world through the portals of the
actually comes in contact with the outer world, and while doing so it
yields nothing out of itself but the crest, so the outer world
the outer world by causing its essential substance to penetrate the
world.
and the outer world? In distinguishing between sense perceptions and
between the soul life and the outer world, at the portals of the
desire did not reach the boundary of the outer world but remained
counterthrust at the moment of contact with the sense world. Inner
contact with the outer world but when it is turned back into itself
between the inner soul life and the outer world.
pole without reaching it. In this sense, then, the outer world enjoys
world surges up to the soul, and we then develop a desire, permeated
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Title: Wisdom of the Soul: IV. Consciousness and the Soul Life.
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the enigmas of the world. At the same time we sensed a certain
when we think of the soul as being interested in the outer world, in
one way or another. The soul is interested in the outer world in so
relating to the physical world are what is given from without.
expresses itself in the physical world, are we able actually to use
character as other visualizations entering from the physical world,
cannot originate in the outer world, the physical world. This being
out of the spiritual world and encompass it with a verdict. “Red”
the agency of the physical world. “I is” comes from the
spiritual world. “I is” is a fact of the spiritual life,
the physical world.
physical world proceed upward from below and manifest themselves in
impressions of the physical world. These are then carried on in the
of the co-operation of the various worlds in the human soul can be
on the spiritual world. Now you must imagine the stream of time, and
bring with him into the world the gift for living
physical plane upon which the great world powers have not placed us

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: I. Franz Brentano and Aristotles Doctrine of the Spirit.
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to the outer world is not exhausted with the soul's emotional
they in no way affect the outer world. Within the soul we find only
body and the soul out of spiritual worlds. Thus far Brentano does not
added out of the spiritual world to what is born of the father and
individual human being, it passes over into the spiritual world. It
in a purely spiritual world. In Aristotle there is no thought of a
discuss presupposes the physical world and physical corporeality. The
further development in the spiritual world.
delivered into the earthly world, is equipped with a longing for

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: II. Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
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Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
of the Spiritual World.
have the spiritual world proved to them in a so-called scientific
spiritual-scientific way of looking at the world, he will for the
Anthroposophists should feel ever more strongly that their world view
must we nowadays face the materialistic world conception, but we find
the spirit, on the ground that it does not enter the world in which
often enough that the real facts about the spiritual world are
spiritual world are not directly given to man. They can be gleaned
everyday life. It might seem as though this spiritual world were
how man happens to long for a world that really in no way discloses
stating that the spiritual world had indeed manifested itself through
could have obtained his knowledge of the spiritual world through
there may be a spiritual world, but there is no immediately apparent
itself in any way in the outer world. Against this, an objection has
world by this or that philosopher depends largely upon his having
second. Certainly it is possible to transcend the world that is
a world of truth in his own inner being, and he could never be
satisfied with what the outer world of perception has to give for the
simple reason that he is a human being. Thus he builds a world of
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Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: III. Imagination--Imagination; Inspiration--Self-fulfillment; Intuition--Conscience.
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casting off the coercion of the outer physical world through all that
through a connection with the outer world. It has been repeatedly
world. Fundamentally, this accounts for all possible illusions in
perception from the sense world. In the lectures on Anthroposophy I
non-agreement with the world of perception, and we came to realize
that on the path to the higher world we must devote ourselves in
variance with the outer world of perception, nevertheless awaken
outer sense world, the world of perception, in compounding such
passions such as are imprinted in us by a world that after all must
one not applicable to the outer world of perception.
of the world of perceptions, would not coincide. We bring together
visualization, when coming in contact with the ordinary outer world,
visualization comes in contact with the outer world through
outer world. By means of the process described, visualization adapts
itself to what we may call the imaginative world. Just as there is a
the yield of a spatial outer world. There we have the process that in
contact with the outer world, with corporeality; in imagination it
feels an indirect contact with a world that at first also appears to
it as an outer world, but this is the outer world of the spirit. When
we are in contact with the outer world — just as the outer
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Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: IV. Laws of Nature, Evolution of Consciousness and Repeated Earth Lives.
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whole nature, must be counted among the super-sensible worlds. We
Worlds and Its Attainment, can be understood and justified when
frank enthusiasm for everything beautiful and glorious in the world,
beauty and grandeur of the external world. The doctrine of repeated
world, but which is forced into and embodied in a world in no way
capable of bringing to light out of the spiritual worlds, but merely
in the imaginative world from the world of visualizations —
to be sure, a world of images. All sorts of people have at all times
entered this imaginative world. Considered purely in appearance, this
imaginative world, which can open up before the soul either through
still presents at first the rudiments of the external world of the
pictures; scenes and beings are there in a living world of images. On
the other hand, this imaginative world stamps itself as pertaining,
in a certain sense, to the super-sensible world through the fact that
super-sensible world, when, for example, a cup is offered him, or he
happen that within this imaginative world, and these are less
spiritual world, attainable by man, can of course be described only
approximately. On the whole, even when this world is highly
symbolizing his passions seem loathsome, this world appears in most
spiritual world.
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 1: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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of the particulars connected with the higher world, as regards the
of the Bodhisattvas and of how that idea moved through the world.
receive the experiences from the higher worlds and carry them down to
of brain, so that the truths, which in the higher worlds are quite of
from the spiritual world. That, however, was not the chief thing. The
them; he could not have communicated messages from a higher world, nor
conditions were established. Formerly, Beings from the Higher Worlds
Higher Worlds.” At that time it was not yet necessary for man to
was therefore able to re-ascend into the spiritual world directly
from the higher spiritual worlds into this world. To this other
beyond it; he knew something of a spiritual world, but he could not
because it was in another world. His own feminine soul element was
itself in another world to which he had no access but for which he
from Orpheus. She dwelt in another world; but Orpheus still had the
power, through his music, of teaching the beings of the nether world.
through the astral world then through what we call the lower part of
the Devachanic world, and after that through the higher Devachanic
world. Or, using the European terms, we call the physical world the
little world or the world of mental powers, of intelligence; the
astral world is called the elemental world; the lower Devachan the
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 2: The Law of Karma with Respect to the Details of Life
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spiritual world between what takes place to-day and what has taken
in the external world. If we wish to find a comparison for this great
while a law of the spiritual world can only be proved by the spiritual
corroborated by the experiences of the external world. — People
enough. Yet the wise rulership of the world has so ordained things
the time they came into the world.
true reverence.’ There are many things in the world which our
provide the world with newspaper articles, believe that they can judge
everything, — dividing the world into physical world, astral
world, devachanic world, and so on. Why should everything be so split
but that one should speak of the spiritual world in general
departments of life; Science itself talks in the same way. The world
really to observe the world is so dreadful; they arouse a feeling that
through lack of comprehension, it occupies in the outer world, when it
world he will be able to make his own vital centre stronger and
the world — the best weapon with which to fight them, — is
Here a materialistic conception of the world begins to play a part

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 3: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity
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guidance of the world had predestined for him. The luciferic influence
Man, with his ego, would have remained nearer to the spiritual worlds,
ego, a member of the spiritual world, if the luciferic influence had
the spiritual world until the middle of the Atlantis epoch; neither
divine-spiritual world Order, but to decide for himself, creating a
with a part of their being into the divine-spiritual worlds; the
man's inner being, but in the divine worlds. Through their
desires knowledge of the world around him, be able to fall into error,
spiritual world, so to speak, with the qualities he has acquired
observation, with his knowledge of the world.
sink down so deeply as to close all the doors into the spiritual world
spiritual world from which he grew forth and with which he would have
instincts were guided by the threads from the divine-spiritual world.
Those spiritual movements and world-conceptions of humanity which had
pushed further down into the physical world; but the process went on
slowly and gradually. Even then the doors of the spiritual world were
a spiritual world from which man had come forth, still existed; though
direct way, the impulse of a divine-spiritual world. In the Age
divine-spiritual world is lost, when man, with his knowledge and
perception, is entirely given up to the physical world. That age began
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 4: The Sermon on the Mount
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reason the connection of man with the Spiritual worlds had to be based
fulfilment of its world-historical mission, for that mission could
ancient conceptions of the world, all the old traditions, were
world's history. This may give us an inkling of the secrets, regulated
mankind from the Spiritual world through this people, then, at the
these ennobled capacities, to reascend into the Spiritual world; in
we do not merely study the history of the world from external
world. He yielded himself completely, either to the external
no longer to believe that they could only enter the Spiritual world in
when man dreamily rose into the Spiritual worlds by the suppression of
condition in which you can become aware of the Spiritual worlds; the
right way now is to seek contact with the Divine-Spiritual worlds in
transported into the Spiritual worlds. At that time he was rich in
transported into the Spiritual worlds. Christ could not now say:
could be transported into the Divine-Spiritual worlds. He was not
worldwide significance, place before us the following summary.
for the righteousness of the world, they shall find within themselves
forth. No matter in what part of the world we meet with our
can and carry it out into the world, we can enter into the right
to the divine Spiritual worlds, which, through Christ, have been
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 5: Correspondences Between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm
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Egyptian methods of Initiation. In the world of the ancients there
Spiritual world. In old Egypt a candidate for initiation had to
the divine Spiritual life of the world. A descent beneath those
the phenomena of the world in a state of ecstasy. This was especially
world-phenomena, in so far as these are known to man. Everywhere we
in the life of the world. The other, the Christian initiation —
among other things, that great fact in the evolution of the world, the
unity; greater than the example in our present-world life, of the two
conceptions which prevail in the world to-day, and which our present
underlies all our teaching — that man as a little world, as a
microcosm, is born out of the Macrocosm, the great world — must
manifold and infinite. Above all, we must realise that the world
the whole world with which he is acquainted, there is nothing in the
us that, as regards what we have known about the world, the fact that
are they for the understanding of the world? Now there is a certain
in the great world, is that of the Sun to the Earth; and the same
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
rest of the human body, which is quite out of drawing. When the world
ascent into the higher worlds, and to translate the truths into
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 6: The Birth of Conscience
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must also acquire a feeling of how matters concerning the world can be
world, that as regards their thoughts and feelings they are already in
that world and are therefore able, by means of those thoughts and
Spiritual world. He must gradually learn to become acquainted with
world over, have been more interested in this subject than in any
Spiritual worlds and there he perceived certain figures, which were
its present power of perceiving the physical-sense world through the
brought about in the physical world by its wrong-doing. The soul of
the spirits he had aroused in the spiritual world by his deed. They
enabling him to see the disorder brought about in the spiritual world
the external world in consequence of a wrong.
about by ourselves in the spiritual world. It is a purely
taking place in the spiritual world; it produces quite definite
present in the spiritual world. Such beings cannot approach man at all
the Christ Impulse; it entered the historical development of the world
the Spiritual world given by the Egyptian and Chaldean cultures. But
concerning the world-secrets, and who are skilful in the setting up of
Thus the wise guidance of the World prepared mankind in different
studying the conception of the world presented by Spiritual Science,
the development of humanity and of the whole world has been carried
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 7: The Further Development of Conscience
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the White Lotus, which to the outer world is known, in the usual
one taken from our knowledge of the Spiritual world and which should
the physical plane to one in the Spiritual worlds’. For to us it
an ever-increasing knowledge, that what the outer world calls death is
the impressions of the outer physical world, to one entirely
stimulated by the Spiritual world. When to-day we remember the great
herself to continue her work from the Spiritual world, both now and in
world as the result of certain quite special circumstances and certain
wisdom and Spiritual forces, into the sensible physical world from the
super-sensible worlds in order that the soul-life of man should be
Spiritual life poured into the physical world through the appearance
super-sensible worlds into our physical world. This was a necessity,
That way of talking is very, very frequently heard in the outer world.
world around him with understanding, become aware of one thing. He
What convinced him was the Damascus revelation from Spiritual worlds!
No! He was convinced from what he had seen in the Spiritual worlds
from the Spiritual worlds, he convinced himself of the reality of the
way in which the world must find the road to Him. It is of no
world, and that among other things, Christ Himself can also be found
down from the spiritual worlds into the physical world, possibilities,
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Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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(Views of the World and of Life in the Nineteenth Century).
experience of the external world took the form of pictures. I have
perceiving the external world in pictures. I then tried to show how
For getting to know the outside world you need no thoughts; you need
world — just as in the stream the force of gravity is always at
world: what we would call the results of the Saturn, Moon and Sun
continually in human souls, as they live through the spiritual world

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The Possibility of Contemplating the World from 12 Different
Equally Justified World Outlooks.
conceptions of the world; there have been many philosophers —
it is not agreed that one must get one's conceptions of the world
coining of correct thoughts in their conception of the world, it is
had gone around and said: “I will now see how the world is
foundation of the world. Over this last the world-leather was once
stretched; then the world-nails were added, and by means of them the
world-sole was fastened to the world-upper. Then boot-blacking was
brought into play, and the whole world-shoe was polished. In this way
bright, for then the shoe-polish of the world is shining, but in the
the world-boot. And thus arises the difference between day and
of the world; and for that he resorted to something else. He said to
the structure of the world the thoughts I put into making shoes. And
in due course he arrived at his sublime thoughts about the world.
conception of the world, then he takes the laws that are learnt in
world for himself. These people proceed exactly as the hypothetical
shoemaker would have done if he had constructed the world-boot, only
they do not notice that their world-conceptions come into existence
by the very same method that produced the hypothetical world-boot. It
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Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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YESTERDAY I TRIED to set forth those world-outlooks which are
who wants to penetrate into the truth of the world, it is important
varieties of world-outlook are actually possible for the mind of man.
We had better arrange the twelve world-outlooks in the form of a circle
embraces twelve world-pictures. Indeed, one can even bring the
connection similar to that between the twelve world-outlooks and the
world-outlook is — and can be seen to be — correct, but
insight into the way in which human world-outlooks arise, and can
about world-outlooks, and why, on the other hand, they ought not to
people have different world-outlooks. How, in spite of this, it may
or the other world-outlook, we shall have to explain in the next
world-outlooks. You will best understand this if I first of all show
whole configuration of his world-outlook can be designated as
gets to know the things of the world not through the senses, but
illuminated insight into the relationships of the spiritual worlds.
ideas of the world. Thus there can be a difference between two men
world-outlook sign of Realism. They go through the world in such a
way that their whole mode of perceiving and encountering the world
enables them to say much, very much, to others about the world. They
connection with all twelve world-outlook signs. Hence, if we want to
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Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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WE HAVE been concerned with the possible varieties of world-outlooks,
of world-outlook-moods and so on, which can find place in the human
Let us suppose that a person so lives in the world that among his
is influenced by the world-outlook of Idealism. We will say that he
makes this world-outlook into a dominating factor in his inner life,
world-picture. What the soul formerly produced, perhaps as a
nuance of world-outlook. What the soul asserts and says will be
different when in this way its world-outlook-mood has passed over
and mood of their world-outlook.
world-outlook which in this symbolical picture leads away at an angle
would bring to expression a mathematical world-structure permeated by
world-outlook based on a special pressing in of forces, of Dynamism
into a spiritual world-outlook, Occultism or something similar;
external circumstances, to place oneself in the world in a
world — a thing that Nietzsche could not do. By “placing
oneself externally in the world” I mean placing by means of
carry out the great thought-activity which engraves upon the world
thoughts of the cosmos which are engraved upon the world. When the
worlds, give the “man Nietzsche”. And he rays back as the
Worlds are related to the Spirit or to the Spirits of the cosmos as
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Title: Lecture I: Human and Cosmic Thought
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(Views of the World and of Life in the Nineteenth Century).
experience of the external world took the form of pictures. I have
perceiving the external world in pictures. I then tried to show how
For getting to know the outside world you need no thoughts; you need
world — just as in the stream the force of gravity is always at
world: what we would call the results of the Saturn, Moon and Sun
continually in human souls, as they live through the spiritual world

Title: Lecture II: Human and Cosmic Thought
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The Possibility of Contemplating the World from 12 Different
Equally Justified World Outlooks.
conceptions of the world; there have been many philosophers —
it is not agreed that one must get one's conceptions of the world
coining of correct thoughts in their conception of the world, it is
had gone around and said: “I will now see how the world is
foundation of the world. Over this last the world-leather was once
stretched; then the world-nails were added, and by means of them the
world-sole was fastened to the world-upper. Then boot-blacking was
brought into play, and the whole world-shoe was polished. In this way
bright, for then the shoe-polish of the world is shining, but in the
the world-boot. And thus arises the difference between day and
of the world; and for that he resorted to something else. He said to
the structure of the world the thoughts I put into making shoes. And
in due course he arrived at his sublime thoughts about the world.
conception of the world, then he takes the laws that are learnt in
world for himself. These people proceed exactly as the hypothetical
shoemaker would have done if he had constructed the world-boot, only
they do not notice that their world-conceptions come into existence
by the very same method that produced the hypothetical world-boot. It
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Title: Lecture III: Human and Cosmic Thought
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YESTERDAY I TRIED to set forth those world-outlooks which are
who wants to penetrate into the truth of the world, it is important
varieties of world-outlook are actually possible for the mind of man.
We had better arrange the twelve world-outlooks in the form of a circle
embraces twelve world-pictures. Indeed, one can even bring the
connection similar to that between the twelve world-outlooks and the
world-outlook is — and can be seen to be — correct, but
insight into the way in which human world-outlooks arise, and can
about world-outlooks, and why, on the other hand, they ought not to
people have different world-outlooks. How, in spite of this, it may
or the other world-outlook, we shall have to explain the next
world-outlooks. You will best understand this if I first of all show
whole configuration of his world-outlook can be designated as
gets to know the things of the world not through the senses, but
illuminated insight into the relationships of the spiritual worlds.
ideas of the world. Thus there can be a difference between two men
world-outlook sign of Realism. They go through the world in such a
way that their whole mode of perceiving and encountering the world
enables them to say much, very much, to others about the world. They
connection with all twelve world-outlook signs. Hence, if we want to
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Title: Lecture IV: Human and Cosmic Thought
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WE HAVE been concerned with the possible varieties of world-outlooks,
of world-outlook-moods and so on, which can find place in the human
Let us suppose that a person so lives in the world that among his
is influenced by the world-outlook of Idealism. We will say that he
makes this world-outlook into a dominating factor in his inner life,
world-picture. What the soul formerly produced, perhaps as a
nuance of world-outlook. What the soul asserts and says will be
different when in this way its world-outlook-mood has passed over
and mood of their world-outlook.
world-outlook which in this symbolical picture leads away at an angle
would bring to expression a mathematical world-structure permeated by
world-outlook based on a special pressing in of forces, of Dynamism
into a spiritual world-outlook, Occultism or something similar;
external circumstances, to place oneself in the world in a
world — a thing that Nietzsche could not do. By “placing
oneself externally in the world” I mean placing by means of
carry out the great thought-activity which engraves upon the world
thoughts of the cosmos which are engraved upon the world. When the
worlds, give the “man Nietzsche”. And he rays back as the
Worlds are related to the Spirit or to the Spirits of the cosmos as
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of Suffering
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of the world do not play merely an unhappy role. It is the expression
world penetrates everywhere, it is no longer easy to grasp how the
sprung from the world historic sight of suffering. The greatly
Christian world-conception, these feelings which for so many are the
lifeless world. But we know too that this physical body is called to
of the plant world. We regard the astral body as the third member of
whole world and being dissolved again out of matter, through a
in the outer world in a certain way. We speak of the Form, of the
world is fundamentally distinguished as to substance from the
world we raise ourselves to the next higher stage and try to
is a process which is concerned with an outer world and an inner
world. Consciousness, however, is a process which has to do only with
an inner world. A substance which can die externally cannot become
which takes place everywhere in the external world in a quite
the world had ascended up to a height where outer light and outer air
partial death it could create that mirroring of the external world
in the world never in the visible world could Spirit exist. That is
spiritual world. It was said that forces and faculties slumber in the
new man arises to whom the whole world seems transformed to a higher
higher consciousness, the beholding of the spiritual world, can
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of Evil
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it. One must understand what task and mission evil has in the world.
time. But one must not disclaim the world when one wishes to rise
higher; an ascetic fleeing from the world does not serve
the sense-world. Greek philosophy beautifully compared the human soul
with a bee. The world of colour and light offers the soul honey which
it brings with it into the higher world. The soul must spiritualise
sense experience and carry it up into higher worlds.
the physical body he works on the world from outside as spiritual
repeated. Nothing happens in the world twice; there was never the
the earlier planet. All the kingdoms of the world are connected with
true then there can be no evil. But wisdom underlies the world, love
they had seen only the surrounding world. They had only an earthly
service of the world. The rose may adorn herself only in order to
must not say that the world is imperfect because it contains evil.
devil-figures. The creators of the world needed evil in order to

Title: Lecture: What Do We Understand by Illness and Death
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the world are directed towards a determined goal. We come across
searchers after a world-conception, have in all ages been occupied
understands the world. When he has become old he can no longer
contribute to the present-day world-conceptions what spiritual
present which are in the physical world outside; in the etheric body
outer world to begin having its effect on the human organism. The
here. For Paracelsus the whole external world is one great
of the whole external world. When we see a plant, in accordance
need of the incorporation into it of the external world —
giving in the physical body. If our conceptions of the world and
difference between the world movement of spiritual science and other

Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 1
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Dying Earth and Living World/Cosmos.
relationship to the super-sensible worlds, and how it can work freely
the free establishment of a relationship to the super-sensible world,
observer of the world what is called in a materialistic sense
organism substances from the external world. Solid materials, which
external world, in the atmosphere, we participate too in the rhythm
of the outer world. (I have even once expressed this in figures.)

Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 2
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Dying Earth and Living World/Cosmos.
by the Copernican world-conception alone: a set of calculations! It
world? Because the Copernican world-conception had, as a matter of
world thought of in Copernican terms could only be a dead earth! A
earth, seen from the cosmos. The Copernican world-conception can of
spiritual world. That is what matters. It is necessary to put forward
about the spiritual worlds; and it is necessary too that such
world, as there is mathematics. But from the other point of view,
in the world, as man has succeeded in calculating about the
world. One approaches spiritual life the more one penetrates from
speak today not only in general abstract ideas about the world in
connection with the spiritual world, a connection with the higher
Hierarchies, a connection with that world in which man lives between

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas VII: The Creation of A Michael Festival Out Of The Spirit (Extract)
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force is the ruling spiritual power in the world, and in which we must
wisdom in the whole world process, manifested in our being able to
something that is seen from the other world. It is only we on earth
spiritual world, the cosmic hour is endowed with life. One cosmic hour
the spiritual worlds. At the same time, man must understand the
at midsummer into the world's far spaces, is there united with the
found only in the spiritual world, something which can kindle feelings
such a creating out of the spiritual world. For what would that imply?

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
knowledge on a par with other modern world-conceptions. But this is
external world surrounding him on earth, he would never have become
to passion and desire in the world of sense. Where did these Luciferic
wholly to the world of sense?
should not utterly succumb to this world of sense. And so there is
exactly as much suffering and pain in the world as there is interest
soon as he actually did. His passion and craving for the world of
man would have had sight of the surrounding world only from the middle
with the result that he does not see through this material world to
when he bases himself solely upon the manifestations of the world of
from the material world? They saw to it — the process was of course
material world as such; this enabled him to shoulder and work out his
enticement of the Luciferic Beings brought into the world suffering,
sense-world, made it possible for man, through his karma, eventually
to blot out all the error, all the evil he has wrought in the world.
material world and to be oblivious of the realty of spiritual beings
and spiritual worlds. True, the Asuric powers corrupt man to-day in a
world only; they hue him to a kind of theoretic materialism. But as
spiritual world. More and more he will not only teach that the highest
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Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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cognition would not have been directed to the material world until a
would have confronted the world of sense as it were in a state of
was that he was detached in a certain way from the spiritual world. To
whole material world of sense would have lain around him — but gazing
Divine-Spiritual world behind every physical object. If, therefore, in
world of sense in its entirety would have been outspread in
lost. One spiritual world would have closed behind him and a new
spiritual world opened before him. Man would have remained a child in
of the underlying spiritual world invisible to him. The personal
spread a cloud of darkness over the spiritual Beings of the world out
spiritual world which had been concealed as the result of Lucifer's
enable them to perceive that part of the spiritual world of light
parallel with initiation, figures which from a world of Light
penetrate into our world decked in the raiment provided by the astral
world. In the ancient Oracle centers the Atlantean Initiate beheld in
world and who had therefore remained invisible to ordinary sight when
opponent of these worlds of Light, it was inevitable that he too
sleeping and waking, could be transported into the spiritual world.
When part of the world of Light was accessible to these Atlantean men,
part of the world opposing the world of Light was also visible; the
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Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - I
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Apocalypse of St. John. The vision of one who surveys the world in
Man will himself perceive the existence of a Divine World-Spirit. That
the world; members of the first sub-race of the Fifth Root Race still
in a wonder-world of feeling. In civilisations where memory comes more
sublime, majestic spirit-world of the Brahmans. The great light-sides
I wished only to show how events of world importance are touched upon

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - II
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realms of the spiritual world. Therefore the Church Father or Teacher
all-embracing picture of the world. Quotation from
three principles which underlie the world: Father, Word and Holy
Himself, by Him through Whom Christianity itself came into the world.
three worlds: the physical world, the astral world, and the Devachanic
world. But he is conscious of himself only in the physical world. The
highest manifestation which can exist in the world was for all
world-creative Will. And when the Christian says anything at all about
world-creative, universal Will. When man desires to bring the highest
Will, that is, through the world-creative principle, then this is
said: everything that constitutes our world is apprehended in the
into being through the Highest, world-creative Will, just as man
embodiment of the human spirit, so is the world the embodiment of the
embodied in the world. This is the Word, and this Word is designated
Being, not as an abstract image of the World-soul conceived in a
Present. So it is in Devachan. In the physical world we have space and
time. In the astral world we have only time. In the Devachanic world,
world-historic significance of Christianity in its Gospel. What was
enacted on the great stage of outer world-existence. What came to pass
had to be presented to the world, in a more popular form. Therewith a
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Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - III
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who approach the theosophical view of the world with a certain
the world lies in the saying: Blessed are those who believe even
of the world. “This does not gainsay in the very slightest the
world. Then we shall realise that it points to the time when the
The whole of world evolution, that of the past and that of the future,

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 1: Spiritual Science and Language
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the human being, when faced with some object or event in the outside world,
the same constitution as the mineral world. Then, from a spiritual-scientific
to gain knowledge about the things of the outside world. The seven-membered
was a direct correspondence with the spiritual world; then it developed and
world. But this physical body has more functions than providing us with a
knowledge of the outside world by means of our senses and our brain. It has
quite clear that everything which surrounds us in the outside world is
a quality of soul which we still refer to today in the animal world as
person, that occurs in the animal world as the basis of the whole species or
imagination, and not to realise that it has been taken from the outside world
ideas existing in the outside world might just as well say that he can take
possible a true picture of the outer world. Those things which do not exactly
conception, away from the purely abstract outside world.
which it is meant to represent. Language only imitates the outside world in a
they relate to the surroundings of the outside world as symbols. In contrast,
consciousness. When one faces the outside world one contrasts oneself with
it. If one faces the outside world from the point of view of the ether body
outside world. The ether body simply states. That is why in the Semitic
in contrast with the outside world, which contain as an essential element the
perception of an outside world, are particularly the Indo-Germanic languages.
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 2: Laughing and Weeping
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questions concerning the evolution of world and man, people generally are
here for penetrating into the spiritual worlds, will be convinced that to
into the world. And with a deep
understanding of world history, tradition adds that on account of this smile
all creatures in the world exulted, while evil spirits and adversaries in all
the world.
than to seek the spirit where it is revealed in the world immediately around
object or being in the outer world. The ego does not remain indifferent
how it tries to bring itself into harmony with the external world. If some
between our ego and the rest of the world. The experiences that come to us
through objects or beings in the outer world and are reflected in our
relation to the outer world. Many other examples could be given of how the
certain things in the outer world and finally succeeds. Then it feels united
example: suppose we meet in the outer world a being we do not want to
from being touched by impressions from the outer world. This withdrawal of
outer world is broken. Because of the soul-condition created by our
surrounding world. We not only give something to those we love; we enrich our
enriched by the outer world; now it feels strengthened by itself producing
cannot achieve a satisfying relationship with the outer world, will either
child, it does not immediately seek to relate itself to the outer world. A
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 3: What is Mysticism?
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the world by a purely inward soul-experience; above all, by the liberation of
would draw back from the outer world and try to plunge into the depths of its
means he can find the divine ground of the world, which he would not be able
search for the divine foundations of the world. The inward experiences of the
man is led out from inner life to a real knowledge of the world. If we keep
the process is as follows. The mystic has in front of him the external world,
thrall to the external world and cannot penetrate through its appearances to
their source. His soul retains conceptual images of the outer world, and
directs him towards the outer world and the impressions the latter makes upon
world, he has to reckon with everything that the outer world has engendered
from the outer world, to obliterate all impressions and conceptual images
drawn from that world? The true mystical experience depends on the fact that
content. The mystic feels that impressions of the outer world, with their
mystic feels that when he is open to the external world, its life is like a
soul. But when all impressions from the outer world are erased, the inner
imperceptible in face of the dazzle of the outer world.
comparable with what he encounters in the outer world. No: there is a radical
difference. Our relation to things in the outer world is such that we cannot
world: we cannot say that they show us only their outer side, for we are
outer world. For the outer world is subject everywhere to growth and decline,
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 4: The Nature of Prayer
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experiences that come to him from the external world. He tries to press on to
still has within it a world of its own, so to speak. This world is always
world-order but to give heart-warmingly beautiful expression in his writings
to the secrets of the world — if we bear all this in mind, we shall
of the world in the service of our will, to kindle the spark to a brighter
world. But if we meet the future with humbleness and devotion, we draw near
with the external world estranges us from ourselves, just as in the past it
shall not be subject to the disintegrating effects of the outer world. We
when we approach the things of the outer world, we always find them involved
shows that in everything we encounter in the outer world there is always a
something always thrusts us away. The outer world stands before us like an
everything in the outer world with the confidence and hope that this feeling
whole world that comes to us in the prayer of devoted submission.
world we are standing somewhere surrounded by the blackness of night, we may
ourselves, but as though we could now carry forth into the outer world our
world, which estranges us from ourselves, is overcome by the warmth of
go out from ourselves and unite ourselves with the outer world and behold it,
from the outer world.
manifold pressures of the world, where at first the soul is lost and cannot
with the feeling of humbleness towards the future, leads out into the world
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 5: Sickness and Healing
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being has in common only with the animal world of his environment. And then
outside world, the physical environment, from which the physical body itself
outside world. What we call pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, sympathy or
world, but it remains within the element which causes the pleasure. The
pain beyond himself into discovery of the world because the ego leads him out
again and unites him with the outside world. Thus we see on the one hand how
body, whereas the ego leads into the outside world, into the physical world
home in the spiritual world, that they withdraw from the physical body and
world as the outward human being and keeps the ether body, the mediator
mediator, has entered the outside world. Thus one can say in a certain sense
gains in knowledge of the outside world in waking life is taken up inwardly
ego to the spiritual world every night? Is there any reason for the human
they become active in the interaction between inner and outer world, they
not in a position to enter a different world each night than the one which we
inhabit from morning to evening. In the world which we inhabit when we are
replenish them out of the spiritual world which we enter each night and that
is why we sleep. We would be unable to live without entering the world of
night and fetching from the spiritual world the forces which we use during
the day. Thus the question what we bring into the physical world when we
carry something from the physical world into the spiritual world at night?
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 6: Positive and Negative Man
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outer world, is able to maintain the firmness and security of his inner
world. Its conceptual images and ideas are no longer there only to control
by the ego, so that it reflects the outer world and gains knowledge of it.
derived from the spiritual world, for that is how we enrich the life of the
impresses on the outer world. Similarly, we would never reach a real
knowledge of world secrets if we were not able to attach external experiences
them to meet the outer world, and it is only by so doing that we can grasp
and elucidate the outer world in its true form. Thus we can infuse our inner
could never gain from the outer world alone.
ourselves off for a while from impressions and stimuli from the outer world,
himself in the mysteries of the world by unveiling within himself what the
world-mysteries have laid down in his soul. In the next lecture we saw that
he can grow into a world which is as unknown to ordinary people as the world
everything in mystical life and knowledge of higher worlds that we call inner
from the outer world and consciously achieves a condition in which he is
about our ascent into higher worlds by vegetarianism or by not eating this or
ones. If we want to penetrate into the spiritual world, we must be clear that
approach to the spiritual world were to be entirely negative, we would be
from the spiritual world and consider ordinary life. Why should a vegetarian
he will never impart to anyone the means of rising into higher worlds without
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 7: Error and Mental Disorder
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world, between going to sleep and waking up. And it also fails to recognise
world were described in these lectures as the astral human body which, in
such a phrase by a world famous philosopher strange. Compare with this the
this free intercourse with the outside world is obstructed and we do not
exhausted however much he researches into the spiritual world; that could be

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 8: Human Conscience
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the sense-world only, but looks behind the veil of the sense-world into the
sense-world are to be found. And it has repeatedly been shown — for
penetrate behind the veil that is spread over the sense-world if we are to
soul in its ordinary condition enables us to grasp the external world
of the sense-world, he must raise his soul-life to a higher level. Then he
on a man blind from birth, when a hitherto unknown world of light and colour
and beings, on which our sense-world is based, just as he finds his way among
chairs and tables in the physical world: and he now takes up into a higher
of the dark spiritual powers of the world, was it then less perfect, by
physical body; we look on it as having been formed out of the spiritual world
spiritual world as though in a dream. Since he was not yet shone through by
part of the spiritual world; and whatever he did was imbued, for him, with a
ego will step forth into the spiritual world.
external world to the inner life of the soul? If it was the great cosmic
be said about correcting the distortion caused in the world-order.
saying can be drawn purely from the spiritual world. No external history is
was the corner-stone between the worlds of East and West.
In the Eastern World
the West, where experiences which had belonged to the outer world were
who appeared in the East to those able to look clairvoyantly into the world
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 9: The Mission of Art
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knowledge in relation to the spiritual world — what have these studies
young man he strove by all possible means to acquire knowledge of the world
a revelation from another world something quite different from anything we
development of art in relation to the evolution of man and the world. We will
later on, they perceived the spiritual world as a reality all around them. We
looked into the spiritual world from which his true inner being had emerged
behind our physical existence came before his soul. In this spiritual world
forces of the great world; and he could say: “When something takes
spiritual world. He felt that spiritual powers were active in his thinking,
Aphrodite, who had promised him the most beautiful woman in the world for his
world? No. Through the consciousness of the Greeks we see depicted the
could have said: “I cannot find in the physical world the causes which
have said: “I can see my gods battling in the spiritual world, which
man had felt inspired by the divine worlds wherein he had his being, so the
world withdraws externally from man does his inward ego-feeling light
of the spiritual facts underlying the world. When the old clairvoyance was
intermediate country, the two worlds meet. There we find men who are
kind of unbelief in the pictorial visions of the world of the gods that
and emotions in the physical world. Homer, accordingly, does not describe
divine-spiritual worlds that could no more be seen but only aspired to. In
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Title: Excursus/Mark: I: A Retrospect
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With this lecture we introduced to the world a
being able to extend our vision, and also our world of feeling and
the spiritual world in past centuries. How our horizon can be
concerning man's position in the physical world and what lies
to man's connection with the spiritual world is the
world to-day, yet one thing we must not forget: this path can lead us
offer concerning the secrets and facts of the spiritual world. We
region from which one can see into the spiritual world? Why do they
the facts investigated concerning the spiritual world are first
spiritual investigator has revealed from spiritual worlds. We have
often said that the facts of the spiritual world must be sought and
spiritual world except in such a way that those who desired could
in the spiritual world” can order his life, his thoughts,
spiritual world. In this sense every communication of spiritual facts
world, what he sees is of no value to him and to others so long as he
has learnt concerning the spiritual world while leading an
spiritual world through purely clairvoyant observation, but who has
bringing over communications from the spiritual world and handing
into the spiritual world must exist.
world, than those have whose karma in this incarnation makes it
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Title: Excursus/Mark: II: Some Practical Points of View
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point of view in the spiritual world, he would be much mistaken. Many
that have reference to the external world of the senses. We must
the ordinary world around us — and which when it deals with man
is also the concern of Anthropology — shows us how this world
is itself the revealer of a world lying behind it, a world that can
even the world of the senses can reveal another world to us when we
facts. If we cannot see as far over the fields of the sense world as
comprehension of what is communicated to us from the spiritual world,
Looking at the world
the external expressions of an inner spiritual world. For us to-day
external world can be likened to the play of expressions on the
countenance of a living, spiritual world behind the sense world; and
expressions of a spiritual world. If a man has not yet been able to
his own path of knowledge, he has at least the physical world before
way to picture the world around us, in which we ourselves are placed,
If we merely, considered the physical world, without it revealing to
us how it points to a spiritual world, we would never feel the urge,
the longing to develop towards that world. Some day a longing for
what is spiritual will be aroused in us by the surrounding world
world. When will this take place? When does spiritual illumination
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the little world, or microcosm, and the great world, or macrocosm; I
have shown how man, the little cosmos, is a copy of the great world
accepted as a little world, and can be compared with another, a
greater world.
world than is that which had its origin in an age when we were
of this we have to understand that in the evolution of the world a
world by natural seers, and also by a large part of the people at
risen to spiritual worlds by initiation. What had entered thus into
worlds, but it is clothed in conceptions similar to the conceptions
hook. Any book that is the result of investigations into higher world
concerning super-sensible worlds, and they could speak of them in the
people began to direct what they had learnt from super-sensible worlds
to the physical world. This can again be compared with the third
world. In the time of Zarathustra people had only to ponder over
Egypto-Chaldean age they clothed conceptions from spiritual worlds in
spiritual world should be applied to physical things? Are the things
world, how he still used ideas in the ancient form, applying them to
the spiritual world, as this existed in Atlantean times. Living
accomplish something; observing the world around him he realised that
he could bring something down into this world. This was a most
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training was led step by step along the path to higher worlds. How he
ones, up to that stage when the spiritual world dawned within the
soul of the would-be initiate and the secrets of the spiritual world
were revealed to him. He could then look into the spiritual world. He
person seeking initiation could see into the spiritual world, where
disclosed the secrets of the spiritual world in a way that was not
open for all the world to see, which formerly had been attainable
person initiated can look into the spiritual world, and can then go
forth and teach others of this world. This had always been carried
such things in the world outside the Mysteries, any talk concerning
the spiritual world, was an utter impossibility. But now, what had
transferred to the outer world, it took place in Palestine. There it
before all the world, as forming the link between the Mystery of
all the world, and that it would henceforth enter ever more and more
word when things are written which really do not concern the world,
whole WORLD was then heard in the spoken word compared with what is
altogether from the sense-world. Expressions such as “prepare
drawn from the sense-world. It is as if the path were prepared with
employed to denote outward things, a whole spiritual world stood
for whole hidden worlds to be given in the tone. A feeling for
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spiritual super-sensible world, were in a position to implant
men can come into relationship with super-sensible worlds. The one is
external world. If you carry out these thoughts you must acknowledge
the combination, the result, within our mineral world of organic
as it works in the physical mineral world is the true human body.
What man knows of the world to-day is but the outcome of observation
external world, for example, in the same way as men do; through their
of the world formed by a horse, a dog, or any other animal. If a
be very different from the picture of the world as seen by man. That
the human senses perceive the world as they do is connected with the
fact that the ego reaches out over the whole surrounding world and
such a picture of the world as man has; and the human organism
that regards the world. Hence man only knows those things over which
present the pictures the world presents to it are no longer there;
this means the man is asleep. Then no pictures of the world surround
attention is at once deflected from this to the external world; he
own being, but directs him at once to the outer world. Each morning
world. This sinking down, this breaking through the sheaths of the
world.
felt himself to be a part of the spiritual world — “I
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concerning the spiritual world that we have been able, to acquire in
recent years concerning the super-sensible worlds. We have learnt
during this period that man as he lives in this world is the lowest
part of the super-sensible world, a world where, in the first place,
super-sensible worlds pass beyond the sphere of Archangels to still
that is, than the revelations of spiritual worlds presented to me by
super-sensible worlds.
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
descending one; he is entangled more and more in the physical world.
the spiritual world, but will have taken with him all he had gained
he saw what gave man the impulse to rise to super-sensible worlds
us to-day, we are concerned with a microcosm, a small world, and we
surrounding world works on us quite differently from how it does
child still feels within the whole surrounding world, feels that it
is a part of this world. Memory first begins when it separates itself
as an individual from the world around it. We can therefore say, the
feels far more a part of, far more within, the environing world. What
within the great world. At present he loses this. He has no later
connection with that world, he feels cut off from it. If he is a man
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spiritual world?”
remain unopened we cannot see into the spiritual world, although from
this spiritual world all the results and revelations it contains are
serve the progress of the world, we have to receive physical
thoughts to super-sensible worlds. When they learn, for instance, from
world and only approach spiritual science as thorough unbelievers may
relationships with the surrounding world. This is a fact and, if you
various countries of the world. You are then able to say: —
a healthy relationship between man and the surrounding world —
that is, between the astral body of man and the surrounding world
surrounding world is evoked through frequent handwashings, an
surrounding world. We have here to consider things connected with the
become more aware of himself, or he turns to the outer world striving
conscious of it when we come in contact with the outer world; for
to conditions in the external world. In short, both within ourselves
and also in the external world we can become conscious of our ego. We
connections between man and the surrounding world arise which we
spirit. For whatever takes place in the world is felt by us; what is
ego in its relationship to the external world. These show that the
ego is brought in touch with the world around us. We then feel that
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the general macrocosmic relationships of the world these are ordained
entirely strange idea at once before the world? We are assuming that
quietly and not set it at once before the world; for the idea has
saying: — “Out with it into the world!” The result
something had entered my ideas from the outer world.”
the first time that he is in harmony with the whole spiritual world,
world. This must again be resisted with all our power; for there is a
the world in a cold way, of being communicated to the world in a cold
baptised by the Gods, we are now able to hand over to the world as
World-Spirits, and then emerge when they are ripe. Other laws of a
the World-Spirit, ideas arise in me!” It is well to receive
spirituality of the world, and when they allow themselves to be
rise to a true understanding of the physical man of the sense world
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any religion or world-faith is represented by a symbol, this
spiritual world and entered ever more deeply into matter. This is a
affecting the evolution of the world which work differently, and
worldly events. Hence many of the thoughts and ideas found among the
whole world, can he gathered from my book on
and teachings into the world which have developed quite naturally out
knowledge of the objective course of the evolution of the world. It
without learning anything of the world. Then one day it happened that
future Buddha of the world. Buddha appears again in the legend as
flowed one into the other in the hidden worlds. And Salaam is that
world-movement in the sense of this legend, we can only see it in the
of the sexes, but from the paternal element. It is therefore a world
towards the spiritual world, and by doing so experience many new
We might compare the entrance of man into another world with the
world-wide streams of thought — the one should bring us a deeper
spiritual nature of the world? Why do you lay such stress on
understanding the world?” Many might say this and add: —
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world, that understanding of them is beginning to find its way into
of our spiritual movement into the modern world. Many of you might be
of the great wisdom of the world the hearts and souls of the men of
physical world. All the souls gathered here have felt a longing to
are born in it. Things were very different in the spiritual world, as
well as in the external world, at the turn of the nineteenth and
guidance of the world; of what fills surrounding space as the
You know the way we regard the secrets of the world. I have often
through, and how it rises to higher worlds. You know that we have to
such ideas to gain understanding of the secrets of the world. And if
Because, as you have been born into the world with longings such as I
into another world than that of the nineteenth century. Let us look
through the world, found an old woman in distress, and did a good and
they divine something of the spiritual world, something that connects
the world as his own personal gift. What I have described is an inner
successfully when he has no desire to impart hurriedly to the world
were filled with the living spiritual guidance of the world. What was
incarnation to incarnation look out on the world, and are confronted
would conquer death, first storms out into the world as a rider, thus
they enter the spiritual world, what happens is beautifully described
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was wrong to give the human being this hope of a next world. The poor
man would be put off until the next world and would be thereby prevented
recently Ernst Haeckel in his World Riddles
my body eight years ago is scattered in the world and has to fulfil
happens: the concept of development. The complete world of organisms
from the plant and animal realms into the human world. Can this law
be applied now in the same way also to all fields of the human world?
would only recognise the transient in the world if he were not himself
memory which goes through the world of the organisms and without which
to work with it in the world. And he who knows the permanent and invigorates

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creed, why Goethe would let Faust explore all wisdom of the world? “Have
in the world, also the animal soul can scoop the feeling, the desire
only from the world of desires, of the impulses around us. Like without
the material world. From the world of desires, the world of kama or
the plant, that of the animal soul from the world of the instinctual
to originate from nothing — from the spiritual of the world. We
element was in the animal. For also the animal world comes from the
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have contributed to the clarification of the riddle of the world. You
the telescope and penetrates with the microscope into the world of the
Greek mysteries, back to India, go back to all these religions and world
he is born in the world, is determined for advancement, for higher development.
world which we call the astral one and the mental one, the world of
buddhi and the world of atma. We experience something of all those worlds,
and what we experience of those worlds is the steps to wisdom which
the origin of the world something rests that he calls Brahma or Brahman.
help of the different philosophies and world views.
these different world views show nothing else than attempts of the human
totally different by which he saw the world. Thus the theosophist sees
in the world which we can find, however, only correctly if we have the
Is it not true that — if we look around in the world — we
strands also outside in the world, as well as I can prove nerve strands
in the human body. In the outside world, as Du Bois-Reymond and the
member of all things that surround us in the physical world, so to speak,
the noblest and most perfect beings within this world. Have we not to
of the human being works as a whole if he feels being in the world like
for a long time and have acquired lofty world concepts and also lofty
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Buddhist world view. On occasion I ventured to remark in these monthly meetings
absolutely new or at least a complete renewal of the world view. At that time
he expressed that any spiritual world view, also of his people in India, has
the spiritual world view in India.
of the world could become flesh. Our time does not like to rise to such heights
in the world that outshines humankind by far, something that comes from the
Jesus, the world itself came into being. “In him was life, and that life
already there. “He was in the world; but the world, though it owed its
who brought this teaching to the world, but its founder had really become flesh
in the world. Hence, in the beginning of Christianity one attached less value
eyes that they perceived with their hands that which entered the world from
stands there as a unique one in the world, to the materialistic world view;
has progressed in the knowledge of the external world. But this enormous progress
the Copernican world view, penetrating the smallest living beings with the microscope,
world this kind of thinking turning only to the purely sensory has become habit
of truth, beauty, goodness which should be realised in the world more and more.
them because they are the deeper truths of the world, the human soul and God.
on the big scene of world history as a historical fact that took place before
the eyes of the world, for all human beings which had only taken place before
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dreamer who bears witness to his peculiar image worlds because he has
world behaves to theosophy, and how it could behave, actually. They
that can be experienced of a higher world view also to those who do
around the whole astronomical world view. He removed the earth from
cognitive faculties the centre of the physical world view. He really
turns around the whole physical world view. It is the opinion of most
what the theosophist tells about astral worlds et cetera is as real
real in the astral world as the cabs and horses in the streets of London.
It should be said how real this world is for somebody who knows them.
the value experience has facing the world in this way? This is the great
result to which Kantianism has come that the world surrounding us must
How did Kant’s world
world. Nobody can say that this is drawn from mere reason. The human
psychology. The question whether the world has a beginning and an end
the usefulness of the world from experience; nobody can investigate
of the world. This corresponds to the human way of thinking, to the
laws which my mind develops spread out over the whole world of experience
the whole world of experience must fit into it. It is not right that
of the mind. If the world is a chaos, I push the lawfulness of my mind
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access to the theosophical world view I have started these talks before eight
philosophical world view and to show how somebody with an absolutely serious
I said: as we must see with coloured glasses the whole world in this colour
nuance, in the same way the human being must see the world — after Kant’s
of a “thing-in-itself,” but only of the quite subjective world of
book of the world view which is called “theosophy” today represents
only a relationship to the physical world surrounding him, but that it would
world, and that also the way of being together with it could be scientifically
it does not matter whichever ideas of the other world we have, and, hence, any
such a common life with a spiritual world. With such a view Kant’s epistemology
our subjective world of perception, so that we cannot penetrate to the being,
brain. There we perceive what we call tone and sound. The whole world would
what we feel as a sound world. Thus the epistemologist can easily say: tone
and the light of the external world. The physicist has the view that colour
the world if the feeling eye is removed from the world.
whole colour world would not exist. Everything would be pitch-dark. One could
in the outside world nothing exists than oscillatory air, than oscillatory ether.
Also in the outside world movements are included, and if my sense of touch is
of that which takes place in the outside world, but that it is merely processes
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and makes the whole world a world of ideas seems to be the only right one. This
if one doubts the sentence: the world is my idea.
to the conclusion: the world is our idea; I have shown how everything that surrounds
us is destroyed by the sensory-physiological approach, whether the world of
directions corresponds to Schopenhauer’s doctrine: the world is our idea
of truth, of the world spirit. If we have climbed up a higher level of knowledge,
to the principle: the world is my idea. — It wants to overcome the naive
would be in vain. We know that our knowledge of the world is not only our ideas.
to consider the things as essential in the theosophical world view, but only
our egos. We could say that tidings of any higher world came to us if we get
however, only if we have the manifestations of a truthful and real world in
our subjective world. On that is based what we have to imagine as theosophy.
Hence, theosophy can never be content with the sentence: the world is my idea.
beyond the sentence: the world is my idea. There is still the other sentence
of Schopenhauer which should complete the first one: The world is will. —
existence as an idea. I act, I will; this is a strength in the world in which
any other thing, a sensory impression if we want to recognise the outside world.
of the outside world is tied.
As true as my world is my idea,
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nature or of that which refers to anything beyond our world. Socrates just became
divine-spiritual very basis of the world existence.
can take manuals about psychology or The Riddles of the World by Haeckel.
can be traced back to the oldest times of the Buddhist world view and ask yourselves
take up the external world. Which methods and viewpoints did the natural sciences
plant soul which lives in the whole plant world, an animal soul which lives
Riddles of the World by Haeckel, the first pages where he stands on the
world can give him. Only those who are not trained in thinking, only those who
but in mathematics we investigate these, and we apply the world which we have
have their five senses can investigate the outer world — they can investigate
live in ourselves where the spirit of the world develops from our inside. It
consequences of the scientific world view, indeed, from the spiritual standpoint
what the human mind takes into the purely spiritual world this can no longer
having advanced so far that it is free of any phantasm of the sensory world.
feels in the spiritual world endlessly isolated. The spirit which depends on
in the spiritual world like in an unknown world. This isolation is its destiny
can raise the human being to sublime mood, will transport us from the soul-world
to the spirit, to the divine spirit flowing through the world. The contents
in the cosmos, as a reflection of the world spirit flowing through the universe.

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The materialistic world view has led the modern thinking to
world view through to the end must finally come to this assertion. However,
with the remaining organic world. In a word, we are not able if we keep to mere
sensory world how desire and pain turn out. But it shows us that in our inside
something answers to impressions of the outside world that is different in every
human being. That means that as many people stand before us as many inside worlds
and plant realms and also in the physical human world. This law of species and
remarkable facts of the sensory world? Have we not rather to assume that the
I have shown that Aristotle stood with regard to our physical world completely
is an effect in the world, but an effect of the soul processes in my psychic
modern natural sciences who laid the basis of the world of living beings on
human being cannot be understood in such a way even in the lower world. Preyer

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whole sensuous world. Everything disappears that the sensory impressions, that
world view. That is only valuable to the sage which the senses can never give.
up to quite different worlds. The human being has to lift desire and harm, the
There is a new reality for him afterwards; a new world makes impressions on
sober and cold is the world of ideas. It is this to which his desire and harm
so far that the world of ideas, usually called abstract, moves, enchants, soaks
that he lives and works within this world as well as the everyday person moves
speaks about the world of ideas, of the spiritual world. It talks about that
a member of the spiritual world. Then he perceives himself as something that
world which are round us speak a loud, clear language to us, then this can only
part of my lecture — because the theosophical world view should consider
what constitutes our everyday life, if we make ourselves free from this world
similar state toward the spiritual world — but consciously — like
the pupil has attained on which he is able to perceive the world round himself
he wished in the everyday life, and then he wishes in the spiritual world.
the everyday person, it does not have to penetrate the outside world by means
of the soul experiences, then it flows into the outside world, so to speak,
by the outside world, it moves up to us like a natural force; it moves up to
directly into the world. The knowledge which is free of wishes this way which
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life went hand in hand with the investigation of the spiritual world. There
science which limits itself to external facts in the material world and the
existence is not the only one, but that a higher existence is in the world that
of a spiritual world according to its methods, theosophy also deals with these
higher worlds. It is a simple historical fact that the founders of the theosophical
eyes happens in the world of effects, not in the world of causes. The spiritual
are found in much higher spiritual worlds. We grope in the dark if we walk in
the sensuous world up and down, and have no idea what takes place behind the
Then they sent their scouts into the world on ways which only the so-called
proofs of the existence of a spiritual world were delivered. Now, however, it
curiosity, and investigated the spiritual world in a way which cannot lead to
the world. Wisdom also created every human being. I presuppose this here; it
could be built in the course of world evolution, other forms of the brain developed
to the human being — the spiritual creators of the world built up the
world. We move in our physical world and know about the things of the world
beings advanced, certain beings fell behind and constitute a spiritual world
spiritual worlds again which always surround us.
spiritual world surrounding us in double way. The first way is that we investigate
from a spiritual world, and this spiritual world has done in advance, so to
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senses are not receptive to the outside world, they assumed that the human being
is extinguished where they behave towards the outside world completely as sleeping
phenomena of the dream world really. But, nevertheless, there were also finer
outside world, but also our own physical body express itself allegorically in
he has various things in common also with the other worlds which our everyday
the human being has in common with the whole remaining physical world. What
also happens outside our body in the physical world. But we have to ask ourselves:
is always present when we receive the impressions of the outside world; the
daytime ego always controls these impressions of the outside world. If this
ego is eliminated, we also receive these impressions of the outside world perpetually.
were, from within to the outside world. We need that to lift out the impressions
world is the astral body, the soul of the person who is in a somnambulistic
with the outside world; with the dreams, however, which run in symbolic, dramatic
being as an isolated being, but in connection with the whole remaining world
according to the theosophical world view; that one realises above all that outside
us in the remaining world not only dead matter exists, but that in the outside
world higher forces are active.
in the outside world which we have excogitated in our mind in a lonesome twilight
other phenomena of the outside world. It is that way wherever one goes in our
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of enthusiastic followers in the world, on one side, that has found the most
to investigate the higher spiritual worlds, those worlds which are beyond the
of the world somebody who is reasonable and allowed to express the words with
for is at first the knowledge of those worlds which are beyond our sensory world,
and secondly the significance of these worlds for the goal, for the determination
if in the world history something absolutely new had appeared with regard to
to the fact that it has brought something absolutely new into the world, and
the forms of the things appear — a new world appears to somebody whose
internal senses are woken, a world which the everyday reason cannot perceive.
The myths of antiquity, the legends about gods and world origin, which simply
big mass is no longer informed about the truth of the super-sensible world in
pagan world what God revealed to the Christian church. — However, it is
that they also tell about other worlds not belonging to our sense-perceptible
world. One knew that there are human beings who communicate by signs about that
which they see in such super-sensible worlds. One also knew that there are human
world was not searched for on the way of these phenomena in the time of the
reveal anything of a super-sensible world. Even if anybody told that he saw a
could seriously give information about the super-sensible world. Reasonable people
world that way. Those who wanted to get to super-sensible perception searched
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the secular world. One wanted to say nothing else if one spoke of the veiled
And the higher the knowledge, the bigger is the power. The guidance of the world

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The theosophical world view is for those who need a more solid
foundation of their concepts and ideas with regard to the super-sensible world,
the super-sensible, psychic and spiritual worlds. There we see that — on
of his different experiences of the super-sensible world, of his dreams, of his
into the world. The human being tries to get a solid support for the question:
within the sensory world, how are our images of an eternal life solidly founded?
The theosophical world view is not
human being, the theosophical world view asks rather for the religious experience
world. What the human being who has developed his inner life, who has got certain
of today what such a human being is able to experience of the higher world is
the basis of the theosophical world view. It is this higher experience which
the soul and the mind, and forms the basis of the theosophical world view. What
spiritual and astral worlds? Most of the human beings of today understand that
being has moved with his experience to the sensuous world, the world of the
external phenomena. In this world of the external phenomena the modern human
only sees the world of the external phenomena. Thus this world of the sensory
We look at any being, at any thing of the world. We can show that all these
things of the world have come into being once; they formed and were not there
to throw a glance at the world history and you see how peoples which have been
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old spiritual current in the world. We need only to remind that in the beginning
with the whole circle of the adversaries of the theosophical world view. We
to the theosophical or spiritual-scientific world view as I call it since some
attributes the world directly to something spiritual everywhere, looks for the
But that who is at the summit of the theosophical world view could also easily,
which opens a new way of thinking about the matters of the world.
and His Position to the World,” we hardly find anything else than that
my book Goethe’s World-View, that factual fanaticism which keeps
of the world on account of scientific facts. If we look around in the circles
from the seen. There the world is explored with instruments in all directions.
objects which refer to the immortality of the soul, to the spiritual world,
to the big and to the small world in space and to the whole development of the
of the higher world. One has been accustomed to use the term theosophy for this
be trained, so that the inner human being is able to look into a spiritual world.
world, these abilities and forces are necessary. However, it is something different
of the spiritual world. To somebody who sees deeper science as it is presented
escapes these natural sciences which is essential in the world process. Just
which is no longer science but religion, transformed the world of perception
it has collected in the brains of the human beings to look at the world as an
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture III: Is Theosophy Unscientific?
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Spiritual Soul Instructions and Observation of the World
and world on scientific basis that theosophy is unscientific. A phenomenon of
the interest lies. This book wants to build up a whole world-picture on the
last time of his life that we are just within the world evolution; why should
world view. The theosophical world view differs from the present, materialistic-scientific
and then Lotze put it in the formula: the world round us would
themselves say to us that everything that we see in the physical world round
not see and hear the world in this particular way. The physiologist can give
due to the fact that we take part in the physical world with our eyes. Theosophy
see. We understand a thing because we have reason and apply it to get a world
view from the pictures of the objects. Hence, we are able to make a world view
the physical world.
question: does the human being live only within the physical world? By way of
of the external physical world. You must have ears to realise the physical world.
However, just the world view underlying
of a physical, but also of a higher world. If we look at the manifestations
of this higher world, then the wishes, desires, passions and impulses are as
so-called astral world has awoken. The human being stands then as a being of
The human being lives in this higher world, but his consciousness, in so far
as he is an average modern human being, has not awoken for this higher world.
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture IV: Is Theosophy Buddhist Propaganda?
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Spiritual Soul Instructions and Observation of the World
in the world. Not only Buddha, but all great teachers of wisdom have spread
All great religions of the world made this difference between internal and external
world or to an external book can be only a weak reflection of a real esoteric
for the materialistic world view which has not only seized the scientific, but
worlds which are above the physical plane. Just as somebody can be an expert
of these worlds.
transmit their wisdom, their spiritual knowledge into the world every now and
necessary, but not yet easily understandable concatenation of world-historical
from the oriental world. They belonged to a brotherhood which is rooted in that
doctrine of the spiritual life of the world. This northern Buddhism can be regarded
All great world religions and all
great world views come from envoys of these great brotherhoods of advanced human
beings. But while these great religions do their wandering through the world,
what one of the most significant theosophists of India said about the world
spread Indian world view that just the reverse holds true: that rather the theosophical
movement brought the world view, which it has to represent, to India again.
We have obtained everything that we can say about qualities in this world. If
identical to that which is in the world. Hence, Dionysius the Areopagite speaks
and that one has to take care above all not to attribute any worldly quality
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Title: Novalis: On his Hymns to the Night
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material concerning the spiritual world in relation to the
announced to the world through the Theosophical Society but
through the best minds searching for the Higher Worlds. We can
a world view we could call theosophical and from which they
established in the occult, in the spiritual worlds. To add to
the spiritual worlds, to connect this to a solid practical
Higher World directed course towards an initiation, up to a
soul can be lifted up into a higher world. For Novalis it gave
unconsciousness, in actual fact sinks into the spiritual world.
spiritual worlds which are entered by the soul at night, lived
a fragment of the entire spiritual worlds. The stars,
During the night the actual spiritual worlds appeared to
How did it happen that the experiences of the occult world,
far does this poem transport us into the worlds in which
worlds is linked to a penetration of other secrets of
times is necessary, where that, which now lives in the world,
world, all this contributed to the impressive images unfolding
and divine earthly beings, and down into the earthly world the
spiritual worlds found the gods within all phenomena, they
impressions creates a weaker fragment out of the great world of
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 1: Whitsuntide. Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit
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by a personality who has been very much misunderstood in the world,
world.
fashion. The Indian view of the world, which
towards controlling the things of the sense world in a material way,
towards an ordering of the world of realities by means of the highest
experience of the world was steeped in a mood of soul which feared
picture of Satan which arose in this view of the world. Lucifer, the
world; Lucifer became a much feared and avoided figure in the Middle
to the underworld was an initiate, for the descent into the
underworld is a technical term denoting initiation. This journey to
the underworld is attributed to Heracles, Odysseus and to all who are
which flowed there was to remind him of the soul and spirit world.
spiritual world in clear day consciousness — not in trance or under
and gain meaning once more. We want to live in a world that makes

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 2: The Contrast Between Cain and Abel
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himself, is accepted by the divine worlds, but the smoke from Cain's
to the others. They dedicated themselves to the worldly things of
world. The Deluge is the flood which destroyed Atlantis. Men who were
occult mystery for the outside world for many centuries and will seem

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 3: The Mysteries of the Druids and the 'Drottes'
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and yet the enduring, the constraining things in the world are due to
creative thinking, which builds and constructs things of the world,
enabled, not only to see the world in vision, but to work in it
worlds. Baldur ...
flowers. Cosmic Space, Cherubim, Demi-urge [Maker of the World]. Thus

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 4: The Prometheus Saga
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Prometheus belongs to the world of the Greek sagas. He and his
over the whole of the world. The first of these leaders, who was the
other worlds, are handing over their leadership to a fellow human being.
things of this world work upon him and then thinks about them
this is what this kind of thinking is: letting the world work upon,
Race are only sufficient to control the forces of the inorganic world of
Manas are applied to the inorganic mineral world, it is nevertheless,
rises to higher worlds. Kama-Manas, in which the ego is active, works
the Prana, or etheric forces of the outside world. Through the fact
world, to the Caucasus.
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 5: The Mystery Known to Rosicrucians
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world.
the world and all the attributes of calm,clear,
desires and instincts which burns in the astral world.
worldly art and worldly science.
This worldly element becomes more and more evident
epochs, thus making manifest the entire development of world history
at the physical level. And alongside this worldly stream of
the world, it was, in a sense, a secret shared by a few. But it made
Revolution drew its conclusion from this Christian doctrine in a worldly
all tranquillity from a worldly view of life to a truly Christian
culture. Worldly powers, however, desired to gain freedom for
Cross of the World Body.
not concern itself with worldly conquest, and the masterful wisdom
water of calm wisdom is united with the fire of the astral world,
is the course which world history will take
science in an external way; not merely knowledge of the outer world,

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 6: Manicheism
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world which was then ruled by the kings of the Near East; that is to
unalloyed evil must be cast out of the stream of world evolution like
in the world in its demonic form. The consciousness will have been

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 7: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 1
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existence from the divine worlds, and those who work out everything
will maintain a connection with the spiritual worlds. It makes a
significance as the world became rationalistic. It had its meaning

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 8: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 2
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outer world.
with world-wide masonic connections,
and voluntarily with the World Consciousness, with the ultimate
means, therefore, to provide insight into and union with that world
this you may draw the conclusion that what belongs to the world's
understanding. Intuition had for a time to lie dormant in the world
be included in the progress of the world during the present Round of
on the subject of our contemporary world outlook is
into the mineral-physical world. That will be what will enter into
the world in the sixth cultural epoch, and through this Freemasonry

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 9: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 3
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world should not actually pronounce judgment on Cagliostro. As I have
to world happenings is not understood.
adept has the World Chessboard in front of him in a secret place, and
world harmony in their truth and reality, the ten basic ... [Gap]
the world. If there is molten metal and no mould into which to pour
building stones of the physical world; they are tiny condensed

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 10: Evolution and Involution as they are Interpreted by Occult Societies [The Atom as Congealed Electricity]
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societies, and what is their whole purpose in world evolution? To
with the way in which beings in this world evolve and make progress.
will realise it — that the world cannot do without such societies. To
course,find their way out into the world along
belonging in the spiritual world in concrete experience and with full
of onflowing life in the spiritual world. And there is a certain
the objective world.
mineral world through and through with our own spirit. Grasp exactly
united your spirit with the mineral world, a permanent stamp has been
be taken from us into the other world.
world without asking for honour or for the preservation of his name .
the world in such a way that it is concealed in the cathedrals, in
reflex of selfless deeds in the outer world. They need not be of
you yourself put into the world, that much consciousness the world
world soul, and as spirit you were part of the general world spirit.
The world soul and the world spirit were spread around you as Nature
is spread around you today. Just as the mineral world, the plant
world and the animal world are around you today, so were the worlds
[yourself] a world full of majesty, beauty and splendour if you make
the world majestic, beautiful and splendid. To do something for the
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 11: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 1
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world and spring forth out of the life of the spirit. The real
Everyone knew that world history was guided according to a fixed
world. That the world is a temple, that social life must be
laying one stone upon another. This demand must be made if our world
fact that law is bound to rule in the world as soon as we realise
stamped in wax by the spiritual world. Then we shall be engaged in
great world temple has become increasingly forgotten. A person can be
spiritual world. It was, so to speak, a stratagem of the great sages,
a shepherd. He held firmly to what he found, he took the world as it
who have to work into the world the wisdom, beauty and goodness from
the all-embracing universal thought, in order to transform the world
Sons of Cain themselves frame the building of the world.
who called out to him: ‘Take here the hammer of the world's
fulfil; the task of restructuring the inanimate world, of not being
through its penetration of the inanimate world, so that the world
So to change the outer world, that it becomes a garment for the
the spiritual, of the temple of the world, which is to be constructed
everything within it fitted the great scheme of the world, the great
disarray and chaos came into the world. Wishes, desires and emotions
brought disarray into the temple of the world. Only when, out of
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 12: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 2
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which, however, a profound world-historic symbolism finds its
which was to carry him across the waters of the astral world into
earthly existence. Man came by the waters of the astral world, and
world. What was represented symbolically by the temple should become
expounded the development of Christianity throughout the world, and
how it was connected with the great march of world
everything that happens in the world is briefly recapitulated in the
teaching concerning the course of evolution came into the world
said of it that the world soul would be crucified on the world body.
comes into the world. The other current is that of the children of
what is needed to transform the world, to create the sheath for the
man on his feet again. Now those who came into the world as the

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significance of Solomon's Temple for world history.
outer world, cultivate the sciences and arts in particular. They are
the ones who bring in the stones from the outer world to build the
On the one hand we have the worldly activity of man, the development
outward building of the World Temple through science and technology,
because the worldly is remodelled into the divine, can it attain its
of Cain, who were to prepare the worldly aspect, and the sons
of Cain, it had to bring Sons of Men into the world, and through
From this stream come the servants of the divine world order, the
serve the external world. They occupied a special position. Only
a worldly nature was to become an external expression, an outer
being of the world springs out of living thought; not from dead
just as ice is a consequence of water; the material world is, as it
being of soul and spirit is a part of the universal soul, the world soul
Perhaps the individual soul is like a drop in the world soul
that the world soul has been crucified on the world body.
The world
world body as his sheath three times.
has to pass; they are to be world body, and the soul has to be
crucified on this world body.
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 14: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 4
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esoteric [teaching] our contemporary world and everything connected
the shape that it now has in the world.
scale in the world at large. These world secrets were carried out in
world. Take this as deeply as you are able. Take the human etheric
in the physical world, and the etheric body in the general cosmic
this way, is deeply hidden in the physical world. First the Holy
price of being guided back to the World of Gods from which he
flowing apart [from each other] in the world.
awareness of the world around him, and that he is related to all the

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 15: Atoms and the Logos in the Light of Occultism
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is, will no longer play the leading role in the world, but will be
world current, and therefore we have a great responsibility towards
also in everyday things. Anyone who allows these great world
still. What does the influence of the Devas mean for the world in
continuing reincarnation? Man would come into this world quite
changes which are brought about in the world between two incarnations
theosophical world. Actually, however, people find quite different
plant life and even a different animal world. In these kingdoms,
the plant world. The whole life of the plants is controlled from the
transformation of the plant world. He makes use in Devachan of the
powers he has gathered in incarnation to reshape the plant world. As
come to what will influence transformation in the world from a still
very complicated world. One would perceive many movements, different
understanding has already transformed the mineral world, for example,
transforming the whole mineral world into a pure work of art.
of his inner being, man has restructured the mineral world, the end
world will be reshaped exists in the Lodge of the Masters. This plan
everything goes into the astral. In passing into the astral world,
each of which contains the purpose of the mineral world which the
higher stages, to beings who have continually higher plans for world
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 16: The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement
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in one's grasp today already to introduce forces into the world which
identified in the higher planes and worlds. However, man cannot
that is to the world in which we are involved. If therefore one
worlds.
antipathies that the great world-embracing affairs of the human race
as something the divine forces followed in creating the world — and a
step, as he is able to approach the great world thoughts, as he
but otherwise occult power that penetrates these great world thoughts
force which also helps him forward in his work for the outward world;
world. The initiate in the mysteries must reckon with that. And so
school and in the academic world as precepts, there was something
Today, in the democratic world, one receives many concepts which do
added. The elementary knowledge of the powers hidden in the world had
spiritual view of the world. To provide this, a world-embracing
and further, to share with the world as much as was necessary of the
world into harmony with the all-embracing occult knowledge of the
fully one must be able to see into the higher worlds. But the point
worlds, but that, within the movement, occult forces are indeed being
higher worlds without finding the way there, yet another installment
world.
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 17: Freemasonry and Human Evolution I
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point in world evolution to exist, then the time will have come for
opposition to the female world.
world history as a document, what is known as the Freemasonry legend
In world
world which needs to be worked upon. He takes up the divine, which
up the external world; the passive wisdom is applied to external
what is free, it must build in the world. It has no divine intuition.
Commandments? They are the laws of the moral world order. They
out of that generalised knowledge about the world, and proper to it,
so. Only when the connection with higher worlds was lost did the
only concerns itself with worldly things, and only understands a
play a part in the matter. So, theosophy is a world task, connected
with all this and sought to regain the female wisdom. It is world
wisdom as it is, he will have to conquer the world for the old

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 18: Freemasonry and Human Evolution II
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What they had to do in the world might not be done in cooperation
previous existence; death and [re-] birth come into the world. Woman
of death enters the world.
now lets himself be fertilised by everything in the world; he now
physically. The whole world penetrates him first; he becomes
orientated towards assembling worldly wisdom. This [kind of wisdom]
physical world. Female wisdom, by contrast, was actually transferred
world offers. He represents the passive masculine wisdom, which must
at first be fertilised from outside, which goes out into the world to
means that originally the worldly wisdom rebelled against the
Seth and all worldly wisdom was made subservient to the priestly
is related how the descendants of Cain conquered the world, how they
This gave the world everything that was in the world as wisdom.
said, will create the world if uttered sufficiently strongly.
forces in the world will always be understood right away. It may be
religion but falls back on the primal wisdom that made the world,
speak, mummify it in its old form. The plan of the higher [worlds]
for world development is to guide evolution towards a modern
a new impulse coming into the world. The theme of this ran, that the
also existed which wanted to re-conquer the world for the ancient

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 19: The Relationship Between Occult Knowledge and Everyday Life
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theosophical world outlook, but in addition we can gain a quite
super-sensible worlds, how can such a person — given the standpoint
against the outer world. All this shows us that a continual
himself has a harmonious soul, who views the world with devotion and
world; such a teacher will also develop the ability to enter into the
all that world harmony which the teacher has gleaned from his
in the astral world, which shows itself as the thought form of
world.
occultism. He who knows what results in the invisible world as a
people experience reality only through the sense world, and do not
who has studied the world outlook of theosophy can no longer say that
this feeling of responsibility out into the world as the finest fruit
of the theosophical conception of the world. Even if we are only
beginners in rehearsal, we are still influencing the visible world
through the hidden, occult world. We are refining and correcting the
world through the hidden realms of existence.
well. Man does not live alone in the world as an individual; he also
always all take the same course in the world. The more comprehensive
been haphazardly thrown together in the world, it is not something
thought s of the world laws, one must rise above the astral plane to
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 20: The Royal Art in a New Form
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terrible danger to the world of the Order of Freemasons. After the
though it had quite a different name in the outside world.) Then a
found a world society against Freemasonry. A kind of council was held
things. This was one of the worst cases of a body with a world-wide
into the super-sensible world. These primordial Mysteries — they have
that which has only a shadowy existence in the [external] world, and
the world and of humanity I, was not described; instead it was brought
was portrayed to him in his passage through the world. The passions
officially a power in the world.
world; and to perfect the high ideals of humanity in a fully
world, and rising to the highest spiritual realm; which streams we
in the world, no less. There are thus two streams with which we have
the world, as being satisfied with what is thus given. The symbol of
which is born into the world — upon which man can, at best, act only
— because we make the world our dwelling place, which developed
Plato in the beautiful words, ‘The World Soul is nailed to the Cross
of the World Body.’
World Soul, and the human being, as physical human being, is plant,
animal and physical man at the same time. Inasmuch as the World Soul
is, as it were, nailed to the World Cross, nailed to what is
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture I: Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?
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In the one, a world of feelings would arise at the sight of a
is able to say something about a thing of the outside world
can obtain something spiritual from a world in which no spirit
water is. If we look at any being of the outside world, so that
outside world as something spiritless and to show the spiritual
in his consciousness that is the effect of the outside world on
world. One can recognize the etheric body purely logically at
true as without the eyes the world is dark and sinister for the
grow into a spiritual world there, if we have the patience to
physical world, there is and there has always been spiritual
about the concealed worlds of this spiritual science. At first,
remaining world. Spiritual science must come out today and
it is in the spiritual world. However, if it is pronounced,
human being becomes a citizen of the spiritual world, without
insight of the spiritual world. I give an example how intimate
the physical world, then imagination which, however, has
way into the spiritual world. The inspired and intuitive worlds
exercises do not deduct you from the external world, but make
time they lead into the higher worlds.
finds any rest and help in the spiritual world. Therefore,
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture II: Goethe's Secret Revelation - Exoteric
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world, just that which lives in all single plants. — You
objectivity of Goethe's world of ideas what in Goethe's
world of ideas. We see that Goethe's thinking has become so
the world-historical effect of the Goethean attitude from their
understand Hegel, too. He who tries to get a factual world of
archetypal plant the archetypal phenomenon of the plant world.
the mental world and shows us what we can think and understand,
ground of the Goethean worldview, as he stresses in every book
again. Thus, we see a more materialistically coloured worldview
witness the strength of the Goethean worldview, the strength
of the worldviews and shows that it is not with the worldviews
Goethe's World View
the deep basis of his worldview. We have to speak about that in
Goethe's worldview deeper has the feeling from the start that
want to have a deeper look at Goethe's worldview. It is
you come?” “From the world.” “Where to
you go?” “To the world.” “What do you
Goethean worldview, which became deeply significant for the
in a free and perfect human way into the secrets of the world.

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justified to present you the ideal Goethean worldview —
worldview. That is why I want to explain this product of
soul world vividly in a preliminary consideration. Already in
that the worldview represented here assumes that the human
matters absolutely. He observes the world with his senses,
activity adhering to observation is an absolute world knowledge
worldview that is represented here is in contrast to that, even
worldview. If I have to express myself even clearer, I would
the principles of the world and compare it to that, which an
the world,
we take, for example, the worldview of an Australian black and
these two worldviews differ absolutely. However, on the other
side, spiritual science is far away to disapprove the worldview
case the worldview of a human being corresponds to a level of
objective world contents which he had only not seen once when
science differs substantially from other, one-sided worldviews
deeper insights into the being of the world round us. Goethe
power, but must also regard the influence of the worlds of
world, but it matters what we bring about in our soul, what we
the human being wants to solve the world riddles.
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IV: Bible and Wisdom I
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sum of images about the world and life giving the soul a
worldview, but the Bible was, for millennia, an enormous means
worlds.
Bible tells us that the world was created within six or seven
as it wants to extent to a worldview. All that exists in our
worldview. We are not able to deny all that.
he has to approach world and life without presuppositions and
undergrounds of the world. Out of the spirit of that research,
tries to penetrate again into those worlds that are not
also in the spiritual world as we can see with the physical
senses in the physical world.
but that he can perceive a spiritual world between and behind
the sensuous, a spiritual world that is much more real than the
sensuous world. With good reason, humankind had forgotten the
the big conquests in the physical world were done because the
blossomed for the external physical world of facts. Never were
is able to behold into in the spiritual world. Hence, it is not
world before. — However, the moment had now come that he
water — all over the world, as well as the primordial
universe and could watch how the world has developed: the
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture V: Bible and Wisdom II
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about its research, its criticism, its worldview compared with
centre of the whole world history is different. This sight has
development of the world generally. The confidence and the idea
there have been great human beings in the world evolution:
world existed. What there was in the spiritual primeval grounds
Christian worldview based on, an effect that nobody can deny?
spiritual world.
the knowledge of a higher world which is round him in such a
The human being can behold this higher world as the operated
spiritual worlds, to behold what is there. What takes place
that form of Christianity, which went through the world, then
world and is able to behold into the spiritual undergrounds of
the things that he can survey the facts of the spiritual world
recognised in the higher worlds. The God was the same who lived
physical world. There was only one way how this God could
applied to the external world.
behold into the spiritual world. Hence, for the confessors of
world. So the God who already lived in Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob was concealed to the physical world. He ordered the world
worlds. He could perceive there if he was outside his body if
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VI: Superstition from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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that he represented his worldview in the freest phrases. He was
worldview and it may be that he protests strongly against it in
spiritual world beside the physical one, generally in the field
case the easiest and can explain anything in the world to
which the human being works his way up to the higher worlds.
worldview because by the respiration an effect happens which
into the higher worlds. The process can be given, but one
believe in a spiritual world! However, if you tell such a
explain this, consequently I believe in a spiritual world.
begun in the world, two significant persons lived by whom this
side? The first intermediaries of the theosophical worldview
can do research in the higher worlds who has attained
to the current worldview, to the positive science? —
the worldview gives us built up on positive science compared
Blavatsky received her worldview from a rain cloud. Such wisdom
one compares this worldview to that which one already
could be matters in the world, which cannot be explained by our
World Riddles!
superstition. Who stops in the physical world leaves the one
of the world are readily comprehensible.
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VII: Issues of Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science
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if the human being is a retort, his worldview cannot become
for the plant a whole world process. What is built up by the
world. The human being owes to the plant foods the ability to

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VIII: Issues of Health in the Light of Spiritual Science
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world without hindrance. Therefore, health is indeed for most
which experiences the human soul has towards the outside world?
These are not only influences coming from the material world,
world.
being concerning his relation to the outside world repeatedly.
issues of health. One can easily say, with any worldview, you
that the health of the human being depends on the worldview.
world. We consider that as truth which gives an inner likeness
supersensible world. However, as paradoxical as it may be,
world, of that world which we do not recognise with external
with the spiritual world from which our whole organism has been
world and enlivens these thoughts causes such an inner activity
worldview, a healthy harmony of thoughts fulfils our soul. Our
disgust are thereby, so that we face the world in such a way
cause the right relation between the outside world and us.
comprehensive worldview, considering the whole world and aiming
if one cannot feed the human being a worldview, nevertheless,
supersensible world are the best digestive means — even
it is a worldview through which internal bliss flows, a
worldview of joy and desire, that it is a condition to promote

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IX: Tolstoy and Carnegie
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worldview as one regards it is so often, if it does not care a
who is completely merged in the outward world activity which
in the most various worldviews, he nowhere found anything that
penetrate himself. A worldview should arise from it, and from
society of the world. However, his ingenious head caused that
Tolstoy's worldview to that which faces us in particular in the
the world if it lights up in us. Tolstoy says there, around me,
following way. The objects of the outside world are there.
the outside world everything is the same, and if the one soul
deepening. He is wedged by the world against which he himself
With this talk, I wanted to show that a worldview and an

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture X: The Practical Development of Thinking
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spiritual science should not be anything that hovers unworldly
and otherworldly anywhere in the cloud-cuckoo-land and wants to
penetrates into the higher worlds. One often stresses that
already has open eyes to penetrate in the spiritual world, but
knows about the higher worlds. For the acceptance of his
the soul by which the spiritual worlds become discernible to
worlds. However, there is always an unconditional requirement:
who wants to penetrate into the spiritual world, who wants to
order to reach the spiritual worlds. Someone reaches them best
and probably practice of thinking in our world. One has only to
to himself in our world. What is, however, practice about which
tracks, the more the world considers him as practical, in
out thoughts from a world without thoughts. It is absurd if one
could find any thought from a world, which is not created and
has not been outdoors in the world first. Aristotle said more
finds in his thinking last exists in the world outdoors
are contained in the world, then he sees very easily that he
in the world. He has to educate himself to that great,
— I have seen big parts of them — then the world
world, but by working to our satisfaction we create something
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XI: The Invisible Human Members and Practical Life
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also quoted the sentence of a certain worldview: one cries not
he has in common with the mineral world. The next,
who say when the human being enters the physical world; he is
internal parts develop bit by bit and then the world of
which solve the world riddles, develop bit by bit. Are we then
only, which is able later to solve the world riddles. Who does
his hand with everything that he does to the world outdoors.
immediately to the ego. All these world-enclosing ideas do not

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XII: The Secret of the Human Temperaments
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from the spiritual world, what he adds to that which father and
nothing else than the special case of a general world
world of minerals to the world of plants, we realise that from
the other being. If we go up to the animal world, we realise
from quite different worlds, which has to look for father and
has in common with the mineral world. He receives the etheric
when he enters the physical world, a different mixture of four
of control. What would the world be without temperaments if the
could imagine! The world without temperaments, not only in the
the indifference towards the outer world; the big danger is
into effect in such a way as the objects of the usual world

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIII: The Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Exoteric
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Faust with him to Weimar, when he entered the big world in his
recognise and to experience a world in his inside which was
founded in him already long before, a world about which one can
being to him that is put between two worlds: between the world
purification, and that world which draws down him. Faust
becomes a being between the world of the good and the world of
being who is put in the world struggle as the worthiest object
for which the good and the bad beings fight in the world. While
existence of which the world has no notion. After he expressed
passageway through the big world, but in such a way that the
penetrates the physical world, and invades where the human soul
the world in which it finds space and light at the same time
realistic works of world literature going the deepest into
is a picture of an internal, esoteric approach to life and worldview
flowing together with the living spirituality of the world.
those that showed the whole development of the world, as one
with the talent to have the sharpest concepts about the world,
looked spiritually at the creative of the world sitting
is in such a way that the path to the spiritual worlds is
the inadequate of the study about the spiritual world at that
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIV: Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Esoteric
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representation of the spiritual world, one may probably say
spiritual world. The first part of
contains learnt matters of the supersensible world.
the reality of the spiritual supersensible worlds, which are
behind the physical world. Really, Goethe retained, so to
was in the spiritual, in the supersensible worlds. He suggests
The spirit world is not sealed off —
world deal with his mind that is transported from the physical
world. It is greatly shown how Faust's soul develops to grow
into the spiritual world. Then it is shown how Faust's soul
really grows into the world, which is suggested to us as the
spiritual world in the
mysterious world music sounds to someone who enters the
spiritual world.
has to sound from the worlds of spiritual life that way, if
into the world, from which it sounds that way. Hence, one says
carried away to the spiritual world:
hears the sounds who settles down in the spiritual world. They
words when he had looked at the sun this way, when the world
spoil the world, who has announced bad faith with his tongue. I
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XV: Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
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the conquest of the physical world. We take the year 1858/59.
to force the social life into the only sensuous world,
completely to the physical world.
light-heartedly, and he forgets the need for a spiritual world;
deep looks in the Greek world, from the oldest time up to those
has set up the world outdoors. At that time, in his original
the world, illustrated in pieces of art and mystery plays.
concepts that are far from the world sources and that they
place themselves like considering beyond the world content in
the world itself does no longer pulsate, but only the concepts
bridge from the abstract world of human mental pictures to the
blood. A substitute of that which the external world is to the
a deposit of his world of thought in this time we have the
in such a way that he stood far from the events in the world.
the outside world what lived in his soul, Nietzsche discovered,
Nietzsche is delighted by this worldview about which he says to
A Course of Philosophy as a Strictly Scientific Worldview
bliss for him. It is a satisfaction for him to see the world in
fulfil us with bliss, instead of the portrayal of that world of
human being and his affiliation to spiritual worlds with the
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVI: Isis and Madonna
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from which the figures of the visible world are formed. One has
his spiritual ear is opened to a world which is behind the
world and know a lot about this, we have a bewildering feeling
world, just as Goethe describes it in the second part of
speak, the mother problem of the world faced Goethe when he
spiritual world, had to experience something in old times —
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usual, sensuous world that it has purified itself from all that
spiritual world. One calls the purified soul the higher inside
when the human being was born out of the spiritual world and
world. This soul being is wrapped in the lower sensory world
from this world. We see in the background of this soul being a
divine-spiritual world from which it is born.
the spiritual world is sensualised by clouds out of which
of the divine-spiritual world?
which enliven the divine of the world in him? The human being
being that represents a little world in the big world, what is
activity of world creation. Let us try to perceive what
Once the divine spirituality underlay our world building,
in the world if this spirit had not built the world originally.
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repeatedly that there is knowledge of supersensible worlds. I
worlds many a time. In two talks, I want to give something like
an illustration to that knowledge of higher worlds. At
higher worlds.
consciousness by which we recreate the external world in
consciousness is reflected an external world of objects having
that is not related to the external world. Against it, let us
immediate relation to the external world. If it still had this
pictures are no more related to the outside world. Because the
world has got lost.
the modern world, he would really experience those pictures,
believe in that what one can experience only here in the world
anybody descends into the world of vision, he can always be
in the upper world. That is why the visions of the human being
Imagine a human being submerging in that world in a time in
underworld. However, the vision of telegraphs and telephones
down in this world what he has experienced here. We see that,
part of the world, to cause and effect, but they forget that
the whole world with its circumference is intensely
everywhere more or less which looks at the world, as it is
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Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XVIII: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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which the soul is led to own observing in the spiritual worlds.
worlds with spiritual eyes and ears. Although the modern
worlds. All contents of spiritual science are contents of
in higher worlds is an initiate.
he once lived in spiritual worlds, that the human soul and
spirit are born out of the spiritual primeval worlds. I have
former being in the spiritual world if he rises above the
called what is hidden behind the sensory world like the sun
world of the spiritual facts. The initiates experienced the
express this within the human world that one can establish an
physical to the spiritual world; one rose to the god. They
the higher, the spiritual world. This is the expression of the
finds the access to the higher worlds again. Thus, the trained
written down later, that world-historical gossip and
European world of legends to the events in the mysteries. We
this spiritual world did not appear to him as the highest.
meant an ascent to a divine-spiritual world, but the breath of
ego has connections in itself to a spiritual world, which
However, the world was not yet ripe to accept the real secret
arrival of Christ, the world was not yet ripe and it is not yet
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture I: The Spiritual World and Spiritual Science
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The Spiritual World and Spiritual Science
Spiritual World and Spiritual Science
Copernican worldview would endanger the religious life of
transforming the outer material world civilisation and
only about the outer laws of the sensory world but also about
world view was fantastic and dreamy to the contemporaries.
which can glance at the spiritual world. Since this
being in such a way as he observes the world around us and the
The spiritual world is for the human being a concealed world at
It lies behind the world of the senses, although that what the
supersensible world. The human being with his power of
belongs to this sensory world and this world of reason. In the
deeper sense, he belongs to the spiritual world; but he must
he can penetrate into the spiritual world. One has to develop
the cognitive forces for the spiritual world only; the human
spiritual world. On one side, there are many people saying that
there may be such a spiritual world, but the human cognitive
radical and say that a spiritual world appears to nobody,
spiritual world if he wants to grasp it scientifically if he
spiritual world.
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture II: Theosophy and Antisophy
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that its feeling and position in the world are different from
perceive a real spiritual world. The theosophical knowledge can
world. Then before his spiritual view, the outer nature is
real spiritual world appears in which the human soul is to be
among spirits in which he is after death. This world is
experience; in this world is the soul with those forces which
compose this usual consciousness. Yes, this world builds up the
If we consider the world and the human
world and have seized the organism to form it plastically in
would never be able to stand firmly in the world. The whole
existence where the spiritual world is to be found in their
world, the more he must leave the higher world. Our usual
being has left this world.
while he is expelled from the spiritual world? He does not
stand in the spiritual world during his life. He had to put out
immediately to hear anything of the spiritual world within
world but to acknowledge what holds him together in himself, as
far as he stands beyond this spiritual-mental world. The human
spiritual-mental world independently.
A worldview has spread from America to
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture III: Spiritual Science and Denomination
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a worldview that is built on the firm ground of natural
and a worldview based on them.
thinking and worldviews. However, I would have to explain a lot
of the material outside world. Looking at this, Ritschl said to
essence had passed; thus, he transported them into a world in
them rulers of natural forces and worlds.
who watches over the good in the world: One sees the
experiences itself and the world, it gets observations that do
not concern the sensory world but the spiritual world. The
soul into the spiritual world. Then he is in the spiritual
world and talks about the beings and processes of the spiritual
world. One attains this projection into the spiritual world in
Worlds?. We have to characterise
world. It is an Imaginative world not because this world is
the spiritual world; for this imagery, this Imaginative world
real spiritual world. Since as this imagery appears one can
side, namely from the spiritual world, contents flow in these
the spiritual world reveals itself. As you look at the outer
beings, you can look at this world because the spiritual world
soaks up in it as a picture of the spiritual world. You must
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture IV: On Death
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the world economy that the human soul has attained and worked
on working in the world. Should the human being be condemned
the purposes of a general world economy that that dissolves
development of his soul forces the spiritual world appeared to
soul capacities, which allow experiencing the spiritual world
world, its processes, and beings approached the “gate of
Knowledge of Higher Worlds? and
exist in the outer world to detach the physical body from me in
spiritual world. Indeed, some people imagine that one attains
Knowledge of Higher Worlds?
prepare for that moment when the spiritual world reveals
spiritual-mental being within the spiritual world.
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a human body that would be inserted in the world so that it
did not walk thinking through the world if we could not form
that come from the outside world with you neither into sleep
remained before the threshold of the spiritual world? You
spiritual world. We do not find them there. Nevertheless, we
creative realm of the world. Hence, we also learn to understand
through a life after death in a wholly spiritual world.
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture V: The Meaning of Immortality of the Human Soul
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which we can really penetrate into the spiritual world. I have
mysterious education that the spiritual world bestows on the
spiritual world to look for its further development. One can
physical-sensory world.
only of which the materialistic worldview speaks. These
materialistic worldview completely. These movements, these
again. However, if I relate to the outside world, I write the
world. This sensory world disappears from the horizon of his
pleasant sight of the physical-sensory world with its wealth. O
him, strengthened by his stay in the spiritual world; he
world —
beauties of the physical world and their tasks which have
physical world disappears if we do not have the counterfort of
for the spiritual world. There you get to know above all what
spiritual world shows. Instead of having your body as your tool
world, it thereby becomes more and more imperceptible
spiritual world in which the human being, looking back, would
His world would be to look at himself in
as we see a world of animals, plants, stones, mountains, seas
Aristotle and his World View
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VI: The Evil
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is connected with the whole stoic world view. Nevertheless, I
the human being is capable to position himself in the world in
spiritual world one has to control the emotions and passions
the new edition of my Worldviews
Whenever one asks how the human ego fits into the whole world
the world order and the pursuit of human wisdom be reconciled
to the evil in the world?
Accusing the wise world order that the human being can submerge
wanted to accuse the wise world order that there are realms of
contemplate about the meaning of the evil in the world, and he
contemplated about the evil in the world. They tried to realise
evil is also to be found in the outer world.
2-1529). For him all world
assumes a God interweaving in the world, he asks, how have I to
connected with that what exists in the world, as for example
create a world, he had to act on that what is true without Him,
that evil is connected with any world that He wanted to create.
world. —
assume as the work of a divine being in the world. Since if one
considers the world, one must say that according to the most
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VII: The Moral Basis of Human Life
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spoken repeatedly about the moral life and the moral world
world order in the human life.
worldviews characteristic for the present where from this light
world. Then it represents its being in the outer
for our world order a point exists by which the human being
nevertheless. Worldviews coloured more materialistically do not
his worldview in two completely different parts. He
recognised of the outside world in such a way that the human
being positions himself in this worldview with all his
could be expressed. This other part of the Kantian worldview
understand it? In such a way, that it speaks from another world
than from that which one grasps with the worldview of knowledge
world that Kant tries to fill with all teachings of a divine
the world that is different from that of the usual human
world that is above the sensory world.
of such a world of which Kant was still speaking.
Indeed, the fewest people are consequent in their worldviews.
requirements of their worldview, to the whole worldview. Those
coloured worldview —
world, into which Kant looks like through a front gate with his
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VIII: Voltaire
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spiritual world. It appears in the next epoch again, of course
world for us. We call this part the sentient soul. Then as
scientific worldview would have still been impossible. It would
clairvoyance, he could behold in the spiritual world. He saw
World Views and Approaches to Life in the Nineteenth
felt projected in the total organism of the world by the old
Greek world mainly the intellectual or mind soul was developed.
world in the sense of modern natural sciences, he still
world. Leibniz asks, how must the human soul be to be able to
experiencing itself in a spiritual world
in it and what the reason can combine as a world view. He faces
the world in such a way that he says to himself, we find
with the spiritual world. Nevertheless, up to the times
the spiritual of the world, also with the help of spiritual
world from which one had to admit that one cannot attain it by
Thus, that worldview and that attitude
divine-spiritual world only because of the temperament of the
world experience, by this soul feeling, and in his so worried
connection with a spiritual-divine world.
being with the whole world existence, to the idea of freedom of
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture IX: Between Death and Rebirth of the Human Being
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death, he belongs to a world that is accessible, however, only
world, but that the soul really leaves the body, so that this
enters that world which the human being enters after death. Now
experiences a change of its position to the world of thought if
expressions for a quite different world. Since the expressions
experience that the dead has in the spiritual world that he
outer soul world. The thoughts walk, one could say, a certain
us in such a way that the whole world of thoughts that the
becomes an objective world. They do not break away in such a
that they form an outer spiritual world of thoughts except us.
In this world, everything is in the form of thought that we
establish a world of beings. This world in which we live then
is the world of the thoughts leaving us which have an
independent existence. Indeed, this world is like a tableau of
objectified in the outside world.
This experience of the soul in the world of
experiences that this whole world goes away like in a spiritual
some days, this world of thoughts disappears gradually in far
that we collide with the objects of the outside world. In
the eyes with the outside world, and thereby we have the
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture X: Homunculus
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understand all other worldviews and can completely acknowledge
worldviews are small circles within this large circle, which,
worldviews. However, one cannot say this of the other
worldviews that one asserts today, in the same sense. Since
being. In its fields, that worldview which must appear as
of that worldview which believes to stand firmly on the ground
I choose a form of worldview that believes
I want to characterise this worldview somewhat radically. It
This worldview thinks, if it has succeeded
of this worldview to understand the human being wholly
materialistic worldview which believes there that the human
world and can pursue them up to the processes in the nervous
spiritual world between death and new birth after every life on
Worlds?. However, even the
of the fact that spirit and spiritual world can be investigated
worldviews, but it has to show their limits, has to show what
standpoint of spiritual science to the other worldviews, I have
the outer world. You have become a new human being to whom that
being it is not real in the sensory world, but it is a part of
stands then in the physical world as a human being before us.
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Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture XI: Spiritual Science as a Treasure for Life
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world that one accepts or refuses like other theories. No,
directly to the outer world the spiritual researchers uses it
usually directly to the world
withdraw it from the outer world to further yourself; now you
of simply accepting the world.
world. If we faced the things and beings passively in the
spiritual world, the recognised would be extinguished or would
world.
in the spiritual worlds. Since there is in every soul an
the spiritual world. Therefore, one understands spiritual
in its own world, in the spiritual world. This different
physical body, can take forces only from the spiritual worlds
Spiritual science gets its forces from that world with which
with the big spiritual world.
strives for penetrating a world from which the human being,
itself in the world or to deal with the world. One could
breathes in the right relation to the outside world, spiritual
world and not directly from the organism. More and more the
world does not supply the impulses? Which impulses can work
orientation in the world. While we thereby fertilise our
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Title: Human History: Lecture I: The Relation of the Human Being to the Supersensible Worlds
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worlds.
supersensible worlds today, one still meets many a
supersensible world in any sense. If one even demanded as it
supersensible worlds to receive sense and understanding of the
whole human life from this knowledge of the supersensible world
outer world. A growing longing for knowledge of the
supersensible worlds exists.
worlds from the point of view of the present science. One
the world someday which must satisfy any longing for a world
view. Only that worldview could satisfy, one says, which simply
results to get an idea about the solution of the world riddles
form a worldview on basis of modern sciences; but this view is
soul. Everything that we can know about the world with only
indeed, that everywhere in the world are references to
world riddles that still say that the human cognitive faculties
penetrate into this supersensible world.
relation to the supersensible worlds. More careful spirits have
supersensible worlds, and that he is just unable maybe to
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Title: Human History: Lecture II: Death and Immortality
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world.
search within a supersensible spiritual world. So that in the
supersensible worlds what should produce the human body and
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world. This is no dream, also no self-deception or
impression, as if it were perception of a spiritual world, but
world. Indeed, he starts getting to know a world of spiritual
thoughts change into a world which we can compare
you get to the world in which you detach the thinking that is
your thinking in a newly appearing world. This expresses itself
know a world of which the outer physical-sensory world is only
the outer sensory world, and we can penetrate as human beings
into this spiritual world. So we are accepted by such a
spiritual world as it were if we carry out this self-experiment
relation of this spiritual world to us human beings if we can
can carry over to the big spiritual world but our emotions can
world. The way in which our emotions just affect us is
observation how he carries his emotions into the world into
makes us on one side to submerge in a world of spiritual light,
free of the body, as much we feel chained in this world to our
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Title: Human History: Lecture IV: From Paracelsus to Goethe
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knows all effects that originate from the big world, from the
what is the human being apart from the outer world. There
world, a microcosm, an image of the big world exists. Notabene:
organs, he finds an inner kingdom of heaven, an inner world
edifice. The outer world edifice is to him like a big symbol
that recurs in the human being like a little world. In a mess
that can originate in this little world, he sees the third way
being is integrated into the course of the world, and how to
with one, but with all soul forces to the whole world. Hence,
Father in the world; by faith we learn to recognise Christ, the
impression on all who searched the way to the spiritual worlds
spreads out in the sensory world. Paracelsus headed for the
physical world. Therefore, Goethe presents a kind of Paracelsus
the depths of the creating of nature and world. Thus, we
different kind of the view of the solar system and the world
regards the Copernican world system as a matter of course today
world system. Because he did not trust in the senses, he could
put up his world system, while he exceeded the sensory
the world by what his eyes and outer senses teach him:
into the depths of the world and into the laws with which the
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Title: Human History: Lecture VII: The Prophet Elijah
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in the world, where one had to search it; one had no idea of
knew how the man is to be found in the physical world, in the
in a spiritual being of the world that intervenes by its
to themselves, whatever may appear in the outer world,
which it beholds in the spiritual worlds to carry down from
to ascend to higher worlds, he starved from
strength in itself to appear now in front of the outer world,
to this outer world and to Ahab, so that he decides for the new
replace myself here in the physical world if I am killed by the
spiritual world, Naboth Elijah now worked after his death with
with him in the higher world. The spirit of Elijah indicated
that the biggest impulse of the evolution of world and man had
human souls and work from these human souls on the outer world,

Title: Human History: Lecture VIII: The Origin of the Human Being
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of the big questions of worldview. Since one met the question
rise as the worldview the question of the origin of the human
worldview, which wants to stand on the firm ground of natural
higher animal world.
that what arises as worldview if one really stands on the firm
worldview already in an alarming proximity of that what
worldview.
spiritual life to a spiritual world reaching to our physical
world.
speak, an appearance for this worldview, a mock substantiality
second half of the nineteenth century worldviews mushroomed
the origin of the human being from a spiritual world and of an
acceptance of the human being in a spiritual world when he
sharpened intellectual conscience have led to such a worldview
nineteenth century. To a worldview which had at that time by no
belongs to a spiritual world immediately, but only that the
spiritual,would not survive in a spiritual world, but can live
moral worldviews just with the leading persons. Since many
it can gain in the world, and then dedicates itself unselfishly
depreciation of worldviews pointing to the morally fateful that
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Title: Human History: Lecture X: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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a worldview seems to gain ground in the present within which
appears as big between that what has developed as a worldview
Christian movement in world history, the human imaginative
remained in wholly spiritual worlds who did not descend to the
material world, the Christ Being. Whereas the human being
advanced within the material world, the Christ Being
entered the physical-sensory world, after it had restrained its
world in which Christ was effective and beheld Christ
descending to the world in the beginning of our calendar where
from the spiritual world what the human beings could not
directly take up from the spiritual world. Gnosis speaks of
impulse from the spiritual world intervenes directly in the
popular world even with a few lines. But I am allowed to say
the outer sensory world and about that which is behind the
the world order. It would be now interesting to show how from
of the second edition once again to the fact that world history
historical worldview as Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), for
into an instrument of the perception of the spiritual world
soul lives in a spiritual world as the human being lives in a
physical world.
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Title: Human History: Lecture XI: Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science
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subconscious forms in the world coherence as human conscious
the spiritual world independently from the body and its senses.
reflect the outside world if we go back beyond the Greek-Roman
reasonable, logical reflection of the world. Only our present
thinking vividly about the world, not in the intellectual forms
up in his soul to get any explanation of the world. Images are
Imaginative worldview faces us.
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Imaginative world. Just in this respect, I made a rather
monistic interpretation of the world. One feels in the thoughts
and what he perceived in the world. He grew fond of it because
not have said this way. This was only possible when the world
behind the sensory world a spiritual world exists. One could
speak only that way after this spiritual world had disappeared
which is behind the sensory world.
spiritual being within the spiritual world, which he perceived
earth than a king in the other world that is uncertain to
human being turned his glance to the world, and asked himself
picture of the world. What does the human being care about
world soul that one felt prevailing everywhere. However, this
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Title: Human History: Lecture XII: Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
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the world of the sixteenth century, the earth on which one believed to stand firmly resting
human being has to learn the Copernican world system as one of
appeared before the educated world?
a precursor of the Lord, of Christ the things of the natural world order. For them the
whole worldview disintegrated into two parts: in a part which
They took the second part of their worldview from Aristotle,
How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?
scientific worldviews could develop only because the old hazy
spiritual world, something similar originates as we find it
which has now to get to a world explanation without
realise that still the teaching of the ensoulment of the world
the world directly from the spiritual world with the
spiritual-mental from that what he called the world of God from
attain that what it has to bring into the spiritual world after
body lives on after death in the spiritual world, but has to
look back at a world in which it was. While it turns the
while that what of it lives in the spiritual world is dependent
spiritual world so that it transforms the experiences of the
repeated lives on earth and the life in a spiritual world for
the worldview of Aristotle. The book that I recommend very much is
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Title: Human History: Lecture XIV: The Self-Education of the Human Being
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that he takes it as an ideal from the great impulses of world
generally as a human being adequately in the world. We can
to position himself in life and world according to particular
world. The most important impulses for it are not given,
gain his own position in the world, so that he is on his own
care of the contact and interrelation with the outside world.
and the outside world interact.
immediate sensory world. This harmonises us with the outer
world, with that outer world from which our whole physical
organism that harmonise us with that outside world. But if we
separated from the world in this restricted soul that is not
harmonised with the world, but just has its importance from the
develops what separates him from the world, while he positions
world. I said, now someone could state, so you speak against
the development of the will for the outer physical world if the
human being wants to strengthen the will in the outer world
wants to behold into the supersensible world and has no other
How Does One Attain Forces to Develop the Will in the Everyday World?,
How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?
How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?,
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Title: Human History: Lecture XVI: Darwin and the Supersensible Research
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results of this development appeared as world history. But to
religion which is not “from this world,” that means
world side by side, but have developed from imperfect to more
the serious research, even found an entire worldview, one may
science was able to construct a worldview strictly by real,
Goethean worldview not only in my book, directly
Goethe's World View,
worldview based on spiritual facts that the spirit prevails
worldview on Darwinism? We are on no account allowed to do it,
worldview or even religion develops? That does not result from
worldview from the results of Darwinism, just the same
worldview. This is the important fact that we have to consider.
supersensible worlds, so that the whole web of the sensory
world.
investigated only, while one looked impartially at this world
assumptions of the supersensible world, but turned it only to
the outer world. That is much more important and essential
inside, can turn the sight into supersensible worlds, can find
a supersensible world of facts, and that in this the true
which comes from a spiritual world while it experiences the
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture I: Spirit and Matter, Life and Death
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night sights of the human worldview (The Day Sight Compared
your attention to the worldview direction of illusionism in the
themselves, that which the human being perceives as the world
outside world. In the outside world are atoms, molecules,
around to saying, the coloured world round us, the sounding
world round us, is there, actually, only as long as a human eye
human eye or ear faces this outside world, this outside world
human being that surrounds him in the world, and to leaving the
world.
one live with such a view? How can the soul relate to the world
Fechner called this view of the material world the “night
“For they are the thoughts of the whole thinking world
today's worldview ...”
brain, the coloured splendid world develops by that which
human being as a “real” world, but it has to ascend
to a world in which the soul has to recognise itself as spirit
the world appears in a new connection, in a new light, under
Then Fechner himself tried to ascend from the world, to which
the day sight is directed up to a world in which the soul can
some conjectures of a spiritual world from the concepts and
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture II: Destiny and Soul
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struggled for the solution of the world riddles have dealt only
world of material processes to the immediately spiritual
close to the question of destiny. He says, in the dream world
attention especially to the known type of the dream world, to
personal thinking that is practised in the outer material world
is not sufficient to penetrate into the spiritual world lying
behind the physical-sensory world. This thinking is too
able to penetrate into the real spiritual world. The human
being applies this thinking exclusively to the sensory world.
physical-sensory world. You may exert yourself ever so much, if
spiritual world. You have to detach the thinking from the usual
from the area of the usual life, you hand over it to the world,
handed over to the spiritual world. You have let the thought
weeks, months, years which one handed over to the unknown world
have impressed themselves which now behold a new world round
consciousness to a new world. As usually the coloured, the
sounding, warming world is round us, now an etheric-spiritual
world is round us. But because we get to know this spiritual
world in its manifold phenomena, we also get to know something
hardly so honest and true in the usual world towards himself as
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture III: Immortality, the Forces of Destiny, and the Course of Life
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certain life riddles and world riddles that head to spiritual
that it has to comply with some worldviews from a certain
indicate these world views. There we immediately get to
pictures of it only hypothetically how it looks in the world of
How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds? how the
undermined, it results from it that the scientific world view
scientific worldview is right if it often assigns no
to believe that the big world riddles can be decided in the
reality. You awake in another world that throws light on the
usual physical-sensory world while the world of the usual
consciousness throws light on the dream world. Hence, spiritual
science does not only think different about the world riddles
soul to enter into the spiritual worlds. Now I can bring in
world as natural sciences think about the world. He can keep
that with the Copernican worldview the human beings had to
rethink the outer world, that that which Copernicus asserted
contradicted the phenomena of the outer sensory world. If one
statements of the outer sensory world, then one has to point
science is in a similar situation as the Copernican worldview
Even if the Copernican worldview has to undergo some
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture IV: Human Soul and Human Body Considered Scientifically and Spiritual-Scientifically
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of the world on basis of modern education.
applicable to the world. The just characterised
the world only by our senses now; hence, everything is mental
objective outdoors. Strangely enough, the whole world is
kind of parallel process of that which is outdoors in the world
what goes forward outdoors in the world. Then you can already
on that which happens if from the outside by the sensory world
the human being with the outer sensory world, but shows
happens that is never considered. The sensory outside world
really the objective world immediately in ourselves, and while
continuation of the outside world. Hence, it is not the sense
experiences the projecting outside world directly. Since the
outside world where this outside world can purely approach him,
clear about the following: while we face the outside world with
to realise: as we face the outside world, we face our own body
from the outside world. However, one becomes aware of that
interprets the outside world, otherwise. One can recognise by
not face this inner world of nerves different from the outer
sensory world; save that with the outer sensory world the
therefore, one thinks that the outside world causes an
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture V: The Riddles of Soul and World in the German Cultural Life
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The Riddles of Soul and World in the German Cultural Life
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for any such worldview but also what militates against a
any web of concepts or mental pictures of a one-sided world
concept, that means to imagine the world filled not only with
varying material world as well as the magnetic force prepares
returns to the invisible world only at death, or rather,
body which is released to the spiritual world at death.
Worlds?. Then, however, the human being can gradually reach
world, an understanding of the sensory perceptions is
of the ideas in the sensory world by free conscious action...
adapts itself to the outside world.
to penetrate into the spiritual world wish hallucinations
Against it if one wants to penetrate into the spiritual world,
spiritual world. However, thereby the soul penetrates
intervenes by the etheric-bodily in the outer world, but just
the will surges on the outer world. However, the
material world and imagination, they do not manage at the other
worldview, namely from the one or the other side. However, the
to a right relation to the outside world. Natural sciences have
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VI: Life, Death, and Immortality in the Universe
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contradict this spiritual-scientific worldview. Only on the
research and to be able to get a worldview which does not
future state of our earth after his world picture. On the
worldview.
In this inner life of the soul those spiritual worlds emerge
of such a worldview. Since one could compare that with somebody
about a knowledge of the spiritual conditions of the world.
spiritual world in the present because of opposing prejudices
you imagine to the objective course of the world. Whether this
is handed over to any other sphere of world existence, this
Worlds?, then you realise that one cannot observe, indeed,
be of immense significance for the understanding of the world.
sensory outside world if one is no longer present personally
contact with the outside world and which is usually in our
and earth and sun, I could also say, of our whole world system,
as well as astronomy speaks of this world system. However, one
well as the human being walks through the world as a bodily
in it for future world creations that I cannot describe now.
worlds, and we are immortal, while we live with this immortal
spiritual world, than if one wants the abstract catchwords of
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Title: Spirit and Matter: Lecture VII: The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul
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not integrate himself into the usual sensory world but into the
spiritual world. With this beholding consciousness, the human
his knowledge to that world in which immortality and freedom
such a world the beholding faculty of judgement. Goethe
Worlds?, in Occult Science. An Outline and in my
invigorate itself so that it wakes within a world that is now
the usual sensory world of the day consciousness is different
consciousness into a world of the beholding consciousness: just
images that are not taken from the sensory world, but from a
aware of the outer sensory world. With the Imaginative
consciousness, we enter another world in which other things and
beings are than in the usual sensory world. For somebody who
mental-spiritual beings from a spiritual world. What we
world and develops between death and a new birth, which becomes
a tool of the etheric world as I have just described it, and
the rest of the organism is a tool of this etheric world,
of the whole physical world, but he has, held together by the
world, you realise the interplay of the Imaginations of the
With the Imaginative knowledge, we submerge in a world of the
we get to the real perception of a spiritual world, we are able
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture I: The Nature of Spiritual Science and Its Significance for the Present
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of the spiritual world from this viewpoint in the series of the
These are effective like forces in the stream of the world
spiritual world as a world that is essential as the human world
and world existence generally, one does not come to
world here. That is why spiritual science is no popular thing
worldly cult compared with this immense progress, who could
world, the prejudice is spread that spiritual science must be
what one finds if one turns the senses to the outer world and
the spiritual world “science.” These winter talks
considerations about the investigation of the spiritual world
spiritual world, but where it lets the spiritual world say its
necessary in order to reach the spiritual world where it speaks
objectively to us. However, the spiritual world is in such a
spiritual world, to contents that are fulfilled vividly with
clear about the fact that at last a spiritual world forms the
this spiritual world. It states also that behind the
sense-perceptible world, behind the physical outer existence
the region of the spiritual world extends. If now spiritual
how it looks in this spiritual world how the spiritual world
underlies our sense-perceptible world, then the aversion just
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture V: The Nature of Sleep
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outside world. Only the human beings who experience a splitting
his soul poured out itself about a world that awakes now and
Attain Knowledge of the Spiritual World? where the methods
ears by which he is able to behold in the spiritual world that
were a jolt in the soul and thereby perceives a world that is
before in the sensory world at all, he feels his own activity
delivers oneself from the mental pictures of that worldview
looking at the world is dependent on the equipment of his
that there is a spiritual world behind the physical world,
cannot perceive. Since the world of reality is not the world of
the discernible. The world of the discernible is limited by the
carpet of colours of the sensory world, behind that which the
part. Thus, we feel actively positioned in the world, we feel
organism, between our whole corporeality and the outside world
that we have to the outside world live in us that also the
Then there is something in our relations to the outside world
their laws. So you face if you face a world — in similar
waking we have round ourselves our world of images surging up
perceive anything in the world of the astral. The human being
him the external world becomes reflecting as for the soul life
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VII: How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Spiritual World?
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world.
because the way into the spiritual world has to lead from the
immediate experience. To the beholder of the spiritual worlds
present human beings for the spiritual world. At the same time,
access to the spiritual world anyhow with the means which not
and about Goethe's worldview it happened what is a trifle, what
relation to the rise of the human being to the spiritual world
speaking about Goethe's specific way to the spiritual world
world in the course of these talks. Herman Grimm gladly
followed the ways of Goethe to the spiritual world — but
world to embody them in his pieces of art. It was more obvious
to him to say, oh, we cannot get to this spiritual world with
are ways beyond imagination, ways into the spiritual world that
of our age concerning the spiritual world. For I had a long
materialistic view of the world process, from the view that the
spiritual worlds that produces what the human beings create to
the welfare of the world progress. I would like to say: in that
origins of life, about the secret of existence, about the world
riddles; but there is no possibility to enter another world
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture VIII: Predisposition, Talent and Education of the Human Being
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from the external world, how little it needs, hence, a scene
which lies in the outer world to bring out again what is taken
such a scene. Hence, he enters the world clumsily, so that we
contact with the outside world, with our bigger or lower
interests and with our skill for the outside world the human
the contact of the human being with the outer world. —
the body. However, He who created the world and the human
world, perceiving its colours and sounds, but we also let
ourselves, so that the things of the outside world which are
world, not because we like to categorise, but the sentient soul
confluence of the whole world. By the consciousness soul the
accordance with its coherence with the outside world. We lay
many people take care if they have seen into a worldview so
Hence, one cannot expect from such worldviews, which are built
concerning a worldview, which is built on this what the logic,
outside world with all that we have. We cannot learn everything
in the physical world, but we could not use it for thinking if
the world spirit had not created it. We would not have
if the stars were understood like any situation of the world,
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XIV: Moses
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outer physical world, as they happen in space and time. Then,
and experiences in the outer world at first continues
level of energy or to a mission in the world development. The
spiritual world in certain interstates between waking and
world was shown in pictures, and that these pictures were
of human consciousness that beheld the spiritual world in
awake consciousness, we perceive the outer world by our senses
only an abstract unity of this old view of the world, but the
knowledge of higher spiritual worlds has to experience certain
perceptive faculties are cut off from the physical world.
carried by a spiritual world force different from that of our
reason, and mind directed to the outer sensory world should
fire that he did not burn. There the world spirit revealed
into a spiritual world. Thus, we understand that what had to be
world spirit had to be that interweaves and lives in the world.
world forces in such a way that they work in the soul that the
recognise such a world spirit that does not reveal itself only
recognise the world spirit that can only reveal itself in the
their being in the spiritual world forces, the soul feels that
the uniformity of the world. If the human being looks at the
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Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XV: What Has Astronomy to Say about the Origin of the World?
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Has Astronomy to Say about the Origin of the World?
talk is of the world origin? For astronomy is rightly a science
stars worlds face us at which we should look similarly as at
our own world, the spectral analysis by Kirchhoff and Bunsen
as human beings within a material world with its laws, with its
as the material world is considered, the same materiality and
What now the human being could invent as a kind of worldview as
— about this worldview we say: we can understand that
worldview seized numerous human beings. It was very instructive
into that little world into which, however, only the
the nineteenth century more and more: the world of atoms and
and forces, which we find in the world outdoors. If one were
smallest atomic and molecular worlds that are effigies of the
movement within the world of the atoms and molecules changes
still a little was gained concerning a theory of world
world. For the scientific facts, which have led, indeed, to a
the world?”
always a rest of heat is left. Thus, all world processes run in
we would be concerned with a big world chaos that exists only
There we have brought something in our astronomical worldview
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture I: Haeckel, the Riddles of the World and Theosophy
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The Riddles of the World and Anthroposophy
Riddles of the World and Anthroposophy,
Haeckel, the Riddles of the World and Theosophy
World and Theosophy, I know that this subject causes
World (1899). Ten thousand copies were sold after a
I am also in a particular position compared with the worldview
situation and worldview, into the fascinating, simple, big
lines of thought which Haeckel's worldview consists of. I would
for his worldview since decades, has hard fought and had to
worldview, even though in the last decades the actual
compared also with the theosophical worldview. I am in a
worldviews with such passion as just against Haeckel's
Worldviews and Approaches to Life in the Nineteenth
satisfied the real truth contents of Haeckel's worldview in its
Look at the situation of the worldview, as far as it rests on
briefly to the real riddles of the world. On the other side,
worldviews. However, a peculiar breath of wind still blows
one could also understand the whole world from that which one
worldviews are formed only with the cool considerations of the
was also the last consequence of the Christian worldview.
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture II: Our International Situation. War, Peace and Spiritual Science
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The Riddles of the World and Anthroposophy
Riddles of the World and Anthroposophy,
We do not want to state the events, which turn up the world
world and intervene in the activities of the world if one does
the whole world to which the efforts of all governments should
Looking around in the world today, we see the struggle of many
Some things would be different in the world if it were possible
is why an extensive worldview must open the look for us which,
the world that survive in the struggle for existence best of
Then economics have applied this struggle to the human world
get ourselves into the previous way of the world evolution, the
world of facts teaches us everywhere that we live in a general
fight and quarrel into the world.
discuss here already that a hidden world is directly connected
with our physical world, the astral world that does not consist
plane or to the physical world. In this physical world, there
plane, in the astral world hidden behind our physical world.
world.
of the fight in the world evolution. What has emerged from the
you look back in the world evolution, the more compact, the
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture III: Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Soul and Spirit of the Human Being
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spiritual-scientific worldview we are led to that older
the theosophical or spiritual-scientific worldview has to go
physical world became a discernible world for the human being,
a world that he knows, that he can observe. If the human being
external forces of the world. He has added nothing there. He
with senses to perceive the sensuous world. However, the human
sensuous world round him.
as it is that the eye if it opens perceives a coloured world
the spiritual-scientific worldview is appointed to rouse an
the mind and reason mostly. However, this means that a world of
sensuous world. Our external sensuous knowledge attracts more
the external expansion of the sensory world, but at the
deepening of the world being. I describe it to you only with a
world and to live with that which lives as strength in him.
belong together. In the sensuous outside world, eye and light
the external world, but that which is mental which lives in the
world. One normally speaks from the immediate view. Envisage,
the spiritual-scientific worldview can understand him. I could
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VI: The Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Human Races
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worldview seems to be more suitable than any other is. For this
spiritual-scientific worldview does not speak in the same sense
of the uniform human being as the other worldviews. It has a
invisible, supersensible world and tries to answer this
that the spiritual-scientific worldview teaches us, even if the
rest of the past world. The spiritual-scientific view teaches
world, which the natural sciences know as well as spiritual
worldview. Perhaps, in no other worldview the clairvoyant view
the spiritual-scientific worldview can prove this. There were
through the whole world still lived in this Indian population.
world is expressed. If we studied certain parts of the
unworldly. In these northern regions, we find human beings who
enclose the world who want to conquer the world who use tools
phenomena of the external world. Later they returned to the
earth in another race and learnt to look into the world in

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VII: The Core of Wisdom in the Religions
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Riddles of the World and Anthroposophy,
that there are single persons in the world who made it their
particular task to collect experiences in the world of the
sensuous world. The human being is not allowed to behave
the mysterious worlds of existence the human being can get on
imagine that for anybody who has no ear no sounding world, but
a dumb world is around him, for anybody who has no eyes no
luminous, no colourful world but a dark one exists. All that is
the world, namely with those abilities in the human being which
this imperishable core to other worlds, and carries that which
world. What the divine core recognises is the content of
which surrounds us in the world. However, it looks at it with
world, the whole humanity would attain it once, the loftiest
all, one did not speak about anything that is beyond the world,
soul world of these prehistoric human beings quite unlike ours.
with the divine Tao forces of the world. That is why he has the
world as it reveals itself in his soul, and on the other side
him. The modern human being hears and sees the external world.
world again. That is why the word religare (Latin) —
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VIII: Fraternity and the Struggle for Existence
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knowledge of the spiritual world must lead to fraternity if it
the spiritual-scientific worldview seems to contradict
strength with the adversary. A worldview which has arisen from
bases full of mind, the worldview of Friedrich Nietzsche
possible. The spiritual-scientific worldview does not misjudge
time, but at the same time this worldview realises also that
natural sciences have made it a general natural world
while that those beings in the world are formed most suitably,
all beings, which populate the world today, have been able to
spiritual-scientific worldview, it is not only something
spiritual-scientific worldview wants to train the highest goods
you see that the spiritual-scientific world movement replaces
spiritual-scientific worldview strives for replacing this
worldview knows that the struggles lead to a real result in any
— considered from a spiritual worldview — something
spiritual-scientific worldview understands the struggle for
must not get lost neither in the outside world, nor in
rooted in the world. We can strengthen them and improve our
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture IX: Inner Development
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supersensible world and its connection with the sensuous world.
world come? Today we want to deal with this question, or with
supersensible world accessible.
of the outside world. The yogi has to make himself blind and
world in any way. This is exceptionally easy with such a deep
your inside has to produce the harmony with the outside world
world developing his inner life. One strictly has to pay
and only this can ascend to the supersensible world —,
life. This is the principle of the occult world that everybody
sensory world, to a higher spiritual light. Something is born
liar very easily when he enters the supersensible world. He
Someone who wants to develop in any way to the higher world is
someone who ascends to the higher world. In every fact of life,
the human being to the higher worlds in good, real and true way
world, and I have to pay tribute to them degrading myself
higher powers, by the wisdom of the world, by that which the
thought, which have nothing to do with the outside world, and
state is the perception of the outside world. You look with the
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture X: Christmas as Symbol of the Sun's Victory
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world. You can convince yourselves of it adequately if you have
is disseminated by the printed paper into the world at this
they were adapted to that world body which consisted of sun,
become. — The divine world order presented itself to
these sages in its whole glory. The Christian worldview also
the glory flowing through the world. In former times, one felt
in such a way that one established this world harmony as a
outdoors in the world. When the medieval poetry of wisdom
feelings. If we look into the divine world order, into the
that lowers itself into us what we feel outdoors in the world
that connects our own developing souls with this world harmony,
this world harmony in our souls. Then something lives in us
his only outward world. Thus, Christianity is in harmony with
all great world religions. When the Christmas bells sound, the
festival was celebrated all over the world. Everywhere it was
the human soul in this world, where one knew something of the
dogma, no mere doctrine, or philosophy to the world but life.
all fight, all war and strife in the world.

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XI: The Christian Teachings of Wisdom
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world appears in bewildering variety to the human being looking
nature, in the world of the stars, plants, animals and physical
worldview. Among other things, the theosophical movement that
world also tries to deepen the Christian doctrine of wisdom.
superfluous in the world. If you were right, could then there
world movement should overcome this. Truth is not in our
which speaks to us by the world of the facts. We have to submit
materialist worldview is, that any material is only the
being who comes from other spiritual worlds into this sensuous
world as the Adam Kadmon of the Jewish secret doctrine, the
the sensory world, then we also understand which task the human
embodied in the sensory world. He learnt there in the first
limbs; he learnt to fit into the world and nature surrounding
something that the Bible and other worldviews comprise with a
living together, that appeared in the world which also the
They led the world; they were the shepherds of humanity and
None is unworldly who rises by the invisible above the visible,
that who controls the world by that which slumbers in him, so
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XII: Reincarnation and Karma
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There are riddles of the world in which somebody takes an
texture of our existence. Such riddles of the world are, for
from does life come into the world? Where from the
us everywhere in the world as a riddle. These are questions on
impartially. The great worldviews and their preachers always
The spiritual-scientific worldview wants to answer the riddles
What the spiritual-scientific worldview wants to give has the
spiritual-scientific worldview is understandable for every
believe you what you say about higher, spiritual worlds and
biggest swindlers of the world. However, something else is
—, applies to the spiritual-scientific worldview today.
which I have stated now the spiritual-scientific worldview
spiritual-scientific worldview will have seized all
great world benefactor by inheritance who works from his inside
and enriches the world with anything new? From the face, you
completely. Our soul comes into the world not as a baby, but
worldview shows us that everything that rests in our souls is
the teaching of the spiritual-scientific worldview, which
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIII: Lucifer
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portrayal of this idea in nature, in the surrounding world. To
bank and became a worldly person. A worldly person was such a
worldview, we also speak about this starting point of human
to speak, with and among the physical realms in the world. If
theosophical or spiritual-scientific worldview has to bring a
on earth. We say in the spiritual-scientific worldview, in the
worldview almost forbids, because it regards it as
theosophical worldview shows that a god lives in the human
the lowest of a sequence the lifeless world of the mineral,
physical principles of the mineral world. The plant pulls
wisdom and the world regularity out of the mineral world. We
plant world had come along and its stimulating principle had
spiritual-scientific worldview that he has developed the
something that the theosophical worldview teaches. I want only
confessions, in all occult worldviews as the divine principle
himself is the basis of the human world that he is the godhead,
the divine, it works in the world as divine grace — using
higher spiritual worlds by inner esoteric development.
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIV: The Children of Lucifer
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that theosophy is something unworldly, even somewhat
adopted the real basis of the theosophical world movement.
from the theosophical worldview, and he belongs certainly to
beyond. As well as here in the physical world for the Greek the
one as the world of the gods. He did not call that which the
possibility to behold in the higher world, transforming
of the higher worlds. Just such persons could inspire the
world round us who is buried in the material world and who
in the world. Nietzsche regards this Dionysus drama as the
this world, but also what works behind this world in spirit. As
him in the true spiritual world, in the spiritual reality.
at all within the sensuous world which can be experienced only
thoughts into the world of existence.
world. Placed in the universe in such a way, the own human life
all over the world. Pallas Athena saved its heart only and
that this divinity has a special relation to the world. What is
and someone who embarks on the theosophical worldview is led to
world as a creature of the god Dionysus. These spiritual
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XV: Germanic and Indian Secret Doctrines
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foreign worldview from without, but to show how also within our
and worldview with that which has been expressed over there in
of the so-called theosophical worldview with a few words at
worldview.
human being is, according to this theosophical worldview, at
world. This cover is clearly divided into four members. The
into the world the forces that live outdoors in the starry
member to live within this world that enables him to say to
his branches into the spiritual-divine world. As he developed
out of the earthly world from lower beginnings, he develops
citizen of three worlds at the same time. He is a citizen of
the usual physical world here. When he has left the physical
world here, when he has left his physical body, also the
etheric body, he enters another world, a kind of intermediate
world, an astral world, as we say, the soul world. At first
connection with the earthly-physical world. We call this state
kamaloka or stay in the astral world. This is no place, but a
soul world and ascends then to a still higher world that we
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVI: German Theosophists at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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life of thought impeded the access to the real spiritual world
we get to know in the world, we deal with phenomena and not
researchers of all times state quite different that the world
as we investigate the world with senses, understand it with the
worldview penetrating into the spirit has ever spoken of the
world as Maya in another sense. They always said only, to the
figure of the things. As from uncertain worlds the so-called
proves no worldview, but the worldview is the expression of the
engrossed in the divine of the world and get the sparks from
spiritual-scientific worldview brought back like a solution of
the world riddle: the teaching of karma and reincarnation. If
how he measured out the human personality with world-spanning
are often led to deeper worldviews. Not least, miners did deep
looks into the spiritual world. Staying underground has a
said: if we look out at the world, we see a number of animals.
everything great arises in the world. However, as well as the
said, “Appear as a sighted man in a world of blind people
must get involved with the world-spanning thoughts, which
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVII: Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods
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Just Wagner's art much deepened this legend world. We also try
into the reality of this apparently unreal world, and you see
we are led by the figure of Siegfried or Sigurd into the world
poetries of world literature. He is the conqueror of a dragon
world of gods and the Siegfried legend only if we also assume
and spiritual worlds existed in the German prehistoric time and
vision into the spiritual world, to our usual everyday views,
once the human beings looked into the spiritual world that is
real figures of that world, in which the human being settles in
that the soul perceives the outside world with the senses,
once to behold in the world, in which the human being descends
beheld in the spiritual world, and the reflections of the
spiritual world are in the myths, are real experiences.
into the spiritual-mental world which. However, died away in
into the spiritual world when one lived generally quite
differently. With the emergence of the external sensory world,
them. A race that had still beheld into the spiritual world now
the sensory world. This is the “gold,” the
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVIII: Parzival and Lohengrin
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lived like an echo, just as the world of the gods or
a worldview completely new to Central Europe, had spread out
world at first. We have emphasised eight days ago that to us
value to themselves in the world. They referred to the law, to
about the striving of the worldly knights. However, one day he
sees such worldly knights. There he decides to depart, and he
influence of Christianity as worldly knighthood, generally as
all worldly. We come back to ancient times, to those times to
spiritual world remained from that.
divine-spiritual world. The stories and dramatic actions are an
Everything that happened in the world that belonged to the
he himself beholds into the spiritual worlds, where the primal
ground behind the world manifests to him.
Europe. Thus, one countered the white lodge of the worldly
often the theosophical worldview emphasises. The mystics of the
physical human being who lives here in this world who strives
spiritual world bit by bit. The innermost human being is the
and more, to raise the human being to the higher worlds, this
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIX: The Easter Festival
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rightly calls Brahman the great master builder of the world,
who causes the order and harmony in the world. One calls Vishnu
spiritual significance of the world Saviour was associated with
confluence of that which is spread out outdoors in the world:
being looks at the world through the senses and tries to fathom
that wisdom bit by bit with which the world is built up.
which opens the access to the outside world to the soul through
sees in the outside world is the reflected sunlight. The sun
wakes the strength in the soul to look at the outside world.
perception of the world. He means this if he says, this visible
world only originated when an eye was there to see the world.
the Germanic world of gods, the human being also saw the gods
made the physical world visible to the senses. Thus, astral
resurrecting World Saviour, of Christ Jesus, and the idea of
ripe for the perception of the spiritual world. If all the
Nevertheless, he also knows: as the world has arisen from the

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XX: Inner Development
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worlds, and the question immediately suggests itself, how do we
know that we talk here not only about the usual physical world,
but also about the worlds of soul and spirit that we got to
know as astral world and devachan. The human being lives in
these worlds. He does not belong to one, but to three worlds.
He still belongs to much more worlds, but the knowledge of
still higher worlds exceeds the usual cognitive capacities of
the human being so much that one can talk about these worlds
being penetrate up to the astral and spiritual worlds? —
These are the worlds in which he lives here, indeed, about
lives as sensuous world round us can carry no weight for us.
However, then the other worlds that are attained by higher
other worlds than that in which he lives? If he gives his
worlds? — This is an objection that must be recognised
human being meets in the higher worlds are not only efficient
in these worlds but also in our physical world. For the things
of the spiritual world. We also recognise ourselves only
dispositions and abilities enter the world. Only a superficial
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XXI: Paracelsus
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brilliant look, he tried to grasp the construction of the world
are not the right ones who wander the world in such a way that
they travel around the world in carriages and apart from the
physical world, but also in the spiritual sun. What
For this second member the apple is the whole world of stars.
are expressions of the whole world of stars, as the pip is an
body the astral body or the body related to the world of
to the spiritual world like the pip of the apple to the much
whole sum of divine forces in the world. Thus, Paracelsus
differentiates in the world: the divine-spiritual, the
in the world of the stars if he wants to understand the human
whole world: “This is something great you should
him to keep in sight the whole world with the single special
physical world as the pip with the apple, the primeval human
with the entire surrounding astral world. Therefore, that which
out of the astral world, and the physical human being is born
out of the entire physical world. Paracelsus spoke in a much
passion in him born out of the astral world.
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XXII: Jacob Boehme
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stands there with a knowledge and a wisdom, with a worldview
stuff of the world. This is the peculiar phenomenon which one
Boehme from the theosophical worldview are surprised that one
the world and its creation, “because I was not present
world building and human building in his thoughts, in his world
there the world was still completely different from now. Jacob
of world evolution understands it, no scientific view has shown
original matter from which only the later world has arisen. He
sees the world of appearance and the beings as they existed as
worldview. Equipped with it, one has a means to solve countless
riddles of the world. Besides, Jacob Boehme has a wonderful
have to imagine that the tinctura lives in the world like the
in the world. One must not imagine that the original acerbic
wisdom, the divine force contained in the world. In these seven
beings. It is between the world thought and any matter. Jacob
Boehme imagines the great master builder of the world as an
artist who organised the world sensuous-physically. He calls
the world tinctura again. He searches it in any single
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture I: The Mission of Occult Science in Our Time
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senses show in the outside world which our mind can take up in
see and hands can seize, there is a higher world, an invisible
supersensible, invisible world developing his own cognitive
it at all to speak of any supersensible world, any invisible
world; these are yesteryear's prejudices — thank God! Many
such supersensible forces or beings, but that the world, as we
explain the world from itself — so the materialists and monists
discover the sensuous causes within the sensuous world, we have
the past world in the layers of the earth and when they
something supersensible behind our sensory world; but the human
being can know nothing of such a supersensible world with his
from anybody in the world, that nobody in the world can know
world, you have to develop the extrasensory cognitive
extrasensory world is not allowed to say whether it exists or
world, they are something that can never come from the human
it is a sin to let lie fallow what exists in the world in a
seeds in the world, so that they sprout, so that they yield
fallow, to cordon off the supersensible world soon recognises
world, to whom personal experience was what I want to show in
today who are able to behold in the spiritual world this
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture II: Natural Science Facing a Crucial Decision
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that behind our sensuous world which you can see with eyes and
touch with hands a spiritual, supersensible world of the facts,
become able to intervene in this spiritual world recognising
expresses its conviction that there is a spiritual world and
science and the experiences in the higher worlds. In the main,
spiritual worlds. However, with regard to the methodical
of the spiritual world, oppose the religious feeling, while
disprove any reference to a spiritual world. In certain
a spiritual world with the results of the natural sciences.
could explain the world only materialistically according to the
against anybody who reports about the spiritual world. However,
world.
world with all imaginable instruments and skilfully developed
with astronomy and with the view of the astronomical world
edifice how then the physical world has been conquered
the world of life that way. Then it was a big progress when
earthly world, also exist in the universe. One recognised this
worldview that was connected with names like Fichte, Schelling,
worldviews. However, this happens only if we leave the firm
based on observation with exclusion of the supersensible world
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture III: The Knowledge of Soul and Spirit
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explained it in the last talk — that materialism as a worldview
itself in the physical world? You will search these questions
Nothing faces us in the outside world if we
concerning force in the outside world if we do not carry
approaches us in the outside world? What we see and hear, tone,
we take the tone, as long as it remains in the sensuous world,
sensuous world with our speculations. We have to stop in the
sensory world. Someone pronounced something most important whom
of that fantastic world of whirling atoms the true thinker and
What surrounds us outdoors in the world and appears to us as
are all things outdoors in the world, only in other forms. They
in the mineral world. However, he has a second member, which we
the physical world. The human being thereby differs from the
animal that he has his ego in the physical world. The ego is
have an ego, and this ego is in the supersensible world. It is
soul in the supersensible world. Such a group soul has become
irradiating of the spirit is possible in our world where the
are different from each other in the world generally as ice and
If we look at the world
these three bodies, in the spiritual world. From there he
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture IV: Initiation
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spiritual, higher worlds, the thought will also appear of
higher worlds? The today's consideration on initiation can only
another or even a number of other supersensible worlds behind
human being these supersensible worlds can become accessible
cannot recognise certain higher worlds. However, at the same
time, one has to say that these higher worlds are not to be
looks impartially at the world, and especially within our
world knowledge.
However, the stream of the world hinders
new world as the eye opens the world of light and colours if it
of the higher, extrasensory worlds.
blind-born who has recognised the world only touching before
speaks in spiritual science of higher worlds.
worlds is on the same level of the power of judgement as
someone who is born blind and says, there is no world of light
higher worlds? He talks about them because he knows that merely
penetrate to these worlds. Someone who is reluctant to receive
information about these worlds resembles someone who was once
freely to the communications about the higher worlds, we get
service of the physical world.
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VI: The So-Called Dangers of Initiation
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spiritual world surrounding him. However, he who generally
unworldly, it removes them from that what they would have to
unworldliness.
being anyhow unworldly or entices him into asceticism. I have
emphasised repeatedly that a spiritual world underlies our
world of the senses, our world of the physical life. Therefore,
someone must be called unworldly who does not mind the true and
world only, on that what the senses say and what they can
to an ascetic life, to privations or to unworldliness.
be in the theosophical circle with the life of a worldly
work in life. However, if they looked only at the world and at
should have significance and power in the world works different
spiritual world, as if it only concerns fantasies.
are beyond the sensuous world is always in danger that the
worldview from the scientific facts, the questions only just
World Riddles
to get the world riddles solved. When they have read this book, they
outside world, and the requirements which are suddenly put to
their souls, which the world has cut. On the other hand,
mostly written in the world. One says, theosophy is something
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VII: Man, Woman and Child
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spiritual world. It exists an increase of lawfulness.

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture VIII: The Soul of the Animal in the Light of Spiritual Science
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looks impartially at the world and at himself that
big world and its beings.
sensuous world and goes up to spiritual basis of existence, it
being who has only physical perception a spiritual world exists
perception or knowledge are opened, he sees a new world of
to him as a new world which he could not perceive
has descended from a higher world to the physical body. It is
not physical, but it has descended to the physical world. It
the physical world. However, when the spiritual eyes of the
the human being. We call that world which presents itself
world, namely for reasons we talk about in the following
self-contained human individualities in the physical world, we
world, only entire groups of animals — groups of homogenous
researcher to the higher world is similar to that.
world various, but homogenous animals, as for example lions,
physical and the astral worlds. Wherever the single lions are
for the animal still in a spiritual world and which manifests
like stretching an arm down to the physical world. The human
culprit has not descended at all to the physical world. The
stretches out to the physical world.
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XI: Occupation and Earnings
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question because in these questions something world-shaking is
concepts, which were sufficient to construct the whole world
spiritual-scientific book where the physical world, the astral
world and even higher spiritual worlds are brought forward,
which are hidden in our world. There they read that the human
boxed in certain way. The world is simple, and somebody who
does not show the world simply causes mistrust with them
already from the start. The world is simple, is comfortable! —
through the world? Has one not to ask, how was he walking,
actually, through the world? How did he study it? How did he
world, and had they to go only to America to find out that one
our whole world in reality, then it gives this real knowledge
realise the necessity of striving for a worldview that can
the big, immense world connections can create no institutions
one can put with self-evidence in the world. However, the
outside world so that welfare and blessing develop for humanity
understanding of the human being and the world. Only in a life
eager to work, we can produce by our occupation in the world.
spiritual world movement can give, not before he is able to do
are beings who live in spiritual worlds, and that such group
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XII: Sun, Moon and Stars
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was a childish idea to think that the other world bodies could
remaining world. One did not think of bones, muscles and
comprehensible that this world feeling has changed in our
materialistically coloured worldview, but only someone who
in the not materialistic but spiritual experience of the world.
emergence of the materialistic worldview, the physical world
The modern worldview
the worlds went adrift from the primeval nebula.
sciences and astronomy corrected the worldview of Kant and
worldview (Simon Newcomb, 1835–1912, Canadian astronomer)
pronounced the sentence: if one pursues the figure of the world
emergence of the world body by that experiment. However,
“trifle” with the worldview proven this way.
their nature in the phenomena of the sense-perceptible world,
world directed research. However, it also knows that the time
the planetary motions, which the Kant-Laplace worldview knows,
spiritual world. It receives forces, more elated ones than the
world, the stars can influence it stronger. As in the wake
worlds originate. We start experiencing the forces of leading

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XIII: Outset and End of the Earth
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have as remains of extinct worlds and beings how it has looked
shows how a world system originates in microcosm in a liquid
being can never get to know looking at the world only with his
beginning of the world and do not look at the physical only,
astral body has its reality outdoors in another world that is
be countless worlds round you, the world of the tones, the
world of the light, the world of the smells, the world of the
tastes etc., if you had no senses for them, these worlds would
to assert that a world which one does not perceive is not
and etheric bodies and lives in another world; not in a
transcendent, somewhere concealed world, but in a world that
spiritual-scientific observation that world differs from the
spiritual world that is in our environment as the air is round
bearer of desire and pain, is in this spiritual world at night.
the present evolution, no cognitive ability for this world in
human being is in the dreamless sleep in a spiritual world
clear the secrets of the higher, supersensible world to the
human being, which really leads him in the spiritual world, is
particular methodical instructions by which he makes his worlds
falling asleep, and other do not appear in the world for which
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XIV: The Hell
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striving for a solution of the world riddles if we want to
the human being if he approaches the world riddles in a deeper
development from the spiritual world. All the time we notice
penetrate the world in the good sense and finally the light
physical world.
Nordic mythology derives the present condition of the world
find those taking the mental picture of a world in which the
depths of the world existence. How magnificently and greatly
Dante describes this world immediately at the beginning of his
of the human being to the higher spiritual worlds! Again, a
the world existence. I would like to mention two of them in
whole world existence, the concepts of good and evil are put
side, from the world of legends, on the other side, from a deep
believe today to be able to build up a whole worldview from
some pieced together concepts of the material world, very
way of the different religions and childish worldviews. Then we
to lead back all things to a wholly mechanical world order.
However, not only the few worldly scholars who lived at that
such an assumption? A real, in the depths of the world
physical world viewer in such a way that one can be addicted to
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Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XV: The Heaven
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how someone who wants to establish a worldview from the wholly
beings, they can illuminate the world edifice beyond the stars
that one calls “paradise,” a spiritual world.
condensed in the physical world.
descendants, than that there is a world in which beings of all
kinds outranking the human being are, a world in which angelic
a worldview that even in the least deals with such
These persons form mental pictures of the supersensible worlds
childish body that gets its existence in this world,
coming from the supersensible worlds. We attain the mental
supersensible world. We have discussed a part of the spiritual,
supersensible world in the last talk about the
really attain the full view of the supersensible world and the
How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?,
human being penetrates into the supersensible world. Today it
sensuous-physical world around you. You have read certainly
consider that round these imperfect animals the world of the
tones, the physical harmonies, the melodies and the world of
developed gradually so far, that the wonderful world of the
would be a world of the sounds, the harmonies and melodies for
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Title: Concerning the Nature of Pain, Suffering, Joy, and Bliss
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external physical world The finger is permeated with the etheric and
of the astral world will rise up before such a person. For example,
to the spiritual worlds. Even as suppressed activity means privation in
blissfulness. In one world we can always follow the traces of something
that passes through all the worlds.
worlds was sought through renunciation.

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 1
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
the world. These deeper impulses can be difficult to discern and spiritual
does not belong to the external physical world at all. On the contrary
in its own being and nature it belongs to the spiritual world. We already
experience the spiritual world, though not consciously, when we really
conscious of himself within thinking he knows himself to be in a world
myself to be in a world of permanence, subject to neither space nor
time; a world of eternity.” He enlarged on this observation saying:
“When one turns away from the world of thinking as such and contemplates
what we experience when the external world acts upon us, then we are
are eternal. In the external world everything is transitory; what is
aspect of the transitory world of illusion and the reality is the force
external world is an illusion, nowhere is it completely free of pain
so it cannot be true reality. The real world, the soul-world, is plunged
himself an eternal world. He maintains that this eternal world proclaims
and reach salvation. Spir insists that the external world is semblance,
world does not conform, is not of like nature, to thinking that he says
world views held by those 19th-century thinkers who lived in the same
Spir come to experience the world the way he did? If we look for an
comments: Insofar as we are surrounded by the external material world,
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 2
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
of the organic world.” This means that if we want to understand
is a consciousness of belonging within the world. Weakness and inner
question is in fact: Where and how do I fit into the world? This is
Where, as man, is my place in the world? then at best the natural-scientific
world view will tell him where his physical body belongs within world
world view has absolutely nothing to say about how man's soul, let alone
spirit, fits into world evolution. Compare for a moment the evolutionary
the world consists of atoms. How does this view compare with what spiritual
attempt to build up a world picture. Here again the very first stage
and Matter” in which the world is presented as consisting of force
other. In mutual balance they serve the wise guidance of worlds. When
in the book Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment
the world in general. There they become what we behold in the time between
world. Just as here, in the physical world, we need light in order to
after death to become our external world.
becomes our inner world, not that which we have merely wished; but will
into the external world, the actions we have carried out become our
inner world in the time between death and a new birth, whereas our thoughts,
our inner life, become what illumines our external world. The outer

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 3
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
shows man to be a microcosm, a little world. Man's breathing copies
the processes of the Great World, the macrocosm. However, in regard
of, the world would be different. It is because our cognition is dependent
whole relation to the world, was intended to be different. Knowledge
to whom we look up, when we turn to the spiritual world are the Angeloi.
pictures of what had surrounded man in the world of the senses on earth.
world must be visualized all around us and not in some far away cloud-cuckoo-land.
The spiritual world is literally everywhere about us and it is possible
to stifle man's consciousness of his connection with the spiritual world.
spiritual world nearest to us lies above our consciousness. Within this
the world through the Mystery of Golgotha, whereas earlier it was the
Mystery of Golgotha, to attain a connection with the spiritual world
that the spiritual world flows towards him and again ebbs away as it
and other spiritual beings within the spiritual world forgot man, just
world through the impulse coming from Christ just as he sees external
the spiritual world. This is why the Mystery of Golgotha is veiled in
clairvoyance, that Christ was there above in the spiritual world and
the Mystery of Golgotha is meant to illumine our world of concepts,
is established in the world and Ahriman cannot abolish it. That is beyond
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 4
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
may find through this event also our own relation to the spiritual world.
with him, but we also look forward into that world which is receiving
who has gone into the spiritual world with all his incomparable and
the spiritual world.
moments the secrets of the spiritual world reveal themselves with particular
wisdom governs worlds. In significant moments of his life an individual
to himself the question: How do I unite with the world-guiding spiritual
for me to think of myself as a responsible link in the world's spiritual
when man's relation to the spiritual world becomes manifest to him.
of his trust in the spiritual guidance of the world he was full of hope
to me as something he freely chose because, from that other world his
arise from the fact that we are in the physical world, incarnated in
which brings us into contact with the spiritual world. For if our thoughts
truly express our spiritual-scientific view of the world. If we honor
who not long ago went from the physical plane into the spiritual world.
those who have gone from her side into the spiritual world. We shall
world. One has such hopes despite the fact that in our materialistic
spiritual world. There are many today who enthuse in general about the
mystical unity of worlds, vaguely declaring that science alone does
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 5
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
Slowly and gradually man lost the spiritual world from his consciousness.
Whereas formerly everyone was able to experience the spiritual world
with the spiritual world. Eventually humanity would no longer be able
hovered above them in the spiritual world. Only those souls who, in
their bodies from above. Consciousness of the spiritual world would
possible only because a Being from the spiritual world, the Christ Being,
today, they are revealed to contemplation of the spiritual world; making
is on the one hand a need to understand the spiritual world and on the
writer manages to appear high-minded and worldly while remaining a thoroughly
one strives to attain a world view which does not rely on mere phrases
but recognizes the reality of the spiritual world and what is demanded
a sense for what the spiritual world at this moment wants from him.
this task connected with the enormous world-historical events taking

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 6
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
and impulses which flow into the physical world from the spiritual world.
do penetrate everywhere into our world. However, they do not escape
world than they do in a materialistic age like ours. Let us look at
to convey to the world certain facts concerning spiritual matters, the
communications from the spiritual world. Such communications are all
plane and the spiritual world, in which the dead are living, was so
but also among certain beings in the spiritual world. There are spirits
world. Their opportunity to listen to such a conversation can arise
the spiritual world and the physical plane. These channels are very
in order to establish what caused the terrible World War. On this basis
they can enter the world and carry out their intention. They attack
is the penetration of certain spiritual powers into the human world
the world. It is necessary to see things in their true context and to
as others like him, has a certain fear of the spiritual world, fear
world and enters the spiritual world. He would then have to overcome
to enter the spiritual world itself, one very easily succumbs instead
of the Hierarchies who live behind the sense world that Ahriman darkens
his comprehension of the spiritual world. Through the ahrimanic temptation
the spiritual world appears as “the great unknown,” as “the
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 7
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
world in the 16th and 17th centuries and what is possible since then.
into the spiritual world and is conversant with the nature of what is
man's relationship to the spiritual world. Naturally it can cause clashes
of views when an initiate, from his knowledge of the spiritual world,
he was in contact with the spiritual world. It must be realized that
inspired him before writing what he was to communicate to the world;
human mediator for what the Angel proclaimed concerning a higher world.
of the inner presence of the spiritual world in human consciousness
there for man, but man is equally, in the adjoining spiritual world,
even 17th centuries people appear who know of the spiritual world through
knew most about man's connection with the spiritual world had been on
their communion with the spiritual world these individuals derived an
insight into the world's coming-into-being which, since the 17th century
of the spiritual world. We enter the minds of those who lived in that
literature that circulates and even wins awards in the academic world.
the possibility still existed to have awareness of the spiritual world.
was being cultivated with the spiritual world, to a time when he himself
when someone is able to look into the spiritual world he sees things
world affects man differently once he becomes conscious of it.
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 8
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
still had a direct relationship with the spiritual world through the
an immediate recognition that the world seen through the senses is not
the only world. The transition in consciousness to later times was far
was then in its dawn, it drew a veil as it were over the spiritual world
behind the physical world. I can well imagine that a modern student
the confines of the physical world by virtue of changes in man's inner
epoch, man's former connection with the spiritual world has grown dim.
world. All the deprivation a materialistic age would inflict upon the
from the spiritual world, as he is bound to forget what he formerly
received from that world? If you imagine this feeling intensified to
that universe interested him greatly. However the relation to the world,
former's thoughts and feelings, his whole relation to the world is determined
by the natural-scientific view of the world, whereas the latter's thoughts
pictorial and audible revelations from the spiritual world. Everyone
was aware that a divine spiritual-world lived in his soul. Man felt
world has to cease. In this epoch he has developed, through special
world; no longer is there a path leading from the soul to the spiritual
world.
knowledge and religious feelings concerning the spiritual world were
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 9
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
life. There are those who ask: Why is it that all over the world there
on in the world. However, due to modern man's lethargy and love of ease,
all over the world which is far worse than anything that has happened
from the spiritual world during sleep and bestows upon them on waking.
for interest in the spiritual world must take hold of man if morality
surge and pulsate through the world. There are many reasons why this
becomes capable of functioning in the spiritual world. This means that
in his thinking he experiences the spiritual world as a reality. This
fit to present to spiritual worlds; it illustrates the kind of mistaken
concepts apply to nations with their group souls. Yet around the world
moral ideas they exist entirely in the spiritual world, for they arise
we see spread all over the world today, if only people would have the
current flows like a current through the world taking hold of souls
To want to make the physical world into a perfect paradise is to want
something impossible, for in the physical world there is perpetual oscillation.
permeate the physical world with spirituality and recognizes that man
Those who want to turn the physical world into a paradise, whether in
magnitude as Christianity itself. What today dominates the world as
This world issue, this world
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Title: Olaf Oesteson: The Awakening of the Earth Spirit
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The Human's Connection with the Elemental World,
The Human's Connection with the Elemental World,
the spiritual world, of which we have often spoken. We
spiritual world which existed in ancient times than one
definite connection with the spiritual world. Those who o
souls are still connected with the spiritual world,
perceive a difference in the abnormal world of dreams at
best into the spiritual world. To the modern man the
the spiritual world, at the time when nature has died
away the most it is connected with the spiritual world
spiritual world, — Olaf Oesteson. What he goes
In other worlds I tarried
The judge of the world, Jesus Christ.
He cannot in that world
to be passed over in the world which lies between the
human world and the one leading out into cosmic space.
serpent. To one who can look spiritually into the world,
spiritually in space. Then the world of Kamaloca is

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture I
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only too natural, to explain it through his ordinary world of
a certain point, but no further. For our world of thought, as at
everything that we can call our thought-world is dependent. The more
more love for the sensations of the outer world, liking or disliking
as so much irresponsible fantasy. The anthroposophical world-picture
very world-pictures which appear to be most firmly established on a
come into the world just now? Why does it not leave humanity time to
spiritual world, thoughts such as we now form between birth and death
the activity of thoughts in the higher worlds we must at the same
time speak of their transformation in conformity with those worlds.

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture II
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the external world in which we live in our physical bodies, has
world or to the things of the physical plane, come to expression in
similar; so that concepts drawn from the physical world, and even the
concepts we must acquire about the higher worlds, are in a sense
always coloured by subjective pictures of the external world. Only
about the higher worlds. What we learn directly from concepts is also
tones exist in the physical world. In the physical world what we
colour or sound is here. What we learn to know in the physical world
there in the way that the physical world stands before our
consciousness. In the physical world there are people who really
conceptual life, as we experience it here in the physical world, has
ideas before it can speak; it relates itself to the surrounding world
spiritual world have brought it about that at the moment when you
take us into the spiritual world proceed from spiritual facts which
world.
relation of our soul-life to the spiritual worlds. Anthroposophical
conception of the world, but an inner life-force; we should not
merely know, “There is a spiritual world to which man
“I have my place in the spiritual world, a definite
spiritual world — that is the essential point to which we are
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Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture V
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Anthroposophy in itself could be made known to the world in the same
significance of matters which people in the outside world who know
in the outside world, just because it is in the highest degree
customary in the world will rarely encounter fierce opposition; but
what comes into the world because humanity has long been thirsting
outside world.
such as the possibility of becoming conscious of higher worlds
the ordinary sense-world to higher worlds. This, then, is not the
world-history has elapsed since the Copernican view of the universe
Copernicanism and the anthroposophical world-conception, in so far as
world-picture, limited as it is to the presentation of external
could look up with faith to one who penetrates into a spiritual world
alleged to be working into this world, the current idea is that
shall experience the consequences of this existence in another world;
that other world, however, is ruled over by spiritual Powers of some
causing too much harm to the world as a whole.” A man who
the world will pass over into the souls and hearts of men and arise
for they cannot have much to do with the world into which he has
distinction does not really lie in the acceptance of a higher world,

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 1: Zarathustra
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ideas were such that he did not contemplate the world from that
world upon the consciousness of the ancients, if we turn our
world, although there may now and then intrude some higher level
they had reference to an actual outer world. In olden days
then it was that he lived in the presence of the Spirit-World,
and the Spirit-World entered into his being. To-day this door is
achievement existing beyond the perceptual world. Although in the
with the world of spirit, therefore these ancients could say from
realize this outer physical world and this perceptual life, even
descended into the physical world it was ordained that he should
world of spirit.
into the higher mysteries of the world, irrespective of the
part of the world later known as the Persian Empire, those grand
truths which emanated from the superperceptual regions — a world
intelligible manner, a particular world aspect; while on the
he gave to the world was in many respects fundamentally different
may approach the region of the superperceptual world from two
perceptual into the superperceptual world. The one method is that
we hold of the physical world to our actual spirit essence — the
are ours because we are of the body in a physical world, then can
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 2: Hermes
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bestow them upon a new world. At such moments the thought has
method of thought, and through which we realize the outer world
evolution affects not only the outer world of form, but also the
form of an attenuated heritage in the picture world of our
physical world, but to that realm which lies beyond all material
things, in other words — the world of spirit. We can say that in
truth veritable pictures of the Spirit-World, flashed before the
vision world in which they conceived higher powers to be actively
to those whose souls could still peer into the Spirit-World, held
vision became limited to that which is of the material world, and
mysteries of the Spirit-World. [Spiritual Science asserts that it
deeply into the world of spirit.
possible for mankind to look upon a Spirit-World; to question
legends have come down to us regarding this world of the
place did all these strange ideas occupy in the image world of
meanwhile passed into another world. The mission of Horos was to
it rightly, we must enter into the whole world of Egyptian
the perceptual world. It is the spiritual interrelation of these
body, so that I should experience and behold a physical world, in
value in a perceptual world, proffering no outer sign suggestive
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 3: Buddha
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world is not in vain. For while we toil we look forward to ever
those things hidden behind the perceptual world.
superperceptual worlds, and through this connection with the
of the soul’s union with the Spirit-World.
spiritual nature emanated from that same hidden Spirit-World
Spirit-World, and that these concepts were given to them in the
regarding the external perceptual world, there should arise two
material world of sense perception.’ This feeling spread
world of manifestations where all is illusion — all is
new world which has been given to us.’ Thought of this
people felt impelled to link themselves closely with the world —
throughout this world, which is now our portion, is the same
concerning a former union with the Spirit-World. If we consider
striven to re-establish his connection with those Spirit-Worlds
from all that appertains to the perceptual world.
mankind to regard the world as having fallen from a spiritual
external world with which humanity is so closely connected,
when man was truly united with the Spirit-World. For there came a
directly united with the Spirit-World, there have arisen a number
twenty-ninth year he had seen nothing of the world outside the
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 4: Moses
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physical world are represented just as they took place in
for instance, of journeys and other worldly events which we
has no connection whatever with external worldly events, but
activity, or to a mission concerned with the world’s
he could gaze upon the Spirit-World, and that things thus
dream world. He did not advance so far as the study of Spiritual
apprehend the Spirit-World in pictorial visions, that later found
world, through the medium of our senses; these ideas we group
world; for the most varied missions were assigned to Nations and
world, and also from that ever wakeful call emanating from the
life came upon the world endowed with certain Divine gifts which
shut off from the physical world.
external perceptual world were destined to replace the old
upon the world, and gain enlightenment through inner intellectual
of the Spirit-World.
material world. Ancient peoples believed in a plurality
world.
We thus realize that the world’s history is
episode in the history of the world. We have, for instance, the
such a way that through direct contact with the Spirit-World, the
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 5: Elijah
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light upon the world’s history may become clearly apparent
one might say, in the outer world, who knew precisely in what
where, in the physical world, they might find the outer reality
world, whether we live in happiness or are beset with sorrows and
it shall be enabled to look upon the world of spirit. The power
outer world and utter those words which all must hear. But in the
fulfil my mission in this physical world, should my death indeed
world.
activity emanating directly from the spirit-world. The divine
higher state or world. This was made possible, not because of the
outer world, ever spreading its influence further and further
Spirit-World, we can draw nearer to an understanding of those
the outer world, does not enlighten us concerning things of
physical world, should my death indeed be brought about through

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 6: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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world-philosophy, in which such questions as are associated with
The Origin of the Animal World’
Christ-Movement into the world’s history, man’s power
advent of Christianity into the world’s history, we realize
humanity, but with the surrounding world of the cosmos taken in
the physical world. Further, according to this conception,
perceptual world in order to give an impulse to spiritual
evolution as a spiritual being bound to a world in which The
qualities and wisdom from the Spirit-World, which up to then no
conceived as lying beyond our sense-perception in a kind of world
cognition to the perceptual world alone, and to assign all
to show that the history of mankind — World History — is not
whole nature and method of the historic world-conception put
Spirit-World which lies behind all things material and
can live in the Spirit-World, even as the human counterpart lives
in the physical world. Through the study of history in the light
during which it could look upon the Spirit-World with full
Spirit-World and of an eternal life to come. In those olden days
on by peoples spread throughout the world during the course of
lay concealed therein, deep hidden from a profane external world.
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Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture IX
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able to descend from the spiritual world (for since the
had been in the spiritual world), and permeated the soul
me into the world.”
“What manner of souls are you? Where is your world?
the external world calls religion. From his mother he
with his virgin soul untouched by the mundane world...
world but Christ works in the supersensible and
spiritual world in words and theories. Mere words are of
— We grow up in the world, absorbing more and more
nothing more than our experiences in the external world.
the outer world, we become all the more slavishly
ask the spiritual world — to which we
world in an attitude of “judging” and in an
in the physical world. Clairvoyance in one who was a
the mystery of the connection between the spiritual world
and the physical world as it existed before the descent
remain shut off from the spiritual world if it does not
ask concerning the spiritual world, if it lacks
spiritual conception of the world that is made known in
world, because it is not for spiritual science to mingle
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Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture X
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issued. It is, of course, the world of ancient Hebrew
World)
the Earth but comes into the Earth from higher worlds,
higher worlds for the Gods they worshipped, the
super-earthly worlds, would again assume
Powers of super-earthly worlds and discover how the
clairvoyantly into the spiritual worlds. He says that
worlds; it is of this man he boasts, not of
world. The Event at Damascus had revealed to him
something came down from the supersensible world which

Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture XI
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world-realities.
spiritual worlds, not on the physical plane. We
others were Events in the spiritual world, as it were in
worlds.
kept back in the spiritual worlds and incarnated for the
spiritual worlds. And only the Initiates in the ancient
Mysteries who were able to see into the spiritual worlds
in the spiritual worlds. In order to understand the
spiritual worlds during the epoch of ancient Lemuria in
gone about the world with ‘untempered’
being would have been obliged to go about the world with
single impression coming from the world outside. This
transpired in the physical world but by the first of the
world — the being subsequently born as
say that in the spiritual world, during the Lemurian
was present in the spiritual worlds a Being of
this Being radiated His light from the spiritual worlds
senses. The fact that we can go about the world
not taken place, human life in the world could not have
— again in the supersensible worlds. And this Event
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 1: The Immortality of the I
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Given in 1916, when Europe was in the throes of the First World War,
is a festival connected almost by nature to a world of feelings that
the spiritual world. The etheric body, though also spirit, remains bound
sleep and enter the spiritual world — the world from which the
world. And the I represents our continual resurrection in the spirit,
our renewed life in the spiritual world, which is neither nature nor
the world of the stars but permeates everything.
of the immortal world of the I, reminding us that we participate not
heights of the world and take on earthly form to become one of us children
with the whole world! As Christmas belongs to the earth and Easter to
worlds. What all humanity received in the descent of the divine human
spiritual world within ourselves and to truly celebrate Pentecost inwardly,
the external world and then worked with it spiritually. In art the perception
of the outer world unites with what lives in the spirit. Goethe would
of the world was not greatly affected by their comments. However, he
with the world view of modern idealism and spiritualism, you will find
Eugene Levy's description of my world view.
western world whose opinions are valued do not understand a thing about
us that the trend-setting, so-called cultural world nowadays lives in
an ape and have gradually worked his way up to his current world view
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 2: Blood and Nerves
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Given in 1916, when Europe was in the throes of the First World War,
who seriously strive for knowledge have to study how the world's specific
physical world are, in the first place, material phenomena. If we seriously
to the world beyond the earth.
world. It has found its culmination, its goal, in present-day natural
science, which sees the world as built up out of atoms. These atoms,
world outside. The world of atoms out there is nothing but a projection of
our nervous system! We project ourselves into the world and thus think
world. We do not understand their conflict unless we know it is really
even unto the end of the world.” And He is with us not as one
such a spiritual understanding of the world. Last time I mentioned Hermann
book on Schiller's world view. I don't think you can still get it in
a teacher in Vienna whom the world has forgotten. He once had the misfortune
world.
spiritual world. If they had only turned to works such as Schelling's
in terms of the atomistic world view means insisting what the natural
when the newspaper world was thoroughly amazed by the daring flight
to contemplate one of the opinions expressed by this world-famous man;
This man has given the world a new medical preparation; his
very useful in the outer world and what will inevitably lead our whole

Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 3: The Twelve Human Senses
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Given in 1916, when Europe was in the throes of the First World War,
entering the spiritual world bearing within them what they have received
many years through our spiritual science into the spiritual world, where
an age when the occult knowledge from the spiritual world must be given
everything we experience in our soul, is related to the outer world
one of our coarser senses, we bump into the world around us. The sense
at one pillar of the world and sets again at the other. We pass these
Our outer world during the life between death
out over the world is in you.”
the spiritual world through death. What is contained in the word Boaz
strength, I shall find poured out over the whole world; in it I shall
You see, everything in the world around us
life. He did not see the spirit working in the outer world — a
find it in the exclusive search for the spiritual in the outer world.
wise men, living in solitude and seclusion from the world, yet connected
over the world and hidden in secret, knights of the Holy Grail?
hurried through the world and has been everywhere, as I have told you,
that the world was governed by a small group of secret leaders,
to have followed the traces of this secret world government, of
cover for the four or five true leaders of the world. And, looking
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 4: The Human Organism Through the Incarnations
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Given in 1916, when Europe was in the throes of the First World War,
I. In our life in the physical world, we are at first active only in
in connection with world views is that the best explanation is always
and perceives the outer world. When the ancient Greeks watched a bird
in the spiritual world down to human beings adapting themselves more
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment
but we can look at the world as if atoms existed. We don't
need to assume the soul exists, but we can look at the world as if it
wisdom of the world, in philosophy. When such thinking exists, when
have a piece cut out of the world of the senses, but this fragment is
up in the world outside again and again: what is discussed and represented

Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 5: Balance in Life
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Given in 1916, when Europe was in the throes of the First World War,
We must be aware that the world as it presents
our world. The world exists neither because of a state of rest nor because
did not play a role in the world. On the other hand, we also know there
with world views, who say they are striving for unity. That sounds very
tragic war, as if the world had only begun in July of 1914! They forget
You see, people may go through the world, they may stand on a mountain
but a shadow of what works and weaves in the spiritual world. How vividly
truth of the world only if we continuously come upon the truth in our
interaction with the world, only if we don't insist on carrying a priori
the external world or by merely immersing ourselves deeply into our
by the eternal powers. We can perceive the spiritual world only when
the external world pretty much without seeking the symptomatic traits
Thou world of wonder, broad and long!
He wants to reduce all philosophy and all world views to mere
concept like a gesture. People always forget this in their world view.
in matters of world view that is what happens all the time.
the world, are losing all connection with the spiritual. For just talking
But what will become of our world if it loses all contact with the spiritual,
world. Humanity needs world views; people do not want to live without
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 6: The Feeling For Truth
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Given in 1916, when Europe was in the throes of the First World War,
if we want to advance in this sphere of a spiritual world view, one
at those things in the world that are a laughing matter when judged
our spiritual movement in the world. Basically, there was nothing to
is ruling spiritually in the world? The usual scholarly babble, however,
the world.

Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 7: Toward Imagination
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Given in 1916, when Europe was in the throes of the First World War,
WHEN WE look at the world around us as our senses and intellect perceive
can have a whole world in these pictures of ours. Then we wake up and
Now, what we see when we enter this world
to understand each part in its relation to the spiritual world. Remember,
study our sense organs, we are actually studying world-embracing forces
again as it was in earlier cultural epochs when a spiritual world view
world was based on the spiritual taking hold of the soul. That is why
“occult reading of the world,” and rightly so. What conventional
science is doing cannot be called “reading the world.” If
so to speak, the meaning of the world. Thus, it was with good reason
that what is spiritual in the world was called “The Word,”
for the world has to be read if it is to be understood spiritually.
world. They believed that now the soul would not return anymore; they
world.
the physical world but has no meaning in the spiritual world. There
That is why it is so much easier to speak about the spiritual world
tell only about what really exists, albeit in the spiritual world. That
is the profound difference between the European and the Asian world
world, and then into pictorial thinking, which develops under the influence
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Title: Jacob Boehme
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dawn of the new world-conception breaking forth, at that time
outlines the great problem of a modern world-conception,
world-conception — but which, for the person who is
different human being, about whom the world will break out in
different world, felt as if, with regard to his soul, he was
the withdrawal into another world, remained to him a phenomenon
reached into all parts of the world and immersed itself in this
world.
world he again and again uses words such as “salt,”
thinking with regard to world-conceptions, or any other
ascends from ordinary life in the sense world comes, through a
perceives a new world of pictures, of imaginations. And we have
experiences a new world, then he who desires to ascend to new
completely this first flashing up of an imaginative world in
much deeper-lying world.
luminous, imaginative world resulted from this unceasing
the book Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its
imaginative world has been suppressed, extinguished, and then
this second imaginative world have value. (As I said, I beg you
into a spiritual world, into a “kingdom of joy.”
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Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture I
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be free from every doubt. The things pertaining to the spiritual world
messenger of the super-sensible world. The depths of the spiritual
world are then revealed to him. This is the second stage.
world, just as he says “I” to himself. At this stage he
person, and the world will marvel at you!” What is implied in
labourers in this world, but no men”, and so forth. Every great
informing him of what takes place in the world. The ravens are

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characteristic way in which the Europeans contemplate the world.
development, and penetrated into the new world in this form. They
physical world. When Alberich conquers the Ring he must

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world-consciousness. To begin with, however, this consciousness
which must again rise to higher worlds. He grows up secretly, guarded
the earthly world of the senses). He is able to tread the path of the
of the Twilight of the Gods expresses that in the northern world the
The world nothing more
In the world's breath, wherein
world, and Devachan is the sphere resounding in fragrant tones. The
life-principle is the breath of the world; everything must be
world.
evolution of the world goes back to the originally virgin substance.
The older northern world conception is replaced by another one which
does not appeal any longer to what pertains to the external world of
has become involved in the external world of the senses through her union

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tragic note contained in the northern world conception of evolution
shows us the deep world-conception which was the source of the poet's
world, and penetrates into a kind of subterranean cavern. There he
great turning point of the times. Life in the world outside is
world-situation and felt what tasks were incumbent upon the races; he
unworldly nation dwelt in northern Europe and these early
to come, a new spiral curve in the civilisation of the world began.
the senses and thus brings into the world a new principle of love.
world with tones pointing to a new future, this is what Richard Wagner

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Thursdays to the subject of cosmology, the evolution of the world,
that is, the teaching about the inception of the world and the shaping
of the human being within this world in a theosophical sense.
long time will know that these questions — How did the world
to the ancient world view, “Isis Unveiled” by H. P.
the world, but also the book to which we owe the majority of our
first volume it deals with the question: How did the world system
reliable source of knowledge about the evolution of the world system.
astronomers tell us about the structure of the world and the evolution
of the world system. They will say what their physical senses reveal
historian can tell us when this way of describing the world structure
make you dizzy. The things about the evolution of the world were
the world knows about spiritual matters today. The oriental wise men
origin of the world from the old writings. There are forces in man
understand what is meant when the origin of the world is spoken of
indication about the origin of the world. We see how the scholars work
longer correct is the reason for the origin of the theosophical world
of the world in the form of European thinking and science. These
the pre-earthly and earthly evolution of our world, and how Theosophy
of the world is going. We want to show all that without opposing the

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giving you a sketch of world development according to theosophical
into space to see thousands and thousands of worlds unveil themselves
before our eyes, worlds that are similar to our solar system, and that
is like a particle of dust within these many worlds; and that man is
universe, that is was arrogant of man to believe that the world is
“For what purpose would the world exist with its solar systems
So you see, people like these with their true spiritual world
about the Devachan [spiritual world-tr.], and you will find an exact
perceive with this spiritual Self in the astral world and in the
Devachan, or mental world, without a physical brain, but in the outer,
physical world we can only perceive with the physical brain. If we
which he can come to understand the world, that is the goal and
world.
astral [soul] energy. This is an energy present in the astral world. I
result of another world, and we had then to be the beginning of a
completely new world, in which we had to first find ourselves. Just as
world that was not present in the previous planetary stages. In order
go back to the beginning of the world with his questions. When people
world begin? Mostly such questions are not answerable, for we cannot
go back to the very beginning of the world. You have seen the point in
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at least a picture in descriptive form of the origin of the world
so to speak, before it takes on form in the outer world. Such a
those individualities who came from previous worlds to find bodies.
world. Look at Haeckel's famous phylogenic trees, for example, in

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has once taken place in the course of the world's evolution is
contemplating anything of our physical world, sees the details of
on now in the world!
the world. Future writers on the history of civilisation will have
ego in its own world must represent to himself a world such as
ancient Saturn. This world is hidden; to man it is a super-sensible
world. At the present stage of his evolution man could not possibly
world, in so far as this consists of the wonted working of the mind.
Further you must think away from everything that is in the world, all
external world all that the senses can perceive, and from the inner
world all the workings of the mind, all conceptions. And now, if you
underlying our own world. Neither of these feelings is much
understand what underlies the world it does not suffice to speak of
into the spiritual worlds without the Gospels through a genuine true
case to-day, because something entered the world through the Mystery
spiritual world directly through his own impressions. This is what we
call the ruling of the Holy Spirit in the world, the ruling of cosmic
thought in the world. Whether we take one or the other of these with
The Knowledge of Higher Worlds,
methods dependent on these — and enter a world born from that
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distant conditions of the evolution of our world. I have already
throughout the world, wherever heat is perceptible it is the outer
ready to devote its best to the welfare of the world, wishing to keep
Whenever warmth appears in the world there is always in some way
when a man works his way up to higher worlds. There he must be able
concealed secret world free from space and time, free from things and
meet us from the spiritual world. If we wish to describe what thus
into the world, to offer to the world as a gift, everything he
manifestation. For wherever there is air in the world, the deeds of
or other, to send it forth into the world, thus to give to the world
good of the world, and can represent it in a work of art, has the
world by the Spirits of Wisdom on the Sun, the Spirits we call

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possessed its starting point in the world-evolution, appears to us
the same relation to the real world as does the reflected image of a
to seek neither fire nor air in the world of reality, but sacrifice,
introduced to-day, which belongs to the world of reality as concerned
with the world of illusion. But before passing to the actual conditions
world. From a certain point onwards that is no more the case. Certain
spiritual world — do not, strange to say, now depend upon the
strengthening of our impulses of will. In the physical world, in
But in the spiritual world this is not so, there the opposite comes
spiritual world we attain certain results by controlling our wishes
world by means of inner spiritual workings. To do this he would have
and desires. For whereas in the physical world we grow stronger
strength thereby, so, in the spiritual world, when we wish to attain
higher worlds, is that of renunciation. In relation to this many
worlds, for these Beings, as we know already, are connected with the
actually injurious to the evolution of the world; for why did they
heat or fire present in the world. Now, if we look back into the
the external world. That which had been sacrifice reappears in Maya
would not be in the world at all were it not that its spiritual
found in the world there is divine-renunciation. Just as heat is an
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world we have now carried a difficult aspect of it far enough to
external sense-world. Concerning such phenomena, at first outwardly
mentioned here, that in earlier conceptions of the world there was
Indeed in the outer world it may often occur that people use the word
by this is symbolically expressed in the world's history by the
this force is known to the outer world, but they are only metaphoric
natures as longing and cannot be satisfied in this world. And
“arising” of pictures of the other world. At this phase
the universal existence living in the world; otherwise that which
As everything that happens in the world has had a prelude, we need
— “Who would desire to be happy in this world!” I
dream. It can be no evil spirit at the head of the world, it is
life, and to each a manifested existence like this world of ours!
is as though we pass from one room to another. Lo! The world to me
nature of the world's forces of gravity and attraction. For
related to what is outside in the world which has been drily called
for in their hearts, and what the world could not give them. When we

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limited grasp of the world.
— behind the world of illusion, we must admit that in this
world of true existence, in this world of reality, there lives that
service, as the flowing sacrifice in the world, it means precisely
existence, showing that which in the external world is similar to
the following. Does all that we have in this world of Maya or illusion
this world of sense, the world of our external comprehension which to
be quite a good comparison if we were to say that the world of truth,
the world of reality, is at first concealed, as the inner forces of a
that the world of Maya might be compared with the rippling play
in meeting that picture-world which we have been able to grasp as the
behind in the world of Maya, we know that it consists of nothing but
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
great occult truth: “In the whole world of Maya one thing only
principles of the world, a very important and essential
consequence of this statement, that in our world of Maya, Death
in the super-sensible world. The reality of the animals is only to be
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that the spirits who are guiding world events will
together from many different parts of the world through
right course within world karma — that there has to
world wants to achieve for mankind on this earth. It will
necessary in the karma of the world. To understand the
in the world, full of strength and confidence.
this world. Let us hope that the strength we ourselves
in the world of the spirit, that the spirit we sought to
working of the world. Let us hope that the love we know
particularly strong out there in the physical world where
spiritual worlds they also grow able to join their own
To do his work within the world.
look into the spiritual world needs to send imploring
spiritual world now — so that out of the purpose
evolving world. This is why we speak of the age of a

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world. This makes them become Maya.
understanding of the physical world around him. The basic
to understand that entrance is made into a world that we
that spiritual world and that it is not possible to take
other life impulses directly into that world, for they
lives in the physical world, he does live in the outward
to prepare for its reception into a spiritual world
its next birth, a world that will guide it towards an
must feel in eternity is in the temporal world
world, we should find exactly what relates to this. The
made its own in the physical world. This will be like a
grievous memory in the world that lies between death and
spiritual world.
arise. In the spiritual world anything that rightfully
understand the world if we consider it in the light of
unnatural thing in the world to wage war. If he were to
world. They arise from it. But it is always possible to
verify them, to confirm them, in the outside world.
Anything we arrive at out of the spiritual world finds
confirmation in the outside world. We could say that it
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grasp that this world that surrounds us is not to be
regarded as the true, real world. And our feelings, our
world. It is therefore only too easy for the things I
worlds, to an objective view of these spiritual worlds,
vision of the spiritual world if he first allowed himself
normally arising in the world of human feelings,
the spiritual world. Yet once that world is perceived,
forced, as it were, to characterize the spiritual world,
remain hidden behind the outer impressions of the world,
the ghostly dreams of the world.
true for the spiritual world. If we consider such truths
world, they are not the least bit comfortable; they are
just one part of the world or of mankind but linked with
the whole world and the whole of mankind.
in the life of the outer world. One particular folk
situation in the spiritual world we find, in looking at
man in the spiritual world. But we can take it in such a
world. This spiritual element entering into human
the work that brings about what happens in the world.
tremendous struggle taking place in the spiritual world
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the spiritual world.
many occasions, what has come into the world through
see into the supersensible worlds, and out of the
supersensible worlds we are able to provide many answers
in the Roman world. And there is one particular example
received from the higher worlds first had to be
became deed, and as a result the world was greatly
able to say: What would have become of the Western world
spiritual world, when passing through the gate of death,
European world for elements that were predominantly to
world. We merely need to think of one thing, and again
to show Faust ascending into the spiritual world. And if
Maya. It is not that the outside world in itself is Maya.
world. In the present case, the truths streaming from the
spiritual world show that it is essential for Central
the world a little bit we shall see that opinions really
‘The world indeed loves to blacken all that is
have a connection with the spiritual worlds in order that
connection with the spiritual worlds justifies everything

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they are given from the spiritual world for the specific
regulated from the spiritual worlds. We need to be aware
to us from the spiritual worlds. In this respect the same
that the world has changed completely since that time as
world. We need to take heed, however, we need to
spiritual world. Out of her inner being she was to bring
that everything in the world goes in cycles, that things
the spiritual world. In summer, at St John's tide when
world in some way, but certainly in ecstasy. Yet when the
the spiritual worlds in our innermost soul life. All who
our connection with the spiritual worlds during the time
is not yet hampered by worldly impressions — the
into the physical world from the spiritual worlds. We see
spiritual world. In her soul these forces encountered the
having come into the physical world in a very special
contrivances, surrounding ourselves with a whole world of
long time, as it were, in the astral world but was held
character in the spiritual world. This also held true in
refer to an event in the spiritual world that happened a
in the spiritual world, in or about November 1879.
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existence of a spiritual world even though they do not
the spiritual world by applying the methods of spiritual
only be taken from the spiritual world. Yet it is only
spiritual world and the outer material world if we know
something of that spiritual world. And so one gets a
belongs to the spiritual world. When the soul returns to
body as a tool for the physical world from the moment of
world, separate from its physical tool, the body,and it
world, however, moral powers can be active only by using
must encounter in the physical world in order to make
the spiritual world. It really does not take much to
lead to the conclusion that all the talk of higher worlds
hear nothing of the physical world around you. And now
spiritual world — everything which has come to man
into the supersensible world man would then carry his own
get you to tell me of the supersensible worlds how can I
supersensible worlds, ideas accepted by a number of
things being correct in the outer physical world. In such
at all concerning the supersensible world. Why? It would
world. You may take up correct ideas or incorrect ideas
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world relates to the spiritual world, starting from
spiritual world by making contact with them when they had
one fact or another in the spiritual world. It depends
world to define the essence of that soul. I did not have
physical world we confront the object. We form ideas
spiritual world.
Of world-soul creation
way of regarding the world, from a human soul that still
spiritual world all around him. But at a later time,
spiritual world towards which we wish to direct our
Undeterred by worldly opposition,
far from ready the world is for our spiritual movement.
it were, in the spiritual world because it has also been
the world that is at hand if they are ready to come to us
physical world it is perfectly possible to manage without
spiritual worlds without self-knowledge. We shall discuss
and he needs to get his bearings first in this world of
in the physical world, but of recovering from a
experienced in the physical world. This requires the
the spiritual world. Lack of self-knowledge is what
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 8: Three Decisions on the Path to Imaginative Perception
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now, have to be looked for in the spiritual worlds. And
time a soul entity spends in the spiritual world. Today I
enter into the spiritual worlds While dwelling in a body
spiritual worlds appropriate to the soul of modern man in
world the human soul is really and truly able to learn
knowledge and experience relating to the physical world.
To experience the spiritual worlds we must find a way of
observation of the spiritual world by going outside the
observations achieved in the spiritual world, once they
the spiritual world. As I said, I want to use the
possible to enter into the spiritual world through three
that we forget the whole world and live only in those
spiritual world is paying attention to him, that it has
physical world as it were, the feeling that this physical
world does many things that wear us down, threatening to
world to prevent this becoming visible to us. The winged
spiritual world. If we succeed in standing firm within
threshold of the spiritual world, truly on the threshold
of the spiritual world. There, however,
of the physical world. And I really has to be said that
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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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genuine perception of the supersensible worlds has to be
won by considering the world in a way that is independent
world if there was an easy way of being in full conscious
this thought and have no help from the physical world as
world. We think when impressions reach us through the
the world makes both a physical and an etheric impression
rest of the world — as though the rest of the world
point where we are indifferent to the whole world, living
link between us and the etheric and astral world
place in the world and then goes away, he leaves behind
certain and sure that we are within a spiritual world,
to recognition of the spiritual world. It is an
convinced that the spiritual world does objectively
more, insights gained in the physical world are fully
truths, of conditions in the spiritual world. As it
world. They do not fit into this state of spiritual
the spiritual world.
connection with the spiritual world — this Ritter
‘earth’ or ‘world’. So Sir
world. He then developed a longing to return to earth
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spiritual worlds when we ascend to those spiritual worlds
attain to the spiritual worlds. They are indeed
inner soul, must lead to the spiritual world —
that takes the soul up into the spiritual worlds.
experiences we have gained in the world accessible to the
sense-perceptible world. Now we enter the spiritual world
sense-perceptible world. Everything being different, the
that the whole of the spiritual world might lie spread
to the sense-perceptible world in such a way that whilst
waking up again when it is in the spiritual worlds.
soul really enters the spiritual worlds. It is there in
those worlds. It gains new strength for the daily round
out of the spiritual worlds. It retains the habit,
world. It is something which to some extent does make us
ether that is alive and present everywhere in the world
outside us, it is objectively imprinted into the world.
impression within the world ether. If however we nurture
repeatedly make an impression in the world ether,
spiritual world and begins to be clairvoyant, he will
inside our bodies but also in the world outside. It is an
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world. The essential point is that the soul takes the
spiritual world.
development of the soul progresses the physical world
world. We might say that the peculiar features of the
physical, sense-perceptible, world gradually disappear
world makes their appearance within the horizons of our
— we ourselves become different, and the world
to begin with: the world that is our earth. Basically
spealung, people know really very little of the world
spiritual world—in which case we are outside our
content, is expanding into a world. Man is actually
growing and becoming a whole world as we look back on
identical with the world. He sees a new world, a world he
himself. He expands into a world. As far as the earth is
organism. We have left our own world and this inner
world, this inner reality, becomes a wide world, whilst
the earthly world that was spread out around us now
be within. As we grow out of ourselves our human world
expands into a wide world; at the same time we grow into
sleep presents itself. The animal world consumes, eats
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but on the basis of Intuitions of the spiritual world
whole of the world's materialistic attitude comes to
themselves because of what has come into the world
religious element is whatever the Margarets of this world
Faust a knowledge of the world that is entirely different

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attention to himself and the world of his dreams can deny
all that is inherent within it, with its world of images,
someone who is in the outer, physical world does not
genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide
therefore trying to demonstrate Shakespeare's world
someone working out of the centre of the world, as nature
find a provision, in the constitution of the world, for
the very beginning of the world.
represented in the world: 'The world still awaits the
that is supposed to influence us from the spiritual world
influencing us from the higher world by way of the
spiritual world.
would have to redeem the whole world and Particularly
world would come out of the union between the Cossacks
because the external world influences the Saturn man in
investigate the elemental world today you can find in it
activity the way we do in the external world. In
with no plant world. People going through spiritual
a plant world on Jupiter. Through the Sun principle in us
we take across the future plant world. All we have to do
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world. Just consider how little we would be able to
immediately see that man as an entity in this world, an
perceive of the world outside us. Sensory perception
is the billowing, weaving, etheric world, and this is not
but the world of weaving thoughts, something genuinely
spiritual. We become immersed in a world of weaving thoughts.
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.
immersed in it when we enter the billowing world of
world outside, so our feelings are merely reflections
themselves in the world through Inspiration. If we do not
perception we perceive the world as the united activity
world is this entity arising out of the united actions of
hierarchies are happening in the world. And we are
great work of building the world. Through our feelings we
world builders. We may think, as we stand before the
feelings are needed for the world the gods are building,
lies in our will. We give substance to the world by
used to build the world.
that enabled people to see into the spiritual world. In
be clearly understood that in the world it really makes
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those living in the spiritual world. This is a question we have very
world. Besides all the usual ideas which flow through our souls at
consideration the fact that in four-fifths of the world the spiritual
spiritual life to make its voice heard in the other world — as
it must, if the development of the world is not to be injured. A way
exercised by four-fifths of the world, to form an impartial opinion;
those four-fifths of the world still play an important part. This has
knowledge and wants of the world, it is really necessary to place
in the great questions of the world as one coherent whole has
material life and alas, these ideas encountered no other world of
natural science. From such cognitions one must see that the world
however, comes to the world of Spiritual Science spiritually
blindfold, and can find nothing in it. Yet this world raps at the
spiritual psychic world everywhere, to which the human soul stands in
not long ceased. The world is now very much wiser, and knows that the
the other in the world. I believe above all that the, present time

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scientific and an artistic perception of the world into a higher
science, they do not suffice; or they lead him to world
juridical consideration of the world, which ought really to be
intermediary. Let us keep to knowledge or perception of the world.
relation to the world, and a heart man. The difference is, that as
surely as he inveighs against that world, he uses his head solely in
Then the following happens. Our relation to the world through our
quickly; and the way in which we confront the world with the rest of
ready with its knowledge, its assimilation of the world. The rest of
the spiritual world, there is then added that which belongs to the
from which must come the reformation of the world in the near future
to that which spiritually underlies the world. In the pursuit of
world.

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the dead. In the super-sensible world time becomes space. The souls of
world in the ideal sense. To ordinary observation the apparent fact
In the world of sense we are awake as
from the external sense-world we pass over on waking to one of
perception in the world of sense and in our life of ideas; even in
waking. Let us picture to ourselves how we pass through the world:
perception of the sense-world and our world of ideas; and, imbedded
in this experience, is a world in which our impulses of feeling and
will float, a world which surrounds us like the air, but does not
super-sensible world around him.
in this world through which we wander in a sleeping condition, we are
They move and have their being in a super-sensible world. We are not
live separated from the world ruled by the forces of the dead, we are
together with them in one common world. In our ordinary consciousness
through the gate of death, whose souls live in the world between
with the facts of the super-sensible world, in which, for instance, we
attaining general scientific results of the super-sensible world, it
spiritual world the lower impulses of man can be wakened. I have
with the spiritual world, a mystery by contact with which a man may
diverted from the world of spiritual experiences, such intercourse is
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objective thought texture. This is the surging thought world out of
which the sense world has arisen. 'The world of reality is but
incarnation, in his present incarnation, to the spiritual world, to
then, as it were, nearer to the spiritual worlds. But it was also
we are nearer while more shut off from the spiritual world. Anyone
course, the same relation to the whole spiritual world; but in his
world, — which is, of course, as strong as ever though of a
connection with the spiritual world. We must clearly understand that
into the spiritual world, and man could work from the spirit. Then he
into the world, and, through this transmission, we can allow these
world of ordinary waking life, which we outwardly perceive, in which
we can have a world in common with them if, spurred on by Spiritual
materialistic age — to discipline the world of our
world wider than our ego-hood. If we really develop this, we shall
soon perceive that in the world there is not only what we see, hear
say: In my every-day life I stand in the world which I perceive with
world into which we plunge, this world of surging thoughts which are
not our own, but those in which we are submerged, is the world out of
which our physical sense-world arises, out of which it arises in a
condensed form, as it were. Our physical world of sense is like
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Lecture 5: Man's Connection with the Spiritual World
endeavoured to trace the relations existing between the world in
obliged to approach the spiritual world with discernment — in
through conviction that a true creative knowledge of the world and
small part of the real world, (viz. the world of that activity in
understand how to observe the world spiritually, it is not inactive.
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment)
spiritual world should always see him when he runs about. This type,
in the spiritual world, is one who always runs about and wishes to be
no force is unavailing in the world, but has its significance there.
its significance in the general life of the world;’ this
certain tranquility in the world, a certainty, arises from the above
life are not only those visible in the outer world of sense, but that
spiritual world.
world is full of riddles — reveals himself in such a way that

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 6: Feelings of Unity and Sentiments of Gratitude: A Bridge to the Dead
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The existence of the Spirit world, or the beings in it, or the dead
of the Spiritual world are difficult for us to grasp because between
relations with the dead, or with any being in the spiritual world at
spiritual world; he is always in a certain connection with those of
of the spiritual world. To attain, through seeing and perceiving, a
life-relations of the physical world. We need but refer to the course
employ in speaking of the life in the physical world. Why are the
way — with the whole spiritual world, of course, but with the
spiritual world in so far as it is coming to fruition in some form at
world would exercise their activity on the dead, if the dead already
The spiritual world in which man
general feeling of unity with the whole world. Because everywhere we
soul the general feeling of unity with the world. And for one who
world.
his gaze from the spiritual world can find the reality from these
of human memory: I have now an impression from the outer world, it
always perceiving something of the world, — we are more or less
the physical world and applied to the spiritual can only be
of the outer world which is to be remembered; it goes side by side
world to work upon us in this way, our impressions and concepts take
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Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 7: Confidence in Life and Rejuvenation of the Soul: A Bridge to the Dead
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other egos and astral. In the world after death man is singled out
feeling of oneness with the surrounding world.
we develop in the soul opens out the path to the world in which dwell
something into the world, as it were, which has nothing to do with
place in the world in the present cycle of time, it is necessary for
the spiritual world, not from an undefined instinct; — we might
man must take the trouble to realise that the world is not so simple
ideas by which they claim that the world is easy to understand, and
that man is afraid to regard the world as complicated, as requiring
quite crazy, such a man does not live in the world of reality; or if
of souls between death and rebirth is based. In the physical world,
his physical body as a shell as it were; he observes the world from

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture I: Folk Souls and the Mystery of Golgotha
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relation to the super-sensible worlds, and can of itself bring about
establishment of a relation to the super-sensible world, and its
of the world, what is in the materialistic sense called matter or
of the outer world. Solid substances which become liquefied are taken
the outer world, in the atmosphere, we are subject to the rhythm of
over the world if such things are not taken into consideration.

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture II: The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology
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who sees into the spiritual world, must be swept away as one of the
“We today have the Copernican world-conception ... but with
Copernican world-conception. That alone is correct, all the other
world-conceptions are false.” This is an attitude which must be
overcome. Even the Copernican world-conception is just one
as possible, in which a whole world-philosophy is tabulated. Or, if
they wish to have world-philosophies discussed, they would like to
the Copernican world-philosophy is the absolutely correct one —
Spiritual Soul if he allows the Copernican world-philosophy to enter
world-philosophy, as has been done in more recent times.
good in the Copernican world-philosophy? Not that at last it has told
between Earth and Heaven, between the physical world and the
spiritual world. Of course this appears frightfully paradoxical,
Copernican world-philosophy, which erects its virtual wall around the
world-philosophy is developed, and more certain is it that, through
external perception, man is cut off from the spiritual world; but it
follow them, but if in the whole wide world there are none but the
whole world.
would penetrate from the external material world to the human spirit.
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture III: Thoughts about the Life Between Death and Rebirth
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ideas. Although all sorts of world-conceptions have appeared,
order that a better understanding of the world may become
perception of the world comes about through the senses. This
brought about through the action of the outer world on our
works on us from the outer world, a destructive process
world.” This is a concept of which the present day has
face-to-face with the physical world and wishes to express
into the spiritual world. For very many people it will be a
regards the spiritual world; there he had become
must take it quite seriously that in the world we have to do
these separate us from the true and right world and do not
for use in the physical world, so do we take on the
are connected with himself. This world of pictures
as the experiences in the Soul World; but this retrospect in
pictures is only a part of the collective picture-world which
a world of imaginations gradually forms; and his
this imaginative world. This is described from somewhat
mingle this picture-world, in which the dead man must
clear to him — these become his picture world. You must
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Title: Life Gifts: Lecture IV: The Eternal and the Imperishable
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outwardly perceptive world.
concerning the physical material world. It leads the
substance of our body, out into the wide world? What forces
works in the physical world as the most mysterious thing of
all, which is present in everyone in the physical world,
entire memory-world, as though painted on tapestry. Thus,
the physical world, with all the things which make mysterious
world-plan by trying to understand from their occult
sanctuaries, how the evolution of the world can best be
today is striving after universal world-domination from
world-dominion without the help of language. That is the
great world-embracing struggle which must come to expression
form in which the old world philosophies are presented today
used by the old-world philosophers themselves; it is so worn
“world conception” which lives in the inner soul,

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture V: Thoughts on Life and Death
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and end of life in the animal world, and in a sense only
of the structure of the atomic world. We are to observe the
spiritual world. I should like to give a little example of
popular collection as “From Nature and the World of
“From Nature and the World of Spirit” collection,
itself materially. The world has been torn in pieces, its
world will not easily be linked to the spiritual. One of the
was overtaken by the world-historic delusion of seeking to
in the world — there are many such — is the human
dead man enters a world of reality. This reality consists of
perceive the external, mineral, vegetable and animal worlds,
and have our physical world besides, that of which we only
through the gate of death. The world he then enters really
bears the same relation to the physical world as do objects
a remarkable world might be seen. But we only experience the
some way from the outer world. But thoughts which we can only
towards the world and mankind in which the souls of today are

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VI: Spiritual Science, the Practice of Life and the Destinies of Souls
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to the immediate relation of the soul to the outer world
and carried away from the outer world; he wants to be taken
shows what perception of the outer world really is.
of the external world of realities. But it sees the evolution
what we brought with us from the spiritual world, and with
outer world. That never makes us stronger in life, but always
the great circumstances of the world. We must first of all
world. In regard to the will, present-day materialism makes
permeated, with the knowledge of the super-sensible world, and
in Europe and also in other parts of the world has been ruled

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VII: Whitsuntide Lecture
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liberty be realized in the world; in no other way than by the
from all the happenings of the world, which presents a
spiritual world. Such a thought should really be able to
for the evolution of the world has its karma; but the
been imparted to mankind from the spiritual world, and that
virtual world.
vision for the great world perspectives of the present day,
necessary for us to have the right attitude to the world, and
Empire, as such. What the world has up till now
to understand something in the world today, he really always
past continues to work on. The spiritual world must be
spiritual world has united with what developed materially
world of spirit, does one hear this: that one should consider
times; we must renew our world of ideas, we must renew our
the spiritual world. Then through the social life of man will

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture I: States of Consciousness
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consciousness in which the spiritual world is open to higher
believing that thereby the riddles of the world can be
in relation to the super-sensible world, and thus as a picture
against the reality of the super-sensible world, we cannot
One must go back to the spiritual world, not to the
share of what belongs, in the spiritual world, to the forces
that each successive world of phenomena, viewed from the
some way or other busy with the world of outer perceptions,
world. It is not unusual to find people speaking in this way,
spiritual world between death and birth. This clear
“Knowledge of Higher Worlds and its Attainment.”)
for civilised humanity to penetrate into the worlds I have
“Knowledge of Higher Worlds.”
of man into the physical world. Another period will dawn,
“Knowledge of Higher Worlds”)

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture II: The Building at Dornach
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knowledge, all their view of the world, on purely outward
predominant in the world. It is significant that the
have the proud achievement of the new world-civilisation, and
the essential impulses of the world is thrust out. In
the world.
as he is in a new world, urgently needs stronger forces for
world has to say.) For instance, Reuleaux points out how Art,
of the world. Courses and Lectures, always strongly attended,
fashioned according to our view of the world. In Munich they
the universe through the visible world, is something
express the content of our conception of the world, with
the spiritual content of the world means that we have to do,
world-conception which we hold through Spiritual Science;
world-destiny and for human life runs its course in these
much in the foundation of the physical world as in the
world; the Luciferic appears as beautiful in the world.
Between them they comprise everything in the world. Youth and
into the higher world is never a sentimental one. Mere
world-events had not hindered it.

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture III: East and West
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world-happenings before our souls in a way that is important
various members, in worlds which are unknown and
spiritual world, and proves to be not by any mans a very
spiritual world, takes up its abode in physical man and
re-enters the spiritual world at death, does not crudely
connection with the outer world — an outer world
things which the world has yet to learn from the East, will
world, and this is the next feeling I will describe. They
understanding in relation to the whole world, should be taken
point; what does matter is that in the world we are unjustly
understanding of what is going on in the world.
— the exploration of the world by natural science, as I
to trouble ourselves about the Spiritual world or anything
about the Spiritual world, whereas the true value of
People do not yet see that with regard to the spiritual world
smile — with regard to the physical sense-world and the
transition to knowledge of the spiritual world exactly as he
found it to knowledge of the natural world. This needs to be
by ideas taken from the spiritual world. What is taught in
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture IV: History and Repeated Earth-Lives
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connection of human beings with the outer world. They gained
a clear picture of man's proceedings in the outer world, and
— how has the outside world come to believe that during
which he emerged. Try to realise what the world would be like
compare it with the world of to-day. The difference is
world, an absolute absorption in it. If anyone to-day
taken counsel with his God in the spiritual worlds before he
what really happened in the outer world and what he had
conceived under the influence of the spiritual world would in
knowledge of the spiritual world, the human capacity
physical world is gained by the senses. One can meet people
the spiritual world, arose from a certain way, a right way,
ideas which lead into the spiritual world; they were strong,
Spiritual world. For those who were first affected by the
gazed up into a spiritual world, and in a sense perceived as
event in the worlds of great cosmic happenings.
concrete realities of the spiritual world, were then accepted
excellent to talk in this way about the spiritual world, but
live with the facts of the world. If we understand how to
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture V: The Being and Evolution of Man
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spirituel world. We should comprehend the complete reality,
to which belongs also the world in which man is after he
this world through the gate of conception.
man, comes indeed from the spiritual world, and clothes
living in the spiritual world. Anyone who now lives only in
the physical world, is no longer living on the
Christianity, as it had come into the world through the
what the Church dictates to him about the spiritual world,
Apostles, what they proclaimed to the world, was not a
life. A new task in the history of the world thereby devolved
understanding of worldly affairs. Hence the pamphlet says in
soul-being they are connected with the Spiritual world;
find its onn way to the spiritual world. This must be
of the sense-world lose their constraining power over our
souls, and the majesty of the spiritual world gains inner

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture VI: Problems of the Time (I)
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with the universal Spiritual world. If we look back into
of wisdom from the ancient pagan world, they might have come
the objects and activities of the physical world. No forces
physical, in “the other world”, their souls
various parts of the civilized world, but the differences are
and drinking and things of the outer world; the super-sensible
confined to the sense-world; that was where their capacities
was set sharply apart from the true spiritual world, which
physical world of the senses. One might say that forces
spiritual world; and accounts on being able to impose this
centuries, before the world-war, would of course have said:
once had for apprehending the super-sensible world. In order
really to understand the happenings of the outer world, in
which set out to reform the world are concerned only with the
the world, and these men were admired; yet the ideas became
such knowledge alone in the correct grasp of the world's
with the physical world will see this necessity; also that
is disclosed from the super-sensible world. The Ego of man is
spiritual world, is linked with it in the most spiritual way.
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture VII: Problems of the Time (II)
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now looms over the world from the Far East — he would
world-evolution, as we view it, and are in the fifth period
“Knowledge of Higher Worlds.”
Spiritual World's was destined to become man's possession.
came from the world in which Christ always was, for He is a
The Christ descended from the world of the cosmos to the
with which men had formerly looked at the world was dying
ever known of the spiritual world in ancient times through
must err. Thus the Christ, dissenting from worlds becoming
in one domain or another. Yet the world refuses to take in
of his life, descends from the spiritual worlds, and unites
spiritual world, he is “received” by father and
comes from the spiritual world. This is what makes the
spiritual world-development. Then we shall learn not to stand
world. I have often said that we must above all be able to
super-sensible world strides towards meeting the Guardian of
the easiest method of entering that world. The meeting with
this virtual world and with Ahriman and Lucifer. This
real way out of the present world-catastrophe.
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Title: On The Gospel of St. John
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external, material world in such a way that this world shall be as
very truth, spiritual worlds are all around us. The astral world is
world. All this is revealed to one who has made progress in his
behind it worked a spiritual life. The world is the material imprint
higher spiritual forces are alive, who see into the spiritual worlds
and are able to hold counsel with Beings of higher worlds. But it has
the material world — and Christ was their Leader. But now and
World history is connected with the spiritual world. To-day there is
Materialism in the outer world has its counterpart in nervous
within the physical world; the same physical and chemical forces
on the Earth, then the physical world would be much more perfect.
to fulfil his function in order that harmony with the physical world
the astral body has not united itself with the material world without
being punished; it has sunk in the physical world. Just as human
world, must be able to experience everything, but still remain pure.
have themselves worked at the building and shaping of our world.
Those who have gazed into the workings of the world from the

Title: Occult Significance of Blood
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and true conception of the world.
legends and ancient world-conceptions about the blood is wont to be of
following: — It is plain to spiritual science that the world to
represent the entire world, that it is in fact only the expression of
a deeper world hidden behind it, namely the spiritual world. Now, this
spiritual world is called — according to the Hermetic Axiom
— the higher world, the world “above”; and the world
by means of our intellect, is the lower one, the world
world. Thus the occultist, looking upon this world of the senses, sees
recognizes as the expression of a world of soul and spirit; just as,
does in respect of the entire world; and “as above, so
surround us in this world — the mineral foundation, the
vegetable covering, and the animal world — should be regarded as
world can only be rightly understood if our knowledge includes
world of sense. When once you understand this “spiritual
the outer world, and of applying them, by the shortest method
exterior world.” For, as a matter of fact, the entire human
attaining to the condition in which the world was before the formation
they are not to be found in the world of the senses.
as he is revealed to our senses in the external world as far as his
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Title: Lecture: The Lord's Prayer
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spiritual-scientific world view. This spiritual-scientific world
currents in the world.
Divine, and through it he seeks entry to the higher worlds.
rising to the divine world and absorption in it. Attainment of this soul mood
toward harmony with the divine currents streaming through the world.
with the divine currents in the world. This union, on the highest plane, is
in many ways his will is limited. He understands the surrounding world as
So an observer, looking at the world in the sense of spiritual research,
considered as of the perishable world, as human principles.
Forces as is the seemingly lifeless world around it. The physical body
from the surrounding world. The physical body, in a strict sense, is a
substances continuously flow that are at one time of the outer world and
to life in the external world, the observer notices a person's connections
world. By beholding in every single thing or being that you name in your
All formulas for meditation in the world's great religious societies
As light is manifested in the world in seven colors, and the Fundamental
World and the Destination of Man.

Title: Lecture: On Chaos and Cosmos
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perceived that it was beautiful, and severed the World of Light from
the World of Darkness.”
word today applies it to what it represents in the sense world, and
no longer thinks of relating it to the Spiritual World. Among the
the world before the end of this century, such a movement would
applied to the material world. Spiritual knowledge must bring about
that certain words intend something that points to higher worlds. It
worlds not only deeds, but words. In former ages this was done; and
attracted to the Spiritual World than the feelings of our time.
occult teachings. No one in the outer world ever discovered anything
Rosicrucians can be published and can be communicated to the world in
and again in the world: “Is not the whole of Eternity mine?”
out; the main thing was that they came into the world. It is a
himself into the higher worlds by a strong and energetic will. It is
condensed. Miniature worlds went forth from the gas, for Helmont. A
Spirit, I name “Gas.’ In contemplating this world he said
Primitive peoples sometimes see even the material world still in a
regarded as a parable of the origin of the world out of the Spirit.
the whole world to them was the result of the outbreathing of the
been. It is no empty nothingness. The visible world is space
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Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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“History” refers to the external physical world:
world by means of external history. When we speak regarding
meaning for this external physical world, whether only in the
know, the life of man in those other worlds, invisible to man
today, is a longer life than that in the physical world. Has
the word “history” a significance for that world,
existence how differently is the world presented to the soul
the spiritual world, there he found definite facts, definite
the other world, and so on, are we not justified in asking
physical world and is still present within him, how he passes
into Devachan, into a purely spiritual world. We further
descriptions of the spiritual world it is necessary to
for that world also in which man lives between death and
in the physical world. We relate distinctive events following
itself absolutely one with a spiritual world, in a world of
consciousness, he entered a world of the spirit. There
world of higher and lower spiritual beings according to the
depth of his sleep. Man grew accustomed to this world; and
when at death the Atlantean passed into the world beyond,
this world of spiritual Beings, spiritual events, appeared
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Title: Lecture: The Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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circle of men; these human beings can be scattered in the world in
together. Where the laws of the spiritual world are in question the
over the world. These human beings form, then, this “round.”
accordance with the laws of the spiritual world. The group souls of
from out of the spiritual world. Everything was a detour in order to

Title: Lecture: Christianity in Human Evolution
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the development of the spiritual scientific view of the world,
understanding and penetrating the world surrounding us in the
lines and forces existing behind the world of the senses, but because
in the world of special significance for himself, is called an
of our super-sensible world — this Being is of unique
born into this world he fashions about his individuality his
the spiritual world because it could later be useful in the mission
was preserved in the spiritual world so that it could be borne at a
physical world that alone make explicable to us what occurs in it. We
authority for the existence of something in the physical world
What their egos did often seemed grotesque, but the world of
compelled to hold the deepest possible reverence for the entire world
eyes of your soul this mediation in world evolution between that
Ages. This, indeed, would be to observe world history in its reality.
Christianity and to apply the thoughts to the outer world, it must
this in the right perspective and try to look at the world as we
ourselves. We then find the whole process of our world evolution
to think and to direct its vision to the objective world, it is now
forms as the foundation of the objective world.
world is in its totality, and that includes its historical

Title: Isis and Madonna
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secrets of the world and knows what speaks through Isis and Madonna sees
in a sphere out of which the forms of the visible world are fashioned;
the spiritual eyes and ears are opened to a world lying behind the
physical world. Entrance into this realm is portrayed by the journey
methods for sinking deeply into the world of his conceptions, feelings
him. Whereas in the physical world we perceive objects in sharp
outline from which we take our bearings, in the spiritual world we
vision into an insane and unreal world, but a vision into a world of
spiritual reality. The Mother problem of the world stood before Goethe
the spiritual world, has had at all times to undertake, besides other
exercises that may be found in Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, what
passion for the ordinary world of the senses. The soul must be
and is no longer turned towards the physical world of the senses,
primordial past when man was born out of the spiritual world and was
once long ago when he was born out of the womb of the spiritual world.
the sense world, but he can be purified and cleansed, can raise
perceive that the being is not of this world. In the background of
this soul being we see a divine spiritual world out of which he was
been described, where the spiritual world is represented by cloud
world?
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Title: Lecture: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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man to have actual vision of the spiritual worlds. They are schools,
trained that he can finally perceive the higher worlds with spiritual
means whereby man can be led consciously to the spiritual worlds.
The man who so trains his soul that he can perceive in higher worlds,
has a spiritual origin, that his home was once in spiritual worlds
spiritual world. To-day, this last remnant — the human soul
of the womb of worlds, out of the great universe.’ To-day the
All that lies hidden behind the sense-world, as the sun behind the
— the spiritual world. The Initiate experienced the union between
rising out of the physical into the spiritual world, rising to their
man's being that is incapable of beholding the spiritual world. This
path leading to the higher worlds. The trained clairvoyance of
what the outside world has to say about it. They get a fine picture!
was something lacking in the spiritual world into which he entered. In
divine-spiritual world, yet it was a world pervaded with the forces of
One.” The Ego of man is linked to a spiritual world by threads
understands the physical world. Therefore, in the blood which flowed
within himself will become a true seer.” But the world was not
the spiritual world, but, after all, who understands those profound
experienced the overcoming of the Ego that functions in the world of
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Title: The Nature and Origin of the Arts
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from the higher worlds, who stands before the women and
the world of the physical senses. The only manner in which it
called to mind the world of the physical senses was by its
the spirit world: “Indeed, I have a real reason for
on the other side of my life, in the physical world where at
Spirit answered: “Over yonder in the physical world men
offspring. They have torn him from me into the other world,
figure from the spirit world replied, “Thou canst only
the spirit world. And in becoming one with it she became
from the spirit world. Now I have become that which I can
of the spiritual worlds. Thy spiritual dance would be
world of the senses!”
the figure from the spirit world. “Thou mayest only
of astral imaginative world. And it's aspect disclosed that
of the picture in the astral world.
world of imagination. A figure now drew near concerning which
faculty is torn to bits in the world of men the whole of it
from the spiritual world, such as the Pyramids
soul of this woman continued to live on within the world of
spiritual world. They understand how to apply only my name
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Title: Lecture: Buddha and Christ
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Buddha, evaded all questions concerning the evolution of the world,
everything that the eye can behold in the physical world.
physical world which in itself constitutes what is collectively
parts. This man busies himself in the world, and performs various
knowledge. Away from this world of the sense-perceptions! For
anything belonging to the physical world!
be able to draw out of the world of the senses something that we may
world, but so handles it that its fruits are taken up and carried
theories and principles, cleaves these two great world-conceptions
world-conception, but rather to portray his world-conception quite
the world and see that sorrow is everywhere, we are compelled to say:
Man is bound to have sorrow if he enters into this world of sorrow;
that he desires, that he thirsts to be incarnated in this world. The
passionate longing to forsake the Spiritual World and enter into a
physical body, and in it to become aware of the outer material world
the moment that human thinking, which embraces the outer world of the
everything that is to be found in the external world of the senses.
of the world of the senses.
resurrection at the end of the world.
simple reason that it merely places the external world in opposition
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Science and Speech
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up a conceptual world of their own transcending what is imparted by
that man, confronted with something in the external world, produced,
world. As a second, higher member he has the etheric, or life body.
knowledge of the things of the outer world. In this sense too,
existed in direct correspondence with the spiritual world, then
of the external world. But this physical body has to do a great deal
more than create a knowledge of the external world through the senses
When we realise that all around us in the external world
we speak of Group-Souls to-day in the animal world. The individual
external world. Anyone who stated that concepts and ideas arise
within man, even though there may be no ideas in the external world,
The elements brought to life in the soul are drawn from the world
material world is permeated and woven through by Spiritual Beings.
to work our way from the merely abstract outer world into a
related to the external world, as sense images.
consciousness. When man confronts the outer world, he distinguishes
himself from it. When he confronts the outer world, from the point of
the antithesis of astral body, and external world. The etheric body,
there is differentiation from the outer world; they contain the
world. These in turn, react on the human being, strengthening and
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Title: Lecture: Prayer
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world wisdom.
his soul by the external world. He seeks to acquire the
everyday world is removed from his soul and it withdraws into
itself, a world of its own still remains within it. This
world always exists but is outshone by the experiences that
beauty all sorts of sayings about world secrets, we shall
control by the wisdom of the world.
world wisdom. If we surrender ourselves to this feeling, we
living in the external world really estrange us from
the dissipating effects of the external world. Rather are we
approach the external world, however, we always find it
outer world. We are continually thrust back when we still
feel fear of what may befall us, and the world is like a veil
that we meet everything in the external world with the same
of the world that shines before us. As a rule, in everything
feeling arises in us that all the wisdom of the world shines
is hope for illumination of the entire world that comes to us
the real world all our soul's truest longing and highest
aims. Surrender to the world, estranging us from ourselves,
and behold the outer world, we are no longer disturbed and
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Here we must understand that a spiritual world such as still existed
architecturally formed entirely out of the spiritual world, a
into the spiritual world, and that those who, with powerful life
working out of the spiritual world which directed them in battle.
they ascended into the spiritual world, and that their spirits then
world, who could no longer see the flashing of the swords but were
spiritual world and that bards would appear who would preserve all
the spiritual world and the world of Nature in which the spiritual
world works.
peoples of the surrounding world. And one of these leaders was the
ancient songs, heard out of the spiritual world — the ancient
spiritual world which sank deep into these peoples, into the souls of
melodies of the spiritual world, prepared them for a later time when
they brought into the world sons who revealed these passions in their
the spiritual world as the deeds of their forefathers, but as if in

Title: Astral World: Lecture I
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The Astral World
The Astral World
the higher worlds as one speaks of events and experiences of the ordinary
physical world. We have been able to learn about the various spiritual
beings and those worlds, which are, in fact, supersensible in regard to
our sense-world. And not only could we introduce an inner system into our
about the higher worlds as about something — one might say —
hesitation to speak on a certain chapter of the higher worlds that will
worlds? We talk about the astral world, about the devachanic world.
In what sense do we members of the physical world talk about them in
the first place? We talk of these higher worlds not at all with the
of connection with the physical world. Rather are we conscious that
the higher worlds, as we call them, lie all around us, that we live
in them, that they project into our physical world, and that in these
higher worlds lie the causes and grounds for facts that take place before
at what belongs to other worlds in order to be able to form a judgment
as to where it plays into our physical world. Normal and abnormal phenomena
understand a great part of the world. But human nature is difficult to
of the astral world. The contents of the human soul are very manifold.
to higher worlds. Today let us consider this relation as regards the
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Title: Astral World: Lecture II: Some Characteristics of the Astral World
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The Astral World
Some Characteristics of the Astral World
The Astral World
Some Characteristics of the Astral World
special way of observing the world, which underlies it — stands in
with the spiritual conception of the world, students of spiritual science
sinking down and the plant itself. The plant-world is there for the
the active soul-nature in the astrality of the plant-world and that
there is spatial connection. This is not so in the astral world, and
now described to some extent of the mysteries of the astral world. It
moving hands and feet, forces from the astral world are sunk into you,
depends on the laws of the physical world. The different force-masses
confirmed in its effect on the physical world. For there are certain
of the physical world, you see the confirmation of what is shown by
principle, which asserts that everything present in the spiritual world
ultimately betrays itself somewhere in the world of the senses. So you see
such a siphonophore. The hidden world spies through a peep-hole into the

Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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The Astral World
The Astral World
within us and come to an experience and observation of the higher worlds.
does one attain knowledge of the Higher Worlds? [Now in book form],
the path of knowledge, when wishing to press up into the higher worlds.
higher worlds is connected with the development of thinking, feeling
of expressing facts in both the sense-world and the higher worlds, so,
of expression of a higher world. This type of feeling is personal. The
facts or beings of the astral world express themselves by symbols. Feeling
not see as one sees a rose, for instance, in the physical world with
what we see in the physical world corresponds to physical facts. One
a new world will emerge at the stage of Imagination. In the same way,
world of Higher Devachan.
the physical, the astral and devachanic worlds are distinguished from
one another spatially. We know, in fact, that where the physical world
side’ how do I distinguish the astral world and the devachanic
world from each other?” One distinguishes them through the fact
world, the colors resound. What before was spiritually luminous becomes,
henceforth, spiritual resounding. In experiencing the higher worlds
there are also differences, so that when we rise up to these worlds,
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Title: Prophecy -- Its Nature and Meaning
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inevitable that widespread circles, especially in the world of
real connection between the world of the stars, the movements and
significance as an astronomer. The modern world knows little of Tycho
accepted the Copernican view of the world. But those who are more
Now world-history sometimes has
of humour in world-history!
between the macrocosm, the great world, and the microcosm, the little
world.
needs points of focus. In its facts, the world is an interconnected
anxieties, all concerns of the outer world. In utter forgetfulness of
Jesus as an individual. In reply to the retort that world-history is
This conception of world-history
desires to work in line with the aims of the super-sensible world
meet the urge for knowledge of the super-sensible world.
so many wonderful things about the affairs of the world, was right
standards, must learn from this vista of the world that the purpose

Title: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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world and people feel the earth stirring under their feet, as a rule
the world of the senses and open only to a clairvoyant consciousness,
world. During the whole of his life they are attached to the higher
the physical world. This means that when the man lies on his bed we
outer world, and does our ego register the conscious impressions this
outer world makes on our soul?
we, as men belonging to the physical world, must first depend on our
world-picture, the sum of all that lives in his daily consciousness,
for the outside world, heard the man's name, something surged up and,
listening to the sermon, and so on. In the physical world all this
pictures. She looks back on a world she believes herself to have
finds himself in his astral body and ego in a super-sensible world
man to think he experiences less in the world he inhabits between
sleeping and waking than he does in the physical world, only these
anyone who on reaching the spiritual world in his sleep can yield
man's world of reality. Now what light can spiritual science shed on
the rational activity of the world. Man can never consciously shed
light on more than part of this world activity, but a far wider active
the world with an open mind, as far as he can judge everything points
conclusion that, from the standpoint of conscious life, the world
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Title: Good Fortune Its Reality and Its Semblance
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world.”
happenings in the outer world. This verdict sounds as clearly as any other
certain harmony with his environment, with the world? And what an
before us one that is so caught up in the intricacies of the world that no
that apart from mankind there is much outside in the world that may indeed
external circumstances and the way of the world are so helpful to me that
of importance to transmit to the world, condemned to death by hostile
at every turn it projects us, so to speak, from the outer world into the inner
world, is shown by a charming story told by Jean Paul at the beginning of
showing that the whole problem can be diverted from the outer world to
thinking, in our soul-life, we are in harmony with the world. We feel that
that we do not stand alone with the world staring us in the face like a
outside himself is involved, that the world has “taken him into
single shows that he does not stand outside the world, that he has definite
gives him a feeling of being shut out from the world, as if the contact with
sense what establishes contact between him and the world. Hence there is
by him alone, by his efficiency or his own powers, but that the outer world
that cognition as such, as it meets us in the world of man outside, that
alone, but to be in some way related to the outer world so that it may take
man in the place he occupies in the world. If we follow up this conception
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science
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ORIGIN OF THE ANIMAL WORLD
world. For, if on the one hand the difficulty results from the fact
that everything concerning the animal world is still much more remote
present world conception, an influence of spiritual events, spiritual
restricting himself to the species of the outer world, and by not
the whole process of evolution. He consigns the spiritual to a world
in a simple way and on an inferior level in the animal world, on a
question of the origins of the animal world will be outlined. Then it
origin of the animal world can be entirely reconciled with the
reconcile the origin of the organic or animal world with this idea.
in this way we originate a world system on a small scale. But doing
outside, just as the oxygen as such exists in the outer world and
man into a kind of world memory, which is also called reading in the
Ed. Phil. Anthropos., Dornach). Man is placed into a world
is fashioned as he is because the animal world, adapted to other
animal world to the fact that man, in order to cultivate his
from the whole animal world, so that he could develop himself as a
finer spiritual being, above the basis of the animal world, just as
origin of the animal world. It must be left for another lecture to
intelligence among the animal world, and that man must first gain his
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Title: Lecture: Death in Man, Animal, and Plant
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concerning the evolution of the insect world, concerning what seemed
world, whereas he found nothing in science itself concerning the
basis of the conception of the world represented here, it is
world stand on a footing that gives no foundation for those points of
hypotheses advanced by the adherents of the present-day world
have something to do with death as we meet it in the outside world.
instrument in the physical world, might, on the other hand, make it
concerning certain questions so simply as those world conceptions
death in the plant world, the animal world, and the human world. But
world cannot for a human being really be called a continuance of
instrument whereby he carries on his life in the physical world —
the physical world, insofar as it is bound up with the
death in the world. If we inquire into the nature of death in man, it
O that that earth which kept the world in awe,
problems of the world riddles. — And this is no disparagement
destiny of substance — to build up a world conception of such a
in the plant world can be obtained by studying plants as they are
we are not applying to the world around us the conclusions reached in
pursued in detail in the book “Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.”
spiritual world; then, in his own circle, in his spiritual horizon,
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Title: Lecture: The Nature of Eternity
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unfortunate, gifted or not in worldly affairs — as a
experienced in the external world from morning till night?
external world and make their impress on my conceptions,
in the outer world can I derive the idea of the ego, yet it
outside in the world, it must be sought in our own inner
world. But our inner world is so constituted that we
world of our experience and comprehensible only by comparing
unaffected by the external world, maintains its activity even
if what we experience and perceive in the outer world is
quite independently of the world outside. On going more
that cannot find an outlet in the external world. We live in
physicist, will accept this law for the external world. It is
exerted to their utmost, in a world differing from that of
world which must obviously be presupposed, and there these
confined to the external world. I have already reminded you
in my book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, life itself can
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds to have some perceptive
knowledge of the spiritual world can become absolute reality
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
spiritual world, a world where men live between death and
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Title: Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci
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considered the most significant of the world's events: the
which are disseminated through the world.
very significant psychic conditions. If, however, the world-famed
picture, so famous the whole world over through the reproductions —
this comprehensive personality put into the evolution of the world as
which Leonardo had to feel towards the world and towards all he had
in the world on this subject. At the same time it must always be
one world-secret after another, in order to construct a work in which
this world-renowned picture. Now there were people at that time in
models for them in the world, neither for Judas nor for Christ”.
been accomplished in the world. The highest principles of the art of
Copernicus' conception of the world, before the influence of
into the spiritual world. This original clairvoyance was lost in the
background of the world. What souls had once been able to see, they
with the spiritual that lived and wove in the world, even as physical
the world. According to the laws of evolution, the old intercourse
between man's soul and the spiritual world had to be lost for a
belonging to the brain. The world outlook based on natural science,
world; in this way natural science was built up. Through natural
the old way to the secrets of world conception. This experience could
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 1. Materialism and Spirituality.
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worlds whither she has ascended, feeling towards her still the bond of
whom she has now so quickly found again in the spiritual world. She
world. It was marvelous with what keen and intense interest Fräulein
noticeable that in all parts of the world there are some members of
world, notwithstanding the fact that materialism, alas, is not
at the present time, the research into the Spiritual world made by one
about the relationship of man on earth with the Spiritual world, and
to the Spiritual world, — describes in this book a series of
Spiritual world. The case is as follows.
had studied the relationship between the physical world and the
Spiritual worlds, and who himself now in the Spiritual world,
pronounced that world to be prepared to receive young Lodge in the
world of England and America, and to bring conviction hitherto lacking
out into the etheric world and there pursues its further destiny; so
that the individuality enters the Spiritual world with the astral body
only, and continues its further wanderings in that world. The etheric
one gets into connection with the spiritual world in a round-about way
hands and that one can see before one in the world of matter. Our
take in the Spiritual worlds, the purely Spiritual path. It wants the
spirit to descend into the material world and be discovered there. We
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 2. The Metamorphoses of the Soul-Forces
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outside world the very height of materialistic views and opinions
de-materialising of thought and of the world of ideas, which, in the
speaking really very near to the Spiritual world; but the ideas and
world and by a materialistic attitude towards it, have woven a veil
materialistic earth existence and the Spiritual world can be found by
the connection between the human soul and the Spiritual world is to be
approach. Concerning the things belonging to the external world which
spirit, the spiritual world, draws near to us. The language of modern
the external world, and it is therefore difficult to find words conveying
a real impression of that part of the spiritual world which stands
world. In observing the physical world we say: we see spread out
before our senses the mineral world, from which proceed the plant
world, the animal world, and our own, — the world of man. In the
Beings belonging to those worlds, and by them we are constantly being
with the Spiritual world, and that indeed was but dim, and
back again to the Spiritual world, and must now be able to grasp it in
man perceived the Spiritual world in pictures, he lived in the company
passed into the Spiritual world through the portal of death. It was
different form of union with the Spiritual world. It is now only
Spiritual erudition; of evolving worlds, of the evolution of man, of
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 3. The Human Soul and the Universe (part 1)
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belonging to that which is the external world: external in the sense
The fact that we are the Microcosm, the little world formed and
manifested out of the Macrocosm, the great world, is felt as still
present only in rudiment — (and in the Spiritual world rudiments
are something much higher than they are in the physical world)-more
Spiritual World and perceive the things and the beings therein. The time
in the Spiritual-world could be perceived in a much wider and more
in connection with the objective facts of the Spiritual world; but
connection with the Spiritual world proceed from this meeting with
waking state, of our connection with the Spiritual world, is an
meeting with the higher world; and it may be said that most people are
ideas coming from the materialistic view of the world and especially
in connection with the Spiritual world — both his own and that of
permeates the world, and which we can now hardly distinguish in
ourselves or in the world, but in which we merge in the world as in an
foundation of the world, and which we experience when we have the
Universe. The daily course of universal processes, of world processes,
years of education, a strong feeling of the glory of the world, of its
greatness, and of the sublimity of the world-processes. We are
the world, for then, instead of having a devoted reverence and respect
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 4. Morality, As A Germinating Force
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Spiritual world. I shall have to say a few more things as to these,
meetings with the Spiritual world still clearer, I intend to insert,
world and man's place in it, solely according to the standard of
possibly feel the true connection between what we call the world of
morality, of moral feeling, and the world of external facts. If, in
theory of the creation of the world, according
some day come about in which the whole world will mechanically come to
world according to the Kant-Laplace theory. Yet it arose and
and were given out by them, most people still believe that the world
form that a purely mechanical idea of the origin of the world was
For just consider: — If the world really came into being as the
from all else, would become of the whole moral order of the world?
world-order were correct, would not perhaps survive even in one single
causes, by physical and possibly chemical forces, the world came into
but the whole world passes over into the stillness of the grave. All
forgotten and vanishes away when the world becomes ‘the
grave.’ Thus the only thing that stands for the moral world-order
never take root in a purely mechanical world-order. The forces of
if the mechanical plan of the world were correct, only exist in the mind
and makes them visible and permeates the world of space. For this
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 5. The Human soul and the Universe (part 2)
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that life, bring it into touch with the Spiritual worlds. Today let us
sleeping and waking, has, as a rule, his meeting with the world which
to the normal sleep, at night.) He then meets with the world in which
through that world in which these beings dwell; through the world
which is nearest to our own physical world, reckoning upwards. Through
with the spiritual world, no merely materialistic explanation of
and man enters into relation with the spiritual world; that makes the
the spiritual world, only arrives at half-true concepts and ideas,
outer world, are being discussed. It cannot be proved that these
meeting with the spiritual world. If we were to say we want to sleep
world and the enjoyment of this lasts our whole life through. We do
not merely enjoy the outer world when we convey good food to our
whole time we are awake we enjoy the outer world; all life is
enjoyment. Although there is much that is unpleasant in the world,
In our waking state we enjoy the external world; in sleep we enjoy
the latter enjoy the external world, so when we with our souls are
world. He really loves it so much and is so fond of enjoying it, that
spiritual world, our sleep does not therefore consist merely of
physical world and in the spiritual world. In the physical world I
meet with the external physical nature; in the spiritual world I meet
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 6. Man and the Super-Terrestrial
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periods man has a meeting with the Spiritual world. We explained this
— that these during the hours of sleep meet with the world we
reckon as belonging to the Hierarchy of the Angeloi. To this world our
in the Spiritual world, during each one of his normal periods of
certain sense, imitates that rhythm in the world-order, which is
objective course of the world, and now only has within him the one
great course of the world-order, with respect to this rhythm. In olden
the whole world-order; for, while the sun was at the other side of the
asleep, with the spirit of the stellar-world, so was man once
Spirit of the world of the stars, and also in a sense with what went
on in that world. While asleep at night the forms of the stars in
that meeting with the Spiritual world, which he cannot now have every
time he sleeps. It came from the meeting with the Spiritual world in
which dwell those Spiritual beings we reckon as belonging to the world
period. That is the world in which we must think of Christ, the Son,
the world of the Son.
the Spiritual world had become blurred, as I have just explained.
which ought to surge through the whole world as holy impulses —
at any rate through the world of those who wish to take up the
‘My kingdom is not of this world.’ These words will take on
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 7. Errors and Truths.
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upon those physical, chemical, and similar conceptions of the world
world, not by science but by the scientists themselves. However long a
that time to grasp the sense world and also man. In these three
within man, at another time in the world outside. In man they engender
outside in the world the same elements engender, for instance,
the world in general, and after having made the above-mentioned
of all things and who think they can find the beginning of the world
imagination, whereby to explain the origin of the world. In the
Spiritual impulses from the Spiritual world which from time to time
to give a picture of the world, as I did in the last two public
had to be. In the former the external world was only just beginning,
the world. Richard Rothe looked back at that method of reading the
against the spiritualism which reduced the realities of the world of
world of Nature, were foreign to him; he felt that behind rude matter
conviction that without the world of sense there could be no real true
shown in this thirst after a true understanding of the world of
richer, Christian world of wonder than that of this idealism to which
realism demands just such a wonder-world as is unfolded in the
world, which is the object and aim of Creation, for only thus can
truly living spirit-world, and a real contact of that world with man,
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Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Universe
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belonging to that which is the external world: external in the sense
The fact that we are the Microcosm, the little world formed and
manifested out of the Macrocosm, the great world, is felt as still
present only in rudiment — (and in the Spiritual world rudiments
are something much higher than they are in the physical world)-more
World and perceive the things and the beings therein. The time has now
the Spiritual-world could be perceived in a much wider and more
in connection with the objective facts of the Spiritual world; but
connection with the Spiritual world proceed from this meeting with
waking state, of our connection with the Spiritual world, is an
meeting with the higher world; and it may be said that most people are
ideas coming from the materialistic view of the world and especially
in connection with the Spiritual world — both his own and that of
permeates the world, and which we can now hardly distinguish in
ourselves or in the world, but in which we merge in the world as in an
foundation of the world, and which we experience when we have the
Universe. The daily course of universal processes, of world processes,
years of education, a strong feeling of the glory of the world, of its
greatness, and of the sublimity of the world-processes. We are
the world, for then, instead of having a devoted reverence and respect
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Title: The Story of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily: Lecture I
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brought any new thing into the world, it could easily and very
knowledge, in man's conception of the world or in his world of
religions and world-conceptions through which the peoples, throughout
conception of the world which we try to give forth in a popular way
into the personality, so that the divine world lives anew within. The
know of the forces that vibrate into our world, and we are but a
the riddle as to how a man who lives in the everyday world, —
world. It is an initiation of this kind which is described by Goethe,
physical world from higher spheres, from spheres of which he himself
world of matter, the world of sense-existence, this is the Land on
the Land of the sense-world; — and between the Land of
spiritual existence and the sense-world there flows the River, the
The world of humanity, the world of longing and wishes, the world of
the animal world, we find that there are objectionable animals and
plunges into the water — into the soul-world — does he
become capable of good and evil. This world which is inserted between
the Spiritual and the world of senses, is the River over which the
him across to the other world. He is therefore put ashore by the
ourselves placed in the world of sense, — on the hither side;
put us into this world and cannot take us back to that country again
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Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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through the labyrinth of the manifested world, in multitudinous forms,
Life could not manifest outwardly or present itself in the world if it
life was breathed by a Creator of worlds. This is what Darwin himself
and the great world of stars. But in later times, life has become
materialistic view of the world. How can a man who regards the outer
material world alone as real, grasp the meaning of death, how can he
the rediscovery of the self in the great primal Spirit of the world.
conceptions of life and of the world in the form of what he calls
starting-point of a new world-era. Our reason, our intelligence, have
external world, be it in the domain of science or the social life. If
be found outside, in the material world, but can spring forth

Title: Lecture: On The Three Magi
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astral world. It is an enactment of the Lesser Mysteries. There, in

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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the anthroposophical conception of the world is distinguished from
acquainted with the highest knowledge accessible to us in this world
on earth their various religions and world-conceptions.
cultural world, have auras on which they themselves have helped to
the world has changed in the course of the last century, and what
time and space. What is thus dependent unites us with the world, and
if we want to see into the soul-world, just as we must have physical
sense-organs to be able to see into the material world. As the outer
insight into the soul-world, then true “pupil-ship” first
the world around him, but there resounds in him his etheric body, the
in a correct sense, talks of a sound in the spiritual world in the
same way as of a light in the astral world, or world of desire. Not
escorted by the spirits into the spiritual world: “Tönend wird für Geistesohren schon der neue Tag
connection with a new world, because it rings to him out of the
spiritual world, and because he thereby no longer has his home,
so to speak, in this physical world. One must not misunderstand this.
new home in a world lying behind this physical one.
spiritual world sounds within man, and through this sounding of the
spiritual world man overcomes an illusion, the illusion which takes
personality separate from the rest of the world. Mere
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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super-sensible world and its relationship with the world of the senses
is the origin of knowledge concerning the super-sensible world?”
spiritual world.
impressions of the world around him. He must be able to make
equilibrium with the surrounding world, is never lost. But this
at the same time be able to establish harmony with the external world
connection with the external world. One must take strict care that
is concerned — and that alone can ascend to the spiritual world
golden letters this law of the occult world. Development must start
become a liar when he is introduced into the spiritual world, because
towards the higher world on any path is readily prone to such
As through a miracle, the person ascending into the higher worlds
the higher worlds in a good, true, and genuine way. Every
so that I can be there in the world, and I must pay them tribute by
wisdom of the world, by that which the scriptures call the Holy
has nothing to do with the external world, and let this thought
the external world. You look around with your senses and perceive the
external world. The second is what we may call imagination or the
world, and we change our spiritual state, then we experience
continuously the spiritual, the super-sensible world, but only if we
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun
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imperishable in the world! A glance at the ‘Christmas Reflections’ as
estranged from the subject than the thoughts sent out into the world
means more than the Word conceived as the power by which the world
immemorial has been celebrated all over the world on the same days of
penetrated into the dark world of desires, impulses and passions.
who inform the Initiates in the temples what is happening in the world
ordering of the world, of the revelation, the glory of the heavens, we
world-religions. When the Christmas bells ring out, they are a
reminder to us that this Festival was celebrated all over the world,
will be truly linked with the spiritual world. The Immortal and the
which all the strife, all the war and all the discord in the world
outer world.

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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known to the outer world through the theosophical movement, after
could travel this path and defend occult knowledge in the world. The
revealed to the pupil if he fords the entrance to the higher worlds.
himself to viewing the relationships in the world broadly and
good does it do me to learn about the higher worlds, the different
teachings about reincarnation and karma, the three worlds, the
the higher worlds can still try to picture them to himself. I am also
seeking to give a view of these worlds through pictures in my current
all worlds up to Devachan itself, one which never changes: that is
form of thinking must enter. But for the three worlds below the
in this thinking a good guide in the higher worlds. He will not
higher worlds. He who reaches up into these worlds learns new methods
himself in pictorial concepts which represent the higher worlds
a likeness.” As man ordinarily goes through the physical world,
lies behind. He is pulled down in the physical world as if by a
world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols.
he loosens himself from the physical world and learns to raise
himself to the realm of Imagination. If the world is thus viewed as a
world of light seems to detach itself from physical reality. When
physical world clothes the spiritual beings of astral
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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him spiritual beings from other worlds. It has already been said,
is given of itself by the sense-world, as it continuously corrects
errors. It is different, however, in the astral world; there one is
world then he raises himself to the astral plane. When he immerses
himself in the mood of the plant world he raises himself to the lower
mineral world. Let us take the mountain crystal, glittering with
mineral world. These feelings vary as the mineral world shows itself
and the world is the macrocosm; occultism has demonstrated the actual
relationship between man and the world. When the physical organ
relationship of the external lifeless world to the human organism is
the surrounding world in the most varied ways: for instance, the
student widens and more and more worlds dawn for him. He must not be
must find entry into the whole world.
spiritual world view permeated and saturated everything. In the
in these forms. The world will be filled again with a spiritual

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture II
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spiritual scientific investigation, we see how the world and all
Schopenhauer's viewpoint. In his book, The World as Will and
This opinion of Schopenhauer's is connected with his world
everything observed by man as the world around him reflects itself
any influence on the outer world, we experience will, we ourselves
world will.”
particulars the world offers us are combined within man's mind.
flows through the world; he hears how this will expresses itself in
tones. The musician thus stands closer to the heart of the world than
all other artists; in him lives the faculty of representing the world
nearer the heart of the world and is a direct expression of its
human being and to his relationship to the three worlds to which he
new world unfolds before man in dream-filled sleep. A world filled
astral world. This is no newly created world. It is new only for a
day-consciousness. Actually, this astral world is always present and
continuously surrounds the human being. It is a real world, as real
as the world surrounding us that appears to us as reality. Once a
acquainted with this wonderful world. He learns to be conscious in it
experience in this new world that unfolds before man is one of living
and weaving in a world of colors and light. After his initiation, man
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Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture III
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to find themselves in the spiritual world and who bring with them
to the physical plane. The time in the spiritual world thus can be
these beings; it descended from the higher worlds. Animality

Title: Lecture: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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new life when a deeper, more spiritual conception of the world is
Unfolded lies the world in twilight-shimmer;
he saw the world around him filled with spirit, with spiritual Beings;
he beheld the world of spirit around him, radiant with light and
appears at the midnight hour, when the world around lies at rest in
outer world of material life and the inner world of the spiritual
life; they did not belong entirely to the material world but neither,
as yet, to the spiritual world. We find these ‘Ravens’ again and
between the two worlds, bringing tidings. We find them too, in our
before the world the occult truths imparted to him in the temple. The
the power to bring forth new life. The great symbol of worlds stands
were inscribed all happenings in the world from the beginning to the

Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: Lecture 2: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
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the world of myths, and we will indicate in a few words how this can
and waking where they actually experienced the spiritual world in
bodies, they perceive the world around them as far as they can with
their physical organs of perception but behind that world is the
spiritual world. In this intermediate state it was as though a veil
were lifted, the veil of the physical world, and the spiritual world
became visible. Everything in the spiritual world was seen in some
is much the same in the physical world; we cannot see colors with the
themselves with the surrounding world, the different parts of the
state of consciousness, with their surrounding world. When the
each have a different relationship to the surrounding world, so has
relationship to its surrounding world. We become aware, in this
beings who bring wisdom into the activity of the world. These are the
spiritual world, the outer events in life appear to be what they
to the spiritual world.
in the outer world that have passed away but can still be perceived
in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world are reflected the
himself; he has lost sight of the spiritual world, but he says to
spiritual world. He then recounts what has happened in the
spiritual world, and must recount it in such a way that he says:
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture II: Christianity in Human Evolution: Leading Individualities and Avatar Beings
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scientific view of the world continues its progression.
understand and penetrate the very world that surrounds us in
spiritual lines and forces that exist behind the world of the
is of significance for the world. This, then, is the
spiritual, sphere of our super-sensible world; this Being has
give the world nothing; they only take from it. By contrast,
world, they structure around their individuality an etheric
preserved in the spiritual world because it could later be
body was preserved in the spiritual world so that it could be
finely interwoven the facts behind the physical world are,
physical world. Only by being able to point to such facts of
world do we learn to interpret history. History can never
physical world was the important and essential thing. The
grotesque, but the world of their sentiments, feelings, and
mediation in world evolution between that time and previous
reality but in the world of abstractions! Realities are what
radically has been taken over from the Christian world of
look at world history as it really is.
world, it must now become possible for the ego to become a
this in the right perspective and try to look at the world as
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture X: The God of the Alpha and the God of the Omega
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should not simply be a theory about the world, life, and the
the world, albeit one that is more comprehensive and sublime
world today would dare to make very concise statements about
conceptions of the world can offer only vague concepts about
of other conceptions of the world and of the philosophies
develop today as the fruit of the anthroposophical world view
nobody can enjoy this fruit of our spiritual scientific world
human constitution and the evolution of the world? What is
important, but true human love that is fruitful for the world
world conceptions in many areas. When it is experienced by us
is a body of ideas that leads us into super-sensible worlds,
to higher worlds. Every hour spent in spiritual scientific
teaching, we are transported into another world. Our ego is
then united with the spiritual world out of which it was
sleep themselves into a spiritual world, then they have
transported the ego into the world whence it was born and
the world of the senses within the human body. In times to
world; however, at the present such is normally not the case.
consciousness of the spiritual world has become weaker and
the world of the senses and increasingly lost its capacity to
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 1: The Mission of Spiritual Science
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and spiritual life of human beings and the outer world has been different
spiritual world makes him to be.
gained direct from the spiritual world. Now if he had been troubled by the
questions of the sense-world he could have used answers given by people who
had had experiences in the spiritual world and so could communicate to him
the properties of the spiritual world in the same way as the scientists could
impart to him their knowledge about the external world. So he turned to
sense-perceptible world — it is possible to carry out research in the
spiritual world, where no physical eyes, no telescopes or microscopes are
conditions in such a world beyond the range of the senses. We shall then
so to speak, from ascending towards the spiritual world, and preferred to
beings to enter a spiritual world through their own powers by developing the
spiritual world that lies beyond the sense-perceptible? A glance at the
outer world. With what pride — and in a certain sense the pride is
men say in those earlier ages about the external world? Can we suppose that
merely contemplating the external world? If the external world could itself,
further: all the knowledge we have about the sense-perceptible world would
human understanding, human cognition concerning the external world, has
acquired something new. They have learnt to see the outer world differently
sense-world. Hence it became clear that the sun does not revolve round the
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 3: The Mission of Truth
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will he have to give to the world; the stronger and richer will be his
a misconceived activity of his Ego. He would lose himself in the world and go
statement. He wrote: No man in this world is indispensable. When one goes,
sense of an opinion, is a thought which reflects the outer world. When we
beauty. Beauty is something we encounter in the outer world. How can we learn
we meet with beauty in the external world; but he was a man with a one-sided
kinds of truth. First we have the truth that comes from observing the world
experience of the world in this way, we come to the kind of truth that can be
first observe the world and then think about our findings.
the wisdom that lives in the plant. By thus looking out on the world we can
infer that the world is born of wisdom, and that through the activity of our
world. That is the kind of truth to be gained by reflective
beyond everything that can be learnt from the outer world. In ordinary life
instrument, he has to formulate laws that are not part of the outer world.
For example, no-one could learn from the outer world how to construct a
experience of the outer world. Hence there are these two kinds of truth, and
it must yield results that can be recognised in the external world. The
strength and can no longer stand up to the world, if it is concerned only
make it withdraw into itself and look with hostility on the world. A man can
become a cold egoist if he is intent only on investigating the outer world.
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 4: The Mission of Reverence
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outer world and to pass them on inwardly. It is also the vehicle of such
value of the soul for the surrounding world and at the same time to
the world. But if a man likes to keep his pleasures and desires, his thinking
to acquire knowledge of the world and of itself, and for this it requires the
world through perceptions; they stimulate us to gain knowledge of our
world and not stand blankly in front of it, for then the outer world itself
to gaining knowledge of the super-sensible world, we are in a quite different
situation. First of all, the super-sensible world is not there in front of us.
approach the super-sensible world. This does not mean that the super-sensible
thinking in general, but for thinking about worlds with which we are at first
are many things in the world for us to love. But as love is a feeling, and a
knowledge of the super-sensible world.
to a human being if his will is always submissive to the world. If this
while the bodily faculties and perceptions of the outer world are not
devotion leads it out into the world. The soul can be led out of itself
world with feeling, the Ego is always present in the feeling, but if it is
soul is unable to relate itself properly to the world and to other people, if
condition, is bound to go astray and to wander through the world like a
worlds, can be attributed in the last instance to a refusal to allow
be deceived by information said to come from the spiritual world if he has
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 6: Asceticism and Illness
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world and the attainment of an ever-wider horizon? That is the question asked
with the world perceived by our senses and grasped by our reason. But by
worlds which are at first not open to the senses and cannot be reached by a
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds: How is it Achieved?
our feet into a new world. How is it to be done?
sense-world. In sleep we are removed from that world. A simple logical
this inmost part of the human being needs the stimulus of the external world
if it is to be conscious of itself and of the external world. Hence we can
world, he would then be able to perceive other things than those which come
world. The external world gives us mental images, and we call them true if we
from his right place in the world. We can see how in his whole structure he
wishes to rise into spiritual worlds, is an invention. That is just what it
external world. If that were its function, we would not need it. We would be
satisfied with the impressions of the outer world that come to us directly
are drawn from the external world, is based on certain feelings and ideas
to rise to higher worlds through inner meditation and contemplation does not
live only in abstract pictures, but in a world of concepts and feelings which
he has excluded all impressions of the outer world. So through these quite
these forces and really penetrate into the spiritual world, how can we be
experience, just as the external world can be proved to exist only by
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 7: Human Egoism
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thing now, was to gain support for its fundamental principle in the world at
indeed, of the whole world.
we find in man we can find something analogous in the rest of the world.
are called to look at the plant world. The plant draws in whatever it needs
created being, if it belongs to those realms of the plant world which can be
himself to be living in the world as in a great and beautiful and worthy
gathers together everything that the world can express in him and finally
displays to the world its own image, mirrored from within himself; and Nature
this mean than that everything which surrounds us in the world, as Nature and
as possible from the outer world and makes his own everything that can
the surrounding world offers, in order to manifest through himself a kind of
elements from the natural world into himself, it also lies in his nature to
of egoism in their case. If we consider the plant world in a spiritual and
the verge of having to give all this up. The plant world has a peculiar
whereby man becomes conscious of the external physical world, we must set
world around us the forces which have produced in man the faculties which
fabric whereby we enter into a relationship with the outer world, has been
astral body is a product, a flowering, of the surrounding world. Within the
and hearing; he can pour himself out into the surrounding world and live in
outer world and the experiences of the Sentient Soul. Then man is truly a
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 8: Buddha and Christ
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intend a study in the scientific sense, ranging widely over world-events
world and the foundations of our human existence. He wished to speak only
about world origins and the great facts of evolution. And if one particular
in all this is to lead the eye away from the physical world. He wants to show
exist as such in the physical world, so that he may thus bring out the
can see that both the Christian and the Buddhist approach to the outer world
Buddhist, stands before us. He plays his part in the world and performs
being. With this aim in mind he should avert his gaze from the sense-world
away from the sense-world! For if we reduce to name and form everything
offered by the sense-world, its nothingness is revealed. No truth is to be
found in the sense-world displayed before us!
action. From thus experiencing the sense-world it extracts something we may
active man, this doer, who does not reject the outer world but handles it in
that what keeps these two world-outlooks decisively apart is the quite
of Buddhist teaching. My intention is to describe the Buddhist world-outlook
the various spiritual movements in the world.
If there is suffering everywhere in the world then man is bound to encounter
suffering as soon as he enters this world of suffering. Why does he have to
incarnation in this world. The passionate desire to pass from the spiritual
world into a physical-corporeal existence and to perceive the
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 9: Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
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earth, or of a whole solar system, or of the plant-world. When he
riddles of the world with as little knowledge and as much comfort as
realised that he had not achieved any world-shattering result; he had
sense-perceptible world.
sense-world, rejected everything that might be sought as soul or spirit
consider man himself in relation to the world around him. As far as Spiritual
Science is concerned, man has his origins not in the sense-world, but also in
the spiritual foundations which lie behind the external physical world. Thus
sense-world. In so far as he is permeated with soul and spirit, he is born
comes to it from the outer world through the sentient body. The ego is
part which he has in common with the plant world and everything that lives.
during sleep he lives in a spiritual world which he cannot perceive, simply
instruments for perceiving the surrounding world. When in sleep he lays these
instruments aside, he is unable to perceive the spiritual world, since in
he was unable to control effectively his thoughts about the world around him.
living in the spiritual world and has left his physical and etheric bodies
asleep we get something from the spiritual world to replace the forces that
world-spirit does not bestow its gifts in sleep! The physical body is
inactive with regard to the outer world, yet one is not asleep, although the
Sleep does not supervene and the spiritual world can be perceived. For the
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture One: On the Investigation and Communication of Spiritual Truths
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mission of the Bodhisattvas in the world my purpose was to
understanding of the spiritual world. Here is a simple
physical world and what lies beyond the manifestations of the
senses in this world, the truths concerning what lies beyond
connected with a spiritual world — these questions arise
along which man is led into the spiritual world to-day, but
spiritual world. Here we touch upon a very important chapter
spiritual world? Why are we constantly told: This is what it
spiritual world are communicated in general terms before
the spiritual world. I have often said that the facts of the
spiritual world must be investigated and can be discovered
observed these facts in the spiritual world and then
spiritual world in such a way that everyone who wishes to
conditions in the spiritual world can direct and order his
accordance with his relationship to the spiritual world. In
able to see and investigate in the spiritual world, it
communications relating to the spiritual world? The answer
discoveries in the spiritual world through clairvoyant
be able to bring tidings from the spiritual world and make
Insight into the spiritual world is absolutely essential.
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Two: Higher Knowledge and Man's Life of Soul
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the spiritual world from a single glimpse of that world, he
sense-world presents to us. Spiritual truths are brought down
the world around us — which, when it is a question of
how this world itself reveals behind it another world which
Theosophy. The sense-world itself can reveal another world if
at high levels of the spiritual world intelligible to a
what has been communicated from the spiritual world; it is
As we look at the world around us we can say that at every
spiritual world. For us this is now a commonplace. Just as a
soul, so all phenomena of the external sense-world are a
physiognomical expression, so to speak, of a spiritual world
see in them expressions of the spiritual world. When by
material world before him, and he may ask whether his study
of the material world provides any confirmation, any
The world
around us, the world in which we ourselves live, can
it. If man were simply confronted by this sense-world and it
world, he could never feel longing for that world. There must
be a point in the sense-world where a longing for spiritual
through a door or window into the world of our everyday life.
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Three: The Tasks of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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world’, and the ‘Macrocosm’, the
‘great world’. Man, the ‘little
world’, is in every respect a replica, a copy, of the
‘great world’. This is literally true, but stated
evolution within us are more in harmony with the World-Order
is so, the answer is that in world-evolution which proceeds
spiritual world by natural clairvoyants and also by very many
worlds. Basically, all the wisdom that penetrated into human
with knowledge of the external world which can be compared
with the supersensible world but it is clothed in concepts
genuine investigations into the higher worlds could of course
physical world. This might be done. But in that case my book
world itself what they had learnt from the supersensible
world. This again can be compared with the third period in
of the world of sense.
directly from the spiritual world. In the epoch of
supersensible world with knowledge they had acquired in the
physical world. And in the fourth epoch (the Graeco-Latin)
physical world what has come from the spiritual world. Is
a living connection with the ancient world and still applied
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Four: The Symbolic Language of the Macrocosm in the Gospel of St. Mark
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higher worlds, how he must undergo certain experiences and
Initiation itself the spiritual world penetrated into his
the spiritual worlds and a vista of the Beings of the
where they were able to gaze into the spiritual world and the
the physical world as Jesus of Nazareth, had revealed the
secrets of the spiritual world in a new way, not in the way
worlds. But the Christ Event meant that something had come to
secrets of the spiritual worlds. Christ made manifest on the
physical plane, for all the world to see, something that in
spiritual worlds. We can imagine ourselves looking into
able to look into the spiritual worlds and go forth to teach
spiritual worlds. But now, what had been enacted time and
an Initiation of supreme significance in world-history. This
an historic fact before the eyes of all the world — this is
before he could proclaim the secrets of the spiritual worlds
openly on the stage of world-history and would enter more and
significance to the world which it is quite unnecessary for
world-history. And it is the writer of St. Mark's
world-history — the Mystery of Golgotha in Palestine. You
world of meaning was heard in the words. The ancient Hebrew
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Five: The Two Main Streams of Post-Atlantean Civilisation
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and with the spiritual, supersensible worlds, were in a
supersensible worlds. One of these ways can be illustrated by
with the spiritual worlds can be envisaged if we think of the
they belong to the external world. If you follow these
our mineral world, just as their own laws of crystallisation
world and this is the sense in which it is always spoken of
in Spiritual Science. What we know of the world to-day is
perceives the external world exactly as man perceives it
animal, pictures the world. If a picture were painted of the
different from a man's picture of the world. We could
not perceive the world as we do if the ‘I’ did
not pour itself over the surrounding world, filling the
the world as man perceives it, and the outer human organism
of physical man and of the physical world around him it is
the ‘I’ that is viewing the world, with the help
perception of the world-picture — in other words, man falls
asleep. There is no picture of the world around him and he
world; and there he sees what beneficent Divine Beings spread
diverts him immediately to the external world. Every morning
he was in a certain respect one with the spiritual world, he
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Six: The Son of God and the Son of Man. The Sacrifice of Orpheus
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ideas about the spiritual world acquired in the course of
have learnt about the higher, supersensible worlds. We have
learnt that man, as he lives in our world, is the lowest
him in the supersensible world, at the first level, are the
are the Beings who as messengers of the spiritual world to
penetrate into the supersensible worlds can pass beyond the
and of the supersensible worlds. Individuals may well become
the world, their teachings are not based upon or drawn from
the supersensible worlds that their effect was as powerful as
reach the spiritual world and that as a result of his
man, of whom in the world of maya there is only an illusory
image, came down in ancient Lemurian times to this world of
world. Then he begins an ascent and can rise to the extent to
will find his way again into the spiritual world; but he will
impulse to rise into the supersensible world enriched with
which our relation with the surrounding world is quite
feels part of the world around him; it is only at the point
direct connection with the surrounding world in early
the Great World. As things are he loses his feeling of
oneness with the Great World and believes himself to be
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Seven: The Higher Members of Man's Constitution
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THEIR RELATION TO THE PHYSICAL BODY AND TO THE OUTER WORLD
into the spiritual worlds? Here we must keep on repeating
worlds as long as the eyes of clairvoyance are unopened,
those worlds are continually in evidence. For instance, when
world's evolution, we have to take physical substances
is related to the surrounding world in the most varied ways.
turn to the external world, seeking to establish a connection
with that world. We become conscious of the ‘I’
example, we are brought into contact with the world outside
external world. And we become aware of our ‘I’ in
ourselves something that is going on in the world outside, is
in the external world. We pass into the inner realm of our
‘I’ in its relationship to the world outside.
must be a reality. Any reality in the external world which
is brought into relation with the outside world. We feel then
there were two paths leading into the spiritual world: the
whereas the manner of his life in the external world shows
world; otherwise it will lose its bearings and may be led

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eight: Laws of Rhythm in the Domain of Soul-and-Spirit.
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proclaim his unfamiliar idea to the world. An occultist knows
to his fellow-men or to the world, for the idea must follow a
launch the idea into the world, the soul will certainly not
something had penetrated into his idea from the outer world.
whole spiritual world and will realise that it brings
concrete and the temptation to communicate it to the world is
etheric body, it may pass coldly into the world. If we wait
to the world as our own. Every impulse in the soul must pass
World-Spirit and to let it live and achieve a state of
— we may feel that we have been blessed by the World-Spirit
spirituality which works in the world in obedience to law and
world-evolution. Anyone who speaks in a contrary sense is
man in the sense-world as a spiritual being having a divine
understanding of the world in the sixth post-Atlantean epoch,
believe that the Christ Impulse will come into the world

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Nine: The Moon-Religion of Jahve and its Reflection in Arabism
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When a world-conception or world-religion is associated with
driven out of the spiritual world and sank more and more
stage. Many such impulses work in the world in the same
world-conception which arose in a new form under the symbol
central fact of our world-conception, of our Spiritual
only of humanity but of the whole world, and you will be able
from the objective course of world-evolution. If you wanted
from all human misery and life in the outer world, the son
father's palace, knowing nothing about the world
to know something of the world. First of all he saw a leper,
isolated from the world, was later led out of the palace and
or rather of the Buddha, was to be sought. In hidden worlds
lectures, grow into the spiritual world and in so doing
another world may be compared with the way in which a fish is
convinces us of the spirituality of the world and makes a
understanding of the world? How much pleasanter it would be
world-evolution hinge and that there can be no repetition of
world will have to seek for spirituality along other paths.

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Ten: Rosicrucian WIsdom in Folk-Mythology
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world and to find increasing understanding in the hearts and
the outer world, but it will be some satisfaction to you to
individual feels urged to come down into the physical world
leadership of the world, about the spiritual forces and
influences pervading the external world in the different
effective in the world but for all that was continually
without which the genuine cultural achievements of the world
riddles of the world. I have often described the different
the higher worlds; how a higher part of the Self must be
have achieved some understanding of the riddles of the world.
have been born into the modern world with these longings, so
world and environment very different from those of the
King's son who rode out into the world, heard moans
spiritual world and create powers through which he can
external world lives within him and how he can overcome his
and allow itself to be baptised by the World-Spirit. After
the world as a gift of our own personality. This is the
immediately to force upon the world something that occurs to
world repeats itself in his soul, that he must live in such a
engulfed in the physical world. This did in fact happen in
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what an individual has to suffer from the outside world. However
the higher worlds, you will discover, at a certain level of spiritual
emerging out of a spiritual world where there is thinking and where
has progressed as far as experiencing a world of spiritual beings and
nonetheless reaches again and again the same edge of a world out of
every day, when the soul leaves the world it has been in during sleep
world unload their great strengths on us as we stand there more or
asleep. The human soul withdraws from the sense world and from the
the physical-sense world. Then there comes to the soul what one may
its bent toward the burdensome sense-world, which, however,
it in the future. We look out at the world today in the wide-awake
the spiritual worlds. At that time a person, even though he could not
with the spiritual world outside himself. He saw how everything going
traditions in various parts of the world. In those earlier times the
the great collections of fairy tales from everywhere in the world, to
her own anchorage in divine worlds.
find a description of the evolution of the world. I don't intend to
evolution of the world our earth has passed through certain stages as
Everything the spiritual researcher finds in the spiritual world —
and what was just described had to be found in the spiritual world,
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[This lecture was given during the first World
be sought in spiritual worlds. Certain things were said about these
spiritual world. Today I propose to direct our study more to
that path to the spiritual world which the human soul can take while
the spiritual worlds that is suitable for souls of the present day
spiritual world only when it is not using the instrument of the body.
only experiences of what is present in the physical world. If we wish
to have experience of the spiritual worlds, we must find the
experience the spiritual world while outside the body. Moreover it is
always possible, once observations of the spiritual world have been
how it enters the spiritual world. A week ago we spoke of this from
The spiritual world can be
that one forgets the whole world and lives wholly in these
reality of the spiritual world; he realizes that the spiritual world,
the spiritual world without previously feeling forsaken by the
physical world, without feeling that this physical world does many
spiritual world all kinds of hindrances which prevent this from
threshold of the spiritual world. When one reaches the point I have
world. But there, at first quite invisible to one, stands the power
prejudices of the physical world. And truly, one must say: The human
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to the significance of such festivals in the evolution of the world
with a world of feeling engendered by the Gospel of St. Luke, by those
world in commemoration of the births of saviours are the thoughts
world. His etheric body remains bound, supersensibly, to the physical
with him and enters the spiritual world whence descended that
spiritual realm which is neither nature nor the world of stars, but
lives alike in man, in the stars, in the world.
spiritual world into living activity within them, to celebrate the

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mood. At that time, the majority of people the world over
spoke of the spiritual world had to speak of a sickness, of a
the most defamed matters in the world. Nevertheless, it can
had to be shown to the world when the catastrophe fell upon
World” which I wrote then. What was connected with this
Civilized World.” Certainly, the fostering of the
birth and death and points beyond the merely sensory world
into the supersensory world. Now one had to wait and see
world through the Threefold Social Organism was only a kind
Central Europe into the wide world, in particular towards the
facing worldwide tasks! Today, we cannot face spiritual

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speak of the human soul's sojourn in spiritual worlds before
was above in soul-spiritual worlds. There, it had experiences
physical world owing to our body. In our Western
the spiritual worlds. Penetration into the spiritual worlds
still adhere to a religious world concept, or to some kind of
rational philosophical world view, we speak of the
spiritual worlds and has embodied himself in a physical body.
the divine spiritual world; you know that this life here is a
manner in which one places oneself in the world in awareness
eternal spiritual world into this physical world. The
descended to him out of spiritual worlds, is the basis of the
super-sensible perception, and it flies into spiritual worlds.
of matter, while the materialist confronts the whole world
world, especially in the time between the change of teeth and
puberty; we grasp more and more of this outer world; our will
harmony with the things and events of the external world.
through contact with the outer world. It was out of deep
formed in the stream of the world, in the exchange between
world; the inner being has to react; it has to resist what
comes from the outer world. This will developing element,
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Spiritual World, if it is truly and totally taking hold of a person,
knowing is just this mutual help. This Spiritual Scientific World
worldview of Friedrich Nietzsche, which arose out of a spiritual
Scientific Worldview does not ignore the necessity of the Fight for
has made it into a universal natural world principle. Especially in
world are best adapted who are able to fight their enemies, to subdue
all beings that are now living in the world would be able to overcome
not want to say with this that in the world of the animals there is
Spiritual Scientific World View, it is not only an image but in the
reaches its peak. The Spiritual Scientific World View wants to lead
help principle, and you will see that the Spiritual Scientific World
The Spiritual Scientific World View strives to
this worldview know that fighting has never achieved any real results
the other from the point of view of the spiritual world. If one
Scientific Worldview understands the Fight for Survival, and mutual
world nor into ourselves, because it is true in the highest spiritual
faculties are to appear, but those faculties are rooted in the world.
in the stream of the world, character is formed and with it the whole

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Riddles of the World and Anthroposophy,
Riddles of the World and Anthroposophy,
spiritual significance of the World redeemer was brought into
When we look out upon the entire outer world we perceive
of our surrounding world with our perceptive faculties and
senses the psychic man observes the world around him, seeking
soul the outer world through the medium of the senses. Man
man sees in the outer world is the reflected sunlight. The
world. The awakening sun-soul in man, beginning to discover;
perceptions in the world. That is his meaning, when he says::
The visible world came into being only when an eye existed
Germanic world of the Gods man could also perceive the Gods
appeared in the heavens and the physical world it
of the world of plant life in the spring also. As the seed is
others — the deceased and resurrected World saviour,
complementary in the spiritual world, this great act of
But man knows how the world has emerged from chaos, and that

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observed in the outer world of the senses. These people
is experienced in the spiritual world by the soul when free
experienced. Whatever is experienced in the spiritual world
between an experience in the spiritual world and an
experience in the outer, physical world of the senses and how
and concepts acquired from the outer world of the senses as
reminiscences into some kind of imaginary spiritual world.
of the spiritual world, knows too that it differs so entirely
from the world of the senses that nothing can be imported
spiritual world. For it must be emphasised that in the realm
into the spiritual world is vigour and activity of mind, zeal
makes them desire relationship with the spiritual world are
conscious vision into the spiritual world. A society composed
interest in the spiritual world.
world. It is very often said that the spiritual investigator
takes with him from the physical world of sense preconceived
world. But as I have already said, genuine experience of the
spiritual world takes a different form each time. We may be
quite sure that what we experience in the spiritual world
world can be reached only when the soul has been made fit for
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far into high spiritual worlds. Moderns don't need anything more to
get into very high spiritual worlds. We must live entirely in
life takes place in the world of cognition. We know something
another world where we have our ideas, thoughts and concepts before
we're in a world of experience. We shouldn't immediately make
ideas about what approaches us in this world. We should just open
Further on we arrive at the world of bliss or shapes. But only one
who has prepared himself for this world experiences it as a world of
correct experience of this world of shapes if one goes through a
an experience of this world of shapes before we're mature? They gave
world. The beauty that we feel in a work of art, in a Raphael, in a
protect us from entering the world of shapes, of bliss too soon. In

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that the outer world's attractions and stimulations drive us to our
world. But Ahriman's influence has also worked into this, and
man a mighty push forwards into the spiritual world all by itself
Gods built up during long world periods, o is a wanting to embrace, a

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in the spiritual world at all.

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spiritual worlds again.

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ideas about the spiritual world and also Imaginations very
difficult for men to ascend into spiritual worlds. Their worries are
things in the spiritual world, and when they speak about this we
for the feeling type to get into the spiritual world. When they stand
devils. They would like to enter the spiritual world, but they

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spirit. Our thoughts touch each other in the etheric world. Our ego

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that can help you to get into the spiritual world. Let's recall what
the astral body and ego are outside in the spiritual world. Why is it
that a man doesn't experience the world he's in during sleep
consciously like he experiences the physical world in day
world, so that he doesn't perceive the latter at all. The astral
from consciously experiencing spiritual worlds during sleep. If he
ego lives. Things are different in the spiritual world; we shouldn't
physical plane. Here in the physical world we see single things
spiritual world are mobile pictures which we recognize to be
world warmth arises from the relation between two beings, rather than
worlds from us. Waking up means that we shoo away these
in day consciousness Ahriman sees to it that the spiritual world is
covered for us. He paints the picture of the sense world, and as we
the spiritual world.

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downwards. We connect ourselves with the three worlds properly by
senses into a very dark world-space, then our souls shine. If we
astral world behind and we resound in the spiritual world in a full
and unhindered tone towards all sides. In the physical world we're
world we can't pretend to be something we're not, we sound as we are.
The spiritual world resounds in spheres.
has a name in the spiritual world that will be disclosed to us in the
course of developments; it's not our earthly name. The spiritual world
The world
illumines me. — I illumine the world. — I am.
the soul world and in devachan. The more thoughts of eternity we've
taken in here the more effectively we can work. The two worlds have a
in the shaping of these two worlds.

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Gleams the Godhead of the world …
rest in the Godhead of the world
In the Godhead of the world

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The spiritual world is for
occult experience. After we've seen that the spiritual world is empty for
world, and not the ones that give us joy. We must carry them around with us
It's world karma that lets us act egoistically World karma is

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disasters occur in the whole world, and not just in man. For instance,

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the perception of the physical world, and thoughts such as theosophy
gives us. Everything in that physical world is maya, including our
For everything that's from the physical world was already
the world mathematical thoughts are the most sense-free ones; but
don't as such belong to the sense world. And imagine two
that's not from the physical sense world, something that leads
us up into the spiritual world. If a man thinks of a scoundrel or
study relations in the outer world, for this leads us away from

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between the subsensible and the super-sensible worlds.
The whole physical world
field or plane with the super-sensible world above and the subsensible
world below it. The super-sensible world is one that can be connected
the subsensible region was always called the elemental world, the world
grasping of the elemental world; one learns how to grasp it.
super-sensible world, we're actually taken hold of by higher beings who
by beings in the spiritual world, so that we feel: now we're
so on. Imaginations lead into the super-sensible world. One sees that
distinguish between the elemental world and the super-sensible
physical world. Someone who saw a being and its elemental expression
the physical world, just as when one sees an object one can
see and hear things in the spiritual world that one has never seen or
over there will never be able to press into the spiritual world. That's

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with all of our might to make a connection with the spiritual world,
feelings have a harmful effect on world evolution. The hierarchies who
world events. Such dishonesties work on our astral body, then on the
and dullness with respect to spiritual worlds. Many pupils listen to an
experience something in the spiritual world, and they mediate without
world.

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but the more we learn to look into spiritual worlds, the more we'll see
the etheric body expands, one feels carried out to distant world boundaries,
and then suddenly, one feels as if one were riveted to this world again,
would immediately take us up into the spiritual world before we took
respect to the spiritual world. We take over Azael's work when
world is only an inverted mirror image of the astral world. A very important
meditation to make the words “The world is only maya”
with which we can hope to approach the world's Godhead; whereas
penetrate the spiritual world.

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live in the world of real things and have to be fettered by its

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the world and even with respect to one's loved ones. This
of the world …

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the world's beauty.
any experiences in higher worlds.
world's portals open through solitude. This is the only thing
one's duties in the world; we should let this lonely feeling
Gleams the Godhead of the world …

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walk into the nether world, an experience of the four elements,
world. To be sure, as an esoteric sees nature's kingdoms around
prepare himself for several lives in the outer world, but that if all
exercises are designed to bring us into the spiritual world, but
world — not corporeally, but psychically all the more. This is
what they called going into the nether world. In one's
netherworld's flames. This is the so-called going through the

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astral world and not in the physical one, and that only someone
world before the Mystery of Golgotha, that is, when he had gone

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gotten further in his experience of the spiritual world. But this may
that was expressed exoterically in the words: In your thinking, world
world thoughts through their thinking — that also my ego-feeling
the outer world thinks it's all right to think anything, but
your will world beings are working. This can be transformed in him
that's connected with the third mantra: In your feeling world,
me — and namely one feels that just as world thoughts think
the thoughts of our ego, so world forces weave our higher I.
world.
it is. Theosophy is the world thoughts that thought me as an

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture I: Aim and Being of Spiritual Research
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being considers the outer spatial world edifice today compared
of the scientific worldview that intervenes so deeply in any
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds? and in other
spiritual world in such a way as physical eyes look at colours
as one lives in the usual life in the sensory world. The human
spiritual world with such soul forces, as I have described them
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?, can note
to behold a fact in the spiritual worlds, then this fact does
practising of the outer world. In the outer world, you bring a
the spiritual world from escaping more and more. Of course,
be overcome; but they are typical for the spiritual world.
at something in the outer world, we are used to directing the
most essential approaches us from the spiritual world in such a
Therefore, the secrets of the spiritual world escape from the
world is that one gets already used in the outer life to
what the spiritual world offers. Hence, human beings who are
develop the forces to behold into that world where his
to approach the spiritual world scientifically. However, if the
has to say about the spiritual world.
you cross the borders of the sensory world in the intimated
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture II: The Human Being as Being of Soul and Spirit
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the two questions that admittedly the scientific worldview
cannot approach and in which the only philosophical world
is very far from the present worldview. The present worldview
some scientific world viewers and also of some soul viewers.
scientific and to the philosophical worldviews.
worldview on scientific ground, it feels forced to ascend from
worldview that became ingrained in a big part of our
worldview has almost got to a kind of ideal limitation of its
dilettantish worldview constructions that arise from some
However, just this methodical scientific worldview gives
world because science stops where the supersensible begins, we
find that by which the scientific worldview wants to pull the
it has to say about the phenomena of the world, about its
since centuries already any human worldview has intended to
scientific worldview says, if the human being feels hunger and
strict methods of the scientific worldview. If you take the
come from the impressions of the outside world into his soul.
impressions of the outside world have the power to generate
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds? and
face you if you familiarise yourself with the worldviews of
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as rather dubious to raise the lawfulness of the world to ideal
experiences that places itself beside the natural world. I know
Goethe and the Goethean worldview to state these or those
contents of a Goethean sentence to confirm the worldview meant
characterised the whole way of his position to the world
knowledge about the world to the fact that he never thought
of the world as far as one has to exceed with such an
a world that is beyond the sensory, of course, are irked by
to the highest degree to speak of things of another world. He
world, so one speaks of such nullities like of the things of
another world. When Goethe said this, he also pointed to the
things of another world. Goethe agrees with Hamann in this
speak of the things of another world. Yes, the naturalists
the Goethean worldview where one only wants to recognise it,
worldview. At such a place where Goethe characterises himself,
objects of our world experience that you always evoke something
spiritual world? — You still face doubt, indecision.
ecclesiastical worldview to a free philosophical viewpoint. You
At the Turning Point of the Christian World Period. The
healthy worldview. One cannot say that he was prepared in his
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture IV: Mind, Soul and Body of the Human Being
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thoughts completely follow the course of the outer world with
worldly wisdom he regulates his inner life, his train of
coming from the spiritual outer world.
activities occurring in the outside world. These inner
physician and physiologist) speaks of seven world riddles as
outside world, that what was before only inner surging life
world the latter becomes inner experience. You can apply this
confronted with a physical outside world, but with a spiritual
world and a spiritual sense of touch, which then differentiates
cannot penetrate into the spiritual world with the faculty of
judgement that you have gained in the sensory world, not even
refrain from penetrating into the spiritual world, before you
penetrate really into the spiritual world. For a certain
spiritual world what comes only from the physical-sensory
first to penetrate into the spiritual world. This virtue also
other worldviews tends to deny the possibility that the human
spiritual world, reluctantly because even today one points
world. About such things, I will speak in detail in the talk on
expansion world, the awake consciousness generally from
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture V: Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
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worldview speaks in almost mocking way about a talk, which
spiritual world with such experimental art is a fallacy,
What appears in the sensory world can only give some indication
of the sensory world. With this attempt, Wallace was indeed in
gradually to the immediate view of a spiritual world because
the spiritual world. Since you have to know on one side that
means he moves the ether into that world in which non-material
world of atoms. One always requires if one exceeds the only
find a thing in itself or a world of atoms behind the sensory
penetration behind the sensory world. If you want to search the
together with the world. You have to penetrate vividly into the
world with which you live together before the mirror. It is
the described way in what way you stand in the spiritual world,
its own everlasting nature in the spiritual world.
from the soul, while the soul submerges in the spiritual world.
world is the producer of the usual consciousness — that
who possibly leads back this physical-sensory world in
speculative scientific worldview can become such a suggestion
Maybe just because the scientific worldview has worked in the
comprehensible worldview, but it is to be represented gradually
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Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture VI: The Historical Life of Humanity and Its Riddles
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the beginning of this world disaster many people were of the
social or other world relations, so that you can expect from a
it comes from the desire to interpret the world phenomena as
awake only with the percepts of the outside world and the
world of feelings. You can easily realise that, however, also
If you learn to behold in the spiritual world, you know:
world in which our feelings submerge just with that part of our
develop pictures from the contact with this spiritual world by
world. This Imaginative cognition is the completely conscious
which the world of human feelings is connected, which is only
in its reality with the Imaginative beholding of the world. In
to know the spiritual world as far as the will impulses that
the spiritual world and its development, then he notices that
after the judgement that one has gained in the sensory world. I
instinctively, as if he grasped the outer world with body and

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animals. The modern scientific worldview has this in common
Today you still meet the different worldviews that are
human beings who interpret the world and its phenomena
of every world consideration. It is completely irrelevant to
position in the world not to know at first what he represents
in the world and how he stands there in it to get that only
and “spiritual ears” to have a spiritual world
related to the world.
animal world. This lives in his thinking. In the animal realm
us, while we survey the world with thinking. We pursue what we
connected with the whole outer world.
worldview of Goethe the bones of the skull are transformed
relating to the outside world with the senses is a higher
being produces himself spiritually: just the world of thought.
The world of thought is the spiritualised human being.
faces the outside world like concluded by a shell.
the memory. We perceive the outside world as it is, and process
up from the outside world. Today I cannot explain what the
world today.

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contents which somebody regards as revelation of higher worlds
supersensible world. However, on the other side, all these
has experiences while facing the outside world. These
the object of the outside world and form, inwards directed, our
everything that appears in the world has its concomitants which
the supersensible world that everything that is done as
the supersensible world.
to the spiritual world according to the methods of spiritual
world. However, our conscious knowledge of the outer physical
world is more distant from each other; we cannot build the
musical experience of the world. It is, as if you interrelate a
we regard as our world in which we live with our ego, with our
coming objectively into this spiritual world. He can be very
are in the spiritual world, the view which can already be a
this spiritual world. Thus, you have to use particular mental
Thus, the world is interspersed with something invisible.
to the world gains ground again in humanity. If you ask
knowledge of the whole world, nevertheless, strictly speaking

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organism is directed either upon the sensory world or is
One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?, in the
knows that it is in the real world context that it does not
world context and does not create pictures from this in such a
world with those pictures that arise from a pathological
spiritual world if the activity with which you enter it is as
world necessity. It is very important to know that that which
Now, however, you are in the spiritual-mental world. But you
imagery, an Imaginative world, and you also know that this
Imaginative world has a relation to reality, as well as the
spiritual world. That which the soul experiences in the
penetrate into the spiritual world.
less familiarised than with the Imaginative world. You realise
spiritual world. Everything that I have developed in these
this spiritual world with Imagination, Inspiration, and
“world riddles.” Du Bois-Reymond was inclined in a
world into which he entered from the previous life on earth.
what goes into the spiritual world if the human being passes
spiritual world and has brought the guideline of thinking from
spiritual world and from the pictures the preparation of the
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since Schiller died, and the educated world in Germany will
(worldview). Quantities of questions receive a wholly new
light as a result of Schiller's view of the world. Our business
relationship with the world and its deepest foundations.
originate in matter. The ups and downs in the world around us
in trying to explain the whole world by a few barren ideas.
they knew something of the relationships of the world,
world, men began to ask how that personality was to establish
itself firmly in the world.
deepest foundations of the world and the soul. But if, as a
result, there was nothing any longer secure in the world, the
personality stand towards the world? How is the soul to find
unfreely in the external world from necessity; in the world of
in by the real world and by his ideal of reason. But there is
another, middle condition between reason and the sense world,
sense world is therefore only the expression of the spirit; in
art; and so he would like to transform the whole world into a

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his own soul; the same forces which were active in the world
difference between the objective world and human nature, that
stands opposed to the demands of the world as they were
ideals and general ideas applicable to the world had been
levels. Anyone who has much in him and comes into the world
Schiller lacked was knowledge of man and of the world. His
acquainted with a philosophy and view of the world which was to
man into humanity. It is the world-picture which appeared in
His task it were to move the world within,
is the moral law. On the one side — the world of
a duality such as we saw before, but the whole world of human
selves but was fruitful for the world and for humanity.

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in the history of the world.
their friendship have ever been of such a world-wide
it was not possible to show that the world of the spirit is
of the world had still to be expressed in the form of artistic

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Schiller's Weltanschauung (World Conception)
in a continual struggle for a higher view of the world; how he
which are effective in the world and to fructify them in really
vivid lectures. The smaller essays on subjects of world history
“Everything in the world derives from a spiritual basis.
the forces in the world; he is the epitome and unification of
Julius.” The world is a thought of God, everything lives
could, he feels, regard the world from this standpoint. Is it
live with such a picture of the world?
Kantianism Schiller got a new world-picture which lasted till
the middle of the nineties. The problem of the world has become
this framework. Not till the world's end when men have reached
the world, he tells himself, and he has sought it as he does in
calls on artists to take their place in the world-scheme and to

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higher spiritual world — that is for Schiller the meaning
arisen, of the Mystery cults within which the world-drama of
world-redemption was depicted. Edouard Schuré has
artistic solution of the world-riddle. The world-embracing
born out of the world of myth. Wagner was keen, not on the

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not what we should nowadays call poetry. It was the world-drama
working from the spiritual world. It is this something
feeling of the world around us, press upon us. This Demetrius
the world around him, he learns that he has been mistaken; he
“He was snatched from the world in the ripe maturity of

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VII: Schiller's Influence during the Nineteenth Century
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classicists generally, held towards world culture. We cannot
Schiller looks for his material all over the world, he has
risen from the world around him and established himself on his
of world-literature are one of the chief services of the

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VIII: What can the present learn from Schiller
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the idea, the idea by which the world as a whole is to be
world, a fine and subtle view which can only be grasped by a
greatness and breadth of his spiritual horizons: the world of
artistic can be separated from a world conception
world-conception, Weltanschauung.
indigence of the sense-world. It was in the harmony between the
spiritual and the poverty of the sense-world that Schiller
into the world's inner core. This deep seriousness which broods
Materialism has become a world philosophy, a gospel, an
our culture, is to become the great educator of the world.
world, but to be the heralds of a higher spiritual reality.

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture IX: Schiller and Idealism
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knowledge to unite the sense-world and the moral. The core of
a perfect union of the sense-world and the moral.
bridge between the sense-world and the divine. Schiller pushed
punishment. Then the “world karma” is
accomplished; world-history becomes a world-judgment. The poet
disregards himself and looks at world history objectively. This
objective, divine image of the world, and create for himself a
that is not the whole truth; the sense-world only represents a
spiritual in the external world instead of in himself, is
the sense world. In this struggle we really get to know

Title: The Situation of the World
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The Situation of the World
series entitled, Riddles of the World and Anthroposophy, published in German
Situation in the World, War and Peace, published in the Anthroposophic News
Riddles of the World and Anthroposophy,
The Present Situation in the World, War and Peace,
SITUATION OF THE WORLD
are stirring the world just now, events of the kind: described
something in the world and we can influence its course of
Transvaal war. If we now look around in the world, we find that
OF THE WORLD AND THEOSOPHY.
viewed from the aspect of a spiritual conception of the world
anything which can be eliminated from the world by principles
Many things would be different in the world if it were
so that an encompassing conception of the world must open our
In the world the beings that can best assert themselves in the
keeping with the course of world-development, we find that the
and battle into the world.
was able to explain to you here that a hidden world is
immediately connected with our physical world; it is the astral
world which does not consist of the objects and beings that can
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Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Human Body
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the soul and their connection with the universal world riddles,
in the world. The reigning misunderstandings which I have
manifestation of soul. Now, we experience the world only
might be objectively present in the world. In a curious way,
everything, the entire world, is absorbed into the soul. To
something has actually occurred in the external world which is
in the world.
process to that which is out there in the world; that it only
really takes place in the world. Fundamentally, one can well
through the sense world, impressions are made on the human
human being's intercourse with the outer sense world. But one
intercourse with the outer world. In this regard it becomes
perceptible outer world continues by way of the sense organs
really have the objective world immediately within us in the
outer world. Therefore, the sense perception of the animal is
outer world directly as it penetrates into the organism. For
with the outer world where the outer world comes to meet him
following: When we encounter the outer world through our
facts in the outer world. While we form mental representations,
to in this world. However, spiritual science must then be
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Title: Lecture: Riddles of the Soul and Riddles of the Universe
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expresses it: In the sphere in which world conceptions arise,
research in spiritual fields must, in regard to any world
one-sided world view, such a one will always be closed to the
in questions concerning world conceptions. We are able to put
brought forward in a positive form concerning world
forward in world conception questions to that immediate life
Now, you know, that one of the principal world conception
ether, which means thinking about the world not only as filled
casts him into the constantly changing world of substance, in a
life. He only returns in death into the invisible world, or
better said, as he never left this world, as it is that which
body which is released into the spiritual world at death.
and of a way of seeing and comprehending the world. They would
How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.
breathe. Without the understanding of the etheric world, an
senses and the outer world. As a result of the fact that the
outer world.
consciousness) into the world of the senses ... The fundamental
the outer world, in the way in which we see it, as the child
penetrate into the spiritual world wish, above all, to have
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Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture I
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his behaviour towards the material world. This material concept of
world than those who came later, there still persisted the concept of
illness. That in reality everyone went about the world with the
thus — that here in the physical world a man is able to deal with
side-by-side with the measures taken for the physical world. Then this
learning in the civilised world. The student site there listening to
world arose before him. Because it necessitated the withdrawal of the
another world, where everything was different from the physical world,
understand this prejudice, this assumption that the world was always
yellow. The surrounding world had, for them, a much more fiery aspect,
nature they saw is an unknown world to us. The evolution of mankind
in the world of nature — was the time when a feeling was acquired
their beautiful world-concep tion was mediated through their senses,
world. For even the best conditions on earth need perpetual healing
which, out of the anthroposophical world-conception, have contributed

Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture II
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world-history, of outer, physical world-history, something of great
look upon this as an event taking place in the spiritual World and
connected with mankind's history. It is in the spiritual world that
spiritual world about 1879, and from 1914 on the necessity arose for
taking place in the spiritual world. Indeed precisely in the case of
conscious: In the world of spirit something is happening that has an
echo in the world of men. — What they thus perceived can today be
being was involved in the events which, out of the spiritual world t,
arising out of their common physical experience of the world. Perhaps
cut off not only from the spiritual world but also from the physical.
physical world or that of the spirit. All that a man knows about is his
world-history. He had no share in the experience of that great,
momentous change which, behind external world history, came about in
the spiritual world during the second half of the nineteenth century.
world should follow the lead of the spiritual world. This lesson is
spiritual world. But that will not do. This is not a matter of basking
world from out the spirit — through the spirit to gain mastery,
over the material world. There will be no end to all the misery that
world? — But that is not right. To speak in that way has
many people as possible in the world may be moved by the urgent need

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture I
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of the higher worlds and about their connection with man. It must be
into the higher worlds we there meet with beings who, it is true, do
not belong to our physical world, but who are in themselves so independent
that we can describe them as ‘persons’ for those worlds,
worlds we meet with certain beings who, so to speak, extend part of
by higher beings of the astral world, and the actual ego is behind
the partition, behind that wall which separates the physical world from
the astral world. And in a corresponding way this holds good for the
other group-egos, the group-egos of the plant or the mineral world.
When we raise ourselves from the physical world into higher worlds
who may equally well be considered personalities for those worlds, but
devachanic plane are in fact densely populated worlds. We find many kinds
one does not know that beings who live above in higher worlds are active
manifestation, of beings of higher worlds. It is of these things that
world they have this existence on the astral plane, but they are related,
astral existence within our world. You must in fact picture conditions
in the higher worlds as being much more complicated than people are
the aspect of the higher worlds, there exists an unbroken connection
reverse side of other beings whom we also find in the astral world,
world; they have their actual scene of action on another planet. As
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture II
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reveal to us, in broad outline, the inner course of world evolution,
in the Zodiac take place slowly; changes in the planetary world and
he is a being who receives. The things and beings of the world
Just imagine that the world around you were empty, or dark. You could
of your inner world. It is characteristic of man that he is a being
inner life, from outside; things must exist in the world if his soul
life, which works in the world in such a way that it does not receive
streaming into the world, imbuing the world with life?
our world offers Himself in sacrifice. Just as man strives upwards into

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture III
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theosophy who have been familiar for some time with its world-conception
keep up. In the world-conception of theosophy you have the great illuminating
views that are drawn out of a spiritual conception of the world.
grounds, but by investigating the facts of the spiritual worlds. There

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture IV
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there were no solid rocky masses, what we call the mineral world in
between a lower creature of the animal world, which has preserved certain
a multiple meaning, and when we consider the true facts of world evolution
had exactly the same knowledge of world evolution as we give out today
their ego to the outer world. It is very remarkable, but so it is: they
sheer egos to the outside world. The whole activity in the surroundings
world appeared. In earlier conditions man had perceived nothing but
world. But man was not yet quite independent, much was still regulated
aperture towards the outer world arises. To sketch this (Fig.
body opens to the outside world.
external world, but a kind of dim clairvoyance. This was, however, more
the external world. And now begins the conscious transforming of the
connection with the outside world he forms in himself an enclosure.
world, all that the ego “learns” through external contacts.
intercourse with the external world he is transforming his astral body
impregnated into the world. That is the lowest member of the Spirits
Thus we see that we grasp the evolution of the world from its spiritual
aspect when we look into the depths of the world. We learn gradually

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture V
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World evolution through Saturn, Sun, Moon,
illumine your consciousness with the whole world of dreams. This inner
according to the world-music. The albuminous substance, protoplasm,
under the wonder-working of world music. Then only was the whole impregnated

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VI
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the outer world. The objector might say: This recapitulation-principle
the world, yet it must be affirmed from the depths of the facts by a
the Christ-Principle and the Luciferic Spirits work together in world
feel one with the eternal Ground of the World Whom we call the “Father”
worlds. From religion mankind evolves to wisdom, glowed through by love.

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VII
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Yahve, the lawful, Prince of this World. The highest spirit is
perceive the physical world. As their lowest being they have the etheric
himself. with himself. The world is not built up on such egotism. In
every situation of life the world requires man to share in working on
reaches down into the animal world, and this was felt by the peoples,
as the animal world, so that the ancient Egyptians, who experienced
of world evolution is based upon a sum of forces which are guided by
the study of the spiritual worlds one should not be satisfied with general
man can form any idea guide the course of world-evolution through such
to rise into the higher worlds. The physical plane of external reality
in the physical world today. For it would not have seemed at all important
world with all that today represents the achievements of civilization.
have stood still, so to speak, in world-evolution. You will be able
— Satan, the “Unlawful Prince of this World.” This
this World. The very deepest wisdom lies behind what is expressed in
what is revealed in the world as spirit. Satan was called a Spirit of

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VIII
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of man, of the higher worlds, of evolution, etc., but far more than
Before coming into touch with the theosophical world-conception one
acquiring these feelings towards those other worlds which are continuously
pulsing through our world imperceptibly to our senses. People who have
such feelings, who take this attitude to these other worlds, are those
should not have the real will to unlock that world which must gradually
centre of our world conception, as the microcosm. To understand man
exist in the world, and although in the modern phase of human development
nature. In the single animal standing before us in the physical world
as it were, towards the higher worlds and linked to spirituality. I
our world. The activity of these beings of body and soul plays very
definitely into our world. What they do can very well be seen, but not
the external world. They come back again as his destiny. What he has
the fact that they have not made use of life! The world is around them;
they have possessed senses in order to perceive the world, to enrich
world evolution, they re-main behind at a certain stage. Beings that
on Jupiter. Thus we see how the world is woven, harmful elements as
well as beneficent; we have a moral element woven into the world process.
which work into the physical world though they exist only on the astral
and connections. But they work in a certain way in our world. The classification
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture IX
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said that these group souls play the same rôle in the astral world
physical world. The human ego is really a group ego which has descended
world, similarly formed animals being members of their group ego. We
world, the loss of these members and their renewal.
what falls away must be entirely exhausted in the surrounding world,
around us in what we call the super-sensible world.
observations of the spiritual-super-sensible worlds — if one may
in the super-sensible world the beings which need it arrive at the spot.
who, we may say, have severed their connection with other worlds to
They are beings which can well be used in other worlds. At any rate,
spun out about All-Being and All-Ensouledness of this or that world,
humanity will be ripe to acknowledge the super-sensible worlds of which
the spiritual-science world-conception speaks today. Such a phenomenon
super-sensible worlds offers a wonderful answer to the great riddle of
a last relic of ancient clairvoyant sight. Man lived by day in a world
the experiences which early man had in the super-sensible world in his
worlds. In these worlds man felt himself not as an individual being
its consciousness is connected directly with the spiritual world, and
inventions and discoveries. The world began to demand more from the
inner world of truth. Then in spite of all individualism, in spite of
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture X
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permeation of the world with spirit is symbolized by the Whitsuntide
These have, as it were, ventured too far forward into our physical world
only in the fact that the ego souls of other beings are in other worlds.
world. Further, the beings which we call plants have a dreamless sleeping
consciousness for the physical world here but they have group egos which
dwell in the lower parts of the devachanic world; and, finally, the
One who moves clairvoyantly in the astral and devachanic worlds has
in the same way as here in the physical world he has intercourse during
in the members remaining here in the physical world, or in those which
are in the astral world, has the same consciousness as the plant covering
was as yet no mineral kingdom, on the Sun there was no plant world in
world — hence it is the “physical body” — it has
of explosion really takes place in the astral world when man utters
takes place in the spiritual world when man lies, which has a far more
devastating effect for that world than any misfortune in the physical
world. But things which one relates at a certain stage of spiritual-scientific
higher worlds must take possession of the physical body in the night
been detached from the spiritual world. Such beings, detached in this
circuitous way, now flit and whir about in our world and belong to the
beings working in from the spiritual worlds and these likewise are now
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Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture XI
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The words of the spiritual world which the consciousness soul
co-operation between man and the spiritual worlds. Spiritual beings
is also formed between man and the spiritual world through his many
all the time relationship with the higher worlds, however improbable
beings live, so to speak, out of the spiritual worlds and extend their
worlds. In those forms of art expressed in space we have on earth physical
here on earth as the bond between the spiritual world and our earth,
soul — is in the astral world and from there draws for itself
ego-soul is thus in a more ordered, more spiritual world than during
of the spiritual world, then everything living in his physical body
from the spiritual world something for each of the body's members,
the harmonies in the spiritual world — to permeate the forces
man is so much estranged from the spiritual world, these “space-forces”
understand Greek architecture, the purest architecture in the world.
paths to the soul to float up to the spiritual worlds. We are given
taken by the soul from the physical world into the spiritual world.
at night in the spiritual world and brings with it when it slips again
him out of the spiritual world and made alive to him when it comes in
material from the outer world.
or mind soul takes flight into the astral world every night, something
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture. Winter Session, 1911-1912
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world by an easy path. I believe that as the necessity for a deepening
make it easy for anybody to reach the spiritual world. And yet as the
their way into the world. Anyone who studies Isis Unveiled and then
and system of thought in the world — with the exception of
in Annie Besant's last book, The Changing World, everything is jumbled
Christianity and The Changing World ... these are matters which

Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 2: Evidences of Bygone Ages In Modern Civilisation
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was, she could not marry, for she belonged to the spiritual worlds, but
how the spirit-world plays into the world of men — but stories of this
spontaneous way of depicting the interplay between the spirit-world
and the human world, simply do not exist in European literature. They
first came to know her in the spiritual world; she then descends into
the physical world and her life continues there. The trend of the two
spiritual world — not in the form in which it is expressed in European
formerly been received directly from the spiritual world but were now
begin with, in the spiritual world and then seeks bodily substance in
it derives from the same world to which the stars belong: the human
being has descended from the worlds of the Stars!” ... It
was seen as a heavenly being, a being from the spiritual world. For it
that he was clothed in matter. The transition from the spiritual world
to the physical world was a much gentler, more delicate process. Not
spiritual world ... on the contrary, he saw clearly that there was
beings who belong to that other world. He knew: One can communicate
connection with the spiritual world survived the Atlantean
so the perfectly natural communion with the spiritual world very soon
turned its gaze into the spiritual world around, was born again later
the spiritual world.
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 3: 'Chance' and Present-day Consciousness. An Easter Meditation
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word “chance.” We say that certain happenings in the world
world-evolution, one which, if we grasp its significance, shows us
to a higher world and has drawn nearer to what is spoken of by all
world-evolution; and if we connect direct observation of the outer
world with what we learn from Spiritual Science, a very remarkable
Thus when we know of the power of the Supersensible behind the world
see the clash of two worlds, literally the clash of two worlds.
A wise World-Order has made it possible for many happenings to appear
about by the spiritual worlds! He will look down upon them as
Within us there is a clash of two worlds: one is connected merely with
“chance,” recognising the wisdom with which world-evolution
Something must take place of which the exoteric world has absolutely
in the world, even though this amounts merely to a new understanding
philosophical opinions concerning the spiritual world which make some
to teachings concerning a spiritual world although it is not difficult
world upon reason.” But when they hear about Spiritual Science or
under the name of “Theosophy,” the world-conception I now
impulses leading to progress in the world can only flourish when they
fortuity in the world is permeated with meaning and divine purpose.
also to behold itself in the world and to draw into its own realm of
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 4: The Forces of the Human Soul and Their Inspirers. Kalewala: The Epic
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spiritual worlds and have, in their own way, expressed in words, we
ourselves strive for deeper insight into those worlds and man's
knowledge we have acquired concerning the super-sensible world?
that in and from those same worlds to which we aspire along the path
given to the world in different epochs and in multifarious ways.
observation of the spiritual world had led me to “member” the
directed to the spiritual world quite independently of any tradition.
our present relationship to the external world, simply did not exist;
world. Therefore when we look into the spiritual world we can speak of
worlds are connected, Beings who are the direct Inspirers of the
soul in that super-sensible world with which, in primeval times, human
world, no matter whether this is the result of deliberate training, as
the outpouring of the threefold human soul from the spiritual world.
Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science.”)
remained in the spiritual world above; his development began only when
acquired today of the spiritual worlds. The Kalewala is an example of
the whole world of culture are turning to it. In what is the most
So, too, it can be the whole world over, when we realise what must be
world which will break in upon them as a kind of natural experience.
“grow into” the spiritual world. Through Spiritual Science,
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 5: The Idea of Reincarnation and Its Introduction Into Western Culture
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insight into the spiritual world and conceptions of the universe which
vision into the spiritual worlds have never since been equalled, nor
beggar in the Upper World than a king in the realm of the
significance of the spiritual world lying behind and beyond the
spiritual worlds. This will serve as an illustration of the
again of all that Christianity has brought into the world, we know
In typically Oriental conceptions of the world there is a firmly
its continuance in a simple heavenly life, the Oriental world
Oriental world-conception we find references to Beings of whom it is
world of thought from which Buddhism has grown speaks of many Buddhas
other words, the Oriental conception of the world perceives the
outer world can teach is, at most, semblance and parable, that
painter. In the western world, as is only to be expected, it is
Orphaned at an early age, he was thrown out into the world, and
disputes in the world of religion were rampant and widespread, when
in the Christian world at the time and a kind of jubilation at the
have endeavoured to present Raphael's creations to the world in the
(not events in the spiritual world) which took place after he was
world. Deep insight may come to us when, in the light of such concrete
in the physical world is a great law of existence, and that recurrence
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worlds leads thought and perception beyond the material world of
beyond the ordinary world into a spiritual world, in reality his
perceived, in everything taking place in the world, something at once
and certain attributes of things in the world lay in a sphere unknown
something that is not present in the world of sense. And so, before
the world of sense the philosophers perceived no super-sensible forces.
than the actual phenomena of the sense-world. In other words:
the super-sensible world.” And so all philosophising begins with
as a being who comes into the world of the senses from a super-sensible
world and finds that the things of the sense-world do not tally with
what he perceived in the super-sensible world. Wonder arises in him
be explained by knowledge he once possessed in a super-sensible world.
world, to something belonging to a sphere he can only enter when he
transcends the world in which his physical body encloses him. This is
one indication of the fact that here, in this physical world, there is
A second power which releases the human being from the ordinary world,
Those who go heedlessly through the world do not regard compassion as
into his world. In other words: we are set free from ourselves, we
fact that compassion exists in the world bears witness that even in
the world of sense we can be set free from, can pass out beyond
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 7: The Signature of Human Evolution The Advancing Individuality
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it is to be a beggar in the Upper World than a king in the realm of
the Shades!” ... that is to say, in the world lying on the
the Fourth Post-Atlantean epoch knew that in the physical world he was
with what the Greeks called the World of Shades, because by that time
connection with that other world.
worlds of Divine Spirit, was present not only in the culture which
of the world presented to a man of the earliest Indian epoch, of which
cannot direct his gaze to the outer world in the way that is customary
in our time. His perception, his picture of the world cannot be as
from Cosmic Space, from the world of the stars — it was these
the great Cosmic Spaces remained. Whereas perceptions of the world
gazed with lucid clarity into the world of the stars. It is therefore
physical world was already in its preparatory stage. The impulses
long, long ages. Thus the impulse to look out into the physical world
with the worlds of Divine Spirit ” ... The gaze was turned back
Gods had fashioned the world through the ages of Lemuria and Atlantis.
with a faculty which tells him of the outer world, clouds the bright
light of the inner world of the Spirit, and compels him to look from
within-outwards, if he is to master the external world. This age was
physical world to which he was descending. Picturing this Impulse as a
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present in the human being as he moves about the world today; and the
really means nothing in the outer world. It is within you, and only
after death does it begin to mean something in the outer world —
others, in the outside world. Think about this, and it will soon
but pass over into the world outside as active influences.
What is imparted in this way to the outer world during a man's
the outer world. Everyday consciousness is bound up with the physical
as an influence in the outer world, has its source in the astral body.
by the human “ I,” and passes over into other worlds —
world. Karma remains connected with the human being; but there are
world.

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are sent outwards, towards the outer spiritual world, and that
spiritual world actually as destructive forces. On the other hand, all
processes operating in world-evolution are understood, that thinking
the necessary impulses of will made effective in the world. In order
Individuality, so does the path to the spiritual worlds taken by human
was an outer happening, striking into the physical world; a future
becoming more accessible to influences from the spiritual world, the
souls are open to the spiritual worlds and if they strive to grasp
A kind of counterbalancing process operates in the world and while, on
“the world rolls onwards like a wheel; in olden days there were
a world-historical Event, made manifest for all humanity. What had in
Initiation, became a world-historical event, passed into the common
upon a kind of remoteness from the world. Ask yourselves whether there
of World-Teachers — and this quite apart from the fact that no
happens. As world-evolution progresses, the factor of independent
anyone who knows the world today will realise that nothing can so
into the spiritual worlds. Hindrances would be laid in his path by
world as of yore? Is it possible to say that man's own spiritual
way to the spiritual world, if this is made dependent upon the
world. In such circumstances, moreover, the other side may well become
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture One
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from spiritual heights to the world of terrestrial existence.
world a more deep-seated antagonism than between the spirit
spiritual world. Ramifications of this Mystery teaching were
certain centres of world evolution, the abolition of the soul
stage of world history. In that event, we may ask, why did
world. It was suppressed by dogmatic Christianity from

Title: Building Stones: Lecture Two
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the world we must study the tripartite division of the cosmos
accordance with the laws of the physical world; the soul-life
apprehends the external world through sense-perception. This
appears just as it is”, withdraws to a world remote
from the phenomenal world and enjoys immortality. Now this
world. It was simply a question of the degree of spiritual
Therefore with the best will in the world it is difficult to
place in the spiritual world before man first incarnated on
a true understanding of the world, must be reckoned amongst
back to the spiritual world.
world; that the souls of men had not yet severed all
turn from God to a world of materialism of their own
repeated Earth-lives. A time in the evolution of the world
the world proved to be the salvation of mankind. Now we must

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must break with the past withdrew from the world and became
People declared that one must renounce the world and follow
“withdraw from the world” is still to be found in
the world could man be saved from the consequences of the
them to remain in the world and yet find salvation. He had no
“kingdom of the world”. It was an attack upon the
“kingdoms of the world”, in contradistinction to
their spirit with the spirit which He found in the world
the kingdom of the world and characterized this difference in
of the world. What was the result? — “And all
Christ Jesus, an impulse that was not of this world, but
spirits behind the physical world in so far as they have
Jesus is concerned with the spiritual world itself. It is
that Christ was destined to introduce into the world
something that had not existed before. The world disapproves
first to recognize that Christ Jesus had given to the world
spiritual world. Out of their super-sensible knowledge the
demons revealed Christ's contribution to the world long
of the world as envisaged by physicists. At the time I made
object in the external world. We can observe it only from
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to exclude morality from their view of world evolution. Today
the world will be determined by these same laws. To a certain
the physical world. Indeed certain religious confessions seek
Christianity on his sleeve, but his view of the world was
that there is a higher vision of the world in which the
have found it impossible to think of the world as once again
non-Christian world would have precious little confidence in
most sober observation of the world around confirms what I
fraction of Goethe's world-conception is realized in
endowed. He would have looked out upon a world from which he
own eyes and they are realities in the external world like
had eyes to see the external world, but also to perceive the
not only an interaction with the external world, but a
plane. In order that the world may not fall into a state of
when it is incorporated in this way in the whole world order;
Impulse to the cosmic world order.
“You who are now living in the kingdom of this world
the world; no new laws can originate there. But to those who
the Scribes, must approach the world in a new light, as
something more than a purely phenomenal world.”
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but because he was denied insight into the spiritual world,
world in which nature and morality are one — then the
world.
familiar with Schopenhauer's dictum: “The world
without the eye, that without the eye the world would be dark
able to open men's eyes to the physical world. But this
perception of the phenomenal world implied, on the other
attention to the external world of the senses, but the spirit
dwelling in that world could not enter into them; their eyes
the sensible world, that we cannot see behind this world.
from the contemporary view of the world are motivated by the
conception of the world must lead directly to Spiritual
kingdom of the world, but seek it rather in the things that
are not of this world. Receive baptism whereby your etheric
that his individuality inhabits the spiritual world between
the spiritual world, to the spiritual Hierarchies. When a man
Gods in the surrounding world, but he can perceive them
individuality inhabits the spiritual world, and he is also
be a citizen of the spiritual world where Jupiter dwelt. He
demeanour that he belonged to the spiritual world. Sometimes
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super-sensible world — recognized Him. The super-sensible
world therefore knew of His advent. The more informed leaders
plane but something that was related to the spiritual world,
world. Without a shadow of doubt the leading spirits of early
world, had a presentiment of the far-reaching importance of
worlds. Many who were contemporaries of the Mystery of
the advent of Christ Jesus — indeed the world had been
the existing world order of that time.
exercised a powerful influence in the external world. They
the spiritual world.” They were aware that a decisive
turning-point in the history of the world had now been
which has entered the world at this decisive moment in
with the spiritual world-impulses and to stem the tide of
world-evolution. Such things had already happened before; and
known to the world that the turning-point in world-history
spiritual world. Baptism was no longer an object of ridicule;
the effects of baptism were demonstrated for all the world to
world history had arrived. This inititated Emperor had taken
initiated into the secrets of world events received a
deeper meaning but they felt that the turning-point of world
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One of the outstanding figures in world
His life and career show how the course of world history is
and world evolution, the spiritual origin of the world and
world to the spiritual Being of the Sun and above all that
man on Earth. It was clear to Julian that the world can never
to have a voice in the ordering of the world. He had to
spiritual forces operating in the sensible world, and that if
we seek to introduce new impulses into world evolution by
which derived their power from the spiritual world. These
saw the vanishing world of antiquity in a totally different
spiritual world. He could only hope to succeed in the task he
living forces in the world? On what grounds do these teachers
as that which descends from the spiritual world. Those who
the world of thought from the world of reality. The
intervene in the external world and to play an active part in
that world. The conception of Christ Jesus that was commonly
that are valid for the spiritual world. You can gather from
fail to translate the possibility into reality if the world
the spiritual world.
spiritual world was anathema especially to the Roman Empire
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these centuries a wave of iconoclasm swept over the world
asleep, and I mean this literally. They see the world as if
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
the vanities of the world. I am emotionally detached from
the external world. Aristotle, too, realized that our contact
with the external world is mediated through the physical
to experience the external world. Hence the feeling of
deeper insight into the spiritual world I cannot rely on my
surrounded by a world of spirit and the resurrection has
the Logos operate purely in the spiritual world? What is the
world of spiritual ideas. When we study the Eleusinian
of the spiritual world, the most important experience he
fallen, nor has the world collapsed in chaos despite the fact
our feet. The loss of the ancient world is not the trivial
Powers in the world would be America and Russia. American

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world of Antiquity and perfectly justified up to the time of
sensible world around him or of what one learns through
responsive to the world around, to be aware of the needs of
of the world in order to widen the range of his experience,
participation in the life of the world. In this way these
world, whilst the higher Initiates had more or less purged
“Ravens” to mediate between the external world
news of the outside world. These are echoes of the ancient
Mysteries his experience of the sensible world, but also to
impulses which the super-sensible world (this world of
external world. And only when he was fully integrated into
is related to the external, sensible world was he considered
the sensible world that which must be revealed from the
super-sensible world.
the initiate who owed to his contact with the spiritual world
penetrates into the spiritual world where the State cannot
can one reduce to order the chaos in the world if one has no
unless the spirit is rooted in the spiritual world
the spiritual world. He therefore says: reason must look to
spiritual world. Freedom, individuality, dignity, morality,
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existence of a spiritual world, but that the doors to this
world were closed to them. And there are many at the present
possibility of gaining insight into the spiritual world they
times when the spiritual world was revealed to the whole of
decision of choosing paths leading to the spiritual world.
world.
threshold of the spiritual world. If one practises the
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
concealed the spiritual world. Swedenborg had developed a
all who would penetrate to the spiritual world. It was
observations about the relations between the spiritual world
and the phenomenal world, observations which are highly
to the spiritual world. He was not motivated by egoism in his
when the doors of the spiritual world were opened to him
world — a man whose scientific achievement not only
who are able to see into the spiritual world, that it is
insight into the spiritual world, not the kind of treatise
At that moment an angel descended from the upper world and
their wisdom guide the world because it accords with the
implications. For that which in the phenomenal world appears
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a picture of the theosophical world view in the talks which are entitled:
the time in which the theosophical movement has entered the world if
is three decades old and that when it entered the world approximately
give something to the world that it needs. And those who teach theosophy
that one could form a world view from the old religious books. Yes,
that time that there is nothing else in the world than what happens
those may have seen uneasily into the world who believed that salvation
Apparently, the world view was totally changed. The human beings have
world views to themselves in quite different way than in former times.
Astronomy had shown them how one can collate world views from the mere
into the worlds and to create a world view which does not contain, however,
the human being. Look back at the old world views: the human being had
That is why science had to investigate the world of life. It investigated
world views and the question was answered with the means of science.
said: but in such a world view I find nothing of God. — Laplace
world view did not need the hypothesis of a spiritually working being,
of their time, who answered the worldly worldly, but were able at the
who try to solve the various riddles of the world in this sense as you
had come. This impact prepared itself and came into the world in the
Indian, Babylonian and Assyrian or even Chinese spiritual world, the
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of theosophy should give a short outline of the world view and way of
movement propagates the world view which I will give as something dogmatic.
be nothing else as a union where such world views are cultivated which
world view is able to represent his personal view of it.
For the theosophical world
over the method of the theosophical world view does not agree with any
produces this world view, the other theosophist another one. Only this
of the theosophical world view. If he then believes that that which
he has recognised is the whole of the world view, it may happen that
one often supposes that the theosophical world view has to do anything
been preserved that core of the world view which has always lived as
theosophy. So it does not concern Buddhist propaganda but a world view
the modern human being if he reads of the origin of this world view
It would have been pointless to them appearing before the world. It
who have represented the theosophical world view at all times and in
the world views are different which are described according to the own
always the same. The world view, which I give, corresponds to the world
world view, on reincarnation or re-embodiment and on karma or on the
the three worlds which the human being has to go through on his big
pilgrimage from the physical world, which everybody knows, from the
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world leads us to the principles of the physical life. Our usual science
world that any effect has its cause. Any action of the spiritual life
for the sensuous human being the facts of the physical world take place
we perceive everywhere in the outside world thanks to the scientific
effect of the animal soul-world. We speak a little more exactly about
this animal soul-world in the next talks. Today we can be content with
an interrelationship into the world if he generally wants to see sense
and reason in the world; he must be able to refer any effect to its
physical phenomena. If you see any fact in the outer physical world
first. If you follow the whole ancient Greek world and trace the descriptions
only in the Christian world. There is a drama trilogy, the Oresteia
the purposes of a reasonable world order. If this were the cause, this
present developmental stage, indeed, in the astral and spiritual worlds
but that he is not aware of these two worlds that he is only aware of
the physical world and attains in the future and on higher levels what
is aware in the physical world and lives in the worlds of soul and spirit.
needs the physical world to be able to work. Being physically active
his brain exists in the physical world, he remembers what meets him
of cause and effect. This is possible only in the spiritual world if
in the physical and lives only in the astral and the spiritual worlds
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how he places himself in the world today and looks at his task in the
world at first, we have to emphasise the typical peculiarities of the
that there are round him in the world activities of art and technical
active in the world. In the end, everything that the human being undertakes
find such materialised thoughts, otherwise, in the world. Look only
once impartially not through the glasses of the present world view at
many millennia, and see with which means the theosophical world view
things which we can pursue in the world are spirit, soul and external
not able to understand the things outside in the world, before he has
in himself, he sees it realised also in the outside world. Not until
the outside world materialised. We have to get clear about the fact
world to itself to understand it. As a rule, the human being recognises
and study these ancient world views, we find that the human beings had
special mind. They had a great idea of the all-embracing world spirit
and its different transformations in the world, but they were not yet
whole world. Everything is ensouled with them. If they have to understand
concept of a world life, a concept of life in its highest significance.
The whole world is life to him, in every stone, in every star he sees
concept which has the mastery over our world view: the concept of mechanism.
D., 1596–1650). He applies the concept of mechanism to the animal world.
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Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture V: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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ideas which have to lead us through the labyrinth of the world phenomena.
in the world unless it appeared in new forms again and again. Form is
in the whole universe, in the whole big star world. In even later time,
world view. Who accepts the external material world only, how should
as retrieval in the great primal spirit of the world. The problem of
an entire renewal of all views of life and world in the form of what
according to which also all external phenomena of the world take place,
the ideals are not outside in the material world, but can stream only
to appreciate and recognise life and world.
he knew a lot. Such theosophists who lead us from the sensuous world
to a higher one, who are able to behold super-sensible worlds, they should
who is blind and deaf to that which happens in the sensuous world, to
If theosophy has to lead us to higher worlds, we have to bring the super-sensible
the world, in which his contemporaries live, and has to recognise the

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The Soul-world
pointed to the fact that the theosophical world view does not lead the
lead to fantastic, illusory fields as the adversaries of this world
to emphasise this in particular before we enter the world which the
of the theosophical world view are inclined only too easily to explain
look deeper in the nature of things recognises these super-sensible worlds
that are beyond the sensuous world as the real nature of all beings.
only to be able to work here in this world. We have to know the nature
of the super-sensible to bring it into the sensuous world. That is why
senses knows nothing about these higher worlds. He lives in them; however,
living in a world and knowing about it are two completely different
if the human being were without eyes and ears the whole world around
the world gleams in colours and sounds. We must say of this world that
soul-life. Imagine clearly once how the world, which gleams and sounds
imagine how to a blind-born whose eyes are operated the world, which
an operation. About the everyday world lies a soul-world which is real
soul-world the astral world. One has argued a lot against the term astral
world because one believed to find a medieval prejudice. But not without
reason this world has been called astral by those who are able to behold
in the soul-world. For just as colours and sounds appear to the physical
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and a new birth where he moves from the so-called soul-world on the
us, it fills our world approximately in such a way as the air fills
the physical world everywhere. It can only not be perceived by those
physical sense is closed and the spiritual eye is opened, the world
which I have described eight days ago as an astral, as a soul world
want to describe the totally different worlds to which we ascend. Hence,
the world of thoughts who knows the significance of the thought life
our world, for that the life of thought gets a different significance.
existence, radiant organisation where nothing is in the physical world.
connects him with the spiritual world. Thus the human being does not
world, he beholds everything filled with higher reality that appears
so to speak, the airy sentient world completely penetrating the space
and pain flow through this spiritual world like lightning and thunder.
You can probably imagine that the insight into this world gives another
has another concept of war and peace of the world, another concept of
things they are also not there. Someone who comes into the world with
world. If the human being ascends to this region either as a seer or
being brings in to this world. It is that which appears to him as the
into the physical world with him. The human being takes from these three
world.
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Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture VIII: Friedrich Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
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people were in the world; Nietzsche was not less happy who looked back
world view.
from the theosophical point of view, from a spiritual world consideration.
talks; it is a shade, an image of the spiritual world. The thought is
a simulacrum which our imagination offers to us. Thus the world became
in the world where the spirit exists as such only in the form of a blind
a solution of the riddle of the world to him. Everybody who is familiar
that music offers a solution of the riddle of the world.
on the physical plane or the sensuous world but also in the higher worlds.
If we ascend through the soul-world to the higher spiritual worlds,
of the stars in the world, the growth of plants, the feeling of the
occultist says: the human being finds out the secrets of the world only
in the sounds of music which come toward us from the outside world.
who wants to express himself about the world's secrets with mere
can express himself about the world's secrets. Therefore, Friedrich
expression of the higher world's secrets. Thus the way was shown
and of the whole world in grand pictures before the soul.
of the riddle of the world. However, Dionysus had descended to the matter
world was shown to the mystes not only sensually, but also spiritually
himself as a riddle of the world to the prosaic materialistic time?
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Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture IX: On the Inner Life
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of the nature of the human being and the so-called three worlds: the
physical world, the soul-world and the spiritual world. It will be my
for the theosophical world-picture.
matters that the theosophical world view announces. But I ask you to
in the soul-world or the spirit-land. Today the first level should occupy
of the worlds of soul and spirit. Nobody this must be emphasised again
idea of the higher worlds, soon convinces himself that the least is
pain, this accident stands there not like a miracle in the world, but
principle in the world that that which annoyed him must have a necessary
Hence, it is necessary, before you enter the soul-world and the spirit-land,
world picture which he beholds with the internal force of his mind and
soul. He turns the look into the soul-world and the spirit-land; he
The big picture of the world and humanity, which he has let his soul
field only with patience, endurance and love of the world powers. These
are forces that are powerful in the inner world like electricity is
in the external world. They are not only moral forces, but also forces
big eternal truths. Then the world is suddenly illuminated round him
that he never heard sounding before. The world gleams in a new light;
shine to him from the soul-world, and the new sounds which he hears
come up to him from the spirit-land. One sees the soul-world, one hears
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Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture X: Goethe's Gospel
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to give a picture of the theosophical world view that is completely
is not a matter of importing any foreign oriental world view but of
world view. Thus Lessing believed in reincarnation. In Herder's
a theosophical world view in the later works of Goethe. Indeed, this
determined by his whole disposition to the world view we represent here.
He was convinced that the human being is deeply connected with the world,
and that this world is nothing material, but active, creative spirit;
his world view was not an uncertain pantheism, but he believed that
the new world views.
in Heaven to show the intention of his drama. The physical world
is a reflection of force relations of the super-sensible world. With
the words of the Prologue in Heaven Goethe describes the world
of devachan, the sounding world. He represents it in the picture of
the sounding of the spiritual world.
worlds: of the dream world, of the astral or soul world and of the mental
or spiritual world. The emergence of the spiritual eye produces immense
changes in the dream life first. If the new beholding, the new world
chela has to learn to take this consciousness of the astral world along
the spiritual world in the dreamless sleep.
astral world expresses itself in pictures, the consciousness of the
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the theosophical world view is the basis of Goethe's works, and
I try to deepen this Goethean world view from the theosophical point
world interpretation or a supernatural creation history, as well as
in which Christianity originated. It arose from older world views. However,
the bodily world according to his ideas, which are the models. Also
world which achieves a perpetual rise of the being, while the external
of the matter with another word. Only the theosophical world view again
us from the outside world which the human being creates only from his
of sensuousness and refer to everything else in the world, to minerals,
He wanted to establish a world which raises us from the only psychic
reality is raised to a higher level, into the pure thought-world. You
which is limited only to the earthly world.
can be raised to a higher sphere, the world of feelings can also be
raised to a higher sphere. That world of joys and desires is apparently
a lower world than the world of thoughts, but if it is raised to the
higher regions, it is even higher than the world of thoughts. The eternal
the lower feeling. But in our world of feelings this eternal lives as
subjected to the logical world principles. However, there is also a
the eternal. If now a feeling has risen to this world, to such a world
world principle it is hard to talk of this highest development of the
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Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XII: Goethe's Secret Revelation I
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but that we can experience objective world contents. The Fairy Tale
forces, also feeling and willing, can penetrate into the objective world
the depths of Goethe's world view. Goethe himself said of it to
the souls like by hieroglyphics. Where the world view became completely
tales are the most profound expression of Goethe's world view.
of Goethe's most intimate approach to life and world view. The
to us, a this-worldly one, a yonder one and in between them is a river.
It shows the world of body, soul and spirit, and the path of the human
being to the super-sensible world. The near side bank is the physical
world, the yonder one, the country of the beautiful lily, is the spiritual
world; in between is the river, the astral world, the world of desire.
soul life in the physical world, of this mortal world, then of the devachan
world. Then it can ascend to the beyond, to the kingdom of the beautiful
The river in between, the astral world, the current of desires and passions
separating the human beings from the spiritual world must be overcome.
was, so to speak, initiated in the secrets of the mystic world view
Mercury. According to the theosophical world view Mercury is the symbol
the union with these truths of the spiritual worlds. This is a way which
that he said that an approach of the world and its contents could be
he did his best to penetrate into Goethe's world view. Then the letter
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takes the principles of the spiritual world upon itself by the sacrifice.
with the lamp mechanically as it were from the world into the temple
directed completely unilaterally to the sensory world has gone through
everything lifeless. Goethe looks in big perspective at a world where
everything in the world is transformed, is infiltrated with the human
the world, the ancient wisdom of the world, and that is why he is able
He is paralysed when he wants to get to the spiritual world with such
world using magic where those are who are no longer in the physical
wisdom of the world gleams in all religious systems; its truth shines
world history.
soul gets to the spiritual world which developing its own forces is
human being can also experience something of the spiritual world that
shine. Thus the hawk connects a setting world day with a newly dawning
hidden from the external world unfolded its effectiveness in order to
is there open and free in front of the whole world, accessible to all
world. The true initiation can now take place for humanity.
being can survey the forces in him and in their origin worlds in full
the rays of the sun which shines to the new world day: “the king,
lily, the clairvoyant consciousness, and this world and the next world

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the upper world to get new force from the realm of the human beings.
young man becomes small like a dwarf and enters into the world which
world, a small world, indeed, but an entire world. The human being is
a microcosm, a small world in a big one. The small box is nothing but
in the wife of the old man, designs pictures of the whole big world,
from another world, preceded the origin of the human being and was there
of being in the divine world to strive then to atma.
the world and become smaller, above all the royal family.” Hence,
the external world. The soul would die away if it did not take up the
lessons from the outside world.
outside world to make them our spiritual property. Then the mind processes
to the outside world, in the hours of leisure. Our concepts would atrophy
if we withdrew from the outside world. It is a spiritual respiratory
process, a “giving and taking.” We develop our inside world
outwardly, we soak up the outside world. Goethe showed this evolution
products should represent the world allegorically, about these a flame
appears then within a cultural world in a new body again, lives differently
in this cultural world than, for example, within a body that belongs
The red colour signifies the consciousness for the astral world in the
sympathy with the whole world, if he feels like merging in the universe,
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takes place in the external sensory world and is to be grasped with
only shaped for the external sensuous world. One has to use everything
taken from purely spiritual worlds into clear language. Nevertheless,
of the big world evolution also shown in the theosophical literature.
about the great initiates of the world. Any real initiation can be connected
clear thinking would receive a bad gift. He would be led to a world
of fancies rather than to a higher spiritual world. There he would miss
any control and would face it like the chaotic dream world. Not before
riddle of the world. All occult schools have as a precondition that
clairvoyance, the cognition of the astral auric world, is connected
temperatures than we know on earth today. There the whole material world
idea how it looked at that time. An animal world, nevertheless, lived
world today, he also took up it in those days in similar way.
We stand on the point of evolution where again an idealistic world view
chair and could have looked at the whole world edifice basically the
human being only came in as an astral being into this physical world
physical states several times, because only within the physical world
outside world before has disappeared, but the fruit, the result has
the soul has originated from the intercourse with the outside world.
The theosophical world view
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Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XVI: The Great Initiates
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The theosophical world view
differs from all remaining world views, which we can meet in the present,
initiates gave the different religions and world views to the different
him. All those, however, who are within our civilised world, have auras
how the world has been changed in the course of the last century and
of space and time. What is dependent on them connects us with the world
must have these if we want to behold into the soul-world, just as we
must have physical senses to be able to look into the physical world.
into this astral world, then only the real apprenticeship begins for
he speaks of a sounding in the spiritual world that he speaks of a luminescence
in the astral world, the world of desires. Not without reason Goethe
the spiritual world: “In these sounds we spirits hear the new
being, because he has found the connection with a new world because
the spiritual world sounds to him and because he has no longer his home,
so to speak, in this sensuous world. One must not misunderstand this.
course of soul development. There he attains a new home in a world which
The spiritual world sounds in the human being, and while the spiritual
world sounds into the human being, he overcomes an illusion, the illusion
rest of the world. Already a mere reflection could teach him that he
existence. We are only the continuation of the outside world and absolutely
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from the aesthetic point of view, but from the world view I might speak
with the whole world. This is different from today: we have now to search
yonder world which one clings to. This makes a big difference for the
lived and died for what surrounded him what lived in his outside world.
In mediaeval times, something of a divine world order still lived, indeed,
in the mystic as in the people this divine world order was alive. It
emerging in the soul. What happens in the world of stars as God's
in the depth of his soul, as he is put into the world.
a mirror image of the outside world, also no longer a mirror of the
world may be, I put human beings into it who set this world on fire.
is that what appears full of contents in the world. If I have a future
thought, full of contents, and imagine what I insert into the world,
to the world; he should be an emissary not reproduce, but shape, create.
The third world age in which the ideal comes into its own is not yet
not in such a way that it had force and power to fashion the world.
individuality. All old world views have stated an individual, natural
theosophical world view to bring freedom about which does no longer
It is the spiritual, theosophical life and world view to contribute
time point to this theosophical, spiritual-scientific world view being

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of the masters' profound knowledge of the big spiritual world
get out of the knowledge of the big world principles what he wants for
distant future are not the so-called practical spirits, but the world
with those big world laws which were announced in the mysteries as the
world laws of the future, as those world laws which the human being
and this question has often been put: Are these the unworldly idealists
in the talk on the great initiates, then the world laws appear before
the spiritual look, world laws according to which the development takes
the human being has also to mix the substances to help the big world
laws to the road of success. On the basis of such world laws, two matters
the seer in the worlds which give an insight into these matters by the
describe today that a vision rose in him. A world in his soul answered
pictures across the outer world.
the human being penetrates the higher worlds consciously and not in
fugue states where he perceives the soul-world around him. Nothing else
and reality. Nobody can come to the higher world who indulges every
world thereby becomes that sounding world of which Goethe speaks and
regions, to the spiritual world or devachan; to that world in which
the human being stays between death and a new birth. These are the worlds
a human race which does not penetrate the physical world as deeply as
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to a body to make new experiences in this world. It is the great idea
who bring up a new age, an age in which one looks at the world differently
difference of the old world view of the12th, 13th centuries with that
Comedy with the world view of the 17th, 18th centuries. One may
argue against the medieval world view as much as one likes. It can no
it arranged the world as a big harmony, and the human being was arranged
in this divine world order as its centre, he himself belonged to this
an effect down to the plants and minerals. The whole world was enclosed
with this divine harmony. He rested in that which he felt as the world
change in the time when the new world view got entrance in the minds
when the world was permeated with the modern spirit of research. There
world. One could not harmonise what one thought of the sensuous world
feel how the world is connected with it; one did no longer have this.
The materialists created a new world view in which actually nothing
world view of Holbach (1723–1789) was got out of the scientific
had alienated himself from nature not only by the world view; he also
us in a divine world order? These are the feelings which lived in Schiller's
world of the 18-th century faces us there. Nice sentences are in this
philosophy, sentences like those which Paracelsus expressed as his world
view. In the sense of Paracelsus that of the whole outside world is
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which one needed as worldly knowledge; however, the central issue was
the world that stands certainly which we call the primal ground of the
world, the divine, in so far as the human being can grasp it. Theology
had to say about the world basically got its light, its most significant
world as a big unity. The divine creativity was on top, at the summit.
the manifoldness of the world. What one knew about the forces and realms
one studied philosophy first. It encompassed all worldly sciences. Then
are not only put into the world order, but we ourselves co-operate in
the world order. On the one side, the philosophical and the theological
other side, the medical faculty and that of law consider the world in
its emergence, the world how it has to be led from the imperfect to
turns to the moral world and asks how it must be made better. The whole
who generally wants to be introduced into the secrets of the world existence,
the laws of logic, into the basic principles of the world or into metaphysics,
the teachings of the divine world order, cannot exist at all unless
one deepens everything into the divine world order.
be able to say anything about the divine world order who knows nothing
who are able to find the world of religious world view from their immediate
of the world where he can be alone with his God, with his thinking and
the religions. The conversation with God and the divine world order
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of the theosophical world view we deal less with the right or the laws.
of the complete theory. The world completely overlooks the most important
18-th century there still was something that made philosophy the world
just be a kind of world wisdom. Those who developed our legal wisdom
that forms the basis of the theosophical world view, and what we have
theosophical view about the development of the human soul. The world
you want to create better conditions in the world, you must give people

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Some regular world relations were revealed to someone thinking that
ourselves in this world. The theosophically thinking person understands

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why somebody who wants to become engrossed in wisdom and world view
was integrated into a big organism. Fichte was convinced that the world
of the unity of the world has disappeared. The arts faculty should pursue
world secrets in the plant as the psychologist realises them in the
From the point of view of world knowledge it is quite irrelevant whether
great spirits of the world not without reason. There is no branch of
depended for the world and for the human beings.
world the paradise of mathematics! Where he built bridges, thoughts
the world” means theosophically: the less someone acts for himself,
as what we implant in the world. Not what we perfect in ourselves, but
what we give to the world is the pledge and the pound which is imperishable.
in the world is an execution of the divine world plan. Something common
be probably placed. But it had to be the headquarters of the world view
great world view do not have the saying, but rather psychology, which
any idealistic world view into the world. The arts faculty is not able
where we want to work in life. The world process is not anything dead,
of the human mind. If theosophy is a world of the spirit, then theosophy

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world other than the physical-material one. They knew: In
that world, those who died young had other tasks to
still had a satisfying view of life and the world.
lead man into the spiritual world, illumining it for him.
mysteries. Direct vision of the spiritual world was lost
see into the spiritual world, though in decreasing measure.
heroes: “It is better to be a beggar in the upper world
through direct vision that the “upper world” and
because of this vision that the spiritual world as such
kind of spiritual world. That is why it is of such immense
with loss of all connection with the spiritual world.
receive from the external world and ordinary history, people
one's own pleasure while believing to have a world mission;
ideas about peace, which have swept through the world, are so

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attempts are made to understand the world and attain a
into the world with forces of growth, of thriving, and
world of the Gods.
The connection man formerly had with the spiritual world came
tragic destiny, for Christ — from the external world
understand what is actually taking place in the world can
from this world of the senses into a reverie — then a
about the world catastrophe of 1914.” What is one to
who suddenly hears about the world war of 1914. So during his

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same natural way a certain worldly maturity. No one disputed
were in the spiritual world. They became aware of this once
spiritual world became dark. The teaching about Ormuzd and
experience. Man was aware that he was in the spiritual world
spiritual world which he could experience through
spiritual world had been experienced directly through
fourth epoch when the surrounding spiritual world had faded
stars was perceived; the world was seen more or less as we
world in ancient Greece. That the soul lives in the body and
founded a philosophy of the world of stars. He interpreted
world. The time had come when something had to intervene: the
worlds and enter the body of Jesus of Nazareth. Man had to
Christ Jesus in the modern world.
a concrete grasp of the spiritual world and thereby rekindles
world. We can find our connection with spirituality only
sense the soul's necessity of union with the spiritual world.
experiments how the world will end.
thoughts about the spiritual world will be mere fantasy. One
concepts of the spiritual world. One's thoughts remain unreal
are taken from the external physical world, but today other
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man can regain the connection with the spiritual world which
discover the interplay of forces between man and world, he
with forces that entered me from the spiritual world, and
stem from higher worlds. I cannot regard it as belonging to
that spiritual powers in higher worlds wish to communicate
forces proceeding from the spiritual world, and what I am
worlds; I may not look upon it as belonging to my ordinary
— is working out of a spiritual world through me on
through tubes or wires to a spiritual world, thought of in
one gains knowledge of facts belonging to higher worlds
example of how the modern world presents anthroposophy. This
absorbs the pictures coming from the external world and made
world, one certainly meets with things that are neither easy

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world views. He was reticent about his work and very little
all-encompassing view of the world based on psychology. I
the inner world of fluctuating moods and feelings. Thus,
exists out there in the external world is experienced in the
external material world, the world of mere appearance.
of the external world; where is the world of appearance? What
related to the whole world through his ether body. That he
world, and in that world are the impulses of good. In the
spiritual world also holds sway what for man is good and

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and its relation to the world. There is at the present time a
death into the spiritual world. But one's life of feeling
world. From what we see inwardly as a thought picture of our
I, the world will prepare for our next incarnation
of the world. When asked by our friends to write something in
written: “To find yourself, seek in the world; to find
the world, seek in yourself.”
one's experience of the world. However, in this respect
World War gypsies have practically disappeared but those who
connections in life one is contemplating the world rather
physical world. It corresponds to someone walking through a
in the physical world, it is rejected. However, there is a
events of the spiritual world must be sought in subtler ways
than is customary today. Life in the physical world is
completely different from life in the spiritual world. It is
spiritual world, which requires a much more delicate
aim should rather be to seek within the world those hidden
flows into the world, issue from the I that was the dried
“Our path through the spiritual world can be traversed

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is spiritual in the world, from our knowledge of the
provide him with, i.e., what the world can make of him, will
feelings and perceptions. Our mental pictures of the world,
world around him, but an interest directed towards the spirit
confines of the immediate sensory world into that realm of
the spiritual world which reaches beyond what is perceived
spiritual world. You will understand that the spiritual
the spiritual world itself the spiritual researcher sets
physical world, then the corresponding physical facts must be
stands in the modern world with all that nature provides,
future. If such a person could be found in the modern world,
dreamed of a world court of arbitration, which is a typical
benefit the world. But what Lloyd George cannot do is
When one is able to look behind the scenes of world history
intervened in the world situation which could not have arisen
convictions because all that lives in the physical world is
on behind the surface of world history. As long as mankind's
become the pivot around which so many things in the world

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related to world evolution in the widest sense, but to truth
immortality of the soul, the meaning of world evolution, and
there exists no short summary of a world view which can be
notion that pessimism means a view that considers the world
world, to work with and for the development of the world.
to further the upbuilding processes in the world. Thus Eduard
content of what is to satisfy us as a world view must be
world. Because the spiritual aspect is endless it can never
world, provided we retain an open receptivity for what comes
to meet us from the world. We must above all become
In the world things
finished view of the world. Much of what comes to expression
are not interested when told about the spiritual worlds
continues to develop to extremes in the Western world. It is
in this way been thrust into the world seeks materialization;
sense, but actually to materialize. The Western world has
forces which at present are shaping the world, and we are
adequate view of world events. For example, without such
world. Yet that same Lord Haldane had in his youth, while in
still loftier saying the foundation for his whole world view,
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of the greatest of all world-problems. Reverence, veneration — these
world”. The aim of the lectures was to make this saying
am the Light of the world”, it behoves us to grasp the meaning
the words: “I am the Light of the world.” Everything contained
verily the Light of the world. But this Being Himself is infinitely
to understand the words, “I am the Light of the world”,
of the world, but as the Being Who makes the offering of supreme
The meaning of what was said of Christ as the spirit-Light of the world
that streamed into the world from Golgotha lies precisely in the fact
that it was united, in a single Being, with the Light of the world,
glory of the world, but also that Love and Wisdom belong in the deepest
in what Christ signified to the world in this Gospel, He worked at those
namely, what Christ-Jesus signified for the earthly world in that He was
the realm whence all Strength and Power flow into the world, to the end
the world, Strength which makes all things possible of fulfilment,
Strength which is the creative power surging through the world, for these,
operating in the world. The Gospel of St. John has deepened our
in the world. All this stands revealed in the Akasha Chronicle and it will
of individual beings in the world. We shall then be able to understand,
of this people for the whole world, of the birth of the new era, of the
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worlds, and were to incarnate in an unsuitable physical organism, such
of the world might evolve, free from the influences of the old
world purely by the process of reason. This required a specially
external world. This was to be the introduction of that form of
to observation of the world according to the relationships of measure
phenomena of the external world. It must be realised that even Zarathustra
related to the things of the external world. All that applies to the
in the things of the visible world, he draws near to the God Jahve.
did man find his way into the outer world. Jahve is recognised first
in the outer world and only afterwards can his reality also be confirmed
all that had to be brought, through him, into the world. Abraham was
however, Abraham renounced the propagation of his line in the world.
with all the laws governing the world of the stars. Out of the world
that world. These laws had, as it were, to be inscribed into the blood
the faculties necessary for comprehending the world according to number
and Egypt, should be renounced. Every gift from the spiritual world
must be renounced. The last gift from the spiritual world, the one gift
spiritual world, the immediate reaction is that he is cast out from his
spiritual world come to Joseph in his dreams. Quite naturally he is
Abraham. In a certain sense the gate to the world, from which, through
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world was still the common heritage of men. Although the higher experiences
least, a definite conception of the spiritual world, because in certain
comprehension of the outer world by means of the physical senses; in
other words, experience of the outer physical world. This faculty developed
from the spiritual world, the logical reason he is able to acquire here
in the physical world, through the exercise of normal, earthly thinking The
the spiritual world demand that logical thinking shall be brought to
the right conditions for inspirations from the spiritual world in the
be developed, nor the revelations from the spiritual world proclaimed, in
possessing the faculty of comprehending the outer physical world according
rise from knowledge of the physical world to knowledge of the spiritual
thought concerning the outer world. We must picture the men of the
faculties leading him outward into the world around, is represented in
in the ancient world is confirmed by the fact that with the exception
past — for whatever was given to man out of the spiritual worlds
from its experience of the outer visible world. Moreover the picture
the Luciferic forces, but was wholly surrendered to the spiritual world
world. In the Baptism of John this vision of the Lamb came to those
what has come into the world through Christ.
the spiritual world should be made manifest.

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture I: Celts, Teutons, and Slavs
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a new picture of the world. This evolution led mankind from the

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture II: Persians, Franks, and Goths
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Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture III: The Impact of the Huns on the Germans
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others were vassals. Thus, in the most natural way in the world,
develop freely in the Empire of the Franks. Plato's world of ideas

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and the world-wide invention of printing. All this shows us what a
fiefs from it. Thus, side by side with the large, worldly land
the horizon of trade and world intercourse, when city culture,
Two are honour and worldly goods;
For worldly goods and honour

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the European world of those days; it merely contained the germ of
completely unknown to the world outside. All that was known outside
as does not appear elsewhere in world history, was developed. The
time had nothing of all this; but the course of world history is not

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in world history, nor is to be found elsewhere in the Middle Ages.

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of the world. This great event, to be prepared for by penitential
century, celibacy of the clergy became involved with the world

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the whole world, was what Rome wished for. The more excellent will,
that the world has a meaning and did not come into being by chance.
find within themselves, has significance also for the world.
the world as idea — form an outgrowth from mediaeval

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we have mastered, in our world of ideas, the laws of nature. In so
contemplation and the perception of the spiritual world.
reflection of external reality: of the world of thought: of the
world of feeling — of what we normally feel within us
he forgets himself and the world and only lives in what his
is thinking you now, in the world of spirit!
only rise into the world of spirit through the sense of its
the spiritual world are Beings whose existence is beyond that
the expectations of many, what we call the world of
contemplate it. When we rise into the world of spirit, it is
different. Here the spiritual world penetrates our own
‘think’ about the spiritual world, but we must experience
world we stand as our thoughts of external reality stand to our
scientifically, an ‘object of the spiritual world.’
nature, we become ‘object’ in the spiritual world.
spiritual world. This is quite true, but only true because many
spiritual investigator comes upon a spiritual world that lies
has reached the world of spirit, he knows that he is
experiencing an invisible, supra-sensuous world. His knowledge
he now lives in the world, which he inhabits now the whole
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Title: Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
riddles of life such as our relation to the spiritual world, evolution,
spread in the lay-world, especially in this sphere, both in
through the discord between the modern and antique world-view.
released from it and. passes over into the general world-ether.
educated man sees the whole world differently. A flower is for
with the outer world. But the etheric body too can suffer inner
not devoid of deeds, it does not creep away to distant worlds.
the basis of the world, we must learn to know them if we will
work in the world. Our material world is a copy of the
the SPIRITUAL WORLD, we will find the bridge between the

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world can help us to see the way in which the Theosophist
down below, a world which looks much the same as our external
world to-day. Up above, he finds a scene that could only be
together in the external world. For there we behold human
express a world the physical eyes do not see, a world
stronger than all, they meet with in the world of sense. That
other world must have come into some relation with them.”
come into touch with that other world?”
souls which opens to them the higher worlds.
in the heads of these men belongs to the world of sense. What
pre-Christian age when men were surrounded only by the world of
outer world that which dwells in the inner world. For the
mystery of Christ, His whole descent from the higher worlds was
had itself been born as a higher world, — higher even in
life-blood the spiritual conception of the world which meets us
— how through the events of the spiritual world as they
reveal themselves to one who can rise above the world of sense,
conception of the world is expressed in the first picture; the
world of form; and what will come about through the Spirit,

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God, Brahma, is referred to as the Great Architect of the World, who brings about order and
spiritual significance of the World's Saviour was thus connected with the physical Sun and with
surrounding world too we behold an array of crystallised wisdom. When we look out into the world,
wonderful organisation of the body enables the human soul to have sight of the surrounding world.
Through the senses the soul beholds the world and endeavours to fathom the wisdom by which that
world has been constructed.
the senses the soul is able to gaze into the external world because the Sun illumines the
contents of that world. Fundamentally speaking, what man perceives in the external world is the
the external world. An awakening soul, one that is beginning to recognise the seasons as
perception, when he stated: This visible world first came into existence when an eye was there
with a faculty of dim, hazy vision that they beheld the world of the Germanic Gods and formed
whereby the physical world was made visible to the senses. Astral vision then died away
spiritually not only with the awakening of the Sun but with the unfolding of the plant world in
added to physical experience. He is ready for perception of the spiritual world.
world of the stars.
the world came forth from chaos, so will harmony eventually proceed from his still disorderly

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world, about history or literature as well as a great deal else. Now you have knowledge of
the world are complicated and are subject to the law of cause and effect. To give an
an altruistic aim to be of help and engage in selfless activity in the world — that
far beyond pure philanthropy. Such individuals love nature and the whole world. The more
whose whole world-conception was filled with a mood of pessimism, nobody possessed of deeper
him in the form of a certain feeling of antipathy towards the world he now encountered.
most mighty Being who once appeared in the world co those who account themselves His
merely a piece of theoretic knowledge but has become part of his whole world of feeling and
something to do, but also takes his place within the world of Nature that surrounds him, in
the plant world and animal world, also in the conditions of the race and society which he
— scientific view of the world in practical life. In this way we shall strengthen the

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or Karma which governs the whole world; Karma is activity
anew each morning in our world of action. What was
are incorporated in the world in which we were embodied;
discovered in the physical world.
dreamlessly. We can also understand the world until
this consideration — to two worlds. In the one he
these laws of reason into the physical world, and to the
life in the physical world the sentient body and the
world. The soul brings these two together again and again
reincarnating spirit Lions in the physical world the
perfectly different world from the one it was in before?
whole surrounding world, the things that are related to it.
man's relation to the surrounding physical world when he
incarnations he has taken no part in the physical world,
into this development from the physical world. It
it self, or out of the super-sensible world. While embodied
it was entangled in the physical world of facts, after
this world of facts and only retains from it what we have
into contact with the outer world. This relation was
the outer world; desire remains in my soul — like the
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in the world. And though in our time many people are of the
stoical world view. But one point at least must be raised, that
world, this I, can be darkened, and can at the same time deaden
path to knowledge of the spiritual world, which also consists
in the new edition of my “World and Life Views in the
in the development of the world, recognises in the meaning of
Stoicism, that the development of the world was able to take it
up. That world development was also shot through with wisdom,
which rules as evil in the widths of world experience, and
striving for wisdom in the world?
the meaning of evil in the world; and he came to a singular
thought about evil and wickedness in the world. They tried to
of evil in the outer world.
world, even though it is greatly widespread, can explain a
experience of the world, consists of two things, of two
He saw in the world around him, part evil, part human
weaving throughout the world, so he said: how should one then
with that which exists in the world, in the way for example
create a world, he must conform to that which is true without
him. So any world that he wanted to create is perforce
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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world building cannot be drawn with a few strokes or grasped with a few
before in the world. Following the Gospel of Luke, one could speak of three
world. Today, for example, man can recognize out of himself certain logical
as the Buddha. As a human being in the physical world, he would have found
to our world. By about three thousand years from now, enough people will
new mission down from the spiritual to the physical world.
held together in the higher worlds by the ego of the respective underlying
from the spiritual worlds and announced to the shepherds what had happened.

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especially to the understanding of the outer, present physical world. Above
â€œHow to gain knowledge of the higher worlds.â€
the most important currents from the world had to flow together. We see
above all, go out, so to speak, to an understanding mastery of world
conditions, to everything that brings man into harmony with world
brought to the world by the Buddha and what was brought by the

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All the world will want to know about the life-work of such a human
points in a certain respect to Raphael's later entry into world
spiritual in the world — this did not exist in the same measure
sense world, such as we find in today's conventional science,
the world, was not necessary in older times.
came Greek civilization with its own characteristic world of
externally in the sense world. In Greece the sensory and the
into the world. The human being became aware of the spiritual,
not in the things of the external world, but in
things and sensory observation as, so to speak, two worlds.
Greek world. What St. Augustine expounds in his
withdrawn from the external world — how impossible does this
in the external world.
the outer world in sensing the riddles of existence, but to
in the external world, what happens in the more or less
mechanical life of the outer world, and what the human soul
entire world was circumscribed within a relatively narrow
region, so far as the sense world was concerned. Only in spirit
We have the impression that two distinct worlds coexisted in
heartfelt, the most delightful content of the world of
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significant in world history: The Christ figure in the middle,
throughout the world.
in heart and mind from the world-famous reproductions, arriving
become world famous through reproductions. Looking further
to what he placed into the world than these patches of colour
his conflicted relation to the world, in all he experienced.
sought to penetrate world secrets and to reproduce these
said, sought to investigate world secrets in creating a work in
world-famous picture. There were people at the time in Milan
world, not for Judas, nor for Christ Jesus. He also did not
flowering of the natural-scientific worldview — before
the arrival of the worldview of
beings relate to the world changes. In primeval times we find
world. This original clairvoyance was lost as time went on, but
spiritual background of the world. What souls had once seen,
the spiritual element with which the world was permeated and
are connected with physical occurrences in the world.
connection of the human soul with the spiritual world had to be
perception was the natural scientific world conception possible
it is said, to the external sense world and to what human
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Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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ancient spiritual secrets of the world, arose such that
those who shaped them for the world harkened
external world. These are in many respects hard to foresee,
described for penetrating the spiritual worlds, at a
You are emerging out of a spiritual world in which
capable of initial experiences in the world of spiritual beings
to speak, only at the boundary of a world in which spiritual
world in which it unconsciously resides during sleep and
behind in the physical sense-world, what then approaches
attachment to the sense world with which it is burdened
clairvoyance. In the manner of looking at the world
experience something of spiritual worlds. Thus, even if
connection with the spiritual world around them.
tasks, its place within the divine order of the world.
description of world evolution. It is not my
that can be left for another occasion. In this world evolution
world — and the things just referred to do have to be
investigated in the spiritual world, since they are
investigated in this way presents a world with which the
human soul is united even so. We are connected with this world
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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head. This mother hurries inconsolably through the world,
for she has lost her only child. She hurries through the world,
ceaselessly through the world, repeating this procedure over
closer to the spiritual worlds and were themselves still able
to look into these worlds.
relation to the external world existed among human beings in
freely and unhindered into what we call the astral world. With
experience the spiritual worlds around them, as an heirloom
today within the soul. It is the yearning for these worlds, the
yearning for this world has remained, though not the
mother of humanity, searches the world, seeking for what will
world-spirit speaks to us profoundly through sagas and myths.
looking at physical objects in our surrounding world, as with
world. And whereas she now throws away things that show only
will find in other entities the spirituality of the world,

Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
THE WORLDVIEW OF
way, it grants us an echo of his wisdom-imbued worldview.
world to what the human soul experiences upon ascending to the
enable one to understand the Greek world. Yet what the Greeks
a truer picture of the Greek world is attained than in merely
say, they melted away from his world-picture. What remained in
his world-picture was a continuous stream of what he called the
beginnings of the Greek world. Adopting his general standpoint,
directed to the world of the gods as depicted in Homer's
actually stand with regard to this interplay of the world of
the gods with the normal human world of warring Greek and
world that, as already mentioned, Herman Grimm presents as
being altogether unlike the later human world, there towers ell
that arose in the subsequent Greek world end in what follows,
shape in such a way that the Greek world is as though absorbed
and Greekness is incorporated into the Roman world, overcoming
soul has to take in order to enter the spiritual worlds.
illuminating the spiritual world. The basis of Herman Grimm's
world. In this way, wholly forgetting itself and yet in a rare
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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systems expand to other areas of the world's phenomena. So for
another sphere of the world, for example the sphere of organic
go from one sphere of world phenomena into another, that you
as things change in the living world, growing, going through
concepts, and sound convincing in the world of the living. The
entire scientific world view. This is usually misunderstood and
the separation of the philosophic world view from that of the
outer world of facts, this still went over to a far-reaching
For Goethe it simply lies in his words: The world of
Sicily in the multiplicity of the plant world the Ur-plant rose
world.
not to create a rationalistic world of atoms.
meant that what the outer world offered the senses were seen as
observing the atomic world? Now, in this case one can counter
in the mineral world within the plant and animal and as a
the Laplace world view and called it the “astronomical
conception” of the entire natural world existence.
small world system where the atoms would move in relation to
one another like the stars in the world's structure. Man
constructed himself in the smallest of the small world system
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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the animal world to the human world is spoken about, then it
world view — I have mentioned this twice here at least. The
animal world. Also regarding the circumstances where the
other, and so on. By our position as humans in the world, we
themselves from the bondage of the sense world, they become

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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there had been a world of the educated and the scholars, a
world which this philosophic era thoroughly dismisses and which
in the rising scientific world view sees what should be taking
science which should present a general world view, right from
philosophic world view out of natural scientific concepts, but
along with the purely scientifically based world view but could
outer world? — There were epistemologists of different
Today the situation in the entire world of philosophy is such
‘This is the way in which all philosophic thought in the world
into clear scientific forms with which to create his world
everything relating to it from the surrounding world, through
out of it was interest created to observe the world in its
to remain within this outer sense-world of facts. There was
but exist in what the sense world presented to them, simply
appeared the belief that the entire spiritual world should be
which to shape the world view as Herbert Spencer had done in
unique way by thinking of the world-all as totally mechanical,
there was also a higher world of revelations, a world of higher
spiritual worlds throw their shadow images on the plane of the
world (which the West wanted to simply refer to as part of the
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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dear venerated guests! To render the Anthroposophical world
Dear friends! The Anthroposophical world view for a long time
on the sense world, have their peculiarity by being in the
service of theoretical interests, and being of the sense-world
sense world, by contrast it is characteristic of the ideas from
expression — but an insight into the world and its secrets, it
is. Then, however, when in this way you gain the world of
regarding the alienation of the world of ideas is solved by
often believed — to take our world view as it is conveyed
the adult and the child's world must be discovered again, and to
but that the child lives with the outer world, that it becomes
been before he came down into the physical sense world. Up to
the person is surrounded by a soul-spiritual world which is
permeated by the cosmos, just like in the physical world his
body is connected to the physical world. We become able to see
himself: The super-sensible worlds have given me something to
towards the whole world. There is a conviction being uttered
through inner work, through the anthroposophical world view,
child's body, you look at one who has risen from eternal world
of the anthroposophical world view.

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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situation of the economic life existing in the civilised world
after the temporary end of the terrible catastrophe of world war.
in relation to the present time of world development. It is
written down, but thought through from the immediate world
that a person could think out of this complicated world
“Call to the German Nation and the Cultural World”
world purely through human mental logic. This drive, which
intellectually about the world, the economic life was directed
world economy and world traffic appeared, this tendency
required human beings to penetrate world economy and world
civilised world fall into chaos. Obviously one must express
unworldly man, a person who knew little about reality, who
to show the world how to get organised according to principles
introductory words, because the world is so schooled in
in the artificially impaired world economy. One can therefore
world view.

Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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handed to me; a notice in “Christian World,” a
the spiritual world and its knowledge. The human being is
natural world I'm as much in agreement with Haeckel as at that
observations in the world — due to our limited time now,
world of ideas live, there is something which goes beyond the
created out of the sense world. One remains true to that which
observation of the spiritual world. This observation of the
spiritual world Anthroposophy tries to clothe, as well as
material world outlook and today we have the experience, which
this world outlook.
research methods in the supersensible world, will be told and
world.
which speaks about the supersensible world, but it forms a
my preference, that what comes out of the supersensible world
which are gained from the supersensible world need to be
world, not because of Anthroposophy but because of the Roman
sensible world flow together, just so Anthroposophy regards the
themselves in the sensory physical world. When a person looks
world, in order to gradually observe their own past actions and
at all to make an imagination of the outer world? — By
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Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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world, love for the world and his or her own activity and
world — but in a transformed way — so that in contrast, through
world.
observation of the living plant world and which, when in one's

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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great and far-reaching events of world and human
world-history, that we cannot as in earlier, more peaceful
through the world and such a dedication. The vital claims of
the world-machine. The task of the immediate future will be for
man to work himself out of this world-mechanism.
have been prevalent in the world during the last four, five, or
six years, to be convinced that the estrangement of the world
to the objective knowledge of the world. It does matter whether
world, and this part of our task is now completed.
of that work, what we unveil out of the spiritual world through
world. In this way we shall once again link our own being to
world to the human world.” Till now divine Beings have
connection with the spiritual world. Our real task, thus made
which had lived in the spiritual world before birth, and before
some sort of spiritual view of the world, but to establish
the next generation. That does concern the world, urgently.
constitution of man is a theoretic view of the world and mere
From my description in Knowledge of Higher Worlds you know that
man, when he wishes to look into the spiritual world, must in
spiritual worlds, will be experienced unconsciously by
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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worlds, out of free will and of their own accord. If we would
not lose all connection with the spiritual worlds, we
again concern ourselves with the spiritual world, fostering
with the spiritual worlds as to maintain their connection with
connection with the spiritual world.
from the spiritual world, unless they admit something entirely
life which is lived here in the physical world between birth
are now in the physical world. That is the view which men must
notice forces from the spiritual world arising from its inner
which are more concrete with regard to the spiritual world than
world must move in this appointed direction.
relation to the spiritual world than an egoistic one. The
experiences all over the civilized world during the last few
greatest spiritual conflicts of the civilized world, and
however, the world be considered in no restricted sense but as
the middle-class world. This is the view which, forming in the
Other impulses have formed the Eastern view of the world, and
external world: I see what my senses convey to me, what I use
as an instrument for transforming the world around, what shines
outer world which affects the senses — including
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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pass over the Threshold of the invisible world,” when
supersensible world. All this is bound up with significant
ideas and this scientific view of the world the physical body
dead mineral external world through natural science.
impulse in world-history and human- evolution was suited, in
world-events as she does now, that the League could only be
develop what is needed to-day in the whole civilized world,
birth (or conception) lived in the spiritual world. The Earth
way on the spiritual, super-earthly world. This is a
from 28 to 35 on Earth, he gives the spiritual world something
take us too far.) What we give to the spiritual world is the
spiritual world we live our life backwards. We really do give
something to the super-earthly world, just as we relinquish our
body to the earthly world at death.
world, but the real, fundamental understanding which will lead
world. In our movement we should awaken the needful enthusiasm
in the external world, of the kind which leads, for instance,
we called the World War, that whirlpool into which were poured
in the Western world, in all the Western attitude towards life.
or Socrates in history. For the Western world the only
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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catastrophe we know as the World War. Then came the end of that
opposition, even a conflict. The facts of world-history taking
world of affairs had arrived at the state of letting them take
so called World War, in the presence of a small audience
public life of the civilized world, it appeared as infected by
civilized world occupied itself for several years in killing,
national-economy and world- economy. By means of the
been its title ever since the world became
before the world. A very different thing, this, from ordinary

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