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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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Also known as: Self-Consciousness: The Spiritual Human Being.
Also known as: Self-Consciousness: The Spiritual Human Being.
to say something about anthroposophical Spiritual Science. [This
well how difficult it is to make Spiritual Science to some extent
anthroposophical Spiritual Science.
may be found. Anthroposophical Spiritual Science cannot speak of the
scientific strivings, the scientific spirit of the last few
It is the conviction of anthroposophical Spiritual Science that
Spiritual Science is founded upon the same fundamental principles
scientific research today, anthroposophical Spiritual Science wishes
spirit before the tribunal of science, who are not content to resign
the soul with the world of Divine Spirit can stream up from the deep
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science therefore sets out to awaken
development. This kind of investigation into the things of the Spirit
The first faculty to which the attention of the bona fide spiritual
power is strengthened. The would-be spiritual investigator proceeds
investigator in Spiritual Science shall ask already experienced
external, spiritual reality. The objective significance of this
furrowed in the life of soul-and-spirit just like the physical brain
something of the nature of soul-and-spirit within the human being
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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profound truths of spiritual science. I therefore request those of
of spiritual knowledge that are really somewhat remote from modern
your goodwill and sympathetic spiritual understanding. For indeed the
the Mission of the several Folk-spirits, as that which brings, out of
the foundations of a people, out of the spirit of the various
it that is still referred to here and there as the soul or spirit of
with the conception of the Folk-spirit, — and which underlies
Swiss nation-spirit? He would describe in abstract expressions a few
that we may therefore speak of a Swiss Folk-spirit as we do of the
spirit of a man, and that we can just as clearly distinguish the
spirit of a man from what we see before us in his ten fingers, as we
can distinguish the Swiss Folk-spirit from the millions of people
is distinguished from a Folk-spirit by the fact that he presents to
to the external organs of perception; a Folk-spirit does not present
a real being such as this. How do we proceed in spiritual science if
spiritualizes them, transforming them from the present lower into the
by the name of Spirit-self or Manas. In the same way a still higher
we call Life-spirit or Budhi; and finally, the highest work of man
which we can imagine at present, is that man will spiritualize that
physical body; he will transform it and change it into the spiritual.
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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as Folk-spirits, are at the stage at which they in their present
But, if the activity of these beings, of these Folk-spirits plays a
of impression, a kind of reflection of this work of the Folk-spirits
spiritual beings.
spiritual cloudlike formation which we must designate as the etheric
influence. The Archangels, who have the spiritual laws within them,
worked through by spiritual soul-forces, and the physical piece of
live within this cloud of the Folk-spirit?
Thus we find the Folk-spirits at work all over the
upon him. Hence human work reacts upon the Folk-spirit. Later on we
Folk-spirit. That is important. But the essential thing is that we
should be able to follow one of these Folk-spirits; and see how he
spiritual world, and then embodies himself again somewhere else. When
possess the secret of how the Folk-spirit shows himself to us in his
Folk-spirit. We should have not nearly exhausted the characteristics
Beings, who are the true Spirits of tribal tree, have that task.
Folk-spirit, did not meet with other Beings on the same piece of
The Folk-spirit acts in an exceptionally delicate and
You must think of the Hierarchies of Spirits in the
4. First Beginnings, or Spirits of Personality, Archai,
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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preceding lectures, the normal Folk-spirits.
etheric bodies into that which is called Life-spirit or Buddhi. Man
reflection of this Folk-spirit is expressed in human individuality
The Spiritual-soul, the highest member of the inner
In the spiritual-soul is first to be found that which is
in the spiritual-soul.
apparent in the spiritual-soul.
spiritual-soul. Thus we can distinguish the human inner being from
modifications of the astral body, so in those spiritual Beings whom
we designate as Folk-spirits their actual inner part, or that which
distinguish sentient-soul, intellectual-soul, spiritual-soul, so in
the Archangelic Beings, the normal Folk-spirits we must distinguish
consciousness, the whole soul-life of these Folk-spirits as being
as it were into the inner part of the soul of these Folk-spirits. It
inner life of the Folk-spirits. A man has not many such in his normal
little of that which lives in the consciousness of the Folk-spirits.
normal to man, as well as to the Folkspirits. From this you may
part of it exists for the Folk-spirits?’ Everything you
in out of the spiritual world, and work upon them in the
and in the spiritual-soul. They are connected with that which a man
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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mind all the Beings who have thus worked together, the Spirits of
Will or Thrones, the Spirits of Wisdom, of Motion, of Form, of
the Spirits of Will or Thrones, the Cherubim and Seraphim, —
that this possibility was first given by the Spirits of Form, those
of the child from the standpoint of spiritual science, you will admit
his physical body. These Spirits of Form have no particular interest
which the Spirits of Form take no particular interest; for that is a
repetition of the old Sun-period, and the Spirits of Form wished to
repetition. There too, those Spirits of Form who are evolving
for the Spirits of Form. They only intervene, out of their own
strange, that so far as the actual intentions of the Spirits of Form
is developed in man before that time, is in reality to those Spirits
that these Spirits of Form who have developed themselves normally
one interfered with these Spirits of Form until the twentieth year,
consideration the activity of the Spirits of Form, man attains his
physical external world clearly and distinctly, if other Spirits who
in reality are Spirits of Motion had not remained behind and
are spiritual Beings who renounced the possibility of carrying on
their evolution normally up to the Earth-evolution, spiritual Beings
who might have been Spirits of Motion during the Earth evolution, but
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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other ground than that of Spiritual Science; for whatever we may hear
namely, that in a race a normal and abnormal Spirit of Form must so
going through his normal evolution and another Archangel-spirit who
know as the spiritual hierarchies, work in evolution.
spiritual Beings work into the whole? It would be well, if to-day we
1. Spirits of Form or Powers,
2. Spirits of Motion or Mights,
3. Spirits of Wisdom or Dominions.
1. Spirits of Will or Thrones,
Now let us ask: As all spiritual Beings manifest
of Nature and Spirit knows only the domain of maya or illusion, the
most external manifestation of these spiritual Beings. I will show
Thrones, the Spirits of Will. These Spirits radiate their forces from
of the forces of certain Spirits of Motion, working inwards from
co-operation of the Thrones with the Spirits of Motion, through the
activity of the Thrones being arrested by the Spirits of Motion, —
and as it were an agreement between the Spirits of Will and the
Spirits of Motion which is so arranged that it models the earth in
opposed activity of the Spirits of Will and the Spirits of Motion
different. If, for instance, only the Spirits of Will were to work
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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As you may imagine, it is a very complicated matter, when the Spirits of
Spirits of Will, the Cherubim and Seraphim, as being something which,
[Spiritual Hierarchies, e.Ed.],
the reflections of the Spirits of these hierarchies in what we call
be called the cooperation of the abnormal and the normal Spirits of
normal Spirits of Form would have been necessary. These are the same
spiritual Beings who in Genesis are called the Elohim, and we can
really recognize seven of these normal Spirits of Form in the entire
There are seven Spirits of Form or seven Elohim. If we
Spirits of Form so co-operate that what we have described in one of
would actually be brought about. Thus if all these seven Spirits of
as other spiritual Beings co-operate with them, and vary this uniform
normal Spirits of Form are active, those Beings who, as described in
the universe, in which these Spirits of Form take counsel together
abnormal Spirits of Form should not by their activity produce too
of the Spirits of Form should detach Himself from the community; so
that, in reality, you have only to look for six Spirits of Form or
Elohim in the direction of the Sun, one of these Spirits had to
the simultaneous activity of the abnormal Spirits of
Form, who are really Spirits of Motion, the equilibrium should not be
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 7
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If you follow the spirit of the studies we have made here during the
hierarchy intervene and guide, how for instance the Spirits of Form
spiritual Beings with whom we are now dealing also progress in their
own development? As regards certain spiritual Beings we can during
Hierarchy of the Archai, or Spirits of the Age. It is extremely
interesting to notice this, for when we observe how the Folk-spirits,
Archangels who were the guiding spiritual powers of these tribes that
words, they were nearer to or further away from the rank of a Spirit
Spirit of the Age. It was that stream of peoples who formed the
Spirit of the Age, after he had been promoted to the first Spirit of
Spirit of the Age guided the primal sacred culture of India and made
by this exalted and important Spirit were able to fulfill their high
mission in the manner already described. This Spirit of the Age
the Spirit of the Age of India had fulfilled his mission, he was
we have that Spirit of Personality, the Spirit of the Age, who was
Archangel, a Folk-soul, rises to the rank of a Spirit of the Age,
to the rank of guiding and ruling Spirits of the Age.
Archangel of the Egyptian people rose to the rank of a guiding Spirit
the Chaldæan-Egyptian age became the third mighty guiding Spirit of
Jehovah, and who then later on grew up into a Spirit of the Age.
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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the spiritual impulses therein described, it will be necessary first
to know what divine spiritual Beings are clothed in them; and if
Folk-spirits, the manner in which this or the other people arrived at
them, the Angels, the Folk-souls or Archangels, and Spirits of the
time of Christ in the Angels and individual Spirit, the Christ. The
divine spiritual world, they saw the events which took place in that
it was as though he found the spiritual contents of the world spread
out around him like a spiritual aroma, a spiritual aura. Thus there
spiritual forces and spiritual capacities by means of which they
could penetrate to a high degree into the spiritual worlds. Hence all
those spiritual Beings who worked particularly in the Folk-spirit.
the spiritual world, and what they had gone through in a dull, dim
awoke, acquired spiritual capacities that were much richer than the
Thus the spiritual world could be directly observed by
development sprang forth, so to speak, from the Spirits of Form or
Spirits of Motion or Principalities, and those above them, the
Spirits of Wisdom. They were especially interested in these. The
spiritual Beings beneath these were on the other hand Beings in whose
what later on they called the sum-total of all the Spirits of Motion
and of all the Spirits of Wisdom, to that which was later described
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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Atlantis to look into a spiritual world by means of the old
what lay behind them in the spiritual world was the true reality;
saw how the divine spiritual powers worked into their souls. You
the things of Spiritual Science, if you only do it properly. If you
Divine Spiritual Beings; so that on the whole it was within European
divine spiritual Beings. But on the other hand, through the Luciferic
The spiritual science of all ages, that really knows the facts,
that is only to be found where spiritual science has been taught.
Sun-Spirit, the Spirit of Light. He had therefore to begin by
Spirit of Light, the Spirit of Darkness, who dims our knowledge of
conquest of Ahriman and to uniting himself to the Spirits who in this
return to the consciousness of man through spiritual science.
materialistic will be greatly surprised that Spiritual Science should
make the statement, as being the result of scientific spiritual
the Luciferic spirit upon the astral body. The second is that which
into the spiritual world has become dimmed by the increasing pressure
alternated between seeing into the spiritual world and living on the
sleeping. When he gazed into the spiritual world, he looked into the
not being able to see into the spiritual world. When the condition of
dream-consciousness was there, one saw into the spiritual world; when
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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the whole collective spiritual life worked in co-operation, how
through the activity of the various Folkspirits progress was brought
ages still clairvoyantly shown to man from the spiritual world. It was
was a gift, presented to him from the spiritual world. Naturally in
higher spiritual world, with the assistance of a divine spiritual
But he felt this God to be still united with the collective spirit of
of peoples whom we know by the name of Celts. The Folk-spirit of the
time when these Folk-spirits of Europe had to direct men to work from
spiritual Beings and the people, because the ‘ I ’
most varied Folk-souls and Folkspirits were able to fertilize
epoch the Indian Folk-spirit went through the whole of the
Græco-Latin Folk-spirit was directed to the Intellectual Soul or Soul
for the development, stage by stage, of the Spiritual Soul. Hence the
able to see into the spiritual world with the old clairvoyance, and
guidance of its Folk-spirit, to accomplish for the collective mission
Spiritual Soul itself — in some way or other fertilizes the
Higher Feelings, and the Spiritual Soul on the physical plane. That
to the impulse of the Spiritual Soul penetrating into the human
the Spiritual Soul with the ‘ I ’ did not exist
between the Spiritual Soul and the ‘ I ’ that
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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extract in the shape of knowledge from the spiritual research of our
the Folk-spirit, the Archangel who extends his educative and
may be called modern philosophy, modern spiritual research, and that
from then on, this modern spiritual research will be fertilized in a
from spiritual heights, that was considered to be the external
expression of souls descending out of the spiritual surroundings, out
were, by that which poured down from spiritual heights, is preserved
descent of the psychic-spiritual human beings, who had once upon a
of blood, but also the psychic and spiritual requirements of the
Folk-spirits have played a great rôle. The vision of that descent has
memory kept alive of this union of the spiritual soul-nature which
was directly descended from those divine spiritual Beings, those
Archangels who directed the union of the psychic-spiritual with the
descent of the divine-spiritual into the physical.
guiding Archangel or Folk-spirit of the North, of the old education
tendency, and this enables him to understand modern Spiritual Science
lecture on the Second Coming of Christ. Spiritual research at the
announced only by Anthroposophy, by spiritual research.
scientific spiritual knowledge, that persons may, it is true, speak
which was a spiritual feeling — he could recognize what was the
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Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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Self-consciousness: The Spiritual Human Being).
Self-consciousness: The Spiritual Human Being).
The spiritual science of Anthroposophy strives above all towards a
person who wishes to become a spiritual investigator, in the
For the attainment of its task, the spiritual science of
complete willpower. A person who wishes to become a spiritual
anthroposophical spiritual investigator who wishes to transcend the
into real spiritual-scientific knowledge unless he has a certain
The spiritual science of Anthroposophy is naturally not mathematics.
spiritual-scientific investigator, or in some other way we may seek
visions or hallucinations. Spiritual-scientific knowledge, in our
say: By his exercises, a spiritual investigator might after all be
higher knowledge, will see that this kind of spiritual investigation
real spiritual research, clearly enable us to perceive the
the nineteenth century, I wrote my Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
moral life. There it has its roots. The Philosophy of Spiritual
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity already employs that form of
sound way if we were unable to remember them. In regard to spiritual
developing way of thinking. This is why my Philosophy of Spiritual
spiritual experience and it is impossible to come to it with ordinary
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Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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Self-consciousness: The Spiritual Human Being.
Self-consciousness: The Spiritual Human Being.
thought. Man's real soul-spiritual being therefore obtains a
use this paradoxical expression) soul-spiritual sense organs, the
soul-spiritual world rises up around our inner being. That part
thing which rises up before us when we enter the soul-spiritual
world. We cannot enter the soul-spiritual world in the same
without any enthusiasm. It is the same when the spiritual worlds
soul-spiritual content, must rely entirely upon ourselves.
etheric body, as the spiritual environment which we left behind.
world … for we would melt away in this world of the spirit,
if loneliness would not give us this Ego-feeling in the spiritual
the maintenance of the Ego in the spiritual world. We then learn
to know this spiritual world as our environment. But we know that
we can only learn to know it through the inner soul-spiritual
From the spiritual
the soul-spiritual world between death and a new birth, can also
as a soul-spiritual being everything with which we were in some
spiritual, super-sensible knowledge, already acquire the
somewhat different to the spiritual vision on earth; they acquire
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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The Spiritual Human Being. The translator is unknown.
Self-consciousness: The Spiritual Human Being.
spirit. As I do not wish to speak in abstract terms, let me
arises in ordinary spiritistic circles, it is not necessary to
cases are judged and investigated in spiritistic circles. But the
Lodge's book on his spiritual intercourse with his son Raymond,
is, the soul or the spirit of Sir Oliver Lodge's son, wished to
intensification of spiritual conditions, is that in the case of
attitude of anthroposophical spiritual research. The spiritual
To an anthroposophical spiritual investigator, such views on
and these desires may lead a spiritual investigator to study the
a spiritual investigator draws attention to such things, when he
wishes to become a spiritual investigator in the anthroposophical
towards external actions. But an anthroposophical spiritual
apparatus, where something becomes reflected soul-spiritually,
soul-spiritual events can therefore be described in detail, when
the soul becomes imprisoned by the body. The soul-spiritual world
spiritual world begins to rise up before us.
from the spiritual world, when the thoughts outside vanish and
we penetrate through spiritual investigation, the soul-spiritual
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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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Angels, Folk Spirits, Time Spirits: their part in the Evolution of Mankind.
Angels, Folk Spirits,
Time Spirits: their part in the Evolution of Mankind.
much that touches upon the fundamental truths of Spiritual Science
take a great leap forward into those regions of spiritual knowledge
spiritual understanding. Indeed the province we touch upon here is
Folk Spirits who, by drawing upon the hidden roots and the spirit of
what is meant by the term Folk Soul or Folk Spirit which one hears
find to be identical with the conception of the Folk Spirit and which
Swiss Folk Spirit, we would describe in abstract terms a few
fingers and hands. We may therefore speak of a Swiss Folk Spirit in
the same way as we speak of the Spirit of a man. We can just as
clearly distinguish between the Spirit of man and his ten fingers
which are organs of this Spirit as we can distinguish the Swiss Folk
Spirit from the millions of people living in the mountains of
Switzerland. The Folk Spirit is something quite different from the
people, but nevertheless a spiritual Being, just as man himself is a
spiritual being. The difference between man and the Folk Spirit is
Folk Spirit has no external manifestation; it is not something that
Being. How do we proceed in Spiritual Science if we wish to form an
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
The Spirits of Language and of Modes of Thought.
Archangels and Time Spirits.
The Spirits of Language and of Modes of Thought.
those Beings who are to be considered as Folk Spirits have reached a
Spirits, invades the life of man, then there must be on the other
impression or reflection of this work of the Folk Spirits or
spiritual Beings.
there extends over every region of the Earth a peculiar spiritual
influence. The Archangels who embody the spiritual laws cannot
body now permeated with spiritual soul-forces, and the geographical
country and live within this aura of the Folk Spirit? This influence
the Folk Spirits are active everywhere. They follow, however, the
Folk Spirits. We shall discuss later the significance of the
individual human beings for the Folk Spirit. This is important. But
of these Folk Spirits and see how he incarnates on Earth, lives again
for a time in the spiritual world and then incarnates again
the secret of how the Folk Spirit or Nation Spirit reveals his
true Archangels or Folk Spirits.
Archangelic Beings, who are the real Spirits of the indigenous groups
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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 inner Life of the Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
turn our attention to the inner life of the normal Folk Spirits,
transmuting their etheric bodies into Buddhi or Life Spirit. Now man
progressive evolution of these Archangelic Beings, this Folk Spirit
the Spiritual Soul or Consciousness-Soul, the highest member, in which
is first developed in the Spiritual Soul. Nevertheless the ‘I’
Sentient Soul, in the Intellectual or Mind-Soul and in the Spiritual
conscious in the Spiritual Soul. If we wish to examine these three
Intellectual Soul through the etheric body and the Spiritual Soul
true inner life of the Folk Spirits, or that which corresponds to the
Soul, Intellectual Soul, Spiritual Soul; in the Archangelic Beings,
the normal Folk Spirits, we distinguish three modifications of the
Folk Spirits, as different from that of man. Let us now, turn aside
of these Folk Spirits. That will not be very easy, but we must be
the inner life of the Folk Spirits. In the normal life of man such
very little in common with that of the Folk Spirits. It may help you
towards an understanding of the consciousness of the Folk Spirits if
the Folk Spirits. From this you may infer that the Archangels are not
the Folk Spirits? All experiences of the Sentient Soul, the normal
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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members testify to the activity of the spiritual Beings during the
incarnations, the Spirits of Will or Thrones, the Spirits of Wisdom,
been created through a complex interplay of spiritual forces. We have
provided by the Spirits of Form, the Beings whom we call Powers or
ourselves how man would fare if the normal Spirits alone were
you recall the teachings of Spiritual Science on the subject of the
principally the physical body. The Spirits of Form have no particular
holds little interest for the Spirits of Form since it is a
Spirits of Form only wished to embark on their chief activity, the
normal Spirits of Form show no interest. The three life-periods,
approximately, have no immediate appeal. The Spirits of Form only
Spirits of Form intended, in fact, that man should incarnate only at
the eyes of these Spirits of Form all that has been developed in man
say that the Spirits of Form who have developed normally would far
hitherto no-one encroached upon their province. If these Spirits of
we only take into account the activity of the Spirits of Form it is
perception of the external world if other Spirits, in reality Spirits
acquire only in his twentieth year approximately. These are spiritual
have been Spirits of Movement during the Earth-evolution, but who
remained at the stage of the Spirits of Form and are now active in
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 5. Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
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matters can only be discussed in the light of Spiritual Science. For
dissension and disharmony unless it is accepted in the spirit I have
already suggested. The aspirant for spiritual knowledge will learn
product of the cooperative activity of a normal and abnormal Spirit
and we now understand how the Beings of the spiritual Hierarchies
Spirits of Form — Powers (Exusiai)
Spirits of Movement — Mights (Dynamis)
Spirits of Wisdom — Dominions (Kyriotetes)
Spirits of Will — Thrones
all spiritual Beings manifest in some form or other and are to be
normal perception of Nature and the Spirit man knows only the realm
of Maya, the most external manifestation of these spiritual Beings. I
illusion. In reality spiritual forces are at work radiating from
Thrones, the Spirits of Will. The forces streaming in from the
Universe are essentially the forces that proceed from the Spirits of
interplay of the Thrones with the Spirits of Movement — since
the activity of the Thrones is neutralized by the Spirits of Movement
the Spirits of Will and the Spirits of Movement as a consequence of
present planetary form. The forces of the Spirits of Will and the
Spirits of Movement acting and reacting upon each other would not be
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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complicated matter, as you may well imagine, when the Spirits of the
Spiritual Hierarchies. [This
Spiritual Hierarchies and their Reflection in the physical World. Zodiac, Planets, Cosmos.]
Spirits of Will, the Cherubim and Seraphim, which we described
problem in such a way that we are prepared to accept that the Spirits
abnormal Spirits of Form, a cooperation which ensures that the
Earth-evolution, it would have been necessary for the normal Spirits
of Form to act independently. These are the same spiritual Beings who
we can distinguish seven of these normal Spirits of Form. There are
therefore seven Spirits of Form or seven Elohim. If we wish to form a
the Earth, we must clearly understand that these seven Spirits of
reality. Thus, if all these seven Spirits of Form could work in
would fashion the real Ego-being. But as other spiritual Beings
Spirits of Form — those Beings who, as I described yesterday,
Universe, where these Spirits of Form plan to establish the earthly
activity of the abnormal Spirits of Form should provoke too great a
disharmony amongst mankind, one of the Spirits had to detach Himself
from the community. In reality, therefore, only six Spirits of Form
or Elohim work from the Sun; one of these Spirits had to detach Himself
lest the simultaneous activity of the abnormal Spirits of Form, who
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 7. Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
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Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
spirit of the lectures given here in the last few days you will be
normal and abnormal Spirits of Form they cooperate to organize the
the question which confronts us is whether these spiritual Beings
development certain spiritual Beings advance to the next higher rank.
advance to the rank of the Archai or Time Spirits. This is a most
interesting phenomenon, for when we observe how the Folk Spirits, or
guidance of an Archangel. But these Archangels who were the spiritual
to the rank of a Time Spirit or Spirit of the Age. We have to look to
first to attain the rank of a Time Spirit. This was the stream which
to be the first Time Spirit or Archai-being of the post-Atlantean
civilization. Now this Time Spirit directed the sacred culture of
exalted and important Spirit the Rishis were able to fulfil their
high mission in the manner already described. This Time Spirit worked
Spirit of India had fulfilled his mission he was promoted to lead the
the Old Persian epoch the Archangel became the Spirit of Personality,
the Time Spirit, from whom the great Zarathustra or Zoroaster, the
Time Spirit. As we stated at the beginning of this lecture, we are
guiding and ruling Spirits of the Age.
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 8. The Five Post-Atlantean Civilizations.
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development of Germanic-Nordic history and the spiritual impulses
the divine-spiritual Beings concealed behind them. If completely
specific differences of the Folk Spirits the manner in which a
including also the Angels, the Folk Spirits or Archangels and Time
Spirits, were all quite different from one another. Today we propose
with which they saw into the divine spiritual world. They had an
that time he found the spiritual content of the world seemingly
diffused around him like a spiritual aura. Thus he possessed a
of these migrations man underwent many different stages of spiritual
were already endowed with spiritual powers and spiritual capacities
which enabled them to penetrate deeply into the spiritual worlds.
Archangels and Angels and all those spiritual Beings who were active,
particularly in the folk spirit. All the work of these higher Beings
that they gazed out into their spiritual environment, into the
the spiritual world and what they had undergone in a dim twilight
acquired spiritual capacities that were much richer than those of the
Western peoples. Thus the spiritual world could be directly observed
people had risen to such high spiritual levels that, at the time when
Spirits of Form or Powers, but were more intimately associated with
the Beings we call Spirits of Movement or Mights and those above them
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spiritual world by means of the old clairvoyance still prevalent at
that true reality was to be found in the spiritual world, whilst the
gradually evolving and who were conscious of the divine-spiritual
philosophical problems will be solved and those of Spiritual Science
with other egos and with the world of spiritual Beings, so that on
affairs he was guided by divine spiritual Beings. But on the other
spiritual science of all ages that is familiar with the real facts,
same extent; that is only to be found where spiritual science is
Sun Spirit, the Spirit of Light. He has first to show that this world
is compounded of Light and the Spirit of Darkness who dims our
Children of Light, the Spirits who are here the dominant Powers. He
Spiritual Science.
to learn that Spiritual Science attributes sickness and death to a
claim, then, from the results of spiritual-scientific investigation
Snake through whom is expressed the influence of the Luciferic spirit
clear, luminous vision into the spiritual world, became dimmed,
consciousness that was able to see into the spiritual world and a
the spiritual world he looked into the world out of which he was
spiritual world. When man lived in a condition of dreamlike
consciousness he saw into the spiritual world. When in a condition of
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discover how the whole spiritual life of Europe works in concert, how
the activity of the various Folk Spirits has furthered the
as a gift from the spiritual world.
bestowed by a higher spiritual world through the instrumentality of a
divine-spiritual Being such as Thor. That was the experience of
spirit of the tribe with that which lives in the Group Soul. To this
ancient Celtic Folk Spirit, who, as we know from earlier lectures,
Folk Spirits enjoined upon men to act more on their own initiative it
relationship between the spiritual Beings and the people, because the
culture of Europe. Now the most diverse Folk Souls and Folk Spirits
aspect of this same mission in the spirit of ancient Rome and its
Folk Spirit developed to the full his inner soul-forces without
Soul. The Graeco-Latin Folk Spirit was related to the Intellectual or
the Spiritual Soul (or Consciousness-Soul). Hence the Greek culture
the spiritual world and to incorporate the primeval spiritual
Spirit was directed to winning recognition for the ‘I’ of
Mind-Soul and from the Spiritual or Consciousness-Soul itself,
Soul and the Spiritual Soul. Such was the great mission of those
can be attributed to the fact that the impulse of the Spiritual Soul
the Spiritual Soul with the human ego had not yet been realized
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from the spiritual research of our time. Now this is also one of the
reasons why we may hope that the Folk Spirit, the Archangel, who
and modern spiritual research with the capacities he has developed
over the centuries and that henceforth modern spiritual research will
Cosmos. Whenever new beings descended from spiritual heights into the
spiritual heights. The memory of this event has survived in the
descent of the psycho-spiritual beings who in olden time had risen to
foreign blood, but also the psychic and spiritual development of the
Folk Spirits have played a decisive part. The vision of that descent
preserves a living memory of this union of the soul-and-spirit which
was always aware of spiritual impulses, that he felt within his
divine-spiritual Beings, those Archangels who directed the union of
soul-and-spirit with the terrestrial and physical. People believed
itself. The descent of the divinespiritual into the physical is still
Mystery Schools. Thus in the guiding Archangel or Folk Spirit of the
tendency he is particularly fitted to understand modern Spiritual
Spiritual
Spiritual Science or spiritual research. We are told that in the
who are open to the stimulus of Spiritual Science will, from the
today must pervade the teachings of Spiritual Science in particular,
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture I
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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
here, many deep teachings of Spiritual Science concerning
aside from this and look at the development of the spiritual
us, as it were, lay on one scale of a spiritual balance,
Spiritual; think of the great figures of Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle. These names bring before our mind's eye a spiritual
spiritual culture, as represented in Aristotle; it was a
sublime spiritual life, developing along particular
large numbers of men who had assimilated the spiritual culture
delicate spirituality of Greek thought the element of
intellectual or spiritual eminence. Supporters of Christianity
merely the surface of spiritual life will understand something
if followed to its logical conclusions, it leads to Spiritual
to Spiritual Science. When that is grasped it will also be
same path will lead him to knowledge of the spiritual
thought to the conception of a spiritual origin of the Earth.
he does of Christianity. The good spirit of Christianity and
the good spirit of Darwinism may alike forsake him. But if he
has a grasp of the good spirit of Darwinism, then —
lower animal forms but must have a spiritual origin. He is led
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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
who had been awakened by the Spirit of Cosmic Love, now felt
Spirit. And all that had happened, all that Peter had as it
schooled in the sense of Spiritual Science can still confirm
certain form of cosmic-spiritual life belonging to the
one feels the higher, truly spiritual regions of the world
Spirit in the universe. I do not want to speak of miracles in
in reality a birth: the birth of that Spirit outpoured
outpouring, of the Spirit. The nature and character of the
of the Spirit. They came to realise that for forty days they
had come to them as their spiritual Teacher and had instructed
spiritual picture, represented an experience actually
Mystery of the Spirit. But they did not recognise Him, they
merely saw themselves in the presence of this spiritual
far greater exactitude in the spiritual chronicle of
personal remark. I know full well that in the spiritual
the spiritual record of the world's happenings —
all precision what presents itself in the spiritual script. For
believe that the Spirit has led me to Christianity and to the

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture III
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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
the Ascension and the subsequent outpouring of the Spirit as
the passing into the spiritual world which, as we know, takes
by the human soul in Devachan, in the Spirit-Land. And so we
passes over into the spiritual world proper, in order to
the human being lives through a spiritual life. From the event
the Spirit-Land signifies for the human being: for Christ, this
world of Spirit, after death, the sacrifice offered up by the
forsaking of the sphere of Spirit in order that living
that His abode in the spiritual world might be exchanged for
that Christ, the Divine-Spiritual Being, might take upon
the end that Christ, the Divine-Spiritual Being, might assume
participation in the spiritual life. The most graphic
spiritual experience attained, first of all, the rank called
to deeper and deeper spiritual experiences. In the fifth degree
power to become the spiritual guardian of his people, whose
spiritual life.
by those Beings of the Spiritual Hierarchies known as the
spiritual world in order to attain the goal set before it.
Spirits whose task this is, the Sun-Heroes were needed. For
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture IV
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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
that welled up as it were from the Spirit into the
soul when he heard that in ancient times the Spirit had
scribes said many a time: “That sublime and mighty Spirit
scribes still believed it to be an inspiration from spiritual
voice which many regard as issuing from the Spirit of Jahve
significant than that of the Spirit who had inspired the
to come the voice of the same Spirit who had inspired the
where the Spirit can reveal to me the truth about the continued
people were, in reality, images not of the good spiritual
spiritual Movement, that such things can be disclosed, because
transported into spiritual realms, into the sphere of
during which he was transported into the spiritual worlds on
enough to gaze into the radiant worlds of the Spirit. And so
the Spirit with discerning, clear-sighted vision. Jesus of
supreme Powers of the Spirit, by his sense of justice and of
Essenian life which strove to approach the spiritual world in a
light upon the whole course of mankind's spiritual evolution.
converse took place in the Spirit between Jesus and Buddha. It
discourse with Buddha in the Spirit, Jesus of Nazareth became
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture V
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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
the deeper spirit of the universe, how open his soul had been
were possible to-day to bring new life to all the spiritual
Zarathustra-Ego. Thus the spirit of the other mother had come
spiritual realms, to whom the worlds of Spirit were known, not
the primeval Gods and Spirits — these kingdoms have grown
Christ Being came from the spiritual worlds and knew who
Him: If thou wilt acknowledge me, through my spiritual power,
bread alone, but by the spiritual forces which come from the
spiritual worlds. None knew this better than He for He had just
descended from the spiritual worlds. Then Ahriman said: Thou
a certain hold upon thee. Thou knowest only how the Spirit
acts, the Spirit who descends from the heights; thou hast not
cannot draw their nourishment from the Spirit alone. That was
Christ Spirit had united with all that had been alive in Him
to them in the Spirit, or they, on their side, conjured up a
spiritual picture of Him. You can imagine how deeply such
them as a spiritual Presence. You can imagine, too, what an
the Spirits of the higher Hierarchies. And He felt that there
prepared the path from the Spirit to the Earth but how men can
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Title: Eternal Soul of Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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from the point of view of a truly spiritual knowledge will be
— or by my account any spiritual being — could
to enter into true, exact spiritual research. For there is
from spiritual science and not from philosophical speculation,
the human being when he, as a spiritual investigator, has first
the objective spiritual world. Thus
the spiritual researcher has arrived at the level I have
spiritual world, and he is gradually within the spiritual
of the soul the objective spiritual world is revealed.
There is now revealed nothing spiritual, but through the outer
simultaneous spiritual world events, one's own spiritual and
accepted, purely spiritual-soul beings. The existence of the
Spiritual science in the sense meant here
stage of spiritual knowledge by which we can climb to the
spiritual knowledge asserted here who is not fully familiar
against the pain, then he will learn as a spiritual researcher
caught in a higher world if you are a spiritual researcher, for
sacrifice to the other, in the spiritual world and also in the
scale by the spiritualized, refined level of love. Our ego is
earth life as it was before this purely spiritual-soul life.
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spiritual life.
spiritual foundations of human life, if merely for purposes of
helping humanity to emerge from the chaos of anti-spirituality. The
the Spirit. However glibly people may talk in these difficult
bring to light the spirituality that is indeed contained, but allowed
middle of the fifteenth century. There is a store of spiritual
there lies a living spirituality which can shine into the world even
something that flows over to them from the Spirit of the West.
Western spirituality can shine over to Asia and if it does,
somewhat decadent spirituality, the Asiatic peoples will be able to
Everything depends upon insight into the Spirit that is lying
hidden in European and American culture — the Spirit from which
struck. Either men will resolve to bring forth the spirituality of
is for men themselves to decide for or against spirituality. If
Spirit is peculiarly adapted, can be unfolded, insight can ripen and
only be possible for a spiritual Movement to be taken seriously when
The ancient Egyptian traced the origin of the spirit and soul of man
and to live on the Earth divested of soul and spirit.
nor of how the human being has descended from spiritual worlds
earnest in their striving for spiritual insight to understand these
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his life of soul-and-spirit. But here our mode of study must be
asleep until the time of waking, we live in the world of Spirit, that
world of Spirit through which we also pass before birth and after
spiritual world. But what Spiritual Science calls Imagination,
with regard to the world of spiritual Beings. But in the world of
spiritual Beings, different conditions prevail.
the Divine-Spiritual world — on falling asleep, such a man has no
world of Spirit. But this spiritual world has no special significance
into us after death when we are beings of soul-and-spirit, the more
in the spiritual world between death and rebirth what our eyes and
unfolded in his soul and Spirit during his life between birth and
again. The power is given him to work as a being of soul-and-spirit,
into the spiritual world — either being received lovingly (in the
sense described above) by the spiritual world, being drawn to it with
soul-and-spirit has perished as a result of the antipathy and chilling
Those who try to understand life to-day from the spiritual
who studies life to-day in the light of anthroposophical Spiritual
position to act freely, out of the depths of his soul-and-spirit, if
the world of soul-and-spirit.
soul-and-spirit, we must not confine our attention to the life
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heard how the inner, spiritual core of man's being is related to the
union with the spiritual world through morality, religious devotion
heard that if a man has not established this relation to the spiritual
spirit-and-soul before birth expresses itself in this bodily life.
spiritual world — to the extent to which thinking is unmixed with
spiritual life must begin to take account of man's eternal
expected of them. But through a truly spiritual understanding of the
from the Spiritual. Modern man does not really know the world.
for he is unaware that the soul-and-spirit extends into physical
by the Spiritual. This knowledge is not acquired by studying abstract,
spiritual study the individual conditions must be observed in every
that must be made clear to him. But in spiritual matters man has become
various manifestations have been influenced by the spiritual world.
concerning all that is revealing itself from the spiritual world in
but the Spiritual in its living essence, has receded. The Gnosis is
sense it is stripped of spirituality. Think now of your Northern world
At the time when, in the South, the Spirit withdrew more and more
academy of Gondi Shapur from which at that time a remarkable spiritual
Europe, deeply influencing the spiritual life of later times. Yet it
spirituality they had once possessed.. The mighty Event of Golgotha
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The Principle of Spiritual Economy
guided spiritually throughout history - by the life forces
spiritual economy of the world. But other things took place
that He could enter the spiritual world. Since the
nothing to do with His ego; it passed into the spiritual
therefore necessary that a spiritual tendency develop in our
imbued with spiritual knowledge. Those individualities who
Spiritual
Rosicrucian spiritual orientation has been investigated in
the higher worlds directly with the spiritual eye and with
thing or another. Rather, the Rosicrucian spiritual method
accumulated wisdom can today be proclaimed as Spiritual
people who feel that Spiritual Science speaks to their hearts
enlivened by spiritual knowledge. Hence we need not attempt
to stir up an interest in Spiritual Science.
theosophical-Rosicrucian orientation of the spirit, we again
spiritual world. The Spiritual Scientific teaching of
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the psychic appearance of the spirit. For this reason we always feel,
when we see white in pictures, yes, that is meant to be the spirit.
somewhere, it can most easily be used to represent the spiritual image
spirit has to find its place on awakening in black darkness. So one
can feel black as the spiritual image of the lifeless.
the psychic image of the spirit and black as the spiritual image of
soul. White = the psychic image of the spirit. I stopped at the soul
and go up to the spirit. Black = the spiritual image of the lifeless.
I stopped at the spiritual, proceeded to the lifeless, but came back
And if one has this artistic experience, death, life, soul and spirit
to death through the life of the psychic and spiritual; if they
living revelation of the living, of the lifeless, of the spiritual and
spirit and soul as they appear in the world.
If the spirit wants to reveal itself to us not merely in its abstract
is the luster of the spirit.
gleaming white figure, a figure that lives in the spirit, to reveal it
still lived in the psychic-spiritual.
return to a more spiritual interpretation of painting also, so that we

Title: Question/Economic Life: Lecture: The Central Question of Economic Life
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Karl Marx. Spiritual life, economic life. Merchandize on the one hand,
spiritual science could only talk of otherworldliness, maybe of
these three parts I have initially to recognize the spiritual
religious life in the spiritual realm, but I include everything
which depends on human spiritual or physical abilities. I have
misunderstand the demarcation of the spiritual realm within the
member of the spiritual realm.
first of all the spiritual realm, the realm of human
spiritual realms, which comprise his talents, which comprises
state-political or rights organism and the spiritual organism
spiritual relationships play into it too and that it would
the realm of the spirit, the realm where man simply relates to
spiritual realm should only be administered out of its
the spiritual realm must come directly from the spiritual
spiritual life.
in a separate association thinks and works in the spiritual
individuality work in the realm of the spiritual life.
with land and with capital, is actually part of the spiritual
to be dealt with in the spiritual realm of the social
spiritual organism, which is built on the individual strength,
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sphere of the soul and of the spirit. As I do not wish to speak
When such a case arises in ordinary spiritistic circles, it is
methods. That is why Oliver Lodge's book on his spiritual
that is, the soul, the spirit of Oliver Lodge's son, wished to
the spiritual connections of man in a deeper sense, is that in
for the critical attitude of anthroposophical spiritual
research. The spiritual investigation practised in
anthroposophical spiritual investigator, such views on
may lead a spiritual investigator to study the bodily
spiritual investigator draws attention to such things, when he
person who wishes to become a spiritual investigator in the
spiritual investigator must, in this connection, also make
But an anthroposophical spiritual investigator must apply the
reflected through the soul and spirit, whereas the eye only
course of soul-spiritual events can therefore be
soul-spiritual world which was round about us when we were
the same time that the spiritual world begins to rise up before
into our physical body on returning from the spiritual world,
world into which we penetrate through spiritual investigation,
the soul-spiritual world, now reflects itself in the external
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it. Spiritual science above all can show that man's physical
approach the element of soul and spirit in man by
spiritual life are simply approached experimentally, and the
revelation from the real spiritual worlds can be received.
from the very outset that anthroposophical spiritual research
anthroposophical spiritual science confronts these phenomena,
man's eternal soul-spiritual essence, of that part which we
spiritual science of Anthroposophy must therefore raise this
soul-spiritual parts can be used for anthroposophical research.
unconscious, but we are instead surrounded by a spiritual
of formative forces supplies to the inner soul-spiritual being,
world's spiritual foundation through the fact that the human
conditions. A spiritual investigator is always able to maintain
of the spiritual world to that of the physical world. In other
The results of spiritual-scientific investigations can
confront the soul of a spiritual-scientific investigator.
the results of anthroposophical, spiritual-scientific research
outside our soul-spiritual kernel; we look back upon the
before us and leads us back into the spiritual world through
soul-spiritual world which surrounds us before we came down
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real soul-spiritual being therefore obtains a plastic form.
soul-spiritual sense-organs, the world of soul and spirit rises
which rises up before us when we enter the spiritual world. We
the spiritual worlds rise up in super-sensible knowledge. Their
our soul-spiritual content, must rely entirely upon
the spiritual environment in the mirror of the physical and
away in this world of the spirit, if loneliness would not give
us this Ego-feeling in the spiritual world, in the same way in
Ego in the spiritual world. We then learn to know this
spiritual world as our environment. But we know that we can
only learn to know it through the inner soul-spiritual eye,
From the spiritual world we look back through death, through
which surrounds us as we pass through the soul-spiritual world
soul-spiritual being everything with which we were in some way
Those who acquire spiritual, super-sensible knowledge, already
though it is somewhat different from spiritual vision on earth,
soul-spiritual life. Everything in our environment with which
again in the soul-spiritual world, after having passed through
something which the spiritual science of Anthroposophy can add
lies beyond birth and death the spiritual science of
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Title: Lecture I: Man in the Light of Occultism
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spiritual experience where we are able to learn whence man has come
In this cycle of lectures we propose to consider man in his spiritual
place then we shall have to betake ourselves to a spiritual height
new birth he lives in the world of soul and spirit. In short, he
learns to have knowledge that is spiritual and he becomes familiar
with an environment which is of a spiritual nature and hidden from
ordinary consciousness. In the spiritual world lie the foundations of
to be able to have direct vision of the spiritual world and penetrate
spiritualise egoism. At the end of Earth evolution man will be
spiritual science tells) — among these original peoples we find

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spiritual world, was that he should not in any way deviate from the
their mind and spirit afforded them. Nor was this all; the whole
definite advance for his spirit, — all this he has now to shut
out of his spiritual activity; he may only handle matters of quite
will outwardly and allow nothing whatever of the results of spiritual

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from him. That is the first experience, — flowing spiritual
the flowing spiritual light, has not its source in Earthly conditions
quicken and strengthen our power of memory. Out of this wide spiritual
perceiving with the eye of the spirit in the surging sea of light.
now have a spiritual influence upon man that is like the physical
on a particular spiritual force that works plastically into the human
this spiritual force is named Jahve or Jehovah; it is a reflected
light of the Spirit, just as in a physical aspect moonlight is
spiritual light thrown back from beyond the Earth.
World “God” or “World Spirit” is of no moment; the
a single Ground, is due to influences of the spiritual world which are
of a spiritual world grows stronger and stronger.
spiritual life, then again its concentration. And the latter we
— sounding spiritually and full of deep meaning; and we form the
clairvoyant the spiritual light, if he has pressed forth from his
emancipated from heart and brain the higher forces, the spiritual
apparently a product of mental and spiritual ability, there exists any
gadfly or a bee had stung me! Spiritually, that was how I felt. I was
Is like a beast which some ill spirit leads,

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the spiritual world and to reveal what he saw and learned.
consequently been able to bring down from spiritual worlds and
Such then is the relation of the religious man to the spiritual world;
inner development and rising into the spiritual worlds. It would thus
“Spirit sublime, thou gav'st me, gav'st me all
spiritual in Nature. You have here a mystic who comes right out beyond
able to live in extraordinary intimacy with the spirit of Nature. This
In Saint Francis we have no mere vague pantheism of the spirit, —
sing rapturously of a universal Spirit in Nature; he sings of definite
And he excludes also what makes the spiritual attractive and
outside our consciousness is, as we know, the divine spiritual
with the Divine Spirit which was like a marriage, like an embrace
of marriage with the super-sensible and spiritual which we meet with in
embrace of the Divine and spiritual, becomes very like the feelings
manifests erotic passion for the Divine and Spiritual, and speaks of
of the nature of mysticism to come to the boundary of the spiritual,
to experience the Divine and Spiritual like a kind of marriage, but
not to enter into the world of the Divine and Spiritual. The mystic

Title: Lecture V: Man in the Light of Occultism
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spiritual experience; as yet, however, it is undefined.

Title: Lecture VI: Man in the Light of Occultism
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in the human figure for the hidden secrets of the spiritual world, we
observation will enable you to see — have spiritual connection
bringing to outward expression what the mind and spirit are able to
deeply and strongly connected with the spiritual life that is lived by
first sevenfold man It is the essentially spiritual man, it is man in
This first seven-membered man is thus to be regarded as the spiritual
nature of the human being; it is the spiritual being of man, in so far

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ancient Hebrew people is a highly spiritualised Moon worship. And it
appeared to the clairvoyant — spiritualised, that is, and not at
the starry heavens, the multitude of spiritual Beings that are in the
clairvoyance that is derived from the spiritual Being of the Moon and
consciousness gradually to grow dim and fade away, a more spiritual

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incarnations upon Earth spiritual beings and forces have contributed
out from these inner soul experiences into the spiritual world, then
the impressions of the spiritual world last for a comparatively long
spiritual world, then he experiences spiritual vision and can as it
sees himself flayed — spiritually speaking —, when his form
mind to grasp death and Lucifer and then turn round, spiritually, and
the course of their life to penetrate into the spiritual worlds.
mistake in regard to the Spirit of Christianity. He would understand
the I thought live on over into the spiritual world, so that he does

Title: Lecture IX: Man in the Light of Occultism
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spirit, that the Christ founded a religion for the simplest of human
hand in a spiritual manner. Here we can no longer speak of an
spiritual and he cannot admit the influence of spiritual forces. None
Spirit of the Moon, Jahve or Jehovah — works upon the entire man
“quarters” of the Moon. The Venus that works spiritually,
in respect of man are spiritual workings. Please note, an expression
for what is in the spirit of man.
As the great Sun Spirit works in relation to the Moon Spirit, in
spiritual powers in man. The influence of the Sun can be more
Thus the connection of the inner trinity in man — the Sun Spirit,
the Moon Spirit and the Venus Spirit or Lucifer — is symbolised
is, the three great spiritual Powers in man — and the several
the Sun Spirit in the middle man, exert their utmost influence. In the
especially strongly developed in their spiritual character, — let
form, is in connection and harmony with the spiritual Powers
Spirit that work in man correspond to the Spirit of the Sun, as the
Education of the Child from the standpoint of Spiritual Science.)
of operations” as it were for the Sun Spirit. Thus the movement
In doing so we are thinking of the power and force of the Sun Spirit
with the influence of the Spirit of the Moon. This influence here
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and Christ as the Spirit of the planet of the Sun. Christ himself
manifests in this connection as a planetary Spirit, brother to the
Spirit of Venus. In other words, Christ appears as a brother of
of initiation where the seven Spirits of the Planets become manifest.
where the seven planetary Spirits manifest themselves to man. And we
the Sun Spirit and the Venus Spirit — in other words, Christ and
mean, of course, spiritual light. We have the feeling that all the
these—, that Lucifer is a Spirit endowed in his very nature with
proud Lucifer, the Spirit of Venus, who rejects the Word of the Worlds
other Spirits of the Planets lost also their kingdoms, or rather
also of their spiritual Rulers.
Moon time. Christ went forward. The Christ Spirit, the Sun Spirit,
became a Spirit evolving ever forward until at length He was able to
Christ is spoken of in those lectures as a Sun Spirit of a higher kind
than the Spirits of the planets. For there of course we were speaking
of the present day. Christ is far above the other planetary Spirits.
He is the Spirit of the Sun. Here, however, where we are not merely
by their Spirits, but where our task is above all to describe the
passed through an upward evolution, and from having been a Spirit who
was of like nature with the planetary Spirits has become the Ruler or
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture I: On the Nature and Destiny of Man and World
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awaking, by contact with the spiritual world. Our spirit
body when man falls asleep; they enter the spiritual
that the same things occur in the divine-spiritual worlds that
asleep, we return to the spiritual worlds — and here
means of spiritual science. Thus a passage occurs in the Bible
spiritual-super-sensible has often been called by me, as well as
ourselves the experiences of our spirit and soul (ego and
spirit and soul. And just as we can walk, in the physical
spirit-soul element and the physical body. It is a mediator
carried within us when descending from the spiritual
This description conveys to you what man's spirit and soul
spirit and soul element; it is significant only for the
physical-sensible. When reaching the spirit and soul state, we
the spiritual world whence we had departed — but departed
spiritual world, enriched not only by conscious but also by
human being gathers experiences in this purely spiritual world.
penetrate spiritual life if we desire to gain a standpoint from
life to the world of spiritual facts, spiritual beings. He
brings into this spiritual world what he has experienced on
consciousness: You are nothing but spirit. You have only dwelt
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spiritual world. Let us briefly summon before our soul
acquaints himself with spiritual-scientific methods, [See:
preserved in the spiritual world. Thus an eternal element is
Descriptions of the spiritual world often sound almost
These things are not at all as the spiritists imagine. These
Conversely, the dead can experience their present spiritual
on the spiritual world.
reflected, while still alive, on the spiritual world, who have
spiritual moon forces. We must realize that all the world
formations of a spiritual element.
matter), but also of soul and spirit, so the whole universe,
the whole cosmos, is indwelled by soul and spirit. And not only
one unified spiritual entity dwells therein, but many,
innumerably many spiritual entities dwell therein. Thus
numerous spiritual entities are connected with the moon, which
spiritual body, formed out of our moral qualities. A good man
living backward. Our spirit-body, however, is only partly
of the spirit-body received by us in the spiritual world is
on us as a garment woven from the substances of the spiritual
soul world into the spirit realm. This is connected with the
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spiritual world, to the world of our origin which we left in
the spiritual world, we must learn to form conceptions of such
divine-spiritual element. This is our real experience when
with regard to soul and spirit from the human beings after the
did not call Him the Christ. They called Him the Sun-spirit.
avowed from their innermost depth that the great Sun-spirit was
appeared as a spirit strengthening mankind and consolidating
followers of ancient religions. It is the great Sun-spirit, who
spirit descended to earth and was clothed in a physical body.
the exalted Sun-spirit who had given them the strength to pass
remembered after every sleep that the exalted Sun-spirit had
exalted Sun-spirit, Christ, descended to earth, became a human
recognize the world of spiritual hierarchies — all the
spirit and soul beings who lead man into existence. At the end
of world evolution, he would again recognize the spirit and
dwelling among spirits between death and a new birth. Here we
the spiritual world, revelation of the spiritual world, and the
by coming into contact with spirit and soul beings. Now, the
to walk the counterpart of all the spiritual movements
emanating, between death and a new birth, from spirit and soul
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salt. Willing is a combustion. To the spiritual view, human
are asleep? If by the methods of spiritual research, we
different significance if looked at from a correct, spiritual
the methods of spiritual research and look into the whole
by spiritual science in a different place.
have often spoken of the three stages of spiritual
penetrated by spiritual reality and essence; intuition, when we
stand amid spiritual reality and essence.
the human being, in the course of his spiritual research,
attain imagination, real spiritual knowledge of the life lived
of my booklet: Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity
back, with our ego and astral body, into the spiritual world;
Hierarchies, in order to prepare the spiritual germ of a future
undergone only if sharing a spiritual activity with beings of
spiritual germ of the physical body. Then, whatever has been
reading, so does ordinary science differ from spiritual
Those understanding spiritual science are able to read.

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being's first years of life, of the spirit and soul organism on
development of spirit and soul is dependent on the development
we notice the same dependence of spirit and soul on the
people would thus like to hush up the fact that their spirit
a certain age, his spirit and soul are no longer greatly
that, even though the bodily forces decline, soul and spirit
spiritual science — to go back to the first period of
within spirit and soul. Then things happened in such a way that
separation of the physical body from spirit and soul. He felt
earth-elements, a liberation of spirit and soul. By
Divine-spiritual forces are speaking through me. And the
between the soul and spirit element and the bodily-physical.
the universe directed by spiritual laws. Now man was
confronted by the possibility that soul and spirit might
with regard to soul and spirit, I am at one with my body. No
spirit and soul element.
him when it first arose out of dark spiritual depths in the
spirit before I descended to the physical world. While dwelling
man, in his pre-earthly existence, was united with the spirit
before descending to earth, within spiritual worlds in
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the human being remained dependent on the spiritual element in
was just because the human being participated spiritually, by
Spiritually He has, since the Mystery of Golgotha,
spiritual at a certain time. Here the Christ was
said. The Christ spoke of the Kingdom of the Spirit which He
more necessary for us to find the spiritual within the earthly
and perceive the truth of the saying: “The spiritual
course of the stars, the spiritual element within destiny.
he could say: “Within me the folk spirit, the folk genius
Christmas he enters the life of the spiritual world. Here
spirit and soul element becomes visible in the earth.
spiritual beings within the earth begin to stir. The mere
beings preserved, during the winter, the spiritual force of the
seeds. The spiritual beings, the spirits of nature, are most
this spirit and soul element contained in the earth during
out of the stars what spiritual happenings and facts are
spiritual standards. Here is preeminently shown that we
have become materialists who want to banish the spiritual more
Day, he also learned every year how to follow the spiritual
Something spiritual was united, in a very concrete way,
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Entgegenkommen spirituellen Verständnisses. Es ist in der Tat

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entgegenkommen müssen mit Ihrem spirituellen Verständnis,

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eine Offenbarung aus spirituellen Höhen, und sie konnte nur aus

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strebt dahin, sich in gewisser Beziehung zu spirituellen Höhen

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das Vorhandensein des nicht bloß gedachten, sondern spirituell

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die ein spirituelles Empfinden war, erkennen, was die Wahrheit ist.
erkennen, wo die Wahrheit liegt, ob sich in die spirituellen
Theorien wirklich auch spirituelles lebensvolles Empfinden
hineinlebt, oder ob in diesen spirituellen Theorien nur ein

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accomplished more in the spiritist realm than others. No doubt

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want is to find entry to the spiritual world. We all have at least an
with remaining in the spiritual realm to which they belong and with
belongs to the spiritual world. That's why he foists the lie on
spiritual world Goethe is quite right when he lets Mephisto say:
protect ourselves from Lucifer if we nourish the spirit of humility

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sleep, while the ego and astral body go into the spiritual
was good, for he strengthened his soul with spiritual forces as he
soul forces from spiritual worlds.
spiritual forces that always become renewed; the same is true of the
men. If a man doesn't connect himself with these spiritual
materialist is, if he goes into spiritual worlds unprepared in the
through this omission. He kills some of the spiritual life and forces
goes into spiritual worlds unconsciously. For instance, if he went to
sleep at 11 p.m. unprepared and awakened at 12 in spiritual worlds,
increases the spiritual forces that are necessary for mankind through
their connection with spiritual worlds and have forgotten how they
esoterics to let their spiritual forces work in a living way.
and esoterics will then use the spiritual forces that they bring down

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in the Druidic mysteries. The candidate united himself with the spirit
that worked everywhere in nature: Per Spiritum Sanctum
It's a conscious coming to life in the Christ spirit.
words Per Spiritum.

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to the Spirit of Monday:
embracing Spirit,
embracing Spirit
May the spirit of my being be illumined
deeper insights into spiritual connections relatively quickly are the
first, we have to imagine that the spiritual beings were previously at
one anymore That's spiritual arrogance. One can still get
seeing spiritually in the next life for sure, if not in this one.

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that an esoteric turned, with these he turned to spiritual worlds.
greatest things in the physical realm felt that the spiritual world
longer take in that we can live in the spiritual world. And you who
not just communications — it's advice that flows from spiritual
meditate on: In the Spirit of Mankind I feel united with all
through spiritual worlds; it's supposed to radiate in us like

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spiritual world? On the right path one gets ever more humble and

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seinen Zuhörern tiefe Einblicke in den spirituellen Gehalt dieser

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seinen Zuhörern tiefe Einblicke in den spirituellen Gehalt dieser
Verfinsterung der höheren, eigentlich spirituellen
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seinen Zuhörern tiefe Einblicke in den spirituellen Gehalt dieser
am spirituellen Leben. Am

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seinen Zuhörern tiefe Einblicke in den spirituellen Gehalt dieser

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seinen Zuhörern tiefe Einblicke in den spirituellen Gehalt dieser
spiritueller Lehren ist mit treuem Einhalten der

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that is in keeping with the spirit of our epoch.
into a physical body on the earth they had lived in the spiritual
being of soul-and-spirit, sent down by the Divine Powers into
pre-earthly existence as beings of soul-and-spirit, they knew that the
and among spiritual Beings, just as on earth they were living among
that every star is peopled by spiritual Beings with whom he had been
stars, that is to say, to the spiritual world. He regarded the sun as
the most exalted was the One known as the sublime Sun-Spirit.
are able to return in the right way after death into the spiritual
spiritual power of the sun, the spiritual light, which bears you on
Sun-Spirit. These teachers in the Mysteries said to their pupils and
offered their prayers to the Spirit of the sun who gives them
that before you came down to the earth you were in a spirit-realm that
come down from spiritual worlds into the earthly world, but that they
sublime Sun-Spirit of whom they spoke to the worshippers is the same
instinctive remembrance of pre-earthly, spiritual life was gradually
physical orb, but as a realm of spiritual Beings.
kindle to life within them any remembrance of the spiritual worlds.
no longer able to look up into the spiritual worlds, and in the
knowledge. For in the spiritual world, the Beings above man — the
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stimulation from the spiritual world. We must become artists, not by
developing symbolism or allegory, but by rising, through spiritual
knowledge, more and more into the spiritual world." - from the contents.
uttered by the initiate as both cognition and spiritual revelation
on the other hand, tries to approach art out of the living spirit —
of the spirit. It should be seen, not explained. When I had the honor
own forms, pictures, colors. One can be spiritual in forms, colors,
that man has foresaken the spiritual worlds to which he rightfully belongs.
artistic approach, man's physical body clothed by an imaginative-spiritual
the Greeks became sculptors. It is thus a spiritual sensing and
soul-appearance of spirit.
us take black. When our spirit encounters darkness on waking, we feel
paralyzed, deadened. Black is felt as the spiritual image of death.
of spirit; black as the spiritual image of death. In saying this I describe
soul-image of the spirit — having started with soul I rise to
the spirit. Black, spiritual image of death — I start with spirit
has this artistic experience, if death, life, soul and spirit show forth,
the dead through life, soul, spirit; if death, life, soul and spirit
death, soul, spirit. By overcoming dead thought we attain to the point
represent life and death, spirit and soul, as they have their being
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stimulation from the spiritual world. We must become artists, not by
developing symbolism or allegory, but by rising, through spiritual
knowledge, more and more into the spiritual world." - from the contents.
life, soul, spirit. I said I would draw this complete circle of the
spirit. (The spirit as such conceals itself.) And if, as artists, we
take hold of black, we have the spiritual image of death. And the circle
call it the lustre of life. If the spirit does not wish merely to reveal
yellow is the radiance or lustre of the spirit. If the soul wishes
of the spirit.
wish to represent a spiritually radiant figure, we cannot do otherwise
Such color-perspective lives in the realm of soul and spirit.
time for painting to return to a more spiritual conception, to return
in waking dreams, the spiritual behind the physical. Parallel to this
man felt himself completely removed into the spiritual world, with the
spiritual nature at the boundary of his skin, so to speak, a sensation
future development of music will be toward spiritualization, and involve
the world of spirit. Some modern musicians have made beginnings in
in its spiritual profundity, and a wish — in this as in the other
arts — to pass from the naturalistic to the spiritual element.
development of man with the unbiased eye of the spirit sees how at a
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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
diverse elaborations from spiritual science about the
that aside though, and look at spiritual development during
on a spiritual balance all that has contributed until now
the spiritual balance and let us place on the other scale
with the working of the spirit; I have only to point to the
names a spiritual life of the highest order appears before
first at Southern Europe, we find a profound spiritual
developed spiritual life, which in the subsequent centuries
its underlying spirit. Nevertheless those people had the
profundities of spiritual life, will find something which
directly to spiritual science, that there is a logical path
from Haeckel to spiritual science. When that is understood,
logically to the spiritual origin of the human race. It is
true path from Haeckelism to the spiritual origin of the
good spirit of Christianity as well as by the good spirit
of Darwinism. If one is imbued with the good spirit of
lower animal forms, that he must have had a spiritual
spiritual being hovering over the earth. A logical
other hand one is abandoned by the good spirit and goes
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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
transformation, who had been awakened by the cosmic spirit
presented an experience of purely spiritual matters. And
him necessary, due to certain spiritual considerations, to
impression that spiritual-scientifically trained
the conviction of how in the cosmos a certain spiritual
clairvoyant the darkening of the higher, spiritual regions
of the spiritual power in the universe. I do not wish to
that spirit who as all-encompassing love exuded in the
arrival, the pouring out of the spirit, begins with what I
had really taught them about the kingdom of the spirit. And
appeared to them as their spiritual teacher and instructed
him. He saw a heavenly spiritual being, but he didn't
Mystery of Golgotha, interfered with the purely spiritual
instructed in the secrets of the spirit by Christ Jesus.
standing before this spiritual being. And in order to
the spiritual Script of Becoming. Such times will come,
spiritual investigation to which I have devoted myself, it
is in the Spiritual Script. For it is very difficult and
spirit. Especially in this area I think I have a certain

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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
with which we are already familiar through our spiritual
through our spiritual scientific analyses in a somewhat
outpouring of spirit, which in respect to the Christ-Being
accustomed to see as the entrance into the spiritual world
the so-called Devachan, or Spirit-land.
called purification-time, Kamaloka-time, to the spiritual
human being lives though a spiritual life after death. From
transition to the Spirit-land. Instead of going to a
Devachan, to a spiritual region, as man does after death,
in leaving the spiritual spheres in order to live with the
spiritual world could be exchanged for the place of
divine-spiritual Christ-being could take on the necessary
for the divine-spiritual being of Christ to be able to take
developed in spiritual science. It has been brought to your
participation in spiritual life. This pre-Christian
raised to the higher stages of spiritual experience was led
and deeper into spiritual experience. In the fifth degree
consciousness, which enabled him to become a spiritual
participation in the spiritual life.
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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
spiritually veiled memory of the I of Zarathustra acted in
that in ancient times the spirit came over the prophets,
that great spirit, that powerful spirit which came to
from the spiritual heights, what still spoke was a weaker
voice which some believed to hear as coming from the spirit
same spirit which had spoken to the Jewish teachers of long
heights where the spirit can reveal to me the truth about
remains to ascend to the revelations of the spirit of
were not images of good spiritual beings, but of demonic
our spiritual movement, for human souls can only now, in
Nazareth's soul felt itself carried up to a spiritual
soul so clairvoyant that it can see into the spiritual
spirit. Jesus of Nazareth had become a person who could
culture, by his dedication to the highest spiritual powers,
which all that was physically and spiritually unworthy was
meant to be eliminated in order to approach the spiritual
spiritual course of human evolution. It was a meaningful
spiritual conversation took place between Jesus and Buddha.
evolution today. In this meaningful spiritual conversation
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the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the
fundamental experience obtained from spiritual scientific
with all the deeper universal spirits, how his soul had
who had later died. The other mother's spirit had
been in spiritual regions, who previously had not lived on
earth, who knew the spiritual worlds, but not the earth!
dwells, founded by the old gods and spirits – they
of pride. But the Christ-Being came from the spiritual
said to him: Through my spirituality, through what I can
Men do not live by bread alone, but by the spiritual which
comes from the spiritual world. The Christ-Being knew that
well, for he had recently descended from the spiritual
spirit does which descends from the heights. You were not
spirit alone. That was the moment when Ahriman told Christ
twelfth year on; he felt the Christ-spirit to be more
he visited them in the spirit; or also, they created his
spiritual image. You can imagine what it meant for such a
had seen sitting with them in the spirit. We can well
spirits of the higher hierarchies, had been forgotten. And
here to tell men how the gods brought the spirit down to
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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
instrument for us to spiritually comprehend the Apocalypse again and
of the spiritual life. Our explanation of the Apocalypse will age; future
presented by Theosophy or spiritual science. We must think of the human
are in the spiritual world. During the night the present-day human being
perceives nothing. When human beings develop to a higher spiritual vision,
also make the student aware of the nature of the surrounding spiritual
what the person experiences in the spiritual world. In this moment, when
occurred and the enlightened one experienced the spiritual world; after
about the spiritual world.
that required a sequence of steps. But he stood closer to the spiritual
the basis for the physical body. In the spiritual world they had to
initiates always saw the physical human being spiritualized and placed
in the spiritual world as its crowning, and such people understood the
Christ to be the first real human form that could be seen in the spiritual
and he saw the “Son of Man” as the spiritualized, purified
spiritual-physical form of “Man,” the human being, now

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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
fourth in our great post-Atlantean epoch. In spiritual science we calculate
the spiritual life of the Atlanteans; for, of course, the same souls
the spiritual researcher.
were conscious in the spiritual world. They had a dim form of clairvoyance.
conscious vision of the spiritual world. Unlike our culture, which is
the physical earth and beyond to spiritual realities. Present-day science
achieved a vision and experience of higher spiritual beings that work
planets in our solar system and the spiritual powers standing behind
individual spiritual capacities of thinking and judgment in their first
It is a law of spiritual
the etheric bodies of the seven great Atlantean initiates as spiritual
on the health and spiritual discipline of the people so that he developed,
this chorus harmonized together as a spiritual symphony was the primal
teaching concerning the spiritual being of the sun, concerning Ahura
for clairvoyance, for the spiritual, for the feeling of connectedness
the spirit of the sun, the highest being. Zarathustra initiated one
ancient Indian culture was initiated in the secrets of the spiritual
spiritual life we are introducing the age of Philadelphia or
The seven spirits of God,
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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
in our time that will lead to brotherly love through real spiritual
of the Apocalypse directed his spiritual gaze toward him and saw how
These holy, simple men wanted to awaken the spiritual senses of humanity
or illusion. Only the spirit standing behind the surrounding world could
be called truth. The seven holy Rishis pointed to this spirit. Human
as Nicolaitans who have lost the first, the glorious love of the spirit.
to stimulate their wills so that, with this spiritual treasure, humanity

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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
the spiritual world.
as the expression of a being, the spirit of the sun, and they should
look upon the stars as the bodies of the spirits who populate space. For
world as the expression of the spirit. In this way the cultivation of
Mephistopheles. This is he who called to Faust, who believed in the spirit
and went to the “Mothers,” that is, entered the spiritual
are seeking the spirit call back to the materialists: “In your
by a life in the spiritual world. One day this ring of reincarnations
must say: There is a history of life in the spiritual world. Because
Atlantis; human beings were still in their soul and spiritual home during
in the spiritual world at night and after they passed through the gate
to that extent they lost their vision into the spiritual world; it became
could human beings hope that the spiritual world would be filled with
not only for the physical world but also for the spiritual world.
that our culture now begins to climb upward to a spiritual understanding
in the physical and in the spiritual. The whole of our post-Atlantean
spirit. It is always the same principle that manifests in the successive
becoming one with matter, who are using up the spiritual forces they
it would be the “second death” — the “spiritual
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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
Before this the concept of personality, the concept of the divine-spiritual
Greece they could only understand the divine-spiritual residing in the
spiritual world. But Greek culture could, in the fullest sense, feel what
as something spiritual. And there was a deeply tragic feeling that
themselves that the human being has descended from the divine spiritual
to the spiritual world.
it would have contributed to a new ascent to the spiritual. Celsus,
not meant to undertake such lofty flights of the spirit and see the spirit
became Arabic wisdom; it became the spirit of Mohammedanism. Arabism
that is unable to reach concrete spiritual beings. Arabism did not arrive
of the spirit if it is summed up in a unity. Therein lies the poverty
was not able to understand a reference to something spiritual standing
the veil of the senses spread over the spiritual. He could believe in
knowledge, and now it is illuminated and spiritualized by the
spoke of the stars they meant the spiritual aspect of the stars, which
to find again the spiritual world behind sense existence; and Theosophy
time the elemental spirit of the earth. Christ expressed this when,
earth we would have to see members of the spirit of Christ in everything
age will have neither people who glow with enthusiasm for the spiritual,
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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
When we speak of the earth we mean, of course, all of the spiritual
bodies have come, so also spiritual science speaks of a large, ancient
epoch when Zarathustra proclaimed Ahura Mazdao the spirit of the sun. The
sun spirit was the guiding and leading principle of the ancient Persian
time they were in a spiritual body. Then, when the sun was no longer
spiritual beings surrounding them as their external world. Then came
that through the spirituality that lived in the moon, they could perceive
the spiritual world that was inwardly flowing into them through the
that the spiritual world mediated to human beings, while the external
the ancient Egyptian's feeling life. The sun spirit was characterized
as Osiris and the soul that seeks the sun spirit was seen as Isis. Thus,
of the moon. Osiris was a sun spirit residing on the moon. He could

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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
The Principle of Spiritual Economy
to be used further in the spiritual economy of the world.
thirtieth year of his life in order to enter the spiritual world just
This has nothing to do with his I, which went on into the spiritual
so that a particular spiritual stream could arise in our time, a spiritual
stream with the task of insuring that spiritual knowledge will still
Therefore, today spiritual
old traditions. What constitutes the Rosicrucian approach to the spirit
today has been researched directly in higher worlds with spiritual eyes
to the spirit not because this or that is found in old books, not because
affected in a living way by spiritual knowledge.
spiritual stream, we draw toward us what is available from the copies
again an ascent into the spiritual world. The theosophical teaching
a particular people or place. Those who hear the call of spiritual wisdom
The Principle of Spiritual Economy
Principle of Spiritual Economy
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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
the wisdom taught in Theosophy. In far-reaching ways, the spiritual
to develop a physical form appropriate for the spirit.
were gradually “precipitated out” of the spiritual world.
This will become the fate of those who have taken in spiritual impulses
at the right time. All moral, intellectual, and spiritual forces will,

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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
of spiritual culture will have overcome their lower nature. They will
physical-sensible existence that the spiritual world became dark for
to a head in this fifth age. Through the Rosicrucian-Theosophical spiritual
will achieve, through spiritual development, ever higher stages of
spiritual life.
spiritualized human personality will have to contradict the prevailing
Philadelphia the sixth age will begin. Except for these spiritual human
consequences whether the air is filled with spiritual thoughts or with
of nature. But those who unite themselves with the spirit appear as
the teachings that concern the spirit and can reach humanity.
into themselves as spiritual substance and teaching will be their soul
and spiritual life blood in the future. It will be the light that will
ray forth from them as spirit. The human being stands firmly as on two
in wisdom, like swallowing a book. This figure points toward the spiritual

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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
materialism, and that spiritual human beings will be the sealed ones.
the future, the human being will also accomplish divine spiritual deeds.
sees the spiritualized people hovering above with the others bound to
will be close to God, they will have completely spiritualized themselves.
nature — this will be repeated in a spiritual state. When the
is the good spirit, the intelligence of the sun; the adversary is the
the sun is the opponent of the Christ spirit and is called Sorat. Earlier,
thrown out and how the noblest, spiritualized portion of humanity remains
united with the sun. The newly spiritualized human body can then again

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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
seen that the earth will again be spiritualized, that human beings can
to the sun. Evolution leads to a constantly increasing spiritualization,
in this spiritual earth. First, everything must pass over into an astral
in opposition to our evolution today. It is ruled by the spirit Mammon,
that is, the spirit of hindrances. He is a power of the lower world.
not yet reached the stage of humanity. These are the luciferic spirits.
gone through his evolution in a higher sphere if the luciferic spirits
for something good: their freedom. The luciferic spirits made, so to
The luciferic spirits have also brought humanity something positive.
they develop spiritual abilities. In full consciousness they have turned
earth emerges from the sun yet again in the future. If the spiritual
never he saved. So, these spiritualized people come forth once more
own cunning free will, have become black magicians by placing spiritual
a human being. It came out of the spiritual world. The second dragon
17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. \
18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. \
similar to how we create and form artistically today. What the spirits

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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
to draw the I toward the physical head. That is, the I, the spiritual
for the spiritual world and had to be educated so that the I could
spirit-self, the etheric body into budhi or life-spirit, and the physical
consciousness soul can the spirit-self gradually — and at first,
age of “Philadelphia” the I will permeate the spirit-self,
or manas. Then the human beings who, through theosophical-spiritual
through wisdom, through Theosophy, so that it receives manas or spirit-self
to a spiritual state. What the spiritualized human beings have acquired
the more energy is necessary in order to spiritualize those who have
In this way spiritual
seers have spoken to other spiritual seers through the millennia and
the earth will be spiritualized in the New Jerusalem. There will be
no external sun present then; the corresponding spiritual beings will
of the Rosicrucian. The seer can also see this in the spiritual world.

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