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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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to say something about anthroposophical Spiritual Science. [This
bring before you anything in the nature of convincing proof; all that
to proceed hand-in-hand with everything that can be learnt from
to overstep these boundaries. But nothing that the intellect or the
themselves to mere belief but who want to have knowledge of things
things which he regards as revelations from higher worlds, whereas to
nothing else than stimuli received during childhood, appearing in a
development. This kind of investigation into the things of the Spirit
does not take its start from anything that is nebulous or mystical;
If anything from our store of ordinary memories were to be brought up
their effect during the exercises. Nothing whatever must be allowed
complete survey must be maintained and everything must be subject to
been given to us — they enter the consciousness as something
but enters the soul as something quite new. The point of importance
is not that we acquire anything from the actual content of the
will be no danger of succumbing to anything in the nature of
everything teems, is saturated, has great intensity; our whole being
have at first nothing either before us or within us that amounts to
consists in the exercising of thought, something that is now plastic
in the child — we feel that this is something super-sensible,
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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necessarily contain something that is as yet rather remote from
is necessary, in order to accept the things that are to be said,
view regarding something which we otherwise rightly consider great,
a nation? At most it is something that passes as an attribute, a
this land, something real lives there as well, which would coincide
take something neutral — what does modern man understand by the
not correspond to anything that might be recognized with eyes or
other organs of perception. The first thing to be done, must be
living in the mountains of Switzerland. It is something quite
transform the astral, so that it will become something different from
the future, the ‘ I ’ will make something new.
members, there lies something else. We know that we must think of the
There is still something else to note, in speaking of
do nothing beyond moving freely about here and there in his astral
thing, and that leads to a division of what we have to-day called the
activity of people after people something else takes place in human
But in everything which evolves in and with the peoples
there is something else that evolves also. Human evolution
valuation of things is a matter of indifference; the necessary course
find something more which extends beyond the Folk-spirits, something
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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but that this is something belonging to clairvoyant consciousness.
out something which is to a certain extent visible externally, a kind
consciousness. Now where does clairvoyant research find something
country and other things determine the characteristics and
be wondered at that one whose consciousness is limited to the things
they have something which continues throughout long ages. But in
particular part of the earth there is something which can be altered,
its depths, holds good in the widest sense; everything seen outside
into the temperaments is not to them the essential thing for their
temperaments of man, is something they do besides their calling.
Folk-spirit. That is important. But the essential thing is that we
co-operative work arises something else in addition. Clairvoyant
The first and chief thing brought about by this contact
that if at a certain time something appears as a result of the
activity of the Zeitgeist, something which manifests itself in the
would have become of many physical things in modern times, if this
something that takes place in the physical world. This is not merely
something which could take place in no other way. But there are other
credible and clear; one has to express everything in words which can
several personalities of the people. Each one feels something

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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there is no such thing as the so-called world of impressions, or what
to this by anything external.
these perceptions, it is never possible for him to touch a thing and
expressed in words, ‘Something is now approaching me from a
everything which you have received by means of external perceptions,
part of it exists for the Folk-spirits?’ Everything you
things which man experiences in common with the Archangels. We can
perceive quite clearly that such things come into the human
yet something real, and that is, the beings belonging to the animal,
around which again is gathered something that appears as a sort of
takes hold of a thing with his hand, he feels it to be either warm or
cold. The Archangel experiences something similar when he meets with
something which a man feels as happening from within him. Now the
Archangel feels, it is true, that everything is happening within him,
something foreign to him, as something about which he has the feeling
that it is independent of him, with which therefore he has nothing
a human being it is, however, something very real. A man feels keenly
the people, is something which floats above the separate individual
human beings. The personal things which a man experiences because he
ordinary course of things.
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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would far prefer everything to go on with a certain regularity, and
appearance, quite a different form. Everything would have happened
things determine his racial character, and in this indirect way the
race we see something which was originally connected with one special
mankind. If one thinks of it as if everything moves round a fixed
really no idea that everything is in a state of evolution, and that
One who observes objectively may see from many things
by a fixed law. But people are not inclined to look at things
arrive at nothing; for to speak against it means to put hindrances in
humanity which is to receive something from the East. That is deeply

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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of the North. Now the first thing he will say of it is: ‘Here
substance.’ But one who penetrates into the nature of things,
sees something quite different in this stony substance. What is that
is nothing but illusion. What really is there is a balance of forces,
would not be sufficient for this; they would produce something quite
that we may picture something like the following: —
element of air, in everything which permeates the apparent earthy
everything there in the way of nature-forces and phenomena is
essentially to be ascribed to the second Hierarchy. Everything we see
Everything which on our earth regulates construction and
When man learns to perceive something of that which he otherwise
presents nothing else than Will seen externally. With us it acts as
of will. When we contemplate such a thing as this, we are filled with
in man signify nothing else than the creating of an active centre in
within. So that man is indeed called to something great upon the
being actually produces something new. A fourth element is thus
in the astral world is something within. These remarkable Spirits of

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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Spirits of Will, the Cherubim and Seraphim, as being something which,
activity of the three hierarchies. These things are by no means so
things are so complicated that when we think we have grasped one
of the mission of the earth. One thing only was necessary so that the
normal Spirits of Form, then nothing would come into existence on
Ethiopian race. Everything which gives the Ethiopian race its special
a similar manner something we might describe as Venus forces, as an
indirect ways; one way is through the respiration. When the breathing
character of the race. There is, however, something very peculiar in
is still something quite special. Just as the six Elohim from the Sun
is the important thing: how the blood runs through all these
such, that among the Greeks everything that acts upon the senses was
people attained its greatness. Everything the Greeks saw in the way
Herein lies something that leads one into the deeper
the breathing is the most important thing. On the other hand in the
all that we must describe as the Saturn-race, in everything to which
we must attribute the Saturn-character, we must look for something
In a race such as this, everything which existed in the
bone system, and brought him into decline. One feels something of
great in the Atlantean culture. What was the greatest thing of all to
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 7
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We have seen that everything belonging to the Semitic
which we meet with the same thing again as monadology. This is the
be a sort of Spirit of Form. What we are now coming to is something
as Spirit of the Age. Hence, however, something of the greatest
will be a source for everything which may again be changed and
things, — difficult only for the reason that in certain
Now from the twelfth to the sixteenth century something
gradually developed, something which in a certain respect worked
in something which in our next studies we shall have to go into more
earth. If you were to draw something like a circle, so that the towns
that end several things are necessary. It is necessary that in quite
impulse of Christianity. Although several things in the

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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nevertheless something quite unique. It is true that a very
nothing of the Egyptian; so that all that is similar in the Germanic
but it is a domain in which it is possible to do most foolish things.
that uniform at those different times; and the essential thing is to
regards everything else in human evolution they had made very great
Personality, but in their case there was also something else, and
Chaldeans were beginning to forget something. In the Persian
the soul, remember something they had gone through formerly. This the
and an earlier life, of a time when they saw everything in an ocean
of the human soul out of the cosmos, that was something which he
this in mind we shall also better understand many things that have
pulsates in the blood of the physical body and that everything within
corresponds to something without, everything microcosmic to something
worked indirectly through the breathing, corresponds to the movements
Giants). Everything which existed during the Atlantean epoch is

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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I must add something in parenthesis, by way of explanation.
things, with the knower, the power of knowing, and that which is
The important thing is, that in human evolution, in human development
these two things are separate. Those who had developed the mature
other entities. If you distinguish carefully between these things you
the things of Spiritual Science, if you only do it properly. If you
higher Beings, and he himself could do nothing in the matter. The
one. The essential thing in the development of the ‘ I ’
mythological culture. Over there in the East everything is
is given to considering everything in its relation to the ‘ I
everything that had taken part in this development of the ‘ I ’
man gained two things: he gained the capacity to become an
Thus we have to thank the Luciferic powers for something
which is most valuable to man, viz., freedom, and something which is
account given in the Old Testament of the Serpent, which is nothing
the Luciferic powers lie hidden, he will have nothing to do even with
Scandinavian to be beneficial. But he became aware that something
out that everything that appears in the physical body as sickness and
these things in accordance with the theory of knowledge. I only
this consists in those things which are in his mind and are not in
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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not feel the ‘ I ’ as something foreign to him,
body. The essential thing in the old Indian culture is that the
the Roman people. Everything that the Roman people had, under the
If we had sufficient time to follow these things on further we should
clairvoyantly experienced things of the spiritual world of former
mythology, but they are nevertheless nothing but the result of the
was expressed in Fichte, it was nothing but a precipitation of what
times we can see something remarkable. As we have said, in old India
the post-Atlantean epoch. I say that something like an occult poetic
something which existed in former times. I can only indicate these
things. If you compare this with the results that have been obtained
things are.
some ways lacking in history. Thus we have there something
pre-Indian, something coming from Atlantis.
everything which is to happen in the future, must in a certain way be
world of the Cosmic Father. Everything that is creatively active in
something which is the product of the Heavenly Father and the
material body is felt as something altogether spiritual; and that
A fifth world is that which comprises everything
to unite something still greater with his being. Hence also the
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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lectures, was the idea that something is contained in the Germanic
imaginative form is wonderfully connected with everything we can
Scandinavian felt in his soul something of the arrival of a god who
of Freyr, to indicate that blood is the essential thing in the
something quite particularly belonging to him; it is the alternation
Those of you who will go more deeply into these things,
natural evolution of their capacities, to see something of what is
man will do something in the external world and will then feel
himself impelled to observe something. A sort of dream-picture will
has heard something about Karma, of how everything in the world takes
superfluous. It always presents things in a different way from what
everything from the physical plane; it was therefore necessary that
nineteen hundred years ago, knows nothing of the progress of
become the most wonderful manifestation for mankind. Everything that
fantasy, everything that the first pioneers of the new
Folk-spirit, by means of which the things we now find clairvoyantly
soul. Everything which has developed in the way of opposing force
clairvoyant powers, cannot save man; something very different must
which represents nothing but the backward clairvoyance. Vidar, who
We lay no store by this tradition; the chief thing for us is, that
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Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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lecture some of the more important things explained yesterday.
The result that everything which confronts the soul through
that mathematics contains, as it were, nothing to which we submit
attention is turned away from everything else, and for a certain
Why must such a concept or complex of concepts be something quite
perception. The first thing which should be borne in mind when
This in itself sets up a strong barrier against anything which seeks
perceptions. In our ordinary thinking everything is arranged
everything has a definite structure which must be considered as a
Imaginative knowledge does not as yet supply anything pertaining to
from our consciousness. The only thing which can be retained is the
ado. This even applies to the most elementary things in honest
something personal, but which is also an objective fact.
The only thing he can do is to reconstruct the conditions enabling
a parallel course, and so forth. But all these things are mere
gives rise to something which does not reveal itself outwardly
only thing which should remain to us is our calm thinking power,
is something which undergoes continual metamorphoses. Our thinking
only envisage a transformation, but something very different. Let us
for the attainment of knowledge of higher worlds, the essential thing
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Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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thing which rises up before us when we enter the soul-spiritual
world, the fact that we feel induced to do certain things for
feelings and of everything which constitutes our inner being,
when we come across such things in the external physical world.
The things
a knowledge of the higher worlds, many things will therefore have
within our inner self, independently of anything in the world
ourselves, with everything which now constitutes our
earthly life as a firm resistance which mirrors everything, just
because of this, everything which surrounds us as we pass through
reflect itself. Through these experiences we perceive everything
as a soul-spiritual being everything with which we were in some
imaginative vision here in the physical world, through everything
emerges everything with which we were connected by destiny, or
free, soul-spiritual life. Everything in our environment with
results of physics or chemistry. This is something which the
everything appears to us in this way when we look back upon our
There is one thing which then appears to us very enigmatic, and
speaks of things which can be perceived through spiritual vision.
towards everything in the universe inspiring reverence and which
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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nature of these problems that in regard to these things I must
the things connected with the great life problems of human
being; they knew that they could only learn something about man's
of the universe modern people show a deep interest for everything
couple of days and that there was nothing to be afraid of. As a
the same thing and also refused to amputate his arm. Schleich was
not approach the investigation of such things superficially, by a
conscientious and responsible scientist. Even in other things,
in London knew anything about these photos, nor that they had
make things clear to you from every aspect) should be stricter
with these things, for in connection with today's subject my last
now present; allow me therefore to illumine the things already
of unpremeditated things, and it is quite possible to prick one's
things can be viewed critically, if another, undoubtedly possible
thing is borne in mind; namely, that certain subconscious
forces, it is possible to perceive things which cannot be
were, to see things in a way which is not in keeping with the
something pertaining to the future. And this fact pertaining to
Here, we simply have to do with something enacted completely upon
for the following simple reason: When things are mentioned, such
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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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and, at the same time, something that, as yet, is rather remote from
from time to time? At best it is something that is acknowledged to be
description bears no relation to anything that might be known through
Switzerland. The Folk Spirit is something quite different from the
Folk Spirit has no external manifestation; it is not something that
body into Manas or Spirit Self, so that it becomes something
something new in the future.
that, in addition to this activity of successive peoples, something
we are aware of the existence of something that transcends the Folk
Spirits, something in which the several Folk Spirits participate. You
something that transcends the Folk Soul, which can bring the various
Folk Souls together, something that is more or less universally
something that permeates the activity of the Folk Spirits, an
people, something over which, as an individual, he has no control. As
legacy of his inheritance. Individual human progress is something

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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this aura we must clearly understand that the saying, everything in
with them. From this cooperative endeavour something totally
moment, something arises as a result of the activity of the
Zeitgeist, something manifests itself in the Spirit of an Age

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 3. The inner Life of the Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
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in these words: ‘Something is now streaming into me from the
however, certain things which he experiences in common with the
relied solely upon external perception? Everything that is included
around which again is gathered something that appears as a kind of
man the datum is everything appertaining to spatial extension and
Archangel experiences something similar when he meets with human
and atrophy That is something which man feels to be an expression of
his organic life. Now the Archangel, it is true, feels everything to
nevertheless seems something foreign to him. It is something which he
For man, however, it is something very real, something that he feels
is something which hovers above the individual members. Man's
nation has nothing to do with that of race. A race may be divided

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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prefer it if things proceeded with almost clock-work regularity, if
situation would have been totally different, so that everything
see something that was originally associated with a particular
that everything is in a state of evolution and that the races are
because people might take offence. By no means everything can be

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 5. Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
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the different nations. But this will be nothing more than a general
sufficient for this; the resultant effect would be something totally
Seraphim. The Cherubim work in the air element, in everything
fundamentally the work of the second Hierarchy. Everything we see
and everything related thereunto manifest themselves at the frontier
which to perceive that which is woven into the light. Everything
operate. When man learns to perceive something of that which he
the three forces, the inner being really creates something new. A

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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Hierarchies. These things are by no means so simple, and in order to
continually enlarged, that it is unlimited, since things are so
Ethiopian race. Everything which gives the Ethiopian race its
everything that acts upon the senses to the service of Jupiter or
is disclosed something that introduces us to the deeper secrets of
the Saturn race, therefore, in everything to which we must ascribe
everything pertaining to the forces of the Saturn evolution has
decline. One feels something of this truly occult activity if one
highly was that he was still able dimly to sense something of the
letters, of which he understood nothing. All that was alien to him,
great. But there is something else which makes the Brown Man great;
something which will be easier to understand, because we shall be
able to relate it to something familiar to us, namely, to tribes and

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 7. Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
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have seen that everything associated with the Semitic tribes assumed
abstraction of the Unity underlying all things was divided into a
Everything
about to touch upon something exceptionally interesting in the course
prominent position as Spirit of the Age (Time Spirit). Something
impartially of these things without arousing jealousy and emotional
from the twelfth to the sixteenth century something gradually
of you who live in Scandinavia will be interested in something which

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 8. The Five Post-Atlantean Civilizations.
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with other mythologies, is nevertheless something quite unique. It is
essential characteristic of Greek mythology, to say nothing of the
Egyptian. Everything in Teutonic mythology is interrelated and
times. The essential thing is to know what sort of man is concealed
Graeco-Latin peoples recalled something which they had gone through
earlier weaving life, when everything was seen through the dim mists
that everything within has its counterpart without, that everything
breathing, has its counterpart in the movement of the wind in the
breathing. He sees how the air he inhales passes into the blood
“Riesenheim”. Everything which existed during the

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 9. Loki - Hodur and Baldur - Twilight of the Gods.
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from a philosophical angle, I must add something in parenthesis by
In the East everything is impersonal, and, above all one is required
is given to seeing everything in relation to the ‘I’, to
everything that had participated in the development of the ‘I’
he now realized that something else stemmed from this influence.
things. I only wish to state here that the scientific view of
things of the mind which do not accord with the external world. It is
expression for everything that implied darkening of the light of
to deceive himself, to think incorrectly about things; that is to
does not see things in their true form. Whenever the ancient Teutons
aware that I am saying something which is ridiculously absurd in the
everywhere find that these things throw light upon the matter, down
mythology is only a memory of something experienced in former times,

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 10. The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
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the ‘I’ as something extraneous, but as his own property.
Roman people. Everything that the Roman people had to accomplish for
to exclude completely everything which originated in primeval times
and had been developed in the post-Atlantean epoch. Something like an
preserved an element of the unhistorical. It preserves something of
the pre Indian culture, something surviving from old Atlantis.
consciousness of a world of the Cosmic Father. Everything that is
being, not an emotional feeling, but something that is the creation
multiplies in the material body is felt as something wholly
world is that which embraces everything spiritual. The Eastern
the time when he will be able to unite something even greater with
something that is born out of the Spiritual Soul as the highest
of the social State which takes everything implicit in that
Everything that we find in the East, from the make-up of the people
to its philosophy, appears to us as something which contains only the

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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that Teutonic mythology contains something which, in imaginative
something peculiarly his own: it symbolizes the alternation of the
clairvoyance, to perceive something of what is announced only by
to observe something. A sort of dream vision arises in him which at
occult training is still a necessity. It always presents things in a
should comprehend everything from the perspective of the physical
become a most valuable revelation for mankind. Everything that may
traditions of the West, is that everything that the first pioneers of
form. All the forces opposed to Odin and Thor, everything which has
something very different must supplant them. These future powers
of you in Berlin, never to accept on authority or on faith anything I
nothing on authority. The best students of Spiritual Science are
belief in authority. This need to test everything received from

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture I
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or anything of that kind in the choice of the title:
working through the centuries. If nothing else indicated the
everything contributed hitherto by erudition, science and
into existence. I need only mention something of which those
Aristotle's thinking is something so phenomenal, even when
tell us anything about the figure of Christ, that the earliest
times, we shall realise that they knew nothing of these things.
had nothing to bring into this arena of Greco-Roman life save
of the balance. If everything had depended upon the Gnostics,
understood nothing of its real nature; it was opposed by a
understanding nothing of its real nature. And yet ... men bore
even of the calibre of Tertullian do not accomplish anything
something about Tertullian that attracts one's attention
deeply into the roots of these things will recognise that what
merely the surface of spiritual life will understand something
in order to understand these things correctly we must be able
aware of many things) — anyone who realises this is led
picture. Everything that is great in the Darwinian
who understand nothing at all about the composition of
Nourishment has nothing whatever to do with understanding the
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture II
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many things we have learned from previous studies of Theosophy.
descended upon them from the Cosmos, something which could only
understanding for everything that is human on the earth.
experience of things belonging to the world of pure
Festival. The decision to speak of these things can only be
things in our time, while realising that in ages other than our
possible now. For in order to comprehend many a thing that will
something that seems like an affront against the conceptions of
and if the whole thing is mooted as untenable in face of the
solar eclipse and with all those things that are the
realisation that all these things were inevitable. I do
of necessity to read something that mankind must come to know.
written into the Cosmos something that one must read in order
who wish to approach these things from the basis of natural
were in a mighty language of signs, a symbol of something
sincerity that such things are impossible. Nevertheless
saying that such things are incredible, because one
by the Cosmic Love at Pentecost. And he now knew something he
something that was previously to be found only in the
it my duty to speak about these things now. What I want to say
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture III
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and minds of the Apostles themselves at that time, these things
they bore within their very souls those things we are now
is not easy to put these things into words which give
Gospel reveals that this event was something like conception in
certain things we need to know in order to perform some deed.
the Sun as his dwelling-place. These things seem almost
transcending in intensity anything that the human mind can
that can be made about spiritual things by men of such calibre.
Things have come to such a pass that in the simplest matters
further study of this Gospel reveals to us other things as well
the concepts and ideas arising from these things are taken in
And yet, what an impulse has been given! But these things are
discovering what is really the most remarkable thing about it.
that when people see something spreading, like Theosophy for
are drawn to Christ, even when they understand nothing about
minds and hearts to this personality. Such things are only
These are things of which we must be mindful if we would

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actually been recorded, many other things may have
him to give these astounding answers. It was because everything
answers to everything said by the many learned doctors and
had departed from a later generation. But to one thing he
ancient Prophets. Nevertheless this voice represented something
of the Fifth Gospel something that does not actually belong to
the boy Jesus listened to and pondered all these things, he
The remarkable thing was that because he bore within him the
the Church of St. Peter in Rome and everything deriving from
things that remained hidden from others — many terrible
things. Fabulous as it may seem, I have to testify that when
easy to understand, these things have not found their way into
spiritual Movement, that such things can be disclosed, because
must have remarked something of this infinite love
the people something that made them say as they recognised the
this comparatively young soul was able to read the things of
something like a trowel, a little shovel, because the
Everything belonged to all the Essenes in common; no individual
possessed anything for himself. A law that in the
things that had already flamed up as illumination in his own
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture V
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things took place of profound significance not only for the
the knowledge that everything in the evolution of humanity is
may perhaps begin to glimpse something of what was living in
sensitive to everything that speaks to man from the world of
divine ground of existence, when everything in him was
prophets, even of Moses, and back to Abraham. Everything these
Their words would be preached to the winds. Everything that I
disposition, who achieved mighty things through this very
brusquely: I have something to ask thee! Hillel answered: What
called out gruffly: Hillel, come out, I have something to ask
gruffly for the third time: Hillel, come out, I have something
now he had nothing to ask — he had laid a wager that he
things. And as it were gathering together what he had to say on
within him something that was like a renewal of the old
seemed to him to be something which the people of his day
revived, there are no longer any to respond. Those things are
Jesus of Nazareth felt as if with this conversation everything
aware of something like the climax of the change that had come
Being dwelt, had abandoned everything that had previously
such things in the Akasha Chronicle and I therefore emphasise
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Title: Eternal Soul of Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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beliefs, within the same things said about these things as are
view nowadays, and therefore everything that is put forward
nothing further than to continue within those natural
the start want to prove anything by this comparison, but only
everything as real, what the dream presents to us in its
drive us to our actions, and in everything that we do from
concepts, we would be doing something completely different of
which we know nothing. However, we would dream our entire lives
true reality. For that which occurs when we grasp things, when
point of view of the Guardian's judgement. If such a thing is
to something new, to a higher state of consciousness? Can we
at all, something is necessary that I always call, in this
nothing else the human being can use in relation to his soul
actually occurring here? There lies before us something in
have something in the soul that is not now present. What began
through ordinary memory of having something of the perceptions
something that was never in earthly life, to something that is
something is presented that was not originally there? This can
thought was just abstract; you could think about something
far as you really feel something that has not yet been felt. It
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ONLY if it is regarded as a time of trial and testing can anything
have nothing to do with this kind of thinking and who face the
conditions and this can help many things to ripen. But this ripeness
European War, but only those who lived in the very midst of things
because nearly everything, in the domain of the public affairs of
Everything is brushed aside by those who have any influence in public
Washington, is nothing but a feeble stammering, surging up from depths
luxuries they are, and nothing more — it will amount to no more
feeling for such things.
something that flows over to them from the Spirit of the West.
Everything depends upon insight into the Spirit that is lying
to put their heads in the sand, saying that things will improve of
and fatalistic longings for things to right themselves are of no
Modern thought studies everything in the universe beyond the Earth in
nothing but a great system of machinery. Man has lost himself; he has
birth, it is not possible to reckon with human egotism. Nothing
birth, we are experiencing a continuation of it. One thing is certain!
things. Man must find himself again and be true to the laws of his
The first thing we observe about a human being is his outer, physical
indications can be given. Knowing something of the spiritual teachings
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shape from the fixed stars, not from anything earthly; and its stages
thoughts, we reach no further than the surface of things.
than the surface of things, that if he cuts a piece of wood which is
may be called the inner essence of things, for that lies beyond the
reality inside things, we are on the other side of the
knows nothing of this and he dreams of all sorts of things lying
most recent... you will find nothing but minute objects which are
surface of things. It is all a tissue woven from the experiences of
thoughts or feelings, no human love or true piety, something of the

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture III: The Mission of the Scandanavian Peoples
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understands these things. In the world of education to-day people
to acquire those things which are eternal by inner individual effort
your earthly dwelling-place. There is something about it that presents
But such things cannot be explained by studying only the one period
Everything was compressed into a few short years. Events like those of
things have been happening South of you in which your participation
see the spread of Christianity. But something else as well is to be
disappear. A writer like Origen who wants to introduce something of
think about things instead of trying to know them from inside
not only of those things which satisfy the egotism of the human being
into the Roman-Latin form of civilisation. At that time something
times but something remains as a heritage in the present-day Norwegian
every reason at the present time to think about these things. It is,
and the course of their historical evolution, remarkable things come
something that only the Norwegian characteristics are able to impart.
But this after all, is something which fundamentally speaking, has
just this element in earthly life, something very significant develops
actually speaking of the decline of culture, of something that is of
only die out, in the bodily sense, for everything depends here
something much more profound. For this reason we see many a storm of

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture IX: Ancient Revelation and Learning How to Ask Modern Questions
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spiritual economy of the world. But other things took place
happened in the case of Shem who indeed has something to do
to ask ourselves something. If it is only now, in the fifth
nothing to do with His ego; it passed into the spiritual
twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries, something like
something like the various bodies of Jesus of Nazareth, but
them. But now things changed in that the ego became a
thing or another. Rather, the Rosicrucian spiritual method
prepared something positive, and since anthroposophy is meant
are those who can really absorb the things that will be quite
is called upon to accept into itself something new, something

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we cannot regard the green colour as something subjective and see
thinking with the head, so we lose now the idea of space. Everything
Of course in treating of things artistic, I must refer not to the
four colours always contain something of shadow. White is the lightest
to the surface something of a shadowy nature.
And, above all, there was present something else. In the painting
before all things have a feeling for his material. For instance, if he
I am, of course, not saying anything against spatial perspective; it
and indeed added something powerful to the old aesthetics of painting.
But the important thing is that after passing through materialism
the medium of Art itself and the thing that can be of service to us in

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characterize something quite different as the central economic
something that goes like a thread through my observations of
something which does not interest the worker as such. He is
at things. Most proletarians to-day are, as you will know, more
thing which is also very interesting: Bismarck, when voicing
This is how things are to-day. And one has to say: Through the
of the social question”. Nothing was further from my
say how one imagines that these things should be handled. That
given about specific things but which I never meant to be
anything but examples. In real life one can demonstrate
something that one is doing, that one arranges to the best of
it. Of course one could also do everything differently. But the
utopian wants everything characterized to the last detail. And
seemingly something else is taking place — the call for
am convinced that many clever things have been written and said
sharing that nobody can produce anything for himself in a
religious life in the spiritual realm, but I include everything
other things as well, which in this regard does not let the
But this means nothing else than that in pure economic life one
indications of the things which I want to assign to certain
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Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture I: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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things I must limit myself to the anthroposophical horizon,
that is to say, to the things connected with the great
they could only learn something about man's being by seeking to
interest for everything which transcends ordinary science, and
well again in a couple of days and that there was nothing to be
told him exactly the same thing and also refused to amputate
man who does not approach the investigation of such things
scientist. Even in other things, which I will not mention here,
experiments were made, no one in London knew anything about
research (I hope that my three lectures will make things clear
me now begin with these things, for in connection with to-day's
illumine the things already explained to you from another
unpremeditated things, and it is quite possible to prick
see, even such things can be viewed critically, if another,
undoubtedly possible thing is borne in mind; namely, that
human cognitive forces, it is possible to perceive things which
possible, as it were, to see things in a way which is not in
something pertaining to the future. And this fact
something enacted completely upon the physical plane, that is
things are mentioned, such as Sir Oliver Lodge's case, or
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well able to compete with everything which modern people are
are permeated by something rooted as plastic force in human
thinking, by something existing inhuman thought.
These so-called wonderful phenomena cannot point to anything
differs from everything which people experience in a visionary
are brought into connection with things which have a visionary
ordinary way of seeing things and to ordinary consciousness, we
this perspective, something frees itself from what we thus see
out of the human being that remained behind. The things most
Our physical life on earth is something which darkens our
pre-existent world, the things which we perceive spiritually
earthly life, not the closest, nearest things, but we first
perceive the more distant things. If we have ascended through
Anthroposophy does not speak of anything fantastic nor of some
we thus leave behind us, as the last thing, as it were, to
spiritual world; the last thing to which we turned in our
with something which cannot constitute anything pertaining to
breathing and through everything which the human being receives
and later on draws in substance through breathing, nutrition,
that it is something which pertains to the external world and
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which is not limited by birth and death. But there is one thing
we feel induced to do certain things for them out of
of everything which constitutes our inner being, when we come
across such things in the external physical world. How
things perceived through super-sensible knowledge make us speak
things will therefore have to be said differently, the
dwelling only within our inner self, independently of anything
soul, that we ourselves, with everything which now constitutes
which mirrors everything, just because of this, everything
these experiences we perceive everything rising up in a far
soul-spiritual being everything with which we were in some way
everything which I described to you. Those who pass through the
which were laid aside, emerges everything with which we were
soul-spiritual life. Everything in our environment with which
something which the spiritual science of Anthroposophy can add
everything of course, appears to us in this way when we look
outside the body. There is one thing which then appears to us
by communicating its truth it speaks of things which can be
mysteries contained in the universe, towards everything in the
This enigmatic something which I mean and which appears to us,
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Title: Lecture I: Man in the Light of Occultism
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something totally unknown. For ordinary everyday life occultism, in
its original and proper form, has always been something secret and
the town is a fairly large one, we really know nothing more than a few
This is the very thing man has to do when he wants to get beyond the
on the other hand something that is of first importance for a
enables man to behold things that are hidden from ordinary
It has lain in the very nature of things up to the present time —
men, among the many things that had to be overcome in the process of
there come into consideration all the things in a man that do not let
under strict injunction not to betray to people outside anything of
persons who are curious; its whole content is something that is
thing into which one has to find one's way by means of clairvoyant
training and discipline. Theosophy, on the other hand, is a thing that
many people feel philosophy to be something that is much too difficult
something of the personal element; and in the degree that he is able
other hand, anyone who succeeds in clothing occultism in expressions
reality there is no such thing as a difference of standpoint in
it knows nothing that might stir up opposition between man and man. No
therefore be no such thing as a Buddhist theosophy or a Hindu
possible to attain something like universal agreement. As our
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of his soul forces. For the first thing the pupil had to do may be
with karma (or destiny) — that was the first thing demanded
him, — these are the very things that constitute karma in the
external standing in life. This, however, has nothing to do with the
spare for something else quite different. This means that a boundary
The second thing required of the pupil was far more difficult of
on the physical plane, anything that has come to me as a result of
with our will. But to begin with, there is nothing to prevent us from
research in order to make intelligent observation of the things and
with a morally inferior person, nothing is easier than that he should
act accordingly. It would be the natural and obvious thing to do.
in by him. Obviously such things can and do happen in the world, as
they were shown first how to distinguish things and then how to
more the things he sees on the physical plane, cease to employ in
will outwardly and allow nothing whatever of the results of spiritual
by strange? We call a thing strange when we find it contradicts our
to be in contradiction to everything else they know; they then jump to
It is a fact that when one begins to speak quite openly of things, it
indeed meet with contradictions, for we are approaching something that
There are three things man finds when he has come to the stage we have
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Title: Lecture III: Man in the Light of Occultism
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being in a nothingness.
not say he is in a nothingness, for it has an astounding effect upon
him, unlike anything he has ever experienced hitherto. He feels as
These powers go on working, and presently we have around us something
them nothing whatever of the nature of external perceptions. The
qualities we perceive in outward things by means of the senses are
develop in such thinking contains nothing that has not been
sees the things around him and reflects upon them, the scientist too,
nothing in brain or sense organs that does not derive its origin from
states of the Earth. But everything that sets us free from the working
nothing; it would be as though there were all around us nothing but a
and that are like the pictures of memory, are not the only thing. In
fact, they make a less powerful impression upon us than something
else, something of which we could say — notwithstanding that we
them? As a matter of fact the occultist does not notice anything
really is. All the philosophy in the world is nothing else than
The reason is that in our brain we have still something left of
could never have arisen on Earth such a thing as contemplation,
clairvoyance and, as it were, to throw something up into physical
the world is one that causes man to seek in all the various things of
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Title: Lecture IV: Man in the Light of Occultism
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something which everyone possesses but which not everyone takes the
and finds content of it again every morning. Everything he has in it
Ground of the World that maintains everything must, therefore,
consciousness man is unable to approach by his own efforts the things
that belong to the Foundation of the Worlds, these things have had to
obtain knowledge of the things that lie behind human consciousness?
Earth, surveying with his consciousness the things of Earth, and
receiving from the founders of religion knowledge of the things that
Now there are, as you know, other things in the soul of man besides
becomes a mystic, then everything connected with ordinary Earth
anything that is thought out. They want to exclude thought altogether
reject anything you set out to communicate to him which requires him
to use his brain. He will have nothing to do with it. Whether what you
about Nature. He used to say: “Man can know nothing he does not
surrounds all mystics. A mystic of this kind however will have nothing
feeling. The poem is saturated with something that the eye cannot
things. On the other hand we find that on this very account he was
that there is absent in him the very thing that most people find
Such a mystic would give to men nothing but pure thoughts, —
This is the very thing of which so many people complain in Hegel;
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Title: Lecture V: Man in the Light of Occultism
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and yet not lose himself but still retain something within which he
many of you who can claim to have today anything at all of the bodily
consciousness, must be assumed to be something that is permanent
something which can be taken as a starting-point for any statement
this ego is something that persists and is permanent for the whole of
know that it belongs to us,—in the night we know nothing of it at
How can such a thing be? How can it be that ego-consciousness is
something totally unknown, something that is nowhere to be found in
strange and a marvellous thing, this I of ours! If we could lay hold
something of an earthly reality that is not given from without.
There is, however, one thing we can know of this ego, one thing
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
you find nowhere anything in which your ego is expressed?”
fleeting ideas, and we can never be sure of finding anything to lead
to get free of our personality — the very thing we must do as
reach; but when we look around us, we do find something that is an
our experience there is this one thing — the human form or figure
thing to say, but it is in reality one of the most important
looks at the human form, what he has to do is to experience something
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Title: Lecture VI: Man in the Light of Occultism
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night something of man's ego (which otherwise goes with him through
ordered things that precisely what man loses in this way is given to
perception, find something else to which we can apply the word
members of man's organism. Then we come to something which seems to
imagine that the same thing happened for this sevenfold man, and that
man has something else in his form that is similar to the brain. It
really a point of great significance. Man has actually something like
that the spinal cord is nothing else than a strange and peculiar
well pass for a kind of brain. And now we note something very strange
us something like a repetition of the first sevenfold man.
And now nothing remains to be done but to define the appendage that
be set in motion by means of the thigh, but everything else about them
the hand do we not often see revealed something of the inner character
has! And as for our hands, they have nothing whatever to do with this
a creature who moves about on the earth. Everything else required for
these things quite objectively, and consider aspects of them that can
And now we come to something that cannot but meet with
inner organs of the lower man we have to do with something that
thing happens with his ego, with his consciousness. He is divided into
feeling soul and the willing soul. In ordinary life these three things

Title: Lecture VII: Man in the Light of Occultism
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nothing for it but we must be ready to put up with some difficulties
middle man breathing is maintained, even during sleep, and the other
kinds of symbols. If something is wrong with the heart, it can easily
say, an object outside ourselves. Something that is inside us is
experience of an immense vault above one. Something is creeping or
— there would be nothing unusual in that, No, he must make the
perfectly healthy in his upper and middle man, if everything is in
consider a little, you will have to acknowledge that you find nothing
outside world. Everything depends on the fact that the middle man is
the external sunlight does to the things of the Earth; But now it is
clairvoyance, something that is of the nature of Sun reflected back
something else. He has to discover something that is comparable with
writing about things of which he knows absolutely nothing, the man of
thinking and pondering and delving deep into things, — for them
connection between man and something outside the Earth. How was it
begin with, perceive external things at all. They perceived only the
think of it as something super-sensible that is behind the Sun.”
It was, however, possible to say something else, and this is what
be something external for man, could only give him an Earth
must never be confused with anything that can be seen outwardly nor
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something quite external. And yet I have told you that it is this
his start from something that is as independent as possible of the
into the soul without man's being aware of it. Many things that go to
were take time to look at the things before him; they do not pass
after-images, nothing of any importance will happen. The interest
begins when something is still left after the image of the object has
something totally different from anything that has relation to an
When the occultist succeeds in experiencing in this way something like
There is something extraordinarily seductive in the picture Lucifer
has been taken from him, then he beholds two things. In the first
bound to the Earth. Then Lucifer directs him to something else in him
the ages had something to say to man. Very few, however, have
super-sensible gifts one after another. Wisdom and everything connected
things man owes to Lucifer.
survey themselves. Nothing we see brings any comfort, for ultimately
The presence of all these things, the impression made by them, is in
not rely. Everything he achieves in life is seen now to be
destructible, impermanent. Lucifer promises something eternal. But not
one thing of which he can take firm hold; it is not anything of the
and only thing in life which man can recall as something sure and
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Bodhi tree, and learn to have some understanding of how such a thing
it over, you will be able also to recognise something else that
able to arrive at the things that stand written in the Gospels. With
connected with all those things of which we were speaking yesterday.
more and more. Hence it is that nothing can dissuade the followers of
name of Jahve or Jehovah gives something to the upper man as a kind of
he has to choose something else as his starting-point, — namely,
something the human being requires within himself. The seventh is a
astronomy of today — then the movement of the breathing can be
the thought of Christ, we have then something we can carry across into
astrology, which has its source in nothing else than in the great and
to our knowledge. And here we discover something that is of peculiar
presentiment of the connection. Now at the second stage something more
knowledge. At this point I want to bring forward something which, if
We must first of all find something to take as our starting-point; we

Title: Lecture X: Man in the Light of Occultism
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place of the destroyed human body, something else appears.
impression, something that is described in the Gospels. Such a thing
third of the three things we placed before us at the beginning of
consciousness? Everything in our surroundings that is present to our
something further than the objects of the senses can be discovered.
relation to the old Moon. Everything connected with the old Moon is
draw your attention to something else. There is deep significance in
attacks of Lucifer which at that time still meant something to Him.
was written, for the things of a more moral nature which
man. For, as is well-known, there are things which up to a point are
whilst Lucifer had the impulse to let stream out upon all things the
things, the Christ on the other hand, gave Himself up to the
and wants to found and establish everything with his own light.
anything that belongs to still higher states of consciousness, for it
is really out of the question to describe the higher things in human
of the breathing are movements connected with this second
communicate these things to man at the present time, and to describe
remember, we went on to consider something else. We made a study of
something that is not form but is the inner ground of movement, and
proceed from anything physical, when once he can rise to the only
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture I: On the Nature and Destiny of Man and World
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cycle, I should like to set forth several things
the things contributed by the heavenly realms, by the divine
that the same things occur in the divine-spiritual worlds that
things are quite different from things in the physical-sensible
Things, however, are not as they seem to us. One must
something that has not accompanied us into earth-life. This
— in one minute or five minutes. Concerning these things,
passed something like a world judgment on our worth as
thoughts, heretofore considered by him as something inward,
Fundamentally, I consist of nothing but thoughts. These
death. But just because the things seemingly so important, so
describing these things, especially in public, we must
thing, however, would be ignored: that the human being eats and
Anthroposophy contradicts ordinary science in many things, are
anything in the world. This is true and not denied by
Anthroposophy. Science can prove anything in the world.
Only things happen to be constituted in such a way that, in
certain cases, these proofs have nothing to do with
that fact. Likewise, we calculate how everything was twenty
have nothing whatever to do with reality. This is how things
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ideas, the powers of thought, become objects, become something
Everything else, however, remains unconscious. Only the
so rich in many-hued colors, represent something that restricts
another, these persons will speak of things that seem to have
people possessed nothing but this world, they would be occupied
Furthermore, something else must be considered. We can see that
certain things existing within earthly relations will be
These things are not at all as the spiritists imagine. These
towards the dead. Thus we provide the dead with something like
nothing after death.
life becomes intermingled with certain things, which are
which we pass in reverse. And it is very strange how things
something like a small package, which we must deposit in the
everything that does not belong to our moral qualities,
can use for maintaining the world's course. These things
machine — then everything brought by us into the sun
would be something like fuel, apportioned by us to the cosmos
something external. After all, if we regard a human being
can visualize these things also in a somewhat different way.
yourself with a glance of the soul, remember something which
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things that I shall presently explain to you are valid for
formerly connected us with all the things surrounding us in our
nothing about it? Well, it matters a great deal. I should like
do not need to be amazed at these things. In those ancient
things and bury them, as it were, in a huge cosmic cemetery.
nothing but physical laws. Will there be moral impulses
nothing but physical laws will prevail. Thus speaks
living things, and out of living things the human soul-element.
whereas the natural order below appears like something
abstract, something dream-like. Although it is difficult to
conceive of these things, they are nonetheless true. The
would seem something real, something secure; and the physical
we can still remember lies something which is as deeply
Something all-encompassing happens when a child learns how to
walk, something which appears as a grandiose and overwhelming
encounter something so comprehensive, so marvelous, that
only thing known to physiology about the connection between
Anyone viewing these things correctly will know that a child
sleep. At present, however, we may disregard these things. The
physical world and say: It is based on something spiritual.
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grasp something. First, you have a mental image of the fact
something is produced which might be called a process of
a chance moment. Things, however, happen otherwise. If we use
connection of human life, if we look into everything made
Now, if something of this kind is said, various objections may
his life, something else always becomes visible at the same
during sleep. I have already described to you many things
Consider that the things thought by man in his ordinary waking
things thought by us remain fixed, by means of our soul-life's
permissible, because the child knows nothing about them. This
child does not imitate everything, but takes his choice.
father who does many things that are not right. The child,
things. Since his eye cannot protect itself, it must perceive
child takes into his bodily organism only those things that
have called attention to these things in the very first chapter
People, once they have understood these things, will attain a
sounder judgment on something that is mentioned today again and
everything on qualities that have been inherited from the
inheritance is nothing but an external garb. That the latter
called your attention to the three things learned by the
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on these things, we shall clearly recognize that the nature of
of the body. And, if we observe these things without prejudice,
within spirit and soul. Then things happened in such a way that
existence. For everyone could say to himself: Something
had to wait until the age of maturity revealed something to him
to feel, already in his fifties, something like a gradual
something that can be known today only through abstract
changing seasons, was connected with another thing. Man
felt that his speech was being transformed into something no
experienced his body as something related to the outer world,
he considered astrology as something self-evident. In his
physical body, this dying signified for him nothing but a
experienced death as something guiding him into a world in
time was something entirely different from what it became
individual was aware of being something else besides his
about these things in a rationalistic way): My body dies; but,
What happened henceforth must be envisaged as something
if nothing else had happened; if history had continued its
must be grasped that something which could be envisaged
development which understood nothing whatsoever of the
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science, stand extremely close to nature. We do nothing of the
within us as the memory images of things experienced by us
can be found. In order that we find something of that which
is speaking.” Man learned to regard language as something
aware of these things were he not told by science. He does not
breathing-in process is at its height; when the earth-soul is
concluded this breathing-in process, is now inhabited by
St. John, this breathing out of the soul-element into the vast
know something about the life of the stars. And, in its own
star-wisdom as something whereby man may be guided.
These things are an outward symbol of the fact that people want
Something spiritual was united, in a very concrete way,
become men. Natural science tells us of the things that
speak such words, man will be compelled to recognize things,
has need of spiritual science. For there is nothing else that
fully appreciate natural science as something lying outside of
willing and thinking. I do not object to such things, which may
let us mention something else. We make experiments as to how
instead in a pictorial, imaginative way, present things
at a time when he must take into his soul things of the
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one step to the next. For one thing, one can no longer think the
since everything an ordinary man experiences in many years is
world existence. He feels something like a burning sensation
with respect to microscopic man; he gets hot — as if everything
comes over him, he freezes from everything that wants to spread out
right thing. But if an esoteric finds it hard to do this, if he has a

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
modern materialists and monists that there's nothing eternal, that
manages to eliminate everything from Tell that doesn't agree with 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
everyday thoughts. But what does he do thereby? Something happens

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trials that required great courage. Terrifying things were shown that
tell ourselves that it was originally something divine which we made
into something evil.
beings. These words remind us that all soul things are woven out

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-20-10
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they've lost interest in many things that used to interest
previously, and above all things we shouldn't demand that
everything toward the outer surface. Thereby the average person
doctor can of course not give us anything for these conditions, and
shouldn't look upon every disease one gets as something that is
laziness. This loosening is something that must occur if one wants to

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-7-12
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greatest things in the physical realm felt that the spiritual world
patience. The only thing we have to combat if the thought: I
inner void by erasing and suppressing everything that arises from memory,
our soul — either something entirely new that we've never

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-9-12
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are supporting something. Anyone who praises others harms them and
the truth in everything that comes to meet one.
insignificant things, and not just in big mountains and oceans. The
continue to work in men. Everything that's in men will someday
Nothing
should let everything that was said here work upon one's

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certain things, even though he imagined he could before. In occult
authority. One should check everything with one's thinking.
That's why everything is clothed in concepts and words that one
love nature's beauty and enjoy its small things you won't
sensation-seeking modern materialists — but in things that can be
something. A man shouldn't say: it's only maya. One would
him. Every joy that one has had from small things will give rise to
something for others in the future, and not just for oneself.
What's true here is that all concealed things will become
three things are supposed to have a healing effect on thinking,
maturity; the first became a megalomaniac, the second did mad things,
ailments, which the Gods send him to show that something isn't
then one must realize that the main thing is how one enter them, and
everything wrong.

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“If you desire to know something of the Christ, you will seek in
might find Him there. Something happened then in the evolution of
worlds that has no parallel with anything within the range of human
men would have come to believe that material things alone exist, that
everything is material. If all human beings were to believe, let us
say for a century, that everything is material, they would lose the
You will say: Yes, but there are many who do not want to know anything
desire to know anything of Christ, — nevertheless Christ died
perceive a spiritual reality in everything that is of a material

Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture VII
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state. Whereas intellectuality approaches everything from the standpoint
realization that thoughts are not the whole living reality; something
to demand that everything be grasped solely through logic; something
an unfortunate thing may happen. If one tries, as I tried in my four
comprehending people who try to explain everything in ideas, who write
commentaries. This — I repeat — is an appalling thing. It
remarks something like this: “You naturally expect me to explain
guiding you, I must do something I very much dislike, for the Goetheanum
of the senses, he lacks something. He has not received from the universe
retains nothing of this. But in unconscious feeling, especially when
dreadful thing for a sculptor to think with his head. It is nonsense;
says to itself: There is something in the world which cannot be tackled
around things externally and describes them logically, but still only
one becomes a sculptor. The sculptor does nothing more nor less than
of space. When everything wants to change into light and color we become
now enter man's inner nature, we find something set against the external
blood rhythm. The rhythm of breathing — a normal human being breathes
of breathing is contained, in a delicate psycho-spiritual manner, in
sunlike nature in man, plays upon the breathing system and, through
need is to express something for which words do not suffice, man

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to show that color is not merely something which covers the surface
of things and beings, but radiates out from them, revealing their inner
into account sizes in space. Now distant things were painted not blue
but small; close things not red but large. This perspective belongs
Above everything else, an artist, any artist, must develop a feeling
art historian to find out whether or not they could learn something
nature of things is to understand man's position in the cosmos. The
phantasy, a thing usually taken as synonymous with the unreal, the
not, however, something which, at a certain age in manhood, suddenly
appears out of nothingness. Phantasy lies hidden in the child; he is
of the body. Something remains over. The soul is able to withdraw a
by the ego; study everything creative in the wide universe, everything
Aeschylus would have asked: Why present something on the stage which
redemption.” In other words, he still possessed something which
who write verse are not artists. In a poem everything depends on the
which flows in soft slow waves, I express sorrow. To repeat, everything
modern emphasis on prose content. Nothing derogatory shall be said against
relationship between breathing and blood circulation. There are
everything.
It is one thing if with my left eye I see somebody walk by, passing,
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Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture I
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sensationalism or similar things that the theme is The
something about Christ. We want to imagine that the
nothing to bring to the market of Greek-Roman life except
bearers who understood nothing of the essence of
it's something else. We find that he showed very
effective through something. But what? That is the
important thing. We feel that this is really all important.
distant future still other things will be emphasized about
that these things weren't the fruits of Christianity,
looks more deeply will recognize that everything the
profundities of spiritual life, will find something which
teething problems of natural science have been overcome,
Christian impulse. One must not only investigate things
stand on solid ground in relation to these things, one must
Darwinism, something very peculiar happens. What can happen
understands nothing of either. For logical Darwinism could
something curious about the Christian impulses!
people are there who know nothing about the composition of
they could eat. Eating has nothing to do with the knowledge
had nothing to do with the knowledge brought to bear on it.

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they really felt as though something we can only call the
everything that happened, that Peter had slept through
things with a holy awe. One could even say that he is
speak of these things in our times; with full knowledge
that other times will come in which these things will meet
things which are necessary to it during this cultural
all, something which is offensive to contemporary natural
can't do anything about it if what I must say is
thing is exaggeratedly described as something which cannot
It is something which in the deepest sense can bring forth
something which humanity should learn. It appears as a word
consciousness he can say: everything which humanity had
these things from a natural scientific viewpoint judge as
it. And if someone wishes to say that such things cannot
sign-language to indicate that something new has occurred
not believe such things, for one only believes what can be
things do we find via this detour the ability to observe
was for Peter's consciousness something which had
knew something which he had not previously known: that the
Jesus something entered the earth which had previously
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Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture III
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things we are now deciphering as the Fifth Gospel, although
they didn't tell these things with the same words
event in Palestine was unique is something which I have
that informs us of certain things which we must know in
order to accomplish something. The archangel read in the
things which for contemporary consciousness sound almost
spiritual things. I mean Maurice Maeterlinck's Vom
things, he affirms that when a person dies he is a spirit,
things. There would be no kamaloca-suffering if the spirit
speak of this suffering however, I must bring something
consideration of this Gospel teaches us something else
thoughtless one passes over things which are profoundly
talents. It often happens that when people see something
possible with a being in whom something entered as entered
more to resemble the body of Jesus of Nazareth, something
being on earth has ever done these things. That was when
things we must keep in mind if we want to understand the

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remember at the end it states that in no way is everything
and eighteenth years. In his soul there was something like
boy listened attentively to everything the many
– that there was much uncertainty, things that could
But he paid special attention to one thing, because he felt
nevertheless something similar. Some in Jesus'
insert something into this Fifth Gospel which doesn't
of St. Peter's cathedral and everything which derives
in a natural way, something that others could only attain
those pagan religious rituals something which others did
not – shocking things. It may sound fantastic, but I
things are not described in the other gospels. And it is
people must have noticed something of this infinite love;
was transformed, had become something completely different.
insignia, something that in many of today's orders
contribute everything he owned to the Essene community.
Everything belonged to all, there was no personal
Nazareth heard more profound things about the secrets which
almost everything that the Essenes were able to give during
Jesus heard that the Buddha said something like this: "If
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certainly have the feeling that some very important things
studies that everything having to do with human evolution
different everything was before that change during my
teaching. He thought often of those things. But he also
the divine primeval ground of being and everything seemed
things which had become apparent in him since his twelfth
console him by speaking about the things which had become
the wind. Everything I thought to have received is
accomplished great things through gentleness and love.
threw something on and patiently went out.
said sharply: I have something to ask you.
had something else to ask – that he had made a bet
felt only her infinite love. So something of a profound
important thing he said was: If all the Mysteries were
united and contained everything which was once great
spoke of the third important thing, which had come to him
felt as though everything which burdened him had been
gave up everything which had tied him to the world. The
correct. But it is very difficult to observe such things in
everything that is beautiful and glorious in the old
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regarded as something new. Other, external approaches of knowledge
often want to see something new. But Theosophy wants to be, and
the Roman church, on the other hand, saw the same thing in
anything about the future; he was describing events that lie in the
Christ, the appearance of Christ. It is something similar to Paul's
perceives nothing. When human beings develop to a higher spiritual vision,
certain things; one example among hundreds is the Rose Cross.
before and everything the human being did was drowned out by the
provide something that drowns out the impressions from everyday life.
this we see from all the letters Paul wrote. He saw this event as something
describes the same thing to us when he speaks of the “Son of

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selection of people who had nothing left of the ancient magic. Like
the world ether. However, with the highest initiate something different
the true primal home of humanity and who characterized everything external
ancient than the Vedas. What is written in the Vedas is nothing more

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of all against all will be something much worse than war of the present-day
Today these things are
achieve nothing. But if people are given wisdom, knowledge of evolution,
in the verse: “But I have a few things against you: you have some
(But I have a few thingRev. 2:14)

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into thinking there is nothing but physical matter he calls Ahriman,
world: “You are coming to nothing!” Like Faust, those who
nothing I know how to find all.”
(Fear none of those thingRev. 2:10)
each of the various cultural epochs; for souls always have something
all wisdom. The writer of the Apocalypse, however, must place everything
and always mean the same thing. In ancient Egyptian times value was
(And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These thingRev. 2:12)
ascetics, but to recognize that this earth has something to give them.
(And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. \
3:2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. \

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things, for the first time the concept of the “last will and
as something spiritual. And there was a deeply tragic feeling that
research the external world independently. For this reason something
all things intellectual. Let us consider, on the other hand, a personality
like Augustine's. He was not in a position to arrive at anything other
He became acquainted with a teaching that took into account everything
regard to everything directly relating to the sensible-sensual world.
was not able to understand a reference to something spiritual standing
earth we would have to see members of the spirit of Christ in everything
that lives and grows, even in the smallest thing we look at. Human beings
it finds today nothing but a dead corpse-like existence in the sensible

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include in our solar system everything up to Saturn; and just as physical
sun came forth at that time from within the earth. Everything came from
Indian epoch. During the Polarian age everything was inward, was within
needed in order to prove that something like this existed. But if God
have nothing to repeat. We have seen how ancient cultures were always
is nothing more for humankind to repeat. The world would have become
Therefore, Yahveh is nothing other than the reflection of Christ

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Other things have also happened. Special etheric bodies are formed in
to Sem, who actually had something to do with the entire tribe of the
This has nothing to do with his I, which went on into the spiritual
possession of something else, something that remained behind like an
centuries on, something like a copy of Jesus' I
of their inner experience of something like an imprint of the I of Jesus
many people present today carrying something like a copy of the various
Parzival neglected to do one thing. He had been told that he should
something positive. Theosophy should become life, so that any soul that
to take in something new, something divine, and thereby to undertake

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at that time. Animals are nothing more than beings that entered into
us like a life account, with a balance of everything we have prepared

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of what one day will be. Human beings who will have taken in something
Everything we have
first. Back then everything in the physical world appeared to the human
to achieve victory over everything in the sensible world. The fruit
the fruit of this age means the same thing as death. From this age,
great deal in terms of external physical martyrdom. But things are coming
change all of nature and something like a meteor shower appears. In this

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13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. \
describing everything in signs and then adds: Wisdom is necessary in

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in this spiritual earth. First, everything must pass over into an astral
for something good: their freedom. The luciferic spirits made, so to
The luciferic spirits have also brought humanity something positive.
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nothing more can be saved. On the Venus-Earth the last moment for salvation
everything appears so desolate and the worst vices will reign there in
18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. \
18:14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. \
18:15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, \
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WE CANNOT DISCUSS EVERYTHING
Today we would still like to point out some particularly important things.
body, through breathing, into atma. In other words, the I transforms
by the seven seals something like a shower of meteorites will occur,
them within. When, in the age of the sixth seal, everything that the human
gone through a cycle fully, so that nothing more remains to be done, this

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