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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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Spiritual Science is founded upon the same fundamental principles
world, through experiment, through the reasoned deliberation of what
is yielded by sense-observation and experiment. While going beyond
Men of deep feeling, who try to justify their needs of soul and
transcending the temporal — such men are very often apt today
development. This kind of investigation into the things of the Spirit
within those boundaries and limits of which mention has been made.
mental pictures, concepts, thought-content, into the centre of the
sets out to develop a first, elementary faculty of higher knowledge
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment,
fundamental guiding-lines for a study which will have to be pursued
some mental picture, idea or set of ideas of which he can maintain a
investigators to recommend certain exercises. When such exercises are
suggestion or auto-suggestion; every moment of the exercise will be
I have called this development ‘Imaginative Thinking’
arise in moments when we are caught up in the outer reality of the
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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remember, that at a certain stage of mystic or occult development one
occult development is necessary, in order to have a liberal point of
certain respect free himself. Now the ‘homeless’ men of
prejudice would be brought against these homeless men, which would be
the near future will bring men together much more than has hitherto
moment of his evolution. We can see the ‘ I ’
these beings, who were men in the primeval past, during the old
Beginnings, the Archai, were men on old Saturn; Archangels, or
Arch-Angeloi, were men on the old Sun; Angels or Angeloi were men on
the old Moon; men are men on our earth.
beings who were men in the Moon-period, finished the transforming of
further back, to the beings who were men during the old
speak, from what those beings do whom to-day we call men. There is
able from outside to direct their movements. That is not yet possible
Such phenomena are already here. Man could perceive them
soon. Just as man, if he waits for the proper moment, will reach the
these Archangels. If we can make a clear mental picture of how in the
individual man may be an instrument in the mission of his people,
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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during his lifetime goes through a development, when he rises higher
Certainly these preserve throughout long periods a fundamental tone,
is often mentioned among theosophists, but is seldom observed in such
fundamentally only maya or external illusion; it is a condensation,
does this affect? It acts on a threefold nature in the temperaments.
It acts on the temperaments which are themselves immersed in the
but not on the so-called melancholic temperament. The etheric aura of
temperaments; on the whole, therefore, the power of the etheric aura
of the folk flows into these three temperaments. Now these three may
which works into the temperaments constitutes the national character of
temperaments are therefore mingled according to the interpenetration
into the temperaments is not to them the essential thing for their
temperaments of man, is something they do besides their calling.
the folk's etheric body is reflected in the folk temperament in
the mingling of the temperaments of the single individuals. You then
the temperaments; but there are yet other Beings who act upon them in
to those Beings who work so intimately into the folk temperament, and
instrument of speech that it should produce a physical manifestation,
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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instruments, and these express themselves in such a way, that in the
astral body the sentient-soul is a sort of instrument, in the etheric
measure with an instrument what the three angles together amount to,
need not go outside yourself. You may imagine for one moment, that
element of any significance to the Archangels, in so far as it is
transform it into our instruments, so are we the objects in so far as
inner experiences of men are woven, in so far as these experiences
human individualities. He meets with some men whose souls have more
Folk-spirit, he perceives it as being a fresh, flowing element in
the fresh youth of the people; he knows what are the achievements to
inner kernel is, that the Spirit of the Age required an instrument
temperament of the people expressed in the several personalities, we
higher than man. The Hierarchies we mentioned yesterday do not end

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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in the development of this physical body, for this is, on the whole,
followed a normal development he would only then come out of himself
renounced the development of certain capacities which they could have
intervene in a particular way in the development of man. Because they
consequences. Just imagine for a moment that this had not occurred.
If these Spirits with an abnormal development were not to interfere,
corresponding installment. If man had indeed been exclusively given
development of man in the first of his three epochs of life is, on
of his development which he goes through in the twentieth, or
earth. Spiritual Science therefore tells us, that if his development
development through child and youth. You can see, if we take this
produced by the place in which men were born. That was the case in
therefore mention certain parts of the earth that are connected with
the historical development of the human being. We shall go into these
find the very first starting-points of racial development in the
regions of present-day Africa and Asia. Then later we see a movement
repetition is not now the movement of races, it is a higher stage of
racial development, as it were, the development of the various
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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present time must come before our mental eyes as the secrets of Race
however, can only come gradually before our mental eyes.
and as it were an agreement between the Spirits of Will and the
not be an element forming and throwing up waves so easily as water,
element, not however our present-day water, but the old fluidic
element, which was brought to rest by the Spirits of Form, —
Spirits of Will or Thrones. But another element always mingles itself
element of air, in everything which permeates the apparent earthy
their name was given them, because they bring the thick fluid element
element again is intermingled what we call the Spirits of Wisdom. So
Form, who permeate the air and heat with their element, up to the
everything there in the way of nature-forces and phenomena is
In which of the elements of
Nature — we have said that the three elements of Nature, water,
the sun. Light, therefore, is the element in which in the first place
real, it approaches all men as an astral effect, coming from without.
training and development. Whereas the light streams towards us during
the earth are the Beings of the first hierarchy who for the moment
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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understand also, that statements such as those made in our last
the elements of earth-existence.
humanity, a quite special arrangement was necessary in the cosmos. If
for the establishing of the earthly equilibrium, for the fulfillment
separation of Sun, but that only in the special arrangement that took
our recent statements we placed in Africa, by saying, that through
character, in their racial character, the Jupiter men. If we cross
evolution. It holds good for the epoch when, at a definite moment of
what we call the four fundamental parts of man, are projected and
abnormal development of the Spirits of Form. These Venus forces
this part which in our sense does not yet belong to the higher mental
You will now perceive the special element contained in
shall have to trace much that is of immense importance back to this
preordained in the map of the Earth already mentioned.
evening twilight of humanity, whose development brings humanity in a
Imagine what is felt in the heart when two such men
confront each other, men who came across from Europe, and men who in
begun, in which men could look up to the Sun and perceive the Spirits
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 7
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themselves go through a sort of evolution, a sort of development. In
in normal and abnormal development organize the races.
own development? As regards certain spiritual Beings we can during
to speak, progressing a stage further in their own development. Since
the Atlantean catastrophe, ever since the post-Atlantean development
those men came to that particular spot in Africa where they then
were sent out, were at different stages of development, in other
development took place, which ran parallel with the Egyptian-Chaldæan
special guidance, that so to say, special arrangements were made for
the guidance of this people. Through these special arrangements this
all-comprising movement which proceeded strictly from the Monon,
the impulse, the ferment for this Monotheism. This task was given to
phenomena. The Semitic people has the task of ignoring all plurality
As a result of all the development which the Archangel of the Greeks
event, that — at a definite moment of time, which practically
various folk-elements should take place in Europe. This was only
an intermingling of the Roman, Celtic and Frank folk-elements, and on
their office when the various elements intermingled. Thus in fact for
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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If we wish to study the development of Germanic Scandinavian history and
of all to keep in mind the fundamental character of its mythology;
far-reaching fundamental kernel of mythological ideas extends over
is not at the present day easy to understand this essential element,
because the men with whom he became acquainted thirty, twenty, and
We can scarcely understand the fundamental character of
only be understood when one knows, that the men who played a part in
another. For instance, the men who in old India founded the ancient
the Vedas and the later Indian literature — were fundamentally
progress. A long, long human development lay behind them, but they had
Now what was the nature of the development which
soul-developments took place. There were peoples who, during their
higher stage of development while their ‘ I ’
development, and yet their ‘ I ’ was still in a
going through a slight development, already read again in the Akashic
these men. The most advanced among those who led the Indian people
development sprang forth, so to speak, from the Spirits of Form or
at such a late stage of development. They had already gone through what the
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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development, and it was said that they had gained this while their
soul development had already been acquired.
say, have passed through the whole of this soul development in a
The important thing is, that in human evolution, in human development
one. The essential thing in the development of the ‘ I ’
into relation with the outer world, with other men, and with the
Hence the completely different fundamental tone in the
oneself. The chief requirement there is to be impersonal.
everything that had taken part in this development of the ‘ I ’
directions have taken part in the development of the earthly man, who
set forth in the Old Testament. Only a certain consciousness of the
account given in the Old Testament of the Serpent, which is nothing
body in order to bring it to freedom and independence, the element of
freedom; he felt, one might say, the rebellious element revealing
itself in these forces. The Luciferic element was felt in that power
persons cannot comprehend that one external phenomenon may look like
make the statement, as being the result of scientific spiritual
agreement with the outer world. There it is that which is not true.
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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time when these Folk-spirits of Europe had to direct men to work from
begin to withdraw. Hence with the withdrawal of the Celtic element
was still united to the group-soul nature, and yet the Celtic element
reached a culminating point in the fulfillment of its special
mentioned that the several post-Atlantean civilizations follow one
because — after the development of the special human capacities
development of the inner soul forces, without his ‘ I ’
for the development, stage by stage, of the Spiritual Soul. Hence the
founding of the parliamentary forms of government at once becomes
preserved in themselves the direct elementary remembrance of the
premature development that was endowed with clairvoyant experience.
statement so characteristic of him, when, in answer to the question,
culture which for its foundation and development works out the other
which, within certain limits, is capable of development; and the
the elements for what is to follow.
air and fire, in all the elements in and above the earth, meets us as
and its light. The Slav element also has this Being, — although
spiritual. The Eastern European element feels the spiritual world as
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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older Sagas and legends which indicate the development of physical
of blood, but also the psychic and spiritual requirements of the
instruments existing in the human body itself for the use of these
development of his ‘ I ’. A remarkable,
sleep and until the moment of waking is spread out in the macrocosm,
which, in its development on the physical plane, connects itself on
to a clairvoyant development.
his actions in the etheric world. Thus gradually the first elements
when the Mystery of Golgotha took place men were to comprehend
mankind is intended to progress, it is organized for the development
of humanity, so that men may also miss what is for their salvation.
oriental materialism may cause men to fail to recognize what is
real progress of the human development of higher spiritual forces.
be a proof as to the further development of Anthroposophy, whether by
body. The Anthroposophical Movement will yet have to undergo this
after man has gone through his development on the physical plane.
the human soul will have gone through a new development. All the
fearful vengeance, by confusing the vision of men with all sorts of
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Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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anthroposophical movement appreciate most of all such men as can
fully judge the achievement of our modern times, resulting from
he must guide his development of his own accord. The forces which
a first step in such a development, and we shall see that this does
not imply the development of one-sided intellectual forces of
been enhanced by the use of scientific experimental research, where
For the attainment of its task, the spiritual science of
mentality of modern times.
shows us how to transcend any illusionary or suggestive element, we
confront a sense-perception, for it can be envisaged at any moment
hallucinations or mediumistic phenomena. It rejects all this
severely, as pathological elements; in fact, the results obtained by
worthlessness of such phenomena.
systematic way. (One person will need longer time for the attainment
consciousness as an inner soul-development.
expressed by the movements of the clock. The same process in fact is
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Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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DEVELOPMENT IN THE LIGHT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY
our physical and etheric bodies at the moment of waking up. By
use the instruments of our physical body, and that we make use,
spoken, we endow the soul itself with organs. This soul element,
lives in a dull twilight state from the moment of falling asleep
to the moment of waking up, must, as it were, connect itself
the contrary, we might say: The subjective element which now
for many people, becomes immensely intensified when we thus
etheric body, as the spiritual environment which we left behind.
to know this spiritual world as our environment. But we know that
elements of the earth and that the etheric body dissolves, as
element.
free, soul-spiritual life. Everything in our environment with
form of old presentiments handed over traditionally in the
nourishment we therefore build up our own body out of mineral
the end of life, as a moment in life, as an experience in itself.
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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and as an introduction let me mention a few striking conceptions
patient, who came to him in a great state of excitement, because
statement of an investigator well acquainted with all the
Schleich mentions
which I will not mention here, one can see that Sir Oliver Lodge
precaution), at the time when these experiments were made, no one
“experimentum crucis.” Nobody in London could
way of thinking and a scientific mentality the foundations of
above-mentioned examples.
an inner presentiment of his near death. Such a presentiment need
statement that he had a presentiment of his near death, but he
question had had a presentiment of his near death and all his
would have arisen in any case and the death presentiment was the
acquainted with the phenomenon known as “second
uses this “experimentum crucis” in order to prove
into the room where Sir Oliver Lodge was making his experiments.
I mention these
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 1. Angels, Folk Spirits, Time Spirits: their part in the Evolution of Mankind.
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much that touches upon the fundamental truths of Spiritual Science
since to provide the necessary evidence and proof for my statements
at a certain stage of mystic or occult development one is called a
and sentiment associated with his native country to colour his
mystical and occult development demands an unprejudiced attitude
men’ of all times, from primeval ages down to our own day, have
relationship with the stable element in the evolution of mankind.
mankind in the near future will bring men together in far greater
Life Spirit or Buddhi. Finally the highest achievement of man that we
the initial development of the higher members in the past and their
further development in the future there lies an intermediate stage.
of this future development by having learnt to control his three
the development of Spirit Self or Manas, we recognize in man today
in this stage of his development.
who were men in the primeval past, on Old Saturn, and follow the
day. To summarize: the First Beginnings, the Archai, were men on Old
Saturn, the Archangels or Archangeloi were men on Old Sun, the Angels
or Angeloi were men on Old Moon and men are men on our Earth.
surely as man is at the present stage of development, so surely are
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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stage of development when they work from within the ‘I’
surprising, for his consciousness is limited to the phenomenal world.
fundamental tone or quality which persists over long periods of time.
people. This etheric aura acts upon the three temperaments, the
choleric, phlegmatic and sanguine temperaments, which are themselves
temperament. In general, therefore, the potent influence of the
etheric aura of a people streams into these three temperaments. In
the single individual these three temperaments may be variously
possibilities of interaction, as when one temperament influences
which works into the temperaments. The difference between the several
temperaments are commingled. National temperaments, therefore, vary
path peculiar to them. The fact that they work into the temperaments
is not vital for their own development; they only do so because they
their own ego-development must be taken into account. They themselves
their influence upon the temperaments of men is of secondary
of how the latter is reflected in the temperaments of the people, in
the mingling of temperaments in the single individuals. Therein lies
themselves. In this weaving into the temperaments the Folk Spirit
deferred development. In accordance with this law certain Beings
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 3. The inner Life of the Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
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the astral, but in the etheric body, they differ fundamentally from
metallic triangles in your box of geometrical instruments. If you
reconstruct mentally the following. (The diagram is intended only as
there is no need to go outside yourself. You can imagine for a moment
interested in the phenomenal world perceived through the senses. The
sounds, warmth and cold there exists a fundamental reality, namely,
quickening powers of the soul, men with a richer inner life; these
according to circumstances, can make use of the individual men and
sometimes opposing separate Spirits of Personality. The fragmentation
like this are little centralized; they look more to the development
the most important element. Circumstances, however, may arise when
the Spirit of the Age has to issue more important, more momentous
the Age detached a portion of the people at a given moment and then
Spirit of the Age required an instrument with which to fulfil his
his service in order to execute important tasks at a specific moment
excitement and ferment in this people. This vigour and vitality, this
temperament which is reflected in the individual personalities of
next lecture. In the hierarchical order mentioned yesterday the
Spirits of Movement, Dynamis or Mights; beyond these again are the
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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Old Moon and the Earth period itself up to the present moment. If you
of Movement, of Form, of Personality, the Archangels down to the
is to further man's ego-development, which can only be realized
interest in the development of the physical body since this is really
During this period man recapitulates the development of the astral
the normal developmental stage of twenty or thereabouts.
development therefore he would only awaken to ego-consciousness at
of Movement, had not remained behind and renounced the development of
development in a particular way during this present Earth-evolution.
have been Spirits of Movement during the Earth-evolution, but who
consequences are highly significant. Let us assume for a moment that
embryonic development. Indeed through these abnormal Spirits of Form,
man's development from birth to the age of twenty, that is, for
development man is subject to the influence of these abnormal Beings.
associated with the development of man during the first of his three
life-periods is fundamentally an anticipation of much that belongs to
development which he undergoes in his twentieth or twenty-first year
Science that if his development had proceeded in this way man would
whole course of human development through childhood and adolescence
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 5. Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
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Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
Spirits of Movement — Mights (Dynamis)
found therefore in the phenomenal world, the realm of Maya or
phenomena has a totally different conception of this “rocky
Movement. Thus these two forces meet at this frontier and this
interplay of the Thrones with the Spirits of Movement — since
the activity of the Thrones is neutralized by the Spirits of Movement
a balance of forces; an agreement, as it were, is concluded between
the Spirits of Will and the Spirits of Movement as a consequence of
Spirits of Movement acting and reacting upon each other would not be
Movement alone, then the Earth would be in a continual state of flux,
the Spirits of Will and the Spirits of Movement originally worked in
of the Spirits of Will and the Spirits of Movement but for the
Thrones) who work in conjunction with the Spirits of Movement. You
the Spirits of Movement above them. That which on our Earth appears
externally for the most part as a fluid element — not the
element which was brought to rest by the Spirits of Form — this
of Will. But another element is always associated with this activity.
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that statements such as those made in our last lecture are valid only
of these Hierarchies are reflected in the elements of Earth
are really Spirits of Movement should disturb the balance or harmony.
backward Spirits of Movement.
after certain older Spirits of Movement who possessed more potent
from the abnormal Spirits of Form who are really Spirits of Movement.
racial character are “Jupiter men”. If we cross the ocean
capture it at a definite moment in time. But what I have said about
moment of time in the old Atlantean evolution, the peoples began to
centre, which, we must assume, existed at a definite moment of time
down into his physical body. Now you know that the four fundamental
distinctive character stems from the ferment of the Mercury forces in
type with his black pigmentation and woolly or frizzy hair is the
forces of Venus, an abnormal development of the Spirits of Form. By
associated with higher mental activity, is worked upon indirectly
the immense importance of this polarity if we wish to plumb the
Venus forces, the initial steps in development, even in occult
development, must be concentrated on the respiratory system. Amongst
the initial steps must start from an enrichment and a
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 7. Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
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these Hierarchies themselves undergo evolution or development. We
development certain spiritual Beings advance to the next higher rank.
interesting phenomenon, for when we observe how the Folk Spirits, or
stages of development; in other words, some were nearer than others
the Far East for that movement of peoples whose Archangel was the
important development took place, a development which ran parallel
development to which we drew special attention in our last lecture.
special guidance. Through these special arrangements this people was
attempts to explain the phenomena of the Cosmos by one ultimate
who, surveying the Universe, persisted in explaining the phenomena of
representations which can apprehend phenomena with sympathetic
development the Greek Archangel was able to pass relatively quickly
through that stage of development which qualified him for a specially
definite moment of time which coincided approximately with the
folk elements in the peoples of Europe should be mingled and
when the various elements intermingled. Thus, over a long period of
development of the guiding Time Spirit of the fifth post-Atlantean
elementary stage.
has for the further development of this Archangel who certainly has
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development of Germanic-Nordic history and the spiritual impulses
embodied therein, we must first of all bear in mind the fundamental
there was a large measure of agreement on fundamental conceptions of
present time it is not easy to understand this essential element
person in question were to believe that, because the men with whom he
can scarcely understand the fundamental character of Teutonic
men who, in ancient India for example, founded the ancient Indian
period of development, but they had lived through it in a kind of dim
what was the nature of the development which humanity could undergo
yourselves for a moment in old Atlantis before the migrations towards
development. There were peoples who, during their migration eastward,
development when their ego was still in a dim state of consciousness.
They went through various stages of development, but their ‘I’
which no longer showed any traces of that elementary stage in soul
development which still persisted for a long period of time in the
peoples of Europe. The Indians had already undergone that elementary
very high stage of development. The most advanced among them were
able, after a brief development, to read again in the Akashic Record
that they gazed out into their spiritual environment, into the
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phenomenal world was merely Maya or illusion. Now I pointed out in
undergone a rich soul-development and that they had achieved this
reached maturity of soul development.
Indian peoples must have experienced their entire soul-development in
reconcile my statements in yesterday's lecture if you were to
development of the individual, these two modes of cognition are
the knower, a cognizing agent, and this subjective enhancement of the
the senses and that the ego, the fundamental essence of the human
and he himself remained a passive instrument. His relationship to the
the development of the ego is that it should progressively determine
original innate tendencies and with its progressive development in
everything that had participated in the development of the ‘I’
development of terrestrial man who was destined gradually to acquire
the phenomenal world surrounding man, so that the Ahrimanic influence
embodied in the Old Testament. Only a certain consciousness of the
this in the Old Testament account of the Serpent which is simply a
and is strikingly illustrated at a certain moment in history. The
Ahrimanic. It was in Persia in particular that men wrestled with the
freedom. He felt, one might say, the rebellious element manifesting
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 10. The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
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development of mankind in the remote past, in the present and will
fragments of peoples, have their special contribution to make to this
bestowed by a higher spiritual world through the instrumentality of a
tasks in preparing man's ego-development.
Folk Spirits enjoined upon men to act more on their own initiative it
with the withdrawal of the Celtic element there followed a gradual
Celtic element was to bring the gift of the ‘I’ to the
were able to draw nourishment from this old culture by mingling with
the widely diverse racial fragments, national communities and folk
elements, and they brought the ‘I’ into ever new
struggling to free itself from its attachment to the group-soul.
in the fulfillment of its special mission, we see a totally different
various stages of culture. We have already mentioned that the several
Indian culture, because — after the development of special
etheric body. The essential element in the ancient Indian culture is
development before it was conscious of the ‘I’, and this
with the use of the physical body for the progressive development of
external world, towards the phenomena of the physical plane, and to
whatsoever furthered the development of this ‘I’ on the
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at this present moment would otherwise create further complications.
foreign blood, but also the psychic and spiritual development of the
unite with the physical-corporeal instruments existing in the human
indicating that the blood is an essential factor in the development
until the moment of waking spreads out over the Macrocosm, so too the
course of its development on the physical plane, is associated with
clairvoyant development.
will be able, through the natural development of the new
made visible in the etheric world. Thus the first elements of future
development of mankind. The manifestation of Christ took place on the
out of their own vision will be dismissed as a figment of the
environment made pilgrimages to visit him, but also people from
will be a test of the further development of Spiritual Science
must assume a different form after man has undergone development on
the new men to see the new manifestations of Christ. Those who are
power of Vidar who will banish from the hearts and minds of men all
One part only of the development of mankind and the spirit —
members of the Nordic peoples who feel within them the elemental and
this development. This will to some extent be implanted in the souls
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beginning let me emphasise that there is no element of sensationalism
elementary education, the branch of knowledge commonly called
in the study of history, even the most elementary, than has
been the case before. I know that such a statement seems highly
aside from this and look at the development of the spiritual
centuries and centuries men have applied their noblest, most
intellectual achievements of men would suffice for such
all the impulses within men which through the centuries have
impulses which have turned men towards the Christ will sink. It
order to cleave to Christ, men had had to resort to all the
learned dissertations of the Middle Ages, of the Schoolmen, of
argument against this line of thought; but the subject can be
into existence. I need only mention something of which those
achievement which, in a certain respect, has remained
Aristotle's thinking is something so phenomenal, even when
now for a moment we will take a strange hypothesis, but one
Testament were simply not in existence. Leaving on one side all
happened among men through the centuries of the Christian era
large numbers of men who had assimilated the spiritual culture
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strange phenomena. And if we want to think truly about the
It seemed to the Apostles that they were like men who had
awakened, feeling at the moment of waking that they had been
different state of consciousness. The moment came when it
altogether strange. The others knew that they were men who
people as if these men had been transformed, as if their very
transformation could take place in a number of men. But these
men themselves in whom the transformation had come about,
they had not previously grasped. Now, at this moment, there
ceased to function from the moment referred to in the other
that at that moment he had denied any such connection because
significant moment when, as in a solar eclipse, the physical
the land: that to the eyes of soul the whole environment of man
all the physical embodiments of the animals and plants seem to
of seership contemplates that moment in the earth's evolution
what this remarkable phenomenon of nature perceived in the
Aristotle, a very high development of the human soul, a very
darkened by the intellectual achievements of antiquity
contrary arguments: what the gaze of clairvoyance perceives is
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the development of Christianity — what they thus bore
together with the earth and with men on the earth, He
live, henceforward, in communion with the souls of men.
the deep experiences and acquired the enrichment of soul proper
achievements of a people may thus be led onwards by the
the sight of God is often foolishness in the sight of men.
achievements of a people into the evolution of humanity as a
for men to rise up to Christ, Christ had now come down to the
men who bore within them the substance and content that
spiritual power of the sun had poured into souls of men,
would strongly recommend the reading of a book lately
genius, and is evidence of the nonsensical statements
that can be made about spiritual things by men of such calibre.
statement that when the human being has died, he is a
entirely oblivious of the phenomenal, almost incredible
undergone by Christ are fundamentally different from those
element of cheap fiction is mingled with the noble discourses
this being. Curious, is it not? But it proves how strongly men
admiration too strong for the purpose of turning men's
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moment in the life of Jesus of Nazareth is indicated in the
development that took place during the following years.
Those in the immediate environment of the young Jesus of
the greatest discernment and concentration and gave astounding
compiled in the Old Testament. Heaviness oppressed his
events recorded in Old Testament history. And one day —
and terrible moment for Jesus of Nazareth when the Bath-Kol
us try for a moment to enter into the soul of the young Jesus
contained elements of the Attis cult, but were in essentials a
natural development, a power of clairvoyance such as
spiritual Movement, that such things can be disclosed, because
was added to that caused by the disillusionment in connection
AUM, Amen!
der Mensch sich schied von Eurem Reich
vergass Euren Namen,
AUM, Amen!
equality among men, by his disregard of earthly goods and the
Nazareth there was an Essene settlement which had been one of
From among men living in this world a new soul must arise, one
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him, but he knew well that in his twelfth year a tremendous
secret doctrine and with men whose lives were dedicated to this
by men since days of antiquity that had risen up into his
achievements. And he often thought of what he had been before
men who would listen to the wisdom of Elias, of the older
everyone who came to him. Two men once laid a wager about the
of the two men said: I will go to any lengths to make Hillel
threw on his garments and came patiently out. The man said
of Nazareth and his kinsmen also traced their descent. And
men would have listened to them but there are no longer any
AUM, Amen!
der Mensch sich schied von Eurem Reich
vergass Euren Namen,
AUM, Amen!
of no avail! And if I were to go forth and proclaim to men what
men are no longer able to live in communion with the Mysteries,
it would neither be heard nor understood. Men have ceased to be
everywhere, a prayer once offered by men in the Mystery-Centres
was no possibility of making it comprehensible to men. And then
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First, as in previous lectures here, I must take a moment to ask
the ordinary consciousness as we apply it towards the phenomena
of nature by measuring, by experiments in balance, through
when awake? We come to an assessment of the dream world only by
point of view of the Guardian's judgement. If such a thing is
development can be produced.
cognitive and mental powers that are already there when we want
philosophical arguments here — naturally there is no time
development of such soul exercises, arrive at what refers to
the facts of mental life. Because for natural science and for
different mental power than previously. Previously the power of
represents how natural phenomena has approached us. But it is
out of the inner forces of the soul as natural phenomena and
forest. We can say: all around is silence. With the environment
time-person just as when, in the moment of realization when he
others before an earthly garment, if I may call it so, was
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the lecturer, by kind permission of Marie Steiner and in agreement
menacing form. Those who were able to follow the course of events,
there was really no possibility of basing the management of public
been within the reach of many leading men, they were not willing to
Norway can count among its people, men who will range themselves on
possible. Up here there is a certain detachment from European
convenience men brush aside all that is said with the intention of
times about disarmament and other ‘luxuries’ of the kind — for
surrounded on all hands by really marvellous technical achievements.
disarmament, about the desirability of ending wars... a great war
disarmament conferences, if the people of Asia cannot perceive
men flee, which for the sake of ease they would fain avoid, but which
struck. Either men will resolve to bring forth the spirituality of
is for men themselves to decide for or against spirituality. If
only be possible for a spiritual Movement to be taken seriously when
with inner understanding men are prepared to ascribe to it a mission
men did not speak of the great mechanical processes in the Universe
heavens, he loses himself. By far the most important elements
from what it was in times when men also spoke of ‘unborn-ness.’
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the lecturer, by kind permission of Marie Steiner and in agreement
From this it may be concluded that for consciousness, for mental
necessary; while a thriving life, vehement and intense, is necessary
arm, when we do this or that, we can perceive what movements
death. In his earthly development, however, man is so constituted that
acquires its real significance for us when it becomes our environment
moment comes when the Angel must as it were deliver up to the
moment of time; he should be received with warmth. And then he will be
Science must assume that in former earthly lives many men became more
the present phase of evolution, there are many men whose life between
When we carefully observe the life of to-day we find that although men
him through the world of the Elements, through fire, air, water and
all the conditions described have been fulfilled by the achievements
because all his thinking is absorbed in words. This is a fundamental
characteristic of modern men.
Earthly life in its historical development, especially in its present
becoming apparent in the life of the peoples — to give men who
his corpse is committed to the Earth, or to the Elements. His true

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and love for his fellow-men; in this way he enables his Guardian Angel
core of our being, is the element appertaining to the will, and in a
times, religion, education, indeed every domain of mental and
egotism. On the one side they encourage inertia by not spurring men on
into play whenever mention is made of the life after death. Life after
that Indians differ from Americans or Englishmen, but Swedes are often
existence and that, fundamentally, this physical existence is governed
programmes, men disperse without having come to any real decision
seemed to you to be the direct expression of violent, elemental
North may well have been perplexed, for it really was as though men
— even a period fraught with happenings as momentous as those of
— all this begins to take on a more superficial character. Men
are called upon to lay hold of Christianity in a more elementary way,
regarded as an undesirable element in Christianity... There you have
can truly be said that there, in the South, men looked back to a lofty
aside; the human element had more and more taken the place of
and more put aside and the human element brought to the fore.
fundamentally human influence to the South. And so the lofty primeval
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powers of judgment. This teaching is being directed to those

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If one regards the psychic in all movements and life, the varied and
Then let us look at men. If we examine nature we find the colour that
that it is not our real human environment in which we can fully feel
becomes a real, artistic experience of the astral element in the
from outer phenomena and remain, as it were, sealed. This give the
occur to use to paint the soul element in a picture otherwise than by
the garment.
perspective that deals with spatial measurement, so that distance did
in the material element in space, wanted to paint in it also.
the natural element in painting. For the surface belongs also to the
only be felt in this way if the third dimension of space is ignored.
expression of the third dimension; when one feels blue as a retiring
and red as an advancing colour, when, in short, the third dimension is

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to-day. But if I were after all to mention in the beginning a
when he speaks about this treatment it is still from quite
value. He is interested in the development of the economic life
said in the German parliament (Deutsche Reichstag) wanting to
whole development of recent times this state of affairs has
economic experiment in the East, for there, so to say, it was
more and more: The experiment will — quite apart from its
is why I have given some examples how the development of
that at to-days' time of human development we stand before the
when one further studies practically how the same treatment,
that is the payment with the same money for merchandise, for
when one studies the historical development of humanity, one
economic theorists, by parliamentarians during the time when
spoken and written in parliaments, chambers of commerce and
reasons, the arguments which were quoted for such assertions
economic perception can only come to valid judgement by he
agreement between persons interested in economic life in
various ways. The individual can never gain a valid judgement,
but only by agreement say of consumers and producers who form
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was authorized by permission of Marie Steiner and in agreement with
spheres indicated above, and as an introduction let me mention
great state of excitement, because in the office he had pricked
This is the statement of an investigator well acquainted with
Schleich mentions many other cases, less marked and radical, in
scientist. Even in other things, which I will not mention here,
experiments were made, no one in London knew anything about
one might say, “experimentum cruris.”
a scientific mentality the foundations of anthroposophical
the two above mentioned examples.
already existed and that he had had an inner presentiment of
his approaching death. Such a presentiment need not be fully
clothe this in the statement that he had a presentiment of his
auto-suggestion, but the man in question had had a presentiment
any case and the death-presentiment was the cause of the
Undoubtedly you are all acquainted with the phenomenon known as
Lodge. For Sir Oliver Lodge uses this experimentum
making his experiments. Here, we simply have to do with
mention these two examples and the objections against them, in
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mentality.
being belongs more than one generally thinks to the development
approach the element of soul and spirit in man by
abnormal psychic phenomena, because they can be investigated in
the same way in which physical experiments are carried on,
spiritual life are simply approached experimentally, and the
phenomena are investigated in the same way in which one makes
experiments in a laboratory.
can confront even such abnormal phenomena with a strictly
Another kind of phenomenon confronts us when it is possible to
by modern scientists. Telepathy is a phenomenon of this kind.
through telepathy without the ordinary instrument of the
experiments have already been made with the application of
scientific methods, experiments falling under the category of
anthroposophical spiritual science confronts these phenomena,
it must again raise the critical question: Do these phenomena
at the moment of falling asleep, that sentient and volitional
being which remains outside the body from the moment of falling
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DEVELOPMENT IN THE LIGHT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY.
moment of waking up. And by diving down into the physical body,
upon the fact that we use the instruments of our physical body,
itself with organs. This soul-element, which is at first
being which lives in a dull twilight state from the moment of
falling asleep to the moment of waking up, must, as it were,
The subjective element which now breaks forth from the physical
the spiritual environment in the mirror of the physical and
spiritual world as our environment. But we know that we can
given over to the elements of the earth and that the etheric
within them remains as a mirroring element.
soul-spiritual life. Everything in our environment with which
presentiments handed down traditionally in the religious
substances. By taking in vegetable nourishment we therefore
constitutes the physical instrumentality of thinking.
confronts us as the end of life, as a moment in life, as an
corpse-like element within us.
therefore learn to contemplate the moment of death by seeing it
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elevated position in the environment whence to obtain a view such as
at the very foundation of man's nature and is the same in all men.
of development and attain what is usually called clairvoyant
understanding and judgment — are here not enough; and it is shown
man has around him the world of the senses, it forms his environment,
environment when he is asleep. To put it in another way, man's powers
environment. At night when man is away from his sense organs and his
to rouse himself and perceive his environment. Now it is possible,
the soul, which is too weak in the night to perceive its environment,
with an environment which is of a spiritual nature and hidden from
on which I shall have more to say later: for the moment, I only want
all-important requirement in the preparation for occult knowledge.
men, among the many things that had to be overcome in the process of
in ordinary life. For external consciousness men must have these
all the egoism that confuses judgment and clouds ordinary
consisted of symbols that could be drawn, or traced with movements of
to all men. The keeping secret of the symbols prevented the knowledge
by the development of occult faculties. It was a knowledge that by its
any man who has sound and healthy judgment and takes pains to master
possible for men to adopt the comprehensive point of view of a healthy
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therefore of the development of these few that we shall have to speak.
remain a man of action in the external world, his occult development
alone In the world he continued to be a man among men, with all the
expression in the very first step he had to take for the development
of a man who was undergoing occult development.
of occult development Before the moment of time when he makes this
beginning, he has lived in the world as a man among men. He has
around, would never have the urge to undergo occult development In
development were men who showed great ability in the positions in
a matter of fact, lead often to a certain improvement in the pupil's
your occult development to acquire an advantage over those who stand
development It was the first renunciation they were called upon to
you reflect for a moment, you will see that this must be so. Hitherto
development; a man's whole feeling and interest were claimed for a new
ancient Mysteries and schools of occult development, lest he be
development, and you will find that those who in outer life showed
attainment. Consider the case of a man who has given himself and his
judgment, fancy and imagination, memory, emotions, — all these
which enables us to discriminate and to form judgments about the facts
kingdoms of nature as well as on our fellowmen, — in effect, upon
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instrument man has necessarily to employ when he wants to acquire
no other way than through the instrument of the body, and in
statement will of course seem absurd. It is nevertheless true. The
that a man who has succeeded in becoming free of the instrument given
that is to say, through an external bodily instrument, but imagine
The man who actually finds himself within this element will certainly
development of a sublime intellect and power of judgment. It is not
enter, as aspirants after occultism, into the element of flowing
external objects, but have their origin in the element in which we
development, the forces of the Earth worked upon him. Gradually,
That development, however, of our brain that enables us, by working
proud of the achievement. But even then it will only be able to grasp
nor all the apparatus and arrangements of the sense organs,
Yes, the moment has come when we can at last learn what philosophy
World “God” or “World Spirit” is of no moment; the
active in his brain. The moment he becomes clairvoyant and sets free
— of Earthly air and nourishment, whatever he needs for the care
life that is not bound to the instrument of the heart, belongs to a
united with the organ of the heart. When men are able to set free the
sitting here is simply this, — that at some moment in your life,
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This consciousness is an element in our life which we have to examine
ego-consciousness, is for the occultist that element in his life which
teachers came among men and communicated to them what men were unable
communications and revelations that men received in pre-Christian
necessary for the men who were on Earth at that time.
inner development and rising into the spiritual worlds. It would thus
life of thought, that makes use of the instrument of the brain.
instrument of the brain. Religions have consequently always contained
thoughts that employ the instrument of the brain, since one who is a
in forms men will understand by making use of the instrument of the
rather of the instrument of the heart. Any particular religion,
and conceptions that are acquired by use of the instrument of the
all they will allow themselves to use for their development. Such
develop all the more strongly. He will feel through the instrument of
experiences of the soul which are acquired through the instrumentality
experiences, of the brain. Such men are often not described in
interesting in their fellowmen, — namely, personality. People are
element is dulled and darkened. This suppression and extinction of
Such a mystic would give to men nothing but pure thoughts, —
particular solemn moments of his life. For life always calls one back,
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extinguish ordinary consciousness, then in the moment when a
completely different element.
is without an object. For the moment the mystic leaves the objects of
attain to what we named as the third element of occult experience
states; and in the case of the various women mystics we cited, it was
body has changed its substance completely and fundamentally in the
permanent element in your life is therefore most certainly not to be
of life to see at once what fundamental changes go on in your inner
moment a man did have to admit to himself that, let us say, from three
moment his being would be torn asunder; he would be, as we say, no
earthly life. This is the fundamental feeling men have about the I or
something which can be taken as a starting-point for any statement
lead to disappointment. There we simply enter into our transitory and
expression — and for the moment, the one and only expression
These two experiences are fundamental, upon them we must build. They
pronounce two judgments, — that man is too proud and that man is
lives his life on Earth together with his environment.
that it is possible to come to an inner judgment, an inner experience,
something with him; what he takes is a judgment about the human form.
It is a judgment to which, in fact, expression has been given by man
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moment we are awake to the fact that the external unity of the human
form is only apparent, the moment we realise that the whole form and
earthly life, is but a semblance — in that moment we can also
must learn to understand how man has in him as it were, three men. Let
us now place before us these three men in succession.
for the moment just these three members of man's nature, we have there
course, that man's form shows a two-sided development. This quality of
the knee, there being no development in the elbow to correspond to the
on how this complete sevenfold man receives nourishment — the
nourishment is of course brought up to it from the rest of man —
then the idea will not be utterly grotesque if we imagine for a moment
that this sevenfold man might receive its nourishment from without,
like a plant which finds nourishment prepared for it in the world
we picture man assuming for the moment the same posture in the world
alike) but here one arm had experienced a peculiar development of its
the shroud or encasement, as it were — we designate as Crab
wall of the abdomen. Anatomically man's body is quite exactly divided
man, and observe how its movement is conditioned by the nature of the
develop it to become so, but it requires development. We cannot fly
Think of the most simple and elementary movements of the hand. Does
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composed of three men each having seven members — so that we can
through the world and have our experiences, these three men seem to be
other consists in this, — that the moment man lifts himself out
in my book Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment,
the moment we step beyond ordinary consciousness, we are immediately
we take our start once again in quite an elementary way from certain
these senses. Of the three men whom we learned to recognise yesterday
bring to meet them the instrument of his brain, indeed of his whole
means of the circulation of the blood, nourishment must flow for the
sense impressions in such a way that by means of the instrument of the
what arises in this way through the instrumentality of the brain. You
with a difference; for the way in which the instrument of everyday
method of nourishment also changes during sleep. When, under certain
circumstances, the process of nourishment does continue to work in the
perceives itself by means of the instrument of the brain. The upper
experience of an immense vault above one. Something is creeping or
order. A moment's reflection will show us that ordinary normal
he needs for his nourishment the substances that are produced on the
man takes the substances he requires for nourishment, and these
receives into himself as nourishment is produced by the Sun in man's
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THE attainment of occult knowledge — it is necessary we should
all the time to its upbuilding and development. Ever since primeval
soul experiences and by means of occult development succeed in looking
had this “echoing” experience. The vibration, the movement
Anyone who has himself carried out this experiment will not bring
the moment he passes beyond Earth existence, and show itself as death.
is mortal. This fact puts a powerful argument in the hands of Lucifer,
the first moment terrible and paralysing. For this reason a great part
when one has carried out the experiment described, a feeling of
What the present moment affords — on that can man most assuredly
to that either can man hold. A moment comes, however, when there is
consciousness into the present moment. And it can happen all too
acquired under the Bodhi tree that great and high enlightenment which
source of Buddha's teaching, to a super-sensible enlightenment.
4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. \
enlightenment. For the others, for His companions, it was an
enlightenment, but not for Him. For Him it was perfectly natural and
there in that moment; whereas the act which in the case of
of the argument in my book Christianity as Mystical Fact.
of religion, we have to speak of them as men who have become initiated
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particular enlightenment that streamed forth from a higher world into
in the case of Buddha. You must study his enlightenment under the
be truly said, provided only the statement be not taken in a trivial
make clear to you the immense service done by the Christ to the pupil
Christ. Christ is there for the simplest of men; on the other hand He
went on to show that the figure known to the Old Testament under the
Study the festivals of New Moon and investigate the feelings men had
about them in Old Testament times; and you will be ready to meet what
You will be able now to discern wherein the fundamental principle, the
some important moment of his life, notably the moment of birth, falls
the inner movement of man. Note carefully the distinction:
Second stage: Starting best from the inner movement of the human
figure of man, the movements that take place within him. We have first
of all a movement which, although in later life man scarcely performs
the ground for the rest of his life. Man has to perform the movement
lifts himself upright. So that the first inner movement man
performs — for it is an inner movement — is the movement of
The second movement of an inner kind is again one that man must
acquire for himself as a child, although this movement he continues to
use throughout life. It is the movement of speaking, the
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the course of his incarnations through the enticements and temptations
man of inner movement, in order to explain to you how man can take a
there. The moment, however, initiation penetrates as far as to the
means of the second consciousness? Leaving on one side for the moment
majestic figure of light — these contain a seductive element.
has immense, strong power in itself — that Lucifer has in full
the third consciousness of a higher kind. I will only mention that the
the first rudiments of physical man began, as is shown in Occult
realities belonging to a higher world. A systematic higher development
consciousness you go about making external movements. Such movements
The movements that take place inside you on the other hand — the
movements, I mean, of the middle man that continue even when you are
consciousness of deep sleep. The movements of the heart and
of the breathing are movements connected with this second
consciousness were to undergo a tremendous enhancement, he would
second, the lower Devachan or mental plane; and to the third, the
higher mental, or higher Devachan plane. Still farther on, we have the
underwent continual development and change. So that the marvellous and
man in his inner movements; and let me remind you of the conclusion to
movements as such we do not see, and I pointed out yesterday how
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means of conception. At the moment of falling asleep, we
are brought back to that moment when we descended from
earlier moment. Now the question arises: if we go back every
night to an earlier moment, what happens to our ego and astral
Fundamentally, we live our earth-life only with the physical
our beginning with that moment at which we happen to stand
and astral body have come to a standstill at the moment
twenty-three; and the etheric body connects the moment at which
this person entered earth-life with the moment
spirit-soul element and the physical body. It is a mediator
to the respective moment at which it is living —
moment to moment, by the physical body; but resulting from
present moment to the real ego and astral body, both of
acquire especial significance at the moment of human death. The
events, we usually awaken after arriving at the moment when we
moments before waking. Thus events that have stretched
judgment of what he did during the day. The human being, as
passed something like a world judgment on our worth as
element undergoes, unconsciously, during every night; that is,
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his self. Just consider the dreams, the only element in man's
Attainment, Anthroposophic Press, New York.] how the dead,
more lucidly and sagaciously than men who are still alive. By
gain, by means of their judgment, an extraordinary
preserved in the spiritual world. Thus an eternal element is
emotion and heart. An Oh!, an Ah!, as expressions of amazement,
dead, although dwelling in an element akin to sleep, yet have a
environment only to the degree in which they formerly
reflected, as much as earthly men are capable of doing,
period in which — commensurate with their experiences in
formations of a spiritual element.
the wake of death, a moral judgment on our worth as human
on us as a garment woven from the substances of the spiritual
is here that we give as nourishment to the universe
or be incorporeal men dwelling in the spiritual world. And now
soul-image. In a single moment, you may survey widely
world. And we are working for this world which is fundamentally
must think of it as immense, enormous. It is a universe; and
phenomenon of all.
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order to become earth men.
experiences during that brief moment whatever he would have
element. Hence the soul, while existing in this bottomless
element, has an ardent desire for divine support. Thus we
divine-spiritual element. This is our real experience when
Fundamentally, we live very thoughtlessly if we take into
emotion of fear. The objective element in fear, however,
firmly binds together man's single elements and combines them
clairvoyance, he could look back at significant moments of his
envisage the immense transformation undergone by human sleep
live as physical men while awake? We are confined, through our
living things, and out of living things the human soul-element.
fixed stars in the firmament, seen by us again, during nightly
cosmos. And just as the human being is led at a certain moment
hour, to the moment of awaking, our consciousness is halted
equipment, could not calculate how the child's human
learning how to walk lies an element of utmost grandeur.
gestures flowing from the organs of movement.
emotional element; and a child of normal development learns
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man, we find its inner element composed of
thinking or forming of mental representations,
mental activity. Of what we are thinking we are fully conscious
are of the mental representations? the answer would have to be
feeling by translating that which is felt into mental
representations. We make a mental image of our feelings. In
grasp something. First, you have a mental image of the fact
the object, you become aware — again by means of a mental
image — of having carried out a movement.
What lies between the mental image forming the intention and
And only mental activity, thinking, is a matter of real
soul: the waking soul that forms mental images; the dreaming
will-impulse is primarily a thought, a mental image. At the
moment when this intention streams down into the organism,
within you brings forth the movement used by the arm in order
is different in mental activity. Here a constant depositing of
physical sense, thinking or mental activity is a depositing of
a chance moment. Things, however, happen otherwise. If we use
invisible by the previously mentioned process of
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development of spirit and soul is dependent on the development
today, in the time of youth movements (this is not said
women and young men; and those vaunting unusual mental
modern men most profoundly. You only need to think of a
corpse-like. And he felt in this estrangement of the physical
earth-elements, a liberation of spirit and soul. By
considering the body merely as a garment, he felt its
after death. It was less amazing to ancient than to modern men
tremendous respect for old age.
however, inhabited by men with receding foreheads, such as are
How did it actually happen that men passed through these
felt to be at one with us. Because, in those ancient times, men
thoughts, his mental images. The Egyptian or Chaldaean felt in
his thirty-fifth year as if his mental images were connected
forty-third year. Subsequently no new element entered into
human development. The primeval Persian, too, felt as if his
between the soul and spirit element and the bodily-physical.
Only this bodily-physical element no longer separated itself
spirit and soul element.
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earthly development.
outward nature, to the external world. This statement
the human being remained dependent on the spiritual element in
men of ancient times have said: “We were together with
remained united with all men on earth.
this respect the Christ depended on the judgment of his age.
those ancient times when men, in their fifties, felt the
the earthly element. But this transformation of the physical
body into the earthly element, this perception of the earth by
course of the stars, the spiritual element within destiny.
in accord with these phenomena. The course of the year,
millennium before the Mystery of Golgotha, when men lived
different way, our earth. Just as man possesses a soul element,
so does the earth possess a soul element. In the course of one
soul element. And the wintry days, during which the Christmas
spirit and soul element becomes visible in the earth.
her whole soul and thereby lets come out of the earth-element
the elemental beings, who live with the snow-covered
This, however, could not happen unless the elemental
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was eigentlich dem gegenwärtigen menschlichen Denken noch
haben, darauf Rücksicht zu nehmen, daß wir ja nicht
vorwärts kommen würden auf unserm Felde, wenn wir nicht von
würden, welche gerade dem gegenwärtigen menschlichen
kommen, wenn nicht gerade diesen Ausführungen gegenüber
Entgegenkommen spirituellen Verständnisses. Es ist in der Tat
könnte, entgegenzunehmen.
oder okkulter Entwickelung ein heimatloser Mensch genannt wird. Es
Mensch,» und wenn wir ohne Umschweife — da wir nicht
wollen, was mit dem Worte «heimatloser Mensch» gemeint ist,
Mensch genannt wird, der in seiner Erkenntnis, seiner
Auffassung der großen Menschheitsgesetze in Wahrheit
unbeeinflußbar ist von alledem, was sonst im Menschen aufsteigt
Ein heimatloser Mensch, können wir auch sagen, ist
derjenige, welcher die große Mission der Gesamtmenschheit in
sich aufzunehmen vermag, ohne daß sich die Nuancen der besondern
betrachten, was wir anderseits dem einzelnen Menschenleben
Beiträge zu der gesamten Mission der Menschheit
wir also sozusagen das Große dessen, wovon der heimatlose Mensch in
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Menschenleben hineinragt, so muß doch auf der anderen
andeuten, in der der Mensch ist, denn schließlich muß ja
der Menschenleib etwas mit der Arbeit dieser geistigen Wesenheiten zu
Dänemarks oder Deutschlands. So wahr jeder Mensch seinen eigenen
Menschen. Wenn wir einen Menschen betrachten, der im Leben steht, dann
finden wir, daß die Äther-Aura des Menschen an diesen Menschen
ändert sich eigentlich nur insoweit, als der Mensch im Leben
diese Äther-Aura des Menschen sozusagen von innen heraus sich
Ländergebieten wahrzunehmen sind. Gewiß, sie haben durch
Auren von den menschlichen Auren unterscheidet, die sich
sich nämlich im Laufe der Entwickelung der Erdenmenschheit
diejenigen, welche die Geschicke unseres Menschengeschlechtes in ihrer
Beziehung ein Zusammenfluß von dem, was aus dem Boden stammt und
Grunde genommen niemals so recht verstanden wird oder wenigstens
er doch im Grunde genommen recht wenig. Man spricht ihn mehr als
Konfiguration des Bodens und so weiter, das ist im Grunde genommen
Betracht kommen, wie bei den Gebirgsverhältnissen, der
eines Volkstums entgegentritt, das, was der Mensch, der nicht
Mensch aber, der mit hellseherischem Bewußtsein Land und
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als der Mensch, Wesenheiten, welche an der Umgestaltung ihres
oder Buddhi nennt. Der Mensch ist in diese Arbeit eingesponnen.
daß der Mensch in diese Entwickelung hineingesponnen ist,
menschlichen Individualität selber als der Volkscharakter des
einzelnen menschlichen Individuums.
in das heutige Innere des Menschen hineinleuchten wollen, haben
Empfindungsseele, gleichsam das unterste Glied der menschlichen
Bewußtseinsseele, das höchste Glied des menschlichen
Innern, wo eigentlich erst so recht das menschliche ich zum
man das menschliche Selbstbewußtsein nennt. Trotzdem ist das Ich
des Menschen in allen drei Teilen seines inneren Lebens —
Empfindungsseele ist dieses Ich so tätig, daß der Mensch
Bewußtseinsseele. Wenn wir diese drei Glieder des menschlichen
dasjenige, was uns als das eigentliche menschliche Innere, als
das Seelische entgegentritt. Das Seelische, das Innere des Menschen,
Bewußtseinsseele. So also können wir das menschliche Innere
von dem, was menschliche Hüllennatur ist, unterscheiden. Es ist
also des Menschen innere Natur aus drei Modifikationen des
Menschen das Innere, das, worin das Ich arbeitet und sich ausprägt,
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Verhältnis der Menschenrassen zu einander vordringen,
berücksichtigen, daß der Mensch, den wir vor uns haben, der
durch das Zusammenwirken vieler, vieler Wesenheiten des Weltalls in
Menschen gepflogen worden sind, daß unsere Erde selbst
Glieder des Menschen: der physische Leib, der Äther- oder
Erdenverkörperung ist erst der Mensch fähig geworden,
ein viertes Glied, ein Ich in sich aufzunehmen. Diese vier Glieder
da zusammengewirkt haben, diese Geister des Willens oder Throne, die
ganz komplizierten Zusarnmenwirken erst hervorgehen konnte, was
des Menschen heutige Organisation möglich macht. Wir haben
Wesenheiten und Naturkräfte zusammenwirkten im Kosmos,
sondern daß zum Zustandekommen des Menschen auch noch nötig
Entwickelungsgange möglich gewesen wäre, in die menschliche
wir den Menschen, so wie er uns heute vor Augen tritt, eigentlich
wie durch das Zusammenwirken dieser Wesenheiten der Mensch erst
zustande gekommen ist. Da können wir nun sagen: Die
Menschen in Betracht kommt, ist diejenige, welche ihm die
und nach zu dem Bewußtsein des Ich zu kommen. Und wir wissen,
Tätigkeit, welche sie dem Menschen zuwenden, belauschen und uns
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den Menschen gerade von jener Seite her durchdringt, die wir jetzt
nehmen, so lange wird ein vorurteilsfreies Verständnis der
sein. Damit hängt es auch zusammen, daß über diese
unseres Wesens schauen, daß wir mit ihm teilnehmen werden nicht
daß wir in unserem innersten Wesen aufnehmen Beitrag auf
Geheimnisse der Rassen- und Volkszusammenhänge vor unser
aber trotzdem ebenso in die Menschheit durch ein solches objektives
Anschauen der menschlichen Volks- und Rassencharaktere Unfrieden und
mit den angedeuteten Voraussetzungen aufgenommen wird. Der
Menschheit. Das wird gerade das Bedeutungsvolle sein, daß in dem
Gesamt-Menschheit einfließen, und wie sogar einzelne
Menschheitsevolution. Das aber wird nur allmählich vor unser
Rasse zusammenwirken müssen sozusagen ein normaler und ein
wir wissen, der Mensch als unterstes Glied gehört. Erinnern Sie
der untersten Stufe steht der Mensch. Unter ihm liegen die drei
Dann kommen die Engel, dann die Erzengel, dann die
bezeichnen können als die erste der Hierarchien, vom Menschen
Täuschung aufsuchen? Der Mensch in seiner
einem Beispiele zeigen, wie der Mensch eigentlich nur die
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zusammenwirken müssen, daß die Erdenmission
Verständnis gerade dieser sehr komplizierten Sache kommen
zusammenhalten müssen.
stellt sich das ganze Zusammenwirken der Hierarchien so dar,
der Mensch diese Kräfte gewahr wird, nicht deren direkter
Sie zum Beispiel von dem ganz Intimen der Vorgänge, die da
dieser Hierarchien in dem, was wir die Elemente des Erdendaseins
bekommen von der unendlichen Weisheit, welche in dem ganzen
Zusammenhang der Kräfte des Universums, der Kräfte des
namentlich am Schlusse der Darstellung, sich etwas genauer bekannt
gemacht haben mit dem, was man nennen kann: Zusammenwirken der
abnormen und normalen Geister der Form, damit innerhalb unseres
ganze Erde ausbreitendes, gleichartiges Menschentum entsteht,
sondern damit ein solches Menschentum entsteht, das sich in der
einheitlichen Menschentum, das der Mensch nur im Verlaufe der
Namen der Elohim benannt werden, und es sind eigentlich im gesamten
Universum, das die Erde umgibt und mit ihr zusammen ein Ganzes
sieben Geister der Form in dem gesamten Weltall so zusammenwirken,
daß wirklich das zustande kommen würde, was wir in einem
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Dingen in der menschlichen Entwickelung durch die Wesenheiten und
jener Hierarchie leitend eingreifen, wie sie zusammen organisieren,
höheren Rang hinaufsteigen, dann bekommen wir erst eine
in jene Verteilung der Menschheit, die wir als die Rassenverteilung
von Völker-, von Menschheitsströmung hineingeschickt worden
fragen wollen: Wann sind hingekommen an den bestimmten Punkt
nach Afrika diejenigen Menschen, die dann die schwarze oder
gekommen diejenigen Völker, welche die malayische Rasse
haben mit jenem mächtigen Menschheits-Strom, der vorgeschoben
Völkerströmung, die sich zusammenschloß mit der
bekamen, ihre hohe Mission in der schon geschilderten Weise
Menschheit.
dasjenige annimmt, was zu den semitischen Stämmen gehört,
sie zusammenhält mit dem, was in der nachatlantischen Zeit die
geistige Strömungen in der Menschheit. Die eine geistige Strömung
größtmögliche Mannigfaltigkeit annehmen kann.
genommen in unserer geisteswissenschaftlichen Weltanschauung
Vielheit mußte eine synthetische, eine zusammenfassende
Wenn der Mensch
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Auffassung, im Grunde genommen ein gleichartiges
«Vor dreißig Jahren lernte ich einen Menschen kennen. Der
20 Jahren einen Menschen kennen gelernt, der trug dieselbe
Menschen, die er da kennen gelernt hat vor dreißig Jahren,
anderer Mensch, in den verschiedenen Zeiten, in der Uniform
für ein Mensch in der Uniform steckt. Das Gleichnis ist
es selbst zu seiner Philosophie, gekommen ist.
daß sozusagen die allerreifsten, fortgeschrittensten Menschen
verstehen, daß man weiß, daß die Menschen, die an
wollen wir mehr Rücksicht darauf nehmen, wie die Menschen
verschieden waren, die an diesen Kulturen teilgenommen
waren die Menschen, die im alten Indien die uralt-indische Kultur
waren sie aber verschieden? Es war die ganze Menschheitsanlage
der uralt-indischen Völker absolut verschieden von den Menschen
alten Indien sehr weit in der menschlichen Entwickelung
fortgeschritten, bevor sie aufnahmen das Ich. Sie hatten in bezug auf
alles übrige in der Menschheitsentwickelung große,
sich eine lange, lange Menschheitsentwickelung. Das hatten sie aber
denn nun, was man in der nachatlantischen Zeit als Menschheitsentwickelung
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Themen gegeben worden sind, gehört haben, daß unser
Zeiten der atlantischen Entwickelung dazu da waren, das menschliche
mehr zur Bewußtheit zu bringen. Im Zusammenhang damit
der alten Atlantis noch durch das in der Menschheit sich findende
europäische, namentlich die germanische Bevölkerung,
Erkennbarkeit ist der Mensch in einer ganz anderen Lage als in bezug
und mit dem, was erkannt wird. Ob das, was erkannt wird, Mensch,
der menschlichen Evolution, der menschlichen Entw ickelung,
der menschlichen Seelenkraft kann lange vorhanden sein, ehe der
Mensch auch die Fähigkeit erlangt, das Ich objektiv, als
Dingen, zurechtkommen, wenn Sie es nur richtig machen. Man
Wesen, die sie hellseherisch wahrnahmen. — So müssen wir
war, das Ich des Menschen in einer solchen Weise, wie ich das in
Welt, die als sinnenfällige Welt vor den Menschensinn trat, in
des Menschen, die verschiedensten Verhältnisse zur
Außenwelt eingehen kann. Früher, bevor der Mensch sein Ich
schaute, bevor er es wahrnahm, waren dem Menschen diese
Menschen anzuweisen, sein Ich in Beziehung zur Außenwelt und zu
den anderen Menschen und zu der Welt der göttlich-geistigen
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Geistesleben zusammenwirkt, wie durch die Tätigkeit der
verschiedenen Volksgeister ein Fortschritt der Menschheit bewirkt
verschiedenen Stufen der menschlichen Wesenheit hindurch zu
Menschen gezeigt. Es wurde gesagt, wie dieses Ich den Menschen
dem Menschen und der Volksseele mitten darinnen steht: von dem Donar
erwachte, das Ich nicht gefunden. Da war der Mensch schon subjektiv
so weit entwickelt zu einer hohen Stufe menschlicher
Vollkommenheit, daß er das Ich nicht als fremdes, sondern
als eigenes empfand. Als der Mensch im Orient zum Ich erwachte, war
individuellen Ich wie das Herauskommen aus einer Art von
Gruppenseele. Der germanisch-nordische Mensch fühlte sich
Zusammengehörigkeit des Stammes. Nur so konnte es kommen,
zu einzelnen Stämmen gehörig erscheinen, daß sie wie die
Starraneszusammengehörigkeit und ist es auch in der Tat,
empfindet der individuelle Mensch als die Wesenheiten, die ihm das
Ich gaben. Die empfand der nordische Mensch noch so, als den
der Erziehung des Menschen zum Ich hin zugeteilt waren.
Volk, diejenige Völkerzusammengehörigkeit, diejenige
Volksgemeinsamkeit ausgebreitet, die wir unter dem Namen der
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daß im Grunde genommen das Allerwenigste von dem, was in dieses
daß wir über ähnliche Themen hier zusammen sprechen,
größten okkulten Wahrheiten zum Ausdrucke kommen,
können als das Herabsteigen jener Seelen der Menschen, die
vereinigen strebten mit dem, was der Menschenleib nach und nach
das war ein Zustand, der damals damit zusammenhing, daß eben
biegsamen, bildsamen Leibe, wenn solche sozusagen aus geistigen
Göttin das, was an Menschenleibern dargeboten werden konnte den
Menschenseelen. Das ist der geheimnisvolle Vorgang, der dem
des physischen Menschen hingedeutet wird, uns überliefert ist.
Menschen, die einst hinaufgestiegen waren in planetarische
heruntergestiegen sind, um sich mit physischen Menschenleibern
können Sie entnehmen, welche bedeutungsvolle Rolle
Völkermischungen und Völkerzusammenhänge in gewissen
Völkerzusammenhänge, die ihren Ausdruck in der Blutmischung
So begreifen wir es, daß der nordisch-germanische Mensch
nordisch-germanische Mensch in seiner Seele etwas von der Herkunft
Wesenheiten, jenen Erzengelwesenheiten, die das Zusammenfügen
welche in die menschliche Seele gegossen haben alles dasjenige, was
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ordinary men. People also imagined a man who lives very fast,
his thinking than angels are — of whom an ancient document
embarrassment for men's errors. The Gods created man as a thinking
That's how profound these old religious documents are. That's
or fast-living men. Such thoughts give him a pain, because he feels
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the elemental world and archangels in the astral world. Thus Lucifer
can approach men because of their fear. It's not too bad if
men to self-consciousness. But he wants them to have an exaggerated

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four elements fire, water, air, and earth. Things are different with
men. If a man doesn't connect himself with these spiritual
scientific achievements. He goes to sleep and wakes up with his
through the terrible materialism in which men have simply forgotten
of the attainments of materialistic science. Moderns have found many
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we become different from other men through our occult development. Our
connection with other men and the interests that filled us
exoteric and esoteric men is that an exoteric man permeates his
are present in men about this, for then he would get into serious
trouble with respect to his development. The inner man is gradually
dishonesty that of course hinders his development and that can do a
caused by occult development or think that doctors can't treat
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Gods made the former also. They were glad about their environment and
took it down into the physical world to make men glad. Such feelings
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soul, the effect on you isn't good. All men tend to have
feeling and willing. In ancient times, men were much more robust and
ailments, which the Gods send him to show that something isn't

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Menschheit auch in ganz bestimmter Niederschrift vorhanden
schon in der elementarsten
gegenwärtigen Menschen
Christus-Vorstellung im Abnehmen ist, insbesondere im Abnehmen
Betrachtung der Geschichte der Menschheit in einer nicht fernen
vollkommener Widerspruch zu sein?
Christus-Vorstellung. Jeder muß da die Meinung bekommen,
dagegen spräche, zu der Vorstellung kommen, daß man
haben die Menschen ihre
bedeutsamsten intellektuellen Tätigkeiten des Menschen
der Menschen, die durch die
Menschen hingelenkt haben zur Christus-Wesenheit, zur
Menschen, um an dem Christus zu hängen, alle gelehrten
hätten, oder wenn die Menschen nur bedürftig gewesen
insbesondere in ihren älteren Formen, wenn sie den kämpfenden Gott oder den Menschen, in
diesen Namen tritt vor unsere Seelen ein geistiges Leben höchster Art auf einem gewissen
menschlichen Logik durch Aristoteles ist etwas so ungeheuer
Vollkommenes auch heute noch, daß man sagen
im menschlichen Denken, so daß eine Steigerung bisher nicht geschehen ist.
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Zweiter Vortrag, Kristiania (Oslo), 2. Oktober 1913
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zweifellos seltsamen Erscheinungen
Wie erwachend kamen sich die Apostel vor,
wie Menschen, welche in diesem
leiblich gesunder Mensch herumgeht, so daß gewissermaßen auch die anderen Menschen,
hätte, so kamen sie sich vor.
Und den anderen Menschen, die sie beobachten konnten, wie sie
nun sprachen, kamen sie ganz fremdartig vor. Sie
wußten, diese anderen Menschen,
traumverloren, benommen hatten. Das
wußte man. Jetzt aber kamen sie den Leuten
wie verwandelt vor: wie Menschen, die in
Menschen, die alle Engigkeit des Lebens, alle
Herzensverständnis für alles, was menschlich auf der Erde ist, die sich so
solche Umwandlung mit einer Anzahl von Menschen
vorgehen konnte. Diese Menschen selber
diese Menschen fühlten jetzt in sich selber
auf diese Verleugnungsszene, wie er gefragt worden war, ob er einen Zusammenhang habe mit dem
betrete heiligsten Boden des menschlichen Anschauens, wenn man
andere Zeiten kommen werden als die
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Dritter Vortrag, Kristiania (Oslo), 3. Oktober 1913
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kommen, aus von demjenigen, was man
gleich ist wie eine Empfängnis bei einem Erdenmenschen. Das Leben des Christus von da ab
verstehen wir, wenn wir es vergleichen mit demjenigen Leben, das der Menschenkeim im Leibe der
menschlichen Tode als das Eingehen in die geistigen Welten
Menschenseele durchlebt, wenn sie im
Zustände des menschlichen
Lebens, vollständig verändern müssen. Der Mensch geht nach der
Mensch durchlebt also nach seinem Tode ein
bedeutete, wie für den Menschen der Übergang ins
in ein Devachan, anstatt in ein geistiges Gebiet zu kommen, wie
der Mensch nach dem Tode, brachte
Erde zu suchen. Der Mensch
Menschen auf der Erde zu leben, und
die Menschen, die Evolution auf der Erde durch
Pfingstereignis ist die Christus-Wesenheit bei den menschlichen Seelen auf der
menschlichen Seelen auf der Erde. Das, was die Christus-Wesenheit durchgemacht hat zwischen der
Christus-Wesenheit die Gestalt annehmen konnte, welche
notwendig war für sie, um mit den menschlichen Seelen
Gestalt annehmen konnte, die sie brauchte,
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Vierter Vortrag, Kristiania (Oslo), 5. Oktober 1913
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Nazareth, in dem aufgenommen hatte
jedoch, diese bedeutsamen, gewaltigen
Antworten kamen daher, daß das
Vaters anderseits zusammengekommen sind und fortan eine Familie gebildet haben, und daß
Nazareth eine große, gewaltige Meinung bekommen von ihm, eben durch jenes Ereignis im Tempel,
er den Schriftgelehrten gegeben hatte. Die nächste Umgebung sah sozusagen den kommenden
in das Haus kamen, sprachen, mit
größter Aufmerksamkeit aufnehmen sollte und
namentlich bedeutsame, moralische Impulse in jenen
Traditionen, von den alten Schriften, die in dem Alten Testamente vereinigt sind. Ganz
über die Propheten gekommen sei, daß Gott
selber kommen würde. Es sagten
gewaltige Geist, der zum Beispiel über den Elias gekommen
vernehmen glaubte als Inspiration
manche doch noch zu vernehmen
gelegt sein müssen in der Menschen Mund und in der
Menschen Herz. Und wenn uns überzeugen will von seiner Lehre der Rabbi Elieser, so darf er
Menschen Herz fassen kann. — Ich
rasch alles aufzunehmen, was die
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Fünfter Vortrag, Kristiania (Oslo), 6. Oktober 1913
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der Menschheit. Denn Sie werden ja gewiß
können, wissen, daß alles in der Menschheitsevolution zusammenhängt, und daß
einem Menschen, in dessen Seelenleben so viel, so unendlich
viel von den Angelegenheiten der ganzen Menschheit
Menschheitsevolution ist. Wir lernen
ist für die Evolution der Menschheit,
uns: Was mag alles in dieser Seele gelebt haben, nachdem die bedeutsamen Ereignisse sich
Zusammenziehen der beiden Familien durch lange Jahre
Menschenseele zunimmt, zu einer gewissen inneren Traurigkeit
gekommen. Die Weisheit hatte ihm zunächst
den er wenden konnte in seine menschliche Umgebung, ihn eigentlich recht traurig
alles, was aus der Natur heraus zum Menschen
Anlage für dasjenige, was menschliche
Weisheit, menschliches Wissen sich
Verständnis für alles Menschliche, aber kein
Interesse für alles dasjenige, was die Menschen an
es so, wie wenn nach diesem Moment im Tempel zu
was die Menschheit sich äußerlich
Menschen, die einer solchen Geheimlehre sich hingaben.
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Title: Lecture III: WORLD-PENTECOST: The Message of Anthroposophy
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years ago, men were instinctively conscious that before coming down
earth-existence. Men's consciousness of death, too, was different,
— where men received instruction on what it was within their
From the Mysteries the teaching came to men that before they descend
pupils and these pupils in turn to other men: “It is the
hearts of men who understood this were aglow with ardour when they
and again awakens men to life when he succumbs to death.
Relatively speaking, it was not difficult for men at that time to
Let us picture for a moment the passing of a man through death. —
Long before the Mystery of Golgotha took place, men had been able to
quicken in men the remembrance that before they came down to the earth
teachers in the Mysteries could no longer say to men: “Look up to
the sun and behold the revelation of Christ!” — for men
would not have understood these words. It was as if men on the earth
Then, for the first time, there came upon men what may be called the
— But now men were greatly troubled as to the destiny of the
Then, at the time when men could no longer find the Christ on yonder
of infinite mercy, Christ came down to the earth in order that men
said: “Men alone know birth and death. The gods know
And so, since men could not longer reach Him, Christ came to them on
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thoughts. As a result, certain ideas give conceptual form to the phenomena
for them in nature. Natural history, that proud achievement of our
in anthroposophical thinking there arises at a certain moment a great
takes to writing commentaries on works of art. This is a terrible product
of a materialistic age: scholars write commentaries on art. But these
commentaries,
commentaries, learned descriptions of the art of
commentary, it is like touching a corpse. Abstract thoughts have murdered
I did not write a commentary, I let the living
point in its development. Therefore, in order to grasp nature, especially
commentaries. This — I repeat — is an appalling thing. It
happens because the deadening element of abstract thought is often carried
even into the anthroposophical movement. Actually, within this movement
the dead. As noted earlier, the monuments erected above graves at the
and wind which rush toward it; only in the artistic forms of the monument
through sensory-natural elements, is given the soul out of the
themselves, the colors of their garments displaying how they would —
civilization it is precisely the artistic element that needs improvement.
movement is felt artistically in the formation of nose and eyes. Imagine:
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do this by presenting the colors which make up its various elements:
activity of red we behold the element of the vital, the living; we may
phenomena and resting within itself, this may be expressed artistically
By demanding this treatment, each reveals its character. Thus forms
a blue garment — a blue which becomes gradually lighter toward
to paint in those elements.
spatial dimension has been extinguished; and it is extinguished if he
of third dimension, blue retreating, red approaching. Then matter is
an important element to the ancient art of painting. But today it is
the sculptor in three-dimensional space and the painter on a
two-dimensional plane express what manifests etherically in space).
With the musical element we enter man's inner world, and it is extremely
future development of music will be toward spiritualization, and involve
other tones, which is to say according to its planal dimension, but
this experience of the individual tone in its dimension of depth; in
arts — to pass from the naturalistic to the spiritual element.
non-existent, with which men fool themselves. But what power expresses
development of man with the unbiased eye of the spirit sees how at a
phantasy. The final left-over (I cannot call it sediment, because sediment
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document, although in the future of humanity it will
considerations – even in the most elementary
idea is in abatement, especially where claims to
that aside though, and look at spiritual development during
centuries men have utilized their highest, most meaningful
exaggeration to say that a tremendous impact has come from
forms, when they presented the battling gods, or the men in
sense no increase, no advancement has taken place up to our
a moment we would like to consider a curious hypothesis,
documents known as the New Testament do not exist, that
development at a certain point in time, as we have just
highly educated men who adopted the profound ideas which we
Aurelius, who used every contrary argument imaginable.
Look at the immensely learned Neo-Platonists, who
let's go farther. The phenomenon becomes more
want to direct our attention to an extraordinary phenomenon
development, despite being so occupied with animosity
it will be accepted that Haeckel has a Christian mentality,
movement is only possible as a Christian movement.
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consciousness. Then came the moment when it seemed to the
completely obliterated from the moment the gospels usually
an imagination, the meaningful moment when for hours the
the whole human environment takes on a completely different
moment what otherwise can only be obtained through
when directed towards the moment in earthly evolution which
this notable natural phenomenon means. I really can't
natural phenomenon as it occurred exactly at that point in
they wish and use every possible argument against them.
duplicated by experiment. But that argument is unfeasible,
impossible to reproduce it by experiment? It is of course
the Peter-soul for a moment to imagine how it felt: In the
Fifth Gospel. With what is called in the New Testament the
John and James, recollected still another moment in his
I add a personal comment. I must admit that I was
causes such astonishment: the coinciding of an image of an
completely free cultural environment. My education was
personal comment for two reasons: because of a peculiar

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impulse for what we call Christian development, that which
over the achievements of a nation into the work of humanity
be thought foolish by men. The Sun-Hero lived together with
certain sense men who carried within themselves the same
souls of men and was subsequently active in human
book was published which I can enthusiastically recommend,
the phenomenal, almost incredible nonsense it is to affirm
forces and chemical elements, can suffer. As if a stone
of Nazareth. From that moment of amazed bystanders it took
humanity at that moment of the mystery of Golgotha.
similar to a human body and realized the moment of highest

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We know that the Gospel of Luke describes the moment when
the Old Testament. It was always depressing when he heard
being must be lain in the mouths of men and in the hearts
of men. And if he wants to convince us, this Rabbi Elieser,
the continuation of the stream of the Old Testament, the
the future of the Jewish people. It was a terrible moment
ourselves for a moment in the soul of Jesus of Nazareth
our spiritual movement, for human souls can only now, in
disappointment. I must say that at this time I am not able
affected by all kinds of terrible mental and physical
it must have made a profound impression on those lamenting
Amen!
ownership. A very strict rule for our present day mentality
Bath Kol as an enlightenment which shone in his soul. In
men on earth must be like the Essenes. But that cannot be.
fulfillment of my teaching would mean nothing but Essenes.
though he asked it himself, but a strong elemental force
qol). In the New Testament mention of "a voice from
decline of Old Testament prophecy and flourished in the
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fundamental experience obtained from spiritual scientific
in his twelfth year a tremendous revolution took place in
activities and achievements of common humanity. He then
wisdom, culture and moral achievements. He often thought
mention a few examples of how Jesus spoke to his mother
Amen!
moment, my dear mother, I knew that the Essenes protect
Jordan. And at the same moment as this baptism in the
Men do not live by bread alone, but by the spiritual which
spirit alone. That was the moment when Ahriman told Christ
daily bread is what had separated men from heaven and what
here to tell men how the gods brought the spirit down to
Amen”.
though, experienced this time as I have already mentioned.
identify who among men who revered him was actually the
garment and what is now in the old rituals is the
will not get far in spiritual development with the way

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rightly read these pictures and make judgments about them. This
belongs among the oldest ancient documents of Christianity, has been
survey the centuries of Christian development, we see, even in the earlier
even the establishment of a heavenly kingdom in the physical sense in
that a mistake had been made in calculation; the date for the fulfillment
instrument for us to spiritually comprehend the Apocalypse again and
earlier through external means, through the power of the elements, and
Old Testament and in ancient Jewish occult teaching there were, as in
all ages, mysteries and initiates. Let us bear in mind the fundamental
they must apply certain methods of inner development to themselves.
what the person experiences in the spiritual world. In this moment, when
the initiator led the etheric body out of the physical body, enlightenment
with the initiates of the Old Testament, for they experienced yet again
of development for all human evolution in a body of flesh. That was
the supreme moment of the initiation — when the enlightened Hebrew
Old Testament initiation. This was the crowning through the appearance
of Christ. What the Old Testament initiates always experienced appeared
The greatest element of

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rightly read these pictures and make judgments about them. This
capacity for perception present only in its first rudiments. The ancient
the power of judgment or logical thinking. They had none of the mental
However, through clairvoyant development, the Atlantean initiate also
individual spiritual capacities of thinking and judgment in their first
of human development in wisdom.
to a higher stage of development. With another student he developed
the scenes of the physical, external development of humankind.
for which we are consciously preparing through the theosophical movement
of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put

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We must realize that the soul development of humankind
groups. In the first stages of Atlantean development the members of
of the water. The air then was entirely permeated by the watery element
from the watery element surrounding it. However, the bones and nervous
be made to serve when selfish purposes are involved. Hence, the employment
horrendous forces of fire, the vulcanic element, are awakened.
development comes from the Christ principle. Christ even falls right
the Christ event for our ability to ascend with the achievements of
the fruit of the theosophical movement in an understanding of peace
These holy, simple men wanted to awaken the spiritual senses of humanity
the Apocalypse directs his admonishment to the community in Pergamon
Common immorality is not meant here but rather the development of the

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rightly read these pictures and make judgments about them. This
Those who hear this admonishment will easily find their way back into
in elementary theosophical teaching we cannot describe the life between
In the same moment when
death” as Paul refers to it. The admonishment had to come in the
In the first post-Atlantean epoch this admonishment did not need to
element directly goes over into the spiritual world, this is presented
3:4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. \
3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. \
the development of the earth, which is given to us by the “masters

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rightly read these pictures and make judgments about them. This
testament”
time the elemental spirit of the earth. Christ expressed this when,
(For this is my blood of the new testamenMatt. 26:28)
the beginning of this development. Christ must first be understood in
one of the “seven wise men,” and one of the founders of

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forces of the sun, would have entered into a rate of development that
human being, who was not yet able to see him in his fundamental,

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rightly read these pictures and make judgments about them. This
was woven into those men who then began to speak of an “inner
a pupil's typical path of development in our fifth post-Atlantean age.
without their own involvement, are implanted with wisdom that inwardly
power of judgment. It is proclaimed to those who bear within themselves

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rightly read these pictures and make judgments about them. This
he was covered with hair; he was still retarded in his development and
in his power of judgment. For this reason Jacob could trick him, because
Jacob had already come further in the development of his power of judgment,

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rightly read these pictures and make judgments about them. This
in a white garment of innocence. Thus, the victorious rider cannot serve
no longer appears in a white garment. Once again he takes peace away
arrangement according to the karma of individuals. But this division
all as a white garment. In the fifth age after the war of all against
will achieve, through spiritual development, ever higher stages of
way human beings unleash the forces of nature, but their achievements

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rightly read these pictures and make judgments about them. This
appear in white garments, that the sixth age is characterized by the
planetary incarnations, humanity must also ascend through its development.
What confronts us today as nature is the achievement of the gods. In
matter below. He sees this very clearly the moment the seventh seal
In the Lemurian age the earth still existed entirely within the element
captured in a moment of time.
12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. \
it materialistically. We hear how the worst and coarsest elements are

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rightly read these pictures and make judgments about them. This
condition. But the coarse, material elements of humankind and the base
also beings who did not complete their development. Such beings existed,
12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. \
it must prophetically mirror the future embodiments of Jupiter, Venus,
nothing more can be saved. On the Venus-Earth the last moment for salvation
is ascribed to animalistic nature but in a fundamental sense the Bible
18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. \
18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, \
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. \
18:13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. \
18:15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, \
18:23b for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. \
by human beings during the old Moon embodiment of the earth, in a way

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rightly read these pictures and make judgments about them. This
unique task for our development. In a new incarnation a human being
on their development they will be able, in the fourth, fifth, and sixth
development. Initiates had to leave their bodies during these three
Theosophy is the only possible commentary for the Apocalypse and it

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