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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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consciousness. Many a mystic unearths from the depths of the soul,
our organism since the beginning of earthly life. The Imagination
member which works at the forming of the earthly body, is discovered
own earthly life through the flow of time, further progress must be
tableau of earthly life is all that rises up, but it also holds good
existence as men of Earth can be inspired again and again,
the body of formative forces working in us during earthly
been absorbed during earthly life, but we comprehend man in his whole
remembrances and reconstruct earthly life in pictures, so, when we
connected not only with the Earth but with planetary worlds which, as
earlier metamorphoses, preceded the Earth, and how the very make-up
of the Earth into other planetary conditions; how it is possible
around us as men of Earth as the product of higher, spiritual worlds,
earthly lives spoken of by Anthroposophy is filled with meaning. The
will, is recognised as the consequence of preceding lives on Earth.
Man’s eternal core of being passes through repeated earthly
the chain of earthly lives.
is unfolded in a single earth-existence —
we become free human beings here on the Earth. And what inheres in
through repeated earthly lives.
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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evolution of his astral body, in the same condition of the earth in
which the earth is now, but that he developed his astral body in an
earlier existence of the earth, in the Moon-existence. Just as we
perceive our present life to be the result of earlier earth lives, of
our earth. What we call the sentient-soul and the intellectual-soul,
or mind-soul, were first formed in our present earth-existence. The
earlier existence of our earth, in the old Sun-condition, the etheric
condition. So that we look back to three incarnations of our earth,
earth are passing through the condition which we call the
our earth evolution, during the old Moon, Sun and Saturn conditions,
earth. It is not of much importance whether we use the terminology of
these beings. Those beings who, during the Moon-state of our earth,
the Moon as we do now upon earth. They were beings at the human
earth-existence, back to the Saturn stage, we find that those beings
Saturn state, and if we then follow the incarnations of the earth
the old Moon; men are men on our earth.
earth, during the Jupiter state, shall finish the transforming of our
during our earth-stage, — a process we shall have to go through
only during the next incarnation of the earth. If we look still
incarnation of the earth. They are doing the work which man will do
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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You all know that the features of the surface of the earth vary in
different parts, and that in the different parts of our earth there
countries in various parts of the earth knows that the peculiar form of
certain part of our earth, it is comprehensible that for a
consciousness there arises over every part of our earth a peculiar
aura of that special part of the earth. This etheric aura is quite
the surface of our earth. This etheric aura differs very considerably
of the evolution of humanity on the earth when one people leaves its
dwelling place and takes possession of another part of the earth.
part of the earth does not only depend upon what rises out of the
their true form on earth, endeavor to follow the interpenetration of
our earth. The various etheric auras of Europe altered very much at
particular part of the earth there is something which can be altered,
that which mysteriously confronts us in the part of the earth
part of the earth.
vegetation, in the peculiar configuration of the earth and so on, is
the earth; and they embody themselves, as in a physical body, in that
earth. But they also have their own paths to follow; for this working
the earth and embody themselves in one or another region of the
earth. This is their own affair. The other, what they do in the
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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certain portion of the earth, and over this people the folk-aura, the
the whole earth and divides the whole of humanity into races, is
earth but a variety of people.

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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other observations on the evolution of man, that formerly our earth
state. Only during the present incarnation of the earth has man
the three or four incarnations of our earth, through its incarnation
as Saturn, Sun, Moon, and through our Earth period itself in so far
only during the condition of the Earth-life. We then come to the
acquired up to the time of the Earth-evolution if they had not stood
still, so that now, during the Earth-evolution, they might be able to
their evolution normally up to the Earth-evolution, spiritual Beings
who might have been Spirits of Motion during the Earth evolution, but
as Spirits of Form in the Earth-evolution. Thus they are able, during
the Earth-evolution, to bestow upon man that which he is not as yet
the first third of our earth life. We must therefore say: The first
third of our earth-life is not directed by the spiritual Beings who
rule the conditions of the earth, but by other abnormal spiritual
only becomes man during his earth life in the middle part, and in the
earth. Spiritual Science therefore tells us, that if his development
earth only in the condition which he now reaches in his twentieth or
preceding states upon the earth. He would have been obliged to go
through them soaring above the earth, around it.
straight line (B C) as being the earth-path, that the Spirits of Form
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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external surface of our earth is simply a delusion. The truth is,
presents itself as forces which come out of the earth and radiate
upon the earth if only these forces were there. These forces alone
might say a boundary, which is the surface of the earth. So that the
the earth, out in every direction; and that which comes in from
produces the various contours of the earth's surface. So that
what you see outside as the earth's surface is most unreal, it
Spirits of Motion which is so arranged that it models the earth in
our earth to form itself into just such a planet as it now is. The
outwards from within the earth, and had as their opponents only the
Spirits of Motion, then the earth would inwardly be in a continual
produced at the time when the primeval mass of the earth was still in
Spirits of Motion, the earth would be still in that form, if another
which expresses itself on the surface of our earth by the fact that
Will. That which on our earth appears externally chiefly as a fluidic
element of air, in everything which permeates the apparent earthy
the periphery of our earth, when we gaze up to the lofty sky,
when we look down into the depths of the earth, we ascribe to the
only display their force in that which streams up out of the earth.
Everything which on our earth regulates construction and
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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that the mission of the earth can be fulfilled; when they have so to
be taken as a sort of annotation. In the equilibrium of our earth the
as regards this state of equilibrium, works from within the earth.
the earth, and that the way in which man becomes aware of these
simple, and, to make the mission of the earth comprehensible, it is
the elements of earth-existence.
Form, which brings about in our life on earth that there should be
not merely one kind of humanity spread over the whole earth, but that
in the course of the evolution of the earth, the pure activity of the
universe which surrounds our earth and together with it makes one
mission of the earth, we must clearly understand that these seven
for the establishing of the earthly equilibrium, for the fulfillment
of the mission of the earth. One thing only was necessary so that the
united with Earth, the evolution of man could not have taken place.
Mars, Venus and Mercury. These forces stream down upon Earth, are
stemmed there and ray up again from Earth, as was described at the
Thus if you have a part of Earth's surface upon
that particular part of the Earth's surface but the entirely
centre of the Earth, really produce what we know as the five
who inhabit the Earth.
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 7
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guiding and directing of the events on our Earth and above all in
While therefore the Earth was already colonized with the
colonized parts of the Earth. Thus we have to do with a later stream,
thousands of years, gradually to spread over the whole earth. This
coincided with the coming to Earth of the Christ-impulse — the
earth. If you were to draw something like a circle, so that the towns
part of the earth's surface. There, however, in the distant
have reigned upon the earth, we may know that this Scandinavian
that there is no other mythology on the earth which, in its

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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Christ Jesus upon earth. He only came in the fourth post-Atlantean
Jesus walked upon earth, the people could still see that this work
Ginnungagap, is about the time when the earth begins to form itself

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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in earthly existence.
directions have taken part in the development of the earthly man, who
activity, therefore, in our earth-existence is such, that his point

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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Christ-impulse had been given to the earth, Tacitus could describe
air and fire, in all the elements in and above the earth, meets us as
fertilizing our earth, so do we find this heavenly world, the world
that which is felt to be the Mother, the Spirit of the Earth. We have
whole Spirit of the Earth than in the picture of the fertilization of
Mother Earth.
Earth-Mother. In this way the relation of Devachan to the Earth is
Father and the Earth-Mother. Universal as these conceptions are we
Earth-Mother, and the Blessed Child of the East.
the destiny of man is woven into the creation, into the Earth,
through the fertilization of the Earth-Mother by the Heavenly Father,

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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the evolution of the earth an event occurred which we may describe as
made possible by the separation of the moon from the earth. These
the bodies being formed upon earth.
The event of these earth-bodies being fertilized, as it
earthly body itself, and which Northern tradition knows as Riesenheim
(Home of Giants). That which developed out of the earthly body
earthly-physical. Freyr the god, and Freya his sister, who here in
physical forces of earthly evolution. These pictures represent the
from the earth-forces themselves to the ‘ I ’,
earth.
comprehensible in all parts of our earth-life.
earth to prevail over another. If the West were ever to be conquered
earth. We know that they are only individual sacrificial flames which

Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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elements that have built up our whole life from our earthly birth
so that we say to ourselves: Here on earth, the soul-spiritual
nutrition during our earthly existence, we dive down into a
beings, even as here on earth, during the time between birth and
passed before the earth received us into the physical stream of
and enters physical life on earth or in which he lives after passing
bears in his transient earthly existence as an ever-developing
concealed, because when it enters earthly life through birth it
word because here on earth he lives in a physical body which bears

Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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gives us our Ego feeling here on earth. To this loneliness we owe
elements of the earth and that the etheric body dissolves, as
world we look back into our last earthly life through death,
earthly life as a firm resistance which mirrors everything, just
somewhat different to the spiritual vision on earth; they acquire
otherwise, in this earthly life — it undoubtedly arises in
the earth, where the connection with them is more difficult, but
with the earth, particularly his relationship with the
physical-mineral earth.
during his earthly life the human being constantly takes in
earthly substances, a fact also revealed by the spiritual
throughout your earthly life, from birth to death.
our physical lives on earth. The physical body may be cast off,
after death, as a mirroring element, our physical life on earth,
earth, whose company we now share, rise up before us.
mineral life on earth, we understand why there should be mineral,
earthly laws. They exist so that they might also exist within us,
and thinking is therefore bound up with the earth. But in
earth emerge from that which produces their thought, we also
pertains only to the earth. This is what connects the development
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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experiences of our ordinary earthly life since our birth. Through
our past earthly existence, we find that the external conditions
events of earthly life when we return into the body. Now we know

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 1. Angels, Folk Spirits, Time Spirits: their part in the Evolution of Mankind.
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Earth was in the same condition as it is today, but that he developed
his astral body in an earlier Earth cycle, the Old Moon epoch. Just
incarnations, so too do we realize that the Earth itself has known
were first created during our present Earth epoch, the astral body
Saturn. Thus we look back to three incarnations of the Earth and in
factor must be borne in mind. We human beings (on Earth) are now
under-went during the earlier stages of our Earth-evolution, the
mode of existence on the Old Moon differed from that of man on Earth
Earth-existence, to Old Saturn, we find that those Beings whom we
incarnations of the Earth down to our own time, we have a picture of
or Angeloi were men on Old Moon and men are men on our Earth.
Earth, the Jupiter stage, we shall complete the transmutation of our
Earth evolution, a stage that we shall first have to undergo in the
next incarnation of the Earth. If we look still further back to the
for the first time in the next incarnation of the Earth. They are
our life on Earth; it penetrates into it and acts upon it. The
from the stage of Earth-evolution to that of Jupiter, the next stage
ego in the spiritual atmosphere of our Earth, whose ego has already
Self or Manas continue to work on our Earth and into human beings,
Spirits of the Earth. The Folk Spirits belong to the rank of the
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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know that the surface of the Earth shows different configurations and
that the different regions of the Earth provide widely differing
there extends over every region of the Earth a peculiar spiritual
kind of etheric aura hovers above every region of the Earth's
shaped on Earth, endeavour to follow the interpenetration of this
surface of the Earth, They incarnate somewhat after the fashion of a
must further their evolution, move across the face of the Earth and
of these Folk Spirits and see how he incarnates on Earth, lives again
bestowed the ego upon man at the Earth-stage, they cannot, as yet,
experiencing it in the Earth-stage. Hence they are Beings who are now
that stage during the Old Sun condition of the Earth. Thus, other
influenced by the Spirits of Form during his Earth existence? He
Spirits of Form. They exercise effective influence upon the Earth
because they have remained on Earth, whereas their colleagues, the
precisely that aspect of language which has remained on Earth. We
Earth, we should never have known the birth of language on Earth. In
during his life on Earth his native language. They had to be endowed
the Earth-existence represent what is called the Zeitgeist, the
corresponds to the utilization of physical forces in our Earth life.
constitution of our Earth. Sometimes these configurations stand out
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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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diversity of types could exist on Earth.
over the whole Earth. We find that, by virtue of the normal Spirits
of Form, one common Humanity should exist on Earth; that the backward

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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evolution of man we know that in prehistoric times our Earth, before
present state. It is only during his present Earth incarnation that
three or four incarnations of our Earth — Old Saturn, Old Sun,
Old Moon and the Earth period itself up to the present moment. If you
bestowal of an ego, during man's life on Earth. The third
time of the Earth-evolution, so that they could intervene in man's
development in a particular way during this present Earth-evolution.
normally up to the stage of their Earth-evolution Beings who might
have been Spirits of Movement during the Earth-evolution, but who
the Earth-evolution as Spirits of Form. Thus they are able, during
the Earth-evolution, to bestow upon man, who is by no means mature
external world. The first third of our Earth-life therefore is not
controlled by spiritual Beings who determine Earth conditions, but by
fully integrated person in his Earth-life. In the last third of his
and would have incarnated on Earth only at that period of his
when he would find himself Earth-bound. We learn from Spiritual
through the preceding conditions on Earth; he would have been obliged
to go through them in the spiritual spheres surrounding the Earth.
should now be clear to you. If the line BC represents life on Earth
twenty to twenty-one). Having come down to Earth at this age he would
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 5. Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
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Old Sun, Old Moon and Earth.
Old Sun, Old Moon and Earth.
and which offers resistance? The external surface of the Earth which
below, from within the Earth; they emanate from certain Beings. Thus
from the Earth and raying outward in all directions. But if these
encounter the forces raying outward from within the Earth there
surface of the Earth. The surface one sees, therefore, is only an
— produces the diversified contours of the Earth's
surface. What is seen externally as the Earth's surface is
which the Earth assumes its highly diversified configurations.
through this interplay alone our Earth could not arrive at its
outwards from within the Earth and were opposed by the Spirits of
Movement alone, then the Earth would be in a continual state of flux,
Earth was still in a semi-fluid condition.
would be the configuration of the Earth today through the cooperation
which is manifested on the surface of our Earth by the interweaving
the Spirits of Movement above them. That which on our Earth appears
aeriform which permeates the apparent solid substance of the Earth.
we see how the radiations from the centre influence our Earth planet.
Earth, when we lift our eyes to the Cosmic Spheres, all the
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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that the mission of the Earth can be fulfilled and ultimately a state
In creating the harmony or equilibrium of our Earth the whole
yesterday as the highest Hierarchy, as raying outward from the Earth.
Universe towards the centre of the Earth. Man does not become aware
when they are reflected from the Earth's centre.
make the mission of the Earth comprehensible we must approach this
of these Hierarchies are reflected in the elements of Earth
population of the Earth should not be limited to a single homogeneous
species spread over the whole Earth, but that a diversity of
Earth-evolution, it would have been necessary for the normal Spirits
surrounds the Earth and together with the Earth forms a single whole,
the Earth, we must clearly understand that these seven Spirits of
Universe, where these Spirits of Form plan to establish the earthly
harmony and to fulfil the mission of Earth-evolution. Lest the
evolution of man. For if the Moon had remained united with the Earth
of the abnormal Spirits stream down upon the Earth are arrested by
the Earth and ray outward again from the Earth-centre as was
active in a particular region of the Earth's surface, then only
the Earth. Hence in that which here manifests in the potent forces of
Races of the Earth.
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 7. Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
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various Hierarchies guide and direct events upon our Earth and
therefore, the Earth was already colonized by the nuclei of these
the Earth already colonized. Thus we meet with a second migration in
spread gradually over the whole Earth. Without this consummation of
descent of Christ upon Earth, the Greek Time Spirit renounced for our
not actually on the Earth, but hovering above it. If you were to
at this place on Earth. There, in the remote past, was the great

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 8. The Five Post-Atlantean Civilizations.
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Earth. He only incarnated in the fourth post-Atlantean epoch. That is
Christ Jesus walked upon Earth were aware that they were still
Ginnungagap, the primeval abyss of Teutonic mythology, a new Earth

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 9. Loki - Hodur and Baldur - Twilight of the Gods.
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in the course of earthly existence.
Lucifer, therefore, is omnipresent in our Earth-existence and finds
occurs because the Moon interposes itself between the Earth and the

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 10. The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
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the Earth, is embodied in the concept of the Heavenly Father, in one
fructifying our Earth, so this Divine world, the world of the Father,
the Mother, the Spirit of the Earth. We have no other expression and
can think of no other way of picturing the whole Spirit of the Earth
than in the fertilization of Mother Earth. Instead of individual
of the Heavenly Father and the Earth Mother. The relation of Devachan
to the Earth is perceived in this way from the spiritual world. The
Blessed Child of the Heavenly Father and the Earth Mother. Universal
by the Heavenly Father, the Earth Mother and the Blessed Child of the
destiny of man is woven into creation, into the Earth, through the
fertilization of the Earth Mother by the Heavenly Father and through

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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time in the course of Earth-evolution an event occurred which we may
after the hardening forces of the Moon had left the Earth endeavoured
developed and perfected under Earth conditions. These Saturn-,
Jupiter-, Mars-, Venus-, and Mercury-souls then descended upon Earth
watery mists and through these mists those on Earth beheld with the
order to incarnate in earthly bodies.
earthly bodies were fructified by that which poured down from
body of the Earth and which Northern tradition knows as Riesenheim
Earth belongs to Riesenheim. We realize, therefore, that Nordic man
daughter. She is born out of the physical forces of earthly evolution
understood by the more highly developed souls on Earth.
given from out of the Earth forces themselves to the ‘I’,
overcome by the flaming sword of Earth-born Surtur.
realized in all aspects of our earthly life. Let us try to come to an
the Earth. We know that these are only the several tongues of flame

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture I
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turned from the earth out into the heavenly expanse. Such a
earthly lives.
thought to the conception of a spiritual origin of the Earth.
thought will carry him back over the earth's history to the
hovering as it were over the earthly world. Darwinism, if
incarnation of the planet Earth. [The reference here is to
over the earth had nothing to do with men's understanding
What was it that happened at the moment in the earth's evolution

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture II
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understanding for everything that is human on the earth.
into the past, that his normal earthly consciousness completely
earth. And one feels, as it were in aftermath, that deeply
connected with life on the earth. And when the physical
shining. The spectacle of the earth around us is quite
of seership contemplates that moment in the earth's evolution
earth's evolution, a purely natural event, one that has also
times, has its symbol in the moon, as for earthly sight
the sun of humanity in earthly evolution, engraved into the
experience of being shaken through and through by an earthquake
darkening of the sun and the earthquake, for certain
eclipses and earthquakes, and even fire-damp in mines. That
earthquake followed upon the eclipse of the sun. It shook the
covering it was wrenched away; a fissure was rent in the earth
Jesus had been received into the earth. The stone, however,
Golgotha. Darkness breaks in upon the earth. The corpse of
corpse is received into the earth. The fissure caused by the
earth in such signs a happening like an eclipse of the sun and
an earthquake ... then I could only answer: You believe in all
of the earth at that time and the subsequent earthquake.
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture III
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reached a point where we must speak about Christ's earthly
approach this greatest of all Earth-mysteries. If we want to
the Jordan. In respect of the earthly life of Christ, the Fifth
as the earthly birth — that is to say, the death of Jesus
is to be understood as the earthly birth of the Christ. His
earthly life in the real sense lies after the Mystery of
Christ in the Earth-sphere after the Ascension or after
prepare for the next earthly life. After his death, therefore,
was His entry into the sphere of the earth. And instead of
Christ Being was that He made the earth His heaven, sought His
heaven upon the earth. The human being leaves the earth in
exchange this, His dwelling-place, for the earth. I beg you, my
together with the earth and with men on the earth, He
might lead them onwards, lead evolution on the earth to further
the Christ Being did not belong to the earthly sphere. From
worlds beyond the earth, from super-earthly spheres He had come
down to the earth. And the experiences between the Baptism in
earthly Being. Infinite depths have been expressed when it is
Being has been together with human souls on the earth; before
then He was not together with human souls on the earth!
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture IV
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life, more deeply than any man living on the earth hitherto.
human being on the earth had ever gazed with such deep
was any other being on the earth as ready as he to face the
equality among men, by his disregard of earthly goods and the

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture V
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earth, for the old Jews have passed away; the ancient
revelation is worthless on the earth as it is now. With strange
unique Being was now living upon the Earth: the Christ Being
human body, had had no earthly life, had dwelt only in
the world of Earth! Of the earthly world this Being knew only
thirty years. He therefore passed through His first earthly
just come down to the Earth. To begin with, He was drawn to the
Lucifer is, knew how souls on earth must act if they desire to
man must find on earth if he is to stand firm against Lucifer
could indeed be known on earth but that the God who had for the
first time come to earth could not yet know. He did not know
that men on the earth below must nourish themselves by means of
then there dawned in Him ... it was the earthly experience of
prepared the path from the Spirit to the Earth but how men can
find the path leading upwards from the Earth to the Spirit. And
reversed: “Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in
but only on the earth, Ahriman had gained sufficient power. As
most terrible deed wrought on earth — only where Judas
to have come down to the Earth as a Spiritual Being and then,

Title: Eternal Soul of Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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earthly life, but would constantly dream. Then we would fill
ourselves during our conscious life on earth with all the ideas
in our earthly life, could we not perhaps also, through further
something that was never in earthly life, to something that is
importance as the earthly human being — and it actually
has the I-sense — this is the human being as earth man,
a powerful tableau, an overview of our previous life on earth,
on earth. This is the first supernatural experience that the
human being can have, his own earth lives suddenly appearing
previous earth life. And if we compare what we see overall,
life on earth does not behave like an ordinary recollection,
but represents an overall Imagination of a previous earth life.
space-body ever since we have been on earth as human beings.
significance as an earthly human being; knows that it is
has the I-sensations as earthly man.
self-knowledge of the earthly human being. The higher level
soul being, what he was before he descended to this earthly
others before an earthly garment, if I may call it so, was
life on earth is. It is formed from that existence that he had
through conception — and the descent to this earthly
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Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture I: Cosmic Forces in Man
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There will be no peace on the Earth until a certain harmony is
Modern thought studies everything in the universe beyond the Earth in
our Earth is placed like a wheel. Fantastic notions are evolved about
gradually come to feel himself living on Earth just as a mole might
feel in his mound during the winter. There is an idea that the Earth
the beings of the three kingdoms of Nature on Earth.
animal kingdoms. In our age, people speak of what is beyond the Earth
Earthly existence has finally come to be regarded as confined within
of man's being belong to the universe beyond the Earth and if he loses
wanders over the Earth without knowing what kind of being he really
the universe beyond the Earth, and this universe is considered to be
and to live on the Earth divested of soul and spirit.
into material, physical existence on the Earth. And so we really have
only to the Earth — which is conceived as a little mole-hill
here on Earth he can only gaze upwards from below. And the living
knowledge of man's relationship to the universe beyond the Earth. It
Earth at the vernal equinox from the constellation of Aries, the solar
Earth are modified by the influences proceeding from the region in the
indeed, that during earthly life man can unfold a certain faculty of
The other four constellations lie beneath the Earth; their forces work
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Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture II: The Soul Life of Man ...
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Earth. So that we can say: The fixed stars — for the Zodiac is
shape from the fixed stars, not from anything earthly; and its stages
tapestry of sense-perceptions. But in his earthly consciousness, man
death. In his earthly development, however, man is so constituted that
Angel who is connected with our own life, just as here in the earthly
Now even in the earthly world, in the world of sense, if a man is
death and a new birth. Even during earthly life we are connected with
receives from their realms the impulse to descend to the Earth once
estranged from earthly existence, he has been growing more and more
of Existence has passed, man begins gradually to long for earthly life
Earth, to make proper use of his body; a man who has not brought such
earthly life which remains more unconscious. A very great deal depends
mother-tongue — the man descends in his forthcoming earthly
destined for the language that will be his in the coming earthly life.
He who before his earthly life, during his second passage through the
during the descent to his next earthly life, he will arrive on the
Earth loving his language merely out of instinct and lower impulses.
realm of the Angels, is very important. All over the Earth to-day the
Science must assume that in former earthly lives many men became more
former earthly life they had little human love or idealism. Already in
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Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture III: The Mission of the Scandanavian Peoples
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when we observe how in his physical life on Earth, man can achieve
be taken into consideration.. For life here on the Earth is in truth a
can only be of real use when earthly life, too is presented to the
little use. Life on the Earth is many-sided, full of variety. If, for
life is differentiated in the various regions of the Earth, or how its
the different regions of the Earth.
your earthly dwelling-place. There is something about it that presents
which man brings to expression in his life on the physical Earth comes
people, for the human being does not grow out of the Earth but is born
on the Earth, he comes down from world of soul-and-spirit and there is
birth. We must study how we can apply in this earthly life what we
what man is and has become through many earthly lives, when we have
understand what comes to pass on Earth. In the external national
Earth. The task sprang out of the character of the people who inhabit
mission not only here on Earth; he has a mission also in the spiritual
death takes shape here, on the Earth.
consequence of our Earth-evolution. What we experience on the Earth
to study the mission of the Norwegian people not only on the Earth but
regard to the secrets of Nature here on the Earth. For in the
spiritual world, souls must be taught about the secrets of the Earth,
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Title: Colour: Part Three: Colours as Revelations of the Psychic in the World
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lifeless substances of the earth live plants. Life itself we do not
lifeless image of the life that exists on earth.

Title: Question/Economic Life: Lecture: The Central Question of Economic Life
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capabilities which man brings with him to the earth from
structuring of the associations not indeed an earthly paradise,

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture I: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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earthly life since our birth. Through memory, the picture of
if we look back ten years into our past earthly existence, we
the ordinary events of earthly life when we return into the

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture II: Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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the element of the earth. In that case they are only able to
stream of heredity here on earth. We can survey the
into an earthly existence; it is the world which contains the
closely related with our physical life on earth are those which
not know our own inner being during our physical life on earth.
Our physical life on earth is something which darkens our
earthly life, not the closest, nearest things, but we first
leading us back to a past life on earth.
pre-existent condition is limited by a past earthly life which
earth, for this knowledge is gained through cognition, it is a
earth.
also takes in forces during the course of earthly existence
when that person was still living on the earth.
on earth, as it gradually matures for a higher state of
can therefore say: During our earthly life, we gradually change
which animated us during our earthly life from birth to death.
tableau of his past earthly life up to the present moment, but
he surveys everything pertaining to his physical earthly
present moment upon his whole earthly life, as far as
past earthly life in a kind of thought-web, but consisting of
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Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture III: World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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here on earth. To this loneliness we owe the maintenance of the
given over to the elements of the earth and that the etheric
which we have passed, into our last earthly life. Just because
we have before us this last earthly life as a firm resistance
though it is somewhat different from spiritual vision on earth,
connected by destiny, or otherwise, in this earthly life
whom we left behind still live on the earth, where the
is that we now learn to know man's relationship with the earth,
earth.
there one can see that during his earthly life man constantly
could not exist if they did not dissolve mineral, earthly
slowly glimmered and shone throughout your whole earthly life,
acquires the memory of his physical lives on earth. The
mirroring element, our physical life on earth, even though we
live in the spiritual world and do not descend to the earth,
world, for instance, the mineral life on earth, we understand
why there should be mineral, earthly laws. They exist so that
bound up with the earth. But in perceiving how the Beings who
have bound their thinking with the earth emerge from that which
his true being lifts himself above the merely earthly. This is
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Title: Lecture I: Man in the Light of Occultism
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the earth, have to be discovered and developed.
implanted into him during Earth evolution. Without egoism he could not
fulfil his task on Earth, for his task on Earth consists in evolving
spiritualise egoism. At the end of Earth evolution man will be
of the earth and at various times in man's history. Occultism is a
that exist on the Earth lie in the manner of thought used to clothe
foremost with the spread over the whole earth of the great and
A great work for peace on earth would be accomplished if unity and
much understanding as the other and to establish over the whole earth
other — “is a Being who was never on earth before the time

Title: Lecture III: Man in the Light of Occultism
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compass of Earth life, nor are they subject to Earthly laws. At the
developed in us by forces that do belong entirely to the Earth.
development, the forces of the Earth worked upon him. Gradually,
that at the beginning of Earth evolution all these organs were totally
different. During Earth evolution the forces of the Earth have worked
and the sense organs owe to the forces of the Earth. The activity we
contributed by the forces of the Earth. The ordinary human being who
the forces of the Earth.
the flowing spiritual light, has not its source in Earthly conditions
Earth became Earth. You will remember that before the Earth became
Earth, it passed through conditions known as Moon, Sun and Saturn. The
states of the Earth. But everything that sets us free from the working
Moon; it comes to us from pre-Earthly times of evolution and is
nowhere to be found within the whole circumference of Earth existence.
Earthly conditions and that accordingly hold good for Earthly
the forces of the Earth, be able to explain the whole brain,
the Earth. The forces that are active in man when he is not using his
by what the Earth with her forces has made of the brain and senses.
pre-Earthly forces, forces that come from the Saturn, Sun and Moon
Earthly forces. They are a dim and weak reflection of pre-Earthly
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Title: Lecture IV: Man in the Light of Occultism
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Divine Ground of the Worlds as outside the Earth consciousness within
Worlds, This has naturally always meant that since with ordinary Earth
within his own consciousness, in so far as it is the Earth
to discover by means of their Earth consciousness.
Divine, not with their Earth consciousness but with a consciousness
that has gone beyond the Earth consciousness.
Earth, surveying with his consciousness the things of Earth, and
necessary for the men who were on Earth at that time.
who stands here on the Earth and establishes a relationship with a God
ego-consciousness, he remains conscious as man. Here on Earth works
becomes a mystic, then everything connected with ordinary Earth
come right out of ordinary human Earth consciousness, to transcend it.
all of them this end in view, to do away with the limitations of Earth
with human Earth consciousness shut off, then because he still
Praised be my Lord for our mother the earth, the
brother, and the Earth herself his mother. This is how he feels the
again and again, to the personal element on Earth, and anyone who
perform any ordinary Earth activity. He can, therefore, only occupy
stands fast in earth life, — Hegel has it only as a thought. Of
who shut out all three,—Earth-consciousness, heart experiences,
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Title: Lecture V: Man in the Light of Occultism
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holds his life together on the earth. If you study your life, you will
to do with your continued existence on this earth. Natural science can
throughout the course of earthly life. And yet, if we stop to think it
earthly life. This is the fundamental feeling men have about the I or
earthly life; but do we really know this ego? Could we give any
something of an earthly reality that is not given from without.
long ago, that he might unhinge the Earth. One thing we can discover
earthly experience, do you see nothing at all of which you can say
experiences of man on Earth. Any expression of what corresponds to the
since from out the whole range of our earthly experiences we gather
earthly objects. It is exceedingly important to arrive at a perception
what comes to him from without goes to make up his Earth
in it that leads him out beyond Earth consciousness.
out beyond all Earth consciousness? Yes, it is possible. Let us look
wide world of Earth life? They are, as we have seen, only present when
lives his life on Earth together with his environment.
withdraw themselves, retain nothing of the experiences of Earth. No,
man, which says to him: “It is Earth life that has made you as
fact that man is a being who stands and walks upon the earth. All the
the earth. So that we may say, in the hips we have, as seventh member,
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Title: Lecture VI: Man in the Light of Occultism
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earthly life, is but a semblance — in that moment we can also
the whole of earth life) is withdrawn; and the Divine Powers have so
not vertically upright but parallel with the surface of the earth.
have him before you, parallel with the surface of the earth, his back
and leg and foot require the support of the earth. The thigh, it is
all because man has to stand firm and upright on the earth. In the
to help him move about on the earth. The world might be so ordered
man on earth. When we consider how man has a sense contact with the
how in this sevenfold man the earth process becomes conscious for man.
as he is earth man.
man is a creature that moves about on earth and can direct his motion
the earth process and on the other hand with the continued evolution
of earth man, with the sequence of the generations and the reciprocity
earth nature and four others that serve especially man's own inner
a creature who moves about on the earth. Everything else required for
man has to place upon the earth the broad sole of his foot, so
the earth. And now since what we call the leg belongs to and
assume another form. If man is to be able to walk on the earth, not
world is expressed in the fact that he re-forms the earth world to a

Title: Lecture VII: Man in the Light of Occultism
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of his ordinary Earth consciousness and attains a consciousness of a
round with you as thinking Earth man — impressions from
give us information of Earth life, are principally situated in the
A little reflection will quickly show you that man as Earth man cannot
another; and for man to stand before us as Earth man, the head must
Can we see, in ordinary Earth man, any result of this difference? The
adapted to Earth conditions. He has to breathe the air of the Earth,
Earth. From this point of view the middle man and the Earth belong
not present in his Earthly surroundings, then this middle man could
man as part and parcel of what Earth existence gives to us, we must
reckon him as belonging definitely to our existence here on Earth.
Earth can give to man. The Earth could be there for a long
to the help of the Earth and cause to flourish and ripen upon it what
dependent on the working of the Sun upon the Earth. Whatever man
Earthly environment. This means, in effect, that when we study the
the Earth upon man but also of an indirect influence of the Sun. Were
it not for the physical sunlight that illumines the Earth, the middle
Earth.
directs his gaze to some object of Earth, he looks at it — it is,
the external Earth. External, everyday consciousness perceives what
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Title: Lecture VIII: Man in the Light of Occultism
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already present there when Earth evolution began, but throughout our
incarnations upon Earth spiritual beings and forces have contributed
starting-point, has no continuance outside Earth existence. It is
bound up with Earth existence. Whoever wants to go beyond Earth
Earth; it must go to pieces — it does so before his eyes —
the moment he passes beyond Earth existence, and show itself as death.
only so can he know in all certainty that in the Earth body it is
Earth body. But the pupil in occultism must inevitably come at this
bound to the Earth. Then Lucifer directs him to something else in him
of the influence of Lucifer in Earth evolution. We perceive also that
this Earth evolution has under the influence of Lucifer given to man
rather is man debased to the animal stage that exists on the Earth in
life on Earth. This memory must stay with him like a thought out of
Earth life, and intermingle in the meeting with death and Lucifer It
streams over from Earth life, and is suddenly there, this memory, this
I” thought is like a dream that he has had in the Earth world and
picture from here on Earth to the Beyond, but in the course of the
Earth. That is what helps! In present-day conditions of Earth
man has had with the Christ Impulse during his life on Earth, and in
one and only sure support that he can take over with him from Earth
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Title: Lecture IX: Man in the Light of Occultism
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ordinary life on Earth the memory of the I or of the thought of the I.
if within the Earth world he has been able to receive the Christ
cannot speak of Him as of a person who underwent initiation on Earth,
He worked during the three years of His sojourn on Earth. This means
have become through him during Earth evolution It is important that
compensation for what man has lost on the Earth, and this gift of
that does not ray back sunlight on to the Earth. The physical sunlight
came to Earth, though Earth has, it is true, changed them very much.
I, the self-consciousness of Earth — into the super-sensible world
Earth in the life he lives as Buddha. When he has become a Buddha, he
never returns again into an earthly body, but works in other than
earthly worlds. This must be quite clear to us from the beginning. We
into a physical earthly human being. Those of you who have followed my
Mention was thus made of the Buddha sending down forces to Earth. In
that since his life as Buddha he has lived no more on Earth. An
further the path of Buddha. It is, of course, now no Earth life that
for him to appear again in Earth life, he has been given a new
beings on Mars who correspond to men on Earth — they are of
were in a similar condition of need as were the Earth men in the
mission for the Christ in regard to Earth humanity, so is it a further
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Title: Lecture X: Man in the Light of Occultism
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Event, — that He walked the Earth, was crucified and overcame
Lucifer. This opened the way for a consideration of the post-Earthly
Earth is not in some way attainable by external consciousness —
consciousness of Earth to make such research into the conditions of
and returns no more to physical existence on Earth. We have thus
senses, all the objects of Earth existence. What can we experience by
in the part where the Moon is spoken of, that condition of Earth which
preceded our present Earth. This old Moon condition is no longer in
Earth is in the higher worlds. It is present in the higher worlds,
victory over Lucifer. On Earth Christ repels Lucifer from the outset.
Already on old Moon Lucifer approached Christ. On Earth he was no
longer dangerous to Him: on Earth Christ repels Lucifer at once. On
facts that have meaning for Earth, such as the history of Buddha, we
Science, we learn of the still earlier incarnation of our Earth,
glow and brilliance we can ever experience on Earth in looking upon a
appear on Earth in the Form we have often described. Through His
described of the successive incarnations of our Earth, can be
man on Earth of these further states of consciousness, but he does
Earth. Hence you will find that in occult communications most of the
descriptions, apart from those concerned with the Earth itself, refer
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture I: On the Nature and Destiny of Man and World
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man's being, within the realm of earth-life, is connected not
consciousness while participating in earth-life, but is
Doubtless external earthly culture, external earthly
spend one third of our earthly existence in the sleeping
we look back on our earth-life, we always join day to day; we
worlds to our earth-life. And we take into account only what is
given us by earthly experiences. Yet, if we desire to attain
one's earthly existence. Moreover, one goes back even beyond
one's earthly existence: to pre-earthly life; to that world
the heavenly realms to earth. Hence, if we fall asleep, for
preceded our descent to earth; and also to that time
time, to the starting-point of our earth-life.
our pre-earthly existence.
share in our earthly evolution. They remain behind; they stop
earth-life.
Fundamentally, we live our earth-life only with the physical
this person entered earth-life with the moment
still forms the link between his very first appearance on earth
starting-point of our earth-life. Our physical body reaches,
something that has not accompanied us into earth-life. This
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture II: Life between Death and a New Incarnation
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he has consciously undergone during his earth-life
between birth and death. But whereas earth-life, as experienced
unconsciously during earth-life while asleep. This stage
recapitulates his earth-life in a period of one third of
with his own earthly affairs. He is thoroughly interwoven with
nights of his earthly life.
earth-life that surges up from the sleeping state. These dreams
looking down from the soul world on the earthly
earth. Hence anyone willing to try may perceive, if he
participate intensively in earthly events by those of
others, remain connected with all these earthly interests; are
still interested in earthly events. And, being no longer
hindered by the physical body, they judge earthly events much
lucidity concerning earthly events.
certain things existing within earthly relations will be
communicate with the dead, it is even possible to use earthly
means of a medium, in ordinary earthly language. The
reflected, as much as earthly men are capable of doing,
earth-life, as has been described, until we arrive again
Here on earth we carry a body made of bones, muscles,
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture III: Our Experiences at Night, Life after Death
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earth-life.
the date reached in the course of our earthly existence (as was
state before our childhood, before our arrival on earth. Hence,
order to become earth men.
earthly existence. At first, we take part in the general
during our entire earth life. While asleep, we are
envisage man's evolution on earth. Mankind's evolution on earth
Mystery of Golgotha had occurred on earth. This must be
spirit descended to earth and was clothed in a physical body.
look upward into a pre-earthly existence.
every period of sleep carries us back into pre-earthly
they had been together, in their pre-earthly existence, with
into pre-earthly existence; darkens his conscious memory of the
exalted Sun-spirit, Christ, descended to earth, became a human
earth-life and death, and, after death, still taught His
when the earth shall perish from heat? Then, also,
earth. And it would be the moral world order which would give
by the moon forces into earthly existence and is beset by a
sort of longing for earthly existence, so is he beset by the
While we get accustomed to earth-life after our birth, we live
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture IV: Man's Being, His Destiny and World Evolution - 1
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salt-like particles takes place. Earthy, salt-like, ash-like
our moral behavior during previous earth-lives. What lives in
earth-life.
earth-lives, however, do not show their effect inside our
nonetheless striving for the attainment of our earthly
earth-life. For not all of human life is composed of such
by us heretofore on earth, without seeing emerge, in a strange,
previous earth-lives.
karma that will be realized in our next earth-life is being
earth-life.
conduct during the present earth-life is preparing your karma.
earth-life can, in the most manifold ways, be brought forth
during the next earth-life.
earth-lives, he must incorporate into himself, and that which
brought by man from former earth-lives into his present one
the present earth-life most of what had been destined to be
garnered from previous earth-lives. And if someone has a
sense, gathers from previous earth-lives whatever his wisdom
earthly realm, they are able to foresee who their parents are
various situations belonging to previous earth-lives.
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture V: Man's Being, His Destiny and World Evolution - 2
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recent days. Our souls undergo repeated earth-lives that are
on earth.
new configuration of the earth's continents, we come to what I
earth-elements, a liberation of spirit and soul. By
relationship to the earth, to all that would belong to earth
earth-forces. For ancient man passed slowly and gradually
sheath or shell which, even though becoming earth-like, was yet
This gradual becoming similar to the earth taught ancient man
turning to earth. A rock-crystal called forth in him other
earthly. Instead, the aging physical body exerted a different
the earth, so the primeval Persian felt that the body, by
to the earth. And, five or six millennia before the Mystery of
connection of his body with the earth, as the primeval
seasons, the earth. He felt himself firmly entrenched
which he had already lived during his earth-life. Death at that
which was pre-earthly; through it I passed with my soul and
man, in his pre-earthly existence, was united with the spirit
of the sun, just as in earth-life his body is united with the
earth. You, however, dwelt in your pre-earthly existence,
before descending to earth, within spiritual worlds in
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture VI: Man's Being, His Destiny and World Evolution - 3
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earthly development.
Christ could be seen only in pre-earthly existence. This
earth. While we were His contemporaries, we experienced
Him not only in our memory going back to a pre-earthly
existence, but here on earth itself.” And Paul answered
the Christ can be seen only in pre-earthly
lives now in connection with the earth. Then he, Paul, coined
descending to earth.” Now they had to say: “the
Christ is on earth.” Physically,
Christ was on earth during the Mystery of Golgotha.
remained united with all men on earth.
Then people believed that the earth would become more
grapes grow ten times larger and let the earth overflow with
more necessary for us to find the spiritual within the earthly
worlds are descended to the earth.” They are
the earthly element. But this transformation of the physical
body into the earthly element, this perception of the earth by
different way, our earth. Just as man possesses a soul element,
so does the earth possess a soul element. In the course of one
year, the earth first breathes in, and then breathes out her
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Christiania, 10-5-'13
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circle. Flowers shoot out of the earth for him and disappear

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Oslo, 10-6-'13
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activity on earth that could lead to something good if they would
also want to rule on earth with their ego-consciousness. We know that
man attains his ego-consciousness on earth, the angels attain it in
man is there. Likewise what one sees of a man on earth is only his

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-16-10
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four elements fire, water, air, and earth. Things are different with

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-18-10
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Christ-etheric aura, which is now our earth's aura. If we would

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-20-10
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You connected yourself with the earth's first beginnings and the
who've placed their thoughts in the earth and also with that
being who placed the force in the earth which in its totality is the

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-7-12
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withering, for we are past the middle of earth evolution, and

Title: Lecture III: WORLD-PENTECOST: The Message of Anthroposophy
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into a physical body on the earth they had lived in the spiritual
earth-existence. Men's consciousness of death, too, was different,
pre-earthly existence as beings of soul-and-spirit, they knew that the
part of them that had lived before this earthly life would also live
power to know concerning their pre-earthly life. Thereby they came to
realise that before their earthly existence they had lived among stars
and among spiritual Beings, just as on earth they were living among
earth.” He knew, too, that the stars are not merely physical,
connected before descending to the earth. He knew also that on laying
to the earth the sublime Sun-Being gives them the power whereby they
birth, into earthly existence.”
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
vain on the earth; you must be lifted to the secrets of the sun. For
only outside and beyond the earth will you find the mysteries
the realm of the Christ whence they had descended to the earth. But
instinctive remembrance of pre-earthly, spiritual life was gradually
only a very few in whom any instinctive remembrance of pre-earthly
the other side. From the earth we see the sun in the way to which we
them the realisation: “Before I came to the earth, I beheld the
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture VII
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enunciation of earthly knowledge, religious rituals imaged forth what
earth-thoughts are actually corpses of our pre-earthly soul-life. And
earthly prison, the naked soul shrinks from being released into cosmic
memory of his own pre-earthly existence. Modern man's consciousness
earth. If we do not dress abstractly, we dress without taste. In our
into space with the unconscious memories of pre-earthly life, then you
are dead earth-substances thoroughly enlivened. In the plant are iron,
carbon, silicic acid, all kinds of earth-substances found, also, in
That color is the dead image of life ruling on earth. Green is thus
sun-implanted blood system upon the earth-given nervous system. The
this point man feels that here on earth he does not fulfil what lies
on earth do less then justice to the mobile archetype of man. To present

Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture VIII
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the human race, here on earth, was very different from today, being
will-endowment as rising up out of the earth. The gods of the depths
might look upon earth events, upon the deeds of Achilles, Agamemnon,
It was what the goddess had to say about the earthly-human element when
goddess, the redemption of sinful man as fulfilled here on earth by
had descended into him in order to judge earthly conditions. The ancient
Materialism had to happen. We must not look down mockingly on earthly

Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture I
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understanding Christ and his appearance on earth. For
from the earth to the vastness of the heavens, as a result
teaching of repeated earth lives, as you can read in my
earth.
earth where it becomes clear that man never evolved from
spiritual being hovering over the earth. A logical
of foodstuffs. The spread of Christianity over the earth
earth, which is presented as the Holy Spirit descending

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human on earth. They could also express themselves so that
to a kind of darkening of the earth. And one feels, as in
life on the earth. And how when the physical glow is
night. The appearance of the earth around us is quite
when directed towards the moment in earthly evolution which
the earth's evolution – as it has of course
the sign of the moon, which from the viewpoint of the earth
earth's evolution written in an awesome sign of the
thoroughly shaken by an earthquake which went through the
relation between that solar eclipse and the earthquake will
indicate a relation between solar eclipses and earthquakes
and even firedamps in mines. That earthquake was a
consequence of the solar eclipse. That earthquake shook the
tomb was empty, for the earth had received Jesus'
Darkness suddenly covers the earth. Jesus' body is
laid in the tomb. An earthquake opens the earth's
crust and Jesus' body is received by the earth. The
divine powers do not write about what happens on the earth
earthquake, I can only reply: All respect to your belief
the raised cross on Golgotha, the darkening of the earth
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Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture III
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point where we must speak of the earthly life of Christ in
earthly secrets by using many of the concepts and ideas
the Fifth Gospel, in relation to the earthly life of
understand the Mystery of Golgotha itself as an earthly
birth — that is, the death of Jesus as the earthly
birth of Christ. And we must look for his actual earth-life
upon human death. And the life of Christ in the earthly
world in order to prepare for the next life on earth. The
earth-sphere — what for the human being is the
the Christ-Being made the sacrifice to seek the earth as
his heaven. The human being leaves the earth in order —
change his place of residence to earth.
earth and the human beings on the earth and to consolidate
the impulse he gave for further human evolution on earth.
did not belong to the earthly sphere. He descended from the
over-earthly sphere to the earthly sphere. And what was
Christ into the earthly being of Christ.
is with human souls on the earth; previously he had not
been with human souls on the earth. What the Christ-Being
residence in the earthly sphere. That happened so the
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a Carob tree rise from the earth and replant itself a
earthly being, because no one previously had been able to
no other person on the earth had so deeply observed this
disregard for earthly possessions and so forth, that he was
men on earth must be like the Essenes. But that cannot be.

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the earth: the Christ-Being in a human body, a Being who
earth, who knew the spiritual worlds, but not the earth!
That Being only knew of the earth what was stored in the
first earthly experiences.
Christ-Being had come to the earth. At first he was drawn
to be tempted on earth by him. He knew nothing of Luciferic
on earth to raise himself above Lucifer and Ahriman.
what one could know on the earth; which, however, the god
who had just stepped upon the earth for the first time
then the god's mission on earth struck him: I am not
earth, but how mankind can find the way from the earth up
is on earth.”
spiritual world, but only on earth. He would have to

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Apocalypse certain events in the evolution of the earth and humanity,
then went on to include earthquakes, swarms of locusts, and so forth,
that he had died and yet still lived, now united with earthly existence

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the physical earth and beyond to spiritual realities. Present-day science
limits itself to the three kingdoms that do not go beyond the earth.
beyond the earth, even up to the region of the stars.
the evolution of the earth through the planetary states. These teachings

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only became a real earthly human being through a process of hardening.
the earth below. The bull people at that time had developed their digestive
of the earth that have developed this egotism to the greatest extent.
on the surface of the earth because a connection exists between the
earth's productive powers. The Nordic myth of the Twilight of the Gods
the earth will become devastated and only the soul will remain alive,

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the earth's fields should be like a cultivation of the physical body
the great Zarathustra admonished the people to work with the earth but
must descend into various incarnations on the earth where they live
their lives in physical, sensible bodies. Every life on earth is followed
life on earth. During the ancient Indian age human beings were still
on earth than a king in the kingdom of shadows.”
longer and they would be captured, united with the gravity of earth.
the earth, human beings are to learn not to disdain the earth like the
ascetics, but to recognize that this earth has something to give them.
principle of Christ, all the fruits of earthly existence can be carried
we are to learn in the fourth post-Atlantean epoch how the earthly-physical
the development of the earth, which is given to us by the “masters

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human beings came to full consciousness of their earthly I, when they
anchored on the earth. Only gradually did the feeling arise that the
had been in a position to observe the earth through millennia then,
it would have appeared that the entire aura of the earth suddenly changed
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
the earth as the expression of Christ.
upon the earth when the victors will be those who lead the war of all
culture, will be perceptible on the earth in the seventh age. But these
touching the earth, while humanity then will be able to master what
the entire culture of earth has to offer. The seventh age will be such
that here below on the earth, people living in increasingly dense and
have to fear much from Theosophy, for on earth there will no longer be

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When we speak of the earth we mean, of course, all of the spiritual
beings that belong to it. At the beginning of our evolution the earth
science speaks of a large ancient earth, from which the other heavenly
body called Saturn that reached far out beyond the present earth and
our earth evolution.
when the earth had shed old Saturn but the sun, moon, and earth remained
sun came forth at that time from within the earth. Everything came from
within outward. Only after the sun had separated from the earth did
the Lemurian age, when the moon leaves the earth and the beings of the
moon work into the earth from outside it. It would be impossible to
think of the carpet of vegetation covering the earth without the forces
had remained within the earth, then the earth would have become so rigid
because the moon was separated from the earth could the earth be placed
between the sun and the moon. Otherwise the earth, solely under the
is already outside the earth.
on a grand scale during the evolution of the earth (old Saturn, old
the warmth body of the earth; and we see how the ancient Indians felt
airlike bodies. The sun had separated from the earth and now worked from
had been when the sun had not yet separated from the earth. At that
united with the earth, they came to the point of having an airlike body;
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walked on the earth bearing such a copy within themselves. Columba,

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Only then could human beings become the creatures of air and earth that
9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. \
9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: \
9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. \
9:17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. \
for the beings on the earth to pass through their stages of evolution

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from the earth; once again he shows himself with a sword in the battle
most beautiful age of the kingdom of earth. But for the souls themselves
forces of the earth during a certain age. Then, according to good and
evil, earthquakes and earth tremors will appear as the effects of human
was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth ...”
culture, as it were: on water and on earth. But humankind must take

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earth's enduring great tremors and earthquakes as the result of
to work with magic from the periphery of the earth out of the realm of
will look down upon the earth itself as it becomes increasingly material;
In the Lemurian age the earth still existed entirely within the element
separated from the earth. The human being, together with the earth,
will have advanced to the time when the sun again unites with the earth.
The earth will pass over into what is called an astral state. Human
of the earth and then be united with the sun. The portion of the earth
12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. \
12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. \
12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. \
12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. \
12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. \
13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. \
the earth from the event of Golgotha onward. After working on the earth
from the sun in earlier times, he has united with the planet earth.
the useful part of earthly humanity, uniting it with the sun again.

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seen that the earth will again be spiritualized, that human beings can
in this spiritual earth. First, everything must pass over into an astral
into a state of the earth united again with the sun.
through their human state on every incarnation of the earth: the angels
earth. They were higher than the human being but, at that time, had
evolution with the earth and remained behind.
occurred before the middle of the earth's evolution. Those beings
earth's evolution, merely represent a hindrance, not a sacrifice.
again united with the earth, then human beings — through the fact
snake and it emerges as the first dragon. Therefore, when the earth
12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. \
12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. \
12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. \
12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. \
12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. \
13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. \
earth emerges from the sun yet again in the future. If the spiritual
these backward souls. When the earth began its existence as
“earth”
became the present-day earth. Now, when actual earth conditions prevail,
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worked on human beings in a special way. The whole epoch of earth evolution
of our earth evolution, manas is gradually being formed and slipped
angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, saying, ‘Do
not harn the earth or the sea or the trees, till we have sealed the
(7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earthRev. 7:2–5)
in the sixth age. In this sixth age the earth will have repeated the
Saturn, Sun, and Moon stages, as well as the earth condition itself and
Jupiter-Earth. On Venus-Earth the earth will finally have the five rounds
themselves to be immature in the age of Venus-Earth, who have placed
on a special sphere of earth while the other seven proceed downward
the earth will be spiritualized in the New Jerusalem. There will be
the plan for the evolution of the earth that Theosophy exists. Therefore,
at various locations on the earth, great individualities are at work

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