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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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Printed in Great Britain by
issued. I attach great importance to the fact that here too, as in
which have helped to make modern science great. Modern science has
achieved greatness through scrupulous observation of the material
great problem concerning the eternal nature of the soul — it is
thinking in man is developed to a greater strength and intensity than
It is not necessary to devote a great deal of time each day to these
everything teems, is saturated, has great intensity; our whole being
year to year, we have acquired greater and greater capacities.
who lives a great deal in the world of thought knows only too well
them. This demands very great efforts in the systematic meditation
great arena of cosmic experiences, cosmic happenings, just as
— this is an even more difficult task, demanding greater
devotion, greater care, greater exactitude and methodical
in far greater intensity — given over to the world, it is true,
But with his true ‘I’ before him in greater strength and

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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It affords me great satisfaction to be able to speak
knowledge and grasp of the great laws of humanity, he cannot be
is one who is able to identify himself with the great mission of
view regarding something which we otherwise rightly consider great,
greatness of that from which the ‘homeless man’ must in a
great rôle; in a not far-distant future this sentence will be
member of his being which offers the greatest resistance, the
the great Atlantean Catastrophe — which so completely altered
the periods influenced by the great peoples from whom the
together, something which is understood everywhere to a greater or
down the great outlines for the several epochs. The extension of the

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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all cases where that which determined the great changes of the people
that they are able to employ much greater forces than can the
a people. The Beings who give language have great strength, they are
but for reasons pertaining to the great Wisdom which rules the world.
bring about, because they with their great forces and powers remained
definitions there are, and how greatly they differ from each other.

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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make a greater impression upon him. Others he finds to be lethargic,
These great outlines are fashioned by the Archangel; but
work, here they must take care that these great aims are realized.
corresponds to the great ordinances of the Archangels. You will form
certain respects its good side, because in this way a great variety,
saying ‘The world is maya’ is of the very greatest

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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under the great influence of these abnormal Beings. During the whole
which have a great deal to do with the decline and death of man, with
creations of man are still to a great extent dependent upon the
There is a great deal more that may not yet be told, that would help
more and more, the further the countries lie to the West. These great
character of humanity. There lies the great responsibility which one
takes, if one wishes to intervene in the great movement of mankind.
Where the great movement of humanity is concerned, no personal
great laws of humanity. We must recognize this from the great laws
great mystery is expressed when it is said who Plato was with respect
the earth planet, those Spirits whose greatest interest is to make

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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are now scattered here and there among the greater peoples, have
their significance in the great harmony of human evolution. That,
was the great mission of Saturn to give will, to implant the forces
within. So that man is indeed called to something great upon the

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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Spirits of Motion — who possess greater power than the Spirits
similar way. In accordance with this, the great map is then drawn,
families, etc. That is the great map, which is an image of the
abnormal Spirits of Form worked with great power and caused man to be
Thus were the great foundations of the races created,
to the Semitic race. That is a great polarity in humanity, and we
people attained its greatness. Everything the Greeks saw in the way
incarnation, and that great leader of humanity whom we describe by
of One still greater, set itself the task of investigating into the
how in him there dwells what formerly was great and mighty for man,
great in the Atlantean culture. What was the greatest thing of all to
the ancient greatness and majesty of a period which existed in the
seven Spirits of Form was called by the Atlanteans the Great Spirit
not participate. He clung firmly to the Great Spirit of the primeval
had also received the Great Spirit, passed before his eyes when a
his soul he still had the Great Spirit. His speech has been preserved
of that which makes the white man great. The brown man is made great
by something else; he is made great by the Great Spirit, Who speaks
Great Spirit speaks truth! Your Spirits, whom you have here on paper,
and who express what to you is great, they do not speak truth.’
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 7
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going on in the great world. This ascent is connected with the fact
great Teachers of India, the Holy Rishis, who because they were aided
the guide or intuitor of the great Zarathustra or Zoroaster, the
greatest possible variety. We might say, that in the post-Atlantean
If man were however to look out into the great cosmos,
can still see at the present day Monotheism ruling in its greatest
synthetic thought is the greatest imaginable in the Kabbalistic
years. That is the great polarity between Pluralism and Monism, and
as Spirit of the Age. Hence, however, something of the greatest
over a great part of Western Europe, as far as the present Hungary,
There was a great deal to be done, but above all it was
to-day. He belongs just as much to the great directing Spirits of the
Age, as those who were the great directing Spirits of the Age during
Folk-souls, have greater or less inclination towards this
greatest impulses streamed forth in all directions, the spot which
Europe. Hence, because the great centre of inspiration was there,
past, was that great centre of inspiration, which later on
Scandinavian mythology. Hence the great significance of the
of the Scandinavian Folk-soul. Hence also the great significance

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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great enthusiasm for comparative religion and comparative mythology,
another as regards their essential nature, he might make a great
regards everything else in human evolution they had made very great
abnormal Archangels, as one of the great Renouncers of antiquity, who

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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great world of Nature surrounding man; so that the Ahrimanic
country are the great Powers, the Luminous Ones. He is organized for
materialistic will be greatly surprised that Spiritual Science should
It would require a great deal too much time to prove
of the influence of Ahriman, i.e., greater error than does the
sun. To the occultist there is something which is still greater
clairvoyance. Thus one of the greatest historical events, the gradual
Hence there came to him a thought of very great and far-reaching
again.’ In other words, the great idea which originates in the
to the very smallest details, in the great vision of ‘The

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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subdivisions of peoples have their special task in this great
community, as if he were a part in the great body of his people. Thus
great question in the mission of the Roman people. The other peoples,
present-day France and in present-day Great Britain, were necessary
was the great mission of those peoples which gradually developed in
The great world-historical effects, however, which we
may consider as represented by Great Britain, are to be traced back
proceeded from Great Britain is also connected that which proceeded
had been driven outwards, you will find that the great historical
abstract scientist are mere thoughts, to him were the great, mighty
our earlier lectures we called ‘The Great Spirit,’ you
comprehensible that the two great opposites of the post-Atlantean
and think of the Great Wall of China, which was intended to enclose
reproduced by enclosing within their Great Wall the culture which
one great, all-embracing idea, which is at the same time an
towards the pure Spirit by receiving with great devotion Western
to unite something still greater with his being. Hence also the
disputes, and which in reality rest upon great misunderstandings, is
There is perhaps no greater contrast than that eminently
Christian conception of the State which hovers as a great ideal
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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In beginning this our last lecture I may truly say that there is a great
wonderfully the great occult truths are expressed in its pictures
Folk-spirits have played a great rôle. The vision of that descent has
been preserved in the greatest purity in the Sagas which in former
schools of the Initiates. Thus a very great deal remained in the
Christ. He made a great stir. Pilgrimages were made to him not only
certainly not so great, for man was not then so entirely in
truth; but in the twentieth century it would be a great misfortune
danger so great as the tendency to remain satisfied with the old
evolution of modern times. One part only of a greater whole has been
may describe as the greatest Being in the evolution of humanity, by
difference between the East and the West; we accept with great love
that which we recognize as the overwhelming greatness of the primal
own General Meeting in Berlin, when we had the great pleasure of
great peoples as well as the smaller subdivisions of peoples all have

Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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health and a sound development of soul-life, a very great deal
and it shows us the great importance of a continuous memory if the
great tableau in which we simultaneously survey all the organic
greater detail in the books mentioned. If we develop within us an
thoughts. A great effort must be made to forget them. This is a
of thinking, which differs so greatly from the combining and the
which presents far greater difficulties.
greater than those which we generally use in our external life, which
times, even as through science to a great extent doubts have arisen
my Threefold State the attempt has been made to face the great social

Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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acquires greater intensity through super-sensible knowledge. We
soul like a great flash of lightning, we acquire the memory of
pursued in greatest modesty (those who follow the spiritual

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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every problem of greatest and smallest importance.
the things connected with the great life problems of human
patient, who came to him in a great state of excitement, because
greatest modern scientist, with a man so thoroughly at home in
cases described to you just now, show that the longing, the great
criticize such great scientists is perhaps called upon to judge
and to explain the far greater certainty constituting the
Anthroposophy is far greater than that transmitted by the most
essential facts are known to the great majority of those who are
this perceptive faculty, though in the great majority of cases
and by filling consciousness with an ever greater amount of
were.” Though it may seem paradoxical, it is a great help

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 1. Angels, Folk Spirits, Time Spirits: their part in the Evolution of Mankind.
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It affords me great
pleasure to speak at greater length for the third time to our friends
take a great leap forward into those regions of spiritual knowledge
very reason that greater objectivity is necessary if we are to accept
man’ is one whose understanding and grasp of the great laws of
man’ is one who is able to identify himself with the great laws
mankind in the near future will bring men together in far greater
asking a great deal of our present age to believe in the existence of
reckon from the beginning of the great Atlantean catastrophe and

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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conditions determine the great changes in a people, the influence of
Beings who are responsible for language are Beings of great creative
of Form, because with their greater energy and superior powers the

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 3. The inner Life of the Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
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plane the individual human being must ensure that these great aims
concur in the great ordinances of the Archangels. We shall see this
in the Spirit of the Age, assumes for a certain time greater

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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level of the all-human. Here lies the great responsibility which we
what is determined by the great laws of humanity is decisive. The
great laws themselves must apprise us of this; we must not allow
his origin and ancestry, a great mystery is concealed. He was an

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 5. Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
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larger national groups have their part to play in the great harmony
Earth-evolution, manifests itself as Will. The great task of Old

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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activity of the abnormal Spirits of Form should provoke too great a
Zeus and so achieved greatness. To them all external forms, all forms
great leader of humanity, Skythianos. This is the “Council”
greater, set itself the task of investigating the mysterious forces
old American Indians still preserves a memory of that great Atlantean
great in the Atlantean culture. What the Red Indian valued most
former greatness and majesty of a period which existed in the old
And this cooperative activity was called by the Atlanteans the Great
participate in this development. He held firm to the Great Spirit of
(who, in a remote past, had also known the Great Spirit) when a piece
for in his soul still dwelt the Great Spirit. The speech he made has
great. But there is something else which makes the Brown Man great;
it is the Great Spirit who speaks to him in the soughing of the wind,
who to us speaks truth. Yes, from the lips of the Great Spirit comes
great, they do not speak the truth.” Thus spoke the Indian
Great Spirit; Paleface is servant of the spirits who, in black shapes
between the conqueror and the last of the great chieftains of the Red

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 7. Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
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the time of the gradual submergence of Atlantis, and the later great
Archai-being who then worked through intuition upon those great
the Time Spirit, from whom the great Zarathustra or Zoroaster, the
pluralism or monadology can offer the greatest possible variety. It
therefore of the greatest significance occurred in the fourth
epoch who still directs us today. He belongs to the great leading
Time Spirits, equally with those who were the great directing Time
became possible for the Time Spirit to manifest the greatest
Hence, because the great centre of spiritual inspiration was situated
at this place on Earth. There, in the remote past, was the great
lies the great significance which the understanding of this mythology

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 8. The Five Post-Atlantean Civilizations.
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the greatest nonsense. What happens as a rule when a person compares
of their essential being, he could be greatly mistaken, for a totally
evolution they had made great strides. Behind them lay a very long
the great difficulty which the peoples of the East experienced in
and endowed him with his psychic potentialities, and the greatest of
abnormal Archangels, as one of the great figures of renunciation in

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 9. Loki - Hodur and Baldur - Twilight of the Gods.
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his desires and actions and causes him to suffer a greater
course the materialists of the present day will be greatly surprised
greater degree of error, than the corresponding astral perception
greatest historical events, the gradual loss of the old, unclouded
Baldur will be able to ensoul him again. In other words, the great

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 10. The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
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results of our investigation describe it in greater detail. We shall
great collective task. You will realize from what has been said that,
human ‘I’ to human ‘I’ was the great question
peninsulas, in France and Great Britain today, was necessary in order
Soul and the Spiritual Soul. Such was the great mission of those
The great worldwide achievements of a country such as Great Britain
will find that the great historical conquests of the inhabitants of
abstract theorist are mere thoughts, were to him great, mighty
soul and out of the forces of this body created his great
directly related to what in our earlier lectures we called the “Great
therefore, that these two civilizations, the two great polarities of
Chinese Empire, if one thinks of the Great Wall of China which sought
in the Chinese culture, a culture circumscribed by the Great Wall and
seemingly great, all-embracing idea which is at the same time an
culture with great devotion, thus looking forward prophetically to
the time when he will be able to unite something even greater with
epoch. There is perhaps no greater contrast than that eminently
Christian conception of the State which hovers as a great ideal
greater contrast than this idea of Solovieff's of a Christian

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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has been preserved in the greatest purity in those sagas which arose
He made a great stir. Not only those who lived in his immediate
personality of Sabbatai. In the seventeenth century no great harm was
what was the truth. But in the twentieth century it would be a great
Fenris Wolf and Odin still persists. There will be no greater danger
one part of a greater whole — has been realized for the fifth
has sometimes been said that the name we give to the greatest Being
Meeting in Berlin when we had the great pleasure of seeing friends
will have caused no great harm if all who are assembled here from the

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture I
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Christ with feelings of immeasurably greater fervour than is to
greatness has gone forth from Christ and that erudite
how his great Epic is all inwoven with the workings of the
Spiritual; think of the great figures of Socrates, Plato,
great cosmic setting, but of much simpler conceptions of
philosophy to-day seem mere child's play, so greatly do they
greatness and power entered the lists on behalf of
picture. Everything that is great in the Darwinian
education will not greatly impress us. What, then, is this

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture II
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art-forsaken, technical science, requires great courage and the
fallen asleep. The condition which spread with greater and
greater intensity over their souls had already then set in.
the near future when it will be possible to speak with greater
precision, when a great deal that can at present only be of the
far greater exactitude in the spiritual chronicle of
much more adequately and with greater precision. You will
be extracted with the very greatest difficulty and effort from
Christianity. It costs me great effort to make these pictures
character. And that is why it costs me great effort to discover

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture III
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approach this greatest of all Earth-mysteries. If we want to
intentions, to begin with, are altogether good, who is a great
ever greater likeness with this physical body. Notice once
the great universe. With the Christ Being the opposite is the
greater identity with the body of Jesus of Nazareth, in the

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture IV
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silent — so silent, indeed, that he often caused great
the greatest discernment and concentration and gave astounding
going on, great and sublime thoughts, ethical truths, and above
for the Bath-Kol had greatly diminished in certain Rabbinic
clairvoyant impressions. Great and impressive clairvoyant
It was a great and significant vision into which Jesus of
great inner bitterness and sorrow. He saw these bare gates, but

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture V
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great inner change, the revolution that had taken place in his
nature, to the whole greatness and splendour of nature.
soul-treasures of human wisdom, of human culture, great moral
had often spoken with him about all the beauty and greatness of
was great and beautiful. Therefore in this conversation
She reminded him of the revival of the great Jewish doctrines,
and were to proclaim to our humanity the greatest of his
spoke of a man who had been a great teacher and whose words had
ancient prophets, nevertheless he was a great and profound
are always gazing at the great desert. The man who had laid the
could speak as the great Hillel spoke ... to-day there is
with these words came a realisation of all the greatness of the
were united into one and all that former greatness could be
the greatness and the grandeur of the Essene doctrine, of the
so greatly changed that the stepbrothers and other
It is sad, they said, for his knowledge was so great. True, he
once again, but now with an added greatness. And at the
great efforts to investigate this scene of the Temptation and
Nevertheless a great multitude now accompanied Christ Jesus as
given — who has won great respect simply because he is
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Title: Eternal Soul of Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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of that which is seen as a much greater power of thought, like
enters into such regions, where there is a greater peace within

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture I: Cosmic Forces in Man
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yourselves have had many experiences in connection with the great
was a kind of madness, and since then matters have not greatly
words were not spoken from any great depth, but none the less they
remains. It has been superseded by great world-affairs as between the
with the great currents of human evolution. And yet in this very death
We do right to turn to the great wisdom-treasures of the East —
disarmament, about the desirability of ending wars... a great war
themselves. No, they will not. The hour of a great decision has
have finally arrived at a great system of ‘world-machinery’ in which
the habitableness of other planets, but no great significance is
men did not speak of the great mechanical processes in the Universe
avoid scientific scrutiny. Science speaks only of a great system of
nothing but a great system of machinery. Man has lost himself; he has
is the great difference.
very few people indeed realise the point of greatest significance,
the conception of the Cosmos as a great system of machinery to which

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture II: The Soul Life of Man ...
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great importance to learn about just those experiences which the Ego
death. There are great differences among human souls living between
great difference, dependent upon whether we are able to follow
earthly life which remains more unconscious. A very great deal depends
It makes a great difference in which of these two ways a man has been
existence. It makes a great difference whether we grow into race and
greatest interest towards what was active in man between death and a

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture III: The Mission of the Scandanavian Peoples
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He talks a great deal about the world but he does not know it,
as to those who actually live here. There was certainly a great
greatest theorists of all, for they never get down to realities, they
developed in the great plan of the world which gave the Norwegians
sparsely flowering rock-plants. A great picture arises in your souls
And now a great question arises which can be illuminated by comparing
prevents them from being willing to grapple with the great tasks of
done wrong? This is a matter of great importance from the

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
reflect the great cosmic events in the souls of human beings
the etheric bodies of the great Atlantean initiates had been
set great value on a direct, physical transmission of the

Title: Colour: Part Three: Colours as Revelations of the Psychic in the World
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one gets the great inward pleasure of putting on this or that colour

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I have devoted a great deal of my time. But of course I have to
to a great extent alienates himself from life and from economic
great delusion that the collectivism of production is a natural
that which I had come to out of the great manifoldness of life,
this asks of us the great questions of the present time in the
great number of people produce the same thing, when there is
greatest importance that as many heads and hearts can be won
happens in life that the greatest mistakes are made not because

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture I: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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greatest and smallest importance.
that is to say, to the things connected with the great
great state of excitement, because in the office he had pricked
to do with one of the greatest of modern scientists, with a man
longing, the great desire of unquestionably serious modern
criticize such great scientists is perhaps first called upon to
judge and to explain the far greater certainty constituting the
Anthroposophy is far greater than that transmitted by the most
so that the essential facts are known to the great majority of
the great majority of cases this is not to their
Though it may seem paradoxical, it is a great help if we begin

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture II: Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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instance, may experience in a great tableau that which
backwards we are gradually enabled to make use of a far greater
as of greatest importance that the human being carries within
as a great magnet which exercises its influence upon the
recognise the great comprehensive whole and its inter-relation

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture III: World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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inner life acquires greater intensity through super-sensible
This is the aim pursued in greatest modesty (those who follow

Title: Lecture I: Man in the Light of Occultism
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raised above ordinary consciousness. It has to forgo a great deal that
and prepared that, let the temptation be ever so great, they would
concern only of a few. Philosophy can never become popular. A great
knowledge; it is nevertheless of great importance that in our time a
foremost with the spread over the whole earth of the great and
A great work for peace on earth would be accomplished if unity and
hinder the great mission of peace that it is given to theosophy to
to the great and universal mission of life and peace that it belongs

Title: Lecture II: Man in the Light of Occultism
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development were men who showed great ability in the positions in
greatest importance was attached in rightly conducted schools of
keep it under strict restraint, they acquired thereby great reserve
last able to take the great resolve to repress and obliterate from
It is a moment of the very greatest significance for the occult pupil

Title: Lecture III: Man in the Light of Occultism
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What now arises in the soul has a much greater inner power and is far
underwent a great many transformations. During this time of change and
can point to their origin, he can point to the origin of the great
accompanied by very great fear. Something bears down upon us from all
great cosmic sounding that now bears down upon us on all sides. At
great deal of what we are often saying in lectures here is not said

Title: Lecture IV: Man in the Light of Occultism
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he is in the greatest danger of losing when he passes over into the
ancient pre-Christian times, we find many great religious teachers,
Bodhisattvas; other peoples knew them by other names. These great
call “initiation,” and all great religious teachers have had
times from great teachers of mankind go back ultimately to such
be traced back to the great founder Buddha. And whenever the
What exactly is revealed is not for us of very great importance. It
mystic will have great forces to spare which enable him to feel
shines with a very great splendour.
of the heart. I am speaking of mystics who make great endeavours, who
you will find a great number of this type of mystic. They are “in

Title: Lecture V: Man in the Light of Occultism
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To come to greater definiteness, let us now study the human form in
great antiquity, and in particular that they play a part in astrology.

Title: Lecture VI: Man in the Light of Occultism
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really a point of great significance. Man has actually something like
man's inner organism it is of the very greatest significance that he
apparently only small, is really very great. The spinal cord is the
cord plays a greater part than it does in the case of man, and the
Occultism has always given the name of Mysterium Magnum, the Great
beginnings of this great and wonderful mystery. This is why, when you
sides with the formula (expressed in many different ways): The great

Title: Lecture VII: Man in the Light of Occultism
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out into vast distances, or you find yourself in a great vault or
dirt or dust is clinging to it. Or you may dream you are in a great
of very great importance for himself but have little bearing on his
or a palace, having over him a great vaulted roof into which he is
fact the starry heavens. He beholds the great vault of heaven
It was a great moment in the life of the pupil, especially in the more
underwent change in the later Mysteries — it was a great moment
before him. And then came the greatest moment of all when this pupil
great significance, He could say: “In the same way as I perceive
in some way to feel their connection with the great world, and say to
the middle man was of greatest importance, away from the mere sense of
Its influence was thus greatest in the middle of such a Moon period.
Egyptian initiates, and was himself one of the greatest of those who
that they were in great measure given to mankind as very ancient
it. The ancient religions are thus to a great extent theosophies. And
and we shall find in what a remarkable manner the “Great

Title: Lecture VIII: Man in the Light of Occultism
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human form, but there least of all; a far greater influence has been
carries with it for the pupil a very great temptation, If we had to
extraordinarily fleeting and transient. One needs great presence of
the first moment terrible and paralysing. For this reason a great part
singularly feeble, and great energy is required to hold it. This one
acquired under the Bodhi tree that great and high enlightenment which
expect to be told of how they brought a great deal with them from
explain the life of Christ as an initiation is making a very great
greatest help for the retention of the I thought consists, for a man

Title: Lecture IX: Man in the Light of Occultism
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make that great sacrifice — for it was for the Christ Being a
great sacrifice — whereby He made use in a human body of
will come to see that not only the great founders of religion are to
of inspiration, then you must first come to see how the great
As the great Sun Spirit works in relation to the Moon Spirit, in
is, the three great spiritual Powers in man — and the several
astrology, which has its source in nothing else than in the great and
danger, and the pupil must needs possess himself of a great deal more
through a great many incarnations; that he became first a Bodhisattva.
the initiated find the Buddha engaged on a great and mighty task, a

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archetype of human greatness — yes, and even of superhuman,
divine greatness — when, at this point, separated as it were from
infinite pride, so great a pride that it can prove a temptation to
great it tempts man. Lucifer's proud greatness, Lucifer's pride in his
around Him in the great wide world.
The great wide world was not then as it is now. If we were to
not then externally visible; but instead, twelve great Forms, twelve
united in Himself all the great Secrets of the World that sounded into
Himself the great and all-embracing secrets of the Worlds. The Lucifer
consciousness that by far the greater part of what H. P. Blavatsky
through the whole of the Secret Doctrine, then in all the great
evolution. Its evolution has continued throughout three great phases
divided into seven, and each single sub-division of these great phases
very great significance. For there are a few instances, where the
stand in great peril, even as the Earth men were in peril, from which
peculiarly adapted to rise to the great and far-reaching soul that
— a religion that looks up in worship to him who is the great
Initiator, the great Inspirer, of the Buddha. This religion is not
here on the physical plane? That which in the great world is
external manifestation of the great trinity which remains ever deeply
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connected with a matter of yet greater profundity which
greater or lesser worth.
becoming realities which acquire ever greater expansion. Two,
thought-being, takes on ever greater dimensions; and finally
Here we encounter the great questions concerning man's
physical life are immeasurably great. We must be able to
in my Mystery Plays the Great Midnight Hour of Existence

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glance. And we ourselves can greatly assist them. This may be
This is the great mystery: that man's heavenly occupation
higher Hierarchies, the great spiritual germ of the future
body a temple. The greater the insight we gain into the science
own self-consciousness, however, is perceived in greater
Across the succession of great-great-great-grandfathers,
great-great-grandfathers, great-grandfathers,
experiences is undergone by us: the great experience of how we
observe how the child learns to walk. Immeasurably great things
underwent in the course of long centuries. We feel great

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before our soul in greater detail what the human being
place in the unconscious, yet with great vividness —
nothing about it? Well, it matters a great deal. I should like
avowed from their innermost depth that the great Sun-spirit was
also the great guide and helper of the human being, who
followers of ancient religions. It is the great Sun-spirit, who
the day, he will not differ greatly from others whose words
wisdom. Such life giving science is greatly needed by

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Beyond this thought-level lies a soul-life of much greater
Children sleep a great deal. And during sleep the child is able
is a conscious one. Yet far, far greater than all the
time, a symphony that excited you greatly. If you are inclined

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Mankind has undergone great changes in the course of its
undergone, let us envisage the relatively great
and soul is greatly dependent on their bodily organism.
a certain age, his spirit and soul are no longer greatly
evolution after the great Atlantean catastrophe which caused a
Thus a great transformation of mankind's whole evolution
this spirit was perceived by the human being. The great
living way, toward a great and powerful event: The divine event

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being acquired a greater feeling for his surroundings.
entirely within the earth. Then the earth has the greatest
all, requires several days, causes a great deal of disorder. It
animal. This is a great scientific accomplishment, but it must
following way: “You are great, for you have taught me
make too great demands on a nine or ten-year-old's memory. The
greatest importance, should be organized in such a way that
too great exertion causes deposits of metabolic products.

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pictures like the ones that're contained in the great world plan. And
ego. This human being varies a great deal depending on climate and

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trials that required great courage. Terrifying things were shown that

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Great
Great
schools and are of great value if you place them before you in pictures,

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greatest things in the physical realm felt that the spiritual world
esoterics. When we begin our exercises it's of great importance

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practiced so that it becomes self-satisfaction; that's a great

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mankind stand out in strong relief. The greatest of all these events
— But now men were greatly troubled as to the destiny of the
acquired great knowledge about the secrets of nature, men would be
can truly be called great is born from pain, from inner travail. When
great mass of the people have rejected the teaching, for they could

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in anthroposophical thinking there arises at a certain moment a great
starting point of architecture had great meaning. Primeval instinctive
painters. The very source of painting opens up. With great inner joy
human organism is of far greater sublimity. And when it is metamorphosed

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we feel ourselves confronted by a great enigma. Poetry originates in
year, then advances to puberty, he no longer needs such a great amount
ignore this fact. They see intellect as of greater reality. But phantasy
such paradoxes we can call attention to the great desideratum: true

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great figures of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. With these
great figure of Aristotle, who lived centuries before the
have to consider the great cosmic Christ thoughts, but only
who represented Christianity with a certain greatness. We
Darwinism. And the greatness of the idea in Darwinism

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back, the great events dawned on them which had to do with

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contemporary concepts. But we can approach that greatest of
greatly have they been misunderstood over the ages! And
great benefactor of humanity, who however was seduced by
In great

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great hopes for him and hung on his words. Nevertheless, he
same time great ideas, meaningful moral impulses arose in
that great spirit, that powerful spirit which came to
with great effort: clairvoyant power. He experienced in
But the teachings and life of the Essenes made a great

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entered into his soul he felt only the great richness of
know that a great change had taken place in his soul during
great capacity for feeling — an angelic, gentle
and often spoke with him about all the beautiful and great
reminded him of the renewal of the great teachings and wise
a great teacher had recently been more or less ignored. For
accomplished great things through gentleness and love.
experienced that great Zarathustra impulse. All the
beautiful and great of the ancient Sun-Teaching arose in
greatness of the Mithras worship lived in his soul with
with his mother about the greatness and glory of paganism
united and contained everything which was once great
described the beauty, the greatness and the glory of the
others in order to be happy themselves. Those words greatly
when they do. There is a man who has won great respect
are greatly respected nowadays. It is difficult today to be
such volumes are written, for that is how one gains great
what previously existed. And such literature is greatly

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horns an opponent of Christianity as great as Nero. When the descriptions
age. It is much greater than our explanations and will find even higher,
The greatest element of
great main epoch.
take place in the sixth great main epoch can be seen ahead of time in
the pictures of the astral world. The seventh great main epoch, on the

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fourth in our great post-Atlantean epoch. In spiritual science we calculate
we finally arrive back at the time of the great Atlantean culture which
is reported to us by all ancient religious writings. Before the great
There were great mystery
the great teachers of the mysteries. They taught in these Atlantean
Saturn, and Moon oracles. However, the greatest and loftiest was the
the other oracles and watch over them. The great sun initiate of the
a sunrise over the great post-Atlantean culture, they developed the
They were led by the great
the greatest initiates of the Atlantean oracle were incorporated into
blessing and healing of humankind. The great sun initiate preserved
the etheric bodies of the seven great Atlantean initiates as spiritual
the etheric bodies of the greatest initiates of ancient Atlantis. Through
many generations the great sun initiate exercised his educational skills
was inspired by higher powers. They were then sent by the great sun
Zarathustra. He was himself an initiated student of the great sun initiate,
who stood behind the Rishis. Because of this he could proclaim the great
Mazdao. We see here how the great teachers of humanity guided the evolution
with God was still too great. The Persians, on the other hand, were
they had to receive the teaching concerning the great Ahura Mazdao,
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post-Atlantean age; that is, the age that followed the great water
usefulness in the ascent of the entire human race. However, the great war
of the earth that have developed this egotism to the greatest extent.
of black magic in the ancient Indian culture. We find the greatest misuse

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Apocalypse we find a portrayal of the great main epoch of the seven
the followers of the great Zarathustra who have recorded their wisdom in
the great Zarathustra admonished the people to work with the earth but

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world. It had its greatest blossoming in the beauty of Greek art.
the fifth age with a science of the external world that began its great
hardened bodies will make the greatest discoveries and inventions. In
the three great Greek writers of Greek tragedy. Quote comes from

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were in equal measure greater at that time. The Lemurians, who lived
in viscous bodies in ancient times, had powers of soul much greater than

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cultures had the task of reflecting in human souls the great cosmic
the great Atlantean initiates were preserved for the seven holy Rishis;
the sixth and seventh centuries onward, great proclaimers of Christianity
The great Irish missionaries.

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great deal in terms of external physical martyrdom. But things are coming
was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth ...”

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earth's enduring great tremors and earthquakes as the result of
12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. \
12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. \
12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. \
12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. \
13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. \
13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. \

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12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. \
12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. \
12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. \
13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. \
13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. \
unite with the sun. On this Jupiter-Earth all the great cultural ages
17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. \
17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. \
17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. \
18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. \
18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. \
18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. \
18:16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! \
18:17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, \
18:18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! \
18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. \
18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. \
18:23b for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. \

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Atlantean catastrophe and the great war of all against all has its own
The salvation of the “great whore of Babylon” will also occur
at various locations on the earth, great individualities are at work

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