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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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will realise that one brief lecture is foredoomed to be both
science will inevitably come up against these boundaries and are
involuntarily or at will, pictures of our life since birth, or rather
here and tries by deliberate efforts of will to bring ideas,
fundamental guiding-lines for a study which will have to be pursued
complete survey, deliberately and as a free act of will at the centre
time. Some people will require more time, others less, according to
will be no danger of succumbing to anything in the nature of
suggestion or auto-suggestion; every moment of the exercise will be
filled with a conscious activity of will and after a time we shall
will need a lengthy period, another may achieve considerable success
in a few months; others again will need years. The principle,
which will lead him to the reality of the higher worlds.
intensified. But before long it will be noticed that something very
in other circumstances, thoughts, ideas, feelings, impulses of will,
what I have said to-day, will realise that the path taken by
manifestations of mediumship for what they really are. Nobody will
moment, and at will, look back to what formed part of his
that is now permeated with will. He can speak of the super-sensible
his consciousness, it is possible for him to do so again, at will, no
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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From this point of view it will sometimes be necessary
to meet our explanations with a certain amount of good-will; for were
and proof of what will be said here in the next few days, it would
your goodwill and sympathetic spiritual understanding. For indeed the
Perhaps you will better understand what we mean if you
This will show you that a certain degree of maturity in mystical or
the near future will bring men together much more than has hitherto
individuals belonging to the several peoples will only be able to
great rôle; in a not far-distant future this sentence will be
This saying will have a certain significance for the future work of
Now in our age it will be peculiarly difficult to
future higher forms. The ‘ I ’ will remodel and
transform the astral, so that it will become something different from
what it is to-day. The astral body will then represent what you know
work of the ‘ I ’ will be accomplished upon the
which we can imagine at present, is that man will spiritualize that
physical body; he will transform it and change it into the spiritual.
That will be the highest member of the human being, when the ‘ I ’
seems grossest and most material, will, when transformed by the
the future, the ‘ I ’ will make something new.
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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characteristics peculiar to the various peoples. The materialist will
we spoke of yesterday — and you will also find it described in
— you will say that of these Beings it was the Archangels who went
guided from epoch to epoch according to the will of the intuiting
will, but those who take possession of him and forcefully push him
that conditions will be touched upon which you must meet with your
of a ‘folk’ is defined, and you will see what curious
Hence one will naturally always obtain very different
Thus you will see, that we shall only understand the

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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In the course of these lectures we shall study matters which will, so to
say, easily enter into the soul of each one, because each one will be
comprehension, and which will be a little more difficult than that
will not be quite easy but we must endeavor to cross this rubicon.
It will now be a case of starting out from some conception with which
You may nevertheless form an idea of it if you will patiently follow
make 180 deg., but you will at once be informed, whether you draw
it will in every case bring this certainty; you may carry out the
the sum-total of the angles of all triangles will give 180 deg.
these Archangels. You will already have noticed, from what I have
corresponds to the great ordinances of the Archangels. You will form
case, you will find that it is here solely a question of a victory of
several events you will find that the opportunity was here made use
Spirits of Wisdom. You will find these different spiritual Beings

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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as that has run its course hitherto. If you will bring before your
Will or Thrones, the Spirits of Wisdom, of Motion, of Form, of
the Spirits of Will or Thrones, the Cherubim and Seraphim, —
you will admit that only from a very complicated work could that come
of the child from the standpoint of spiritual science, you will admit
that, if you come to think of it, you will no longer find it very
From what I have just said, you will see in which period
the races are evolving too. Races have arisen and they will some day
seventh, there will be no question of a condition which we may
civilization. You will see that a very ancient Indian civilization,
that in reality all civilization flows onward, you will then see that
old age. Hence in the West they will still be able to accomplish much
You will understand now why I said, that what I had to communicate
the spiritual will again become of no importance.
Hence you will understand, that with this whole process
reasoning, feeling and willing. The folk or nation lies between the
next lecture we will consider the growing up of peoples out of the
races, the intervention of other Spirits of the Hierarchies, and will

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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It will be seen from the last lecture, that in order to penetrate
impartially into the facts under consideration, it will certainly be
so long will it be difficult to obtain an unprejudiced understanding
lectures, if it be rightly understood, will bring no dissatisfaction
as this, will nevertheless produce discontent and disharmony in
Anthroposophist will learn, through the teaching of karma and
will be so very important, that in the second
part of this course of lectures it will be shown how the
what has already been explained, you will then know that we so
1. Spirits of Will or Thrones,
most external manifestation of these spiritual Beings. I will show
of the North. Now the first thing he will say of it is: ‘Here
there is substance spread out,’ and he will describe this
Thrones, the Spirits of Will. These Spirits radiate their forces from
and as it were an agreement between the Spirits of Will and the
opposed activity of the Spirits of Will and the Spirits of Motion
different. If, for instance, only the Spirits of Will were to work
Will and the Spirits of Motion originally worked together, — I
Through the co-operation of the Spirits of Will and the
to the Will-forces, acting in conjunction with the Spirits of Motion,
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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work that finally a state of equilibrium comes about. Hence you will
Spirits of Will, the Cherubim and Seraphim, as being something which,
You will therefore only be able to form a complete idea
But if you take this into consideration, you will then
You will also to a certain extent have the feeling that knowledge
you will have become somewhat more closely acquainted with what may
conception of this, you will acquire an inner knowledge of these
you will find it pointed out that in old Atlantis, in
You will now perceive the special element contained in
attacks chiefly upon the blood, then you will also comprehend why the
Now you will also understand that a people like the
senses has the upper hand, so will the different peoples be
starting-points of occultism and it will show you that in those
as those of you will know who took part in my course of
something that will be easier to us, because we shall be connecting

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 7
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last few days, you will find it comprehensible that not only a
call the Semitic Folk-spirit. His was a very special task. This will
You may look round wherever you will in the world, and you will see
and so on. Everywhere you will find a trinity and this again divided
the last lecture you will know that it is in their blood, to
will be a source for everything which may again be changed and
Those of you who dwell in the North will be interested
closely. The following question will especially interest you: How did
question will be, how those tendencies which once upon a time an
of the Age. These tendencies will be able to become an important part
mythology, will be brought before us as a special chapter.

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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the spiritual impulses therein described, it will be necessary first
this you will also recognize that just for those very peoples of the
closed themselves to Western spiritual life. They will certainly

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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apparent difficulties, and indeed for the reason that they will have
The apparent contradiction will at once disappear if you
will be able to understand it philosophically also, as you will all
mythology. If you bear this in mind you will understand why Europe
feels and wills; whereas as regards his own concerns he was guided by
It will seem very remarkable to you that in the views of
You will find, — for at the time of the writers of the Gospels
the Luciferic powers lie hidden, he will have nothing to do even with
You may search as you will through the many different
mythologies and concepts of the world, but in none of them will you
one felt with compelling accuracy that which will only gradually
day only give hints as to this Luciferic influence. What you will
and death are produced. That will easily be understood by those who
materialistic will be greatly surprised that Spiritual Science should
consciousness, and you will find this image made use of in this
Materialistic people of to-day will say that this is a
the one you will find in modern books, for the latter is even more
vision, but contemplated it with the old clairvoyance, and you will
look ye therefore upon the unique Figure Who will appear in the land
through Whom ye will be able to find the connection with the Divine,
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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of the ‘Twilight of the Gods’, it will be well to form a
collective picture; and you will perceive from what has been said,
folk-characters in their light and shadow sides, you will find that
Then you will be able to understand the peculiar nature
had been driven outwards, you will find that the great historical
impulse. You will also find that what took place there in the
will understand the details of the Chinese culture. This culture was
completely different side. It will therefore seem quite
epoch will one day clash in these two civilizations: the Indian,
by science, you will find how extraordinarily illuminating these
perfectly unbroken stream. You will understand that only the remnants
time encircled the Atlantean Continent. You will now also understand
European culture, thus indicating prophetically that he will be able
himself will reach a culture in which his Spiritual Soul will attain
to a state into which the Spirit-Self can come; so that man will in
the higher nature will hold the lower nature under complete control.
understood. Solovioff recognizes that two Will-centers must be thought
within His three bodies the capacities of feeling, thought and will.
There you have a human feeling, thinking and willing into which the
divine Feeling, Thinking and Willing has immersed itself. The
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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will not be the last time we shall speak together here on similar
directing activity over this country, will permeate with the
from then on, this modern spiritual research will be fertilized in a
which I was able to give here, will remember that once upon a time in
does not know that this event really did occur, will understand what
you will see what a significant rôle the interminglings and relationships
away in the smallest of boxes — the human skull. You will find
Those of you who will go more deeply into these things,
will be gradually convinced that this is no fantasy; but that what
its national character. Hence also you will see why I have said that
new capacities begin to develop in man. These will at first appear in
single individuals, in a few especially gifted ones only. It will
come about, for instance, that persons will be able, through the
the etheric body are developed will be found in increasing numbers,
and will attain to clairvoyance, which can to-day be acquired only by
training. And why will this be so? What will the etheric body possess
for the perception of those few? There will be people who will
man will do something in the external world and will then feel
himself impelled to observe something. A sort of dream-picture will
come before his eyes which at first he will not understand. But if he
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Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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present at my last lecture, it will be necessary to weave into this
complete willpower. A person who wishes to become a spiritual
unconsciously, without the application of our will.
is completely permeated by a clear, conscious will.
higher knowledge, will see that this kind of spiritual investigation
exercises principally characterised as thought-exercises (you will
systematic way. (One person will need longer time for the attainment
Perhaps you will allow me to make a personal remark; which, however,
is not meant personally, but, as you will readily admit, it belongs
conception, an idea or a thought, we cannot pass over at will to
another. Even as in the human organism we cannot pass over at will
Perhaps you will also have heard of the terrible condition of certain
speculations, simply based on the fact that people are unwilling to
experiment for a long time, yet they will only come to quite abstract
time, will find that after the second dentition certain soul-forces
memory, more sharply outlined feelings, and they will know that these
permeated by the will. But this thinking now appears in a new
difficult to penetrate, but I think you will be able to grasp what I
organism (we will restrict ourselves to the skeleton). We must not
permeated by the will even when we ascend to the highest worlds and
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Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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which I took the liberty to give you, will have shown you that
will, simply cannot attain consciousness, because it has no
organs. By making the thought and will exercises of which I have
strange country which is indifferent to us. This will show us
our feeling and our will must be drawn in through special
circumstances; we must include the feeling and the will which
that in life itself feeling and will must first be drawn into the
a knowledge of the higher worlds, many things will therefore have
to be said differently, the descriptions will have to be
know as our physical world, through our feeling and will, the
who at least try to understand them, will see that the
description of the development of the world, will discover that
enhanced development of the animal form; you will then recognize
will then also understand why it is so.
show that the earth will end through a kind of death by heat, but
will pass through the earth's portal of death when the earth no
longer exists; it will pass over into a new world development,
spiritual-scientific deepening many passages in the Gospels will
this scientific foundation, will also find that finally the
starry world surrounding the earth will decay; they will look
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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interest in the problems which will form the subject of my three
sensations and will impulses, and that the soul can really
which I will not mention here, one can see that Sir Oliver Lodge
anthroposophical research (I hope that my three lectures will
everyone can test them … whenever the human will (and we
attains cognitive power. Since the human will is directed towards
which will take place in the future out of the whole connections
person may foresee, in the form of a picture, that he will, for
instance, be thrown by his horse. All precautions will be
appear in the forces of cognition, of the will and of feeling.
the will exercises already mentioned to you, which will be
characterized more fully in these lectures. Will exercises
the will exercises already mentioned to you, which will be
characterized more fully in these lectures. Will exercises
of the human will, and explains that through certain exercises
the will can be developed so that one changes and is able to
the aid of the ordinary scientific methods applied today, will
and also with transformed forces of the will.
meditation, so we may learn to know through the WILL how to pass
the will only acquires a certain value when it passes over to
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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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hope that the course of lectures, which I am about to undertake, will
this point of view it will sometimes be necessary to ask you to
accept what I shall have to say with a certain amount of good-will,
appeal to a modicum of good will in you and to your sympathetic
the implications of this will be best understood if you recall that
mankind in the near future will bring men together in far greater
common to all mankind. But the members of the individual peoples will
not too distant future the following injunction will be addressed to
maxim will have a certain significance for the activity of mankind in
physically, may also have invisible, super-sensible members will be
into the higher form of the future. The ego will transmute the astral
the ego will refashion and transmute the etheric or life-body into
or Spirit Man it will be the highest member of man's being.
present incarnated and three others which the ego will fashion into
Self or Manas which he will fashion out of the astral body in the
foreshadowing of what the Life Spirit or Buddhi will be — a
the Spiritual Soul is a feeble foreshadowing of what will one day be
distant future, will know that man, such as I have portrayed him in
to develop these three members further. You will also be aware, no
astral bodies into Spirit Self or Manas, or will do so during our
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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it will be said, of course, that the work upon the etheric body is
you recall what we spoke of yesterday — and you will find a
you will know that it was the
A moment's reflection will show that definite prior conditions
his influence in a certain direction, physical objects will
inevitably take on a quite definite pattern. You will recall that on
guided according to the will of the intuiting Spirits of Personality
a book on ethnology you will find the strangest assortment of
interpretations because one will respond more to what stems from the
of the people. Each has a different response which will modify his
to maya or illusion. A writer's statements will betray how far

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 3. The inner Life of the Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
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lectures we shall undertake investigations that will readily strike a
responsive chord in all of you because they will stimulate your
which you will find rather more difficult to grasp than the central
of these Folk Spirits. That will not be very easy, but we must be
you will bear with me in the following observation.
you will never discover from external experience alone that the sum
whether you construct a triangle or merely imagine it, you will know
to two right angles. You need only visualize this figure and it will
the logic of mathematics you will have some idea of how the
will recall how man's ‘I’, his highest member,
what I have said you will have observed no doubt that what man
people. You may look in vain for other explanations; you will find
you will find that the opportunity was taken — and such
ideas will be more elastic. A nation is not a race. The concept of

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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will call to mind all the Beings who worked together during those
incarnations, the Spirits of Will or Thrones, the Spirits of Wisdom,
education of the child you will know that in the first seven-year
On reflection, therefore, you will not be surprised to learn that the
race will be clear to you from what I have just said. One cannot
evolving too. Races are born and will at some future time cease to
superseded by the sixth and seventh, race as such will have ceased to
relationships will become
in a state of flux, you will then realize that the further we move
age. Western man will still be able to benefit mankind by making
This was always known in the Mystery Schools. You will now understand
civilization and which in a still later epoch will have lost their
significance when man rediscovers his spiritual vision. Thus you will
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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It will be seen from
people, it will be difficult to reach an unprejudiced understanding
already suggested. The aspirant for spiritual knowledge will learn
of human evolution. This, however, will only become apparent to us
the different nations. But this will be nothing more than a general
member. You will recall that we placed man on the lowest rung of the
Spirits of Will — Thrones
landscape of Norway. His first impression will be of a rocky expanse
spread out before him. He will describe this solid rock formation in
Thrones, the Spirits of Will. The forces streaming in from the
the Spirits of Will and the Spirits of Movement as a consequence of
present planetary form. The forces of the Spirits of Will and the
different. If, for example, only the Spirits of Will were to ray
the Spirits of Will and the Spirits of Movement originally worked in
of the Spirits of Will and the Spirits of Movement but for the
of the activity of the Spirits of Form with the Spirits of Will (the
the realms of the Spirits of Will below them as well as in that of
of Will. But another element is always associated with this activity.
The Spirits of Will (or Thrones) are assisted by the Cherubim or
Our planet therefore is so constituted that the Spirits of Will (or
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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of balance or equilibrium be achieved. You will understand therefore
Spirits of Will, the Cherubim and Seraphim, which we described
will only be able, therefore, to form a complete picture of the very
existence. If you bear this in mind then you will also sense the
extent you will also feel that the field of knowledge must be
lecture) especially at the close of that lecture, you will have a
standpoint you will become aware of the five centres where the
distribution you will develop an inner understanding of the racial
you now move over to Asia you will find there likewise the planetary
will now understand the peculiar character of the Semitic people and
worked principally in the blood, you will understand why racial
you will also understand why a people like the Greeks who were
senses predominates, so will the different peoples respond in this or
in those Mysteries in which — as those of you will know who
something which will be easier to understand, because we shall be

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 7. Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
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spirit of the lectures given here in the last few days you will be
Spirit. His task was of a very special kind ‘ You will
Wherever you turn you will find that in some form or other the
Odin, Hönir and Lödur of German mythology. You will find a
is concerned with the continuance of the old Hebraic impulse will
Christianity will remain a living source, able to be renewed and
of you who live in Scandinavia will be interested in something which
will be of particular interest to you: What form did the activity of
be in the course of time for all mankind. The problem will be how
These potentialities will be able to become an important element in
mythology, and a special section will be devoted to a description of

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 9. Loki - Hodur and Baldur - Twilight of the Gods.
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difficulties, because they will have heard in the course of earlier
apparent contradiction will resolve itself at once if you recall that
philosophical problems will be solved and those of Spiritual Science
you bear this in mind you will realize that Europe was destined to
for what he thinks, feels and wills, whereas in relation to his own
speaks of both Luciferic and Ahrimanic powers. It will seem very
Luciferic influence can be found there. You will find evidence for
You will find — for at the time when the Gospels were written
inward path. Where the Luciferic powers are lurking he will not allow
as you will through the many different mythologies and conceptions of
the world, in none of them will you find such a clear and profound
will only return gradually to the consciousness of man through
Anthroposophical Society. What you will come to understand more and
last series of lectures will easily understand that. [
course the materialists of the present day will be greatly surprised
wolf. This permeates the whole of Nordic consciousness and you will
of today will reply that this is pure superstition, that there is no
view is more correct than the one you will find in modern textbooks,
explanation, he will find that the Teutonic myth is correct. I am
but contemplated it with the old clairvoyance, you will find that
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 10. The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
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what will emerge from any further elaboration of the significant
image of the Twilight of the Gods, it will be well to establish a
development of mankind in the remote past, in the present and will
great collective task. You will realize from what has been said that,
characters in their positive and negative aspects you will find that
fusion of the ‘I’ with the Sentient Soul. You will be
will find that the great historical conquests of the inhabitants of
that island proceed from this impulse. You will also find that the
Spirit”; you will understand the peculiarities of Chinese
the post-Atlantean epoch, will clash at some future time — the
existing findings of science you will find how extraordinary
continent of Atlantis which will be found where the Atlantic Ocean
at that time encircled the Atlantean continent. Now you will recall
Spirit. What consequences will ensue when a Folk Spirit so directs
present epoch which is not yet concluded. The next epoch will see the
the time when he will be able to unite something even greater with
which foresees that man himself will participate in a culture in
which his Spiritual Soul will be able to receive the Spirit Self, so
that in the sixth epoch of civilization man will feel himself to be a
duality in whom the higher nature will curb the lower.
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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will not be the last time that we shall speak together here on
directs and guides this country (Norway) will imbue modern philosophy
over the centuries and that henceforth modern spiritual research will
lectures which I was able to give here will recall that once upon a
will understand the account Tacitus gives of the Goddess Nerthus
skull. You will find all this portrayed in a wonderful way in the
of you who probe more deeply into these matters will be gradually
inherent potentialities of the people. You will therefore appreciate
1,899) new capacities will appear in the isolated few who are
specially fitted to receive them. A time will come when individuals
will be able, through the natural development of the new
course of the next centuries, increasing numbers of people will be
that they will attain to clairvoyance, which today can only be
acquired through training. How are we to account for this? What will
clairvoyance? There will be some who will receive clairvoyant
world-events conform to law, he will then realize, little by little,
who are open to the stimulus of Spiritual Science will, from the
the ‘Mystery of the Living Christ’. There will be a new
occult training will, by the transformation of the physical body,
show the Mystery of the Living Christ in a new way — as it will
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture I
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Although, as you will hear, this Fifth Gospel has never yet
been written down, in future times of humanity it will
History will be presented quite differently. It is certain
will play quite a different and much more important part
and reflects on the main interests of people to-day will have
that as this age of ours advances, the Christ Idea will play a
now we will approach the subject from another side. I have
will realise that any real understanding of the Christ
reflection will show that it is not.
caused their souls to turn to the Being called Christ. It will
applied to explain the figure of Christ, will rapidly rise, and
impulses which have turned men towards the Christ will sink. It
now for a moment we will take a strange hypothesis, but one
that will help us to understand what will be said in these
lectures. We will imagine that there were no Gospels at all to
will consider what has actually come to pass. This, of course,
philosophy but we will focus our attention to-day upon the
many other features will be stressed in connection with the
spread of Christianity is concerned, it will not be difficult
deeply into the roots of these things will recognise that what
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture II
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will begin to-day by turning our thoughts to the event known as
own and yet to come, they will find more understanding than is
possible now. For in order to comprehend many a thing that will
have to be said on this occasion, the human soul will have to
break free from much that has been and will be instilled into
laid in the grave ... And here I will add that the more one
day, perhaps, people will understand — in the scientific
and reads these events with clairvoyant sight, will be emphatic
that times will come when it will be possible to speak of these
we are all of us children of the age. But a time will come in
the near future when it will be possible to speak with greater
mind, such a time will come. For this reason it is a certain
as something which in the future it will be possible to express
much more adequately and with greater precision. You will
reluctance” if you will allow me not to withhold a
you ponder these words you will realise that they indicate
which I will designate as the mysteries of the Fifth Gospel.

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ideas acquired from our studies in Theosophy will help us to
order to achieve some measure of clarity, we will begin by
purposes. Study the evolution of mankind on earth and you will
that a spirit cannot suffer will be incapable of any true
the really deep sense, much will be acquired for a true
are, people will think differently in many respects. Matters
gist of it. Perhaps in time to come the world will be
book with writing like that of a cheap novel, will be regarded
life been as Renan describes it! But in times to come it will
body of Jesus, we will, to begin with, only consider the fact
when He so willed, Christ worked as the super-earthly Christ
the future will need such understanding if they are to make

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about the contents of the Fifth Gospel, I will begin to-day
dem nicht waltet der Himmel Wille,
Wherein the Will of the Heavens does not rule,
who will be a Messiah! Therefore they looked around for souls
the Essenes received him into their community — I will
Anyone who experiences such things will not find it good
things we will speak further in the lecture to-morrow.

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the end of his twenties. You will certainly have realised from
mankind. For your theosophical studies will have brought you
we will turn once again to the soul of Jesus of Nazareth and
of the two men said: I will go to any lengths to make Hillel
dem nicht waltet der Himmel Wille,
Wherein the Will of the Heavens does not rule,
will relate it as it actually transpired.
old. I will establish a new kingdom. If thou wilt enter my
realm I will give thee all the beauty and the glory contained
acknowledge me, I will nullify the effects of the fall and no
harm will come to thee! Ahriman said: I will keep thee from
“Wherein the Will of the Heavens does not rule,” He
reversed: “Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in
proceeds the other portions of this Gospel will assuredly
I will pause! Such are the methods of our opponents. We may
to be wary. Perhaps one day everyone will have their eyes
these things displeasing for rather more honest reasons. I will
Anthroposophists will treat this Fifth Gospel which has been
arrogant or too limited to be willing to know the actual truths
nowadays. For all that, it will be difficult in the modern age
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there will also be interruptions here and there throughout the lecture.
from the point of view of a truly spiritual knowledge will be
whether the insight, the inner realization, will stop within
of this awakening? We switch our will on, especially in our
body, in our physical tasks. These depend on the will. After
essentially caused by the awakening of the will in the senses,
will be shown whether such a second awakening as I have
that man will not develop even this soul force further; he will
the depths of the human being thought pictures will be conjured
comparison will know that this is the first step of a new
will now be achieved with the same power with which one has
these visual concepts and you know that the person will fall
receive from the above the silent "goose bumps," they will at
that this will be now be taken as a power of knowledge for the
will experience something like a deep pain of the soul. And the
against the pain, then he will learn as a spiritual researcher
slightly different way. Because he will understand, yes, that
he will have what I have described as a higher knowledge
experience ourselves in the same elements where we will be with
of the soul who does not have the will to achieve knowledge of
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those of you who have studied what was then said, will have realised
been within the reach of many leading men, they were not willing to
refuge in them, life will go on quite peacefully. But those who will
will come in European affairs when much will depend upon whether
Norway can count among its people, men who will range themselves on
There will be no peace on the Earth until a certain harmony is
luxuries they are, and nothing more — it will amount to no more
will outshine all the glory of oriental wisdom that once poured down
economic and industrial interests, so long will there be distrust in
Asia will be able to trust it, because with their own inherent, though
somewhat decadent spirituality, the Asiatic peoples will be able to
to put their heads in the sand, saying that things will improve of
themselves. No, they will not. The hour of a great decision has
struck. Either men will resolve to bring forth the spirituality of
manipulate his powers out of his own freewill. In other words: it
the decision is positive, progress will be possible; if not, the doom
evolution of humanity will take a course undreamed of to-day. Those
work fruitfully upon the rest of the Western world. Indeed it will
deathlessness and unborn-ness, the true being of man will never
is said along these lines and you will realise that the sermons are
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will.
will we are asleep, even when fully awake. When we raise an
the will operates in the organism. We know as little about that as
wake up. In our willing, in our actions, we are asleep, while in our
waking life too. In our will we are asleep and in our feelings we
willing. It is therefore obviously important to realise what it is
most recent... you will find nothing but minute objects which are
but which will inevitably arise before us after death.
I will now describe certain other aspects.
moment of time; he should be received with warmth. And then he will be
experiences with him will be imbued by the Angels with a longing for
with deep and inward love for what will become his mother-tongue, or
he enters more automatically into what he will have to express later
destined for the language that will be his in the coming earthly life.
during the descent to his next earthly life, he will arrive on the
Lacking the true, inward love for his language and his people, he will
Again, if we wish to understand thinking, feeling and willing, then we
of sense. Thinking, feeling and willing are the forces through which
soul-and-spirit. And it is the will which then, in the next life on
through birth into earthly life, it is the will which determines the
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core of our being, is the element appertaining to the will, and in a
the qualities inherent in feeling and in will, which for this reason
will through our natural authority and our example as teachers, then
belonging to feeling and to will. We injure the child's eternal life
if we fail to cultivate in him the right kind of feeling and. will.
cultivate through feeling and will — which is nevertheless
in the life of feeling and of will; and on the other side they enhance
This, then, will be the theme of the lecture.
Europe, to Africa, even to regions of Asia, the events will have
will only be a very gradual realisation that this is actually so. Most
From the vantage-point of your Northern peninsula you will be able to
this was done here some years ago (1910) but to-day we will
— these theorists will bring forward all sorts of characteristics
divergencies simply because people to-day will not penetrate to the
in Norway to-day will understand their destiny and task in the world
statements will be more or less correct but will give no true account
feelings we dream and in the operations of our will we are asleep.
What we know of our will is only the illumination thrown upon it by
our thinking. But the kind of will that is kindled in the Swedish soul
What enters the Swedish soul more unconsciously in the life of will
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look at his life from this point of view, we will understand
Christian devotion will become especially clear to us when we
must approach it through their own free will, through their
themselves in this manner will pull into their souls the copy
will gradually undergo a metamorphosis. To accept
are those who can really absorb the things that will be quite
community. The wisdom of the fifth cultural period will open
humanity will come together to listen to the call of

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will notice an apparent contradiction, because a person born blind
intensively — that is to our soul — it will shine yellow. Yellow
expressed artistically in colour, then the soul will withdraw itself
If we experience the world as colour in this way, it will not occur to
in any other colour, but in a yellow, lighter at the edges. It will not
Renaissance, Raphael, Michelangelo, and even Leonardo, you will find
red properly will always feel how the red comes forward out of the

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And it will only be possible to tackle this question in a
to the economic needs of humanity, then one will initially be
at things. Most proletarians to-day are, as you will know, more
you can be sure that the proletariat will leave its proletarian
promulgated will find no followers. — Now, that was
will surely acknowledge as a monarchist, whom you would surely
code of law. And surely the world will not think that the
that the collectivism will become still stronger and stronger,
that the branches of production will amalgamate and that the
time will come when the international proletariat will be able
to-day's producers are sitting and that that, which will have
become collective, will now be administered collectively. How
circumstances. One can already see to-day and one will see it
more and more: The experiment will — quite apart from its
utopian opinion of to-day ask: Now how will this or that be
will impulse of individualism is active. In actual fact, all
labour sharing, every product will be cheaper than it can be
this fact and one will have to realize as its final consequence
don't want to be misunderstood. For instance you will never
full significance will have to say: This radical difference
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which prove that the keen interest in the problems which will
in thoughts, feelings, sensations and will-impulses, and that
scientist. Even in other things, which I will not mention here,
research (I hope that my three lectures will make things clear
them, whenever the human will (and we shall see how this is
Since the human will is directed towards the future, it is
will take place in the future out of the whole connections of a
he will, for instance, in fourteen days be thrown from his
horse. All precautions will be useless, for he cannot perceive
in the forces of cognition, of the will and of feeling.
perception. Then there are the will exercises which I have
already mentioned to you, and which will be characterised more
fully in these lectures. Will-exercises require above all an
the ordinary expressions of the human will, and explains that
that through self-education the will can be developed so that
applied to-day, will never reach a satisfactory solution of
Science, and also with transformed forces of the will.
through the will how to pass through a kind of
ordinary life, the will only acquires a certain value when it
highest ideals will remain mere desires, if we are not able to
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evolution of the world will form the subject of my next
the anthroposophical facts which will now be set forth will
were possible to unfold will-power and to transmit it into
described yesterday. It will be essential to know what
and of the will mentioned yesterday and in other lectures which
thinking, feeling and willing, so that he can judge his
and willing, with his normal, cool-headed common sense, with
or hallucinations cannot return at will, when they
through an effort of the will; that is to say, they cannot
return at will into their physical body. They are led into such
of feeling and will, through the portal of death. Thus eternity
People who prepare themselves through exercises of the will and
can gather concerning the future will very much depend upon the
will.
participation of our feelings and of our will, purely in
thoughts, feelings and will-impulses. We keep pace with the
inner reflections of our thoughts, feelings and will-impulses,
human being in our 30th or 35th year (I will take a decisive
souls harmonise. An ordinary materialistic person will say that
retrospective thinking, will-exercises, we must really say to
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thoughts which I have been putting before you, will show you
woven out of feeling and will, is not in a position to attain
and will-exercises of which I have spoken, we endow the soul
country which is indifferent to us. This will show us that in
feeling and our will must first be drawn in through special
circumstances. Feeling will indeed always dive down into the
so we recognise that in life itself feeling and will must first
things will therefore have to be said differently, the
descriptions will have to be different from those which we are
feeling and will, the world in which we experienced ourselves
described, those who at least try to understand it, will see
development of the world, will discover that through a higher
form; you will then recognise in the human head that upon a
the animal under so many different forms. You will then also
justified, we can show that the earth will end through a kind
nature which men have developed will pass through the earth's
portal of death when the earth no longer exists; it will pass
Gospel will appear in an entirely new light, in a different way
will also find that finally the starry world surrounding the
earth will fall away; they will look upon a future in which
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Title: Lecture I: Man in the Light of Occultism
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will find described how the ordinary means of knowledge —
You will probably already have learned from the literature on the
you will often find indications of it in literature — that it was
spiritualise egoism. At the end of Earth evolution man will be
symbols. Those of you who know mathematics will readily
intelligence if he will but give himself the trouble We have no right
if it will only go far enough, can quite well grasp theosophy, yet
and ideas that are current and generally comprehensible, will meet
kind of preparatory introduction to our studies, You will have been
knowledge will be the same as is reached by everyone who has the right
and occult connections in so doing, it will inevitably also work for
— I will not say with religious prejudices, but with religious
people will approach theosophy. Nevertheless it must never let go its
about occultism. This can only be, if the goodwill is really present
the knowledge of reincarnation and karma it will in the near future be
theosophy develops, it will, to begin with, concern itself first and
destined to prevail; even religious prejudices will surrender before
been educated, one will readily perceive the difficulty of presenting
colouring, then that Buddhist theosophy will quite naturally show
The Buddhist and the Christian who have become theosophists will
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will be necessary to speak first of the occult point of view. And we
It will, however, also have been clear to you from many other lectures
popularising of theosophical knowledge more and more people will have
karma in respect of all that concerned his will. Reconciliation
will and action had to be so directed that others who were observing
stand, neither more nor less. You will observe that they are concerned
From the very outset the egoistic will of man is thus consciously and
you reflect for a moment, you will see that this must be so. Hitherto
being willing to do this or of rebelling against the duties of
development, and you will find that those who in outer life showed
“I will not suffer to enter into my will, as it makes itself felt
will. The will is held back in accordance with his promise; but every
with our will. But to begin with, there is nothing to prevent us from
the resolves of our will, but we may allow occult research to have its
You will observe that a rigid self-discipline will here be necessary.
necessity to refrain from applying his will in respect of what he does
you will all be ready to admit. One can be mistaken and take a man for
will, that is to say, not to apply it to his own standing in life. He
refrain from doing so. You will constantly find this happen, — as
you will also find it happen that one or another who has made the
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statement will of course seem absurd. It is nevertheless true. The
The man who actually finds himself within this element will certainly
accustomed to think much in life, he will at this point get into
difficulties. Indeed, he will hardly be able to find the way further
Earth became Earth. You will remember that before the Earth became
When science comes to the point (and it will do so, though it take a
mechanism of the senses and of the brain, it will be extraordinarily
proud of the achievement. But even then it will only be able to grasp
conditions alone. Man will never, so long as he restricts himself to
You will now understand why we have to ignore our intellect and
philosophy that will, I think, be clear to you from all we have been
— it will be useful to you later on — that as philosopher
system of philosophy as that of Hegel. You will find that Hegel cannot
For the time being, we will let this suffice for a description of the
their hearts, they will always — and especially in our own time
healthy, this will always be so; everyone who has not been made ill by
material interests will be with us. What is necessary, however, in our
that they will themselves demonstrate their validity when men think
it will become abundantly clear that there is no truth which
acquaintance with occult research and occult forces will strengthen
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If you will reflect a little upon the ego-consciousness, you will see
From this it will be evident that man must necessarily think of the
in forms men will understand by making use of the instrument of the
because it shows itself in so many different forms. It will be good if
We will imagine that a mystic, in accordance with what I have just
ego-consciousness, to break it down and get beyond it. He will still
heart, then we may include also Master Eckhart, These will then form
all they will allow themselves to use for their development. Such
where he is entirely free from himself! Such a mystic will at once
to use his brain. He will have nothing to do with it. Whether what you
nature, it makes no difference; he will in either case reply that
experiences of the heart, he will not find easily accessible the
— made answer: “If a man once uses a Book of Psalms, he will
will want when he begins to desire after knowledge in the form of
Now in the case of such a mystic you will find there is a kind of
mystic will have great forces to spare which enable him to feel
surrounds all mystics. A mystic of this kind however will have nothing
of the heart, — these he uses, and they will be able to
develop all the more strongly. He will feel through the instrument of
the heart all that the Being of Nature can say to him, and he will
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Title: Lecture V: Man in the Light of Occultism
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consciousness He will note in the first place how it is the ego that
holds his life together on the earth. If you study your life, you will
course of seven or eight years; so that there will certainly not be
substance you had as children: all of you will have to admit that your
of soul, over your thinking, feeling and willing, there too you cannot
the feelings and will impulses — that held sway in you when you
time — you will find that philosophy is continually given this
description or definition of it? Careful reflection will show us that
ideas with which your consciousness is filled, you will find they are
you will, you can find no object to arouse it. This it is that
To search for such an expression in our inner life will only
man as we meet with it in the external world You will, I think, not
As you will see, we should be coming no nearer the goal we have set
will lead at last to the startling conclusion that the human
of a “consciousness without object,” it will be necessary
It will perhaps seem to you as though there were something arbitrary
closely and carefully, you will see that it is not really so at all;
The second thing that makes man man and that will also be readily
this aspect and you will find that all the forms of the limbs are so
following way. If you will observe attentively these three first
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IT will perhaps surprise you that in the course of these lectures we
being, that will lead us to delve deep into the primal secrets of
will be important for us also to take the road from without inwards in
speaking. The third, you will remember, was symmetry. Taking
is even more particularly in evidence. You will remember that we gave
to these that I will ask you now to give your consideration.
will at once be struck with the similarity of these last organs with
those which in man, as arms and hands, are different. You will be able
observation will enable you to see — have spiritual connection
with the whole thought world of the head. You will not find it
then the idea will not be utterly grotesque if we imagine for a moment
essential organ of the head is, as you will easily see, the brain. Now
I will ask you to dwell for a little on this thought. Try to imagine
also see the brain as an inflated spinal cord. It will help us here if
contrary to grow into a completely different organ; then it will not
described, the idea will perhaps not strike you as so grotesque, after
concentrated in the heart. This is the third member. Then you will
man, you will see they must obviously be counted in with the middle
system of the middle man), you will see that we must reckon it also as
between the two, you will find it is quite astounding. In the first
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and some of you will perhaps have felt a certain difficulty in
into a thinking man, a feeling man and a willing man. Split up, as it
aspirant after occultism who becomes clairvoyant must, as you will
A little reflection will quickly show you that man as Earth man cannot
This dream consciousness is very complicated. You will, however, have
snakes. The character and condition of man's inside will often
on there. Whoever will take the trouble to observe this remarkable
connection and study it with the help of external science, will come
There are also, as you will know, people who have much more
headache. As a rule such dreams will take the form that they lead you
— through suppression, that is, of the intellect, the will and
order. A moment's reflection will show us that ordinary normal
circumstances — expect that his peaceful sleep will be forcibly
consider a little, you will have to acknowledge that you find nothing
— you will have an external reflection of this source if you
Similarly, we will often find that the people who were Sun worshippers
As you will have seen, we have for the moment had to leave out the

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and if anyone approaches it with the idea that it will offer him
than the intellect to grasp them, he will find he is very much
you will see that were we to take our start from the inner man, there
therefore, the most healthy starting-point if the pupil will hold
super-sensible world. I do not know whether any of you will have
after-images, nothing of any importance will happen. The interest
Anyone who has himself carried out this experiment will not bring
past and gone, he will obtain a picture of the human form which is no
a time will come when we find, as it were, ground for our feet.
difficulty in holding this thought. Many of you will know how
the founder of any religion and take pains to understand him, you will
you will be told, — in the case of Buddha, for example, how he
received through his Daimon. Look where you will, everywhere you will
through them carefully and you will find but one single occasion in
the super-sensible world. The only time that you will find anything of
4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. \
no temptation. Read the passages through for yourselves and you will
the account you have in the Gospels. Perhaps you will observe — I
Lazarus. You will find it was an initiation that Christ then
super-sensible world then appears to him, — of this we will speak

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understand — the founder of any other religion, you will find it
for you will want to raise yourself to an understanding of the
this human personality. This is what you will have to do, for example,
it over, you will be able also to recognise something else that
will come to see that not only the great founders of religion are to
modern time and will be increasingly so for pupils in occultism. As
man advances in wisdom, he will realise how deep is his need of the
understanding will there be for the Christ. The understanding will
grow and spread. There will be an increasing number of people who
We will now leave this thought for a little and return to the meeting
You will readily imagine that the influence must needs be of a
for the Sun's influence, no one will deny that. It goes without
Jehovah, then you will have to see it in the following way. Take first
I do not think anyone will doubt what I have just said, if he sets
about them in Old Testament times; and you will be ready to meet what
Zodiac, it will not now be difficult for you to understand that a
middle man, you will remember, we saw inscribed the Sign of Leo. We
You will be able now to discern wherein the fundamental principle, the
form to which we ascribed the Sign of Leo, then it will also be
to happen with him. This is the ground of true astrology. You will see
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stages of consciousness, but time does not allow. I will, however,
You will find it described in outline in my
— knowing this, you will not feel it as a contradiction that
As I have said, time will not allow us to enter on a description of
the third consciousness of a higher kind. I will only mention that the
Bearing all this in mind, you will at any rate be able to conceive the
Science, during the condition of ancient Saturn, you will also see
him. It will therefore not be difficult to see that not only has man,
Earth. Hence you will find that in occult communications most of the
old Sun. This will be the case, whenever such communications are based
times you will find but scanty reference to a past farther back than
A little reflection will make plain to you the following. In your day
detail, but I will ask you to call to mind what stands written in
traces left behind from these earlier conditions. Then, as you will
faculty of movement takes us back to the old Sun. It will accordingly
thinking, feeling and willing. When we pass beyond the external and
manifests and comes to expression in thinking, feeling and willing.
prepare in him and which it will be her task in the future to
of the evolution of the Earth and will in the future develop to higher
manifestations of the astral body are thinking; feeling and willing.
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presently will be envisaged by our souls.
you will say: Well, after all, the ego is ours; it has aged
thinking, feeling, and willing. If someone has become sixty,
mirrored image we call our ego. This mirrored image will
next. Then we might say: a man of thirty-three will have such
and such a heart structure; at thirty-four he will have a
certain heart structure; at thirty-five he will have still
also prove that the heart will be constituted three
hundred years later in such and such a way, only then it will
millions of years ago, or will be twenty millions of
this sketch — which will be enlarged upon during the

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will realize that the human being, while continuously occupied
another, these persons will speak of things that seem to have
will into our organism do we occupy the same world situated in
earth. Hence anyone willing to try may perceive, if he
certain things existing within earthly relations will be
the answers will be given by means of similar symbolic forms
lived in a purely materialistic way, will see absolutely
you will say: What you tell us is foolish. It may be granted
survey what lies in a single pulmonary vesicle, it will appear
these things in the right way, you will understand the
weft of our own earthly existence, which will be attained by us
generations leading to our own parents, who will bear us on our
will be seen in the course of the next days what a
and a new birth. Yet you will have realized what a wealth of

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whole gist of my remarks will have shown you that every night
Anyone able to form imaginative and inspired conceptions will
will be given of being helped by the Christ impulse, as it is
world evolution; and that this world evolution will be
terminated through a state of heat which will kill all living
nothing but physical laws. Will there be moral impulses
nothing but physical laws will prevail. Thus speaks
willpower, are led, by some mysterious process, into the
Anyone viewing these things correctly will know that a child
movements out of his will is nurtured, between going to sleep
materialism. And what will be the consequence?
consequence will become apparent to us if we look, with regard
facts will clearly recognize what lies behind them. Think of a
the day, he will not differ greatly from others whose words
destiny. Thus our heart will ever be interlinked with this
knowledge. The sum of this knowledge will be deposited in the

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feeling, and willing. You know that these
dream-world, you will find the same degree of consciousness in
wholly unconscious — are man's will-impulses. Try to
willing. Suppose that you stretch out your hand in order to
possession of you even in the waking state. Willing is a
soul that feels; and the willing soul that sleeps. Hence man
in those regions where the will is weaving and living.
research the regions where the will is pulsating, we
will-impulse is primarily a thought, a mental image. At the
will-impulse. The combustion of metabolic products existing
to carry out a will-impulse. Hence someone who wills an action
up, consumed by the will-impulse.
salt. Willing is a combustion. To the spiritual view, human
means of our ordinary consciousness, the real nature of will.
This combustion puts us to sleep in regard to our will, or
will-impulses.
the will, we perceive that this fire contains the effects of
we illuminate the sleep that encompasses our will even in the
karma that will be realized in our next earth-life is being
the evening below the horizon, and will repeat the same course
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passed in the course of his evolution. This will become
will be revealed to me out of my bodily constitution that I
and just because this intellectual impulse will become more and
Thus it will become necessary that the Mystery of Golgotha be
Yet Anthroposophy will continue to develop more and more. And a
part of this development will consist in its capability
the Chinese, to all men on earth; and which will elucidate the
Chinese, the Japanese will be unable to reject what is
twenty (later on it will last a still shorter period), this

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a few thoughts. You will have inferred from what was said that
relation to the Festivals. You will realize how much less
then science will become enlightened. Then we shall be able to
speak such words, man will be compelled to recognize things,
— at this moment it will be recognized how much the world
willing and thinking. I do not object to such things, which may
real consequences will not appear before the person in
this way, medicine too will be penetrated by thoughts
healing. Education was tantamount to healing. This will again
be possible once the knowledge given by spirit and soul will
will bring us physical knowledge, but a physical

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ein gewisser guter Wille notwendig sein; denn um alles das
sozusagen etwas appelliert würde an den guten Willen, an das

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abstrakte Wahrheit aus. Will man aber die konkreten Verhältnisse
überlassen, zu machen, was er will, sondern ihn ergreifen und

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Verständnisses willen notwendig sind, und die etwas schwieriger

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Will man zu dem
da zusammengewirkt haben, diese Geister des Willens oder Throne, die
über den Geistern des Willens oder Thronen die Cherubime und
genauer eingehen. Ich will sie jetzt in abstracto
wenn man eingreifen will in die große Bewegung der Menschheit.
wenn man im Sinne der Menschheitsentwickelung wirken will.
Verstandes-, Gefühls- und Willenseigenschaften entgegentreten

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Willens — Throne
Äußerung dieser geistigen Wesenheiten. Ich will Ihnen an
Geister des Willens nennen müssen. Diese Geister strahlen von
Geistern des Willens und den Geistern der Bewegung, der so
Das Gegeneinanderwirken der Geister des Willens und der Geister der
Geister des Willens vom Innern der Erde heraus wirken würden und
Vorstellung davon machen wollen, wie die Geister des Willens und die
sich durch das Zusammenwirken der Geister des Willens und der Geister
äußert, daß den Willenskräften, die mit den
Sphäre der Geister des Willens als auch in die Sphäre der
der Bewegung, unter ihnen die Geister des Willens. — Dasjenige,
des Willens oder der Throne auffassen. Immer aber mischt sich
Geistern des Willens oder Thronen Hilfe geleistet von den Cherubim
heraus wirken die Geister des Willens oder Throne, die Cherubim und
Feuer als mit den Geistern des Willens, den Cherubim und Seraphim in
wo die Geister der Bewegung und die Geister des Willens
wir die Geister des Willens nennen, die eigentlich den Boden
Wille auf der anderen Seite ist. Das ist so zu denken, daß, wenn
Wille des Menschen auf der einen Seite und sein physischer Leib auf
kommen können. Der Mensch verdankt das, was er an Wille und
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Ich will nur einen
bezeichneten — die Geister des Willens, die Cherubim und

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muß man nennen, wenn man sie richtig bezeichnen will,

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geschilderten geistigen Impulse studieren will, dann hat man

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fühlt und will, während er sonst für seine eigenen
äußeren Mächte hingeben will, sondern der in sich
selber den festen Wesenskern hat und aus sich heraus handeln will.
verständlich sein. Aber hier will ich doch noch einmal darauf
nordische Mensch sich verständlich machen will über das,

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erkennt bereits, daß in diesem Wesen zwei Willenszentren

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geschehen kann, ist in gewissem Grade in den Willen der Menschheit
den freien Willen gesteift; aber er konnte durch seine Erkenntnis,
und unabhängig von jeder Tradition und jeder Autorität will

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William Crookes thought a lot in his life. He may have
an esoteric will reject ideas like the ones about microscopic or slow

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learn in exoteric lectures we should take into our feeling, willing
this work on himself. He combats the desolation that will arise
back as soul agony. Men will have to go through strong soul pains,
and esoterics will then use the spiritual forces that they bring down

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May the will of my I grasp
May your being permeate my will
in such ideas, then our thoughts will become consolidated, and
will soon be filed with interests that'll replace the other
placed into them in the course of evolution. An esoteric will
striving, the master of wisdom and of the harmony of feelings will

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even if it takes ever so long, the time will come when our thought
horizon will become clear, if we just push away the sense impressions
and thought that distract us with all the willpower that we muster.

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first quality that one needs is truthfulness, the will to be true.
path conscientiously will certainly be led to him or at least to the
and vanity will unavoidably arise in him. One should not them in
and the ability to think will disappear from a man if he devotes
continue to work in men. Everything that's in men will someday

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exercises in a serious and worthy way, certain effects will result. A
willing, feeling and thinking are strengthened. A study of theosophy
him. Every joy that one has had from small things will give rise to
What's true here is that all concealed things will become
feeling and willing. In ancient times, men were much more robust and

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Erster Vortrag, Kristiania (Oslo), 1. Oktober 1913
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hinaufschwingen will zum völligen Verständnis dessen,

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Technik erheben. Aber ich will auf
Ich will nicht im gewöhnlichen Sinne
braucht. Ich will durchaus nicht sagen, daß ich

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Wenn man das Christus-Wesen verstehen will, dann
und nachgibt immer mehr und mehr dem, was das Volk will
Empfinden — ja, ich will nur

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Fünften Evangelium geben will,
Menschen Herz. Und wenn uns überzeugen will von seiner Lehre der Rabbi Elieser, so darf er
Wille
wie einen Externisten in ihre Gemeinschaft — ich will

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Fünfter Vortrag, Kristiania (Oslo), 6. Oktober 1913
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der eine sagte: Ich will alles tun,
Wille
Selbstvergrößerung der Menschen: das will Luzifer ja
sind alt. Ich aber will ein neues
der Weltordnung; ich will dir alles geben,
werden will. Die Christus-Wesenheit kannte zwar
steht ja geschrieben: Ich will den Engeln befehlen, daß
Kräfte rühmen willst, dann mache das Mineralische zu
Wille,»
«Dein Wille geschehe wie im Himmel
will über diesen Punkt nicht
will ich Sie nicht behelligen. Denn

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“If you desire to know something of the Christ, you will seek in
only outside and beyond the earth will you find the mysteries
You will say: Yes, but there are many who do not want to know anything
In the future it will not be the same, inasmuch as knowledge
will become a much more decisive factor for man than hitherto. More
and more it will become a necessity in the evolution of mankind for
spiritual life. Such a knowledge as will lead all mankind into the
everywhere. Anthroposophy will reveal to men that the Being who before
Men will again understand the meaning of the words: The kingdoms
of heaven have come down to the earth — and they will no
thousand years.’ They will understand that the Being who was
will say: “Christ came down to the earth and since the Mystery of
will be able to feel ever and again what the disciples experienced as
are understood in all their spiritual depths, man will also wrestle
only that we are willing to listen to Him.
our soul to the voice of Christ who will speak to us if we are willing
seek again for the spiritual world, they will find Christ as an
age. If in this age men do not turn to spiritual knowledge, they will
yourselves the spirit of Anthroposophy, you will find that it will
Christ who lives now and will live through all future time among men,
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture VII
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rituals which fired man's will and the knowledge-bearing words which
perceive the whole cosmic being and life artistically. It will not suffice
of dancing arises when language is forgotten altogether, when the will
complete human being. Thus scholars will cease haughtily to acknowledge
reject it, but will say: What I interpret as thought engenders a need
will produce a religious mood. Because our Dornach building strove for

Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture VIII
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this closed circle of colors, our feeling will tell us of the need to
future development of music will be toward spiritualization, and involve
we will no longer recognize the individual tone solely in relation to
for hidden neighboring tones. And we will learn to feel the following:
cosmos; then you will have a conception of what remains over when man
be grasped theoretically; we must grasp it with feeling and will. Only
then will we be able to experience the appropriate reverence for phantasy,
out of terrestrial depths, gave man his will power. With a certain
will-endowment as rising up out of the earth. The gods of the depths
who, entering man, endow him with will, these Dionysiac gods were to
man and the material world. We must have the will to penetrate into
by the divine, then it will become what it should within civilization,

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you will hear it, does not yet exist in a recorded
document, although in the future of humanity it will
will now call the Fifth Gospel. And I want to start by
the content of the subject usually called History will be
Namely the concept of Christ will play a different and a
already emphasized, the Christ idea will play a much more
Christ, and we will find that all the science, all the
there are no Gospels. We will ignore what has been said
about the founding of Christianity and will only consider
distant future still other things will be emphasized about
looks more deeply will recognize that everything the
profundities of spiritual life, will find something which
humanity will realize what it means that the starting point
it will be accepted that Haeckel has a Christian mentality,
clairvoyant power, he will arrive on this path quite
Darwinism will lead to that.
Darwinism of its Christianity. If not, however, one will
impulses which underlie it will lead this science away from
will find much justification for the anger of the
question, it will be guided to an event which in reality

Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture II
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considerations will begin with the so-called Pentecost
extraordinary events, and we will have to recall –
that other times will come in which these things will meet
to understand much of what will be said at this
relation between that solar eclipse and the earthquake will
know that the time will come when one will be able to speak
future will come in which one can speak more precisely, in
way of indication will be much more precisely perceived in
the spiritual Script of Becoming. Such times will come,
which in the future will be explained much better and more
precisely. And you will understand the word

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the evolution of humanity on the earth, you will see how
people will wonder at how many people read this book
however, it will be recognized that such a description
following days we will speak of the Being who descended
into the body of Jesus; now we will only emphasize that
high priest of the Jews: Did you say that you will destroy
full meaning of the Christ-Impulse, as it will have to be

Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture IV
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Note 1] So we will
Now I will
really belong, but will help to explain Bath Kol. Later on
many Roman Catholics will seem blasphemous: that the rituals
In which heaven's will be not done,
the Divine will, by whatever means effected, given to
saying, I have both glorified it, and willJohn 12:28
In dem nicht waltet der Himmel Wille,

Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture V
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twenty-first year. From what I was able to relate, you will
humanity. For you will certainly realize from the
known that Hillel was never angry. One of them said: I will
In which heaven's will be not done,
are old. I want to found a new kingdom; I will give you
kingdoms if you will enter into my new kingdom. But you
give you, you will not need what you now need because you
overcoming the law of gravity. If you obey me I will annul
the effects of the fall and nothing will happen to you.
Ahriman said: I will protect you from fear, throw yourself
power. And, said Ahriman, I will use this power!
line: “In which heaven's will be not
was to take place: “Thy will be done in heaven as it
the other parts of the Fifth Gospel will be revealed. I
anthroposophists will treat this Fifth Gospel, which is
will not get far in spiritual development with the way
of what is there now and what must come, will be of little
what we strive for will be accomplished in every soul. I

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What we teach today as Theosophy will not change in its essence but
times, they will be mature enough to take up other, higher, future forms
of the spiritual life. Our explanation of the Apocalypse will age; future
ages will go beyond it. But the Apocalypse itself will not, therefore,
age. It is much greater than our explanations and will find even higher,
his [Moses'] writings, how will you believe my words?”
present-day culture we can see in the physical world. But what will

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we will consider what the Apocalypse can tell us about it.
that, humanity will finally reach the “community at Laodicea,”

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catastrophe also known as the Flood. The age that will come after the
all will be an expression of the egotism that is always growing stronger,
the egotism conjured forth by humanity today as the I is and will always
become, stronger and stronger. That will be the end of the last
post-Atlantean culture. This catastrophe will also have its mission, its
of all against all will be something much worse than war of the present-day
with weapons. It will be a war of souls, of souls who no longer understand
bodies. These souls will one day see the strife that will reign among
the human souls who will be born in the last post-Atlantean age. This
experience will be a lesson for them and will help to free them from
egotism. Then they will be able to grow into an era where they will
have the fruits of selfhood but without its disadvantages. An age will
Atlantis, but with this difference: human beings will have a free
consciousness of self. We will then have learned, in these seven cultures
After the war of all against all, we will have achieved a stage of
since we will again unite in groups with love for one another.
we see these four group souls appearing again. The lamb will stand in
the middle as a sign for the love that will unite people who will then
prepared today through the setting aside of a small group that will
in our time that will lead to brotherly love through real spiritual
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We will now consider some
becoming entangled in matter, that they will develop into the future.
Those who hear this admonishment will easily find their way back into
of you Tophel will weave into the prison of matter.”
(Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I willRev. 2:10)
will be closed. The profound meaning of these reincarnations, if we
we read: “To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden
manna and I will give him a white stone with a new name written on the
(He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh willRev. 2:17)
appears. Then the mortal remains of Cassapa will be touched by the fire
this teaching. How will there be people in the future who can understand
unite themselves with the impulse of Christ will take what they have
spiritual world. We will see how, by means of the connection with the
(And I willRev. 2:23)
is that the principle behind the “I am” will become the
3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. \
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things, for the first time the concept of the “last will and
as a sign that the human will had become so important that it survived
natural science increases in humanity, to that extent true wisdom will
the human being will only be able to take this in consciously through
of the future will not speak of atoms; they will scientifically understand
the simplest way. In the future all science will find Christ, even though
that this new science is approaching, that humanity will understand
Zarathustra will appear again in a new form in the sixth age. Finally,
the age of the holy Rishis will come again in a new form. There may
evolution will be such that more and more people will gather together
who will understand what Zarathustra proclaimed.
Then an age will come
upon the earth when the victors will be those who lead the war of all
against all. But the souls who will have been preserved from the sixth
age will have neither people who glow with enthusiasm for the spiritual,
these people will be too blase. Very little of the Indian, the first
culture, will be perceptible on the earth in the seventh age. But these
and “Christened, will walk as it were etherically, no longer
touching the earth, while humanity then will be able to master what
the entire culture of earth has to offer. The seventh age will be such
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Greco-Latin age. And now we will see the important processes that take

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TODAY WE WILL CONSIDER
person. When we follow his life we will find much that is not
rely on themselves, on their own I. Such inspired people will become
stream with the task of insuring that spiritual knowledge will still
epoch are those who truly take into themselves what will later be
The wisdom of the fifth cultural age will blossom forth as a flower of
will come together from all parts of humanity.

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see the future evolution of humanity in the astral world. What will
stream of wisdom will become increasingly effective.
9:15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. \
9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. \
of animals. Zoology will one day understand how these sixteen groups
unmediated. But later it will show itself on the human face. Humankind
will evolve in the future so that its karma is carried on the countenance.
No longer will the fact that a human being is born into a specific race
will be rather a class of good people and a class of evil people. Let
“receiving the Yahweh-Christ being” will later show itself
and yet hide it; but in the future, human beings will carry the mark
This will become the fate of those who have taken in spiritual impulses
at the right time. All moral, intellectual, and spiritual forces will,
being. What is taken in today will be sealed into souls. After the seventh
age, after the war of all against all, they will be unsealed.
of the Apocalypse sees in the seven seals that will gradually be broken.

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we can write into our souls what will later appear in the human
in our time, so too, the seven ages of human evolution that will follow
of what one day will be. Human beings who will have taken in something
of spiritual culture will have overcome their lower nature. They will
overcome is expressed in the seal in the form of a horse. They will
be victors over their lower nature through what they will have made
of their souls. They will master their lower natures just as a rider
experienced since the time of ancient India will appear again after
age will reappear
weighed. In this way, what will appear as the fruit of our seven cultures
of human beings will reap the fewest fruits.
all, the soul will appear with an aura that is already illuminated by
stream, the Christ impulse will be taken into selves that are increasingly
will achieve, through spiritual development, ever higher stages of
hard work of individual human beings will become increasingly unimportant.
increasingly getting the upper hand. More and more the tendency will be
spiritualized human personality will have to contradict the prevailing
will appear as a humanity that has been outwardly vanquished. The people
who will be put to death for the sake of the Word will have to suffer
much. But they will be the most important cultural force after the war
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that in the fifth age, after the war of all against all, people will
materialism, and that spiritual human beings will be the sealed ones.
the future, the human being will also accomplish divine spiritual deeds.
We are speaking of the time when the human being will already have begun
the invisible. However, in contrast to the sealed human beings there will
people will have been pushed down. This is why the writer of the Apocalypse
will look down upon the earth itself as it becomes increasingly material;
only the coarsest humankind will have consciously reacquired clairvoyance.
In the age of the trumpets the Lemurian age will resurrect; human beings
will be close to God, they will have completely spiritualized themselves.
nature — this will be repeated in a spiritual state. When the
seventh trumpet sounds forth a kind of blessed state will come upon
will have advanced to the time when the sun again unites with the earth.
The earth will pass over into what is called an astral state. Human
beings able to live in the astral world will raise up the finer part
that has remained coarse will be united with the moon to form a new
age will enter in again, but at a higher stage of evolution. This is

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seen that the earth will again be spiritualized, that human beings can
participate in this evolution and that they will again be able to return
are too stuck in their materialization will not be able to participate
the higher beings, after the age of the seven trumpet calls, will enter
When the sun will have
that they will have purified their instincts, desires, and passions
— will redeem the luciferic beings. The luciferic beings who do
the other human beings go to the sun, these will form an evil power
away, and provide a bodily incarnation for Sorat. That will be the
During the prophetically mirrored Jupiter state, the earth will actually
will appear again — with the seven intervals between them —
but they will be far less sharply delineated. On this Jupiter-Earth,
This will also be the
also the beings that have remained behind will stubbornly struggle against
help; but this Venus-Earth will at last be decisive.
own cunning free will, have become black magicians by placing spiritual
powers at that time will not be capable of very much. That is why
everything appears so desolate and the worst vices will reign there in
the earth. On the Jupiter-Earth there are still many, many who will
allow themselves to be saved and who will unite with the sun.
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age of “Philadelphia” the I will permeate the spirit-self,
teachings, have made themselves capable of recognizing Christ will be
etheric body — for he will come again.
The I will be educated
and will be able to recognize Christ again. Theosophical teachings have
by the seven seals something like a shower of meteorites will occur,
caused by increasing materialism, and some human beings will ascend
through their efforts in our post-Atlantean age will completely permeate
soul has been worked into the other members, human beings will have
on their development they will be able, in the fourth, fifth, and sixth
human beings will have permeated the three with four. For the next age,
Then the various groups of people who have matured will be united in
will feel for others. All those who have been separated out of the various
groups can now be multiplied together because they will live within
one another. Their life together will be such that they will not disturb
one another, such that one soul will work into another soul in complete
will constitute human society in the age of the sixth seal. The writer
beings will be able to develop their consciousness soul precisely through
ages an entirely different form of wisdom will be given. The souls who
are preparing themselves by taking in Theosophy will take in new forms
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