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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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whole mode of thinking, the faculty of cognition, the power of
of thinking. Anthroposophy does not, however, content itself with the
faculty of thinking which comes to expression in ordinary memory, but
thinking in man is developed to a greater strength and intensity than
into this meditation or these exercises of thinking, we should be led
Thinking, Imagination.
I have called this development ‘Imaginative Thinking’
kind of thinking that is usual in ordinary life and science, this
abstract thought. And nearly all the thinking that goes on in
in very truth, to think in pictures, in Imaginations.
But one point must be quite clear. In this Imaginative Thinking we
Imaginative Thinking is gradually brought home to us, however,
now, by means of this living, pictorial thinking, I experience
relation of the thinking to what is now an objective perception is
unfolds the activity of thinking. He thinks about something or other;
thinking to what thus arises objectively before my consciousness.
reality to the now strengthened and enhanced power of thinking —
strengthening and energising of the normal faculty of thinking which
here described, when we are trying to develop deep, inward thinking.
the super-sensible world with conscious thinking, with his thinking
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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modern human thinking, but which nevertheless belongs to the most
members, there lies something else. We know that we must think of the
into Budhi or Life-spirit. If you think of such beings, who belong to
Spirit of the Age has gone through a further evolution. We must think

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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different human individuals. You may think of an endless variety of
You must think of the Hierarchies of Spirits in the
existence? just think how man could not have said ‘ I ’
very easily perceive this, you need only think it over in order to
That is an historical fact. Just think however, what

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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in the soul-life of man. Hence also you must think of the form of
want you just to think of an iron or a wooden triangle; if now you
If you think of that which externally in the world is
think about that which comes to us from the outer world by means of
thought to the matter. The man who only feels and does not think, may
can in the manner described think of the world as continued beyond.
know in ourselves as intellectual-soul or mind-soul. Think of these
plants or animals. Think that instead of this, their vision, which is
think of him as being a higher Being, one standing two stages higher

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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that, if you come to think of it, you will no longer find it very
mankind. If one thinks of it as if everything moves round a fixed

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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being, his soul, you have there, willing, feeling, thinking; and
feeling and thinking.
form an approximate idea of that, you may think of it as being
astral body of man and human thinking are connected with that. So we
thinking — could so develop that man now possesses them as an

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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things are so complicated that when we think we have grasped one
activities of these normal Spirits of Form, it is best to think of

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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think of it thus, that the difference between the Germanic and the

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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said, if you were to think philosophically about yesterday's
impartially, but out of a philosophical way of thinking such as this,
independent free being to glow with enthusiasm for what he thinks,
the inclination (coming from within) to deceive himself, to think

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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and think of the Great Wall of China, which was intended to enclose
somewhat the same way as we think of the Devachanic world as
no other expression and can think of no other way of picturing the
must think of in quite a different shade of feeling, connected more
influence, you then have to think of Christ as having developed
There you have a human feeling, thinking and willing into which the
divine Feeling, Thinking and Willing has immersed itself. The

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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again be repeated, that materialistic thinking will transform the
and our thinking, and in our anthroposophical idea. The more we live

Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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should be developed first of all are the forces of thinking. This is
must be made with a particular exercise in thinking.
The kind of thinking to which we are accustomed in ordinary life and
Anthroposophy must deviate from this way of thinking which is
that we completely surrender to such concepts, our thinking power
This intensification of the forces of thinking must of course be
mathematical thinking. If such a “mathematizing” culture
treading the path to higher knowledge, is that our thinking, which is
Then one comes to quite a new way of thinking. The old way of
thinking which is used in ordinary life and in ordinary science,
remains. But a new way of thinking is added to it, if we do the
might describe this new way of thinking which is added to the old way
of thinking in the following way.
cannot penetrate into the way of thinking which is employed in this
thinking which must be gained by systematic practice in order to
Ordinary thinking (it suffices to bear in mind the true nature of the
ordinary way of thinking, in order to see that my remarks are
justified)—ordinary thinking really consists of spatial
perceptions. In our ordinary thinking everything is arranged
come to the conclusion that ordinary thinking is a combining way of
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Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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sphere of pure thinking, when he surrenders to the external
not the faintest inkling; namely, the activity of thinking. We
have left behind our thinking. Our thoughts continue, as it were,
the physical intermedium of thinking.
activity of thinking, we learn to recognize that this activity
which the forces of growth are active within us, thinking is
dulled. When we wake up, thinking must, so to speak, have a free
scale into its being through the activity of thinking in the
and thinking is therefore bound up with the earth. But in
perceiving how the beings whose thinking is connected with the
mineralization through thinking, we also learn to know through
mineralized during the thinking process; we perceive this in the
shallow knowledge of natural science; they think that they have
the objection raised by those who are accustomed to think in
of the thinking ordinarily looked upon as scientific thought;

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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applies to this sphere the same way of thinking, the same
way of thinking and a scientific mentality the foundations of
our thought to a high degree, so that our way of thinking becomes
our thought to a high degree, so that our way of thinking becomes
ordinary cognitive forces, but with a thinking intensified by
thinking in the same way in which a muscle is ordinarily
thinking to such an extent that it can live within its own
really attain to such a living way of thinking, then something
morphological way of thinking. Our thinking then contains a
if we learn to strengthen our thinking in the right way, if we
own soul. In the same way we know through imaginative thinking
Bergson, the French thinker, but we know that in the ordinary
think independently of the body, of being able to think in
to know these things through an intensification of thinking,
St. John of the Cross. Do not think that I fall back behind
meaning, should not only strengthen his thinking through
thinking emancipates itself from the body through meditation.
become an inner power which unites with the emancipated thinking.
of a remembered thought, only with this thinking developed in
thinking which we acquire, and on the other hand our transformed
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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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man's thinking today. I therefore beg especially those of our
which are really somewhat remote from the thinking, feeling and
We know that we must think of the ego itself as inwardly organized.

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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human etheric body and the etheric body of the people, and think too
You must think of the sequence of the Hierarchies of Spirits in the
Spirit of the Age, is expressed in a variety of ways. Think of how
work within man and create a certain way of thinking, a quite
backward Spirits of Form. Thus the way of thinking is an expression
when; furthermore, the mode of thinking which was brought about from

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 3. The inner Life of the Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
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think of the form of consciousness, of the entire soul-life of these
to reflect. The person who only feels and does not think may well be
think of the world in the way I have indicated as having continuity
human beings call the Intellectual or Mind Soul. Think of these
Folk-aura the Archangel is at work. We must think of him as a higher

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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specific human attributes of thinking, feeling and willing. The

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 5. Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
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life consists of thinking, feeling and willing; his outer vehicles
outer envelope — thinking, feeling and willing.
approximate idea of the Saturn mission, we may think of it as being
body, etheric body and astral body; thinking, feeling and willing —
between thinking, feeling and willing, first of all in his own inner
correspondence between the elements of thinking, feeling and willing
considering Earth-existence in this way we first described thinking,

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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Spirits of Form it is best to think of them as streaming down to us

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 9. Loki - Hodur and Baldur - Twilight of the Gods.
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for what he thinks, feels and wills, whereas in relation to his own
which arise from muddled thinking, at almost every turn. Imagine the
to deceive himself, to think incorrectly about things; that is to

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 10. The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
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Chinese Empire, if one thinks of the Great Wall of China which sought
all-embracing feeling. Just as we think of the Devachanic world as
can think of no other way of picturing the whole Spirit of the Earth
nature and all animate beings. We must think of this as a wholly
must think of this Slavonic soul as being able to see entities in
that we must think of this Being as possessing two centres of will.
influence, you will then have to think of Christ as having developed
in His three bodies the capacities of feeling, thinking and willing.
It is a human feeling, thinking and willing into which the Divine
feeling, thinking and willing descends. The European man will only

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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repeat again and again, namely, that materialistic thinking will have
feelings and our thinking and in the Anthroposophical goal we set

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture I
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body of knowledge would be of very little help. I hardly think
the gods concretely and perceptibly real. Think of Homer and of
Spiritual; think of the great figures of Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle's thinking is something so phenomenal, even when
thinking was raised by him to an eminence unsurpassed to this
acquired, let us say, from Theosophy, we think of these simple,
We need not think here of any conception of Christ in His
the philosopher on the throne. We think of the Neo-Platonists
surpass them in loftiness and breadth of vision. Thinking of
now let us think of men like Tertullian who with a certain
life. And when we think of those who were the most influential
now think of Copernicus, of the whole development of
member of the Dominican Order. The ideas of both these thinkers
instilled by Christianity. Think only of the moral life of men

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture II
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strange phenomena. And if we want to think truly about the
such education. I grew up in an entirely free-thinking
Christ. Especially in this domain I think I have a certain

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture III
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conceive. If we are to think correctly about these matters,
people think the opposite of the truth. There would be no
For just think what has been the outcome of it all in the
evolution of humanity, think of how it has been misunderstood!
are, people will think differently in many respects. Matters

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture V
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kinsmen around him began to think that he had lost his senses.
One would like to think that ultimately people really will
be made to words from the Gospel. With the way of thinking now
thinking must be changed, must be given another direction!
think that this wish is the best form of the farewell

Title: Eternal Soul of Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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could therefore definitely think that any force of nature
not allow ourselves to think that, if we can wake up out of the
thought was just abstract; you could think about something
thinking and action as a reality within you — now you see
initially, through active thinking, concentrated fully on
You need only think honestly about what
acquired conceptions stop. Think first of all about stopping
allow me to make the following comparison. Think to yourself:
silence, think of this: we can go from the loud roar to the
understand quite well, because you have first to think as a
When you compare the thinking, the feeling,
on through reinforced thinking, through the deep silence of the
given to me from the spiritual world, not merely to think it

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture I: Cosmic Forces in Man
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humanity has been passing. I cannot help thinking to-day of the
have nothing to do with this kind of thinking and who face the
equally materialistic mode of thinking must not be disparaged, yet it
idea of annihilation at death distasteful to him. Think about all that
The human form is a most marvellous structure. Think, to begin with,
But think of the ancient symbol. The true picture of this
For think of it — in the life of man there are also the same
dying we owe the fact that we can think and be conscious beings. The
himself if he sees only what is earthly and thinks that what is beyond

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture II: The Soul Life of Man ...
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life in him. We should not be able to think, the head would not be an
awakeness as complete as that of thinking and sense-perception. When
attentive and deliberately trains his thinking, he sees much more than
thinking that is connected with sense-perception is extinguished, for
concepts, such a man merely thinks words. He becomes unfree
because all his thinking is absorbed in words. This is a fundamental
Again, if we wish to understand thinking, feeling and willing, then we
of sense. Thinking, feeling and willing are the forces through which
Archangels depends upon how we have ennobled our thinking and
Midnight Hour of Existence, our thinking dies away. It is this
thinking which now, after the Midnight Hour of Existence, is
which permeate our physical organs of thinking in the coming earthly
life are shaped by our former thinking. The forces working in the
forces which have worked over into this life from thinking as it was
But first and foremost our thinking must be permeated with real
speaking only of his thoughts, of his more or less abstract thinking.
conduct — then his living thinking, his living will, his living
Our abstract, rationalistic thinking is verily a corpse of the
physical corpse, so we have in abstract thinking, a life of soul that
may pour new life into the abstract thinking that is a corpse of the
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Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture III: The Mission of the Scandanavian Peoples
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certain respect also to the life of feeling. The faculty of thinking
spiritual world — to the extent to which thinking is unmixed with
feeling. Our thinking faculty per se comes with us at birth
teachers we are incapable of helping the child to think
The faculty of thinking which we bring with us at birth, comes to an
egotistic life of soul in man, they think they have done what is
Think of the peninsula which you, together with the Swedes, have as
people are living and thinking to-day exactly as they did in 1914. In
I want you to think of the fourth century A.D., or rather of the
sense it is stripped of spirituality. Think now of your Northern world
think more of the external character of the peoples.
now think of the remarkable character — and this applies even at
think about things instead of trying to know them from inside
every reason at the present time to think about these things. It is,
our thinking. But the kind of will that is kindled in the Swedish soul

Title: Colour: Part Three: Colours as Revelations of the Psychic in the World
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have the plant if we think only of the vibrations in the trees which
And think now how one can live in colours! We experience the world as
thinking with the head, so we lose now the idea of space. Everything
to think in ideas, and no longer even to create forms, but to
clay, must think in terms of his material. He must live in it, so that

Title: Question/Economic Life: Lecture: The Central Question of Economic Life
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just what I have learnt from anthroposophical thinking in
life in particular by what he thinks and what he makes his
gets to know how the people think, how they feel. And when one
code of law. And surely the world will not think that the
think in general. And the most abstract is that, which in the
experience that contemporary thinking of people spontaneously
when one thinks up the best theories, practical life benefits
although man can think up the most ideal situation, what can be
they meet together, be able to think up ideal programs for the
in a separate association thinks and works in the spiritual
for today's economic thinking, that one bases it everywhere on
life, that one does not think of organizing a social organism
thinking, but that one tries to discover how human co-existence
economic thinking.
one can think of further tasks for these associations. If we
what good would it be to think about how man could be better
wish for, but it would be fruitless; for one could think up all
the most healthy way possible? I think that maybe as time goes
And one can believe that when one thinks in such a true

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture I: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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way of thinking, the same scientific method which he is
scientists. For, in regard to a scientific way of thinking and
thinking becomes just as alive and intensive as sensory
with a thinking intensified by meditation, concentration
strengthening the soul-faculty of thinking, just as a muscle is
strengthening thinking to such an extent that it can live
time, when we really attain to such a living way of thinking,
form-giving, morphological way of thinking. Our thinking then
This is the case if we learn to strengthen our thinking in the
know through imaginative thinking that the images which rise up
thinker, but we know that in the ordinary memory-process the
think independently of the body, of being able to think in
intensification of thinking, through an enhancement and
of a St. Theresa or of a St. John of the Cross. Do not think
anthroposophical sense, should not only strengthen his thinking
organisation, even as our thinking emancipates itself from the
thinking. This leads us to a real perception of the true nature
thinking developed in free meditation, can the act of falling
This strengthened thinking which we acquire, and on the other
asleep, only because our thinking has been intensified. The
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Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture II: Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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think that I explained to you sufficiently clearly that both in
being belongs more than one generally thinks to the development
even think that in these abnormal conditions a kind of
thinking, by something existing inhuman thought.
thinking, feeling and willing, so that he can judge his
super-sensible experiences with his everyday thinking, feeling
thinking capacity, which is bound up, as we already have seen,
individual life (individual life requires thinking forces which
our thinking power. But we must also learn to make
were, gives our ordinary thinking and feeling a kind of
support, but man's thinking cannot reach the required degree of
I may use this expression — to think backwards. When the
practice in this thinking backwards in the form of pictures. It
is relatively easy to think backwards larger portions of
emancipate our thinking from the external course of time. The
thinking and feeling must be overcome. By forcefully thinking
and stronger capacity of thinking than that employed for a
merely passive thinking. Our thinking power can be essentially
strengthened just by this way of thinking backwards.
thinking has been emancipated from its connection with the
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Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture III: World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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discover that when he ascends to the sphere of pure thinking,
namely the activity of thinking. We have, as you know, left
behind our thinking. Our thoughts continue, as it were, to
constitutes the physical instrumentality of thinking.
filled by the activity of thinking, we now learn to recognise
growth are active within us, thinking is dulled. When we wake
up, thinking must, so to speak, have a free hand to dissolve
on a small scale in the activity of thinking in the human
they might also exist within us, and thinking is therefore
have bound their thinking with the earth emerge from that which
its mineralization through thinking, we also learn to know
thinking process; we perceive this in the same way in which we
shallow knowledge of natural science. They think that they have
accustomed to think in accordance with modern ideas: “But
the thinking ordinarily looked upon as scientific thinking,

Title: Lecture I: Man in the Light of Occultism
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foundations of existence; but philosophy makes use of the thinking and
are common to such apparently different thinkers, for example, as the

Title: Lecture II: Man in the Light of Occultism
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life of feeling. Think how it is with a man who is beginning on a path
plane, I must think and judge and discriminate as I did before my
thoughts he no longer thinks, but only remembers.

Title: Lecture III: Man in the Light of Occultism
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The thinking of ordinary life and the researches carried out on the
think without using his brain, To a materialist of today such a
however, think of the light which is communicated through the eye,
accustomed to think much in life, he will at this point get into
unless he has learned in life to think. This is the reason for the
importance, it is the discipline we undergo in learning to think more
same time we observe that our capacity for thinking about the affairs
think about the affairs of everyday life, as well as when we carry out
develop in such thinking contains nothing that has not been
of the senses and of natural scientific thinking, and makes us capable
the thinking and investigating that can be accounted for out of
were thinking what we find there. For when we are thinking a
thought we have the impression we are thinking it now; whereas
feeling we are thinking it now. It is most important to note this
which I spoke do not seem like thoughts he is thinking now, but like
philosophy that will, I think, be clear to you from all we have been
experience. Only by thinking away from the spoken word everything that
ourselves thinking: “It is in very truth my own self that is
forms; we must have trained our brain to think thoughts within which
that they will themselves demonstrate their validity when men think
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Title: Lecture IV: Man in the Light of Occultism
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From this it will be evident that man must necessarily think of the
receive these one does need to do at any rate a little thinking!
surroundings, not thinking there is any necessity so to do, such a
is easy to see why. Think of a man who has driven out of his

Title: Lecture V: Man in the Light of Occultism
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of soul, over your thinking, feeling and willing, there too you cannot
throughout the course of earthly life. And yet, if we stop to think it
contradicts the philosophers who speak of an enduring ego and think
all. Therefore, when we think of our ego, we have to make the picture
of it inside us, as Bergson and others think we can, if it were
man as we meet with it in the external world You will, I think, not
to study his form we must inevitably think of it as divisible into

Title: Lecture VI: Man in the Light of Occultism
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man, from which one thinks away all the remaining parts and members of
moreover as a world which we are thinking of as containing within it
Think of the most simple and elementary movements of the hand. Does
hands. In that case you would have to think away the whole of human
is here wholly adapted to the outside world. If you think it over a
therefore must there be this partition at the knee. Think how
in thinking between perception and movement; consequently his deeds
do not take the trouble to think accurately on these matters that we
self-dependent members within him — the thinking soul, the
— thinking, feeling and willing — are united in the
one step towards a higher consciousness, thinking, feeling, and
into a thinking man, a feeling man and a willing man.
realm, into three parts or members, — the thinking man, the

Title: Lecture VII: Man in the Light of Occultism
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into a thinking man, a feeling man and a willing man. Split up, as it
round with you as thinking Earth man — impressions from
To think that men just happened to become Sun worshippers without any
quality of present-day thinking. When it is a matter of speaking or
man and were more disposed to think, to have ideas, — that is, to
thinking and pondering and delving deep into things, — for them
instrument of their thinking, the source, that is, of their upper man.
think of it as something super-sensible that is behind the Sun.”
been told that the organ of their thinking had its origin in the far
outer eye, they were to think rather of the invisible that is behind

Title: Lecture VIII: Man in the Light of Occultism
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make up the content of our life of soul, — we may think them to
When I say, “The thought of the I comes,” you must think of

Title: Lecture IX: Man in the Light of Occultism
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have made the effort to achieve this understanding, then, if you think
star, and we have to think in a corresponding way of the forces that
I do not think anyone will doubt what I have just said, if he sets
that when he thinks, a delicate movement is taking place all
here two inner movements, the movements of thinking and of speaking.
Movement of thinking
Movement of thinking
In doing so we are thinking of the power and force of the Sun Spirit

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is perfectly possible. Think of what happens in ordinary life. In
who thinks only of himself — we are obliged to clothe it all in
thinking, feeling and willing. When we pass beyond the external and
manifests and comes to expression in thinking, feeling and willing.
manifestations of the astral body are thinking; feeling and willing.
and not tempered and made gentle by an I. If you will think it over
Think of the continuation of the life of Buddha, this Master of
feeble manner in man's thinking. In the human aura alone can the
clairvoyant see thinking as light. All that comes from light he can
see only as aura. Nevertheless in thinking — in that which on the
thinking, — that is to say, in that portion of the human spirit

Title: Man's Being: Lecture I: On the Nature and Destiny of Man and World
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which man is able to think, feel and accomplish out of his
thinking, feeling, and willing. If someone has become sixty,

Title: Man's Being: Lecture II: Life between Death and a New Incarnation
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through thinking, withdraws from the human being and goes out
done by thinking of the dead as vividly as possible;
think of what you experience when brief memory-images of
When we speak of germs here on earth, we think of
must think of it as immense, enormous. It is a universe; and
develops its thoughts — for learning to think should be
learning to think — the compressed, modest, terrestrial

Title: Man's Being: Lecture III: Our Experiences at Night, Life after Death
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conceptual thinking only after acquiring the faculty of
to think.
passes through three stages: walking, speaking, and thinking.
thinking. We recognize how it is the work of the Archai that
plastically formed in order that the child may learn thinking
This would be much too easy. By such a way of thinking,
Archangels; and, when the child begins to think, the
physical objects in the outer world. Think how many people in
facts will clearly recognize what lies behind them. Think of a

Title: Man's Being: Lecture IV: Man's Being, His Destiny and World Evolution - 1
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thinking or forming of mental representations,
mental activity. Of what we are thinking we are fully conscious
And only mental activity, thinking, is a matter of real
physical sense, thinking or mental activity is a depositing of
state as our thinking, we experience in the etheric body, the
is not true. Whenever we think, our nerve-fibers are always
speaking, and thinking. These three
destiny. And, when learning how to think, he expresses
assume that we do not think while lying in bed. We think
astral body dwell outside our thoughts. Thinking is an activity
thinking all night long while lying in bed; since your ego is
away, however, you do not know that you think.
thinking. Generally, our thoughts are much keener when our ego
laws of the universe, thinks by itself and man does not ruin
these thoughts, then man's thinking, no longer muddled up by

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modern men most profoundly. You only need to think of a
corpse. Ancient man, however, did not think of his body as a
because their thinking was more imaginative; because their
out of an unconscious feeling, because he was unable to think

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Christ told us was a mistake. Today we must think
Yet the modern age thinks differently. About twenty-four years
learning to think of the earth as a rounded body, one
willing and thinking. I do not object to such things, which may
by keeping him away from too much thinking; but teach him

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Christiania, 10-5-'13
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one step to the next. For one thing, one can no longer think the
extent that they show him how wild moderns' exoteric thinking
can get. Of the three soul forces it's thinking that can go wild the
of thinking. Why? Because images like those of microscopic man and
his thinking than angels are — of whom an ancient document
embarrassment for men's errors. The Gods created man as a thinking
supposed to be a thinking being. But if a man believes that
thinking could exist by itself when he lets it run wild, he must then
fall prey to errors and lose the connection with universal thinking,
the primal source of thinking. Then the angels cover their faces.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Oslo, 10-6-'13
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mirror image, but Ahriman tries to make one think that it's a
But if he breaks it apart and thinks that it's walking, if he
think that they can be proud of what they did themselves. We

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-16-10
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and thinking in such a way that we can then pour it out again into

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They wake and think in the animal kingdom.
caused by occult development or think that doctors can't treat

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and the ability to think will disappear from a man if he devotes

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willing, feeling and thinking are strengthened. A study of theosophy
authority. One should check everything with one's thinking.
confirm theosophy with one's thinking.
three things are supposed to have a healing effect on thinking,

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in anthroposophical thinking there arises at a certain moment a great
exclusively in ideas and begin to “think” in pictures. No
of our soul. In our age we not only think abstractly, we dress abstractly.
thinking of the realms through which we passed before descending to
think at all; you feel the true significance of forehead, crown, eye,
tools of thinking. But thoughts live in forms. It is thus that a sculptor
would become a sculptor, his head must cease to think. It is the most
dreadful thing for a sculptor to think with his head. It is nonsense;
beholding of the world, rather than cerebral thinking, which leads to
skirts them from outside, whereas the anthroposophical way of thinking
experience, cannot think of vibrations as causing the colors, the way a
as sculptors, we abandoned head thinking, so now we lose the concept
where we no longer feel impelled to speak in words, no longer to think

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it would be very little indeed. I don't think that
time. Aristotle's thinking, his scholarliness is so
in human thinking which has not been improved upon until
back in time as a believer in reincarnation, one can think
people think for or against it, so much so that it seems to
of what the people think of Christ, and immerses in their

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contemporary materialistic thinking. When one opens a book
spirit. Especially in this area I think I have a certain

Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture III
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think the opposite of what makes sense about the simplest

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through the land he often had to think about how he had
to think about Bath-Kol, who had revealed the old mystery
think that it was always Christ Jesus – for Christ
people think today. Therefore this thinking must be changed
think this is the best farewell greeting I can give at the

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thereby penetrate its meaning. One could also think that the explanation
then we must begin by thinking of the human being as the human being
presented by Theosophy or spiritual science. We must think of the human

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the power of judgment or logical thinking. They had none of the mental
individual spiritual capacities of thinking and judgment in their first

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into thinking there is nothing but physical matter he calls Ahriman,
stage to stage we acquire the concept of history. A thinking human being
Let us think our way into

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thinking these people all stood at the highest level.

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was like if we think away the bones, nerves, and muscles from the human
think of the carpet of vegetation covering the earth without the forces
aspect of the thinking and feeling of that epoch.

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as it may sound to modern thinking, to a clairvoyant a personality such

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being after the war of all against all. We can think of him or her as

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with the scales, with which all thinking and human intelligence are
beings equipped with modern logical thinking who have also become

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forms it according to how we think. But the word will become increasingly

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